Prologue

Joy: (voice-over) Do you ever look at someone and wonder, "What is going on inside their head?" Well, I know. Well, hey, I know Mike's head.

The screen changes to show a married couple in a hospital room with the mother holding their newborn son. We then zoom right into the baby's head revealing a dark room. In the middle of the room a speck of light forms, which then separates, like a dividing cell, until disappearing from existence, leaving three slender figures in their places: Joy, Shy, and Excitement. Joy had light amber skin, messy sky blue hair with matching eyes, he had a light green shirt that has dark blue stars on it, and dark blue pants and light blue shoes. Shy also has light amber skin, but long light blue hair (that has a lavender bow on top), with matching eyes, and a lavender dress that has white flowers on it. Excitement had long dark gold hair and matching eyes, yellow skin, and wore a very fancy yellow dress.

The trio then see the consciousness screen and stare at it in wonder. Then they see a big white button a stand right in front of them. Joy reaches out to touch the button, but Shy stops him as if to tell him she's got this. She presses the button, making it glow lilac, causing the baby to make a nervous noise. Shy pulls her hand away and Joy pushes the button making it glow yellow before we zoom out of the baby's head.

The baby lets out a series of happy gurgles.

Joy: (voice-over) And there he was.

Back inside the mind….

?: (off-screen) Hello.

Joy, Shy, and Excitement watch as the screen reveals a women that has blonde hair in a low ponytail and with green eyes and a man with light brown hair and with electric blue eyes.

Lucy: (On-screen) Mike. Our little shy one.

Richard: (on-screen) Oh, look at you. Aren't you a little bundle of joy?

This makes Joy and Shy smile, somehow they both knew that those words were their names and that they made Mike feel a certain feeling. Suddenly, a bell rings and two spheres, a yellow one and a lilac one, roll onto a track on the southeast side of the screen. Joy and Shy pick up the spheres. Each sphere shows what they just saw on the screen.

Lucy: (from the lilac sphere) Our shy one.

Richard: (from the yellow sphere) Aren't you a little bundle of joy?

Joy and Shy hold their spheres, a memory, looking at them in awe, the bell noise sounds again and a gold colored memory then rolls onto the track and Excitement picks it up.

Lucy: (from the gold memory) We're excited to meet you too.

Joy, Shy, and Excitement smile at the memories in their hands.

Joy, Shy, and Excitement: Whoa.

The emotion trio push the memories along the track causing the whole room to light up, it made Shy feel a little bit nervous; but it made Joy and Excitement smile even bigger! Joy goes back to the stand and pushes the button.

Inside the room, baby Mike continues to grunt and gurgle happily.

Joy: (voice-over) It was amazing. Just Mike and us, forever.

Suddenly, Mike starts to cry, confusing Joy, Shy, and Excitement.

Joy: (voice-over) Well, for 44 seconds.

The trio spot a blue-skinned female emotion with purple round glasses next to them, pushing the button, making it glow blue. The new emotion was Sadness.

Sadness: (notices them and holds out a hand) I'm Sadness.

Joy: Oh, hello. I...(shakes Sadness's hand awkwardly) I'm Joy.

Shy: (gives a small wave and in a quiet voice) M-m-my name is Shy.

Excitement: (loudly) And I'm Excitement!

Joy: So...Can I just...If you could…(tries to push Sadness out of the way and puts his hands on the button) I just want to fix that. Thanks.

But Sadness would not get out of his way, and neither would Shy and Excitement. They all fought for control. The button changing colors as they struggle.

Joy: (voice-over) And that was just the beginning! Headquarters only got more crowded from there.

Sometime later, Mike was brought into his new home. It was a one story house with a big backyard that had a huge tree. It was one pretty nice house overall

Richard: Welcome home, Mike.

Inside Headquarters….

Joy, Shy, Excitement, and Sadness look at the house, Interest and Curiosity enter the scene. Interest is a light skinned male emotion, with messy light brown hair and matching eyes, wears a tan color shirt with a light brown "I" on it, he also has dark brown shorts and wears white socks and brown shoes. Curiosity, also male, looks exactly like Interest, but is dark gray and has a question mark on his shirt.

Joy: (voice-over) These two are the "Learning Twins", Interest and Curiosity, they love learning about new things.

