It seemed to be quiet with the rides and games all around, but no one seemed to be using them.
"They must be closed if nobody else is here." Hunter said as they explored.
"If they were, then wouldn't these rides look better?" Ashlyn asked.
The Ever After High kids looked very curious as they came to explore.
"Looks like this place even has a cow." Crow said to the others as they explored.
"Seems to be the only animal they have." Raven said.
Mr. Badwolf decided to go find somebody in charge as he left the students on their own.
"Whoa... Nice statue..." Ashlynn said as she looked up to see a statue of a man with a woman along with a young boy with them. "They must be a family."
"Looks like it." Hunter said.
Mr. Starling soon drove through a bit. "Oh, Robyn, I really hope we can help out your Aunt Violet and Cousin Jack." he then said to his daughter as they were almost there.
"If there's a clock ride, I'm gonna run up it." Jerry smirked, referencing the nursery rhyme of Hickory Dickory Dock.
"They might." Patch smiled.
"How's your family, Patch?" Robyn asked.
"Oh, everybody's pretty tired out from our New Year's adventure," Patch replied. "I tried to get as much sleep as I could get before I came over."
"I guess luckily your niece and nephews weren't over, then you'd never get to sleep." Tom chuckled.
"Probably." Patch said.
A young brown-haired boy, slightly younger than Robyn was shown at the theme park as he stepped out of a building to check out the theme park that was still empty, except for now a couple of cars. "Huh? I wonder who's here?" he then asked himself in surprise. He soon saw his cousin and uncle along with the animals. "Oh, boy!" he then beamed. "Cousin Robyn! I bet she brought Tom and Jerry too!"
Tom and Jerry looked out the windows to see the various rides before they left the car with their family to explore.
Patch took a look at the Ever After High kids, but they looked different which made him curious. "Is that them?" The Dalmatian asked himself.
"This bring back some memories?" Mr. Starling smiled at Robyn.
"It sure does," Robyn smiled back. "I can't wait to see my favorite cousin."
"And I can't wait to see my favorite little sister." Mr. Starling chuckled.
Patch soon came up to see the group of high school students. "Crow, is that you?" he then asked one of them.
Crow turned around at that, unalarmed at the sight of the talking dog.
"It is you!" Patch smiled before looking curious. "Why do you guys look so different?"
"Mr. Badwolf wants us to blend in with this world, so we're all teenage mortals." Crow explained.
"Ohh, I guess that makes sense." Patch then said.
"The magic of the potion only lasts until after sunset." Crow said.
"Well, I hope you enjoy your time as mortals while you can," Patch shrugged. "It should be an interesting experience."
"Yeah, I guess so," Crow shrugged. "This place is kinda boring though. There's no one else here besides us."
"Well, that's what happens when the rides are broken." Patch said as he saw the rides were all broken.
"Yikes, that's totally not safe." Hunter remarked.
"Says the boy who carries a bow and arrow around with him like Sparrow Hood." Raven crossed her arms with a smirk.
"Touchè." Hunter said.
"So, Patch, what're you doing here?" Crow asked the Dalmatian then. "Cherry and Atticus have a special assignment?"
"I'm actually here with my good friends," Patch replied as he shook his head at the question. "Robyn Starling and her pets: Tom the Cat and Jerry the Mouse."
"That's nice." Crow said.
"It's nice to see you guys again," Patch smiled. "We have some catching up to do."
Crow smiled back as that sounded nice. Jack soon came out to meet his cousin and uncle up close as Tom and Jerry also came out.
"Oh, Jack, you're just getting so big." Robyn smiled.
"I'm taller than I was the last time you saw me," Jack chuckled as he held his hand above his head. "Mom says I'm gonna have a growth spurt someday."
"Hopefully you get there soon, then you'll be as tall as the adults." Robyn giggled.
"Yeah." Jack smiled.
"Looks like Storybook Town has seen better day though." Robyn said.
"Yeah... Mom and I are trying to save it," Jack sighed a bit. "It's not very easy though."
"Well, I'm not sure how much help we can be, but we promise to help you out, even Tom and Jerry." Robyn promised.
Tom and Jerry nodded in agreement.
"It'll take a lot of help from some good friends," Jack smiled. "I've heard from you that Tom and Jerry are friends to the end."
Jerry spit into his paw and held it out to shake on it. Jack then shook hands with the mouse.
