"Aw, yeah, I just love The Nutcracker." Jerry was excited.
"I hope it hasn't started yet." Tuffy said.
They soon came into the theater. Dr. Quest and Mr. Starling talked with each other as they were about to take their seats while they made sure that Robyn and Jonny could sit right next to each other, and where the pets would get their own seats. Everyone talked to each other until the lights would dim so that the show could start, and where soon enough, the lights dimmed down. There was then shushing and everyone quieted down. Lights shined on the stage as the orchestra soon played to start the ballet, and where the ballet began to play out the way Robyn remembered.
"I love this show." Robyn whispered to Jonny.
Jonny smiled to her and then began to watch with her. Mariana began to enjoy the ballet. Muscles didn't want to admit it, but he even enjoyed the show, since he was a tough guy, but he did see some ballet moves as good methods for fighting. After all, football players practiced ballet for their games. After all, those moves would be good on the field. Robyn yawned slightly, she wasn't bored or anything, but she appeared to be daydreaming herself in the tale of the Nutcracker Suite like when Clara dreamed about being saved by the Nutcracker Prince against the evil Mouse King, and where even Johnny and the pets started to daydream. The curtain soon lowered and the performers bowed for their audience as the show seemed to end.
Jerry clapped and whistled as he enjoyed the show more than anyone while he sat beside his nephew before glaring. "Tuffy, show some respect!" he scolded the baby mouse.
Tuffy soon stood up, he whistled and clapped like his uncle and even took out noisemakers. Mariana began to giggle a little. Jerry even took out a rose and threw it onto the stage with a dreamy smile, and the ballerina soon caught the flower. Jerry smiled to her. The ballerina seemed to smile back as the curtains closed.
"That was a pretty good show." Tom had to admit.
"It sure was." Muscles nodded.
"Did you enjoy the show, sweetie?" Mariana smiled to her son.
"It was okay," Tuffy smiled back. "I liked the ballerina. Can I marry her?"
"Whoa, easy there, little guy." Jerry said.
"What?" Tuffy asked. "What'd I say?"
"Let's not get too excited about that, Tuffy." Mariana giggled to her son.
"Oh, okay." Tuffy said.
"A mouse marryin' a human woman," Muscles chuckled. "Now I've seen everythin'."
Once everyone had left the ballet, the stage was now empty.
"Oh, this is my least favorite part of the show..." Jerry sighed as he walked along the stage. "I have to wait another sad and long year for the next performance."
"Same here." Robyn frowned before she felt something magical.
"This feels weird... I'm not sure how to explain it though..." Jonny said to the others. "Like, I feel different."
"Me too." Bandit said.
"Daddy?" Robyn called. "Daddy, where are you?"
"Dad?" Jonny added.
Their fathers didn't seem to answer them as Jerry daydreamed about dancing with the ballerina only to slip on a streamer and roll with a bauble.
"Jerry, are you okay?" Muscles asked.
"Well, that was humiliating..." Jerry mumbled before he soon got himself free from the ornament.
Tuffy clapped his hands and whistled in amusement to his uncle's pain.
"Tuffy, please." Mariana stopped him.
Tuffy soon stopped clapping.
"Oh, what's the use of pretending?" Jerry huffed as he kicked an elf doll aside.
Tuffy sniffled and wiped his eyes.
"Oh, I'm sorry, Tuffy, I didn't mean to make you cry." Jerry frowned to his nephew.
The star on top of the tree soon started to glimmer. When the brown mouse looked up, some glittering dust seemed to come down at Jerry.
"Is that a fairy?" Robyn wondered.
"This is getting good." Tuffy said as he ate popcorn.
Soon enough, Jerry seemed to transform into a new outfit, and he was able to dance perfectly this time.
"Whoa." Mariana smiled.
"How did ya do that, cousin?" Muscles asked.
Jerry shrugged. "I-I don't know!"
"It must have been that magic." Robyn said.
"Real magic?" Tuffy's eyes lit up.
"Oh, Tuffy, magic is only in fairy tales." Muscles told the young mouseling.
"Oh, no, magic is real, and I should know," Robyn smiled. "My Uncle Chip's a wizard."
"And I think the magic came from that star." Patch said pointing to the tree top.
