At night in Agrabah, a pink sprite flies over the city, and keeps looking back as if it's being chased. Inside Aladdin and Y/N's hovel, Aladdin, Y/N, True, and Abu are asleep, while Genie, Iago, and Carpet play a card game using poker chips and eat snacks. Carpet has most of the poker chips. It's Genie's turn, and he carefully looks at each of his cards and makes little noises to himself while he's thinking. The others are getting impatient with him.

"Make your move, blue boy!" Iago shouted.

"Got any nines?" Genie asked.

"Go fish." Iago replied.

The sprite suddenly flies into the room and knocks over all the food and knocks the cards out of their hands. The sprite then flies around Abu, lifting him into the air and waking him.

Sprite lifted Aladdin and Y/N's eyelid.

"Aladdin! Aladdin! Y/N! Y/N! Upy upy!"

"What? A sprite?" Aladdin said groggy, slowly waking up.

The sprite nods.

"Oh no..." Y/N said, waking up.

"Sprites!" Iago cried out.

"Now, now. Sprites are just fun-loving creatures with an annoying tendency to be... annoying." Genie assured.

Xerxes suddenly flies through the window and starts chasing after the sprite.

"Xerxes!" True hissed.

Carpet jumps in front of the sprite, and Xerxes bites one of his tassels and starts pulling. Abu starts pulling Carpet from the other side. Iago tries to protect his poker chips, but when Abu pulls Carpet free, they knock them over.

"Hey!"

"Gotcha!"

Xerxes bites at the sprite, who dodges out of the way. The sprite hides under the rug, but Xerxes sees it. Aladdin catches Xerxes in a basket before he catches the sprite.

"Gotcha! Genie, catch!"

Aladdin tosses Xerxes to Genie, who turns into an animal control worker and catches him with a net.

"Agrabah has a strict ordinance against evil flying critters."

Genie turns to Iago.

"You've got your tags, don' cha?"

Xerxes bites a hole in the bottom of the net and flies out the window.

"So much for the humane approach."

Genie turns into a hunter.

"Next time he's a trophy!"

"Is it safe?" Sprite asked, peeking out from the rug.

"He's gone." Y/N said.

Sprite comes out from the rug.

"Listen! Listen, Aladdin and Y/N! Everybody captured by a nasty magic man! Oh, every last sprite!"

"Mozenrath." Aladdin and Y/N said in unison, knowing who would do such a thing.

"Except me. I got away!"

"Interesting. Wake me when we get to the part where I care!" Iago said sarcastically.

"Help, please! We have to rescue my friends!" Sprite pleaded.

"From Mozenrath? My pleasure." Aladdin grinned.

"Count me in! I've got some unfinish business with him." Y/N smiled, punching her fist.

"Their views do not necessarily reflect those of the group!" Iago cried out.

"Follow me! We fly to the Lost City of the Sun!" Sprite said.

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The next day, in the ruins of the Lost City of the Sun

"Sprites! To me!" Mozenrath ordered.

Six sprites fly up to Mozenrath. They look exhausted.

"What have you uncovered?"

The sprites fly over to a hole in the ground, lift an obelisk out of it, and bring it to Mozenrath.

"Worthless! Take it away!"

Another group of sprites bring him a stone chair.

"Rubble."

Another group brings a disk-shaped sculpture.

"No, no! That's not it!"

He blows up the sculpture. Xerxes flies over to him.

"Wait, master!"

The creature gets hit in the head with a piece of the sculpture.

"Xerxes, where is the escapee?" Mozenrath asked.

"Sorry, boss."

"You lost the sprite?!"

"Found Aladdin and Y/N."

Mozenrath gets angry of hearing his name.

"Aladdin! Is there anything else you could do to make my job more difficult?!"

He throws Xerxes against the ruins; he turns to the sprites.

"Work faster, or else!"

The sprites fly away and start digging again, so quickly that they look like a blur.

"This is it, Xerxes. I feel lucky."

The sprites uncover a statue of a man pointing.

"Mozenrath lucky!" Xerxes said.