"They get along with each other a lot nicer than when I first met them." Robyn told her cousin.
Tom and Jerry gave thumb's up before showing of how much they get along while still having their cat and mouse chases.
"See?" Robyn smiled.
"Now that's what I like to see; teamwork." Jack smiled back.
"Looks like you could use some help with this mess." Robyn then said.
"Yeah, we should clean this up before my mom flips out." Jack agreed.
"Right." Tom smiled.
"How can we help?" Robyn asked her cousin.
"Come with me!" Jack smiled as they started to clean things up.
Tom and Jerry dashed off with some cleaning tools to get started.
"You okay, Hermione?" Jack asked the cow. "I don't want anything happening to our star attraction."
Hermione mooed, reminding Jack that she was their only attraction.
"Okay, only attraction," Jack then said to the cow. "Maybe we'll have lots of customers today."
Hermione let out another moo from that.
"Okay... One customer." Jack smiled sheepishly.
Hermione smiled back as she licked Jack's face like a dog.
"This place sure looks interesting." Crow told the others.
"If only we could find something to do though." Raven replied to her brother.
"Hey, we got some customers!" Jack smiled. "We should tell Mom."
"Yeah! It's showtime!" Robyn added.
They soon heard a limo pull up to the amusement/theme park.
"Who's that?" Raven and Crow asked each other.
"Maybe it's my mother." Apple guessed with how much of a high status her mother had these days.
"Mom! Mom!" Jack called out as he ran to a trailer. "We have customers."
"Customers? How exciting!" Violet beamed as she soon stepped out with some food. "I will dust off the corn dogs."
Jack soon got out a trench coat and hat. Robyn smiled from that.
"How do I look?" Jack asked Robyn.
"Like your father." Robyn smiled softly.
Jack beamed from that as they came out to meet whoever was in the limo. "Excuse me, Mom." he then said as he rushed to the car.
"Oh, dear!" Violet frowned once she saw the limo. "That's not a customer."
Mr. Starling looked over at the limo and recognized him as he said, "He's early."
"I'll say," Violet frowned. "This could get ugly."
"I'm here," Mr. Starling told his sister. "I'll help out."
"Oh, you don't have to do that." Violet replied.
"This won't take long," The man from the limo said to his driver as he came out of the car. "Keep the motor running'."
"Welcome to Storybook Town!" Jack smiled as he ran up to the man. "The enchanted land where dreams come true, if you believe."
"Eh... Okay," The man said to him. "I'm looking for the Widow Bradley."
"You mean my mother?" Jack asked him.
"Ouch!" The man winced before shrugging. "Uh, yeah. So where is she?" he then asked.
"Around." Robyn said as she didn't trust this man.
"But right now, you're just in time for our big show!" Jack then smiled as he came to show him Hermione.
Mr. Badwolf and the others soon arrived at the attraction.
"Watch your step, Apple." Crow smiled, trying to act like a gentleman.
"Oh, Crow, you're so thoughtful." Apple smiled back from that.
"We still got a few seats right in front." Robyn told the man before she made him sit down.
"Okay, no!" The man grunted as he was forced to sit down. "I don't have time for this."
"Ahem!" Jack cleared his throat as he decided to announce the show. "Ladies and gentlemen... Storybook Town is proud to present our star attraction!"
"Their only attraction." Ramona said to the others.
"It really shows." Cerise agreed with her sister.
"You play the fiddle?" Patch asked Tom. "I never knew that."
"Sometimes I do, but I thought it might help with like that nursery rhyme 'The cat played the fiddle'." Tom said to the Dalmatian.
"Nice." Patch smiled.
"Excuse me a minute, if you will, Patch." Tom then said.
"Oh, sure, break a leg," Patch replied. "And I mean that as good luck, I don't want you to get hurt." he then said before he dashed off to sit with the audience to see the show.
The man who came to visit looked bored already while Patch smiled hopefully and the Ever After High students looked curious to see where this would go. And where they saw Tom playing the fiddle and Jerry playing the harmonica. Hermione bobbed her head to the beat before she ran off to get into position.
"Hey, diddle, diddle, the cat plays the fiddle, the little mouse toots a tune," Jack recited through a microphone as the show began, though a loose plank of wood fell as Hermione ran up the stairs she was supposed to go on. "Now let's applaud for Hermione the cow who jumps over the moon."
