Hey y'all!
Just in case you didn't read the description, this fanfic will be an entire retelling of the Disney Cartoon, "Legend of the Three Caballeros", only that it'll take place in Gender Swapped AU, changing everyone's gender to the opposite. Being a huge Disney and "Three Caballeros" fan, when I discovered the cartoon on YouTube, I INSTANTLY fell in love with it! The characters, dialogue, songs, animation, everything! And after going through the entire first season, this idea of a fanfic suddenly popped into mind and I just had to do it! Why? I dunno, really, but it just seems fun, plus I've seen other gender-swapped Disney fanfics, so why not have a go with it?
With that said, considering this will be a retelling of a cartoon, there WILL be SPOILERS for those who haven't seen the cartoon, so if you haven't watched it and don't want to get spoiled, please refrain yourself from reading. If you want to watch the cartoon yourself, I'm sure you can find all the episodes on YouTube, just like me (that is, until the copyright strikes come in). Outside of YouTube, it's actually a pretty hard show to find anywhere else. As of now, the only legal way to find this cartoon is with the DisneyLife app witch is only available in the Philippines. (PLEASE Disney America, GIVE US A RELEASE!)
Another thing I want to say is that each episode of the cartoon will be split into two parts per chapter, basically meaning that one chapter will have about 7-10 minutes from the episode and the chapter after that will have the remaining time of that same episode. I also won't do most, if not all the songs because I just feel in a fanfic format, it'll just be waste and what happens during the song can easily be explained within dialogue. (Which is kinda ironic of me to say considering my other fanfic in-progress is a Splatoon one relating to Squid Sisters, but ah well)
Now that I got all of that outta the way, please enjoy the first chapter!
"Light…"
"Dark…"
"Two constants forever in conflict for as long as time itself. Wars between the light and the dark have erupted across our entire universe, each side showing tremendous power and sheer determination for victory. Every single one of these battles are recorded within a golden atlas, said to have actually been crafted by the hands of gods, and every page of this atlas holds the tales of all who have entered these battles, whether it be the heroes of the light, or the monsters of the dark. With each side fighting to their very best capabilities, the war seemed endless until a new monster of the darkness rose up, almost completely smothering out the light with its eternal power. Hope for the universe almost became lost forever, that is, until a new light arose in correspondence to the dark."
"And that new light came in the form of the Three Damas!"
Somewhere, in the deep vacuum of space, stood three birds on a floating platform. One was a white-feathered duck and she stood between her two friends. The second one was a green-feathered parrot and she stood to the duck's right. And the last one was an auburn-feathered hen and she stood to the duck's left. All three of them were clad in armor and each were holding up a weapon to the air. The duck held a broadsword, the parrot held a scimitar, and the hen held up a spear. By the looks of their faces and posture, it seemed like they were in the middle of some sort of intense battle.
"Alright, girls," the duck started before they all charged forward, "let's do this!"
The three birds jumped from platform to platform, heading for a gigantic, iris-coated, multi-horned, duck-like monster. The beast chuckled evilly before firing a breath of flames down to them from its beak that three were able to avoid in time by jumping to separate platforms. The green parrot, in particular, leapt to a platform closer to her foe.
"En garde!" the parrot exclaimed to the monster before she jumped over its slamming fist. "Take this!"
The parrot slashed her sword on the beast's fist and then leapt away for safety as the monster briefly screamed in pain from the attack. It then caught eye of the hen charging forward, using her spear to vault over the gap between the beast and the platform she was one.
"Yahoooo!"
The hen landed on the beast's stomach and started making her way up. In return, the beast made several spikes rise up from its body. The hen was able to avoid most of the spikes until one made her trip up and fall down off the beast. She screamed as she plummeted downward to her possible doom until her duck partner caught her, mid-fall, and helped her to the same platform she was on. After the rescue, the two shared a valiant and firm handshake, signifying their intense friendship and bond, and the two readied their weapons once again.
Unfortunately, the monster soon released a strong shockwave that sent the three birds flying until they landed, hard, on another rocky platform. They weakly raised their heads from the ground before they all got up and turned around to see their adversary teleport behind them, raise its right arm, bring out a sharp set of claws, and swing its arm down to the three birds who could only watch helplessly as the beast's claws draw nearer and nearer to their eyes.
