FairyTale Adventures:
Mickey and the Beanstalk.
Author's note: Once again on writer's block, this came up as one of the two FairyTale specials of Sailor Moon Continuum. This is based on three versions of Jack and the Beanstalk: The original story, Mickey and the Beanstalk, and Rugrats Tales From the Crib: Three Jacks and a Beanstalk, and a slightly better version of the deleted story "Fairytales of Light".
The narrative of the story is set in the Continuum, set shortly before the events of "Sailor Moon: Advent Children" and after the events of "Case of Team Rocket".
I do not own anything here. All rights belong to Disney, Nickelodeon, Toei/Naoko Takeuchi, Square Enix, Dreamworks, CLAMP, Nintendo/Pokemon Company and 20th Century Fox/Blue Skies.
Chapter one: Once Upon a Time...
TASHASAUROUS
Presents...
A Disney, Kingdom Hearts, Rugrats, Shrek, Sailor Moon, Cardcaptors, Ice Age, and Final Fantasy VII crossover...
FAIRYTALE ADVENTURES:
MICKEY AND THE BEANSTALK.
Year: 1999-September-Two hours after the events of "Case of Team Rocket"...
It's been such a beautiful day in the Fairytale World, the perfect day for hanging out with friends, especially some whom Mickey Mouse, King of Disney Castle and Keyblade Master, and Serena, also known as Sailor Moon, Princess of the Moon, Leader of the Sailor Team and future Queen of Crystal Toyko, never thought they would see again.
Right now, the two of them, along with their families and friends-Queen Minnie, Darien, Rini, Lusie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, Amy, Raye, Lita, Mina, Sakura, Kero, Madison, Ash Ketchum, Pikachu, Misty, Brock, May, Max, Dawn, Piplup, Casey, Shrek, Fiona, Donkey, Puss, Manny, Ellie, Sid, Diego, Crash, Eddie, Sora, Riku, Kairi, Cloud Strife, Tifa Lockhart, Yuffie and Aerith were all back to Duloc for the night before they would all prepare for their vacation trip to the mysterious world of Medge that Yen Sid had decided to send them for two weeks for a much needed break.
However, before they could rest up, apparently the babysitter who was supposed to be babysitting not only Farkle, Fergus and Felicia, but also the children of the Sailor Scouts' relatives-namely Tommy, Dil, Angelica, Chuckie, Kimi, Phil, Lil and Susie, had been down with a cold and Grandpa Lou was with Step-Grandma Lulu on a date and the kids' parents were also out. So when the group had returned to Duloc Castle, they were all suddenly pitched in for an emergancy babysitting duty until the adults returned which was roughly around eleven in the middle of the night.
To say that Sora, Riku, Kairi, Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Minnie, Daisy, Cloud, Tifa, Yuffie and Aerith were surprised that the rest of their friends could understand what the babies were saying in baby language was a surprise would've been an understatement, but they decided that it was actually really cool.
While they were in the Castle's garden that was installed and just completed five months ago, Brock and Lita were serving everyone snacks with a jug full of fresh milk.
"Sorry, guys. I know you were looking forward in resting up before we head out tomorrow." Serena apologised, feeling guilty for having all of her friends and family that she was meant to go with to Medge for vacation were all involved in this right now.
"It's no problem, Serena." Sakura ensured. "The babies aren't bad at all."
"Except for Angelica." Rini grumbled under her breath.
"So, got any ideas how to entertain the kids?" Sora asked, a bit worriedly and at loss. "I mean, all I have in mind is reading them a story."
The instant those words left his mouth, Tommy and the Rugrats gang looked up instantly, with Lil asking, "Is there gonna be a story read to us?"
"Uhhhh..." The Keyblade wielder muttered, looking at Serena and everyone else in the Sailor Team, including Kairi, Riku, Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, Cloud, Tifa, Yuffie and Aerith.
"...The only thing I can come up with is a storybook. I don't think the story from the Moogle play will be any good." Cloud muttered after a tensed moment.
"Well, I already told the story of Snow White again last week." Serena muttered, shrugging.
Everyone else shrugged, clueless themselves. Even the babies and Susie were at loss on what kind of story they would like.
