Chapter 42: Prince and the Pauper
Disney Castle
Within the café with the arcade nearby, a tall anthro dog walked into the café, he wore red top, light blue jeans and black trainers. This was the son of Goofy, Max Goof and worked part-time at the House of Mouse as a parking valet. "Hey, P.J., you here too?"
Approaching a large overweight wolf with black fur like Max's, wore a blue shirt and red shoes. "I thought you called, I just hope its not another of those… Grimm." P.J. made a nervous gulp upon mentioning of those monsters that caused a lot of havoc across many worlds until they suddenly vanished a few days ago, even the mention of them gave him the goosebumps.
Max calms his best friend from the way he was acting. "Nah, my dad said they were all gone after that battle in some place. But told to be here for something." He gave a sigh and sat down on a chair. "Just hope our buds are safe somewhere, haven't heard anything from them in a year."
"Yeah, I hope Taren and Ben are doing alright." His best friend also worried for them.
"Someone talking about me?"
The two looked to see someone come in with a hood over his face, only see strands of red hair and possibly human about their age. Pulls it back and revealed to be Taren. Grinning at the two flabbergasted and shocked teens. "Hey, guys. Long time."
Both Max and P.J. were at first silent with their eyes widen and jaws dropped as if they were dreaming. "Taren? DUDE!"
Both ran towards him, almost startling the redhead and threw themselves at him, asking so much questions at a time.
"Dude! It's really you!"
"Man, you've grown!"
"And what happened to your eyes, man? So freaky!"
"Where have you been all this time?"
Taren could barely know where to start with so many questions and was so glad to see them after so long. "Guys, guys! Chill, I'll answer your questions but… it's really great seeing you again." Chuckles and gave the special handshake greet, followed by fist b and slapping. "But man, I'm glad to see you both doing alright."
"Say, we heard Ben was back but didn't know what happened." Max said when he heard the news from Auradon about Ben's surprising return when the Grimm disappeared.
"Yeah, it's a long story, guys. And one you would never believe." Taren smiles and had to tell them of what happened. "But first, something you wanna see something that will surprise you guys."
They wondered what he had to show them as Taren reached out his hand and summoned the Light's Rebellion to his hand. Easily see the flabbergasted and shocked faces of his two friends.
"You… you got a keyblade?!" P.J. could hardly find the words when he was looking at the legendary weapon in Taren's hand
"Dude! So that means you've been on adventures?!" Max asked him and eager to know more.
"Well, only on this world called Magix and been to another named Domio, but here's what happened." Taren began to tell them all that happened to him and Ben, told them about Mel but left out the details of her secret, meeting a group of fairies with magic called the Winx Club and team of Specialists who they fought alongside with against the horde of Grimm and a warlock named Tezzeret with three evil witches called the Trix. Also added how they gained new powers during their training and sought to find the legendary magic called the Dragon's Flame.
The two were awed and amazed of the adventures their friends went through. "Dude! If only we came along like our dads, it would have been a blast!" Max said and always wanted to be an adventuring hero just like his dad when hearing the stories of Goofy with Sora and Donald.
"Least your dad wasn't the one who worked for one of the worst villains in history." P.J. sighs and mentions of his father, Pete. "Least he's doing less villainess roles like being a landlord thanks to my mom."
"But still a pain in the butt." Max knew who P.J.'s father is and still best friends with him no matter what since they were all kids back then. Even though Pete is no longer working for Maleficent, he still causes some trouble for others to close down the House of Mouse. Like stealing their cartoons, taking over the clubhouse.
Taren could feel bad for him having a father who causes trouble most of the time. "Still, things are going to be different now there's not much going on. Be back to school and see some familiar faces."
"Can't wait to see what Ben's keyblade be like, the news be all over the place about you guys and that Mal girl." Max could imagine them be swarmed by news reporters of what happened and watch their every move. Plus, there be a lot of fans including the girls chasing after them.
"Ugh, yeah, I dunno how I can go about without seeing a camera flashed at me." Taren groaned while a waiter delivered them a pizza, taking a slice for his own. "A lot has changed since then."
"Yeah, and no doubt Audrey will see this a chance to add her fame of dating Ben the hero." Max mentally groaned and hate to think how she will never stop talking about it.
That was something Taren forgot to bring up to mention. "Actually, Ben broke up with her before we became Keybladers." And he was sure to sound
This news was a surprise to both his pals who almost choked on their food and drinks.
P.J. wanted to be sure he heard him correctly and not messing with them. "Really? Ben broke up with Audrey? The daughter and princess of Aurora and Phillip?"
"Yep, I was surprise to find out. And not sure how she took it but would hate to see how she took it." The redhead could tell she would be mad not going out with the crown prince of Auradon now. "But guess he'll be preparing for the coronation soon and be catching up with some studies."
"Yeah, imagine, king Ben of Auradon, but how will that change things with being a keyblader now?" P.J. wondered.
"Relax, bud, King Mickey was a keyblade wielder before eh took the throne and still at it. I'm sure it will be easy for him." Max assured him with confidence.
The doors opened and entering the café was Merlin with a book. "Ah, good to see you boys, hope you are doing well."
"Hey, Merlin. What brings you around here?" Taren asked him and noticed the book in his hand.
"Oh, something to help the students at Auradon high to know certain histories of other worlds, and delivering them to the school to learn more." Merlin answers and placed the book on the table. "Oh, and I heard the news and wanted to congratulate you three on a splendid job defeating that dark keyblader."
Taren responded with a chuckle and scratched his cheek. "Yeah, guess I'll be getting used to that sort of reaction of being a hero now."
"Most certainly, my boy! I'm certain you three be great keyblade wielders in the future. And-oh, where is that blasted thing. Oh blasted all! I've forgotten to have the notes for the school!" Muttered of having forgotten them. "I must have left them back at the labs at Radiant Garden. Listen, I shouldn't be long, but if you boys keep an eye on this book."
"Sure, we'll keep an eye on it." Max assured him.
"Excellent! Oh, and one more thing I should mention, just by looking at one's face, doesn't mean they're the same person." He told them and the wizard vanished.
"Okay, what was that about?" Taren was confused by what the wizard meant, even his friends had no idea. Suddenly from his belt, the digivice flashed and emerged was Koromon beside him. "Ah! Koromon!"
"Whoa! What is that?" P.J. suddenly jumped in fright of the small pink creature that appeared out of no where.
"Uh, T?" Max asked him when nervously keeping his eye on the thing on the table.
"Hi, Taren! Sorry, but thought to stretch my ears." The In-Training Level Digimon smiled and suddenly his nose sniffed something before turning to the pizza and looked excited. "Pizza!"
