Moana Waialiki sat in a local Los Angeles cafe at a round table with her voice actress, Auli'i Cravalho, the same young girl who made her debut in the feature film, Moana, by lending her voice to the former, the title character herself. She and Moana have become close personal friends, since they both share the same voice and that they are practically the same person. Now with what the black creatures crisis going on, Moana was afraid.
"Can you just believe it?" She cried. "I know I can't. These black things come out of nowhere and are just attacking poor Disneys left and right just like that."
"I know, right?" agreed Auli'i. "Who knows what they are or where they came from? For all I know, they could be demons from Hell or possibly cartoon zombies made of ink."
"You read too many horror movies, but I think it has something to do with us Disneys, since they're only attacking us and not other toons. I'm not sure what or why, but maybe it could be a revenge plot or something?" Moana inquired.
"Only time will tell." Auli'i reassured, taking a sip of her latte.
"You know, I hear Mickey is planning on sending the DreamWorks toons out to take care of the problem." said Moana.
"DreamWorks? Are you serious?" coughed Auli'i, baffled. "That's rich. How are toons gonna take care of this? Why can't they just have the I.C.R.A.A.C. send their SWAT teams down and do it?"
"Maybe the soldiers are too afraid?" Moana suggested with a slight giggle.
"Soldiers armed with guns and weapons afraid of ink creatures? Ha! Bullshit!" Auli'i cried obnoxiously, albeit jokingly.
"Well, if the DreamWorks do have a winning chance against whatever these things are, there might be hope for both sides to finally get along and share each other's worlds together in peace and harmony." explained Moana.
"Keep telling yourself that, my animated self." Auli'i sighed, before focusing her eyes on the TV screen just above them. "Hey…"
Then suddenly, an important Fox News bulletin appeared on the television about Queen Elsa and a recent issue concerning a black creature sighting and some terrible happening in her own small kingdom of Arendelle in Norway. An image revealed Elsa's profile while the anchorman announced, "What shocks us the most is that way out in little Arendelle, Norway, it's fine and gracious ruler, Queen Elsa, has been facing terrible depression after her sister, Princess Anna, was attacked last week by a black figure and later found spitting up black ink. Days after the incident, the usually perky and childlike princess changes drastically in the worst possible way, showing signs of hostility and even going so far as to actually try to kill her own older sister."
"Oh my gosh, Bailey. And I thought sibling rivalry was heartbreaking." cried the anchorman with shock.
"Tell me about it, Jim." nodded the female anchorwoman.
"Jesus fuck." Auli'i expressed, gobsmacked. "It's much worse than I thought. Anyone who have encountered these black things are attacking other Disneys who haven't. It's asinine! It's like they're possessed or something."
The broadcast then pulled up to Queen Elsa herself being interviewed by Jimmy Fallon on his live show, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. She was in tears and holding a handkerchief in her hands to help dry them as they were melting her mascara, causing it to run, leaving her in a mess on live TV, but she was too emotional to care about her live appearance.
"So, your majesty…." Jimmy began.
"Jimmy, please call me Elsa." She said in a low voice.
"I'm sorry, Elsa, how long was it before your sister to go through these…..changes?" asked the talk-show host.
Elsa sniffled before she answered, "It was 7 days ago when poor Anna was attacked by this….black maniac. She even said it…..raped her. Touched her places it shouldn't. She used to be the perky one, always playing around and trying to have fun, but now she's gone from playful Anna to an aggressive jerk who tried to throttle me." She shed more tears, which she wiped away with her handkerchief, before her voice started to break. "At first, I thought it was just stress from the rape, but she acted as if it was nothing and I could barely recognize her. I looked into her eyes and they weren't blue anymore. Just these big black dots in white space. She even called me a "fun-hating bitch" and a "fucking prat"!"
That was it. Elsa had lost all restraint as she suddenly broke down into sobs, ignoring the fact that she shouldn't use profanity on live television, but Jimmy decided to let this slide as she was going through a whole lot. Jimmy even got up from behind his desk and went to console the young ice queen before they got back to the broadcast. Moana and Auli'i were both speechless beyond belief.
"What is happening in this world?" Moana remarked, unable to believe that Queen Elsa would be so traumatized by her own sister.
"Shit turned sideways?" shrugged Auli'i nonchalantly.
