Matt:
Ok, there...so, once upon a time in a beautiful castle, [Huggles jumps off his shoulder and onto the bed] there lived a magical princess whose name just happened to be...
Lillian:
Lillian!
[Matt laughs]
Matt:
How'd you know?
[The door opens - Cornelia is standing by it]
Cornelia:
Hi! Hate to interrupt, but I have news for Matt.
[Matt stands up and walks over to Cornelia]
Cornelia:
[quietly] We're on a Nerissa alert. The others are at the Dragon working on strategy. I'll take over here.
[Mr Huggles, who has been listening to this, starts chirping and his fur is twitching]
Matt:
Right.
[He picks up Mr Huggles]
Matt:
Take care, Lil.
Lillian:
you're going?! But you just started the story! [Matt leaves] Cornelia, you ruin everything!
Cornelia:
[nicely] Hey, it's ok! You and I can make nice.
Lillian:
You're never nice! Not to me.
Cornelia:
Is that really how you feel? Listen, I'm gonna be a better big sister. Starting Right now!
[she takes Napolean and puts him on the floor and kicks him away, so that she can hold Lillian's hand] I just want us to be closer. I hate this...distance between us. We'd both be so much better off...undivided. If you'd agree, [Mr Huggles runs back into the room] we could share everything.
[Matt walks back into the room]:
Matt:
Uh, my bad, Cornelia. Huggles got away from me. [Mr Huggles jumps on the bed, Cornelia screams and Matt jumps over to catch Huggles]
Matt:
Come here, you... argh! [Huggles jumps out of the way, onto a shelf and runs out of the room with Napolean] Oh, great! Now the whole menagerie's gone beserk. [He takes Cornelia's arm] Help me out, C. [Matt drags her out of the room]
Cornelia:
What are you doing?! We can't leave Lillian alone! Not now!
[A fold appears and the other girls appear and Cornelia appears last]:
Matt:
'Bout time. I didn't know how much longer I could stall!
Cornelia:
[surprised] Is that...?!
Matt:
Yeah, Huggles tipped me off. [Napolean and Huggles run over and Huggles runs up to Matt's shoulder] And I didn't have the power to risk a fight so I had to riff.
Cornelia:
Nice try, Nerissa. But even a mouse can see I’m better [she flicks her hair and walks over to Nerissa] looking in that.
Nerissa glamoured as Cornelia:
Then perhaps I better... [she de-glamours]
Nerissa:
Change.
Cornelia:
Wow, I’m still better looking! [Nerissa frowns] The Guardian makeover: just not working. The dried-prune look was so much more you.
[Nerissa walks away and creates a fold]
Nerissa:
Petty insults will hardly protect your sister. [as she walks through the fold, but doesn't completely walk through] I will be back. [she walks through the fold completely]
Cornelia:
[holding Napolean. Quietly] She won't give up, will she?
Lillian:
Give up on what? [she opens the door]
Cornelia:
None of your business. What are you doing up anyway? Get back in bed!
Lillian:
It was all a trick. I knew it! I knew she didn't mean that stuff about being a better sister!
Matt:
Aww, oome on, princess. We've still got a bedtime story to wrap up.
[He leads Lillian into her bedroom]:
Napolean:
[to Cornelia] Smooth, doll. Real smooth.
Irma:
One big sister to another...you need to win back her trust. Now that she's in Nerissa's sights...her life could depend on it!
[Cornelia nods and walks into Lillian's bedroom, the other girls walk away]:
Lillian:
Hmmph! Matt, could I have more story please?
Matt:
[noticing Cornelia and walks over to her] Actually, why don't we let your sister spin it?
Cornelia:
[As Matt is pushing her over to the bed] That's ok, I missed chapter one.
Matt:
Hey, we barely got past "Once upon a time, there was a princess named Lillian" before a certain Cornelia Hale interrupted. [he winks]
Lillian:
She won't do it.
Cornelia:
Don't tell me what I won't do! If I wanna tell you a story, I'll tell you a story. It's um, it's about an evil sorceress named Nerissa, [Matt walks over and sits on the stool] who wants to drain princess Lillian of all her magical power. But lucky for the princess, she has five [shows the number with her hand] fairy protectors - [she counts off the numbers on her hand as she says the names] Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia and Hay Lin.
Lillian:
No way you'd protect me!
Cornelia:
Ugh, fine! Four protectors.
Lillian:
That's better [she yawns] I might like this story. I just wish it were true. [Napolean looks shocked. Her wish results in her powers transforming the apartment block into a castle. Inside, the girls have been transformed into Guardians [excluding Cornelia]
Taranee:
Uh, Will...did you say Guardians Unite while I wasn't listening?
[Irma flies closer to Will and looks at her]
Will:
[to Irma] Do not look at me! I so didn't do any of this!
[They all fly up and are shocked]
Irma:
By this, do you mean us spontaneously going Guardian, or the Hale's apartment spontaneously going Medieval, or say, the world spontaneously going King size?!
Will:
Er... D, "All of the above"?
