Time for team prophecy to find some new members!


ExterTERRORestrial's Great Escape!

Tomorrowland, Magic Kingdom

"Well, this is different," Oswald said. He and the others in the prophecy had arrived in a retro-futuristic part of the Magic Kingdom, with moving sidewalks, rocket ships, and jet packs populated the area.

"I'm pretty sure I've seen this place somewhere before," Nick said. "Wasn't this place in that one movie with George Clawney?"

"Wherever it's from, this is where the next person in the prophecy should be," Magica said. "I would guess the musician, as I doubt there will be many keys or statues around here."

"Unless robots count as statues," Oswald stated, watching as a golden humanoid robot and a trash can-shaped blue robot walked past. The blue robot gave a few angry beeps and boops at the rabbit before rolling away, his golden companion chastising the little robot for his choice of words. "Anyway, we're looking for a musician, right? So we'll just have to find a place that's the loudest."

Suddenly, there was a scream from one of the buildings, with a group of people in futuristic clothing running out of it with terrified looks on their faces. They ran right through our group of heroes, almost knocking Lena over in the process.

"Hey! What's got you people all freaked out?" the teen duck asked.

"It's awful!" said a woman, crying hysterically. "We thought that it had left, but somehow it returned!"

"What returned?" Oswald asked.

"That… thing from our teleportation demonstration is back and loose in the building!" said a man in a fancy space suit.

"And what's the name of the place you work for?" the rabbit asked.

"Why, X-S Tech, of course. One of the leading technological manufacturers in the galaxy," the man explained. "Now, if you excuse me, I'm going to go get Star Command and have them deal with the problem."

Oswald watched as the man ran away, then snapped his fingers in realization. "I've got it! I recognize X-S Tech: they're a part of the Tomorrowland area in the Wasteland." His body then went completely white, his face filled with terror. "Oh crud. I know what alien they're talking about as well. That thing is a nightmare to deal with."

Magica scoffed and swished her cape. "Not my problem. We need to focus on finding the musician for the prophecy, remember?"

"A musician?" asked one of the X-S employees. "There was a girl with headphones in the building, along with a mutant dog thing. I don't remember them coming out with us either."

Magica sighed, rubbing her temples in annoyance. "Then it looks like we're going in there to fight an alien. Everyone better be prepared..."

[***]

Soon enough, the entire team was in the X-S building, where the lights kept flickering and many parts of the interior where either ripped apart or broken in some way. A robot sitting behind a desk was ripped to pieces, with only it's head occasionally turning on to spout some gibberish before turning back off.

"I don't like this place," Todd said, curling up in Nick's arms.

"Don't worry kid, I'll protect you from any aliens that try and hurt you," Nick said, hugging the fox kit closer to his chest.

"Besides, we've got two magic users on our side," Lena said, gesturing to herself and Magica. "There's nothing to worry about."

After going through some more destroyed hallways, the group came into a large circular room with a broken glass tube in the middle. "This is must be where the alien got in through," Oswald said. "Let's spread out and look for our lost person."

Lena nodded and slowly crept around the rows of chairs, her hand glowing a soft blue to light the way forward. She let out a cry as a pair of hands wrapped around her beak, pulling her down to the floor. "Do you want it to hear us?" said the owner of said hands. She was a slightly tan girl with brown hair held under a blue baseball cap adorned with white stars and a crescent moon, wearing red robes with black and grey striped leggings and headphones perched around her neck.

"You scared the heck out of me!" Lena angerly whispered. "Anyway, why are you and why would you be dumb enough to stay in here?"

"The name's Scout. I'm one of Yen Sid's apprentices," the girl introduced herself. "And the reason I stayed in here is because Angel is still in here. That bug monster thing grabbed her, so no I've gotta get her back."

"Are you two going to have this private conversation, or are we going to get the heck out of here?" Nick asked, him, Oswald, and Magica joining the two teens.

"Not without Angel we aren't," Scout insisted.

Suddenly, the lights went out as a clicking sound came from the rafters. A buzzing sound soon followed as the noise became louder, the creature getting closer to the heroes' location. Nick and Todd, whom had night vision due to being foxes, froze in terror at what the alien looked like: a long, centipede-like body with small insectoid wings on its back, the head jutting out with large mandibles and piercing red eyes.

The alien gurgled and clicked its mouth open and shut, spitting liquid down on top of the heroes. 'Please let this be water, please let this be water,' Nick thought, his instincts screaming at him to get out of there as fast as possible.

Magica, afraid but not wanting to show it, ignited her staff and fired a blast in the general direction of the alien. The magic ball missed its mark, hitting a control panel on the wall and turning the lights back on in the room. The alien hissed at the sudden light, flailing its legs around and buzzing angerly.

"We need to move, now!" Oswald shouted, delivering a windup kick to the alien's face before bolting towards the doorway. The alien recovered quickly and made a move to block the door, but Magica and Lena used their magic to push the creature away.

"Mr. Wilde, I really want to go home!" Todd cried.

"Just close your eyes and this will all be over soon," Nick assured, running past the alien and out of the room.

"Scout, we really need to go," Lena said.

"But what about Angel?" she asked.

"Would you forget about your stupid dog and move!" Magica shouted, firing more spells out of her staff.

"Angel is not a dog, first of all," Scout corrected. "And second of all- "

The alien hissed and buzzed its wings, flying up to the rafters and tearing into the ceiling. "It's trying to bring the roof down on us!" Oswald realized.

