This takes place before the Bomb. I will say when they take place.
Tony and Pollyanna sat on the went without his glasses. Pollyanna read the last page of "Destiny's End."The last novel in the Spirit Morph Saga. Her heart pounded. She closed the book, and took a long exhale. That...was so...adorable!
Tony cleared his throat, forcing her out of her thoughts. She looked at the overall clad child. He clasped his hands together. "So...what did you think of the ending of the book?" She blushed, hoping that she would get the "right answer" by just saying. "Uh..it was on Page 421?"
Tony went off. "I thought it was a disaster!" She flinched at his tone, as he stood up, pacing around. " All the books leading up to this seemed to be taking on and subverting these "Witch Tropes"...really self-aware about being a pastiche, you know?"
She looked around, nervous. "Uhh…"
He continued, in disregard for her opinion. "But in the end, none of that even mattered. Lisa and her talking falcon, rebels challenging the stifling traditions of the magical bureaucracy? I loved that." He put his hand to his head, in exasperation. " Then her falcon turns into a human and they get married?! It completely dropped all the anti-authoritarian stuff and described a wedding cake for fifty pages!"
She played with the pages, going along with him. "Yeah! That cake was worth 20 pages, tops." She brought her favorite fruit into accusation. "There weren't even strawberries on it!" Tony rose his finger, quickly. "I bet since the books got so popular, the publisher put pressure on the author to water down the end for a larger audience appeal!" He didn't acknowledged that his friend looked uneasy. He closed his fist. "Unlike art, the real world can't always win against the iron chains of authority." He flopped back onto the couch, sighing. "That's my theory, anyways." He took the book from her. "It's disappointing, really. Considering that I invested extra money into the hard cover copies…" He opened it up, revealing a map of the world. "with maps.."
She smiled. "I wish I could give you a better ending…" They both smiled, blushing.
A warm blue light glew. Pollyanna looked at her arm and then heard the temple door. "The temple door!" They walked over to it, Maria's Room open for them. "It opened for me!" She gasped, realizing. "I can MAKE anything I want in there! I can give you a new ending!" Tony's brown eyes lit up. "Really!? Well, what are we waiting for!" He grabbed her hand and they ran in.
Pollyanna lead the boy through the blue clouds. "Uh...Ta-Da!" Tony was awed. "Cool…" She held up her arm, like it was in a cast. "This was my Mom's room, now I can control it, like so!" She turned from the boy and announced loudly. "I want a Tiny Floating Whale to give me some fin!" The tiny blue whale appeared and slapped its fin against her palm. It made a sound. "Awo!" Before she dismissed it.
Tony was astonished. "Unbelievable! How does it work?!" She explained. "It makes it with magic and clouds and things! We can make anything!"
Tony's dream...To see his favorite monarchs and places in real life. "Anything!? How about the Infinity Fair from Book 4? With merchants from a million lands, selling goods from cultures long gone and yet to be!" Pollyanna remembered what happened last time. Not the best idea. "W-we should keep it simple. Overloading the room is a no-go." He tried the first compromise. "How about half the Infinity Fair?" He caught his mistake. "No wait, that's still infinity."
He thought out loud. "Simple...Simple...We need to have the characters!" She gasped. "Oh! Can you be Lisa? Archamicarus was my favorite, I want to be him, guy or not!" She clapped as she was decked in a falcon costume. A background with a falcon appeared behind her. "Oh, right, simple." It disappeared. "Cross-Dressing...Um...Sure, If you really want to!" She fluffed her hair, enjoying being Ms. Falcon.
Tony smiled. "Okay, room! I want to be Lisa!" He clapped his hands...And nothing happened! He looked at him, and then to her. "Do i need to be more specific, you were pretty broad with the whole "I want to be him guy or not" She realized that her core was what was powering the things. "Oh, Sorry.I guess the room just makes things when I want it. Maybe this won't work after all..." Tony was quick to have an idea on what to do. "Why don't you just make a costume Shop?" Her eyes lit up, as she rose her arms over her cloak, which acted as her wings. "Ah! Good Idea!" She turned around. "I want a costume shop!"
They giggled, as Tony ran inside, forgetting that he was about to cross-dress.
Tony's voice was heard, as she waited patiently. "Wow, this place has everything! Even the childhood tunic!" He saw that it was how she thought. " Wait, you thought it was red?" She smiled. "Yeah! The color of the setting sun!"
He stated, matter-of-factly. "The sun sets black over the mines, Polly." If she cared, she didn't say. She asked, instead. "Are you going to be Young Lisa?" She heard shuffling, and clinking. "Well,if we're really reworking this thing, I'm gonna make the ultimate Lisa, with the best gear from every book! Like...what if she never lost her iron sword?" She awed, "Whoa!" She heard clicking. "And the cloak and the clasp are too signature not to do." She nodded. "Too true!" She heard the clicking of him pulling on a boot. "And I always liked the dragon whisker boots from the volcano stuff in Book 3."
