A/N: I've been recently invested in a Disney/Pixar movie franchise known as Monsters Inc. I love that movie as well as it's prequel Monsters University. I think it's a cool world. Recently, Disney/Pixar has made a sequel to Monsters Inc known as Monsters At Work that was released on Disney+ in 2021, which is a television series that takes place after the events of the original Monsters Inc movie back in 2001. The series follows a monster named Tylor Tuskman who after graduating from Monsters University, gets an invitation from Harry J. Waternoose to come work at Monsters Inc to become a scarer.
Unfortunately for him, Tylor soon discovers that monsters no longer scare children, but instead make children laugh which is more powerful than a child's scream. As a result, Monsters Inc switches from scaring the living daylights out of children to making children laugh their asses off to help generate power to the city of Monstropolis. Tylor Tuskman soon gets reassigned as an temporary employee of the Monsters Inc Facilities Team (or MIFT for short) while the Monsters Inc team focuses on making children laugh.
Upon arriving at MIFT, Tylor meets a group of monsters whom he doesn't really get along with all that well at first, but over time, Tylor eventually gets along well with the crew of MIFT as they take on various task throughout the show's first season. The second season of Monsters At Work will be airing on April 5 on the Disney Channel first before arriving on Disney+ in May. What most people don't know was that long before Disney/Pixar had decided to make a sequel to Monsters Inc in the form of a television series, there was originally going to be a sequel made to Monsters Inc that would've been made by a completely different animation team owned by Disney called Circle 7 Animation Studios called: Monsters Inc 2: Lost in Scaradise, where Mike Wazowski and Sully would've accidentally ventured into the human world.
For those of you who don't know, Circle 7 Animation Studios was a animation studio that was designed to make sequels to various Disney/Pixar movies like Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Monsters Inc. See, back then, Pixar wasn't owned by Disney. It was originally a separate animated studio that Disney partnered up with to co-produce their movies for distribution purposes. A deal was made between Disney and Pixar that stated after they'd made seven animated movies, Disney and Pixar were to go their separate ways. Thus Disney came up with an animation studio that would exclusively make sequels to the animated movies Pixar had previously made. Circle 7 Animation had plans to make sequels to a few previously made Pixar movies, namely Finding Nemo 2, Monsters Inc 2: Lost in Scaradise and the original version of Toy Story 3.
Unfortunately, in 2006, Michael Eisner stepped down as CEO of Disney with Bob Iger soon taking over as the new CEO of Disney. Bob Iger wanted Disney to buy Pixar for a huge sum of money, which they did in 2006. As a result of Disney buying Pixar, Circle 7 Animation was forced to shut down as Disney and Pixar weren't yet ready to have sequels made to their movies yet. As a result of Circle 7 Animation being shut down, several animated projects they were working on like Finding Nemo 2, Monsters Inc 2: Lost in Scaradise and the original version of Toy Story 3 being permanently cancelled. Some of the animated movies left over from Circle 7 Animation like Finding Nemo 2, Monsters Inc 2: Lost in Scaradise and the original version of Toy Story 3 were eventually made by Disney/Pixar in the future, with Finding Nemo 2 becoming Finding Dory in 2016, Monsters Inc getting a prequel called Monsters University released in 2013 which later led to a sequel television series made in 2021 on Disney+ and a new reworked version of Toy Story 3 being released in 2010. And the rest is history.
This fanfic is going to recreate the original idea of Monsters Inc 2: Lost in Scaradise that Disney/Pixar sadly never followed through on after it was cancelled that audiences never got the chance to see that would've merged the human world with the monster world of Monstropolis. This is what the sequel to Monsters Inc would've been like if Disney/Pixar would've never made Monsters At Work.
Mike Wazowski was nervous. He was at the altar in the church getting ready to marry the girl of his dreams, Celia Mae, a monster girl Mike had known for a long time. Celia Mae worked as the secretary at Monsters Inc, where Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan, also known as Sully worked at as scarers. Mike Wazowski had first met Celia Mae at Monsters Inc, where they eventually got to know to each other. Celia feel in love with the green one eyed monster that was Michael Wazowski. Mike would often take Celia to dates at various monster themed restaurants.
It was at one of those restaurants where Mike and Celia had one of their dates at that changed his life, as well as the monster world forever when the very first human to ever step foot into the monster world would turn his world upside down. It had occurred at a monster themed restaurant named Harryhausens, named after the real life stop motion animator Ray Harryhausen who was well known for his groundbreaking animation on monsters that were featured in several movies.