Jerry soon smiled as he was able to dance like a professional male ballet dancer. Soon enough, the toys around the Christmas tree were coming to life like in Toy Story, and where, so did the decoration from before.
"This is amazing..." Jonny blinked.
Bandit glared and barked at the toys at first.
"Bandit, no, these could be our friends." Jonny told his dog.
"Oh... Sorry, Jonny." Bandit whimpered.
The decoration soon found himself only a head. Jerry smiled sheepishly to that. The elf decoration's body soon took the head and put himself together.
"No hard feelings?" Robyn asked the elf decoration.
"No worries." The elf decoration smiled to her.
The toys gathered together as sparkles came down to a music box which opened up to show a ballerina. Tuffy smiled to his uncle and then pushed him toward the ballerina. Muscles knew that Jerry would have the time of his life. Jerry smiled as he held out a paw for the ballerina. The ballerina leaped off of her pedestal and soon came to Jerry with tiptoes before taking his paw. The two bowed to each other and they began to dance together.
"Aw!" Robyn smiled.
"They're kind of cute together." Jonny admitted.
"We should join them." Robyn smiled as she took his hands.
"Whoa, Robyn, wait, whoa!" Jonny yelped as he was suddenly moved by her.
Magic suddenly came over them. Robyn seemed to be a ballerina herself while Jonny looked like the Nutcracker Prince.
"A lovely party, no?" Tuffy smiled to the elf before his head accidentally rolled off. "Sorry."
Mariana seemed to giggle a bit. The star soon made the play castle into a bigger and more richer one and the Christmas tree became snow covered and they were outside in a winter wonderland from the magic. Tuffy, Muscles, and Mariana were suddenly in new royal-like clothing as were Patch and Tom. Jerry and the ballerina were soon at a royal table together with roast turkey and had glasses of sparkling cider together. Everyone else joined them and they soon all clinked glasses together.
"Wait, if Jerry is the king, then who's going to try to overthrow him?" Jonny asked.
"There will be no overthrowing my brother." Mariana huffed.
"But if this is kind of like The Nutcracker, then there has to be someone evil." Robyn said.
"She's right," Jonny agreed. "You might wanna be careful, Jerry."
The stage door soon seemed to open from outside and there were alley cats outside who were old friends of Tom's back when he was bitter enemies with Jerry, and where even his cousin had grown a spine and some courage.
"Man, that turkey looks amazing." Butch grinned.
Tom's cousin even liked the size of the turkey and went into the stage before closing the door being selfish as he wanted the food. The door soon opened on him and the other cats trampled over him to steal the feast. Suddenly, from the magic, they all changed into soldiers as enemies against Jerry and his family.
"Uh-oh... Well, at least we can take them on and three of us are strong enough to handle them all." Tom smiled nervously.
"Isn't that your musophobic cousin George?" Jerry asked once he saw a cat who looked nearly just like Tom.
"Yeah, it is..." Tom realized. "No way he could be over that fear!"
"Yep, that's him, but looks like he finally got over his fear." Jerry said.
"What musso phobia?" Tuffy asked.
"Never mind that now," Jerry told his nephew before glaring as he held a fork like a weapon. "We've got company." The crown on his head suddenly vanished.
The toys seemed to flee from the dinner table.
"Tuffy, stay close to Mommy." Mariana cooed as she hugged her son.
"Aw, but I wanna help Uncle Jerry!" Tuffy pouted.
"Don't worry, we can take 'em." Patch said before magic seemed to shrink him Robyn, Tom, and Jonny.
"Hey!" Robyn, Jonny, and Tom yelped at first.
"Looks like this Nutcracker the mice are the good guys, and, uh, one cat, two dogs, and two humans, and the other cats are the bad guys" Patch smirked.
"Cats!" Bandit growled. "Oh, sorry, Tom, force of habit."
"Ah, that's okay," Tom told him. "I hate those guys anyway, ever since I decided to be friends with Jerry, I decided those guys aren't worth my time, especially Butch."
"Uh, who is that fat cat?" Patch asked while pointing to the fat cat as the crown appeared on the cat's head.
"Looks like the Cat King..." Tom groaned. "The ruler of the junkyard where I used to hang out with Butch in."
"Uh-oh, then looks like he's the bad guy of this Nutcracker story." Robyn said.