"Sorry guys, this is my Diigmon, Koromon. Koromon, these are Max and P.J., sorry about that guys, he just seems eager to come out of his digivice and is the Digimon I talked about." Taren explains to them.
"So this is one of those Digimon we heard about. Cool." Max took a closer look at the little fella and noticed him staring at the pizza. "Uh, you wanna slice?"
Koromon nodded and grins. "Sure! I like pizza! Bloom was nice to make me one." Taren remembered when she made some pizza at her place and he really liked the taste of the cheese.
They gave him on and watched the Digimon munched on it.
"Wow, imagine him and Bobby in a cheese eating contest." P.J. though it be awesome.
"Yeah, he's really hungry and could change any moment now." Taren wondered what he will become as its been two days since he hatched. Leans back on the table and accidentally knocked the book over. "Oops."
"Dude, Merlin said to be careful with it." Max thought he was the careful type, reaches to grab it when he noticed something in the pages. "Hey, what's this?"
P.J. wasn't so sure it was a good idea. "Uh, Max, I think we should close it and put it back before Merlin notices." But so far it was too late and saw Max open it and saw a picture.
"Hey, this is the history of when the Disney Kingdom was going through rough times?"
Taren came over to take a look at the portrait of an old kingdom. "Really? I never knew this side of their history."
"Well, me and Max were told of it back at school, they said it went through a time when the king grew ill, and a cruel captain decided to take advantage of the wealth and power he can get." P.J. explains to Taren of the history that happened. "Fortunately he was beaten by a group of heroes and the prince."
"Hey, it's glowing." The trio turned to Koromon who noticed the book was glowing in max's hand.
"Uh, is it supposed to do that?" Taren wasn't sure how to think when he felt strong magic from it. Suddenly his keyblade appeared in his hand and glowed as well.
Suddenly to realise this was no ordinary book if it was one of Merlin's. "Oh, man, quick close it!" P.J. cried out but was too late when they were all taken by a flash of light and sucked into the book.
Within the streets filled with snow, peasants in rags and whatever clothing they can use to keep warm gone about their business. Not aware of a flash of light to find Taren, Koromon, Max, and P.J. appear in the alley and their clothes slightly different.
"What? What the heck just happened?" Max looked about and confused.
"Where are we? This isn't Disney Castle!" Taren noticed how everything looks like something in the medieval times.
P.J. suddenly had a feeling of where they are and noticed some weasels dressed as soldiers from the history books. "Holy crud, guys I think that book might have send us into the… into the past!"
"Wait, we went back in time?" Koromon asked and confused.
"Serious? Is that possible?" Taren asked and never thought that time travel could be true, but compared to travelling between worlds and magic, it could be possible.
Max suddenly remembered something he heard from his father's past adventures. "Remember when our dads told us the story of going through the hall of the Cornerstone years ago? Maybe this book could have been there."
"Well, we gotta find a way to get back somehow. If this is the past, then we could end up changing something." Taren knew they had to be careful from altering the timeline. "I think it had something to do with my keyblade, if it did maybe we could find this world's heart and send us back."
Listening to his idea could work since that may be the cause of it if his keyblade was connected to this. "So all we gotta do is find a keyhole and return home? Peace of cake." Max thought it would be.
"Hold it, maybe things are not the same place as our era, so have to find it. And taren, you might wanna hide your little buddy someplace, I don't think people have pink bunny eared… things like Koromon around" P.J. suggested and didn't want to lose the Digimon.
Taren nodded to agree with him. "He's right . Koromon, you get back into the digivice for the time being, don't want to draw too much attention."
"Okay." Koromon was zapped into the digivice before the trio rushed over to see the body print, what they found was a dog that looked exactly like-.
"Pluto?" Max thought it was not possible, but the dog had the uncanny resemblance to their's back home. Pluto stopped barking and noticed the three, sniffing them to know their scent. "Easy boy, not gonna harm ya."
"Yeah, you must have had a rough landing." Taren assured him and petted the dog, who responded and jumped on him to lick his face after tackling him. "Ah! Okay, okay, we like you too. But where's your owner?"
Tries to get him off gently until Pluto pointed them to the large castle.
"Aw, man." P.J. had a bad feeling about this.
"Maybe we can find out what's going on." Taren suggested.
Max thought it was stupid considering how big the castle walls were. "Unless you got some skills to climb up, that could work."
That could work for Taren and use his keyblade to do such a task. "That shouldn't be a problem, I know a skill to try it out. I'll just get up to the wall without anyone knowing." Using the Flowmation, he could reach the top and find out some information of their whereabouts. Activating his magic and sprinted towards the wall, using two sides to zigzag until he had reach the top.
Max and P.J. watch in awe and thought it was awesome, unfortunate for them to not have any phones with them to talk to each other of what he could see.
Taren reached the top and made certain to stay by the corners from being spotted. He could find several weasel soldiers, catapults and weapons. While he was finding some way in, his eyes couldn't believe what he was seeing. "You got to be kidding me!" If he thought this was a dream, he would have woken up from a bad one, by the branches and smoking a cigar was none other than their modern version of Pete. He looked exactly like him by the body shape, fur and could no doubt have the same personality. "Could this guy be his ancestor? I mean if we travelled through time, maybe its possible." But looked so alike. And another thing that caught his attention was someone climbing down the branches whistling and landed beside the captain.
Unable to get a closer look but seems cheerful to the Pete-look-alike when suddenly grabbed him by the scarf. Tries to get a little closer to hear what was going on.
"Ah, my little peasant." Watching him puff out smoke in front of the small fella, causing him to cough and struggle to breath. Almost sounds similar and definitely has the cruel personality. "Embarrass me in front of the prince, will ya?!" Judging by the sound of his tone, he did not seem pleased.
Unleashed another puff of smoke but hears another voice, only sounded like a posh voice. "Peasant?" Coughs once more and sticks his hand out. "Captain, I've fooled you! I am the prince!"
'A prince?' Taren wondered and noticed Pete acting surprised to find out who the peasant-or prince really is, but doesn't seem to buy it.
"Oh, forgive me my loyal liege(!)" Carries the mouse and now got a glimpse and this one looked like Mickey! Taren did not like the look of this when Pete placed him on the catapult, thinking fast and maybe try to catch him
The 'prince' didn't seem to realise what was happening and not realise his sarcasm. "Well, how thoughtful of captain."
"I live to serve(!)" Without wasting time, Pete pulled the rope and sent the unfortunate mouse flying through the air. "SAYONARA, SUCKER!"
Thinking quickly Taren threw himself as high as he can to catch and save him in time before they fall into something hard. "I got ya!"
Max and P.J. had no idea what was going on but saw him flying with something and acted fast.
