A/N: Hello, everyone. Thank you for your patience. I have finally finished this next story of Watership Down. And yes, it is another crossover between Watership Down and Charlotte's Web for those who were hoping it would be. In this story, not only does it utilize the combined animations from Charlotte's Web 2, Charlotte's Web (1973) but with a modern update for both Fern and Henry's cases, and the Watership Down TV series form 1999, but also has an all-star cast which are as follows: David Beron as Wilbur, Julie Duffy as Charlotte, James McAvoy as Hazel, Nicholas Hoult as Fiver, John Boyega as Bigwig, Mae Whitman as Fern Arable, Jason Marsden as Henry Fussy, Amanda Bynes as Nellie, Anndi McAfee as joy, Maria Bamford as both Aranea and Button, Harrison Chad as Cardigan, Peter Capaldi as Kehaar, Charlie Adler as both Templeton and Lervy, Teresa Gallagher as Hannah, Kyla Rae Kowalewski as Anais, Nika Futterman as Lester, Henrietta, Ralphie, and Templeton Jr., Daniel Rigby as Dandelion, Miles Jupp as Blackberry, Daniel Kaluuya as Bluebell, Olivia Colman as Strawberry, Gemma Arterton as Clover, Henry Goodman as Blackavar, Rob Paulsen as both Farley the Fox and John Arable, Ben Kingsley as General Woundwort, Taron Egerton as El-Ahraihrah, James Faulkner as Frith, Stephen Mangan as the Black Rabbit of Inle, Freddie Fox as Captain Holly, Anne-Marie Duff as Hyzenthlay, Lee Ingleby as Captain Campion, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Captain Vervain, Craig Parkinson as Sergeant Sainfoin, Jason Watkins as Captain Orchis, and Dawnn Lewis as both Bessie and the Female Judge. Also, it uses the music score from Watership Down for the 1999 series by Mike Batt and the 2018 Limited Series by Federico Jusid on the major parts of the story. I apologize for this extremely long info. Anywho, enjoy.
Watership Down 3: The Great Adventure
Chapter 1: A Routine Visit
First, it showed a bright sun shining in the blue sky and then slowly descending into the the forest where El-Ahrairah was shown to be hopping along the grassy field before then showing some of his children popping up from holes while the rest were eating the grass as El-Ahrairah was laying on the grass before night fell with little to no flowers now whatsoever before then showing Frith speaking with El-Ahrairah, who then sat up and spoke to Frith before showing Frith again.
Narrator: "Long ago, when Frith made the world. All the animals were the same. They lived together, sharing the sweet grass of the hills. El-ahrairah was the father of all the rabbits. Soon, his children covered the whole world, eating so much that there was none for the other animals."
"El-ahrairah, you must control your people. There are too many.", Frith instructed.
"That is because you made them the best in the world, Lord Frith. I can't control them.", El-Ahrairah responded.
"Then..., I will do it, El-Ahrairah.", Frith spoke in an angry, yet calm voice.
Then, it showed the sun ave if sorts with the animals gathering around with the fox and weasel beneath the light before the pink weasel suddenly turned vicious and dark blue as it sprouted claws and blank yellow eyes as it stood up with a snarl before the fox then howled, baring its fangs before then showing El-Ahrairah hopping up to the hills and then speaking with Frith before he only turned his back away from Frith before Frith then shone his light upon El-Ahrairah before he then fled with the fox, weasel, cat, dog, hawk, badger, wolf, and even the owl chasing after him before El-Ahrairah lost them and then stopped on top of another nearby hill and then look around before continuing onward before then showing Frith.
Narrator: "Frith summoned the animals to his sun cave to grant them a gift, making each one different from the other. To the fox and the weasel, he gave claws and teeth, and the desire to hunt and kill El-Ahrairah's people. It was a few days later when El-Ahrairah heard of all of this and went to see Frith."
"You have condemned my people to lives of fear, Lord.", El-Ahrairah spoke.
"Do you not wish to see what blessing I have for your people, Prince Rabbit?", Frith asked.
"To my bottom give your blessings.", El-Ahrairah responded harshly as he turned his back on Frith.
