Shortly after of being surrounded by Monsters, Inc employees, we are sent to the board of directors by Sulley and Mike. I sat on a chair and Wally B. kept flying in this soon-to-be started reunion. After, we saw Mike came first there and he sat in his place. Sulley was the last one who came to this board of directors. Both of them were disillusioned, probably because of the incident involving the mascot of Pixar.
"I have never imagined that you would allow a living desk lamp to leave its world just to make us uncomfortable!" Mike exclaimed.
I wrote the text "I'm so sorry, it's not my fault. It was Luxo Jr. the lamp who tried to havoc in Monsters, Inc by simply chasing a ball." in the whiteboard and I showed them.
"André, I am very disappointed with you, whether you have been involved in this or not." Sulley told me.
The two monsters left the board of directors as they discussed about off-topic stuff such as Mike's girlfriend. We had to leave this room quickly before Sulley, as the CEO of this company, could force us to leave here. Three hours later, the employees, Wally B. and I had lunch in a café. Wally B.'s meal consists of a bowl of honey and pollen, whereas mine consists of a salad and a small chocolate muffin. At this time, I had my right hand touching my head as my right elbow rested on the table, and I ate a little bit due to the fact that I was pessimistic. Wally B. became empathetic towards me and he asked me if I was depressed. I limited to quack him that he has to tell me how I feel at this moment. Wally B. stated that he saw me very off because of the nihilism Mike and Sulley had in their face, despite the light side of my actions such as acting like a hero. Why adults had to see more the dark side of a situation instead of its bright side when a young one does something that is considered good? That is the question I had in my mind since the reunion. I admitted that I lost my self-esteem, afterward I asked him by quacking that I needed a psychologist. The big fat bumblebee suggested me that we should visit to one universe in order to retrieve my memories about Pixar. We finished the lunch and we came back to Monsters, Inc.
We opened a door and we entered to a dirigible balloon. At the time we arrived at this oversized vehicle, two slightly realistic dogs composed of a Rottweiler and an English bulldog appeared abruptly. Both of them had a collar which translated every bark the user produced. The Rottweiler was more or less the same size as André if this dog stood on four legs, while the bulldog was shorter than the Rottweiler. The dogs ran and they approached me as if they were chasing ducks, rabbits or foxes.
"Look, Beta! A new toy! " The English bulldog exclaimed by getting his barks translated.
I warily smiled as I observed the dogs' behavior. In addition, Wally B. was still unnoticed by Beta and the English bulldog who is my favorite character of the last Pixar film I saw in the cinema.
"It seems that the toy is alive. Besides, does this black ball count as a toy for dogs, Gamma?" Beta asked him by having his barks translated.
"Let me test the somewhat big ball first." Gamma said.
Before Gamma could bite my nose, I reacted quickly by hiding my nose from view with my hands as I defensively quacked.
"Dug! Please accompany us to the kitchen, as there are unwelcomed visitors here." A voice of an old man said.
Beta and Gamma turned around and both waited for their owner's arrival. Suddenly, an old man who wears glasses, an Asian American boy scout and a Golden Retriever appeared. The latter one was the most cartoonish of the pack of dogs and he is named Dug, as I suppose that his name is a pun of the word "dog."
"Whoa! Are this seemingly charismatic bee and this seemingly bumbling boy-like creature the visitors?" Dug asked to his current owner.
We were still and, after a few seconds, we greeted them. The old man was shocked by our appearance when he saw us for the first time.
"But what are this thing and this large creepy-crawly doing to our home!" The old man exclaimed as if he had almost had a heart attack.
"Remember Kevin, Mr. Fredricksen? You shouldn't have been scared by cartoon characters." The boy reassured the old man whose first name I already remembered: Carl. This quote made me remember the name of the last Pixar film I watched on cinema, as well as the boy's name.
I approached Carl and Russell, I wrote "Hi! I'm André and the bee's name is Wally B. I've one question: can these dog collars translate quacks and buzzing?" in the whiteboard and I showed them.
"Listen to me, André: 1. I am not an engineer and 2. I don't know if these collars can translate non-human noises aside of barks." Carl disclaimed it.
