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Author's note: Originally posted by Anon e Mouse Jr. on 2017-09-16. This is the second of two chapters posted today.
Disney/Kingdom Hearts Loops, Chapter Five
5.1 (SeaofFallingStars): [Kingdom Hearts]
Donald and Goofy were wondering where Sora had gone, since they had all fallen asleep in Aladdin's house. Genie had somehow whipped up a deck of cards and they were playing 'Texas Rummy'. How Genie knew the game, they didn't or want to know. They had completed six and a half games when Sora came back, covered in a purplish-black liquid and pot fragments.
"I am never storming a Pot Scorpion nest for Jasmine's dad again."
5.2 (wildrook): [Kingdom Hearts]
Kingdom Hearts in the Big Top
"Well," was what Sora muttered, "this is new."
He had experienced a circus before, and it involved one that turned Pinocchio into a donkey.
However, he found himself working with an old summon of his named Dumbo, and he's at the point where the clowns came in. Only one problem… it's less about the clowns that freaked him out...
...it was these guys that spawned Nightmares. Literally.
"Now I'm starting to see why I never went to THIS world," was what Sora muttered. "Wonder how Riku's doing..."
(On the other end...)
"Clowns," was what Riku muttered. "It had to be CLOWNS. I'm not even afraid of clowns, and this is terrifying beyond the capacity for rational thought."
On Riku's side of the story, he got involved with crows, clowns, and a building on fire.
"You're going to need something in order to glide," a mouse replied. "That reminds me, where's your friend?"
"Being tailed by some of the more dangerous villains I've met, Timothy. I'm going to need air support if I'm to take out these clowns. Can you two cover me?"
Dumbo nodded as Timothy saluted.
"You can count on us," was what Timothy muttered. "Let's hope you run into your pal before the guys you mentioned show up."
5.3 (Hvulpes): [Disney]
Mickey looked at his reflection and the physical changes in his appearance and wondered, "What do the others look like?"
As he thought this his loop memories arrived and his red cheeks sparked with electricity, "Who came up with the name Picky Pikachu?"
5.4 (wildrook): [Goof Troop/Goofy Movie]
Raving Rabbids In Spoonerville
Max and PJ were surprised at the scene in front of them... some rabbit-like things had managed to steal everything within Pete's house and now they were in the Goof Home, unopposed as they were packing lots of stuff.
"Uh, is that one of your Dad's experiments?" PJ asked him.
"Not this time, Peej," Max replied. "Because they managed to tie him up."
"Gawrsh," Goofy said. "I didn't expect to be captured...where did they come from?"
"Don't know, Dad," Max said, "but they're armed!"
The battle cry had been heard through Spoonerville as the rabbit-like monsters had brought up their stuff to go to the moon:
"DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
Hard to believe that younger versions of future friends of theirs had been Awake that day, but those… are other stories.
5.5 (Evilhumour): [Kingdom Hearts / [Keys to the Kingdom]
Keyblades to the Kingdom 1.3
"That sounds rough Arthur." Riku muttered, sitting down to let his mind contemplate all of this. He had heard of how one of the Spyro's baseline was a constant war and nearly impossible for him and his friends to prevent it. He had read about the lost loop, the one that was lost due to saving the Megaman loops. He had seen the Supernatural loop and the mess that was.
This was not as bad, but up there.
"But, this a semi special loop." Riku gave Arthur a smile. "I am sure that your loop can't cross over and this isn't a fused loop from what I can tell, thus I am sure that your problems won't follow us over."
"But," Arthur started to protest but Riku placed a hand on his shoulder. "What can I do here?"
"In all honesty? Come join me and my friends for an adventure, we have a lot stuff to deal with, some of it difficult but a lot of fun with my friends." Sending out another Ping, Riku smile grew. "And it seems that most of them are Awake, so they can help you too."
"I guess…" Arthur looked to the floor.
"That's if you want to, but again, you are replacing my friend Sora for this loop and a great deal of things are centered around him, I wouldn't want you to have to deal with them without backup." Riku frowned, deciding to see if Arthur was truly replacing Sora this time. "And I can teach you how to use this." He summoned his keyblade, watching Arthur's eyes grow in surprise.
