Disclaimer: All Disney works are the property of The Walt Disney Company. All other characters and settings are the property of their respective legal owners.
Author's note: Originally posted by Anon e Mouse Jr. on 2017-11-04. This is the second of two chapters posted today.
Disney/Kingdom Hearts Loops, Chapter Fourteen
14.1 (LordCirce): [Wreck-It Ralph]
"I need that medal. It's mine! It's important to me!" Ralph suppressed a gag at how childish he sounded. Honestly, if he'd done even a bit more research, he would have realized that there were a dozen games where he could have gotten a medal. Heck, if he pressed Tapper a bit more, there was a medal in an old display case behind his bar Ralph could have borrowed. Still, he couldn't really regret his choices, because if he hadn't done it, he would have never met the little rascal in front of him right now.
"Well, unless you've got a race car hidden in the fat folds of your neck, I can't help you."
Ralph paused, donning a confused look, as he scratched behind his ear. "Wait, you mean..." he pulled on his Pocket and, in a somewhat impressive display of slight of hand, pulled a copy of the race car he and Vanellope built in the baseline out from behind his head, "something like this racecar? Cause man, it's been given me an itch being stuck in there."
The mixture of shock, joy, hope, with just a touch of disgust, that flittered across her face was simply adorable. Ralph still wasn't tired of pulling this gag on an Unawake Vanellope. Now, he just had to explain to Calhoun how he had smashed the Cybug to bits, make sure she and Felix still hooked up, break Turbo's legs, and they should be set for the Loop. Easy peasy.
14.2 (MrEgret): [DC] / [Disney]
Dick Grayson, currently acting Batman, looked at the scene unfolding in the middle of Robinson Park with a mixture of awe and barely suppressed laughter. "Babs, are you getting this?" he whispered.
"You mean the catfight going on between Poison Ivy and Donald's girlfriend?" Barbara Gordon asked rhetorically, while monitoring the fight in question from the cozy confines of the Tower. "Yeah, it's coming through perfectly."
"Donald's moving into position on the other side of the clearing. When we break this up, I'm going to congratulate him on his choice of girlfriend. Not many people that can take on a Gotham rogue with their exact same powers and more years of experience with them, and still hold their own."
It was true. In this Loop, Daisy was one of Pamela Isley's assistants, and tried to rescue her from Dr. Woodrue's experiments when she inadvertently stumbled across them late one night in the labs. For her trouble, she was knocked out and captured, and Woodrue decided to make her the new test subject for his plant-human hybridization process after Isley made her escape and began her career as Poison Ivy. Luckily, she was rescued by the Unawake Donald, in his identity as the Duck Avenger, when he broke into the warehouse where she was being held while following up on a lead. It seemed that she had developed an attraction to the Duck Avenger and his secret identity similar to that one version of Harley falling for Bruce, which was quite unfortunate since she had also gained powers similar to those of Poison Ivy. Luckily, Donald was able to steer this obsession towards more positive ends, and she wound up becoming one of Gotham's more powerful - if inexperienced and temperamental - protectors.
Which led us to tonight. Poison Ivy had kidnapped several of the richest men currently spending time in Gotham, as part of a scheme to hypnotize them, and gain access to billions of dollars from their respective conglomerates. She was planning on using the money to fund more of her schemes, as well as to buy up several large swaths of rainforest around the world and make them unavailable to land developers. Bruce was currently away on Justice League business, and almost every other member of the Bat-family was on patrol in different parts of the City. Donald's uncle, Scrooge McDuck, was one of the kidnapped industry titans, so Donald was working together with Grayson as the Duck Avenger to bust the hostages out. Scrooge's kidnapping also kicked off a chain of rumors that got distorted with the telling, until Daisy heard it in her civilian identity as Donald being the kidnapping victim. Naturally, she sprung into action, and followed the trails of pheromones being emitted by Ivy and her hench-plants to Robinson Park. She demanded to know where her boyfriend was, getting into a shouting match with Ivy that devolved into a brawl when Ivy and Daisy discovered that they perfectly countered each other's powers. With Ivy's attention tied up elsewhere, it was child's play for Grayson and Donald to dispatch the few thugs Ivy had mind-whammied into working for her, and free the trapped hostages.
That just left taking care of Ivy, and getting Daisy to calm down.
"I'm in position, Dick," Donald muttered over the radio headset built into his costume. "How are we gonna do this? Smoke grenades, then get in close?"
"We also need to suppress the plant life surrounding them, or else we'll get creamed once Ivy realizes we're here. Defoliant bombs, then gas masks before we move in."
Donald fished out his air filter from his subspace pocket, and snapped it into place on his beak. "Okay. Whenever you're ready."
"Annnnnd now."
Daisy Awoke right before Ivy lunged at her face, nails outstretched like claws. Thinking quickly, she stepped to the side, dodging the blow, before elbowing her in the back of the neck. Right before she could punch her to the ground, a vine shot up out of the dirt, wrapped itself around her arm, and yanked her off-balance. Out of the corner of her eyes, Daisy could see several large green plant things slowly start to move forward. Ivy smirked. "Well, I have to say, for a weed, you are quite persistent. This will make yanking you out by the roots all the swee-"
At that point, several muffled bangs rippled through the clearing and a sickly grey smoke began to fill the area. The plant things shuddered and started backing away from the smoke, while the vine holing Daisy's arm down quickly rotted away. Though she couldn't see it, Daisy briefly looked mildly queasy, before her body started naturally producing antitoxins to counter whatever was in that smoke. Ivy looked around her angrily, completely forgetting about Daisy for the time being, right before a younger-looking Batman swooped out of nowhere, and kicked her in the face.