Robyn smiled before looking to where the water tub that Hermione would land in was empty. This made her very nervous as she grabbed her hair in worry for the cow. Tom and Jerry continued to play together as they were lifted up in the air before the brown mouse dropped his harmonica as he saw what Robyn saw.
"Tom! Tom! Hey, Tom!" Jerry cried out as he climbed up, trying to get his friend's attention. "Hey!"
"Not now, Mouse, I'm playin'!" Tom told him as he continued to play the fiddle.
Jerry soon did what he had to do to get Tom to stop playing. This included hitting the cat on the head with his fiddle bow.
"YOW!" Tom yelped out before glaring.
"Look!" Jerry told him as he pointed to the empty tub.
Tom screamed from that in a panic before he slid down the rope as they had to stop Hermione who didn't seem to notice the empty tub.
"Jack, we have a situation." Robyn whispered to her cousin.
"What is it?" Jack replied.
"The tub has no water in it!" Robyn whispered loudly.
"WHAT?!" Jack gasped before he saw the others looking at him. "Uh, could you all excuse me for a moment?" he then smiled sheepishly before he rushed to the backstage. "We gotta fill this tank." he said as he began to push on the water valve to fill the tub up with water so Hermione wouldn't get squashed from her jump.
"Right." Robyn said before following the pipe to where the water was.
Jack grunted as he pushed as strongly as he could, but luckily some water was, in fact, coming into the tub. Jerry tried to stall Hermione, but he had trouble doing so as the cow was lost with her own thoughts and even had her eyes shut.
"There's something very familiar about that..." Tom muttered to himself from how Hermione looked with how Jerry tried to stop her.
Pieces of wood began to fall down on Tom's head. Jerry tried to hold out his paw to stop Hermione, only to get squashed by her hooves.
"Come on!" Jack grunted as he tried to move the valve faster, but it broke off in his hands which made him panic. "Oh, that ain't good!"
"Jack, what's taking the water so long?" Robyn asked her cousin.
"The water valve just broke off!" Jack whispered to her loudly and urgently.
"What?!" Robyn panicked.
Tom tried to run after Hermione to stop her.
"Come on, Hermione! Stop!" Jerry cried out as he pulled on the cow's horns before he saw that this was it as they were close to the edge, so he suddenly panicked. "Oh, my gosh!"
"We said stop, you cow!" Tom added as he pulled on Hermione's tail. "This is bad." He piled some wood against his feet before he tried to move in front of Hermione to stop her that way.
Luckily, Hermione was soon stopped and she opened her eyes to see what was happening before Tom fell from broken planks that he stood on, sending him into the tub of water.
"At least the tub filled up in time." Robyn said sheepishly.
They soon saw the pieces of wood falling down, along with Jerry and Hermione. Robyn gulped a bit from that. Tom looked relieved to have a decent landing, even if it was water before he saw Jerry and Hermione coming and brought out an umbrella until the cow and mouse crashed into the water after him. The tub soon broke and the water splashed everywhere.
"Whoa! Surf's up!" Patch gasped from that.
"Well, that just happened." Cerise said.
"That was awesome." Ramona smirked.
They all soon got splashed from the water, along with the man who came to visit the fairy tale based theme park.
"All part of the act, sir." Jack smiled nervously as he brought out a cloth for the man to dry himself off.
"Well, it could have been a lot worse." Hunter said.
"What do you do for an encore, kid?" The man grumbled as he dried himself off. "Blow up the park? Wait, that's my job." he then smirked as he tossed the cloth right back at Jack.
"What?" Jack asked softly.
"What's he talking about?" Robyn wondered.
"Oh, I didn't expect you 'til tomorrow, Mr. Bigley." Violet said as she came to the man.
"I know, Mrs. Bradley," Mr. Bigley smirked. "But why delay the inevitable?"
"I still have an entire day to raise the mortgage money." Violet told him.
"Yeah, that's... Not gonna happen." Mr. Bigley smirked.
"What's he talking about?" Jack spoke up with a glare as he came over with Robyn.
"Jack, this is Mr. Bigley-" Violet started to tell her son and niece.
"Of Bigley's Super Strip Malls," Mr. Bigley grinned proudly as a stand was shown about his mall that was coming soon. "Acres of big inventory, big values and big profits. My malls are everywhere," he then added as he hit the sign that had the Bradley's family name on it which made it fall because of how old it was. "And tomorrow one goes up... Right here."
