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 2017-10-21. This is the second of two chapters posted today.
Disney/Kingdom Hearts Loops, Chapter Ten
10.1 (LordCirce): [Phineas and Ferb]
Isabella's Birthday Surprise
"Phineas and Ferb, what are you two up to?" Candace marched across the yard towards her brothers, Stacy following behind her, eyes rolling.
"It's a surprise, for Isabella's birthday!" Phineas glanced up, Unawake but smiling brightly. Candace froze.
"Isabella's... birthday..." Blinking, she shook her head and spun around. "Right, well, that sounds like fun, but, oh, look at the time, I've got to, run errands. Yeah." Grinning, she pushed the sodas she was carrying into Stacy's arms and dashed out of the yard, leaving Stacy and her brothers to stare after her.
"Wow, Candace sure is busy." Phineas said.
"You could call it that." Stacy sighed. "Well, I guess I will be watching the Grievance by myself. Joy."
Candace raced down the street. 'Note to self, next time, take the time to grab your bike.' Still, she knew she had plenty of time to put her plan into motion. Isabella had confided a bit in her before the end of last Loop about what she really wanted for her birthday, and Candace had had a crazy idea for how to fulfill it. Plus, she owed Looping Isabella for her help with fighting those weird goo aliens from a couple of loops ago, so she figured this could be a chance to pass it on.
Finally, her goal came in sight. Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated.
Luckily, the elevator was working, so she was able to head straight up to the top floor. She headed over and knocked on the door to Dr. D's lab.
After a couple of minutes, the door opened, and Vanessa peered out. "Oh, hey Candace, what's up?"
"Hi Vanessa. Do you think that I could borrow your dad's hoversled for a little bit?" Candace grinned brightly.
Vanessa blinked. "Sure, I guess. Dad is off driving some sort of bee-mobile, so it's just parked on the roof. Do you even know how to drive it?" Vanessa headed back inside, and Candace followed her in and out to the roof.
"Yeah. I mean, it can't be any more difficult than flying one of Phineas and Ferb's spaceships or monster trucks or walking treehouse robots."
Vanessa raised and eyebrow. "Treehouse robots? You have got to show me some time."
"Sure. Now, before we go, does your dad have any spare cages laying around?"
Vanessa burst out laughing.
"Alright, make a wish!" Phineas cheered brightly as he and Isabella climbed up the ladder for her to blow out the candles on her massive birthday cake.
Isabella sighed lightly, before closing her eyes to make her wish. 'I wish for time alone with Phineas.' Then, she blew out the candles. With a loud pop, the candles then burst, shooting confetti into the air.
"There's the signal! Alright, let's do this!"
"So, did you get what you wished for?" Phineas smiled up at Isabella, but before she could answer, Buford cut in.
"Yeah, because it's every girl's wish to have her backyard covered in litter. Come on you two, next event."
However, before any of them could move, a large hovercraft shot overhead, with a dangling arm shooting down and creating a cage around Phineas and Isabella, whisking them straight off of the ladder. Buford blinked.
"Wait, I thought I was providing the forceful transportation. Someone jacked my gig."
"Oh no! This isn't part of the plan." Phineas raced around the cage in a panic. "Now the schedule will be all off. The finale is on a timer, and we don't want it going off during the piñata. Don't worry, I'll get us out of here." He quickly started fiddling with the latch of the cage.
Isabella glanced around and noticed something out of the corner of her eye. Someone was leaning over the edge of the hovercraft. She was about to point it out to Phineas when she recognized the figure.
"Candace?"
"Did you say something Isabella?" Phineas glanced over at her, and up above, Candace ducked back out of sight, but not before giving Isabella a thumbs up.
"Oh, uh, I said, um, can you wait? I mean, we are pretty high up, so we should wait till we get lower to try and escape."
Phineas blinked. "Okay. I guess we can wait."
Isabella smiled then sat down on the floor of the cage. "Until then, we can just enjoy the view."
Phineas nodded, distractedly. "Yeah." He sat down next to her and ran his hand over the floor of the cage. "I do have to say, I like the shag carpeting for this cage."
"So, let me get this straight. You captured your brother and his friend, and we are going to fly them around over the city." Vanessa raised an eyebrow from where she was working the cage controls.
"Yep. Isabella likes Phineas. I have no idea why, but she needs all the help she can get, so I figure we can give them a romantic fly-over for two."