In her apartment, Lt. Judy Hopps was performing yoga while watching an training video on her new television to remove all of that stress in her bones. She did this occasionally whenever she needed to relief her stress. And right now, she was angry at Nick for doing his little "pawsicle" scam behind her and the force's back, even though he was a policeman who was sworn to uphold the law and protect the citizens. Not only that, but she found him cuddling with another fox inside her own damn apartment without her knowledge. It was so infuriating that she had no choice but to sell him out to Chief Bogo who had to fire the annoying fox and Judy decided it was best for the both of them if they saw other people, not that Judy ever wanted to see that idiotic smug grin on his stupid fox face again. Just as she went into the downward dog position, her phone rang, interrupting her session.
"Judy Hopps." She answered.
"Hopps, you need to get your tail down here right now." It was the voice of her strict boss, Bogo, on the other end.
"I'm kinda in the middle of something, sir." reminded Judy, mentally inept that her yoga session was rudely disrupted by a small phone call.
"Well, drop what you're doing and get down to the station immediately. All hell is breaking loose." Bogo ordered. "More of those goddamn black things have struck again, attacking two elephants and a jaguar."
When Judy's eyes widened bigger, her eyes flew up with surprise at hearing about the ink creatures that have been invading the Disney community and it sent chills down her spine and gripped her tiny bunny heart with cold fear.
"Okay, sir, I'm on my way." Judy confirmed and hung up.
She quickly got into her uniform and took a train packed with both Zootopian animal residents and humans alike, but she could manage as she's been in tight situations like this before and she couldn't complain. There was a young human girl who noticed Judy and waved at her giddily, since she was a Disney fan. Judy waved back at the child with a returning smile. After a few minutes, she arrived at the ZPD and entered the meeting room.
"I'm here, chief." She said as she hopped into the large chair fit for the large animal officers since she was the only small animal on the force after all.
"About damn time." grunted Bogo. "I was just about to go over the incident. It occurred just this morning in different spots around Zootopia. The jaguar by the name of Owen Wingers, a mortician who was found unconscious and inside of the empty coffins. We are still uncertain whether he'll make it for not. As for the two elephants, one was named Dopinder Daant and Jerry Jumbeaux Jr., owner of Jumbeaux's Cafe. The latter was lucky enough to survive. However, his entire shop was an inky mess from the altercation and was shut down and put under quarantine by order of the health department. I need you, Lt. Hopps, to investigate this matter down at Jumbeaux's Cafe. And since Officer Wilde is now longer with us….." Judy's eyebrows furrowed at the mention of the exasperating sly fox's name. "...I'm going to pair you up with Officer McHorn."
Judy looked up at said rhinoceros sitting next to her who stared back down at her with an indifferent face. The bunny cop was not okay with this at all. Working with a conniving fox is one thing, but with a giant rhino is another. But as diligent as she was clever, Judy knew better than to argue against her superior. Judy and her new partner arrived on the scene at the quarantined Jumbeaux's Cafe where the despondent elephant owner himself sat there unsure of what to do now that his business is ruined.
"Hello, Mr. Jumbeaux. I'm sure you remember me." Judy greeted with a brave smile.
"Yeah, the little bunny cop who blackmailed me into giving a stinkin' fox service. Well, you happy now?" growled Jumbeaux, pointing at his shop with his trunk.
"That was a long time ago, sir. Forget about the past." ushered Juby sternly before using her serious cop voice. "Now we're here on behalf of the Zootopia Police Department regarding the black creature incident this morning. I'm sorry if you ever got hurt, but you're lucky to be alive."
"Lucky?!" screamed Jumbeaux incredulously in anger. "I just got shut down by the health department! You call that lucky?! They found black ink everywhere, including the ice cream! That shop has been in my family for years! It was passed down to me by my father and his father before that and his father before that! What am I supposed to do now?! Knit sweaters?!"
"Sir, I'm gonna have to ask to please restrain yourself." ordered McHorn. "We're doing the best we can to help you out."
"I don't need help!" Jumbeaux cried rather loudly.
"Can you just give us a good detail of the assailant if you can?" asked Judy.
"There's not much to explain." sighed Jumbeaux, sitting down and lowering his head. "All I can say is that it looked like man, but it had no legs and no face and looked to be made of black slime or somethin'. Everywhere it went, it left a mess of that black stuff."
"Mmm-hmm." Judy hummed with understanding as McHorn drew down the description of the crook on a notepad. "And it just attacked you just like that?"
"Yeah. It was just standin' there looking at me, or at least I think it was, and it suddenly leaped right at me with its hands out as I got closer like a savage beast."
