The magestone that supplies power to the fire, water and wind fairies who regulate the temperature in buildings at NRC is stolen by visiting faeries from Faeland for a staff for their queen to wear at the Fairy Gala, which is to be held at NRC’s botanical garden.
Interrupting the gala could result in eternal winter (and the students getting held back), so a strategy is made to exchange the real staff for an imitation. As the event’s theme is “evolution,” Jack, Ace and Ortho are selected as first-year students, with Silver also included for his knowledge of the fae.
Silver suggests explaining the issue to the fairies to see if they will return the magestone on their own, but he is overruled.
It is to be Ace’s job to exchange the real staff with a fake, while the other three distract the crowds and the queen by calling the fairy queen onto the stage and making her disappear in a magicless illusion act made possible through Ortho’s projection mapping.
Vil is unimpressed with Ortho’s posing as he merely copies ideas from past fashion shows that he has found online and demands that Ortho come up with an original idea for the show.
Ace calls in Epel and Deuce to help, while Jack (“I just happened to come this way”) and Sebek (“I am by no means worried about anyone!”) join on their own.
It is Sebek’s information on the fae that inspires Ortho’s original idea for his performance.
Separate from the first-year group, Silver convinces a craftfairy to create translators for the day of the performance by offering them broken metal kitchenware to fix and complimenting their abilities.
The students cover themselves in fairy dust and hold a successful show, with Ortho changing the color of his gear and producing scents of spring, to the faeries’ delight.
The illusion with the faerie queen is also a success, with Ace exchanging the real staff for a fake, but when the group tries to leave the fairy dust causes Jack to sneeze, disrupting Ortho’s projection mapping and revealing the stolen staff.
The faeries become enraged at the revelation that the group is of humans, not of fae, and that they have stolen their Queen’s staff.
Silver explains the situation and apologizes, saying that he will accept full responsibility and punishment.
Upon realizing that the magestone of her staff was stolen the Fairy Queen apologizes on behalf of the craftfaeries and returns the stone, thanking the group for their incredible show.
Afterwards Jack says that deceiving the fairies had been a dirty trick, while Ortho points out that he had been on board with the plan from the start.
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