Well, well, well... Here we are, here it is. I gathered a team of Encanto fans, and together we created this. It was made through a process of spitting out random ideas, and then I wrote the notes out to a story.
Do enjoy, and do review, because reviews rock.
At the Airport
Have you ever asked yourself; "What would happen if the Madrigals, in a modern AU, went to a big city?"
Chances are you haven't, but now it's time to answer that question anyway!
After one chaotic morning in Casita, and an even more stressful car ride to the airport, all twelve Madrigals arrive at the airport, ready to go to New York City.
Julieta is the only one who knows what she's doing, where they're supposed to go, and all that jazz.
She practically has the whole world in her purse.
There's the tickets, snacks in case anyone gets hurt, passports, entertainment for the kids, and a whole load of other stuff.
That bag is some Mary Poppins shit.
The second they enter the airport and take a quick stop to organize things, things start going wrong.
Mirabel drops her guard for one second, and then turns around and everyone is missing.
They had to run off, because part of being a big chaos family is always being late, even to flights.
After three minutes of walking, Antonio gets tired.
He gets to ride on Luisa's back.
Well...
He gets to alternate between riding on Luisa's back, and Camilo's back.
Luisa's already carrying seven bags, and Julieta insisted that she takes a break every now and then.
And as if that wasn't enough, each member of the family also has to carry all the extra clothes Abuela forced them to bring.
"New York City is cold. You have to bring warm jackets. Two of them!" or something along those lines.
Isabela's already carrying four scarves on hand, in case she gets cold on the plane.
Camilo didn't bring any jacket though.
He somehow forgot both jackets Abuela made him pack at home.
Instead he's forced to wear one of Dolores' jackets, and the arms are far too long for him.
While they're hurrying through the airport, Agustín gets lost every five minutes.
He gets distracted by souvenir shops constantly.
"Julieta, look at this! It's a little butterfly key ring! We should get it for Mirabel!"
"Speaking of Mirabel, where is she?" Camilo points out.
Luisa has to run back and find Mirabel.
She doesn't find her though.
Agustín accidentally does.
He finds her by a coffee machine, because he wanted coffee, and apparently so did Mirabel.
When Luisa returns and finds out Mirabel is located again, it's time for the family to go through the security check.
Luisa accidenatlly shoved Antonio onto the rolling luggage band, thinking he was one of her bags.
The security guard gets very worried (and a bit scared) when he sees a kid skeleton.
The misunderstanding is quickly cleared up before the Madrigals all get arrested.
Then everything goes well until it's Pepa's turn.
The security check machine beeps on her, and she gets mad.
It starts thundering inside, and the security officers become very scared of her.
Félix has to calm her down once they're past it.
Camilo's been bored all day, so when it's his turn, he randomly shapeshifts right in front of the security officers' eyes.
They have to call the airport manager, because they're completely dumbfounded and have no idea what to do.
But Camilo's not done messing with them.
"I'm just a little shapeshifting guy. You're gonna call the manager on an innocent little shapeshifter?"
The guard puts the phone down again.
Camilo instantly shapeshifts into him, going "Got ya, fool!"
Pepa and Félix apologize for their son's behavior.
Bruno goes next.
He has absolutely zero luggage.
The security's like "You sure man?"
Bruno's like "Yes."
He just has his rats, and that's enough for him.
Mirabel has even made tiny scarves for the rats, so they're ready for NYC.
Unfortunately for him, security has some news for him.
"Sir, you can't bring rats onto the plane."
"They don't bite :("
Security aren't afraid to tell Bruno off again.
Then Pepa, already thundering and looking threatening, shows up like; "You wanna say that again, bitch?"
Bruno gets to bring his rats.
Agustín goes through the security check last, and also gets beeped.
While security's looking through his bags, Agustín strikes up some small talk.
This is how they find out some devastating news.
The plan they're taking is several hours late.
All their stressing and hurrying was for nothing.
Now they have to sit around at the airport for hours.
They all find different ways to deal with this.
Bruno and Antonio make friends with the random birds that are lost in there, and try to help them out.
Camilo hangs out with strangers and makes friends with employees.
Then he heads to the bathroom, and walks out having shapeshifted into a celebrity.
Attention is nice.
He walks around signing autographs and taking photos.
The only problem he faces is that he can't speak, since his voice doesn't change with shapeshifting.
His shenanigans end up in the newspaper, greatly confusing the real celebrities.
Finally the rest of his family is like "Camilo, stop."
Some of the Madrigals (namely Agustín, Mirabel, Dolores and Isabela) go souvenir shopping to make time pass.
Bruno also follows along to get things for the rats.
Mirabel finds a $20 can of M&M's and insists on getting it.
"It's in a CAN!"
Isabela judges her souvenir decisions.
She then immediately goes and buys cheap airport makeup, so who knows what system she uses to judge shopping decisions.
"And it's not even in a can..."
They pass an airport toy store.
Bruno asks the cashier if he can buy a few stuffed bears, but only their clothes.
He wants to put them on the rats.
Mirabel gets Antonio tons of stuffed animals.
Dolores gets Mariano a cute little stuffed puma.
Throughout the shopping trip, Agustín looks at everything like "We NEED to get this," but he ends up buying literally nothing.
Meanwhile back at the ranch (aka, the waiting area), the rest of the gang's hanging out.
Abuela's watching the shit go down until Antonio drags her in the direction of a candy store.
He's super excited about everything, and wants to get a giant bar of chocolate, some cool looking jelly beans, and a pack of cookies.
Abuela gets him raisins.
He's mad.
He feeds them to Bruno's rats.
Félix is sleeping across three chairs with his head on Pepa's lap.
She also falls asleep.
Camilo is disgusted by his parents existing in this way, so he leaves.
He joins Antonio in a corner, where he's talking to birds, bugs and Bruno's rats.
Antonio isn't ecstatic he's there.
Especially not when he starts making assumptions about the birds.
"That one looks like it's really going through something!"
"She's just flown here from five miles away! Give her a break!"
Camilo gets bored of offending Antonio with his animal assumptions, and starts shapeshifting into missing Madrigals, making people think they're back.
Mirabel is the first victim.
Julieta's looking for her, so Camilo shifts into her.
Without even saying a word to him, Julieta drags him away to the passport control.
He's forced to take out his passport.
This gets him busted.
Poor Mirabel was just going to the bathroom.
She told Luisa that she was going, but Luisa forgot to tell everyone.
She was going to, but then Abuela appeared and asked her to take all the bags to the luggage checkout.
The only one acting like a normal human being is Dolores.
She's just chilling peacefully in her seat.
Her headphones are on, making it look like she's listening to music or a podcast.
She's actually listening to something way more interesting.
Airport gossip.
She hears a couple break up, another two people starting their relationship, and a man from a long work trip coming home to his family.
The last one almost made her cry.
During all this, she's also facetiming Mariano.
he gets to hear everything about the airport drama.
After many long hours of waiting, it's finally time to board.
They think they're all ready and have everything together.
But.
They don't.
Antonio is missing.
Camilo and Dolores are sent back into the airport to find him.
Dolores manages to make out his voice in the mess of noises.
Using this, they make their way to him.
He was talking to a bee of all things.
And then, at the last minute, they make it onto the plane.
Congratulations, you made it to the end!
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