Hello, once again! Let's see what adventure this chapter brings...
"Careful! CAREFUL!" The Mirror shouted as he was lifted thought the portal, as at some point in their travel back to the portal, Donald and Goofy, (mainly Donald) deemed that the floating Mirror was moving too slow, and grabbed the sides of the Mirror, carrying it the rest of the way.
As everyone made it through the portal, Yen Sid closed it. Donald and Goofy brought the Mirror up to the Cornerstone. A light flashed and again the world started to change before everyone's eyes. More stars shimmered in the sky. Toon Town grew even larger. Then dark clouds grew over head. A newspaper flew by, headlines saying: 'Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor!'. The stormy clouds stayed for longer than anyone wanted. Then just as they appeared, the clouds disappeared. American flags were put everywhere. Factories in Toon Town had giant fumes of smoke rising from them. Then the flags rose even higher. Cheering was heard. Another newspaper flew by reading: 'Victory!'. But, then the stars dimmed out, and everything stopped fast forwarding. The calendar sign read 1945. Mickey looked around to see how much his friends had changed. Donald and Goofy were dressed in American World War II soldier uniforms. But, that was all that had changed. Yen Sid made a stand appear for the Mirror, that Donald And Goofy set it on. Then a sombrero fell next to Donald.
"Wak? What's this doing here?" Donald slowly went to pick up the hat when the hat flew up, and out from under it appeared a red rooster, wearing red charro pants, a short bolero jacket, spurs, and a belt with holsters.
The rooster looked around, then saw Donald. "Senior Donald!" He cried in a Hispanic accent.
Donald recognized him immediately. "Panchito!"
"Look out below!" Shouted a Brazilian voice. Everyone looked up to see a green parrot, in a white dress shirt, cream colored sports jacket, and a black bowtie, holding his yellow flat hat on his head with one hand, and the other holding on to an open black umbrella. He was slowly falling down.
Donald shouted. "Jose!"
Jose gently landed near Donald and Panchito. "Hola, Donald."
Panchito smiled. "Well, it looks like we're back together again!"
Jose looked around. "What happened? Why is everyone here?"
Minnie shook her head. "We have to reverse a curse."
Panchito was confused. "What do you mean, Señorita Minnie?"
Thus they explained the story once again.
Panchito, and Jose gave an understanding "Oooohhhhh…"
Jose was first to start talking again. "So, all we need to do is find out what's iconic about this time period and then we jump five years ahead? Si?"
Goofy gave a laugh. "Yeah, that's pretty much what we've been doing so far."
Mickey shouted, "Oh! I almost forgot!" He turned to Yen Sid. "Master, could you bring our friends here?"
Yen Sid raised his hands. A few portals appeared. Many people walked through these portals. The Reluctant Dragon, The Boy, and Sir Giles came through one. Out of another portal, came Casey Jr. the train, carrying all the circus animals and performers, followed by Dumbo, Timothy, and the crows. Then through another portal came Bambi and his friends.
Then out of nowhere Pete gave a cry. "P.J.!" Pete rushed by to a young boy, wearing a yellow hat, a light blue t-shirt, blue shorts, and brown shoes. Pete picked him up and gave him a huge hug.
"Dad!" P.J. shouted while being crushed in the hug. He seemed a bit shocked, but after a second he returned the hug. Pete was crying so much, a small puddle formed around them.
Watching the father-son moment, a tear fell from Goofy's eye. Minnie saw this.
"Don't worry, Goofy." She said, comforting him. "We'll get him back soon."
Goofy gave a sad smile. "I know we will..."
"Yeah, don't worry Goofy! We'll get Max back soon!" Shouted a high pitched voice.
"Yeah! Chips right!" Shouted another high pitched voice.
Goofy and Minnie looked down to see two chipmunks standing at their feet. Both looked like normal chipmunks, except one had a big red nose, and his two front teeth had a large gap between them.
"Chip, Dale!" Minnie yelped in joy. She kneeled down and let them climb onto her hand. She stood up carefully, allowing them to stand on the palm of her hand. "Are you both alright?"
"Yep! We're a-okay!" Said Chip.
"Uh-huh!" Said Dale.
Then nearby Zeke shouted a cry similar to Pete's. "Son!" Zeke ran over to a little wolf, who looked like himself.
The wolf hurried to his father. "Dad!" And thus both joined in another father-son hug.
