Chapter one: Welcome to Berkshire
The family car drove throughout the country until they arrive in New York and get on a ferry.
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Mike stands on the deck of the ferry and looks toward the horizon. From a first point of view shot, an island with a tall mountain, called Berkshire, appears on the horizon.
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Joy: (off-screen) Hey look! It's Mount Gold! Isn't that great?
Interest: (off-screen) Are you kidding? It's awesome!
Joy: (off-screen) It's not made out of solid gold like we thought, which is kind of a disappointment, but still!
Interest: (off-screen) I don't care what the mountain is made of. Like I said, it's awesome!
Later as the Parker family was driving off the ferry...
Fear: I sure am glad you told me earthquakes are a myth, Joy. Otherwise, I'd be terrified right now! (chuckles)
Joy: (nervous as everyone else looks at him) Uh...yeah.
Shy: (whispers to Joy) Should you tell him?
Joy: (whispers back) Maybe later.
Soon the family gets stuck in a long line of traffic as people constantly beep their horns.
Cut to Anger smiling...
Anger: These are my kind of people.
Later on…
Richard: Alright, just a few more blocks. We're almost to our new house.
Anger: Step on it daddy!
Worry: But he might get a speeding ticket!
Disgust: Why don't we live in this smelly car? We've already been in it forever!
Smartness: Actually we've been in this car for 36 hours. Not including rest stops.
Frustration: (annoyed) Will you shut up about your stupid braintastic opinions?!
Smartness: Hey, I'm stating a fact not an opinion!
Contempt: Nobody cares Smartness, it still feels like forever.
Joy: Which, actually it was really lucky, because that gave us plenty of time to think about our new house is going to look like! (pulls out a box of daydream discs) What? Let's review the top five daydreams. (inserts the disc of Mike living in a funhouse)
Fear: Ooh, that looks safe.
Interest: Nice one Joy!
Excitement: That looks exciting!
Sadness: That one's nice.
Joy: (inserts the one of the tree house) Oh, this would be great for Mike. Oh, no no no, (puts in the one of a gingerbread house) this one!
Anticipation: That's a nice one.
Surprise: That looks delicious!
Disgust: Joy, for the last time, he could not live in a cookie.
Surprise: I would!
Joy then inserts the idea of a Berk style house and Mike riding a Monstrous Nightmare dragon.
Anger: That's the one! It comes with a dragon!
Laughter: Whatever house we get, I hope it has a big backyard and so that we can plant a garden.
Frustration: He would probably do that, if he was a girl!
Laughter: Hey, I'm just saying!
The Parker family finally made it to the new house and stop next to it.
Joy: (off-screen) We're getting close, I can feel it!
Mike unbuckles his seatbelt and gets out of the car to look at the new house.
Joy: (off-screen) Here it is. Here's our new house. And…
Mike stands in front to look at the house, but stopped smiling when he saw that it was a small, skinny, bland, boring blue Victorian style house, it was nothing like the daydreams. The emotions were all slack jawed.
Joy: Maybe it's nice on the inside.
Trust: Well, we can't judge a book by it's cover.
Mike opens the door to the house to see how nice it is. Everything is a bit spaced out, empty, and a little dirty.
Frustration: (off-screen) Wait, we're supposed to live HERE?!
Shame: (off-screen) It's a shame.
Sadness: (off-screen) Do we have to?
Contempt: (off-screen) I don't like this house one bit.
Disgust: (off-screen) I'm telling you, it smells like something died in here.
Then four new memories: a cerulean one, a green one, a fuschia one, and a indigo one, roll onto the shelves.
Worry: Guys, I'm scared.
Shy: Me too.
Fear: Can you die from moving?!
Joy: Guys, you're overreacting! Nobody is dying!
Peace: Yeah, people, just chill-
Disgust: (points at the screen) A DEAD MOUSE!
A dead mouse lays in the corner of the room.
Worry and Fear: (off-screen) AAAAAAAAHH!
Mike walks back in disgust.
Frustration: (off-screen) Oh my god that's horrible!
Disgust: (off-screen) I'm gonna be sick!
Contempt: (off-screen) Me too!
Anger: (off-screen) Great, this is just great.