Interest runs to the button and looks at the screen.

Interest: Wow!

Looks at the button and presses it, the button glows brown, causing Mike to look around. A brown memory orb rolls onto the shelves. Curiosity pushes Interest out of the way and looks at the screen and then his eyes widen with wonder as he looks at the television set.

Curiosity: What is that?!

He pushes the button, it glows light gray, and Mike looks at the television with curiosity. A light gray memory orb rolls onto the shelves.

Joy: ((voice-over) chuckles) I'll never forget Mike's first birthday.

Inside the house, a year later….

Toddler Mike, with a strange looking scar on the right side of his head, is sitting in his high chair in the middle of the dark dining room looking around confused.

Inside Headquarters….

Curiosity: Where are Mom and Dad?

Sadness: They probably don't love us anymore.

Joy: That's just silly.

Surprise, a yellow-orange male emotion with a big brown top hat that has a deep red stripe across it and a brown suit with a big red bow tie and an orange lily attached to it enters the scene.

Surprise: Don't you guys get it? It's Mike's birthday. I'm 100% sure they want to surprise us.

Joy: (voice-over) This is Surprise. He always knows what to expect, but his job is to make Mike expect the unexpected.

Surprise approaches the console, which has expanded a bit and has more buttons, including levers, presses a button which makes two levers in the middle pop up, and grabs two levers.

Surprise giddily watches the screen.

Inside the dining room….

Unknown to Mike, his parents enter the room with a cake and wearing party hats.

Surprise: (off-screen) Wait for it… Wait for it….

Mike's parents turn on the lights.

Lucy and Richard: Happy Birthday Mike!

Cut back to Surprise….

Surprise: WOO-HOO! (Pushes the levers forward as the console glows yellow-orange)

Cut back to Mike...

Mike squeals with glee at the sight of the cake and his parents before cutting to a yellow-orange memory orb that rolls into Headquarters.

Surprise cheers as he dances around the room while throwing streamers, balloons, and confetti everywhere!

Richard cuts the cake into three pieces and eats his slice like a pig, making Mike laugh, this is thanks to Laughter. Laughter is a fairy like emotion that is dressed like Lapis Lazuli from Steven Universe. A light pink memory orb rolls onto the shelves.

Joy: (voice-over) I love Laughter, her real name is Euphoria, she always knows what's funny.

Some time later, toddler Mike is learning how to walk but he keeps falling down.

Sadness: We just fell down...again.

Worry enters. She's a gray blue female emotion with dull blue hair, cerulean eyes, a cerulean short-sleeved shirt, dull pants, and shoes.

Worry: Oh my gosh! What if Mike never walks?! He won't be able to get the exercise he needs! He'll gain weight and possibly get diabetes!

Pushes a bunch of buttons. The console glows the color cerulean.

Joy: (voice-over) Worry alarms Mike whenever there is a crisis situation.

Mike starts to feel worried about his ability to walk causing a cerulean memory orb to roll onto the shelves.

Lucy: You can do it Mike.

Richard: We know you can.

Worry: What do we say?! What do we do?! What do we say?! What do we do?!

Trust, a yellow-green male emotion with spiky yellow-green hair appears.

Trust: Guys, if Mom and Dad say we can do it, let's believe them. (Pushes a lever as the console glows yellow-green)

Joy: (voice-over) Trust here helps Mike believe others.

Mike decides to believe in his parents and successfully walks across the room. A yellow-green memory orb rolls onto the shelves. Mike's parents begin to cheer for his accomplishment. The emotions also cheer as Pride, a dark yellow male emotion dressed in a business suit, walks to the console.

Pride: Well done Mike. (Pulls a lever, causing the console to glow dark yellow)

Joy: (voice-over) Pride makes Mike feel proud on what things he has accomplished.

Mike feels proud that he has walked by himself and a gold-copper memory orb rolls into headquarters.

Cut to a now two-year-old Mike as he tries to draw a picture.

Inside Headquarters a lanky lavender male emotion with a single hair curl, lavender eyes, black eyebrows, and in a Joker outfit approaches the console.

