Chapter 6: Attack at the Office
It all happened so quickly. Each of the lesser five heros just suddenly snapped after waking up and hightailed out of their world angrily, in the middle of the night. Somehow without consciousness or understanding of what they were about to do, the five had hopped out of bed, dressed up, and marched off their homeland, their hearts and minds suddenly filled with burning anger, hate, pain, tension, dissatisfaction, and vengeance. No amount of love, joy, or happiness was left during their destination to the office at Disneyland. A few people were even pushed aside without being apologized to. So many things had been racing in their corrupted minds, that none of them were even thinking straight about the people around them. Their only concern was getting rid of Eisner themselves, once and for all. It was all his fault that everybody hated them. They were denied and neglected of love and respect just because they were not good enough for him or anybody. And now it was payback time.
Nobody understands us. Maggie thought bitterly, staring at the small window of the train the girls were riding inside. Why does everyone have to act like it's our fault this whole war started? We didn't ask for any of this to happen. It just did, but no one understands us. Aren't we all different? Or are we alone too different for humans to handle? Well if that's the case, its time to make that Michael ruffian pay the price! The more the girls thought of Michael Eisner, the more their anger flared like a hot fuse attached to a bomb.
The same thing had happened with Kuzco, Milo, Jim, Kenai, and Koda who traveled over to the Disneyland office in different ways; whether it was by a flying Atlantis device, solar surfboard, ship, or riding on river by a tree log. If no one would get rid of Eisner, they would!
"That's right, go and get him," Maleficent cackled, watching the five within her magical sphere. "Let out all your feelings of anger and hatred to use it against the one who did this to you! Don't let anyone stop you. They all must pay!" Her wicked laughter echoed inside her lair.
At the office
Two hours after midnight, the five unknown heroes met up unexpectedly at Main Street. Milo had been dressed in his traveling clothes and Jim had on his pants, boots, shirt and jacket. But rather than question each other about their sudden appearance, they all marched down the dark streets together toward the studio office like an angry mob, shouting over and over "Get rid of Eisner! Get rid of Eisner!" This time, nothing was going to stop the five from getting their revenge on Michael.
When the five had finally approached the front of the studio, Jim took out a few small pebbles he had tucked in his pocket along the way. Before thinking of barging in there, he and the others wanted to find out if Michael would poke his head out from the commotion, and then see if the stone would hit him right between the eyes. And to their luck, Eisner was having a late night meeting with his coworkers, unaware of the fives' presence outside.
"Oh great, now how do go in there and get him?" Jim moaned, crossing his arms with disappointment. "We can't attack him in front of all those people, can we?"
"What does it matter?" Maggie snarled, gazing over at the windows. "I say we just barge in there and get it over with!" She started on the first five steps of the stairs. But before she could go another step, Milo's hands caught her tail. "Now what is it?" She demanded.
"Yeah what's the holdup?!" Kuzco added, close to doing the same thing as Maggie. "We gotta go get him, don't we?"
"Not by barging in without a plan," Milo answered firmly, not letting go of Maggie. "We need to get pass security first." He pointed up at a security camera hanging above the office doors. "One of us has got to sneak up behind and disable it."
"Leave that to me." Jim volunteered. With his sneaking tactics, Jim got down on all fours and cautiously moved forward enough to reach the wall. Soon he was able to cut the wires with one of his gadgets. "I got it." But there were still a few cameras left to disable in front and the back. And to Jim's surprise, he found the main power control to all the lights inside the office. With a wicked smile, he opened it and found the red and blue wires. "Lights out Michael Eisner!" He scoffed, clipping the wires.
Inside the office, the group had gasped at the unexpected blackout and jumped at the crash of the window breaking. When Michael went to take a look, he saw nothing until he heard a familiar shout from Kuzco.
"HEADS UP!"
Without warning, a pebble shot forward and struck Michael right between the eyes. Then afterward, a dirt clod followed, leaving dirt spluttered all around his face. He gave a small cry of pain and jumped away from the window. Taking a small peek, he looked to see the five underrated characters that he had never taken an interest in or never bothered to show them the same kind of love that Walt Disney had for his creations. And now they were standing outside of his office yelling out angry remarks and throwing pebbles.
"What are those toons doing here disturbing my meeting?" Michael whispered to himself. "Do they want a raise?"
"Yep, just as I thought!" Maggie retorted. "The jerk wad is afraid to come out of his own shell. Let's go in there and give him a painful lesson he'll never forget!"
"YEAH!!" The rest of them shouted altogether, dashing for the front doors.