"And stop! Pretty entertaining so far, right? Now, I know that while this all may look cool, some of you are also confused on the heck is going on. Well, what's an intense conflict without a little backstory, huh? Let's go all the way back to the beginning of this whole story."
The sun rose over the happy city of Duckburg, showcasing another beautiful morning.
In front of an average-looking house, a young dog riding a yellow bike petaled on the street as she took out a rolled-up newspaper out of her backpack.
"Happy Birthday, Ms. Duck!" she said as she tossed the newspaper over to the door.
Before the newspaper could even hit the door, the owner of the house, Donna Duck, came out and caught it just in time. Donna wore a blue sailor suit that had white buttons and white lining around the collar and the end of her sleeves. Around her collar was a black scarf. She also wore a pair of pumps on her feet that matched with her sailor suit. On her head, she originally wore a blue sailor's hat, but now she wears a blue bow which was a gift from her boyfriend when she gave him her hat.
"Thanks, Ms. Paper Girl!" she said back with her gargled-sounding, semi-intelligible voice as she waved towards the newspaper girl.
With the newspaper in hand, Donna happily turned around, walked back in her house, kicked the door closed, and put the newspaper away, all while singing happy birthday to herself. Being that today was her birthday, Donna was in a very pleasant mood. Today was going to be her day! And to start things off well, Donna went over to her fridge and took out a large stack of pots, pans, and breakfast food. (While failing to notice her birthday was taking placing on Friday the 13th…)
Setting off her load all over the stove, Donna prepared the perfect breakfast one could only dream of! Bacon, eggs, pancakes, you name it! As she got everything all cooking, she took notice of her tea kettle nearby and she lowered her head down to it.
"Happy Birthday, Beautiful!"
Donna's ghastly-looking reflexion soon appeared on the tea kettle, and strangely enough, it spoke back to her in normal, yet teasing-sounding voice…
"And to you as well, Gorgeous!" the reflexion replied before giving Donna a wink and and a giggle.
Breakfast was now ready and Donna, with the help of two spatulas flipped every single food item off the stove and onto the plates on her table. Donna rushed over to her seat (quickly wrapping a napkin around her neck like a bib) and started pouring syrup on her pancakes. Once she was done with the syrup, Donna took out an already-lit candle.
"Now for the final touch." Donna said as she placed the candle on the top of pancakes. She then grabbed her knife and fork. She was now ready to scarf down her delicious birthday breakfast as she licked her beak of any drool.
"And so begins the greatest birthday of my li-"
Before Donna could even touch her food, the telephone on her right began to ring. Displeased, Donna sighed grumpily as she set her utensils back on the table and picked up the phone.
"Hello?"
"Hello, Beautiful," responded a familiar, clear-sounding male voice, "I believe it's your birthday, isn't it?"
Donna instantly recognized this voice, which instantly brightened up her mood.
"Dandy! You remembered!"
Dandy Duck was also a white-feathered duck. He wore a purple polo shirt with the two small buttons underneath his collar being a tad lighter purple. He also wore a blue watch on his right arm. On his head, he wore Donna's sailor's hat, but instead of it being blue like one would expect, it was actually a purple-ish pink, though the tassel was still black. The reason why the hat was that color instead of blue was because years ago, for one of their dates, while Donna was searching for a gift, she accidentally left her hat in the washing machine with a bunch of pink towels, causing the hat to change color. Even though Donna loved her hat and she knew someone who could fix it, she loved Dandy more and thought he would love her hat as a gift due to its color. When she gave him her hat, Dandy was shocked Donna would give him her beloved hat and insisted her to keep it, but Donna refused, telling him that with her hat, even when they're far apart, she will always be close to mind. Touched by this gift, Dandy accepted it and in return, not only giving her the chocolates and bouquet of daisies he already had planned, but also took her out to buy a bow of her choice. Donna caught eye of a bow that had the same shade of blue her hat originally had and Dandy bought it for her.
"Of course I remembered your birthday, Donna! I mean, who could ever forget the birthday of such a beautiful gal like you?"
Hearing that made Donna giggle to herself as her cheeks blushed red.
"Are you going to come over so we can spend my birthday together?"
"Yeah! I was already on my way to your place until my car suddenly decided to break down on me."
