Fidget loved visiting his family very much, but it was all different for him. If only his parents will return to London now that it was safe and Ratigan was confirmed gone. Fidget had also enjoyed bonding with other bats, but other times, he needed a break. So, he sat on the bench in the rain. Next, to him sat a boy mouse that reminded him so much of Olivia, Fievel Mousekewitz.

"Hi," Fievel said, deciding to start a conversation with the bat.

"Hi, kid," Fidget said, "What's your name?"

"Fievel Mousekewitz," the boy mouse replied.

"Nice to meet you, Fievel, my name is Fidget."

"What's the matter, Fidget?" Fievel inquired.

"Oh, I worked for some mean rat, Professor Ratigan in the past, who threatened to feed me to his cat, Felicia if I hadn't obeyed his orders."

"Hey, we've known some bad rats and cats, too!" Fievel said with astonishment.

"You have?" Fidget's eyes grew wide as he spoke. "Well, it looks like we have something in common." He exhaled deeply, relieved that someone understood him.

Olivia Flaversham was crying in Stellaluna's wings, sympathetic over Fidget.

"There, there, Olivia," Stellaluna cooed, "It's okay. It takes some getting used to. Who knows? Maybe he's not big on crowds."

"No, he's not," Olivia sniffed.

"Well, since you've encouraged him a few months that he's spent with you, how about you and I encourage him together?"

Olivia wiped away a tear from her eye. "Good idea, Stellaluna."

"I'll walk you over." And Stellaluna held onto the mouse girl's hand as she escorted her over to Fievel and Fidget, who were hugging one another.

"Hi!" Fievel and Fidget exclaimed in unison.

"Hi," Olivia said.

"Fievel, this is my friend, Olivia and my girlfriend, Stellaluna," Fidget said.

"Hi, Fievel," Olivia said and right away, she took an interest to him as Stellaluna had done to Fidget. "It's nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you, too, Olivia," Fievel answered in earnest, "Meet my family."

"Ah, Fievel, the rain has stopped!" Olivia gasped, awestruck.

"Oh, yeah, it has!"

"I'm so happy I can fly over the rainbow!" Fidget beamed.

"Me, too!" Stellaluna said.

For a moment, a family of five mice and their good friends, Justin, the leader of the rats of NIMH, Auntie Shrew, the shrew, a genius elderly mouse, Mr. Ages, Jenny McBride, Timothy's girlfriend, and Jeremy, the crow, happened to greet the mice and the bats in person.

"Hey, Mom, look at that bat with a peg leg!" Martin, Mrs. Brisby's oldest son said in a tone of mockery.

Fidget looked very offended, so he frowned at him.

"Martin!" Auntie Shrew reprimanded.

"Martin, shush!" Mrs. Brisby gently scolded.

She and Auntie Shrew shot Martin a stern glance that reminded him to keep his mouth shut.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Bat," Martin apologized.

"That's okay," Fidget replied forgivingly.

"Mommy, is that a bunny?" little Cynthia Brisby asked.

"No, that's a bat," Mrs. Brisby answered.

Cynthia raced over to the peg legged bat, grabbed his scarf, and hopped around him with tiny childlike shrills of laughter.

"Be careful, dearie," Auntie Shrew warned.

"Auntie Shrew!" Cynthia exclaimed happily to Auntie Shrew.

"Cynthia likes you," Teresa, the oldest in the Brisby family declared.

"Hi, I'm Fidget and these are my friends, Olivia, Fievel, and Stellaluna," Fidget said as he motioned his hand towards his mice and bat friends.

"I'm Teresa," Teresa said as she shook Fidget's hand.

A boy mouse and his girlfriend stepped up to him. "I'm Timothy and this is my girlfriend, Jenny McBride," Timothy said.

"Hi," said Jenny.

"You look pretty, Jenny," Olivia complimented.

"Thank you, Olivia," said Jenny, since she heard the other mouse girl's name.

"You're welcome."

Jeremy jumped before Fidget. "Hello!" he exclaimed.

