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"It's that time again - time to watch our next cinematic film." the FilmMaster said to the crowd.

"Ya got that right." said Ratchet. "What film are we watching now?" he asked.

"Well," the FilmMaster said, "I did say it's a tale of love, emotion, and being there when needed."

"And what's the name of the film?" asked Clank.

"It's...." 

The FilmMaster paused impressively.

"Inside Out!" he declared.

the Emotions lit up excitedly. "Wow!" said joy. "Our Movie's up next!"

"Alright." said Fear.

"This movie is the first Inside Out movie, with Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger." the FilmMaster said. "They, of course, are your Emotions."

"Emotions?" said Clank.

"Yes." the FilmMaster said. "This is where we see what the emotions, or as some people put it, the little people inside your head."

"Do we have people in our heads?" asked Libby.

"Everyone does." the FilmMaster said.

"Sounds quite weird if you ask me." said Libby.

"I find it perfectly sensible." said Templeton. "After all, in our school, we found a portal into our headmaster's head."

"Really?" said Rivet, incredulous.

"Really really." said Mitchell.

"This film focuses on the first 5 in Riley's mind - Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger." the FilmMaster said. "This was before Riley became a teen, so Anxiety, Ennui, Envy, and Embarrassment, and Nostalgia [to a lesser degree] weren't there yet."

"This is gonna be amazing!!!!!" Envy said excitedly. "We're gonna see what Joy and the others were like before we came up!!!! Oh yeah!!!!!!"

Everyone went quiet so the film could begin.

The FilmMaster activated the Inside Out Film, which soon played on the projector. And once again, all the lights in the theater dimmed down, and he flew his seat to be above the crowd.

"Showtime." said the FilmMaster, as the film began.

[The film starts with the opening titles]

Joy: (narrates:)  Do you ever look at someone and wonder, "What is going on inside their head?" Well, I know. ...Well, I know Riley's head.

(Fades up in a white space, likely a hospital ward; where a couple called Mr. and Mrs. Andersen are admiring their newborn baby girl, Riley, who wakes up and coos happily.]

"Oh wow." said Thomas in awe. "Is that Riley Andersen?"

"Certainly is, Thomas." Joy said. "That's her when she was a baby."

Everyone aaawed and cooed at how cute Baby Riley was.

"I've seen cuter minions than that." Cortex deadpanned. "and they were better than her."

"We can hear you, Cortex!" Coco shouted.,

"I wonder if we're gonna read a story about how Riley's parents got the news when Mom was pregnant with Riley." Anxiety said.

[Zoom in on Riley's head. In Riley's mind, everything is black. From out of the darkness steps a glowing figure, Joy. She comes forward and sees a blank screen above her; below her is a single button. She presses it, and it turns yellow like her. Riley is heard cooing.)

Joy: Hmm?

Everyone marvelled in awe at Joy's First appearance.

"Is that what we all have in our heads, Papa?" Antonio asked his dad.

"Si." Felix said. "I guess we all do."

(Zoom back from Joy to the real world, showing baby Riley as she coos and giggles happily.)

Joy: (narrates:)  And there she was...

(On the screen, Mr. and Mrs. Andersens' faces materialise into view.)

Mrs. Andersen: Hello, Riley.

Mr. Andersen: Oh, look at you. Aren't you a little bundle of joy?

(A ding is heard, and a glowing yellow orb of what just happened is formed from behind the screen. Joy examines it.)

Memory Mr. Andersen: Aren't you a little bundle of joy?

Joy: Whoa.

"I guess that must be how the memories are created." said Princess Fiona. 

"Yup." said the FilmMaster. "Well, technically, it's in a film universe, and not real, but it's likely."

(Joy puts the memory back in place, and it rolls across a rack around the area, making the lights come up and revealing a red-violet space of gears, as Headquarters is starting to form. Joy is astounded; she presses the button again, and Riley coos in response. Joy beams.)

Joy: (narrates:) It was amazing. Just Riley and me... Forever.

(Riley keeps giggling and Joy smiles in reply]

"Not for much longer." said the FilmMaster.

"Why?" asked Mirabel.

Needless to say, she found out soon enough.

[Suddenly, Riley starts crying, which confuses her.)

(Riley, now a toddler, runs through the house pulling a wagon and giggling. In her mind, in the now-formed Headquarters, Fear, a thin purple figure, comes out from behind Joy. The single button is now replaced with a control console.)

Fear: Very nice. Okay, looks like you got this. Very good.

(The screen shows everything through Riley's eyes, as she is running.)

Fear: Whoa, sharp turn! NO, LOOK OUT! NO!

(He takes action; the console turns purple in response.)

Joy: (narrates:) That's Fear. He's really good at keeping Riley safe.

(Fear's actions prompt Riley to stop running and notice the plugged cable, and step over it slowly.)

Fear: (voiceover) Easy, easy. AGH! OH MY! Oh, we're good. We're good.

"Wow." said Pepa. "And I thought I overreacted a lot."

"That's what Fear does, Tia Pepa." Mirabel said. "He keeps us safe so we don't get injuries."

"Injuries that I often heal." Julieta said.

(In Headquarters, the memories have been nestled on a shelf off to the left; a purple memory, indicating a fearful one, rolls in to nestle against the yellow one on the right.)

Joy: Whew!

Sadness: Good job.

Fear: Thank you. Thank you very much.

"I can see the Memories are different colours." said Bruno. "They're like our clothes."

"Yes." said Joy. "I'm yellow, and yellow means Joy. That's me."

"The sad memories must be the blue ones." Carla Delgado said.

"And the purple memories must be the fearful ones, if I'm right." said Luisa.

"Certainly, Luisa." said the FilmMaster.

Joy: And we're back!

(She takes over, prompting Riley to resume her silliness, knocking over a lamp in the process. Mr. Andersen picks her up.)

Young Riley: Oh!

(She is put in her high chair for lunch; she is served a bowl full of broccoli as Mr. Andersen tries to feed her a stalk.)

Mr. Andersen: Here we go. All right, open.

Joy: Hmm. This looks new.

Fear: You think it's safe?

Sadness: What is it?

(On the screen, Mr. Andersen brings the spoonful forward.)

Mr. Andersen: Ahh...?

(Here comes a green feminine figure, Disgust, who takes control.)

Disgust: Okay, caution! There is a dangerous smell, people! Hold on. What is that?

Joy: (narrates:) This is Disgust. She basically keeps Riley from being poisoned. Physically and socially.

Isabela eyed Disgust on the screen doubtfully. An Emotion that snooty seemed to remind her of her old self. Her old vain, entitled and self-absorbed self.

Carla began to remember her arrogant attitude long before she changed her ways, back when she and her father, Victor, used to be evil.

Disgust: That is not brightly coloured or shaped like a dinosaur. Hold on, guys. It's broccoli!

(She retches and works the console, turning it green; this prompts Riley to react.)

Young Riley: YUCKY!

(She flips her bowl, spilling the broccoli into Mr. Andersen's face.]

Everyone recoiled in disgust.

"Gross!" said Cindy.

[On the memory shelf, a green memory rolls in, indicating a disgusted one.)

Disgust: Well, I just saved our lives.

Fear and Sadness: Whew!

Disgust: Yeah. You're welcome.

Mr. Andersen: Riley, if you don't eat your dinner, you're not gonna get any dessert.

(Shifts to a red firebrick-like figure, Anger, who sits and reads a newspaper with a headline "NO DESSERT!"; he puts it down lividly.)

"And let me guess - the short red gremlin is Anger, right?" Camilo asked.

"I AM NOT A GREMLIN, YOU LITTLE CHAMELEON TWERP!" Anger shouted angrily.

"Don't you dare start a fight!" Pepa shouted to Camilo and Anger, stopping the fight before it began.

"Si, Camilo, that's Anger." said Mirabel.

Anger: Wait. Did he just say we couldn't have dessert?

"Uh, yeah." said Mr Potato Head.

(He puts down the newspaper and steps up to the console; his head begins to flame up.)

Joy: (narrates:) That's Anger. He cares very deeply about things being fair.

Anger: So that's how you want to play it, old man?! No dessert?! Oh, sure, we'll eat our dinner! Right after YOU eat THIS!

(The console turns red as he mans it, and, letting out a furious yell, does his thing as a heavy drumroll is heard in the background score. This prompts Riley to scream in her chair as well, and a red angry memory rolls in on the shelf.]

Everyone seemed to get quite scared when Anger's head lit up in flames.

"Oh my!" Clank said, shocked.

"Holy cow." Woody said.

[Toddler Riley keeps throwing a fit when Mr. Andersen intervenes.)

Mr. Andersen: Riley, Riley, here comes an airplane!

(He makes the sound of an airplane flying; Anger immediately calms down.)

Anger: Oh, airplane. We got an airplane, everybody.

Joy, Sadness, Disgust: Oh!

Fear: Airplane.

(Mr. Andersen successfully feeds Riley, who has also calmed down; a yellow memory appears on the shelf.]

Everyone sighed in relief.

"I still think that was scary." said Percy.

[Sadness then lounges next to Joy, who is obviously not pleased by her presence.)

Joy: (narrates:) And you've met Sadness. She... Well, she...

(Quick intercuts of Riley bawling like mad over various mishaps: Ripping her teddy bear, spilling her ice cream, being dragged out of the store, and being strapped in her car seat. Back to Headquarters.)

Joy: (narrates:) I'm not actually sure what she does.

(She smiles meekly at Sadness, who promptly exits.)

Joy: (narrates:) And I've checked, there's no place for her to go, so... She's good, we're good. It's all great!

"Is it all great, now?" Mirabel said with a stern tone toward Joy, who looked quite sheepish.

"Ok, so I wasn't best with Sadness then, but yes, we've all made mistakes along the way." Joy said innocently.

"I don't really think it's fair, though," Mirabel said disapprovingly. "I mean, to not have a purpose like the rest of your kind/familia - it kinda makes you feel like you don't belong. And I've been there."

Her parents knew this was true, of course, and so did her uncles, aunt, her cousins, her sisters, and her Abuela. Since Mirabel didn't have a gift like her family, it made everyone believe she had no purpose in it.

"I had that feeling before too." Scamp said, remembering the time when he believed that he didn't belong with his family.

(She goes over to the left side of Headquarters, shelves lined with various memory orbs. Most of them are happy and yellow.)

Joy: (narrates:) Anyway, these are Riley's Memories, and they're mostly happy, you'll notice. Not to brag.

"You certainly aren't." Dolores said.

(She inspects one memory of Riley and her friend Meg playing on a playground slide.)

Memory Young Meg: Whoo-hoo!

Memory Young Riley: (giggles)

(She rewinds the memory like a touchscreen with her finger.)

Memory Young Meg: Whoo-hoo!

Memory Young Riley: (giggles)

"Wow." Mirabel said. "Riley must've been lucky to have a friend like Meg."

"Andy had friends, too, in his old neighbourhood." Woody said, "And they loved playing with him and us too, like Bonnie did."

Buzz and the other toys agreed, thinking back to the time of Andy and Bonnie's playtime, before Andy left for college.

(She hugs the memory and puts it back; then goes over to the center of the room to a big round setting of five round lights shooting out beams to the windows outside.)

Joy: (narrates:) But the really important ones are over here.

"What are those?" asked Aku Aku.

(She pushes down a slot; this brings up a pedestal of five dazzlingly bright yellow memory orbs arranged in a circle.)

Joy: (narrates:) I don't want to get too technical, but these are called Core Memories. Each one came from a super important time in Riley's life. Uh, like when she first scored a goal?

(Flashback to Riley and her parents ice skating on the lake, playing pretend hockey.)

Joy: (narrates:) Oh, that was so amazing!

(A stumble, she unknowingly hits the puck and scores a goal.)

Mr. Andersen: Hey! Would you look at that? Very nice! We got a future center here!

Mrs. Andersen: Nice job!

"That explains why Riley loves hockey." Jack Skellington said, remembering when it snowed in Halloween Town, and the Vampire Brothers played ice hockey.

(In Headquarters, the emotions cheer in response. Suddenly, a loud ding and bright light catches them off guard. From behind the screen is a brightly glowing orb of the memory, which slips into the floor and slides through an underground track to the pedestal, which shoots out a beam of light and creates a floating island outside decorated with various hockey equipment.)

Joy: (narrates:) And each Core Memory powers a different aspect of Riley's personality. Like... Hockey Island!

"What are those island things?" Camilo asked.

"Those are Personality Islands," the FilmMaster said to the crowd. "Everyone has them. The Core Memories power different aspects of your personality, and creates floating island-like places to view from Headquarters."

"Wow!" said Thomas. "I remember my super important time was when I saved James when he had his accident, and I got my branch line."

"That's what it is, Thomas!" The FilmMaster said. "That's what a Personality Island is  - something that makes up your personality."

(The emotions go to observe the five islands outside, with the hockey one in the middle. To the far left is an island of various toys and silly things, and a big clown's face.)

Joy: (narrates:) Goofball Island is my personal favorite.

(Flashback: Riley runs through the house naked as her parents chase her.)

Mr. Andersen: Ah, come back here, you little monkey!

"HOLY COW!" shrieked Mrs Potato Head. "Naked toddler on the screen!!!!!!"

Everyone quickly hid their eyes.

"TONITO SHIELD YOUR EYES!!!!" Pepa shouted, covering Antonio's eyes with her hands.

(This act of silliness is what sets Goofball Island in action, showing the clown's eyes spin around and its tongue sticking out, a mallet hitting its head, and a series of practical jokes like a Ferris wheel of shoes honking a horn and a monkey centerpiece spinning plates.)

Mr. Andersen: (laughs) Oh, you're silly!

Joy: (narrates:) Yep, Goofball is the best.

"That's why Riley likes her father's goofball antics." The FilmMaster said. 

"And the monkey thing," Bob said, "That must be the animal Riley's dad likes."

"Exactly." The FilmMaster said.

"I bet it'd be cool if Riley's Dad could say, I dunno, turn into a monkey?" Camilo said.

"That would be weird," said Mitchell. "But cool. We once turned our headmaster into a toad-headed monster that nearly took over our school, alongside giant versions of science lab animals."

(Just to the left is an island showing two heads of people talking to each other, along with various "friendly" material, like hearts, stars, and statuettes of people dancing.)

Joy: (narrates:) Friendship Island is pretty good too.

(Flashback: Riley and Meg walking arm-in-arm, leg-over-leg, down the sidewalk.]

"Just like the friends I have on Sodor," Thomas said. "And I have loads of them."