I removed the text, I rewrote the whiteboard with the text "Can I have a friendly small talk with you?" and I showed them.
"Yes." Russell replied to me.
As I was about to go to the dining room along with Carl and Russell, Wally B. informed me that he would be with Dug to look for some information in order to improve my self-esteem. I sat at the table and the same reformed dogs that I met first when I arrived in the Up universe brought me a glass of orange juice.
"If you ask me about this glass, we will give it to you in case you are thirsty." Russell said to me about the glass Beta and Gamma gave to me.
I wrote "No, thanks" in the whiteboard and I showed them. However, I ironically drank the whole orange juice thanks to the André part of my mindset. This action did not mean that André was gluttonous, but it does mean that his species eat more than any average humanoid species (of the same height as him) whose normal weight is equivalent to normal weight in humans due to the fact that André is aware that he needs nutrients to survive. Without André's mindset merged with mine, his body would lose weight, making myself (because I was still stuck on André's body) frailer and it would all be my fault. I saw that Russell was about to tell me something for my last action, but in the end it seemed that he ruled out making any comment.
"Can you start asking me?" Carl asked me.
I nodded my head in assent, as I did not care if I asked him and this would help me retrieve my memories about one of the feature films which was directed by Pete Docter. Then, I wrote "How did you get there, Carl?" and I showed him the written whiteboard.
"It's a long story." Carl rasped.
I whined with André's quacky, unintelligible voice as I tried to convince him to tell me how he had lived in the dirigible with puppy dog eyes. Baffled, Carl looked up at Russell.
"Tell André how you arrived at the dirigible, please." Russell encouraged him to do so.
"Okay, Russell. I will tell him the story." Carl said.
I was ready to listen carefully. Conversely, André would seem uninterested if I hadn't my mindset merged with his.
"I used to be a fan of Charles F. Muntz since I was a child. One day, after I saw a documentary about him in theaters, I met Ellie." Carl told me the story.
I was curious to know who Ellie is so I rewrote the whiteboard and I showed him the whiteboard with the question written in it.
"Ellie was my wife." Carl stated and then he resumed telling me the story. "After I married her, we fixed the house where we met for the first time as children and I worked for a zoo, as well as we used to watch the clouds and read books together."
I supported my head with both hands as I imagined the story he was telling.
"One day, we decided to start a family shortly after seeing a cloud shaped like a baby. Nevertheless, the doctor told us that we were unable to have children." The old man continued. "In order to console her, I brought Ellie her scrapbook. I had to fulfill my promise to travel to Paradise Falls, but it didn't happen until we were retired. With the tickets in my hand, I waited for her to come and watch the clouds, but she fell."
I intriguingly wrote "What happened to Ellie?" in the whiteboard and I showed him.
"She got sick and passed away." Carl stated.
I wrote the whiteboard by declaring that I was very sorry for the loss of his wife, and I showed him.
"Some years later, I turned my old house into an airship, I met Russell, Dug and Kevin and we faced against Muntz in order to protect Kevin." The widower continued. "And this is how I lived in this blimp. I hope you liked my story."
We get up from our respective chairs. By the time Carl left the dining room, Russell approached me before he accompanies him.
"No offense, but your appearance is so funny." Russell commented me regarding André's clownish appearance.
This comment didn't affect me at all and I hugged him. After the hug, I let him out so that I was alone. Wally B. reappeared with documents related to journeys. Wally B. told me that Dug was kind to him so he gave him expedition books and other documents Muntz acquired throughout his life. I picked up one of the books, specifically a travel guide, and I leafed through a page. My bumblebee sidekick pointed to a page where a typical desert from North America was illustrated. He buzzed that the guide claimed that one desert has one jackalope. When I heard this word, I thought of the mythical creature that was a half-hare, half-antelope. We read the page and the text said that the jackalope was a benevolent creature who sought beings in need of help. After reading it, I got the idea to meet this creature in person.
We returned to Monsters, Inc and we found a vintage door. Wally B. asked me if this door led us to a house close to the desert. I quacked to him that maybe it could be. I opened the door and we arrived at an old house in a jiffy. We cautiously leave the bedroom as we observe a couple leaving for somewhere. We go down the stairs and we exited shortly after they left.
