"If You Believe We Are Magic"

Bald Mountain was an island of enormous seismic activity that occurred every hour. The only thing that kept the land from breaking apart was the amount of psycho-kinetic energy that overwhelmed it – energy that was generated from within the massive mountain sitting at the very center of the island, where Chernabog himself nested. It was this island that kept the existence of the Seventh Circle together, yet it was also what would soon tear it apart (courtesy of Claude Frollo).

On the side of the mountain was a small cavern that currently functioned as a prison for current visiting mortals – the Junior Ghostbusters. They were all contained in one huge rock-made holding cell, with long stalagmites functioning as the "bars" that kept them in. Outside of their cell, there sat an old, bushy-haired woman with wild green eyes and a few warts on her face that went by the name of Madam Mim, a powerful witch that was once the rival of the great wizard known as Merlin but currently served as the guard watching over the prisoners. Although she was mostly sitting there, only a few feet from the cell, and playing chess with herself (in reality, using magic to make the opposite pieces move themselves).

From inside the cell, the Junior Ghostbusters looked more uncomfortable than they felt – especially in the case of one Emperor Kuzco, whom still was wearing nothing other than his boxers, quivering in the corner and pacing around the room a few times. Seeing him this much of a wreck, Malina did her best to ease his tension. "Kuzco, will you just relax? I'm sure the Ghostbusters will find a way to save us from this mess."

"That's right, everybody." Mickey said. "The Ghostbusters are the best. They've saved the world plenty of times before. And I'm certain they won't…"

"OH, SHUT IT, YA OVERPRICING THEME PARK MONGUL!!!" Kuzco suddenly snapped in frustration, alarming everyone in the cell but barely getting the attention of Mim from outside. "Don't ya get it?! It's been hours since we've been sucked into this nightmare of a place! The walls are closing in on us, there's some short ugly woman keeping us in here, and everything keeps getting all quaky every time!" He then broke down and started whining like a spoiled child when he loudly added, "I WANNA GO HO-O-O-O-O-O-OMMMMMEEE!!!"

After Kuzco's outburst, the other recruits just stared at him awkwardly, never bearing witness to such a pathetic display. Alex then broke the silence by responding to it in a way that made it obvious she was a little uncomfortable. "Okay…there's one minute of my life I'm never getting back."

It was at that point when Max Goof sighed in despair, leaning against the wall with his head down sadly. "He actually has a point, guys."

"You mean the walls are closing in on us?" Fozzie curiously inquired.

"No," Maximilian remarked. "I mean that we're never getting out of this place. Look around…this has to be beyond anything that the Ghostbusters had ever faced before – some kind of parallel dimension controlled by the most dangerous people in history. There's no way they'll be able to save us."

Max Goof's words struck the others hard, forcing them to lose all hope in the matter. However, his father maintained his sense of faith, and he refused to allow his own son to give up his. "Aww, Maxie. I never taught ya to ever let go of yer hope like that."

"But, Dad…"

"No buts, son. I'm gonna tell ya one thing about tha Ghostbusters. They're tha most brilliant, bravest, and strongest people I've ever met. Just last year, they saved tha world from sheer heck. And ya wanna know how they did it? They'd done it with tha faith of some friends." Goofy gestured to Mickey, Donald, Cody, and Alex. "We were all there when it happened. It was our faith…our hope…our beliefs that brought them together again."

Seeing the excellent point that Goofy made brought some hope back into the group, mostly to the four other people whom Goofy had made reference to in his talk with his son. "That's right, Max!" Donald happily exclaimed. "If it weren't for us, the Ghostbusters wouldn't have come together and saved the world!"

"There's a reason they hired us to be Junior Ghostbusters, fellas." Mickey stated. "Situations like this count for what we can do for ourselves."

"Yeah," said Alex with a smile. "Let's try to save our own butts for once."

"I think it'll be quite the adventure!" Cody exclaimed. "Don't you think so, Zack?"

Zack glanced between his brother, Alex, Donald, Goofy, and Mickey with an awkward expression registered on his face and said, "I think you're all out of your minds! Have you forgotten the fact that we're in a cell made out of rocks, with an old, decrepit woman guarding us?!"