The pink sprite wipes its brow.

"Sprites pooped!"

"Xerxes, the legend is true! It is said that the Hand in the Sand will lead to the power of Shamash, the sorcerer of the sun. Sprites! Dig in the direction Shamash points. Find his lost power." Mozenrath ordered.

"Dig for this! Dig for that!" Blue sprite said.

The sprites start digging again.

"With the power of Shamash, I shall conquer the Seven Deserts!"

"Dig faster!" Xerxes ordered.

"They've found it!"

The sprites have uncovered another statue of Shamash, pointing in a different direction.

"Shamash didn't make it easy. I'll do what it takes. Get to work! Follow the hand! Dig! Dig!"

"Please! Sprites are worn out!" Blue sprite pleaded.

"Have a heart!" Yellow sprite added.

"If you insist, I'll take yours."

Mozenrath threatens them with his gauntlet. The sprites scream and fly away. Suddenly, one of the sprites found something and flies over to Mozenrath with a small treasure chest.

"What's this?"

He uses his gauntlet to unlock the chest and opens it to reveal a snake eye ring.

His eyes widen in shock at the sight before smirking.

"Oh, Y/N. You won't beat me this time around."

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Later that day, the sprites have found several more statues, all pointing in different directions.

"Statues pointing at statues... One must point to the power. Don't stop, dig it up!" Mozenrath ordered.

Aladdin and the others have arrived and are hiding behind the ruins, watching Mozenrath.

"What are they digging for?" Y/N asked.

"Don't know!" Pink sprite said.

"Where are the rest of the sprites?" Genie asked.

"Don't know that either."

"Aw, we may never find the cute little guys. Tragic." Iago said in fake pity, making True whack him in the head.

"We'll find them. But let's do it without Mozenrath finding us. I want to figure out what he's up to here. And watch out for his—"

A mamluk rises out of the sand and grabs Aladdin.

"Mamluks!" he cried out and gets thrown to the ground. "Whoa!"

Another mamluk rises out of the sand near Genie, who turns into a flamenco dancer.

"My dance card's full, boys!"

He takes off the frilly part of his skirt and puts it around the mamluks' heads.

"Hasta la mamluk, muchachos!"

He then kicks them away. Another mamluk rises out of the sand and approaches towards Y/N from behind. She senses it and turns to the mamluk, eyes glowing along with her snake necklace, turning the mamluk into stone. Aladdin still lying on the ground, Carpet taps him on the arm.

"Carpet?"

Carpet motions for Aladdin to be quiet. Mozenrath's demanding voice can be heard in the distance.

"Work! Lead me to the power! Find the Hand in the Sand!"

"The Hand in the Sand?" Aladdin questioned.

"Shamash could have filled the whole desert with statues. I need more sprites!"

Mozenrath grabs Xerxes.

"If that's not too much trouble!"

"No trouble."

Xerxes quickly flies off.

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Genie, Iago, and Abu are hiding behind a sand dune, looking at one of the ancient buildings. It's being guarded by a mamluk.

"Undead guards. They're out there, boys!" Genie said.

They sneak to the building's entrance while the mamluk isn't looking.

"What's the problem? They're not even alive! You could take 'em." Iago said.

"Aw, cinch! But my magical stylings would draw the attention of the mighty morbid power monger."

Genie opens the door and goes inside; it's pitch black.

"Ditched the mamluks!"

"Even better, we got away from that annoying sprite!" Iago commented.

The room begins to light up. There is a giant crowd of sprites in the center of the building.

"Whoa!"

"Sprite City. Population: too many!" Iago said.

Outside, Xerxes flies toward the building where the sprites are held.

"Come on! Last sprite out is—" Genie started.

"Annoying!" Iago finished his sentence.

"Wait! Someone's coming!"

The door opens and Xerxes comes inside. Genie turns himself, Iago and Abu into sprites to disguise themselves.

"Aah! I'm a... I'm a... sprite." Iago shrieked.

"More workers!"

Xerxes points at the three of them as well as two other sprites.

"You'll do. Move it! Hustle, hustle!"