"In a cage." Vanessa was smirking at this point.
Candace rolled her eyes. "Well, it's not like I had a lot of resources to work with. They got the carpeted cage, anyway." Candace blinked, then glanced back at Vanessa. "Why does your dad have a shag carpeted cage?"
Vanessa shrugged. "Something to do with a Static-Clinginator. I don't really remember." Glancing over the side, she blinked twice. "Huh, looks like my dad crashed into a house down there."
Candace glanced over. "Oh hey, that's Stacy's house." Thinking back, Candace realized what must be happening down there. "Eh, she'll be fine."
10.2 (RockGolem): [Attack on Titan] / [Gargoyles]
Eren saw the giant titan kick through the gate of the outer wall the doors flying through the air and crashing into some of the houses near by. Removing the high tech binoculars he'd been using, the looper turn to the people sitting next to him on top a building close to the second second great wall Rose. "I still say we should kill the titans now and have a nice relaxing loop hanging out with the new guys."
Connie popped some chips into her mouth before telling Eren to "Shut up and enjoy the show."
Jean just shrugged as his eyes moved to the sun which had almost completely set. "Armin says when something cool is going to happen at nightfall and that's good enough for me."
Armin just sat there with a smug look on his face, a few loops ago he had swapped places with someone called Owen Bennett and had been working as a personal assistant for one David Xanatos one of the most awesome and machiavellian loopers he had ever met. So when he awoke this loop and realized what was going on he used his telepathy to connect all the other loopers and told them not to check their memories for this loop and meet him on this building next to the Rose Wall. He'd brought a load of chairs, binoculars and snacks and now as the last of the sun's rays were visibly fading into twilight he turned giddily to the top of Rose Wall where stood close to a thousand statues, each of a hellish demon like form and sitting a couple feet apart from each other. No two were the same the, closest ones ranged from small with wings like those of a flying squirrel attached to his arms and legs to a medium sized one with and large beak in place of a mouth and bat like wings from sprouting from his shoulders to a giant one over nine feet tall his regal features clear through the stone and had his wings drawn around him like a cape.
"Any second now." muttered Armin.
"Well the titans have breached the outer wall so if something is going to happen it needs to happen soon." Sasha said as she put away her binoculars not wanting to see what the titans would do to those unfortunate enough to anywhere near them.
"Look!" shouted Armin as he pointed to the top of the second wall. The loopers turned to see all the statues start to crack at the same time and then with the sounds of stone shattering and roars of powerful animals the statues exploded to reveal creatures of flesh and blood. Eyes glowing, muscles bulging the creatures roared into the night.
"So many colors." said Mikasa as she stared at these creatures who indeed came in many different hues from grey to bright yellow to the purple giant who shouted orders to his kin atop the wall.
"Brothers, sisters, protect our home, protect our human brethren, attack these monsters!" the creatures roared again and then took flight into the night to go forth and battle the titans.
Eren having seen enough looked at his memories and discovered just what was going on. It seemed in this loop humanity had allies in the form of Gargoyles, stone by day warriors by night. As long as humans protected the gargoyles during the day when they were unable to protect themselves the gargoyles would aid the humans in return. Strong enough to bend steel, able to glide through the air with their wings and with talons able to pierce stone they were great warriors and fantastic fighters against titans.
Suddenly a blue blur knocked Armin of his seat and onto the rooftop everyone summoned a weapon from their pockets only to halt as they heard Armin laughing "Hahaha Bronx knock it off that tickles hahaha."
Eren felt the air stir behind him as he heard something settle behind him. "Bronx what are you doing... oh hey Armin!"
Armin finally pushed the blue hell dog off him and turned to the gargoyle with a beak, who turned out to be red colored, and gave him his hand. "Hey Brooklyn welcome to my loop I hope you enjoy your stay with us."
10.3 (wildrook): [RWBY] / [Beauty and the Beast] / [Snow White] / [Mulan]
"You're not Belle," a voice said. "In fact, you seem rather... beastly yourself."
"I get that a lot," the black-haired woman replied. "You're just nicer than Adam Taurus, from what I've seen."
The beast gave out a chuckle. "Coincidental, but I haven't gone by Adam in a while. You are?"
"Blake Belladonna. Guess that makes me Belle for this Loop."
