Deadly Insurance
Things actually went smoothly the rest of the day. Eventually, they all got tired of swimming and headed back to the hotel. After changing back into normal clothes they tried to decide what was next. (It was at this point that Ryoko mentioned a place called Pleasure Island to the group that caught Gene and Vash's attention. Ayeka had trouble convincing them not to listen to Ryoko until she used Jim as an "Exhibit A" so to speak and said it would be harmful for children to go to such a place.)
After a half-hour debate they decided to order room service and hang out in Vash and Wolfwood's room (The priest had moved in with him.) for a while before hitting the sack. The group of eight polished off five pizzas (Ryoko and Vash eating the most of anyone) within an hour. After that it was back to bed for a good night's rest before the next action packed day.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to stroller city." Gene announced.
He was right. The Magic Kingdom was filled with plenty of families pushing strollers around the main entrance and everywhere else. Link stood staring at a map he had picked up at the entrance gate.
"Well, where exactly do we want to go?" Link questioned the group of eight.
"Um…well, let's think…uh…hmm…" The group stood pondering.
"I wanna pretty balloon!" A high-pitched voice yelled.
"GIR! Pay attention." A short, boy with slightly green skin yelled at the little thing that's head was protruding from his backpack. "Our mission is to discover the secrets of this…this "Walt Disney". He must have been a powerful man to gain the loyalty of all these humans."
"Yes, my master!" GIR's eyes flashed red for a moment then returned to their normal blue. "But can I still have a balloon?" It asked.
Zim sighed. "Yes, if you follow orders."
"Then let's go look at the pretty rocket ship!"
"Rocket ship?!" Zim's eyes darted around. They landed on the top of the rocket ride that stood in the center of Tomorrow Land. "Yes…yes…YES!!! Stupid humans! Soon you shall feel my wrath as doom rains down upon your filthy heads!"
"Let's all sing the doom song now!"
"Come GIR! There is no time for singing. Our mission awaits!" Zim darted off as GIR started singing in a high-pitched voice.
Link and the others stared at them. "Well then…where were we?"
"You asked us where we wanted to go first." Vash told him.
"Oh yeah, thanks." Link looked at a slip of paper and noticed that a parade was scheduled to start in ten minutes along Mainstreet USA. "We could go see the parade."
"That might give us time to decide what to do. Let's try it." Gene agreed.
Bright colored floats headed past as characters danced around in the center of Mainstreet USA, downtown Disney. Gene sat on the edge of a flowerbed next to Link and Ganondorf. Ryoko and Ayeka stood right behind Vash, trying to behave for once. Vash stood next to Wolfwood while Jim stood in front of them, looking at everyone in the parade.
About halfway through the parade a float started to pass. It was a blue car with the Genie's head on the front from Disney's Aladdin. The magic carpet was flung over the back seat of the convertible car float while Abu and Iago (the monkey and the creepy parrot) were perched on the windshield. A man dressed as Aladdin and a girl dressed as Princess Jasmine sat on top of the magic carpet and look back and forth from one side of the street to the next.
"Funny, the girl in the car looks familiar…somehow…" Wolfwood thought.
"Yeah, I see something similar." Vash stared at her for a moment as well.
Princess Jasmine turned her head to the side of the street that Vash and Wolfwood were standing on and her eyes suddenly lit up. She waved and smiled real big to them. "Mr. Vash! Mr. Wolfwood! Hey, it's nice to see you!"
Wolfwood pushed his sunglasses up for a moment and looked real hard at her. "Oh my God, it's Milly!" Wolfwood cried.
"That explains why the guy dressed like Aladdin looks so short…" Vash said.
"I wonder how they got her hair like that…"
"Probably a wig."
The two waved back and the car passed them by.
"I don't like the title Small World for a ride." Ganondorf complained as they waited in line.
"Why's that?" Vash asked.
"I'm gonna rule the world someday. I don't want it to be small…"
"Uh…"
"Don't mind him." Link patted Vash on the back.
A little while later the group got into one of the boats. Vash, Wolfwood, Ryoko and Ayeka got into the first row while Link, Ganondorf, Jim and Gene sat in the next back. Slowly the little blue boat started to move forward past a few fountains and then into a tunnel.
"Oh Vash…" Ryoko rested her head on Vash's shoulder. "Gimme a lil' kiss."
"What?! Why?" Vash pulled away.
"Well, isn't this the tunnel of love?" Ryoko smiled.
"Here." Wolfwood moved over and let Vash switch seats so that he sat on the outside of the boat away from Ryoko and Ayeka.
"I owe you…" Vash whispered.
"I know."
"It's a world of laughter,
A world of tears.
