At some point, a guest had suggested including Ladybug and Cat Noir. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be going with that option for personal reasons, but it was a pretty good idea considering the setting. However, there will be a lot more characters you know and love, as well as some pretty cool ones you probably don't ;). Hint: I ENVY YOU GUYS WHO EXPERIENCED DISNEY ITALY! YOU GOT STORIES THAT MADE DARKWING DUCK LOOK LIKE A HATCHLING! Unfortunately, that wasn't always a good thing, BUT I STILL ENVY YOU! My poor, Western friends, the majority of you have no idea what you were missing. Is there anyone there who has any idea what I'm talking about? If so, let me know. I would be very, veeery impressed if you've picked up on what I'm talking about, or if you can find out with a little help from the search engine.
Chapter 12
What's Up Danger?
Mittens wasn't the bravest of all creatures. She wasn't the world's biggest coward either, but standing beside the courageous Bolt and the desensitised Rhino, she always came off as the scaredy cat of the group. During the harrowing experiences she had endured at the paws of the dog and hamster before they became her friends, you couldn't blame her for all of her moments of terror. However, her cockamamie past adventures with Bolt and Rhino were nothing compared to her present predicament.
Mittens lay curled in fetal position at the centre of a park that no longer resembled a park in any way. Whizzing by, blazing past and blasting tons of soil from the ground were all manners of super attacks. She couldn't keep track of half of what was happening around her, let alone the brief bursts of green lightning that sparked to life every time she had a close call. It was a wonder she'd remained untouched by the melee. However, things were about to change.
"Mittens, you gotta move!" Bolt shouted as he weaved between Wasabi's stretching blades before narrowly avoiding a double-fisted smash from Mr. Incredible.
"There's no place like home. There's no place like home," Mittens muttered once again, paralysed by her fear (to the best of her knowledge).
( ( (( ARF! )) ) ) barked Bolt, sending Mr. Incredible flying. However, he quickly found himself tumbling after an arctic blast from Frozone. Slowed by the chill, he scarcely managed to avoid Baymax's flying fist before unleashing a barrage of Strike Stares that sent his foes flying in multiple directions.
"MOVE, Mittens!" Bolt repeated with increased fervour.
His words finally registered, but the cat glanced about at a loss, not shifting an inch. Where to move? This place was a war zone! She'd been safe in this spot thus far. Would she jinx it if she moved?
Mittens didn't even know what hit her.
It could have been anything: a piece of debris; a stray attack. Two things were certain. It had landed on top of her.
And it hurt. A lot.
The pain stopped. Mittens felt lighter than she did even after her electric shock. Too light. It was as if she were there, but minus the flesh, bone, fur and all else that constituted her mass. It was an eerily unnatural sensation.
"Oh no ... I'm dead," Mittens muttered. "I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm dead. I died. I'm dead."
She worked up the courage to open her eyes and was greeted by the sight of a cloudy skyscape. Was this ... Heaven? If so, where was God? What about the angels?
She looked down at her paws and discovered that there were no paws - only sinews of dancing, green lightning.
For the umpteenth time in that acutely stressful day, Mittens began to scream. Then she fell through the clouds, back to Earth at the speed of light, and her scream reached a whole new volume.
The battle came to an abrupt pause as a green bolt of lightning crashed down in the midst of the fighters, dissipating to reveal the black cat panting in panic.
"I'm ... alive?" she asked tentatively.
((~Whoa! Cat, you're back!~)) Rhino exclaimed, his Ball Lightning driven mostly into the ground and pinned beneath the IncrediBall. ((~And here you thought 'I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm dead. I died. I'm dead'! HA! You hear that? That was a call back to a call back to a call back of something I didn't even hear! Take THAT, logic! Ooh! Another combo call back to something I didn't hear! And ANOTHER! I'm on a roll!~))
"I shouldn't be alive!" Mittens asserted, still traumatised and unable to care less about Rhino's 'call backs'. "Last I remember, something practically killed me!"
While Rhino remained subdued beneath Dash and Violet, the battle quickly heated up around them once again.
Rhino grew sheepish. ((~Well, I ... uh ... this is a battle, y'know? Anything could have 'practically killed' you, and it could have happened to anyon-.~))
~((He squished you! He squished you!))~ Dash tattled, pointing an accusing finger at Rhino. ~((He wasn't watching where he was rolling!))~
If looks could kill, Rhino might have passed away under Mittens' glare. Even when one of Honey Lemon's chem balls narrowly missed her, she never broke her death stare.
