.:Tomorrowland - Part 1:.

"No wonder you're late. Why, this watch is exactly two days slow."

~ Alice in Wonderland

"Hmm, hold on. Maybe we should look at the map," Esme suggested.

"Who needs a map?" Emmett scoffed, marching straight into Tomorrowland. "That ride looks cool, doesn't it, Ness?"

He was pointing to the Astro Orbitor, where rockets carouseled above their heads. But all around them were spaceships and astronauts and buildings decorated in such strange technology that Nessie was momentarily distracted from what her uncle was saying.

"This place has changed a lot since I was here last." Bella sighed. "I guess I should stop being surprised by the changes, huh?"

"It's only natural to notice," Jasper said. "Natural to notice, and natural to accept it."

Bella could have sworn the look he gave her was significant, like her brother was aware of the hardships she faced. And why wouldn't he be? He'd been detecting nothing but anxiety from her for the past few months, and he pinned it, quite accurately, on the move away from Forks.

Bella could only stare at him—she'd feel like an idiot later—as she processed his words. She suddenly remembered that Jasper had been around longer than everyone here other than Carlisle. And from all the different environments he's lived in throughout a century, the changes he experienced have only made life better and better for him.

But then, what about Rosalie? She had a perfect life, just as Bella had in Forks right now, and when change happened for her, it was a nightmare she never thought existed. In fact, she was still not over it, and she most likely never could be, because her gifted memory wouldn't let her forget the pain, a pain only increased with the intensity vampires felt. Bella knew she was lucky to have everything she has up to this point, and she didn't know if she could trust anything more from fate or luck or whatever. Maybe Edward was also right when he said we've lost our faith in our future, Bella thought, grim. But Bella was still worried about the unknown of what happens next, about finally joining the immortal world of her new family the way they all did — sacrificing her human life behind completely, once and for all.

"Jake, ride with me!" Nessie's voice broke Bella out of her thoughts.

Apparently, Jacob, Emmett, and Rosalie were already getting in line for Astro Orbitor with Nessie.

"Well, Astro Orbitor it is then," Carlisle chuckled, as the rest hurried to join.

They paired off again, and since Jacob was going with Renesmee this time, the remaining Cullens went with their significant others.

Being seated in front of their partners, the girls operated the control that took their rockets up or down. Nessie and Alice were having fun alternating between the highest point and the lowest point. Esme held her and Carlisle's rocket at the top so they could enjoy the beautiful view. Rosalie did the same, except she did it so her and Emmett could look down on everyone else, all superior-like; every time Emmett would reach around her to have a bit of fun with the controls, Rosalie would smack his hand away. Bella also wouldn't let Edward touch the controls,

Their flight eventually came to a landing.

Nobody had a choice on where they were going next. Once Emmett saw Buzz Lightyear, that was it. Their second space adventure was going to be Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters.

As they stood in line, the LGM's (little green men) seemed to be distressed over the evil Emperor Zurg. Buzz informed all the "Space Rangers" about the mission they were about to embark on to save the crystallic fusion cells that the LGM's needed. Etch, the Etch-n-Sketch, even helped Buzz draw out diagrams to explain how their spaceships and lasers worked.

"Oh, I get it. It's like a video game that's a ride," Jacob said, his excitement doubling.

"This is not a ride. This is a mission!" Nessie exclaimed. She had the most adorable expression of determination on her face. "We must save Green Planet! Who's with me?"

The Cullens all joined her in her enthusiasm, piling their hands in the center of the family's circle and then breaking.

"This is going to be great." Emmett laughed. "I've always wanted to be a Space Ranger."

"I'm only doing it because the little green guys are adorable," Jasper confessed in a flat, deadpan voice. The others burst out laughing.

Before they left the room, Alice took a picture of Buzz and Etch. "You know, I don't remember them being so big," she said.

"We're the size of toys, Alice," Bella retorted, rolling her eyes.

"It was a joke." Alice glared at her. "I'm not that slow."

