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Rose grabbed securely onto her and held Cassi close for a minute, telling her she was safe. Cassi smiled and relaxed further. Her cheeks were pink from the adrenaline and slight embarrassment, but Rose was incredibly understanding. ”Thank you,” she said and pecked Rose’s lips. ”You would make an excellent knight,” she declared. Cassi stepped out of the way and turned around to watch the others cross.
Layla was making her way across when she slipped. Cassi lunged forward, but her father was there just in time to steady Layla. Cassi sighed, feeling her heart rise from her stomach. She reached out, clinging to Rose with a hand until Layla was safely on the other side. Cassi immediately pulled her sister in and hugged the life out of her. ”Don’t scare me like that,” she instructed. Cassi pulled back, looking over Layla to ensure she was unharmed and truly alive, while their father found a way in.
The cellar was relatively small and unassuming. It was also currently unoccupied. Cassiopeia scanned the area, letting her eyes adjust to being inside when Rose found them a way in. Cassiopeia nodded, patting her bow and checking over her arrows and a dagger she had. ”Alright, let’s go see what the dragon lady is hiding.” Cassi said and made her way to the stairs, feeling more confident than she had less than five minutes ago.

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Willow perked up when her mother mentioned that the others had returned. She hadn’t seen these people since the very beginning. ”Are they really? Ya, I’ll come down and greet them.” She followed her mother down the stairs to the main area where the majority of the others were now gathered. She recognized a few faces, but many more were new and foreign to her. Willow looked around for a seat to sit in and something to eat.
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She had fully expected the guards to get pissed off at her, honestly she just found that whole reaction more amusing then painful, but she didn't say anything about it given their current situation. Eventually in the cell, she got a bit bored, and only partially seemed to pay attention to what Flynn asked her. "Huh? Oh, yeah fine, honestly not even the worst thing that has happened," she commented, before slipping something out of her pocket, kind of amused at the moment. Since personally she did not want to stick around in here longer then necessary.

"Now, I vote we get out of here," she said, keeping her voice down as she walked over to the door of the cell, and holding up the pen that she had pulled out of her pocket. Rosalia glanced over, seeing one guard kind of far away on the opposite end of the room, still within eyesight, but he seemed to be the only one around. Reaching her hand through the bars, she started working to pick the lock of the cell, before eventually there was a soft click as the lock popped open, and she pulled her hand back through the bars. "Glad I keep these around, way more useful then bobby pins or something..." she muttered under her breath.

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"Yeah, practice. Though personally I'd prefer to just not even really think about that sort of thing honestly, I mean it's useful but the only reason I have that ability is because of who my dad is, and I seem to only know fireballs which I can do instinctively rather then with a spell. Knowing other spells might be useful but eh, not really concerned about that sort of thing at the moment," Jack said towards Sierra with a shrug, glancing over as Meg had asked where Merlin was, and them being directed into the tower.

He followed along into the tower, seeing Merlin again, and wasn't at all surprised that Arthur immediately greeted him. They were from the same story after all, so that did make sense. Jack glanced over at Megan as she then started asking a few of the more obvious questions, namely those revolving around the potential plan to go after Maleficent. He did notice that there seemed to be a few less people then he expected, at least when it came to the group they had gone to this world with, so there were others still missing and not here at the moment, that much was obvious.

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Sierra looked over at Willow and smiled towards her friend and made her way over towards her and gave her a hug. "Hey Willow how'd your little quest go?" She asked her as she listened to her as she told them that some of the others were gathering some intel on Maleficent's castle. Which was probably a good thing then that way they could attack her and hopefully put the end to her reign of terror, as Merlin looked at Megan and nodded towards what Willow had said.

"The plan is once the army of Atlantica arrives, along with Robin Hood's men they would act as a distraction to go against Maleficent's forces. The reason why I sent some of you to recover the genie from Agrabah to use his magic and wish granting to help aid with that I wouldn't be able to do it all on my own, once everyone returns i'll finish telling the rest of the plan." Merlin said to Megan.