Eisner in a panic rushed to the front doors and grabbed two iron bars to keep the door from breaking down. Not wanting to get involved in any of this, the other coworkers rushed out of the room and out the back door for an escape. Michael didn't know what these ridiculous characters wanted from him, but he certainly was not in the mood at this time of night to hear them out.
BOOOOOM! His office suddenly shook as Eisner guessed that one of them was trying to knock the door down, causing him to pile other objects against the front entrance. He rushed outside the window to find the cows using their heavy weight to break the door down.
"Stop it, you're damaging my building!" Eisner shouted from the broken window. But when he saw the warning glance off the girls' faces, he moved away.
"Your building!" Maggie bellowed, still charging along with the other two girls. Then she said in a mocking tone. "Did you hear that girls? We're damaging his most precious, joyous building! I wonder if he says the same thing with his dirty money!"
"I'll say, give me that pebble!" Koda agreed, swiping a pebble from Jim to throw it at the window. "That's for making us feel like a bunch of outcasts! Why couldn't you let anyone do their job of spending time to make us better?" Koda was referring to how things at the studio were just sped up.
"And if we're such bad characters as everyone thinks," Milo Thatch added, a flash of anger crossing his face. "Then I guess we'll have to act like it." he too had hurled a large rock at the window, hoping it would hit Eisner. When he missed, Milo went for the rest of the other windows to find out if Eisner was hiding behind one of them. All he heard was broken glass, but that didn't stop Milo, Jim, and Koda from throwing pebbles.
"You always knew we could have made something of ourselves!" Kenai shouted, angrily breaking glass from another window in hopes of squeezing inside. But he was way too big. "But now look what your arrogance has put us in!"
"YOU FIVE ARE NONE OF MY CONCERN ANYMORE!!" Eisner's frightened and angry voice shouted from behind the sealed doors. The girls stopped charging to listen closely. "YOU HEAR ME? BUSINESS IS BUSINESS. SOMETIMES YOU SUCCEED, SOMETIMES YOU FAIL. YOU ALL FAILED YOURSELVES, SO DEAL WITH IT! NOW GO AWAY!"
"DEAL WITH IT?!" Maggie howled. Enraged, she and the girls went back to charging at the door. "THAT'S EXACTLY THE WHOLE POINT! YOU NEVER HAD A CLUE WHAT WE WENT THROUGH THE WHOLE TIME BECAUSE YOU NEVER CARED! AND WE'RE SICK AND TIRED OF DEALING WITH IT!"
"And what's the point in explaining our anger out to someone who never defended his fellow toons from the accusations and insults thrown at them?" Jim snapped, pointing his accusing finger at the door. "You did nothing!"
"You always had your head filled with money and no brains!" Milo shrieked.
Inside the office, Eisner saw that the objects against the doors were not doing that much good with keeping them shut. And to make matters worse, Milo and Jim were helping Koda squeeze through the broken windows since he was the smallest. Panicking, Michael left the office to do something about this, before the doors finally burst open with a deafening crash. When the five had entered, they stopped short to see that Eisner was no longer in the room. This had only made them more infuriated as they tossed, turned, and wrecked every object in the office to see where he could be hiding.
"I'll bet he's hiding out in the halls!" Koda snapped, rushing out in the halls to track down his scent with the five following. The tone in the little cub's voice had become bitter and accusing, even at a young age.
"YOU WOULD'VE ABANDONED US OUT IN THE RAIN TO ROT!" Maggie erupted, not hiding any more of her anger toward Eisner. The rest of her words were spoken with a harsh, vicious growl. If Michael had seen the look on her hateful expression, he might have had a heart attack. "AND AFTER ALL WE WORKED THROUGH TO MAKE YOU PROUD OF US! YOU MADE US BELIEVE THAT WE WERE IMPORTANT. YOU MADE US BELIEVE THAT WE WERE LOVED. YOU MADE US BELIEVE THAT WE COULD MAKE PEOPLE SMILE. BUT ONCE YOU TURNED AWAY WHEN PEOPLE SCORNED US, WE FOUND OUT RIGHT AWAY THAT IT WAS ALL A LIE!!" She knocked over a vase furiously, sending it crashing on the floor in a dozen pieces. "HOW'S THAT FOR LOVE?!"
Just then Maggie's fiery eyes caught sight of a picture hanging on the wall. It was a photo of Michael Eisner standing in between Mickey and Minnie during a parade celebration several years ago. He was smiling, which was irritating for the five to gaze upon. Snatching it off the wall, Maggie tossed the picture across the hallway roughly, breaking the glass. The muscles in her legs tightened and clenched, a flash of loathing exploded in her angry eyes.