Bella laughed, saying, "Could've fooled me."

"That's it—we're enemies now."

Bella only laughed again.

The line moved quickly after that. They reached the moving sidewalk where they hopped into their Star Cruisers. Nessie partnered with Jacob again. They grabbed their laser blasters and prepared for the battle, saying, "Bring it on evil alien scum!"

They flew through space, blasting away with their laser guns at any 'Z' target. Jacob took over the joystick that controlled which direction their ship faced; he spun the ship back and forth in order to get the best angles for all the targets.

In the middle of the ride, there was a break from all the shooting when they entered a tunnel filled with blinking white and colored lights. At this part, Jacob followed the example Alice and Esme were showing in front of them—he kept their spaceship spinning 360 degrees, nonstop, until they came out the other side of the rainbow tunnel. Nessie's gleeful laugh lasted the whole way through.

"Woah," she said at the end, dizzy, trying to fix her vision, as she was seeing three Jacobs now.

At the end of the ride they encountered the ultimate battle: the fight against Emperor Zurg himself!

The Cullens fought him off like master Space Rangers. They finally won, of course—they're the Cullens, what'd you expect? their scores flashed on the control panel in front of them, and they compared their numbers to the ranking scale on the wall when they got off.

"Bam! 266,600," Jacob announced proudly. "4th rank, Space Scout. Beat that."

Edward smirked at him. "411,300 for me. 5th rank, First Class Ranger."

"Ha! I got 490,701," Emmett boasted.

"Hmm, you beat me by a hundred," Jasper frowned. "I got 490,600."

"Ha!" Emmett repeated.

"Well, I was busy spinning the spaceship for Nessie," Jacob muttered in defense.

"Yeah, right."

"That's the worst excuse I've ever heard."

"I could easily be a Cosmic Commando or Glactic Hero if I was really trying."

The boys continued to argue over who the better Space Ranger was, saying that the highest score doesn't necessarily matter; rather, it's the person who had the most accuracy (though there was no way to prove who exactly had the most precise hits).

"Excuse me, boys," Rosalie sang, pushing them aside to let her through. She smirked at them and pointed to herself while saying, "600,400 exactly. Rank 6: Cosmic Commando."

The boys gaped at her, as she flicked her hair over her shoulder and headed down the exit.

Alice went skipping pleasantly past them, next. Before disappearing around the corner with Rosalie, she twirled around to say she was a Cosmic Commando, too.

Then Bella came up beside them, holding Nessie's hand.

The boys glared suspiciously at her.

When she noticed their dirty looks, she raised her free hand innocently. "Don't look at me. I barely got over 200,000." She shrugged.

"Psh. Who do those girls think they are?" Emmett grumbled as he went after them.

When the family caught up with Alice and Rosalie, they found them laughing by a row of touch screen computers—they were busy operating one. Alice waved them over to see what was so funny. Apparently, they discovered there was a hidden camera on the ride, and the sisters found their family's pictures. They scrolled through them again, showing the others now. The funniest one was of Edward and Bella; the brunette was coincidentally looking straight at the camera with her eyes and mouth wide open, while her bronze-haired husband had the look on his face that he gets when in pursuit of a mountain lion. Jacob's was pretty hilarious, too, because the camera caught him just as he had his hands up, celebrating hitting a very difficult target. Nessie just had squinty eyes as she concentrated.

When they all regained their composure, Bella e-mailed her and Edward's photo, along with Nessie and Jacob's, to Charlie (as the ride let her do).

"He's going to love our faces," she laughed.

"And he'll probably show it to my dad," Jacob grinned. "The pack will get a good laugh."

Moving on, they ended up in a shop, where Emmett insisted on buying a little plush LGM for his and Rose's bed. Rosalie rolled her eyes as he bought it—she wasn't keeping that on their bed. Then the Cullens wandered across the way to a big sign that read Star Tours.

"I am so ready for a tour of the stars," Alice said as they got in line.