The hamster chuckled nervously. ((~Hey, at least you 'lived and learned'.~))
"I died and learned!" Mittens spat, again getting lucky when Fred's flames passed her by.
((~But you came back!~)) Rhino argued. ((~The moment I rolled over you, you turned to lightning, shot into the sky and returned without a scratch! If I didn't know any better, I'd say you have ... Nine Lives! Yeah! That's what we'll call it! You should thank me!~))
She could think of several thinks to do to him that did not involve thanking.
~((Oh, he'll get what's coming to him!))~ Dash declared, still holding a grudge against the hamster.
Suddenly, the Ball Lightning disappeared, leaving the IncrediBall formerly on top of it to fall into its place.
"Hey! Where'd he go?" asked Violet.
Suddenly, a portal screen opened above the super siblings and out dropped Rhino, reforming his ball with a booming bolt of lightning.
((~I'm back, hairy babies!~)) he declared. ((~And with another combo call back!~))
The IncrediBall darted clear just before Rhino came crashing down. Returning for a counter attack, Dash and Violet rammed Rhino's force field in a collision of exotic sparks and sound. It didn't take long for the two balls to be bouncing off of each other like pool balls in a blazing-fast string of attacks.
Mittens' attention was yanked back to the battle raging around her. She didn't quite know how to make her next move, but she did not want to have any more near-death experiences. Maybe she had 'nine lives'. Maybe she had more. Maybe she had less, but her regenerative power had its limits. She could feel it - something had ebbed away when she first respawned. By instinct, she knew that it could be replenished just as well as food could quench hunger, but she didn't want to find out what happened when that 'something' hit zero.
So, what to do?
Rhino, being Rhino, remained reckless as ever, and of all the fighters he seemed to endanger her the most. It took her a moment to realise what was really happening, though. He should have hit her - several times, actually, but one way or another, he always missed. In fact, everything was missing her. As more and more heroes started to see her as a threat, she was sure that quite a few of their attacks were aimed at her, but they never quite reached her.
Then it clicked.
The world seemed to change position just a bit every time a hit came her way, but it wasn't moving. She was moving. Faster than consciousness, Mittens was dodging every threat in a blur of green lightning. It felt so natural, like breathing. No one thinks about breathing, and she certainly wasn't thinking about the many little moves she was making to keep out of harm's way. However, her mind was quickly growing into her speed much like an infant learning to walk. Good thing, too: when the berserk heroes really started taking notice of her, Mittens found that 'breathing' wasn't enough.
Mr. Incredible hurled a boulder her way and her heart spiked with fear. She had to run, and run she did. In the next fraction of a second, she found herself hiding up a tall tree a few blocks away from the battle.
"Yipe!" she exclaimed as her own sonic boom caught up with her. It was enough to make her lose her foothold and fall all the way down the length of the tree. She would have landed on her feet, if not for colliding with the lower trunk on the way down. However, she caught sight of the ground before impact and green lightning sprang from her eyes, electrifying the sidewalk just before she landed on her side. Strange. The impact didn't hurt. In fact, it was comfortable - like landing on a pillow. Had her lightning somehow stolen the ground's ability to hurt her?
((~You declawed the ground!~)) came Rhino's amplified voice. ((~'Declaw': that's what we're calling your new power!~))
Scarcely had the rat begun her thought before Bolt and Rhino arrived in a rush of lightning, the rats clinging to the canine's back.
"You saw me?" asked Mittens.
"Tele Vision, remember?" Rhino explained. "Besides, there's that cosmic awareness I told Bolt about earlier. It's like peeking beyond the 4th Wall, and oh! The things I've seen. You do not wanna be in my head, but I'm lovin' it!"
Declawing the ground? That was an interesting way to put it. The red rat had seen the fall on Rhino's Tele Vision too, and she had the same explanation in mind. However, her reasoning was a tad more complicated. The ground had squashed inwards in a crater beneath Mittens when she landed, as if it were temporarily made of some soft material designed to cushion the cat's fall. It seemed her Declaw had created an energy field that protected the outside world from everything within it, while making its target highly susceptible to external forces. In other words, instead of Mittens taking damage after falling, the ground had taken the damage for her. Very fascinating indeed ...
"Hmm ..." hummed a thoughtful Bolt. "You're faster than the both of us combined. Here, take the rats. You can make it to the Eiffel Tower and back before the heroes blink!"