[To the left of Hockey Island is an island with various integrity memorabilia; scales, gavels, and a courthouse on a hill, designed like in Ancient Greece.)

Joy: (narrates:) Oh, I love Honesty Island. And that's the truth!

(Flashback: A guilty Riley stands near a broken plate and holds up a hammer, admitting she was behind it.]

"We all have Honesty Islands," Mirabel said. "That's what makes some of us likable."

"And some lose them when they're evil," said Sly Cooper, motioning to the villains on the top row.

[The last island to the far right features various family-oriented landmarks, such as a family tree, a board game, the Andersens' car hauling a trailer, three figures jumping on a trampoline, and a trio of gigantic statues representing the Andersens in a warm embrace.)

Joy: (narrates:) And of course, Family Island is amazing!

"That's the main island." the FilmMaster said. "The most important Personality Island always goes into the middle of the viewing area."

"And we all have Family Islands." said Mirabel.

(Flashback: Riley and her parents decorate cookies together. Riley stuffs her cookie in Mr. Andersen's mouth.)

Joy: (narrates:) The point is, the Islands of Personality are what make Riley... Riley!

(Quick intercuts: Riley in the bath.)

Young Riley: Look out, mermaid!

(She makes a big splash; Riley is now in the living room, crawling across the couch. In Headquarters, Joy inserts a flower chip into the console, which projects a daydream from Riley's view; the floor becoming imaginary lava.)

Young Riley: Lava! Whee!

(She jumps to the chair]

"Don't worry, audience," the FilmMaster said, "It's just imaginary."

"Also," he added, "This is part of the popular children's game 'The Floor is Lava'."

"What's that game?" asked Bentley.

"Well," said the FilmMaster, "It's a game in which players pretend that the floor or ground is made of lava (or any other lethal substance, such as acid or quicksand), and thus must avoid touching the ground, as touching the ground would "kill" the player who did so. The players stay off the floor by standing on furniture or the room's architecture. The players generally may not remain still, and are required to move from one piece of furniture to the next. This is due to some people saying that the furniture is acidic, sinking, or in some other way time-limited in its use. The game can be played with a group or alone for self self-amusement. There may even be a goal, to which the players must race. The game may also be played outdoors in playgrounds or similar areas."

"Now that sounds cool," said Mitchell. "We should totally try this after this movie."

[Now Riley sits and draws a doodle of a pink elephant creature on the living room wall.)

Young Riley: ♪ Who's your friend who likes to play? Bing Bong, Bing Bong! ♪

"Who is that?" asked Becky.

"Soon," the FilmMaster said.

(On a frozen pond, the six-year-old Riley skates for her parents.)

Mr. Andersen: Hey! Very nice!

Mrs. Andersen: Where'd you learn that?

(In Headquarters, Joy "skates" around the floor.]

Everyone was in awe at Joy pretending to ice skate along the floor.

"Wow!" Lucius said. "I loved Ice skating when I was Riley's age."

"That's clever!" said Carla Delgado, clapping in joy. 

"Joy, you should totally teach us how you do that!!!!" Envy said.

[On the front doorstep, the 11-year-old Riley and Meg drink Slushees; suddenly, Riley gets a brain freeze from drinking too fast.)

Riley: Ahhh!!!

(In Headquarters, everything and everyone begins to ice over.)

Fear: BRAIN FREEZE!!!

(The emotions scream as they succumb to the freezing; first Anger, then Fear, and finally Sadness, whose eyes remain the only part active once immobile.]

"That's something to worry about - brain freeze." Anxiety said.

[On the ice pond, Riley is now participating in a hockey game; she successfully scores as the crowd cheers.)

Riley: Yeah!

Joy: Yay!

(Riley is now tucked in bed; Mr. Andersen clicks off the light.)

Mr. Andersen: Good night, kiddo.

Riley: Good night, Dad.

(The door closes; Riley looks at the glow-in-the-dark stars on her bedroom ceiling as Joy watches. The screen dims out like a TV switching off as Riley falls asleep.)

Joy: And... we're out. (She goes to examine all the memories on the shelves.) That's what I'm talking about! Whoo! Another perfect day! Nice job, everybody! Let's get those memories down to Long-Term.

(Joy presses a button on the floor with her foot; the memories begin to slide off the shelves and across the roof trails.)

"So that's where the memories go when the day is up," Mirabel said. "Clever."

Fear: All right, we did not die today! I call that an unqualified success.

"Die?" said Luisa, shocked.

"Why did I just have to say that?" Fear wondered to himself.

(Disgust observes as the memories continue to pachinko and flush out, then sink into the floor through the underground trails as the recall tube in the roof covers the hole in the floor and sucks the memories up right through it. Joy goes to the window and watches the memories rain down across Long Term Memory like falling stars.)

Joy: (narrates:) And that's it. We love our girl. She's got great friends and a great house. Things couldn't be better. After all, Riley's 11 now. What could happen?

"So now we've seen the first glimpse of the Inside Out world." The FilmMaster told the audience. "Any thoughts?"

"It was kinda cool how the memory orbs rolled down into Long Term at the end," Scamp said. "They were like balls! Balls that humans throw for dogs to chase!"

"I certainly love Riley." Joy said. "Also, we love her."

The Emotions agreed.

"I wonder what all of our Headquarters are like." Donkey said.

Zoom into Libby's head - All of Libby's Emotions looked like Libby - all matching her dreadlock hairstyle.

"I have to say," said Libby's Joy, "This Filmmaster knows how to appeal to the crowd for these movies."

Libby's Emotions agreed.

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"OK," The FilmMaster said to the crowd. "Now this is the part which will surprise you, more notably, the Emotions that weren't in the first Inside Out film."

He was talking about Anxiety, Envy, Ennui, Embarrassment, and Nostalgia.

"You're talking about the move, right?" Woody said. He and the Toy Story toys [save for the ones that appeared in the later Toy Story movies] knew that feeling too well - they remembered moving to a new house with Andy.

"I certainly am." the FilmMaster said. "But first....."

He rewound the film to when Joy saw the memories go into Long-Term Memory.

Joy: (narrates:) And that's it. We love our girl. She's got great friends and a great house. Things couldn't be better. After all, Riley's 11 now. What could happen?

"3..... 2..... 1....." the Filmmaster said quietly to himself.

(Outside the Andersen house, a "For Sale" sign is placed into the ground; across the middle reads "SOLD".)

Joy: What...?

Sadness, Anger, Fear, Disgust: AAUGH!!!

(Mr. Andersen closes the trunk of the car.)

Sadness, Anger, Fear, Disgust: AAUGH!!!

(A moving van drives off.)

Joy: Okay, not what I had in mind.

Sadness, Anger, Fear, Disgust: AAUGH!!!

"Yup." The FilmMaster said. "They had to move."

"Why?" asked Antonio. "Why did they have to move from where they live?"

"Well," The FilmMaster said, "Riley's father got a new job in San Francisco, so that means the whole family had to move there."

"Oh, remember when Riley's family moved to San Francisco?" Nostalgia said.

"We know, Nostalgia." said Joy. "We're watching that right now."

"Oh yes, those were the days." Nostalgia said.

Alma remembers the moving thing all too well - when the soldiers invaded her old village years ago, she, her husband Pedro, and their babies, Julieta, Pepa, and Bruno, were forced to leave their old home behind, and raise their family somewhere else - which, of course, led to Pedro's death, and the creation of the Encanto.

[As the car drives along, Riley looks out of the window. The Title of the movie appears: “Inside Out”, as the car drives over to the Golden Gate Bridge]

Joy: [voiceover] Hey, look! The Golden Gate Bridge! Isn't that great? It's not made out of solid gold like we thought, which is kind of disappointing, but still...

"Of course it's not really made of gold." the FilmMaster said. "Technically, the bridge is painted a color called 'orange vermillion,' which is also known as 'international orange'."

"Then why is it called the Golden Gate Bridge?" asked Jimmy Neutron.

"Of course. The bridge literally goes over the Golden Gate Straight, hence the name." Sheen said.

"That's not all, Sheen." the FilmMaster said. "At the time of its opening in 1937, it was both the longest and the tallest suspension bridge in the world, titles it held until 1964 and 1998 respectively. Its main span is 4,200 feet (1,280 m) and its total height is 746 feet (227 m)."

Everyone stared at the FilmMaster with dumbfounded expressions. 

"How do you know all that?" Agustin asked.

"I travelled round the Earth on vacation once." the FilmMaster said.

"Wow." Camilo said. "We should all go beyond the mountains of the Encanto like Abuela, Tio Bruno, and Mirabel did when we get back - see what's out there."

[The car drives past a clocktower near a marketplace.)

"So this is San Francisco. Cool!" Carl said.

"I always thought it was a myth, like a permanent record, or the Loch Ness Monster, or North Dakota." Sheen said.

Fear: Hey, I sure am glad you told me earthquakes are a myth, Joy. Otherwise, I'd be terrified right now.

Joy: Ah... yeah.

[The car is soon in a traffic jam down a sloping road]

"Whoa," said Mirabel. "That is one strange road."

"You can say that again, sis," said Isabela.

"That is one strange road," Mirabel said.

"Good job we don't have vehicles like cars in the Encanto," Alma said.

Anger: These are my kind of people.

Ennui sighed. "Ugh, when are we gonna see the new house?"

"We're getting to it, Ennui." The FilmMaster said.

[The Andersen's car passes a tramway]

Mr. Andersen: Alright, just a few more blocks. We're almost to our new house.

"I like the San Francisco tramway." said Thomas. "It reminds me of our friend Toby."

"Yes, Thomas." Percy said. "It was so good of him to come to your railway."

Anger: Step on it, Daddy!

Disgust: Why don't we just live in the smelly car? We've already been in it forever!

"That is stupid." said Isabela. "Cars are for homeless people."

"Isa." Agustin said sternly, giving a stern gaze. "Don't mention the 'homeless' word. It... triggers some bad memories." he rubbed the back of his neck.

"What do you mean, Agustin?" asked Emily.

"It might be better when you see our movie." Mirabel said.

Joy: Which... actually was really lucky, because that gave us plenty of time to think about what our new house is going to look like. What? Let's review the top 5 daydreams!!!

[She plugs in some daydreams, of different fantasy new houses for Riley. The first one is a house with vibrant colours, pinwheels, different shaped windows, and a big slide.]

Fear: Woo, that looks safe!

Sadness: That looks nice.

Everyone reacted in awe and amazement upon seeing the fantasy house.

"Oh, I should try to create a fun house like that in my lab!" Jimmy Neutron said excitedly.

['The second daydream is of a treehouse]

"I love that design." Becky said. "A tree house sounds like the perfect place to commune with nature, and show why we need to be eco-friendly and better for the environment, so we'll have a wonderful future world free of pollution and full of rainbows."

Joy: Ooh, this'll be great for Riley. Oh, no, no, no, no, no... this one! 

[She switches the daydream to a gingerbread house]

"Now THAT'S a house I would like!" Gingy said excitedly. "I think it'd be sweet!"

"Pun entirely intended." Donkey said before laughing.

Even Gingy had to admit that it was funny, just a bit.

Disgust: Ugh, Joy,  for the last time. She can not live in a cookie.

[The screen then switches to a castle with a dragon.]

Anger: THAT’S the one! It comes with a Dragon!

Fiona gulped anxiously. Seeing the castle with the dragon was already triggering some bad memories for her.

Ever since the witch cursed her to turn into an ogre every night, her parents, King Harold & Queen Lillian, had sent her to live in a castle, surrounded by lava, guarded by a fire-breathing dragon, forced to live all alone, waiting for her true love to come and rescue her, missing everything in her old life - birthdays, festivals, even bonding with friends.

Shrek patted her shoulder, and Fiona knew he understood this. That reassured her.

[The Andersens' car pulls up in a street.]

Joy: We're getting close, I can feel it. Here it is. Here's our new house. And...

(Riley steps out of the car, and then, we see the house. It's a run-down Victorian Apartment, which is nothing like the Day Dreams.]

Everyone in the theatre looked gobsmacked and disgusted at what the Andersens' new house was. 

"Is that it?" Dr. Neo Cortex said. "That's the new house?"

"Uhhhh...... yes." Joy said sheepishly to the villains. "Surprise!"

Most of the crowd, and the villains, shook their heads in disbelief.

"What a dump!" said Camilo rather bluntly.

"Camilo!" Felix chided. "Don't be so rude!"

"Well," Hugh said, trying to be positive about the situation, "It's got nice windows."

Joy: Maybe it's..... nice on the inside.

[Riley then enters the house to see it dark and dusty, which feels real uninviting to her. The walls are grey and barren, and there's scattered newspapers, a cardboard box, and a bottle of cleanser spray near the fireplace.]

"What was that you were saying about how nice it was on the inside, Joy?" Victor Delgado asked.

"Ugh, and I thought Shrek's swamp was that bad." Donkey muttered.

"I heard that, Donkey!" Shrek shouted.

"Shrek, please." Fiona said. "I'm sure Riley's new house can't be all bad."

"Yeah." said Woody. "I mean, we had to get used to Andy's new house when we moved in, and the same with Bonnie, but we soon loved those places."

Anger: [voiceover] We're supposed to live here?

Sadness: [voiceover] Do we have to?

Disgust: [voiceover] I'm telling you, it smells like something died in here.

"Ugh." Judy Neutron sighed. "That's all we need. Honestly, did the previous owners forget to clean up the entire house before they moved away?”

"Honestly, why would Riley's parents buy a new house like that grotty ugly thing?!" Cindy complained.

"Well, maybe it was the cheapest house available, Vortex." Jimmy Neutron retorted. "New houses aren't cheap, you know."

“Maybe? It looks like no one's used it in a while, so it could be that.” Slinky guessed.

"At least the house Winston Deavor gave us was better than that one." Dash said. "I mean, it had a hot tub and a pool!"

"Oh, we should totally have a hot tub and a pool!" Envy said excitedly.

[In Headquarters, a green Disgusted memory rolls in.]

Fear: Can you die from moving?

Joy: Guys, you're overreacting! Nobody is dying-

Disgust: A DEAD MOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!

[It then shows a Dead mouse in the corner of the house. Riley backs away from it in fear]

Everyone seemed to recoil from the dead mouse.

Nobody seemed more disgusted than Bruno - after all, he'd spent 10 years of his life living in the walls of Casita with the rats. Seeing a dead mouse made him feel sick.

"Ay dios mio." Bruno groaned. He gagged, and vomited into a sick bag Fear immediately provided for him.

"Oh, that is disgusting!" Hamm said.

"And I thought the dump was bad enough." said Woody.