"You can't do that." Robyn glared at Mr. Bigley.
"Yeah! My dad started Storybook Town," Jack added. "It's part of our family forever."
"That's touching, but business is business, kiddos," Mr. Bigley said as he showed them a mortgage contract. "And as you can see, I bought the mortgage on Storybook Town. If you miss even one payment, the park goes to me and you guys are kissing pavement, hitting the bricks, O-U-T, out!"
Jerry soon checked the contract to see if it was on the up and up.
"Well?" Tom asked.
"I'm afraid he's right." Jerry nodded.
"Yikes!" Tom then panicked.
"We can't give up, Aunt Violet!" Robyn cried out.
"Yeah, and I know things will turn around if we can just last another month." Jack added.
"Ticky-tick, kids; you don't have another month," Mr. Bigley said as he left. "The wrecking crew arrives tomorrow morning. Yep, come 9:00 AM, Storybook Town is going down. Hey, a rhyme!" he then chuckled. "Catch you later."
"Grr..." Robyn glared a bit. "The only way to make that guy worse is if he was somehow with Aunt Figg and Lickboot."
"Ooh, do not remind me of those two." Patch grumbled, remembering his first adventure with Tom and Jerry.
The limo soon rode off which left Jack and his mother in a serious pickle.
"Now, nobody panic. I've already made arrangements to sell Hermione to the Dingle Brothers Circus," Violet soon said. "That'll give us enough money to keep going a little longer."
"Sell Hermione? But she's our friend." Jack frowned.
"She's family!" Robyn added.
"Kids, I believe Hermione will love being a circus star," Violet smiled comfortingly. "And you remember Uncle Joe/Daddy's motto..."
"'Dreams come true if you believe'." The woman said with the kids together.
"I believe." Jack then smiled.
"Me too!" Jerry nodded as he slid on the cow's back.
"I do too." Robyn added.
"Same here." Mr. Starling smiled.
"Well, we'd better get Hermione over to the fairgrounds," Violet said. "Dustin, please help."
"Of course, Violet." Mr. Starling said to his sister.
"No, Mom," Jack argued. "We'll take her."
"Are you sure?" Violet asked her son. "It's a big job for a little boy."
"We want to say goodbye," Jack insisted as he took a hold of the rope to move Hermione away from the park. "Come on, guys."
"We're coming." Robyn smiled.
"Want some company?" Patch asked as he and the Ever After High group came over.
"Um, sure," Robyn replied. "Come on over... Uh..."
"Uh, these are some friends of mine," Patch said to her. "Raven, Crow, Ashlynn, Cerise, her sister Ramona, Hunter, and Apple."
"Those are pretty interesting names." Robyn said to the Ever After High group.
"Thanks," Raven smirked. "I guess we'll help you with this cow now."
They soon left as Tom pouted in a box and held out a sign to be adopted by somebody new.
"Tom, you're my cat, you don't have to do that." Robyn told the gray cat.
"Oh, yeah!" Tom then said as he got out of the box.
"Dang it." Jerry groaned.
"Cheer up, old pouting Thomas," Jack soothed his cousin's cat. "We'll all get through this mess. I promise."
"Were you gonna seal up the box to mail him away somewhere?" Patch glared at Jerry.
"...Maybe?" Jerry replied bashfully.
"Smart thinking." Ramona said.
"Ramona!" Cerise nudged her sister a bit.
"That's what I would do anyway." Ramona smirked.
"When life seems sad with no reprieve, Don't wear a frown upon your sleeve~," Jack began to sing a song which almost sounded like Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. "Those happy times we can retrieve, If we truly do believe, Like the joy that kids receive, When reindeer fly on Christmas Eve~"
"Miracles we will perceive, if we truly believe~" Robyn sang.
"If we truly believe~," Jack sang before he flipped a coin into the nearby wishing well as they walked together. "So toss a penny in a well~"
"Or wish upon a star~," Robyn sang. "But if you can't believe with me~"
"We won't get very far~" The two cousins then sang.
Jerry soon came up to Tom to hug him. Patch smiled as the song felt inspiring.
"So let's have a cheer for wishing wells, Lucky stars and jingle bells~," Robyn and Jack sang together. "Those happy days we will achieve, If we truly believe, If we truly believe~"
Tom and Jerry soon smiled with Patch as they all felt inspired. They soon left for the fairgrounds.