"He's coming down!" P.J. cried out.
Max reached out his hands to try and catch him. "I got 'em, I got 'em!" Suddenly he was hit by both and tumbled into the snow, fortunately he didn't seem too hurt, but now seeing stars dancing across his head. "Did I win?"
P.J. rushes over to them if they were okay, along with Pluto beside him when they see someone stood up and looked excited.
"I did it. I did it!" Pluto threw himself towards the mouse and licked him as though he was excited to see him. The one that was thrown out wrapped his arms around Pluto and cried in joy. "I'm free. I am good! I fooled him."
Both Taren and P.J. were surprised how this one looked a lot like King Mickey but not so sure if Pluto seems off by his scent. Max got up and shook his head and looked surprise to see who it was. "The king?" He whispered but only heard by Taren.
"I'm not so sure, but looks like him. And you took a big hit." Taren was confused to understand what was going on.
"Thank you for the help, my good fellow and hope your friend is well."
Hearing his kind words and accepted the gesture. "Not to worry, he's fine. But what was going on back-
"Hey, Mickey!"
Max instantly jumped to his feet when he heard a voice all too familiar to him. "No way, it can't be."
"There you are!" Running towards them was another face and possible ancestor of Goofy with his hands hand as he spotted what he assumed to be Mickey. "Dad?"
P.J. corrected him before he gets more confused. "Maybe your great-great-great-something grandfather. I mean, possible.
"I'm guessing we might meet other familiar faces in this time period." Taren felt his mind spinning and thought things could not get any stranger for them. But now hearing him call the mouse 'Mickey' could be a hint that this one can't be one to know, he would have run up to him like best pals. Thinking they might need some answers and what is going on.
"Ah, my first encounter with the peasantry."
Goofy looked thrilled to see 'Mickey' and passed the teens. "Where'd you go, Mickey? Come here, you little nut! " Goofy lifted him up and hugged him. They thought it was amusing to see this Goofy was a lot like Max's dad and gave a nuggy.
Max smiles and figured this is where his family usually gets it from when he hears the usual Goof laugh. "Oh, yeah, he's definitely a Goof."
"Come on. Give me that secret handshake, Mick." They watched Goofy dance about and made the mouse dizzy by his antics. "Go on, put your hand up here, come on, swing it down."
Watching him try to act the role of Goofy's pal and find out more. "Oh, yes. That is me. Mickey Mouse, peasant at large."
Max leans towards his friends to whisper. "Who ever he is, we don't seem to buy it."
"Well, maybe we can again his trust to find out." P.J. advised and received a mutual agreement with them.
"My good man, you must forgive me. I am dreadful with names. Could I have your name?" Asking for Goofy's identity without sounded rude but clearly well mannered.
"What's the matter with the one you got?" Goofy made a joke and chuckled. "I'm Goofy, remember?"
"Uh, think he just hit his head when the captain threw him out." Taren thought and played along.
The supposed Mickey caught on and went along with it. "Ah, yes! That's it and appear to have jogged my memory and if there's anything I can do to help, by all means let me know.
"Oh, I get it. Better help ya memory." Goofy chuckled and noticed the three unknown faces. "Say, you boys seem new around here. Do I know you?" Goofy asked them and looked towards Max.
"My name's Taren."
"You can call me P.J."
"Uh, names… Max and actually have a dad named Goofy-Uh." Max tried to think of something when slipped his tongue. "Er… your second cousin, third times removed in another town."
"Really?" Goofy scratched his chin but seemed to bought it. "Oh! I know who you mean! Yeah, me family usually have Goofs around and that's me for starters!" Reached his hand out to shake theirs. "Well, nice to meet ya three and this here is my best pal, Mickey. Sya, how about we come over to my place."
But seems 'Mickey' had other plans before the group agreed. "Will you look at the time? I really must be going. Ta-ta!" They watched him ran off before the three could find out who he was and Goofy chased after him.
"Hey! Hey, come back here."
Taren thought it be a good idea to follow them to find out what's going on and maybe a way back home. "Better catch up or we'll lose them in the city."
"We can meet back here if we split up to make the search easier." Max thought of the idea.
"Great, but there's one thing I found out. The captain he mentioned, the guy who flung Mickey, or who ever he is was none other than Pete's possible relative." Taren could tell the looks on their faces that it spelled bad news.
"Ugh, you gotta be kiddin." Max groaned.
P.J. suddenly became nervous or scared that he could meet one of his ancestors. "Aw, crud, if he's here then it's bad news. Many of my dad's family usually come from a long line of cheats and villains. Like one of them who was a Robber named Black Pete who was a Train Robber for example."
"Then we better keep an eye out or him, besides least he's not your dad so that counts." Max tries to assure him of the thought to remind P.J. to not worry about it.
"Maybe you're right, but still, if he's captain than something could happen." Taking his advice and spread out to find them, leaving Pluto to stare at the castle to where the real Mickey Mouse would be.
"Gosh, if my friends could see me now!" Standing before the mirror was the real Mickey Mouse, the ancestor of King Mickey. Lived the live of a peasant during the hard times when the kingdom that was once a flourishing and promising land for all to be treated well by their wise and kind king, but after he fell ill and the prince yet to be prepared to take the throne, so it was under the tyranny of Captain Pete who abused his status and power for his own personal gain.
Then an unexpected event when he chased after his dog who went through the gates and entered the palace, there he met the prince who had the exact same face and voice as he did. The Prince explained to him of what it was like being royalty by having great responsibility, the wealth, food and a warm bed to sleep it. But he found the lectures being boring and no time for fun with a busy schedule. To give a brief chance of boredom, he decided to let Mickey the privilege of being a prince for a day and in return, he would take Mickey's place to experience the freedom. He would assure Mickey he be safe with the royal ring to return.
So far, he looked good as a prince and wondered how his friends would see him like this. "Surely His Highness has not forgotten his royal duties." The prince's tutor, Horace Horsecollar who provides daily lessons dropped a very long list of the prince's duties as it rolled over him, next to the tutor was the royal Valet, Donald who snickered of the misfortune for the 'prince' to take.
Throughout the day, both of them would learn how hard things can be for both Royal and peasant lifestyles.
For Mickey, he learned Falconry, only ended up being chased by the falcon and chemistry he thought would be easy, only to end up blowing up in Donald's face.
The Prince had some hard experiences also, learned never to be a target in a snowball fight, take away a dog's bone to play fetch and ended up being chased through the streets.
Taren searched for the mouse who claimed to be Mickey when wasn't fooled by Pluto but no idea who goofy was as well, sure he knew they were from the past but maybe there was a reason for being brought here when his keyblade reacted and must be something to do with it. He asked a few but no luck so far, wondered if his friends had any luck but could perhaps find out if his Digimon could track him if he had strong sense of smell.