"Very well. Grow a tail to confuse those chasing you, and legs to outrun them. Grow ears to hear any of your thousand enemies from miles away.", Frith spoke.
Narrator: "As he spoke, El-Ahrairah's tail grew shiny white and flashed like a star. His back legs grew long and powerful and he tore across faster than any creature in the world."
"El-Ahrairah, your people cannot rule the world, for I will not have it so. All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand Enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first, they must catch you. Digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks and your people will never be destroyed.", Frith promised before it then faded from Frith to a spider web in the barn as a flashback of a dialogue between Wilbur and Charlotte occurred in the background.
"Why'd you do this for me, Charlotte?", Wilbur asked.
"Because you've been my friend, and friendship is a tremendous thing.", Charlotte spoke.
Then, it showed the words glowing brightly on a spider's web saying, "Watership Down 3" before the camera zoomed away as the web was deconstructed before it then stopped after passing the fence a bit as singing took place.
Bright Eyes, burning like fire
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale
Bright eyes
Then, Templeton popped up from the bench and looked around before scampering off, even going through the chickens, spooking some of them, although they just went back to pecking afterwards. He even went to look in the trough and then come back out, passing by the tractor as a sort of goose honked while just passing by.
Meanwhile, near the Zuckerman household, Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, and Kehaar were approaching the barn nearby as Bigwig noticed some of the kits holding worms in their mouths while the rest were laughing and playing around.
"The barn's just nearby, Fiver. Won't be too long now.", Hazel assured.
"I wonder what Wilbur, Joy, Aranea, and Nellie are doing right now.", Fiver spoke as he smiled before he quickly overheard Wilbur's voice nearby as if to answer.
"Oh, please, Nellie, reconsider.", Wilbur begged as Fiver then thumped his foot there times.
"What is it, Fiver?", asked Hazel.
"We're here.", Fiver responded.
"It's about time.", Bigwig scoffed a bit before Hazel and Bigwig went with Fiver as Kehaar caught up.
"This isn't such a good idea! In fact, it's a terrible idea! No more crazy stunts! Oh... Please, you're gonna hurt yourself!", Wilbur shouted before a brown, messy haired spider with blue eyes named Nellie responded.
"Oh, you're just a big ol' worrywart, Wilbur. I've never bent an antennae before.", Nellie commented.
"Uh, Nellie? Spiders don't even have antennas.", Fern retorted as she walked up to Nellie in the form of a spider, although she retained her brown hair with a ponytail and her blue irises with black pupils with white sclera.
"What's going on this time?", Hazel asked, catching Wilbur's attention.
"Oh, Hazel! Thank goodness you're here!", Wilbur sighed.
"Let me guess. Another crazy stunt?", Bigwig guessed.
"Oh. I'm gonna f-f-faint...", Wilbur spoke.
"I'll take that as a 'yes'. I suppose it's up to me to keep her safe... again.", Bigwig sighed.
"Oh, no. This is gonna be...", Aranea, a blonde-haired slide with three pigtails, one in top of her head, spoke.
"Very ugly.", Joy, a purple-haired spider finished before Nellie then backed up a bit.
"I think I'll do it with her, just to be on the safe side.", Fern spoke up as she weaved a web of her own and tied it to a nail carefully and tightly.
"Aranea, Joy, watch this!", Nellie spoke before she and Fern then ran forward and hopped off before she started falling as she "whoo'd" as Fern "whoo-hoo'd" before they then safely landed on Wilbur's nose, earning relieved sighs from Hazel and Fiver.
"Or maybe not.", Bigwig grinned.
"Hiya, everyone.", Nellie greeted.
"Hey, guys.", Fern greeted to Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, and Kehaar.
"So, how're your powers coming along?", Hazel asked.
"Well, they're getting better.", the tiny spider with a ponytail responded before Nellie suddenly went back up, worrying Wilbur as fern gasped.
"Nellie!", Wilbur exclaimed.
Then, Hazel turned to Kehaar.
"Kehaar, can you make sure she's safe?", Hazel asked.