Mickey smiled as he thought about the reunited families. But then he frowned, as his thoughts went to how innocent the characters of these five years were. How could someone hate so much as to want to harm characters like Bambi, or Dumbo, or even Lil' Wolf. And how many more innocent characters were stuck in that endless nothingness. Characters like Pooh, and Piglet, Duchess and her kittens, Oliver, Penny, Lilo, and so many, many others… Then he thought about family again, and his brother... Mickey wanted to hate Maleficent for it... But, he just couldn't. Sure, he disliked her, but not hate. Maleficent was the Mistress of All Evil, these were things expected of her. She always tries to destroy heroes, and anyone good, really. And yet her plans always failed. Even this scheme of her's, was going to end, and everyone she made disappear would return. No, Mickey didn't hate her, he felt sad for her. Not really pity, but just felt sad.
Timothy Q. Mouse spoke up. "Hey! What's goin' on Mic?"
Mickey responded, "Oh, yeah! That's right. You guys don't remember."
As Mickey called out to everyone to gather around, so he could explain the situation, Yen Sid closed the portals.
After explaining everything again, Mickey called to Jiminy Cricket. "Jiminy, from now on, could you explain everything to everyone who comes back?"
Jiminy shook his head. "Of coarse, Mickey."
"Thanks."
With all of that out of the way, they all, and I repeat, they ALL began to suggest different things that were iconic for the half decade. People were shouting out all kinds of ideas.
"Casey Jr!"
"No! The World War airplanes!"
"No! It's ME! Ha-cha-cha!"
"Well, what about, umm... No... A... Ohh..."
Panchito, who finally had enough, took out one of his pistols and fired into the air. "QUIET, SENIORS, AND SEÑORITAS!" Everyone instantly went quiet. Panchito placed his fire arm back in it's holster. "Now, we know that we'll never solve this by arguing."
Jose walked up next to his spanish speaking friend. "He's right. Now, why don't we all just calmly give our suggestions to Mickey and friends, one at a time.
As those with suggestions lined up, Walt walked up to Panchito and took his sombrero. He also grabbed Jose's hat and just kept on walking up to the Cornerstone. When he stood next to it, he set the hats down, he waved his right hand, and made another hat appear, he set this one down right between the other two hats. The one he made appear was Donald's.
Donald, Jose, and Panchito understood exactly what Walt was doing. They walked up to the Cornerstone, where their hats sat. They turned around, and music began to play.
They each held up three fingers, and Panchito began. "We're Three Caballeros. Three gay caballeros. They say we are birds of a feather." Panchito and Jose flapped their arms in the air and flew a few feet. Donald tried but failed. The three hats started to fly and glow. The hats moved along with their wearers. "We're happy amigos! No matter where he goes..." Panchito jumps off to one side, and holds up one finger. "The one," Jose quickly appears by Panchito's side, and they both hold up two fingers. "Two," Donald runs up to their side and all three hold up three fingers. "And three goes..."
All three join in. "We're always together!"
Panchito continues. "We're three happy chappies, with snappy serapes." All three hold up colorful serapes. "You'll find us beneath our sombreros!" The sombrero hovers above the other two hats. "We're brave and we'll say so," The three of them stand in a brave pose. "We're bright as a peso!" Panchito holds up a peso.
Donald gives Panchito a mean look. "Who say so?!"
Panchito and Jose, without missing a beat, answered "We say so!" As they continue singing the flat hat begins to float in the air.
Panchito pulls Donald and Jose in for a group hug, and all three sing. "The Three Caballeros!"
All three hold up their right hand and look up into the sky. "Ahhhhhhhh!"
Stars appear in the sky, Panchito sings, "We have the stars to guide us!" All three lower their hands to the ground. "Guitars here beside us," Guitars appear next to Panchito and Jose, who pick the up and start to play them. Donald, on the other hand, had a saxophone appears, so he quickly tried again, and again each time another instrument appeared, until a cello appears, and Donald plays it just like a guitar. "To play as we go!"
The guitars disappear, and Panchito stands up straight. "We sing and we samba! We shout 'ay caramba!"
Jose looked confused. "What means 'ay caramba?"
Panchito looks happy to answer. "Oh yes," he shrugs his shoulders. "I don't know." The music ends, but something else happens before the audience could applaud.
All three hats start flying in circles, getting brighter every second. Fireworks shoot out from the Cornerstone. New stars appear in the sky. Construction work rises from the ground around the Cornerstone. A new city appears on the opposite side of them from Toon Town. A giant building grows up out of a hill next to the new city. The building has a giant golden '$' on it. The world seemed calm though, as if it was the calm before the storm...
The sign read: 1950
Mickey looked around. Donald was once again in his sailor's suit. Walt had aged. He looked more like his iconic self. Mickey looked down at himself. He was back in his red shorts. Though the gold buttons had been replaced with white ones.
