Riley groaned as she threw her hockey equipment down and buried her face in her pillow. Oddball whimpered as she was so worried about Riley.
"On a scale of one to ten, I give this day an F." Disgust groaned.
"Well, for now, we just need to let Riley sleep it off." Patch said.
"Well, I don't know about you, but I'm quitting." Fear said as he walked off with a bag of luggage.
"I thought emotions couldn't quit?" Patch replied as Fear tried to go out the tube only to be battered by green, red, and purple spheres of disgust, anger, and fear. "And I was right."
"Ugh! I thought we were supposed to be keeping Riley happy!" Disgust groaned.
"Wait a minute, wait a minute!" Anger said as he then had an idea and then came to cubby holes.
"Anger, no, we are not giving Riley the idea to run away." Patch said to Anger as he had a feeling of what Anger had in mind.
"Think about it, Loyalty," Anger told him. "All the best Core Memories were made in Minnesota. Ergo, we go back to Minnesota and make more! Tada!"
"Wait, wait, wait!" Fear spoke up. "You can't be serious!"
"We can't run away; if we do, then we can say goodbye to Family Island." Patch said.
"I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING!" Anger snapped.
Patch glared and growled. "Put that idea back where it came from, OR SO HELP ME-"
"Okay, okay, I'm putting it back." Anger said before putting the idea light bulb back.
"Good..." Patch smiled in relief.
Meanwhile with Atticus...
Atticus came to check on his niece. "Super Sayian is here~..." he then called out as he opened the door with a plate of Riley's favorite pizzas. "With a pizza delivery~..."
"Thanks, Uncle Atticus." Riley sighed.
"Hey now, turn that frown upside down..." Atticus sat beside her.
Riley sighed. "Uncle Atticus, did something ever go so wrong for you that you wanted to run away from home?"
"Well, I ran away with Scamp on the Fourth of July, of course that was the same day we met Angel and your Aunt Mo," Atticus said. "But running away isn't the answer to everything."
"Hmm..." Riley hummed in thought.
"If something's bothering you, you should sleep on it..." Atticus advised.
"But, I..." Riley stammered.
"Maybe a lullaby will cheer you up..." Atticus helped as Riley seemed too tired to eat, but he left the pizza on her nightstand with a cup of hot chocolate. "Hush now, little girl, You're loved by all you know, You'll never lose their friendship, no matter where you go, There ain't no call to worry, so don't you cry or fret~," he then came to the door and decided to turn out the light and shut it behind him. "A bad day won't change you, No matter what you get~"
Riley then ate the pizza and drank the hot chocolate before going to sleep.
"How was she?" Jessica asked.
"She should be okay after some sleep," Atticus said. "I told her a lullaby with some pizza and hot chocolate."
"That's a relief." Jessica smiled.
"I'm still worried about Riley." Oddball whimpered.
"Well, this mood is somewhat normal." Atticus said.
Oddball looked very sad.
"Oh, Oddy, I told you, it's not your fault..." Jessica soothed as she knelt next to the dog.
"That's right." Atticus said.
"I guess so..." Oddball sighed.
"Here..." Jessica gave Oddball a leftover pizza crust.
"Ooh!" Oddball beamed and then gnawed at the crust.
Back in Riley's head...
The Train of Thought was moving until suddenly, it came to a stop.
"Hey!" Cherry glared. "Why are we stopping?!"
"Riley's gone to sleep," the conductor told her. "We're all on break."
"You mean we're stuck here until morning?" Sadness pouted.
"Yeah, the Train of Thought doesn't run while she's asleep." Bing-Bong nodded.
"Oh, great." Cherry groaned before getting an idea.
"Oh, we can't wait that long." Joy frowned as she took a look at Headquarters.
"Come on, guys, it's time for me to work!" Cherry smiled as she ran to the Dream Department once it was her time.
They all soon ran after her.
There were many workers buzzing around as Cherry walked ahead of them into Dream Productions.
"Whoa, this place is huge!" Joy beamed.
"I guess it's pretty impressive." Cherry shrugged.
"It looks so much smaller than I expected." Sadness commented.
"These are classic dreams." Cherry said as there were posters of typical dreams such as falling down, flying in the air, and being chased by someone, all starring Riley as this was her subconscious.
Joy gasped once she saw a white unicorn mare with a rainbow mane who was looking over a script. "Rainbow Unicorn, she's right there!"
"Keep walking." Cherry said.
Joy grinned as she was starstruck to see the unicorn as they passed by.
"My friend says you're famous," Sadness droned to the unicorn. "She wants your autograph."
"What did I just say?" Cherry asked Sadness.
"Sadness, no, no, don't bother Miss Unicorn, okay?" Joy came to the blue emotion. "Sorry, she's from out of town, that was so embarrassing, right?"
Cherry pushed them out of the way and looked to the unicorn. "Sorry about that, RU."
