The First Word
Summary: When Tommy says his first word to the grown ups, the name of his hero, he worries his hero will eventually, disappear. Or will he? Based off an idea I gave to babysmurfrock, only twisted into a crossover complete with Disney characters, my OC Zack, and TCKing12's OC, Peter.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from Rugrats, The Lion King, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Pocahontas, Lilo and Stitch, Peter Pan, and Sofia the First, they're the property of their original creaters.
Our story begins a couple of days after Dil went to the Hundred Acre Woods and was cured of his Foot in Mouth disease. Tommy and Dil are at the supermarket. Grandpa Lou and Grandma Lulu were babysitting them for the day, and took them with them to do their grocery shopping. It was here when Tommy said it for the first time.
"Reptar Reptar." Tommy said excitedly, as they passed by the Reptar cerial isle. It looked just as he remembered it from a while back, when he had gone to the store with his grandpa, and set off on his own, looking for Reptar.
"What was that Tommy?" Lulu asked.
"Reptar!" Yelled Tommy.
"I'm sorry Scout, but your mommy and daddy said no junk food." Replied Lou.
Tommy continued to scream Reptar's name throughout the store, throwing a tantrum as he tried to squirm away from his grandparents to get back to the Reptar cerial isle. By the time they reached the checkout line, he was crying non-stop. Lou and Lulu were very glad they were almost done with their shopping, as they were pretty embarrassed by Tommy's behavior at this point, even though they were pleased to hear him say his first word.
"This time, I shouldn't take too long checking out." Said Lou, as he pulled a twenty dollar bill out of his pocket.
"What do you mean sweetheart?" Asked Lulu.
"Dollar bills are so much easier to deal with, than those dag nabit adding contraptions." Said Lou, as he thought back to the time he took Tommy to the store by himself when he still lived with Stu and Didi, who sent him to the store with a calculator, all because they denied him his fudgy dinoling bars, the one true pleasure he had left to him in his twilight years at that time.
Just then, Peter came up behind them in line to the checkout counter, along with Lilo, Stitch, Sofia and Amber. Each of them were carrying snacks.
"Well hello Peter, what brings you here?" Lulu asked.
"I'm having Sofia the First, her sister Amber, Lilo, and Stitch over for a slumber party tonight, and I promised to take them to a movie. We're meeting up with Taffy, Angelica and Susie to go see the new Melefacant movie that just came out. The Octaplex is showing it in 3D, and I hear it's suppose to be really good!" Said Peter.
"Then why are you buying snacks?" Asked Lulu.
"Stitch in particular doesn't care for the snacks at the movies, and, they're pretty expensive to begin with, so we're sneaking our own snacks in." Replied Peter.
"Oh how nice." Replied Lulu.
"Yeah and I hear their snack bar is a mess there anyway. I haven't been back there since Stu and Didi drug me to that brainless bear adventure." Replied Lou.
Just then, Peter noticed Tommy was crying.
"Hey Dil, what's the matter with Tommy?" Peter asked.
"Tommy's upset cuz he didn't get any Reptar cerial." Replied Dil.
Just then, Lou and Lulu were finished paying for their groceries, and left the store. Peter and his Disney friends moved forward and paid for their groceries before leaving the store.
After the Pickles were finished, they did what they were instructed, taking Tommy and Dil to Chuckie's house, as that's where they were leaving from with the Finsters, Devilles and Zack's Aunty Celeste to go see the movie later on that evening, while Tommy and Dil's parents attended a dinner meeting with Stu's inventor boss, Mister MuckleHoney.
They arrived at the Finsters to see Chuckie, Kimi, Phil, Lil, Zack, Peter, FeeFee, Puppy, and Peter's Disney friends who were with him at the grocery store in the yard, as well as Aladdin and Jazman, who had shown up by surprise to join them at the movies that night. They dropped Dil off to play with the others, but Lulu continued to walk with Tommy into the house.
"Because of how you acted at the store, you must sit in time out for the next ten minutes before you can go to the movie." Said Lulu.
