Battle for Disney: Chapter 9: The Maze of Shadows

DISCLAIMER: The Characters are not mine but belong to their respective owners such as Disney, Lego and Toho, though the story and its universe are my own concepts.

After defeating the mighty Chernabog, the caravan entered the underground tunnel. While there was a door to the Utildors within the mansion, the tunnel here seemed to go deeper under the park then the Utilidors considering that as they went down the stairs, the ground was getting damp. Figment took a lantern out of his magic backpack before they started on the journey through the dark.

"I have a hunch about this place. Goofy, do you think you can look over the edge of the wall?" Mickey asked.

Goofy looked up over the narrow gap of the ceiling and the top of the wall and saw a massive labyrinth stretching before them.

"The whole place is a huge maze! And I can't see the end." Said Goofy.

"Then we'll have to make a way!" Donald yelled as he charged up his magic staff.

The blast from Donald's staff barely made a dent in the wall and Donald proceeded in one of his quack attacks. All of this was being watched however by three small and bratty children: Lock, Shock and Barrel.

"Looks like they're here. Time to tell the boss!" one of the terrible trio said.

They had proceeded to their master, a wicked sack of bugs and snakes, Oogie Boogie who was already speaking to another of his fellow villains, the witch Maleficent, through a telescreen.

"So you see Oogie, the plan we've come up with for that caravan is merely a last resort. Many of the others will have a shot at them, and now it's your turn!" explained the wicked fairy.

As Maleficent finished speaking, a green crablike creature came on the screen. It was the Dark Hunter Nidhiki, who had been responsible along with his partner Krekka, for the captures of many of the characters of Epcot including the Dreamfinder and the Sage of Time.

"By all means, try and get rid of that meddlesome Figment! He has always been escaping from my claws." Said the smarter of the two Dark Hunters.

"My friend, it's all a matter of the roll of the die. And when Luck is at my side, the Caravan is finished." Said Oogie Boogie.

Another dark figure approached the screen, greater and more terrible then the rest. His eyes gleamed in the darkness and told Oogie, "But, to make sure the Caravan even gets to your little game, you will be assisted by Captain Hook and his crew. Now, get to it and succeed or you will lose more then a bet!"

Lock, Shock and Barrel told Oogie that the caravan had arrived into the maze of shadows

"The game is on then, " said the bag of bugs.

At Oogie's words, Captain Hook came onto the screen, talking from a portable communicator.

"Those bilge rats aren't far, we've already have began tracking them. We've already have been finding their path. One of them has been leaving behind candy wrappers trying to imitate that old breadcrumb trick." Said the elegant Captain Hook. "We'll find them soon…"

As the caravan went through the labyrinth, Figment was once again taking advantage of the powers of his enchanted backpack, pulling out as many snacks from all around the parks as he could. He had just finished a Mickey Ice Cream Sandwich and threw the wrapper behind him on the damp underground path and pulled out one of the few snacks of WDW that didn't have Mickey plastered on it, a Figment Every Flavor Lollypop.

"Figment, can you stop littering?" said Mickey.

"Nothing can live down here anyway, there is no source of food and these walls are too hard for anything to get through." Said Figment. "And besides, I need to leave a path for us to follow back in case we get lost. I read it in the Junior Woodchuck Book I took from Donald. And besides… I'm hungry!" Replied Figment

"Give me that!" snapped Donald.

As Figment handed the book back to Donald, some splashing from the tunnels behind them could be heard.

"I think maybe littering was a bad idea, I should of used chalk arrows…" said Figment.

The caravan proceeded to run but they were blocked off by a dead end! Then, the pirates came in and Captain Hook stepped forward.

"It's the end of the line for you!" said Captain Hook.

But the caravan would not go down without a fight and they battled the pirates.

Throughout the labyrinth the sounds of swords clashing and magic being cast could be heard, and the battle lasted for a while though the Caravan had an upper hand against them. Though they were doing well, they were slowly being tired out and then they finally were defeated and taken captive. As Hook and what was left of his crew took the prisoners to Oogie's lair, Figment saw some glyphs on the walls of the maze depicting numerous and very familiar creatures locked in combat including many of the monsters that attacked Japan back in the 60's and 70's along with monsters he had never seen before. Then Figment had another vision of a massive battle between a battalion of monsters led by Godzilla and three terrible demons shrouded in darkness, though Figment could distinguish the shapes of a mighty robot, a three-headed monster, and a tentacled demon. The vision went away as they were being carried into Oogie Boogie's lair and restrained onto a massive roulette wheel, much bigger then the one in Oogie's original lair in Halloween Town.

