Titanic
Southanmpton, England, April 10, 1912.
The gleaming white superstructure of Titanic rose mountainously beyond the rail, and above that the buff-colored funnels stand against the sky like the pillars of a great temple. Crewmen moved across the deck, dwarfed by the awesome scale of the steamer. It is almost noon on ailing day. A crowd of hundreds blackened the pier next to Titanic like ants on a jelly sandwich. On the front deck, a gorgeous burgundy Renault Touring car swung into frame, hanging from a loading crane. It is lowered toward Hatch #2. On the pier horsedrawn vehicles, motorcars and lorries move slowly through the dense throng. The atmosphere is one of excitement and general giddiness. People embrace in tearful farewells, or waves and shouted bon voyage, wished to friends and relatives on the decks above. Around the handsome cars people are streaming to board the ship, jostling with hustling seamen and stokers, porters, and barking White Star Line officials.
In the shadowy narrow space between the buildings of White Star Line port, a flash of light suddenly appeared as the Imaginary Team came out from it and almost collapse at each other since they were too crowded to get out on a single speck of light.
As the king of lemurs, King Julien looked around, followed by his guardian, Jolie. Julien became curious at the place they landed, "Hey, this is no ship."
The rest of the team got up from collapsing, and looked around, think Julien's suspicions were correct. They are not on a ship.
"Where are we?" Baby Petunia asked.
"You mean, when are we?" Her guardian, Baby Petina, corrected.
"Uh, I think it's a 'when' and 'where', since we're not in the Philippines anymore," rectified Dawson.
"I think we're in Southanmpton, England," Basil said. "I remember this. This is where the Titanic departure."
"You mean, we're too late?!" Prida, Private and Prenda's daughter, panicked.
"No, Prida, silly. According to my time pad, the date is April 10, 1912 at 11:30am," Aggie explained when she looked at the time pad. "And according to my research earlier, the Titanic will be set sail at noon, so we have enough to catch up with it."
When Aggie started to leave the spot where she and her team landed from time traveling, the whole team started to follow her while carrying their bags and stuff.
"So, what are you going to do for now, Aggie?" Samuel, Jack and Sally Skellington's older son, asked.
"For now, we have to keep ourselves in the shadows where no one could see us. The people don't know about us, so we better keep ourselves hidden," instructed Aggie.
When the team were heading out of the gap between buildings, they were blocked by many people who shouting, waving and staring at the ship, which the team couldn't see anything in front of the crowd.
"Ugh, most of us aren't tall enough," Marlin groaned, then glanced at the tall building to his left. "Hey, why can't we go up there?" He told the team as he pointed the roof.
Aggie looked up the building and beamed, "Marlin, that's great idea! Come on, guys. Let's go up and see." With her wings, she flew up to the roof, forgetting her own rule of "stay hidden".
Some members have the ability to fly, so it's not so hard for them. Most members were flightless, so, thanks to Aggie's rule of magic, they were given the power to fly as they flew up to follow their leader. The fishes (Marlin, Dory and Nemo) used their carts that carried their fishbowls the whole time to fly on their own, with the remote control that was connected to their carts. With one push of a button, the carts have wings like a plane, and sent them to the roof. Meanwhile, the vampire members took out sunscreen and applied it on their skin, and took out their black umbrellas from their bags to protect themselves from the sun, and transformed into bats before they flew off.
"Great, where was the 'stay hidden' part that she forgot to understand?" Dracula complained.
"Relax, dude, no one could see us," Johnny, who was carried by his wife, Mavis, in her bat form, chilled his father-in-law down. "They're too busy staring at the ship by now."
The I Team finally reached the roof of the building. It's a good thing their weight didn't take them off. They're almost as light as a feather. They just have to keep their weight in balance so they won't fall off the roof.
When Aggie scanned if no member had left behind or below the building, she turned and pointed the grand ship of all, "There she is, guys. WHITE STAR LINE'S RMS TITANIC!"
Just like what the leader said, it's a perfect view to see the whole port, including the ship. The team was amazed by the size of the ship, and many people went aboard. They stared at the ship in awe for minutes with their mouth opened. They never have seen the Titanic so big before. None of the members had ever rode on their ship before, not even from their home worlds. They were very impress..., except for just one member.