Daisy then let out a muffled shriek, as she felt someone shove an air filter in her face, before a familiar voice whispered in her ear, "Quick! Strap this on, and follow me!"
"Donald! What on earth-"
"No time to explain! We gotta get you out of here before that defoliant really starts taking a toll on you!"
Daisy nodded reluctantly, properly attached the filter, and followed Donald towards the edge of the clearing under the cover of the smoke. "What's going on?" she asked once they were in the clear.
"Long story. Short version is, you're currently Good Poison Ivy, and Dick Grayson and I are foiling Real Poison Ivy's latest scheme, a kidnapping, with your Unawake self's help," Donald explained, while briskly checking the extent of her injuries. "Oh, and until we're alone, it's Duck Avenger."
It was a testament to the general weirdness of the Loops that Daisy didn't even bother questioning this singularly unusual explanation. "Okay, I suppose Loop memories will explain everything else afterwards. I'll try to keep those plant things occupied so you can help Dick out. Are there any hostages I should keep an eye out for?"
"No, we freed them all; they're outside with the cops. We're just tying up loose ends now."
"Gotcha. Go kick her butt, darling."
"With pleasure!"
With that, Donald leaped back into the fray, while Daisy reached out with her new powers, and ordered the plant things to back off. She smiled as Ivy snarled in frustration at her suddenly uncooperative minions right before Batman and the Duck Avenger punched her in the jaw at the same time. This is way more fun than gardening back in Duckburg, she thought to herself.
14.3 (Awesomedude17): [Gargoyles] / [Marvel]
Beast looked at Goliath, the one who had defeated him during a Death Battle loop.
"I must admit, I should've fought smarter than how I did."
"True. But you did manage to make a squid intelligent. I suppose that counts for something."
"Maybe I'll make it a cat next time. Mainly an affectionate one."
"You try."
"How about next time we face each other, we simply have a battle of wits and intelligence."
Goliath smiled.
"It would be a pleasure."
14.4 (LordCirce; Sonic Raynboom): [Five Nights at Freddy's] / [Wreck-It Ralph]
Freddy Fazbear strode down an empty hallway, a vacant grin on his face as his servos whirred. One step, two step, one step, two step. The tiles of the restrooms slid past on the side, and Freddy began to play a small tune.
A flicker of light caught his attention. Freddy turned to look into the restroom. There was a brief clatter, then something spun out to him from the darkness.
It was the head of Foxy.
"~Time to play, old Freddy.~" A lilting, playful voice sounded from the restroom, as Chica strode into view. Blue lights were flickering across her frame, like pixilated lightning, flashing down her limbs and across her eyes. "~Are you afraid of the dark?~"
Something stirred in Freddy, some strange sensation that caused him to take a step backwards, and then another, before moving in a full retreat, away from the other possessed animatronic.
Vanellope smirked as she bounced around in the system of the crazed bird. At first she had been kind of freaked out by the whole scenario, but there were a few advantages to her glitchiness, and invading systems just happened to be one.
"Try and stuff me in a suit, will ya? Well, I'll just be taking yours then."
Her laughter was more than a little crazy as she followed after Freddy, pumping Chica's arms and legs.
(Sonic Raynboom)
"Vanellope," Ralph said, keeping an eye on the animatronics, "get away from them and get over here."
Meanwhile, Mike tried his method. "Here, Vanellope! Here, Vanellope, Vanellope! I have candy!"
Ralph stared at Mike. "She's not a dog."
"I'm not good with kids, okay!?"
"You work at a kids restaurant."
"I don't deal with the kids, I deal with the murderous animatronics! The last time I had to deal with kids, it-"
~You promised never to speak of that Loop!~ Bonnie shouted.
"I wasn't- wait, you're Awake?!" Mike replied.
~Yes. All of us are. She suggested it.~
Vanellope was laughing. "You should have seen your faces! Oh man, that was hilarious!"
14.5 (LordCirce): [Wreck-It Ralph] / [Gravity Falls]
Ralph carefully lifted the CD out of the case and slotted it into his computer. Once he had seen the cover, he knew he had to take a chance and buy it.
*When the cherry petals of magic romance academy are in bloom, anthyding can hadplen*
"Bleh! That is horrible."
Ralph bit back a laugh as the screen changed to a picture of a Japanese classroom, and Vanellope showed up, dressed up as a typical Japanese school girl. The look of utter disgust on her face gave good indication that she was Awake, and the blue sparks of her glitching, which quickly replaced her uniform with her familiar hoodie, confirmed it.
"Aw, but don't you want to attend Magic Romance Academy?"
"Ha ha, very funny Ralph." Vanellope scowled, flicking again as she turned cel-shaded and lost her flat look. "Man, this thing is cramped."
Ralph shrugged. "Sorry, my Unawake self isn't exactly rich enough for a top of the line computer."
"Eh, it's okay. I've dealt with worse." She glanced around. "So, what exactly is there to do this Loop?"
"Well," Ralph said, "I happen to know that there is an arcade downtown, and according to the Anchor, Dipper, the program you're replacing can move through the wires to most any computer."
"Dipper? What sort of name is Dipper?" Vanellope snorted.
"Hey, Dipper's a pretty cool kid."
"Uh-huh" Vanellope gave an exaggerated nod, "Sure. Anyway, and what will you be doing?"
Ralph took a deep breath. "Well, if you must know, I'm actually... a handyman."
"Pffft!" Vanellope burst out laughing. "Hahaha, you're a handyman. I mean, yeah, you got the hands for it, but, you! Hahaha! What, are you working cleaning up a demolition shop?"
Ralph rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah, I get it, it's funny. It's actually a Mystery Shack, and I'll have you know, I've had no complaints about my handy… about my work."