"Taren. Did you find him?" Taren heard P.J. who waved to him and asked.
The redhead shook his head. "Not a trace, this is one big place to find one mouse. Unless that book had something to do with finding him or Mickey we won't know."
P.J. gave a groan and fell to the ground. "Man, how are we suppose to find him in this place?"
"Leave her alone! You're gonna get it for this!"
The two hear a cry of children and sound of struggle, they find the source of the commotion with two weasels fighting with a struggling peasant family over a chicken that was flapping its wings.
"Leave her alone! Right now!" One of them kicked the weasel in the shins
"Get away from her!"
"Somebody help me!" The woman cried out for help.
"Relax lady, it's for the king." The Weasel Guard gave a statement to the peasant.
The second grins and chuckled."Yeah, the king." Taren and P.J. knew that was just an excuse to take what wasn't theirs.
The woman refused to give in and tried to plead with them. "But it's all we have."
This didn't moved the two weasels one bit. "Well, then, it's all we'll take."
"Halt!" Just before Taren could do something to stop this, they found the mouse marching towards the group and waited to see what was going on.
"Dude-"
"Yeah, I see it." Taren whispered.
The mouse narrowed his eyes with disapproval of the way the two guards behaved. "As your royal prince, I command you to unhand that hen."
Both Taren and P.J. shared a surprised look on their faces and turned to each other if they heard him right. "Prince?" Now this was getting interesting and slowly the answers begin to show.
However, the two weasels gave a glance to each other and laughed out of amusement, no doubt believing the Prince was just some commoner who was trying to play a joke.
"What's so amusing?" The Prince demanded.
"Oh, forgive me." One of the weasels reached for a large pumpkin and held it up high. "I think you forgot your crown!" Threw it onto the prince and smashed it to pieces, leaving the prince in a total mess of the remains.
Cleaning himself up and glared towards the two leaving and cackling, unable ot believe they do something like this to treat the peasants with low regards. "When I return to the palace, you'll pay for this!" He swore to make certain of it.
"Those guys are nothing but thugs to me." Taren said and made himself before the prince along with P.J. after what happened and helped him up with the kids' coming to assist them. "You alright?"
The prince recognised them from earlier. "You two are from earlier after saving me. I can't believe it. Stealing in the king's name." There seems to be more than he realises if the guards or anyone of the kingdom think they can do what they like.
"This happens all the time." One of the children told them.
The second nods to agree. "Yeah. The king takes all our food. We're hungry."
The three did not like how this turned out at all, then hearing the sound of a whip and horse trotting with a carriage full of food ridden by a fat pig. "Out of the way, you slugs! Make way for the Royal Provisioner."
The peasants were forced to clear the way for him to make a path or get walked over by the horse. "Out of the way. Come on. Move it, move it. What are you, deaf?
The Prince decided to do something for the people and give them something for the trouble, picks up his Royal Seal from his pocket as a reminder of his royal duties. Runs before the horse to gain the Privisoner's attention with his hand held out. "Halt!" Startling the horse and marched his way to the rider. "I am the prince! And I command you to surrender your entire inventory!"
"And I'm the Queen Mother! Be off with you!" The pig threatened him with his whip.
But the prince didn't take his threat well and decided to use his status to do the trick. "Will this help?" Presenting his ring before the public, everyone gasped upon realising that the so-called peasant was really the prince himself, everyone knelt before him in courtesy of respect.
"Hey, not bad. Guess he has a good heart for this." Taren said and followed suit, along with P.J. to avoid being left out or rude but maybe thought to help him.
Elsewhere, Max was looking for his friends when he bumped into Goofy. "Uh, hey da-G-Goofy! You haven't seen anyone like my friends or 'Mickey?"
Goofy met the young Goof and was about to ask him that. "Hm, just what I was about to ask about Mic. Now where could he be?"
"For you, sir!" hearing the prince's voice, while unawre of the two of his true identity but believed to be Mickey."
"There he is!" Goofy said and saw 'Mickey' on a carriage, surrounded by peasants and tossing the food for them.
"What's going on here?" Max was confused and saw Taren and P.J. with him. "Hey, there they are."
The prince tossed the kind woman a roast chicken. Oh, thank you, sire." Showing her deep gratitude for his kindness.
To Goofy, he thought that Mickey really lost it. "Gosh. Mick's flipped his wig."
Max sees his two friends helping the Prince and tries to get through the crowd, only to spot a group of soldiers passing through and spelled trouble for them. "That doesn't look good.
"All right, all right. Clear out, out of the way." One of the guards gave out the order for the crowed to disperse with the driver from earlier
"He's the one that showed me the ring, sir." Pointing his finger towards the prince along with P.J. and Taren helping him hand out the food.
"You there." One of the guards called out to the three on the cart. "You're under arrest."
Before they could take action he was hit by a large ham, the crowd for what the prince did for them decide to give him to flee.
"Run for it, boy!" One of the peasants cried out to him.
"Think we better move, your highness!" Taren suggested and made their escape, only to have their escape route blocked by the weasels. While they thought to have them cornered, he summon his keyblade and took advantage to their startlement, clashing with their swords and P.J. grabbed a large sausage as a club and whacked one of them across the face.
The prince caught a glance at Taren's keybalde and almost astonished but focused on dealing with the guards first.
Max saw they were going to be surrounded and decided to do something. "Goofy! We gotta help them!"
Realised he had a point and saw them in danger. "Gosh. Hang on, Mick! I'm comin'!" Ran towards the barrels and suddenly rolled them towards the guards who didn't see it coming, knocked them out like bowling pins and caught the prince, while Taren and P.J. were now running on the bowels with Goofy with no control of themselves running towards the cart before Goofy and the prince were flung over to the cart with them.
Max mentally thanked his ancestor's habit that saved their lives and jumped onto the horse. "Come on boy!" Getting the horse worked up and make their escape.
Leaving behind the beaten, unconscious and bruised guards who never knew what hit them.
After returning to the castle to have a feast with the captain, sharing a laugh of what happened that day and assumed "Now, I may be losing my mind, Captain. And I know that you have said that time and time again. But I all I know is this boy came out and fought our men with... a giant key like a sword! hahaha!" The weasel explains to Pete as he gorges on the food. uh, a giant key! A Key-shaped sword!" The officer squeeked and thought it sounded crazy, not knowing the shocked expression on Pete's face despite spilling beer over his face.
"Key-sword?" The captian whispered and then something he remembered from the old folklore of enchanted weapons with magic wielded by magical protecters. "A Keyblade! This could spell trouble for us if the legends about them are true."