"Oh, okay. Sure thing," Mittens agreed, allowing the rodents to hop onto her back.
The cat took off, but left Bolt and Rhino exchanging glances upon witnessing her less-than-super speed.
"Um, any time now," Rhino suggested.
"I'm running as fast as I can!" Mittens stated from a little further down the street.
"You're running as fast as a normal cat!" Rhino declared. "C'mon! Pick up the pace!"
Mittens put her back into it, but embarrassingly her muscles refused to move much quicker.
"It's not working!" she stated.
Out of the blue, the IncrediBall swept Rhino away with a charging attack. Once again, the cat vanished in an unimaginably rapid blaze of lightning.
Bolt rolled his eyes. On the bright side, her speed was working again. On the downside, it only seemed to work when she was afraid ... and he had no idea where she had run off to this time.
The dog scanned for Mittens with his Motion Sixth Sense, but it seemed she had stopped running, and was thus more difficult to detect. Unfortunately, his sensory power was distracted by the foes it detected coming in hot, much like a kid tugging on his mother's hand to get her attention. He just needed a liiittle more time to pinpoint Mittens.
Time up.
Plasma blades, rocket fist, mag lev discs, fire and freeze all came raining down at Bolt. Half by luck, he managed to dodge them all for the most part. If not for his durability, Wasabi's glancing blow might have cost him a lower leg.
Bolt's tactical mind spotted an opening for a counterattack, but he underestimated Mr. Incredible's reflexes and charged right into the super's open arms. The dog struggled to break the hero's grip, but strong as he was, Mr. Incredible was stronger. Still, Bolt might have been able to wriggle out of the super's arms given time.
"Honey!" Mr. Incredible called.
In an instant, Elastigirl had wrapped around her husband, reinforcing his grip and thoroughly subduing the canine.
Splitting up, the remaining members of the super hero teams headed off to find the rodents and keep Rhino busy.
The IncrediBall shoved the Ball Lightning through building after building with no sign of stopping. Only when the two force fields had ploughed into a Buy n' Large supermarket did the IncrediBall come to a stop, but not by choice.
Dash and Violet found themselves frozen in the cross section of a Tele Vision screen, with a 'pause' symbol at the centre overlaying their force field.
~((Grrr!))~ the boy growled in frustration, but try as he may, he couldn't move an inch. This brought back the very unwelcome memory of Syndrome's 'zero point energy'.
Rhino gathered himself and twisted his head with his little paws, resulting in a satisfying series of tiny snaps and pops like cracking knuckles.
((~Okay, my turn,~)) Rhino declared.
The screen's 'pause' turned to 'rewind' and the IncrediBall was propelled right back where it came from, Violet screaming, Dash roaring vengefully.
'Scaredy Cat'.
That's what Mittens was sure Rhino would have called her speed-based power given the chance. To think she could only use it in moments of terror. She couldn't decide which she disliked more: the title 'Scaredy Cat' or 'Declaw'. She didn't like being the lily liver of the group, and she hated the fact that her former owners had actually removed her claws. Those names were like jabs at her insecurities, but she could dislike them 'till the cows came home. There was no changing the fact that they were perfectly appropriate.
Mittens grew dizzy as she gazed down the fire escape that she and the rats were climbing.
"Whoooa boy. I don't do well with heights," the cat commented, backing away from the edge.
"You climbed a tree a minute ago," Remy reasoned, scurrying ahead of her.
"Yeah, well there's 'high' and then there's 'high'." Mittens explained as she hurried after the rats. "This is 'high'. How does Bolt do this derring-do without batting an eye?"
"If it helps, you're not Bolt," stated the red rodent, rushing ahead with Remy. "You can't do what he does the way he does it. So don't do it like him. Do it like you."
"Oh, so you make references too, huh?" asked Mittens.
"References to what?" asked the red rodent.
"Never mind," Mittens dismissed. "So, how am I supposed to 'do me'?"
"That's something only you can figure out, I guess," the red rat stated in a half-sagely, half-lazy answer.
Having reached the top of the fire escape, the rodents climbed onto Mittens' back before she leapt onto a windowsill and to to the edge of the building's roof, pulling herself up. They all climbed to the top of the spire on the roof and looked around at the landscape.
"Recognise anything, Remy?" asked the red rat.
"I still have no idea where we are," Remy answered, "except that we're close to the edge of the city, but anyone with eyes can see that. There! I can see the Eiffel Tower!"
"But it's so far," the female groaned in disappointment. "How did we get so far off course?"
