Note: Sorry it took so long for the first episode to be released. I know I said it was gonna be out in July, but I was busy with my new job and starting college. So I decided to delay the release to today, which I found to be fitting for obvious reasons. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the first episode and stay tuned for more coming soon!
It was a sunny afternoon here in the city of Urayasu, Japan. Over at the Tokyo Disney Resort, a train with a Mickey Mouse pattern was zooming across the Monorail. Inside the train itself, the quartet of Yuu, Kay, Koya and Shin were sitting in a row of seats, holding their stomachs as they vigorously growled, much to their dismay.
"Man, I am starving!" Shin exclaimed.
"I told you guys we shouldn't have skipped breakfast and lunch today." Koya remarked.
"Why wouldn't we? Especially since our field trip today was to the Meiji Chocolate Factory!" Yuu stated.
"Yeah, but the teacher only allowed us to take one product with us. And when we tried to sneak some more…" Kay commented.
(Flashback Begins)
It showed the quartet, wearing their school uniforms, were looking at a wall of various Meiji chocolate products in total awe.
The quartet quickly looked around, making sure no one was looking. They slowly started reaching for the wall, when suddenly, a brown streak quickly passed them.
The quartet all screamed in pain as they quickly retracted their hands back.
As the teens held and rubbed their hurt hands, they turned around to find their teacher, who glared at them angrily while holding a ruler.
"WHAT DID I SAY?!" The teacher shouted.
(Flashback Ends)
The quartet all sighed. Suddenly, they heard what sounded like ringing. Yuu looked down and realized the ringing was coming from his pocket, which was also vibrating. He dug into his pocket and pulled out what appeared to be a cellphone in the shape of a sea shell.
Yuu looked at the screen, which showed a picture of a rather beautiful woman with blonde hair, blue eyes, red lips, wearing a blue dress of sorts, and a tattoo on her forehead that resembled the classic four directions.
The teen proceeds to swipe the green answer icon, and he suddenly found the phone on video chat mode, where he came face-to-face with the same woman from the picture.
"Hey there Yuu!" the woman greeted the teen with a friendly smile and a ecstatic tone.
"Oh hey Kaigami!" Yuu responded with a smile as Kay, Koya and Shin all huddled around him
"How did the field trip to the Meiji Chocolate Factory go? Did you guys get any choc-o-late?" Kaigami asked in a playful tone.
"Barely. We were only allowed to get one product...and this is what happened when we tried to get more!" Shin answered as he lifted his left hand, showing off the mark left from the teacher hitting them with a ruler.
"Anyway, do you know any good places in the park where we could get something to eat?" Yuu asked.
"Well you guys are just in luck!"
Suddenly, the Genie from Disney's "Aladdin" magically appeared right beside Kaigami, with his usual wide smile.
"The Zambini Brothers are holding a special celebration at their restaurant today! Not only do they have a buffet worths of food spread out, but it's all free!" Genie explained, "We're at the restaurant right now for the celebration!"
"That...and because our resident Mariner happens to have a crush on someone here!" Kaigami playfully said as she turned the phone to a table, where the hooded figure known as The Mariner, plus Aladdin and Princess Jasmine themselves, were sitting
Aladdin and Jasmine both waved to the phone, while The Mariner just pulled his hood over his face, as if he was embarrassed.
"Please don't embarrass me like that, Lady Kaigami." The Mariner muttered.
After that, the call ended, with the screen cutting back to the picture of Kaigami.
"Good Italian cuisine...and for free?...SIGN ME THE HELL UP!" Shin loudly exclaimed.
"I'm in!" Kay agreed.
"Same here!" Koya agreed as we.
"Alrighty then, looks like we're going to Porto Paradiso!" Yuu exclaimed.
Over at the Aquasphere Plaza, a huge crowd consisting of thousands of guests of all ages were making their way to the first land of the park Mediterranean Harbor. The quartet were just a few of the many people in the crowd. As the crowd was nearing the entrance to Mediterranean Harbor, the quartet started drifting away from the crowd and off to the side. Once the crowd made it into Port of Call, the quartet were only ones left in the Plaza.
Yuu then pulled out a rolled-up piece of paper from his pocket and proceeded to unroll it, revealing it to be a map of the Tokyo DisneySea Park, although it had more of the appearance of one those maps that sailors and navigators used centuries ago.
Yuu placed his index finger on the section of the map that showed Mediterranean Harbor. Suddenly, a spinning vortex of water rose from the Aquasphere Fountain and lunged towards the quartet, swallowing them whole right before retreating to the fountain.