"Huh, really? Where are you now?"
"I'm at the downtown parts right now and I'm looking for a bus."
"Dandy, don't you move a single muscle, cause I'll pick you up myself!"
"What? Really, Donna?"
"You betcha'!"
"But what if-"
"There's no need to worry, Dandy! I'll be right there as soon as I can!"
"Man, you are the best girlfriend in the world. Alright, I'll just wait over here for you. Just, um, come as soon as you can like you said. This place is getting a little… creepy."
"No problem, Handsome! If something comes up, just call me and I'll pick up the pace!"
Donna then hung up the phone and grabbed her two utensils again.
"But first, some energy for the day!"
The phone started ringing again, making Donna a little miffed.
"What?!" she exclaimed to herself as she placed down her utensils and answered the phone again. "Dandy, I told you I'll be there!"
Instead of Dandy's calm and kind male voice, Donna was greeted with a frightening and mad female voice.
"DONNA! Where are you?!"
Donna was utterly caught in surprise of this call. So much, that she was sweating.
"Muh-Muh-Ms. Mattimore?"
Sure enough, it was Donna's boss from work.
"Once again, YOU'RE LATE TO WORK!"
"Bu-but it's my birthday! I thought I told you I wanted the day off!"
"Yeah? Well, TOUGH CUPCAKES! I just got a line full of shaggy kids that extends all the way to the end of the block! And without a barber, I can't get money!"
"But why can't yo-"
"Listen hear, Duck. Either you get your little blue pumps over here, OR YOU CAN CONSIDER YOURSELF FIRED!"
The last thing Donna heard from her phone was her boss slamming her phone back down to the receiver, causing her to flinch. Donna placed away her phone as well, only to hear it ringing again before placing it back over her ear.
"Oh, and I almost forgot," Donna's boss started before she suddenly finished in a more surprisingly kinder tone, "Happy Birthday."
Donna's boss slammed her phone down again, this time almost causing Donna to drop her phone before she quickly placed it back on the receiver. Now with no time to spare with her only source of income on the line, Donna blew out her candle and scooped up her entire breakfast within her tablecloth before rushing out the door… while unknowingly leaving her tea kettle burning on the stove.
During her run, Donna tried to eat a piece of toast, but this unfortunately caused her to lose her balance and roll down on the sidewalk, losing all of her food in the process. Donna realized this once her sunny side-up eggs fell off her eyes.
"Aww…" Donna quickly groaned to herself, disappointed to losing the well-pampered breakfast that would have started off her birthday well.
"'Xcuse me. Comin' through! Whoa! Sorry! Pardon me, sir. WAH!"
Donna scampered her way through town, narrowly avoiding every obstacle or person in her path until she stopped herself in time to avoid getting ran over by a truck driven by a familiar-looking female obese cat. With no time to waste, Donna just rushed her way straight through the passenger and driver's seat, angering the driver in the process.
"Step aside!"
Donna had now made it to the block that held her workplace, sprinting past the humongous line of haircut-needing kids and into the barbershop. Upon entering, she was immediately greeted with a stern glare from her boss, causing her to yelp and giggle nervously.
"Sorry for being late, boss. Y'see, I had to-"
"I don't care what you have to say. Just GET TRIMMING!"
Right on command, Donna past through the line of kids, swiftly put on her work uniform over her sailor suit while hanging up her bow, and clocked herself in. Now all ready, Donna dashed to her barber chair and trimmed all the children's hair, one-by-one. (With some trims being more pleasant than others) It took about 4 to 5 hours for Donna to reach the final kid, and at this point, Donna was exhausted, but still had the energy for one more trim, even if it was for a kid with some kind of troll-like hair.
"Alright, just one more, and I'll be back to my birthday!"
However, this kid proved to be much more difficult than the others, as whenever Donna tried to cut her hair, she would only quickly move her head out of the way, much to Donna's utter annoyance.
"No! Miss me! Try again!"
The kid soon hopped off the chair and hid… somewhere behind the barber chair as Donna looked around, standing on top of it.
"You annoying little… Hey, if you behave, then I'll give you a lollipop."
The kid then appeared from under the chair.
"Lollipops stink, just like you!"
