Tommy's Special Gift
Summary: When the gang takes a trip to Neverland to celebrate Tommy's sweet 16, Tommy discovers an incredible gift about himself, that makes him a hero. Takes place after the events of Driving Disaster. Would like to thank TCKing12 for inspiring this idea.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from Rugrats AGU and Peter Pan, they're the property of their original creaters. I own the OC of Zack, as well as some new characters that will appear in this story, and any places that should appear in this story that you don't recognize, and, TCKing12 owns the OC of Peter, and Jesse J. Barrow owns the OC of Jesse.
Chapter 1, The Invitation
It was August 11, 2027. The Beepball championship had just concluded. Tommy's team, The Bay Area Microchips had just defeated their rivals, the Boston Massachusetts Renegades in the final championship game of the season, on the afternoon of Tommy's sixteenth birthday. In this particular game, Tommy played the position of designated fielder, and since they couldn't get six batters for the game, Zack and Jesse got a once in a lifetime opportunity to be blindfolded, and volunteered to play in place of their usual players for this particular game. Upon defeating the Boston Massachusetts Renegades, the crowds were on their feet, cheering for the Bay Area Microchips. This included Peter, along with several Disney characters, Chuckie, Nicole, Kimi, Lil, Phil, Dil, Angelica, Brody, Susie, Paul, Dil's best friend Lance, along with his three older brothers, Chris, Justin and JC, along with his younger brother Joey, and everyone's parents.
"Way to go Tommy!" Said Chuckie, smiling from up top a set of bleechers, as the Bay Area Microchips stood in the center of the field, receiving their standing ovasion.
"Way to go sweetheart." Said Kimi, smiling at Zack.
"Congratulations sweetcakes." Shouted Lil from the stands, hoping Jesse, the love of her life, would hear her cheering for him.
"Congratulations to the Bay Area Microchips for winning the 2027 Beepball Championship game! And, we also have another special announcement. A very Happy Birthday to our Designated Fielder, Mister Tommy Pickles, who turns sixteen today. Happy Sweet Sixteen Tommy!" Said an announcer into a microphone from the lookout stands off to the side.
The crowd roared with excitement, as Tommy smiled.
Though while Tommy was happy he won the game, when he heard Kimi cheer Zack on, deep down, he could tell he wasn't completely over Kimi, even though the secrets had been revealed over six months ago, at the time of the accident, that changed his life forever. But while he felt a longing for a girlfriend, he did everything in his power to keep this hidden in public, as he didn't want any of his so called aquaintances, as he referred to them these days, as a result of all of the trust that had gone down in the past, to get any ideas. Tommy was done with stupid love triangles, and he didn't know what he'd do if any of his friends were to secretly date any of his future lovers behind his back. And now that he was blind, would he be an easier target to be played for a fool? These thoughts would cross his mind from time to time, but on the outside, he looked like the proud winner of the championship, and one who was quite excited to be turning sixteen.
Peter lepped down from the bleachers and headed up to the field to congratulate the team and lead Tommy, Jesse and Zack back to the rest of the gang, as it was against the rules to remove your blindfolds while out on the field, if you were a blindfolded player.
"Congratulations guys." Said Peter, standing tall and proud in his gray confederate uniform, as he shook each player's hand, and led Tommy, Jesse and Zack away from the field to where the rest of the gang was seated. Upon approaching the bleachers, Kimi and Lil jumped down, running towards their significant others, Kimi giving Zack a huge hug, while Lil and Jesse embraced.
Later, back at Tommy's house, the gang was celebrating his sixteenth birthday party, with a pool party in the backyard. Lance got the idea for everyone to do crazy stunts, as they went down the zipline into the pool. Dil went and took Tommy's video camera, now secured in a special helmet, that one would wear a top their head, to ensure good footage, even if you couldn't see, only now the hat sat a top the treehouse, catching everyone's move. Dil and Lance were planning to be the judges, and unknown to Tommy, they had figured out the password to his youtube channel a while back, and were planning to post these videos later, to play a dirty trick on him.
Everyone had taken their turn, but Peter had rejected doing anything, since he forgot his bathing suit back at the confederacy castle.
"Come on Peter, you know you want to embarrase yourself." Said Lance.
"No, I don't. And I really think your sneaky plan of what you're about to do isn't the brightest idea either. Look, I know how you and Dil feel about Tommy at times, and brothers will play dirty tricks on one another, but don't you think Tommy has been through enough lately?" Peter said.
Of course, Tommy had disappeared inside, as his grandpa Lou, very weak, as he lay in bed at the nursing home, unable to attend his birthday party, had given Tommy a call, so he didn't overhear any of the conversation Peter was having with Dil and Lance.
"Besides, all I have on is my confederate uniform, as I forgot my suit at home." Continued the seventeen-year-old prince.
"All the more reason to do it." Said Dil.
"Peter's right. And as your boyfriend, I forbid you to post these. Tommy's already having trust issues with Chuckie and Zack because of the whole Kimi incident. Do you want him to question our trust with him too?" Phil asked Dil.
"Ok, I won't post these, and we'll erase them when we're done." Said Dil.