"Well, we already heard of the Froggy Prince two yesterdays ago." Tommy shrugged.
"And Sleeping Booty yesterday." Lil added, while she meant to say 'Sleeping Beauty'.
Fortunately, Mickey had an idea to read the kids a story and perked up, "I know just the thing!" which got everyone else's interests.
So after he burrowed a book from Duloc's library, Mickey had the children, which included Donkey's and Dragon's baby Dronkeys, all gathered near the shade of a tree of the garden as did everyone else just in case and that they volunteered to help, just in case.
"Okay, kids. This is a brand new version of the story of Jack and the Beanstalk." Mickey told the children as he held out a book based on the story that he used to be fully afraid of since he was young, but had grown to overcome that fear during an adventure a month before he became Yen Sid's Apprentince.
The babies stared blinking, having heard this story before.
"Um...How 'bout 'Mickey and the Beanstalk'?" Mickey suggested after an awkward pause. Immediately, the babies looked more interested and everyone else were surprised that the King was going to insert himself as the main character of the story.
"You decided to make one up with you in it, Mickey?" Ash asked, curiously.
"Well, sure." Mickey replied to his eleven year old friend. "Gosh, not all giants are bad, and I thought it'd be nice to try somethin' a bit different."
"Does it have a Castle and a Queen?" Angelica asked, eagerly while inadvertedly pushing at Susie who grumbled.
"Angelica, knock it off!" Susie protested.
Serena quickly told the two four year old girls, "Now, now. Easy, kids. There's no need to fight."
"There is a Castle, but I think we should get started before there' anymore spoilers." Mickey answered Angelica's question, and didn't notice that Serena's cousin gave Mina's adoptive cousin a small raspberry, as the King then began to read the story aloud. "Once upon a Time, long long ago..."
"Funny, every crazy thing happens nowadays." Shrek couldn't help but comment sarcastically, only to wince when both Fiona and Serena elbowed him in the stomach for interrupting. Cloud, Manny and Diego wisely didn't say anything, but they all smirked softly with nods of agreement with the Ogre.
Mickey shook his head with a smile, then tried again, "Anyway; Once upon a Time, long long ago, there's a peaceful land called Happy Valley, where everybody was happy."
Within the Story...
"...But sadly that happiness couldn't last long. Ya' see, one day, something strange happened that nobody could even understand how. They say that the magic which made the Valley peaceful and happy vanished when a storm appeared, and before they knew it, the magic vanished. It was a mysterious magic that no one could understand for years, and since they didn't know, they couldn't find a way to restore it. Now the valley is left in forcing it's people to work extra hard for food, water and milk. Little did they know, everything would soon change because of four peasents..."
The Happy Valley, or so it used to be called, once had greenery and food all around. Now, however, the crops were drying off, the water began to dry out, and milk especially was hard to come by. While there were still some happy people, the prices if everything kept going up and those who were the most poor could only splonge on very little money that could only buy them a piece of bread.
In the village, there was a small Milk stand which had the four said peasents; a talking white cow wearing a blue jump suit, pink hat with a flower and three farmers; Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy who all sighed in disappointment at the business in selling bottles of milk.
"These poor peasants, one being Aunt Moo the Cow, tried very hard each and every day to try and get enough money to last them for a long time."
"...Aunt Moo?" Ash kindly interrupted, with a sweatdrop.
"Come on, Ash. I think it's cute." Serena pointed out with a smile. "In the story of Snow White that I told a year ago had a Beanstalk in it with the Evil Queen trying to buy a mirror from a Giant."
"And it's like Mickey said; this is a different version of this story." Sakura added, then she gestured the King to continue who nodded his thanks and continued to read on.
The four of them were calling out to costumers when they finally had someone approach their stand. Though three of them were a bit nervous as it was big, tall, strong muscled guy that was an excecutioner due to his face covered in a hood.
"Kind of sounds like Thelonious if you ask me." Serena whispered to Ash, Shrek and Donkey who all nodded in agreement, remembering the former Henchman of Farquaad and executioner. Really, though, the guy was such a good guy in heart, though not very bright.
"...This is the Moo-Milk Stand?" The man, (Thelonious) inquired. Mickey and his friends shared a confused glance that this guy couldn't even tell if this was the Milk stand or not.