He chases them out of the building. Aladdin, Y/N, True, Carpet, and the pink sprite watch Xerxes exit the building.

"Uh oh! Genie gone!" Pink sprite said.

"Don't worry, Genie's fine. And if anyone can find your friends, it's—"

Xerxes passes by them, and they see that three of the sprites with Xerxes are Aladdin's disguised friends.

"Oh, they got caught!" Pink sprite said.

"Oh, no..." True said.

"Get down, or we'll get caught!" Aladdin warned.

"Now Mozenrath has everything! My friends, your friends!"

"He doesn't have everything. He wants the power of Shamash, and without the Hand in the Sand he can't get it. We have to get it first." Y/N said.

Elsewhere in the ruined city, Aladdin, Y/N, True, and Carpet are examining some writing on a wall.

"The Hand in the Sand. We'll know it when we see it. I hope." Aladdin said.

Four mamluks rise out of the ground near Carpet.

"Carpet!" Pink sprite called.

"Hang on!"

The mamluks each grab one corner of Carpet and pull him taut. Aladdin and Y/N with True around her neck bounces off Carpet and jumps onto a wooden beam. While the mamluks are watching him they let go of Carpet, who spins around rapidly, slapping the mamluks in the face with his tassels. He then flies up and catches Aladdin and Y/N, and they fly away. Aladdin looks down and his eyes widens.

"Hey... fly higher, Carpet! I see something!"

"You did?" Y/N asked.

Looking down, Aladdin and Y/N can see that the ditches the sprites have dug following the statues have created the outline of a giant hand pointing toward a sand dune. Y/N starts to get where this is going.

"The Hand in the Sand! It's the Hand in the Sand! This is what Mozenrath is looking for! To that dune, Carpet! Once we have the power of Shamash, Mozenrath is at our mercy! And the sprites are home free."

Pink sprite laughs.

"Hand in the Sand is right in front of Mozenrath, and he doesn't even see it!"

"Right?" True chuckled.

"Start looking for something. Anything!" Aladdin said.

The sprite digs down into the dune until it hits something solid. Pink sprite gets up, looking dizzy.

"Found something."

Aladdin and Y/N starts digging into the dune with their hands.

"This is it!"

They've uncovered part of a large, black, metallic orb with a sun symbol carved into it.

"Whoa." Y/N said.

"Is this the power of Shamash?" Pink sprite asked.

"It must be." Aladdin said.

"What is it? Is it a good thing? How does it work?" Pink sprite asked again.

"I have absolutely no idea."

"Whatever it is. We gotta do this fast before Mozenrath finds us." Y/N said.

As if on cue, Genie, Iago, and Abu fall out of the sky.

"Genie!" Aladdin and Y/N called in worry.

Meanwhile, Mozenrath is catching his breath. A mamluk approaches him.

"You found Aladdin and Y/N? Where?"

The mamluk points towards the wall Aladdin and Y/N were looking at earlier. Mozenrath teleports himself there. The four mamluks are still there.

"Where are they?! How could you let them go?!"

The mamluks, frightened, start to sink back into the sand.

"How dare you disappear when I'm ranting!"

He pulls them back up with his magic.

"What were Aladdin and Y/N doing here?! What did they find?!"

A mamluk points to the wall carvings.

"Of course. The writing is on the wall. These hieroglyphics must be the answer to the puzzle."

He starts reading.

"'Find the pointing hand... find the pointing hand... find the pointing hand.' Aah! Oh, these ancient pictures tell me nothing! Aladdin and Y/N are one step ahead of me, I know it. Where did they go?"

A mamluk points up.

"Up? Up... Oh, ho ho ho ho! Yes!"

Back by the power of Shamash...

"Al, N/N, we have a problem." Genie said.

Three mamluks charge over the sand dune.

"Mamluks!"

"This is a problem."

Aladdin kicks a mamluk away. Genie turns into a hippo and sits on another mamluk, crushing it. Another mamluk attacks Y/N, and she wrestles the sword out of its hand. True hisses and trips the mamluk with her tail by whacking it. Genie then turns the mamluk into a sprite and puts it in a jar. He then does the same with the two other mamluks.