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"Sis you are crushing me.." Layla said trying to breath while Cassi hugged her, she was glad that she didn't end up falling to her sudden death and saved by her father. "I'm fine though thank you." Layla said as she looked around the room, seeing that the area was pretty much clear for the most part. "Lets keep going." Layla said as she started to head up the flight of stairs quietly, followed behind was Robin Hood, the group was in the dungeon now and they weren't to far from Rosalia's and Flynn's cell just in time to see Flynn managing to get out.

The guard ended up turning his back towards them and was slowly going around the corner. "Nice going there, just like your own man now huh?" Flynn asked her giving her a smile as he made a shushing motion and started to sneak up behind the prison guard, and managed to slam the guard's head into the wall three times before letting go. "He's just sleeping now. he aint dead so don't worry about that." Flynn said quietly towards his daughter, she'd see that he was still breathing as he slowly started to drag him back into their cell managing to take the guard's keys figuring that they'd be useful. "Now lets get out of here." Flynn said when he came face to face with Robin Hood and Layla.

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A blonde girl was the first one to talk, explaining that a small group had gone to gather intelligence on Maleficent's castle. She glanced behind her, noting that Jack had come inside, rather than practice outside with the other mages. She wasn't surprised. Jack likely cared more about figuring out how they were going to overthrow Maleficent than competing against the other boys. That and she could imagine he might feel conflicted about his magic, given its source. Merlin then opened up - at least partially - about the plan. Atlantica's army with Robin Hood's men would serve as a distraction, the Genie and Merlin would use their magical powers, and then...

Merlin decided to not share the rest of the plan yet.

Megan scowled at that choice. She didn't agree with it. Unless everyone else was about to return imminently, there was no reason why Merlin couldn't share more of the plan. Unless did he not trust everyone present? Did he think that Jack was going to go turn on them and serve Maleficent? Megan scoffed at that idea. She was pretty sure no one would betray them like that. So there was no worry in her mind about the information leaking. "If you share the full plan, we can work together to improve it - what else are we going to do besides rattle around this old tower?" she asked pointedly.

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They made quick work of moving into the dungeons. Thankfully, they didn’t have to waste time freeing Flynn and Rosalia as she got them out of their enclosure. Flynn then incapacitated the first guard, and Cassi nodded.
”Fancy meeting you here. We should keep moving,” she said and brought up the mental image of the map in her mind. Trying to remember things in the heat of the moment wasn’t easy. Cassi remembered why she hated exams so much as she failed to remember which way the hidden entrances into the castle from the dungeons were. Were they any? Now Cassi couldn’t remember. And then it clicked.
”There is a hidden passageway we could use to get into the castle from here. A hidden bookshelf marks it,” Cassi said, pleased she remembered something useful.

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Willow felt her cheeks pink when Sierra moved in for a hug. Willow hugged her back, glad her friend had returned well, and released her to speak. ”It went great. Well, we did run into Rumple, but we managed to get away well enough,” Willow said, smiling proudly. ”How did your quest go?” Willow was eager to learn what her friend faced.
She tuned into the larger conversation at hand, getting a recap on what she already knew from Merlin. The dark-haired girl seemed rather unpleased that Merlin wasn't giving up all the information. She wondered mildly if this woman had control issues.
”I mean, we could go over what wishes to ask the genie and who should be asking them,” Willow suggested. They went over it briefly, but that conversation hadn’t exactly pleased Willow. Maybe this woman would have a better plan for that.

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Rose beamed a bit at the comment from Cassie about her being an excellent knight. It wasn't something she had ever really thought about doing. Except in that 'go to the ren fair sort of way. But hey, this was a fantasy world, so why not? That'd be a cool future here.

As they made their way farther up they found Flynn and Rosalia. They had escaped on their own, which Rose found equal parts impressive and hilarious. What a shitty prison if they could escape within ten minutes of getting put into it. Thankfully Cassie remembered where they could go next from there.

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Colby shrugged since Jack went in without responding. He was now torn between going inside and seeing what the others had learned and continuing the practice. Both were valuable in their own way. But he was strongly leaning toward practice. He remembered how much he hated being in the big group. There were too many personality clashes.