It wasn't exactly a romance, but a friendship. Probably because Blake wanted to see the Library.
Weiss was going through her default annoyed expression.
This wasn't because her friends are nowhere to be found, nor is it because she got stuck with the chores of seven little men who mined in the field.
Instead, it was the foresight of an evil queen about to come to her house and offer her a poisoned apple. She was NOT some damsel in distress to be rescued by a prince.
"Yo," a voice said, catching her by surprise.
Weiss's weapon was out as she looked at the man in question, but settled down.
"Well, you're an improvement over the future visitor, at least," she replied to the blond-haired male. "I take it you're the prince, Jaune?"
"Had this been when we first met," he replied, "I think I would have fainted at the opportunity. Still, better me than the Queen. Thank Pyrrha's training that I was able to get out in time, too."
Weiss gave out a small chuckle. "Yeah, I'm not exactly thrilled about her, either. Assassination plots are common where I'm from, and her methods aren't exactly noteworthy in our world. You bring our weapons?"
Jaune nodded as he brought out his sword and shield. "Take it you're up for a spar?"
Weiss then gave out a smirk. "It would be interesting to spar with someone my size this time." Jaune's look was of confusion. "Turns out in this variation, the Dwarves are war veterans and they're mining what's left of the fortress that fell. Surprisingly, Grumpy acts a lot like Jayne Cobb when it comes to battle."
"Oh, I thought they were Awake."
Within the Imperial Boot Camp, Lie Ren had to maintain the look of a professional in the face of the Emperor's Assistant. He wasn't exactly a speaking man, but after sending out a few pings from at least four or five of his soldiers, he had a sneaking suspicion that he didn't replace his namesake.
That was actually confirmed when he noticed four of them talking like they were old friends, but only three of them were on his list.
'Must be Mulan,' he thought. 'Wonder if that dragon's with her.' "Excuse me," he said, catching them by surprise as they stood to attention. "Can I speak to you four in private?"
"Uh, sure," the smaller one replied. "What for?"
"Well, I need an Anchor to stabilize myself considering I've been thrown for a Loop."
That got the soldier in green in surprise. "My tent's out of the way," the "man" replied. "If you're feeling Loopy, we can talk."
Lie Ren nodded. "Nightfall," he replied. "I have to deal with the Emperor's Secretary staring down my back."
"I must admit, I didn't expect to meet my namesake," Ren said, looking at the woman in disguise. "I thought I'd end up in a Rule 63 Loop."
"You think that's crazy," a voice replied, "I sometimes end up as a cop in Detroit for some reason. Hey there, new guy. Name's Mushu... and this is Mulan, or rather, Ping."
Mulan rolled her eyes. "Yeah, Mushu tends to wake up in roles by Eddie Murphy more often than we can count," she said. "And you are?"
"Captain Lie Ren for this Loop," Ren replied. "And those three were close friends of yours?"
"Lang, Chen Po, and Yao," Mulan said. "And yes, they're recent Loopers who know my secret and of Mushu. I'm just surprised you replaced Shang."
Ren shrugged. "I felt something was off when Nora wasn't bugging me when I was Awake... in both senses of the term."
"So I take it you're not going to tell anyone about Ping's secret?" Mushu asked him, prompting a nod from the man. "Right, so... what was that about Mulan here being your namesake?"
"Well, it's a long story..."
10.4 (Awesomedude17): [Mortal Kombat] / [Frozen]
Sub-Zero could only smile at how well he was training his newest pupil this loop.
A strange woman had replaced Frost this time, but as far as he was concerned, she was more humble, in spite of her greater power.
Still, he wondered if the ice powers she had were baseline, or a result of becoming Frost.
That would be a question for later, now he finished up his training session with her.
"Good job Elsa. You are doing well."
"Thank you Grand Master. I must ask you something."
"Hmm?"
"Have you ever felt like you've done something before?"
"I am a looper if that's what you're asking."
"Oh good! I can tell you so much."
I knew it. Sub-Zero chuckled. This would be an interesting talk.
10.5 (LordCirce): [Frozen] / [Pokémon]
Elsa sighed as she rubbed her forehead. "Ok, run it by me one more time?"