"There's something else you ought to know, boss." The weasal continued rambling but now sounded serious to share. "This other peasant who started trouble, he acted like a nobleman. And he had the royal ring."
"The ring?" The mention of the ring with the royal seal suddenly came to Pete's memory of a peasent he met earlier that looked EXACTLY like the prince. And when that so-called peasant left and spoke like the prince was starting to make sense to the captin. Narrows his eyes when his mind came to the realization of a possible problem, if the prince did indeed snuck out and learn of his villainous plots, he could be thrown in prison for his crimes. And if that was the prince, then the peasant in the palace was playing in his role. "So it was the prince I booted out."
While having his drink suddenly splurted it out when he heard what his captain did. "You threw out the prince?!" He started laughing and picture how this would turn out when the prince returned. Brought up his hands and stroked his finger with the other as he taunted his captain. "You're gonna get it. You're gonna get it. Nyahh, nyahh, nyahh, nyahh, nyahh, nyahh-BUGH!"
Growing annoyed by his surbodinate and grabbed him by the throat to silence him. "Not if he doesn't come back alive! BAHAHAHAH!"
"C-Ca-Captain! There's... something you ought to know!" HE squeecked and tried to get Pete's attention. "There is something else."
As it was now night, Mickey was using the spare time to play sword fight and pretend to be the hero duelling with the knight armor and the sword by the fireplace. "Ha! Take that! Ha! Take that! And that!" He hears the sound of knocking and presumed to be someone outside the room. "Enter!" But due to getting over excited, he accidently flung the sword out of his hand and towards the person by the door.
Entering the room was Horace, despite having a sword struck through his cap looked very calm for having a close encounter with the blade before pulling it out. "Nice shot, sire. While giving compliments to the 'prince', he showed some sign of grievance to share some news. "Your Highness, your father is in his last hours and wishes to see you at once."
This did not go well for Mickey to learn of the king's passing and believed it be right to let the prince know immediately. "Oh, well, we better tell the prince. He'd want to see him."
"You are the prince, sire." Believing he was trying to amuse himself to stay calm with the king gravely ill.
"Oh, well, uh... I've been meaning to talk to you about that." Mickey thought it was time to explain himself and followed the royal tutor through the hallways.
"Sire, he is gravely ill." Leads him to the king's bedchamber and pay his last respect.
Mickey in reluctance, follows him and enters the King's chambers,the door behind him was closed and now nervous of how to break this to them and how to explain the situation. "I'll explain everything. The king'll understand.
"My son."
Mickey hears the faint and dying voice of the king who mistook him for the prince. "Huh? Well, I'm not really the..."
"Come closer."
Mickey decided to perhaps listen to him and approached to his bed, removing his cap off to show some respect to the dying King.
"My son. From the day you were born, I have tried to prepare you for this moment." Mickey kneels before his bed and listens to his words. "I shall be gone soon and you will be king.
"You must promise." Sees his reach out for his, thinking Mickey as the prince but he took it to show comfort for his last wishes. "Promise me that you will rule the land from your heart, justly and wisely."
Unable to bring himself to tell the king that his son was not with him, it would break a dying father's heart and decided to let him believe it, he can hope to find the prince to pass on his last words to him. "I promise."
The candle goes out, signalling the passing of the king while Mickey stayed with him for the final moment of comfort. Now, more determined to find the prince and tell him the news before he becomes crowned king.
Stands before the windows as it snowed at night. "I gotta find the prince."
"Good day, my phony prince."
Mickey never knew that Pete snuck up behind him and grabbed him by the collar. "What the... Hey! Unhand me!"
Mickey tried to fight back but was swatted by Pete's hand. "Shut up!" No longer being fooled by Mickey's attempt to impersonate the prince. "Now that our dearly departed king is out of my way, you're gonna do every little thing I say." Lights a match to lit his cigar as he explains to Mickey. "Cause if you don't..."
To show how serious he was, he had two guards with his captured dog, Pluto tied up and used as a threat. "Pluto!" Mickey cried out for his dog and
Get the picture?
After escaping the guards, Goofy was kind enough to let the three stay at his place that he shares with Mickey with no where else to go. They appreciated the kind offer to spend the night and explain to Max what they found out.
"So he's the prince who switched places with Mickey, eh, this era's version and wanted to get some free time?" Max tried to understand what he found out.
"Yeah, seems all that hard work and studying was too much bordem for him and just wanted to have some fun for a day." Taren explains, seems to understand and doesn't seem like it was a bad idea to have some fun to take a break from all those duties. "Guess being a prince isn't that much fun at them days."
P.J. nodded with him. "Yeah, but that means the other who poses as him is back at the palace. Wonder how long that last if someone found out?"
The prince came up to them and turned to Taren when he had something to say. "You are a Keybalder, yes? I saw that weapon and learn of it being the source of magic." Taren mentally groaned and had no idea he was exposed to know about it but saw him bow before the keybearer which surprised them. "I thank you and a great honor to meet a protector of this time of day."
"Uh, well its an honor to meet you as well, your majesty. Maybe keep this a little secret between us to not go about if that's fair?" Taren thought it would be better to not mention his activities in risk of changing the timeline.
"After you saved my life, good fello, consider it done." They ceased their chattering when the sound of bells rang throughout the city, the prince decided to find out what was going on and opened the windows to see someone below to call out for. "You there! What happened?"
The king is dead, and the prince is to be crowned at once!"
Hearing the dreaded news of his father's passing and now he would be king by tomorrow if he returns to the palace. "Father..."
"Aw, man. We're really sorry, your majesty." Max gave his condolences to the prince when they heard of his father's passing. P.J. gently patted him on the shouler by the fire to show comfort while Goofy, who was unaware of what was happening brought in a hot bowl of soup.
"Your soup's almost ready, Mick. I mean, Your Majesty." Thinking he was still playing the role of a prince until he saw the sad and downed housemate. "Huh?"
Max sat down next to him and asked what will happen now. "So, what's going to happen now that you're going to be king?"
The prince already thought of what to do after what he's learned. "Now it's up to me to right the wrongs I've seen." Grabs the scarf and wraps it around his neck before grabbing the hat. "Children going hungry. Corruption everywhere."
Goofy caught sight of the prince's royal seal and now discovered that this wasn't Mickey after all, but the royal prince. "Gosh. You, you really are the prince, ain't ya?"
"Yeah, the two swap places and we gotta get this one back for the coronation." Taren told him and saw Goofy kneel before the prince now knowing who he was.
"Sire, your wish is my command." The prince smiles and appreciates Goofy's offer for what he's done for him.
