Professor Genius' Advice/The Twister

*(Later, Kiki, Tombo, Satsuki, Mei, Kanta, Yuki, and Jiji continued their trek down the road as dark clouds started to form slowly in the sky. They suddenly noticed a traveling wagon and took a closer look. The sign on it said “Professor Genius’ Wonders of the World and the Crowned Heads of Europe.” The seven soon realized who it is with smiles)*

Kiki, Tombo, Satsuki, Mei, Kanta, and Jiji: Professor Genius.

*(Yuki barked happily a bit in agreement. Suddenly, a kind-looking middle-aged man came out humming a bit. He is a tall, thin man with short white hair with sideburns, a white mustache, white eyebrows, gray eyes, and wearing a pair of glasses, a burgundy long-sleeved tailcoat, a white long-sleeved collar-flapped, button-up shirt, a pink sleeveless vest with three pink buttons, a magenta bow tie, a tall mint blue top hat with a blue band, purple pants, dark purple shoes, and sometimes carries a black umbrella with a brown handle. He is Professor Genius, an old friend of the Witherspoons, Wileys, Kusakabes, and Ogakis. He noticed the children, Yuki, and Jiji and greeted them after he stopped humming)*

Genius: Oh! Hello, children, Yuki, Jiji!

Kanta: Hey, Professor!

Tombo: It’s good to see you again!

*(Yuki happily barks a bit in agreement)*

Genius: I wonder why you’re all out here?

Kiki: You may be a scientist who performs as a fake magician, while my parents and I are real magical witches working in a delivery service, but you can try and figure out why we’re here.

Satsuki: We’ll still believe you’re magic regardless.

Tombo, Mei, Kanta, and Jiji: (Nods) Yes.

*(Even Yuki barked happily a bit in agreement. Happy by their encouragement, Genius agreed)*

Genius: Very well.

*(He inspects them)*

Genius: Well, seeing your backpacks, I’ll try and figure it out.

*(He began to think)*

Genius: Let’s see…. You’re traveling in disguise, right?

Kiki, Tombo, Satsuki, Mei, Kanta, and Jiji: Nope.

Genius: Going on a visit, right?

Kiki, Tombo, Satsuki, Mei, Kanta, and Jiji: (Giggling and/or chuckling a bit) Nope.

Genius: Hmm….

*(He realized something)*

Genius: Oh, now I figured it out! You’re running away from home!

Satsuki: That’s right.

Genius: And why are you running away, I wonder?

*(He begins to think)*

Genius: Oh, now I know. Because nobody understands or appreciate you five, you want to see the world! You want to see big cities, big mountains, and big oceans even!

Kiki: That’s exactly right!

*(Yuki suddenly snatched Genius’ hot dog)*

Satsuki: (Scolding Yuki) Yuki, that’s not polite to take the professor’s hot dog!

Jiji: (Scolding Yuki in agreement) You didn't ask first!

*(Yuki realized and apologetically turned to Genius)*

Genius: (Laughing a bit) No, no, it’s alright. She can have it. Never liked that brand of hot dogs.

*(Relieved along with Satsuki and Jiji, who nods at her, Yuki then ate the hot dog. Genius then changed the subject)*

Genius: Anyway, where was I?

Kiki, Tombo, Satsuki, Mei, Kanta, and Jiji: Seeing the world.

Genius: (Realizing) Oh, yes, that’s right.

Mei: We want to travel with you!

Kiki: See the world.

Satsuki: And the Crowned Heads of Europe!

*(Thinking it over, Genius smiled and spoke up)*

Genius: Very well. But first, I like to show you some pictures of what we’ll see on our travels.

Kiki, Satsuki, Mei, and Kanta: (Excitedly) Really?!

Tombo and Jiji: (Interested) You will show us?

Genius: Yes. Have a seat.

*(After taking five chairs out, Genius placed them down and seated Kiki, Tombo, Satsuki, Mei, and Kanta on them. Then he placed a projection lantern on the stand nearby a white screen and began showing the first picture on himself, as the children, Yuki, and Jiji watched in interest)*

Genius: Ta-da! Oh, yes, indeed! And now, *mirabile* *dictu*, *et* *curibus* *pluribus* *unum*, or to use the vernacular, behold Professor Genius’ magical lantern! To see the wonders of the world, you won’t need to go too far from home. Not too far at all.

