au in which instead of mal, audrey is the one to run away to the isle upon learning of ben’s plan to instate mal as a lady of the court, with the aim of replacing mal there as mal replaced her in auradon.
upon arrival at the isle, she is captured (like ben) by the pirates, and is held hostage in an attempt to retrieve the wand. however, her anger instead of fear and general personality left uma slightly impressed and she agreed to let audrey go if she could best her first mate in a duel. audrey agrees, and gil unites and gives her a sword as harry swaggers up to them.
meanwhile in auradon, jane realises audrey is missing and tries to find her as ben tries to pacify her saying she must have gone to fairy cottage. instead of listening to him, jane, along with lonnie and chad, set off to fairy cottage to find she isn’t there. they return to auradon prep and ask evie to use her mirror to help them find her. with some reluctance, evie eventually agrees, and the mirror reveals her on uma’s ship on the isle.
cue a transfer back to the isle, where audrey and harry are about to duel each other. they’re circling each other as harry taunts her, and she rushes forwards angrily and misses. flustered, she continues trying to hit him as he dodges and mocks her, caressing her face with his hook and brushing her hair. eventually, she becomes so incensed that when she lashes out she overbalanced and falls to the floor. harry goes down after her, and is teasing her about going down so easily, when she reaches up and kisses him. he’s so surprised by this from what he saw as a goody goody princess that she manages to overpower him and rolls them over. uma calls the fight to an end and audrey realises what she’s done, and shoots up and tries to apologise, her sword lying on the floor a few feet from her. uma picks it up and looks at it consideringly, before handing it to her hilt first. ‘welcome to the crew,’ uma tells her, and the entire dock break out into cheering.
in auradon, jane and evie manage to show ben where audrey is, and he realises what he’s done. he decides to go and get her back from the isle, and mal immediately says she’s going with him, because she needs to apologise too. lonnie, chad, and evie are quick to say they aren’t going without them, and jane offers to create a distraction in order to get them out as quickly as possible. they agree, and head to the limo as jane goes to the science block.
on the ship, uma talks with harry on how the princess was able to beat him. harry is flustered and panicked and insist she only got the drop on him with foul play, with uma reminding him that that’s the way of the isle, and she’ll fit in with their crew. she suggests something else might be stirring between audrey and harry and he’s quick to brush it off, claiming the only women he loves to be his sisters, uma, and the ship. uma rolls her eyes and tells him to check the sails, and when he walks off, quietly calls after him that he deserves to be happy. he stops, and turns back to her. ‘i am,’ he says. ‘no,’ uma tells him, ‘you’re happy *enough*.’ harry closes his eyes, and turns to leave.
audrey and gil show up on the boat, audrey’s hair now blonde with pastel pink and blue. uma compliments her in the least complimentary way she can, and audrey dips into a quick curtsy, smirking up at her. uma laughs and takes her by the hand, pulling her across the ship towards the docks. ‘we need to get you into some real pirate clothes,’ she says, and audrey laughs.
meanwhile, mal, ben, lonnie, chad, and evie arrive on the isle. mal takes them to her hideaway, and tells the aks to stay there whilst she and evie go to attempt to negotiate. after some upset they acquiesce, and mal and evie go to the fish shoppe. when they arrive there, uma agrees to let them have audrey if mal can beat their newest member in a fight. mal agrees, and is taken to the docks with evie to see a girl with most of her fave covered in pirate dress. mal fights her, and it looks like she’s about to win until her sword accidentally cuts through the fabric hiding the girl’s face, to reveal audrey. mal gasps and drops her sword, and audrey takes the opportunity to push her to the ground. ‘you lost,’ audrey hisses. ‘now you have to do something for us.’
evie sees audrey and steps forward, begging audrey to come with them. harry walks forwards out of the crowd. ‘she’s not going anywhere,’ he tells them, and his eyes are more crazed than usual, ‘she’s ours now.’ uma tells him to stand down, and tells them their conditions: audrey, in exchange for the wand. mal, riddled with guilt over leading audrey to this, agrees.
mal and evie return to the flat and tell the others of what they saw. ben asks how on earth they’re meant to give them the wand, and chad has a revelation. ‘jay and carlos have a 3d printer!’ evie looks at him very suspiciously, but the others are like ‘oh yeah great plan!’ they return to auradon and print out the wand, and mal decides to bring her mother with her as she had almost escaped her terrarium.
they return and prepare to make the exchange, but uma demands that she see the wand work. mal panics, but feels her mother squirming in her pocket. pulling her out, mal turns carefully to the side and lets her eyes glow green, transforming her mother back into a human and she says a fake spell and waves the wand. maleficent catches a fly and eats it, before scurrying back to the mainland of the isle. uma demands the wand, and chad calls for audrey, before hiding behind lonnie. audrey walks forwards and they make the exchange, ben soon pulling audrey behind them. uma does a spell and realises that the wand is fake, and the ship bursts into outroar. audrey yells and fights against mal and the others in an attempt to escape, as harry follows them yelling for audrey. he grasps her fingertips for a heartbeat before she is pulled away and bundled into the back of the limo, harry stares after them as they drive away, hand still stretched out.
back in auradon, audrey cries in her room as chad, lonnie, and jane attempt to comfort her. ben and mal show up and ask to talk to her in private, before both try to apologise for what they’ve done to her. audrey continues to cry, and asks them why they couldn’t have just left her there, claiming to have been far happier there than she ever was in auradon. mal and ben leave, and cotillion happens as it does in the film, with uma spelling ben and the fight. however, instead of the ending in which uma tells the audience the story isn’t over, the screen cuts to audrey in her room, shutting her diary before wiping her tears and retrieving a fireplace poker, testing the weight of it in her hand, before she seems to notice the camera. ‘what,’ she asks, a smile pulling on the end of her lips, ‘you didn’t think that was the end of the story, did you?’