Vanellope slowly brought her laughter under control, hiccuping slightly. She then gave him a sly look. "You're using one of the Hammers, aren't you?"
"It was a gift. I mean, Felix has like, twenty of them, and I figured, yeah, I can hold on to it, and I mean, it would be kind of rude to hold onto it and not use it, and you're not buying any of this, are you?"
"Nope," Vanellope said with a bit of an extra pop.
Ralph chuckled. "Yeah, well, whatever, you guttersnipe. Go crash into some kids playing Monster Truck Speedster Seven."
"OOO, that sounds like fun!" Vanellope bounced up and down in place, before throwing off a quick salute. "Laterz." She then vanished in a blur of blue light, which sped out and down one of the wires.
Ralph stretched, still chuckling to himself, and rose, ducking at the last moment to avoid smashing his head into the ceiling again. After making sure he was clear, he sighed, turned around, and promptly tripped over the chair he had been sitting in, crushing it against the floor with a crash.
The door to his room opened, and Abuelita poked her head in. "I'll get you a new chair, okay?"
14.6 (RowanEx): [Tomorrowland]
Frank Walker blinked as he was back at the time where a certain girl went to his house and asked if he knew about the pin.
"What's your name? Who gave you that pin?" Frank asked.
"I'm Casey," she replied, "a girl named Athena gave me this pin, and I want to go where this pin showed me!"
Frank blinked as a feeling that he knew this girl swept over his body. He instantly asked the next question.
"Do you want to go to Tomorrowland then?"
He felt guilt after asking that. She quickly nodded in delight.
He then looked around and checked the cameras. He felt like AA units, Advanced Androids, were about to attack his house, so he immediately ordered a lockdown to his house and prepared himself, while keeping Casey busy.
He hoped that Nix didn't notice his actions...
He wasn't so sure if the déjà vus were actual memories or he was just daydreaming. If it was, then something was wrong with him. How did he even daydream it on the bus to the fair in the first place?
He temporarily dismissed this situation as they arrived in the Eiffel Tower, carrying the Edison. After instructing Casey on how to knock the guard out, he took his time explaining the Plus Ultra to Casey, who then shut her mouth as they went aboard an antique spaceship.
As they arrived in Tomorrowland, he didn't gave the explosive to Athena, who was an AA, as he knew. He also made sure that the [huge sphere thing] was to be destroyed, so when he arrived up there and had let Casey control, he activated the explosive, knocked Nix, and lowered them before the explosive, well, exploded.
As a year passed, he closed his eyes to commemorate his victory. However... he opened his eyes to find himself back at his house, which was supposed to be destroyed in the first place. What was going on!?
14.7 (RowanEx): [Tomorrowland]
Casey woke up and nearly got thrown from her motorcycle, and checked her bearings. The last thing she remembered was she was in Tomorrowland, but why is she on the way to the NASA Launch Platform? Casey shrugged it off and continued whatever she was doing.
Casey was also confused on why her dad didn't know about Tomorrowland, as well as her brother.
Oh well, Casey thought, The future sure will be different...?
Frank was about to finish an invention of a time reset indication and try to get himself out of the Loop, until he noticed the meter that tells the probability of the end of the world drop from 100% to 95%. Frank rechecked, and smiled. His joy was slightly interrupted with a knock on the door. He opened the door to find a drenched and extremely exhausted Casey Newton.
"How are we back here?" Casey asked, "and I managed not to get spotted this time."
Frank facepalmed and had let her enter the house.
"What do you mean time machines weren't made yet?" Casey questioned, "that must've been the answer to everything that has happened!"
"I tried once," Frank replied, "and I saw myself back here."
Casey didn't answer for a minute and looked at the monitor, then back to Frank.
"Destroy the source?" Casey offered.
Frank smiled a bit. "Get more time in Tomorrowland."
"You know, the last time I remembered about destroying it is with Athena when she was about to self destruct," Casey commented.
"You might have missed a few ways how I destroyed it," Frank replied, "one of them which I didn't help create it at all."
"How could you tell you helped created it?" Casey asked.
Here we go...
"Finished," said Casey, "and we got Nix dead by a shrapnel from the sphere. Huh. And we saved Athena."
"Although, I have an opportunity for both us now," Frank commented. "We're going to try and stop these loops."
14.8 (Evilhumour): [Warhammer 40K] / [The Princess and the Frog]
Prince Ciaphas of Maldonia! looked at Amberley, who looked back at him and scratched her head. Despite breaking the curse fairly late and thus dealing with being frogs in the strange bayou, they managed to keep their cool with the sights not being that odd.
This, however, was an unusual sight. Both Khorne and Slaanesh seemed to be enjoying each others presence, with Khorne playing wonderfully on the horn and Slaanesh dancing appropriately in hir dress around the overly plated gator with a great smirk on hir face. Tzeentch had Woke up at long last as the Shadow Man, and made peace with Nurgle, who was replacing Slaanesh's father and the mayor of New Orleans.
"You know," Amberley said slowly, blinking as she took a step backwards. "It does make sense; debauchery for Slaanesh, skulls for Khorne, deals for Tzeentch and the bayou for Nurgle."
"Yes," Ciaphas rubbed his chin, trying to judge the situation. "So how do we proceed?"
"Hm?" Amberley blinked, looking up from her recorder. "Did you say something?"
Chuckling, Ciaphas shook his head as he enjoyed the music that the Chaos God was playing.
14.9 (Jcogginsa): [Gargoyles] / [Atlantis: The Lost Empire]
With a customary roar, Goliath awoke from his centuries long slumber as the loop began. It was usually a toss up whether or not he awoke in the past of present. Such was the nature of things. He did not like it, but it could not be helped.
