Emily Elizabeth looked excited, though Mike growled with his back turned as his eyes flashed green, out of sight from both her and Max. The Fudo cousins soon got ready for their trip as they were going to a ferry to visit Birdwell Island again after their parents allowed them to spend the weekend with Emily Elizabeth, Clifford, and Max as this visit would be an interesting one.

"Sure was cool of our parents to let us spend the weekend on Birdwell Island." Akito smiled.

"Oh, yeah!" Estelle replied.

"For sure!" Vincent added.

"It's not a big, fancy vacation, but it'll be a lot of fun either way." Felicity remarked.

"Yes, it will." Akito smiled.

"I think we're about there." Vincent pointed out.

They soon looked over past the fog to see some docks up ahead where Emily Elizabeth's parents were there to pick them up and take them back to their home for the weekend. After a little while, they made it the docks.

"Good to see you kids again." Norman smiled.

"Yes, hello there." Carolyne added.

"Hi, Mr. and Mrs. Howard." The four greeted as they came to the car with their pets.

"You kids must be excited." Carolyne smiled.

"We really are," Felicity beamed. "I've been counting down the days."

"I'm sure it'll be a fun weekend for all of you," Norman smiled. "Emily Elizabeth and Mike were just as excited, especially with little Mighty Max also coming by for the visit."

"Awesome." Akito and Estelle smiled.

Emily Elizabeth soon looked through the box of DVDs with Mike to look for the one that she wanted them all to watch.

"Emily, I really like being here with you." Mike said bashfully as he took her hand to impress her.

"I really like being here with you too." Emily Elizabeth smiled.

Mike smiled back.

"Hey, Emily, your friends like popcorn, right?" Max asked as he came out of the kitchen.

"They sure do!" Emily Elizabeth smiled at him.

"Great, because I brought plenty of popcorn." Max smiled back.

"Oh, Max, that's very thoughtful of you," Emily Elizabeth beamed while Mike glared in the background. "Mike, wasn't that thoughtful?"

"Yeah... Reeeal thoughtful..." Mike said as he tried to contain himself. "Could you excuse me for a second? I'm gonna go tell Clifford that the others will be here soon."

"Oh, sure, Mike," Emily Elizabeth smiled. "I'm sure he'll be happy to hear that."

Mike nodded before he came to go outside of the house as Clifford was resting at his doghouse, chewing on a bone that was big enough for him. "Hey, Clifford; the others are going to be here soon." he told the big red dog.

Clifford smiled from that. "I can't wait to see them!" he then beamed. "Especially Scruffy. I feel like we have a bond with each other like when I used to play with Jorge when I was a puppy."

"It's still surprising of how you got so big from being such a small puppy." Mike said.

"Yeah, I've always wondered about that too, especially when I tell Cleo and T-Bone that I wasn't always big like I am now," Clifford smiled. "A lot of people say that it was Emily Elizabeth's love that helped make me grow which was what made us move to here from the big city."

"Good to see that Emily Elizabeth has a lot of love to go around." Mike said bashfully.

"She sure does," Clifford smiled. "You really like her, don't you?"

Mike blushed a bit. "Yeah... I really do..." he had to admit. "She's very beautiful, smart, and very nice. I wish more kids our age could be like her..." he then said bashfully.

"She really is the best," Clifford smiled. "Especially whenever she gets me Tummy Yummys and reads me Speckle stories."

"She really is a special girl." Mike smiled back.

"We're both lucky to have her." Clifford smiled.

"Uh, say... Clifford..." Mike then said. "Do you know this Mighty Max or whatever he calls himself pretty well?"

"I'm afraid I don't know a whole lot about him since he's usually at home or having adventures," Clifford replied. "He usually calls the family or sends postcards about his amazing and incredible adventures. I'd sure like to be an adventurer myself." he then smiled proudly.

"Well, maybe you will be an adventurer someday." Mike smiled.

"That would be great!" Clifford beamed. "I guess my first adventure was with Scruffy when we met those other dogs, Dorothy the Cow, and Shackleford."

"Well, everybody's gotta start somewhere, big guy." Mike replied.

"Yeah, that's true." Clifford nodded.

A car was soon pulling up.

"Whoa!" Mike gasped as he knew what would happen. "Look out, Mr. and Mrs. Bleakman!" he then called out to the neighbors as Clifford wagged his tail excitedly and jumped up and down happily as he saw Emily Elizabeth's parents riding up.

Mr. and Mrs. Bleakman were shown bracing themselves for Clifford's jumping. The car soon stopped. Norman honked the horn a few times to get Clifford to stop so that they could get out of the car carefully and safely. Clifford then stopped jumping which was a relief for the Bleakmans next door, especially Mr. Bleakman.

"Oh, good, they made it," Mike then smirked to himself. "This should distract Emily a little bit from that Mighty Max chump."

Once the stopped in front of the house, the kids got out of the car. Clifford beamed as he leaned down to see the kids.

"Hi, Clifford." The four greeted before Clifford licked them all happily at once, dripping them a bit with his drool.

"Aw, I already took a bath last night!" Akito playfully pouted.

"You'll survive." Vincent smirked playfully.