After leaving the house quickly, we found a car from early 1920's (specifically a green Ford Model T) and we hid in its body. As that old-fashioned car that we were inside began to move, I saw that my bee companion was bored so he wanted to play in order to make the trip shorter enough to make us to think that the time flies. I proposed that we play a game related to intelligence. Wally B. agreed on my proposal and then we started the game. The first thing I said in the game was to show me the right leg; Wally B. literally showed his right foreleg. Then I ordered him to show me his left leg, which he eventually paid attention. I kept sending orders and he obeyed these commands. There came a time when Wally B. wanted to switch places, so I ended up taking on my role as the one who obeyed commands. He ordered me to show him my left hand, so I did it. Then the bee ordered me to grab and show him my hat, so I obeyed him. I was paying attention to everything Wally B. ordered until the car stopped driving.
We got out of the car and we saw that the married couple of farmers were going to shear a sheep. In order to prevent them from finding us, we hid in the old car and wait until they finished shearing the mammal. It took about five minutes to shear all the wool. By the time they finished shearing the sheep, they threw it roughly to the ground and went back home. Once the car they drove left, we approached to the shorn sheep.
"Hi! I am a male sheep and the jackalope taught me a valuable lesson." The sheep greeted us. His voice was high-pitched enough to sound childlike.
I quacked to him by asking how long the mythical animal took to arrive.
"Oh, docile creature! He must be arriving." He replied to me. However, the animals of this alternate universe could understand us incongruously.
We could hear the jumping noises from afar. The first thing we could see is a silhouette of a rabbit with horns approaching us. I expected the jackalope was a slim jackrabbit with pronghorn horns. However, on a closer look at him, the jackalope was actually a big lop rabbit with whitetail horns and blonde hair.
"Hello, friendly bumble! Do you have any problem?" The jackalope greeted us, but he had attention with Wally B. than me. The reason was that André is obscurer than the aforementioned bee. Additionally, the jackalope spoke like a poet reciting.
Wally B. denied it by shaking his head. Following this, the cartoonish bumblebee pointed at me with one of his floating legs.
"Oh, little guy! What's the matter?" He asked me. The first thing the jackalope did was grab my right arm with one of his thick limbs, specifically his left hand. "Is your home in danger?"
I shook my head in denial.
"Is there someone who chases you nonstop?" The jackalope asked me as he looked at my face pervasively.
I also shook my head for the same reason.
"Did you have a tragic past?" He asked me while his head came very close to my face so he almost touched my nose.
Before I could reply, I thought of my past, which wasn't tragic at all. It was true that I had a psychological trauma once in my old life, but it would sound too absurd to tell as my trauma did nothing more than fail certain Math exams and slowly lose weight. As a result, I was limited to remain silent.
"So what is your problem?" He asked me.
He let go of my arm and I took a short breath before quacking. I explained that I was once a young woman from another world, but I unexpectedly underwent a transmigration-like process which I ended up in the body of André.
"Is there a cause for you to have been trapped in this body?" The jackalope inquired me.
I tried to think of some memories: I was clear about the last time I was in my human form, but I don't remember what had happened between losing consciousness in my human form and then awakening in André's body. Therefore, I had to tell him what happened to me with the most advanced computer.
"Ah, now I understand your situation better." He realized it. "You were looking for the origins of how you got in this body, no?"
I nodded my head as I smiled.
"Ok, André. I know a way to find out how you came to this body." The jackalope told me. "You, along with your fellow bumblebee, must collect three magical items from three remote locations."
I raised my right arm and I asked him what objects he was referring to.
"You must collect a stick, several marigold petals and a volcanic stone, specifically a spherical obsidian." The jackalope replied to me. "Good luck!"
The jackalope left the desert and Wally B. asked the sheep when those who sheared him will return.
"They come to this desert to shear me every summer." The sheep said.