Looking around, he could see that this was no Baseline loop. The castle was not on a skyscraper, but rather a massive airship, a blimp if he recalled correctly. Off to the side stood a elderly man whom he recognized as an aged Xanatos. Quickly, he sent off a ping, to which he got a single reply and a smirk. His comrades were not awake, and Xanatos was.
He greeted them cordially "Greetings. I am Preston Xanatos. You have a lot to discover."
Some time later, Goliath spoke to Xanatos in private.
"Xanatos."
"Goliath. You're looking well."
"Enough pleasantries. I want to know what changes this variant has wrought to the past. You are never uninformed."
"Too true. First things first, this is no variant. This is a fused loop."
Xanatos handed Goliath a dossier from his desk, and the gargoyle read
"Milo Thatch?"
"The anchor. I heard through the grapevine that he started looping recently. To my knowledge, he hasn't received the introduction to the Multiverse speech yet, nor has he learned to ping."
Goliath noticed something off about that "If that's the case, how did you learn of this? Surely whoever met him the first time would have told him."
"Stealth looper." Xanatos replied "One of the Star Trek loopers actually. I promised not to reveal his identity, so long as he gives me intel whenever we meet up. Obviously i can't reveal who it is."
"Commander Riker." Goliath said immediately.
Xanatos looked annoyed for a moment, then replied "That was a guess."
"But true all the same." Goliath responded. "In any event, I will explain things to Thatch. He deserves to know."
"Assuming he's awake." Xanatos responded, before retrieving two VHS tapes from his pocket. He tossed them over to Goliath. "Those would be the baseline. I suggest familiarizing yourself with them before confronting Thatch about the loops. Oh, and be sure to cover Linked Loops. I suspect his loop may be linked to ours."
"Why?"
"Just some never realized plans from the Hub."
As it happened, Milo was Awake, though he was understandably a bit frightened of Goliath at first, they soon hit it off. Within a few days, The journey to Atlantis was underway. Xanatos had fired Rourke, and hired Goliath and his clan on in his stead. The rest of the group, being mercenaries, rolled with the punches admirably.
The Leviathan was handled by Goliath (Magic was oh so useful at times) and soon enough they were at Atlantis.
Whereupon Milo was immediately embraced by Kida.
"K-Kida? What's going on, uh, I mean who are you?" Milo sputtered.
"Milo, you will not believe what has happened!"
"Let me guess, a few days ago you woke up years ago?"
Kida looked surprised "How did you know?"
"It's a long story." Milo answered "You see-"
"Wait." Kida said "My father must hear about this as well."
Much to Goliath's surprise, Kida was not the only new looper. King Nedakh remembered the past as well, though far less of it given his unfortunate situation in Baseline.
"Time loops. Fascinating" Nedakh muttered to himself.
"What I don't understand is, how did two loopers awaken at once, so early? It's very rare." Goliath said.
"Maybe it is because of the Heart." Kida guessed "Its power is great. Maybe it could create these loopers."
"No." Goliath said "The heart's power may be great, but it is not that great."
Goliath was no fool, and even had he been, he could not have remained one when spending an eternity with David Xanatos. And so, thanks to the idea Kida's hypothesis put in his mind, he developed hypothesis of his own.
"But perhaps there could be another answer. There is another loop, where the anchor is not a person, but an object of great power. That object is connected to the souls of three loopers, and through it they loop. Perhaps the Heart of Atlantis is itself Looping, and through it, so too are you."
"Is there anyway of knowing the truth?" Nedakh asked.
"Only the admins could tell us. " Goliath answered.
14.9 continued (LordCirce): [Gargoyles] / [Atlantis: The Lost Empire] / [Admin Shenanigans]
"Hmm, yes, it would probably be best if we explain this, hmm."
The entire group jumped at the unexpected voice, and turned to find a large serpent made of colored light floating in the air behind them. It undulated, as though floating in water, and several streamers of light bled off of its scales. The edges of its mouth turned up in an unmistakable smile.
"Hello. My names are many, but I am known best as simply The Rainbow Serpent, and I have taken up duty as the Admin of this Universe. Janus was doing an admirable job, but he has been spread too thin lately, so I stepped in here."
The tail of the Serpent darted forward to tap Milo on the nose. "First, Milo Thatch here is indeed the Anchor for this Loop. Kidagakash Nedakh would have been an ideal candidate, if not for the complications arising from the Soul Bond the Heart of Atlantis possesses with the Royal Family. Milo only possessed a connection equivalent to the average citizen, and so avoided those complications. At first."
The Serpent twisted, coiling up into a long spiral. "The problem is that the effects of repeated exposure were not accounted for. The Heart of Atlantis, as a repository of Atlantean Soul Energy, is semi-sentient, and over time, a temporal reverberation began to form due to the partial soul engram that..." The Serpent trailed off. "The full technical explanation will cause more questions than it answers, so, in short, the Heart of Atlantis began to 'remember' Milo Thatch, and became a pseudo-Looper in act, if not in truth."
"Luckily, this condition was caught early, unlike many issues facing Yggdrasil, and so we were able to take steps to limit the issues, and to develop a proper fix. The simple solution of prohibiting Milo Thatch from coming to Atlantis and coming in contact with the Heart was deemed… unsuitable," the thunderous expression on Milo's face confirmed that idea, "and so it was decided that we would work to initiate the Heart as a full Looper. This was, in fact, accomplished during the last Loop, which none of those native to this Universe will likely remember, as it was only seventeen milliseconds long."
Milo looked confused. "Why?"
The Serpent twitched its tail to gesture towards Kida and King Nedakh. "Due to the Soul Bond between the Heart of Atlantis and the Atlantean Royal Family, both Kidagakash and Kashekim were experiencing the temporal echoes influencing the Heart, and had to also be initiated as Full Loopers."