"Goofy, I owe you my life. And this will not be forgotten." But now they had to leave immediate without a second to waste. "Come, friends. We must return to the palace at once."
The door was broken down by the surprise visit of the royal Captain pete and his Weasel Guards. "Or a visit to the dungeon, my prince. Get 'em, boys!"
The weasels threw their spears towards the prince and successfully caught him.
Taren summons his Royal Sparks and prepared to attack. "Get the keyblade brat!" Pete ordered them.
"Taren! Escape while you can!" Taren heard the prince's plea, more of them show up and immediately went for him and grabbed P.J. by the arm. "Come on guys!"
Max was about to join them when he was flung to the wall with spears pinned him down, luckily none of them hit his body. Threy could do nothing to safe him, least for now and forced to use his keyblade to glide their way out.
Goofy stood to make his stance to protect his friends and the prince. "En garde!" However, his choice of weapon was nothing more than a feather duster. The weasals throw another set of spears at Goofy who screamed and was catapulted out of the window by one of their spears, only to have his boxer shorts pinned.
"Yaaah-hoo-hoo-hoo-hooey!"
Goofy screams as he fell into the river, while max groaned and thought things couldn't get any worse. But realised he was surrounded by the guards and Pete with the prince captured. "Oh, crud."
Pete laughs as he makes his way towards the dungeon with the captured prince and Max, while he was unable to stop the keyblader but thought with his cowardly flee would think they were not as tough as he thought.
The prince struggled and tried to use his status to order the captain to release them. "Let me go! Let me go, I say! How dare you!"
"Yeah, let the prince go, you oversized furball!" Max was escorted by the guards as Pete held the prince by the collar and scarf.
"You'll pay for this, Captain! I command you to put me down right now!" The Prince made certain to make the captain pay for his crimes but seems those words fell on deaf ears of the villain's laughter.
Pete marched towards the cell for the two. "After the pauper's crowned, it will be adieu for you!" Slid his finger across the Prince's neck, causing the mouse to gulp nervous of the idea what the captain had in mind, especially Max who turned pale.
The weasels laugh and opened the door, inside was Donald who was locked away earlier. When he saw the door open, the duck made his attempt to escape. "Hey, get me outta here! I'm the prince's valet!"
Pete grabbed both the Prince and Max, using his boot to kick them right in and hit Donald before he could reach the top stairs and fell back down.
Donald yelled in frustration of the treatment they showed, but recognised the prince under the peasant clothes. "Your Highness! Your Highness! We're saved!" Thinking all was well until the door was slammed shut and all was dark. Then came to his mind of why the prince was in the dungeon. "Wait a minute! You're in here, too! We're doomed!"
"If we don't get out of here, we will be doomed!" Max said and hears the sound of trumpets. "What's that?"
The Prince knew what those sounds mean and gasped. "The coronation!"
The trumpets were played to announce the arrival of the crowned prince, all the nobles, lords, ladies, counters and dukes across the kingdom gathered to the church for this special day. Unaware that a certain keyblade bearer snuck into the church after narrowly escaped the Captain, hiding from the guards on high alert. "
So far no sign of Mickey until he sees some people walk out of the door and spotted a nervous look on the mouse peaking out. This had to be him without a doubt. And spotted Pete by the curtains, yanking a collar of Pluto, no doubt to use to threaten him if he doesn't comply like any other villain would. All he had to do is wait for the moment while the others try to rescue the prince.
"I hope this plan works."
"This charade has gone on long enough!" The Prince yells to the guard pricking his teeth with a dagger. "I demand you open this door immediately!"
"Yeah! Don't we deserve any rights?" Max argued, getting on the guard's nerves of their yelling.
"Aw, shut up." Suddenly the sound of doors open and a shadow from the spiral stairs walked up, wielding an axe. Believed to be the executioner with another hooded figure behind him and grins. "Well, looks like the boss ain't wasting any time." He pulled out the keys to bring the prisoners to their execution.
Max gulped and never thought his first adventure be his last, while Donald started praying.
"Be my guest, pal." The guard welcomed the executioner and prepared to open the door. But when the executioner accidently stepped on a bucket and lost his balance, losing his grip on the axe when it was flung towards the guard who gave a startling cry and ducked before it could take his head but embedded into the stone wall. "Hey, what's the big idea?"
"Ah-hyuck! Sorry."
"Uh, he just woke up on the wrong side of the bed." The second hooded person explained.
Max recognised those voices and couldn't be happier to be saved, but said nothing to risk endangering them. Both The Prince and the Valet were a little confused of what was going on, watching the executioner try to pull the axe out of the wall, but over did it and broke the head off when he accidently bashed the guard's head.
Saw the broken weapon and turned to the half dazed guard. "You wouldn't happen to have an axe I could borrow, would you?"
Oblivious to what he did to the guard who had his head bashed. "Thank you." Gave a kiss to his nose. "I've had a lovely evening."
Collapsed to the floor and lifted his hood to reveal his face. "Gosh."
The prisoners couldn't be happier to see him after the fall. "Goofy!" The Prince cheered.
"You're alright!" Max grins and sees P.J. pulled his hood out.
"Just sit tight, little buddy. I'll have you outta there in a jiffy!" Pulled out the key that was in the lock, and now no clue as to which one it was. Max mentally groaned and thought it was too good to last.
"Where's Taren?"
"He's at the Coronation to save Mickey. I just hope we're not too late." P.J. hoped he was doing better than they were with Goofy looking through the keys.
The crowd watched as the 'prince' was escorted to the chair with a pope owl who was to crown him. Taren watched and thought maybe this could buy them time, and seems Mickey was stalling as he can. "Be seated, sire."
Mickey chuckled and gestured to the pope. "Oh. After you."
The pope chuckled and waved his hands before him to decline. "No, no. Beauty before age, sire."
"Oh, no. Age before beauty." Mickey tries to counter his gesture.
"Your Highness, you're such a sport. Sit down!
"Got it." Mickey replied with the pope reaching his limit of patience.
Taren groans and wonders where the others are, and maybe needed Koromon, but is he ready for this yet while being in his In-Training level? "Where are they?"
"Now let me see here. Was it the skinny one or the round one or the fatty?" Goofy had no idea which of the keys to unlock the door and tries to go through them all. "Maybe it was this one. Sure I know I had it."
Max rolled his eyes and sighs. "Least things could not get any worse."
Donald would agree with him until he turned his head to the corner and spotted one of the guards who was passing by and realised they were trying to escape. Blew a whistle to alert the others as their heads popped from everywhere to see them. Donald screamed and in panic grabbed the key and rammed it into the lock.
"RUN!" P.J. screamed with the prisoners freed and made a run for it.