I looked at Wally B. and he buzzed to me that we should run. I reluctantly accepted the idea of how to get out of here. I had to follow him while we ran until we arrived at the same old house. As a result, we returned to Monsters, Inc quickly. I thought the quest reminded me of Rayman 2's plot. Thinking about it, I imagined André the blue humanoid in the role of Rayman, Wally B. the bumblebee taking the role of Murfy, the jackalope acting like Polokus and the four masks being replaced with one stick, various petals and one stone. Wally B. thought that finding these natural objects is like finding a needle in a haystack. We went looking for a door and we were opening and closing quickly if the door we selected led us to the wrong place (specifically where humans from the Monsters, Inc universe live).
At an unexpected moment, we opened a seemingly normal door and we went down the stairs a little to see something upon entering. It turns out the first place since the Boundin' universe we visited was, of course, an urban fantasy-themed world where exist elves, mermaids, gnomes, dragons and other fantastical creatures but not humans. This was evidenced in that a teenage elf came to this house and was reunited with his pet dragon and his mother. Aside from typical features like pointed ears, the elves of this world were depicted with light blue skin and were the same height as an average human. The dragon in this house, because of its age, acted like a puppy. Wally B. asked me what we should do at the moment and I quacked to him that we should wait until the residents' actions determine ours. The elf, his mother and the dragon went to the kitchen after the mother scolded the pet dragon with a water spray as the former said "Bad dragon, back to your laid!"
We took the moment to go down the stairs. While we were doing it, the bumblebee buzzed to me that he could listen carefully to their conversation and he decided to reveal two of the residents' names: the teenaged elf was named Ian and the dragon's name was Blazey. Additionally, he told me that Blazey is female, making her a dragoness. Once we finished going down the stairs, we decided to leave the house without anyone noticing us. We walked and hid in the walls, although we did not have enough material to camouflage ourselves. I stopped for a moment to see what they were doing in the kitchen: Ian and his older brother were receiving gifts from their mother. Compared to Ian, who had a lithe body, his brother was a buff elf. I could listen to some stuff during their conversation: Ian's older brother was named Barley and this family was referred as the Lightfoot family.
Wally B. looked at me if we were resting, and I quietly quacked that I was just watching the family's moment. We continued walking slowly and we reached the door. However, Blazey appeared and she looked at us as she sniffed us. I was afraid that she might attack us or notify the family for being intruders. But luckily she was too young to do those things. Blazey let us to leave the house, so we ended up doing it. We were leaving the street, while observing the actions of some neighbors of the Lightfoot family, such as a mermaid using a mobile phone and two gnomes arguing with each other.
Once we left the street, we reached the urban neighborhoods of the city. There were neither trees nor sticks in it. My bee companion suggested to me that we should visit a family restaurant named the Manticore's Tavern. We visited it and, as the restaurant's name implied, we found a manticore. The manticore was depicted as an anthropomorphic lioness with oversized bat wings, a scorpion stinger and two white horns in the head. Additionally, she had a brown afro and she wore clothes.
"Welcome to the Manticore's Tavern! I, Corey, am going to write down the requested menu if you are hungry." The female manticore greeted us.
I wrote "No, thanks. But we only come to consult a map in order to look for a stick" in the whiteboard and I showed her.
"Ok." Corey said, and then she pointed to Wally B. "You must be a bee, right?" She questioned him. Wally B. acknowledged it by nodding his head. Then she pointed to me. "And you are… an elf of the woods?" She asked to me after she sniffed me.
My first reaction to this question was to smack my forehead. It was true that André had spent part of his life in the forest, but frankly he was never an elf. A member of André's species and an elf from the world she lived in had more differences than Corey believed.
I wrote "Do you see any pointed ears? I'm not an elf!" and I showed her the written whiteboard.
"Whoops! Sorry for having offended you." She apologized to me. "So what words should I refer to you when I will tell anyone?"
I wrote "By species, you can refer to me as an android or as a non-magical humanoid" on the whiteboard and I showed Corey.
"W-what is an android?" Corey asked me.
I looked at my companion and he suggested that I should give less explanation and more focus on the quest. I wrote "Forget the word that I have said, you can refer to me as a small, clownish humanoid when you describe the species that I am" and I showed her the whiteboard.
"Besides, what is your name?" She asked us.
I rewrote "I'm André, and my bee companion's name is Wally B." in the whiteboard and I showed her.
"Ok. Before you leave, don't forget this map. It will serve to find any stick you need." Corey informed us as she gave me a map.