Clever: Hey Joy, trying to draw a picture I see. Let me help you with that. (Pushes a few buttons and turns a dial as the console glows dark purple)

Joy: (voice-over) This is Cleverness, or Clever, as we like to call him, he helps Mike improve his special skills.

Mike eventually draws his first picture. In Headquarters, a dark purple memory orb rolls onto the shelves.

Later, a toddler Mike is seen in the backyard as an all white male emotion approaches the console.

Boredom: Okay...what shall we do?

Joy: (voice-over) That's Boredom, he makes sure Mike always finds something to do.

Boredom pushes a switch as the console glows bright white, causing Mike to look bored and look for something to do as an all white memory orb rolls onto the shelves. Mike then spots his wagon and starts running around the back yard with the wagon and inside Headquarters a silver male emotion dressed in a jester outfit is running the controls, making the console glow silver. A silver memory orb rolls onto the shelves.

Joy: (voice-over) That's Goofy, he makes sure Mike has a lot of fun.

Another lavender male emotion called Fear, who looks like Clever, but wears a powder light blue shirt underneath a sweater vest and magenta bow, watches the screen on how Goofy is driving.

Fear: Very nice. Okay, looks like you got this. Very good. Oh, sharp curve! (notices an exposed tree root) Aah! Look out! No! (pushes Goofy out of the way and grabs the levers as the console glows light lavender)

Joy: (voice-over) That's Clever's brother, Fear. He's really good at keeping Mike safe.

Because Fear is in control, toddler Mike carefully steps over the root.

Fear: (off-screen) Easy, easy, ah! Ahhh! (after Mike makes it over) Oh, we're good. We're good.

A light lavender memory orb then rolls onto the shelves. The other emotions applaud for Fear.

Fear: Thank you. Thank you very much.

Goofy: You have a good eye.

Clever: Yeah bro, you're a pro.

Shy: (kisses Fear on the cheek) You did great.

Joy: (voice-over) He's also most likely Shy's love interest.

Goofy: (pushes Fear out of the way) And we're back!

Mike continues to run around the backyard as another silver memory orb rolls onto the shelves. Suddenly, Richard picks the toddler up.

Toddler Mike: Whoa!

Worry: (off-screen) Aah! Where is he taking us?!

Richard places his son in his highchair at the dinner table. Lucy gives Mike his bib, Richard gives him his highchair tray, and Lucy gives Mike a bowl of green beans.

Worry: (off-screen) Oh, It's just the dinner table.

Richard: (attempting to feed Mike the green beans) Here we go. Alright, open.

Inside Headquarters...

Joy: Hmmm. This looks new.

Goofy: (agreeing with Joy) Yeah that is new.

Laughter: Something's funny.

Shy: (to Laughter) Funny how?

Fear: You think it's safe?

Sadness: What is it?

Worry: I don't know.

Disgust: (a green female emotion, enters the scene) Okay, caution! There is a dangerous smell people! Hold on, what is that? (gets in front of the console).

Joy: (voice-over) This is Disgust. She basically keeps Mike from being poisoned, physically and socially.

Disgust: (looks at the screen) That is not brightly colored or shaped like a dinosaur. Wait, hold on you guys….it's green beans! (gags and presses a button as the console glows green).

With Mike...

Mike: (flicks the bowl of green beans at his dad) Yucky!

Richard has the uneaten green beans hit him in the face. A green memory orb rolls into Headquarters.

Disgust: Well, I just saved our lives. (the emotions breathe a sigh of relief) Yeah, you're welcome.

Enter Contempt, a light indigo female emotion with indigo hair with a white headband, indigo eyes, freckles on her face, gap teeth, wears a white jacket, indigo skirt, and cobalt heels arrives on the scene.

Contempt: (walks over) Yeah sis. I agree.

Joy: (voice-over) That's Contempt, she makes sure Mike keeps disliking the things that are to be disliked. She's also acts like a big sister to Disgust.

Contempt: Okay, I'm next. We definitely agree to despise green beans.

She pushes a switch, the console glows light indigo causing, Mike to look away from dad as saying he doesn't like green beans and an indigo memory orb rolls onto the shelves.

Richard: Mike, if you don't eat your dinner, you're not going to get any dessert.

Inside Headquarters, Anger, a small red square shaped emotion, looks up from his newspaper.

