The First Step

Cast:

Corey Burton: Master Yen Sid

Katie Higgins: Miles Tails Prower

Amy Birnbaum: Cosmo the Seedrien

Kirby

Cristina Valenzuela: Mio Akiyama

Emilie Claire Barlow: Minako Aino/Sailor Venus

Bryce Papenbrook: Rin Okumura

Keith David: Spawn/Al Simmons

Frank Welker: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

Bret Iwan: Mickey Mouse

Shannon Settlemyre: Lum the Invader

The Shadow Blot

After the Shades of Kitsune band left, Mio followed Minako through backstage and saw her with Lum. She hid behind a wall all the while listening to them talk. "Are you absolutely sure about the Fox kid being the host," Lum said, "He doesn't look like the most likely."

Minako noded her head. "Did you hear how he played that bass," she said, "It had some weird effect on their music. I also saw the black ink dripping out of his gloves, it was just a little bit but still."

Mio was puzzled over the name Shadow Blot. She tried to back up a little bit, but then she steps on an empty soda can which the other two hear. "We know you are behind that wall," Lum said, "Come out or we will get you ourselves!"

Mio had no chance but to reveal herself and slowly moves from behind the wall, very frightened at what may come. "Hey there Minako," she said, "I just thought of... um..."

Minako smiles and wiggled her finger at her while shaking her head. "How long did you eavesdropped on us," she said, "Please be honest too because this is really important."

Mio squeezed her arm in nervousness and started to sweat. "All I herd is about this Shadow Blot thing," she says, "I was kind of wondering about the fox kids bass playing, but I didn't know something is helping him or something."

Lum walks over to Mio and lays her hand on her shoulders. Mio is kind of weirded out by this as Lum rubs her finger down to her chest and pokes it. "If it hurts in the morning," Lum said, "Well then, I appologize very deeply."

Mio did not get it until she felt a small electric shock in her heart which causes her to get knocked out.

Meanwhile, Tails walked out the backdoor of the Bushido Theatre into the parking lot, seeing numerous amount of cars. Over the parking lot is the Anime side of town with lots of neon lights on the buildings. Tails looked over to the cars driving by the parking lot, but despite the loud volume of the cars, he still herd the noise of Kirby tripping over a jagged crack on the floor and turns around to him. "They should fix that thing," Tails said, "I know that you are worried about me, but I'm okay."

Tails smiles awkwardly and continued to walk through the parking lot to the main streets of the city. "It's so amazing that I have managed to get this far," he said, "I started playing on that building over there."

Tails points to an old abandoned apartment building. "I remembered reading two books," he said, "One was on mechanical engineering and the other was on building a bass. I used both of them to make a bass out of metal."

Kirby started jumping up in excitement. "That is right Kirby," Tails said, "That same day I met you guys and decided to show you guys the bass I made. I just didn't knew I had some weird power in me at the time. I remembered it all because this was all after I left one of my closest friend."

Kirby frowned and stopped jumping. "I did so to go to places," Tails said, "But I was only able to get to this side of the Outside Lands with nothing, but my thoughts. We have only played in this side of the Outside Lands, but never anywhere else. I wish I could go to that area, but the projectors won't allow it. Not even Daffy remembered how he got from that side to this side."

Kirby then saw a figurine house on display in a store. Tails also looks at the figurine house and saw it light up through its small windows. Tails then started to have a realisation. "That's it," he said, "Legend says of a mansion that can take people to anywhere they want no matter what. That must be where Daffy came from and he says that it is through the forest somewhere."

Kirby however realized that he was supposed to be ready for tommorow. Tails ran down the street with Kirby trying to stop him, but Tails twirled his tails and flew away. "Sorry for changing the plans for tommorow," Tails said, "I will see you after I traveled through all of the other half of the Outside Lands!" He waved goodbye and continued on to the forest afew miles ahead.

Kirby decided to run back to the others.

Back with Mickey and Oswald outside of the shed in the Wastelands, Mickey shows Oswald a tube that has a small ink blot in it. "There is only one way we can find The Shadow Blot," Mickey said, "We need to use this ink blot to find the it."

Oswald took the tube and looked at it. "Do you think that's in the Wastelands," he said, "If anyone knows about this..."

Cosmo suddenly interrupted. "What are you two talking about," she said, "Is there anyway I can help you guys out?"

They hide the tube behind their backs. "It's nothing really special," Oswald says, "I-I mean that you can help us out by... um..."

Mickey looked around and sees a bucket, which he hands to Cosmo. "We want you to get some pears," Mickey said, "That's what we need."

Cosmo looks at the bucket questioningly. "I don't know you guys," she said, "The fields are very far away near the border of the Wastelands."

Mickey pointed her to the direction of the field. "Don't you worry a thing Cosmo," he said, "Just think of it as a duty of a Princess."

Cosmo chuckled a little bit. "I do respect your Princesses for their work," she said, "But I am the last person to really talk to about someones princess phase. Besides I'm not really Princess material in the first place."

Mickey chuckled as well. "Whatever you think of yourself to be is not of my jurisdiction," he said, "I'm just saying that you do have some qualities to be one. I mean you are pretty cute all things considering."

Cosmo look at the bucket with a smile. "I guess if I have to do this Princesses duty," she said, "I just wish they have important duties to everyone." She walks towards the direction of the fields as Mickey waves goodbye.

Oswald ran to Mickey. "Are you sure about having her go out there," Oswald said, "What if The Shadow Blot is around the fields?"

Mickey takes the tube and pushes it onto Oswalds face. The blot inside is flat on the surface and not in any change at all. "If that thing was in the Wastelands then it would move around the tube," he says, "All I have to do now is to go to either sides of Outside Lands and wait for it to move, then I will just play hot and cold till the blot breaks out of the tube."

Oswald lowered his head and frowned. "I want to help out too you know," he said, "Without a heart I can't get out of here."

Mickey started to think about how to include Oswald. "If only you could..." he said, "Wait a minute. I think I know how we can solve that, but it's going to be very tricky."

Meanwhile, Tails was flying through a cemetery looking forward to the forest, but hiding behind an old withering was Rin and Al. Al now wore a red cape that manages to hide behind the tree with him despite the length. "There he is Al," Rin says, "Are you ready to vanish the thing once for all?"

Al takes out a gun from under his cape and loads it with bullets. He aims at Tails, but before he could shoot, he saw a vulture over the tree branch with a note on his foot. Spawn takes the letter and read it to himself. "It says that the boss wants a change in plans," Al said, "He wants me to go back to his hideout for another mission and he orders you to go after Tails. Makes sense with you being an excorcist and his change in plans is to not gain huge publicity."

Rin takes out his sword which started to get covered in blue flames. "You deal with that other mission then," he said, "I'll deal with this kid, but first I need him to reach that forest."

Al followed the vulture as they walked out of the cementery while Rin continued to stalk Tails.