I temporally gave Wally B. the map, I wrote "Thank you!" on the whiteboard and I showed her.
"You're welcome!" She acknowledged our thanks.
We left the restaurant as I grabbed the map. After visiting the Manticore's Tavern, we were walking in the city straight to the so-called Raven's Point, a mountain which, according to the map, had raven statues. Suddenly, the buzzing Wally B. made while flying stopped. I turned my head to check his presence and realized that someone has abducted my sidekick. I thought that I could not travel without him during the quest, especially in riskier situations. I went to find him going to the buildings that I found on the way. I couldn't identify the trail until I went to what I believed was a theater. I was able to identify the one who kidnapped my companion: a male faun. Fauns were humanoid creatures who had legs, tail and horns similar to that of the goats. The male faun was taking the bee somewhere to do something with Wally B. Before going to that room, I came across a book published five centuries ago. I picked up the book, blew the dust away, and the title was unveiled.
The old book was titled How to summon the bee goddess, and it was written by Edmund Aron. I opened the book and found the portrait of the author on a saved paper. I looked at the portrait and, according to it, the author was a faun. According to the book, the tradition of the devotees of the bee goddess included "summoning" a random bee, telling the (chosen) bee and asking the bee if it could reveal its true form. The page about the latter one had a drawing of what a bee goddess looks like in this world: a mythological creature with the body of a queen honeybee and the upper torso of a female human. Additionally, the bee goddess of the drawing wore a Greek dress and had long hair. I put the book on the table and went a little closer to the assembly hall so I could peek at the worshippers.
"Welcome to our ritual, dear queen bee." The faun greeted him, leaving Wally B. confused. The worshippers were unaware that Wally B. was on the fringes of the bee castes. They mistook him for a queen bee due to being larger in size and having a stinger.
I observed that those who participated in the ritual, aside from the faun, were a male gnome, a couple of goblins, a female pixie, a female centaur and a male cyclops.
"We have prepared some offerings for you." The faun said, as they gave him products related to beekeeping, including honey. "Now, I, a cleric faun named Frederick Clarke, will tell you some important words."
I kept peeking at them and I began to observe that this moment would become awkward for Wally B.
"Oh, dear honeybee! You are so beautiful enough to be the bee goddess." Frederick Clarke eulogized Wally B. The latter was enraged for referring Wally B. as a honeybee instead of a bumblebee.
It was noted that the third time he said incorrect information about him, Wally B. might sting him. I was so worried about him that I needed some plan to be able to ruin the ritual. Two plans came to mind: impersonate the bee goddess or simply "abduct" the big bumblebee after causing the blackout. I thought the former plan was truly a bad idea, as it would cost more time to make the costume and it could be a waste of time. I took the last plan that came to my mind and I decided to take action while the faun was still telling the bee. I found the circuit breakers and I saw that all of them were activated.
"Oh, beautiful bee goddess, unleash your true form!" Frederick asked him after he finished telling him.
I deactivated the circuit breakers and the power went out. As the devotees of the bee goddess were disconcerted, I took advantage of the blackout to rescue Wally B. There was no doubt that André's personality was advantageous. The plan worked perfectly, but one of them, specifically the cyclops, activated the circuit breakers again.
"You!" Frederick exclaimed as he pointed to me shortly after turning the lights on. "You are already trying to steal our goddess!"
I looked up at the cleric faun, who had a goatee and Pyrenean goat horns, and I started to run away. The devotees of the bee goddess chased us due to the fact that they were willing to "retrieve" Wally B. the hard way. We crossed the highway and ended up hiding in a tree. The worshippers, including Frederick, got exhausted.
"Both the thief and the bee goddess have disappeared... We have no choice but to give up..." The faun said as he breathed. "Let's go home..."
Frederick and the devotees of the bee goddess walked back to their respective homes. With the absence of these devotees, I released the bumblebee and I quacked to him that he could fly without any problem. Wally B. flew and he informed me that we had arrived at Raven's Point. I asked him if he still remembered the search for the stick. Wally B. replied to me that he hadn't forgotten it yet. We spent long minutes looking for the stick. We had once sighted Ian, Barley and the lower body of an elf, possibly their father. This sighting made me remember the animated film that these characters appeared.