Off to the side, Anna giggled, while Pikachu, or rather Helen this Loop, let out a long breath. "Ok, we are all shrine maidens at Shamouti Island, one for each legendary elemental bird. You have been pestering Anna and I for weeks about going out on an adventure and seeing the world with Articuno, while Anna and I, responsible sisters that we are, have been standing firm on the idea that you have responsibilities here that you can't just abandon for a flight of fancy. You decided to sneak out today, and the two of us just caught you, when we all Woke Up."
Elsa nodded slowly, before shaking her head. "Yes, that's what I thought you said and what I remembered, but I still just can't picture Anna being the responsible one."
"Hey!", Anna put her hands on her hips of her decorative kimono. "I can be plenty responsible." She maintained her scowl for all of three seconds, before breaking down in giggles again.
Elsa smiled at her, before turning around. "Right, well, I'm going to change out of these tight pants and make myself a proper ice dress, and then we can discuss what we will do this Loop."
10.6 (RockGolem): [Phineas and Ferb] / [Darkwing Duck]
Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated
Dr Heinz Doofenshmirtz was putting the finishing touches on the inator of the day when his new warning-system-inator went off "Ah, Perry the Platypus, your coming here is unexpected, and by unexpected I mean COMPLETELY EXPECTED!" He whirled around to trap Perry the Platypus only to not find him but something else instead.
"Sorry Dr Doofenshmirtz but today you don't face the powerful, pint-sized platypus but the newest agent of the Organization Without a Cool Acronym, the masked mallard of mystery instead."
"What are you? Some kind of giant duck who talks, what's with that? And who's your tailor I mean the purple jacket is fine but the purple cape, mask and fedora thats just pushing it. Oh and it's pronounced OH-WAK-AH you genius."
Blue smoke quickly filled the room to the point that mere seconds later Doofenshmirtz couldn't see a thing in front of him. He pulled out his ray-gun-inator just in case and as he put one foot forward a voice boomed out. "I am the Terror that flaps in the night!"
He made his way to where the voice had come from only to spin around as the voice now came from directly behind him. "I am the invention that disappears when you turn your back!"
Heinz twisted around pointing his trembling ray-gun-inator at the all encompassing cloud of smoke. "I am Darkwing Duck." The voice whispered in his ear causing him to freeze in terror. "Now then Dr Doofenshmirtz, Let's get dangerous."
Perry the Platypus sat on his deck chair on top of the big tree in the Flynn-Fletcher backyard drinking something tasty from a coconut and enjoying his rest. He was happy that Drake Mallard had offered to take over his Doofenshmirtz duties for the loop and hoped both of them had fun.
10.7 (Hvulpes; wildrook): [Phineas and Ferb]
Doctor Doofenshmirtz said, "I didn't build this Inator for evil, Perry the Platypus. No, I built it for good. To save Danville from the plague which floods its streets. The people are ill, even if they don't look it, don't know it. They are sick and I have the cure with this Inator."
Perry from his tiny cage, look puzzled at the unawake scientist as he pointed to another ray-gun like Inator. Pondering what disease the Mad Scientist was trying to cure with it as Doof continued his monologue. It was soon close to ending...
"Yeah, Danville has a fever, Perry the Platypus. The only cure for the fever is The More-Cowbell-Inator!"
If Perry could speak in human tongue, his response would have been a flat "What."
10.8 (kingofsouls): [Frozen] / [Sword Art Online] / [My Little Pony] / [Avatar: Legend of Korra] / [Munchkin - safe-mode Loop] / [Admin Shenanigans] (not compiled in MLP)
Elsa Awoke to the smell of rotting skin, ruined houses, and a darkened sky. Cars were flipped over and broken, and dead bodies that looked half eaten littered the surrounding ground. All in all the feeling of overwhelming helplessness and the end times being the current time.
She sighed. A Zombie Apocalypse loop.
The gnawing unending hunger clued her in about what she was: a zombie. Looking down she saw her decayed flesh, bone sticking out for the added gross factor. Oddly eight canisters with cards were in her rotting hand, depicting cartoonish things.
"Great. A zombie apocalypse loop."
"Better than being a prisoner of a pervert." Else turned to face the speaker, a orange haired young girl with a style of clothing, the coloration white with red highlights. The clothing looked unusual in the zombie setting she currently was in. "...are you looping?"
Elsa nodded, the girl sighing. "Good. This place… it's not exactly… pleasant."
"Well judging from what my sister told me of this one loop where I was a lich sorceress... that's probably an accurate statement." Elsa laughed. "I'm Elsa, Queen of Arendelle."
