Meeting the Circus Bugs/Following the Right Path

*(While walking through the forest path, Team Fantasy looked around cautiously, on the lookout for any evil* *activity they'll fight and/or avoid. Finally, they came upon a huge pond, which to a tiny person, is a lake. After looking around for a bridge, they spot it)*

Caramel: There's a bridge over there.

Joy: Now we can cross.

*(They got ready to head over there when….)*

Fear: Why are the logs moving towards us?

*(Team Fantasy noticed and realized what the logs are)*

Disgust: Those aren’t logs, Fear.

*(Suddenly, a nearby “log” emerged from the water near them. They were alligators)*

Alligator 1: Mmm, nice delicious creatures!

*(Then he and the alligators jump at Team Fantasy, but Knuckles and Amy surrounded a psychic barrier onto themselves and Team Fantasy, knocking them back, but as the alligators continue charging at the barrier, the barrier started to break slowly. Using quick thinking, Knuckles, Amy, and Team Fantasy held onto each other and they used their power)*

Knuckles and Amy: Chaos Control!

*(They teleported out of the barrier and near a high rock. They sigh quietly in relief, and then watched the alligators continue attacking the empty barrier until it popped, revealing that their targets are mysteriously gone)*

Alligator 1: Where are they?

Alligator 2: They’re gone!

Alligator 3: How could they just disappear?

Alligator 1: Let’s go find them!

*(Then with that, the alligators left and once the coast is clear, Team Fantasy jumped down and were about to resume their crossing the bridge when Psycho, after wiping his brow in relief, noticed something missing from himself)*

Psycho: Hey! Where is it?!

*(He began to frantically pat his hands around himself for something)*

Psycho: What happened to it?

Wolf: What are you talking about?

Psycho: My charm! It’s gone!

*(Suddenly, Smarty noticed something gold and shiny on the ground. He picked it up, revealing it to be a gold locket, and Psycho noticed and got happy)*

Psycho: Oh, thank goodness, Boss! You found it.

Smarty: *This* is your charm?

Psycho: Yes. A treasure kept by me from my childhood.

Wheezy: What childhood?

*(Psycho reacted in surprise and snatched the charm away)*

Psycho: It’s nothing! Just a secret!

Stupid: Duh, I can’t help but notice, Psycho, that you have some tattoo on your chest.

*(Psycho reacted silently)*

Stupid: Something secret about it as well?

Psycho: Yes. So, leave me alone.

Greasy: Oh, come on.

*(He walked over to Psycho to be nice)*

Greasy: We shared each other’s origins, there’s no reason to keep secrets from us. Just tell….

*(Suddenly, he tripped on a rock and dropped the charm, making it roll towards the pond. He and Psycho ran after it to grab it, but it rolled really quickly and then just when they reached it, the charm dropped into the water and disappeared)*

Psycho: No….

*(He collapsed on his knees in sadness and went glum. Smarty tried to make him better)*

Smarty: Meh, we’ll get ya a new charm like that.

Anger: Not making it better, Smarty.

Smarty: What do you mean, “not making it…?!”

*(Knuckles points at a silent depressed Psycho, and realizing, Smarty understood)*

Smarty: (Realizing) Oh. *(He changes the subject)*What’s so special about that charm of his?

Stupid: And that tattoo on his chest?

Anger: Everything! Now, don’t upset Psycho even more! Now leave him alone!

*(Sadness snapped finally)*

Sadness: All three of you, just go away and leave him alone!

Bia: (Agreeing with Sadness) Yeah, leave him alone!

*(Surprised at Sadness' snapping, Team Fantasy got silent. Realizing what she just did with an “Oh, dear” expression, Sadness went glum and bowed her head down in sadness)*

Sadness: I'm sorry.

*(Feeling sorry for him, Dot and Elena tried to cheer him up in a different way)*

Dot: (Playfully) Oh, Psycho…. Here comes the tickle monster to brighten up your day!

*(She tickles him, but nothing)*

Dot: That worked before.

Joy: Yeah.

*(She tries harder this time with Joy's help, but nothing still)*

Dot: Still no laugh.