"Lulu are you nuts? Tommy's too young for time out." Said Lou.
"My 2-year-old grandson needs to learn that you don't throw fits in grocery stores." Said Lulu.
They sat Tommy down in the chair and let Chaz and Kira know what was going on, and to release him in 10 minutes. Then they left to return to the retirement home. While Tommy sat there in time out, he could see out the front window his friends all talking with one another, and Sofia the First, having fun with FeeFee and Puppy.
"Hi, my name is Sofia! My emulet gives me the power to talk to animals! So, what's your name?" Sofia asked Feefee.
"My name is Feefee, I'm Chuckie and Kimi's dog, and this is my daughter Puppy. She gets scared some of the time, and my master Chaz had a hard time finding her a home, but Chuckie taught her to be brave and she got to stay with me, just as my son Spikfee lives with their daddy Spike. Spike is Tommy and Dil's dog. Tommy's the little boy inside, sitting in a chair." Said Feefee.
"Oh wow, how cool!" Said Clover, who slit out from Sofia's backpack.
"Clover, what are you doing here? I told you to stay behind at the palace until I returned tomorrow from my sleepover at Peter's." Said Sofia.
"I wanted to come along, after all, a blue ribbon bunny shouldn't be denied a sleepover." Replied Clover.
"You weren't invited, but I'll let you stay here with Feefee and her daughter if you promise to behave." Said Sofia.
"If I wasn't invited, then why does that blue dog looking figure get to go?" Clover asked, looking in the direction of Stitch.
"Because Stitch isn't a dog or a bunny, he's experiment 6 2 6, an alien lifeform." Replied Sofia.
"Don't worry, I'll behave." Replied Clover.
"Bulswaw, have a good time." Said Feefee.
"Huh?" Asked Sofia.
"Oh, Bulswaw is French for goodnight. I'm originally from Paris. If it weren't for Spike and these lovely families who rescued me, who knows where I'd be now." Said Feefee.
"Well, I'm glad you found a nice home." Replied Sofia with a smile.
Just then, Tommy's time out was finished and he came outside to join his friends.
"Where were you Tommy?" Asked Chuckie.
"I had to take a time out." Said Tommy.
"Why's that?" Asked Zack.
"Because I wanted some Reptar cerial, which grandpa understood what I wanted, but grandpa and grandma wouldn't get any for me so I got mad." Replied Tommy.
"What's time out like?" Zack asked.
"It's no fun, you have to sit still for 10 minutes, or practically forever. I've never liked time out, not even the firstest time I took one." Snapped Tommy.
"I don't remember you ever sitting in time out before Tommy." Said Dil.
"You wouldn't. It was before you were born Dilly. I was at some daycare place, and at least this time, I only had to sit in a chair. That time, they put me in a pen where even my screwdriver wouldn't get me out. Had it not been for that key made out of playdough made by one of the other babies there, I might have never gone home." Said Tommy.
"Awe who cares about some dumb old key made out of playdough. I can't believe I'll be going to see my first movie tonight. I'm so excited! And I'm glad I got over that silly foot disease or whatever it's called so I could go see the movie!" Said Dil happily.
"Yeah! And even better, we're going to see the new Goober movie!" Said Kimi with a smile, bouncing up and down.
Everyone else except Tommy and Zack agreed happily. Zack would have rather gone to the movie with Peter, but his aunty said he was too young. And Tommy was thinking to himself that there'd hopefully be another Reptar movie playing there, like the last time he went to the theater, and he snuck away from the Dummi Bears movie.
"It's time to go to the movies." Said Kira, as she rounded everybody up.
"Hey, I've got an idea. How would you all like to go to the movies on a magic carpet?" Asked Peter, as he, Aladdin, Jazman, Sofia, Amber, Lilo, and Stitch all piled on to the magic carpet.
The rugrats all got excited at the sound of this, and piled on to the carpet along with Peter and his Disney friends. But none of the parents were all that interested, so they all piled into Aunty Celeste's driverless van, and everybody headed off to the Octaplex.