"GET 'EM BOYS!" The Weasels chased after them through the dungeons, Max grabbed Goofy and led them to the stairs to loose them. Donald was so fast he ran across the walls to get far from the gaurds as possible. P.J. ran as he could but the fear of getting caught overcame his worry of his weight slowing him down. The Prince spotted a door up ahead and could be a way out.
"Follow me!"
The weasels threw any sharp weapons and objects at them, one of them threw a dagger at Goofy who yelped and lifted his robes. Brought a finger to feel it and was sharp enough to prick his finger.
"Gosh! That thing's sharp!"
"That's probably their intention of throwing them!" Max cried out as he didn't want to be skewered by them. They reached the door in time and about to open it when the dagger stabbed into Goofy's gown, it would be fortunate to the group when they ran through… only there was nothing but outside and a long way down. Goofy's robe was stuck to the wall, everyone grabbed on to him for their dear lives, while the weasels that chased after them followed…
Oops." One of them let out a squeak and embraced each other when they realised there was nothing below them and how high they were. The weasels fell and cried in terror while the heroes were flung back inside safely.
They would have the question as to why have a door that leads to no where?
With Mickey now on the throne, the pope held the crown and proceeds to crown him. And he looked very nervous, especially Taren for that matter.
"It is both my duty and pleasure to crown you... " Dodges it with his head moved to the side. "To crown you..." Mickey dodged the crown the second time and smiled nervously. To... I say, a rather wiry lad." The pope commented.
"To... so slippery. Would you hold still?" Everyone was watching and almost leaning forward, it was no or never, Taren was about to summon his keyblade to-
"STOP!"
Everyone was startled for a moment to hear Mickey call out to stop the coronation, even Taren for that matter before he could call out his keyblade.
"What the..." Pete pondered what was going on, but had a bad feeling about it.
Mickey thought of an idea and spoke to the pope for a question. "Look, I'm the prince, right? And whatever I order must be done, right?``'
The pope stuttered but believed to be a valid and logic reason from the supposed prince. "Uh, yes."
Taren hears this and smiles and caught on to what was happening, if Mickey can fool them into thinking he was the prince, he can use the authority to do so. It was a clever idea to come up with.
Mickey smiles and could use it against the captain. "Well, then, the captain is an insolent scoundrel! Guards, seize him!" Points towards Pete to order the guards
"Seize him!" Pete countered the order with the guards more loyal to him and instantly surrounded Mickey with their weapons. "He's an impostor."
"But I'm not, Captain."
"Huh?" Pete looked up and discovered the real Prince had escaped, startling everyone to see him by the glass windows. Leaps towards the chandelier and reached his hand out to grab a sword from one of the corrupted guards.
"Thank you, guardsman." The Prince landed before the startled captain, and this time he was joined by Taren who came out of his hiding spot and stood behind Pete.
Taren pointed his keyblade at him and grins. "Long time no see, cap!"
Mickey couldn't be happier to see the prince. "Oh, boy!"
Pete in panick tries to reason with the royal prince and saw both of them surrounding him. "No, no, no. Wait a minute, Your Majesty. I can explain everything." Bows before him with his hands spread out.
The prince seems to buy his plea and proceeded to give him a chance. "Very well. I await your explanation." Sheaths the sword away, while Taren seems unconvinced.
"Your Majesty is too kind." Pete bows once more, only to grab the carpet that the two stood on.
Mickey discovered his intention and tries to warn the Prince. "Look out, sire!"
Taren quickly stepped to the side, but the Prince was flipped in the air when Pete pulled and yanked the carpet beneath him and lost the grip of the sword, the captain proceeded to strike him down, only to clash with Taren's keyblade.
"You!"
"Hi, nice to meet ya!" Taren grins and swung his blade to duel with him, allowing the Prince time to recover.
"We're coming T!" He hears Max rush in with a shield and bashing some of the guards, along with P.J. using another. This time he sees Donald and Goofy swing through the roof.
"GERONIMO!"
While Goofy took a nosedive, Donald in panic flapped his arms in a helpless attempt to fly, but falls straight to the ground.
One of the guards with a bow and arrow was about to shoot Taren, but failed to notice Goofy plummeting straight down on top of him, instead of shooting the keybearer, his arrow struck the leash that held Pluto to the pillar and set him free.
Goofy tried to focus on what was going on and came to help his friends. "Hold on, sire!" But Donald landed on top of his head.
Max winced and thought that had to hurt. "Least he's okay." Dodges a coming swing and bashed his shield with another guard.
"Max look!" P.J. noticed Taren and the Prince duelling with Captain Pete as he tries to swing his sword to cut them into pieces, but the two jump and dodge his swings as they can until the Prince lost his sword. Taren was about to attack when he saw something and grins to let it happen.
Not aware of his expression, Pete was about to give the finishihng blow when he felt something bite down on his butt. "YEEOOWWW!" The cause of it was by Pluto for payback.
"Good dog!" Taren laughed and thought this never gets old.
Goofy, now recovered from the fall came to help them. "Oh, I got you now, ya varlet!" But without knowing what he was going for, he inadvertently grabbed the startled Donald by the throat, thinking he was an arrow.
Max saw what was going to happen to try to warn him. "No, wait! That's-" However he was too late when Goofy let go of Donald's feet and shot straight towards the guards like an arrow. Realised his mistake and felt sheepish, but saw Donald took out a group acorss the heads, only to lodged his beak into a pillar.
With remaining few taking out, Taren saw more of the other guards were fighting Max and P.J. and decided to help them.
"Hang on guys!" Taren was about to help when suddenly Koromon appeared out of his digivice and bounced his small form towards them. "Koromon wait!"
"Leave them alone, you bullies!" The guards noticed what they thought was a pink furred rabbit-thing hopping around. They paused for a moment and let out a laugh of his appearance.
"What's this? A cute little bunny rabbit?"
"Maybe we should give him some carrots!"
"Looks weird, lets see if this little fella can bounce like a ball."
Koromon growls and not liking to be treated that way, wanting to fight by his partner's side and help others to get stronger. "Don't judge me for my size, I'm gonna be one of the best Digimon there is!"
Max and P.J. try to break through the crowd to save him from doing anything, even Taren to save his partner when they paused and saw him starting to glow.
The guards were baffled and even Max and P.J., but Taren was watching and felt his digivice glow as well to witness something amazing when Koromon was engulfed in light.
"Koromon, digivolve... Agumon!" What use to be Koromon was now a small yellow-scaled dinosaur with green eyes, now with a pair of claws and feet.
"Dude, what just happened?" P.J. pondered.
"Koromon just… diviolved." Taren was amazed and now he was in his next level.