Fear: (off-screen) It's the house of the dead! What are we going to do?! (gets on top of Anger) We're going to get rabies!
Anger: (blows fire onto Fear) GET OFFA ME!
Fear: (jumps off of Anger and starts running around) AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!
Envy and Boredom come down stairs with Fear and Shy's son, Bravery, to see what the commotion is all about.
Envy: What's going on here?
Goofy: (points to the screen) Look!
Boredom: Wait,...THIS is our new house?! I haven't been down here for a minute and I already think it sucks!
Curiosity: (eyes light up) Hey guys I'm already curious to see something about this new place. (uses a fire extinguisher to put out the fire on Fear)
Contempt: What?
Curiosity: Don't you guys remember? All through the drive, Dad talked about how cool our new room is. Let's go check it out! (pushes a button)
Mike runs upstairs to see his new room.
Frustration: (off-screen) He better not have lied.
Trust: (off-screen) You're right, Curiosity!
Disgust: (off-screen) Let's go!
Anger: (off-screen) It's gonna be great.
Worry: (off-screen) Hopefully.
Fear: (off-screen) Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!
But when Mike enters his new room….
Fear: (off-screen) No, no, no, no, no, no.
Curiosity: (off-screen) Okay,...so I was wrong.
Contempt: (annoyed, off-screen) Go figure!
Disgust: (off-screen) I'm starting to envy the dead mouse.
Boredom: (off-screen) You guys saw a dead mouse?
Frustration: (off-screen) Face it, Berkshire has no respect for newcomers.
Anger: (off-screen) Get out the rubber ball. We're in solitary confinement.
Inside Headquarters….
Sadness: Mike can't live here. (presses a button)
Anger: Right. (pounds a button)
Disgust: It's the worst, it's absolutely the worst. (pushes a button)
Frustration: Agreed. (turns a dial)
Fear: It's so bad. (presses buttons)
Shame: Berkshire hates us. (pushes buttons)
Worry: What did we do to deserve this?! (presses buttons like crazy)
Emotions, sans Joy, Shy, and Peace, all start talking at once. Tons of memory orbs roll onto the shelves, none of them were happy, nor positive.
Shy: Joy, do something!
Joy: (goes to the console) Hey, it's nothing our dragon pictures couldn't fix.
Laughter: Yay! Dragons! (flies around the room)
Frustration: (rolls her eyes) Oh, brother.
Joy: I've read somewhere that an empty room is an opportunity. (takes out a daydream disc)
Anger: Where did you read that?
Joy: It doesn't matter, I read it and it's great.
Pride: (to Anger) I think what he's trying to say is that we can decorate this room any way we want.
Joy: (to Pride and Anger) Exactly, (inserts the disc) we'll put the bed there and the desk over there.
The daydream shows where Mike's things would be.
Fear: The hockey lamp goes there.
Worry: The dresser can go over there.
Smartness: Our science supplies and computer can go on the desk.
Love: The pictures can go around the window.
Anger: Uh, put the chair there.
Disgust: Well the trophy collection has to go on the dresser.
Sadness: Chest...
Fear: Posters! I like that!
Mike looks around and smiles, liking the arrangement.
Joy: (off-screen) Now we're talking! (shown) Let's go get our stuff from the moving van!
Surprise: To the moving van we go!
Mike runs downstairs, but finds his parents. His dad was just about to get off his phone.
Richard: Alright, goodbye. (hangs up) Well, guess what. The moving van won't be here until Saturday.
Lucy: You're kidding?
Boredom: (off-screen) Aw, come on!
The negative emotions start to fight for control and more negative memories fill up the shelves.
Lucy: You said it would be here yesterday!
Richard: I know that's what I said, that's what they told me!
The two adults begin to argue.
Worry: (sees this) AAAAAHHH! (grabs a microphone and a set of headphones as an alarm goes off) Code red! We are at code red, Mom and Dad are fighting! Repeat: Mom and Dad are fighting!
Interest: Now what?
Suddenly, Joy dashes over to a shelf and grabs a light bulb.
Joy: I've got a great idea! (inserts the bulb into the console)
Mike smiles as he gets an idea.