*(Elena tried her turn)*

Elena: Hey, Psycho!

*(Joy, Donald, Jose, and Panchito makes goofy faces to make him laugh, but nothing on that. After thinking it over, Elena snaps her fingers upon getting an idea and explained away)*

Elena: Hey, Psycho! You know what’ll make you feel better?

Joy: Going to the Element Temple and restoring the Fairy Kingdom! Come on, run to it!

*(Psycho remained glum, and Fear sighed in defeat)*

Fear: Oh, come on, Psycho! Why can’t you just get over it?

*(Psycho remained silent and crossed his arms in comfort. Anger backslaps Fear in the arm)*

Fear: Ow! *(Rubs his slapped arm)* Was it something I said?

Anger: Ya think?

*(Bia and Sadness finally went up to Psycho and sat next to him)*

Bia: Anything to make you feel better?

Blossom: Like say, one of us goes underwater and find it?

*(Psycho calmly reacted to that sadly)*

Psycho: Yes…..

*(He sighed sadly and held his hands gently to his tattooed part of his chest. Bia and Sadness figured it out suddenly)*

Bia: Is it a tattoo in honor of someone dear to you?

Sadness: Like a relative or a friend?

*(A short pause, then Psycho lifted his straightjacket up and revealed his chest tattoo finally, revealing it to be a red heart with a white paper cloth over it that says “Mother” on it)*

Psycho: I got this after she died.

*(Bia, Sadness, Smarty, and the Wolf got calmly surprised)*

Wolf: Died?

Smarty: Does anybody in this team know about this?

Team Fantasy: Yes.

Greasy: Particularly me and my gang know about it.

Stupid: Duh, what was your ma like?

Psycho: A nice fairy.

*(Figuring out something, Wheezy spoke up)*

Wheezy: So, your charm was actually…?

Psycho: Yes. A locket containing her picture.

Greasy: (Happily) Well! Now we’re…!

*(Smarty punches him on his shoulder)*

Smarty: Don’t make Psycho worse!

Greasy: (Realizing, to Smarty) Oh, sorry. *(To Psycho, changing the subject)* How did your mother die?

Psycho: You really want to know?

*(They nodded. Psycho explained away sadly)*

Psycho: I was little that time. Mom caught pneumonia from catching a cold. And as she tried to clear it all up, it eventually developed into tuberculosis.

Joy: Tuberculosis, the lung disease?

Psycho: Yes.

Greasy: It’s where one of the symptoms include the victim coughing up from their lungs a lot of *sangre* *y* *flema*. It means “blood and phlegm.”

Sonic: Psycho really did take good care of her as she suffered.

Tails: And we sometimes helped out on our free time.

*(Psycho continued his explanation)*

Psycho: Then one day….

*(He fights the urge to cry)*

Psycho: As Mom was slipping away from us slowly, she asked me to sing her to sleep. And when I finished, she slowly went to sleep and…. Died peacefully.

*(Bia, Sadness, Smarty, Greasy, Stupid, Wheezy, and the Wolf got calmly sympathetic)*

Bia: And what song was it?

Psycho: It was an old lullaby.

Sally: I even know what it is.

Sadness: But what’s it called?

Psycho: It’s called “Baby Mine.”

Smarty: "Baby Mine?"

Sally: “Baby Mine.” From the movie “Dumbo.”

*(Bia suddenly remembered something)*

Bia: Come to think of it….I somehow remember that song….

*(Team Fantasy got surprised calmly)*

Bia: From a long time ago….