Alex stopped and pondered over something for a moment, making an important, life-changing choice in her mind that could rescue them from this situation. She knew Justin would immediately object to it – but what other choice did they have?

Reaching down to her sock, she pulled out her wand and closed her eyes, hoping what she was about to do next would actually work. Nearby, Justin noticed the magical object that she held in her hands, and his eyes grew wide in shock and suspicion. "Alex…No!!"

But Alex didn't bother listening to her brother and instead focused on the words she carefully said while waving around her wand. "For us to be held captive here is an unjustly sin, instead put the ugly witch in!"

A flash emerged from Alex's wand, just as soon after she recited the rhyme, which was in actuality a spell that transported herself and the other Junior Ghostbusters from inside to outside of the cell. Madame Mim had gone from sitting outside to sitting inside of the one thing that she had been guarding for hours, her chessboard no longer in front of her. For the first time since they arrived there, Mim paid attention to something other than her own activity – and she didn't like it one bit.

"What in blazes is this?!" Mim exclaimed, before she started sniffing the air and detecting something that brought a stunned look upon her hideous face. "Wizards? There are wizards here in the Circle?!"

The other recruits had seen the wand in Alex's hand and couldn't believe that she was in fact what Mim detected her to be. It was Cody, Mickey, Donald, and Goofy who were the most surprised by this wild revelation. "You're a wizard?! The whole time?!?!" Cody frantically remarked.

Alex smiled sheepishly at her friends and said, "Surprise?"

Goofy scratched his chin slightly, looking curiously upon Alex. "It does explain a lot of things."

"It does?" Mickey asked him in confusion. "Like what?"

"Don't rightly know…but it does explain it…Ah-hyuck!"

Justin sighed, realizing the cat had finally been let out of the bag. "Yes, everybody! Alex, Max, and I are all wizards." He then added with a great deal of sarcasm, "Thanks for letting the family secret out, Alex."

"Hey, it got us out of our mess, didn't it?"

Madame Mim let out a disgusting cackle from Alex's assumption, which resonated throughout the entire cavern. "Is that what ya really believe, little girl? I'm willing to bet that I can get out of this cell with just the snap of a finger."

"Oh, yeahs, sandwitch lady?" Pepe remarked. "I'm willing to bet all de Skittles dat I've got in my pocket on dat impossibilities, okay."

"It's a challenge then!" Mim said with a grin, just as she snapped her fingers and magically made the stalagmites retract to the ground, allowing herself to walk right out and approach the Junior Ghostbusters. She slyly stuck her hand out to Pepe and demanded, "Give me my prize, shrimp. I won the challenge!"

Pepe sighed, as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a handful of the rainbow-colored bits of candy. "F.Y.I., sandwitch lady, I am not a shrimp…I AM A KING PRAWN!!!" He then tossed the handful of Skittles into Mim's face, distracting her long enough for the recruits to run free from the cavern.

"Where are we going?!" Candace asked.

"For now…far away from this place!" Kronk told her.

Scrapping off some of the Skittles that had stuck to her face – they seemed to have gotten very sticky while in Pepe's pocket – Mim noticed the group as they departed from the cavern. She grew angry of their deception, feeling like a complete fool for falling into the king prawn's trick.

"I'll show you mortals to mess with the Marvelously Marvelous Mad Madame Mim!!" She yelled, shaking her fist high in the air – having a few Skittles stuck to it. Curiously, she plucked two of the bits of candy from her fist and popped them into her mouth, chewing them up and tasting the intense sweetness from them. "Mmm! Very delicious!" She then spat out the candy and made a mortified look as she added, "I hate delicious!"

Bald Mountain floated directly in front of Hook and Barbossa's pirate ship, which carried not only themselves but the Ghostbusters, Peck, Hardemeyer, Pete, Phil, Keely, Meagan Tully (a.k.a. "Allha"), Jonathan Barrett, the Daring siblings, and the Ecto-1 as well. At the head of the ship, Barbossa and Hook glanced through their long, bulbous telescopes, scouting the island for any sign of Frollo.

