Meeting Tiger and Fievel Mousekwitz/Zelda and Link Get to Know Each Other

*(Elsewhere in the deeper part of the forest, Peach’s group continued on until they looked around cautiously)*

Peach: I got a bad feeling about this part of the forest.

Luigi: It’s dark and creepy.

Mario: Not to mention strange.

Sonic: I may not know it, but it’ll get darker than lighter here.

Daisy: I suppose.

Rockruff: Do you think we’ll encounter wild animals?

Cait Sith: Probably.

Yoshi: Animals that eat meat?

Charmy: I don't like the sound of that.

Shadow: Some.

Cait Sith: But mostly lions, tigers, and bears.

Peach, Daisy, Mario, Luigi, and Rockruff: Lions?

Yoshi and Sonic's group: Tigers?

Cait Sith: And bears.

Peach: Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my!

*(Suddenly, she got an idea)*

Peach: I got an idea!

Rockruff, Yoshi, and Sonic: What?

Peach: This part of the forest is creepy, right?

*(The group nods)*

Peach: So, we can just calm ourselves and move along, chanting “Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my.”

Daisy: (Realizing) That way, we can get out of here.

Rockruff: Take it away, Peach!

Cait Sith: Lassies first.

*(Peach clears her throat and started)*

Peach: Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my!

*(Then the group began to chant slowly and then quickly as they hurry along the Yellow Brick Road)*

Peach’s group: Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my! Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my! Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my! Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my!

*(Suddenly, something orange lunged out at Cait Sith and Yoshi, knocking them down, much to the group’s shock)*

Charmy: What the…?!

*(The figure revealed himself to be an orange-furred cat with a big furry tail, a black nose, a light orange spot on his belly, and dark orange spots on his paws, and wearing a purple short-sleeved shirt with a dark purple T letter and dark purple neck and sleeve rims. He hissed at Cait Sith and Yoshi, and then noticing Peach’s group, he lunged at them, making them run out of the way as Cait Sith and Yoshi recovered and ran back to them in concern. The cat panted savagely and then got tough)*

Cat: Put them up, put them up!

*(He shadowboxes, much to the group’s fear now turning to confusion)*

Cat: I, the brave feline, Tiger, won’t let any of you pull any tricks on me! I got the claws of a cat!

*(Realizing while acting tough)*

Tiger: What am I saying? I am a cat.

*(The group got confused)*

Peach’s group: Uh…?

*(Then Rockruff, realizing something, shouted a scare at Tiger)*

Rockruff: Boo!

*(Rockruff briefly startling Tiger upon saying that, but he got tough towards him. Peach noticed Tiger got briefly scared, despite trying to act tough)*

Tiger: Watch it! *(Hisses)* Try that again you, and you are ga-lue!

Rockruff: Try? *(Scoffs)* You're nothing but a....

*(He pounces at Rockruff, but he ran back to Peach. Seeing Tiger walking up to her tough-like, Peach held Rockruff protectively)*

Peach: I see that my Pokemon here actually scared you.

Tiger: (Scoffs) I’m not scared. Just reacted.

Rockruff: (Sarcastically) Right. And I'm Old Yeller's descendant.

*(Tiger grabs Rockruff’s face up to him)*

Tiger: Oh, yeah?!

*(Peach got angry)*

Peach: Don’t touch him!

*(She smacks Tiger across the face, making him release Rockruff and then to the group’s surprise, except an angry Peach, Tiger started to cry softly)*

Peach: Shame on you!

Tiger: (Crying) Why did you do that for? I didn’t hurt that Pokemon!

Daisy: Well, you tried to hurt him.

Peach: It’s bad enough you lunged at Cait Sith and Yoshi here, but grabbing my little Pokemon here…!

Tiger: (Crying) But you didn’t have to go and hit me!

*(He lifted his tail up to his face and wiped his tears away with it as he continued crying)*

Tiger: (Crying) Is my nose bleeding?

Peach: No!

*(Suddenly, a mouse came out and went up between Tiger and Peach’s group)*

Mouse: Wait!

*(The group noticed him and got confused while Tiger stopped crying and recognized him casually. The mouse is brown furred with a peach colored face, a pink nose, blue eyes, and wearing a red long-sleeved tunic-like shirt, a dark red belt, a big blue messenger hat, and dark blue pants)*

Tiger: Hey, Fievel.

Peach’s group: Fievel?

Rockruff: What’s going on here?

Yoshi: You know each other?

*(Fievel spoke up on Tiger’s behalf)*

Fievel: I ask of you to forgive Tiger. He was just trying to prove that he’s not a coward by picking a fight.

Tiger: (Sadly) It’s true. I am a coward. I have no courage at all. I mean, look at the circles under my eyes! I haven’t slept in weeks sometimes unless Fievel slept with me!

Cait Sith: Why not count sheep?

Espio: That usually helps.

Tiger: (Sadly) That’s no good. I’m afraid of them.

*(He cries in his tail again as Peach’s group suddenly felt guilty and sympathetic towards him as he calmed his crying down)*

Peach: We all had no idea.

Fievel: Tiger and I are partners and I wish to become the best partner ever to help him out in battles against evil enemies. Ask Tiger.

Mario: (To Tiger) Is that true?

*(A short pause as Tiger stopped crying slowly)*

Tiger: (Sniffles, then nods) Yes. That’s Fievel’s dream, like my dream is to become brave and have courage.

*(Peach turned to the group)*

Peach: Huddle.

*(They huddled and talked quietly while Tiger and Fievel waited patiently)*

Peach: (Whispering) I feel sorry for him already.