Donna was now losing her temper as she screeched and angrily chased the brat all around the barber chair. The two soon met, face-to-face, behind the chair where the kid blew Donna a raspberry before pinching her beak. While even more annoyed, Donna quickly used this opportunity to her advantage by grabbing the kid's hair, placing her on the chair, and cutting the top of her hair straight off. Donna was pleased of finally getting to cut the brat's hair, not knowing how much of a mistake she just made as the single cut she did caused the kid's hair to fall down all over her head, revealing a giant bald spot. The kid saw this after moving the hair from her eyes and she started to cry.
"WAAAH! DADDY!"
Donna, still not knowing the huge mistake she made, only took this moment to tease the kid.
"Aww! The wittle baby wants her daddy! HA!"
Donna then started to feel the barbershop shake like if there was some kind of mini earthquake going on. A large shadow soon loomed over her and she started to feel angry breathing behind her back. Now getting an idea of what's to come, Donna looked up to see a large, suit-clothed, obese, male cat glaring right down on her with fanged teeth.
"Daddy!" the kid happily cheered.
"Oh-no…" Donna quietly gasped as she hid half of her face behind her fear-clenched fists as the father began to speak.
"My little angel has school pictures today, and you ruined it for her!"
"Bu-buh-but, buh-bu-bu-bu-but-" Donna stammered before her boss cut her off from a distance.
"Donna!"
Donna turned around a saw her boss glaring daggers at her with her hands on her hips. Donna then nervously looked around until she saw all the hair trimmings from all the previous kids before, giving the duck an idea.
"Don't worry, sir," Donna started as she bent down and swept up some hair trimmings, "I'll make sure your daughter looks her very best for picture day!"
Donna then got up and started fixing the kid's hair with a combination of the hair trimmings, some gel, a hair tie, a… wrench, and an, um, eggbeater, Donna managed to fancy the kid's horrible haircut into a fancy-looking ponytail.
"Just like that!"
"Daddy!" the kid happily gasped. "I love it!"
"And I love it too, sweety!" the father said as he hugged his daughter.
Donna breathed a sigh of relief, happy that she will be keeping her job for another day. Unfortunately for her, a stray piece of hair soon flies right into the nostrils of her beak, causing Donna to sneeze.
"Ah-ah-AH-CHOO!"
Donna's sneeze blew the kid's new haircut straight off her head and into her father's face, making him look like some sort of ferocious beast and giving the kid her bald spot again. Her dad angrily roared and growled at Donna and Donna's boss did the same, both extremely angry for obvious reasons. Thinking desperately, Donna quickly grabbed her bow from the clothes rack and fearfully hid her head behind as she faced her boss.
"Hey, uh, don't forget that it's my birthday." Donna nervously reminded her before turning back to the brat's father.
"And you, um, you wouldn't hit a girl now, would you?"
From outside the barbershop, punches combined with a duck's screaming were heard until Donna, back to her usual outfit, was kicked straight out the door, courtesy of her boss.
"That was your last trim, the last straw, and your last shift! You're FIRED!" Donna's boss screamed before she slammed her door shut… and then coming back out to tell Donna again, "And Happy Birthday. Thanks for reminding me."
Donna picked herself off the street and placed her bow back on her head. She then sadly sighed to herself and started to make her way back home with her head hung low.
"Happy Birthday, Donna Duck. Dunno how this day can get worse."
Donna was so distraught over losing her job, she didn't even notice the fire truck driving right past, or the parked fire trucks she walked between upon reaching her house, or her the large cloud of smoke emitting from her house, or the fact that most of her house was now completely burning up in flames. Oh, wait. She did notice that last part when she walked through her door… which completely crumbled into pieces soon afterwards.
"N-NO!"
"Inside" her house, Donna found a large group of fire dalmatians chopping away anything that remotely had a flame on it, ranging from Donna's dishes to even her television set when it showed a channel with fire on it.
"H-h-how could this have happened?!"
Donna then took notice of three dalmatians conversing with each other near Donna's stove.
"Hey, you wanna know what caused this fire?" the dalmatian closest to the stove asked her two comrades. "It was because of the idiot owner of the house pulled the classic "Tea Kettle Left on Stove"!"
As the three dalmatians laughed, Donna was now seething with rage as she now knew what caused her house to catch on fire. She rushed way through to take an axe from one of the dalmatians before confronting her tea kettle, or rather her odd reflexion from before.