The quartet were barreling down the watery vortex, all while screaming and wildly flailing their arms around. At the end of the watery vortex, there was a bright light. The light got brighter as the quartet was barreling closer to it.
The light was revealed to be the end of the vortex, which the quartet was shoot out of. The four teens landed flat on their faces onto a wooden floor.
"We really need to find a better way for traveling to realms." Koya muttered as he got up and rubbed his head in pain.
"Hey, this way is just more exciting."an Yuu replied.
"You what's even more exciting? Telling me where you're going."
"Ride?" Kay questioned as she and her three friends were caught off guard by the mysterious voice, which sounded Italian.
The quartet turned around to find a mustached man who looked like a gondola driver, holding a long oar in his hands as he glare at them and tapped his right foot in a impatient manner.
The quartet then realized they were in a gondola on a canal in the middle of the Italian port city of Porto Paradiso.
"Look kids, I don't got all day. Are you gonna tell me where you're going or not?" the gondola driver questioned.
"Oh yeah! We're going to the Zambini Brothers' Ristorante!" Yuu answered.
"Okay, now all you have to do is pay for your ride." The gondola driver exclaimed.
"No problem! How much is it?" Kay questioned.
"About 80 euros." the gondola driver answered, leaving the teens mildly confused.
"Uh...how much is that in Japanese yen?" Koya questioned.
"About 150,42.42." the gondola driver responded.
The teens eyes widen in shock at the gondolier's response and proceeded to slowly turn around. The quartet quickly dug into into their pockets, and the total amount of yen they manage to put together was barely enough to pay the man.
"Well, I'm waiting." the gondolier called out in a impatient tone, prompting the teens to sweat nervously.
"Oh you're gonna love this, you see..." Yuu turned to the gondolier, chuckling nervously.
Over at a nearby outside seating area, an anthropomorphic stuffed cat was just putting the finishing touches on his painting of the beautiful Italian setting around him.
"Purr-fetto!" the cat proudly said in a Italian accent.
The cat then suddenly heard what sounded like screaming, which got louder the longer he heard it. The cat frantically looked around to find the source of the screaming, and he did when he saw Yuu, Kay, Koya and Shin all falling from the sky, plummeting towards the seating area. The stuffed cat's eyes widen and quickly glanced at his painting, realizing it was in danger. The stuffed feline immediately grabbed his painting and held it close to him as he closed his eyes. The quartet crashed into the ground, luckily missing the cat and his painting.
The cat opened his eyes and founded the quartet embedded in the ground.
"You guys okay?" the cat called out to them.
"Yes...but also no..." Kay answered as she lifted her head from the ground, with a black eye, a bloody nose, a missing teeth, several bruises, and stars swirling around her head.
Soon enough, the rest of the quartet started getting up, who each had their fair share of bruises as well.
"Sorry about that, Gelatonti." Koya said.
"It's alright. Why were you guys falling anyway?" Gelatonti questioned.
"Long story...anyway, do you know the way to the Zambini Brothers' Ristorante?" Yuu asked.
"Oh, it's right behind you." Gelatonti answered.
The quartet were confused at first, but they eventually turned around and founded the entrance to the very restaurant they were looking, logo and all.
"Well that was easy..." Shin remarked with a dumbfounded look on his face.
("Mambo Italiano" by Dean Martin plays)
Inside the restaurant, the quartet and Gelatonti came across quite a sight. Just about everyone in the entire park was here. From the Nautilus crew of the somewhat hidden ocean base Vulcania, to the fishermen of the Cape Cod town of Marshport, to even the primitive cave people of the Earth's Center. Everyone was here.
Not only that, but the restaurant was split into two different sections. One section was a little dancer floor, where a few people were dancing with one another. The other section consisted of many tables, filled to the brim with lots of food. There were various soups, sauces, breads, pizzas, pasta dishes, rice dishes, meats (cold, sliced and cooked), cheeses, fruits, salads, vegetable dishes, nuts, seafood, desserts and bottles upon bottles of wine and grape juice.
"Hey guys, over here!"
The quartet and Gelatoni turned around to find Kaigami, Genie, The Mariner, Aladdin and Princess Jasmine, all sitting at table, waving to the four teens.
The quartet smiled and walked over to the five, who all scooted over in order for them to sit down.
"Took you guys long enough! What to happened?" Kaigami jokingly questioned.
"And why do you guys look so…..uhhh…..beat up?" Jasmine also questioned.
"When we arrived here, we landed on some guy's gondola. After we told him where we were heading, he wanted us to pay him." Yuu explained.
"Yeah but when we told him we didn't have enough, he immediately kicked….well, more like whacked our asses right out of the gondola and sent us flying all the way here." Koya added.
