AN: Author's note only appears at the start and the end of every chapter. If you see an Author's note in the middle of the chapter or after the next line break, it is a part of the story.
This story is about a boy who happens to be named after my pen name or HAL 9000 if you want to know where I get the name. He is an OC, anything happens in this story is 100% fictional and yeah I kinda based him of myself.
This story is set on the Disney Universe, so it will be like a massive crossover with many many Disney franchises. There will also be some elements of video games and dream works, but it wouldn't be too obvious. (Except for Portal, that one is a pretty big deal in this fic. It will exist as a video game though.)
So in the end if you hate OC's, Sci-fi, Superheroes, Awesomeness, and Musical Stuffs
Move along kiddo…
Disclaimer: I don't own Inside Out, it belongs to Pixar. (Great movie by the way)
AN: Hello Internet!
Name's HAL, short of Howard Alexander Lance. But you can call me Hal. I live in [REDACTED] with my uncle at a small apartment near [REDACTED]. Just a sec.. (GLaDOS, can you please stop redacting my words?) "No, you will not give out your personal information in the Internet"
Well since I can't tell you too much, let's just get to the story…
Oh and the appearance of the emotions...
Well Joy, Sadness, and Anger looked exactly like Riley's emotions. But Fear and Disgust both looked like normal human boys, if you discount the axons on top of Fear's head and Disgust's green skin. Thing is, my emotions are like Riley's, they have different genders. Which is odd because I'm pretty sure I'm straight.
So basically I have two girls and three boys living in my head.
Was that the weirdest thing I have ever wrote before? Unfortunately no...
Meanwhile, I, the great Howard Alexander Lance is one handsome devil. I stood at exactly 170 centimeters Using Long-Fall Boots (Shut up GLaDOS!). I have light brown skin and jet black hair. I also have bright blue eyes that can actually change color (Will be explained later.)
PS: I don't own inside out, Riley does and I changed Fear's name to Sentry, because my fear is nothing like Riley's.
Joy looked up at the screen in front of her. She has a contemplating look on her face while rubbing her chin in deep thought. "Call of Duty 4, Half-Life 2, Bioshock, Portal, Halo 3…" She muttered to herself.
Meanwhile outside the HQ, Hal is in front of the computer. He scrolled through the recommended games category on Steam. Wondering which one, he should try first.
"Any ideas anyone?" Joy said. "I say Half-Life 2! Been a long time since we kicked ass in FPS." Anger said with a wicked smile on his face. "How about Portal, Steve recommended that game." Disgust said. "Okay, let's put them both to the list!" Joy said cheerfully. Then she and Anger pressed a few buttons on the console. "I'm not paying for a bunch of ones and zeros." He muttered grumpily under his breath.
Hal closed the steam application and used the task manager to close the process completely. Then he opened Firefox Browser and start looking for the cracked versions of the game.
"Wait!" Sentry said suddenly, surprising both Joy and Anger at the same time. "Don't forget the precautions." He said, flicking a few switch on the console.
Hal quickly turned on his proxy and activated his VPN service. He also put Firefox into private mode before he continued his way into searching for the games. "Is that really necessary?" Joy asked with an incredulous expression on her face. "I call it Precautions." Sentry replied sharply. "Okay Sentry, whatever you think is the best."
A few hours later, Hal managed to find and install the game he was looking for. "Hmm which one should I play first…?" He muttered to himself.
Meanwhile, inside the HQ, Joy is also muttering to herself. "Hmm, which one should we play first…?" Behind her Anger and Disgust are playing rock paper scissors, trying to determine which game they should play first. A few seconds later, Disgust won and he pressed the button on the console. "Anger and I came to an agreement, we're playing Portal." He said before Joy could say anything.
After a few grueling minutes of loading, the game finally started.
Joy, Anger, Disgust, Sentry, and even Sadness start playing the game. At first, they happily do the tasks the voice told them too, putting cubes on top of huge buttons, pushing buttons, entering portals, and making portals.
Until the high-energy pellet zapped the player away in a very dangerous test chamber. "Something's not right." Sentry said, while Anger and Disgust nodded in agreement. "Think positive guys! The Voice did warned us about this!" Joy said, trying to stay positive.