They were entertained upon seeing some of their favorite Star Wars characters while in the queue. Nessie took a picture with R2-D2, her favorite character of the franchise.

Their space adventure aboard the Star Speeder 3000 was supposed to take them on a flight to the Endor Moon, much to everyone's excitement. But it took a little unexpected detour due to the fact that it was their captain's first solo flight. The Cullens and the rest of the passengers soared into hyperspace, flew through comets, got caught in the tractor beam of an enemy ship, and even helped in the destruction of the Death Star, "Because I'm just that badass," according to Jacob.

They exited the motion-simulator ride and found themselves in yet another store. This one was filled with Star Wars merchandise (go figure).

Emmett grabbed a blue, plastic lightsaber out of a bin and flicked it open.

"What do you say, Nessie? You up for a duel?"

Picking out a green lightsaber herself, she smiled. "En garde!"

"En garde?" Emmett narrowed his eyes. "French words make me mad!" he said, quoting one of Nessie's most watched films: Mickey and the Three Musketeers. And then he lunged for her.

The two fought for a few minutes, dodging and blocking each others thrusts. Then Jacob jumped in with two red swords, laughing like a villain. Emmett and Nessie stared at him, then each other, before grinning and teaming up against the common enemy.

Jacob managed to catch Emmett at the perfect angle to fling his sword out of his hand. Emmett's lightsaber went flying a little too high, and the three Jedi's cringed as they watched it hit Esme. The mother Cullen gasped, touched the spot where it hit her, and glared up at them. They thought they were going to be scolded, until Esme pretended to be collapsing to the floor.

"I have...been hit..." she whimpered. "It seems this is the end for me. Who will avenge my death?"

Jacob started his evil laugh again.

Suddenly, Bella, Alice, and Jasper were behind him, caging him in a headlock before he knew what was going on.

"Hey, what the-?"

"Get him, Nessie!" the trio shouted.

"This is for Esme, the Momma Jedi!" Nessie declared dramatically as her lightsaber poked into Jacob's stomach.

"Argh! You got me!"

Nessie broke out into a victory dance so intricate that it had passersby slowing down to watch. The on-lookers applauded her when she was finished, and she curtsied. The Cullens were highly amused.

"Where did you learn that?" Bella wondered.

"Quil and Seth danced like that at Claire's birthday party," Nessie answered.

"That explains a lot," Jacob muttered, thinking those moves were familiar somehow.

Nessie then declared she knew what she wanted to add to her unique Disney princess outfit. Representing Tomorrowland, the half-vampire will wield her green lightsaber. As they waited in line to purchase it, a funny noise came from Jacob's stomach.

Nessie giggled. "I think I broke Jake in our battle."

"Maybe." Jacob smirked. "But I think you just woke up my stomach and now it's realized it's hungry."

"Speaking of which, you should be getting hungry, too, sweetie," Bella told Nessie as she ran her fingers through her daugher's bronze curls.

"I am a little..."

"Why don't we grab lunch for them and take it into the line for Space Mountain?" Edward suggested.

"That sounds like a good idea," Carlisle nodded. "It seems to be a popular attraction, so will most likely have a long queue."

After burying Nessie's accessory, the little girl decided on a restaurant called Pizza Port (but she kept calling it Pizza Planet, in honor of Toy Story). And by the time Jacob and Nessie were done with their lunch, they were almost to the front of the line, at the entrance of Space Mountain.

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"Wow, where are we going?" Nessie asked, as they made their way through the maze-like corridors of the Space Mountain spaceport. The moment they stepped inside, it was, once again, a different place. They were no longer in a theme park. But this time it was not a cartoon town, or the wild west, or the jungle that they entered; it was something not one of them had ever experienced before except here in Tomorrowland. This was outer space. And when they stepped into the loading zone, they gaped at the giant rocket engine glowing in front of them, and watched the giant window at the front, where they could see the universe they were floating through, gliding past stars and passing planets. It really felt like they were traveling in a spaceship now.

