Patch tossed and turned slightly as he slept with Atticus like always. It was raining outside and it was a rainy night in his dream as well and he saw a young boy with his parents as they appeared to be giving away a chained up toy box.
"This is weird, why would I be dreaming of this?" Patch asked.
The family seemed emotional.
"If their being emotional about this? Why are they leaving the box?" Patch asked.
"Mommy? Daddy?" The boy tugged on his parents' coats as they hugged each other after the toy box was loaded into the van.
"It's okay, son," The mother held her son nice and tight in protection. "You're safe now."
"Safe?" Patch asked, confused.
"I'm taking it to a place where it can't take you from us again," The father soothed. "Don't worry, everything's going to be all right."
Patch slightly shivered at the lightning flash. The van soon drove away and Patch tried to follow after it and it appeared to be going to a familiar house filled with imaginary friends, but before he could get to the door, it opened with a bright light and his eyes opened as it was the next morning and he was now awake.
"Dang it." Patch groaned.
Atticus opened the blinds and soon covered his eyes. "Oh, wow!" he then groaned slightly with a laugh. "Rise and shine, Patch, what do you wanna-"
"Can we go to Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends?" Patch begged.
"Uh, sure." Atticus said.
"Uh, I mean, it's been a while since we were last there..." Patch smiled sheepishly.
Atticus glanced at his puppy oddly slightly. "Well... Okay... I'm sure Darla will come along too as long as we don't interact with Duchess."
"Mind if we come along?" Casper asked.
Patch smiled nervously.
"Not at all, we are kinda long overdue for a visit there..." Atticus replied. "Plus, hopefully they won't be distracted since it's not Saturday, I read on the website that they have more adoptions on Saturdays than any other day of the week."
"That would be called Adopt-a-Thought Saturday." Super Power Man said.
"That's right..." Atticus remembered.
Casper smiled as he got onto Super Power Man's shoulders.
"Ready to get to Foster's in style, Casper?" Super Power Man smiled.
"Uh-huh! Uh-huh!" Casper smiled back and nodded.
Atticus decided to call Cherry so she wouldn't be left out.
In the Butler house, Wendy was practicing her magic from Michelle since the woman now had witch magic like her adoptive family did and she was a much better magical trainer than Wendy's other aunts on her father's side. The phone soon rang and where Cherry answered it.
"City Morgue?" she then answered.
"Cherry!" Michelle scolded slightly which made Wendy giggle.
"Hey, Cherry, we're going to Foster's, wanna come?" Atticus invited.
"Hmm... Well, I'm kinda monitoring Mom mentor Wendy, but I guess I can stop by." Cherry shrugged with a smirk.
"Go ahead, dear." Michelle said.
"I'm in." Cherry said before hanging up and running to the door.
"But take your cousin with you." Michelle then added which made Wendy smile.
"Aw, Mom!" Cherry complained slightly.
"Cherry!" Michelle scolded.
"Yes, Mom, I'll do that..." Cherry then muttered rather nervously.
"Are you sure, Auntie Michelle?" Wendy asked.
"Yes, go right ahead, just be sure you don't overdo any magic spells." Michelle soothed her young niece.
"Yes, Auntie Michelle." Wendy smiled.
Michelle smiled back as the girls then went off.
The whole gang was then meeting to go to Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. It looked to be a beautiful morning for all, but it was going to be a busy day for Frankie as she had a lot to do despite it being her grandmother's house.
"I think we should help Frankie with what she has to do at the house this time." Atticus said.
"She does seem overworked." Mo agreed.
"Yeah, it's like Cinderella..." Cherry added as she held Wendy's hand while they walked up to the front gate.
"Then shall we go and help her?" Super Power Man asked.
They came in through the front door of the house. It seemed to be quiet so far as most of the friends were asleep, but Frankie was doing a bunch of chores.
"Frankie, wait, let us help you." Atticus stopped the redhead.
"You sure?" Frankie asked.
"We insist, you look exhausted." Cherry replied.