She tapped her foot, asking. "Are you done yet?" He called. "Wait just a moment!" She leaned against the wall. "Come out! I wanna see you!"
He stepped out, his cape red. His hair was pulled into the hood, with the clasp and sword. He also wore an eyepatch on his left eye. She blushed. "You look amazing!" He smiled. "Thanks!"
"Okay! Let's do this!" They ran off laughing. They didn't hear the continued clinking.
They stood at a point of cloud, and she went off of the ending. "So, at the end of the series, Lisa and her falcon familiar, Archamicarus, are at the altar…" It appeared behind them. "With a priest." He appeared behind them, "About to be married." They're outfits changed, her in a dress with him in a suit on one knee. "But we don't want that." It all disappeared. He stood up, as she thought. " So instead, hmm, uhhh, I don't know. What do you think?" She was never good at coming up with things. He thought. "Hmm...What do you think?" That caught her off guard. Usually, he was happy to supply an idea! She thought, before saying the first things to her mind.
"Uhh, well, h-how about a different proposal, Lisa…" She stood up and waved her arm. "A business proposal! We can start a business together and sell...uh, sell...turkey legs to make money to help out our fellow rebel comrades!"
He was completely on board with her idea. "Yeah, sounds good!" A cart appeared in front of them. Pollyanna noticed one thing. "I want a little umbrella with that, Room."
They walked through the room, Pollyanna holding up one, calling. "Turkey Legs! Get your rebel turkey legs!"
As they walked around, buildings appeared and disappeared. Tony rolled the cart, as she asked. "Do you think it would be okay for a falcon like me to eat this?" He stated. "You are a bird of prey." They stopped walking. "So...what's our next move as business partners?" He asked, again. "What do you think?" She rose her eyebrow. "Uh...we..feed the Wing Lizards!"
A blue and green lizard with wings appeared. It was about as tall as Tony, him being slightly taller than Pollyanna. She chuckled and ran over. "Look at this guy! He totally looks like a rebel!" Tony reacted a bit late. "Wow! From Book 4!" It gave a screech. Pollyanna went along with their role-play. "Now, I know he lives in the mountains but he's just visiting because he heard about these turkey legs. Lisa, would you like to do the honors?" She held it out to "Lisa". He took it from her, as per her request. "Okay." It opened its mouth and let Tony throw it in. It smiled as he said happily. "It ate the bones!" She smiled. "Okay!" She scratched her head. "I guess we're a success." He smiled. "If you think so."
She was confused. ": So, what now? Didn't you have a bunch of ideas? That it needed to more anti-authority and stuff?" He spoke, right after she finished. "Sure."
"Oooookay…" The Wing Lizard didn't know what to do next, so she went on a whim, as he went back to the cart. "So, we're...we're stopped by the authorities?" She pointed the turkey leg she was holding. A row of knights appeared. She spoke slowly. "Because...because we're selling without a permit!"
A scroll appeared in one's hand. "And we're not old enough to drive the cart!" Another appeared, it was just nonsense on fancy old paper. She held up the leg. ": But these are uh, free-range turkeys! And they didn't listen to anybody, and that's what we're gonna do...right?"
Tony kept smiling at her, and said. "Whatever you think!" She was super confused, it wasn't like him to be like this. "Really? All right. And then, I think they...don't like that, and they attack us!" She ran behind the cart. There scrolls turn into axes, and they march to the cart. She called, and threw her turkey leg. "You can't stop us!" They rose the axes and began to hit the cart, but not so them. They ducked behind it. Pollyanna commented. " Jeez, these guys are corrupt! What should we do about em huh?"
Tony shrugged. " What do you think we should do?" She blushed. " C-come on I'm really trying here! How do you want this story to end?" He was sitting on his knees...like she sits as he asked. "How do you want the story to end?" Her shoulders squared. " I don't know! I just wanted to do this for you. This isn't really like you I-" She sighed, saying. "I don't want you to just do what I want."
Tony's pupils dilated. "Uh... you want me to not d-do what you want?" He looked down, his shoulder arced in a hunched position. "Tony, are you alright?" Pollyanna asked, concerned. He grabbed his head. " I want what you want, what you want-want-want-want" He repeated that like a broken cassette player. She realized something...she chose her words wrong…
"I want a Tiny floating whale to give me some fin!"
"I want a costume shop!"
"I wanna see you!"