"Aw... were we this cute?" he joked.

"Good job, Genie. We can use these guys to dig up the rest of this... thing." Aladdin said, gesturing to the big metallic orb.

"Uh... we've got another problem..."

Mozenrath then appears.

"Of course, he's the problem." Y/N mumbled.

"You've been quite helpful, Aladdin and Y/N. I must repay you."

Mozenrath sends a bolt of magic in Aladdin's general direction; he dodges, and it hits the orb.

"Pretty sad shot, Mozenrath." Aladdin said.

"Depends on where I was aiming." Mozenrath retorted back.

The orb rises out of the ground; it begins to give off flames and slowly becomes a miniature sun.

"Guess this clears up the Shamash power mystery." Y/N said, looking worried.

"The raging inferno of his own personal sun. Yup, that's power." Genie said.

"And it's all mine! But no one will feel the power of Shamash more than you, Aladdin!"

The sun starts heading toward Aladdin.

"Uh oh!" Genie said.

"Aladdin!" Y/N called.

Carpet picks Aladdin up and carries him away; they manage to stay just ahead of the sun.

"Faster, Carpet!"

"Fry 'im!" Xerxes said.

Carpet catches fire from being too near to the sun and starts to fall.

"Carpet! Aah!"

"NO!" Y/N cried out.

Carpet and Aladdin hit the ground. Iago, Abu, and the pink sprite fly up to him and see that he is unconscious.

"Oh, lights out." Iago said.

Y/N glares at Mozenrath.

"You've gone too far this time, Mozenrath! No more Miss Nice Girl!"

She blasts her magic towards Mozenrath with her snake power as dozens of snakes zooms in towards him with their fangs bared. He smirks and holds out his hand, making the snakes stop suddenly with his magic.

"W-What?" Y/N stuttered in shock.

Mozenrath reveals the snake ring around his finger.

"Looks like I too have snake powers, sweetheart."

He makes the snakes turn to Y/N now a threat and they came charging towards her. Y/N quickly blocks it with her defensive wards, creating an orb around her before making it disappear. True hisses at Mozenrath and Y/N helps her by making her big, using her magic. True smirks and goes to strike him using her fangs as she come in fast. He quickly rolls out of the way, and she immediately wraps her tail around him, squeezing him in a death grip. Mozenrath struggles to get out of her bind until he managed to use his ring to shrink her back to her normal size, much to her shock and dismay. True goes to attack him again when he freezes her as she stood still. Y/N glares and the two charge at one another. Pull back to a long shot of the two; Y/N riding up on a sand wave and jumping free with her earth magic, Mozenrath flying to meet her challenge. They struggle briefly before Mozenrath plans a boot sole in her face and sends her down into the sand. When Y/N sits up, her eyes start to glow with a new and fiercer light. She raises herself on a column of sand, then jumps off it and hits Mozenrath with a flying tackle. Both tumble into the sand.

The surface settles down and is dead still for a long, tense moment. First to stand up is Y/N, who then reaches in and pulls Mozenrath up by the hat, but a burst of telekinesis knocks her off her feet. In a flash, Mozenrath has thrown himself at the former Titan and pushed her down and tried to do a spell that will make her love him. But she's not letting that happen again. Then a very large column of sand bursts with enough force to throw Mozenrath halfway across the desert.

Y/N stands up, still breathing on her own, and pushes the sand back from a large circle of floor around her. At her touch, the sand solidifies into small chunks of baked Earth, which she propels toward the air. Mozenrath levitates a panel away, positions it to stop the volley, and sends it down at Y/N. Now the sand forms into a tidal wave and is quickly cooked to make a stone wall that blocks the giant wood.

The solid wave is pushed apart by the hit, but Y/N gathers them together into a large hand. Balling this into a fist, she sends it toward Mozenrath; he throws his own powers at the thing and slices it down the middle. He glares and starts levitating the sand to make a tornado, blinding her. Y/N quickly puts a stop to it by punching the sandy ground, creating a loud thump and causing the dust of sand to disperse. Mozenrath shielded his eyes.

