Disclaimer: I don't own Toy Story, if I did then I would have added this somewhere in Toy Story 3. After lots of editing that is, if something wasn't going well. Anyway, Property of Disney & Pixar. Enjoy the story!
A/N: This was fun to write and I loved filling in my own little things here and there. I'm thinking about adding some chapters for this story. Pretty much adding in a Spanish Buzz chapter and possibly another one. I'm not sure yet. Beware this fic contains spoilers for Toy Story 3. Anyway, This takes place right after Buzz refuses to join Lotso's gang.
Big Baby grabbed Buzz and put him back into the lego chair. Buzz attempted to free himself, but Big Baby was surprisingly strong. He pinned Buzz to the chair so he wouldn't be able to move. Lotso didn't move from his spot at all. He simply told Ken to call in Bookworm. Buzz still attempted to struggle as he heard a whistle and saw a green worm wiggle his way to the group. " It was filed under, Lightyear.", the worm announced. He dropped the book on the floor for Lotso. Buzz stopped struggling as he saw the book that Lotso had picked up off the floor had the words "Buzz Lightyear: Instruction Manual" written on the cover.
Buzz completely blocked out everything that Lotso and the others were saying. He screamed "What are you doing?", but he already knew. His mind began to race as he felt the screws on his back falling off of him. He thought back to everyone who was patiently waiting in the other room. They would be completely helpless if Buzz was switched back to his old self. Buzz knew that in his old state he could easily hurt them. Buzz hoped that he could somehow break from his captor's tight grip and run away. He knew that even if he broke free that he wouldn't have made it far, but if he got away even for a moment, he could yell down the hall for Jessie and the others to hear so at least they could get away. That's when Jessie flashed into his mind. She knew about Buzz's past, but had never seen it firsthand. Buzz knew that it might happen sooner or later, but he didn't want it to happen like this if at all. He felt his battery compartment being opened and knew it was too late. With the last bit of strength he had, he screamed "NO!" as loud as he could, hoping that the others would hear it and get away. He blacked out.
After a few minutes Buzz tried to move and open his eyes, but he couldn't. He felt sluggish, yet stiff. He had no idea as to where he was, but he felt himself being lifted into a standing position. He then heard his helmet closing. He heard something in the distance, voices. He couldn't put any faces to the voices, nor could he even understand what was being said at the moment. He slowly opened his eyes and let everything come into focus. When his eyes adjusted, Buzz took a quick scan of his surroundings. He saw a man, a robot, a bug, an octopus, a man made of rock, a baby and a bear. All of them had their backs turned and were engulfed in a conversation. For a moment he thought they were his enemies, but he came to the conclusion that if they were his enemies then he would have been restrained by now.
- I must've lost my memory. - he thought.
"Are you sure this is going to work?" Ken asked.
"Positive. They won't get away." Lotso said with confidence.
"Hey, look who's up." Chunk said as he turned around to see if Buzz had heard anything from their conversation.
All of the toys turned around and saw Buzz. "Lightyear, you're back. Glad to see that you're ok." Lotso said happily.
Buzz gave him a puzzled look, but held his position. "It's me! Commander Lotso, remember? We found you just in the nick of time. For a minute we thought we had lost you to the enemy."
Lotso began to explain to Buzz how some of the toys in the Caterpillar Room were foes of theirs. He told Buzz that they had to be arrested and put away till further notice. Buzz believed that they could be working for Zurg, perhaps they were spies sent to check out the inner workings of Star Command. Buzz gave Lotso a salute and promised to follow all orders. Pleased, Lotso lead Buzz and the others to the Caterpillar Room. Along the way he told Buzz to hide out by the side door to the room just in case any of the toys tried to escape. "Yes, sir! I'll do my best to secure the perimeter!" Buzz exclaimed. He marched off to the side door and waited. Lotso and the others continued on to the other side of the hall, they then went into the room. Buzz walked in through the side door and looked around, making sure that there was no way out. He then poked his head out from behind the door and watched as Lotso confronted the toys. During the confrontation, Buzz made a quick head count of all the toys that were present along with figuring out the best way to fight each one, just in case the situation got out of hand.
Everything looked like it was going according to plan until he saw a red headed cowgirl walk in his direction. Even though she was an enemy, he had to admit. She was really attractive. If she wasn't an enemy and if he was off duty then Buzz would have made an effort to say "hi", but he knew that he had to stand firm.
-She's a minion of Zurg. Clearly she uses her looks as a weapon.- he thought.
Buzz blocked the cowgirl's path. She was a little shocked that he was there yet relieved, but something didn't seem right.
"Buzz! You're back!", Rex cheered. He ran to give Buzz a hug, but Buzz stopped him. Buzz got into a defensive stance and swept Rex's legs out from under him. He jumped on Rex and pounced on the others. Tackling Hamm and the Potato Heads, shoving Jessie onto the floor, grabbing Rex and Slinky by the tails, and finally twirling the aliens around into submission. Buzz piled them on top of each other and stood on top of the toy mountain. "Prisoners disabled, Commander Lotso!" he exclaimed with a salute.
