Oswald was working on Mean Street North, trying to fix one of the projectors. Gremlin Jamface had mentioned the projector heading to Dark Beauty Castle had gone down out of nowhere and had tried to fix it himself but found it hard. He would have asked Gremlin Prescott for help, but with him missing from his cage at Town Hall and with no one able to find him anywhere, he asked Oswald who just so happened to be right there when he needed it.
"And," Oswald started before clicking something in place, which made the projector roar back on. "There we go! Good as new!"
"Oh, thank you, mes ami!" Jamface said with his French accent. "You are a life saver."
"Just doing my job!" Oswald said as Gremlin Gus appeared beside him, making Jamface and the rabbit look over at him with curiosity. "Hey Gus, what's up?"
"Oh, not much. Just reporting to you, Oswald, that something odd just landed in Dark Beauty Castle," Gus said with his British accent. "My gut is telling me that Mickey has returned."
"Mickey? But there's no reason for him to come back!" Oswald exclaimed. "Wasteland is fine! Why would he…?"
"Unless he came to visit, I don't know," interrupted Gus as he floated over to the projector. "I still think we should go greet him though."
"I agree on that one. See ya around, Jamface!" Oswald exclaimed before hopping through the projector screen towards Dark Beauty Castle with Gus disappearing from the area.
Mickey paced back and forth in the living room, as he could smell the food Minnie was making, as well as thinking about how to explain everything to his sweet daughter, Mina Mouse. It had been over half an hour now and she still wasn't home. He was starting to get a bit worried when the landline phone he owned started ringing, making him quickly rush to it and answer it.
"Hello?! Mina?!" He exclaimed a little too eagerly, which resulted in a sweet laugh entering his ears. But it wasn't Mina's.
"No, Mr. Mouse, it's Gema," the girl spoke up. "I was wondering if Mina was there. I need to ask her a homework question."
"Unfortunately, she's not here, Gema," Mickey responded, his eager melting into a pool of worry again. "We had a fight and she left the house. We haven't seen her since."
"Uh oh," Gema stated. "She must be really heated up then."
"I was afraid you'd say that," Mickey groaned as he plopped into his red arm chair.
"I'm sure she'll come home soon," said the hedgehog friend as Mickey could hear the smile in her voice. "I'll just try her cell phone. Hold on." There was a silence for a while before Gema's voice rose back up with the dialing of Mina's number.
"How are you…?"
"You really need to get into the 21st century, Mr. Mouse," Gema said with a giggle before hearing something odd with Mina's number.
"We're sorry. But the number you have reached is not available."
"That's odd," Gema exclaimed before hanging up on her friend's number. "Is her number disconnected?"
"No. Max Goof called her earlier on her cell phone," Mickey asked, his worry rising. "Why?"
"It says her phone is," now the famous mouse could hear the same worry in Gema's voice on the other end of the phone. "Something's not right."
Oswald landed on his feet in Dark Beauty Castle as he pulled out his remote just in case he ended up needing it for some reason. He walked along the halls until he found the Mad Doctor's old lab at the bottom of the castle.
"Wow," Oswald began as he looked around while Gus appeared beside him again. "Haven't been here in a long time."
"Likewise," Gus stated before they heard a gargling sound, making them look over at the entrance to see a little Spatter walking around, with his yellow eyes in deep thought and the little blue Mickey symbols floating above his head.
Oswald smiled before walking further down the stairs, stopping at the bottom when he noticed someone lying on the floor by the slab of a table. Her black shoulder length hair was over her face as her yellow tank top already looked to be full of dust.
"That's not Mickey!" Oswald yelled as he ran over to the young girl, kneeling down beside her. Gus quickly followed him by flying over and watched as the lucky rabbit moved her hair out of her face, seeing her peaceful sleeping face.
"Who is this?" Gus asked as he floated down some and started looking over her arm for wounds. He felt for a pulse in her neck with his fingers, and thankfully he felt one. But when looked up at Oswald, he saw what only looked to be surprise. "Oswald, what's wrong?"