"Ah, say no more.", Kehaar responded before he then took off into the air and went to the other side of the barn just as Nellie went up to the top of the barn and wrapped her Web around the supporting beam before she suddenly took off and tumbled backwards before then sticking into a bit of wood for support as Nellie "whoo'd" again before Nellie then started to fall off straight toward Wilbur's trough as Joy and Aranea watched in worry before Kehaar cawed like a full and then managed to catch her with his mouth, much to Wilbur's shock as he ran over to where Kehaar is while the seagull landed safely on the fence near Wilbur's trough.
"Nellie? Nellie, talk to me, Nellie.", Wilbur spoke before he then opened Kehaar's mouth and forcefully looked around, not knowing that Nellie was actually avoiding getting crushed by Wilbur's snout before Fern then roped Nellie in with her as he spoke.
"Come out! Come out! Say, you're okay!", Wilbur urged before Kehaar growled as he then flapped away from Wilbur a bit for space.
"Will you just relax? It's not like I swallowed her. See?", Kehaar assured as he pointed to Nellie next to Fern on Wilbur's nose.
"Whoo-Hoo! What a rush!", Nellie shouted.
"Yeah. No kidding.", Fern agreed.
"There. You see?", Kehaar spoke as Nellie then recovered.
"Got to do that again.", Nellie spoke in joy.
"Again?!", Wilbur worried.
"I wouldn't recommend doing that again on my account.", Hazel responded.
"Hazel's right, Nellie. And besides, being in Kehaar's mouth like that...", Fern began just before she hopped off Wilbur's nose and then changed back to human form with Fern wearing her pink schoolgirl clothes.
"It's still a little cramped for my liking.", Fern finished before she, Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, Wilbur, Kehaar, Nellie, Joy, and Aranea, noticed Templeton and his children.
"Uh-oh. Here comes Templeton and the rat pack.", Joy spoke.
"I can agree with you right here, Joy. Whenever they show up, it always means trouble.", Bigwig agreed before Templeton's five children named Henrietta, Junior, Lester, Ralphie, and Anais arrived with Templeton and his wife, named Hannah, arrived to stop them from getting too crazy, well, at least the first four while Anais was with Templeton and Hannah.
"Can it, Henrietta! Jun-Junior! Junior!", Templeton shouted.
"Anais, can you help your father round them up?", Hannah asked.
"All right, but it's not gonna be easy.", Anais agreed before she then went off to help Templeton as instructed as Hannah sighed.
"Honestly, it's like Anais is the only angel in the barn around here.", Hannah sighed.
"Tell me about it.", Bigwig spoke, prompting Hannah to turn and notice him, Hazel, Fiver, and Kehaar.
"Oh, Bigwig. And Fern, Hazel, and Fiver, too. Especially Kehaar. So, what brings you all here?", Hannah asked with a friendly chuckle.
"We're just stopping by for a visit to see how Wilbur's doing.", Hazel replied.
"And I take it Templeton isn't fairing any better these days.", Bigwig guessed.
"Well, not quite. Even with Anais helping him out, it's going to be quite difficult.", Hannah sighed.
"Don't worry, Hannah. We'll help take care of it.", Hazel assured before he, Fiver, Bigwig, Fern, and Wilbur headed for fit where Templeton and the others went as Kehaar remained behind with Hannah.
Meanwhile, Hannah couldn't be more right as Templeton and Anais chased after the rat children.
"You're not going anywhere!", Templeton exclaimed as he went in front of the children and then tried to catch them, but missed as he tumbled backwards instead.
"Kids. Kids. Kids!", Templeton exclaimed before Anais helped him up and then they both go after their kin as one of them even climbed up the fence and even danced around a bit.
"Who's the rat? Who's the rat? I'm the rat.", Lester spoke.
"Are you completely out of your minds?", Anais asked.
"Lester! Lester, get down from there!", Templeton shouted before they only moved across the fence by their left and walked on top of a barrel on the way before jumping off.
"Henrietta, what did I say? No jumping!", Templeton shouted as he caught three of his mischievous sons.