Fear: [voiceover] AAAAAH!!!

Anger: [voiceover] Great!

Disgust: [voiceover] I'm gonna be sick.

Fear: It's a house of the dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What're we gonna do?!?!?!?! We're gonna get rabies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anger: GET OFF OF ME!!!! [Sets his head alight with flames, burning Fear's behind.] [

Many winced at the burning Fear.

"Oooh, that's painful." Carl said, wincing and using his inhaler at the same time.

[Fear screams and runs around trying to put out the flames till Joy uses a fire extinguisher to extinguish the flames.]

Joy: Hey, hey, all through the drive, Dad talked about how cool our new room is. Let's go check it out!

Disgust: [voiceover] let's go!

Anger: [voiceover] It's gonna be great!

Fear: [voiceover] Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!

[Riley bolts upstairs to her new bedroom. Jumpcut to the bedroom - it's empty, with faded wallpaper, tiny… and depressing.]

Everyone's reactions were similar to the view of Riley's house exterior and interior - disturbed and shocked, and in disbelief.

"Wow." Libby said. "That is NOT what we expected it to be."

"At least the nursery in Casita was better than this." Mirabel muttered.

Fear: [voiceover] No, no, no, no, no.

Disgust: [voiceover] I'm starting to envy the dead mouse.

Anger: [voiceover] Get out the rubber ball. We're in solitary confinement.

Sadness: Riley can't live here.

Anger: She's right. This house stinks.

Fear: it's really bad.

Disgust: Ugh. It's absolutely the worst. It's the worst place I've been in my entire life.

"Well, on the bright side, at least they're settling in." Sheen said.

[The Emotions [minus Joy] tap at the console whilst arguing. Joy watches 3 new Memory orbs roll in, Which are coded Red for Anger, green for Disgust, and purple for Fear, respectively. Joy immediately decides to break up the argument.]

Joy: Hey it’s nothing our butterfly curtains couldn't fix. I read somewhere that an empty room is an opportunity.

Anger: Where did you read that?

Joy: It doesn't matter. I read it and it's great.

"Hey, Joy's got the right idea." Mirabel said. "Decorating a room makes it feel like home."

"Agreed." Luisa & Isabela said together, remembering when they worked on rebuilding Casita.

[Joy then projects an imagination of Riley's furniture, filling up the new room.]

Joy: We'll put the bed there. And the desk over there.

Fear: The hockey lamp goes there.

Anger: Uh, Put the chair there. There, there.

Disgust: Oh, the trophy collections.

Fear: Stars! Yeah, I like that.

Joy: Now, we're talking! Let's go get our stuff from the moving van.

"Good idea, Joy!" Scamp said. "I betcha Riley's parents and the movers will need help unloading all of Riley's family's stuff."

[Riley bolts downstairs to see her parents entering the house, carrying supplies]

Mr. Andersen: [on his phone] Alright. Goodbye. Well, guess what? The moving van won't be here until Thursday.

Mrs. Andersen: You're kidding.

Everyone in the theater groaned in annoyance and disappointment.

"Okay, this really just went from bad, to worse, to LIFE THREATENING SITUATION!!!!!” Mitchell said.

"Mitchell, it's not life threatening." The FilmMaster said. "The moving van with the family's stuff is lost, so the stuff Riley and her family have won't arrive yet."

"At least the moving van we were on made it to where it needed to go." Mr Potato Head said.

Fear: The Van is lost?! This is the worst day ever!

Disgust: That figures. The van is lost.

[Joy sees more red, green and purple emotions fill up the memory banks, then she sees Riley's parents talking]

Mrs. Andersen: You said it would be here yesterday!

Mr. Andersen: I know that's what I said! That's what they told me!

Fear: Mom and Dad are stressed out! What're we gonna do?!!?!?

Anger: They're stressed out.

[Joy then runs to the storage and grabs what looks to be a lightbulb.]

Joy: I’ve got a great idea!!!!!

[She clicks the lightbulb into the console.]

"What's that, Mr FilmMaster?" Thomas asked.

"That is an Idea Bulb." The FilmMaster said. "Whenever an emotion gets an idea, they use them like Idea Bulbs to plug into a console."

"Clever." Julieta said. 

"Si." Agustin agreed.

Everyone wondered what the Idea was with mummers going around.

“What exactly is the idea, Joy?” Puss asks.

She gave a short laugh before simply saying. “Look.” Joy pointed with a smile.

Mrs. Andersen: Did you even read the contract?

[Riley’s face lightens up, she grabs a hockey stick and puts a wad of paper in play. As the parents argue, Riley begins to play and hopes they will too.]

Riley: Riley Andersen makes her move, She’s closing In!

Mr Andersen: [Grabs the broom] Hey! Oh you're not!

Riley: She’s lining up for her shot!

Mr Andersen: Coming behind you! Watch out!

[Riley then slides past him and Knocks the wad of paper into the fire place]

Riley: She shoots and she scores, Yeah!

Everyone cheered in amazement for this idea.

"Way to go, Riley!" Hamm cheered.

"She's such a brilliant girl!" Camilo said. "If Dolores & Mariano have kids, i betcha they should name their first kid Riley."

Dolores blushed in embarrassment.

[In Headquarters, the emotions cheer in response as out back in the window, Family island runs smoothly.]

Riley: Come on, Grandma!

Mrs. Andersen: Ha! Grandma?! [puts her hair up]

Joy: Uh-oh, she put her hair up. We're in for it.

[The family plays Hockey, with Ms Andersen using a pillow to guard the “Goal”. Mr Andersen then picks her up to shoot past her]

Mrs Andersen: (Laughing) Woo! Hey, Put me down!

[Mr Andersen then scoops up Riley next as she laughs as well.)

The audience seemed to enjoy this.

The Madrigal adults, Julieta, Pepa, Agustin and Julieta, seemed to feel almost nostalgic. They remebered speding time with their kids in between doing work for the village of the Encanto.

Bob remembered spending time with his family and kids in between preparing for his next mission with Mirage and training to get fit.

[In Headquarters, A happy yellow memory rolls in]

"Another new joy memory." Angel said in amazement. This reminded her of the adventures she had with Scamp.

[Suddenly, Mr Andersen's phone rings]

Mr. Andersen: Ah... Sorry, hold on, hold on. [answers his phone] Hello.

Joy: Wait, wha...?

"You gotta be kidding me." Sly groaned. "The fun was just beginning!"

Mr. Andersen: You're kidding me! [sighs] Alright, stall for me, I'll be right there. The investor's supposed to show up on Thursday, not today.

[Joy sighs in annoyance]

"Great." Jimmy sighed. "The first bit of free time he spends with his family and that happens."

Mr. Andersen: I gotta go.

Mrs. Andersen: It's OK, we get it.

Mr. Andersen: You're the best, thanks, hon. [kisses his wife, then looks to Riley] See you, sweetie. 

[He leaves the room, leaving Riley saddened]

"And there it is." Julieta said in annoyance.

"Kinda bad when it happens to your family, don't it." The FilmMaster retorted.

The Madrigals knew this - since Alma's tyrannical control of the miracle limited their family interactions, the Madrigals had little to no time to relax for their family and children.

Fear: Dad just left us.

Sadness: Oh, he doesn't love us anymore. That's sad. I should drive, right?

[Joy just blocks her]

Sadness: Joy, what are you doing?

Everyone seemed to look stern with Joy over what she was doing.

Joy: Ah, just give me one second. You know what I've realized? Riley hasn't had lunch. Remember?

Riley: Hey, I saw a pizza place down the street, maybe we can try that.

Mrs. Andersen: Pizza sounds delicious.

Fear: Pizza? Let's get it.

Disgust: Yes. Pizza.

Anger: Pizza. Great idea.

"Alright!" Jimmy said. "Pizza sounds like the perfect way to cheer up the blues of mishaps!"

But what came next on the screen put them off pizza entirely.

[A pizza vendor prepared a pizza with broccoli and offers one slice to them.)

Fear: What the heck is that?!?

Joy: Who puts broccoli on pizza?

Disgust: That's it, I'm done.

Anger: Congratulations, San Francisco, you've ruined pizza! First the Hawaiians, and now you!

"What does a Hawaiian pizza taste like?" Agustin asked, out of curiosity.

"Ham & pineapple." Disgust said. "Believe me, Riley tried it when she was 8."

"Honestly, San Francisco should've had a Pizza Planet restaurant." Woody sighed, munching on his popcorn. "Still, I wonder if you can put popcorn on pizza." he said to himself.

Zoom into Woody's head. All Woody's Emotions, which were shaped like him, but in the colour schemes of the respective Emotion, were admiring the new Memory in their Headquarters - designed like a mix between a toy-sized version of Andy's room, and a Western saloon.

"Hey howdy hey, sounds like a Good idea to me." Woody's Joy agreed. 

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[Riley & her mom walk home, with Riley looking disappointed]

Mrs Andersen: What kind of a pizza place only serves one kind of pizza? Must be a San Francisco thing, huh?

"That's nothing," Becky said. "Our school canteen's food is almost a gazillion years past its sell-by dates."

"I bet that school hardly ranks close to 'Outstanding' on the school inspector charts." Jimmy Neutron stated positively.

"Yeah, and there's all the crazy paranormal stuff that happens there," Becky added.

[In Headquarters. Joy glances at the wall, full of purple, red, and green memories.]

Mrs Andersen: Still, it's not as bad as that soup. That diner in Nebraska?

Riley: Oh, yeah. The spoon stood up in the soup by itself. That was disgusting.

"Mama's soup is never like that," Mirabel said. 

[Joy sees Family Island is running]

Joy: Oh, good. Family's running.

Riley: Dad's got a steel stomach.

[Riley & her mom laugh as they walk along.]

Everyone felt very impressed by how Riley and her Mom were getting along. "Oh, that's impressive," Hamm agreed.

Buzz and Woody remembered how good it felt to be with them and their friends, getting along.

"Why would Riley's father have a steel stomach?" Anxiety asked, puzzled by what 'Steel stomach' actually meant.

"It's a saying, Anxiety." Jimmy Neutron said. "The term "cast-iron stomach" is used for someone who can eat almost anything without feeling sick or experiencing any ill effects."

"Wow." Anxiety said patiently. "Jimmy Neutron, I have no idea what you just said." 

Pause.

"But I like it!" she squealed excitedly.

Mrs Andersen: The drive out was pretty fun, huh? What was your favorite part?

Anger: Spitting out of the car window.

"Eww!" Cindy and Libby cringed.

Disgust: Definitely not when Dad was singing.

"Riley's dad was singing?" Ratchet asks, trying to stifle a laugh.

Fear: Wearing a seat belt.

"Really?" said Mr Potato Head with a deadpan.

Joy: Oh, what about the time with the dinosaur?

Fear: Oh, that's the one!

Anger: Oh. For sure.

Disgust: Definitely.

[Joy calls up a happy memory of Riley's father taking a picture of Riley and her mom next to a Styracosaurus model in Vernal, Utah)]

"What type of dinosaur is that?" asked Mitchell.

"That," said the FilmMaster, "is a Styracosaurus; an extinct genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian stage) of North America. It had four to six long parietal spikes extending from its neck frill, a smaller jugal horn on each of its cheeks, and a single horn protruding from its nose, which may have been up to 60 centimeters (2 feet) long and 15 centimeters (6 inches) wide. The function or functions of the horns and frills have been debated for many years."

"That was an awe-inspiring fact about a dinosaur." said Mitchell. "Sure wish I'd been paying attention."

The FilmMaster sighed in annoyance, and resumed the film.

Mr Andersen: Say cheese!

(Behind Mr Andersen, the car rolls down the hill with no brakes. Riley and her mom notice)

Riley: Dad! Dad! Look behind You!

Ms Anderson:  Honey! The car! The car!

Mr Anderson: Hold still- [sees the car] Huh? (runs off after the car.) Stop, No no no!

[The car then crashes into a stegosaurus tail, leaving the back window broken.]

"Oops," said Jimmy.

[Riley's dad falls to his knees and hides his face in despair. The Emotions chuckle]

Fear: Nice one, Joy.

The audience went into laughter too. How funny was that?!

"That was quite hilarious!" Carla said through laughing. Victor agreed.

But Judy Neutron didn't think it was funny. "Ugh. Riley's dad is a fool to himself. If he'd made sure to put the brakes on properly, it would've happened." she complained.

"It was kinda funny, Mom." Jimmy stated.

"It was NOT funny, James Isaac Neutron!" Judy snapped. "And another thing," she added, "I still haven't forgotten when you dropped our chimney right onto my car and smashed all the windows in it!"

Jimmy sighed, remembering that incident all too well.

"Ya gotta admit; that was hilarious!" Hugh laughed. But seeing his wife's stern face, he quickly changed his tone. "But very unsafe, honey, that's bad." He gave a thumbs up, and Judy rolled her eyes.

"I sincerely hope that didn't affect Riley's Dad's car insurance." Anxiety said.

Riley: I liked that time with the dinosaur; That was pretty funny.

(All of a sudden, the memory onscreen turns blue; Riley's smile fades.)

Everyone was confused about what had just happened.

Joy: Wait, what? What happened?

[she and the other emotions see that Sadness is touching the memory]

Fear: She did something to the memory.

Joy: What did you do?! [tries to fix the memory]

Sadness: I-I just touched it.

Joy: That shouldn't make it change.

"Wow." said Camilo. "I never knew the Emotions could change colours of memories." 

Fear: Oh, change it back, Joy.

Joy: I'm trying!

[No matter how much Joy rubs it, the memory stays blue.]

Anger: You can't change it back?

Joy: No, I guess I can't.

Disgust: [sarcastically] Good going, Sadness! Now, when Riley thinks of that moment with Dad, she's gonna feel sad. Bravo!

Sadness: I'm sorry, Joy. I don't really know... I thought maybe if you, if you, I mean...

"I've been there before," Thomas said to himself, remembering when The Fat Controller falsely blamed him for wasting the dynamite when he was trying to save Ryan during the construction of the new branch line.

"Sadness, it wasn't your fault," Mirabel stated gently.

Sadness felt a little better.

Disgust: Joy, we've got a stairway coming up.

[Riley goes to a stairway and a handrail.]

Joy: [to Sadness whilst she sends the memory back into long term] Just don't touch any other memories until we figure out what's going on.

Sadness: OK.

Joy: [steps up to the controls.] Alright. Get ready. This is a monster railing, and we are riding it all the way down.

"Oh, that's gonna be pretty unsafe." Fear said.

"I slide down my banister rail all the time," Jimmy stated.