"Looks like you guys met Avido. When he wants people to pay for their gondola ride, he REALLY wants them to pay!" Genie exclaimed.
"You got that right, Genie. Last time I didn't pay him, he sent me flying all the way to Pompeii!" Aladdin stated.
"Well that aside, it's great that you guys could make. The food here is really GOOD! And if you want proof, just look at Mole over there!" Kaigami explained as she pointed over to said geologist.
Moliere was sitting at a table along with Milo Thatch, Kida Nedakh, Joshua Sweet, Vinny Santorini and Audrey Ramirez, who all looked at him with varied expressions of disgust as he wildly scarfed down a plate of spaghetti topped with tomato sauce, ciabatta, carpaccio, caprese, grapes and tiramisu.
"Hey Mole, you wanna slow down with that food of yours, please." Vinny grimly commented.
"Yeah Mole, even in a restaurant filled with cave-people, vikings, pirates and a band of unruly, parentless children dressed up like furries, you still stand out." Milo added.
"Shut up, you scrawny, weak morceau de merde!" Mole angrily replied, much to the shock of his peers.
"Look at you, you're wasting away my amico!"
The six explorers turned around to find Minoré, the youngest of the titular Zambini Brothers. He had a bushy black mustache and short hair too match, brown eyes, dressed up in chef attire, and was a little short and noticeably chubby, being no taller than Milo.
"Eat! Eat! Everybody eat!" Minoré loudly exclaimed.
"HOORAY!" Everyone cheered in joy.
Suddenly, everyone heard the sound of a fork clinking against a wine glass. Everyone turned around to find Mezzó and Vecchió the other two Zambini Brothers and the older brothers of Minoré.
While they both did have similar features to their younger brother like the short black hair, bushy mustaches and chef attire, they each had some notable differences in their appearence.
Mezzó was the middle brother. He had a lanky, slim build, was noticeably taller than Minoré, and had blue eyes.
Vecchió was the eldest brother. He had a muscular build, was taller than both of his younger brothers, and had green eyes.
"Thank you all for coming here. As many of you know, today marks the 2,000th anniversary of our restaurant. This very restaurant has been apart of our family for generations upon generations!" Vecchió explained, "Mezzó, would you like to give our friends a little history lesson?" the eldest Zambini Brother asked his younger brother.
"I'd love to, fratello!" Mezzó answered.
The middle Zambini Brother directed everyone's attention to a marble statue of three men who greatly resembled the brothers, but dressed in ancient Roman attire and each one holding a different food item. The man that resembled Minoré was holding a plate with a jug that was most likely filled with wine, given that there were grapes surrounding it, the man that resembled Mezzó was holding a plate of cheese, and the man that resembled Vecchió was holding a huge, long platter with a roasted wild boar.
"This restaurant opened all the way back in 21 AD by our ancestors Seniorem, Mediumus and Minimus! And soon enough, this restaurant, or as it was called back then thermopolia, became not only the most popular eatery in this city, but also the entire Roman Empire! Everyone wanted our food! From the the lowliest of slaves, to even the Emperor himself! Yes, it was quite the glorious time for our ancestors, and the popularity of this restaurant would continue over the course of the next millennium under the ownership of their descendants." Mezzó explained.
The middle Zambini Brother than directed everyone's attention to a fresco painting, which showed another trio of men that resembled the Brothers, but dressed in Renaissance attire. The men that resembled Minoré and Mezzó were holding plates of pasta, which some strange sauce on top, and the man that resembled Vecchió was hold a big, circular plate with a flatbread topped with some strange items.
"Around the 13th century, our restaurant had become even more popular when we introduced pasta, which was already starting to become a household food throughout Italy when it was introduced to us by Eastern traders. But sadly, around the 16th century, our restaurant took a slight dip in popularity when our ancestors Primogenitó, Medió and Giovane introduce... tomatoes..." Mezzó continued and briefly finished with a slightly saddened look.
"But why's that a bad thing? Aren't tomatoes, like an important part of you cuisine?" Ethan Diaz questioned, scratching his head in confusing.