Before they went inside, Peter and the Disney characters realized they had a problem.
"Where are we gonna park my magic carpet? We can't just park it in the parking lot, cars might run over it." Said Aladdin.
"I've got an idea." Replied Sofia.
Using her emulet, Sofia shrunk the magic carpet so it was small enough to fit in her purse, and stuck it in her purse.
"That was clever! Thank you Sofia!" Said Peter.
"Don't thank me, thank the power of my emulet." Said Sofia.
Upon getting there, Peter and his Disney friends went and caught up with Taffy, Angelica and Susie.
"Oh, thank goodness you made it!" Said Taffy.
"We wouldn't desert you." Said Peter.
"Hi Peter, nice to see you again!" Said Susie excitedly.
"Hi Susie and Angelica, I have some friends for you to meet. These are my friends Aladdin and Jazman, who helped us get here via magic carpet, and these are my friends, Lilo, Stitch, Sofia the First, and Amber." Said Peter.
"Oh, well it's nice to meet you all!" Said Taffy as they approached the ticket counter.
"Hey, that necklace is beautiful! Can I wear it?" Angelica asked Sofia.
"I'm sorry Angelica, but this is a very special necklace. It's my emulet, and I promised my father I'd never take it off." Replied Sofia.
"Fine!" Griped Angelica, crossing her arms across her chest.
"We'd like 10 tickets to the 3D showing of Maleficant." Said Peter to the lady behind the ticket counter.
"I'm sorry, but that movie is sold out. Can I interest you in tickets to the rerelease of Legally Blond?" Asked the ticket lady.
"Yeah lady, I wanna see Legally Blond. I hear Cynthia is in that movie!" Yelled Angelica.
"Oh all right, we'll go see Legally Blond." Sighed Peter, as he paid for the tickets and they headed into their movie.
Then it was time for the rugrats and their families to get their tickets.
"Reptar Reptar!" Yelled Tommy as he spotted a Reptar poster on the wall.
Peter and his Disney friends along with Taffy, Angelica and Susie overheard Tommy yell this from the lobby as they were heading into their movie.
"I'm sorry kiddo, we're not going to see Reptar tonight." Said Betty.
Tommy was about ready to cry, and then remembered, if Reptar's picture is at the movie, then he can go see him again like last time. Aunty Celeste paid for everybody's tickets, picked up her headset for the descriptive video portion of the Goober film, and everybody headed into the theater and found seats. The rugrats sat down on the floor, while Dil curled up in Kira's lap.
The movie started, and Tommy wasn't impressed. So he turned to his friends, in hopes they could now sneak off to see Reptar.
"Come on Chuckie,let's go see Reptar." Said Tommy.
"Well actually Tommy, I'd like to stay here and see the Goober movie." Replied Chuckie.
"I wanna stay and see it too." Said Kimi.
"Awe, ok." Replied Tommy with a frown.
"Phil? Lil?" Asked Tommy, pointing at Phil and Lil.
"Nah, me and Lil wanna stay and watch the movie too." Said Phil.
"And eat these delicious worms we snuck in from Chuckie's backyard." Added Lil, pulling a worm out of her diaper and eating it like one would slirp their spaghetti noodles.
Tommy sighed, he knew Dil wouldn't go with him cuz he was in Chuckie's mommy's lap and he loved Goober more than anything, and then, he realized, there was one person he hadn't asked to go along with him on his big adventure, Zack!
"Hey Zack, wanna go find Reptar?" Tommy asked.
"Sure! This Goober movie is dumb anyway, I'd rather see Reptar, or heck, even that blond movie with Peter." Said Zack.
"Then let's go!" Whispered Tommy, as he set off confidently, crawling towards the door of the theater, Zack following close behind him.
They got out into the hall, Zack looked around to see several doors that looked the same.
"Ok Tommy, where's Reptar?" Zack asked.
"He's this way." Tommy said, heading towards the snack bar, Zack following him.
"And how are you so sure that's where he is?" Zack asked.