"Buzz, what are you doing?", Jessie groaned. Fearing that he was going to hit her again, she flinched as Buzz pointed a finger at her.
"Silence, minions of Zurg! You're in the custody of the Galactic Alliance!"
"Zurg?", Rex questioned.
"Galactic Alliance?" Mr. Potato Head was confused as well.
"Oh boy…", Hamm groaned. All of this seemed to be way to familiar for comfort.
"Good work, Lightyear! Now lock them up.", Lotso ordered.
"Yes, sir!"
One by one the toys got put into their cells. Sparks and Chunk tried to put Jessie into a cell, but she fought back. She tried to get away, hoping that once she got out of the room she could possibly get some kind of help. Before she could make a mad dash to the door, Stretch wrapped one of her tentacles around the cowgirl's waist and held her upside down.
"Where do you think you're going?", she asked. Stretch tossed Jessie up into the air, caught her and forced her into a cell.
Jessie reached for Buzz. "Buzz, we're your friends!"
Buzz brushed her hand off of his shoulder. "Spare me your lies, Temptress. Your Emperor's defeated and I'm immune to your bewitching good looks."
As the rest of the prisoners were getting put away, Buzz continued to stare at Jessie. Even though he claimed that he wasn't going to let her be a distraction, he was distracted. Slightly. He stopped stealing glances at her when he had to put Barbie in her cell. Once Barbie was secured, Lotso called to him. "Lightyear, explain our overnight accommodations."
"Sir, yes sir!" Buzz started to circle the entire prison block, hands behind his back, voice loud.
"Prisoners sleep in their cells! Any prisoner caught outside their cell, spends the night in the box. Roll call at dusk and dawn! Any prisoner misses roll call, spends the night in the box. Prisoners do not speak unless spoken to! Any prisoner talks back spends the night-"
"In the box, we get it.", Jessie growled at him. Buzz turned around on the spot and made his way towards Jessie, but Lotso stopped him. "At ease solider. They're neutralized." Lotso lowered his voice so only Buzz could hear him. "But remember they'll say anything to make you doubt yourself."
"Don't worry Commander, any doubt I had got pounded out of me at the Academy.", Buzz replied while punching his fist. As Lotso addressed the prisoners, Buzz looked from one toy to the next. Making sure that they weren't going to try anything sneaky. When his eyes landed on Jessie, he felt something. Something about her felt familiar, but he brushed it off figuring that it must've been a secret power she had. He knew that Gravitina had a somewhat similar power, except Gravitina was much more forceful. This cowgirl was no different.
Once the speech was over, Lotso and the others left the room. Buzz stood on guard. He watched every single toy like a hawk. He was about to yell at Jessie for sticking her hand out of her cell, but noticed that she was just pushing the hat that was thrown in front of her to Bullseye who kept whining for it. He decided to let it slide by. It was no big deal. Once he was sure that all of the toys were fast asleep, he decided to take a quick nap. When he woke up, he made sure that all of the toys were there. He looked at each cell and was pleased that everyone was still sleeping, except for Jessie. Buzz studied her, he looked at the small designs on her boots and worked his way up her legs. He liked her chaps and thought that they looked nice on her. He then moved his eyes up until he got to her face. He studied her features, mentally tracing her lips, cheeks, eyes and hair. "Hmm, her powers are strong. I'll give her that." He muttered to himself. Buzz shook Jessie out of his mind again and decided to circle the prison block for a while, just to be safe. It was still dark out, anything could happen.
When he got to Jessie's cell, he took a quick glance inside to see if she was asleep. She wasn't asleep. They both locked eyes as Buzz walked by. As he walked past Bullseye's cell he heard Jessie call for him. Buzz raised an eyebrow as he walked over to her cell and stood in front of it.
"What do you want?" He asked.
Jessie stared straight into his eyes. "Don't you remember anything?"
Buzz thought for a moment. He actually wasn't sure. - Could this be some kind of mind trick? - he wondered. "My memory is just fine."
"But do you remember what happened earlier today?", she asked.
"I remember giving Commander Lotso my weekly report on the status of this base.", he lied.
Jessie was feeling a little frustrated. She stared into his eyes. Desperately searching for her Buzz, but couldn't see anything past his cold stare. Jessie decided to take a chance, she reached for Buzz's hand. Seeing her hand sticking out of the cell, Buzz took a step back and pointed his laser at her chest. "Don't think for one second that I won't stun you!", Buzz declared. "I just want to hold it." Jessie replied sadly.
Buzz stood his ground. Eventually, he made his way back to the cell, but kept his guard up. Jessie gave Buzz a small smile and held his hand. Buzz's cold stare stayed strong. "So, why do you want to hold my hand?", he asked.
"I just want to. Is that such a bad thing?"