Mittens frowned. "And me being the only one with super speed and no idea how to use it."
The cat's eyes popped. Did she have no idea how to use her speed?
"Strap yourselves to me with my collar real tight," Mittens instructed.
"Okay," Remy replied as he and the other rodent complied. "I take it you have an idea?"
Mittens wasn't listening at the time. Her eyes had drifted to the bustling street below and her head swam with the dread of her plan.
"What's up, danger?" Mittens muttered.
"Huh?" asked the rats in unison.
"It's a movie reference, something Rhino might have said," Mittens explained. "However, I'm not Rhino. I'm not Bolt either, but I think I figured out how to 'do me'."
Without warning, the cat leapt down from the spire and rushed across the roof, right towards the edge.
"Wait! I said 'do you', not 'commit suicide'!" the red rat yelled in a hurried panic. "You can respawn! We can't! MITTENS!? MITTEEENS!?"
The rat's pleas degenerated into screams as the cat threw herself over the edge, and Mittens was pretty sure her own terrified voice was mixed in there somewhere. She could have used her Declaw on the ground, but she didn't afford herself even that comfort. Not yet. Mittens even fought her own instincts and refused to twist so as to land on her feet, and her instincts were shrieking in abject terror. Good. That terror built to mind-boggling proportions as Mittens neared the ground. Just a little farther ...
Four feet from going 'splat', the cat deployed her Declaw and let her body snap into position to land on her paws. All that pent up fear came to life in the lightning that surged off her body, and Mittens tore away with a sonic boom on her tail.
"Is the dog still alive?" asked Elastigirl.
"I ... think so?" Mr. Incredible answered uncertainly.
"Is he still breathing?" pressed Elastigirl.
"I honestly can't tell," replied Mr. Incredible.
"Seriously, Honey! How hard are you squeezing him?" Elastigirl asked in an accusing tone.
"I'm not squeezing him, I'm just holding him firmly!" Mr. Incredible argued. "Besides, he's a tough dog, he can handle it! Maybe he's, I dunno, playing dead!"
"Dogs don't play dead this well unless they actually are dead!" Elastigirl countered.
Bolt would have liked for them to think that he was dead. Perfectly limp and scarcely drawing a breath, it seemed his plan was working. However, he would have liked it even more if the Incredibles released him. Though they bickered back and forth about his status, it seemed they had the presence of mind not to take any chances. That was fine. At least they had loosened their grips. Besides, he was using the time to focus his Motion Sixth Sense on finding Mittens and the rats. After all, he had to know where to go once he was free. At first, he drew a blank: too much city and too many cats to single out Mittens at this distance. As for the rats? They were simply too small to discern at that distance. Besides, this power was pretty new to him. Using it was like learning how to walk.
There! He had her! She was moving rather strangely. In one moment, she flashed past the sonic barrier. In the next, she had returned to a normal run before bursting back to incomprehensible speeds. Her path was a haphazard zigzag, but nonetheless he had her.
In an unexpected surge of staggering might, Bolt writhed as he tried to break free of the supers. They instantly tightened their grips, but the leeway he had was just enough to give him a fighting chance. In one final effort, Bolt wriggled his body to turn around and found himself face to face with Mr. Incredible. He still wasn't free. However, he smiled.
"Hey, why are you so smug with yourself?" asked Mr. Incredible.
"Oh no ..." commented Elastigirl, having figured it out.
( ( (( BARK! )) ) )
The super heroes' grips broke as they were blasted away from the canine. Bolt tumbled to the ground, and no sooner was he on his feet before he shot into the distance.
Monster Baymax soared through the French firmament with the other Big Heroes tagging along for the ride. Between Honey Lemon's ChemiCal and GoGo's MagnetEyes, they had a pretty good idea of the direction in which Mittens and the rats were heading, and were well on their way to heading them off.
In the middle of a buzzing street, Mittens' speed ran out once again, but she kept finding creative ways to scare herself silly and regain it - in this case by running under the wheel of a speeding vehicle. Little more than an inch from becoming roadkill, her speed kicked in and she had covered a kilometre.
Having dashed up the side of a building, Mittens slowed to normal sprint as she spotted the Eiffel Tower from the top, regaining her sense of direction before diving off the edge. As she fell, her feet met the side of the structure and she sprinted back to impossible speeds, cutting in front of cars; turning into walls and changing direction at the last second; running on water; taking detours through guard dog territories and provoking attacks - anything to coax out her inner scaredy cat.
