The travelers find out that there is no road between the witch and the Emerald City. There is not even a pathway that they could use which would enable them to reach their destination easily. The travelers find out that it is a tough going for them in having to go back to where they came from. They had been flown into the castle by the Flying Monkeys and now were supposed to find the way out of the place. Dorothy and her companions wander in the woods for some days before they find a road which leads them out of place.

Dorothy calls the mice for help by use of the magic whistle which the Queen of the Field Mice had given her. The Queen also tells Dorothy that she can summon the Flying Monkeys using the Golden Cap. Dorothy looks at the Golden Cap and finds the words of the necessary charm written on it after following the necessary directions. One pronouncing the words of the charm, Winged Monkeys arrive in large numbers. The king of the Winged Monkeys agrees to fly the travelers to Emerald City.

While the king is flying Dorothy along, he tells her about the history of the Winged Monkeys. Two generations before, the grandfather of the king played a trick on the intended husband of a sorceress/princess who lived nearby. The princess gave out a punishment in which she stated that whoever managed to own the Golden Cap would become the master of the monkeys. The Witch of the West, therefore, stole the cap and kept it to herself until the time when Dorothy killed her and took it. The Cap grants three wishes. By asking to be flown to Emerald City, she has used one of the wishes. Once they arrive, the monkeys set their passengers down at the front of the gates of the city and fly away to where they came from.