"Because that's where I looked last time, it was Chuckie who found Reptar at the other end of the yummy food place." Replied Tommy.
"You mean you've found Reptar here before?" Asked Zack.
"Yeah, the firstest time I ever saw him too, after I saw him on TV at my house and then his picture outside, like that one over there." Said Tommy, pointing to the poster.
"Well, ok, if you say so." Said Zack.
"Come on Zack, like that TV mercial said, he's big, he's green, and he's back! So come on, let's go see Reptar!" Said Tommy.
Back in the movie, the grown ups didn't notice Tommy and Zack had disappeared. Then, Dil started to cry. Kira felt his diapers were wet, so she headed out of the movie towards the bathroom to change him, when she spotted Tommy and Zack in the hallway, heading towards the snack bar.
"Tommy! Zack! What are you doing out here?" Kira asked.
"Reptar Reptar!" Tommy shouted, pointing to the Reptar poster.
"Now Tommy, I already told you, we're not seeing Reptar tonight. That goes for you too Zack." Said Kira.
Tommy threw himself down on the floor and started screaming. Zack just stood back, his arms crossed, in disbelief at what he was seeing. Sure he's seen Tommy get cranky and mad before when he didn't feel well, but nothing like this.
Just then, Peter and the Disney characters heard Tommy screaming outside their movie. Amber rushed up the isle and poked her head out the door.
"Would you mind getting that little brat to be quiet, we're trying to watch a movie here." Snapped Amber.
"Tommy! Behave yourself!" Kira snapped, as she grabbed Tommy by the hand, Zack grabbed Tommy's other hand and they headed into the bathroom to change Dil. Amber went back to her seat in the Legally Blond movie, once she saw the hall was deserted.
Kira wasn't looking forward to what she was gonna have to do. She changed Dil and afterwards, she went back into the Goober movie, to give everyone the sad news that because Tommy threw a fit, and drug Zack out of the movie along with him, that they were gonna have to leave the movie early. The parents and Aunty Celeste gathered up the kids and they headed out of the movie.
Celeste returned her descriptive headset to the ticket people, and everyone piled into her driverless van since Peter and his Disney friends hadn't finished their movie yet, making the magic carpet unavailable for the kids to use for transportation to get home. Once everyone was in the van, all of the rugrats except Tommy and Zack started crying.
"Hey, what's wrong guys?" Zack asked.
"You made us leave our movie early." Snapped Dil.
"Yeah and it was getting to a really good part too." Said Chuckie with a frown.
"Hey don't look at me, it was all Tommy's idea." Said Zack.
"Tommy how could you?" Kimi asked.
"I'm sorry guys, I didn't mean to make you leave your movie. I just wanted to see Reptar that's all." Said Tommy.
"Yeah well, saying sorry won't get us back to the movie Tommy." Snapped Chuckie.
"I'm afraid Chuckie's right, it won't." Added Dil.
"I'm not talking to Tommy no more." Said Kimi.
"I couldn't have said it better myself." Said Lil.
"Yeah we're not talking to Tommy for the next bazillion years." Said Phil.
"Come on guys, we can't stay mad at Tommy forever. I know Chuckie won't." Said Dil.
"I don't know, they were pretty mad for a while when Chuckie didn't want to go to the big green box." Said Phil.
"Until Chuckie rescued Tommy from a snake." Added Lil.
"The big green box?" Dil asked.
"Don't worry, I've never heard of it either." Said Zack.
"We'll show it to you the next time you come over!" Said Kimi excitedly.
"Oh I don't know Kimi, that shadow man isn't real nice." Said Chuckie.
"Oh come on guys, anything's better than talking to Goober hating Tommy." Snapped Phil.
"Don't worry Tommy, I forgive you." Said Zack.
Tommy didn't say anything, he just turned and looked out the window, with a huge frown on his face, his arms crossed.