"We should try doing that in Casita." Camilo suggested.

"Yeah, most kids like to slide on one of those pole rails. Makes that type of stair very fun to use!” Joy happily exclaimed.

[Goofball Island starts up. Riley then sits on the railing, ready to slide ...but suddenly hops off and walks down instead.)

"Huh? Why didn't she slide down?" Asked Rivet.

Joy: Wait, what? What happened?

(Suddenly, a CORE MEMORY ROLLS UP to Joy’s feet.)

Fear: A core memory!!!!

Joy: Oh, no!

(Cut to Sadness, who looks out the window, and we see Goofball Island turn off, going grayscale.)

Everyone gasped upon seeing what happened to Goofball Island.

"Uh oh." Bob Parr said.

"Is that what happens to a Personality Island when the Core Memory goes out of the holder?" asked Luisa.

"Yes, yes it is." the FilmMaster said. "You'll soon see how much more damage it does to Riley."

Luisa gulped, and bit her bottom lip. She didn't seem to like the sound of that.

Joy: Sadness, what are you doing?!

Sadness: It looked like one was crooked, so I opened it, and then it fell out!

[Joy then puts the core memory back in place. Goofball Island comes back on. Riley then immediately jumps back onto the railing and slides down.]

Riley: Woo hoo!

"That is impressive." Jimmy said.

Sadness: It's just that, I wanted to maybe hold one.

[She reaches out to touch the core memory, which turns it blue]

Fear: Woah! Joy!

Joy: Woah, Woah, Woah!

[She pushes Sadness away, then watches as the core memory turns back to yellow.]

Joy: Sadness! You nearly touched a core memory! And when you touch them, we can’t change them back!

Sadness: I know. I’m sorry. Something's wrong with me, it’s like I’m having a breakdown.

“A breakdown? That’s what you are feeling?” Julieta asked, concerned for Sadness.

"Well, I didn't seem to have a purpose back then." Sadness said.

"Purpose or not, you're still part of Riley's Emociones." Agustin agreed. "Remember, you have nothing to prove."

Secretly, he wondered if this was why nobody believed Mirabel after she discovered the cracks in Casita at Antonio's gift ceremony.

Joy: You're not having a breakdown. It's stress.

"I can relate." Luisa thought.

Sadness: I keep making mistakes like that. I'm awful.

Joy: No, you're not!

Sadness: And annoying.

Joy: stammers] The... well...[changes subject] Uh, you know what? You can't focus on what's going wrong. There's always a way to turn things around - to find the fun.

Sadness: Yeah, find the fun. I don't know how to do that.

Joy: OK, well... Try to think of something funny.

Sadness: Oh, remember the funny movie where the dog dies?

Mr Potato Head facepalmed.

"Really, Sadness?" Isabela said sarcastically. "That's your idea of funny?"

"Isa." Agustin began with a warning tone to his voice.

Joy: Oh, yeah... That's not... [takes Sadness with her]What about that time, with Meg? When Riley laughed so hard, milk came out of her nose. Come on!

[Flashback occurs, with Meg & Riley laughing with milk coming out of her nose.]

"That was funny." Joy said.

Sheen was laughing his ass off at this.

"And gross." Cindy said bitterly.

Sadness: Yeah, that hurt. It felt like fire. It was...

Joy: OK, OK. Don't think of that. Let's try something else. Uh, what are your favorite things to do?

Sadness: My favorite? Um, well, I like it when we're outside.

Joy: That's good! Like, there's the beach and sunshine. [remembering] Oh, like that time we buried Dad in the sand up to his neck.

[Flashback: Young Riley at the beach, with her dad buried in the sand up to his neck.]

"That's funny." Camilo said through chuckling, till Felix elbowed him again.

"Does your Casita-whatever it is, have a beach?" Joy asked.

"Well, I have loads of sand in my room." Bruno said. 

Sadness: I was thinking more like rain.

[Flashback: Riley stands in a downpour…who is very sad]

"Now that's kinda a lame thing to have happen." said Nina Cortex sarcastically.

Joy: [thinks] Rain. Rain... [excitedly] is my favorite too! We can stomp around in puddles!

(Flashback: Riley happily jumps through puddles)

Joy: [voiceover] You know, there's cool umbrellas, lightning storms....

[jumpcut to Riley in the downpour, looking sad again. The rain fills her Wellington boots, and she shivers..]

Sadness: More like when the rain runs down our back and makes our shoes soggy. And we get all cold, shivery, and everything just starts feeling droopy. [falls to the floor crying]

Joy: Oh, hey, hey! Easy. Why are you crying? Th-this is really the opposite of what we're going for here.

“Yeah, exactly! Because she literally can’t feel happiness or even try to at least think of some happy thoughts!” Woody complained.

Sadness: Crying helps me slow down and obsess over the weight of life's problems.

Joy: Ugh, you know what? Let's uh, think about something else. [takes Sadness to a bookshelf full of manuals] How about we read some mind manuals. Huh? Sounds fun!

Sadness: I've read most of them.

Joy: Well, have you read this one? [gets out a mind manual] This seems more interesting: Long-term memory retrieval, Volume 47.

Sadness: No

Joy: Ohhh! A real page turner!

Sadness (opens the manual and reads): Long-term memory Data selection via channel sub grouping?

"That's quite a lot of data," Jimmy said. "Not sure even I can understand it."

"Never argue with the data," Sheen stated.

"If anything," Jimmy added, "I think Riley's mind is like a computer simulation, and the Emotions are holograms."

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A HOLOGRAM, YOU BIG-HEADED ELEPHANT?!!?!?" Anger shouted.

"I wasn't saying that," Jimmy said in defence.

"Yeah?! Well, I'm gonna roast that big head of yours open!" Anger snarled.

Thankfully, the FilmMaster stopped Anger before he could, and then the movie resumed.

Joy: See? Fun already! Oh, you lucky dog. You're reading these cool things; I gotta go work. Life is so unfair. Ugh!

[She walks away from Sadness, but then, a loud noise comes in, which reveals a green memory sliding in, Joy groans.]

"No prizes for guessing who made that memory." Donkey said.

[cut to Riley's House at night. Riley sees her parents. Her dad is on the phone, and her mom is searching in a box.]

Mr. Andersen: What can we do? We only got capital to last a month, maybe two. If we can't find investors by then, we're gonna have to lay people off.

Riley: Mom, Dad, come kiss me good night!

Mr. Andersen: [offscreen] I know, I know! We got to land this, OK.

Mrs. Andersen: [offscreen] Be right there!

(Riley then heads back upstairs, and she goes to her room and gets into her sleeping bag.)

"Poor Riley, having to sleep in a sleeping bag." Bruno sighed, feeling sorry for Riley. 

"Well, what do ya think she, Mom & Dad had to sleep in?!" Anger snapped. "The moving van was still lost, so all their furniture still wasn't there!!!"

"How could such a big thing like a moving van get lost going to San Francisco, anyway?" Libby complained.

Fear: Did you hear Dad? He sounded really upset.

[In Riley’s room, she hears strange sounds from outside. Headlights cast shadows on the wall, which made Riley scared.]

Everyone jumped.

Embarrassment squeezed Bruno into a tight hug.

Fear: What was that?! Was it a bear?! It's a bear!

Disgust: There are no bears in San Francisco.

Anger: I saw a really hairy guy. He looked like a bear.

Fear: Oh. I'm so jumpy, my nerves are shot!

Disgust: Ew, I don't wanna hear about your nerves!

Anger: I'll tell you what it is. This move has been a bust.

[Joy is looking at the memories when she hears the Emotions complaining]

Fear: That's what I've been telling you guys. There are at least 37 things for Riley to be scared of right now.

Disgust: This smell alone is enough to make her gag.

Anger: I can't believe Mom and Dad moved us here!

[Joy walks over]

Joy: Look, I get it. You guys have concerns. But we've been through worse. Tell you what; Let's make a list of all the things Riley should be happy about.

"Aye, this oughta be good." Shrek sighed in a voice dripping with sarcasm.

Anger: Fine. Let's see, this house stinks, our room stinks.

Disgust: Pizza is weird here.

Sadness: Our friends are back home.

Fear: And all of our stuff is in the missing van!

Joy: Oh, come on, it could be worse.

Disgust: Yeah, Joy. We could be lying on the dirty floor, in a bag.

[The scene quickly cuts to Riley on the floor in a sleeping bag.]

"Well, that's one thing Disgust is right about." Camilo snarked. Felix immediately slapped his wrist. "Ow!"

"It's such a shame that Riley doesn't have her stuff." Emily sighed. "I remember Thomas moved into Knapford Sheds when Tidmouth Sheds were knocked down to be rebuilt. He sleepwhistled a bit at times."

Thomas blushed with embarrassment.

"I bet it must've also been hard for her parents, too." Dolores pointed out. "I mean, their stuff is in the missing van too, don't forget."

"You could say that again, Dolores." Mirabel said.

Joy: OK, I admit it. We had a rough start. But think of all the good things that-

Anger: No, Joy. There's absolutely no reason for Riley to be happy right now. Let us handle this.

"Let's see how this turns out," Fiona said.

Fear: I say we skip school tomorrow and lock ourselves in the bedroom.

"That's ditching!" said Carl, "It'll go on Riley's permanent record!"

"Which of course, is a myth, like the Loch Ness Monster, or North Dakota," Sheen said.

Disgust: We have no clean clothes. I mean no one should see us."T

"What about the clothes you brought when you moved here?" Cindy asked. "I mean, technically, some of the Madrigals wore the same clothes all throughout their movie."

"No spoilers, Cindy Vortex!" the FilmMaster said sternly.

The Madrigals looked at each other. Bruno immediately sniffed his ruana. Was it possible their clothes would smell bad after wearing them for nearly a whole movie?

Sadness: Yeah. We could cry until we can't breathe.

"That sounds morbid." Percy said.

Anger: We should lock the door and scream that curse word we know. It's a good one.

"NO CURSING!" Judy Neutron shouted.

Joy: Now, hold on! Look, we all have our off days, you know...

[She sees Riley's Mom come into the room on the screen]

Mrs. Andersen: Hi, honey.

Anger: The Mom-bad-news train is pulling in. Toot-toot!

"That's kinda funny." Scamp said.

Mrs. Andersen: Still no moving van. [scoffs] Now they're saying it won't be here till Tuesday. Can you believe it?

Anger: Toot-toot-toot!

Everyone sighed in annoyance.

"Of course," said Mitchell. "God knows where that moving van is now."

Riley: Where's Dad?

Mrs. Andersen: On the phone. This new venture is keeping him pretty busy.

Anger: I rest my case!

[Joy Sighs. She falls back from the controls. Anger steps up to the console.]

Mrs. Andersen: Oh, your dad's a little stressed about getting his new company up and running...

"What company does he run?" asked Bob Parr, remembering Insuricare, and how that ended in disaster when he threw his jerkface boss, Mr Huph, through 5 office walls.

Anger: Now, for a few well-placed withering scowls.

Mrs. Andersen: I guess all I really want to say is... Thank you.

Anger: Huh?

"What?" said the crowd. Most of the cast blinked in confusion and didn’t expect that.

Mrs. Andersen: You know, through all this confusion, you've stayed... Well, you've stayed our happy girl. [brushes Riley's cheeks] Your Dad's under a lot of pressure, but if you and I can keep smiling, it would be a big help. We can do that for him, right?

Joy: Whoa. Well... [takes control of the console]

Riley: Yeah. Sure.

Mrs. Andersen: What did we do to deserve you? [kisses riley] Sweet dreams.

Riley: Good night.

(Riley's mom leaves)

Anger: Well, you can't argue with Mom. Happy it is!

Disgust: Can't argue with Mom, let's do this. Totally behind you, Joy.

Fear: Team Happy. Sounds great.

[RIley then goes to sleep, and the screen goes off]

Joy: Looks like we're going into R.E.M. I got dream duty, so I'll take care of sending these to long-term. Great day today, guys. Oh, sleep well, team Happy.

[The remaining emotions chatter as they retreat to their sleep quarters. Joy goes up to the screen. On the screen, a harp glissando sounds out as a wavy square cloud forms -- Riley is beginning to dream.)

Joy:  Alright, what's on tonight, Dream Production?

"Dream Productions?" said Mirabel.

"This is how dreams are made in Riley's mind." Joy explained. "It's like TV, but for the night."

"Clever." said Aku Aku.

"Someone should make a tv show based on that." Camilo stated excitedly.

"Actually, all dreams are illogical." Templeton stated.

"Mitchell, did Templeton just make sense?" Becky asked.

"No prizes for guessing, Becks." Mitchell said.

(In the dream, the Andersens' car flies through the sky.)

Dream Mr. Andersen: Well, this is it. The new place.

[And the house is…surprisingly haunted, with organ music  and ghost howling.]

Dream Mouse: Come live with me, Riley... Eurk! 

Dream Bear: Somebody order a broccoli pizza?

Dream Pizza: Eat me, I'm organic.

(Riley begins to cringe in her sleep.)

"W-W…What is even happening here?” Tramp said.

"That's what the Nightmares department of Dream Productions do," Joy stated.

Joy: Oh no! Who is in charge of programming down there? I know I'm not supposed to do this, but...

(She pushes a button on the bottom of the console, shutting off the dream.)

Joy: We are not going to end the day like this.

[Joy had a thought. She recalls a memory, and plays it. On the screen, Riley ice skates with her parents.]

"Nice," Sally said in awe at the happy memory.

"I liked the nightmare better," Oogie grumbled.

"Shut up, Oogie!" Jack Skellington shouted.

(Joy watches Riley skate by herself as Joy does the same in Headquarters.)

Joy: Don't you worry. I'm going to make sure that tomorrow is another great day. I promise.

(Riley goes to sleep with a smile)

"I hope she doesn't go too overboard," said Lady.

"Yeah, like some elderly people we can mention," said Tighten, pointing to Abuela Alma from the crowd.

"Shut up, you!" Mirabel shouted to Tighten. "How dare you insult mi abuela!"

Alma felt pleased that Mirabel was sticking up for her.

But secretly, she began to wonder if she and Joy were the same - after all, they both wanted total control on their protection things: Joy on Riley, and Alma on her family, and both those situations led to disaster on their ends.

Zoom into Alma's mind.

Her Emotions, all designed like Nostalgia, all wearing Alma's clothes, watched, and felt worried.

"I'm very worried for our lady right now." Alma's Anxiety said.

"That nasty bully got to her." Alma's Sadness said.

"Well," Alma's Anger said, "We're not letting him do that again! Next time he does, we'll clobber him!"