While the two were scouting, Diana Zeddemore had been glancing between the island and Alexis from the deck, appearing very alarmed by what Embers had just told her. "You mean to tell me that the new recruits are on that island, after going through some strange, mystical door that had replaced our Ecto-Containment Unit?!"

"That pretty much sums it up." Alexis confirmed.

"It makes sense," uttered Spengler, as he pondered over the situation. "The doors represent portals, in which the Circle entities are allowed to pass between realms, in order to allow them to carry out their plans. But here in this world, they're more like shortcuts that help make it easier to get around these islands."

"Then maybe it would've been a bright idea to search the one we were just on, instead of taking the 'alternate route'." Kimberly said, while holding her nose around the filthy pirates. "Man, if this is how Jack Sparrow really smells, then I've lost complete attraction to that character!"

Louise then approached her and said (with a hint of sarcasm), "For once, Venkman, you and I agree on something."

Finally taking notice of her presence, Kimberly curiously asked Alexis, "Is there any reason why three of the biggest dipsticks in the world are with us on this mission?"

"What did she just call us?!" Hardemeyer shouted, clearly offended.

"She said 'dipsticks', as in 'jerks,' 'morons,' 'jackasses,'…should I go on or am I moving too slow for ya, fudge-brain?!" J.G. insulted Hardemeyer, who began advancing towards him in a threatening manner.

The pirates on the ship began whooping and hollering at them, hoping to see some sort of "mortal combat." But Alexis stepped in between them all and stated, "Hold it! Hold it! Don't do anything you all will regret later."

"Oh, I won't regret kickin' Miss Peck's butt in a million years, kiddo." Kimberly admitted.

"You want some of this, Venkman?!" Louise retorted, as she turned and bent over, wiggling her posterior in Kimberly's direction. "Come and get it!"

Venkman turned her head from the sight, feeling a little disturbed. "After seeing you do that, nothing in the world would make me want any of that!"

"Alright! Enough!" Alexis yelled, silencing all of the angry people around her. "It was my idea to bring Peck and Hardemeyer in on this. They came to us, wanting to make amends, so I gave them a shot at becoming…" She stopped for a second and swallowed hard, before she finished her statement, "…Junior Ghostbusters."

J.G. instantly went into a frenzy on the notion. "Absolutely not!!!"

"Forget it, hon!" Diana soon followed.

"I would rather lobotomize myself with a blender." Spengler neglected.

"Even when this place starts freezing, there'll be no chance of that happenin'!" Venkman declared.

Alexis tried to think of something to say in defense of the two incompetents; but as hard as she tried, even she found them to be useless. Of course that was until J.B. said, "Well, I think you're being a little too hard on them."

The Ghostbusters gave him a stunned glare – even Louise and John were slightly bewildered of his defending remark. "J.B., honey…Hitler was a little too hard on Germany. We're just being rational."

"Kim, look at them." J.B. demanded.

"Do I have to?"

"Venkman!"

She knew he was serious when addressing her by the last name; so she did as he wished and looked at Peck and Hardemeyer. They were not exactly clean-pressed as usual – their black suits were filthy and disheveled, just as bad as their hair was. Not to mention they even smelled as bad as the pirates on the ship. And out of their horrid appearance, one thing was clear to Venkman – the one thing that J.B. tried to convince her of: they were still alive.

Kimberly sighed, while J.B. smiled and told her, "You know I'm right, don't you? They would not have made it this far, if they weren't capable enough of being on your team."

Even the other Ghostbusters were beginning to see J.B.'s point and very much taken aback by it. They didn't bother saying a word, as it was mostly the chairwoman's (that would be Venkman) call in what would become of the two. But just as she was about to make it, before a bright flash of light overwhelmed them all.

When it had vanished, the pirate ship rocked heavily, nearly knocking everyone off their feet. Once things were back on track again, the group realized how a massive shadow had loomed over them. Looking up, they were met with quite a startling sight: the Statue of Liberty standing high on the same island it normally stood on, as it floated along with the others in the Seventh Circle.

Seeing this, Spengler proclaimed right away, "We don't have much time."