Mike had been wanting to take Celia to Harryhausens for a long time. While they were on their date, a human girl toddler had been accidentally released into the monster world by Sully while attempting to scare her in her bedroom had run amok in the halls of Monsters Inc. The little human girl soon escaped from Monsters Inc. Sully had to hide the human girl away from the monsters, as it was assumed that human children were considered to be toxic to monsters, even though they weren't that toxic toward monsters as Sully soon discovered.
Sully had barged into Harryhausens restaurant as Mike and Celia were in the middle of their date. The human girl was inadvertently released by Sully into the restaurant, causing mass hysteria and pandemonium in the monster world as monsters were afraid of human children because of their supposed toxicity toward monsters. This event had ruined Mike and Celia's date at Harryhausens. Celia was intially angry at Mike for inadvertently ruining their date. Eventually, after the harrowing events Mike Wazowski and Sully went through with the human girl at Monsters Inc, Mike and Celia reconciled and were ready to get married. There was just one problem: Mike Wazowski couldn't say "I do" to Celia at their wedding. He couldn't work up the courage to say his wedding vows to Celia. It wasn't that he didn't want to say "I do" to Celia or that he didn't feel like saying it. It was just that Mike was nervous about completing his wedding vows to Celia.
At almost every wedding in existence, when the bride and groom walked together toward the altar to say their marriage rites, the preist hosting the wedding would usually ask the bride and groom a series of questions that they had to respond faithfully to. Usually, when the preist asks the bride and groom if they take each other as husband and wife, they both usually seal the deal by saying "I do" to each other as a sign that they will be faithful toward one another as husband and wife. That's what the majority of what the bride and groom does at a wedding upon getting married. Not Mike Wazowski. For some unknown, inexplicable reason, whenever Mike was required to say "I do" to Celia when asked by the preist if he would take Celia as his wife at their wedding, he wasn't able to say the words "I do" to Celia. He for some reason didn't have in him to take Celia in as his wife as he would get cold feet at the last minute right he was about to complete his marriage vow to Celia. He had done this a few times to Celia, which forced her to postpone their wedding a couple of times.
Today Mike seriously hoped that he had in him to say "I do" to Celia when he was asked by the preist whether he would take Celia in to be his wife. All he had to say to her was "I do." It was that simple. Yet, for some bizarre reason, Mike didn't have it in him to say "I do" to Celia at their wedding. The church looked stunning. It had long benches called pews (yes, it's what they're really called) lining the church floor beside the altar. Various monsters of all shapes and sizes sat in the pews. James P. Sullivan, Mike Wazowski's life long best friend since college was there at the ceremony as the best man. A preist was at the altar with Mike Wazowski and Celia Mae. Mike Wazowski was a spherical lime green colored monster who only had one eye which was hazel. He had thin arms and legs with feet that had 6 toes on each, three toes on each foot that had claws on them along with his hands. He only had four fingers on each of his hands. On top of his head were two small horns.
Celia Mae was a slender, light, magenta colored gorgon-looking monster that had sentient purple hair that resembled five snakes whose tails acted like her earrings. She had one eye that was aquamarine blue. The snakes in her hair reminded people of the Greek mythological witch known as Medusa who was a woman who could literally turn people into stone just by looking at them. She was known for having hair being composed of a bunch of snakes. Celia currently wore a white wedding gown while Mike Wazowski only wore a bow-tie on him. The preist was a dragon monster with large wings. His scales were purple and they were slimy. He had two eyes, a forked tongue and could breathe fire through his nose. He looked a lot like an amalgamation of the dragon Draco from the movie Dragonheart (1996), Spyro the Dragon and Elliot from Pete's Dragon (1977). The dragon's name was Earl Hardscrabble. He was the nephew of Dean Hardscrabble of Monsters University.
"Do you, Celia Mae, take this man to be your awfully wedded husband?" the dragon preist asked Celia.
"I do." Celia said. Earl turned toward Mike. He was visibly nervous. He was sweating profusely. He desperately wanted to say that he would take Celia Mae as his wife.
"Do you, Mike Wazowski, take Celia Mae as your awfully wedded wife " the preist asked him. Mike was anxious. He really wanted to say "I do" to Celia. He was about to open his mouth to say "I do" when suddenly he began to feel extremely dizzy and light-headed. The world seemed to swirl around him as he started to pass out. Mike Wazowski had fainted. The walls around them suddenly began to lift up as if someone was physically lifting them up. The walls slowly lifted up as a bright light shone upon them. A control desk stood in front of Mike and Celia. A few monstes stood in front of them behind the control desk. Mike and Celia were in the Monsters Inc simulation room. Celia no longer wore her white wedding gown. She wore her usual outfit, which consisted of a green slick, sleeveless dress with a scale print design and a blueish green puffy collar. She had tendrils for feet. The wedding that Celia Mae and Mike Wazowski were in wasn't actually a wedding at all. It was a simulation created by Monsters Inc to help Mike say the words "I do" to Celia during their actual wedding to complete his wedding vow to Celia.