"Hey, it's my other twin." Akito then smirked at Mike.

"Who's that handsome boy?" Mike smirked back as they looked the same, though for obvious reasons.

"You sure we shouldn't call a babysitter?" Carolyne asked Norman. "I mean, they're all a bit young to be home alone."

"Yes, but Max will be a teenager soon, I'm sure the kids will be all fine if they stick together, plus there'll be Clifford." Norman smiled at his wife.

"Oh, I suppose you're right, dear." Carolyne smiled back.

"Tonight is going to be great." Akito smiled to the other teenagers.

"We have to go into town for something tonight, but we hope you kids have fun." Carolyne smiled.

"I'm sure that we will," Mike replied as he walked the guests inside before mumbling to himself. "Provided that Mighty Max doesn't ruin everything for me and Emily Elizabeth."

"Ready to join the fun, big guy?" Scruffy asked Clifford.

"Yeah! Yeah!" Clifford beamed.

Carolyne and Norman soon came to say goodbye to their daughter so that they could get going. Scruffy soon took Clifford to his doghouse and soon took a deep breath before using his magic and then shrunk Clifford down to the size of a normal-sized dog for his age, so not as teeny tiny from when the big red dog was a puppy. Once he was normal size, they soon rushed off inside the house.

"Oh, Mike, have you met Max?" Carolyne asked the boy. "He's-"

"We've met..." Mike replied. "He was here when we got back from school."

"Oh, well, that's good," Carolyne smiled. "He'll also be in charge since he's almost 12."

"Age 12," Akito replied. "That's how old our friend Eliza Thornberry is."

"That's impressive." Estelle smiled at Max.

"Yep, almost a teenager," Max replied. "You guys ready for a fun weekend?"

"Yeah!" The others cheered from that.

"Great!" Max chuckled before he put his arm around Emily Elizabeth. "And I'm glad that I get to also be here for it."

Mike looked like he was on the breaking point as he started to grind his teeth after seeing Max put his arm around Emily Elizabeth.

"We got popcorn, some soda, plenty of pillows, some chips," Max listed. "Plenty of snacks for all of us."

"That sounds great, Max," Estelle replied. "So, where's the movie?"

"Ta-da!" Emily Elizabeth announced as she brought out her DVD. "I present to you live from my living room: Return to Oz!"

"Ooh." The others smiled.

"Let's arrange the furniture and the snacks before we get the movie on," Max suggested. "This'll be a fun weekend for sure."

Everybody smiled together as they soon got ready for the movie as it was about to be a good time to start, especially since Clifford got to be inside with them. They soon got more company with Emily Elizabeth's friends.

"Jetta, Charley, Vaz, you made it." Emily Elizabeth smiled.

"Yeah, looks like we're all good to go for the weekend once we talked down our parents." Charley smiled back.

"Especially with me having a baby brother at home." Jetta added.

"Wahoo!" Emily Elizabeth cheered.

"Plus this'll be a good chance for all of us to get to know each other better." Charley said to Akito, Estelle, Felicity, and Vincent.

"I'll say!" Vincent replied as he got comfortable with the others.

It seemed to get dark pretty early as it started to rain outside which seemed to be perfect for their movie night as they got their snacks and got comfortable in front of the TV screen.

"Good thing all of us are inside." Akito said.

Clifford whimpered a bit as he came up to Emily Elizabeth.

"It's okay, Clifford," Emily Elizabeth smiled as she pet her red dog. "We'll all be safe in here, especially with Max in charge."

"Yeah, how great for Max." Mike grumbled to himself.

Akito could tell something was bothering Mike and it had something to do with Max. Emily Elizabeth soon comforted Clifford as she leaned over and put the DVD in. Everybody huddled together, but of course in stories like this, once the movie would be in, the others would be sent into a brand new adventure in an instant.

"For some reason, I think we should hold on tight." Akito said.

"You feel an adventure coming?" Estelle asked her twin brother.

"Oh, for sure." Akito replied.

"All right, then so be it." Felicity then told her cousins.

"How can you so sure?" Charley asked.

"Trust me," Akito smirked. "I have sort of a sixth sense for this sorta thing."

Soon enough, the weather and movie began to counteract. As the movie began, the group soon disappeared in a beam and crackling of light.

The group yelled out as they soon appeared and landed in the middle of some farmland where a bunch of chickens were with piles of wood everywhere and a stump that had an ax in it. A tiny black dog soon rushed out and began to scare away the chickens as they clucked and tried to fly away.

"Where are we?" Emily Elizabeth groaned.

"Looks like it's a good old home on the range." Akito replied.

"Anybody hurt?" Estelle asked.

"Nah, I'm good," Max replied. "I've been through worse."

"I think we might have ended up in the movie." Vincent said.

"In the movie?" Emily Elizabeth asked.

"Wouldn't be the first time this has happened," Akito remarked. "To us or our parents."

"Toto, no! No, Toto!" A girl's voice cried out as she rushed over, showing that she had brown hair in braided pigtails as she could only be one certain person before she picked up a chicken in her arms, then saw that she had company. "Oh! Uh... Hello..." she then said softly.