Frankie smiled as she felt touched that she was going to be given some help from all that she did in Foster's. "Well, I was just about to wake everyone up for breakfast." she then said.
"With all of us here, that should be easy." Casper smiled.
Frankie smiled back as she then began to wake up the imaginary friends with their help.
"Hey, guys, it's us!" Casper smiled as he opened the door to a familiar bedroom of the house. "Rise and shine!"
Mac, Coco, Eduardo, and Joia groaned as they had to wake up, but Bloo seemed to still be asleep and snored rather loudly which made everyone else suffer.
"I knew bringing this would come in handy." Wendy said as she brought out an air horn.
"Why did I agree to sleep over?!" Mac groaned at his imaginary friend's snoring. "Why? Why?!"
Everyone then got ready as Wendy came into the room and blasted her air horn to wake everyone up, and where it was loud enough to even wake up Bloo.
"Can't I just sleep in?" Bloo pouted. "I'm exhausted!"
"You look like you're the only one in this room who got any sleep at all." Wendy told the blue blob.
"Weren't you listening?" Bloo glared slightly. "I was up all night snoring! Hello? Don't you know how much effort that takes?"
"Out of bed, now." Cherry told him.
Bloo groaned and turned over.
"He does it on purpose, he thinks it's cool." Mac said.
"It is cool! It shows a symbol of strength!" Bloo glared.
"Okay, but I hear Frankie's making french toast..." Cherry shrugged.
"Yeah, but I guess you don't want any, Bloo." Atticus smirked.
This seemed to excite all of the imaginary friends and they ran out the room, zipping past Cherry. Bloo soon got out of bed and went to the others down to breakfast.
"Now this is why I spent the night!" Mac smiled as he ate his french toast right away.
"Ohh." Atticus smiled.
Frankie went into the foyer and went to sit on the couch to read a magazine that she had been dying to read for a while now. Unfortunately, she was called to do even more work, but luckily, it wasn't as much since the others offered to help her out around the house, and where luckily for her, one of her helpers was a superhero imaginary friend. There was mopping the floor, trimming the hedges, helping the friends in need, dusting the library, doing the laundry, and so much more.
"Miss Frances?" A voice asked.
"What, what, what now?!" Frankie flipped out since she had been so busy today, but it wasn't Mr. Herriman, it was a cute little imaginary friend with a teddy bear.
"Will you wead me a bedtime stowy?" The friend asked Frankie.
"Sure." Frankie smiled.
"We'll handle anything else Mr. Herriman wants you to do, Frankie." Super Power Man smiled.
Frankie smiled to him. "You're the best.. If only that boy Dylan was like you."
"Dylan?" Mo asked.
"Oh, my friend Kathy suggested that I should go out with him, but he was just a jerk, especially to my friends around here," Frankie explained. "I taught him a lesson though at the end of our date."
"And where it left him with a black eye." Super Power Man said.
"Not to mention a nosebleed and a wedgie." Frankie chuckled from memory.
"Leave your chores to me, you read to that friend while we finish up for you." Super Power Man smiled at Frankie.
"Thanks, Super Power Man." Frankie smiled back.
Super Power Man saluted as he then went to help Frankie out more around the house as she read to the little imaginary friend who called for her.
However, after Frankie read that bedtime story, other imaginary friends came and they wanted her too. Patch frowned as the toy box hadn't come to Foster's like he dreamed, but he decided that he should come by more often as it seemed important in his dream. Casper was telling Wendy about how he was now a permanent 'fleshy' and was now living with the Fudos since the first time she witnessed it, she didn't get to know about it just yet and she was telling him how she now lived with Cherry and her parents.
"That's cool." Casper smiled.
"I really missed you after our adventure together, you were my best friend. "Wendy smiled back as she held his hands.
"I missed you too." Casper smiled back.
"Man, Patch, you really wanted to come to Foster's today." Atticus said to his dog.
