Carmine and all the girls in the royal family rushed through the mirror to get to the Temple, and they were met by a pretty crazy sight.
All across the Temple, there were Jedi, horses, and workers young and old acting crazy!
Kit Fisto was acting like a chicken, Sunheart was galloping backwards around the halls, Mace was talking like a pirate and bouncing around on a pogo stick, Myra's brother Kade thought he was a horse, Citrus thought he was a cow, and Ahsoka was acting like a fairytale princess.
"That is definitely not normal for Ahsoka." Gabby said, seeing Ahsoka singing to herself and wearing a sparkly gown.
"Myra, what exactly happened?" Padme asked.
"My dad was putting me through some kind of Fofce connection ritual, when this crazy woman dressed like a fortune teller came along and like basically started looking into people's eyes and making them do crazy things."
"Out of me way, lassies!" Mace called, bouncing around.
"Like that." Myra said. "This is so embarrassing!"
"Daddy!" Comedia shouted from down the corridor.
"Na, na! Can't get me!" Master Mundi mocked, spitting a raspberry at Comedia.
Those who weren't hypnotized were confused.
"What's wrong with Master Mundi?" Shmi asked.
"He suddenly thinks he's five years old. I've heard of midlife crises, but this is ridiculous even for me!" The silly-corn said.
Padme looked at the others and had them split up to find anyone who was hypnotized and get them under control.
"Whatever you do," said Gabby, beginning to run with her mom. "Don't let the hypnotizer look you in the eyes!"
Back at the palace, the rest of the guys and the Heartwoods were trying to keep everyone under control. But everyone was all over the place! Wrecker was still huffing and puffing and blowing at doors, Crosshair jumped and swung around on everything he could find and started snatching things, Sapphire was devouring Shmi's slippers,
Qui-Gon managed to capture Pinto and tie him down, but the stallion was still snorting like a bull, and Banjo was still pecking at the walls.
"Echo, stop it!" Anakin guffawed as Echo attacked his stomach.
"Someone has a tickle spot!" Echo sang mockingly.
That was when Crosshair swung on by, wearing Remix's headphones.
"Crosshair, give me back my headphones!" Remix called, running after the hypnotized clone.
Tech tackled Crosshair, giving Remix time to recover his device. Boba found some bananas and hoped those would distract Crosshair for a while.
"Okay, I'm not sure which is crazier, Crosshair acting like a monkey, or Gabby when she drinks espresso."
"HELP!" Diamond screamed, running from Wrecker.
"Slow down, little pig!" Wrecker said.
"I'm not a pig, Wrecker! I'm a pony!"
Diamond started flying to get away from Wrecker, but Wrecker kept coming, and every other hypnotized being was still going all over the place. The poor filly had to swerve to miss Banjo as he started looking for another wall to peck at. And poor Diamond crashed into a chandelier and started to fall. Luckily, a certain griffin swooped in with a mighty crow and caught Diamond on his back.
Suddenly, every hypnotized being stopped in their tracks. Crosshair had no idea why he had a banana in his mouth, Wrecker was just plain confused, and Echo had no idea what he was doing tickling his commanding officer. Sapphire was mortified spitting out fluff from slippers and finding she had dirt on her hooves from burying things in the yard.
"What the hay?" Pinto said, amid the rope on his body.
"Why does my muzzle hurt?" Banjo cried, feeling his sore nose.
"What just happened?" Boba said, confused.
"I think something someone said just broke everyone out of their hypnosis." Anakin said, getting up. "The only question is what."
"I believe I can answer that." Tech said, getting out his data tablet. "I've been making observations of everyone's actions and behavioral changes since the mission on Raxus. And based on what happened just now, it appears the sound of an eagle cry is what breaks everyone who was hypnotized there out of their trance."
"But, how come Dad hasn't changed his behavior in any way?" Boba asked.
"Most likely, he hasn't heard the trigger word. I have one hypothesis of what it could be, but I will need to question a few of the girls to be certain."
"Whoa, Kade!" Myra shouted, hugging her brother.
It was impossible to keep track of everyone who was getting hypnotized. The royal ladies just kept running into one hypnotized victim after another. Master Plo was acting like an elephant, Fiesta started burping with every third word she said, Petro thought he was an opera singer, and Magenta was acting like a frog; she en swallowed a fly.