"Want to go in and listen?" Colby asked Maddie, opting to let him decide. He did glance at their fathers' to see if the pair of them had any interest in going inside. As it stood, they could practice more. Magic was complicated, and just because they were good at a spell now in this calm, safe place didn't mean they would be in the heat of a fight. Colby refused to put all his eggs in one basket.

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Megan's dry tone didn't go over Maddies head. He doubted it was simply her personality, or perhaps it was and she was always a snide bitch. Either way he'd decided he didn't care for her, or most of the others for that matter. He watched as she placed her hand on the hilt of her sword, wondering if she thought that meant something. So she had Excalibur? Big whoop, he was certain the Vorpal blade was much cooler. Besides, handing out magical swords from a Lady in Lake seemed like a bad way to distribute magic items. The other guy that was there seemed to ignore Colbys question, talking to Sierra before meandering off into the tower with everyone else including miss doom and gloom. Maddie watched as they all walked by, the scent of ozone gathering around him as a faint sound of crackling could be heard coming from his hands.

Once they'd all gone inside, he released the blast of lightning, arcing it towards some targets as they shattered and left behind nothing but soot and smoke. "Ugh! What is her problem?! What's any of their problems!? They think they can just stroll on through here with a magic portal and just…ugh!" Maddie sighed as he slumped down onto the ground, looking towards the remains of what he'd just shot. "If I'm going inside it's so we can have a nice shower, not to be stuck in a room with them. Though they'd probably ruin the shower too!" He sat for a moment in silence before standing back up and wiping the dirt off his pants. "Sorry…I just…I really can't stand people like that…seeing them all…it just reminded me of how it all started and who we've yet to see back. I know it sounds bad but I really don't want to see her again, what if she tries to pick a fight with you again? What if I snap when she does and I accidentally fry her? I think i just need some more time out here…if thats ok with you?"

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"Well not like it's that hard. Not to mention pens are incredibly useful, since in a pinch you can essentially stab someone with it in either the neck or the eye to allow enough time to get away. Just helpful to carry around if you don't have a weapon or something on hand," she commented with a bit of a shrug. Rosalia didn't really care much about the idea that she was essentially proving she had kind of ended up following the same path as her father, she'd prefer to just sort of ignore that in general.

She fell silent when they snuck out of the cell, and when Flynn decided to knock the guard out, and based on his words it seemed he actually kind of cared what she had thought about the whole thing earlier. That's when they ran into the others who had been heading to the castle and all anyway. Rosalia was more of in the mind set that they needed to get out of there or something, she wasn't even sure what they had been looking for to begin with honestly.

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He hadn't really heard Colby's question to begin with, but it did register a bit after he had walked inside. Of course, it wasn't exactly a question he'd want to answer in general, since the only reason he had magic was because of his dad. Which was not exactly something that he wanted to think about still. Though part of him did slightly wonder where his dad was now after he had gotten his face partially burned, which definitely was a fun thing for him to think about for an image.

Now he was a bit curious as to what the supposed plan was going to be when it came to fighting against Maleficent or something like that. The plan made sense, basically armies and groups banding together in one final attack, though he kind of thought Megan did have a bit of a point. Why was Merlin wanting to just not mention what the full plan was to begin with or something? It didn't really make sense at the moment to him. "I agree with Meg, since don't we want to maybe make sure that the full plan is a good and very solid one before we actively do anything?"

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Merlin looked over at Megan and Jack for a moment, the two of them wanted to find out a little bit more about the plan which was understandable, however Hood sisters, as well as Red's daughter along with Flynn and Rapunzel's daughter were still out there gathering the intel that they needed to as well. "The others who are still out there are still gathering the information around Maleficent's castle, that way we have a more accurate plan on what to do and what the layout of the castle actually looks like this way we have an actuate way to figure out the rest of the plan and everyone can have a say in it." Merlin said, wanting to make sure that everyone was present and he didn't want to have to relay all the information all over again. Rapunzel made her way out of the room and spoke to Merlin for a moment and looked at Megan, Arthur and Guinvever for a moment. "On our way to the tower here, we managed to find Lancelot as well to, if you'd like to talk to him you are able to see him." Merlin told Megan if she wanted to see him or not it was up to her.