"That's the ship that is going to sink?!" Xibalba, the dark god, ruler of the Land of the Forgotten, shouted in disbelief. He doubted that this is the ship that will sink in the Atlantic Ocean.
"If the ship itself had doubted it's unsinkable," Paco shrugged.
"Wow!" Ericka Van Helsing stared at the ship with a smile. "It reminds me of my ship. Well..., half of it."
"Can't believe your great-grandfather built a cruise ship that looks like half of the Titanic," Dracula smirked at her.
Red then whispered to his oldest twin hatchlings, "It's a big boat, huh?"
"Dad, it's a ship!" Roy and Rebecca corrected.
Red nodded, "Yeah, you're right."
"Hey, look!" Kitka, the falcon, pointed something as the whole team looked away from the ship, and looked at where the falcon pointed her feather finger at. "There's an empty spot right there! Maybe we can get closer to the ship there!" She suggested.
"Nice, Kitka," Aggie was about to climb off the building, but one of her teammates called her.
"But, Aggie, you said we should stay hidden," Maurice added. "We're going to get exposed if we got there with many people."
"Yeah, how are we supposed to go there without anyone noticing us?" inquired Mac, Maurice's guardian.
"Don't worry, guys, I got an idea. Just follow me," Aggie slid down the waterspout.
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Besides the building of the White Star Line port, the I Team hid there from the crowd where Aggie took a peek to see if someone saw here, then she turned to her two friends.
"Timmy, Tims, did you bring the invisible curtain?"
Timmy Turner, and his guardian, Tims Turna, held a big invisible curtain in their hands. "Yeah," Timmy answered. "Uh, what do we need this for?"
A crewman was about to board the ship when he noticed the I Team came out from the side of the building. He ignored them at first, until he was suspicious of who those group of people are. He then turned to see them again, but he saw nothing. The man just shrugged and smiled, believing that it was just his own imagination.
On the left, the cockroaches (Joey, Marky and Dee Dee) and the guardian cockroaches (Joen, Markyless and Den Den) placed the invisible curtain on the string the Saltor, Sally Skellington's gurdian, attached from the wall of the building and the starboard of the ship, while the F.A.S.T. crew (Turbo, Whiplash, Skidmark, Chet, Smoove Move, Burn and White Shadow) placed another invisible curtain on the string at the right side. Between the invisible curtains, the I Teams are invisible and unable to see by the people outside the curtains.
"I don't see what all the fuss is about," Miley slowly open the invisible curtain that only her eyes can fit, and watched almost hundreds of people looked at the ship in amazement, then looked up at the ship again, taking it in with cool appraisal. "It doesn't look any bigger than the Mauretania."
"You can be blasé about some things, Miles, but not about Titanic. It's over a hundred feet longer than Mauretania, and far more luxurious. It has squash courts, a Parisian cafe... even Turkish baths," Fletcher said. "It's like a piece of art, you know that?"
Olive leaned closer to Lily's ears and whispered, "Your best friend is much too hard to impress."
Lily chuckled, "As we represent the Element of Disguise, we like something more fashionable, stylish, glittering, and something more... surprising,"
"Yeah, we got that," Aglet, Perry and Pelry's oldest daughter nodded.
"So this is the ship they say is unsinkable," Smurfwillow gazed up at the leviathan
"It is unsinkable. No one could ever sink this ship. Not even us," Hunter, the leopard seal, assured.
"She's right," La Muerte, the goddess, ruler of the Land of the Remembered, agreed. "I can't even sink this ship myself even if I want or not want to. There are so many mortals in there."
Xibalba held both of his wife's hands to comfort her, "I love your kindness and concern of these mortals, mi amor, but I'm sure of this that this ship is unsinkable. The way I see it, it's because of its size, and I heard there are sea trials before it made it here."
"Believe all you want about this ship being unsinkable, but I'm really sure this ship is going to sink!" Aggie took out her wand staff and aimed it on the wall of the stern.
"Ugh, whatever, girl," Marlene scoffed. "We're already here and there's no turning back, so we have to save this ship anyway."