"It's okay." Rainbow Unicorn shrugged.
"I loved you in Fairy Dream Adventure Part VII." Joy came back.
"Thank you, Joy!" Cherry sharply pointed the other way.
"Okay, bye, love you..." Joy zipped off.
Cherry soon groaned before going with the others. "Guys?" she then looked around as the others seemed to get separated from her.
A door then closed with a red flashing light which made Cherry look to it.
"Oh, no..." Cherry groaned as she then rushed to the door.
"Set up the classroom set, where's Creativity?!" a director called out.
"I'm right here!" Cherry called back.
"There you are," the director told her and handed her a paper. "Here are the memories."
Cherry took the paper and then looked all around. "Okay, Riley had a stressful day at school, and Meg didn't help, and quit hockey..." she then came to a typewriter and typed as quickly as she could to make a script for the dream.
"Whoa, that sounds like it's the worst day ever." The director said.
"You're telling me." Cherry agreed as she went to work. After she finished typing the scripts, she gave them to the actors that would act as the classmates and the teacher.
Back in Headquarters, Fear was groaning and complaining that he had Dream Duty while Disgust and Anger were going for the night, and where the actors weren't really that great.
"Okay, how are we gonna wake her up?" Joy wondered about Riley so they could get back on the Train of Thought.
"Well, sometimes she wakes up when she has a scary dream," Sadness suggested. "We could scare her."
"No, no scaring-I know, we could wake her up with happiness." Joy smiled.
"That's never happened before." Sadness told her.
"And I know just the thing to help wake her up." Joy smiled as she found a dog costume.
"I don't think that'll work..." Sadness frowned.
"Bing-Bong, don't let anything happen to these." Joy handed the bag of memories to the imaginary friend.
"I'll guard them." Bing-Bong saluted.
Cherry stood behind the camera with the dream director as the actress for Riley's teacher was getting her makeup together. One worker added in the reality disorientation filter to make it like the memory.
"Love it!" The dream director nodded. "Remember, play to the camera, everyone! Riley is the camera! Make 'em get out of there... We're on in five... Four... Three..."
A worker then played the harp to begin the dream sequence.
'These guys better be good actors.' Cherry thought to herself.
"Hello, class," The teacher actress smiled nervously. "Before we begin today's pop quiz which is worth 99% of your final grade, I want to introduce our new student. Riley, would you like to stand up and introduce yourself?"
Cherry face-palmed about how terrible this actress was. The camera soon rose up as a way to look like Riley had stood up. A man behind the camera took out a megaphone and said what Riley said on her first day of school as everyone stared at her.
"Ew, look, her teeth are falling out!" A student pointed as Cherry took out tooth props to make them fall in front of the camera.
Fear had already known that was going to happen in the dream. He was a bit bored as he predicted a lot of the dream cliches, even with Riley being in school with no pants on.
"Ready?" Joy whispered to Sadness.
Cherry glanced back as Joy and Sadness had to work together.
"Joy, I'm not sure this will work." Sadness whispered.
"Just follow my lead, here we go." Joy whispered back.
The two broke into the classroom set and Joy barked like a dog.
"Who is that?" The dream director asked out of confusion.
"That would be Joy and Sadness." Cherry groaned.
Riley quietly groaned in her sleep, but wasn't quite awake yet.
"Hey, let's party, let's dance!" Joy beamed as a party wallpaper was brought down along with some balloons.
"This is not happening." Cherry groaned.
Bing-Bong then appeared and danced with Joy and Sadness.
"Oh, why...?" Cherry groaned.
Fear seemed excited about the party.
Patch walked along until he stopped as he thought he heard Sadness and Joy's voices in the dream. "Oh, please don't let them be in the dream." He then begged.
"Bing-Bong...?" Fear looked out of curious confusion.
'Please let something else happen.' Cherry thought to herself.
"Sadness, you are ruining this dream!" Joy scolded and blamed the blue emotion. "Your'e scaring her!"
"But look, it's working." Sadness pointed to the meter of Riley about to wake up, but not just yet.
"They're not part of this dream!" The dream director scolded. "Get them!"
"No, keep going." Cherry said as she saw what Joy and Sadness were doing.
The guards soon came and the dream director panned away to Rainbow Unicorn eating cupcakes.
"Boo! Pick a plot line..." Fear complained.
"So close." Cherry groaned.
"You can't do this," Bing-Bong said as he was taken away with Sadness and Joy. "I know people in Headquarters!"
"Wait, stop!" Cherry told them.
The subconscious guards glared to Cherry.
"He really does know people from HQ." Cherry said.
"Why should we listen to you?" One subconscious guard asked.
"I'll take care of them, you guys go get donuts or something." Cherry told them as she was more or less in charge of Dream Productions.
"Alright." The subconscious guards shrugged. They then left and walked away.
"OKay, guys, let's get you out of here, this is where they keep the troublemakers." Cherry warned the two emotions and one imaginary friend.