"Sure is." Mickey replied as he turned back to the big and slightly scary guy. "We provide the best milk in the whole valley, courtesy of Aunt Moo here." He added while gesturing at the female Cow next to him who nodded.
Thelonious thought about it, before making a decison. "I'll take three bottles." He said, but when he held up his fingers, he only held up two. Apparently this guy couldn't count right either, and Donald resisted the urge to groan.
'Oh...not another Goofy.' He thought in his mind, thinking how many times Goofy ended up counting wrong.
"That will be nine single coins, please." Aunt Moo informed him.
"...Sorry, ma'am. But I only have three." Thelonious replied, pulling out three gold coins from his pockets and placed them onto the counter.
"Well, that'll give ya only one bottle." Goofy pointed out apologetically.
Aunt Moo, being the tough Cow that she was, held out her, uh, arm hoove and suggested, "If you can beat me in arm wrestle, I think I can reconsider the price."
"I accept the challenge." Thelonious replied, thinking that he can easily beat her.
(Battle Ring Bell Dings)
But as it turned out, no matter how hard Thelonious struggled and pushed, even going as far as using two hands, he couldn't even move Aunt Moo's arm even an inch and his hands were beginning to get very sore while the female Cow yawned in boredom and Mickey, Donald and Goofy cheered their friend on.
Then, with perfect ease, she pushed down Thelonious' hands so hard that he ended up being thrown onto the ground with a cry of alarm. As Mickey and his friends celebrated, Thelonious moaned before slowly pushing himself up in defeat.
"...You're pretty good." He admitted, before taking the only bottle of milk he could afford and waved a goodbye to the four after having payed the only amount of cash.
Despite this, the group only had managed to sell three bottles of milk, which included the one that they'd just sold to Thelonious.
"Aw...Three bottles of milk sold today, and all we got is nine single coins." Mickey sighed. In the entire day, he and his friends all had the lousiest luck in the world and yet they were among the nicest of the whole land too.
It didn't help that his, Donald's, Goofy's and Aunt Moo's stomachs all growled loudly in demand for food which made all four of them sigh again disappointment.
"Looks like it's time to go home. We should get a moooove on." Aunt Moo told the young farmers who all sighed before they began to pack up for the night and began to walk back home to their lonely little shack which only had one bed.
The Poor Peasants looked so hungry that they could only eat one meal a day. As they walked along home the dirt path leading outside of the village, Donald looked the most desperate, looking as though he might pass out due to hunger. His stomach growled so loudly that it even made ripples. While the four of them passed the more quieter part of the valley, Donald's gazed turn to that of a log which, given that he was starving, made him hallucinate, because in his eyes, it turned into a fresh roast beef that was seeming and smelled delicious.
"Oooooh." Donald moaned as his mouth watered, before running over in desperation, which caused Mickey, Goofy and Aunt Moo to stop and turn to see that Donald was how munching the log into pieces in sheer desperation before he began to choke and gag as the cruel reality sank in. Mickey and Goofy hurried over and shook their poor friend to rid the pieces of wood that were not ediable to them and finally he panted when he was no longer choaking.
"Donald! Calm down, will ya? I know you're hungry, pal. Gosh, we all are, but eating logs is not the right answer." Mickey pointed out to his desperate friend.
"Um, maybe he should've gone for pine cones instead." Sid couldn't help but pipe him, causing everyone else to glance at him questionly.
Rini rolled her eyes, "Sid, you know as well as everyone that pine cones aren't for eating."
"Yeah, man. You tried eating one to trick those two Rhinos back in the Ice Age and we both noticed how you were cringing." Donkey nodded in agreement, adding as he grimiced, "I woulda too if I had to do that."
"Why...did you do that?" Kairi asked, not sure if she wanted to know.
Sid, Rini and Donkey all cringed in disgust as the memory of that time returned to them, as Donkey said, "Uhhh...he ruined their salad by accident thinking it was grass."
The Princess of Heart shuddered, "N-nevermind." while she and the others gestured King Mickey to continue the story.