There came an unexpected moment that something strange was heard. We stopped looking for the stick and Wally B. asked me what had happened. I replied to him that I didn't know about this event. Suddenly, a stone dragon, which was made of pieces of a school building, appeared and landed up to the crow statues zone. Despite the curse dragon's seemingly inoffensive face, it looked at me, wanting to attack us. Scared by it, I threw my hat at the dragon. It didn't hurt the stone dragon and it ended up roaring at me. I started to run away from the dragon, Wally B. gave me back the hat and I put it back on my head. The stone dragon accidentally breaks one of the trees, turning certain branches into sticks in the process. Although Wally B. advised me not to take one of them in the middle of a confrontation, I grabbed one of the sticks. The dragon landed near us and roared again.
Luckily, Corey and the elven brothers' mother, who was named Laurel, arrived and they distract the curse dragon, which ended up resuming with the aim of claiming the gem. We let Corey and the Lightfoot family defeat the curse dragon so that we can quickly leave the mountain.
We ran nonstop until we reached the house. Upon entering, Blazey the young dragoness, who was eager to be reunited with Ian, appeared. As she approached us, she sniffed us again and also let us enter one of the rooms.
We went up the stairs, we entered Ian's bedroom room and, when entering the closet, we returned to Monsters, Inc with the stick. Wally B. asked me where to store the stick before we could find the two remaining materials. I looked at everything around us, except the door we were in front of, and I found Tylor, who was chatting with another mechanic. Therefore, I raised my arm to get attention.
"I'll be right back, Val Little. My new friends call me for something urgent" Tylor said to his talkative workmate.
"Tylor, end that moment earlier please. I have an interesting topic to talk about." Val Little said as she saw her coworker approach us.
I lowered my arm shortly after he was close enough to us to be able to talk.
"What do you want with me?" The purple monster asked us.
I requested Wally B. to hold the stick for a moment, which he obediently did so. I took the whiteboard out of my backpack. Then I wrote "Can you take care of this stick please? I say this because we are collecting materials for something special" in it and I showed Tylor the written whiteboard.
"Of course, this stick and the next material will be in good hands." Tylor replied to us.
I wrote "Thanks" in the whiteboard and I showed him.
"My pleasure." Tylor politely reacted to the gratitude he had received.
We kept looking for a door until we found one that was slightly deteriorated. We opened it and arrived at a humble house in a matter of seconds. We cautiously left this house and we explored the village. We heard that the villagers spoke with a Mexican accent, suggesting that we were in a Hispanic American country, namely Mexico. I heard some conversations of the villagers, and I got to know the name of the village: Santa Cecilia. I asked Wally B. which one would be the first site to visit in Santa Cecilia, Mexico. The large bee suggested that we should visit the first one we found.
We entered a mausoleum, although it seemed too grim to visit. I found a guitar on the floor, I grabbed it and I strummed it in the mausoleum. Suddenly, the orange petals floated, we become invisible to every living being and we could see calacas visiting from the Land of the Dead. The calacas were skeletal dead relatives of living people. These dead relatives had resided in the Land of the Dead since their death. I approached a couple of calacas with the absence of speech and I asked them with a written whiteboard if they could take us to the Land of the Dead. We thanked them for being nice to us.
Wally B. buzzed to me that something bad might happen to my body. Scared, I had to remove one of the gloves to check the situation of my hands. The hands were still normal as I had started my life as André. Thank goodness that it was a false alarm!
Before I could take a step shortly after arriving there, Wally B. told me that our main goal of this site was to find a handful of petals. He got close enough to my face so that his round brown nose touched my black nose. When that happened, he buzzed that we could do it successfully as we did with the stick. At the end of those buzzes of encouragement, he took a few steps back (while he flew) to literally get away from my face. We entered to Bureau of Family Grievances and we arrived in one of the rooms which had an old computer, specifically a copy of the original Apple Macintosh. There was a family of calacas at this moment aside of the employees. Once they finished doing something, this family turned around and found us. Some of them were shocked for our unexpected apparition.
"Whoa! I have never seen these unrealistic creatures, not even this bee." The charming calaca told his relatives.