Rockruff: (Whispering) Me too.

*(The group agreed quietly as well)*

Peach: (Whispering) And if we’d known, I wouldn’t have hit him.

Rockruff: (Whispering) And I wouldn't have taken advantage of his fears.

Cait Sith: (Whispering) So, why don’t we let the poor lad and mouse tag along with us?

Daisy: (Whispering) They got dreams like us.

Shadow: (Whispering) My sentiments exactly.

Luigi: (Whispering) I don’t see why not.

Mario: (Whispering) I agree.

Yoshi and Sonic's group: (Whispering) Here, here.

Peach and Rockruff: (Whispering) Agreed.

*(They turned to Fievel and Tiger and spoke normally)*

Peach: We were talking, as you both saw, right?

Peach’s group: Yeah, right?

Fievel and Tiger: Yes.

Daisy: Why not come with us to Emerald City to see the Wizard of Oz himself?

Mario: We’re going there with dreams of our own as well.

Luigi: Mine, Peach, Daisy, Rockruff, and Mario’s dream is to get back home to Kansas.

Rockruff: Topeka, Kansas.

Yoshi: And I'm asking him to help me learn how to fly.

Sonic: And I’m asking for a brain.

Sonic's group: And us to become the best consciences ever.

Cait Sith: And I’m asking for a heart.

Peach: So we’re sure the Wizard will give you courage and make you the best partner ever.

Fievel: (In a hopeful happy voice) Really?

*(The group nods)*

Tiger: (Getting happy) That’s very nice of you. No one ever wanted to help me, except Fievel.

Fievel: That’s right. All the animals would do is pick on him for being a scaredy-cat.

Mario: Then, we’ll make you brave like both a lion and a dog instead.

Luigi: For a cat.

Tiger: Thank you. And if I had courage, well….

*(He begins singing)*

Tiger: **Yes, life is sad, believe me, missy**

**When you’re born to be a sissy**

**Without the vim and verve**

Fievel: (Agreeing) That’s unfortunately true.

Tiger: **But I could change my habits**

**Nevermore be scared of rabbits**

**If I only had the nerve**

**I’m afraid there’s no denyin’**

**I’m just a dandelion**

**A fate I don’t deserve**

**But I could show my prowess**

**Be like a lion, not a mow-wess**

**If I only had the Nerve**

*(He winks at Fievel, who giggled)*

Fievel: (Giggles a bit) No offence taken.

Tiger: **Oh, I’d be in my stride**

**A king down to the core**

**I would roar the way I never roared before**

**And then I’d nyah and roar some more**

*(On “Nyah,” he playfully raised his fur up briefly, making Fievel and the non-serious members of the group giggle a bit and the serious members chuckle a bit, and Tiger smiled with them)*

Tiger: **I would show the dinosaurus**

**Who’s king around the fores’**

**A king he’d better serve**

**Why with my regal breezer**

**I could be another Caeser**

**If I only had the nerve**

**I’d be brave as a blizzard**

*(Then the others joined in)*

Cait Sith: **I’d be gentle as a lizard**

Sonic: **I’d be clever as a gizzard**

Peach, Daisy, Mario, Luigi, and Rockruff: **If the Wizard is a Wizard**

Yoshi: **Who would serve?**

Sonic: **Then I’m sure to get a brain**

Sonic's group: (On “A brain") **A brain**

Cait Sith: **A heart**

Yoshi: **My flight**

Peach, Daisy, Mario, Luigi, and Rockruff: **A home**

Tiger and Fievel: **The nerve**

*(They then march along down the Yellow Brick Road together)*

Peach’s group: **We’re off to see the Wizard**

**The Wonderful Wizard of Oz**

**We’ll find he is a whiz of a wiz**

**If ever a wiz there was**

**If ever, oh ever, a wiz there was**

**The Wizard of Oz is one**

**Because, because, because, because**

**Because, because**

**Because of the wonderful things**

**He does**

**We’re off to see the Wizard**

**The Wonderful Wizard of Oz**

*(Elsewhere in the same forest, Zelda, Midna, Link, and Aryll continued their trek down the Yellow Brick Road talking with each other, apparently getting to know each other)*

Zelda: So, you dream of becoming a mechanic and Knights of Emerald City besides finding the lost princess?

Link and Aryll: Yes.

Link: Especially on flying things.

Zelda: Like planes?

Link and Aryll: Yes.

Aryll: And of course, magic flying broomsticks.

*(Seeing her broomstick, Zelda smiled and nods)*

Zelda: I sure hope you’ll accomplish your dream with the Wizard’s help, as well as with King Daphnes and Queen Hylia’s help.

Midna: My sentiments exactly.

Link and Aryll: Thanks.

Link: And I hope you’ll find your real past you told me you don’t know about.

Zelda: Yeah. I only vaguely saw as a baby two mysterious people staring down at me with gentle smiles. And then the next thing I knew growing up, is living with my mother in the tower.

Link and Aryll: (Nods in an understanding way) Hmm….

*(Suddenly, they heard footsteps approaching them from behind)*

Midna: What’s that?

Zelda: I don’t know, but that can’t be good.

Link: Stay behind me.

Aryll: And don't move until we say to move, okay?

*(Zelda, Aryll, and Midna goes behind Link for protection, although Aryll did it to protect Zelda and Midna, as he stood his ground, ready to protect the three as the footsteps got closer)*

***Coming up: Peach and Zelda’s groups finally meet and learning of the same goal they’re after, decide to team up and then meet up with a certain group of four anthro animal mutants with a Beanbean creature leader looking shifty towards them.***