Queen Leah gasped in fear and quickly wrapped her arms around Audrey, as to protect her granddaughter from the villain who had already ruined the life of her daughter.

"Mother," Aurora sighed as Phillip tried to pry her grip loose. While she was a little nervous around the daughter of Maleficent, she felt that her mother was taking things a little too far.

"Is that supposed to make it better?" Lonnie asked.

"The more evil an act, the better it looks to our parents," Mal shrugged.

"Err...no thanks," Chad said, grimacing at the thought of eating a lollipop someone had spit on beforehand.

"Try saying that to Maleficent," Carlos told him.

"Oh geez, no pressure or anything," Evan Fitzherbert muttered as he leaned into his father's embrace.

"Hey!" Audrey exclaimed. "We're not all prissy pink princesses."

"You're right," Mal nodded. "Lonnie's not."

"I meant me!"

"You're wearing pink right now!"

"Do you always do what Mal wants you to?" Evan asked.

"Only if you want to survive on the Isle," Evie told him. "Now of course it helps since Mal's practically the leader of our group."

"You can make your own decisions, E," Mal told her with a role of her eyes.

"Does he have a death wish?" Aladdin whispered to Jasmine. "Talking to Maleficent like that?"

"He's friends with her daughter," Jasmine whispered back. "She must have a small spot in her heart for her friends."

"That poor boy," Anita Radcliffe gasped. While she and her husband Rodger had no kids of their own, Anita had wanted to meet the son of her old school mate. To see if the last bit of what drew her to Cruella was still in there.

"Jerk," Carlos muttered, hitting Jay on the arm again. Then his head popped up. "Hey speaking of dogs, where's Dude?"

"Yeah, he was with Carlos at Family Day," Mal pipped up. The Blue Fairy spoke not a word but quickly waived her wand. A flash of light later and Dude was with them, safe and sound in Carlos' arms.

"Can't separate a boy and his dog," Anita whispered to Rodger, smiling a little at the sight.

"That's all it's about with her," Mal muttered under her breath.

All the heroes gasped, and some of them started casting suspicious looks at the four villain kids. Had they already attempted to steal the wand? If so, would they try again?

"Oh please," Mal groaned as the muttering grew too much for her. "You really think we were just sent here by our parents? What, that they thought we deserved a second chance or a better life than we had on the Isle?"

"My mother didn't want me to leave because she'd lose her personal servant," Carlos told them. "If Evie hadn't blocked her path when the limo arrived, I don't doubt she would have dragged me back to Dragon Hall."

"My mother taught me how to apply blush before I could talk," Evie stated, earning a gasp of shock from Snow White. "Earning the affections of a prince were much more important than baking cookies or whatever else your parents did."

"But to steal Fairy Godmother's wand?" Ben asked, looking at Mal with hope in his eyes. He hoped that the look in Audrey's eyes was wrong—that Mal hadn't come here solely to steal the most powerful magical artifact known to them.

"Ben," Mal looked back and Ben could tell that the mask she wore while she was at school was slowly starting to crack. He could see all sort of emotions behind her emerald eyes but the one that scared him the most was fear. "You don't say no to my mother."

"Let's continue," Blue Fairy said after a moment of silence. She hoped that this revelation wouldn't undo all the progress that had begun.

"Somehow, I don't think that's what Mal meant," Mulan muttered.

Ben looked over at Mal, hoping that the answer wasn't yes.

Ben couldn't help but sigh an inward sigh of relief. True, the answer was in the positive. But it was the weakest 'yes' he'd ever heard. There was still good in Mal. He knew it.

"I thought we took that away!" King Beast exclaimed.

"My mother has her ways," Mal smirked though Ben couldn't help but notice that once again, the smirk didn't quite reach Mal's eyes.

"Wait, did she just say 'lives'?" Lonnie asked. "I mean, I know she's Mal's mom, but she really didn't mean that she'd ground all of you right?"

"Like Mal said," Jay told her. "You don't say no to Maleficent. Our parents would have gone along with whatever she wanted."

"Uh, what just happened?" Chad asked.

"Family argument," Mal said, examining her nails. In truth, she'd rather be anywhere but in the room when the prissy Auradon princesses realized that she wasn't even as strong as her mother. That was the main reason no one had messed with her or the other Isle kids.

"That does explain a lot of the mirror questions," Evan nodded, thinking back to when the Princess had set her eyes on him. That was maybe a week before she realized that he wasn't in line for anything—he had four older sisters after all. It was then that she had moved on to Chad Charming.

"Seriously! She's a kid!" Jasmine exclaimed. "She's not going to get wrinkles over five minutes of laughing."

"Mother always taught me it's good to look your best," Evie told her.

"Evie, you spend more time on your makeup than you do sleeping," Mal told her, rolling her eyes. "Seriously, you spent the entire night working on Chad's homework three weeks ago and then I wake up at five and you're already working on your makeup. On a Saturday by the way!"

"I'm sorry?"

The girls froze as Cinderella spoke up. They had, once again, forgotten that there were other people in the room.

"Chad? Is what Mal said true?" Cinderella looked at her son with a raised eyebrow.

