All right everyone! Here is the second chapter! I hope you all enjoy it! Also; I just got the third Toy Story graphic novel made by Boom Studios! It's EPIC! It actually features a Woody/Bo kiss, very very sweet.
Disclaimer: If we owned Pixar, then Buzz and Jessie SO would have kissed in the third movie!
"This is gonna be so much fun! I can't believe you guys are all coming too! You're the best!" Trixie gabbled as they all gathered together fifteen minutes later.
Rex eyed Trixie as they stood on the desk. She seemed really excited and he was wondering if he was doing the right thing by coming along. He looked at Buzz and Jessie, who didn't seem to have the same qualms he did. He hoped the Velociraptor wouldn't be a dominant creature – that was supposed to be his role, even if he didn't fulfill it quite as much as he should. As he pondered, Woody joined them.
"Everyone present?" the cowboy asked, scanning the little group in front of him.
"You should know, Woody!" Jessie emphasized with a little giggle. "We're the same group as on the floor fifteen minutes ago."
"I wasn't sure if anyone else had been roped into accompanying us," Woody said tersely, and then turned to Trixie. "I assume you're going to lead the way for us?"
"Yup. I spoke to Velocistar and he gave me directions on where to go," Trixie said happily, handing Woody a piece of paper with a map drawn on it. "You can keep that one. I've memorized it already!" She turned and threw Rex a little glance; the green reptile was still standing there, fretting. "C'mon Rex. Let's get moving, huh?"
"Oh, sure," Rex mumbled, following Trixie out of the window, trying not to look down – he was scared of heights after all. He looked behind him to see Woody, Buzz and Jessie all preparing to follow them. With that, the dinosaur followed Trixie's lead over the jutting out part of the roof, scaling down the column that joined the first floor to the second, and landed neatly on the lawn. He was quite impressed with himself until Trixie grunted from nearby.
"Rex. Get off my back."
"Huh?" Looking down, Rex noticed he had mistaken Trixie for the ground. "Oh!" He jumped off the little blue dinosaur, who shook herself vigorously and sighed as the others joined them.
"You know, Rex, you're gonna have to pay more attention," she grumbled, starting to creep around the house, heading for the back fence. Rex watched her go, his shoulders sagging. He was never going to amount to anything in her eyes, or so it seemed.
"Maybe I'll just go back," he murmured, starting to turn and heading towards the porch, but Buzz grabbed his tail.
"Oh no you don't. You're coming with us, even if we have to drag you all the way."
"Yeah," Woody agreed. "After all, you were the one who said we should all go along with Trixie to meet this other dinosaur."
"You guys can go. I'll watch for you returning! I know where you are if anything goes wrong, you can get a note to me or som-" Rex started to babble, and Jessie put her hand over his mouth.
"Listen, lizard breath. Either you come with us, or I whip your butt into shape in front of Trixie. And you don't want that, seriously."
Rex blinked for a moment as Jessie removed her hand from his mouth so he could speak. When he did, it was only to exhale weakly. As silly as he was, he knew three against one wasn't going to work too well in his favour.
"Okay. But you guys have to promise me that if this Velociraptor challenges me that you guys will help me out, right?"
"We promise, Rex," Woody said with a grin. "Now come on, we need to get moving before we either get spotted, or Trixie comes back to yell at us for abandoning her."
"I'll go catch up to her," Jessie offered, starting to walk around the house to the fence too, leaving the three males together.
"How far do we have to go, Woody?" Rex asked nervously, watching Jessie depart.
"Not far." Woody surmised, glancing at the paper Trixie had left them. "Only through the fence, across next door's lawn, down the street, avoiding all cars and humans, through the other garden's fence, across the lawn, and up to the playroom."
It was at that moment, if Rex could have turned white, he probably would have.
"Over here," Trixie hissed from behind a bush.
The others were hot on her heels as they quickly entered through the gap in the fence and dashed across the lawn to meet her in the foliage. One by one they sat down, gasping for breath.
"That was a close call." Buzz muttered, flipping his helmet open again with the press of a purple button.
"You're telling me," Jessie muttered from beside him, fanning herself with her hat, her cheeks flushed.
"It wasn't so bad," Rex whispered, and Woody looked up from adjusting his vest.
"Not so bad? We almost got caught and it's all your fault."
"It wasn't my fault! That basket under that stroller shouldn't have had such large holes in it for my tail to get trapped." Rex wailed.
"You didn't even put it back on right," Trixie pointed out, and Rex turned around to see his tail was on upside down.
"Oh no! Now I look even stupider than usual!" Rex wailed louder, and Trixie shushed him.
"Be quiet. Here." The female dinosaur reached out and twisted the tail so it was the right way up. "Also, next time you get under a baby's stroller, warn us before you roar like that."
"If you got your tail caught-" Rex started.
"Which I didn't," Trixie said smartly.
"-then you'd roar too." Rex went on.
"Alright you guys. Enough bickering." Woody rolled his eyes and looked at Trixie. "Which way next?"
"Just over here." Trixie giggled. "To quote Velciostar, 'the entrance is hidden to the left, in the shadows'."
Rex blinked at Trixie's words.
"I thought that wa-" he started to say, and as Trixie turned, he started to stutter. "I m-mean, I thought that was j-just the entrance t-to Zurg's fortress?"
"Sorry?" Trixie blinked at him incredulously.
"You know...that really old Buzz Lightyear game...the entrance is 'to the left in the shadows'." Rex explained.
"Oh." Trixie contemplated this for a moment."You know...that's really weird. I could never work out where that entrance was." She grinned."I guess you're not as hopeless at video games as you seem, huh, Rex?"
She turned to enter through a small vent in the side of the building, leaving a speechless Rex behind. She didn't see the elbow jab, accompanied by the knowing grin that Buzz gave Rex, as others sauntered past and into the vent.
After a moment to realize that she'd actually thrown him a compliment, Rex let a small smile wash over his face. Maybe this journey into the unknown wasn't going to be as bad as he'd first thought.
Well, it seems like Rex is actually having a little bit of luck here! So let us know what you think! We will have the third chapter up for you soon! Our co-writer, Diane Clifford assures us that it will be funny!