He looked down at the Atlas, which had started to write something.
Lord Arthur, you have nothing to fear from the keyblades; they will not change you into a Denizen.
"Here, hold this." Riku handed the keyblade over to the looper, waiting to see what would happen.
As Arthur took it, something odd happened. For a split second, there were four different Arthurs. Two he could tell were the replacements of Ventus and Vanitas just by appearance alone. The third one was the same boy he was talking to. The last one…
He was tall, twelve feet tall, with perfect gold hair, with perfectly tan skin. He had no pupils, just pure red orbs. He was dressed in perfectly tailored, old fashion clothing, with a quill behind his ear, a key on a chain along with small mirror mixed with fused trident and baton. On his belt there were a pair of tucked in gloves, with a small sword at his hip. Obedience, awe, and absolute terror poured out from this figure, with Riku unable to do anything.
Then he was gone and Arthur was back, holding a strange keyblade that had moving texture and features on it that drew his attention to it. Riku began to see patterns in it, twisting his head-
"RIKU!" Arthur shouted, banishing the keyblade.
"Sorry Arthur, that was a weird keyblade." Riku shook his head, trying to clear his mind.
"I think it had properties of the Front Door," Arthur muttered to himself, summoning the keyblade again before dispelling it again, taking a long deep breath.
Riku stared at Arthur, and realized that this was going to be an interesting loop.
5.6 (wildrook): [Goof Troop/Goofy Movie]
"Note to self," Max muttered, "NEVER let Dad near the blue pony with explosive compositions again!"
In Spoonerville High, Max was dealing with a small post-Loop Crash Crisis. Mad Scientist Goofy had met Demomare Trixie.
"Bad Loop?" PJ asked him.
"Bad crash," Max replied. "Pray that your Dad never Awakens, because he'd be surprised that mine SUCCEEDED. Next thing I knew, I ended up as Julius."
PJ cringed. "Feel for ya, Max. Other than that, what's the plan to impress Roxanne this time?"
"Actually, I was hoping I'd go slow," he replied. "I mean, really, we're not going to attend a Science Slumber Party."
"You and me both," a female voice said, surprising them.
The fact that Max DIDN'T fall into the locker proved that he was under stress.
"Roxanne?" Max asked her. "But... how'd you find out?"
"You're not the only one who can bribe someone with cheese wiz," the redhead replied.
"Yeah," PJ said, "you two are DEFINITELY made for each other. I was hoping I'd surprise YOU this time, Max."
Well, at least Max wouldn't have to lie this time. "That makes things a bit easier," Max replied. "I was in a hurry, so I forgot mine. Finding out that you beat... wait a minute. You're feeling Loopy?"
"Ever since the incident with the Raving Rabbids," she replied.
"And that was when we were kids," PJ added. "Heck, BOBBY was the first to confront us. It just took a couple loops."
Max had a feeling that something crazy would trigger it. "Story of my life," he muttered. "Well, you've met Dad before. This time, he's got the Franken-Goof Gene active."
"Mad Scientist?" Roxanne asked him.
"Laboratory underneath both our old and new houses."
"Any actual monsters?"
"Just the one that looks like Big Pete." That sometimes follows him around. "If you see a look-alike, he's nicer than Peej's Dad."
"Guess that's a thing to watch out for. That reminds me, the Principal's on the Warpath."
Max and PJ were surprised.
"I didn't even start the stunt this time," he muttered.
"Not the reason," Bobby said, walking down there. "And no, you're not in trouble. He's trying to quell a riot."
Max then face-palmed. "Who's the leader? King of the Pharaohs? The guy who used to be Chief of Security? I made a lot of enemies when I was a kid, so it could be anyone."
"You might want to see this for yourself."
As they walked out to the front door, they had noticed the most cliche problem... as they saw a lot of Powerline CDs in a pile that looked like they were going to be burned.