Mittens' paws pattered onto grass as she entered the green space Champ De Mars - the only thing separating her from the Eiffel Tower. Her goal was in sight, but unfortunately so was the entire Big Hero 6, disembarking Baymax at the centre of Champ De Mars.
"Oh great!" whined Mittens. "These guys just don't quit!"
Well, no matter. She didn't think there was a speedster on Earth who could catch her when she had a good scare. Now, all she needed was such a scare to kick start her speed again. Unfortunately, her wish came at first in the form of a chill on her back. Her mind and body jumped into hyper drive and she took off, but something wasn't right. Looking back, Mittens found her leg frozen to the ground, by what could only be Frozone's blast, but he was not done there. With her speed, she was able to witness his icy power moving up her leg and to her flank as if it were in slow motion, but her speed couldn't save her. Maybe something else could. She fired her Declaw, but it passed through the chilly white with no effect. With most of her lower body encased in ice, Mittens had to act fast, shoving the rats out of her collar.
The rodents tumbled onto the grass and quickly regained their footing to find Mittens completely enveloped in ice.
"Oh man, this is bad!" the red rat stated.
In a flash, Bolt and Rhino arrived, the hamster's Ball Lightning shielding against Frozone's second attack. In spite of the freezing winds crashing against his ball and the heroes charging in, Rhino was laughing. Bolt was curious as to what had tickled the hamster's funny bone, but first things first.
"Hop on!" Bolt commanded, quickly obeyed by the rats. "Rhino, is there a reason why you're cackling like that?"
"I think I just charged my finisher!" the hamster proclaimed proudly.
Bolt blinked in confusion. "What?"
"It means I'm about to do something WICKED O.P. and INSANELY AWESOME!" Rhino explained, his enthusiasm reaching a crescendo. "Go! I'll distract them!"
"Are you su-?" Bolt began, before being interrupted by the hamster.
"Trust me. There's nothing more distracting than Tele Vision," Rhino declared with a grin.
Bolt relented. "Alright. Just don't get killed, okay?"
Without another word, the hamster reached his paws to the heavens and summoned a plethora of lightning bolts. Everyone squeezed their ears and eyes shut as the lightning struck him with a cacophony of tempestuous roars, over and over and over. As quickly as it began, the lightning ceased, leaving Rhino's a blinding ball of radiance. After absorbing that much energy, Bolt feared that Rhino would explode ... and he did. All at once, the lightning erupted in every direction, creating a dome of red much like his ball, albeit big enough to engulf all of Champ De Mars and the heroes on its grounds. Rhino rose into the air like a white-hot star, surrounded by a swirling mass of screens.
( ( ((~BEEEHOOOLD, REALITY TELEVISION!~)) ) ) Rhino declared with a resonant boom in his voice.
One of the hamster's screens swooped down and snatched up Bolt and the rats, teleporting them just outside of the barrier and right in front of the Eiffel Tower.
( ( DON'T KILL ANYBODY, OKAY? ) ) Bolt shouted into the lightning dome, but he had a feeling Rhino's maniacal laughter rendered his super voice null and void.
"Well, that makes twice I've been rendered deaf today," Remy announced a-matter-of-factly.
Luckily, Bolt's ears were far more durable than Remy's, but what he heard at that time was a mystery. It was giggling - disembodied giggling that echoed like the voice of a spectre. Bolt tried to ignore the unexplainable noise and focus on finishing the mission. A super jump should get him a good way up the Eiffel Tower. He leapt, but quickly found himself held in place by an invisible force a few feet from the ground. The giggling persisted, somehow drawing nigh though its source remained unseen. Bolt's Motion Sixth Sense detected movement, but like the giggle it seemed to have no discernible origin.
Suddenly, a baby in a red super suit and black mask flopped out of a swirling portal before Bolt, grunting upon landing unharmed and in a seated position. Jack Jack looked up at the frozen super dog with big blue eyes and a curious coo before giggling. Albeit less creepy now that the baby was revealed, the eerie giggling indubitably belonged to him.
The heroes unleashed their powers and technologies upon the dome that separated them from Bolt and the rodents, but their best efforts came to naught.
They turned to Rhino, still floating at the centre of the dome. Mr. Incredible didn't know what kind of power the hamster had unleashed, but he was ready to nip it in the bud.
The super charged towards Rhino.
The hamster grinned. He'd dreamed of this. Now, he knew that he could make his dreams a reality.