"We went underwater, and we ended up saving some mermaids as well to, and took the fight to Captain Hook as well to and sunk most of his ships to." Sierra said smiling towards Willow it was really cool to see the kingdom underwater as well and fighting some pirates and making explosions was kind of fun. She listened to the group as they spoke, Sierra did want to know as well to, but she could maybe understand his reasoning and not telling the rest until everyone was present she heard the door opening and both Mad Hatter and Chesire Cat entered the room as well watching them grabbing some food.

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"So did you learn to pick locks all on your own or something?" Flynn decided to ask Rosalia he was mostly curious how she learned, he understood that his daughter had lived on the streets mostly which he felt terrible about leaving her like that. "If you want I can teach you a few things." Flynn offered his daughter hoping to try and connect with her in some way. Layla followed her sister into the secret passage. As she started to move forward she could hear some weird humming sounds as they got louder and louder they were at the end of the little passage of sorts.

It took a little bit of finding what was a way to open the door, she heard a clicking sound when she managed to press something and the wall slowly opened foward. The humming sounds were coming from modern day portable generators, and she noticed a few computers and whatnot were laying about. "Well this is interesting." Layla said quietly as she looked around the room and noticed a guard was sleeping in the corner of the room as she quietly snuck into the room and found a few modern firearms as well to which she thought was weird to.

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Cassiopeia fidgeted until Layla found a way to open the door. She peered into the room, her eyes widening in surprise. As they walked into the room, Cassiopeia tip-toed and kept her voice low to keep the guard from waking. They would have to deal with him quickly. She glanced at her father and nodded to the guard, hoping he could take care of it so she didn’t have to. Then she returned to take in the room.
”This is very interesting,” Cassi agreed. ”Looks like we aren’t the only ones here from the modern world.” She looked over at the guns and frowned. They had learned to shoot a gun, but they weren’t her favourite. Cassi approached the computer and saw that it needed a password. ”Does anyone know when Maleficent’s birthday is or her favourite literary character?” She didn’t think they would have many chances to get the password right.

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Willow’s eyes widened as Sierra told her some of what she and the others had encountered. ”That sounds incredible! Did you meet Ariel? How did you breathe underwater? Were there sharks? Were you scared? Did you bring any of them back? What did you go there for?” The questions continued to pour out of her until she couldn’t breathe. It was then that she realized she had just gone off. Willow’s cheeks turned a vibrant red, and she looked down. ”Sorry, that was a bit much. Are you hungry? There’s still a bit of food.”
Willow glanced around the room at the others. Merlin was still adamant about waiting for the others and made a good point about why. As Willow turned her attention away, she saw her mother.
”Oh! Sierra, I’d like you to meet my mom,” she said and waved Aurora over to meet Sierra.

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Rose smirked at Cassi's question. Then shook her head. She had no idea. However, the whole setup was strange. Or rather, it sort of made sense to her too. She frowned, thinking. Maleficent had proved herself capable of making her way around town. There was no reason she hadn't been doing it for ages. And ignoring her own daughter. What had happened to that girl?

It was also possible that Maleficent had just kidnapped some IT guy. "You know...This all has to be powered somehow. It might be powering something else too." If they could find and destroy the power source. Even if they couldn't get into the systems, that would probably slow Maleficient's plan down. Whatever it was. "Maybe we can just take the computer with us back to Merlin. Someone in the group probably knows something about computers, right?" Rose's computer skills were definitely not hack-level. She knew how to use a word processor and Google. There wasn't much need for anything else in her normal life.

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"Hey, it is okay. I am here." Colby took Maddie's shoulders and held them gently. "I totally understand. I was happy when it was Willow and us. She's cool. I'm not excited about everyone being here too. But we can make it work. Long enough to get through this. After that, we can go to Wonderland and won't have to deal with any of them anymore."