Milo had a look of dawning comprehension. "So that is why...?" The Serpent nodded at his unfinished question.
Kida placed her hand on Milo's shoulder. "What is it, beloved?"
Milo turned to look at her. "It was over the last several Loops. I thought it was simply an odd variant, but several times, the Unawake version of you had visions about the future. Some of the time, it was actually a future that didn't happen, or rather, a future that had happened in a different Loop. I thought it might have been a sign that you were Looping, but you didn't actually remember the past, just saw potential futures."
"That was indeed the effect of the echoes. In order to fully stabilize the three new Loopers, we choose to use a somewhat risky method. We purposefully manipulated one of the iterations of this Universe to force all Loopers in it to Awaken exactly before the end of the Loop, initiating our new Loopers at that time. This would grant these Loopers full memories of your baseline, rather than the fragments created by the temporal echoes, and minimized the risk of accidentally turning the entire populace of Atlantis into Loopers, which could have caused a cascading failure that would have potentially erased this universe from existence due to overload."
All of the group looked green at the thought, so the Serpent quickly pressed on. "That is no longer a problem as the Heart is now properly fitted into the Loops, so it will not inadvertently create Loopers. Also, while your status as Loopers was triggered by the Heart, it is now not dependent on it, so you may Loop separately, though probability predictors suggest that you will Loop together rather often."
At that moment, Vinny peered into the royal chamber where they were meeting, a ceramic bottle clutched in one hand. "Hey Milo, do you think you could ask what is in this..." Vinny trailed off as he took in the sight of a glowing serpent of light hanging in the middle of the room. "On second thought, never mind. Probably shouldn't be drinking it anyway." He then pulled out and closed the door.
14.10 (jxz): [Channel Awesome] / [Frozen]
"... And that's my idea for Frozen 2." The Nostalgia Critic finished. "Now, before you make a big ice golem and send me to Arendelle-"
He couldn't end his words, as Elsa made the mentioned golem and sent him to Rapunzel's kingdom, via aerial punch. She turned to see Anna and Kristoph, both just arriving, mouths gaping open.
"You should have heard him. That guy's mad!"
"I did." Olaf said. "He has a few good ideas."
"THANK Youuuuuuuuuu..." The voice of the NC came from the sky.
14.11 (LordCirce): [Star Wars] / [Disney]
"Oi, pipsqueak, yur in my seat!"
Yoda blinked and looked up from the fizzing drink he was nursing at the owner of the voice. It was a large bulldog, who seemed vaguely familiar. Had he been in one of Mickey's stories?
"Knew it was your seat, I did not. Not have taken it, I would have."
The large dog, 'Pete' Yoda's mind supplied, looked confused. "What's with the weird jibbery jabbery?"
"Know what you mean, I do not. Speaking clearly, I am." Yoda suppressed a smile and maintained a politely curious look on his face.
Somehow, Pete still realized he was being mocked. "Yer' making fun of me, aren't ya? Why I oughta..."
"Is there a problem here, fellas?" Yoda and Pete both looked over to see Mickey in his suit and bowtie, raising an eyebrow at both of them.
Pete grinned. "Nah, no problems here. I was just, uh," he glanced around the House of Mouse, then spotted the open dance floor, "I was just challenging my friend here to a little dance-off, yeah, that's right. A little frivolous fun."
Mickey blinked and glanced at Yoda, who was now rising to his feet, leaning on his cane. "Um, I don't know if that..."
Yoda smiled at him. "Sound like fun, that does."
Pete chuckled maliciously behind him.
Mickey glanced between the two of competitors. "Alright now, are you both sure you still want to do this?"
Yoda simply nodded, while Pete waved his arm. "Yeah, yeah, let's get on with it. We're not getting any younger." He guffawed at his joke.
Mickey sighed, then nodded to the band, which struck up a lively tune.
Pete grinned, before flexing his arms and launching into fist pumping routine that led to him spinning around, kicking up his feet, and ended with a halfway decent moonwalk impression. He then struck a pose, sneering over at Yoda. "Beat that."
Yoda bobbed his head to the beat. "Impressive, that was. However, my turn, it now is."
He paused for only a moment, as the music fell to a lull for a moment, then burst into motion. In a single, smooth gesture, he hurled his cane upward, spinning it end over end. As it flew up, Yoda spun down, spinning into a breakdance routine that left half the club cheering, and led to Pete's jaw hitting the floor as well. Yoda finished his rotation and pushed up onto one hand into a stall, just in time to catch his cane on his foot, balancing it for a moment. The crowd began to applaud, as Yoda pushed off, knocking his cane skyward again, and performed a quick double backflip, before landing in the exact position where he had started, his cane falling into his grip a moment later.
"Served, you just got."
Off to the side, Mickey shrugged. "I tried to warn him."
14.12 (LordCirce): [The Emperor's New Groove]
Kuzco sneezed as he wandered down the staircase to the Royal Record Room. "Note to self, get someone, preferably Yzma, to come down here and sweep up all the dust." He pushed open the door, and wandered between the shelves to where a flickering light from a lamp was visible.
Pacha was sitting at a small table, surrounded by several scrolls and stone tablets, feverishly mumbling to himself as he traced his fingers over...whatever it was he was doing.
"Sooo, I don't know if you noticed, but the sun has gone down, come up, and gone down again, all during the time that you've been down here. Not that I mind you, doing whatever you're doing, but if you don't head home soon, Chicha is going to get worried, and that could end up being bad for my health."
Pacha looked up at Kuzco, staring blankly at him for several seconds, before muttering, "it's true," in a sad, defeated voice.
Kuzco blinked. "Uh, yeah, I know it's true. I said it, so it is true by definition."