Fidget gasped.

"Jeremy!" the crow's friends admonished.

"You almost gave me a heart attack!" Fidget uttered breathlessly.

"Oh, I'm sorry," Jeremy said.

Fidget breathed long and hard before he said, "It's okay."

"My name's Jeremy."

"My name is Fidget."

Jeremy's girlfriend, Mrs. Right jumped on Jeremy to kiss him.

"This is my girlfriend, Mrs. Right," he explained.

Mrs. Right laughed.

Basil, Dawson, Flaversham, Toby, and Fidget's bat family walked behind Fidget, Olivia, and the others.

"Looks like an interesting bunch," Basil observed thoughtfully.

"Hello, my name's Justin and I'm the leader of the rats," Justin said.

At this, Basil, Fidget, Dawson, Olivia, and her father gasped. They've met one rat! Now, they have to meet another?

"But it's alright," Justin assured them, "I'm a friendly rat."

"He's a gentleman," Mrs. Brisby agreed.

"Oh," Basil and his teammates sighed with relief.

"Mrs. Brisby's husband, Jonathon Brisby was the leader of the rats, who tried to drug the Fitzgibbon's cat, Dragon," Justin went on.

At the mention of "cat", Fidget gulped.

"But he failed when he got eaten. So, I had this lovely Mrs. Brisby drug him for us shortly before she heard about the death of our elderly leader, Nicodemus."

"Is Nicodemus also a rat?" Basil asked, comforting a terribly startled Fidget.

"Yes," Justin replied. Then, he explained how Nicodemus died: Jenner, the ruthless rat cut the rope that held the bricks. Next, his sword fight against Jenner when Mrs. Brisby got hurt and at long last, her courage to move her home, where she and her children live from her necklace, given by Nicodemus. "Mrs. Brisby eventually gave it to me and my troop and I returned back to Thorn Valley," Justin added, "And this is one of my members, Mr. Ages."

"Hello, everyone," said Mr. Ages, "I happen to be a genius. For instance, when Mrs. Brisby fretted over her sick son, Timothy, whom I know very well, I revealed that he had pneumonia. He could've died from it, but apparently, he recovered from it now that the Brisby's house had been moved." He didn't really like to talk as much, but he thought he'd get it out of his chest.

"Well, we may as well be on our way around Paris," Justin announced as he gathered up his teammates. "Goodbye."

"Goodbye," Basil and the others said as the Brisby family and the crows, the shrew, the mouse genius, and the rat trudged forward.

Suddenly, a trio of another set of travelers briefly greeted them. They were two white mice named Bernard and Bianca and their loyal rider, Orville, an albatross.

"Hello, welcome to Paris," Fidget's father said.

"What can we do for you?" Fidget's mother asked the travelers.

"Umm…nothing," Bernard replied.

"We're just looking," Bianca said, "Because my husband, Bernard and I decided to take a trip to Paris."

"This is my wife, Bianca and our rider, Orville," Bernard said as he waved his hand towards his wife and the bird.

"Nice to meet you," said Orville.

"Such a pleasure to meet you all," Bianca said, "We hope to see you again soon."

"Yeah, we best be going," said Bernard as he, Bianca, and Orville strolled on.

The bats, mice, and the dog waved goodbye.

Fievel Mousekewitz signaled his family to come over.

"Fievel, where have you been?" his mother asked worriedly.

"We were worried," his father said anxiously.

"Sorry," Fievel said, "Oh, this is Papa Mousekewitz, Mama Mousekewitz, my baby sister, Yasha, and my older sister, Tanya, and my buddies, Tony and Tiger." Tiger was his best cat friend. "Tiger, don't scare off any of my friends, okay?" Fievel whispered and Tiger meekly nodded.

"Hi," Tiger greeted.

Fidget, Stellaluna, Olivia, Basil, Dawson, Toby, Olivia's father, and Fidget's family gasped. "It's okay, he's harmless," Fievel assured them, "He just likes meeting new people."

Everyone else sighed in relief.