Oswald looked at Gus for just moment before looking back at the female mouse before him. "I…I know this mouse. Or at least, heard of her."
"Who is she?"
"I just can't believe it," Oswald was racking his brain for a reason she'd land in Wasteland like this.
"Oswald, who is this?!" Gus was starting to get a little annoyed at his friend's beautiful mind crap.
"You said your gut was telling you it was Mickey who fell?" Oswald said, making Gus nod in response. "Well, it wasn't technically wrong."
"What do you mean?"
"This is Mickey's daughter!" Oswald yelled as he lifted her up some by placing a hand on her back. "He told me during a mirror call 16 years ago that Minnie and him had a daughter."
"Oh, wow. I didn't see it before, but now I do," Gus began as he looked over at her peaceful face. "She looks like her mother."
"She does," Oswald said before picking her up with his other arm under her knees. "Come on. Let's get her somewhere safer than here." With that, Oswald walked out of the Mad Doctor's old lab and to the projector leading back to Mean Street.
Mickey sat in his room, staring at the mirror with a worried gaze, before looking at a photo of Mina at 10, hanging on his wall. He grinned towards it with sorrow before leaning his elbows on his knees and his hands on his head.
"I should have explained to her sooner," he told himself. "Then maybe this would have been avoided." A tear fell down his cheek before he heard a ripple in the mirror, making him perk up as he saw a smirking rabbit looking back at him. "Oswald!"
"Hey Mick!" Oswald said as Mickey raced up to the mantle and climbed up it, staring at his brother. "It's been a while."
"It has," Mickey said, still with a quiver in his voice. Oswald caught it and his smirk faded into a grin.
"You can stop worrying, bro," he said, making Mickey look at him confused. "She fell into Wasteland."
At the mention of this, Mickey's eyes widen in even more worry. "Mina?! Is she okay?!"
"She's fine, Mick!" Oswald said with a slight chuckle. "She's just out of it right now. She's actually lucky that I found her when I did."
"Must run in the family," Mickey retorted, making the lucky rabbit chuckle. "Where did you find her?!"
"The old lab in Dark Beauty Castle," the rabbit answered. "The one you were in with your first visit."
"Oh, my…how did she fall in there?!"
"Beats me."
"Oswald!" Ortensia's sweet voice spoke up, making Oswald look behind him to see his lovely cat wife standing in the doorway to their room. "She's waking up!"
"She is?! I thought she'd be out a bit longer than this!" Oswald exclaimed before looking over at Mickey. "Come on, Mick!"
"I-I can't, remember?" Mickey said with worry etching his being. "Plus, I don't have the Brush right now."
"Mickey," Minnie spoke up, making him turn around to see his wife by the door to their room before finding himself catching something in his hands, seeing that it's the Brush. "Go protect our little girl."
Mickey grinned at her before hopping down from the mantle and rushing over to her, kissing her real quick. "I'll be back soon. We both will." And with that, he kissed her one more time before rushing back to the mirror and hopped up onto the mantle. "There's just one problem, Ozzie…I can't…"
"Just try, you silly mouse!" Oswald yelled in annoyance, making Ortensia giggle before Mickey saw her leave the room. "Come on! Don't you want to help Mina?!"
Mickey took a deep breath before touching the mirror, seeing it ripple under his touch. He stared for a moment before pushing his hand through, and then his whole body before he was completely gone from the Cartoon World.
The mirror went dead after that, showing the reflection of the room again. "Be careful, Mickey. Protect Mina."
Mina stirred in the bed as she finally woke up and looked around. "Where am I?" She asked herself as she looked over out the window, seeing a place that looked almost like Toon Town, but with seeing a sign that said 'Welcome to OsTown' in her line of sight, kind of made her think twice.