Pacha pointed at the tablet in front of him. "It's true. It's all there. My third cousin, Gujou, has a brother, Kemik." He pointed out a line on the tablet, which Kuzco vaguely recognized as a census record. Pacha then pulled over a scroll and pointed out the names on it. "Kemik is married to Lobaha." He pulled forward another scroll, this one showing a family tree. "Lobaha's father remarried, and his new wife's son had a daughter named Fe. On Fe's mother's side, if you trace up, and go out two generations, you find..." Pacha pointed wordlessly at the name carved into set of tablets he was now pointing at. Kuzco leaned forward, then began coughing in shock.
"Yzma!?" he choked out, between coughs.
Pacha nodded solemnly. "Yzma… is my third cousin's brother's wife's step-niece's great-aunt. Twice Removed. In truth."
Kuzco turned to look at Pacha then laid his hand on his shoulder. "I am so… so sorry."
14.13 (Thanatos's Scribe): [Kingdom Hearts] / [Sly Cooper] / [Toy Story]
Sora grinned as he watched Andy head upstairs with Buzz and Woody in hand, giving the two living toys a wave before they disappeared from sight. It was pretty rare for Sora to have a Loop where he was able to visit the 'Toy World', but it was enjoyable nonetheless.
"Hey, where am I?" He heard a muffled voice cry out. Looking around, Sora saw an unopened purple present sitting inconspicuously under the tree, the present barely in sight. A Ping was his only warning before the present's front burst open, and a purple anthropomorphic hippopotamus landed on his feet.
"Hah!," The hippo exclaimed, his goggles gleaming in the light as he raised his fist up and declared, "No prison can hold The Murray!" However, as Sora heard footsteps approach that could only be Andy's mom, he dashed out and dragged the hippo, who could only be a Looper, out from the open and behind a cabinet just before Andy's mother came out from the kitchen.
"What are you-" The hippo began to say, only to stop as Sora sent out a Ping. The two watched in bated breath as the mother walked past the cabinet, and collectively let out a sigh of relief once she was out of sight.
"That was close," Sora said as he wiped his brow, before turning to the Looper and said, "The name's Sora, and it's nice to meet another Looper I haven't met before!"
"Sora, huh?" 'The Murray' murmured, rubbing his chin in thought, "Now where has the Murray heard that name before?" After a few seconds passed, 'The Murray' snapped his fingers and stated, "Oh, yeah! You must've been the one who helped Sly get his Keycane!"
"You know Sly?" Sora said, then grinned, "That must mean that you're Murray! Sly told me about you when I last saw him."
"Well, the Murray is pleased to meet you," Murray said in reply with a grin just as big, before his face contorted in confusion. "However," Murray wondered, "The Murray is uncertain as to how he ended up in that box..."
"Really?" Sora chirped in surprise, "I was hoping that you had an idea."
"I have no solid idea, though the Murray has one theory..." Murray said, his voice trailing off in thought. However, their wondering was soon answered as the radio began to play a song that immediately had Sora chuckling and Murray groaning at the reference:
Iiii want a hippopotamus for Christmas,
Only a hippopotamus will doooooo~...
14.14 (Mr. Egret; wildrook): [Disney] / [Attack on Titan]
Mickey looked up at the monstrosity that was about to destroy Wall Maria, and sighed in exasperation. "Donald, tell me I'm not seeing this."
Donald shaded his eyes with his hand, while adjusting his 3-D Maneuver Gear to fit better around his waist. "Hate to say it, Mickey, but I think this is actually happening."
Peering over Wall Maria was a sixty-meter tall Goofy, who was smiling cheerfully at everyone, and not fully understanding why the humans were screaming and running away. "Gawrsh," he mused to himself, in a voice that made the mountains tremble, "did I forget to put on deodorant today or something?"
He rested his hands on top of the Wall, unintentionally destroying a sentry tower in the process, and leaned down to take a close look. "And why is everything so tiny?"
Mickey and Donald looked at each other. "So, who wants to break it to Max that his father's a Titan Shifter?" Mickey asked, as they prepared to swing into battle.
"I think he'll work it out on his own. It's rather obvious who the Colossal Titan is."
"True. Okay, who's turn is it to do the battle cry?"
"Mine, I think."
"Okay, Donald. Take it away!"
As they leaped away from the rooftop, and began their counterattack on the invading Titans, the following could be heard, in a loud but garbled voice.
"Seid ihr das Essen? Nein, wir sind der Jäger! WAAAAAK WAK WAK WAK WAK!"
Eren then cringed. "I knew Levi's Liquid Religion trades with Goofy would come back to haunt us..." he muttered.
14.15 (Pixel the Square): [Gravity Falls] / [Welcome to Night Vale]
Mabel was sitting on her bed playing with Waddles when Dipper kicked the door down, radio in hand.
"Mabel! You need to listen to this!"
Mabel set Waddles down on the ground and she looked at her brother.
"What's the prob-prob bro-bro?"
"There's something wrong here."
"But I know that. I've seen like everything you have!"
"No, this is something more serious. Here, just listen."
Dipper plugged the radio in and tuned it. After the initial static, Mabel could hear the strange broadcast.
"... Secret Police are now reporting that the offending beasts were not pteranodons after all."
Dipper turned the radio off and waved his hand at Mabel.
"See what I mean? Even the stuff that happens here isn't this weird. "Secret Police?" Earlier it was talking about a portal that was letting them into our time. Where's the signal coming from?"
Dipper began pacing with his hand on his chin, while Mabel, who was on her back, shrugged her shoulders.
"I don't know, maybe the new radio station that appeared last week."
"Yeah, that could be- WAIT, WHAT?!"
Dipper stopped pacing, his widened eyes directed at Mabel.