The weasels were not sure what to do and looked nervous. Agumon inhaled and fire came out of his jaws. "Pepper Breath!" He spits out a ball of flame at the guards who were startled and cried out when caught on fire. This gave the trio the chance to take care of them with Taren using Quake to shake the ground beneath them and allow the two to knock them out.
Taren rushed over to see them and saw his Digimon's new level. "Taren, its me! I digivolved into Agumon!"
Realised it was Koromon-only now Agumon and saw how he handled them weasels. "And just in the nick of timing, pal."
They see Pete focus on the Prince as he was led to the chair, being tease by the Prince making faces at him while Mickey dodges the strikes and damaging the chair to pieces. The third strike was struck to the middle and stuck there. "Fooled again, Captain." The Prince stood on top of the chair and smiles to the surprised captain.
Meanwhile, Max and Goofy try to pull Donald free with his beak stuck. "Almost there, almost-" They managed to free Donald but only for Donald and Goofy to get wrapped up by the carpet and rolled along with it and took out a guard which surprisingly worked in their favour.
Taren and P.J. gave each other a high five, but noticed another group of weasels charging in, they looked up to see a chandelier and had an idea. "Strike Raid!" Threw his keyblade into the air, cutting the rope that suspends the decoration above and plummets right on top of the guards, catching them unaware and now rolls like a wheel.
The Prince sweeps his sword across with Pete exposed, but slashed across his pants and let them fall, exposing his underwear with love hearts on them. Everyone who saw them laughed out of amusement, much to the embarrassment of the captain. Only he had bigger problems when the guards rolling chandelier was coming towards him and the guards in it, pulled up his pants and tried to flee for his life.
"Whoa! Whoa! Get out of the way!"
Both Mickey and the Prince nod to each other and shot out their feet to trip him over, losing his balance and ended up caught among the goons in the wheel, screaming before they smash through the window and fellow.
"So long, captain!" Taren mocks him with a wave.
"Bye, bye!" Agumon waves as he joins his partner with a victory.
"Hey, uh, when we get back. Don't tell my dad about this?" The last thing P.J. would explain to his parents was meeting his ancestor and ruined his plans to be king.
"No prob. Doubt they believe us anyway." Max assured him and see the two mice reunite and looking happy to see each other.
"Oh, boy, am I glad to see... I mean..."
"What a time I've..."
The two hugged each other and laughed, but stopped to see the baffled pope who could not tell the difference between them. "But you see, I... Which..." Good heavens. Which one is which?"
Max had an idea that could solve the question. "Think we know the answer to that. Come 'ere boy!"
Pluto answered his call and barked, running straight towards the real Mickey Mouse by greeting him with a lick on the face. "Pluto!"
Micky couldn't be happier to see his dog and best friend. "Oh, boy. I guess there's no fooling you, boy."
With the real Prince present, the pope could now proceed to complete the coronation. "Therefore, I crown you Prince of Disney."
"Pss, king." Taren whispered to correct him.
The Pope stuttered to realise his mistake. "King. King. King. King of Disney." Placed the crown on the Prince, now king of Disney and the crowd cheers to their new ruler.
"Long live the king!" All of them bowed, as Taren gestured Agumon to follow since he was unfamiliar with the customs to royalty.
The King held his sword towards the newly made heroes of the kingdom as they bowed before him, Taren gestured Agumon to follow since he was unfamiliar with the customs to royalty. "I dub the brave heroes of Disney Castle and honorary members. And for you travellers, this kingdom is in debt to you as well and will never forget what you've done."
"Thank you, your majesty!" They appreciated the kind gesture and happy to see things go well.
"Yeah, and also remember, don't mention this to anyone. Or any other Keybdearer for that matter." Taren would appreciate not to draw some awareness to any known wielders around if they find them meddling I the afairs of other worlds, especially the timeline for that matter.
"Gawsh, wish you guys could stick around." Goofy was sad to see them go when he started to bond with them.
"Don't worry, we'll cherish this moment with ya and now know you are one of the best Goofs there is. Max smiles and gave him a warm hug. Bidding their farewell and made their leave, but there was one thing on their minds.
"Uh, guys. What happens now that we've saved the kingdom?" P.J. realised that they've been gone for a whole day and no doubt their disappearance would be known, the last thing he had on his mind for his dad to be mad and ground him for life.
But out of know where, a flash of light flew around them like a rocket shot past and took form of a person who seemed to be dressed in hawaiian themes with sunglasses and sandles with it. They recognised the long white beard and knew who it was.
"Merlin! You're-"
"Back from the 21st century on Earth!" Merlin finished the surprised Taren's sentence and stopped before them. "I took one turn a couple of years ahead of the current date, and believe me you can have it! Big modern mess! It's like being in the Bermuda Triangle. Alakazam!" Changes his outfit into his regular blue robes and hat using his magic.
They couldn't believe he was here and somehow able to travel in time. "How did you find us? I mean, that book you gave… it." Max tries to make sense of what happened to them but seems the wizard knew it all.
"Ah, yes! Sorry about that, sometimes I get my books meddled up. I would have given a heads up." Merlin chuckled. "But it was part of a lesson I thought to teach you, especially young Taren for when he and the others for their future adventures and for the coming Exams that you will be taking in the near future to be a Keyblade Master."
"Hold up, that last sentence you gave us, that was about the pricne and Mickey-er, his great-great-You know what I mean." Taren said and not wanting to get his head hurt.
"Yes, it was to help them and I thought it be a surprise and throw you off guard. And I see your Digimon has gained a new level, good show, lad!" The congratulated him and patted Agumon's head.
"Uh, thanks." Taren started to understand that this must have been part of some idea of his.
"So, would that mean you would take us home? I mean, to the point where we left?" P.J. asked him and could go for a nice bath and bed.
Merlin chuckled and nods. "Not to worry lads, it be as if you never left. Oh, I can tell you will have a bright future ahead of you, especially you, Taren my boy, to be a great future-uh, never mind too much spoielrs. Hehe, now let's head back home and keep this to ourselves, shall we?" They moved closer to wait for Merlin to cast a spell to return them back to their time and wonder what other surprises be in stall for them, especially for the new generation of Keyblade Wielders.
I hope you all enjoyed that and I thought maybe do a chapter with Disney's Prince and The Pauper btu made some slight changes where the characetrs of the show being the ancestors of the KH characters and that instead of being England, it would be set in Disney Castle's past. Decided to introduce Max and P.J. for the chapter and get flung through a surprising time travel thanks to Merlin for one of his lessons jsut like how he taught Arthur.
Koromon has now become Agumon and the next chapter will follow the events of the second story arc and have in mind for ideas for it. For those who wonder who the next villain is, you have to find out. ^^