"Where's your brother? Ralphie? Did anyone see Ralphie?", asked Templeton.
"No. Even then, I should think it's obvious where he is.", Bigwig replied.
"Bigwig's right, Dad. Where does Ralphie always hide?", Anais asked as if to help him figure out the answer before Ralphie chuckled while peeping out the hole of the barrel before then going back in to hide again as Templeton moved closer.
"Now what?", asked Templeton.
"Simple. Donut me.", Anais answered.
"Are you serious? Now is not the time to eat, even by my standards!", Templeton exclaimed.
"No, not that. I plan on baiting him out with it.", Anais whispered.
"Oh. But, are you sure it's a good idea?", Templeton asked.
"Would you rather get bitten in the nose again?", Anais responded.
"'Again'?", Fiver puzzled.
"You mean it's happened more than once?", Fern asked.
"Yeah, but that's where experience comes in handy. When it comes to Ralphie, his sweet tooth makes him fall for anything sweet.", Anais replied as Templeton hands Anais a piece of the donut before she then puts it in the hole just a moment before Ralphie bit into the donut with Anais quickly removing him from the barrel.
"There. Problem solved.", Anais grinned.
"I think they're kinda cute. Even Anais.", Wilbur grinned.
"Really?! Oh, they...they do have those sweet little smirks, uh, smiles. ", Templeton spoke with some laughter.
"What are you getting at here?", Bigwig asked.
"One of you, uh, wouldn't mind baby-sitting the little brats— uh, rats, Anais, especially, would ya?", Templeton asked.
"You must be out of your mind to even suggest this.", Hazel responded.
"Hazel's right. They're cute, but not that cute! Well, except for Anais. She's okay, though.", Wilbur spoke as Anais ran up to Fern's hand with a giggle before the barn door closed, catching Wilbur by surprise before he then hid underneath a wooden stool, earning laughter from the donkey, horse, and the goat.
"Well, at least he hasn't fainted this time.", Bigwig sighed.
"Scared of a little wind, Wilbur?", the goat mocked before even the geese honked in laughter.
"Uh, I just slipped.", Wilbur responded before two of Templeton's sons walked up on the stool and bent down to Wilbur.
"Boo!", the baby rats shouted, scaring the heck out of Wilbur as he tipped over and landed on his back, earning a bit more laughter before Wilbur stood back up.
"Very funny.", Wilbur spoke sarcastically.
"Face facts, Wilbur. You're a gutless pig. A lily-livered hog.", the donkey insulted.
"You try insulting him one more time and I'll kick you in the tuchus!", Bigwig threatened.
"Oh, yeah? You wanna go, Bigwig?", the donkey responded before he and Bigwig growled.
"Hey, easy! Break it up, you two. That's not how we settle things here.", Fern urged.
"Fern is right. There is absolutely no reason to start a fight whatsoever.", Hazel spoke, ceasing the growling, before he and the others overheard a chicken clicking as she ran over to them.
"Did you hear?! Did you hear, Huh, Huh?", asked the chicken.
"Hear what?", asked Fiver.
"It's officially started: Springtime! There's action all over the farm! Mm-Hmm.", the chicken announced.
"Really? That soon? Are there any new additions to the farm?", Hazel asked.
"Ooh, two new calves so far and Gwen's eggs are bursting out!", the chicken responded.
"What about the goat pen?", Fern asked.
"Oh, I was just by the goat pen and there are three new kids. Three of 'em, count 'em. One's clumsy as an ox. Oh, but you didn't hear that from me. Uh-uh.", the chicken announced before clucking as she ran back.
"Oh, Gwen's eggs?", Wilbur asked in surprise.
"More goslings?", Fiver asked as he, Hazel, Bigwig, and Fern ran with Wilbur to go check on them before Wilbur slid down a bit with the rabbits then catching up just as Wilbur started running and then slid to a stop before Wilbur, Fern, Hazel, Fiver, and Bigwig went inside the shed where Gwen's nest is.
A/N: So, what do you think so far? Pretty good, right? Now, there's bound to be more surprises along the way and with each surprise, I'll explain. For now, enjoy the story. :)