Judy fought back the urge to frown in anger or remind the large elephant proprietor to not utter such a word in her presence as it brought her mind back to the time when Bellwether used the Night Howler flowers to turn innocent animals into savage monsters. The mere sight of an animal citizen turning from their domesticated self to embracing their natural side was a haunting memory most unpleasant.
"Just remain calm, sir. We're everything in our power to access this problem." Judy assured him comfortingly.
"That's the last thing I need to hear." Jumbeaux sighed, shaking his head.
Penny Forrester was just lounging around in her bed in a light pink T-shirt and her pajama shorts just chatting with her four friends, Violet, Wilbur and her secret crush, Hiro on her laptop during a Skype session while her good boy dog, Bolt laid peacefully on the ground next to her bed. Penny always wanted a normal life outside of her career as a young Hollywood actress. But, of course, here she was as a CGI-animated toon girl living inside of a live-action world in a live-action apartment with her mother and pets in little San Francisco, California. Granted, Penny didn't mind the praise given to her by her fans, but sometimes she wished there was a little bit of instead of a whole crowd of them, badgering her with a series of questions, requests for autographs, their picture taken with her or have her pose for the camera.
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"You guys wouldn't believe these past few days." expressed Penny with understandable bafflement. "I haven't even been able to reach Riley for a week now. She won't take my calls, she wouldn't even answer my texts. Something isn't right."
"Maybe one of those black monsters got her and ate her up." Wilbur taunted jokingly, much to everyone's annoyance.
"Shut up, Wilbur." griped Violet who had just stepped out of the shower and was now butt naked and wrapped in a towel with the still-moist and soggy black tendrils of her hair covering most of her face, which she brushed back slightly. "Ugh, would it kill you to start taking things more seriously?"
"What? I'm just trying to lighten the mood." defended Wilbur with a mock pouty face.
"In a time like this? Do people from the future always treat serious situations like a joke or are you from another dimension?" Hiro cracked, making everyone roar with laughter at Wilbur's expense, earning a frown from the latter.
"Anyway, I think she's probably having stress issues or something." Penny suggested, cutting back to the important subject.
"Don't even talk to me about stress issues." Violet rolled her eyes. "My mom's dating some new guy after she and my dad broke up. Now we can see our dad when our mom wants us to."
"Hey, marriage is a complicated thing, Vi." said Hiro as comforting as he can. "Some things just don't last forever, I suppose."
"How can Riley be having stress issues?" asked Wilbur.
"We all know Riley is very neurotic when it comes to handling certain emotions." Penny replied. "...at times. Anger, Disgust, Sadness."
"If those emotions are fooling around in her head is considering expressing, I don't know what is." Wilbur remarked.
Then suddenly in midst of their conversation, a fifth user entered the Skype chat with a familiar username appearing on the laptop screen.
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And then Riley's downtrodden face appeared on her own window joining the others unexpectedly.
"Hey, you guys." She greeted softly before facing the camera to reveal her unhappy expression. "I'm sorry I've been shutting you guys out lately. I wasn't trying to ignore you all. It's just that something's been happening at home and not in a good way."
"Oh, Riley, it's fine." Penny cooed. "But just remember that we're your friends and you can always come to us if you need us. That's all you have to do."
"I know, I know. It's just not good." sighed Riley, brushing her hair. "Uh, are you naked, Violet? And why is your hair wet?"
"Yeah, why are you?" Wilbur smirked with his usual glance in a cocky manner.
"Wilbur!" Everyone shouted at him in irritation.
"I just stepped out of the shower when I heard the Skype call go off on my computer. My bedroom's next door to the bathroom and I didn't have to get dressed." Violet explained before making a "seriously" stare. "And no, I'm not fully naked. I'm wrapped in a towel. See?"
Riley nodded when her friend showed her that she was still decent, even if it was only a towel around her slender frame.
"What's been going on, Riley? Please tell us." implored Penny.
"Yeah, are you sure Joy didn't get sucked into your memory section?" asked Hiro.
"Is some asshole picking on you?" asked Wilbur.
"I promise you all, my emotions have been keeping it real inside my noggin. It's just that my mom and dad have been acting very strange lately." winced Riley as she confessed. "They've barely been drawing any attention at all. They just give me simple yes or no answers now and then, they just look at me whenever I talk to them, they've been having, uh…...intercourse more often. I overhear them shouting and jumping on the bed down the hall - you don't need to know this. It's been like this ever since that night when they are attacked."
"Attacked? By whom?" asked Penny.
"Was it those things?" Hiro demanded quickly.
"What things?"