"Eww!" Lamenta grunted in disgust.
"Magenta's not gonna like the taste in her mouth when she's un-hypnotized." Caroline commented.
"Daddy! My hat is not a toy!" Comedia said angrily.
"Come get it, girly, girl!" Ki-Adi mocked.
"Good thing you aren't mature enough to ground me now, because I'm gonna make you pay for that!"
Meanwhile, Carousella had to tackle Mace and tie him down so he would stop bouncing everywhere. And at the same time, she could hear a voice in a nearby room.
Carefully, Carousella peered into the room nearby and spotted Ganodi being hypnotized by some lady dressed as a fortune teller, just like Myra said.
"When you hear the word, 'Jedi' you will become a ballerina and quack like a duck." Mezmira ordered. "Do you understand?"
"Understand." Ganodi said, under a trance.
"And when you hear a bell, you will revert to normal. Now, I will snap my fingers, and you will remember nothing."
And sure enough, when Mezmira snapped her fingers, Ganodi didn't remember anything from the last few moments.
"Huh? What happened?" Ganodi said.
"Aren't you just a cute little... Jedi?"
And just like Mezmira said, Ganodi started dancing like a ballerina and quacking like a duck, which made the hypnotizer laugh. Carousella knew she had to do something, but she couldn't let Mezmira look her in the eyes, or she'd be hypnotized too.
Carousella started to piece together an idea of how to weaken Mezmira. Quickly, she ran and went to look for Omega. But then, she heard her communicator beeping and had to stop to answer it.
Tech, meanwhile, contacted Carousella to speak with her. According to Sapphire, she was the last one with her just before her hypnosis was activated. He questioned her on what she said just before the trigger.
And it turned out, just like Tech hypothesized, the last word Carousella said just before the spell was triggered, was Mariverde.
But, Tech would have to test his hypothesis to be sure. So, he decided to retrieve Gus and Echo for a little experiment.
"Okay, Gus. When I give the word, unleash an eagle cry." Tech said.
"Got it." Gus said.
Tech got ready with Echo in place. And... "Mariverde."
Sure enough, Echo quickly started wanting to tickle everyone he saw, and he was attacking Tech with tickles.
And as he was laughing, Tech gave Gus the word, and the griffin gave an eagle cry, which snapped Echo out of it.
Tech took a moment to catch his breath
"Okay, it looks like my hypothesis was right. As long as no one else says the name of Mariposa's sister, we'll be okay."
Meanwhile, the Heartwoods were continuing reseaarch on how they could cure everyone of the hypnosis. It appeared the key was a Mersire Cadence, but they needed to find the book with the right information on it.
"I found it!" Goldie said, looking in another book. "The Mersire Cadence."
Garrett took a look into his daughter's book and was intrigued.
"Of course. How did I not think of this before?"
"What does it say?"
"That apparenly, we will need Carmine and Boba or Gabriella to perform this spell. And we best do it quick before Mariverde gets any ideas."
Inconveniently, Anakin happened to walk toward the room, and he heard Garrett say Mariverde's name.
You will retrieve the crown jewels of Solaris and bring them to me at any cost. This echoed in his mind as he began moving towards the royal treasury.
On his way, however, Anakin ran into Boba, who wanted to tell him that Tech figured out the key words and cure. But Anakin just pushed him out of the way.
"Out of the way, kid." Anakin said.
"What'd you do that for?" Boba asked, offended.
But Anakin didn't answer and continued on his way to the royal treasury where the guards stood in place.
"Let me into the treasury," said Anakin.
"Yes, Prince Anakin." The guards stepped aside and bowed as Anakin made his way into the treasury, where he spotted the crown jewels.
Meanwhile, Dr. Zavi was delighted to see in her crystal ball that Anakin was retrieving the crown jewels.
"At last," said Zavi. "They will be mine!"
Zavi contacted her sister and ordered her to come meet her at once.
"But I'm still having fun here!" Mezmira whined.
"Don't make me come over there and drag you by your braid!"
"Fine! I'm coming!"
But when Mezmira turned around, she screamed as a blinding light hit her in the eyes and she felt herself being grabbed and tied up, and some cloth was tied around her eyes.
