Rapunzel Runs Away

King Malcom was in the kitchen, having coffee and reading the morning newspaper when he heard someone crying in the next room.

"I DID NOT DO IT!!" screamed a girl's voice.

Malcom's wife, Queen Aurelia, looked at him. "I am going, I am going." he said, as he put down his coffee and the newspaper down and went into the next room. There, he saw his daughter Rapunzel with a Raggedy Ann doll behind her back. Tod, one of her brothers, was standing behind her, and Copper, her other brother, was sitting on the floor, crying because Rapunzel hit him on the head with her doll.

"Rapunzel?" asked Malcom, "Rapunzel, did you just hit your brother, Copper, on the head with your Raggedy Ann doll?"

"No!" Rapunzel replied rudely.

"Are you lying to me?"

"No!"

Malcom turned to his older son. "Tod?"

"She did it." Tod said.

"No one likes to tattle on other people." said Malcom, as Tod walked upstairs to his bedroom.

Malcom picked up Copper and rubbed his back to stop him from crying. Then he turned to Rapunzel as he placed the hound puppy in his playpen, saying, "All right, Rapunzel! Go upstairs!"

"NO!!" Rapunzel shouted.

Now Malcom was getting angry. "Rapunzel, I am not gonna say it again! One..."

"Two..."

"I count!" Malcom shouted, "You do not count!"

"Three!" Rapunzel finished.

At that moment, Malcom angrily picked up Rapunzel and placed her on the couch for eighteen minutes. "All right, that was it!" he said, "Nope, that was it! You are in a time-out! And you are not going to the carnival with Flynn tomorrow!"

Rapunzel became very angry. She glared angrily at Malcom and yelled, "YOU ARE AS EVIL AS MOTHER GOTHEL!!!!"

Rapunzel then began to cry and ran away from home with angry tears in her eyes, slamming the front door. Malcom gasped, looking horrified. "Rapunzel, stop! Come back here!" Rapunzel did not listen. She ran away to her adoptive parents' house, where Professor Utonium and Miss Keane, Rapunzel's adoptive parents, are waiting for her at the front door. "Rapunzel!" Malcom called after her. Malcom sadness came into his mind and began to cry with Aurelia, Young Baloo, Dot Warner, Yakko Warner, Raymond, Copper and Tod consoling him. "Oh, Rapunzel, what have I done to you? I didn't mean to get you mad at me and I didn't mean to make you run away from home like that." Malcom sobbed. "I'm sorry, Rapunzel. I'm so very sorry."