"Uh, but there's a barrier keeping the villains away from us." Said Alma's Ennui.

"Nobody asked you!" Snapped Alma's Anger. 

"Calm down, calm down," said Alma's Joy. "Let's not show anger and resentment in front of our host."

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[CUT TO NEXT MORNING - Riley is excitedly eating breakfast, while in her Headquarters, Joy is playing the accordion loudly. Inside Headquarters on the second level, the other emotions wake up, clearly unamused and annoyed at this.]

Joy: Hello, did I wake you?

Anger: Do you have to play that?!

Joy: Well, I have to practice. And I don't think of it as playing so much as hugging.

"I'm good at playing the accordion too," Mirabel said.

"Oh, we are so besties!" Joy said.

Mirabel smiled. It felt so good to have a friend who liked the same things she did.

"You know, Joy reminds me of Matthews," said Becky to no one in particular. "He's the boy who always smiles at everything, even when it's danger or life and death situations at our school, and when panicking."

(Joy throws away her accordion, and they head downstairs.)

Joy: OK, first day of school! Very, very exciting! I was up late last night figuring out a new plan. Here it is: Fear!

Fear: Huh?

Joy: I need a list of all the possible negative outcomes on the first day at a new school.

Fear: Way ahead of you there. Does anyone know how to spell 'meteor'?

"Why on earth would a meteor strike happen on the first day of school?" asked Helen, doubtfully.

"The probability of being struck by a meteor is astronomical." Jimmy Neutron said.

Immediately, the audience stared at Jimmy, dumbfounded.

Joy: Disgust, make sure Riley stands out today, but also blends in.

Disgust: When I'm through, Riley will look so good, the other kids will look at their own outfits and barf.

"I couldn't have said it better myself." Disgust said.

"Uh, you just did." Fear said.

Joy: [starts talking to herself] Joy! "Yes, Joy?" You'll be in charge of the console, keeping Riley happy all day long. And may I add, I love your dress, it's adorable. "Oh, this old thing? Thank you so much. I love the way it twirls."

Camilo snickered a little at how funny it was to see Joy talking to herself.

(Outside, a train's horn is heard as it pulls in on tracks that magically appear.)

"What is that?" asked Felix.

"That, Felix, is a Train of Thought." The FilmMaster said. "Everyone has them. They're all-terrain choo-choo trains with a self-generating track that delivers daydreams, ideas, and other thoughts to a person's Headquarters. It's also used to transfer memories to different regions of the mind. But take note: When the person sleeps, so do the operators."

"And you told us all that because of plot exposition, right?" Pepa asked.

"Give the weather maker woman a prize." The FilmMaster stated.

Joy: Train of Thought, right on schedule. [to Anger] Anger, unload the daydreams. I ordered extra, in case things get slow in class.

Anger: Might come in handy, if this new school is full of boring, useless classes, which it probably will be!

"I know the feeling of boring, useless classes, like Maths," said Mitchell.

"School is important for a good education, you know," Libby said.

Joy: [Catches Sadness] Oh, Sadness. I have a super important job just for you.

Sadness: [hopefully] Really?

Joy: M-hm, follow me. [walks off with Sadness following]

"I wonder what the job is," said Carl in wonder.

(Somewhere else, Joy draws a chalk circle around Sadness' feet.)

"Why is she drawing on the floor with chalk?" asked Luisa.

Sadness: What are you doing?

Joy: [finishes the circle] And there, Perfect. This is the Circle of Sadness. Your job is to make sure that all the sadness stays inside of it.

Everyone stared at it with expressions of complete astonishment.

"That's it?" said Cindy crossly. "That's the special job you wanted Sadness to do?!"

Sadness: So, you want me just to stand here?

Joy: Hey, it's not my place to tell you how to do your job. Just make sure that all [pushes Sadness into the circle]...the sadness stays in the circle. See? You're a pro at this! Isn't this fun?

Sadness: No.

Joy: Atta girl.

(She walks back to the front of the room.)

Most of the crowd gave Joy numerous looks of disappointment and anger.

Joy, who was twiddling her fingers anxiously, was also thinking of what the people were going to say.

"I can't believe this," Shrek sighed, breaking the silence at last. "Joy, why on earth are you pushing Sadness away from the console and not letting her be with the other Emotions?!"

"That's low even for you!" Donkey agreed.

"I never thought I'd say this, Donkey," Shrek stated, "But for once, you make sense!"

"Well," Joy began innocently, "I was trying to make sure Riley stayed happy all the time. After all, that was a long time ago."

"Still, that was no excuse to exclude Sadness for any reason you think!" snapped Libby. "For shame, Joy!"

"Yeah!" said Fiona. "You're unbelievable, Joy! You're behaving like a... like a..."

"Like an ogre." Shrek quickly finished.

"Shrek," Fiona said in astonishment, "How did you know that I was going to say-"

"You used that on me once," Shrek said, remembering his argument with Fiona in Far Far Away when they first arrived.

Fiona quietened down, thinking back to how hard it had been for her to get over her feelings from that argument.

"I still think it's quite unfair that Riley's not happy with how the move's gone and you're trying to act like everything's fine!" Ratchet snapped at Joy. "Well, news flash - IT'S TOTALLY NOT FINE! Riley's new house is awful, the moving van is lost..."

"And the pizza is awful!" Anger shouted.

"Yeah, that too!" Ratchet snapped.

"And all that Little Miss Joyful does is go all happy happy joy joy in her carefree world like nothing's going wrong!" snapped Isabela.

Before long, everyone was complaining about how things were going right now - Joy being so pushy and wanting Riley to be happy all the time and excluding Sadness like she was junk was getting irksome to them.

Joy could only bury her face into her knees and pretend they weren't there right now.

Mirabel immediately stood up, deciding to put a stop to this.

"Alright, everyone!" she said, getting their attention. "ESPARA!"

Everyone stopped arguing to look at her.

"OK, look, we shouldn't all be going off on Joy just because of her actions," Mirabel said. "I mean, I'm just like Sadness."

"You are?" asked Sadness, puzzled.

"Si," Mirabel said. "Lots of people back home believed I didn't have a purpose, since I didn't have a gift like mi familia."

'Wow.' Sadness thought to herself. 'Mirabel and I have so much in common.'

Mirabel's family slowly began to show some tinges of regret for how they treated Mirabel. Maybe her being cast aside hadn't been a good thing for them to do. Maybe Mirabel was just like Sadness.

Carla Delgado could also relate to Mirabel and Sadness - when her father had been turned to stone, Crown Princess Elena and her guards had brought her to the dungeon, and kept her there till Elena needed her and Victor to free Ixlan, the Lightning Warrior. Throughout all that time, Elena and her family, and the guards, not one of them had shown any care or compassion for her - apart from providing food for her. They hadn't even visited her cell on Navidad. How sad and lonely it made her feel when that happened, even more so without her father.

"So maybe," Mirabel said, "we should all stop belittling Joy over this, and carry on watching the film."

The audience reluctantly agreed, and settled down.

Joy: Alright, everyone, fresh start. We are gonna have a good day, which will turn into a good week, which will turn into a good year, which turns into a good life!

[Riley's Mom helps Riley with her backpack]

Mrs. Andersen: So, big day. New school, new friends, huh?

Riley: I know. I'm kind of nervous but I'm mostly excited. How do I look?

"First days at school are always hard." Woody said. "I remember going to Bonnie's kindergarten orientation."

(In Headquarters, Joy watches Family Island start up outside the window.)

Riley: Do you like my purse?

Mrs. Andersen: Very cute! You gonna be Okay? You want us to walk with you?

Disgust: Mom and Dad, with us in public? No, thank you.

Joy: Yup, I'm on it.

(She pushes a button, and Riley perks up)

Riley: Nope, I'm fine. [OPENS THE DOOR] Bye, Mom. Bye, Dad.

Mr. Andersen: (putting a call on hold) Have a good day at school, monkey.

(They make monkey noises at each other; Goofball Island sets off. Riley giggles and exits.)

Mrs. Andersen: Have a great day, sweetheart.

(Outside, Riley walks down the sidewalk until she comes to her new school; she stops and hesitates.)

"Wow." Becky said. "I never thought I'd say this, but Riley's school is SO much better than ours."

"I kinda wish we'd transferred there instead," said Mitchell. "At least it has a lot less strange things happen."

Fear: Are you sure we wanna do this?

Joy: In we go!

(This prompts Riley to go right for it.)

Fear: OK, going in. Yes!

(Riley sits in her new classroom; the students talk amongst each other. Riley notices them; Disgust picks up three girls in particular.)

Disgust: OK. We got a group of cool girls at 2 o'clock.

Joy: How do you know?

Disgust: Double ears pierced, infinity scarf.

(Their leader turns around - she has blue hair.)

Joy: Whoa! Is she wearing eyeshadow?

"Whoa!" said Envy in awe. "How I wish I'd come up 2 years earlier! Those girls are SO PRETTY!!!!!"

Disgust: Yeah, we wanna be friends with them.

"Sometimes, Cool girls like them do NOT wanna be your friends. They walk over you like they own the place." Becky stated, remembering Stephanie Bethany, the cool girl in her school, and of the time she belittled her when running for class president.

Joy: Let's go talk to them! (starts to work till Disgust interrupts)

Disgust: Are you kidding?! We're not talking to them! We want them to like us.

"Just how I wanted to like Mariano," Isabela muttered sadly. Her parents understood, and so did Mirabel. Isabela never really loved Mariano Guzman; she only did this to hopefully benefit the magic of the Encanto, for her Abuela. Which, of course, turned into a potential disaster, with her breaking his nose and ruining the dinner.

Joy: Oh, yeah. Wait, what?

(Fear comes over, holding a stack of sheets.)

Fear: Almost finished with the potential disasters. Worst scenario is either quicksand, spontaneous combustion, or getting called on by the teacher.

"Excuse me," said Jimmy. "Why on earth would quicksand or spontaneous combustion happen in a school?"

"It would happen in ours," Mitchell said.

"It's like you're making this up," said Cindy with a deadpan.

"No, that's what the scriptwriters wrote for the film script." Fear said in defense.

"I can't believe you broke the 4th wall," said Cindy to Fear, incredulous.

"What happened to the other 3 walls then?" Sheen asked.

Fear: So as long as none of those happen...

(The teacher arrives and steps to the front of the room.)

Teacher: OK, everybody, we have a new student in class today.

Fear: (scatters the sheets in fright) Are you kidding me?! Out of the gate! This is not happening!!!!!

Teacher: Riley, would you like to tell us something about yourself?

Fear: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Pretend we can't speak English!!!!!!!!!!!

“Ugh, just, relax, Fear, and act normal, you’ll be fine,” Woody said, a little annoyed by this. 

"Ay," Pepa sighed. "I bet that's what my Fear is like."

Joy: Don't worry, I got this.

(She does her work; this prompts Riley to speak up.)

Riley: Um, okay... (stands) My name is Riley Andersen. I'm from Minnesota, and now, I live here.

(She glances over at some of the students and the cool girl.)

"So far so good," said Tramp.

Teacher: And how about Minnesota? Can you tell us something about it? Well, you certainly get a lot more snow than we do. (chuckles)

Joy: (also chuckles) She's hilarious...! (She does more work.)

"I agree." Camilo said through stifling a chuckle. "It IS hilarious."

The villains were beginning to feel bored.

"Ugh, this is taking ages!" sighed Prince Charming. "When are we getting to move on from this... crapfest?"

The FilmMaster sighed. The villains were now starting to test his patience.

Riley: Yeah, it gets pretty cold. The lake freezes over, and that’s when we play hockey. I'm on a great team. We're called the Prairie Dogs. My friend, Meg, plays forward, and my dad's the coach.

(Joy pushes a button which makes a happy memory come down the recall tube and projects onto the screen; it shows the Andersens playing hockey on a frozen pond.)

Riley: Pretty much everyone in my family skates. It's kind of a family tradition. We go out on the lake almost every weekend.

"I sure wish we had traditions like that," said Mirabel.

"Do you guys have traditions?" Joy asked Mirabel and her family. "Like maybe, Christmas traditions or anything?"

"Well," Mirabel said, "In December, we have a tradition called Día de las Velitas, where we light candles and lanterns on our balconies, in our windowsills, and on the sidewalks."

"Sounds kinda dangerous." Fear said anxiously.

"Si, but on Xmas Eve, we have a meal, with Pernil de Cerdo, bunuelos, and Natilla," Luisa stated.

"Natilla sounds like a lovely friend you have every Christmas," said Templeton.

"It's a dessert," Dolores said.

"Oh," said Templeton.

"And 3 days after Christmas," Camilo said, " we have the Día de los Inocentes, the Colombian Tradition of Pranks. It's one of my favourite holidays. We play pranks on one another."

"Wow," Joy said. "Sounds like fun."

"We should totally have Colombian food next Christmas!" Anxiety said.

"Yeah!" Donkey said.

(Suddenly, the memory turns blue; Riley's mood sinks.)

Suddenly, all talk of traditions was scrubbed; now replaced by the surprise of the memory of ice skating turning blue.

"Oh dear," Joy muttered quietly. She knew where this was going.

Riley: Or, we did, till... I moved away.

Disgust: Hey. What gives?

Fear: Wait, what?

(The culprit is Sadness, who has left her circle and touched the memory, changing it.)

"No prizes for guessing who the culprit was," said Megamind.

Joy: Hey! Sadness!? You touched a memory!? We talked about this!

Sadness: Oh yeah, I know. I'm sorry.

Joy: Get back in your circle!

(She attempts to remove the sad memory and cheer Riley up, but the console does not respond.)

Joy: Ugh... What's going on!?!

Fear: Get it out of there, Joy!

Joy: Eject!!

(Still nothing happens; Riley's homesickness begins to take over.)

"Something tells me something bad will happen," Ratchet said. "I'm no stranger to bad things happening."

"Neither am I," Rivet said.

Riley: (sniffling sadly) We... used to... play tag, and stuff...

Disgust: Cool kids whispering at 3 o'clock!

(Indeed, the cool girls are whispering to each other.)

Fear: Did you see that look?

Joy: Oh, no!

Fear: They're judging us!

(Joy and the emotions struggle to remove the memory from the recall unit; behind them, Sadness notices the console is open and rushes toward it...)

"Where's Sadness going?" asked Luisa.

"Watch, and you'll see what's gonna happen." The FilmMaster said.

Joy: Somebody help, grab that thing... Everybody put in...

Riley: (beginning to cry) But, everything's different now... Since we moved...

(She starts shedding tears and sniffs again; the students stare at her in silence.)