"And how do we get in there?" Joy asked.
"Come on, we have to get out of here before we go into Riley's deepest fears..." Cherry said before shuddering. "Like Jangles the Clown."
That gave both emotions the perfect idea.
"Now, just follow me, guys..." Cherry said until she didn't feel them behind her and turned around to see them going the other way. "Guys?!" She soon saw where they were going. "GUYS!" she then rushed after them.
They walked into the room where Riley's fears were kept such as broccoli and a giant killer vacuum cleaner.
Cherry rushed over to take them out. "Guys, we have to leave and that means now!" she whispered loudly to them so she wouldn't wake up the clown. Unfortunately for her, they had woken up the clown.
Joy then helped Bing-Bong out of his cage.
"Were out of here," Bing-Bong noticed the Train of Thought. "Let's get to that train."
"Wait, the train's not running," Joy pointed out. "We still have to wake up Riley."
"But how?" Sadness asked.
They soon knew how as they looked to the still sleeping clown.
Cherry shook nervously. "No." She told them.
"Hey, Sadness," Joy started once she had an idea. "Did you hear about the birthday party they're having?"
"Yes, Joy... Isn't it a b-b-birthday party?" Sadness added.
"Birthday Party?" Jangles the Clown smiled.
"And there's going to be cake and presents!" Joy smiled.
"And games and balloons!" Sadness added.
Cherry backed up nervously. That seemed to be enough for Jangles to get up and follow them. Cherry backed up even more as she breathed shallowly due to her fear of clowns.
"You better run!" Bing-Bong told her.
"My thoughts exactly!" Cherry began to run from Jangles as she felt utterly terrified, and where they soon ran out the door to the studio.
The subconscious guards argued about their hats until Cherry, Joy, Sadness, and Bing-Bong ran toward them to get away from Jangles the Clown, and where the huge clown was following them.
Riley soon woke up with a gasp and sat up in her bed which woke up the Train of Thought.
"What is going on?" Disgust asked as she and Anger came back to HeadQuarters.
"He did it again." Anger scoffed.
"It's okay, Fear, it's okay." Patch soothed the purple emotion.
"Clown... Scary clown..." Fear shuddered.
"You idiot, it was a dream!" Anger glared at Fear. "This is ridiculous! Time to take action."
Riley soon woke up and decided to run away from home while Oddball was sleeping.
"No way, besides, Riley doesn't even have any money with her and she'll be all alone." Patch said.
"Mom's purse and Oddball is our only friend right now," Anger decided. "Uncle Atticus just might tell Mom and Dad."
"Listen, I know things haven't been great, but if Riley just let's out all her... Sadness." Patch said as he got an idea, but there was a problem, Sadness wasn't there.
Oddball soon woke up as Riley was getting ready to leave San Francisco, but went to the bathroom first, she then went to get some water until a certain angel whippet appeared. "Annabelle...?"
"Hello, my dear." Annabelle greeted the young Dalmatian.
"What are you doing here?" Oddball asked.
"Your human needs you, my child," Annabelle told Oddball. "You are good natured like most dogs and you are like a Guardian Angel to Riley."
"Is she about to do something crazy?" Oddball asked.
"She's going to try to run away back to Minnesota." Annabelle informed.
"Oh, no, I have to stop her!" Oddball told her as she ran out of the bathroom on two feet.
"I believe in you, Oddball!" Annabelle called out to her. "You are Patch's niece all right!"
Oddball soon rushed after Riley even if she had to run on two feet.
Riley gasped in surprise and shushed the dog so she wouldn't wake up her parents. "Oddball, be quiet , were going home!"
"This is our home!" Oddball said to her.
"No, it's not; ever since we moved here, bad things have happened." Riley said.
"But what about your first day of school when Atticus took you?" Oddball reminded with a smile.
"I'm sorry, Oddball, but I can't stay here and have my life lived for me..." Riley said I heartbreak like Princess Jasmine to Rajah before exploring Agrabah on her own.
Oddball frowned before seeing three emotions missing in Riley's eyes. "Riley, where's your happiness, sadness, and creativity?" She pouted.
"Back in Minnesota." Riley told her.
"Riley, when did your three emotions disappear?" Oddball asked.
"My emotions?" Riley asked.
"Yes, we all have emotions," Oddball told her. "Uncle Patch told me. I think you only wanna go home because you don't know how to act without your joy or sadness."
Riley soon began to think when her three emotions felt like they had disappeared.
"Everybody and everything has feelings..." Oddball told Riley. "Bugs, monsters, cars, animals, even toys and feelings themselves."
"Th-They disappeared after I was crying in class." Riley said.
"This sounds serious..." Oddball pouted.
"Come on, Oddball, we need to leave." Jessica said as she picked up the dog in her arms.
"No! Think about your parents!" Oddball yelped.
Riley still continued with what she was doing.