They continued their game, going through levels that gets tougher and tougher. Joy is the one who mostly control the movement and decide which path they should take, Disgust is the one who solve most of the puzzle, and Sentry is the one keeping them alive, while Anger helped Joy making some insane stunts with the Portal Gun. Even Sadness has a role, sometimes when they ran out of ideas Sadness will commented on something and everyone will find the solution.
After playing for some time, they found themselves looking at a little white oval robot with tripod feet facing away from them. "Uh, is this safe? The voice did say this is for military purpose." Joy said. "I say we destroy it!" Anger said. "We don't have any weapon, what are we gonna do, push it down?" Disgust said.
Joy just shrugged and tried to slip beside the robot, but it suddenly got knocked down and starts shooting away erratically. "Whyyyy" it started to say in a childish voice.
Both Sentry and Sadness slammed their hands on the console. Sentry made Hal controlled the character away to dodge the bullets, while Sadness made Hal feel a twinge of guilt from killing the bot from earlier. "We killed the robot!" Sadness moaned in regret. "Oh Sadness this is just a game, besides it could be hostile." Joy said trying to cheer her up.
Hal controlled the player towards a corridor nearby. "Stop!" Sentry shouted as he pressed a button just in time to make Hal dodge some bullets coming from one of the turret. A wicked grin came on Anger's face. "Finally, some hostiles!" He said.
A few hours later they have finally finished all of the tests, waiting for the moving platform to bring them to the cakes and grief counseling. What they didn't expect was being brought into a huge pit full of raging fires. "Should've seen that one coming." Sentry muttered while pulling a lever to make Hal make the player to make a portal and make a quick maneuver to escape from the fire. (AN: See what I did there?)
They made their way through the facility, trying to escape the Enrichment Center and destroy that voice once and for all.
After a few hours of gaming they finally finished the game, watching in satisfaction as the player woke up in the middle of a parking lot.
"THAT WAS AMAZING" Joy yelled in glee.
"Glad I could kill that piece of scrap metal!" Anger said.
"We only died six times, not bad really." Sentry said
"We finished the game in 7 hours." Disgust said
"We killed the companion cube." Sadness wailed in regret.
Suddenly the role credits begun. "Credits! Let's just Alt+F4 and forget about this." Anger muttered to himself, but before Anger could make Hal close the game. GLaDOS the main antagonist started to sing.
This was a triumph! I'm making a note here: Huge success!
Although surprised, the emotions start enjoying the song, smiling to themselves.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction
Aperture Science: We do what we must because we can
For the good of all of us. Except the ones who are dead.
Suddenly Sentry jolted up from his seat and quickly walked towards the huge glass wall overlooking the personality islands. He watched with wide eyes as one of the island started to glow and move erratically.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake.
You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake.
And the science gets done And you make a neat gun
for the people who are still alive.
The Island is huge, statues of musical instrument and a logo of Hal's favorite music player program decorated the island. It sprung to life, the musical instrument starts playing and creating a domino effect that activates other islands.
I'm not even angry... I'm being so sincere right now.
Even though you broke my heart, and killed me.
And tore me to pieces. And threw every piece into a fire.
As they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you!
Sentry quickly ran back to the console just in time to notice that Joy is closing her eyes and has her hand firmly pressed against the console.
Now, these points of data make a beautiful line.
And we're out of beta. We're releasing on time!
So I'm GLaD I got burned!
Think of all the things we learned!
for the people who are
still alive.
Sentry looked at the core memory that's powering up the music island. It's flashing in a multi-colored lights before dying out completely. "OH SNAP!" He yelled before he's starting to panic. He tried to get everybody's attention but none of them are responsive. "It's happening again!"
Go ahead and leave me...
I think I'd prefer to stay inside...
Maybe you'll find someone else to help you.
Maybe Black Mesa? That was a joke. Ha Ha. Fat Chance!
A stream of golden memories with multi colored half rolled down to the shelves..
Anyway this cake is great!
It's so delicious and moist!
Look at me: still talking when there's science to do!
When I look out there,
it makes me glad I'm not you.
Sentry watched in panic and confusion as a glowing white memory rolled down to the shelves.
I've experiments to run.
There is research to be done.
On the people who are still alive.
And believe me I am still alive.
I'm doing science and I'm still alive.
I feel fantastic and I'm still alive.
While you're dying I'll be still alive.
And when you're dead I will be still alive
Still alive.