"Those black, shapeless creatures that have been going after several Disneys all over the world." answered Penny almost immediately. "It's all over the news and the papers. It's madness."
"Yeah, this is much worse than when Donald Trump announced to build a wall to seperate the U.S. from Mexico." Wilbur added.
"Oh, god. Why did you have to mention that guy?" Violet complained as she covered her ears.
"I didn't really see who or what is was, because I was in my room at the time." Riley replied, letting a cower of fright enter her features as she thought back to that unfaithful night. "But I heard everything. When I got downstairs, there was a trail of black ink droplets leading to the front door which was left wide open. Can you believe that? It's like they picked the lock or something."
"Then it was definitely those things then." Wilbur nodded in confirmation. "Come to think of it, my parents are now having me homeschooled for the time being until this all blows over. We all have to remain inside the house to stay safe from those creatures. My dad's currently building something to help us go outside without getting touched by anyone. Hopefully it will help kept those things from getting to us."
"Well, sign me up." Hiro responded. "I could certainly go for one of those. But it's not that simple. You see, Gogo's been acting out-of-ordinary recently too. I think she ran into one of those black monsters at one point. They had to restrain her to her bed at the hospital because she was displaying some wild, erratic behavior."
"Damn." Violet cringed. "I almost feel sorry for the girl."
"She's not turning into a zombie, is she?" Penny fearfully asked, afraid of the answer as she was terrified of the thought of a zombie apocalypse.
"I doubt it." Hiro answered. "If she were a zombie, she would have grey, decaying skin or yellow eyes and had lost her human intellect. I've seen those zombie horror films before. Don't ask. No, the only difference was her eyes, which her plain black and I think they said she barfed up some black liquid on the floor."
"Wait, did you say black eyes?" Penny asked, receiving a nod from Hiro. "Did you guys hear about the fiasco at Arendelle where Princess Anna was acting hostile and dangerous and had plain black eyes?"
"Now that you mention it, yeah." Riley nodded with a mirroring look.
"I heard about it on the news." responded Violet. "Elsa explained everything on the Jimmy Kimmel show."
"Well, if Gogo's been experiencing the same changes as her, do you think I could happen to the rest of us too?" Penny theorized.
"Oh, god. I hope not." said Violet.
The next day at high school where the human teens and toons are going to school together, Violet put all her things in her locker and grabbed what she needed for class when her friend, Kari approached her. In retrospect, her parents' marriage had failed and the spark between them was gone. Helen even mentioned that she hasn't been getting any action in bed lately and that Bob has been either too busy or too tired to tend to her desires. Could it be that he wasn't attracted to her anymore? Neither Violet nor Dash and any idea. An older woman like her has needs. And that's when she feel in love with a human. Violet was not okay with this, but she tried to not show it in her mother's presence.
"Hey, Vi." She smiled.
"Oh, hey, Kari. What's up?"
"I've been thinking. How are things between you and your new dad?" asked Kari, to which she was given a scornful frown in response by the black-haired girl for bringing up such an unwanted subject.
"I told you not to ask me about that and he's not my new anything. He's just some guy that my mom decided to hook up with." Violet spat venomously.
"Is he a toon?" asked Kari.
"No, he's human." Violet answered, walking to class with her.
"A human? Wow, so what else is new?" Kari replied in a joking pompous fashion.
"I think they're gonna be married eventually and I'm probably gonna have another annoying little brother to deal with." Violet seethed. "Who knows? The chances of it becoming a toon/human hybrid mutant are infinite."
"Don't be like that, Vi. You don't know that." Kari reminded her.
"I don't really care." Her friend retorted.
"Vi, please." Kari rolled her eyes at her stubbornness. "Don't be so dramatic. So what if your parents divorced? So what if your mom is dating someone else? It's not uncommon for a marriage couple to have disagreements once in a while and decided to end it. But this is your mom's choice, not yours. If your mother is happy with him, then you should be happy for her. You don't have to like him or accept him as your new stepdad, but at least be a little appreciative for her. Divorce or not, it's still family."
Violet thought long and hard about her friend's inspirational words. Maybe she is getting a little ahead of herself and just being too judgemental towards her mother's boyfriend. Then she nodded.
"Yeah, you're probably right. I'll try to accept him more."
Then Kari held a sneaky grin on her face as she face Violet.
"You know, maybe he picked you mom, because he's a think for thick women and big bu-"
"Shut up!" Violet snapped.