"It's game over for you!" Omega said.
Suddenly, the Naboo palace was starting to fill with briars blocking all the doors and windows as Anakin made his way out with the bag filled with the crown jewels. Anyone who got close to Anakin got trapped in a vine or hit in the nose by a mean flower, and then he sealed the front door shut with more briars as he made his way out.
And when Anakin's phone rang, he answered it to a familiar hypnotist.
"I have the package in hand, Mistress." Said a hypnotized Anakin.
"Excellent." Zavi smiled. "Now if only my goofball of a sister would get here.
Mezmira was cuffed and interrogated by Enchantran officers, and as expected, she refused to reveal the antidote to anyone' hypnosis.
"Ki-Adi Mundi, you are getting a time-out righ now!" Comedia said, getting her father to sit in the corner. "Swiping my hat is really crossing the line."
Comedia was really getting tired of having to mother her father. Her ears drooped both in annoyance and exhaustion.
"I knew I was gonna have to be taking care of you someday, but I thought it would be twenty years before that happened."
"There must be something we can do about this." Gabby said. "I wonder if Mr. Garrett or the others found anything."
Except, when Gabby went to the mirror to head back to the palace, she bumped right into Goldie, and they both fell down.
"Goldie? Are you okay?"
"I'm fine. But we've got a problem at the palace. Your dad took the crown jewels and covered the palace in briars!"
"Uh oh!"
That definitely wasn't good.
"But good news, we found a cure."
Goldie's parents arrived with Carmine and Boba and explained what they'd found to everyone.
According to research, sirens and mermaids both had magical properties in their voices. One mainly hypnotized, while the other could heal. But when brought together in song, they could undo any spell of hypnosis. And this duet was known as a mersire cadence.
Since Carmine had the powers of a siren, and Boba was technically part merman now, their song together would suffice.
"The only thing is, we'd have to get everyone who was hypnotized to hear the song." Mariposa said.
"Then, it looks like we got some rounding up to do." Carousella said.
So, everyone got to work gathering everyone who'd been hypnotized, while Padme took on another mission: saving her husband.
Anakin continued his way until he was in a forest somewhere far away.
Dr. Zavi was all too happy to take the bag from him the moment he arrived.
"Perfect. The crown jewels are mine!"
But that was when an eagle cry sounded and Anakin snapped out of it.
"Ani!" Padme exclaimed, arriving on Gus.
"Padme?" Anakin looked around and saw Zavi. "You!"
Zavi grabbed Anakin and looked into his eyes again and tried to hypnotized him to do something else, but Pame tackled Zavi and covered the hypnotist's eyes.
"Keep your eyes off my husband!" Padme said angrily. She'd had to get other women to keep their paws off her husband before, but this was the first time she could actually attack.
Zavi started to fight back, but Padme fought harder with her martial arts abilities, and threw dirt into Zavi's eyes to keep her from hypnotizing her. Padme didn't need magical powers to see that the Zavi sisters' weakness was losing their sight; without the ability to use their eyes, they were powerless.
Zavi reached into the bag and tried to use one of the crown jewels, but from what she could feel, they weren't made of metal.
"What?! This can't be right. Theese feel like plastic." said Zavi.
And when Padme checked them, sure enough, all the crown jewels Anakin grabbed were made of plastic crowns and necklaces painted and decorated with rhinestones to make them look real.
Earlier with Omega and Gabby...
Omega and Gabby finished decorating the plastic crowns and necklaces, and they placed them in the royal treaasury.
"If Zavi hypnotized anyone to take the jewels," said Omega, "they'll more than likely come in here to get them. We just need to hide the real ones somewhere."
"Big sister, you are a genius." Gabby smiled.
Present Day...
Anakin and Padme managed to hold Zavi down and turn her in to the authorities, meanwhile Boba and Carmine had to learn the correct notes to sing together once the hynotized victims were rounded up, and sure enough, when they sang together, it broke everyone out of their trances, including the horses and the Bad Batch.
You could probably imagine a lot of people were embarrassed when they were broken out of the trance. And thankfully, now two more escaped criminals were going back to jail. But, it was very clear that there were multiple folks after the crown jewels now. And so, the royal family would need to do everything in their power to keep them safe.
