Chapter 7 - The Return

The Earp Brothers and Doc Holliday barely avoided arrest at the hands of the corrupt Sheriff Behan and Deputy Stilwell for the gunfight that had occurred earlier that day. They spent their time afterwords lounging in front of the Marshal's office and were greeted to at least one welcome sight. That sight was the puppet boy and his family headed out of tombstone toward the north with a procession of three wagons.

The first was some type of "tumbleweed" or prison wagon carrying the Coachman and the Ringmaster and ridden by the puppet boy Pinocchio, his older brother Lampwick and an as yet unidentified boy of the puppet boys age and size who appeared to be of Russian origin. The other two wagons were driven by the puppet master Stromboli the puppet boy's and Lampwick's father and the two anthropomorphic animals that came into Tombstone with him. There were also some pretty normal animals accompanying the boys driving the prison wagon in the form of a bird, a duck and an orange cat all of whom seemed to accompany the Russian boy.

"I see that you picked up some new passengers other than those two crooks from Italy." Wyatt shouted out to Pinocchio.

"Yes," Pinocchio returned. "These are the newest members of our family. The boy is named Peter, the bird is named Sasha, the duck is named Sonya and the cat is named Ivan."

"Than I can assume that boy came here the same way you did from some other reality." Dock Holliday said.

"Yes," Peter returned. "I assume we all got here by way of the young woman with the wings."

Pinocchio whispered to Peter, "You should not be telling natives here about the Blue Fairy. We along with the Coachman and the Ringmaster contaminated this timeline enough without adding to it."

The procession soon left the Earps and Doc Holliday and eventually tombstone itself. Within about a half an hour they were at the place where they landed when their transport bubble took them across the wishing star to this particular Tombstone's timeline. The wishing star was in the sky as the very first star to be seen as usual and from it a smaller blue star emerged. This gradually morphed itself into the Blue Fairy.

"I see you have them this time." The Blue Fairy said to the three boys. "You three can be very proud of this mission. Especially you Pinocchio and Peter. I knew it was not a mistake to take Peter from the dark version of his homeland of Russia that he came from to rescue you Pinocchio when you wished for it. Peter is very brave, truthful and unselfish and will make a splendid addition to the Pleasure Island family if Geppetto OK's it."

"Father has already adopted him." Pinocchio said. "We three are now brothers."

"Splended." the fairy returned and now for you Pinocchio. "The fairy pointed her wand at the puppet and once again he was a real boy."

"Thank you." Pinocchio said. "But there is one more thing. What about the coachman and the Ringmaster?"

"They must be taken care of by the laws of Duckburg and Tuscany." the Fairy returned. "And Don't worry about the Ringmaster's magic. Without access to his written spells and incantations from the Alexandrian Library he can not work any magic."

"That's good." Pinocchio said.

"Now are you ready to return home?" he fairy asked.

"Yes," Pinocchio returned.

With that the familiar blue transport bubble formed around the three wagons and the accompanying horses and natural donkeys. It lifted off and after the jump through the Wishing Star's wormhole they were headed for the coast of Tuscany and Pleasure Island Collodi.

Pleasure Island Collodi, off the Coast of Tuscany Italy, 1882.

During the time Pinocchio's family was in Tombstone Pleasure Island Collodi was being run by an adult Junior Woodchuck Leader who put Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck in charge of the kids there. The three duck boys ran a taught ship in Geppetto's absence and even got sever new Recruits for the Junior Woodchucks troop on Pleasure Island Duckburg from the Collodi side. Huey also ran Lampwick's slingshot shooting gallery in his absence.

It was from the shooting gallery that Huey looked up into the sky and saw the transport bubble descending. It was headed for the barrel ride. He went immediately to find Dewey and Louie in the children's boarding area.

"Pinocchio and the gang are returning!" Huey shouted. "They will be landing by the barrel ride building any minute now!

Huey returned to the barrel ride building with Dewey, Louie and several Junior Woodchucks just as the transport bubble landed. It dispersed to reveal three wagons six donkeys and a horse with their passengers of assorted species. One of these was a prison wagon with the Coachman and the Ringmaster in it with three boys, a bird, a non anthropomorphic duck and an orange cat in the drivers seat. The other wagons were occupied by Geppetto, Stromboli, John Worthington and Gideon.

Almost immediately the duck boys' attention was directed at the third boy on the prison wagon who was dressed in red and reddish pink with blonde hair and carried a toy pop gun.

"Who's he." Dewey asked Pinocchio.

"This is Peter from Russia." Pinocchio announced. "The Blue Fairy brought him to Tombstone when we got into some trouble there and needed help. For giving that help he is the newest member of our family."

"Well the more the merrier." Huey said. "Have you told him about the Junior Woodchucks yet?"

"Yes they have." Peter said. "And I'm very interested in your organization."

"Good," Huey Returned. "There is a meeting in two days on the Duckburg Pleasure Island and you can come and look us over for yourself."

Geppetto then came to the prison wagon and pretty much leaving the kids to their Junior Woodchuck talk addressed the Coachman and the Ringmaster. "As you told many a boy you changed into a donkey you had your fun and now it's time to PAY FOR IT. We will be handing your son the Ringmaster over to the Collodi authorities for his punishment and you Mr. Coachman are going right back to the Duckburg pen where you came from. The adult Junior Woodchuck leaders have brought some police from both timelines here to facilitate your official arrests.

With that some big tough humans in Italian police uniform and some equally tough dog men in Duckburh police uniform came to the wagon and took the Ringmaster and the Coachman into custody. "It will be a very long tome if ever before you turn some boy into a donkey again. "Geppetto announced."

Once the Coachman and the Ringmaster were dealt with Stromboli went back to the puppetry area, Lampwick went back to his sling shot shooting gallery, John Worthington and Gideon returned to Pleasure Islands advertising department and Geppetto along with Pinocchio, Peter and his animal friends, Sasha, Sonya and Ivan went off in the direction of the administration building. There was only one thing that Geppetto was concerned about at the time. That was Peter's cat Ivan and his own cat Figgero. Cats were notorious for not getting along when they first see one another so Peter would definitely have to keep Ivan in his assigned room for a while until Figgero got used to his presence.

Little did Geppetto know however that cat jealousy between Ivan and Figgero was to be the least of his worries.

The end of this Fan Fic.

Next. There is a new scorpion threat on Pleasure Island and this one does NOT come from the Ringmaster or the Coachman both of whom are now in Prisons in Collodi (Ringmaster) and Duckburg(Coachman). Who is now bringing giant scorpions to Pleasure Island and for what reason? The answer is in this new Fan Fic featuring Peter in his first full length adventure with Pinocchio called Peter, Pinocchio and the Scorpion.