Everyone [sans the villains] was now showing sympathy for Riley. But some of them were puzzled and worried, especially since she was crying. In class.

Fear: [sees what's happening] Oh, no! WE'RE CRYING!!!! AT SCHOOL!!!!

Joy: Wha...?!

"Sometimes things like that happen." Bob Parr said. "When Violet was younger, she was afraid to start school as well. She clung to my side and slightly cried all the time till it was time to go inside. Still, she was brave to get in there."

"Dad!" Violet said in embarrassment.

(Still struggling, Joy turns and sees Sadness is working the console, it is responding to her and her alone.)

Joy: Sadness, what are you doing!!?!

(She successfully ejects the memory and rushes up to her, pulling her away from the console.)

Sadness: Whoa!!! I'm sorry. I, oh...oh!

(A loud flash and ding is heard; a new Core Memory appears from behind the screen. Unlike the others, this one is blue and sad.)

Everyone in the auditorium gasped in amazement at the creation of the first-ever blue Core Memory. Joy & Sadness, on the other hand, were worried, since this led to their scuffle that had them both stranded outside of Headquarters.

Fear: (gasps) It's a Core Memory.

Disgust: But it's blue!

(Indeed, it is; it shows Riley crying in front of the whole class due to her homesickness.)

"Wow!" A BLUE Core Memory!" said Hugh. "That's amazing!"

Then he saw everyone looking at him like his dick had shrunk into his body. "Uh, but I'm also betting that's a bad thing, right?" he asked.

"Too right, Hugh," said the FilmMaster.

Joy: (gasps) No, wait! Stop it! No! Agh! No!

(The memory sinks into the floor before she could grab it; it flows down through the track to the core memory pedestal, and she opens the pedestal and grabs the memory just before it could settle in. She then pushes the "end of day memory flush" button to activate the recall tube and flush all the memories off the shelves.)

Sadness: Joy, no! (Tries to pull the memory away) That's a core memory! ...Wait!

Joy: Hey! Stop it! Let go!

[Joy & Sadness get into a tug of war with the Core Memory.]

Riley's new Emotions all watched this scene with looks of shock, amazement, and horror on their faces. 

"Oh dear," said Anxiety. "So, Sadness, was this what you and Joy were like before we came in?"

"Yes." Sadness said.

"This is not gonna end too well," said Lady.

(Suddenly, Joy breaks free of her grasp; stumbles backward and hits the pedestal, causing all the Core Memories to fall out, and the pedestal powers down as they gasp.)

Fear: The core memories!

"Was this supposed to happen?" asked Carl.

(The result causes the light poles to go out; the Personality Islands all power down, and then become greyscale.]

“Okay, now this is bad, like very bad!” said Coco Bandicoot.

"Yeah!" Mirabel said. "Riley's lost her personality! She doesn't know who she is anymore!"

[Riley's head raises, still breaking down and losing thought.)

Joy: AGH!

(She throws the sad Core Memory aside and gathers up all the happy ones that fell out. But then she sees Sadness trying to insert the sad Core Memory and gasps; she jumps at Sadness, knocking her over and dropping the sad Core Memory as it rolls toward the activated recall tube and gets sucked up through it and out of the roof to Long Term Memory.]

"Ay ay ay, they must stop fighting at once! It’s only going to make things worse!” Felix said.

"Oh, it IS gonna get worse, alright," said the FilmMaster.

"Why?" asked Felix.

[Suddenly; one of the happy core memories begins rolling toward the still-sucking tube as well as it starts coming down from the ceiling.)

“Oh NO! Not the happy core memories!!” cried Carla.

Joy: NO NO NO NO -- !

(She grabs the memory but gets sucked up the tube herself; she tries to keep herself weighed down by keeping her foot hooked outside; she struggles to reach her other foot down, but Sadness gets sucked toward her as well!)

Sadness: Whoa...

(And then, Both Joy and Sadness are sucked up!)

Joy & Sadness: AAAAGH!!

(They disappear out the roof hatch, and the door closes as the tube retracts.]

Many of the audience members stared longingly and vacantly at the screen after what had just happened, completely at a loss for words.

"OK, now that was worse than when Junior flew off the windmill," Sheen said.

[Riley silently sits down and wipes her tears.)

Teacher: Thank you, Riley. I know it can be tough moving to a new place, but we're happy to have you here. Alright everyone, get out your history books, and turn to chapter 7.

(The students do so; Riley hides her face behind her book, not saying a word. In Headquarters, the remaining emotions are still distraught.)

Anger: Can I say that curse word now?

"NO!!!" Judy Neutron shouted, "YOU ARE NOT SAYING A CURSE WORD ANYWHERE!! NOT HERE, NOT OUTSIDE, NOT IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE!!!!!!"

"There's no need to shout, Mom," Jimmy said. 

"I have to say that was quite a disaster," said Donkey.

"Oh aye, ya think, Donkey?" Shrek sighed in annoyance.

"Well, we all know it was Joy's fault," said Donkey, pointing to Joy with his hoof.

"My fault?!?" said Joy, puzzled and shocked.

"Yeah!" Shrek said angrily. "I never thought I'd see the day when Donkey was right about something for once!!!!"

Before long, most of the crowd advanced on Joy.

"OK, let's all try and be civil here," said Mirabel. "OK, so it was Joy's fault that caused all of this mess with Joy and Sadness getting sucked through the recall tube, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't blame her."

"No, we should actually blame her!" snapped Ratchet. "She's so caught up in her own stupid little happy planet that she completely neglects Sadness! Sadness was just trying to be helpful! And what does Joy do?!" his voice then rose to a shout. "SHE PUTS HER IN WHAT SEEMS TO BE A TIME-OUT AND HOGS THE CONSOLE LIKE SHE'S THE QUEEN OF RILEY'S HEAD!!!!"

The 2 mentioned Emotions could only look at each other with worried expressions on their faces. Ok, it did feel quite humiliating to have their whole fight and scuffle shown for everyone, it had gotten them to work together to get back home and make Riley truly happy.

"And not forgetting she tried to get rid of a Core Memory that Sadness created!!" said Isabela angrily.

"I was trying to make Riley feel better." Sadness said.

"Well, perhaps if Sadness had stayed where Joy told her to and did her job, we wouldn't have the crying in class moment at school!" Mr Potato Head snapped.

"Whose side are you on, Potato Head?" snapped Woody.

"That's Mr. Potato Head to you, Woody!" Mr Potato Head snapped. "And I'm sticking with Joy's side on things!"

"Still, I think she's a TERRIBLE leader!" Ratchet snapped.

Before long, everyone got in on the argument about Joy and Sadness.

Emily, on the other hand, began to feel like this was going to escalate. She blew her whistle loud and long to get everyone to stop arguing and listen. "Ratchet, Joy is not a terrible leader!" She scolded. "Well, yes I mean, she's made some mistakes, but that doesn't mean everyone's perfect. Nobody is! Not even you!" she said firmly.

Ratchet froze. He remembered when some of his arrogance and obsession over things led to mistakes - like the Dimensionator.

"Emily is right," Alma said to Ratchet, speaking up. "Joy being so much in control all the time reminds me of... me," She was now remembering how she used to be before the incident with Casita changed everything.

"Well, yeah, I guess you're right, Alma Madrigal," Ratchet said slowly. "I mean, I'm just too stubborn sometimes, like you were."

Alma felt saddened. That reminder reminded her of how strict and overprotective she used to be, which led her family to face pressure over their gifts and work in the Encanto.

"I guess, nobody is perfect," he said, settling down in his seat.

"Exactly my point." Emily said.

ZOOM INTO Ratchet's Head, which was designed like Grim's garage from the Ratchet & Clank 2016 movie. All of Ratchet's Emotions looked like him, but with different colour schemes for the fur.

"Yeah." Ratchet's Anger said. "I guess I kinda did get overboard."

"It's Cool." said Ratchet's Joy. "Now let's put on a memory of some cool ship-flying moments to calm down."

He summoned a memory of flying through space in the Star Explorer to calm Ratchet's mind.

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(Joy and Sadness scream as they rocket down the tube. Joy desperately tries to hold on to the core memories. The blue core memory is sorted to a side tube.]

In the auditorium, the seats shook as the tube ride happened.

"W-when is t-this g-g-going t-to -s-s-stop?" Luisa said shakily.

"This is the abandoned elevator all over again!" Becky wailed.

[As they fly over the gap, Joy glances at the Personailty Islands, all greyscale and motionless. Eventually Joy lands in a bin of memories. Sadness crashes next to her.)

Everyone winced at the near crash.

JOY: Oh no... (starts gathering the core memories) One, two, three... okay, got ’em. Wha-- where are we?

[Joy takes in the shelving around her.]

JOY: (CONT’D) Long-Term Memory...!

Everyone was bewildered at the sight of Long-Term Memory.

"So that's what the inside of a human's brain looks like?" Rivet said, bewildered. "I thought it would've looked a lot more pink and shrivelled."

"It's Disney and Pixar animation style, Rivet." the FilmMaster said.

(Joy grabs the core memories and jumps out of the dumpster. She sees GOOFBALL ISLAND, silent and dark.)

JOY: (CONT’D) Goofball Island?

(Joy surveys the islands beyond. They’re all dark.)

SADNESS: Riley’s Islands of Personality. They’re ALL down! Oh, This is bad!

"I second that, Sadness." Julieta said anxiously. "Without the islas de personalidad, Riley won't be able to show her true self!"

"They'll get fixed, right?" Donkey asked.

"Sure." Shrek said.

JOY: We-- we can fix this. We just have to get back to Headquarters, plug the core memories in, and Riley will be back to normal.

(Joy and Sadness hurry towards headquarters.)

SADNESS: Oh. Riley has no core memories, no personality islands and no-- (gasps upon realizing something.]

JOY: What? What is it?

SADNESS: [to Joy] You!

Everyone gasped and looked at Joy.

SADNESS: You're not in Headquarters. Without you, Riley can’t be happy. We gotta get you back up there.

JOY: I’m coming, Riley.

(They set off across the bridge to Goofball Island. We see the LIGHTLINE beyond it, leading towards Headquarters.)

"I hope Sadness and Joy get back to Headquarters soon." Aku Aku said.

"Me too." Alma said. "Riley needs Joy and Sadness every bit as much as I need mi familia."

"Yes, exactly." the FilmMaster said. "But," he went on, "There's just one teensy little thing."

"Yes?" asked Mirabel uneasily. 

The audience looked uneasy too; some of them started biting their lips. Apparently, they didn't like where this was going

"Well, howzabout we keep watching to see how it turns out." the FilmMaster said as he resumed the movie.

[cut to Riley's dining room. Riley & her family are having dinner - Chinese take out]

"That's a real lame family dinner." said Camilo.

"Well, I guess since Riley's parents can't risk using the dirty oven in their house,  they have to have take out food." Woody said.

"I'd love top try Chinese take-out." Mirabel said.

Mrs. Andersen: So, as it turns out, the green trash can is not recycling. It's for greens, like compost and eggshells. And the blue one is recycling, and the black one...

[Riley just picksat her food, feeling emotionless. In headquarters]

Disgust: Riley is acting so weird! Why is she acting so weird?

Anger: What do you expect? All the Islands are down!

Disgust: Joy would know what to do.

"Yeah, if she was here." Coco Bandicoot sighed. "So what are they gonna do till then?"

Fear: That's it! Until she gets back, we just do what Joy would do.

"And I think I just found out." Coco said.

Joy watched anxiously. She was concerned about what the other 3 Emotions were about to do.

Disgust: Good idea! Anger, Fear, Disgust... [shouts] How are we supposed to be happy?!

"Well, I guess there's no shame in trying to be like Joy." said Fiona. "I had to learn things about being a princess when I was young, like dancing, and being kind and friendly."

"And all that despite your curse?" Shrek asked.

"Yup, that too." Fiona said. "I mean, though I was an ogre on the outside."

"Only at night." Donkey pointed out.

"Yes." Fiona added. "and even then, I was still me on the inside."

"Well, let's hope Anger, Fear and Disgust can be bearable substitutes for Joy." Percy said.

Mrs. Andersen: Hey, Riley, I got good news! I found a Junior Hockey League, right here in San Francisco. And get this! Try-outs are tomorrow after school. What luck, right?

Anger: Hockey?

"Yup, that's the sport Riley likes!" Sly Cooper said.

Disgust: Uh-oh, what do we do?

Fear: Guys, (stammering) this... Here! [pushes Disgust into the middle] You-You pretend to be Joy.

"Oh boy." Tramp sighed. "I can imagine this is gonna turn out badly."

"Me too, Dad." Scamp said.

Mrs. Andersen: Wouldn't it be great to be back out on the ice?

(Disgust controls the command console, which turns green.)

Riley: (sarcastic) Oh yeah, that sounds fantastic.

Joy sighed.

"Oh dear." Sadness whispered.

"Ay dios mio." Juileta sighed, placing her hand on her forehead. This wasn't going the way they'd hoped at all.

Fear: What was that??!!? That wasn't anything like Joy!

Disgust: Uh, because I'm NOT Joy!

Fear: Yeah, no kidding!

"Well, duh!" Mitchell said. "She doesn't look anything like Joy - of course it didn't work!"

"No need to be insulting, Mitchell!" Becky snapped.

[Zoom into MRS ANDERSEN'S HEAD, WITH HER EMOTIONS, ALL FEMALE WITH HER HAIRSTYLE, WATCHING THE SCENE]

Everyone took a close and wide gander at the look of Riley's Mom's headquarters, of how cosy it looked.

"Wow!" Envy said. "Mom's Emotions have such good hair! I want hair like that!"

"Wow." said Ratchet. "I can't believe we're actually seeing the mind of Riley's mother. This movie is exciting, huh."

"Yeah." Rivet said. "And still quite creepy."

Zoom into Rivet's headquarters, designed like her hideout on Planet Sargasso from Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, with all of her Emotions watching. Like Ratchet's Emotions, Rivet's Emotions looked like Rivet, but with different colour schemes for the fur, and different colours for the prosthetic arms.

"I kind of second that, Big Rivet." Rivet's Fear said.

Mom's Sadness: Did you guys pick up on that?

Mom's Joy: Sure did.

Mom's Disgust: Mm-hmm. something's wrong.

Mom's Anger: Should we ask her?

Mom's Sadness: Let's probe. But keep it subtle, so she doesn't notice.

"Probing?" asked Libby. "What's that?"

"I think it's what mothers do when they know something's wrong with their kids." said Mirabel. 

Mrs. Andersen: [to Riley] So, how was the first day of school?