One of Rhino's screens had stopped swirling to expand and block the super's path, but Mr. Incredible's fist was poised to smash right through it to its master. The super threw a titanic punch. Much to his surprise, something emerged from the screen - a massive fist that collided with his own in a concussive impact, cancelling his attack. Following the fist came an iconic statement, straight from the heart of classic gaming.
"I'm gonna WRECK it!"
Bolt flailed in the air, attempting to break free of what ever held him fast. Jack Jack giggled all the more and clapped his hands at sight of Bolt's plight. It didn't take much to assume that the child was responsible for Bolt's predicament. It didn't take much to figure out that the child was an Incredible either.
The dog quickly realised that the backlash of a Super Bark, err ... 'Thunder Bark' might free him from the Jack Jack's telekinesis. That was also a good way to accidentally blast away the baby in front of him. In other words, bad idea. However, Bolt's fortune changed when the child made him telekinetically spin in the air. The moment Bolt was faced away from the toddler, he gave a mild Thunder Bark and was thrown out of the telekinetic grip.
Bolt had every intention of taking off the second he landed, but sniffles and whimpers held him on the spot just as firmly as the telekinesis did. He turned tack to see Jack Jack on the verge of tears. The dog kicked himself mentally. Thunder Barks were loud, duh. Maybe this one had hurt the baby's ears, hence the whimpers.
Eyebrows furrowed in concern, Bolt trotted over to Jack Jack as the baby burst into tears. The dog gave the toddler a comforting lick, which brought a smile back to Jack Jack's face. Suddenly, Bolt found the child's arms wrapped around him in a premeditated hug. Like all babies, Jack Jack had learned early on that crying often got him what he wanted. He wanted to hug the fluffy, white animal, so he let flow the waterworks, and that's exactly what he got. Baby 101.
Bolt let the child hold on for a few moments before attempting to pull away. Jack Jack only tightened his grip, and it was a pretty strong grip, too. The way the raspberry rat screamed something about her flesh, her bones and her organs told him that Jack Jack's fingers had reached the rodents on Bolt's back. Clearly the child had super strength, on top of telekinesis and teleportation. How many powers did this kid have, anyway?
Bolt felt a strange, offsetting sensation. It was much like the feeling he picked up when Jack Jack first teleported in, but different somehow. Not just different. Wrong. His instincts told him 'run!', but how could he with the fragile little bundle of joy attached to him? Maybe Jack Jack was tougher than the average child, but Bolt didn't want to risk it. Nonetheless, yellow lightning left his body unbidden before melding with a swirling portal birthed by Jack Jack. Now, Bolt was ready to run, but his instincts carried a different message.
'Too late now.'
In the twinkling of an eye, Bolt, Jack Jack and the rats disappeared into the yellow portal. Where was it taking them? Somewhere beyond their imaginations.
Beyond infinity.
So, what do you think of Rhino and Mittens' powers? Are they what you imagined them to be?
Now, here are the chapter's Easter egg references. Well, I kind of outlined them for you, so I dunno if they qualify as true "Easter eggs", but you get the gist. Can you figure out their sources? If so, comment and prove your fiction savvy (or just prove how well google works when you try to look them up. Bonus points if you don't have to google.)
1) That Disney Italy series I highlighted at the start. Like I said, I'd be EXTREMELY impressed if you can figure it out before it shows up in the story.
2)"There's no place like home. There's no place like home," Mittens muttered once again, paralysed by her fear. (This quote has been used a lot, but in this case I'm referring to usage in a specific Disney/Pixar movie.)
3) ((~Whoa! Cat, you're back!~)) Rhino exclaimed, his Ball Lightning driven mostly into the ground and pinned beneath the IncrediBall. ((~And here you thought 'I'm dead-I'm dead-I'm dead-I'm dead-I'm dead-I'm dead-I died-I'm dead'! HA! You hear that? That was a call back to a call back to a call back of something I didn't even hear! Take THAT, logic! Ooh! Another combo call back to something I didn't hear! And ANOTHER! I'm on a roll!~)) (Of course, that paragraph was chock-full of Easter eggs. Can you figure out them all?)
4) ((~I'm back, hairy babies!~)) he declared. ((~And with another combo call back!~))
5) "If it helps, you're not Bolt," stated the red rodent, rushing ahead with Remy. "You can't do what he does the way he does it. So don't do it like him. Do it like you."
6) "What's up, danger?" Mittens muttered.
Thanks for reading!