"Yeah, you didn't notice? It's right over by where Gideon's tent used to be."
She said, pointing out the window with her thumb. Dipper's face became serious as he grabbed a flashlight and the journal.
"Come on Mabel, we're checking out that radio station!"
Dipper was already almost out the door as Mabel rolled off the bed and onto the floor.
THUD!
Mabel threw her arms up as she pulled herself up.
"I'm okay!"
At the radio station, Dipper and Mabel found they couldn't open the door. Dipper kept leaning back, throwing all his weight against it to try and open it.
"Come on... You stupid door... OPEN!"
He grunted with effort as the door refused to move. A teenage girl who looked to be about the age of Wendy approaches the door. She shook her head at Dipper's futile attempts. She produced her knife, cut her finger, and placed the cut to the door. The door opened, allowing her in.
"It's a bloodstone door. You need to offer blood to get in."
She went inside without another door, leaving Dipper and Mabel very confused.
"Something's not right with this radio station. A blood offering?"
"I don't know. Maybe we shouldn't go inside..."
Dipper was already through the door.
"Come on Dipper!"
Mabel let out an exasperated sigh and followed. Dipper would probably need her help at some point.
They looked around until they found the recording booth, which had an "ON AIR" sign above it, though it wasn't on. They walked inside, and found a man who was neither tall nor short, neither fat nor skinny. He was wearing a smile. Wait, was that a smile? Dipper couldn't tell. The man, who looked at the children with intrigue, started talking into a microphone.
"During the break, it seems that two children have found their way into the recording booth. I do not know where they came from, but I do know they are definitely not from City Council. They do not stare at me soullessly while saying nothing."
Dipper was taken off guard for but a moment before yelling at the man.
"Are you the one sending out the broadcast? What's going on?"
"What's going on is that I'm doing my duty as a radio professional and giving the citizens of our little berg the news."
Mabel recovered after another pause.
"Yo, what's up with this place?"
"My recording booth?"
Dipper rubbed his eyes.
"No, why are you here, in Gravity Falls?"
"I do not know. I came into work as I always do, and it was here. Perhaps this is one of the 'fused loops' where two universes are mixed. I'd have to ask Carlos about it. He's a scientist, he knows these things. Too bad he's in the desert otherworld..."
"Hi Cecil... There's apparently no desert otherworld here. Only this very scientifically town. It's almost as scientifically interesting as Night Vale."
Cecil let out an adorable squeal.
"Carlos! You're here! Oh how I've missed you. How's your science been going?"
"Great! I've been running tests and I've been using all my scientific instruments."
Dipper looked surprised and turned to Carlos.
"Wait, you've been doing tests here?"
A smile grew on his face.
"Finally, someone to talk to about Gravity Falls! What have you learned so far?"
"Sorry, but I'll need to go over the results of my tests before I know anything for sure."
Mabel had been frozen ever since Carlos walked in. Everything about him was perfect. His hair, his teeth, his face... She wasn't sure what to do. She tried talking.
"Hi Mabel, I'm Carlos... Can I touch your hair?"
"Excuse me, I'm sure you meant 'Hi Carlos, I'm Mabel.' It's still good to meet you though."
Cecil became aggravated and started pushing Dipper and Mabel out of the booth after Mabel made her comment. He started talking forcefully after clearing his throat.
"I'm sorry listeners, but this ends today's broadcast. Stay tuned next for an epiphany followed by a terrible realization."
"Hey wait! Who am I supposed to talk to about Gravity Falls?"
With one more push of effort, Dipper and Mabel were outside the booth. The door slammed in their face and they heard the lock click. Inside the booth, Cecil cleared his throat as he sat back down.
"That was... Sweet Cecil... Was that a custom in Night Vale?"
"No... I was... afraid. I didn't want to lose you."
"Oh Cecil, you're the only one for me."
"Ahh, thanks Carlos."
Cecil resumed talking to the microphone.
"I apologize for that *ahem* unprofessionalism. Good night Gravity Falls, good night."
14.16 (Pixel the Square): [Over the Garden Wall] / [Pinocchio]
Greg had just placed the leaves on Wirt and was laying down. Jiminy popped out of Greg's teapot.
"Jiminy, I need help. I need to be a good leader, but I don't know how."
"Well Greg," Jiminy said, standing upon his shoulders, "it's times like these you got to look to the sky."
Jiminy looked up towards a particularly bright star.
"Sometimes, you just got to wish upon a star..."
*When you wish upon a star starts playing, only to be cut off*
"Oh yeah!" Greg shouted and laughed. He took a deep breath and started to speak.
"Star, oh star, up in the sky, guide my dreams with light that shines. Help me know just what to do to get Wirt home and also me, too. And if you don't, I don't care. I'll pull down your underwear!"
"You know Greg, I don't-"
*Forward Cherubs starts playing*
"Well what do you know? I guess that works too..."
14.17 (ToaMataMui5000): [Kingdom Hearts] / [Five Night at Freddy's]
Sora awoke in both senses to find himself within a Station Of Awakening. He sent out a ping, getting none back in response. Sighing, he looked down to the stained glass platform, raising his eyebrow at the ridiculousness of the design.
The primary background color was yellow, with twelve red circles lining the inside curve, making it look like a pepperoni pizza. Each "pepperoni" showed a small portrait, consisting of Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, Toy Freddy, Toy Bonnie, Toy Chica, Mangle, Shadow Freddy, Shadow Bonnie, Balloon Boy, and the Puppet. In the center, Golden Freddy and Springtrap circled each other. "Seriously? What the smurf, Yggdrasil?"
