The Adventures of Fairy Tale Girl and Future Boy
A "Once Upon A Time Season 7" Crossover with "Lost in Space, 2018."
Summary: After trespassing in Gothel's Garden; the Robinson Siblings are cursed to live in Hyperion Heights as orphans. But when Will Robinson remembers who he and his sisters really are after touching classmate Lucy Vidrio's storybook, the two new friends must find a way to get the Robinsons back home. And with Dr. Smith watching them closely on Gothel's behalf, it will not be easy.
Disclaimer: "Once Upon A Time" is owned and created by the team of Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. The original "Lost in Space" from 1965 is owned by Irwin Allen, and filmed by 20th Century Fox Television. The "Lost in Space, 2018" series on Netflix is produced by Legendary Television, Synthesis Entertainment, Clickety-Clack Productions, and Applebox Entertainment.
This Fan Fiction Crossover story is the work of a hobbyist having fun with some of his favorite, fictional characters, and nothing more. I hope that this is a sufficient disclaimer.
Historian's Note: This story takes place in the middle of Season 7 of "Once Upon A Time," and sometime after the events shown in Season 1 of "Lost in Space, 2018."
As with my earlier "Once Upon A Time" crossovers with the original, "Lost in Space, 1965" series, I will be treating the different genres of Fairy Tales and Science Fiction as though they are different cultures and ethnicities.
Since the Dark Curse in Hyperion Heights has yet to be broken at the time of my story, only a small handful of "Once Upon A Time" characters, (Lucy, Roni, Detective Weaver, and Mother Gothel,) know that they are originally from a Fairy Tale Realm of Storytelling.
For the purpose of my story, the Robinson Siblings and Dr. Smith are from a Science Fiction Realm of Storytelling. But unlike the Fairy Tale people in Storybrooke and Hyperion Heights, they do not realize that they, too, are characters in a story.
As an episode of "Once Upon A Time, Season 7," the Title Card will show the interstellar spaceship Resolute hovering over the Seattle, Washington Skyline, in the background of the Blue Forest Setting.
"A real world. How arrogant are you to think that yours' is the only one? There are infinite more. You have to open your mind. They touch one another, pressing up in a long line of lands, each just as real as the last. All have their own rules. Some have magic, some don't."
Jefferson / The Mad Hatter to Emma Swan, "Once Upon A Time," Season 1, Episode 17, "Hat Trick."
Chapter 1. Robinsons Stick Together
Days started early at the Robinsons' apartment; even on Saturday mornings. Judy Robinson had been awake since five AM, and it was her turn to use the bathroom as her sister Penny and her brother Will began setting the table and getting breakfast ready.
Wistfully, Judy could almost remember a time when sleeping to seven AM was the norm, even on weekdays. But ever since mom and dad died in a traffic accident six months earlier, Judy, Penny and Will had to keep to a ridged schedule to make everything work.
Though their new home in Hyperion Heights was much smaller than the house they grew up in, there was still plenty to be done to keep the apartment spotless. Neatness and order almost became an obsession with them, since the Robinson Siblings never knew when unexpected company may arrive in the name of June Harris; the Social Worker who was assigned to their 'case.'
Judy Robinson, now 18 and the legal guardian of her younger sister and brother, had a lot to worry about. Their parents' death had, among other things, forced Judy to put her dream of medical school on hold as she now tried to work as many hours as possible to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. While she did this, it was up to Penny and Will to attend school, do the cooking, and keep the apartment clean. It was a good system, when it worked flawlessly. But 'things' were always coming up that threatened to disrupt this very delicate balance that the Robinson Siblings called the 'New Normal.'
None of the Robinson siblings had ever been what you would call neat-freaks before (though they were hardly slobs, either.) But living in a subsidized apartment meant that inspectors from the State could arrive at any time, and cite them for anything. And Judy – who lived in constant fear of coming home from work to an empty apartment to find that her younger siblings had been taken and placed in "The System" – insisted that nothing be done (or not done) that might give Ms. Harris the excuse that she needed to declare Judy to be an "unfit guardian."
Judy washed her face, scrubbing a bit harder than she intended out of frustration. The very thought of June Harris gave Judy a bellyful of bile. The woman was an absolute, anal-retentive stickler for every obscure regulation that she could find (or, as Judy often suspected, make-up,) to make the Robinsons' lives miserable.
Judy reflected on the time just two weeks earlier, (after doing a double-shift at her job at Mr. Cluck's Chicken Shack,) when Ms. Harris and a police officer aroused the Robinson siblings at two in the morning with a hard knock on the door. It seemed, Ms. Harris informed them, that an 'anonymous caller' had reported that Judy had a 'boyfriend' staying with them.
As the Robinsons sat with Ms. Harris at their kitchen table, the officer, (a decent, somewhat apologetic man named Rogers,) gave the apartment a going-over, and told Ms. Harris that he found no signs that anyone other than the Robinson siblings resided at the apartment. But Ms. Harris was not satisfied, and demanded that he look, again. She then repeated this request yet another time before declaring that she was 'satisfied' that the caller 'may have been mistaken.'
But before leaving, Ms. Harris then proceeded to give Judy and Penny a lecture about the risks of having sexual relations with boys – and right in front of Will! Judy only hoped that her poor little brother was as drowsy as she was, and would barely understand what was being said. Then, after almost two hours had passed since they first arrived, Ms. Harris and Officer Rogers (who truly seemed sorry for the Robinsons' plight,) finally left them in peace - with less than an hour to sleep before they had get up and get ready for work and school.
And all through the ordeal, Judy was afraid that Ms. Harris - if she found no evidence of a 'boyfriend,' (as if Judy even had any time for a social life,) just might "find" something else. Planting pot or some other "contraband" was not something that Judy would put past the heartless Ms. Harris.
Judy dried her face, looking in the mirror, shaking her head as she regarded her complexion. At first, she thought that Ms. Harris was just a racist who did not like the idea of a black girl taking care of her two younger, white siblings. (Oh, if she had a dollar for every time someone had mistaken her for Penny's and Will's 'babysitter' . . . .)
That would have been the simplest explanation for the way Ms. Harris treated them.
But Judy, (who had gotten pretty good over the years at sensing this kind of attitude in others, as had Penny and Will,) quickly realized that something else was motivating Ms. Harris. Though exactly what that 'something else' might be, Judy couldn't figure out no matter how hard she tried.
Over the past six months, Ms. Harris had had plenty of opportunities to 'plant' contraband and have the Robinsons thrown out of their apartment (and Judy onto the street and Penny and Will into The System.) So, why didn't Ms. Harris just do that if she hated them as much as she seemed to?
Judy's current (albeit far from satisfying) theory was that Ms. Harris was some kind of sadist who got-off on making her and her siblings' lives a living hell. And if Ms. Harris did have them kicked-out of their apartment; she would not have the Robinson Siblings at arms-length to make them squirm.
But Judy did not have the luxury of time to think more about their situation. The Robinsons lived their lives moment-to-moment, and now was the time for Judy to finish dressing. After putting on her uniform for Mr. Cluck's Chicken Shack, Judy came into the combination kitchen and dining room where Penny and Will were putting the finishing touches on breakfast.
They smiled at each other as they sat down to eat. No matter how bad things were, and even with no end in sight, the family motto remained strong. First and foremost: Robinsons Stick Together.