"Okay," Max muttered, "now I'm DEFINITELY going to have to explain to Dad what happened today. Guy may be mad, but he's at least logical." Then he had an idea. "You guys have any change I can borrow?"
(Minutes later...)
"That's too cliche for words," Goofy said, bringing a modified version of his old truck.
"Yeah, feels like something out of the sixties," PJ replied.
"You weren't kidding about the Mad Scientist thing," Roxanne muttered.
"Again," Max said, "he's at least willing to help us out. His other career is Captain of the Royal Guard and he created his own Vibranium Shield. But we managed to get Powerline's number from baseline."
"I'm still a little surprised that you knew him AFTER the lie."
"We'll talk about this later. Right now, we have Freedom of Speech to save."
5.7 (Mr. Egret; wildrook; Evilhumour; Gamerex27; Crisis; VS21; Anon e Mouse Jr.) [Disney] / [Bar Loop - [The Nightmare Before Christmas] / [Kingdom Hearts] / [Marvel] / [Pirates of the Caribbean] / [ Lion King) / [Hercules] / [The Sword in the Stone] / [The Little Mermaid] / [Lilo & Stitch] / [Big Hero 6] / [Gargoyles] / [The Emperor's New Groove] / [Mulan] / [Goof Troop/Goofy Movie] / [Aladdin] / [Snow White] / [Hunchback of Notre Dame] / [Tangled] - Happy Hour at the House of Mouse
CONTENT WARNING - contains discussion of bizarre romantic relationships.
Mickey looked out across the tavern floor as he polished a particularly dirty glass. There weren't a whole lot of people in tonight. But then, there was usually a bigger crowd when the House of Mouse was an actual nightclub rather than a simple bar. As it was, he thought that there were plenty of customers, so he was not concerned.
He heard the door creak open, and looked up to see Jack Skellington and an adult Sora walk into the bar, wearing matching thousand-yard stares. "Hey, fellas. Come on and pull up a stool; you look like you've got something awful on your minds."
"How right you are, Mr. Mouse," Jack replied wearily, as the two Loopers bellied up to the bar. "One glass of La Venganza de Escorpión, if you please."
"Oh jeez. It's that bad?" Mickey asked disbelievingly.
"Yep," Sora replied. "I'll have what he's having."
Mickey pulled out a waiver and pen and handed them to Sora, then pulled out the bottle from underneath the bar. When it hit the bar top, several patrons felt very cold all of a sudden, and the lights flickered noticeably. In the back, Judge Claude Frollo crossed himself, and quickly left the bar.
Mickey poured two steaming glasses of the stuff, checked to see if the waiver had been signed, then pushed the glasses towards the two Loopers. "So, what happened?"
Jack took his glass, and swirled the contents pensively. "Do you remember how Sora, Donald and Goofy helped me save Christmas by rescuing Santa Claus from Oogie Boogie?"
"Yeah; what of it?"
"Well, in our last Loop, when we turned up to save the day, we found out that we were in a variant Loop."
Mickey could all but see the oncoming trainwreck from where he was standing. "Go on..."
Sora shuddered, and grabbed his glass. "As it turned out, Santa didn't need rescuing. He was having a romantic tryst, and we walked in on him kissing...oh I can't bear it."
Mickey gulped. "With who? Who was he kissing?" he asked, feeling like an Investigator in Call of Cthulhu about to open a tomb.
Jack looked Mickey dead in the eye, and the mouse could read the sheer horror written all over the skeleton's face like a book. "Demyx," he whispered.
Jack and Sora both knocked back their glasses in one go. Jack, being a member of the undead, merely got a bit soused. Sora, however, was flesh and blood, and so he slumped over the bar unconscious then and there.
Mickey considered the situation, adjusted Sora's position so he would be more comfortable, and then poured Jack another glass, and a third one for himself. Demyx and Santa Claus was not an image that he wanted to remember. Ever.
Sora, within the bar of the House of Mouse, had quite the hangover.
"Considering what happened to me and Jack that one loop," he said, "I'm going to need something to look at and laugh. Anyone go through a variant involving a weird pairing? That you had to go through something strong in order to fry your brains out like we have or just de-railed it?"