"I guess not. I don't normally do this for prisoners, but if it'll help you go to sleep then I don't see any harm in it." Buzz replied.
Jessie stared at Buzz's hand. She held his hand tightly, but he didn't bother to have any kind of grip on hers. He wasn't even looking at her. Sadly, she looked back at his hand. She thought back to old times. Times where Buzz was so nervous to show her any kind of affection, but tried so hard to make her happy. Times where everyone was happy and content with everything that was going on. Not like right now where everyone was scared of Buzz and of course, what would happen to them in a few hours. She thought back to times where things were simple and not as complicated as they are now. She sighed.
"Buzz, please try your best to remember who you are.", she whispered. Buzz looked at her. "I know exactly who I am, but since you seem to be so determined to convince me otherwise. Why don't you tell me what I should remember?", he replied, half amused. He wanted to see where this was going to go.
"We-well, you're a great guy. You always make sure that we're safe. Y-you play games with us, watch movies and tv with us. You help Rex out in his games and even give him roaring lessons from time to time. You help the Potato Heads take care of the aliens every now and then. Your best friend is Woody. You two have been through so much together and you still to this day will put your lives on the line for each other. You make sure that everything in Andy's room is going smoothly. You help Woody run the room when things get hectic. You're really nice to everyone, but you're especially nice to m-me.", Jessie nervously said. She knew that she could do a better job in convincing him, but she found it hard to find the right words as Buzz gave her an intimidating glare.
"Buzz, please remember. It's me, Jessie… we've known each other for so long and we have always been so close. At least until now…", she pressed Buzz's hand against her cheek and softly rubbed it.
That's when she saw it. The strong demeanor that Buzz was holding on to for so long just, vanished. He gave her what she liked to call Buzz's "puppy dog" look. The look he always gave her when he was worried about her. The look he gave every time she had a panic attack. The look he gave her earlier in the day when she climbed out of the toy box after hoping that Andy would play with them. The same look that he gave her as she climbed into the donation box. The look he gave her when she told Woody that it was time to move on before closing the donation box. It was right there. Jessie took a breath. "So, do you remember?", she nervously asked.
Buzz stood in his spot not bothering to move his hand. He looked right into her eyes as if he was trying to search for something. Jessie felt Buzz's hand rub her cheek on it's own. Then his facial expression changed. "I remember Commander Lotso informing me that you would make an attempt to trick me.", Buzz pulled his hand away from the cowgirl. The force of the pull surprised Jessie. Buzz turned around. "Just go to sleep and leave me alone. I have a job to do and you have prison time to serve.", he started to walk away.
Jessie wasn't about to give up. "No, Buzz wait!", she reached for him again. She put a hand on his shoulder. For a brief moment, the "puppy dog" look from before came back to his face. Buzz froze again, but only for a second before grabbing Jessie's hand and squeezing it, hard to the point where Jessie cried out in pain. Jessie cringed as she saw Buzz draw closer. "Listen Temptress. You are in custody of the Galactic Alliance. Trying to get pity out of me will not help you. I don't care how good looking you are or how sweet you can be. If you touch me again, I'm going to take it as a threat and do what I have to do to eliminate that threat.", Buzz squeezed Jessie's hand harder. She winced as Buzz finished and said "Do you understand me?"
Jessie fought back tears and nodded slowly. "Yes, I-I understand."
Buzz threw Jessie's hand back at her. He walked away and continued to check on the other prisoners. "Good! Now go to sleep or the next time I go over there, I'll personally put you in the box!"
Buzz felt that he was a little harsh on her, but he had to be. He couldn't let her get to him. If he did then it wouldn't be good for Star Command later on. He didn't think much of it as he sat above Hamm's cell. Least he tried not to. He don't know what made him do it, but he lifted up his right boot and noticed the word "Andy" written on it. He stared at it for a moment. Using his finger, he traced each letter. He tried to scratch the letters away, but they didn't fade at all. Buzz then opened his wrist communicator to make a personal log entry about what had just happened. When he looked down, he was shocked that his communicator wasn't there. Instead he saw the numbers "555-0112" in it's place. He then looked up a bit and noticed the words "Made In Taiwan", he tried to scratch the words and phone number off as well. When he failed to do so, he ignored it and figured that whatever spell Jessie casted on him, would go away eventually.
Back on the ground floor. Jessie fell to the floor of her cell on her knees. She never thought that in a million years Buzz would purposely hurt her like he did today. Let alone threaten to hurt her again. She felt tears rolling down her cheeks as she pulled her knees up to her chest. She buried her face in her knees and started to cry. Jessie didn't know what to do. With Woody gone and Buzz out of his mind, there was nothing much that anyone could do. She prayed that Woody would come back, but she knew that wasn't going to happen. Once she stopped crying, she heard a harmonica playing a sad tune. It somehow helped her relax. She tilted her head to the side and listened intently and she let her mind wander to happier times.