RGHee021 Maximus Saves the Day

~ Rapunzel Goes Home (extended edition)
~ Chapter 021
~ Maximus Saves the Day

Note: A short interstitial about how Maximus was able to get the Pub Thugs to break Flynn out of prison.

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Maximus, was sitting on the dock, waiting for the wonderful blonde girl and Flynn Rider to come back. He was a good horse and had left a few apples since Flynn Rider had said he had bought most of them. That was mean, he didn't know which ones had been stolen.

When he saw the guards take Flynn Rider away. Flynn kept calling Rapunzel's name. She must be in worse trouble then he was, and he was being taken to prison.

That's a bad sign.

Maximus ran through town and over the bridge to where he thought Flynn was looking. Maximus snuffled around and found two large men out cold on the beach. He could smell Flynn and Rapunzel and Pascal. There was someone else too, someone new, someone that smelled strange.

This was a big problem.

He followed the scent trail but it got lost crossing a stream. He went back and found the two men again. They were coming around and so he grabbed one of their swords and took them to the watch at the bridge. Getting scratches and an apple were nice, but he still had to find the girl.

She needed to be saved, he knew that.

She was a good girl, the nicest girl he's ever met. She was wonderful and special. The only one who knew where she could be would be Flynn and he was in prison. Maximus was a good horse, he wasn't the mount of the Captain of the Palace guard for nothing. The other horses took his orders too.

To save Rapunzel he would have to get Flynn out of prison and that was wrong. But he had promised Rapunzel to help her and rescuing her from the strange smelling person would be good. He was a smart horse, but things were usually good or wrong. Doing a wrong thing just wasn't in his nature, but this seemed to a time were doing a wrong was the good thing to do, so he could do more good things.

Like when he broke out of his stall when there was a fire and got the other horses out too.

But how to get Flynn out of the prison, the guards wouldn't listen to a horse. His rider was a good guy, but didn't know about Rapunzel and so wouldn't really care, besides he was really anger at Flynn for so long, he'd not want to let him go.

The only people he knew that might listen would be those thugs at the Snuggly Duckling, they weren't his first choice but they would be the only men able to do the work, they knew about Rapunzel and he should be able to get through to them about her.

Maximus galloped off to the wildly leaning pub. He barges in and quickly finds Hookhand. "What are you doing here again? We ain't doing nothing."

Max looked around. Yes, there was a poster of Flynn on the door, he pointed at it.

"What? Flynn ain't here."

Max made an exasperated sound.

"Oh, you know that already." Max nodded.

Hookhand's eyes narrowed, "So there is something else going on then." Max nodded eagerly.

"Something to do with Flynn?" Max shook his head

"Not Flynn. Who then?" Max pointed to the empty spot next to the wanted poster.

"The door?" Head shake with an exasperated exhalation.

"Okay. Someone next to him."

"Oh, oh I know, the Stabbington brothers," said Vlad, holding up another wanted poster. Max shook his head.

The thugs started shouting out random names. This wasn't working! I'm never going to save the nice girl! Maximus starts banging his head against the door.

"Hey, I don't appreciate being call dumb, especially by a horse. Don't get all frustrated at me, you need to come up with better clues," shouts HookHand over the noise.

Max started to pace, he saw the drunk midget on a low stool. He went over to him and draped his white tail over him.

"Hey, that tickles," there were a few rude laughs about it but Max ignored them and pointed at Flynn, and back to his tail and waggled it over the midget. He could see them thinking about it as he kept pointed to one and then the other.

He could have sworn that one of them had smoke coming out of his ears, but he may have been just too close to the fire.

"The girl! The blonde girl that was with Flynn yesterday," called BigNose.

Finally, thought Maximus, neighing loudly. He would have reared and pawed the air, but it was too small in the pub for a display like that. They all cheered at that.

When things quieted down Hookhand asked, "The girl, she's in trouble, isn't she?" Max nodded again.

"From Flynn?" Head shake.

"Okay. She's in trouble, but not from Flynn. Do you know where she is?" Again a head shake.

"The girl is in trouble, but you don't know where? That makes it hard to help her."

Max nods and points to Flynn again.

"Flynn? Does he know where she is?" Nod.

"Do you know where Flynn is?" Nod again.

"Well, where is he?" Maximus gives him an 'Are you kidding me?' look.

"Yeah, right, that would a problem. Okay, lead the way." They opened the door and followed Maximus out.

The short, wide thug that still had blood in his mustache was the last one out, commented in his low, slow voice. "I hope we don't have to break him out of jail," as he shut the door behind them.
~ End of Chapter 021