"Well, this is it, Cy-Cass. This is Mount Potentia, I promise you."
The half Cassandra bird and half cyborg known as Cyber-Cassandra, or Cy-Cass for short, looked ahead at the giant mountain that she and her friend Mickey Mouse were standing very close to. They had spent nearly a week walking through the Mountains of Validus and looking for a specific mountain called Mount Potentia. This was meant to be the giant mountain that that Mickey's former boss Sid Yen the sorcerer lived in.
Cy-Cass got out her blue hologram map from her metal wing to check that this mountain was the one they were looking for. She knew her friend Mickey for only ten days and, also because he was a former employee to the sorcerer and used to work inside his mountain, she trusted him enough to take her to the correct mountain, but she still needed to check on her map to confirm it. She was happy that it was. "You're right, Mickey. This is the right mountain."
Happy that they found the correct mountain, they all sat down on the nearest boulder to rest their tired feet from all the walking they had to do. They couldn't take any vehicle to the Mountains of Validus, not even risk paragliding or taking a hot air balloon, because their enemies the sorceress Lady Daja and her Electricity Army would quickly spot them and their mission to stop them once and for all would be over immediately.
"Cy-Cass, can you use your gadgets to check that if Sid or anyone is inside the mountain himself?" Mickey asked.
Cy-Cass used her digital red cyborg eye to scan the mountain. When she finished her scanning, she was disappointed. "No, Mickey. I'm afraid I can't find him in there at all. I can't even see if his magic hat or robes are in there either. Either my digital eye needs more upgrades or this mountain is so magical and powerful that it's hiding its stuff so well."
"Well, at least your eye has shown that means this magical mountain hasn't lost its power since the day I left it," Mickey said.
"If Sid's not in the mountain, does that mean that his hat might not be in there either?" Cy-Cass asked.
"Well, from what I can remember, Sid never let his hat leave the mountain at all, not even when he needed to leave," Mickey replied. "That was his number one rule. He always put it somewhere safe when he needed to leave the mountain. So I have a very strong feeling it's still in there, but I can't make any promises."
"Well, if the hat's still in there and he's not," Cy-Cass said, "then we'll have no choice but to take it."
Mickey was shocked to hear that. "You're not suggesting we steal it, are you?"
"Well, I view it as borrowing it, because once we finish doing what we have to do, we'll return it back, I promise."
Mickey was still unsure about this. He remembered how Sid Yen was a very tough, serious and no-nonsense boss and his magical hat was the most important thing to him. He remember 'borrowing' his hat to make his job of collecting water by bringing a broomstick to life only made things even worse. He couldn't imagine what consequences he and Cy-Cass would face from Sid if they 'borrowed' it again.
"Look, Mickey, you know desperate times call for desperate measures," Cy-Cass said. "If 'stealing' Sid's hat is the only way to stop Daja and her army and rescue Minnie, then the only other choice is to let them win and rule the world and let Minnie be the robot she is now and do every evil thing Daja orders her to do."
Mickey had almost completely forgotten about Daja and her evil army taking over the world and his beloved girlfriend Minnie Mouse not only being turned into a giant golden robot, but also being the leader of Daja's army.
"I never met Sid," Cy-Cass continued, "but whatever consequences we'll face for borrowing his hat, the consequences of letting Daja and her army win this war will be much more dire, I promise you that."
Mickey thought about what his cyborg friend told him and he couldn't think of any better ideas and he agreed that the sooner that they borrow Sid's hat, the sooner they could stop Daja and her army for good and rescue Minnie and turn her back to her normal self and return it to Sid. "Okay, then," he said. "Follow me to the entrance, Cy-Cass."
"Right behind you." And Cy-Cass followed him.
It took them two minutes to reach the entrance, which was on the other side of the massive mountain. When Cy-Cass looked at it, she scanned it with her eye to see if there was a hidden door in the mountain or if there was a giant hole hidden by a giant boulder, but she couldn't find anything. Then she checked to see if there were any stones she needed to touch or turn to get in the mountain like some sort of code. When she touched one, she got zapped away and crashed into a tree. A coconut tree, with a whole bunch of coconuts hitting her head.
"Are you okay, Cy-Cass?" Mickey asked.
Cy-Cass angrily rose up and pulled out one of her laser guns out of her metal wing. "What was that?"
"That was the mountain's magical defence," Mickey replied. "You can't force your way in. You got to speak its language."
"And what's its language?" Cy-Cass got her answer when she heard Mickey speaking some words that she had never heard before and she knew all the languages that ever existed in the world, even the ones that were long forgotten. She just assumed that it was a secret magic language that only certain people like Sid Yen and Mickey learned.
Soon the mountain started to rumble. Cy-Cass drew her laser gun again.
"Don't worry, Cy-Cass," Mickey said. "It's not going to attack us. It's going to let us in."
Then they saw a white light appearing on the mountain. It strongly resembled a giant door.
"Is this the magic door to enter the mountain, Mickey?" Cy-Cass asked.
"Yes, it is," Mickey replied. "I promise." Then he continued to speak in his magic language.
Then the shiny magic door started to open, revealing whiteness behind it.
"Come on, Cy-Cass," Mickey said. "These doors don't stay open for long at all."
Then she and Mickey ran through the magical door before it closed behind them and disappeared.