"Yuuki Asuna." The other girl replied, holding her hand out for Elsa to take, which she did. "So… uh where are we?"
"I do not know…"
"Neither do I." The two girls turned to face the newcomer, a purple dead unicorn, a sour expression showing despite the decaying face. "Hi Elsa."
"Twilight. Good to see you again."
"Likewise Elsa. " Twilight replied. She then noticed the rotting Asuna. "Asuna, right?"
"Yea, how do you..?"
"I'm familiar with Sword Art Online." Twilight spoke. "A pleasure meeting you."
With a gust of wind Jinora landed, looking just as undead as the other three ladies. "...I don't like this loop. Not at all."
Asuna blinked, noticing the girl she did not know. "Hi, uh…"
Twilight took it upon herself to introduce the two. "Asuna, this is Jinora. She Anchors her part of the Avatar loop. Jinora, this is Asuna."
The two girls shook hands, grateful for the chance to meet. Jinora took the opportunity to break the ice. "So any idea what's going to happen here?"
"No idea, but for some reason it feels like being in a game. Like Sword Art Online or ALFheim Online." Asuna mused. "Maybe it's some kind of Varia..." Then the loop memories hit. "...what's Munchkin, and why are there zombies involved?"
A letter then appeared out of nowhere, Elsa taking it and reading it out loud. "Dear Loopers. Trying out a new safe mode game loop. Instructions on how to play should be in your Loop Memories. Have fun. Xenu."
Twilight shrugged, the action hard for a pony, especially a decaying one, to do convincingly. "Huh. Haven't been to one of the loops he admins in a while."
"So...we're playing a game...where we're zombies." Jinora said out loud with a heavy sigh. "...this is going to be... awkward."
Asuna however was busy looking at the cards in her 'hand', taking the form of little capsules with the card inside (her loop memories told her that if she wanted to play a card breaking the capsule was the thing to do). "You're telling me. Forked Tongue? Leftovers? Decaying Flab? The hell is this?"
Twilight took a look at her cards, laughing. "Smart Shoes? Well, at least I got something close to normal."
"You're lucky Twilight. I got my Own Pancreas And/Or Spleen." Jinora mused, resisting the urge to gag.
Elsa took a look at her hand of cards, particularly one that stood out.
"On Fire?" Elsa mused. Shrugging, she decided to be the brave one, and crushed the capsule, playing the card.
Predictably, she was immediately set on fire.
"Uh…"
"Yes, I probably should have seen that coming."
Jinora took another look at her cards and found one in particular. "...Swallow the Leader? Might as well."
She crushed it, and then eyed the far reaches of the background. "...uh...is it just me or did the White House just appear in the distance. And why...does the president sound tasty right about now?"
"I wouldn't go there. Politicians are fattening." Twilight jested. A snowball was flung into her, Elsa smirking as Twilight and the other shared a laugh.
After about a minute of dinking around, Jinora became Smart (a hard feat for a zombie), Twilight had an Umbrella coming out her head, and Asuna wielded Another Zombie like an unliving sword. Elsa however remained unchanged, the ice queen continuing to burn. "This is going to be one of those Loops isn't it?" mused the queen.
"Kurito and Klein are never going to let me live this down, that's for sure." Asuna complained. "Well... who wants to kick down the first door."
"I guess I will." Ela gulped, approaching the door or a broken decaying house. Gently, she opened the door, revealing a previously unseen human sitting on a couch watching the TV.
Oddly there was no power source to turn the TV on. The human turned to face the Zombie Player characters and waved at them. "Hey guys! Friends is on! Wanna watch it with me?"
The number four flashed above Elsa's head while a two flashed above the Slackers' Suddenly Elsa's number went down by one while the Slacker's number went up by the same amount.
"...he does know we're zombies, right?" Twilight asked, eye twitching. The others just shrugged as Elsa crushed another capsule, causing Antique Vinyl records to fly at the Slacker.
Asuna stepped up to the door, clad in Shining Porcelain Armor, Stronger than ever as she kicked down the door, knocking it open in a clatter. She yelled as she brandished her Another Zombie, the creature strangely happy with being used as a sword.
She balked when she noticed what she had run into.
"Like oh my god guys it's Asuna from Sword Art Online!"
"I love you!"
"You're so hilarious!"