After the view clears, he looks around to find Y/N nowhere in sight. Tilt up slowly as a large shape starts to form in the sand behind him; it becomes a mallet that whacks him over the head, and down he goes. However, the figure that immediately rises is not Mozenrath but Y/N, still on that rocky perch she created.

Mozenrath forms the sand into a wave with his gauntlet and drives it toward Y/N, who parts it easily. The latter is now completely cleaned up, and he counters with three long tentacles that snake around the edges of the shield Mozenrath has put up and plow him away. Y/N stands for a moment, and then rides her stone across the sand as she stops near Mozenrath.

"Even with you wearing that ring, I'll always find a way to stop you."

"We'll see about that."

Mozenrath gets to his feet and starts toward Y/N but is stopped by a sand hand that emerges to seize his ankle. Y/N floats a bit closer and brings up small stones to use as a staircase. She steps leisurely down toward ground level as she continues, with each stone falling away as she moves off it.

"Come on, Mozenrath. Aren't you supposed to be the most powerful one in all of Agrabah?"

She makes a small ridge and walks down it.

"Or you're just too weak and too desperate to win?"

She kneels to Mozenrath; stone spreading over her.

"For you to get what you want?"

Mozenrath glares and manages to get out of the sand and sends a hail of rocks down at Y/N, who has to back up before them. Other items start flying at her as well. She quickly slices them away with her Earth power. With some good distraction, he creates the tentacle sand as it wraps itself around Y/N's legs, but she hops clear and just avoids the rock that slides her way next. She backs up before Mozenrath's lunge, hits the sandy hill, and forms a pair of hardened sand arms that reach straight ahead. She uses it to punch Mozenrath rapidly, sending him flying.

"Who's in control now?"

With one last attempt, Mozenrath blasts his magic beam from both his gauntlet and the ring towards her. Y/N tries to block it with all of her strength when he easily overpowers her, and she was sent flying to the ground. She groans in pain and slowly gets up only to be tied up by the snakes Mozenrath summoned as he approaches her. He cups her chin.

"Looks like I'm the only one who's in control."

"I can save Aladdin and Y/N! I can do it!" Pink sprite said, looking worried for Aladdin and Y/N.

"How cute. But if you hadn't noticed, that thing is hot! And he got the power to control snake powers as well!!" Iago shouted sarcastically.

"We play in the stars all the time. I've flown around the real sun! And I can get to remove the ring while he's distracted." Pink sprite explained.

"Just leave this to the big boys."

Genie turns into a giant cook.

"Who's up for a barbeque?"

Genie hits the sun with a spatula and is thrown backwards, burned bright red.

"Great! Twelve degree sunburn and right before yearbook pictures!"

Mozenrath sees the unconscious Aladdin.

"Why look, the boy is defenseless! If I attack now, he's—"

"Dead meat!" Xerxes finished his sentence in glee.

"At last! And Y/N will finally be mine!"

Mozenrath zaps the sun with his gauntlet, directing it toward Aladdin.

"Now what?!" Iago asked.

Genie creates a tube of sunscreen and hands it to Iago.

"Sunscreen, SPF 10 million. Good luck!"

He then passes out.

"That means it's down to me! ...and the sprites." Iago said.

Abu tries to wake Aladdin up; he starts to stir. True tries to free Y/N when those snakes hisses at her, causing her to cower.

Iago turns to the sprites.

"So, you're in?"

"Sure! You bet! Let's go!"

"I will rule the Seven Deserts and Aladdin will never— What?" Mozenrath said, but stopped to see something.

Iago is flying toward him, wearing a hard hat, followed by the sprites, who are carrying one of the Shamash statues.

"Okay, little further! Come on! Come on! Plenty of room! All right! Move!"

The sun slowly moves closer to Aladdin. The sprites drop the statue between the sun and Aladdin, allowing him to shield himself.

"No! You can't escape!"

