"Everything we got points to KGB. How the hell am I supposed to go to the Director of National Intelligence and tell him we got some rogue Russian mutant going around, hunting down our informants?"

It was another hectic day in the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency. Their average intelligence collection in and on Russia had gone sour after several of their informants were found dead. One of the informants had risked a lot to deliver information to the CIA and had developed a close bond with the Director.

This had the makings of an international intelligence disaster if the media caught wind of it. It didn't look good for the CIA and more importantly, it meant they had a bigger problem than they could handle.

"Director?" The Agent moved quickly to get in step with her superior. ( 'I may have a solution.' )

When the dwarves Paige and Monet journeyed from their tea time in Wonderland, they had hatched a brilliant plan of breaking not only the princess's curse, but also her hold over the fellow dwarves. They couldn't nor wouldn't wait for just any old prince to show up -- who knows how long that would take and the prince rumored to be traveling the lands, rescuing various damsels and fair maidens, must have been otherwise preoccupied. No, they couldn't wait; they would break her out of that diamond coffin themselves using good ol' fashioned elbow grease and team work. The lady dwarves hurried back to their cottage, hidden deep in the forests of the Savage Lands to tell the others their plan and stop this nonsense over Emma White once and for all.

In another part of the Savage Lands, the Crown Prince Scott of Summerisle was found on his latest adventure. He had been on the hunt for years now, searching for his beloved fire-haired princess. This entailed rescuing various damsels and fair maidens across fabled and dangerous lands. Whenever he'd hear of the latest lady in distress, he'd gallop to the ends of the earth only to be greeted by disappointment when they failed to be Briar Rose. He would depart from those very ladies he saved, leaving them in a somewhat better position than they had been before he arrived. His latest adventure led him to a modest castle hidden behind bramble and thorn, kept underneath shadow. As his heart swelled in his chest, he dared to hope that this was the place.

Over the cabin and the castle, a bright moon shone to aid the hopeful rescuers in their intentions. ( Tonight was the night the sleeping princesses had been dreaming of, the night they would wake up. )

This was getting boring. And Paige was getting hungry. She'd just woken up from her usual afternoon nap and wandered out to where the rest of the household was pouring over the diamond-encased princess. The place was starting to return to it's usual state of dirt and chaos, and it was just so ridiculous.

"I think we need to find a new cook," she announced in rather peeved tones, eyeing the princess with something coming close to distaste.

[ BOBBY, JONO, DOUG, JULIAN, MONET, GAIA ]