The group greeted her back in return as they were suddenly trapped into a whole new adventure.

"We hope we're not intruding." Vincent said.

"Well, you seemed to come from nowhere," The girl said to them. "Who are you?'

The group gave their names to her.

"Well... Um... It's nice to meet you all..." The girl said softly. "My name is Dorothy. Dorothy Gale."

"It's nice to meet you." Vaz smiled.

"It's nice to meet you too," Dorothy replied before looking to her chicken. "Did you lay an egg this morning, Billina? Let's go see."

The group soon walked off after Dorothy to go into the farm as the girl scattered among the hay to look for any eggs.

"Uh, pretty nice chicken." Vaz said sheepishly.

Dorothy glanced at him before she continued to look through the hay.

"Why did I just say that?!" Vaz face-palmed himself.

"I don't see any eggs." Jetta said.

"Where's your egg, Billina?" Dorothy soon asked the chicken.

"I dunno..." The chicken clucked, which those who could talk to animals could understand of course.

Dorothy soon took them outside to check in the chicken coop, but there didn't seem to be eggs there either. "Billina, if you don't start laying again, Aunt Em says she's gonna stew you up for supper." she then reminded the chicken firmly.

"That doesn't sound very good." Felicity pouted.

"That's how it goes on a farm," Dorothy told her. "Aren't you guys from a farm?"

"What makes you say that?" Jetta asked.

"The way you're all dressed." Dorothy gestured to them as they all suddenly wore farm versions of their clothes.

The group looked down to see that it was true, though Jetta had a bit of a meltdown.

"No! No! I can't wear these clothes!" Jetta panicked. "I look so fashionably unacceptable!"

Scruffy simply shrugged. Jetta panicked and flipped out which made Mike hide a roll of his eyes.

"It's okay, Jetta," Emily Elizabeth smiled. "It'll be okay."

"Ooh~... What's this?" Snow White smiled as she found something shiny in the hay and began to play with it.

"Snow White, what are you doing?" Vincent asked.

"There's something cool here," Snow White said as she swatted in the hay. "I wanna play with it."

The object soon flew out a bit before it was shown to be a key.

Dorothy noticed as the key came right at her and she soon picked it up as Toto tilted his head at her. "It's a key, guys." she then told them.

"Well, I want it back!" Snow White pouted.

"But what's a key doing in here?" Charley asked.

"Maybe your aunt and uncle lost the key to their house." Emily Elizabeth said to Dorothy.

"I don't think so..." Dorothy said as she took a look at the key and picked at it a bit as some dirt got on it before seeing that it had letters on it through the shape. "O... Z..." she then said as that seemed to trigger something within her memories. "Oz!"

"How did it get here?" Akito asked.

"I think I should tell Auntie Em and Uncle Henry." Dorothy suggested before she ran off.

"Oh! Wait for us!" Charley called out as they went after her.

"I always idolized Dorothy Gale when I was a little girl." Emily Elizabeth smiled hopefully to the others before they went to catch up with the girl.

They soon caught up with Dorothy as she went to her aunt and uncle.

Aunt Em was shown to be sorting some eggs into a basket as her niece rushed over.

"Aunt Em! Aunt Em, look!" Dorothy cried out as she spotted her aunt. "A key from Oz!"

"It's just a key to the old house before the tornado," Aunt Em shrugged off. "I must've turned it a thousand times."

"No, look, Aunt Em," Dorothy told her. "It's proof. 'O-Z'. Oz."

"Dorothy..." Aunt Em sighed softly.

"You don't believe her?" Estelle asked.

"We've told her thousands of times not to mention this Oz place," Aunt Em shook her head. "She hit her head badly when we had a tornado here not too long ago, she's just imagining things."

"My friends sent it on a shooting star." Dorothy defended.

"Remember how we spoke?" Aunt Em reminded firmly.

Dorothy pouted before she answered her guardian. "Not to talk about Oz?"

"Why?" Aunt Em rhetorically asked.

"...'Cuz it's just my imagination." Dorothy then said.

Scruffy decided to prove this wrong as he began to clear his throat. Akito stopped Scruffy as he wasn't sure if that would be a good idea.

"I know you don't want to go to the doctor's, but you just haven't slept the night right through since the tornado," Aunt Em sighed to her niece. "And then, you're no help to me in the morning."

"Aunt Em, my friends are in trouble," Dorothy pouted. "I know it!"

"We are in trouble, Dorothy," Aunt Em told her. "Lost the old house in the tornado. Never before had to have a mortgage, now we may have to have two. Winter's comin' on. New house isn't finished." she then listed a few problems with their home since the tornado hit which began Dorothy's journey to Oz.

"He broke his leg, Aunt Em." Dorothy pouted.

"Dorothy, that leg's mended. It's mended," Aunt Em replied as she picked up her basket and began to get up and walk away. "Hurry up and get yourself ready. We're going to be late."

"...Could my new friends come too?" Dorothy asked.

Aunt Em looked at her before looking at the others. "Well... I'm not sure I know where they came from..." she then said. "...But I guess some of them could come with you..."

'That's fair.' Vincent thought to himself.