Everyone made a run for the door, but soon the scaffolding above them fell down in front of the exit, trapping them in the room with the killer alien.

"Can't you use your magic to move this stuff?" Scout asked.

"We used most of our power to fend this thing off," Magica replied. She growled and shook her staff. "If only I was at my full strength."

"Why do you do something useful?" Lena countered.

"Hey, I have powers, but they work to create things, not destroy stuff," Scout said.

"Then create something to get us the heck out of here!" Oswald said, the alien crawling towards them.

Just as the alien was about to have its lunch, a pink blur came out of nowhere and bounced on its head, landing in front of the team and holding out a space blaster of some sort. "Angel! You're alright!" Scout said.

{Of course I'm fine: indestructible genetic experiment, remember?} Angel replied.

The others blinked. "What did she just say?" Oswald asked.

"Oh, you guys don't speak her language, do you," Scout said. "You might want to stick to English around these guys, Angel."

"Noted," Angel replied. She faced the alien and fired a few rounds from her blaster, the creature hissing as the plasma bolts hit its exoskeleton. "Alright you hideous creature, how about you stop being so mean." Angel took a deep breath and, strangely enough, started to sing a song.

A-koo dite

mutia-la

no taga,

nah toom

onta

tagito

teemicha

tooca

As soon as Angel finished her song, the alien's eyes turned from red to blue, its demeanor changing from hostile to friendly as it rubbed against Scout like an oversized cat.

"Uh… there, there, you freaky bug alien thing," Scout said, laughing nervously as the alien proceeded to drool on her.

"That is simultaneously one of the most disturbing but oddly cute things I've ever seen," Lena said.

"So, the musician can control others with her voice. Very interesting," Magica noted.

The rubble behind the group shifted, lifting off the ground as Nick and Todd appeared on the other side. "Well, I've seen enough today to have nightmares for a week," Nick said. "How about we get out of here and never speak of this again."

"How are you moving the rubble?" Oswald asked.

"Mr. Wilde is a wizard now!" Todd cheered, before noticing the alien and hiding behind Nick's leg.

"I just got this feeling in my gut that I could lift the rubble, so I held out my hands and, BOOM! The rocks moved on my command," Nick explained, moving his hands down and lowering the rubble.

Magica gave a hum of suspicion but dismissed it for now. "We can talk about this later. Let's just leave this forsaken place." She pointed at Scout and Angel, the alien following behind them. "And we are not bringing that monstrosity with us, no matter how useful it could be in destroying my enemies."

The alien gave a sad gurgle as Angel patted its head, the experiment leading it back to the center of the room with the glass tube. Angel pressed a few buttons on a control panel nearby, and the alien as teleported away in lights and smoke back to whatever horrifying planet a creature like that lived on.

[***]

With their musician found, the group left Tomorrowland to find their next member, Scout tagging along to stay with Angel on their journey. Up in his tower, Yen Sid watched through a magic portal as the heroes continued their journey, Chernabog sitting behind him in contemplation.

"My student should be of most use to their efforts," the wizard said. "How are the other fairing in their own tasks?"

"Xehanort is currently missing, but his followers are all over Epcot," Chernabog said. "Rafiki is keeping the peace in Animal Kingdom as well, but as you saw in Magic Kingdom, the barriers between the lands are starting to break down. Soon, all four realms will be merged into one, and there will be no stopping it once that happens."

"Which is why Merlin and Maleficent are looking into the cause of the merging of all the worlds," Yen Sid said. "This is quickly getting out of hand. Not only are the barriers failing, but now aspects of different worlds are bleeding into each other: you saw how Nick Wilde could now use the Force. Whoever did this has a power even beyond myself, someone that can make your wildest dreams come true. There are only three beginnings I know that could do that, but the real question is: which one granted the wish in the first place?"


Author's Note

The plot, it thickens! Angel from the "Lilo and Stitch" series has been revealed as the musician in the prophecy, and she has to be one of the biggest break-out side characters ever in Disney history (she has more merchandise that Lilo!). For those that are wondering, yes Angel can in fact speak English, she just didn't gain that ability until the Stitch anime (this is a real thing).

Scout is a character I was dying to get around to. She's from the video game "Fantasia: Music Evolved," which is one of my favorite games of all time and the best use of the X-Box Kinect, as the game let you be the conductor (check out gameplay on Youtube to see what I mean).

As for the alien, it's from the old Disney ride "ExtraTERRORestrial: Alien Encounter" that was replaced by "Stitch's Great Escape" due to the ride being deemed too scary for children. Fun fact: the ride was originally going to be based around the Alien movies (yes, THAT Alien) but was scrapped as Disney had a policy of not using R rated films in the parks. I hope I did the ride justice with how terrifying the alien was!

And the plot thickens even more. Nick has manifested Force powers, and Yen Sid has narrowed it down to three possible people that merged the worlds together. Leave a review below of who you think those three people could be, and I'll see you next chapter!

Characters that premiered this chapter:

X-S employes, the alien (ExtraTERRORestrial: Alien Encounter)

Scout (Fantasia: Music Evolved)

Angel (Lilo and Stitch: The Series)

R2-D2, C-3PO (Star Wars) non-speaking

Star Command (Buzz Lightyear of Star Command) mentioned only