Colby smiled gently. A rare smile that drove both corners of his mouth up. This wasn't his normal silly, playful smile that probably meant he was up to something. This was his smile when he was happy. The one that played at the corners of his mouth when he laughed or was playing with a cat.

"We don't have to go inside. And when she does come back, we'll do our best to stay out of the same room as her. And if need be, I'll light something on fire. She seems to hate that and would probably leave real quick." The smile shifted and became his playful one.

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"I see. The plan is incomplete, then." Megan didn't want to dance around that subject. It did annoy her somewhat, mostly because she would have preferred that Merlin had been direct immediately, without her needing to pressure him a bit. He didn't have a full plan. That was fine. It wasn't like he was a wise old mystical type or anything along those lines. The disdainful part of her wondered if this was why Maleficent had managed to rise to power - the way paved by subtle incompetencies. A magician probably was not a natural strategist when it came to war, at any rate. She doubted there were battle strategies inside Merlin's tomes.

Rapunzel then came down, and said something to Merlin. Merlin then relayed the message to the rest of them - which also annoyed Megan mildly, as she would have preferred for Rapunzel to just say so herself. But whatever. It was fine. She was intrigued by the possibility of meeting Lancelot. She had fond memories of him - he had been like a second father to her growing up... an interesting circumstance certainly, knowing what she did from the modern world about the potential affair between her mother and Lancelot. "Alright. I'll see him. Where is he?"

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As Colby placed his hands on Maddie's shoulders, he began to relax a bit. His boyfriend's firm hands gently squeezed the pressure right out of him as he began to deflate. His shoulders slowly slumped as Maddie let out another sigh, this one softer than the ones before. He watched as Colbys smile reached both corners of his mouth, a genuine smile full of warmth and happiness that was a rare occasion to see. It was one of the many things that had made him so smitten for his best friend back in the real world, kansas?, the previous realm. The idea still puzzled Maddie. Like he didn't know how to refer to the place he'd grown up in anymore. It wasn't home, never felt like it. The only time he truly felt that way was when Colby would come over for visits.

He watched as the smile shifted, rolling his eyes at Colby before giggling. "Let's try to not burn down Rapunzel's tower. She may not be a Disney princess but this is still her home." Maddie stared into Colbys eyes, eventually looking past them as he got lost in thought. Could they really just defeat Maleficent and go back to Wonderland? Would it be that simple? Did Wonderland have its own share of villains save for the Red Queen? He'd realized he was quiet for too long before speaking again. "Sorry about…that Maddie said as he gestured towards the burnt debris. "Kinda lost my head there a little bit."

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"Well yeah? Who else would I have had do that? It isn't that hard to do it without actual lockpicks or something. Pens, bobby pins, paper clips or something like that, you just need it small enough. I was always better at pick pocketing and swiping things that way, but knowing how to pick locks also is fairly useful of a skill to have," she responded to him with a bit of an eye roll. Yeah she was fine with having taught herself how to do things in general.

Then he offered to potentially teach her some stuff or something, and she at this point wondered what exactly that sort of thing would be. Since she had taught herself most sort of survival skills, and basic thievery skills that she was pretty good at doing. "Not sure what you'd be able to teach me or anything but sure I guess," she ended up responding to him. Rosalia followed along after the others, and saw the kind of impressive computer setup the castle seemed to have. "I don't know a whole lot about computers, aside from they need power, which seems to be what the generators are for... And then unless they are using basic programs on it or want to use the internet in someway they'd need ways to potentially hook that up. Who knows what is on those things though. As for ideas on the password? No idea. But taking it might be a bit difficult since we last I checked don't have a power source for it..."

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The answer they got with regards to the plan wasn't exactly a good one. They didn't seemingly actually have a full plan, because they were relying on information that the other group was currently getting. Which meant that they were basically once again, sitting ducks of sorts at this point with regards to that. Not knowing the plan was never a good thing. Jack didn't really care much for uncertainties with this, especially considering the fact that they could potentially die during this entire situation.