"Of course n—"

"DON'T YOU DARE SAY SHE'S LYING, CHARMING!" a furious blonde stood up and stormed over to them. "I STILL REMEMBER WHEN YOU PROMISED ME A DATE IF I DID YOUR HISTORY REPORT!"

"Rachel, you're overreacting," Chad tried to brush off the daughter of Rapunzel and Eugene. Evan had already stood up when Chad started to speak, wanting to be able to stand up for his sister if given the chance.

"If she's overreacting, then I'm a princess," Lonnie snorted. "Everyone knows you've been with almost half the girls in school; the smarter girls get dumped about two weeks in since they stop doing your homework."

Before Chad could respond, the Blue Fairy shots sparks from her wand to gather everyone's attention.

"I'm sorry for interrupting but I do believe we may want to continue on with the film," she stated. "I promise there will be time for in-depth discussion afterwards."

"We will be discussing this," Cinderella told Chad. "Along with your father."

Anita sighed an inward sigh of relief. At least there was some good left in her old schoolmate.

On the other hand, Anita frowned, ignoring Rodger's knowing look being sent her way. She hadn't missed how hopeful Carlos had seemed upon hearing his mother's words and she couldn't help but feel even more saddened than she had been.

A child shouldn't have to feel hopeful that their parents would miss them.

Ben shot Carlos a sad smile. While it was great that one of the kids was on board, it shouldn't have been because it was the only way to get away from his mother.

"That's just too cruel!" Snow White exclaimed.

"What did you expect? It's in her name!" Carlos shot back.

"Doesn't even pretend that he'd miss his kid," Aladdin muttered in disgust.

"What unibrow?" Audrey asked. She raised an eyebrow at the looks of shock she received. "What? She may be evil but I'm not blind."

"That may be the nicest thing she's said to or about you," Mal muttered to Evie, who nodded in shock.

"Thankfully, it's not possible unless you're invited off," King Beast stated, forgetting about the plan to steal the Fairy Godmother's wand. It just wasn't possible that four teenagers would be able to do such an act, regardless of who their parents were.

Snow White couldn't help the sadness she felt in her heart at the knowledge that her stepmother still harbored feelings of resentment toward her. All she wanted was to be a family. Was that too much to ask?

Aladdin tightened the grip he had on his son's shoulder, as if that would somehow prevent Jafar from enacting his revenge. Aladdin forgot, though, that Jafar was locked away on an island with no way off.

Anita gasped and her eyes welled with tears at the thought of one of their precious dalmatian pups being cruelly mistreated. While her Perdita only had fifteen pups, the ninety nine puppies that had entered their home were loved just as much as if they had come from Perdita herself.

"No ego there," Phillip muttered while trying once again to lessen Queen Leah's grasp on his daughter.

"That's the magic mirror?" Snow White whispered, slightly confused. She always thought that it was, well, bigger. At least, that's what all the stories said. She had never actually seen her step-mother's magic mirror.

Despite the risk of possibly having her wand stolen, Fairy Godmother couldn't help but smile slightly at the antics between the villains. She could see a lot of how their children acted and the relationships that had been formed. The smile faded as she remembered the disastrous video conference before Family Day.

"Isn't that a fridge?" Doug asked.

"It's better if you don't question it," Evie told him.

"How did they retrieve those?" King Beast whispered to Belle. "I thought we took all their items when they were imprisoned."

"Maybe now is not the best time to worry about that," Belle whispered back.

"That was almost touching up to the last part," Rapunzel whispered, wrapping her hands around her lower arms as if to ward off the memory of Gothel and her treatment. She couldn't help be reminded of her own childhood as she watched Maleficent and Mal interact.

Eugene looked over at his wife and wrapped an arm around her shoulders, as if knowing what was going through her mind.

"He's not a dog!" Anita snapped, finally getting fed up of Cruella and her treatment of her son.

Snow White looked over at Evie, heartbroken that someone else was growing up almost the same way she had. Well, if you remove the attempted murder. Wait, would Evie even tell anyone if the Evil Queen did that?

"That's not how the saying goes," Chad scoffed.

"No pressure or anything," Ariel muttered.

Anita couldn't help but smile at the thought of Carlos finally being free of his mother's clutches. That smile faded when she realized that, upon summer, the boy would have to go back to the Isle.

Looking over at Rodger, Anita couldn't help but hope that her husband would be willing to agree to possibly fostering the boy for the summers and other school vacations.

"I forgot how much I liked him," Mal grinned as she ignored Ben and his parents' shocked looks. Belle immediately started stammering out an apology but Evie waived her off.

"We're used to it," she said simply.

This in no way made the royal family feel better.

Dude growled at that, earning a slight chuckle from Carlos as he scratched his best friend behind the ears.

"Are you ready to see more or shall we stop for the day?" the Blue Fairy asked as the screen paused.

"I think we can make it through one more viewing before possibly stoping to eat," Ben said and some of the other Royals nodded their agreement. Ben looked over at his girlfriend. "Mal? This is your life after all. Do you want to continue?"

"It's fine," Mal said, shrugging off the looming doubt in her mind.

"Then let us resume," the Blue Fairy said with a slight smile.