Lucy: (to her husband) Did you even READ the contract?
Richard: Lucy, you're acting as if this is my...
Mike places a crumpled paper ball on the ground and plays a Hockey like game.
Mike: (announcer voice) Parker makes his move! He's closing in!
Richard: (grabs a broom) Hey!
They start play the same game together.
Richard: (tries to win) Oh no you're not!
Mike: (trying to win also) He's lining up for the shot!
Richard: Coming behind you! Watch out!
Mike slides past him and hits the ball into the empty fireplace.
Mike: He shoots and he scores! Yeah!
In Headquarters, the emotions cheered for his victory. Joy looks out the window and sees Family Island running.
Fear and Cleaver: Yeah! Alright!
Excitement: (smiles big) This so exciting!
Surprise: You got that right!
Shy: Yep!
Interest: (to Curiosity) Awesome, right bro?
Curiosity: Definitely!
Mike: (to his mother) Come on, Grandma!
Lucy: Ha! "Grandma?" (smiles as she puts her hair in a ponytail)
Joy: (still excited) Uh-oh, she put her hair up, we're in for it!
Lucy plays as the goalie and the whole family kept on playing, until Richard picks up both his wife and son in his arms.
Mike: (laughing)
Lucy: (also laughing) Hey, put me down!
Inside HQ, Joy gets in luck as his idea made a new happy memory once more, followed by a laughter memory.
Shy: That sure helped us out a lot Joy.
Joy: Thanks sis.
As the Parker family had a great time, Richard's cell phone begins to ring and he puts down his wife and son to answer it.
Richard: Ugh. Sorry, hold on, it's my phone.
The emotions stopped smiling.
Richard: (on his phone) Hello?
Joy: (gets confused) Wait. Wha-?
Anticipation: Huh?
Worry: Wh-what's happening now?
Richard: (off-screen, on his phone) You're kidding? (sighs) Alright, stall for me, I'll be right there. (hangs up) The new recruits are supposed to show up on Thursday, not today!
Joy, Shy, Laughter, Excitement, Anticipation, Curiosity, Surprise, Goofy, and Interest: (disappointed) Aww!
Richard: I gotta go.
Lucy: It's okay, we get it.
Richard: You're the best. Thanks, hon. (kisses his wife)
Richard: (to Mike as he walks out the door) See you kiddo.
Mike doesn't respond.
Worry: (off-screen) Dad just...left us.
Fear: (off-screen) But, why?
Sadness: He probably doesn't love us anymore, that's sad. I should drive, right? (reaches out for the console but Joy stops her) Joy...what are you doing?
Shame: (to Joy) Why did you push her away like that?
Laughter: Uncle Joy? Are you okay?
Joy: Uh, just uh, gimme one second…(gets an idea and grabs a happy memory and places it into the projector) You know what I've realized? Mike hasn't had lunch! Remember?
The memory shows a pizza restaurant called "Yeast from the East" that the car had driven by.
Surprise: (gasps) Are you guys thinking what I'm thinking?
Trust: I think we are amigo.
Mike: (looks at his mom) Hey, I saw a pizza place down the street maybe we could try that.
Lucy: Pizza sounds delicious!
Interest: (smiles) Pizza?! I love that!
Surprise: Yum!
Disgust: (with slight sarcasm) Yay pizza.
Clever: Definitely!
Fear: That's good.
Goofy: That's one upside to this terrible place.
Everyone else, sans Shame and Sadness, agree to this.
Later, Mike and his mother are at the restaurant and the gothic teenage boy who ran the place pulled out the pizza, topped with green beans.
Fear and Surprise: (off-screen) What the heck is that?!
Frustration: (off-screen) Are you kidding me?!
Joy, Interest, and Curiosity: (off-screen) Who in the world puts green beans on pizza?!
In Headquarters…
Boredom: This sucks!
Disgust: (walks away) That's it, I'm done!
Contempt: (walks away also) Me too.
Envy: (barfs into a trash can) That is SO wrong.
Anger: (pounds the console) CONGRATULATIONS BERKSHIRE, YOU'VE RUINED PIZZA! FIRST SAN FRANCISCO…(points at the screen) and now YOU!
Later on, Mike and his mother walk down the street.