Amos and the group of DreamWorks arrived at the Warner Brothers Studios establishment of Los Angeles and, making their way through security, they entered one of the studios and on the inside, there was a film production going on and there was some kind of hotel lobby film set in the middle of everything and the crew was wide at work. Actors were rehearsing their lines and preparing themselves for the next shot while Amos and Jack walked right inside while the others waited outside.
"You sure this guy is gonna help us?" asked Jack.
"Oh, yeah, man." Amos answered. "You'll see. Gohry! Hey, Gohry!"
There he was, the director and head honcho behind it all. It was none other than Gohry Ozijenzy, the most famous visionary movie director than Tim Burton and Alfred Hitchcock combined. He had directed many films and was famous for staying by the book when it came to producing movies based on already existing things, like books and cartoon shows. He stayed true to the source material as best he could and many of his films had better ratings and made more money than ever such as Live, Die, Repeat, an animated feature about a gamer boy who becomes different monster avatars. He's made animated family comedies, horror movies and more. He recently fell in love with Helen Parr, also known as Elastigirl, and was now her boyfriend and her children's soon-to-be stepfather. Gohry looked up from the screenplay he was reading to notice his best friend.
"Amos! Hey!" He walked up and the two shook hands as the director dwarfed Amos as he was a very tall man. "Surprise you dropped by."
"Yeah, imagine that." nodded Amos.
"And you must be Jack Frost from Rise of the Guardians?" Gohry said, focusing on Jack now.
"Yes, I am. And it's a pleasure to meet you, sir." Jack shook hands his him. "I hope many toons are glad to be alive in your name."
"Well, thanks. I respect that." said Gohry.
"What are y'all making here?" Amos asked, pointing to the production he had going on.
"What we doing is a remake of Stanley Kubrick's film, The Shining , based on the Stephen King novel of the same name." Gohry answered as he gestured to the set of the lobby of the Overlook Hotel is a different fashion than from the original. "That over there is Josh Lucas. He'll be portraying Jack Torrance. And Mary Elizabeth Winstead there will be playing his wife, Wendy. That's my nephew, Willy, sitting right over there. I asked him to play Danny."
"I remember that movie." Amos said.
"Yeah. Right now, we're going to be doing the scene where Wendy walks in on Jack's writing."
"'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.'" recited Jack, remembering the famous quote without effort.
"That's the one, yeah." Gohry nodded. "And then Jack is gonna walk in on her and that's where his psychotic tendencies start to reveal themselves."
"Will Wendy hit him with the bat like in the original?" asked Jack.
"Oh, yeah."
"I hope you're staying true to the ending. If I recall correctly, when Danny said he loved his father, Jack turned back to normal and hugged his son." Amos explained.
"Don't worry. We'll get to that part soon." said Gohry.
"And is Mr. King okay with this?" Jack asked.
"Well, they already made the remake of It, so I'm sure he won't mind." said Gohry with a shrug.
"In other words, you haven't asked him."
"Alright, enough of the movie talk. We're here for a favor." said Amos as he looked into the tall man's eyes.
"What is that?" asked Gohry.
"The Disneys are under attack by some black, humanoid creatures and their asking DreamWork to take care of it for them." explained Amos stiffly. "We don't know who or what these things are. They might be a society of disguised terrorists for all I know, but I could really use your help with this."
"Me? You want my help?" asked Gohry, feeling unsure. "But I'm a movie director and I'm filming one right now."
"The production can wait, dude." Amos told him. "And besides, we used to be the best soldiers back in the day and you fought enemies single-handedly without receiving a scratch."
"Look, those days are over. I wish I could help, but I have work to do." Gohry affirmed to his friend.
"Gohry, you're the tallest, strongest man I know. This is an important matter right now. The Disneys are on the verge of an unexplained infection that is only getting worse day after day. Who knows how many more are getting caught and infected by this beings of untold origin? Maybe Helen could be next soon. You never know. I need you right now, man. And I'm not asking."
"Oh, alright. I will help you, okay? If it's to keep Helen safe." Gohry finally agreed. "I'll come with you right after we finish this scene."
"Okay, make it quick. Come on, Jack." Amos grabbed Jack's arm and brought him out of the studio.
"Alright, places everyone! Get ready for the next shot!" screamed Gohry to the crew as the two left the building to leave the director to do the scene to find everyone else outside.
"So what are they doing in there?" asked Shrek.
"A remake of The Shining." replied Jack simply.
"Wow! Really? I really love that movie!" Po chirped with a goofy smile on his face. "Who's gonna be in it?"