"HOW DO I EAT YOU?"
"I got XP's, is that bad?"
"Hey Gary!"
Asuna couldn't close the door fast enough, panic contorting her face in an amusing manner. Her companions started to laugh out loud, amused by Asuna's expression.
"It's not that funny!" Asuna cried.
"Actually it kind of is." jested the airbender. Asuna moaned, the door slowly opening on it's own, revealing a never ending mob of geeks, nerd, and enthusiasts. "What are they?"
"3,872 Dorks."
Twilight laughed even harder now, Asuna reddening in embarrassment. "What got you so scared dorks? You're Level 7, and you have plus 7 anyway."
"Lets just say I had an Abridged Loop and end it there."
Several ooohs of understanding was spoken, some spoken by the zombies that served as the audience. Elsa, still of fire and now wearing a Car Door, smirked. "Well, sorry about this Asuna, but now those dorks are Driving a Steamroller."
Suddenly the 3,872 Dorks got into 3,872 steamrollers.
"And a Firmly Attached Doberman."
"OH COME O…"
Asuna didn't get to finish that as she was comically flattened 3,872 times.
Meanwhile, Sleipnir and Fenrir gave each other a high five. Several of the admins were watching the game, and thanks to Thoth a betting pool was made.
Elsa carefully opened the door, seeing nothing beyond it. "huh… is there supposed to be anything back…"
Thunder cracked and everything suddenly got wetter.
"Raaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnns!" the audience moaned. The still on fire Ice Queen huffed, her hands freezing as she urged her icy magic into the sky, freezing the rain and turning it to hail.
Her companions just stared in amazement. "...what?"
"Uh...isn't that cheating?" Jinora asked. Elsa shrugged. "Well…. this is munchkin."
"I'm actually okay with that." Twilight replied.
10.9 (kingofsouls): [Big Hero 6]
Hiro rushed into Tadashi's lab, exhausted from running. Tadashi was the first to notice as Loopers started to converge. "Hey Hiro... what's wrong? You look like you saw a ghost."
Hiro said nothing as he held up a golden statue of a man, shaking it gently.
The screams of joy could be heard in every corner of San Fransokyo.
10.10 (Mr. Egret): [Disney] / [My Little Pony] (not compiled in MLP)
Empress Celestia, Caretaker of the Sun and Supreme Ruler of Equestria Reborn, glared at the intruder, as they stood on opposite sides of the courtyard. Above them, the once-glorious barrier, the thing that would have saved the worlds, had a gaping, jagged hole, as if someone had smashed it open like an egg. Through the faint golden glow of the barrier's remains, the white light of Kingdom Hearts could be seen, like a grotesque perversion of her beloved sister's moon. The only sound that could be heard was the faint whistling of the wind, as it passed through her flowing mane, and disturbed the folds of the intruder's black coat.
"Why?" she finally asked. "All we wanted to do was to help you. To uplift you from your unevolved forms and have you join us as something greater! To help you discard your hateful tendencies and your reliance on corrupted technology, and embrace the wonders of friendship and magic! We gave you the offer of utopia, and you gave us only ruin and destruction in return! How could you do this to us?!"
The intruder slowly reached into his coat, and Celestia tensed, expecting a weapon. Instead, he pulled out three photographs, and held them out to her. She automatically gripped them with her magic, and looked through them. The photographs showed three different ponies, two stallions and one mare. Judging from their wide grins and somewhat vacant eyes, they were likely newfoals.
One of the stallions was an earth pony with a chestnut coat, a dark brown mane, and hazel eyes. He was in the middle of pulling a cart loaded up with hay, and looked like he was hardly making an effort. His flank had a cutie mark in the shape of a stout tree.
The other stallion had a more slight built, as was befitting a pegasus, with a cream-colored coat, an unruly blond mane and piercing blue eyes. He was pushing a cloud into position, and his cutie mark, a pinwheel, was clearly visible.
The last one, the mare, was a unicorn, who was hanging onto Prince Blueblood's foreleg, while they were hobnobbing with the rest of the nobility. Her coat was aquamarine and her short-cut mane was a deep blue, as were her eyes. Her cutie mark was of a sapphire next to a curling wave.
Celestia looked at the photographs with confusion. "I... don't understand. You tore down our ponification clinics, destroyed our barrier, and singlehandedly infiltrated my very castle because of three random newfoals?"