Anger: Wait, did he just say we couldn't have dessert?

Joy: (voice-over) That's Anger, he cares very deeply about things being fair.

Anger: (he walks towards the console) So, that's how you want play it old man?! NO DESSERT?! Oh sure, we'll eat our dinner (he pounds a button causing two levers to pop up, the console glows red) RIGHT AFTER YOU EAT THIS! GRRRAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH! (he pushes the levers forward as the others look away from the flames coming out of his head while Boredom roasts a hotdog).

Anger's actions cause Mike to have a temper tantrum as a red memory orb rolls onto the shelves.

Richard: Mike, Mike here comes an airplane. (imitates an airplane).

Anger: (calms down) Oh, airplane. We got an airplane everybody. (the other emotions, Boredom is eating his hot dog, look on in amazement as Richard feeds Mike)

Joy: (voice-over) But Anger doesn't always take control in an unfair situation.

Toddler Mike is then seen trying to reach for a book on a high shelf but can't reach it. In Headquarters, we are then shown a female fuchsia emotion, who sort of looks like a boy, that has long hair that drags on the ground, wears a spiked collar around her neck and wrists while playing an electric guitar.

Joy: (voice-over) Sometimes, Frustration takes his place.

Frustration looks up and sees Anger about to make toddler Mike have an outburst. She storms over to the console.

Joy: (voice-over) But, only in certain situations like this one.

Just as Anger raises his fist to pound the button, Frustration gets in his way.

Frustration: Oh no you don't! This is my job!

Anger: You're not the boss of me!

Frustration: Well I should be, now go away!

Anger: No!

Frustration: Fine, you asked for it. (walks away)

Anger waits impatiently. Frustration comes back with a huge amp speaker. She turns the volume all the way up and plays a loud note, the blast blows Anger away. Frustration takes control, the console glows fuchsia, causing Mike to stomp his foot. A fuchsia memory orb rolls onto the shelves.

Later on, while Mike was in preschool, he sees a boy playing with a toy he wanted to play with. Inside headquarters, a dark green female emotion, who is sort of dressed like Disgust, wakes up from a nap and sees the viewing screen.

Envy: What the heck is that?!

Joy: (voice-over) This is Envy, she cares A LOT about people sharing with Mike.

Envy: We were going to play with that! (turns a dial, the console glows dark green)

Envy's actions cause Mike to pout and a neon-green memory rolls onto the shelves. The boy feels bad for not sharing and lets him play with the toy.

Envy: (smiles) That's better.

A dark pink female emotion with a red dress that has hearts on it and red hair walks to the console.

Love: Okay lets try to find the right gal.

Joy: (voice-over) This is Love, her only goal is to find Mike's special someone.

Love: Not quite, not beautiful enough, getting closer….(sees a tall women) that's the one. (pushes a button, making console glow dark pink)

Mike runs over to the women and hugs her leg as a magenta memory orb comes in. The women, Mike's preschool teacher, is a little surprised by this.

We are then shown Lucy trying to teach Mike math. Lucy holds up a card that says '2+2='. Inside Headquarters, a sky blue male emotion, dressed like Steve Urkel, looks at the screen.

Joy: (voice-over) That's Smartness, he makes sure Mike does things right.

Smartness: (Looks at the screen and then pulls out his calculator and presses a few buttons) Of course! (Pushes a few buttons on the console as it glows cyan)

Mike: four?

Lucy: Correct

Smartness sighs and hugs his calculator as a cyan memory rolls into Headquarters. Then we cut over to Joy, Shy, and Excitement at the console.

Joy: (voice-over) Oh, you've already met my sisters.

Mike is sitting on the floor watching 'Thomas the Tank Engine' as Excitement and a dark orange male emotion that is dressed like Sheriff Woody, called Anticipation, take control, as the console changes from gold to orange. A dark orange memory for Anticipation rolls onto the shelves.

Joy: (voice-over) Excitement enjoys the things that are thrilling, fun, and exciting. The same goes for Anticipation.

A scene shows Mike hiding behind his Mom's leg as she tries to introduce him to his babysitter.

Joy: (voice-over) Shy is responsible for Mike taking things nice and slow, especially when comes to meeting new people.

