Have no fear everyone, I haven't abandoned this story. I've just been busy the last few days and haven't had the time to finish this chapter. Another short one, but since this fic is just a collection of One-Shots, very few chapters are going to be over 1,500 words anyway.

Episode 16: God Help The Outcasts:

Enchanted Dominion – Forest Clearing:

August 16, 2015

"What do you think?" Phoebus asked his wife as they looked at the cottage they were about to move into. When they first heard that they were cut off from Paris, the couple were initially devastated. They would never see their friends back home again, and their neighbors would think that they'd either died, been kidnapped, or run off somewhere. But after a few days of mourning their sudden separation from home, they realized that they needed to pick themselves up and make the most of their situation.

So Phoebus and Esmerelda spent the week travelling from world to world in search of a place that they felt they could call home. After travelling around for a while, three fairies, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, told them about a now-abandoned cottage out in the forests of Enchanted Dominion. Now they were standing outside waiting to bring the belongings they'd brought with them from La Cite Des Cloches inside.

"It could use a little work," Esmerelda commented. "This place obviously hasn't been lived in for years."

"Well when we're done with it, it'll look better than ever," Phoebus replied as they unloaded. "And whenever we want to add onto it, we can just build an extension ourselves." His wife smiled as they nodded and started unpacking. It was a long, tiring process carrying everything from the cart into the house. Even with Esmerelda's pet goat Djali helping, it was after sunset when they finally brought the last box inside and moved the cart around to the side of the house.

As they cooked their first meal in the new house, the two felt at peace. Phoebus' new job as a soldier in the Coalition military meant that they wouldn't be living in poverty, and while they missed their neighbors back in Paris, they were quickly making friends here in the Enchanted Dominion and on other worlds. Life was good.

Twilight Town – Clock Tower Interior

August 16, 2015

Quasimodo grinned as he leaped through the bell tower of Twilight Town's train station, ringing the bells along the way. It felt good to keep himself busy. Even though Frollo keeping him locked in Notre Dame for most of his life was a cruel, terrible thing, he actually enjoyed ringing the bells of the cathedral every day. Which was why, once he and his friends had learned that they would never be able to return to Paris again, he'd gotten on a passenger Gummi Ship for the first world with a bell tower he could find.

He'd ended up in Twilight Town and promptly applied for a job at the train station ringing the bells during the day shift. With some money given to him by Coalition Intelligence to help cover mortgage, he bought himself a small apartment a few blocks from the station so that he wouldn't have to walk very far to work each morning. Although Twilight Town's clock tower would never match up to the grandeur of Notre Dame in his mind, the hunchback was settling in quite nicely.

He missed his model of the city he'd constructed back home, but he could easily construct a new one. The new architecture of Twilight Town and more diverse clothing styles meant that he now had lots of new avenues to explore in terms of refining his wood carving skills. While he was still a little shy about going out and meeting people, his new neighbors were all very welcoming and a few even brought over housewarming gifts as he moved into his new home. The one thing that couldn't be replaced, however, were his gargoyle friends up in the bell tower. Hugo, Victor, and Laverne had been his constant companions for much of his life, and he'd miss hearing their constant bickering.

But dwelling on the past wouldn't change anything. So he picked himself up, dusted himself off, and came here to Twilight Town. To be honest, he was adjusting as well as could be expected. He still got homesick for Paris every few days, but for the most part he was adapting just fine. One of his neighbors had invited him over for dinner after his shift was over, and Quasimodo was actually looking forward to it. In the worlds of the Daybreak Coalition, there was none of the stigma against physical deformity that he'd encountered in Paris. His neighbors accepted him as he was without any comment, and that fact warmed the Hunchback formerly of Notre Dame's heart.

And with that, we are now halfway through Regroup and Rebuild. 15 More chapters to go and then it's on to Ripple Effects. So that chapter was another warm and fuzzy one. Next one is going to have some feels too, but considering that Mulan, Shang, Yao, Ling, and Chen Po are all soldiers, there will most certainly be some action.

Next Chapter: we catch up with the characters from Mulan and see what they've been doing for the last ten or so chapters.