"Do I still have to do some crazy stunt into the pool?" Peter asked.
"Well, yeah! I said I wouldn't post them to Tommy's Youtube channel, I never said you were off the hook, so come on!" Protested Dil, as Peter made his way to the top of the treehouse near the zipline, and started doing the chicken dance, but when it came time to spin in a circle, he summer salted down the zipline into the pool, making a huge splash, getting his uniform all wet.
"Good heavens! What is going on out here?" Didi snapped, as she opened the door to see Peter climbing out of the pool, all drenched.
"Go get some dry clothes on Peter, and the rest of you, it's time for Birthday cake and presents. Tommy will be off the phone shortly with his grandpa. All of you, get showered and dried off, as it will be dark soon." Said Didi, as everyone headed inside, taking turns in the bathroom to shower off, and change clothes. Peter put on a spare pare of pj's of Tommy's that fit him, as he and Tommy wore close to the same size in clothing.
Later on, everyone was gathered around the kitchen table, as Stu and Didi set down a beautiful yellow cake with chocolate icing in front of Tommy, with a 1 and a 6 candle lit, along with a treen and blue striped candle to represent one to grow on. The gane sang the traditional Happy Birthday song to Tommy, as Tommy prepared to blow out the candles.
"Now blow out the candles and make a wish." Said Stu encouragingly.
Tommy thought to himself what he would wish for. Well, a girlfriend for one thing, and one he could call his own, not to be shared by his so called friends, and maybe, an exciting adventure to some unexplored territory. He had spent his entire summer playing Beepball, and not doing very much out of the ordinary. School would be starting up in a few weeks, and he really wanted to make his summer a memorable one. As he thought of these wishes in his mind, he took a deep breath, and blew out the candles on his cake.
Everyone cheered him on once all of his candles were blown out, and everyone, ate their cake and ice cream. But they were more or less, silent, as while everyone was still friends, the closeness they all once had, just, wasn't the same anymore as it once was.
Later on that night, everyone was gathered in the living room in a huge circle, Tommy in the middle, opening all of his presents. He had gotten several things, from adaptive gadgets, to several movies on DVD, iTunes gift cards, and much more. But Peter, had a special surprise for everyone.
"I believe Peter is the last one to give Tommy his present." Said Didi, as she stepped a side and Peter made his way through the crowd to where Tommy was sitting. He handed Tommy a rather large brown envelope.
"Happy Birthday Tommy. Happy sweet sixteen." Said Peter, as he handed Tommy the envelope.
"Thank you." Said Tommy, as he opened the envelope to find several pieces of paper.
"These are everyone's tickets a bored the Neverland Cruise, which would be setting sail to the Mermaid Lagoon for seven days and seven nights, starting tomorrow. And all of you are invited!" Said Peter.
Everyone clapped and cheered as Tommy and Peter went around, and handed the tickets to their special guests.
"We leave tomorrow morning at O eight-hundred, so we'd better get packed and get to bed." Said Peter, as he gathered up his Disney friends, and headed for the door. The rest of the gang told Tommy happy birthday one last time before everyone headed for home. But before Peter left, he told Tommy one more thing.
"Oh, and to the birthday boy, I have one more special surprise, but you can't receive it until the last night of our trip." Peter whispered to Tommy as he made his way towards the door to leave.
That night, Tommy lay in bed for a while, too excited to sleep. Finally, a vacation, and a vacation to somewhere he had not visited before. Sure he had been to many of the lands of the Disney characters, like the time he went to the Hundred Acre Woods back at the age of 2 when Dil was sick with Foot in Mouth Disease, and then, when he ventured off into Pride Rock around the time he was giving everyone the silent treatment, to keep from his hero of Reptar from disappearing, not long after the events of curing Dil of that sickness, but Neverland, he hadn't been there yet. What an exciting trip ahead! And another surprise? What could it be? Was Peter fixing him up with some Peter Pan character? Would he be meeting someone on the cruise? While he was sixteen, and maybe he was getting too old to believe in making wishes come true by wishing on a star, or making a special birthday wish upon blowing out his candles, could it be that something special would soon be in his future? He pondered these thoughts as he finally fell asleep.
The next day, everyone who was going on the cruise awoke early and gathered at Tommy's driveway. The main people who were going were Tommy, Peter, Phil and Dil, Jesse and Lil, Chuckie and Nicole, and to Tommy's unpleasant surprise, Zack and Kimi were coming along too. But Tommy decided to just, bite his lip. After all, Peter was friends with everyone, and he went through a lot of trouble to get this special trip set up, the least he could do, is not spoil anybody's fun, even though he would much prefer this vacation, if he didn't have to be around Zack and Kimi. He'd just, do his best to ignore them, and enjoy the adventures that lay ahead.
"Everybody ready to go?" Asked Peter, as the gang lined up behind him at the end of Tommy's driveway, carrying their suitcases and bags of posessions they were bringing along on the trip.
"Yes." They all said.
"Then let's go!" Said Peter, as he opened a portal that led them into Neverland, and everyone vanished into a flash of yellow light.
And, this ends chapter 1. How will things go? We'll find out, in chapter 2.