Then came Rapunzel, and then the mention of Lancelot or something like that. Well they hadn't known if he'd ever run into him. Since that sort of thing had been up in the air. Jack understood if Megan wanted to go and see him or something like that. Personally he wasn't too sure about running into the knight or seeing him or something. Actually since they were just waiting around doing nothing at the moment, he wasn't entirely sure what to do right now.

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Sierra smiled towards Willow as she started to spam her with a bunch of questions, as she gestured to her mother who was getting herself a glass of water to drink and waved towards her daughter. "Thats my mom right there." Sierra answered as she nodded seeing some cheeses and whatnot nearby and grabbed herself some before answering the rest of Willow's questions. "We went there to get the armies that would help us take down Maleficent's forces, there were a few sharks there as well to." Her attention went towards Aurora and smiled towards her giving her a friendly smile and wave. "It's nice to meet you." Sierra said to Aroura as she smiled and nodded back. "It's nice to meet you as well to."

"He's in the next room, follow me." Rapunzel said as she led Megan, Guinevere and Arthur into the next room Jack could join if he wanted to or not it was completely up to him or he could stay and chat with the others in the room to. In the room was Lancelot laying on the bed who was looking a bit better but still very much in rough shape. "You look like you have seen better days." Arthur said as Lancelot grunted slightly as he sat up slightly. "Yeah getting jumped by some of Maleficent's men wasn't a lot of fun really." Lancelot said as Rapunzel looked at them all. "I'll leave you all alone for a bit." Rapunzel said as she left the room, Lancelot then turned his attention over towards Megan, she looked so much older than the last time he had seen her.

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"Oh i'm sure there are things that we both can teach each other or something like knife fighting or anything like that just in case things get dicey in a fight." Flynn said to Rosalia, as he stepped into the room and looked around seeing the laptop, and all the other various things. He had never been to the modern world so seeing all of this was pretty interesting to him. "Whatever these things are kinda interesting." Flynn said quietly as he turned his attention towards the sleeping guard. "Well we can probably take the laptop, and see if we can break into it." Layla said as she looked around and found what looked like a portable charger for the laptop, and spotted a small booklet of sorts and grabbed that as well to.

Flynn needed to make sure that he wouldn't wake up or at least restrain him. He managed to find some tape and grabbed it inspecting it for the first time, as he pulled it apart and noticed that it was sticky and quickly started binding the guard to the chair, just as he woke up and yelled. "Hey people are in here!" The guard yelled just as Flynn managed to tape his mouth shut and ended up punching the guard knocking him out, but the damage was already done as six more guards started to come into the room. "I think it's time for us to actually get going." Layla said as she managed to unplug the laptop, finding a small bag and set all the things inside of it. The group would noticed a few gas cannisters that were full that they could use to burn it if they chose to.

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Megan followed Rapunzel into the next room, along with her parents. It took her a moment to recognize the man laying on the bed, even knowing who he was as she had entered. She saw her own intense dark eyes in his face. His brown hair was damp and curly, likely from sweat, and his face lightly covered in hair, the beginnings of a goatee. He clearly had seen better days. He looked like he had been beaten within an inch of his life and had just started the road to recovery. Apparently Maleficent's men had been responsible - they seemed to be responsible for almost everything that went wrong in this world, aside from Jack's father of course.

"Hello, Ser Lancelot," Megan said, noting that he was staring at her. The last time he had seen her, she had been a child, still with her natural blonde hair. And now, she was a raven haired medical examiner. She imagined she looked hardly recognizable to him. He probably wouldn't have imagined that the little princess would become so gaunt and morose.

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Cassiopeia shrugged as she looked around, trying to get a better idea of just what sort of operation was going on here. The guns scared her more than the computer. Knives, arrows, and magic were one thing, but guns put the enemy on an entirely different playing field. Just then, the guard woke and ruined their cover. ”Time’s up. Let’s hope Maleficent put everything offline so we don’t need a wifi signal.” She covered Layla while she got the laptop and things packed up.
Cassiopeia notched an arrow and glanced around the room. She noticed the gas canisters and thought hitting those would be her best bet. Of course, all the ammunition in the room would blow as well. ”Hey, Dad, we could fight our way out or create one hell of an explosion,” she said and nodded towards the gas. ”The only thing is those weapons use something that is highly explosive.” She released her arrow, hitting a guard in the leg to temporarily down him.