Because Shy is in control, Mike slowly steps out from behind his mom and stutters 'hi'. Inside Headquarters, Shy and Excitement walk away, leaving only Joy and Sadness at the controls.

Joy: (voice-over) And you've met Sadness. She… Well, she…

A brief montage of Mike crying is played: a broken toy, spilled ice cream, temper tantrum in a store, wanting out of his car seat.

Joy: (voice-over) I'm not exactly sure what she does, which now brings me to Shame.

A scene of Mike having a timeout is shown. Inside Headquarters, Shame is taking control and Sadness walks over to him. (console is glowing dark blue) Shame is a blueish indigo emotion with a dark blue hoodie and a paper bag over his head. A dark blue memory rolls onto the shelves. We then cut to see Joy staring at the two blue emotions talking, puzzlement on his face.

Joy: (voice-over) Shame helps Mike learn from his mistakes. And for some reason, he seems to understand Sadness, (Shame hugs Sadness) which confuses me to no end because I've checked and there's no place for her to go, so she's good. We're good, it's all great.

We then see a dark purple female emotion dressed like a hippie.

Joy: (voice-over) Oh, I almost forgot about Peace! Peace's job is to make Mike feel relaxed, ( a quick shot of Mike is seen laying down on a couch and a rainbow colored memory rolls onto the shelves, since Peace is in control, the console glows rainbow) she also helps me with some other jobs, just to let you know.

Joy then looks over to the memory shelves.

Joy: (voice-over) Anyway, these are Mike's memories and they're mostly happy you'll notice, not to brag.

Joy picks up a happy memory of Mike and his friend Sam as toddlers going down a slide at daycare. After watching it, Joy swipes it with his finger, rewinding it, and watches it again. Afterwards, he hugs the memory and puts it back on the shelf. He then heads over to the core memory holder to go see them.

Joy: (voice-over) But the really important ones are over here. (opens the holder) I don't want to get too technical, but these are called "core memories". Each one came from a super important time in Mike's life. Like when he first scored a goal, oh, it was so amazing!

We then see the time when Mike scored his first goal. Mike was a toddler as he and his parents were playing a little soccer. He may have slipped and fell but the soccer ball still went into the goal.

Richard: Hey! Would you look at that, very nice! (picks up Mike)

Lucy: Nice job!

Inside Headquarters, the emotions cheer for Mike's victory. All of a sudden, a loud "BONG!" is heard before a bright yellow memory rolls into Headquarters, which then rolls into the floor. The emotions see the bright light and follow it to the core memory holder, where it's inserted.

Joy: (voice-over) And each core memory powers aspect of Mike's personality, like "Soccer Island".

The emotions look out the windows of HQ as the new personality island forms, which is covered with soccer related items. They run over to the windows as the camera gives a shot of another island. The island has a jack in the box, a hammer that hits the hat, which caused the hat to bounce, confetti blowers, drums, a dancing pig, and party hats.

Joy: (voice-over) "Goofball Island" is my personal favorite.

The scene cuts to a 3-year-old Mike eating the cake from his third birthday, he was eating his slice like a pig would.

Lucy: (laughing) Mike's a little piggy!

The scene cuts to Goofball Island being active, then the scene cuts to Mike smearing the icing all over his face.

Richard: (laughing) Oh, you're so silly.

Joy: (voice-over) Yep, goofball is the best. (we then see another island) "Friendship Island" is pretty good too.

Friendship Island has the overall appearance of an amusement park.

We then see Mike and Sam as toddlers playing tag while laughing.

Cut back to the mind to show another personality island. The island has a Greek style buildings, a scale, and a mallet.

Joy: (voice-over) Oh, I love "Honesty Island" and that's the truth!

We see toddler Mike looking ashamed while staring at a broken plate on the ground before revealing a hammer behind his back.

We finally see the fifth personality island…

Joy: (voice-over) And of course, "Family Island" is amazing.

Family Island has statues of Mike and his parents, a board game, the house, and a family tree.

And then we cut to a scene with Mike sharing some Oreos with his parents while shoving a cookie into his dad's mouth, making his mom laugh.

Then we cut back to the emotions looking at all of the islands being active.

Joy: (voice-over) The point is, the islands of personality are what make Mike...Mike!