"Who said anything about escape? I'm gonna beat you, Mozenrath!"

"Drop the next one! Now!" Iago ordered.

The sprites drop another statue, a little closer to Mozenrath. Aladdin runs and ducks behind that one.

"Okay! Little further!"

A third statue is dropped. Aladdin runs to it.

"Come on! That's it!"

Iago motions for it to be dropped. A fourth statue is now in place, getting very close to Mozenrath now. Aladdin moves up again. The sun has slowly been following Aladdin as he moves forward.

"I'll get him yet. I'm so close!" Mozenrath said.

"Too close!" Xerxes said.

Mozenrath pushes Xerxes away.

"Bombs away!" Iago said.

A fifth statue is dropped into place, just a few feet away from Mozenrath, and Aladdin moves up to it. Mozenrath moves the sun forward after Aladdin, not realizing how close it is to himself.

"Too hot! Too hot! We'll fry!" Xerxes warned.

While Mozenrath was distracted, Aladdin runs out from behind the statue and behind Mozenrath, so that Mozenrath is closer to the sun than Aladdin is.

"Feeling the power of Shamash?"

Aladdin and Mozenrath start fighting hand-to-hand.

Iago turns to the sprites.

"Alright, you've got your orders. Now, go!"

Half of the sprites fly off.

"The rest of you, follow me!"

They fly toward where the rest of the sprites are being held.

"It's time to let out the sprites so they can take out that sun! Put your spritely powers to work on this door and pull!"

The sprites open the door, releasing the hundreds of sprites inside. Meanwhile Aladdin and Mozenrath are still fighting. Mozenrath seems to have gotten the other hand, until he accidentally falls backwards into one of the holes the sprites dug. A group of sprites then flies up to Mozenrath, removes his gauntlet and the ring, and carries them way before he has time to react.

"No! Aah!"

The snakes that held Y/N disappeared, freeing her.

"Now get rid of that sun!" Aladdin said.

"Done!" Iago said.

"Look!" Genie pointed.

"My sun!" Mozenrath exclaimed.

The escaped sprites carry the sun far away into the sky, so that it is no longer visible.

"My only goal now is to hear your tortured screams!" Mozenrath shouted in anger.

"It's just us, man and woman to man."

Aladdin and Y/N can now see what Mozenrath's hand looks like underneath the gauntlet; it's completely skeletal.

"What?!"

"Oh my!"

"Ah, my secret's out." Mozenrath said.

"Ew!" Genie groaned in disgust.

"Yeugh!" Iago groaned.

True looks like she's gonna puke.

"This is what I did for power! The magic of a genie was handed to you on a silver platter, but I gave my right hand for power! To wear the gauntlet is painful, but it's worth it. Worth it to destroy the likes of you!" Mozenrath explained.

"Good luck with no magic glove. We buried it." Pink sprite smirked.

"Somewhere out there!"

Blue sprite points to the open desert.

"My gauntlet?" Mozenrath voiced.

Y/N holds out the ring he's wearing.

"You won't be needing this either."

She then crushed it with her hand as they turn into dust.

"Better start digging!" Aladdin smirked.

The sprites laugh, then repair the parts of Carpet that were burned.

"My gauntlet! No! Dig, Xerxes! Dig!"

Mozenrath and Xerxes start digging with their bare hands/fins.

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That night at Aladdin's hovel, Aladdin, Y/N, and their friends are playing cards while the sprites watch.

"Thanks, monkey man!" Sprite said to Abu.

"Give me some glow, kiddo!"

Genie high-fives a pink sprite.

"Aladdin, Y/N, we have a very special thank you for—" Pink sprite started.

"Cut the sentimental journey already!" Iago said impatiently.

The sprites point out of the window, where we can see that a large group of sprites has created a picture of Iago in the sky.

"You know, those little glow guys weren't so bad." Iago said, liking the view.

"What was that, birdie buddy?" Pink sprite asked.

"I said, uh, let's go, guys."

Iago shuffles the deck.

"And can we get through the whole game this time, please?"

Sprite laughs.

"Deal me in!"