Anger: She's probing us.

Disgust: I'm done. [pushes Fear in front of the console] You pretend to be Joy.

Fear: What? OK. Um...

(Fear takes control of the command console as it turns purple.)

Riley: (Anxiously) It was fine, I guess.... I dunno.

"Well, that was.... almost.... half right." Joy said, trying to be positive. 

"Si, at least it was kind." said Mirabel.

Disgust: (sarcastically) Oh, very smooth. That was just like Joy!

(Fear puts his puppy eyes after realizing he is not Joy. In Riley's Mom's mind, Riley's Mom's emotions react to what Riley said.)

Mom's Anger: Something is definitely going on!

Mom's Disgust: She's never acted like this before. What should we do?

Mom's Sadness: We're gonna find out what's happening. But we'll need support. Signal the husband.

Mrs. Andersen: [to her husband] Ahem!

(Zoom Into Mr. Andersen's mind, his emotions, who are all male and wearing shirts and ties, and have Mr Andersen's moustache, are watching a football game.)

Football Announcer: With a nice pass, over to Reed, coming across center-

And as all within the room gazed at the scene on screen when the mind and Emotions of Riley’s father appeared, all inspective eyes varied in ways you cannot imagine. They thought it sounded quite strange, like it was a makeshift office.

"That's quite awesome." Hugh said. 

"So does that mean we ALL have those people in our heads?" asked Luisa.

"Yup. Pretty much." The FilmMaster said.

Mrs. Andersen: Ahem!

[Riley's Dad looks up. Inside Mr Andersen's mind, his Anger realizes something]

Dad's Anger: Uh-oh. She's looking at us. 

(Dad's anger turned off the football game to pay attention to Mrs. Andersen.)

Dad's Anger: [to Dad's Fear] Uh, what did she say?

Dad's Fear: What? Oh, uh, sorry sir, no one was listening.

Dad's Anger: Is it garbage night? Uh, we left the toilet seat up? What? What is it, woman? What?!!!!

(Mom's emotions look at Mr. Andersen's face as everyone except Mom's Sadness gets mad about it.)

Mom's Disgust: Ugh. He's making that stupid face again.

Mom's Anger: I could strangle him right now!

'Like I could do with my husband sometimes.' Judy Neutron thought to herself.

Mom's Sadness: Signal him again.

(Mrs. Andersen signals her husband to talk to Riley.)

Mr. Andersen: Ah! So... Riley, how was school?

Many facepalmed and groaned in frustration from this, notably the parents.

[ALL Riley's mom's Emotions groan]

Mom's Joy: Seriously?!

Mom's Fear: Why does he do this all the time?

Mom's Disgust: Please.

Mom's Sadness: You gotta be kidding me!

Mom's Anger: For this, we gave up that Brazilian helicopter pilot?!

"Wait," said Cindy, "Was Riley's mother into someone else before she met Mr Andersen?"

"Might've been." THE FilmMaster said innocently. "But don't question me; I'm just the man who brought you all here and am making you watch these films. I have to remain neutral in this trial."

"What trial?" asked Cindy.

Ignoring the question, the FilmMaster started the film up again.

Anger: Move! I'll be Joy.

(Anger takes control, and the command console turns red)

"Oh dear," Dolores said anxiously. "I can see where this is gonna go."

Everyone agreed with Dolores.

Riley: (angrily) School was great, alright?

"Wow." said Ratchet. "That was not the reaction I was expecting."

Mrs. Andersen: [surprised] Riley? Is everything OK?

Riley: (rolling her eyes) Argh...

"I guess Anger, Fear and Disgust aren't cut out to be Joy." Agustin sighed.

"Well, at least they tried, Papa. I mean, OK, they’re not doing so well, but they’re trying.” Mirabel voiced.

[in RILEY'S DAD'S MIND]

Dad's Fear: Sir, she just rolled her eyes at us.

Dad's Anger: What is her deal? Alright, make a show of force. I don't wanna have to put the foot down.

Dad's Fear: [worried] No, not the foot!

"Oh dear," Clank said anxiously.

“You said it, pal," Ratchet stated. "I knew this wasn’t gonna go well the minute Anger took control.”

Mr. Andersen: Riley, I do not like this new attitude.

Anger: Oh, I'll show you attitude, old man!

Fear: No, no-no-no! Stay happy!

(Anger punches Fear away and takes control.)

The only ones enjoying this bit were the villains. They were almost whooping and laughing.

"Ooohhoo, this is gonna be good!" laughed Lord Farquaad.

"I am SO gonna enjoy this," Rumpel said, stuffing popcorn in his mouth by the fistful.

Penelope just sat and buried her face in her hands, not wanting to see any more.

Down below, Sadness took off her glasses and Joy hid her eyes too. They didn't like what was about to come next.

Riley: [annoyed] What is your problem? Just leave me alone!

Everyone was gobsmacked at such words and language coming from a girl like Riley Andersen.

"Bust my buffers!" said Thomas. "That would make even Annie and Clarabel feel quite ashamed!"

Dad's Fear: Sir, reporting high levels of sass!

"Getting kinda tense, ain't it?" Mr Potato Head quipped.

Dad's Anger: Take it to DefCon 2!

Dad's Fear: You heard that, gentlemen. DefCon 2!

"Uh-oh." Bob & Helen Parr said together, anxiously.

"I can't bear to look!" Carl said, covering his eyes.

"Me neither!" Dash said, hiding behind his seat. "Same here, Dash!" Violet said, joining her brother.

"I agree with the super kids!" Rex cried, sticking his head in his popcorn bowl.

[Alarms blare in Riley's Dad's Headquarters, as the console is rapidly tapped on by Riley's Dad's emotions. Cut to the real world.]

Mr. Andersen: [stern] Listen, young lady, I don't know where this disrespectful attitude came from...

Anger: [angrily] You want a piece of this, pops? Come and get it!!

"Brace yourselves!" Woody said.

Riley: [angrily] Yeah? Well, well...!

Dad's Anger: Here it comes. Prepare the foot!

Dad's Fear: Keys to Safety Position! 

(Dad's Fear & Disgust place their keys and spin them to open the button) 

Dad's Fear: Ready to launch on your command, sir.

(Dad's Fear places his hand near the button, but doesn't press it yet. Mr. Andersen looks firmly at Riley.]

"Oh no." Shrek groaned, covering his face with his hands. This whole mess was starting to remind him of the kids' birthday party at the Candy Apple, which led to him having a nasty outraged roar, and smashing the birthday cake. He knew he was so gonna dread seeing that bit when the 'Shrek Forever After' film was played for everyone in the auditorium to see.

[Anger pulls the levers and yells, his head lighting up with flames.]

Anger: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"FLAMES AGAIN!!!!!" Bruno shrieked and hid behind Embarrassment.

"Wow! That was scary!" Jack Skellington said in amusement.

Riley: JUST SHUT UP!!!

Everyone gasped at such words. Pepa immediately fainted.

(Riley bangs on the table in anger, much to her father's disappointment and anger.)

"Here it comes!" Sadness wailed, covering her eyes.

Dad's Anger: FIRE!

(Dad's Fear presses the button.)

Mr. Andersen: (firmly) That's it! Go to your room!

[Riley stares at her dad in shock]

Mr Andersen: [stern whilst pointing to the stairs] Now!

(Riley storms off the table and walks to her room angrily.)

Everyone was in stunned silence. There was almost nobody in the auditorium who had any words to say about what had happened right now. Even Ennui had stopped looking at her phone.

"What happened?!" Carl asked, his eyes still covered.

"You don't wanna know, Carl," Jimmy said.

"And I thought Mr Abercrombie got angry quite a lot," Mitchell said.

Immediately, the silence was broken by the whooping and raucous cheering of the villains [minus Penelope] in the top row.

"HE DID IT!!!!" cheered Syndrome. "Now wasn't that the best thing to happen since we were brought here against our will?"

"Alright!" cheered Dr Nefarious.

"Now that's what I call justice!" Prince Charming said. "Oh, Mummy," he said, looking at a picture of his mother, the Fairy Godmother, "I wish you'd been here to see this."

[CUT TO RILEY'S DAD'S HEADQUARTERS]

Dad's Fear: The foot is down! The foot is down! Woo!

[ALL RILEY'S DAD'S EMOTIONS CHEER]

Dad's Anger: [relaxes] Good job, gentlemen. That could've been a disaster.

[CUT TO RILEY'S MOM'S HEADQUARTERS]

Mom's Sadness: [deadpan] Well, that was a disaster.

[Riley's Mom's Anger activates a joyful memory of a Brazilian helicopter pilot]

Brazilian Helicopter Pilot: Come, fly with me, gatinha. (kitten)

(All five of Riley's Mom's emotions sigh dreamingly. In the Real world, Riley storms into her room and slams the door hard.)

"Oh my gosh, Papa." Carla Delgado said, quite horrified. "I cannot believe it."

"Si." Victor Delgado said, similarly horrified. "I can't believe Riley's Mama loves the memory of the Piloto de helicóptero brasileño."

"Si, and what about the scuffle at dinner?" she asked.

"Uh, si, that too," Victor said.

"I agree with Riley's dad on this one," Judy said firmly. "Riley did bring it on herself."

"Well, she couldn't have helped it, Mom." Jimmy said, "I mean, the move has affected her and her family."

"And Joy and Sadness ended up in the Back of Riley's mind and not in Headquarters." Hugh pointed out. "Jimbo's right, Honey."

Judy sighed.

Zoom into Judy Neutron's headquarters, which was the same as Riley's Mom's Headquarters, but decked out in a color scheme like Jimmy Neutron's house's living room. All Judy's Emotions were female, and had her dress and hairstyle.

"Honestly." Sighed Judy's Anger, the lead Emotion in Judy's Headquarters. "Why did we have to marry a dimwit like Hugh, I really do not know!"

"OK, said Judy's Sadness. "Let's do calming therapy."

She put on the memory of a Brazillian helicopter pilot, only the memory looked more animated in the style of the Jimmy Neutron films and TV show universe. 'Come, fly with me, gatinha.'

All of Judy's Emotions sighed dreamily.

(Meanwhile, in Riley's head, Joy and Sadness have made it across Goofball Island and must now walk across the thin light-line. Below is the darkness of the Memory Dump.)

"That's a long way down." Anxiety said.

"You can say that again, Anx." Ratchet said.

SADNESS: We’re gonna walk out there? On that?

JOY: It’s the quickest way back.

SADNESS: But it’s right over the Memory Dump! If we fall, we’ll be forgotten forever!

Everyone gasped at that mention.

"Oh boy, it IS very risky," said Fear, wringing his hands anxiously.

JOY: We have to do this. For Riley. Just follow my footsteps.

SADNESS: Ohh... ok.

JOY: (stepping onto light-line) It's not that high. It’s totally fiii...

[Sadness steps out onto the light-line. They inch along over the sheer drop. Suddenly, Joy loses her balance and almost drops a memory over the side.]

Many of the cast gasped out of surprise and fear for Joy and Sadness. It seemed very dangerous. Carl started rapidly using his inhaler.

"It's the viaduct scene from Thomas and the Magic Railroad all over again." Bo Peep said anxiously.

(LATER, in the real world, Dad knocks on Riley’s door, and peeks in.)

DAD: Hey.

(Riley’s in her sleeping bag. She doesn’t answer.)

DAD: [sits next to Riley.] So, uh, things got a little out of hand downstairs. You want to talk about it? (still no answer) Come on. Where’s my happy girl? Monkey. (he tries his monkey noises)

"He's funny." Envy said in amazement.

"With his noises, I'm surprised he doesn't turn into a monkey." Metro Man stated.

[in Riley's Headquarters]

Anger: Oh! He’s trying to start up Goofball!

(Fear, Anger, and Disgust run to the window and look out the window: GOOFBALL ISLAND is still dark, grey, and silent.)

DAD: Come on. (HE tries more monkey noises AND LAUGHS)

(Riley looks at Dad, but TURNS AWAY.)

“Yeah…she ain’t in the mood to goof off right now,” Hamm said.

"And now in just 3 seconds," the Filmaster said, "You're about to see what happens next."

"What's that?" asked Mirabel uneasily.

She found out very soon.

(SUDDENLY, Goofball Island starts shaking. Joy sees the light-line breaking ahead.)

JOY: Ahhh! Go back! RUN! RUN! RUN!

"Oh, no!" Becky exclaimed.

The Madrigals could hardly believe it. Seeing Goofball Island crumble was like when Casita collapsed during Alma & Mirabel's argument.

(They run back onto Goofball Island as the light-line, followed by the island ground, starts to crumble. Joy and Sadness frantically outrun collapsing debris on Goofball Island. They leap across the buckling bridge, making it over to the cliff just in time to see Goofball Island fall into the dump.)

JOY: What--?

(Joy watched in disbelief as Goofball island fell. Flashbacks of Young Riley play, with Riley being all fun and Goofy.)

The eyes of everyone in the auditorium welled up with tears. Having Riley lose her Goofball personality was the most heartbreaking thing to happen. But Mirabel, well, she felt this the strongest. Mirabel remembered feeling so distraught by what had happened to Casita that she ran away, and it wasn't till Alma had found her that she returned.

[cut back to the real world]

DAD: [calmly] I get it, you need some alone time. We’ll talk later. 

(He leaves the room. The Emotions stare out the back window in disbelief at the empty space where Goofball Island once was.]

DISGUST: We have a major problem.

FEAR: Oh, Joy, where are you?!!!!

Everyone was saddened and alarmed by the sudden event that happened.

"So does that mean Riley will never goof around again?" Camilo asked.

"Fraid so," the FilmMaster said.

"But hey, it'll still work out alright." Donkey said, "I mean, Joy's still got the Core Memories. Once she and Sadness get back to Headquarters, they can fix them back into the Core Memory holder, and that will maybe restore Goofball Island!"

Zoom into Donkey's Headquarters, designed like a barn. All Donkey's Emotions looked like Donkey, but with different fur colours.

"Great plan, Donkey." Donkey's Joy said.

The rest of Donkey's Emotions all cheered, except for Donkey's Sadness, who was still smarting from the crumbling Goofball Island. "I think I need a hug," he said sadly.

Chapter Text

[cut to Joy, staring in shock over the loss of Goofball Island]

Sadness: Oh, we lost Goofball Island. That means she can lose Friendship, and Hockey, and Honesty, and Family!

"And that's very bad," Ratchet stated.

"How did you know?" Sadness asked.

"It's a thing that happens in the video games where Clank and I are from," Ratchet said.

Sadness: You can fix this, right, Joy?