They were soon directed to their assigned lanes at the glowing purple gates. Nessie jumped with joy when they got row 1; she and Edward had the front seat.

"This is going to be so cool!" Nessie said. "Isn't it, daddy?"

"It definitely is."

The gates glided open, and Edward helped Nessie into their spaceship. She pointed out how the speakers in the seats were a Hidden Mickey; she had been forgetting all day to search out the hidden Mickeys, unless she spotted a more obvious one, like this.

After everyone's lap bars were secured, they prepared for launch. Their rocket moved forward to where a man was sitting behind the glass overhead, standing as mission control. Nessie waved at him, and smiled when he waved back.

Suddenly, a man sounded from the speakers.

"This is Tower, launch sequence engaged."

Turning right, they sloped upward, making their way through a tunnel of red strobe lights, before entering another tunnel of flashing, horizontal blue lights that zoomed by them, increasing in speed as if their rocket was powering up. Following this was a long chain lift where the screens encircling the track began to spin, giving the illusion that they, the Cullens, were spinning. And then, finally they reached the top where the galaxy swirled around them. The room was pitch-black and all they could see was the thousands of stars.

A countdown began—10, 9, 8—as they made one final ascent into the stars.

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The rockets blasted off and the Cullens flew at top speed into space, past novas and asteroids, through galaxies. They dipped and turned at unpredictable moments, always to the exciting music that played around them. Nessie was screaming and giggling the whole way (now dubbed her giggle-scream). Already, this was easily one of the Cullens' favorite rides in the park. They dived downward, plunging in a consistent right-turned helix, going fast and faster, until, suddenly, they turned left. They entered a tunnel with many colorful stars flying towards them. Two bright flashes of a camera blinded them as it took their picture.

The Cullens were laughing happily while it took a moment for them to get their eyesight back. The rockets were slowly pulling back into port now.

"Wow!" That was pretty intense," Emmett was saying as they got off the ride. The others had to agree.

"That was awesome!"

"I wasn't expecting it to be that cool, to tell the truth."

"I didn't even care that we could see the track."

"The music really enhanced the experience on this ride."

"Momma, Daddy, look at Grandpa's hair! Hehehe." Nessie pointed, trying to muffle her giggles.

Edward and Bella glanced over, and Carlisle gave them a look that dared them to laugh. Edward pressed his lips together, turning away quickly, but Bella couldn't help the laugh that slipped out of her. Everyone's hair was once again windblown—Carlisle's just happened to be the funniest this time around. Esme softly chuckled as she smoothed it back out for him.

Making their way up the exit steps, they stopped to look at their picture. Several of them had their hands up, some were screaming their heads off, others had huge smiles on their faces; every one of them looked like they were having the time of their life. Esme noted how it was actually a great picture of them all. She bought it.

After Jacob stopped to use the restroom, they started making their way to Autopia—a car ride, by the looks of it on the map.

Upon leaving the bathroom area, however, Nessie's steps faltered as she spotted a cylinder, two-story building that appeared to be rotating.

Bella looked around to hold her daughter's hand so they wouldn't get separated, but she wasn't there. She turned around to the princess standing a few feet behind, just staring. Bella tried following her gaze. "Nessie, what's wrong?"

"Momma, that building is spinning."

"Yes. That is strange, isn't it?" Bella was just now noticing it, too.

"What is inside?"

"I don't know."

"There's a line for it," Jasper observed. The family had stopped to wait for them. "It appears to be another attraction."

"Can we go in? Please!" Nessie's eyes were pleading, gleaming with curiosity. She'd never seen a revolving building before, much less one you could actually go inside of.

"Well," Bella looked around, "if everyone wants to go."

"Of course."

"Lets do it!"

"It looks interesting..."

"Our next house should rotate like that."

"Ha. Good luck with that, Em."

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"Even miracles take a little time."

~ Cinderella

I've never seen anyone get off Space Mountain without a smile on their face, and I watch for it. I think it's impossible. :D

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