Patch sighed. "I had a nightmare about a toy chest, and-"
"Oh, my gosh, super scary!" Cherry put her hands to her cheeks. "What will we ever do against a toy box?!"
"The mother in my dream told her son that they were safe now after the toy box was tied up." Patch said.
"Oh, no, a scary toy box!" Cherry laughed and fell on the floor, laughing.
Patch glared at her. "Cherry, this could be serious, besides, you should know better! Didn't you once play Jumanji?"
Cherry soon stopped and froze at the mention of that board game.
"Don't remind us about that board game." Atticus said.
"You told us that board game was more than just a board game, Cherry," Patch reminded the perky goth. "Maybe this toy chest is more than just a toy chest."
"Fine... You might be right..." Cherry groaned.
"We have to keep going to Foster's so I can find out what's in that toy chest and why that family sent it away." Patch told the others in determination.
"It'll be a lot of work, something tells me it'll be an adventure and maybe we can also use magic." Wendy hoped.
"Yeah." Atticus nodded.
"Wendy, you're still in training..." Cherry reminded her younger cousin. "You might not be able to defend yourself."
"Sure I can." Wendy said.
"Besides, she's faced Desmond Spellman..." Casper added. "Wendy is my friend and I want her to come too."
"Cherry, you let me come, or I'll tell Aunt Michelle." Wendy pouted.
"Tell her what?" Cherry nearly scoffed.
"Tell her that you won't let me come." Wendy said.
"Oh, wow..." Cherry deadpanned.
Wendy took a deep breath and yelled out. "AUNTIE MICHELLE, CHERRY WON'T LET ME GO WITH HER SOMEWHERE!"
"Okay, okay, I'll let you come." Cherry said.
Wendy smirked in satisfaction.
"I never did want any younger siblings..." Cherry grumbled to herself.
"Why's that?" Atticus asked.
"Because of that..." Cherry groaned. "Ugh..."
"Anyway, we've all had a long day, we'll get some rest and see Frankie tomorrow-" Super Power Man said before stammering. "Erm, I mean, everybody at Foster's! Not just Frankie..."
"Uh-huh." Casper smirked playfully.
Atticus also smirked at his imaginary friend.
Everyone spent the night as they went to sleep. Patch still dreamt about the toy chest and the more he thought about it, the more he wanted to see it so he could see what the big deal was about it, and where his dream was able to get him to see the inside to see a face. He expected to see more, but it was literally just a face. It was just a pair of eyes and a mouth.
"Hi! Will you be my friend forever and ever and ever and ever...?" The face's voice asked, sounding slightly crazy.
"Uh, sure." Patch said, slightly creeped out.
The voice laughed as it went into the toy chest. Patch came to the ends of the toy chest and jumped into it, but to his surprise, he appeared to fall through a portal that went to take him to a whole new world like in the classic story of Alice in Wonderland.
"Wow." Patch smiled as he began to take a walk around the place.
It was very colorful and looked very imaginative and fun.
"This place is like a paradise..." Patch said, he then ran up the teeter-totter and slid down at the end into a pile of leaves which made him laugh. "This is amazing!"
"I'm so glad you like it..." The face said as it appeared everywhere and seemed very happy. "It's good to have a friend who can stand by you, isn't it?"
"It sure is; I know that I can always count on Atticus." Patch smiled.
"Who's Atticus?" The face asked.
"He's my best friend and I'm his, after all, there's no bond between a boy and his dog," Patch replied. "And I know that his little foster brother and his imaginary friend will love to be your friends too."
"More friends?" The stranger sounded thrilled. "You guys won't leave me... Will you?"
"Of course we won't." Patch smiled.
"I knew I could count on you..." The stranger told him with a wide smile back. "Please don't make me go away forever."
"I won't... Um... What's your name?" Patch asked.
"They call me 'World'." The voice told him.
"That's a nice name, my name is Patch." Patch smiled.
"That suits you..." World replied. "I hope you stay here with me forever..."