It's a world of hopes,
And a world of fears.
There's so much that we share,
That it's time we're aware,
IT'S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL!
It's a small world after all,
It's a small world after all,
It's a small world after all,
It's a small, small, world.
There is just one moon,
and one golden sun.
And a smile means friendship
To everyone.
Though the mountains are wide,
And the oceans divide,
IT'S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL!"
"Oh Goddesses, make it stop! Make it stop, I'm begging you!" Ganondorf cried. He shoved his fingers in his ears and buried his face in his knees.
Link looked down and snickered at him. "Some remind me to pick up a copy of this song before we leave."
"Huh? Why's that?" Gene asked.
"It'll save me a lot of trouble next time I have to save the world."
"What is this place anyway? Why are all those people so short?" Vash asked.
"I think they're robots, Needle-noggin."
"Oh…"
"Just lemme pick one off! Just one!" Ryoko was losing her cool as well.
"It will ruin the vacation Ryoko! And you don't want to go back to Okayama with a bad record for Lord Tenchi, do you?" Ayeka lectured.
A weird, quacking-like sound was heard from up ahead. The boat turned the bend and everyone (even Ganondorf, who had heard the quacking despite his attempts to block out all sound) turned to see one of the audio-animatronics dressed up like a little Swedish girl leading a group of duck animatronics. One of the ducks suddenly turned to them and stared them down.
"AFLAC!" The duck cried. Everyone in the group screamed in terror.
Everyone was deeply shaken after the Small World ride and so it was decided that some other ride was needed. The group then headed out of Fantasy Land for Tomorrow Land. When they entered they happened to pass Zim once more. He was still raving about conquering Earth. (Ganondorf got an idea to share ideas for world domination's but Link and the others managed to drag him away before he could get in contact with the little green guy.)
The first thing the group rode was Space Mountain. This was more enjoyable for everyone because there were no insurance selling ducks or repetitive songs song by children. They then headed for the Buzz Lightyear Star Command ride, which was an interactive ride that had you shoot aliens with little laser guns. Vash, Wolfwood, and Gene came out with the highest scores of anyone who had gotten on that ride within the past week.
After the group had finished with Tomorrow Land the group split up. Ryoko and Ayeka left to return to Mainstreet USA to shop for the people back in Okayama. The remaining six headed for Frontier Land to ride Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.
All in all the day went rather smoothly. Well, there was the incident at the Haunted Mansion ride. Vash actually thought that the images were real ghosts. Unfortunately, so did Link, so he had to be restrained by Ganondorf and Gene to keep him from going out and trying to kill all of the animatronics.
It had gotten dark and the Mainstreet Electrical Parade had already passed. The only thing left was the fireworks that were presented each night Behind Cinderella's Castle. Tinkerbell was to "fly" from the top of the highest tower of Cinderella's castle and the lights would go out, letting the light show commence.
Ayeka and Ryoko had rejoined the group. The eight stood in front of the castle. The lights began to blink on and off and music began to play. The announcers voice came on and a spotlight turned to the highest tower. There stood a girl in a green dress with fairy wings on her back and a magic wand in her hand.
Link looked up towards the tower and something caught his eye. Tinkerbell began to swat at a little glowing ball of light that was circling her head. A high-pitched voice could be heard off in the distance.
"Hey! Look! Hey! Listen! Look!"
"It…can't…be…" Link began to tremble in fear.
"What?" Ganondorf leaned over to Link. "What are you scared of this time?"
Link raised one shaky finger to point at the glowing ball of light. Ganondorf spotted it and began to shiver as well. The others looked at them and then up towards the ball of light.
Navi looked down and spotted Link and Ganondorf. She let out a little bell-like ring and then charged for them. "Link! Look! Ganondorf! Hey!"
Link and Ganondorf saw her charge at them. They both let out high-pitched screams like little girls, turned and ran for the exit as fast as the could. Wolfwood looked at the little ball of light and decided it had to be something evil if it could scare those two. He picked up his cross and got ready. Gene stood in front of Jim and pulled his caster gun out from under his cloak.
"What do you think you're doing?! You can't use that with all these people around." Vash screamed.
"I'm doing these people a favor." Wolfwood undid the clasp and aimed the Cross-turned-machine gun at the Fairy. He let out several shots and the fairy was hit in the wing.
Navi kept flying strong, despite the injury.
"This thing won't give up. No wonder those two left in a hurry." Gene smirked and shot the fairy, sealing it away.
Amazingly enough, Gene, Jim, Wolfwood, Vash, and the two girls got away from the crowd without being identified as the people who had fired the shots. The rest of the vacation was intended to go smoother than what it had so far. Navi was out of the way forever…or so they hoped…