Finally Joy and the others woke up from their stupor. They looked around in confusion before Joy noticed the core memory glowing brightly on the shelves. "Oh wow, Valve really is something…" She muttered while the others save for Sentry has their mouth hanging in shock. "The white core memory… The Island of Music and Creation created this." Sentry said, picking the core memory up and gave it to Joy.
"Well, let's just put this with the others…" Joy said, putting the core memory with the others.
A stream of pure white light shot out from the HQ, but it didn't stop near the other island. Instead, it shot down to the edge of the memory dump, just below the long-term memory shelves. The ground below it rumbled for a moment, before it stopped a few minutes later. A huge Aperture Science Logo appeared at the edge of the memory dump, marking its existence in the mindscape.
"Holy mother of god…" Sentry said in fear. "That's not in the manuals, THAT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE POSSIBLE!" He yelled in the end, starting hyperventilate.
"Amazing…" Joy whispered to herself. "To think a little song could do something like this."
"We need to contact the mind workers down there and ask them what the hell just happened." Disgust said, walking towards a small intercom nearby.
While Disgust and Sadness tried to contact the mind workers, Joy and surprisingly Anger tried to calm Sentry down. "Look, this is not as bad as it looks! I mean, we don't even know what kind of island is that." Joy said. "Is it even an Island?" Anger asked Joy who just shrugged in response.
A few minutes later, Sentry finally regained his bearings. He walked back to the console followed by the others. "Disgust, Sadness, have you found out what the hell just happened." Sentry asked, preparing for the worst-case scenario. (AN: Ironically, it's even worse than what Sentry thought.)
Disgust stepped forward to explain the situation. "The good news is it doesn't seem to do anything." He said, making Sentry relax just a little bit. "The bad news is nobody knows what it does." Sadness added.
Sentry pressed a button on the console and Hal walked away from the computer. "All right, I don't want to think about all these craziness, that's two nap times we missed. We need to get Hal to REM and fast." He said as Hal plopped down on his bed nearby.
Hal closed his eyes, the sky quickly turned dark, and the train of thoughts stopped moving. "All right, since we missed two nap times, we need one hour of REM sleep. That means one hour movie night!" Joy said cheerfully, grabbing a bag of popcorn out of nowhere and sat in front of the console. "Joy, we need to figure out what in the name of creation that core memory does." Sentry said.
Joy thought about it for a second and shook her head. "Nah, you Nerdy Mc. Smarty-pants and the Geeky Legion should go ahead and discuss it. Meanwhile, Anger and I will watch the cinema." She said with a mischievous grin on her face.
Right after she said that the screen sprung into life. "It's starting!" Joy said excitedly. "All right, let's get the show on the road!" Anger said, sitting beside Joy.
The Dream started with Hal talking with Steve about a new science facility in the neighborhood. "Let's visit the Aperture Science Enrichment Center!" Steve said cheerfully, while Hal just nodded and followed him towards the entrance near a parking lot. "He's a bad actor... Since when does Steve sound like Dora?" Anger commented.
Meanwhile huddling together behind Joy and Anger; Disgust, Sentry, and Sadness discussed about the new core memory. "So Sadness, are you saying that the white memory meant it has all of the emotions combined?" Disgust said with a calculating expression on his face. "Well the memory did come out after hearing that song. You know what happen when Hal hear a very good music." Sentry said.
The other emotions nodded to themselves, thinking about the other personality islands.
The Music Island was made when Hal listened the song 'Wonderful World' for the first time after 4 years living in the [REDACTED] orphanage. It has golden colored core memory and it's very essential in the creation of the other core memory.
The Mischief Island was made when Hal hijacked a well-known radio station and broadcasted the never-ending song to the whole city. If you hold the core memory, close enough you can actually hear that same song repeating over and over again.
The Friendship Island has huge statues of Steve and Hal leaning back to back with each others. It was made when Steve and Hal met for the first time while listening to the song 'Across the Universe'. They were best friends ever since.
The Rebel Island has the ground made out of obsidian and smoldering lava. It also has a single statue of Hal and Steve with a pissed off expression on their faces. Steve is holding a shotgun and Hal holding a rifle. It was made when Hal commenced a DDOS attack to Olvana Corp to safe his best friend Steve from 'A bunch of political craps' as Anger would put it. The core memory has every single emotion color but gold. It is also the only core memory without any music in it.