*(Then, Bia sang that song softly as Team Fantasy listened quietly)*

Bia: **Baby mine**

**Don't you cry**

**Baby mine**

**Dry your eye**

**Rest your head**

**Close to my heart**

**Never to part**

**Baby of mine**

**Little one**

**When you play**

**Don't you mind**

**What they say**

**Let those eyes**

**Sparkle and shine**

**Never a tear**

**Baby of mine**

**If they knew**

**Sweet little you**

**They'd end up**

**Loving you too**

**All of those people**

**Who scold you**

**What they'd give**

**Just for the right**

**To hold you**

*(Psycho slowly and calmly teared up to the song, much to Team Fantasy’s notice. Even the Wolf and the Toon Patrol teared up a bit from the song)*

Bia: **From your head**

**To your toes**

**Baby mine**

**You're so sweet**

**Goodness knows**

**Baby mine**

**But you're so**

**Precious to me**

**Cute as can be**

**Baby of mine**

**Baby of mine**

*(After Bia’s song finished, Psycho’s emotions started to build up. Then he hugged them, crying his eyes out, much to Team Fantasy’s surprise. Even the Wolf and the Toon Patrol composed themselves)*

Greasy: That was beautiful….

*(Bia hugged the sobbing Psycho in comfort)*

Bia: There, there…. It’s gonna be fine….

Psycho: (Crying) Thanks. It’s just that…. *(Sniffles)*I haven’t heard that song for a long time since her death….

*(He cries again. Then the hug ended as Psycho sniffled and calmed his sobbing down and wiped some tears away)*

Psycho: (Sniffles hard, then exhales) I’m good.

*(He sniffles again)*

Bia: Not quite.

*(She reached into her skirt pocket and pulled out a pale pink handkerchief and held it out to Psycho)*

Bia: For your nose.

*(Then Psycho calmly accepted the handkerchief and blew his nose on it. Then he wiped his tears away, and as soon as he finished that, he was about to hand the handkerchief back to Bia, but….)*

Bia: (Happily) No, it’s okay. You hang onto it. You need it more than me anyway.

Psycho: Oh. Are you sure?

Bia: Yep.

Psycho: (Smiling softly a bit) Thanks.

*(He puts the handkerchief in his straightjacket pocket and got up in determination, turning to the Powerpuff Girls and Rowdyruff Boys hopefully)*

Psycho: You gonna get my charm?

Powerpuff Girls and Rowdyruff Boys: We'd be honored!

*(They dive under and searched until they spotted the charm on the pond floor. Blossom picked it up and the six returned to the surface with it. Psycho was happily grateful as Blossom handed him his charm back)*

Psycho: Thank you!

*(Suddenly, a group of bugs came out with impressed looks)*

Mantis: Well, I see you've cheered your weasel friend up.

Stick bug: Impressive, indeed.

*(Team Fantasy noticed them. Then Flik, Atta, and Dot happily recognized them)*

Flik, Atta, and Dot: Our circus bug friends!

(Team Fantasy got confused)

Wolf: You know them?

Flik: Know them? They're our friends.

Atta: They are Slim the Stick Bug, Heimlich the Caterpillar, Francis the Ladybug, Dim the Rhino Beetle, Rosie the Black Widow Spider, Manny the Mantis, Gypsy the Butterfly, and Tuck and Roll the Pill Bugs.

Dot: And they are very special talented bugs in their circus.

Francis: That's right.

Dim: We want to help.

Rosie: Dimmy's right. We've already told the Fairy Kingdom and the tiny world the good news of the Elemental Stone's current whereabouts and now we wish to help you return it to the Element Temple.

Flik: (To Team Fantasy) So, you wanna take them with?

*(Thinking it over for a bit, Team Fantasy happily gave in)*

Smarty: Fine with us.

Circus bugs: Thanks!

*(Then with that, they continued their way. Later, in Gypsy's vanity room, Gypsy made a red one-strapped tank top and a matching skirt out of rose petals and sewed them together (similar to Crysta’s outfit from “Ferngully: The Last Rainforest”). Gypsy puts them on Bia and added clear red dragonfly-like wings on her back)*

Gypsy: Beautiful. You look just like a fairy of Ferngully.

Bia: (Happily) Thanks, Gypsy.

Greasy: Well, now that Señorita Bia's got a new outfit by her request, shall we continue?

Team Fantasy: Yes.

*(Then they resumed their journey)*

***Coming up: The villains use Hunch to find Team Fantasy and after the Circus Bugs officially joins Team Fantasy’s quest, they must outwit the villains by setting a trap for them upon the villains catching up to them. Then later, once they lost the villains, the couples have a romantic dance lesson while resting for the night.***