No mater what Mike tried to do or how hard he tried, he couldn't get the words "I do" to come out of his mouth. It made Celia extremely frustrated with him. She had to postpone their wedding three times because of Mike's inability to complete his wedding vow to Celia by not saying "I do" She started to get fed up with him. She started to wonder if Mike truly wanted to marry her or not. If Mike continued to not say the words "I do" to her at their wedding next Sunday, she would never marry him ever.
"How hard is it for you to say I do to me at our wedding?!" Celia angrily asked her fiancee. "It's just two simple words: I do. How hard is that for you to say?"
"I'm sorry, Smoochy Poo. It's just that when the preist asks me whether I should take you as my awfully wedded wife, I tend to get extremely nervous and I suddenly lose my words." Mike explained to his girlfriend. "I tend to be speechless."
"Well your nervousness has caused me to delay our wedding three times already. I'm getting sick and tired of having to delay our wedding because you refuse to say I do to me at our wedding. You beg me to marry you yet you don't have the courage to accept me as your wife at our wedding. Since I love you so much, I'm willing to give you one more chance to get your act together and say I do to me at our wedding. If by next Sunday you're not ready to say the words "I do" to me when the preist asks you if you take me as your awfully wedded wife at our wedding, I will never marry you ever again, Mike." Celia told Mike. "If you love me so much, you better work on saying the words "I do" come next Sunday!"
Celia then started to walk away from Mike Wazowski as he just stood there on the simulation floor upset at himself. He desperately wanted to marry Celia Mae and have her as his wife and to have children with her. Celia was the woman of Mike's dreams. He was afraid of losing her because of his inability to complete his wedding vow to her. All Mike had to do was say the words "I do" to Celia during the ceremony and kiss her afterward. It was that simple. Yet no matter how hard he tried to get himself to say "I do", he couldn't bring himself to say it. It made Celia start to wonder if Mike Wazowski had truly wanted to marry her or if he just said that to appease her. If Mike was serious about him marrying her, he would've said the words "I do" to her at their wedding ceremony already. They probably would've already had their honeymoon. It was bad enough that Mike's refusal to say "I do" had forced Celia to delay their wedding ceremony three times already.
I wonder why Mike won't say I do to me at the wedding. Celia thought as she walked back to the laugh floor of Monsters Inc to her desk located at the front of the Monsters Inc entrance. Is it because he's nervous or is it because he doesn't care nor feel like saying his wedding vow to me. You think that Mike would've said it to me by now. I'm getting tired of Mike getting cold feet at the last second right before he says that he will take me as his wife at our wedding. When will Mike get to finally say I do to me at our wedding? In a million years?
Celia started to think that Mike didn't care about him saying "I do" to her at their wedding. That he flat out refused to say it to her on purpose as an act of defiance. When Mike Wazowski failed to say "I do" to Celia at their wedding the first time, she had asked him why he didn't say it to her. Mike claimed the reason why we didn't say his wedding vow to her was because he was extremely nervous as he had never said it before. Celia believed him. When Mike still refused to say his wedding vow to her the second and third time, that's when Celia started to suspect that it wasn't nervousness that had been causing Mike to refuse to say his wedding vow to her. She became convinced that the real reason why Mike wasn't saying "I do" to her during her wedding was because he simply flat out refused to say it or that he didn't feel like saying it to Celia. That was something that Celia wouldn't tolerate at all. Nervousness was one thing. Flat out refusing to say "I do" to Celia at her wedding was another thing entirely.
Mike Wazowski better say I do to me at the wedding on Sunday. Celia thought angrily. Otherwise, he might as well kiss me goodbye. I will not tolerate him flat out refusing to say his wedding vow to me at our wedding. I accepted his marriage proposal, and this is how he repays me. By not saying I do to me at our wedding. How freaking hard is it for him to say that he will take me as his wife at our wedding? Is it too much to ask out of him? Apparently it is too difficult for Mike Wazowski to say a marriage vow at his own freaking wedding. Mike better say I do to me on our next wedding. I don't care if I have to beat it out of him in order for him to finally say I do to me at our wedding. I will not marry someone who doesn't want nor accept me as his wife. Three times is unacceptable. The fourth time he does it, Mike Wazowski is going to wish he'd never proposed to me.
If Celia would've known that Mike wouldn't say his marriage vow to her at her wedding, she never would've accepted his marriage proposal in the first place. Now she wished that she hadn't accepted Mike Wazowski's marriage proposal in the first place. Who marries someone who isn't willing to say I do to their wife when the priest asks them if they will take the woman he wants to marry as their wife? They might as well not even bother marrying them.