"Well you see, back then, tomatoes were seen as poisonous by the people of Italy due to their appearance, and the fact they came from the Americas, which was still a land of mystery to us Europeans. When our ancestors first got their hands on some tomatoes, they wanted to see if the fruits really were poisonous. Much to their surprise, they weren't. In fact, they liked it! So much in fact that they made a delicious sauce from the fruits. But when they started serving it, a lot of people were turned off by it. The people of Porto Paradiso avoided our restaurant like the bubonic plague for months on end! But that all changed in 1521 when the ruling family of the city, the Buongustaioes, came by for dinner one evening. They noticed the tomato sauce our ancestors made, and out of curiosity, they decided to try it. Much to our ancestors' surprise, the family loved the sauce and began spreading word about it to the people of the city. And soon enough, our restaurant was popular once again. The tomato sauce quickly became a favorite among our menu. Our ancestors even used it not only on pasta dishes, but also to create an early version of a dish you're all familiar with today, using a circular piece of flatbread and topping it with slices of various cheeses and sausages..." Mezzó continued as he pointed to the man resembled his eldest brother.
"PIZZA!" the audience shouted out loud.
"Correcto!" the middle Zambini exclaimed as he directed the audience's attention to a big colored photograph in a picture frame, hanging from the wall.
The photograph appeared to be quite old, looking like it was taken at least 40 years ago. The photograph showed another trio of men, who somewhat resembled the Brothers, though not to the extent of their ancestors.
"Finally, we arrive at the previous owners of our restaurant, who was none other than our father Piccoló, and his older brothers aka our uncles Grandinó and Traminó. About 10 years ago, they all retired and gave the restaurant to us to continue the family legacy. And that, my gli amici, is the story of our restaurant!" Mezzó finally finished, with everyone applauding in response.
"But that's not all, my friends! Follow us." Vecchió exclaimed as he and his brother motioned everyone to follow them as they started making their way down a hallway.
The patrons all looked at each with mild confused, right before shrugging and deciding to follow.
Soon enough, the Brothers and the patrons came to the end of the hallway, where they found a big, metal door, with some sort of scanner in the middle.
"What's with the big metal door?" Yuu asked.
"You see my friend, right behind this door, lies a collection of our speciality-made, family wine!" Vecchió answered.
"This wine has been in our family for many generations, going all the way to the very beginning, and the recipe has always remained the same." Mezzó added.
"We make it by stomping grapes in a wine press, which we then extract the juices from and pour them into several large terracotta pots." Minoré explained.
"How big are the pots, exactly?" Kay questioned.
"About this big." Vecchió answered as he pulled out a terracotta pot from behind his back, which was a big and tall as a man.
"Holy shit..." Kay muttered in shock.
"Tell me about it. We have to fill up about 120 of these every year!" Mezzó stated.
"Anyway, after we extract the juice into the pots, we added seawater, for a spiked punch." Vecchió explained.
"Some honey to sweeten it." Mezzó added.
"And some spices and herbs...to bolster it's medical qualities!" Minoré added.
"Salty? Sweet? And good for you? Now that's my kind of drink!" Vinny remarked.
"After that, we let the wine ferment for about 36 hours. When does 36 hours are finally up...volia! Our traditional family wine is ready for drinking!" Vecchió finished.
The three brothers then proceeded to pluck a string of hair from their mustaches and held them up to the scanner. The scanner scanned the three strings of hair, and eventually confirmed them to be a match.
The metal door suddenly opened, much to the awe of everyone, as the brothers presented what was ahead, with their eyes closed.
But that awe quickly turned to shock as everyone gasped at what they say. The brothers were confused at first, but they turned around and found what everyone at staring at.
The entire cellar was empty! There were no terracotta pots in sight!
"Che diavolo?! What happened to the wine?!" Mezzó questioned as he and his brothers slowly started to panic.
Milo looked down at the floor, finding another surprising sight.
"Uh...I think I found out what happened to the wine." Milo said.
Everyone looked down at the floor, finding all 120 terracotta pots, either empty or shattered, with some spilt wine all over the floor. Not only that, but they also found Homer Simpson and Peter Griffin, who were both asleep, drenched in wine, and looked like an absolute mess.
Suddenly, the duo woke up, yawned, scratched their backs, slowly turned their heads, and found everyone looking at them in shock.
"What's...what's going on, fellas...?" Peter asked, clearly hungover.
Robbie Daymond as Yuu
Christina Vee as Kay
Ben Diskin as Koya
Max Mittelman as Shin
Brandy Kopp as Kaigami
Matthew Mercer as The Mariner
Jim Meskimen as Genie
Linda Larkin as Jasmine
Scott Weinger as Aladdin
Phil LaMarr as Vecchió
Jess Harnell as Mezzó
Steve Kramer as Minoré
Don Novello as Vinny Santorini
Corey Burton as Mole
James Arnold Taylor as Milo Thatch
Dan Castellanetta as Homer Simpson
Seth MacFarlane as Peter Griffin
Isaak Presley as Ethan Diaz
Keith Ferguson as Avido and Teacher
Lara Jill Miller as Gelatonti