"You! Why would you do such a thing?!"
Donna's messed-up reflexion appeared to wink and giggle at Donna again, though, with the current scenario, it now seemed like her reflexion was deliberately being a troll. If you really think about it, it actually makes sense that Donna is blaming her reflexion of all things. She didn't care, however, so she just hacked her kettle and stove into pieces before she started to rampage around her entire house until all the flames were gone. The fire dalmatians couldn't only watch, not wanting to in the way of her wrath. As Donna ran around like a maniac, the female chief heard a telephone ringing under some rubble, so she dug it out and answered it.
"Hello?"
…
"Huh. Well, alright." the chief said before she brought the phone away from her ear. "Do we have a "Donna Duck" in the, umm, house?"
Donna Duck herself soon appeared right near the chief, panting angrily before turning to the dalmatian.
"I'm Donna Duck. Whaddya want?"
"It's for you." the chief replied, handing Donna the phone.
"Uh, hello?"
"DONNA DUCK!"
Donna quickly realized the ticked-off voice who was calling and it was filling her up with dread.
"Dandy! Like I said before, I'll be right over there!"
"Yeah, sure! Just like you said you would immediately get over here once I call you again! Yeah, I totally believe you!"
"Dandy, Dandy, you haveta understand! I got-"
"Oh, save it today, Donna! You promised you would pick me up from this awful part of the city as soon as you could! And even when I tried to call you, like fifty-five times these part four hours, I didn't receive a thing from you!"
"Dandy, please!" Donna desperately begged, fearing the worst that's yet to come.
"Donna Duck, if you can't get your life together, get your priorities straight, and find the care and time for your own boyfriend, then I guess from this point on, we are through! Happy, Happy Birthday to you!"
The last thing Donna heard was Dandy slamming the phone back down on the receiver. Donna's own phone soon burned up into bushes, probably emitted from Dandy's rage.
"Yikes," the chief started, awkwardly looking around, "say, uh, how 'bout we all get out of here and back to our intact houses and families?"
All the fire dalmatians left the burned-up remains of Donna's house, leaving the duck alone and distraught. She was now jobless, homeless, and worst of all, boyfriendless. Taking out a suitcase, Donna packed up a spare sailor suit, her toothbrush, and… a frame of her and Dandy together, only that a good chunk of was burned off, including Donna's face. The sight only caused her to tear up, sadly embracing the picture frame.
"Dandy…"
Not having any other option, Donna soon dragged herself to the sidewalk and sat herself down. With her current condition, how is her birthday even going to feel like a birthday anymore? The poor duck just had no luck today. (Gee, wonder why, it certainly didn't have to do with anything involving today's date...)
"Once again," Donna moaned to herself, "Happy Birthday, Donna Duck."
And that ends the sad story of the famous character known as Donna-
"WAIT!"
That does it for the first chapter!
Alright, so if I had to be honest, writing/typing and retelling the first 7 seven minutes of the first episode was not a whole lot of fun. Don't get me wrong, it was REALLY fun gender swapping both Donald and Daisy, thinking of their designs and shifting their personalities where while they're still the same character as their original gender, but more shifted to fit their new gender. The thing is that not a whole lot happens in the first half of "Dope-a Cabana". Donald basically just goes through a whole lot of bad luck while dealing with characters who aren't even that important.
Aw well, making the second half of the episode will be MUCH more fun since that's when characters like José, Panchito, and Sheldgoose are introduced. On that note, I do need some ideas for names, so if you have one in mind, please feel free to send me them via a review or PM!
Also, I may have made Daisy Duck's genderswapped counterpart, Dandy Duck, seem a bit unlikeable, ESPECIALLY at the part when he broke up with Donna. God, that was a pain to type. The thing is, Daisy's breakup with Donald in the actual cartoon is just as awful to go through, and honestly, Daisy is not really that likeable in the cartoon anyway. If you've watched the cartoon, you may know what I'm talking about. If you have any suggestions of how I can change Dandy's dialoge, please definitely let me know! That part still makes me feel very awkward.
Thanks for reading the first chapter of this fanfic! Please leave a review if you anything to say! Constructive criticism is most appreciated. Have a nice day/night, y'all!