Chapter 10 - Endings and Beginnings.
Thus chapter closes this story but continues the Wishing Star Wormhole Saga. Another unofficial K+ here for firearms use by minors (though only at minions).
The new Pleasure Island, Former North Pacific Park, off the Buckburg coast, Calisota, 1953:
"The duck boys, Pinocchio, Lampwick and Jiminy remained quiet for most of the trip to the Coachman's new Pleasure Island. The closer they approached what once was the abandoned North Pacific Park the more the place reminded of them or the horror park of Tuscany where boys were turned to donkeys. However the Coachman seemed to have a different fate in mind for the "stupid little boys" of Duckburg, a fate that seemed to involve that new barrel ride in the center of the park, a ride that connected three worlds together through the red star, the Duckburg world, the old Pleasure Island and the world of the minions. Now the plot was obvious. If there were to be any donkey conversions they would occur on the old Pleasure Island after the boys were sent there through the barrel ride."
"Don't worry," Fowlfellow told the boys. "You won't be turned to donkeys again. Anthropomorphic animals that can do genuine human labor yet still be sold as slaves because they are not of the true human species of the old Pleasure Island's world are much more valuable to the Coachman than donkeys now. You are going to be sold into the animal labor and entertainment market as is. And Pinocchio, you will soon be meeting Mr. Stromboli again as a dog boy rather than a puppet. I always intended to sell you to him and I intend to follow through on it. Sorry but you duck boys and Lampwick are in on that particular deal too. I'm going to have to go all in with all five of you to get any money off Stromboli after your escape from him as a puppet, and that short stay in the happy home it caused him, Pinocchio."
The minions landed at the stairway to the barrel ride and released their captives while Fowlfellow and Gideon dismounted them.
"Congratulations," Fowlfellow said. "You get to be the first to try out this new "ride" so that we can see if it works before the next coach full of boys comes." He pulled his old revolver out of his coat. "Now ascend those stairs and get through that barrel and back to the original Pleasure island before the Coachman or Magica De Spell sees you.
"Magica De Spell!" Huey shouted, "She's in on this too?"
"Yes, it turned out that she is the conjurer of the red star the Coachman used to turn boys into donkeys on the original Pleasure Island and is now being used to connect it to this world on a one way ticket through that barrel ride." Fowlfellow waved his gun. "Now up those stairs with you."
"Pinocchio, the one of the five brave enough to escape from Monstro, an event that ultimately led to the monsters death was the one who came up with the plan to escape from Fowlfellow and the barrel ride. However any plan had to take place soon. They were now standing before the entrance to the barrel ride. The seemingly endless rainbow lines of a wormhole quite obvious inside it. After a little whispering to the four other boys they jumped, NOT into the wormhole but onto Fowlfellow and Gideon. As a result Lampwick wound up with the gun and Huey wound up with Gideon's mallet as the duck boys in an act of poetic justice piled on the cat man. There was only one problem left. The minions.
"Lampwick tried the revolver on them and the pair left this world in a most unusual was disappearing into a puff of smoke. "This thing must have silver bullets in it to get rid of evil that completely." Lampwick said.
"I don't think they died." Huey said. "I think the bullets simply destabilized them in this world and returned them to their own world but somehow I don't think they are even capable of dying.
"Well whatever these bullets to those things we need the effect." Lampwick said taking a box of cartridges for the gun from the grounded Fowlfellow's coat. He opened the gun and replaced its spent cartridges with live ones. Now lets scram before these creeps can get up and wait for the Coachman in a safe place." They made for the saloon.
"Somehow I have my doubts there is such a place on this entire Island." Dewey said. "North Pacific Park island is a solid Island, not one with a big cavern and pool in the middle of it like the original Pleasure Island.
"This place will be plenty safe enough when the Coachman arrives with his coach load of boys." Louie said. "without these." He took off his Junior Woodchuck hat and coat revealing the red tee shirt underneath. Dewey doffed his uniform apparel for his blue tee shirt underneath and likewise Louie for his green tee shirt. Pinocchio and Lampwick removed the obvious parts of their uniforms as well.
"There," Huey, said. "Now we will not look any different form the "stupid little boys" that come to the island with the Coachman. The best place to hide is in plain site, but not as what your pursuer is looking for.