"They were my friends, once."
Celestia dropped the photos, and smirked at the cloaked figure. "Ah, so it's revenge, is it? How typical of humanity, to channel their feelings into violence and hate."
The figure shook his head. "No. Not revenge. They wouldn't want me to stoop that low."
"Then why?" Celestia asked.
The figure clasped his hands behind his back. "They had a mission to complete, before they got dosed. I'm just here to see it finished properly."
Celestia snorted, and pawed at the ground. "And what would that be? My assassination, I suppose."
The figure looked up at the sky. "Celestia, when was the last time you remember seeing your sister raise the moon? Or receiving a letter from Miss Sparkle?"
Celestia's horn flared to life as she glared daggers at the figure. "If you've hurt either of them, I will burn you to ashes," she hissed.
If the figure could see the present danger, then he was doing his level best to ignore it. "You don't know, do you?"
"Where. Are. They?" she ground out through gritted teeth, ignoring the shadows that had started to build around her.
The figure pointed at her. "They are safe, in my home. After you began your campaign, they had... an Awakening, of sorts, and came to me for some help."
"You're lying!" Celestia snapped. "They would never associate themselves with the humans!"
The figure began to pace along the edge of the courtyard, while Celestia moved to keep opposite from him. "At first, my friends went to help them," he continued, "but that horrible potion of yours put paid to them. So, I chose to go myself. Your student was quite stubborn about that."
Celestia got an odd look in her eye, as her mind put the pieces together. "So that's it... You monster!"
A beam of energy, as brilliant as the Sun she raised every morning, burst forth from her horn, burning through the air towards the figure. The figure moved, seemingly flowing over to the banister, the jumping off of it, and over the beam's path, landing on a path of scorched ground. Had he still been standing there a second longer, he would have been nothing more than a patch of glass on the floor. "You corrupted my student, turned her against me!" she ranted, as the shadows around grew deeper and darker. "Humanity's treachery truly knows no bounds!"
Suddenly, the figure was next to her. There was no blur of motion, no sign of teleportation, no dimensional distortion. He was simply next to the banister one moment, and beside her the next. "No. She sent me to help you. You're sick, Celestia. You've been sick for a very long time."
"Get away from me!" she screamed, as she unleashed another searing-hot beam of energy, which was just as easily sidestepped as the first.
The figure shook his head sadly. "It's worse than I thought. You don't even recognize my voice, do you?"
Celestia nickered fearfully, her eyes widening, as the voice finally ignited a spark of recognition. "No... no, that's impossible..." she whispered.
The figure grabbed his coat, pulled it off, and threw it to the side in one fluid motion. Celestia gasped.
Mickey Mouse, King of Disney Castle, and Keyblade Master smiled sadly at his old friend. "Hello, Celestia."
"And cut! Print! That's a wrap! Good job everyone!"
Celestia and Mickey broke out in matching grins, as they walked off of the film set. "Oh boy! Am I glad that's over!" Mickey said, as he grabbed two cups of coffee from a nearby table, and handed one to Celestia.
"Indeed; that scene was quite the chore to film," Celestia replied, gratefully accepting the cup and taking a sip. "Tell me, how did you do that teleportation thing?"
"Oh, that?" Mickey asked idly, while taking a sip of his own. "I just used a soundless version of Stopza to stop time, walked over to you, then ended the spell. It only looked like teleportation because you can't really see what's happening in stopped time."
"Most interesting. You know, Twilight would be interested to learn from you."
"No fooling? Maybe we can discuss it later this evening, over dinner. I hear there's a new vegetarian restaurant not far from here..."
"That would be delightful, Mickey."
The two monarchs laughed, made their arrangements and split to their respective trailers, as the lights shining on the set went out one by one.
10.1: Candace can do nice things for her brothers on occasion.
10.2: Gargoyles in Attack On Titan. What more can I say?
10.3: RWBY Meets Disney.
10.4: Ice meets ice.
10.5: Ash's Pikachu is the Anchor for Pokémon, by the way.
10.6: Say goodnight, Doofenshmirtz.
10.7: Doof comes up with some weird Inators.
10.8: Trying out a new safe-mode Loop.
10.9: In honor of Big Hero 6 winning the 2014 Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
10.10: We don't like to talk about the Bureau… but since this wasn't the real version, it's okay.