Sora's train-of-thought was interrupted by a corridor of darkness opening. He immediately summoned a keyblade and took a fighting stance, finding a black-cloaked, humanoid form staring him down. "Who's there?" The young man demanded to know. The figure responded by throwing back its hood, revealing the head of a very familiar bear animatronic.
"It's me."
"Oh, hey Freddy. What's up? Nice to see you got a voice box this loop."
"Are you ready for Freddy?"
"Uh, what?" Sora watched as the bear mascot summoned a keyblade of his own. It had a motif of both a dragon and a... "OH SWEET LORD!" Sora threw up in his mouth, four times over on behalf of himself, Roxas, Xion, and Ventus. "WHY DO YOU HAVE THAT THING!"
"I want you inside of me. It's the only way we can enjoy our night of debauchery."
"We?" Sora gasped in horror as thirteen more corridors of darkness appeared, followed by all thirteen other animatronics entering, bearing similar disturbing keyblades. "Oh sweet grandfather Disney and father Nomura, please save me.." He pointlessly prayed.
"Engage the Sora, motherfucker!" All fourteen mascots chorused before launching forward.
Several dozen loops later, a clearly disturbed Sora awoke in the security room of Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. He clamped his eyes shut and took deep breathes, only to receive a tap on the shoulder. He screamed in terror and punched whoever was next to him. The Puppet crumbled to the ground in response. Freddy, in his withered state, stepped into the room, only to jump back in terror as Sora whipped a keyblade towards him. "DON'T! EVEN! TRY!"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Calm down, Sora!" Phone Guy urgently spoke from his respective device. "These two are awake. They ain't gonna hurt you." It took the young man several minute of heavy breathing through his teeth before he calmed down enough to disband his weapon.
"Sorry..." Sora apologized between gasps. "I had... a really bad fused loop... with you guys recently... and brain bleach... hasn't done enough to help..."
'Let me guess; Five Nights At Fuckboys?'
Sora nodded in response as he helped the Puppet back to its feet. "All fourteen twisted versions of you guys at once." Freddy's eyes widened at the horror he was told. He walked over and began patting Sora's back in pity.
"Sweet father Cawthon!" Phone Guy was flabbergasted. "I feel terrible for you, kid."
"It's fine. It wasn't any of your faults." Sora feigned a smile.
'No need to hide it. Trust us. We all bloody hate those variants too.' Freddy thought for a second before flipping his sign again. 'I think we have some sea-salt popsicles in the kitchen that you can have, so long as they aren't expired.'
"Thanks Freddy. You really do try."
14.18 (RowanEx): [Tomorrowland] / [InFamous Second Son]
Delsin and the group found two civilians try to make sense of the situation and went to them. The pair stared at Delsin for a few moments.
"I get the feeling that we're not in Tomorrowland," remarked the girl, "where are we?"
"You're in Seattle," Delsin replied, "you're both not from here are you?"
"Yeah, we don't belong here," replied the man, "I'm Frank Walker. My memories tell me that..."
"You're my dad from Washington," interrupted Fetch, "although, this might be one of those time loops where something is not like the usual, or not."
Casey, the girl, looked up towards the Space Needle. "Is that really the Space Needle? I've never visited the Space Needle before."
"Are you both Conduits?" Fetch asked back.
"...what?"
All of the Loopers groaned. They had no idea what is going on, or how to explain the theme repeats. Considerably, the Tomorrowland Loopers had built themselves Jetpacks from random places in Seattle which impressed Eugene, so they still got up to see the view.
For the remaining days of their Loop, Fetch's group was set up along with Frank's group as they tried to make a plausible conclusion about their time repeats only to get a blank. Casey had something else though.
"How come we don't have Conduits from our place while they don't have Tomorrowland?" Casey looked at the panel where they tried to solve it. "Maybe we're from another world Tomorrowland exists?"
"That's something," Eugene replied, "besides the unusual from what Zeke Dunbar was doing, it might have been the best conclusion we have."
Hadn't she heard that name from a video game, though?
"Did you ask why he was like that?" Casey asked, and Fetch nodded.
"Lot of random words," Fetch responded, "nothing out of interest."
Frank's face lit up, interrupting the conversation. "If we could meet once more, since these time repeating loops are random, maybe we could understand it better."
"Yeah..." Delsin looked outside to see robots. "Aaaaand the DUP is here."
As the Conduits set out to fight, Casey and Frank looked at their work. It has been just questions that they still couldn't resolve. They're not going to give up easily.
That is, if they could finish it in time. Their time loop duration are two years, but Fetch's group had a time loop duration of two months.
The Next Loop...
Frank found himself back at his house, one hour before Casey arrived. A thought then went over his head.
"What if she was right?" Frank considered. "That Seattle wasn't the Seattle we have? It could make sense..."
Frank was interrupted by a doorbell and opened it to find Casey holding a blueprint of a bag. Frank took it and looked at Casey.
"Really? A bag that can access the fifth dimension?"
14.1: Ralph, you troll...
14.2: I have no comment.
14.3: So Goliath and Hank McCoy/Beast of the X-Men are friends.
14.4: And Vanellope gets to troll Ralph back.
14.5: Felix's hammer comes in handy.
14.6: The first Awakening for this Loop.
14.7: And the story continues.
14.8: That was interesting.
14.9: He's not kidding about plans to link these universes, by the way.
14.9 continued: Explanations ensue.
14.10: The Nostalgia Critic, as a character, is actually Looping.
14.11: And so is Yoda.
14.12: Pacha needs hugs.
14.13: Heehee.
14.14: On that Day, Mankind Received a Goofy Reminder...
14.15: If I knew more about Night Vale, I could comment more effectively on this one.
14.16: (raises eyebrow) Oh-kaaaaay...
14.17: Some variants, you just gotta hate.
14.18: Still not a setting I'm too familiar with.