"W-what are these doing here?!" The matriarch of the family said as she gasped.
I wrote "We are just trying to find orange petals" and I showed them the written whiteboard. I shyly smiled and I saw one of the calacas, specifically the female one who appeared to be the oldest of the family. Seeing her face made me remember both the film and her name.
"Mamá, these are peaceful enough not to do something against us." Coco said to Mamá Imelda, as I learnt that Coco was actually younger than both Imelda and Héctor.
"Ok, we, the Rivera family of the Land of the Dead, will help you." Mamá Imelda said as she unwillingly allowed the family to help us to find petals.
Before they could do something with us, I had to write on the whiteboard a question if any of the family knew us. Once the whiteboard was written, I showed them the text. I thought that any The Adventures of André & Wally B. character like us was unlikely to be recognizable to every calaca, especially those who died prior to 1984. As a result, there was a silence that no one from this family raised their hand. I wrote "OK, let's look for the petals" and I showed them the whiteboard.
After we left the Bureau of Family Grievances, the Rivera family, Wally B. and I went to the same bridge that we crossed with the help of the pair of calacas. I grabbed Héctor's jacket and I made a move where I tried to pull it down.
"What do you want us to do?" Héctor asked me.
I pointed to the bridge full of marigold petals and then I looked at his face.
"Do you mean that we should grab these petals from the flower bridge?" He then asked me.
I nodded my head in assent. I approached the bridge and began to pick petals. Wally B. accompanied me, opened the bag and took care of storing petals. The Rivera family looked at each other and then they agreed on helping us. We took many petals and the bumblebee kept them in the bag. Once we had our bag full of petals, I thought it was time to leave this place. I didn't know how to get back to the Land of the Living, so I looked at Imelda.
"Do you need a blessing in order to go home?" Imelda asked me, guessing my intentions.
I nodded my head in assent. As a response, she grabs one of the marigold petals which aren't in the bag as Wally B. rested his front legs on top of my head.
"I give both of you my blessing…" She said, while the petal glowed as she set the conditions. "… To go home and to use these petals we have collected."
I took the petal and, in a flash, we were teleported back to the mausoleum. I blinked and I saw my hands. It turned out that the petal that was involved in the blessing is nowhere. I doubted the fate of the petals we had collected, so I checked the bag. Those that were in the bag did not disappear when we returned to the mausoleum. Wally B. told me that we should return to the company so we could give Tylor the marigold petals.
We ran and I stopped at the same house that we came to this universe to see what the living members of the Rivera family were doing. I could see a 13-year-old Miguel playing the guitar while his family, including his younger sister Socorro, enjoyed the musical show. Wally B. asked me what I was doing and I answered him that I was simply watching the spectacle. We approached the door, we opened it and we returned back to Monsters, Inc.
We could see Tylor Tuskmon working in this company. This time he was not surrounded by his coworkers nor was he talking to anyone. We got closer to him and I lowered the bag to the floor. He heard the noise of the bag drop and then he saw it.
"Are these marigold petals related to the material I should build?" The purple monster asked me.
I nodded my head in assent, then I grabbed the whiteboard from the bag and I wrote "But before you start to build it, there is a stone left for us to look for." After I wrote this sentence on the whiteboard, I showed it to Tylor.
"Ok." He said as he emptied the whole bag. "Don't worry, I'll wait until you find the stone."
I waved goodbye as we saw him storing the petals in the same place as the stick. We kept looking for doors until we came across a wooden door. I opened this door and we arrived at an isolated house. This house appeared to be abandoned, as there are no tenants. We left this house in order to explore, as well as to find the obsidian. Once we exited the house, the place turned out to be a desert island. It was not a desert island in a positively stereotypical way (e.g. having at least a deck chair), but it was a desert island similar to the real-life ones and those which are depicted in works about shipwrecked people.