She started to sit up and turned her head, only to squeal with surprise and fear, which made the young white rabbit she saw do the same. Her little red eyes stared at the blue ones of Mina's, trying to convey to her that she wasn't an enemy or anything. She even went to say something, when Ortensia ran in and sighed with relief.
"Wynter, don't scare our guest!" Ortensia reprimanded.
"I didn't mean to!" The white rabbit, Wynter, exclaimed as Ortensia walked up to Mina and placed a gentle hand on her shoulder. "How you feeling?"
"I-I'm fine," Mina stuttered as she looked at the young cat. "Who-who are you? And where am I?"
"You're…"
"Ortensia," another voice said, making her look over to see Oswald standing in the doorway, with a grin on his face. "You should let him explain." Just like that, Mickey ran in with the brush being held by his tail behind his back as he looked over at Mina.
"Dad!" Mina yelled as she hopped off the bed and ran up to him, hugging him immediately, him hugging her back too.
"Oh, thank goodness you're okay," he said as he pulled away and looked at her face. "You are okay, right?"
"I'm fine. But where am I? How'd you get here? What's going…?!"
"Mina, relax," Mickey said as he took her hands. "I'll explain everything. But you might want to sit down."
Mina nodded as she sat down in a comfy chair in the room, with Mickey sitting on the bed across from her, letting the brush lay behind him.
"Can I go then? I already know all this," Wynter asked, which made Oswald look at her with a look that basically said his answer. She sighed in defeat after that and made herself comfortable.
"Now, Mina, first things first, this is Ortensia," Mickey said, gesturing to the cat beside him, who waved gently to her. "And this…" Oswald walked in further and placed a hand on the back of the chair Mina was sitting on. "…this is Oswald the Lucky Rabbit."
"Nice to finally meet you, Mina," Oswald said with a smile, making the young mouse teen look at him for a moment and then at Ortensia, before looking back at her father.
"So he's Oswald? Why was he such a big secret?!" Mina exclaimed with a tint of anger still in her voice.
"You never told her?!" Oswald asked surprised.
"I was waiting for the right time, Ozzie!" Mickey yelled back.
"Well now's the time!" Mina yelled making the four toons (this including Wynter) look at her, seeing the anger and hurt in her eyes. "Now spill!"
Mickey sighed as he looked into his daughter's eyes once more. "Okay," he started with his first visit to Wasteland. How he destroyed the Phantom Blot and saved the placed for forgotten toons, as well as made some new friends on his journey there. Then he went on with his second visit, telling her everything about it and how in the end, the Mad Doctor decided to be on the side of good instead of evil, with the help of Oswald by his side.
He then started explaining who Oswald and Ortensia were to her. "Who are they?" She asked, her anger melting even more now that she knew the story.
"They're your aunt and uncle," Mickey answered, which made Mina's eyes widen before looking at them, who were now standing next to each other, with smiles on their faces. "My dad, your grandpa, created Oswald before he created me. That one is a story for another time though," Mickey grinned towards his daughter as he took her hand. "I know this is a lot to take it, dear, but I need…"
"I'm fine," Mina said as she looked over at her dad, a smile spreading onto her face. Mickey smiled right back at her before a roar entered the air, making Oswald's ears perk up on alert. He ran to the window and looked out it, seeing a dark, inky cloud hovering over Mickey-Junk Mountain.
"Uh oh," he began as Mina ran over to the window as well, standing next to Oswald as she saw the same thing.
"What's that?!" She yelled with surprise, her blue eyes widening as Mickey followed her actions.
"Oswald?" Mickey began as he grabbed the Brush from behind him.
"I don't see how he awakened!" Oswald yelled as Mina backed up some.
"Who woke up?!"
"Dad?" Wynter spoke up towards Oswald finally, sounding a bit scared herself. The lucky rabbit looked over at his niece and (one) of his youngest daughters (who was also 16) with fear in his own eyes. He then looked over at Mickey, seeing him ready for a fight as he pulled out his remote.
"The Phantom Blot's returned."