"Ultron with IG-88," Tony muttered, catching Sora's attention. "We had to get the Death Star destroyed before it could be rebuilt because it was their honeymoon suite."
"What happened to Stan's Place?" Sora asked him.
"Caught in the crossfire. Most of the Marvel Loopers use this as a backup in case that happens."
Captain Jack Sparrow raised his bottle of rum, swigged it around and then looked at everyone in the room. "I was doing the deed with the other Captain Jack, Captain Morgan, Captain Hook, Barbosa, and that old biddy Maleficent while having that curse." He took a deep drink of his rum, shuddering. "I just drank myself to death somehow."
"Jack Harkness was Looping?" Oswald asked Captain Sparrow.
"That's the first thing you ask?" he asked the Lucky Rabbit.
"Sadly no, my good friend," Jack sighed sadly. "If he were, he'd known that I like have the whip hit a bit higher."
Riku muttered something under his breath, not bothering to take his head off the bar table before speaking.
"Uh, could'ja say that again?" Donald rasped. "I didn't hear you."
Riku slowly raised his head, with the kind of look that would put Eeyore to shame. "Simba. Pride Lands. Both lions."
Simba winced from across the room. "Oh. Good thing I wasn't Awake for that..."
"I guess it could have been worse," Riku said, taking a sip of his drink. "At least neither of us got pregnant, which happens way too often in these kinds of AAAARRRGH!" Cutting off mid-sentence, Riku clutched his head at the side-splitting migraine that hit him out of nowhere.
"I did tell you to start with something more mild," Kairi said sadly. "Maybe you should go back to the butterbeer for now. Leave that Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster alone."
As Riku nodded groggily, Hercules hesitantly raised his hand, then quickly put it back down.
"What's wrong, Herc?" Sora asked. "Whatever happened to you can't be that bad. Otherwise, you'd be in a therapy Loop instead of here."
"It's not-" the hero started, then paused again. "It is kind of disturbing, but it's nothing compared to what my dad-both local and Admin-did. It's just… weird. If you really want me to, I'll give you an abridged version."
In the aftermath of the story, a very drunk Sora mentioned that he was very lucky to have missed out on most of Herc's story. Riku only remembered bits and pieces of it.
"...Yeah, with Cloud... no, that happened before I Awoke, I would never do that... Yes, I said sunshine beam... turned into a hydra after Sephiroth did that... grew teeth and started trying to eat everyone else... yes, Cloud really called him Sephy-kins...Yes, I said they assimilated people...yeah, just like the Borg, but grosser...I got possessed by Ansem... then Hades came in while... yes, really, with Cerberus… and after that, I turned into a woman, for some reason… Sephiroth was somehow Leon's true love… had to use... vacuumed like a black hole... then, it started glowing... and then war broke out, we all died, and the Loop ended, thank the gods."
Simba, in lion form, then groaned.
"Not the craziest as Riku's encounter with me and Nala," he replied, and was thankful that it didn't happen, "but... I got shipped with Ariel when Scar met Ursula that one Fused Loop. It took the intervention of a plane crash from Baloo involving a carnival, Mowgli, fire-ants, and Pumbaa in the place of Flounder."
"Merlions are a thing in Singapore," Merlin replied.
"Don't remind me. You know how hard I tried to explain to Nala and Triton that my Uncle was involved? Or the fact that her sisters were part-fish, part-cat?"
Ariel blushed and hid her face. "At least you didn't have someone badger you for grandkids constantly."
Simba's jaw fell to the floor.
"I only Awoke before the Loop ended, but now that's happened, I can go merlioness now."
"No wonder I saw you with cat ears when we first met," Eric replied. "At least... before you went part catgirl that one time."
Ariel blushed again, her face matching her hair. "Mickey, your strongest drink please."
The blue 'dog' tapped its chin before it said "Juu Backta."
Everyone in the room winced, and took a drink with the young girl giving her pet a big hug.
"What did he say?" Hiro asked the others.