Aunty Celeste dropped the Finsters and Devilles off at their houses, when Betty told her that Tommy and Dil's driveway was empty, and their house was still completely dark, as the Devilles lived nextdoor to Tommy, this told Aunty Celeste to take Tommy and Dil back with her and Zack to their apartment. After all, she and Didi had agreed to let Tommy sleep over with Zack after the movie, and Didi and Stu would come pick up Dil there after they were finished at their dinner with Mister MuckelHoney.
When they got back to Zack's apartment, Dil went and played with Zack's dog Scout, who knew Zack's name and provided lullaby music at bedtime, while Zack and Tommy went and watched some TV.
"Oh look Tommy, the letters show is on!" Exclaimed Zack, as he pointed to the TV, which was showing an episode of Wheel of Fortune.
"I'd like to buy a vowl. An E." Said one of the contestants.
"There are 3 E's." Replied Pat Stayjack, the host of the show.
"Ding ding ding." Sounded the letter board, as Vanna walked across the screen, turning over the letters.
Tommy and Zack continued to watch the TV in silence. They watched the rest of Wheel of Fortune, followed by Jeopardy, followed by TGIF. Just as TGIF was starting though, Stu and Didi arrived at Zack's apartment to pick up Dil. Aunty Celeste answered the door and let them in.
"So, how was your dinner with Mister MuckelHoney?" Celeste asked.
"It went very well! I have all sorts of new inventions to start working on!" Replied Stu excitedly.
"So, how did things go here?" Didi asked.
"Well, I have good news and bad news. The good news, Tommy said his first word today!" Said Celeste excitedly.
"Oh my really?" Didi asked.
"Yes Didi, unfortunately though, Tommy has been in quite a bit of trouble today." Replied Celeste.
While she explained to Stu and Didi what all went down that day, Zack turned to Tommy in front of the TV, who still looked pretty upset.
"Now cheer up Tommy, you're getting to sleep over tonight. Hey, maybe I can get my aunty to put on a Reptar DVD for us." Said Zack excitedly.
But Tommy just sat there silently, he didn't want to talk to anybody. Just then, Didi approached Tommy and took him by the hand.
"I'm sorry Tommy, but after all of the trouble you caused today, you're coming home with me, daddy and Dil. There will be no sleepover with Zack tonight." Said Didi.
Tommy started to cry as they left Zack's apartment. Aunty Celeste closed the door behind them, and was so thankful to finally be getting some peace and quiet.
Later that night, everybody was asleep in the Pickles household. Tommy then had a terrible nightmare.
"Reptar Reptar!" Shouted Tommy to all of the grown ups he passed as he headed through the park and the town. As he walked through the park, his Reptar wagon vanished, along with posters advertising the Reptar movie that were standing up in polls in the ground. All Reptar dolls, cookies and candy bars he saw with other little kids started disappearing, and then, Goober appeared.
"Hugs are fun! Could I have a hug?" Asked the giant Goober.
"No!" Tommy snapped.
Just then, the giant Goober turned into an evil monster, and ate Tommy.
Tommy then awoke from the dream, shaking, tossing and turning. He turned to see Dil fast asleep in his crib. He thought about waking up Dil to talk this out, then decided against it because he didn't want to make Dil anymore mad than he already was at him for making him leave the movie early. Then Tommy lay there, awake, unable to sleep, and had a flashback.
Tommy POV
As I lay there, unable to sleep, I thought about that time when all of my Reptar stuff had been replaced by that Goober stuff. My friends had thoughted the alien had come back, and I told them that it was Goober who locked Reptar in the secret cave. Hey, maybe Goober is back to destroy Reptar, and my saying Reptar's name to the grown ups is only making it easier for Goober to destroy him. That's it, I can't talk to no one no more. I especially can't say Reptar to the grown ups, or Reptar, my hero, will disappear for sure. And besides, it's not like my friends talk to me no more anyways. Even Zack probably don't like me now cuz I couldn't sleep over at his house. No one will miss me that much.
End of Tommy POV
End of Chapter 1
So, what will happen next? Will Tommy give everyone in the world the silent treatment? Or will be crack and tell his parents his first word? And if he does, will Reptar disappear? We'll find out, in chapter 2.