"Everyone place your bets because I'm ready to spin the wheel!"

The betting pieces of course, were the caravan and each member was restrained underneath a different number on the board where the ball would land and crush them.
The roulette wheel had begun to spin and Oogie was laughing manically.

"Mickey! The Keyblade! Get it to unlock the chains!" yelled Goofy.

Mickey had tried to reach out to the Keyblade, but it was just out of reach.

"I'll give you a hand!" Donald yelled as he used some of his magic to lift the Keyblade to Mickey's hands.

As the wheel kept spinning, Oogie and the Pirates watched and placed their bets. Hook's money was on Figment being the first to fall. Mickey, now armed with his Keyblade, quickly unlocked his restraints and quickly ran around the roulette wheel to unlock the others.

"Hey! That's cheating! I'm the only one that can do that!" Oogie yelled in rage.

The pirates jumped into the scene and Oogie was about ready to activate the numerous booby traps on his new roulette wheel of death. Blades came down and began rotating around touching down onto the wheel as the pirates and caravan fought. Lock Shock and Barrel, who had been watching, knew that this would lead to trouble and immediately ran for the hills. The fight kept raging on and eventually, the ball would come down so the caravan jumped up and out of the roulette wheel and continued clashing with the pirates. Many of the rotating blades caught up with the pirates temporarily cutting them to pieces due to the indestructibility of toons. Hook and Figment had been locked in combat, as Hook especially despised reptiles ever since he lost his hand to Tock. They constantly clashed swords and Hook constantly used swift aerial attacks to counter against Figment's hovering.

"Can't catch me you lousy codfish!" Figment said as he hovered away.

The caravan managed to make an escape from Oogie's lair with the pirates following. In the confusion with all the machines though and with some sparks Figment had shot out to mess with the traps, Oogie had caught a snag and again was coming apart.

"No, not again! My bugs! My bugs!" Oogie screamed as his precious insects got away and left him empty.

As the caravan and pirates left Oogie's now collapsing lair, the ball finally came down, landing in the spot where Oogie's empty sack body fell, on a zero.

The caravan had reached the end of the maze and quickly ran up the stairs to the back parts of the treasure room. The pirates were of course right behind them and Donald tried to stall some time by shooting some fireballs down the stairs. At the top of the stairs, they had finally reached their destination: The Pirates of the Carribean treasure room, in the back areas of it anyway. With every step they took, coins jingled at their feet. They bean searching amongst the treasure for the gem, hoping they could get it and get out quickly, as the pirates would come soon. They had trouble finding it with all the other treasures scattered around, just as they had in the Dragon's horde back in Animal Kingdom. Then, Hook came into the room with even more of his crew and the caravan was totally outnumbered, The captain stepped forward with his sword held out.

"You have fought bravely, but now you're at the end of the line! Any last words?" Hook asked.

Goofy had some. For someone thought of as stupid, he was smart enough to know exactly what to do. He stepped forward and asked one question.

"Do you believe in George?" he asked.

The Captain replied, "No, I don't believe in such a childish superstition."

Now he had done it. Hook had obviously not realized the power of George. It is said within Cast Member legend that George is a ghost of a person that worked on the attraction and the ride will break down if someone said they didn't believe in him. In this case however, there was going to more then just some stopped boats. Unearthly screaming was heard and the skeleton pirates came to life and went toward Hook and his men.

"Umm… I do believe in George. I do?" Hook nervously said while clapping softly.

Of course this wasn't enough to appease George and so, the skeleton pirates warded Hook and his crew away. Of course when there's skeleton pirates loose, they'll probably attack anyone, and the caravan had to escape.

"We don't have much time! Where's the gem?" Mickey exclaimed.

It was at the top of a large pile of treasure up ahead and they quickly grabbed it and escaped onto a rideboat and into the rest of the attraction. At the unloading/loading station, Goofy only had one thing to say.

"Thanks."

As they walked back that evening to Fantasyland, Figment finally came out with it.

"Mickey, it's time!" He said.

"For what?" the mouse asked.

"Ever since before the quest started, I knew what I needed to do. We have to go to Epcot." Said Figment

"But for what? Dreamfinder and the Sage of Time have left Epcot for a long time and we don't have any clue what happened to them." Mickey replied.

"I know where they are and what must be done. They and many of my friends have fallen into the darkness thanks to Eisner and the Dark Hunters. Now it is time to free them and bring them back." Figment said.

Then Ludwig came and told Figment the speeders were already underway.

"Then we'll go to Epcot to reconstruct the Dreammobile! It's time to put the blimp balloon and the Idea Bag to good use once more."