A few months later at the House of Mouse…

Mickey had just gotten back stage from starting the show off with the Quackstreet Boys starting things off. He was wearing his club host outfit of a nice shirt, a purple jacket, and some black pants and shoes. He went over to his girlfriend, Minnie Mouse, to see if she could figure out what was the plan for the night.

Minnie was a smart, beautiful young mouse who was every mouse boy's dream girl. She was the back stage manager for the show, she cued everyone and made sure that they all were in place before their time. She was wearing her white shirt, a purple bow, some purple heels, and a black coat and skirt.

"Hey, Minnie. What's on the schedule tonight?" He smiled.

"Well, Horace got some old cartoons sent to him that the guys up at the W.D.C. would like to have played, something about needing to return them to where they belong, that and apparently it's supposed to give some facts as well." She shrugged. She didn't understand why Horace had taken a look and agreed that they had needed to be played without showing them to her and Mickey first. "Apparently they're from the black and white cartoon days."

"Wow, that was quite a while ago." Mickey said as he rubbed his head. 'Black and white cartoons? Awe shucks, now I just miss Oswald more.'

"Uh-huh, and Horace is about to show the first black and white cartoon now, you're on Mickey." She says as she starts to shove him out onto the stage.

He made it out in time for Horace to hit the lights on him. "And now ladies and gentlemen, I'm told we're gonna take a trip back in time to when cartoons were black and white, let's hope it's the good ones, ha-ha." He chuckles as he remembers some of his own that stank pretty badly. "Now, here we go…" He points to the screen and the lights dim. The cartoon turns on and Mickey goes back stage. He peeks around the curtain to look at what show is on and his eyes open widely as he recognizes the silent black and white character on the screen.

"Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in Oh What A Knight. Written and drawn by Walt Disney." Was displayed on the giant screen. Mickey smiled as a small tear formed in his eye. His brother was on the big screen again. He shook his head and went to talk to Horace about it.

Mickey had promised his brother that he would never speak of him or of the Wastelands to anyone, but when he had found out that Horace and Clarabelle had a way of going there and back, he found that he was able to communicate to the others through them. He also found that he could talk about all of the crazy things that had happened in Wasteland to them.

As he walked towards the projection room where Horace worked, he heard the audience laughing at his big brother's antics to impress his wife, which in that show must've still been his girlfriend. He smiled as he found Horace lining up another old reel full of Oswald's shorts. "Where'd ya get that old projector? A Gremlin?" Gremlins were a set of toons that had never really been used in a short or any type of show before really. They were an unused type of toon that were good with tools and helped out around Wasteland.

"As a matter of fact, I got it from Gus himself. He was curious as to what I wanted it for, but I didn't want to spoil the surprise." He smiled. Horace Horsecollar was in his blue jumpsuit and his red cap that he always had on. He was the janitor as well as the guy who ran the cartoons. He had a detective agency down in Wasteland but business was always slow there, so when he found out he was going to be used in the cartoon series "House Of Mouse" he was so happy he jumped right out of his horseshoes.

"You think the others will get out?" Mickey asked the question that had been bugging him since he had gotten out of Wastelands that first time. He looked at his shoes like a nervous kid.

Horace knew that he was thinking about one particular toon more than the others though. "Sure he will, the fact that I just got these old toons tells ya that he's popular again, doesn't it? He'll be out of there before you can say "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit from Disney"." Horace winked.

Mickey smiled than ran out to introduce the next cartoon. "Well folks, if ya liked that one, here's Oswald when he went to workin' on the railroad." The next cartoon was "Trolley Trouble".

Mickey went backstage to find Clarabelle was getting a little teary eyed from the film. She was in her usual blue gown with her favorite purple high heels. "I wish he could see this. They love him for this stuff. He was the best."

Mickey just walked past her while trying not to break down crying himself. 'He really was.'