*(Kiki, Tombo, Satsuki, Mei, Kanta, and Jiji got confused and then shrugged and watched in amazement with Yuki as Genius started to sing)*

Genius: **Children, there’re other ways**

**To see the world, so, shift your gaze**

**To this extravagant appliance**

**Mainly magic, slightly science**

**With no stressful travel plans**

**As you don’t have to move**

**From Kansas, see**

**The unabridged assembled**

**Wonders of the world**

**Fly the coop and cross the ocean**

**Time and distance sent in motion**

**Grab this chance to wander yonder**

**All the earth is ours to ponder**

**From the Poles to the equator**

**No one could provide a greater view**

*(He begins his slideshow, showing many locations and things he seen around the world as Kiki, Tombo, Satsuki, Mei, Kanta, Yuki, and Jiji watched in amazement)*

Genius: **There’s the Nile, now**

**Some don’t give a hoot**

**That it’s the longest river**

**But we know in miles, of course**

**All four-one-eighty sea to source**

**It’s nature at it’s most prolific**

**Pyramids are quite terrific, too**

**So, welcome to the waiting**

**Wonders of the world**

**Sometimes, we may feel**

**Something simply can’t be real**

**Like a road beneath your feet**

**That’s paved with gold**

**I would be inclined**

**To maintain an open mind**

**For truth is very strange**

**If truth be told**

**There’s old Popocatepetl**

**New York City, glass and metal**

**Everest unconquered mountain**

**Over five miles high and countin’**

**Here’s the arctic’s snow**

**And polar bears and northern lights**

**And solar flares**

**A myriad exquisite**

**Wonders of the world**

**Imagine red and blue**

**On the mountains of Peru**

**And Sahara sands of yellow**

**Burning white**

**In jungles, black and green**

**Fearsome creatures never seen**

**Other than right now**

*(Suddenly, he showed a next picture of himself with his friends, including Camille, much to Kiki, Tombo, Satsuki, Mei, Kanta, Yuki, and Jiji’s confusion. Noticing, Genius got embarrassed)*

Genius: **Oh, that’s not right**

*(He takes that picture out)*

Genius: (Laughing nervously a bit) I’m so sorry. That was from my private collection. Moving rapidly along now.

*(Kiki's group shrugged in agreement and Genius resumed showing more pictures)*

Genius: **We don’t have to take it slowly**

**Here’s Tibet, remote and holy**

**Angel Falls in Venezuela**

**Eiffel Tower, Humpback Whale**

**A moment feeling all the thrills**

**Of being near the seven hills of Rome**

**Oh, so many sights to savor**

**This is merely been a flavor**

**Maybe time for one more wonder**

*(Suddenly, a thunder is heard from afar)*

Genius: **Very strange, that looks like thunder**

*(They resumed the conclusion of the slideshow)*

Genius: **But the point that I’m conveying**

**Is you see it all while staying home**

**And home is one of many**

**Wonders of the world**

**The unabridged assembled**

**Wonders of the world**

Genius and Kiki's group: **Professor Genius’ patent**

**Wonders of the world**

*(After they finished the slideshow, more thunder is heard from afar. Kiki, Tombo, Satsuki, Mei, Kanta, and Jiji then spoke up)*

Kiki: I can’t wait to see all of those!

Satsuki: So do I, Professor!

Kanta: And me!

Mei: Take us with!

Tombo: If it's alright with you.

Genius: (Confused) But didn’t you hear me…?

Kiki: I understand you want us to see it back home.

Kanta: But we want to see it up close.

Satsuki: Besides, nobody back home will miss us.

Jiji: And heck, they were gonna let Tremaine take me and Yuki from them.

Tombo and Mei: That's right.

*(Genius thinks over something, and then brightened up)*

Genius: Well, all right. But first, let’s consult my crystal ball.

Kiki, Tombo, Satsuki, Mei, Kanta, and Jiji: Crystal ball?

Genius: (Nods) Yes.

*(They and Yuki go inside the wagon, taking the chairs with and after the children and Genius seated, Genius began to work on his crystal ball setting)*

Genius: This is an actual rare crystal ball that is used by Isis and Osiris in the days of Egypt, in which Cleopatra saw Julius Caesar and Marc Antony coming to her, and so on and so forth.

*(The children became interested)*

Genius: All right, let’s reach out into the infinite and gaze into the crystal ball.

*(They looked into the crystal ball and Genius begins to explain what he sees, despite Kiki, Tombo, Satsuki, Mei, Kanta, and Jiji not seeing anything)*

Mei: What do you see?

Genius: I can see a house with a white picket fence and a barn with a weather-vane of a crowing rooster.

Kiki: That’s our farm, all right.

Genius: And there are two beautiful women, one of them’s wearing a dark blue dress, and the other's wearing a blue dress, I think, and their faces are careworn.

Kiki: That's my mother, all right.

Satsuki: And that's mine and Mei's.

Tombo, Mei, Kanta, and Jiji: Yeah.

Genius: Yes, you are aware their names are Kokiri and Yasuko respectively, right?

Kiki, Tombo, Satsuki, Mei, Kanta, and Jiji: (Nods) Yes.

Kiki: And what’s Mom doing?