Lucy: What kind of a pizza place serves only one kind of pizza? Must be a Berkshire thing huh?
Inside HQ, Joy looks at the memory shelves, filled with negative memories, and lets out a disappointed sigh.
Lucy: Still it wasn't as bad as that soup, that diner in Nebraska…
Mike: Oh, yeah. The spoon stood up in the soup by itself! (off-screen) That was disgusting! Dad's got a scrap iron stomach!
Joy looks at Family Island being active.
Joy: (off-screen) Oh, good. Family's running.
Envy: I sure wish pa was with us.
Peace: He can't, he's got work to do, that's why we moved here in the first place. Remember?
Smartness: And so we can go to that school for gifted kids.
Curiosity: Yeah.
Interest: I really hope Dad likes his new job as a police officer.
Surprise: Yeah. I really don't like it here, but if Dad's happy, we should be happy too.
Lucy: (to Mike) The drive out was pretty fun. What was your favorite part of the trip?
Anger: Spitting out the car window!
Disgust: Definitely not when dad was singing.
Fear: Wearing a seat-belt!
Interest: Looking at those dinosaur statues!
Curiosity: Learning facts about the states!
Clever: Riding without traffic!
Joy: Oh! What about that time at Navy Pier? (calls up one of Laughter's memories, it was the one of the family stopping at the pier)
Peace: Yeah, that's cool.
Disgust: Definitely.
Anticipation: Yeah!
Anger: Yup.
Fear: That's the one.
Worry: Yes it is.
The memory shows the family with the pier ferris wheel in the background.
Richard: (on-screen) Say cheese!
Mike: (noticing the car rolling away, on-screen) Dad? Dad! Look at the car!
Lucy: (on-screen) Richard, honey, the car! The car!
Richard: (on-screen) Huh? (tries to stop the car) Stop! No, no, no, no, no, no, no NO!
The back of the car rolled into the ocean. Joy and most of the other emotions chuckle.
Fear: Nice one, Joy.
Laughter: I love that part.
With Mike…
Mike: (laughs) I liked that time at Navy Pier, that was pretty funny.
As the emotions were watching the memory, something happened. The picture on the screen turned from light pink to blue, with that Mike stopped smiling and began to feel down.
Laughter: (surprised) Hey!
Joy: What the-?
Worry: Um, what just happened?
Smartness: Something happened to the memory.
Shy: But how and who did it?
Everyone turns around and sees Sadness touching the now blue memory. Sadness gets down from the projector with a blank expression on her face and doesn't respond.
Boredom: Sadness, what the heck?!
Fear: She did something to the memory.
Joy: (runs over and takes the memory off the projector) What did you do?
Sadness: I just touched it.
Joy: (begins rubbing the memory) That shouldn't make it change.
Fear: Change it back Joy!
Joy: I'm trying!
Anger: You can't change it back?
Joy: No, I guess I can't!
Disgust: Good going, Sadness. Now whenever Mike thinks of that moment with Dad, he's gonna be sad. Bravo!
Frustration: You stupid klutz!
Trust: Frustration, be nice!
Frustration just blows a raspberry at Trust in response.
Sadness: I'm sorry Joy...I don't really know- I thought maybe, if you- if I- if...I mean…
Shame: (hugs Sadness) It's okay.
Disgust: Joy, we've got a boy playing with a Night Fury toy up ahead.
Mike runs to the boy.
Joy: (to Sadness as he puts the memory back into the vacuum tube) Just don't touch any other memories until we figure out what's going on. (goes to the console)
Sadness: Okay
Joy: Alright, we have got to go see this toy of our favorite dragon!
Frustration: Yeah, dragons rule!
Joy turns around and looks at Dragon Island running. Mike is about three feet away, but stops smiling and continues walking, past the little boy.
Joy: Wait, what? What happened?
A core memory rolls across the floor and bumps into Joy's foot.
Fear: Ahhhhh!
Worry: A core memory!
Joy: Oh-no! (picks up the memory)
Joy spots Sadness next to an open core memory holder. Since the memory is not in the holder, Dragon Island goes dark and shuts down.