Jiminy was pretty much on his own with out a Tyrolean or uniform hat to hide under so he went instinctively to the place he knew best amongst this gaming equipment from the Original Pleasure island, The pool tables ball rack. The uniforms were hidden by placing them under a pile of completely empty junk food containers that would look like simply one of the many piles of trash that would result from unruly boys being on the island. Perhaps Lampwick, Pinocchio and the duck boys could even enjoy some of the honest amusement facilities in the park this time too to enhance the image of "stupid little boys" they were hiding under. This time they only had to avoid the things that should be avoided like Tobacco Row, The Rough House, the saloon and the Model Home Open for Destruction and above all that barrel ride at the center of the park that was a one way ticket back to the original Pleasure Island and slavery.
When Fowlfellow and Gideon finally recovered from the attack by their captives they found the new Pleasure Island fully active and filled with boys. Fowlfellow knew that the Junior Woodchucks would probably doff the obvious parts of their uniforms and mix in with this crowd to hide out and it would be hopeless to find them under such circumstances. He went immediately to find Magica de Spell, the Coachman or both.
The coachman was actually at his usual position at the doors to his new Pleasure Island inviting the boys in with his false flag "grandfather" appearance. Accompanying him were Magica De Spell and about ten minions hiding in the shadows, their viper eyes being ignored by the boys attracted to the "fun" inside. When the last boy was in the coachman cracked his whip at the minions and his attitude completely changed.
"Shut those doors and lock 'em tight, blokes." The Coachman said. "Then get back to the original Pleasure Island and get the crates ready. You will be receiving the first arrivals on the "stupid little boy" express soon enough."
From then on the coachman kept his eyes strictly on the barrel ride that was the bait for the boys this time. He was betting that they would be attracted to the beautiful rainbow colors of mthe wormhole and jump in voluntarily. Those who would not he would simply use minions to capture them and dump them in.
All of a sudden the Coachman saw Fowlfellow on the midway taking long and particular looks at many of the boys as possible. He seemed to be looking for particular ones.
"What ARE you doing!" the Coachman demanded of Fowlfellow as he gave up his position by the doors. Magica De Spell accompanied him. She did not want to be out of any part of her and the Coachman's new "partnership".
"Do you want to reveal our plans inadvertently?" the Coachman asked Fowldellow in a more silent tone.
"If I don't find what I'm looking for here they will be revealed anyway." Fowlfellow returned.
"And just what do you mean by that."
"Remember those four Junior Woodchucks and the donkey we left locked up in the interior of the original Pleasure Island?" Fowlfellow returned. "Well somehow they got out and the blue fairy brought them back to this world. Not only that but she changed the donkey to a dog boy and he is a Junior Woodchuck now too."
"Now let me complete your story, you transcendental idiot!" The Coachman snapped. "You brought them to the new Pleasure Island hoping to drop them down the wormhole shoot to the old one before I found out about this, and now there somewhere on this Pleasure Island out of uniform so that they can't be distinguished from the other boys here ready to pounce unannounced on our latest enterprise, right!"
"That's pretty much it." Fowlfellow returned.
Magica the broke in, "I can find them." She put her arms foreward as if she was holding something in her hands. Her talking raven then materialized.
"We are looking for five boys that were dressed in Junior Woodchuck uniform and are presumably now decked out in some other manner to hide themselves amongst the suckers in this park." she told the bird.
"And just what is that bird of yours supposed to do." the Coachman asked
"It is a scavenger and predator which makes it a good flying tracker." Magica answered.
"All we have to do is find the uniforms and the raven will fond those who wore them.
However it would not be the raven that found Pinocchio and his associates. As one of the boys the coachman brought into the park began to walk over to the barrel ride in the center of it Pinocchio came out of hiding. "Don't Ride that!!" he yelled. "It will take you to another world where you will be sold into slavery and you will never come back."
"Get him!" the Coachman said to Fowlfellow. "He is ruining everything."
Magica was not waiting on Fowlfellow however. She went immediately to the place where the red star was held in the barrel ride. She then put her hands together in such a way that both index fingers were pointed at the safe like structure like a double barreled gun. A beam emerged from then passing through the safe and connecting with the red star.
"Enough of you Fowlfellow and enough of you Coachman," Magica said. "Now I'm doing things MY WAY!!!"
The largest minion shadow yet seen emerged from the entrance to the barrel ride due to the contact of Magica's own magic with the red star. It became a Monstro sized pterodactyl shaped flying monster with a long beaked mouth attached to a throat that was not a throat but the wormhole that used to be in the barrel ride. Its viper eyes were like giant yellow transfer balloons. "THAT will find your Junior Woodchucks and swallow them back to your original Pleasure Island for you, and take care of all the other boys as well."