"You don't want to know," Wendy the cyclops alien replied.
"Though I no longer love her," Goliath said, "I once saw Demona engaged in courtship with... Chernabog."
Oswald winced. "Yikes. How did that end up?"
"Not as you would think," the leader of the Manhattan Clan of gargoyles replied. "She entered into a Faustian pact with him, then immediately betrayed him the moment she had received the power she was promised. I and my clan were forced to use the most fearsome of our out-of-Loop abilities in order to defeat her. And even then, New York had been completely leveled. And when Chernabog returned for revenge, their fight leveled the entire state of New York."
"On the bright side," Brooklyn added, "we didn't have to worry about the Quarrymen that Loop, since all the people who normally joined them were too busy focusing on fighting Chernabog's army of demons."
"The sad part," Xanatos said, "there were some things that fell apart in the initial plan I had, so I felt it was safer to work WITH Goliath and his clan the moment I Woke up."
Xanatos may have been morally ambiguous, but he wasn't stupid. A deal with Disney's version of Satan led to disaster, so better Goliath than Chernabog.
Minnie and Daisy quietly conferred over two cups of champagne, before Minnie raised her hand. "I have one," she piped up. "Remember that Loop where Mickey and I married for political reasons before we Woke Up?"
Mickey thought about it for a second, before his eyes widened. "Oh goodness. That loop?"
"Yep. As it turned out, the Unawake me liked girls. Specifically Daisy."
Daisy sipped her champagne. "Yeah, I thought it was weird that we Woke Up in the same bed, but we were able to make it work until the others Woke Up."
She smiled wistfully. "Heh. I still remember when Donald walked in on us when we were drying off after we tried out those hot springs..."
Minnie covered her eyes with her hand, despite her smile. "Oh gosh, I remember that! Poor guy looked as embarrassed as I felt. He got all red in the face, and he wouldn't look at either of us. Remember, Daisy?"
Daisy laughed out loud. "Oh heck yeah I remember! When I beckoned him into the changing room, he was giving off more steam than a sauna! And when you had him sit between us, oh my word..."
As the two girls descended into giggles, Mickey sighed to himself, pulled out a checklist, and put a checkmark next to "champagne". After some consideration, he added another check.
"You were Franklin D. Roosevelt, weren't you?" Oswald asked him.
"Yup," Mickey replied.
Kuzco looked at the crowd and said six words. "Yzma and a faulty gender potion." He then buried his llama head into the table and cried.
"Why does it keep happening to me?!"
Mulan tapped her chin for a moment, trying to think of something to share that wouldn't harm anyone too much.
"There was one where Po replaced Mushu..."
"And absolutely nothing was different," Shang added.
Max looked at the crowd, with his father taking a drink. "Fatherly love to the extreme."
The spit-take was enough to bowl over Hades, Donald, Herc, and a pillar.
The worst part is that the next one involves Oswald's pain being at the heart of 420 mouths asking the same thing:
"Daddy, what's a hooker?"
Oswald's eyes bugged out. "Where did you guys hear that word?" he asked them.
"From one of the Petes," one of the kids asked him.
Mickey just patted Oswald on the shoulder as they were in the middle of the game.
"Not exactly relevant," Sora muttered, "but that's just awkward."
"That's not the worst part," Oswald replied. "Ever have a stadium full of kids shouting that?"
"This is why I'm GLAD Max is the Anchor of his branch," Goofy said, sympathizing with Oswald outside of the area. "Otherwise... well, there was the time the ex-girlfriend met my current one."
"And this is why mine is worse," Max muttered. "Because 'The Missus and the Ex' is EVERY man's worst nightmare."
"Hey Mickey! We need a whole lot of brain bleach over here!" Genie called out to Mickey as he brought Aladdin and Jasmine into the bar.
Aladdin looked completely out of it as Mickey got the brain bleach and Genie and Jasmine worked to get the brain bleach down Aladdin's throat and once they got several gallons worth of brain bleach down Aladdin's throat, he finally said, "Jafar kept a harem of captured male thieves in one of the dungeons..."