'The Island of Awesomeness' as Joy would put it is a huge island filled with all sorts of trophies, amazing futuristic gadgets, and a bunch of superhero statues. It was made when Hal won the Science Tournament, Attended the Superhero expo, and entered the Hacktivist Society in one day while listening to a single playlist. (AN: Yeah, I am so Awesome) The core memory has all emotion color except for blue.
The last Island is a bit new, it is called the Gaming Island. The ground of the island is blocky just like Minecraft, while statues and logos from many video game franchises decorated the Island. It was made when Hal and Steve played Fallout 2 for the first time.
"Remember the rebel island? It was made without any music." Sadness said. "It has all emotion color but golden." Sentry added. "Guys, I don't think that's a core memory…" Disgust said. "The Rebel?" Both of them said at the same time.
Disgust shook his head. "No, I'm talking about that." pointing at the core memories especially the newest core memory. It glows brighter than the rest of the memory. Suddenly the bluish purple floor below it started to turn into white pristine floor, similar from the game Portal.
Sentry was the first to react, he lunged at the memory, forcefully pulling it away from the others. "Oh god I'm freaking out here man…" He said, losing his composure. He looked at his hands and saw that the memory is slowly turning his hand white. "NOPE, NOPE, NOPE!" he yelled in panic.
He dropped the memory and it rolled down towards the console where Joy and Anger is currently watching GLaDOS being ripped apart with the rocket launcher. "DIE YOU PSYCHOTIC COMPUTER!" Anger yelled, while Joy just cheered at Hal in the dream.
The dream is almost over and Sentry realized that Hal is about to wake up in a moment. He quickly caught the memory before Joy nor could Anger notice and pass it to Disgust. "Hot Potato, don't hold it for too long!" Sentry yelled while Disgust just nodded. He felt his hands slowly turned white and he passed the memory towards Sadness. The white in Disgust's hand faded away after a few seconds.
But Sadness is to slow and she can only walked a few feet before Sentry have to grab the memory out of her hand to save her from whatever that white thing is. "We need to get this memory to the long-term shelves." Disgust said. "Why?" Sentry asked. "It's a gut feeling, but it should work." He replied, grabbing the memory from Sentry and quickly throw it away to the recall tube.
The memory flew out of the HQ to the long-term memory where it could be processed. Disgust and Sentry high-fived each other in victory. "That's one crisis averted." Sentry said. "All in the days work." Disgust said
"HEY! What's going on here?" A voice came suddenly. Disgust and Anger looked back at the console, facing the leader of all emotion. Her usually bright and cheerful demeanor gone, replaced by a furious expression that could only be bested by Anger himself. "Ahahaha… Joy! It was nothing really, look Hal is waking up!" Disgust said, trembling at her stare.
"Hal was rudely awakened by Mr. Jim asking for this month's rent. Anger's in charge now." Joy replied with a no nonsense tone on her voice. "Now explain to me what happened to the new core memory!"
Sentry stepped forward and took a deep breath to control himself. "Look Joy, the memory did something weird to the HQ, everything suddenly turned white and I can't stop myself from stopping it by sending it to the long-term memory. I was scared Joy! I was scared for Hal! I was afraid something bad will happen!" He said, trying to sound as convincing as possible.
At this, Joy's expression softened a little bit. "All right I get it, but next time consult to me first okay?" she said, sighing to herself. "Now let's just recall that memory and figure it out." She said, trying to recall the song.
The song suddenly echoes through the mindscape, but the memory is nowhere to be seen. Even the credits screen turn into a daydream. "Okay… Well that's abnormal." Joy said.
Suddenly she felt something changing within the mindscape. She quickly ran towards the glass wall, followed by the other emotions. "Whoa! I think I know where it went." Joy exclaimed.
The Aperture Science logo at the edge of the Memory Dump suddenly changed. The lower half of it glows in a bright blue light while the upper half is still dark. "Just a little more!" Joy said in excitement.
Joy smiled brightly at the sight of the logo, while Disgust and Sentry are thinking of the worst thing that could happen.
AN: All right, guess that's all of them for now!
Remember read, follow, favorite, and review. I might be a little late now though, I planned to visit some of my alien friends in the moon.
Yeah, you heard that right; to the moon, CAUSE I'M FILTHY RICH!
AN: And that is the end of chapter one. Can you guess what Hal meant by alien friends? (No it's not Yoda)