Joy: Sadness, what are you doing?! (runs over to the holder)
Sadness: It looked like one was crooked so I opened it and then it fell out. I…
Joy quickly puts the memory back in and Dragon Island powers backup and Mike turns around and begins talking to the boy about the toy dragon.
Sadness: It's just that...I wanted to maybe hold one…. (reaches for a core memory and it slowly turns blue)
Fear: Joy!
Worry: AHHHH!
Joy: (stops Sadness) Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! (watches as the blue on the memory disappears)
Worry: Phew!
Joy: Sadness, you nearly touched a core memory! And when you touch them we can't change them back! (closes the holder)
Sadness: I know, I'm sorry. Something's wrong with me, it's like I'm having a breakdown.
Shame: A breakdown?
Joy: No, you're not having a breakdown, it's stress.
Peace: Yeah, everybody has it.
Sadness: (as Joy pulls her away from the holder) I keep making mistakes like that. I'm awful...
Joy: No, you're not!
Sadness: ...and annoying.
Shame: You're anything but annoying.
Joy: Yeah, well, uh...You know what? You can't focus on what's going wrong. There's always a way to turn things around; to find the fun!
Laughter: (flying) Fun!
Goofy: (hits himself with his mallet) Fun!
Surprise: (does a cartwheel) Fun!
Interest and Curiosity: (dance around with bamboo canes and wear vaudeville hats) Tons of fun!
Anticipation and Excitement: (dance with each other) Yeah, loads of fun!
Sadness: Yeah, find the fun. I don't know how to do that.
Joy: Okay! Well, try to think of something funny!
Laughter: Like when you shake a soda can and it sprays like a hose? (laughs)
Surprise: Or when fish do this? (makes a fish lips face, making Laughter laugh harder)
Interest: I thought it was funny when that cat was spinning around and around on that record player!
Curiosity: Or when Hiccup says "You just gestured to all of me."? (the learning twins laugh at that)
Sadness: (thinks) Oh! Remember the funny movie where the dog dies?
Shy: Um…
Peace: You're kidding right?
Joy: Yeah, that's not...What about that time, with Sam, when Mike laughed so hard, milk came out of his nose?!
A flashback of Mike and Sam is played and Mike sprays milk out of his nose when he laughs.
In the present, the positive emotions all guffaw at the memory.
Sadness: Yeah, that hurt. It felt like fire.
The flashback is shown again, and Mike is shown to be in pain after the milk came out.
Sadness: (voice-over) It was awful.
Joy: Okay, okay, lets try something else. What are your favorite things to do?
Sadness: My favorite…?
Shame: Yeah, I mean, there has to be something you like.
Sadness: Um...Well, I like it when we're outside.
Interest: Outside? Cool!
Joy: Yeah! That's good! Like, there's the beach and sunshine. Oh! Like that time we buried Dad in the sand up to his neck?
A flashback of Mike, as a toddler, burying his dad in the sand.
Sadness: (voice-over) I was thinking more like rain.
A sad Mike is seen standing in of a downpour.
Shame: Rain?
Joy: Rain? Rain...is my favorite too! (begins jumping around) We can stomp around in puddles…
Mike is then shown jumping in rain puddles.
Joy: ((voice-over) Con't) There's cool umbrellas, lightning storms…!
Another scene of a sad Mike is shown standing in the rain.
Sadness: (voice-over) More like when the rain runs down our back and makes our shoes soggy. Then we get all cold and shivery…
In the present, Sadness has tears building in her eyes.
Sadness: and everything just starts feeling droopy! (falls on her face and cries)
Shame lets out a gasp and kneels next to her.
Joy: Oh, hey, hey, hey, hey, why are you crying? (groans) This is really like the opposite of what we're going for here.
Sadness: (raises her head to look at Joy) Crying helps me slow down and obsess over the weight over life's problems. (head falls to the floor again)
Peace: Bliss out girl.
Joy: (groans) You know what? Let's think about something else. (picks up Sadness and takes her to some book shelves with Shame following) How about we read some mind manuals? Huh? Sounds fun!
Sadness: I've read most of them.
Joy: (grabs a manual) Well, have you read this one? This seems interesting: (opens it) "Long Term Memory Retrieval Volume 47"? (gives the manual to Sadness)
Sadness: No.