"HOW COULD YOU TURN YOUR BACK ON EVERYONE?!" Maggie bellowed, stomping the halls and knocking over more vases. The girls followed her move as well. "ALL OF US DID EVERYTHING WE COULD TO PLEASE YOU, AND INSTEAD YOU BETRAYED US!"
"THAT'S RIGHT!" added Grace harshly, her tone transformed from sweet to unforgiving. "NO MATTER HOW HARD WE WORKED, NOTHING WAS EVER GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE LIKES OF YOU! WHAT KIND OF MAN TREATS HIS CHILDREN LIKE DIRT?!" The kindness behind her eyes was replaced with pure anger.
"HONESTLY, AN ARROGANT MAN LIKE YOU WOULDN'T KNOW REAL LONELINESS IF HE HAD A GOOD DOSE OF IT HIMSELF!" Mrs. C snarled.
While the girls had been ranting at Michael, Kenai and Koda suddenly caught the scent of Eisner behind a closed door ahead of them.
"He's in that room!" Kenai pointed out. "Come on, we'll claw him out!"
Just before the five could go any further down the hallways, a puff of black mist encircles in the midst of the halls. And towering before them was the mistress of all evil, Maleficent.
"Well done, you all," she sneered. "Lovely to see that everything is going exactly as we planned."
The five stood back in bewilderment and confusion by her sudden appearance. And when the knob of the secured door turned, Maleficent quickly snapped her fingers magically, breaking the five out of their enraged trance.
"Whoa, how did we all get here?" Maggie said, staring at the broken glass littered around her hooves. "Was I sleepwalking?" Noticing Maleficent, she muttered. "And who's the tall black lady standing here?"
The other heroes never had a chance to ask any more questions when they found the opened door revealing Eisner standing in between a dozen security guards he had called for while the five broke in, wrecking his office.
"In league with the villains are we?" Eisner accused. "I should have seen this coming."
"No, we had nothing to do with her!" Jim protested. "I mean…I can't even remember how we got here! None of us can!"
"I order you all to finish them off!" Maleficent ordered the five, making it seem like they were in league with her the whole time. "Do it or else you will all perish!"
"Just as I thought; throw them all out of the studio!" Eisner demanded, refusing to give the five a chance to explain themselves. "I don't ever want to see their faces here again…EVER!"
The security guards head toward the five, but Maleficent quickly disappears in a blast of smoke before she can get caught.
"No, don't throw us out!" Koda pleaded as he was picked up by a guard. "We didn't know what we were doing, honest!"
"If you would just listen to us," Jim added severely, unable to fight his way out of their grasp. "Maybe you would understand!"
But no one, not even Eisner would listen to them as the lesser known heroes were dragged all the way out to the front entrance. Try as they might, there were too many security guards for them to fight back. Their spirits were completely broken, even when Grace saw that Eisner disappeared inside the room. To her, it was the same as always. Shutting them out just like that.
Outside of the Gates
"GET OUT OF HERE AND NEVER COME BACK!" one of the security guards shouted at the five from the inside of the studios. "AND IF YOU EVER SHOW YOUR FACES AROUND HERE AGAIN, WE'LL CALL THE TOON PATROL! NOW GET OUT!" The guards turned away from the gate and went back inside the studios.
The five heroes, Kuzco, Milo, Jim, Kenai, Koda, Maggie, Grace, and Mrs. C stood from the outside clinging onto the iron bars of the gate. Eisner's words had stung them like a hornet. It was true after all. Just as they feared, Eisner never cared about them. If he did, then he wouldn't have been uncaring enough to kick them out. How they all arrived here so quickly inside his office was still questionable. All they remembered was being angry and infuriated over being neglected and forgotten. This must have had something to do with that wicked black lady somehow. But from being locked out, there seemed to be no possible way of proving it. How could they?
"Come on you guys, we don't need this place," Kuzco said coldly. "We'll just go where we're not in anyone's face anymore that's for sure." He turned and walked away from the gate.
"I can't believe it," Milo whispered, distraught from all this. "Banished from the only place that we once called home." He turned to follow Kuzco.
Jim said nothing as he did the same thing with walking away. He was too shattered to utter a word. Soon Kenai and Koda followed along, including the girls. What was the point in staying? Nobody wanted them around. With nothing else to do, the five left the park…never to return again.
AN: I had to rewrite this chapter a bit to fix some errors. Once again, sorry for the long update. And I must still give credit to Yensid365 for helping me to come up with this idea, even though I had to write this chapter without her help. But I would also like to thank the users for reviewing. I appreciate it. You can't blame the five for erupting like that. But then again, they really didn't know what they were getting themselves into, no thanks to the spell. What will happen next? Stay Tuned for the next chapter to find out.