Later that night when the four had finally returned home, it was dinner time and they were seated at the table. Though what they had shouldn't really be considered as dinner and they were still so hungry but they couldn't have even half of what they had.
"Things were very bleak and terrible that they had to save whatever food they had left. See, all they had, other than milk which they couldn't even have as much since they needed to sell it to get money, was a single loaf of bread and one bean." Mickey foretold the story.
Both Mickey and Aunt Moon prepared dinner while both Donald and Goofy were sweating in anger and anxiety. Aunt Moo slowly and ever so carefully sliced two pieces of bread each for the four of them, which was so ridiculously thin it was like a soft, see-through paper. Mickey in the meantime was slicing the equally thin slices of the single bean they had before the placing the single pieces into the thin pieces of bread which made, as usual, the single bean sandwich.
"I'm getting pretty hungry hearing that part." Ash commented in sympathy.
"Me too." Sora nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, me three." Phil said, as he and Lil both looked jealously at Angelia who was munching on cookies.
"Oh, aye." Shrek smirked jokingly at the three boys.
"Couldn't they go fishing for fish or something, Your Majesty?" Crash asked, confused.
Mickey shrugged, "Nope. Even the fish disappeared from the valley." before he continued with the tale.
The four ate their, eh, food which, given how then they were, it was tasteless and Mickey, Goofy, Aunt Moo and Donald all sighed in disappointment and hunger.
"Gawsh...I wish we had something bigger and more tasty, like a roast chicken." Goofy moaned, which made Donald whimper before desperately snatching a plate and made to bite it, only for Aunt Moo to snatch it away from him.
"Now, now, Donald. I know you're hungry, but plates are not food either." Aunt Moo scolded, which made the poor duck burst into tears crying. Sighing, the cow patted him on the back while Mickey and Goofy approached to support him as well.
Mickey felt guilty. He wished there was something, anything, to change this horrible lifestyle. Seeing one of his best friend's cry, again, made him want to whimper and cry himself, but he had to be strong, for all of them.
The next day, the four of them returned to the Milk Stand to continue selling Milk when they had one stubborn costumer, which was Meowth, who was demanding a discount for the milk he was attempting to buy.
"I already told you, this is the cost of the bottle of milk." Aunt Moo told the Pokemon for the fifth time in less than three minutes.
"And I already told ya', milk-bag, I ain't spendin' anymore than a silver penny for a bottle of milk!" Meowth protested, before grinning wickedly as he suggested to make things easier for him, "But if we play rock, paper and sissors, the winner gets to either pay the amount of money or gets to get the milk for free. See?"
"Sorry, pal, but we don't give out milk for free." Mickey spoke up this time, firmly. He was growing tired of this mean costumer's attitude and how he was treating Aunt Moo.
"And I can't play rock, paper and sissors because I have hooves, not hands." Aunt Moo added, showing off her said hooves.
Meowth simply looked away with his arms folded and said, half-mockingly, "Well, d'en I guess youse just have to cope with I'm willin' to pay. Unless one of you other twerps challenge Meowth in that cow's place."
Despite that they had fingers, Donald and Goofy both quickly hid scaredly behind Aunt Moo, which made Mickey shake his head before he stood up on a stool due to him being short and declared, "I accept your challenge."
(Battle Ring Bell Dings)
"One, two, three!" Mickey and Meowth both counted as they shook their fist and revealed what they showed off in the game; Mickey had sissors, while Meowth had...paper, much to the latter's dismay as the Pokemon screamed in pure shock that he just lost to a mouse bigger than him.
"Ha! Looks like we win." Mickey declared with a smirk, as Aunt Moo, Donald and Goofy all sighed in relief.
Realising he had no choice but to pay the actual cost of the bottle of milk, Meowth handed over the three coins to the four while grunting angrily to himself, an angry tick-vain squeezing on his head(anime-style) while half-clutching his paws in sheer annoyance, "Being beaten by a Mouse-Peasant...!"
But despite this, Mickey and his friends all sighed as they could only afford firewood and another single bean...again. However, what they didn't know was that they were about to meet others and in coming days, something amazing will happen that will change their lives forever.
A/N: Not a great start to this story and I think it will only be three, four or five chapters long. See you all in the next chapter!