"Burst me bagpipes! What's everyone doing here?" Asked an old duck in a red robe, a black top hat, who had glasses on his beak, and was holding a cane.
Donald and his nephews ran up to the old duck. "Unca Scrooge!"
Scrooge accepted the hugs from his nephews. "Calm down lads. Ye act like I was dead."
Donald and the nephews looked sad.
A soft voice came from behind Mickey, startling him. "Mickey, what's going on?"
Mickey turned around to see Cinderella, and Prince Charming.
Humphrey the Bear walked up, followed by the characters from Peter and the Wolf. Others also started to pour in. King Charming, Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, Long John Silver, and Jim Hawkins. The latter few were from Disney live action movies. And these were only a few.
Mickey turned to Yen Sid. "Master?"
Yen Sid faced his apprentice. "The castle is in production of being built. And the castle itself was able to connect all the worlds. As this is the central point to our universe, the castle must have sensed the danger of Maleficent's spell, it must have brought them here. Rather then sending them home, and placed in danger."
Jiminy hopped up on Cinderella's shoulder. "Excuse me, but if you all gather around, I'll explain everything."
While Jiminy began explaining to the characters who just arrived back, Mickey noticed Walt running around, like a kid in a candy store.
Walt ran up to where the future castle would soon be. "Yes, yes. The castle goes here, as the center point to everything." Walt looked over his right shoulder, directly behind himself. "Oh! And Main Street will go right here. Leading from the entrance, all the way to the front of the castle. Around Main Street will be buildings resembling ones from when I was young. And, Oh! A fire station! Yes!" Walt kept looking around, and talking about what would go where and how things would look.
But then a thought occurred to Mickey. "Master?"
"Yes, Mickey." Yen Sid looked down at Mickey.
"When, we went to get Walt, his world was empty. The only people there were Roy and Walt."
"Hmmm..." Yen Sid closed his eyes in thought.
Mickey added. "And when we walked through Toon Town, it was empty. No one was there."
Minnie had been walking up to stand next to Mickey, when she heard their conversation. "Yes, but all the buildings were there, just like we remembered."
Yen Sid opened his eyes. "It seems, that these may not be our worlds."
Mickey gave a confused look. "Wh-what do you mean?"
Yen Sid explained. "Everything was just as you remembered, correct?"
Minnie answered. "Yes, just like when it was the actual time."
"These worlds appear to be made of memories of the past."
"So, these worlds are just made of our memories?" Mickey wondered.
"No, not our memories. But the memories of all those who watched the films, the television shows, played the games, traveled to the parks, read the books, and all of those who believe, or believed."
"So, then why is Toon Town empty?" Minnie asked.
"The characters who live there are considered background characters. Most never are remembered after their appearance."
"But, then what about the real world?" Minnie interjected.
Yen Sid looked down to her. "That must not have been the real world, but a memory of what people believed the area around the Studio to be like. Instead of a loud, over crowded section of a city, imagination turned it into a quiet, and peaceful place where many of their favorite ideas came from." Yen Sid looked up to Walt. "Which brings me to my next thought." He frowned. "That person there, is not really who we believe he is."
Mickey looked where his master was looking. "Wh-what, do you mean Walt? But, he's not a place. He's a person."
Yen Sid faced his apprentice. "But, he IS deeply connected to our realm. After all, this place was named after him." Yen Sid knelt down to Mickey and Minnie's high. "The Walt we know, past away long ago. The Walt we see before us... Is the memories of him, combined to form the person." Yen Sid placed a hand on both Mickey and Minnie's shoulders. "Walt is connected to this place just as much as any of us. But, somethings, can not be undone, even with the most powerful of magics."
Mickey and Minnie had tears in their eyes. Yen Sid also seem very depressed, but he had one more thing to say. "Though he may only be memories, he is still Walt, in a form. We can still enjoy his company in this world while we work to go home."
Mickey and Minnie gave a smile through the tears falling down their faces.
Mickey gave a small laugh, trying to cheer Minnie, and himself up. "I guess we should go tell the others about this not really being our world."
Minnie wiped the water from her eyes. "But, what about telling them about... Walt."
Mickey looked at her and then at Walt, who was being surrounded by some of the other characters. They clearly wanted to spend time with one of their creators. Mickey turned back to Minnie. "Let's keep it a secret between us. They seem happy."
Donald and Goofy came walking up. Goofy looked confused and Donald looked angry. They must have fought about something.
Goofy was the first to speak. "Umm? Master Yen Sid? Donald and I were, uh, wonderin'... Why is it that you remembered what happened even though we never told ya?"
Donald spoke up. "It's because he's super wise!"
