Part of Your World (version 1)

It was a small cavern of normal animal objects. There were thousands of normal animal objects everywhere!

"Minnie, are you okay?" Daisy asked.

"Tell us what is wrong." Pudge said, "And why do you look so sad?"

Minnie was lying on a rock in the center of the room, frowning, and turning the dinglehopper around in her hands.

"If only I could make him understand." she said sadly, "I just don't see things the way he does."

Zsa Zsa covered her mouth to prevent himself from screaming, or maybe from fainting. No, he still felt like fainting. Her eyes grew wider every second she listened to the private conversation. She and, well, every other fish in the sea knew about the little mermouse's fascination with normal animals but she didn't expect it to go to this level of obsession.

"I don't see how a world that makes such wonderful things - could be bad." Minnie went on.

Zsa Zsa quickly reined in her shock as she peered around a harp ready to give that girl a talking to as she began to sing.

Minnie: *Look at this stuff*
*Isn't it neat?*
*Wouldn't you think my collection's complete?*

She put her dinglehopper in a candlestick holder and began to look around her cave.

Minnie: *Wouldn't you think I'm the girl?*
*The girl who has everything?*
*Look at this trove*
*Treasures untold*
*How many wonders can one cavern hold?*
*Lookin' around here you'd think*
*Sure, she's got everything*

She swam up a bit to one of the clock pendants and swung them.

Minnie: *I've got gadgets and gizmos aplenty*
*I've got whozits and whatzits galore*

Zsa Zsa looked through a pair of glasses. She thought they were weird. Minnie got a little box of more treasures and showed them to Daisy and Pudge.

Minnie: *You want thingamabobs?*
*I got twenty*

She set the box aside and put her forehead down on another rock.

Minnie: *But who cares?*
*No big deal*
*I want more*

Zsa Zsa looked at her in confusion. What more could she possibly want? Hasn't she had enough this...whatever stuff she has in her cave? Minnie sighed as she looked at a music box of an animal couple dancing.

Minnie: *I wanna be where the critters are*
*I wanna see*
*Wanna see 'em dancin'*
*Walkin' around on those-*
*Whad'ya call 'em? Oh, feet*

Pudge giggled when Minnie tickled his fins. Zsa Zsa just simply rolled her eyes. "Humph! Girls!"

Minnie, Daisy, and Pudge swam around the grotto.

Minnie: *Flippin' your fins you don't get too far*
*Legs are required for jumpin', dancin'*
*Strollin' along down a-*
*What's that word again? Street*

Minnie, Daisy, and Pudge swam up further north toward the grotto.

Minnie: *Up where they walk*
*Up where they run*
*Up where they stay all day in the sun*
*Wanderin' free*
*Wish I could be*
*Part of that world*

Zsa Zsa saw her exaggerated reflection in a glass object. She yelped and jumped into a lantern, shutting him in it.

Minnie: *What would I give*
*If I could live*
*Out of these waters?*

Minnie floated back onto the bottom of the grotto and laid there. So did Daisy and Pudge.

Minnie: *What would I pay*
*To spend a day*
*Warm on the sand?*
*Betcha on land*
*They understand*
*Bet they don't reprimand their daughters*
*Bright young women*
*Sick of swimmin'*
*Ready to stand?*

Minnie swam up again and came upon one of the shelves, containing her treasures. She pulled out a thick book and flipped through the pages. Zsa Zsa panicked as she rolled around in a lantern.

Minnie: *And ready to know what the critters know?*
*Ask 'em my questions*
*And get some answers*
*What's a fire and why does it-*
*What's the word? Burn*

Minnie swam up to the top of her grotto. She stretched her hand out as if she was reaching for the sky. Saddened, she slowly sank down to the ground. Daisy and Pudge looked at her sympathetically. They all looked up toward the top of the grotto.

Minnie: *When's it my turn?*
*Wouldn't I love*
*Love to explore that shore above?*
*Out of the sea*
*Wish I could be*
*Part of that world*

Minnie sighed. If only she could live up there, in the world above!

Meanwhile, Zsa Zsa had still been rolling inside the lantern. Off the edge, it shattered, and Zsa Zsa flew out and fell on top of a jack-in-the-box. Grabbing vainly for something to stop her fall, her hands caught a sheet, and she pulled it and all the other items stacked on in down. Daisy and Pudge hid in an old knight's helmet startled at the sudden noise, and Minnie gasped. "Zsa Zsa!" she exclaimed.

The Labrador's scowl somehow got deeper as she was all tangled up in Minnie's animal junk. There was a teapot on her back, a pipe in her mouth, and she was on top of an accordion and all wrapped up in necklaces. She angrily spat out the pipe and fell off the squeaking instrument, dislodging most of the things from her back.

"Minnie! What, are you mad? How could you - what is all this?" she asked, throwing the normal animal stuff off him.

"It, err, it's just my - collection." said Minnie.

Zsa Zsa smiled warmly. "Oh. I see. Your collection. Hmmm." she said.

Then, she got angry again and tossed two last normal animal objects off her neck, shouting, "IF YOUR FATHER KNEW ABOUT THIS PLACE HE'D -"

"You're not gonna tell him, are you?" Daisy cut him off.

"He'll just get angry again." added Pudge.

The duck and the penguin believed she couldn't take Yen Sid's yelling anymore!

"Oh, please, Zsa Zsa," Minnie begged. "He would never understand."

Zsa Zsa calmed down a bit and smiled again.

"Minnie." she said, "You're under a lot of pressure down here. Come with me, I'll take you home and get you something warm to drink."