Huey unnoticed in the commotion brought up by the conjuring to the flying minion beast approached what he now knew was the compartment that held the box with the red star in it.
Lampwick also knew what he had to do. Even if it meant going back to the original pleasure Island and even becoming a donkey again by way of this horrible monster he was the only one who had the means by which it might be brought back into its own world, the revolver. Lampwick pointed the gun at the Monstro sized flying minion beast as it made its first pass at him in order to swallow him to the original Pleasure Island and fired. A considerable amount of shadow smoke left the beast for a while but it returned to the monster and re stabilized. Lampwick then realized that an ordinary hit was not going to affect this beast the way it affected a normal minion. He fired at the mouth on the beast's next pass at him but the bullet simply passed through the wormhole to presumably strike somewhere on the original Pleasure Island in 1881.
The only seemingly vulnerable spot left was the one of the huge viper eyes of the monster. If Lampwick couldn't return the great flying monster to its world on its third pass with a shot in the eye then it was all over. He, Pinocchio, Huey, Dewey and Louie along with all the boys brought to this Pleasure Island would be brought by means of the flying minion beast to the original Pleasure Island and from there sold into slavery.
The third pass of the beast was immediate. Lampwick kept his cool aiming the gun directly at the bulging left eye of the minion beast and slowly cocking its hammer. The beast was about twenty feet away and preparing to transfer its first victim through its wormhole. Lampwick fired.
This time a great rainbow light explosion greater than any firework or searchlight ever seen on any Pleasure Island lit up the sky then contracted down to total disappearance. The flying minion monster was back in its own world with the exception of its wormhole which once again occupied the barrel ride.
It was then that the Coachman, Fowlfellow and Gideon realized that there would be no more minions to protect them or help them any further in their new Pleasure Island scheme. The only safe place for them would be in their own world and time. They ascended the barrel ride's stairway at about the same time as Huey had the compartment with the red star in it opened. All three jumped through the wormhole at the same time as Huey was removing the red star's box from the machine.
"Back to trying to get Scrooge's number one dime again." Magica said at the defeat of her greatest feat of sorcery ever, and all at the hands of a rather primitive weapon created by a company in another world's America run by an ordinary mortal named Daniel Baird Wesson.
"However she had hope of better things again when she saw Huey with the box containing the red star in his hand. "I'll take that." Magica said approaching Huey. Huey seeing Louie not very far from threw the box in his direction. "Catch!" he yelled.
Louie caught the box, "Got it." he said and began running looking for either Pinocchio or Dewey in what now became a simple keep away game with Magica's powers having been temporarily exhausted in the conjuring of the flying minion monster.
It was Dewey that Louie found. "Take this" he said in what would have been a classic football hand off with the box.
"I've got it now what do I do with it." Dewey asked.
"Run for the doors!" Louie shouted.
"But they are locked!" Dewey returned.
"Run for them anyway!" Louie returned. "After the light show that flying monster put on the police or somebody must be sending someone out here to investigate and they will unlock the doors.
With that all three duck boys were headed toward the doors, They were soon joined by Lampwick and Pinocchio who during this game with Magica were in the saloon getting the Junior Woodchuck uniforms and guidebook, and Jiminy who was safely hidden in the pool tables ball rack.
"I presume this thing is over now and we can quit worrying about Pleasure Islands sprouting up like Amanita toadstools." Jiminy said from one of the Junior Woodchuck hats.
Suddenly a bright light blue light appeared before the five boys and Magica simply crept away not wanting to deal with this new source of power.
"It is for the duck boys." the light said becoming the blue fairy. "Once they give that box over to me to deal with their part in this is over and they can return to Camporee. However for you Pinocchio and Lampwick there is yet one more adventure." the fairy said.
"Why us and not the duck boys." Lampwick asked.
"The duck boys were only to put a stop to the original curse of the original Pleasure Island. Their part in this is ended when they give that box to me for proper disposal. However there is still the matter of the Coachman, Fowlfellow and Gideon."