"Oh, um, I don't know about forever..." Patch said. "I mean, I have a home, and-"
"What do you mean you don't know?" World asked, his tone suddenly sounded angered and worried. "Don't you like playing with me?"
"I do, I do, but I have a home and the others would start worrying about me," Patch said, trying to calm him down. "But I promise that me and Atticus and the others will come visit you and play with you every day."
"Promise?" World soon settled down.
"I promise," Patch put his right paw up. "Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye."
World seem to giggle at that and believed in Patch's promise. Patch smiled since World was now happy.
"So, when can I meet them?" World smiled.
"I'm not sure yet, but don't worry, it'll be very soon." Patch vowed.
"Thank you, Patch," World smiled before noticing his body was disappearing. "W-What's happening to you?"
"Huh?" Patch looked down. "What the what?!" The young Dalmatian then remembered that he was dreaming.
Patch soon woke up and his eyes widened as it was the next day again. He then yawned and stretched and rolled off of Atticus's bed. He soon had a feeling today was the day the toy box would arrive at Foster's. He then felt something and rushed out the front door and went into the backyard. Atticus was in his own bathroom and was freshening up for the day.
"Could that dream last night have been a sign?" Patch asked.
Atticus came out to his dog. "Wanna go to Foster's again, boy?"
"Yes, please," Patch replied. "I mean, we might have another adventure like when we got to meet everybody's creators, and Wilt went missing."
"Alright, let me just wake up..." Atticus started before he saw Super Power Man and Casper already awake. "Super Power Man and Casper."
"Hey, bro." Casper said.
"What're you doing up so early?" Atticus asked.
"Super Power Man told me to get up so we could visit Foster's ASAP." Casper replied.
"This wouldn't have anything to do with Frankie would it?" Atticus smirked at the superhero imaginary friend.
"What? No!" Super Power Man said before stammering which also made Casper and Patch smirk. "Can we just get going?"
Casper, Patch, and Atticus laughed.
At the Butler house...
Wendy was making a potion with Michelle while Cherry was lying down on the couch with a magazine. There was soon a knock at the door.
"Cherry, could you get that for us?" Michelle asked.
"I'm kinda busy..." Cherry replied as she continued to read her magazine.
Michelle came to the couch and gave her daughter a look.
"Oh, you meant me, I thought you meant some other Cherry..." Cherry said nervously and went to the door for her mother. She soon opened the door to see Atticus. "Atticus..." she greeted flatly.
"Ready to go to Foster's?" Atticus asked.
"Mom and Wendy are working on a potion..." Cherry opened the door to show her now powered mother and younger cousin at work.
"Oh..." Casper frowned.
"Yeah..." Cherry added, then noticed how upset that Casper seemed.
"Who's at the door, Cherry?" Michelle asked.
"Atticus wants to go to Foster's, so if you want Wendy to stay here, I totally under-" Cherry replied.
"Is Casper going too?" Wendy smiled.
"Well... Yeah, but..." Cherry stammered.
"Auntie Michelle, can I please go with Casper?" Wendy pleaded. "Please? Please? Pleeeease?"
"Okay." Michelle said.
"You're kidding..." Cherry mumbled.
"Yay!" Wendy ran out the door, grabbed Cherry's hand, and pulled her along so they could go to Foster's.
"And we're off." Cherry groaned.
"It must be cool that your mom's a witch now." Atticus said to Cherry.
"I guess..." Cherry shrugged.
"What's wrong?" Atticus asked.
"Oh, it's just that Mom's been giving so much attention to Wendy lately," Cherry replied. "It seems like she barely has enough time for me anymore."
"She's just helping her with potions and spells; your mother will always have time for you." Atticus assured her.
"I guess so, but..." Cherry shrugged as she kept walking. "I just feel like ever since Wendy moved in, I've felt invisible."
"Well, how's about I get Dad to help Wendy with her magic?" Atticus suggested.
"I don't know..." Cherry sighed. "Just knowing that everyone in the family has witch magic now except me is kind of crippling."
Wendy could hear what they were saying and where she began to feel like she should help.