Joy: Ooh! A real page turner!
Sadness: (reading) "Long Term Memory Data Selection via channel sub-grouping"?
Joy: See? Fun already! Oh, you lucky dog! You're reading these cool things, I gotta go work. (begins to walk away) Life is so unfair.
Shame: (staying with Sadness) I'll read it with you.
Sadness: Thanks Shame.
Joy walks back to the console and lets out an exhausted sigh, thinking things are taken care of,…
SFX: Bell rings
he looks at the shelves and sees a green and a fuschia memory join the other negative memories. Upon seeing all of those negative memories, Joy let out a long frustrated groan. That night, Mike looked down the stairs and saw his mom looking in a box while his dad talked on his phone.
Richard: (on his phone) If we can't find any new recruits by then, the mayor will have to close down the police station.
Mike: Mom! Dad! Come kiss me goodnight!
Lucy: (off-screen) Be right there!
Mike goes back up the stairs, goes back into his room, and lays in his sleeping bag.
Inside HQ…
Fear: Did you hear Dad? He sounded really upset.
Worry: He didn't get fired already, did he?
A truck rumbles by the house, spooking Mike.
Fear: What was that? Was it a bear? It's a bear! (grabs a crank and presses a few buttons)
Shy: Fear, you'll scare Bravery!
Disgust: And there are no bears in Berkshire.
Worry: How would you know?
Smartness: She's right actually.
Anger: You know, I saw a really hairy guy. He looked like a bear.
Worry: (gulps) It could have been a bear disguised as a really hairy guy. You can never tell with these people.
Fear: (lets go of the console) Oh, I'm so jumpy my nerves are shot!
Disgust: Ew! I don't want to hear about your nerves!
Anger: I'll tell you what it is. This move has been a bust.
Boredom: No kidding Sherlock.
Joy was looking at the shelves before he looks at the others.
Fear: That's what I've been telling you guys! There is at least 37 things for Mike to be scared of right now!
Disgust: This smell alone is enough to make him gag!
Curiosity: It could make Mike have a spark of insanity.
Contempt: Nothing is good here!
Frustration: It sucks!
Anger: I can't believe Mom and Dad moved us here!
All the other emotions, including some of the positive ones, agree. It was clear that the whole move had had a bad effect on them all.
Joy: Look, I get it! You guys have concerns. But we've been through worse.
Boredom: Like nothing worser than that time when Sadness changed Laughter's memory blue?
Shy: AH! (slaps Boredom's cheek)
Boredom: (rubbing his cheek) What was that for?!
Shy: Don't talk to anybody like that Boredom!
Boredom just rolled his eyes. Joy's face then lights up as he suddenly gets an idea.
Joy: I have an idea! Why don't we make list about all of the things that Mike should be HAPPY about?
Laughter: Yeah, maybe something ticklish and giggly.
Anger: Fine, let's see: this house stinks, our room stinks.
Disgust: The pizza is weird here.
Frustration: It sucks.
Envy: I'm jealous that other kids have much nicer houses.
Shame and Sadness: (look at the others) Our friends are back home.
Fear: All of our stuff is in the missing van!
Worry: Dad is too busy to spend time with us.
Boredom: We're bored here.
Curiosity: It's making me go crazy!
Smartness: Basically, everything here is not happy at all!
Peace: Aw, come on man!
Joy: Yeah, it could be worse.
Disgust: Yeah, guys, we could be lying on the dirty floor, in a bag.
Mike is shown lying in his sleeping bag.
Joy: Okay, I'll admit it! We've had a rough start, but think of all the good things that…
Anger: (interrupting him) No, Joy. There's absolutely no reason for Mike to be happy right now. Let us handle this.
Fear: I say we skip school tomorrow and lock ourselves in the bedroom.
Worry: We won't come out until we're alone.
Disgust: We have no clean clothes, I mean, no one should see us.
Sadness: (clinging to Joy as Shame follows) We could cry until we can't breath.
Shame: We'll figure out how much hate we will receive in the future.
Frustration: We'll play loud music and scream loudly, no one will hear a thing.