Wally B. and I tried to look for the stone while we toured the island, but finding the obsidian was much more difficult than I imagined. There came a time when we were about to give up, but, nevertheless, the island began to shake. There was no doubt that it was an earthquake or a possible eruption. When the volcanoes began to vent their lava, both of them started singing. I looked at the two volcanoes and learned that they both have faces, making me remember the short film where these volcanoes appeared. Uku, a sentient volcano that is thicker than his lover, inadvertently let the lava leak out of the hole. This looked like it was urgent, so we started running. Before we reached the uninhabited house, Lele, another volcano that appeared to be a slender, feminine entity, extruded a lot of volcanic rocks through another eruption. These volcanic rocks fell in the same area that we were. We hid in the trees to avoid being hurt during this fall. Once this happened, I eventually found a rounded obsidian in the floor. I went for the stone and tried to pick it up, only it was initially hot because my hands could not resist touching something that was at extreme temperatures. I waited for it to cool, albeit in a hurry, and picked it up again. After I grabbed the stone, we ran to the abandoned house before the lava came into contact. Before leaving this world, we would hear a quarter of a minute of Uku and Lele's song.
After hearing it, we arrived at Monsters, Inc and I closed the door immediately. Wally B. and I breathed rapidly after the risky quest. A monster found us at the door we were touching. It was the same as the one that was in charge of storing the other natural materials.
"André and Wally B., are you okay?" Tylor asked us.
We smiled and I gave him a thumbs up, indicating that we were fine. I took the volcanic rock out of the bag and handed him the rock.
"Can I build with the stick, the petals and this stone now?" He asked me.
I nodded in assent.
"OK, I will build the item right now." The monster said.
Tylor began building the magical item as Wally B. and I watched this moment of work. He grabbed the stick and the obsidian and he used the silicone gun to make the stick being glued to the rock. Then he glued the marigold petals to the volcanic rock, which made the item look like a plant with a flower. We waited a few minutes for the silicone to cool so it was ready for use.
Once he finished building the magical item, Tylor gave me the magical item. I dubbed the magical item we created the "Staff of Revelation" as we contemplated that created item. I was so excited that we could return to the Boundin' universe to be able to give it to the Jackalope. We entered the same door as when we visited that universe for the first time and we ran until we reached where he was at this moment. By the time we arrived there with the Staff of Revelation, the Jackalope was meditating.
"Have you completed the quest?" The meditative Jackalope said to me.
I nodded in assent and then I showed him the evidence: all the three natural materials combined in one item. I smiled as the Jackalope got up from the floor. I handed him the Staff of Revelation in order to allow him to investigate why I had been in the body of André.
"Let me see." He said to me as he used the staff. Unlike the Onward universe, the Boundin' universe lacked magic even though at least one mythological animal inhabited it. "It seems that the staff doesn't work."
My smile dissipated and I asked him what he said.
"I said the staff doesn't work." The Jackalope repeated it to me. "There is no magic here to be honest."
I attempted to quack to him that he would try to discover the mystery's origins.
"No excuses." He interrupted me. "Come back here when you're doubtful."
He sat down on the ground again and resumed his meditation. I was upset that the Staff of Revelation didn't work in this universe. Wally B., who witnessed that scene, went to comfort me. Wally B. told me that there was one thing that I had recovered: the self-esteem.
We jogged until we got to the house, then we returned to the Monsters, Inc universe and we came back to Mike and Sulley's flat. While we were having dinner with the two that I mentioned earlier, Wally B. asked me what time is this universe set. I looked at a calendar that was on a site and I replied to him that here it was in the year 2001, twenty years than the time where I was living in the universe where I grew up.
After dinner, Wally B. and I went to bed in the same room we slept the other day, and then I laid down in the bed. I tried to sleep, but the disturbing thoughts didn't let me do it. I asked my bee companion if he could massage my back in order to reassure me. Wally B. massaged my back with one of his front legs. André would not have been reassured with back massages if I didn't had my mind fused with André's. I moved my body to another position to settle for sleep, making Wally B. unintentionally touch my belly in the process. I giggled in a silly manner when this stomach came into contact with this bee's leg. André was also not in favor of having his belly touched, whether his belly is slim or large. Wally B. forgave me for touching my abdomen, but I told him that there was nothing wrong with it, indicating that he could massage a part of the torso if he wanted. I spent the last minutes of my second night in the body of André with calmness thanks to a small massage session. Wally B. and I fell asleep and no one caused any disruption overnight.