She looked at the repeating boy. " I-I created you! You're not Tony! I must've left the real Tony back at the costume shop." She stood up. " H-he could be anywhere! No, no, no, no, NO! I'm done, I'm done playing!" Cloud Tony stopped, as her costume became her regular clothing. With waves of her hand, the grass, the knights and the cart were gone. She turned back to the Tony she created. She swiped her hand, and he was gone. She took a few breaths. His clouds kept in the air, and reformed. She looked up. "Why didn't you disappear with everything else?" He spoke coldly. "You told me not to do what you wanted." She put her hands to her head. "Ngh! Where is Tony!?"
They heard, in the distance. "Polly!? Polly!?" She ran through the clouds, leaving the Cloud Tony behind. "Tony!? Tony, is that you!?" Cloud Tony grabbed her hand. "Please, let me go. I want to find the real Tony!" She pulled away from him. He tightened his grip. "You told me-" She pulled him off. "That doesn't matter!" She ran from him, in search of her Tony. He was hot on her tail.\
She called. "Please don't follow me, I don't want you to follow me!" He didn't respond to her. She yelled. "Cart!" A cart gave her some leverage from him. But he just jumped over it. She screamed as he ran at her. "Uh.. WING LIZARD!" It appeared under her, and took off, but Cloud Tony hung onto it. She called from the sky. "Tony! Can you hear me!?" She saw his silhouette, it looked like he added some more masculine touches to Lisa anyways. "Polly? Polly!?" She called to him. "
Tony! I'm almost there! Just hold o- AH!" She screamed as Cloud Tony pushed her off of the Lizard. He growled at her, as he clung to her arm. She struggled. "Please! I don't want you! I want the real TONY!" She grunted as they landed on the floor. She looked up, at him. "I know what you really want." He was wearing the tux, again. "I know how you REALLY feel!" He sat on her back, and held down her arms, Tony called. "Polly!" He ran through the clouds. His cloak was black, and it gave him a more masculine feel. He pulled back the hood and the patch was on his right eye. "Ah, Polly! There you ..are.." He saw her situation. She reached out for him, and Cloud Tony pinned her hand down.
She began to cry as she called. "Help!" Tony looked really disturbed, but he became determined. He ran to the clone and tackled him off of the vulnerable girl. He got up quickly, and ran at the girl, who was still on her slid in front of her, and slashed his sword at him. "Keep away from her!" He fell apart, but came back in front of the girl. He looked at her. "I know you like him." Tony stepped in front of her, sword raised. He walked forwards. "And you want him to like you back." Tears flew down her reddened cheeks. "No! Don't listen!" Tony sliced him again, and looked back at her. Cloud Tony appeared on her and continued, grabbing her hair and forcing her head into the clouds. " That's why you can't tell him the truth, but you WANT to!" She screamed as he pulled at her hair. "You wanna tell him!"
"No!"
"Tell him!"
Tony ran at him. "Get off of her!"
Cloud Tony yelled at her. "Tell him, Pollyanna!"
She sobbed as he screamed again. "Tell him, now!"
She broke, and screamed out. "I-I liked the ending!" Everything, with the shriek, went silent. Tony asked. "W-what?" He put down his sword.
She stuttered out. " I-I thought it was sweet that Lisa and Archimicarus got together in the end! They were always so thoughtful towards each other, and I was so happy when they found the spell to make him human, and I loved every page about the cake, I wanted to draw a picture of it! I'm-I'm sorry I pretended not to like it, I just didn't want you to think less of me." A blush kept on her face, as Cloud Tony let her go. "That's better." He poofed away.
Tony walked up to the girl, her orange locks frizzy. "Do-do you think I'm a bad person for liking the ending?" She asked, meek. Tony felt bad that he made her feel that way. "Of course not! I-..." He looked down. "Polly, It's just a book." She shook her head. "But you really care about it!" He held out a hand. "I care about you more." She grabbed it. "Even though I liked the wedding?" She held onto his hand. He realized. "Oh, of course you liked the wedding...You're Pollyanna, you love "Schmaltz"."
They exited the room, her expressing her opinion. "You make a good point, but don't you remember how Archimicaras cried in book 3?" She held her hands to her chest and he stopped walking, saying. " I thought that was because they lost the sword!" She turned around and looked at him, hand intertwined. "No, she almost fell into the volcano! He was worried about her!" Tony sat on the couch, and crossed his legs. "But she had access to frost spells." She ploped down next to him. " Yeah but Archimicarus didn't know that! Even birds can fall in love!" Her eyes glazed. Tony smiled. "I guess you could read it that way."
Sitting on her bed, was a drawing of Lisa and her familiar, hand in hand ready to walk down the aisle. She predicted it.
And loved every moment.
CROSS-DRESSING CHILDREN...I AM ODD. BUT HEY DO I CARE. NO, NOT REALLY.
Such cuties. Okay, everyone. Say Uncle will be done. I'm not the greatest or biggest fan of Uncle Grandpa...but It's still an episode!
But it's not next! No, next time is: Joy Ride!