Yen Sid waved his hand, signaling Donald to be calm. Before he could explain, another voice explained it for him.
"Well, dears, it's because we're so connected to the magic all around us." They turned towards the voice. Cinderella's Fairy Godmother stood there.
Yen Sid nodded his head. "Indeed. As Fairy Godmother said. Because of our connection to magic, we were able to recall everything from before, including Maleficent and her curse. Just as I suspect is the reason why you," he faced Mickey. "my apprentice, were able to remember."
"Huh?" Mickey wondered.
"Mickey, you are the one most connected to the magic in this universe. After all, it was started with a mouse." Yen Sid smiled.
Walt was walking up to the gathering group, being followed by Daisy, Pluto, Long John, and Jim Hawkins.
"Mickey!" Walt shouted. "Long John and Jim have an idea where you should start looking next!"
"Mister Mouse," Long John began. "after talking with Remus, we believe we know what the next icon is. And well, as Song of The South was partly animated, and our movie was the first fully live action movie, we thought-"
Jim was so excited and interrupted John. "We think that it's treasure, from Treasure Island!"
Mickey thought... "Well, it's worth a try."
John spoke up again. "You'll be needin' an escort, and I know two people who know that terrain, and are willin' to show the the way."
Mickey shook his head. "It's too dangerous. If something were to happen..."
Jim spoke out. "But, Mr. Mouse, sir. It's from OUR movie! We know the dangers! We can handle ourselves. And we know where the treasure's hidden!"
Mickey looked at him. Jim always wanted to go on adventures, it was one of his traits from his movie. He knew no matter what he said, if Jim and John were serious enough they'd find a way to follow along. "Alright."
Minnie gave a distressed look. "Mickey! You can't be serious! Jim is still a kid!"
"Minnie... You forgot that Jim is the same age as he was when he first went to Treasure Island. And... No matter what I say, they'll just follow us anyways."
Walt shook his head in agreement. "Mickey's right. It would be better for them to come with us, so we can help each other. Rather than them sneaking behind us and getting into trouble."
Donald looked at Walt. "Wait, your coming too?!"
"Well, I've tagged along so far. I think I'd like to tag along more."
Mickey turned to the crowd of characters. Everyone faced Mickey, waiting for their leader to give orders on what to do. "Scrooge?!"
Scrooge McDuck stepped forwards. "Yes, lad?"
Mickey turned to Yen Sid. "Master, Scrooge, could you both help organize everyone, and prepare them for anything. We've being doing this for a while and it's been too easy so far. I'm worried something might happen."
Yen Sid nodded. "Of coarse."
"Why we'll have the whole place prepared for an invasion!" Scrooge laughed.
Mickey shouted to the crowd. "Everyone! Please listen to Master Yen Sid and Scrooge!"
Daisy stepped up to Mickey. "Do we really have to go to the jungle?"
Mickey turned to her. "Well, if you want you could bring Huey, Dewey, and Louie, go to Toon Town, and Duckburg and find get some supplies."
Daisy shook her head. "Sure! That sounds so much better than traveling through some jungle."
Mickey faced the crowd again. "Huey, Dewey, Louie! You three will go with Daisy to Toon Town, and Duckburg and get supplies. Pete! Mortimer! You two go with them to make sure they stay safe, and to help them carry the supplies."
Pete looked at his son. "P.J.! You'll be coming with. I ain't lettin' you out of my sight till everythin's back to how it should be."
Mickey turned to his true love. "Minnie, if you want you can stay here and help organize everyone."
Minnie stared at him. "Mickey, I'm going along. Someone has to make sure you don't do something foolish." They both shared a laugh.
Goofy though for a moment. "How are we suppose to get there? Is Master Yen Sid gonna open up another portal?"
Walt chuckled. "Actually I have a better idea."
So... Walt isn't actually Walt. And the worlds they restored aren't actually the real worlds... But so many have returned... And they know where to find the next icon. But, does anyone else feel as things are going too smoothly?
Also, I have ideas for what's most iconic from 1950-1955 and 1955-1960. So, when you leave reviews, I want each of you to tell me what you think is the most iconic for the other time periods that are coming up.
So here are the time periods I'd like each of you to give me what's most iconic:
1960-1965
1965-1970
1970-1975
1975-1980
1980-1985
1985-1990
1995-2000
2005-2010
2010-2015
And when you leave the review put the time period, the icon, and give some reason why it's so iconic.
The icon can just be the name of a Movie, Song, Character, Place that is relevant to Disney, Video Game, T.V. show (that includes live action and animated series.), Books, and other iconic Disney things.
Thanks, and this time really leave a review!