Ignoring the otter's stubbornness, Aggie took a deep breath, and blasted some kind of magic energy from the wand staff, creating a metal door on the stern
"Ags, what are you doing?" Ruby, Red's ex-fiancée and Roy and Rebecca's mother, asked.
"Making a door," said Aggie as she opened it.
"No, what she means, what was the door for?" Stella made it clear.
Aggie sighed, "We're going to sneak into the boat."
The whole team gasped in horror.
"Aggie, would that be so bad?" Ms. Perky, a motionless doll with a voice chip and feelings formerly owned by Rico the penguin, questioned in worry.
"I know it's bad, but I can't just go out there and buy us our tickets! We're 300 of us, and I can't afford that! Plus, people will be suspicious why I will buy 300 tickets since I'm the only one who bought them alone!" The leader explained.
Most of the members nodded that Aggie made a good point. They understood Aggie that she doesn't want to mess this mission up.
"Why can't we just tell those people that this ship will strike an iceberg and sink?" Private the penguin suggested.
This made the whole team, including Aggie, panicked as they exclaimed, "NO!"
"Keep your mouth shut!" Kelda made Private close his mouth.
"You can't warn them about the future! You'll disrupt the time stream!" Holley Shiftwell warned.
"Haven't you ever seen any movie?" Chug reminded.
"And what happened before?!" Renda, Rico's adoptive guardian and wife, added.
"Oh, yeah," the penguin lowered his head down in guilt.
"Exactly what you said!" Aggie shouted. "That's why I never told you guys about that earlier! Telling people about the future might be a problem. It might destroy the universe or a time wrap or something like that, but saving the Titanic isn't. If we just help the ship made it to New York, it won't be a problem. The Titanic was meant to travel to New York, but it was ruined by the iceberg and the ship's sinking. So, our job is to help this ship finish its route, okay?"
The I Team members looked at each other, then nodded in agreement as they turned to their leader.
"Sure, SmurfAggie," Hefty said.
"Whatever you say, girl," Cot, Coop's guardian, added.
"It's cool," Han Solo winked.
Aggie smiled, "Good. Let's not just talk to these people about the future. Let us do our job. They're depending on us."
Just then, a crewman appeared from the door, which made the I Team gasped in fear.
"Hey, who are you and what are you doing?! You're not supposed to be here! And who made this door here?!"
Suddenly, a rattle hammered the crewman as he fainted and fell on the ground. Poof did it!
Shaun screamed when he noticed Poof hammered the crewman down, "BAAH!!! BAAH!!"
"Relax, Shaun, I just put this gentleman to sleep," Poof explained.
"And with mind erasing magic so he won't remember what we did here," His guardian, Pof, added.
Just then, the Titanic's whistle blew and the smoke was released from it.
After listening to Poof and Pof's explanation and the whistle of the Titanic, Aggie quickly told her team, "Great. We have to go, guys! Now! The ship will leave in five minutes! We have to hurry!
The I Team entered the door with their bags and luggage. Only normal, medium and small sized members entered the ship, but the bigger members were stop by Aggie.
"Whoa, wait, you guys!" She blocked the door.
"What's wrong, Aggie?" Sally Carrera asked.
"Umm, I hate to say this, but..." Aggie blushed as she's too nervous to talk. "You guys are too big for the door. Even my wand staff can't adjust it to a bigger size. I think you guys need a little... size adjustment."
Minutes later, the group of Cars and Planes were shrunk to a normal size so they can fit through the door as they rolled in.
"Sorry, guys, I know it hurts, but this is the only way to get through the door, and we can't add some extra weight in the ship," The winged-human giggled in embarrassment for judging her friends' size. Then, she noticed Dusty and Skipper Riley, as planes, can't fit through the door because of their extendable wings. Aggie carried Dusty Crophopper first, and turned him sideways to get through the door. She did the same to Skipper Riley. "Here you go, guys! Sorry about that. Your wings are unable to fold, you know."
The Corsair turned to Aggie, "My wings can fold when I'm resting, remember? 18 years ago?!"
Aggie just remembered that the corsair can fold his wings, even when saluting. His wings have joints, "Right. Forgot about that."