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Willow linked her arm around her mother’s, beaming at her before looking back at Sierra. She looked so much like her mother as well. ”Did you get the armies you sought?” She didn’t know how the others were doing, but she did know they could use all the help they could get.
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"I'm all for wanton destruction. Rosalia, you might want to get moving. Cassie, take the bag and go too. Flynn, do you have a fire source on you? If not, I do." She gestured to the gas canisters. Drew her bow and knocked an arrow. She didn't like the idea of being the last one out of the room, but if she had to. She was the one most capable of lighting the fire. Sure, it sent a shiver of fear down her spine, but she wasn't in a forest. There was a way out.

Rose fired an arrow. It hit one of the guards in the leg, and her mind pulled up. 'I was an adventurer once, too, till I took an arrow to the knee.' She had to suppress a smile so she didn't seem unhinged. "Gents, I think it would behoove you to let us past." She said, knocking another arrow.

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"Didn't Tangled get her into the princess club?" Colby shook his head. "Honestly, this place doesn't seem super Disneyfied. It's inconsistent." He shrugs. "Sometimes it feels like it is straight out of a Disney movie, other times Grimm."

"No need to apologize to me." Colby bumped Maddie gently. "I'm happy us just sitting here next to each other in silence if you want." He did wonder about all the pets. At least his cats were okay.

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Maddie couldn't help but laugh at Colbys question about Rapunzel's Disney Princess qualifications. It took him back to a movie he'd seen recently, Ralph Breaks the Internet, in which they go over the qualifications for becoming a Princess. He didn't know this Rapunzel, but she didn't have magical hair, nor magic hands, he didn't know if animals talked to her, nor if she was poisoned, cursed, though possibly kidnapped or enslaved. The more he thought about it the more he realized it didn't really matter. They weren't going to burn down her tower regardless. "Tell me about it, this place certainly doesn't follow a strict code of where to get its source material from." he said with a chuckle.

He gave his boyfriend a kiss. Staring at him for a moment before rolling his eyes at him. "You're such a dork you know that? Make it practically impossible to be in a bad mood." Maddie said as he bumped him back. "So what do you want to do? We can't just sit out here forever, but the others aren't back yet either so…" he gave Colby a grin as if he was up to no good but didn't follow through with any sort of mention as to why.

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"I mean if you say so," she commented with a shrug towards Flynn before as it turned out, guards had finally shown up to stop them. Well this definitely was the part that she was expecting to have happen. Rosalia was just sort of expecting it to happen a bit sooner then it ended up being. Since getting out of the cell had been fairly simple for her to do, it wasn't exactly the best jail cell or something like that, but that didn't truly matter at the moment.

Rose made the comment that she might want to see about getting out of there or something given the chaos and all, and personally she was fine with doing that. It was obvious she wasn't a fighter, but here was the problem. There wasn't exactly a good place to go, since she knew next to nothing about the building they were in. Rosalia hadn't seen a map or anything like that, so she didn't actively have any idea of where she was supposed to go at this point, so right now she just started backing away from what was going on.

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He figured that since it seemed to be more of a sort of Camelot reunion or something like that by Lancelot that he wouldn't follow after Megan and join her or anything like that. Jack figured that she might prefer to not have him around, and he wasn't too sure about what to expect with everything else currently. They were still waiting around for the others to return from their sort of trip exploring Maleficent's Castle, so he wasn't entirely sure what to do at this point.

The thought did cross his mind with regards to Sierra's comment earlier about maybe seeing about getting target practice or something for his own magic, but well, he wasn't entirely sure about trying to do anything more. At least for him, with the fire thing, he seemed very much just naturally able to do it without spells or anything. Plus it could cause a lot of damage, so he wasn't entirely sure messing around doing that when you were in a wooded area would be a good idea anyway.