Satsuki and Mei: And what about my mother? (mommy?)

Tombo and Kanta: What do you see?

Genius: Well….

*(He gasped)*

Genius: Why, they’re crying.

*(Kiki and Satsuki got surprised)*

Genius: It’s like someone broke their hearts.

Satsuki: Really?

*(Kiki and Satsuki suddenly felt guilty for their angry words at them earlier)*

Satsuki: I had no idea.

Kiki: Neither did I.

Genius: Well, it’s from someone they loved very much. Someone they took care of along, with their husbands and friends. And someone they took care of from sickness.

Kiki: (Smiling softly) Yeah. One time, I caught pneumonia, and my mother, along with everyone else, stayed by my side every minute until I was all better because of the doctors.

*(She and Satsuki changed the subject)*

Kiki: Anyway, I feel terrible now.

Satsuki: Me too.

Genius: I can tell. But what did you say to them the last time you saw them?

*(Feeling guilt overcome them, Kiki and Satsuki turned to Tombo, Mei, Kanta, and Jiji, who nodded in agreement, and then Kiki and Satsuki confessed)*

Satsuki: Regretfully, the last thing we said to them and everyone else, was “We hate you, and we never wanna see you again.”

Kiki: That's right.

Tombo, Mei, and Kanta: It's true.

Jiji: They told me about it.

Genius: I see….

*(He placed his hand on Kiki’s shoulder and spoke in a comforting voice to her and Satsuki)*

Genius: Well, even though words can hurt, I….

*(He looks at the crystal ball again and began to explain away again)*

Genius: Wait, I see Kokiri and Yasuko go into their own bedrooms.

Kiki: Why?

Satsuki: What’s happening?

Genius: (Studying) First, they murmured, "We're sorry, girls, for not believing you about Yuki and Jiji.", and now....

Jiji: (Hopefully) They're remorseful for what they did to me, them, and Yuki?

Genius: (Still studying, hearing her) Yes. Now, they're....

*(Suddenly, Genius became shocked)*

Genius: Oh my God! Kokiri and Yasuko are placing their hands on their hearts and just collapsed on the side of each of their own beds!

*(Horrified at what they heard, Kiki and Satsuki jumped to their feet in concern, much to Tombo, Mei, Kanta, Yuki, and Jiji's calm concern)*

Satsuki: WHAT?!

Kiki: Our mothers having heart attacks?!

Genius: I'm afraid so. And now the crystal ball is dark.

*(Concerned, Kiki and Satsuki began to freak out)*

Kiki: Oh my gosh!

Satsuki: They might be dying!

Kiki: From broken hearts than just heart attacks!

Jiji: (Reassuringly) Calm down! We'll go to them!

*(Knowing Jiji's right, the children grabbed their backpacks, and they, along with Yuki and Jiji, began to run out)*

Kiki: We have to get back home!

*(Genius pretended to be surprised suddenly. Apparently, he told a little lie to encourage Kiki, Tombo, Satsuki, Mei, Kanta, Yuki, and Jiji to go back home and make amends with their loved ones)*

Genius: But I thought you wanted to see the world with me?

Kiki: Unfortunately, we can’t!

Satsuki: Our moms are more important!

Tombo: We need to get home to them!

Jiji: And check on them!

Mei and Kanta: That's right!

*(Genius smiled in an understanding way, but deep down, he’s smiling because the children, Yuki, and Jiji realized from his lie)*

Genius: Well, be careful! Hearing the thunder before, you better hurry or a twister will hit!

Satsuki and Mei: Okay!

Kiki and Tombo: We will!

Kanta and Jiji: Thank you and goodbye!

*(Yuki barked a bit in agreement)*

Genius: You’re welcome and goodbye!

*(Then with that, Kiki, Tombo, Satsuki, Mei, Kanta, Yuki, and Jiji hurried back to the direction of the Witherspoon and Kusakabe Farms as a strong wind began to blow slowly. Genius then began to pack up quickly upon noticing)*

Genius: Better take shelter quickly!

*(He looked at the direction the children, Yuki, and Jiji ran to in concern)*

Genius: I hope they make it home alright.

*(Then, after packing up, Genius quickly drove the wagon away. Back at the Witherspoon Farm, a twister just started to appear on its destruction path across the plains towards the farm. Okino, Tatsuo, Granny, and the Peach Creek Kids began scrambling around, putting the animals into shelter, despite the strong winds)*

Okino: Hurry!

Granny: And get the horses loose!

Peach Creek Kids: Got it!

*(Suddenly, they noticed Double D trying to work the twister-proof machine)*

Eddy: Double D, come on!

Ed: It’s a twister! It’s a twister!

Tatsuo: We gotta take shelter!

Double D: But I’m trying to make…!

Eddy: Forget it!

Okino: Just take shelter with us!