Then, the two gods was forced to change the size to human size. La Muerte has no problem with that, but Xibalba felt uncomfortable.
"La Muerte! Xibalba! I know that you're gods, but I just want you guys to fit in with us since you're part of the team. You're gods, after all. You can change size whenever you like, right?"
"Whatever!" The dark god shouted at his human student before entering the ship with his wife.
Aggie just crossed her arms and rolled her eyes, annoyed by her mentor-slash-best friend's temper. "Mentor's got issue." Then, he noticed Terence in front of her, still in his current size. "Hey, Terence. I guess my spell didn't work on you, huh? I guess this is your normal size. I just hope you could fit in through that door."
Terence walked towards the door, but his body stopped him from getting through. Aggie panicked as she pushed Terence hard to help him enter the ship. "I think we should put you on a diet, Terence." She said, then yelled at the birds inside. "Red, guys, a little help!"
The group of Angry Birds rushed towards Terence, and pulled him in.
"I think Aggie is right, big guy," Hal grunted as he pulled Terence by the left wing. "We really should put you on a diet."
After one last try, Terence is finally in, landing on top of his fellow birds. Aggie saw this, and she was worried that her friends, step-children and husband were squished.
"We're okay!" Chuck made a thumb up.
Aggie sighed in relief as she turned around, and screamed surprised. Unexpectedly, there was still Shirley, who was just sitting there with her. Shirley was such a big sheep, Aggie can't do this alone. "Shaun, Bitzer, a little help here."
The sheep and dog rushed out of the door to help Aggie move Shirley in. Just like Terence, her body or fleece is too big to fit in through the door. As Shaun and Bitzer pulled harder, and Aggie pushed harder, Shirley made it through, landing on top of Shaun and Bitzer. Bitzer made a thumb up, telling the rest that he and Shaun are okay.
Just then, Titanic's whistle blew one last time before sailing for its maiden voyage. The I Team felt the ship moving as they looked back at Aggie, who was still standing on the dock, checking if no one was left behind.
"Come on, Aggie, let's go!" Brags, Bugs' guardian, gestured her to come along.
"Right, right!" Aggie flew towards the open door with her friends catching her. She used her telekinesis to take the invisible curtain and string with her. She closed the door tightly as it faded until it disappeared; probably the spell of the door from her wand staff suddenly wore off.
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Titanic had finally left the docks as many, many, many passengers waved goodbyes to their loved ones and fellowmen. The people at the docks waved back at them goodbye. The mooring lines, as big around as a man's arm, are dropped into the water. A cheer went up on the pier as seven tugs pulled the Titanic away from the quay.
Behind the crowd of passengers at the stern, a trap door appeared, and opened by Aggie with her head stuck out. She can see the passengers waving at the crowd on the quay, and heard the words "goodbye!", "we're gonna miss you!", and "I will never forget you!". This scene made Aggie feel that something sharp like a knife stabbed her in the chest. She was very guilty that the people on the ship didn't know this is gonna be their last goodbye if the Titanic continues to sink. She slowly closed the trap door and made it disappear before somebody noticed it.
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Aggie lowered herself to the hidden room where she and her team were hiding.
"So, Ags," Samon, Samuel's guardian and Jet and Saltor's oldest son, broke the silence, and asked, "What are we gonna do now?"
"Yeah, we can't stay here until the ship hit the iceberg," Prenda, Private adoptive guardian and wife, added.
"We have to stay here for a while until the Titanic made a stop in Cherbourg, France at 6:30pm to pick up more passengers," Aggie answered. "Let's get some rest before we gonna get out of here and find a spot for our own rooms."
Her team nodded as they all gave themselves a break.
Outside the ship, the crowd of cheering well-wishers waved heartily as a black wall of metal moved past them. Impossibly tiny figures waved back from the ship's rails. Titanic gathered speed. The prow of Titanic filled frame behind the lead tug, which is dwarfed. The bow wave spread before the mighty plow of the liner's hull as it moved down the River Test toward the English Channel.
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Okay, I know there are a lot of characters, but if you have any questions with them, pls comment or pm. I got some scenes and dialogue from the movie, Titanic 1997.
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