"But I thought that the red star's wormhole sent them back to their own world in 1881 where the cops and truant officers there are waiting for them." Pinocchio said
"Not quite," The fairy returned. "When Huey removed the red star's box from its compartment in the barrel ride it added a little instability to the wormhole in that ride. The Coachman, Fowlfellow and Gideon emerged on the original Pleasure Island all right, but in 1971, not 1881. In 1971 Pleasure Island in your world is known as SPECTRE Island. One of the many training bases and world headquarters of an international criminal organization of the period also known as SPECTRE. Up until 1971 this organization was led by a man named Ernst Stavro Blofeld. However he died in an attack on another SPECTRE headquarters disguised as an oil drilling rig. The Coachman, Fowlfellow and Gideon landed on Pleasure Island which will be SPECTRE Island shortly after Blofeld's death and the Coachman became the leader of that organization.
"But how do you expect us to take on an international criminal organization in the future." Jiminy asked.
"You wont be alone, you will have the British police organization MI-6 on your side in this. I will see to that. However be advised this SPECTRE organization uses science and technology, not magic to gain its power. If the Coachman has found a way to turn you into a donkey using SCIENCE rather than magic thorough this SPECTRE organization I might not be able to help your charge, Jiminy."
"I do think we should bring father with us," Pinocchio said. "He probably would enjoy coming back to his own world, even in a future time."
"Of course we should," Jiminy added "Ponoke should not be fooling around with these SPECTRE people without some kind of Parental supervision. Even with this MI-6 Help you claim he will be getting."
"Ok," The blue fairy said. "But just one more thing." the fairy waved her wand and Pinocchio's uniform changed again this time it was all khaki with a broad brimmed hat with what Americans called a "Montana peak" on its crown. Fleur de Lis symbols replaced the Junior Woodchuck symbols in the appropriate areas.
"I still want you associated with a Junior Woodchuck style organization while you are in the future of your world." the blue fairy said. "In England, in that world, in 1971 the equivalent of the Junior Woodchucks is called the Boy Scouts Association and this is its uniform. You will be in a troop for orphans of MI-5 and MI-6 agents sponsored by an MI-6's front company called Universal Exports."
"What about me." Lampwick asked, "Don't I get to be a Scout too like I was a Junior Woodchuck here."
"Sorry, but in that world you are still under the curse of Pleasure Island even though the red star will be disposed of no matter what time you visit. You will turn into a donkey again upon your return there." the fairy returned.
"But didn't I prove myself brave truthful and unselfish by shooting that monster Magica conjured up back into its own world?" Lampwick asked.
"Yes in this world you did. Therefore here you will be a dog boy and always be accepted as a Junior Woodchuck until your 18th birthday and perhaps even become an adult leader afterwards if it is this world you ultimately choose as your home." Said the fairy. However you must prove your self brave truthful and unselfish in your own world to end the donkey curse there.
"And that means in all probability confronting the Coachman and his new SPECTRE bunch as a donkey?" Lampwick asked.
"You knew the answer before it was given." the fairy returned. "You will retain the power of speech for those in the loop on this assignment as a donkey however because I gave that to you in that other world. Those will include Pinocchio's new Scoutmaster Mr. Sutterland. The commander of MI-6 known simply as M, his personal secretary Miss Moneypenny, Q, the chief MI-6 weapons and gadgets officer and the agent they will most likely assign to an unusual case like this one James Bond who is ID numbered 007."
Once again the familiar transport bubble began to appear around Pinocchio, Lampwick and the Fairy.
"Here we go again." Jiminy sighed sitting on the new broad brim of Pinocchio's hat.
This concludes this fan fic but starts another one. This new one is to be called YOU'RE A DONKEY TWICE as a play on both the James Bond movie that introduced Ernst Stavro Blofeld as a character rather than just a presence You only Live Twice, and the fate of Lampwick upon returning to his own world even in 1971. This will be a true crossover fan fic. This is a true crossover story between the Disney Pinocchio and James Bond universes and will therefore be available in the Disney Crossover section under James Bond.
Note - I actually intended to end this with the Coachman being turned into a donkey by the red star, Fowlfellow reforming and Gepetto, Pinochio, Lampwick, Jiminy and Fowlfellow running the New Pleasure Island as a legitimate amusement park and staying in Duckburg. However as you can see I eventually wound up on the same saga kick as George Lucas did with Star Wars after the first movie. I also wanted to do a fan fic involving some of my other favorite fictional characters in the James Bond super spy world and how they would react to being "invaded" by the Disney Pinocchio timeline with the Coachman taking the place of Ernst Stavro Blofeld as Bond's enemy. I felt that this "Sleeping Beauty" type ending revolving around Magica De Spell as a duck shaped Malificent creating a dragon / pterodactyl like creature was a more appropriate ending to a saga type story arc than my original would be.