Toby didn't like Tiger at first. The minute Toby laid eyes on the cat, he growled at him.

"Toby, he's a good kitty," Olivia said gently.

Toby whimpered guiltily as his way of apologizing to both the girl and Tiger.

"It's okay, buddy," Tiger told him, "Cats and dogs don't always get along."

"That old saying is true," Fievel pointed out.

Toby sniffed Tiger. "Nice doggy," Tiger giggled nervously. Then, Toby licked him, leading everyone, including Fievel into laughing fits.

Tanya looked at Fidget with pity. She can tell that he'd be afraid if she judged him.

"He'll need a hug," Fievel whispered, "He had a dark past and had been through enough."

Tanya said nothing, but she picked the bat up, squeezed him gently, and kissed him on the cheek, causing his face to grow red as he smiled. Blushing, he said tenderly, "Hi."

"Hi," Tanya said sweetly. She reminded him so much of Miss Kitty, the one he laid "gaga" eyes on, but he couldn't cheat on Stellaluna. Oh, no.

Tanya set Fidget down.

"Stellaluna, it's not what you think," Fidget promised.

"Oh, I'm not bothered," Stellaluna said, "In fact, I heard Fievel say to give you a hug and I'm single."

"Me, too," Fidget admitted, "Even though I have a thing for pretty ladies."

Stellaluna planted a kiss on his cheek to make him stop talking.

"How romantic," Tanya gushed.

"Would you mind if I-" Fievel started to ask.

His family shook their heads, which meant that Fievel was able to kiss Olivia's hand.

Basil, Dawson, and her father watched the mouse pairing.

"Young love," Dr. Dawson said thoughtfully.

"I may be single, but I wouldn't call that love," Basil pointed out tersely, "After all, they just met."

"It's common courtesy towards a lady," Flaversham enunciated.

"You're right," Basil sighed inwardly, "I guess I overexaggerated."

"Olivia, if I ever did anything to upset you, I'm-" Fievel began.

"No, Fievel, it's okay," Olivia cut him off, "Your parents gave you permission and it's part of common courtesy according to my father."

"Oh."

"Why did you come here?" Olivia asked.

"My family and I travel," replied Fievel, "Ever since we left Russia and started a new life in New York, we've been going on many adventures."

"Hey, Fievel, the reason why my friends and I came here was to reunite with my family," Fidget chimed in.

"Fidget longed to see bats, so that's why we came here," said Olivia.

"I see," Fievel said, "I lost my family before, but then I got them back when they found me since I had a hard time finding them."

"Good to know," Fidget mused.

"And good thing we found him," Tanya said, "After all, we were worried about him as well as he was worried about us."

"We thought we'd never see him again," said Papa Mousekewitz, "But Fievel said…"

"Never say never, Papa," Fievel finished.

"Fievel, would you like to do some more sightseeing?" Mama Mousekewitz asked.

"Yes, Mama," Fievel replied, "Well, it was nice seeing you. Hope to see you again someday."

"Bye, Fievel," the mice and bats said as the Mousekewitz family, Tony, and Tiger left.

Olivia turned to face Basil. "Basil, I hope you weren't too upset when Fievel kissed my hand, but I didn't kiss him back because I just met him."

"No, my dear, I'm not upset," Basil answered, "I overreacted when I first saw it happen, but then I realized that this is one of the typical things boys do as a way of greeting a young lady like yourself. So, there is nothing to worry about and you are a smart girl."

"Thank you, Basil."

"That boy mouse sure seemed nice."

Author's note: Fievel, Tony, Tiger, and Fievel's family belong to An American Tail, Universal studios, and Don Bluth.

The Brisby family, Auntie Shrew, Justin, Mr. Ages, Jeremy, and Mrs. Right belong to The Secret of NIMH, MGM studios, and Don Bluth.

Bernard, Bianca, and Orville are copyright to The Rescuers and Disney.

I apologize if this chapter is too showy. It's just that Fidget needed someone to talk to besides his family.

He was a bit difficult to keep in character in this chapter.