Anger: (with a crazy look) We should lock the door and scream that curse word we know! (walks to the console) It's a good one!
Goofy: Yay, curse words!
Peace: Now hold on you guys, we all have our off days.
Joy: Yeah, you know…(stops talking when Lucy enters Mike's room)
Lucy: (on screen) Hi, sport.
Anger: The mom's bad news train is pulling in! (does the train action) Toot-Toot!
Lucy: (gets on her knees) Still no moving van! (scoffs) Now they're saying it won't be here until Friday. Can you believe it?
Anger: (does the train action again) Toot-Toot-TOOT!
Curiosity then wonders something and presses a button. The action causes Mike to look behind his mother.
Mike: Where's dad?
Lucy: On the phone. This issue about terrible police officers is getting him riled up.
Anger: I rest my case!
Joy walks away from the console with sad expression, feeling like he was no longer important and that he had failed.
Anger: (walks to the console with the others) Now for a few well placed, withering scowls. (presses a few buttons)
Frustration: With a little bit of tooth gritting. (turns a crank)
Mike grits his teeth as he scowls. His mom doesn't notice.
Lucy: (sighs) I guess all I really want to say is: thank you.
Anger and Frustration: Huh?
Curiosity presses a button, making Mike's angry expression fade to confusion.
Lucy: You know, through all this confusion, you've stayed...well, you've stayed our happy boy.
Joy stops walking as his eyes widen, he then looks at the screen to see Mike's mom smiling in encouragement.
Lucy: (on screen) Your dad's under a lot of pressure. But, if you and I can keep smiling, it would be a big help. We can do that for him right?
Joy: Whoa! (goes back to the console) Well. (presses a button and smiles, making Mike smile too)
Mike: Yeah! I'll try.
Lucy: What did we do to deserve you? (kisses his forehead, turns off the lamp and goes to the door) Sweet dreams.
Mike: Good night.
Lucy closes the bedroom door.
Inside HQ...
Anger: Well you can't argue with Mom. "Happy" it is!
Laughter: (giggles)
Fear: Team Happy! Sounds great!
Disgust: I'm totally behind you Joy.
Contempt: Me too!
Everyone else, sans Sadness and Shame, agree.
Mike closes his eyes and falls asleep.
Joy: Looks like we're going into REM. Peace and I got dream duty, so we'll take care of sending these to long term. (activates the vacuum/recall tube to send the memories to Long Term memory) Great day today guys! All sleep well Team Happy!
Peace: Good night dudes and dudettes.
Joy and Peace look at the screen as a dream is projected onto it.
Joy: Alright, what's on tonight Dream Production?
The family car is shown flying and it lands right in front of the new house-
Richard: Well this is it, the new place.
-except it's haunted! The dead mouse Mike saw rises in front of the screen.
Mouse: Come with live me, Mike! (gags and dies)
A bear wearing a " I Love SF" shirt enters the scene, he's holding a pizza box.
Bear: Somebody order a green bean pizza?
The pizza slices come to life and start to dance.
Pizza slice: Eat me! I'm organic!
Mike frowns in his sleep.
Peace: Whoa! Maybe I should lay off the special pants.
Joy: Ugh, no! Who is in charge of programing down there?!
Peace: I once saw Dream Production, and it's pretty busy.
Joy: Peace, I know I'm not supposed to do this, but…(reaches for something under the console and turns off the dream)
Peace: What'd you do that for?
Joy: (to Peace) We are not going to end the day like this.
Joy pushes a few buttons and recalls a happy memory of Mike showing his ice skating moves to his parents. Joy takes of his shoes, leaving his socks on, and begins to copy Mike's movements as Peace just smiles as she watches.
Joy: (to himself and Mike) Don't you worry. I'm going to make sure that tomorrow is another great day, I promise.
Joy touches the screen while Peace takes control, causing a now smiling Mike to sleep peacefully.
Author's Notes
Here it is folks, the first chapter of my Inside out story! In case you guys are probably confused, the reason why it's part of a crossover with How to Train Your Dragon is because this takes place in a world where the events from the movies, TV shows, and comics actually happened. You learn when that story gets posted. As always, not all things in here belong to me and belong to their respective creators; credit will be given at the end.