Hades blinked. "Explains so much," he said. "I take it the brain bleach was because..."
"There were thirty-nine," Genie replied. "And his Dad was nowhere to be found. Saluk was the Beta."
Hercules had to LIGHTLY pat Aladdin in the back due to his super strength.
"Kid, that's worse than Zeus when he channels his original self," Hades said to Hercules.
"Don't remind me," Hercules replied. "Besides, guy could use a pat on the back... well... a light one..."
The Seven Princess of Light looked at each other, looked at their princes and sighed.
"One off to the right?" Jasmine asked Snow.
"One off to the right."
"No, Quasi," Rapunzel muttered, "Frollo and Gothel makes more sense than baseline role-reversal between him and Esmerelda."
"I wasn't going to say that," Quasimodo replied. "It involved Victor, Hugo, and a goat."
"Then I take it back."
5.8 (bubblesage): [Bar Loop] / [Disney] / [Hercules] / [Sleeping Beauty] / [The Sword in the Stone] / [Cinderella] / [Snow White] / [Lion King] / [Alice in Wonderland] / [Frozen] / [Power Rangers] / [The Little Mermaid] / [The Nightmare Before Christmas] / [Star Wars]
Mickey hummed to himself cleaning a glass. The House of Mouse was styled as a bar in what seemed to be a modern day Toon Town, thankfully without the Dip.
He looked up seeing Hercules motioning to a door with his head. After getting his brother to watch the bar(1) he followed the demi/actual god into a conference room usually reserved for business meetings (Herc's divinity scale sometimes moved depending on the loop).
Inside he wasn't really surprised when several Awake Royals were sitting at a large round table. Prince/King Philip, Princess/Queen Aurora, Arthur 'Wart' Pendragon next to Merlin, Cinderella and Snow White next to a Prince Charming each, Maleficent(2), Simba, Nala and Kiara (Kovu was sadly not Awake at this time), Alice, Elsa, what may have been Princess Shayla in a concealing cloak, Ariel and Triton in more humanoid forms, Jack Skellington with Sally, and Leia.
"Gosh. If I had known so many esteemed guests were coming I would have made the room bigger. What do your Highnesses wish of me?" He asked bowing politely.
Jack, being elected the spoke-skeleton, spoke up. "We wish to know how to refer to you Sir Mouse. Anchor, king of your own kingdom. Some would say Sovereign of our branch of the world tree. We were debating on High King before you entered."
Mickey tilted his head in thought. He figured this may be asked at sometime in the Loops. It was true; even without the thing with Kingdom Hearts he had had sovereignty before, usually through marriage to Minnie but the odd Prince and the Pauper loops popped up every so often.(3) And to paraphrase pre-Looping Oswald he was technically Dad's favorite, though he never really saw it that way personally.
Mickey nodded, hiding his surprise and fear as Maleficent seemed to follow every word.(4) "I can see your reasonings Pumpkin King, but I'm not one of them. In my heart, I'm just Mickey, and Walt(5) willing no matter what the loops throw at me, I hope i remain just Mickey."
(1) Mickey still gets a tiny thrill that Oswald is both Looping and not jealous of him.
(2) Who was slightly surprising but considering what had happened in her baseline, no one wanted her to feel snubbed, if only to avoid the annoyance.
(3) Usually with him as both.
(4) Who was not actually Awake but had befriended someone and knew how to play the Game.
(5) Does anyone else find it heartwarming that Mickey would swear by Walt?
5.1: Pot Scorpions are very tricky to handle.
5.2: Ah, Pink Elephants On Parade…
5.3: Good question.
5.4: Foreshadowing!
5.5: Conclusion to this arc. See the first chapter for parts 1 and 2.
5.6: Welcome to the Loops, Roxanne. (Note to self: Introduce her to the other Roxanne. The one from Jurassic Park.)
5.7: A lot of interesting conversations happen in bars. (By the way, Frollo isn't Looping. He's just there in the background.)
5.8: Yes. Yes, it is heartwarming. (And Maleficent isn't Looping either.)