We see toddler Mike messing around with some baking soda and vinegar in the kitchen and Smartness was in control, causing to create a cyan core memory and the memory forms "Science Island". The island is covered with test tubes, a massive beaker is in the middle and it produces smoke.

The shot cuts to Mike singing while coloring on the walls and drawing what looks like a test tube combined with various animals, it was his imaginary friend, Beaker.

We then see a much older Mike, a six-year-old one, talking to a five-year-old girl named Katrina and it creates "Crush Island" which is thanks to a magenta core memory made by Love.

Crush Island has hearts on its landscape and a big heart is in the middle that contains a picture of Katrina.

We now see Mike and Sam, who are both now seven-years-old, drinking some slushies; however, Mike was drinking too fast and then grimaces.

Mike: (holds his head) Aaaaghh!

Inside HQ, the emotions watch everything begin to freeze.

Fear: BRAIN FREEZE!

The emotions scream as the whole room freezes over.

We then see Mike trying out for Minnesota's junior hockey league and a new happy core memory was made and it formed "Hockey Island". Hockey Island has hockey related stuff on it. We cut to inside a movie theater as Mike, now eight, and his parents are watching the new 'How To Train Your Dragon' movie. Inside Headquarters, Excitement creates a gold core memory which creates "Dragon Island". The new island has dragon themed stuff on it and Toothless is flying in the middle with Hiccup riding him. After that day the emotions have always been interested in dragons just like Mike.

And we are shown another scene as Mike (a preteen version) was lying in his bed and his dad turns off the light.

Richard: (as he closes the door) Goodnight, sport.

Mike: Goodnight, Dad.

As soon as his parents left, Mike rolls onto his side and looks at his dragon pictures he has drawn over the years, he falls asleep with a smile.

Inside Headquarters….

Joy: And...we're out. (dashes over to the memory shelves and admires the happy memories) That's what I'm talking about! Whoo! Another perfect day! Nice job everybody! Lets get those memories down to long term. (spins around and heads to the memory projector and presses a button with his foot, causing the memories to go down towards it)

Fear: (walks up to Joy, Shy, Laughter, and Clever while writing on a clipboard) Alright, we did not die today! I'll call that an unqualified success!

Clever: I know, right?

Shy and Laughter giggle a bit. All of the memories roll off the shelves and go up the vacuum/recall tube. Joy and his sisters turn around and run to windows and see all of the day's memories go through thousands of recall tubes, making the memories look like falling snowflakes or stars.

Joy: (voice-over) And that's it. We love our boy. He's got great friends and a great house. Things couldn't be better. After all Mike's 12 now. What could happen?

The next scene shows Mike's house as a sign that says "SOLD" is placed in front of it.

Inside Headquarters…

Joy: (shocked) What?

Anger, Boredom, Envy, Sadness, Love, Fear, Clever, Frustration, Shame, Surprise, Laughter, Pride, Curiosity, Interest, Worry, Goofy, Smartness, Excitement, Anticipation, Contempt, Trust, Disgust, Shy: Aah!

Peace: Whoa.

Joy: (looks at the left side of the screen) Huh?

Cut to the back of the family car, which is filled with suitcases, before it closes.

Back with the emotions….

Anger, Boredom, Envy, Sadness, Love, Fear, Clever, Frustration, Shame, Surprise, Laughter, Pride, Curiosity, Interest, Worry, Goofy, Smartness, Excitement, Anticipation, Contempt, Trust, Disgust, Shy: Aaah!

Peace: Dude.

Quick cut to reveal a moving van driving away.

Cut to all of the emotions….

Joy: (stunned) Okay, not what I had in mind.

Peace: Man.

Anger, Boredom, Envy, Sadness, Love, Fear, Clever, Frustration, Shame, Surprise, Laughter, Pride, Curiosity, Interest, Worry, Goofy, Smartness, Excitement, Anticipation, Contempt, Trust, Disgust, Shy: Aaaah!


Author's Notes:

I do not own How to Train Your Dragon, Inside Out, or certain OC characters, they all belong to their respective creators. All credits to the creators will be posted at the end of the story. Also, this is a prequel story for a series fan series I'm working on; which I hope will end up being posted once it's finished. FYI, the entire story shall be written like a script.