Trigger warnings: wrongful imprisonment, child abuse, child death, swearing, Mal bashing, etc.

Let me know if I should add to the trigger warnings list.

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(Mal starts narrating.)

Many of the vks groaned upon hearing Mal's voice. Already knowing what this meant.

Hadie was not one of those people and perked up immediately, recognizing his older sister's voice. " Mal! You're on tv!"

"I see that, spitfire" The older girl replied in a monotone voice, rolling her eyes as expected of her. Appearing as if she was dismissing him.. but if one were to look close enough, like Ben had, they'd have noticed the small, fond smile she was sporting.

"Oh God, these movies are about Mal?! Why Mal?! " Clay groaned, almost in sync with Harry who did the same.

They got no response from the fairies, who had seemingly disappeared out of nowhere. Which only served to further annoy the vks.

The heroes were whispering to one another, wondering why everyone was reacting that way toward a rude but seemingly harmless teenage girl. Especially a boy who was definitely older than her.

But before they could voice their confusion to the vks, the scene continued.

(Mal's narration continues.)

" 6,000?! " Claudine asked faintly, looking ready to pass out.

Beast and Belle looked sheepish but Belle was the one who explained their actions "Well, we had to invite the staff and whole kingdoms. So, of course there was gonna be alot of people."

"But 6,000? I can barely handle having 20 friends and they're all my crew mates. How can you stand being around that many people? How could you not pass out from the stress?" Claudine nervously ran her fingers through her hair.

Desperately trying to calm herself.

Beast and Belle didn't know what to say.

A lot of vks and aks, and even a few heroes snickered at the scene.

Some not even trying to hide it.

Ben slid down in his seat, mortified.

Lee (Lefou Deux) decided to take pity on the King and Queen. "Claudine, honey. You were raised in an isolated cult. Beastie boy over there, on the other hand, was raised to deal with stuff like that and Belle had plenty of practice with dealing with it by the time they got married. It's a matter of difference in upbringing, is all."

"Oh." Was the only response the red head could muster..

Neither paid any mind to Beast, who sputtered at the insult or Ben, who let out a very alarmed "What?!"

(Mal's narration continues.)

That raised a lot of eyebrows.

From all parties in the room.

Even the heroes.

Anthony, being the smartass he was, just had to comment. And as usual, it was snarky, dry, and just downright mean.

" Wow, you really know how to please a lady. Makes one wonder how selfish you are in the bedroom."

Belle turned red, Ben turned green, and Beast sputtered in outrage yet again "Why you little-"

The Gaston twins couldn't stand it. The sight was just too funny not to laugh about it.

So that's exactly what they did and for once, Lee joined them in their laughter.

" Oh my God- " Junior panted, breathing heavily as he hunched over in his seat.

"Anthony, that was brilliant- " Bronze added, layghing so hard that he was crying.

"You should do it more often! " they finished.

"Especially to him " Lee cut in with his own two cents, looking mirthful.

"I don't get it" chimed in Gil, brows furrowed. "What's so funny? And why does Dad's ex's husband look so angry?"

Beast turned purple with anger and then ghostly pale when he realized who they were.

"You.. I.. how dare you... After everything you did to my family, say-"

"Oh? What we did?! " Junior said, suddenly dead serious. Tone suggesting that Beast had just fucked up majorly.

"You mean what our parents did " Lee corrected, looking like a tired and disappointed parent.

"Yeah. We didn't do ANYTHING to you, you selfish jackass." Claire (a blonde pirate in purple), from next to Gil, snapped.

"How am I a selfish Jackass? And watch your mouth, a lady shouldn't use such words" Beast scolded, scowling and crossing his arms. Staring them down.

"Get fucked." Was all the blonde said as they all glared back, even Gil, looking murderous as baby Gemma and their other younger family members played on the floor.

Mostly oblivious to what was going on.

"Are you fucking Serious? " Bronze stared at Beast as if he was dumber than Gaston. Which, at the moment, he was actually considering might be true.

"How are you not selfish? All of you dumb heroes are selfish-" he continued, ignoring all the heroes who tried to protest.

"How is locking a bunch of people up on a barren island with no way out and no medical care or police not selfish? How is feeding them garbage and trapping them with one another no matter how small the crime not selfish? How is allowing a ton of already proven child abusers to keep their children on said island not selfish? Do you have any idea what you've done?"

As usual, Beast was the dumb ass who replied. "We saved our children!"

Bronze did not like that response at all and boy , if you thought he was mad before, that didn't even come close to what he was feeling right now.

No one in the room knew before that moment that someone could even turn that color.

"AT THE FUCKING EXPENSE OF THOUSANDS OF OTHERS! AT THE EXPENSE OF ME AND EVERY CHILD IN THIS ROOM! AT THE EXPENSE OF MY SIBLINGS AND COUSINS THAT MY FATHER MURDERED BECAUSE YOU LEFT US ALONE WITH HIM!"

The aks and heroes looked sick.

The aks looked at their parents, shocked and confused. And silently pleading with them to tell them it wasn't true.

But the heroes couldn't and just stared at the 2nd oldest son of Gaston, not sure how to react.

He was particularly steaming.

He huffed and returned to his seat, flipping Beast off and picking Gemma up on the way. Needing the comfort her weight brought him.

Needing the reminder that some of his younger cousins and siblings were still here .

Needing a reminder that they were still alive.

(Mal's narration continues.)

Bronze gestured to the screen, silently saying 'see. She just proved my point'.

"For once, I agree with Dragon Breath" Uma muttered.

The aks and heroes were still too stunned to speak, so no one protested Mal's comment about them not being interesting at all.

(Mal's narration continues.)

Many of the magic aks grumbled at the magic part.

A couple of the vks were able to make out a few words about 'I hate that stupid rule', which caused some confusion.

Where the aks not allowed to use magic, either?

That didn't seem very safe or fair. Then again, when had the heroes ever cared about the fairness and safety of others?

Meanwhile, the non magic aks were shifting guiltily in their seats.

Remembering all the times they had complained about their wifi being slow or stupid. Or about all the times they had complained about a field trip being boring.

At least they got to experience those things.

It seemed like a silly thing to complain about now that they heard about and saw how the vks were living.

The adults just looked at the screen, wondering if the isle had always been that messy, cramped, and dirty.

It made many of them feel more than a little sick when they realized that they didn't remember the answer.

They all hoped that what they'd see next wouldn't be as bad as they were expecting.

But deep down they knew that it wouldn't be.

Because deep down, they knew it'd be worse and they weren't sure if they could live with that.