An Opportunity of a Lifetime

## An Explanation(Not apart of the story)

This is just a prequel to my upcoming AU Kingdom Hearts fanfiction. I'll link the companion piece to this after I finish both it and this one, alright?

Also, just to keep you guys from getting confused, I'll tell you that Terence(a stuffed tiger(Tigger?)) is Tigger's younger twin brother in that AU. Got it?

## The Actual Story

Terence held a few nails in his mouth as he hammered away at another nail that was holding a mini rocket and a shoe together.

After the incident where Rabbit had made Tigger wear shoes with immensely heavy rocks in them, Terence had come up with the idea to fuse said shoes(though they wouldn't have any rocks in them anymore, thank goodness) with mini rockets that could both create platforms in the sky for Tigger to bounce on and help propel Tigger towards the moon.

Tigger had wanted to bounce to the moon for as long as Terence could remember, and Terence had wanted to help Tigger achieve this goal ever since Tigger had revealed his dream to him. Now, maybe with this invention, Terence could finally help Tigger fulfill that dream.

The plan was to finish the invention on Tigger's birthday before the evening, when Tigger would return home for the night. When Terence got the sensation that he usually got when Tigger was about to arrive home, however, he sadly realized that he would have to finish the invention at a later date and began to quickly put the invention and his inventing tools away, determined to not let Tigger see his birthday present before it was finished. Then he went next to the door and waited.

After a couple of minutes, Tigger arrived at the same time that he usually did, excitedly bouncing Terence when he did.

"BUDDY!!" Tigger exclaimed, grinning widely when he ended up on Terence's stomach.

Terence couldn't help but smile. For some reason, Tigger almost always had a way of brightening his spirits, no matter what kind of day he'd had so far.

"Hiya, Tigger!" Terence said.

He was about to say more when a piece of paper fell on his face, dampening his mood a fair bit. Frowning, he grabbed the piece of paper with one of his forepaws and caught his eye on some words on the piece of paper as he did so, revealing to him that the piece of paper was actually a letter.

"What's this?" He asked Tigger, raising an eyebrow as he did.

"Oh, well, that's what I wanted to show ya!" Tigger exclaimed excitedly, grabbing the letter from Terence and bouncing off of him. "Hoo hoo hoo hoo!"

Tigger then cleared his throat dramatically and started to read the letter.

"You are hereby invited to Splendor Heights, a place where luxury and refinery is key!" Tigger read. "While you probably won't be interested in reading about the sights, you definitely will be interested in learning that I have found a way for you to bounce to the moon and back!! All you need to do is to press the thumbprint at the bottom of this letter and a portal will immediately open to take you to Splendor Heights, where I am patiently waiting for you! Sincerely, V."

A way for Tigger to bounce to the moon and back!? Well, it looked like Tigger wouldn't be needing his almost finished birthday present anytime soon. Oh well!

"That's awesome, Tigger!" Terence exclaimed, bouncing on his tail, then stopped when he thought of something. "Wait, why aren't you already at Splendor Heights?"

"Well, I couldn't go without you, Terence!" Tigger said. "You've been waiting for this day as much as I have, so of course I have to bring you along as well!"

And with that, Tigger held out of his forepaws to Terence and jammed the other into the thumbprint, probably expecting Terence to take his hand right as he was doing that.

Unfortunately, things don't always go exactly as you expect them to go.

Just before Terence could grab Tigger's paw, a small portal went underneath Tigger's feet, causing Tigger to fall into it.

"Tigger!" Terence exclaimed, racing towards the portal in order to follow his twin brother. When Terence was close to reaching the portal, however, the area around the portal lit up, and a strange force caused Terence to be catapulted towards the other side of the treehouse.

"Don't worry, Terence!" Terence heard Tigger's voice say through the portal. "I'll be back soon!"

And that was the last time Terence heard Tigger's voice in a long while.

~

It had been several months since Terence had last seen Tigger, and he still hadn't come back.

Everyone was worried about Tigger's safety at this point, even Rabbit. But the most worried of them all was Terence, who had constantly been reading the letter over and over again ever since the day Tigger had gone to Splendor Heights. He thought that maybe there was that one small detail that could tell him where Splendor Heights actually *was,*and when he found that, he would be able to find Splendor Heights.

Unfortunately, there was no small detail of that sort in the letter, and when Terence and the others asked Christopher Robin if he knew a place called Splendor Heights, he responded by basically saying that he didn't.

At this point, Terence was on the verge of giving up. Then he found and began to read a book that was all about different worlds in the universe. According to this book, there were more than planets in space, and while Terence was skeptical at first, the book eventually convinced him that maybe, just maybe, Splendor Heights was in a different world than the one he was in right now.

As such, he started making an invention that would hopefully bring him to the world that Splendor Heights was in, but also did this in secret, because he didn't want anyone to worry about him if they found out what he was doing.

It was midnight when Terence's invention was finally done, and, at completion, it looked like a water gun of some sort. Terence had decided to bring all of his inventions and inventing tools in a weak subspace pocket until he needed them, with one of those inventions being Tigger's birthday present. Terence figured that if he couldn't find a use for it, he should at least bring it along for Tigger's sake, since Terence had a sneaking suspicion that Tigger hadn't gotten to be able to bounce to the moon and back like he had wanted.

"Please work, please work, please work," Terence whispered to himself as he fired his latest invention at one of the treehouse walls. Thankfully, a portal appeared on that wall, meaning that the invention had worked. Before Terence could celebrate, however, the portal sucked him into it and then closed itself, leaving Terence with an overheated invention and him not being in Splendor Heights...

But rather, a place Terence didn't know called Traverse Town.