Joy: I-I...ah... I don't know.

Sadness: [groans]

"How optimistic," Cindy said sarcastically.

Joy: But we have to try. OK, come on.

[Suddenly, they hear a powering down noise and the sky goes dark.]

Joy: [sighs] Riley's gone to sleep.

Sadness: Oh...

Joy: [becomes optimistic] Which is a good thing; when you think about it, because nothing else bad can happen while she's asleep. We'll be back to Headquarters before she wakes up. We'll just go across Friendship Island.

(They look out, and they see Shelves jut out over the cliff edge, making Friendship Island inaccessible.)

"That is a very long way there," Slinky said.

"Honestly, where's a good few Swingshot points when you need'em?" sighed the annoyed Ratchet.

"Swingshot?" Joy said. "What's that?"

"Oh it's a gadget I use to swing on things across gaps," Ratchet said.

"You should totally teach me how to use one," Joy said.

SADNESS: Oh, we’ll never make it, oh... nooo... [starts wobbling]

JOY: No, no, no, no-no-no-no. D-don’t obsess over the weight of life’s problems! [Rapidly] Remember the funny movie where the dog dies?!

(Sadness face plants.)

"Bit late for that." Fiona stated.

JOY: Uhhh, Sadness, we don’t have time for this.

(She looks to her side. Memory shelves wind into the distance. Joy heads off into the maze.)

JOY: We’ll just have to go around! Take the scenic route.

SADNESS: Wait! Joy, you could get lost in there!

JOY: Think positive!

SADNESS: Okay. I’m positive you will get lost in there.

"That was positive?" said Carla skeptically.

"Well, it's as positive as Sadness can get." Joy said.

[Joy slows down and stops]

Sadness: That’s Long-Term Memory. An endless warren of corridors and shelves. I read about it in the manuals.

JOY: The manuals? [realizes] The manuals! [runs back to Sadness] You read the manuals!

SADNESS: Yeah...

JOY: So you know the way back to Headquarters!

SADNESS: [rolls over] I guess...

"Well, it's the only plan they've got." Sly Cooper said, "But it's worth a try."

“And they’ll have a lot of time since Riley’s asleep, but they’ll have to be quick,” Bentley said.

Joy: Oh! [chuckles excitedly.] You are my map! Let’s go! Lead on, my map! [walks off] Show me where we’re goin'!

SADNESS: Okay! Only, [stretches and lies back down on the ground again] I’m too sad to walk.

“Of course.” Ratchet facepalmed. “Why can’t anything be simple?”

Sadness: Just give me a few... hours.

"For goodness sake, you don't have a few hours!" snapped Woody. "You have a kid who needs you and Joy, and you need to get moving! It's only a matter of time till she wakes up!"

(Joy grabs Sadness’ leg and DRAGS her into the shelves.)

"Well, that's one way to bring Sadness with you." Camilo snarked.

JOY: Which way? Left?

SADNESS: Right. (Joy turns right) No. I mean, go left. I said left was right, like “correct.”

"I am officially confused." Coco said.

"Not a problem with Crash." Aku Aku said, motioning to Crash, who was chewing on the seat.

"Teeth off the leather seat, Bandicoot." The FilmMaster snapped. Crash immediately stopped chewing.

JOY: Okay.

Everyone sighed and groaned. This didn't seem like the right way to get out of what seemed to be a maze designed like a human brain.

"Sadness, did you really know the way out of there?" Rivet asked.

“Well, yes…and no.” Sadness simply replied, leaving some to groan in disappointment again.

“Well, it's official; they're doomed.” Charming sighed.

SADNESS: This actually feels kind of nice.

(Joy heads off into the COMPLICATED LABYRINTH ahead of them.)

JOY: Okay! Here we go. We’ll be back to Headquarters before morning. We can do it. This’ll be easy. This is working!

[Hours later, Joy's hair is a mess]

JOY: This is not working. Are we getting close?

SADNESS: Yeah. Just another right. And a left. Then another left, and a right...

“On second thought, maybe going into Long-Term Memory wasn't such a good idea,” Joy suggested with a nervous smile.

JOY: Are you sure you know where we’re going? Cause we seem to be walking AWAY from Headquarters..

(The SKY BRIGHTENS. Day. And they’re still lost.)

JOY: (groans) Riley’s awake.

(Joy drops a core memory. Sadness reaches to grab it.)

JOY: Ah ah ah, don’t touch, remember? If you touch them, they stay sad!

SADNESS: Oh. Sorry. I won’t...

(Joy looks behind her. The bottom row of memories in Long-Term Memory are BLUE.]

SADNESS: ...starting now.

"Wow, that's a lot of saddened memories," Scamp said. "But Hey," he added, trying to be positive, "At least you've got a trail to find your way back."

JOY: [defeated] Oh, I can’t take much more of this.

"Neither can we." grumbled Syndrome. 

"Watch it, Buddy!" snapped Bob Parr. In a sense, he was really thanking the FilmMaster for keeping him behind that barrier separating them, or else he’d go off on his former fan and make him regret running his mouth.

MALE FORGETTER (O.S.): Forget ‘em!

JOY: Mind Workers!

(Joy runs off toward the voice.)

SADNESS: But Joy, we’re almost... ohhhh.

(Joy finds two workers, one with a clipboard and one with a suction device, vacuuming up memories from the shelves.)

FEMALE FORGETTER: Phone numbers. We don’t need all of these. They’re in her phone.

MALE FORGETTER: Just forget all of that. Please.

JOY: Excuse me. Hi.

Male Forgetter: Forget it!

“Why the heck did they ignore her? Shouldn't they be worried that Joy is not at Headquarters?” Mr Potato Head asked the cast, many of whom were wondering the same.

“Ah, Maybe they were probably newbies; someone must have forgotten to tell them who The Emotions are.” Hamm shrugged.

Mirabel said nothing. Seeing Joy being ignored by the Forgetters made her feel the same way about her and her family.

Joy: I need to find Friendship Island...

FEMALE FORGETTER: (pointing to memories) Look at this. 4 years of piano lessons.

[a view of a grey memory of Riley playing piano.]

Everyone stared at the grey memory.

"I betcha that was Ennui." Jimmy said. "Piano lessons are kind of boring."

"Ennui wasn't in Riley's mind yet, Jimmy." The FilmMaster said. "Still," he said, moving his flying chair to view the audience. "See how this Memory looks grey and faded?"

"What does it mean?" asked Carla.

"Well, it means that when a memory is not important to Riley, it gets sucked into the memory dump," the FilmMaster explained, like he was a lecturer.

"Wow." said Carla.

"I know." Mirabel sighed. “I mean… making some of those memories that we love… just to forget them when you don’t think about it enough.”

The rest of the Madrigals realized that Mirabel was talking about them, and they looked down. Very saddened by that.

MALE FORGETTER: Yeah, looks pretty faded.

FEMALE FORGETTER: You know what? Save "Chopsticks” and “Heart and Soul,” get rid of the rest.

(Zoop! The memories get vacuumed up.)

JOY: Are you--

FEMALE FORGETTER: U.S. Presidents. What do you think?

MALE FORGETTER: Eh, just keep Washington, Lincoln, and the fat one.

FEMALE FORGETTER: Forget ‘em!

[Joy steps between them]

JOY: Hey! You can’t throw those away! Those are perfectly good memories.

MALE FORGETTER: The names of every “Cutie Pie Princess” doll?

JOY: Yes! That is critical information! Glitterstorm, Honeypants, Officer Justice...

FEMALE FORGETTER: Forget ‘em!

"Cutie Pie Princess Dolls?" said Mrs Potato Head, confused.

"Are they related to Barbie toys?" asked Hamm.

(He vacuums up the memories behind Joy. The memories shoot out of a sewer pipe and fall into the darkness of the Memory Dump.)

JOY: Hey! Bring those back!

FEMALE FORGETTER: They’re in the dump. Nothing comes back from the dump.

MALE FORGETTER: Yeah. Look, lady, this is our job, OK?

FEMALE FORGETTER: When Riley doesn’t care about a memory, it fades.

JOY: Fades?

Everyone became unnerved.

FEMALE FORGETTER: Happens to the best of ‘em.

MALE FORGETTER: (pulls memory from a cart) Yeah. Except for this bad boy! This one will NEVER fade.

[The memory plays an advert for Triple-Dent Gum]

MEMORY: Tripledent gum will make you smile! Tripledent gum! It lasts a while--

JOY: (recognizing it) The song from the gum commercial?!

MALE FORGETTER: (conspiratorial) Y'know, sometimes we send that one up to Headquarters for no reason.

FEMALE FORGETTER: It just plays in Riley’s head over and over again, like a million times. Let’s watch it again.

[She rewinds it and plays it again. They sing along.]

MALE FORGETTER: Tripledent gum will make you smile! Tripledent gum! It lasts a while! Tripledent gum will help you, mister, to punch bad breath right in the kisser.

The 5 original emotions groaned in response.

"NOT THAT THING AGAIN!!!!" Anger roared, his head steaming.

JOY: Uh, I know. We all know the song. Okay. Yup. Real catchy...

MALE FORGETTER: (to Female Forgetter) Hey, hey! What do ya think? Should we do it?

FEMALE FORGETTER: Yeah! Ha ha!

MALE FORGETTER: OK, here we go! Ha ha ha!

(He tips the gum memory into the inner workings of the shelf. FWOOM! It shoots up towards Headquarters.)

"Wow." Agustin said. "So that's how they send Long-Term Memories to Headquarters."

(Fear, Anger, and Disgust are having a peaceful morning.  Fear was sipping on coffee, Anger was reading a newspaper, Disgust was doing her nails. Then the memory of the gum commercial suddenly drops into Headquarters, playing at full volume.)

MEMORY: Tripledent gum will make you smile! Tripledent gum! It lasts a while--

ANGER: What the- this again!?!

(The Forgetters walk away, laughing and singing.)

JOY: Ha. Funny. (following them) Wait! Do you know how to get to Friendship Island?!

"Yeah, I don't think so," Mitchell said. "Man, why can't Riley's head be like Abercrombie's head, where it had a steering wheel?"

"If it was, Mitchell," Becky sighed, "You'd control Riley to do everything you want her to do. And like I said, you can't make people do whatever you want. People aren't odd-looking puppets with rods coming out of their arms."

"Really weird." Templeton said.

"Or haven't you forgotten when Tyson, Lucas, and Bishop nearly bullied the whole of our school into submission?" Becky sighed.

(In the Real World, Riley is having a FaceTime call with Meg.)

Riley: ♪ TripleDent gum... (Hums the rest)

Meg: Do you like it there? Did you feel any earthquakes? Is the bridge cool?

"Is that how she's calling Meg from where she lives?" asked Carl.

"Yup." The FilmMaster said. "But it won't be much longer."

"Si, exactly." Victor Delgado sighed. "Remember what happened at dinner."

Riley: Yeah, it's good. What happened with the playoffs?

Meg: We won the first game. Coach says we might actually go to the finals this year. Oh, and we got this new girl on the team. [shows Riley the new girl on her team on her phone] She's so cool!

Disgust: Ah, she did not just say that!

Fear: A new girl?!?!?!?! Meg has a new friend already?!?!?!?

"Yeah, and Riley's Dad's not the coach of the Prairie Dogs anymore, so they got a new coach, right?" Donkey asked.

"Give the donkey a prize," the FilmMaster stated.

"Ohh, amazing! What prize did I win?" he asked excitedly.

"It's a saying, Donkey." Shrek deadpanned.

(Anger began grumbling and crushed the newspaper)

Disgust: Hey-hey! Stay happy. We do not wanna lose any more islands here, guys.

[Riley listens to Meg's talking, her expression changing]

"I don't think it's gonna end well," Woody said.

"You're right, partner," Jessie said. Bullseye whinnyed in response.

Meg: We can pass the puck to each other without even looking. It's like mind-reading.

Anger: You like to read minds, Meg? [angrily] I got something for you to read right here!!!!!! [takes control of the console]

Fear: Wait! Wa-wa-wa-wait. let's just be calm for 1 sec...

Anger pulled on Fear’s nose and launched him away, then he pushed the levers and his head lit up with a pillar of flames as he screamed.]

Anger: Aaargh!

[RILEY'S EXPRESSION CHANGES TO ANNOYED]

Riley: I gotta go.

Meg: What?

Riley: (angrily) I GOTTA GO! (furiously slams her laptop closed)

Everyone stared with shocked expressions. They now knew exactly what was coming next.

(Joy follows the Forgetters, trying to get directions. They ignore her, singing the gum-commercial jingle.)

Joy: Wait, ok. Could you just please tell me which way is...?!

(A horrible mechanical GROANING sound suddenly happens. Joy hears this.)

Joy: Oh, no!

"Oh yes." The FilmMaster said smugly, resting with his hands behind his head. He seemed to be enjoying this.

(Joy rounds a corner and sees Friendship Island crumbling.)

Joy: Friendship Island! What?!?

(She looks on in horror as Friendship Island falls.)

"Down it goes," Mitchell said.

Everyone stared in horror as Friendship Island fell.

JOY: Oh, not Friendship.

(Joy hugs the core memories. One of them is the memory of young Riley and Meg walking together. Sadness suddenly appears behind Joy)

SADNESS: Oh, Riley loved that one. And now it's gone. Goodbye, friendship, hello, loneliness.

[Joy groans in annoyance]

"Loneliness." Carla sighed. "I know the feeling."

Zoom into Carla's headquarters, designed like the cabin in the Elena of Avalor episode 'Snow Place Like Home'. Her Emotions, all wearing her clothes and sporting her hairstyle, agreed.

"We certainly do." Carla's Sadness said, bringing a blue memory down - that was the memory of when her mother, Ash Delgado, turned her father to stone.

The words from that terrible moment echoed in her mind:

'We almost lost our daughter today; She is all that matters. I am through with these dark pursuits!'

'So be it. Akatok!'

'I'm not going anywhere with you!'

'I thought she loved us, but… I was wrong.'

Suddenly, a voice pulled Carla out of her thoughts.

"Carla."

It was Sadness.

"What are you thinking about?" she asked.

"The day Mama turned on me and Papa." Carla said. "Mama, or Ash, as I now call her, turned Papa to stone!"

This time, Victor didn't bother to stop his daughter - he knew how hard it was for her to go through remembering this horrid moment.

"I know." Sadness said, consoling Carla. "It must've been hard for you."

"You don't wanna know the half of it," Carla said.

"I’m sorry your mother took your father. She took something that you loved." Sadness said.

"Si." Victor said, agreeing with Sadness.