*(Upon seeing the twister approaching slowly, Double D realized they’re right, quickly gave in, climbed down the roof, and they all hurried to the storm-cellar. Back at the backyard, Kokiri and Yasuko ran outside in concern, calling out for their daughters, Tombo, and Kanta)*

Kokiri: Kiki!

Yasuko: Satsuki, Mei!

Kokiri and Yasuko: Tombo, Kanta!

*(Nearby, Kiki, Tombo, Satsuki, Mei, Kanta, Yuki, and Jiji were getting closer to the farm, fighting the strong winds, and saw to their horror, the twister slowly approaching the farm)*

Kanta: Come on!

*(Noticing the wind is slowing Yuki and Jiji down, Satsuki and Kiki, with Tombo, Mei, and Kanta's help, quickly picked them up respectively and they hurried to the farm. Back at the farm, everyone hurried to Kokiri and Yasuko in the backyard to get into the storm-cellar)*

Yasuko: Any sign of Tombo, Kanta, and our girls?!

Kokiri: Where are they?!

Nazz: We don't know where they are!

Granny: And we're afraid we haven't found them!

Okino: We’ll look for them later!

Kokiri and Yasuko: But…!

*(The others reassured them)*

Double D: If we know the children, they can take care of themselves in a crisis like this!

Ed: Double D is right!

Granny: Just trust us and them!

Eddy: Now come on!

Peach Creek Kids: Yeah!

*(Giving in, Kokiri and Yasuko went into the storm-cellar with Okino, Tatsuo, Granny, and the Peach Creek Kids. Back at the front yard, Kiki, Tombo, Satsuki, Mei, Kanta, Yuki, and Jiji arrived finally, fighting the strong wind and went inside, looking for Kokiri, Yasuko, Okino, Tatsuo, Granny, and the Peach Creek Kids)*

Kiki, Satsuki, Mei, Tombo, Kanta, and Jiji: Mom?! Dad?! (Guys?!) Guys?!

*(They hurry out to the backyard and found the storm-cellar door closed and locked up. They began kicking it and calling out to them)*

Kiki, Tombo, Satsuki, Mei, Kanta, and Jiji: Hey!!

*(Noticing the twister coming closer in a fast pace, the children, Yuki, and Jiji hurried inside and took shelter in Kiki’s bedroom closet)*

Kiki: Now what?

*(Before Tombo could answer, the window doors to the room broke off and crashed at the closet door. Quickly pushing it open, Tombo gasped)*

Tombo: Looks like your window broke!

Jiji: Well, duh, Mr. Wizard!

*(Suddenly, a metal bar flew into the room and smacked Kiki, Tombo, Satsuki, Mei, and Kanta’s heads before they reacted, knocking them out, much to Yuki and Jiji’s concern)*

Jiji: (Concerned) Kiki, guys!

*(As the children lay unconscious, the house began to toss and turn, apparently being flown into the air by the twister. Suddenly, a rooster’s crow bolted them awake as it floated by. Noticing various things flying by outside, including a cow, Kiki, Tombo, Satsuki, Mei, and Kanta went up to the window and took a closer look as Yuki and Jiji hid themselves under the bed. Realizing what’s happening upon seeing no ground below, the children got concerned)*

Kiki and Satsuki: We’re inside the cyclone!

Mei: Are we gonna die?!

Tombo and Kanta: Hopefully not!

Jiji: Hold onto something!

*(Suddenly, they noticed two familiar women and a cat on their bikes flying by)*

Kiki, Tombo, Satsuki, Mei, Kanta, and Jiji: Lady Tremaine’s group?!

*(Then, to their horror, Tremaine transformed into a witch-like fairy of some kind riding a magic wand as Drizella turned into three women, one wearing all green, one wearing all purple, and one wearing all red, and a female anthro duck wearing all black and Lucifer turned into a male raven. The four women cackled evilly a bit and flew off into the distance. Suddenly, the house jerked back and forth from the twister’s winds and the children and Jiji screamed as they hung onto the doorway of the closet. Suddenly, they feel the house dropping towards the ground)*

Tombo, Kanta, and Jiji: Brace yourselves!

*(And with that, the house fell down, down, down as the twister vanished until it crash-landed onto the ground)*

***Coming up: Kiki, Tombo, Satsuki, Mei, Kanta, Yuki, and Jiji come upon Toad Town and are honored as heroes to the Toads by the Toads themselves, as well as by some new friends and even Odette and the Blue Fairy, for killing an evil witch named Queen Narissa. Then during the celebration, four certain evil witches and a certain raven appear, livid that their fellow witch is dead, and Kiki, Tombo, Satsuki, Mei, and Kanta earn their wrath after receiving gifts from Odette and the Blue Fairy and their, Yuki, and Jiji's real adventure begins.***