"In this one, that is." Jonny added.
The other cats soon came to the dinner table and helped themselves to some real food, and locking up the toys only to see that they missed Jerry and the others. George soon stood up and went to join his fellow cats and was soon given his own soldier outfit.
"Oh, Jerry, what should we do?" The ballerina asked Jerry.
The two of them soon separated. A teddy bear tried to fight George for the turkey.
"Oh, you want this turkey?" George mocked the teddy bear. "Well, too bad!" He soon shoved the teddy bear away with his foot.
The bear found a pot of honey only to be taken away by the other cats. Muscles rolled up his sleeves as he stomped toward the evil cat army.
"Go, Muscles!" Jerry cheered.
George glared down at Muscles as he was about to flick the strong mouse away. Muscles soon grabbed George by his tail and spun him around in the air before letting go of the cat which made him fly in the air, crash into a wall, and then slide into a trash can.
"It's good!" Patch called out.
"How dare you bullies interrupt Uncle Jerry's wish?" Tuffy scolded the cats. "All he wanted to do was dance with his heart's desires. Shouldn't we respect his dream?"
One of the cats hit him with a drumstick. Being a baby mouse, this knocked out poor Tuffy.
"Hey, I'm not a toy!" Mariana frowned. "Let me out of here! And where is my baby?!" She began to try to make it over to the bars.
Jerry soon whispered a plan to the ballerina, Bandit, Jonny, Patch, Tom, Muscles, and Robyn, and where the decoration and toy horse with a string listened to the plan.
"Oh, Mr. Cat?" Robyn smirked. "We have a present for you!"
"For me?" The cat smiled.
Jerry snuck to the toy prison and went to free the toys and his sister while the cat was distracted. The cat soon opened the present to see what was inside of it. Jerry spun a rope like a lasso and then latched it onto the toy horse in front.
"Thanks, it's what I always wanted." The cat smiled as he held the toy that was made from bombs.
Jerry soon zip-lined down onto the ground in front of the free toys. Patch pulled onto the string to make it easy to escape with. All the others cats laughed at the cat with the toy only for one of them to realize what it was. The toys cheered for their rescue.
"Isn't that a bomb?" One cat asked.
"A BOMB?!" The other cats panicked only to explode with the bomb.
"Somebody do somethin'!" The Cat King demanded. He soon saw that most of the cats had been burned to a crisp by the bomb.
George smiled as he ate most of the food like a fat slob.
"You slacker!" The Cat King glared. "Stop those toys!"
"Oh, uh, yes, sir!" George saluted nervously.
"Get moving!" The Cat King ordered.
George soon fell onto his feet and rushed to get to work.
"Oh, Jerry, you were always so brave," Mariana smiled to her brother before she looked behind her to see Tom's cousin before grabbing a wheel and threw it at him to throw him off their track. "Oh, no, you don't!"
The wheel sort of did do the trick.
"See ya, cous!" Tom laughed.
George collided against the tree only to slide and he then soon fell in the air with the wheel and landed backwards, clamping his can of peanuts onto the others since they were small enough to fit which made him land on the toy wagon and it wheeled back to the cats. The other cats then cheered for him.
"Oh, I'm sorry, dears." Mariana frowned.
"How did that even happen?" Tom asked.
"Physics?" Robyn shrugged. "What's that?"
George soon took the can and put it into a cannon with the help from a black kitten.
"Uh-oh, this is bad." Jonny said.
George soon fired the cannon.
"JERRY!" Mariana squeaked for her brother. She, Robyn, and the ballerina were soon in a cage.
"Hello, ladies." George smirked as he trapped them.
"This is bad." Robyn said.
The peanut can seemed to travel all around the world from Easter Island, to Paris, France, to India, to Tokyo, Japan, the Wild West, to the Great Wall of China, and even more until they landed in the snow, but the ride didn't end there. They ended up sliding across the snow while still locked in the peanut can until finally stopping. Jonny took out his pocket knife and cut open the can so they could get out. Once they were out of the can, they saw there way back closed.
"Did I really just see that?" Jonny moaned slightly.
"Unfortunately, yes." Bandit groaned.
"Now what do we do?" Jerry sighed. "We have to save the others from the cats."
"But how?" Patch asked.
