60Hey! I have had this idea for a while now and I had to take it out of my head XD This is a oneshot, but if I see that you guys liked it or receive enough support, I will continue it :) This is my first Xover, so please, if you don't like it, don't review, but if you liked it or have suggestions, I am more than happy to read them and improve!
It was a special day for Jack, so it meant it was a special day for his emotions too.
Santa gave the siblings a pair of ice-skates for Christmas. Jack had been really happy that day, as his last ones broke last year, and Emma asked him if he could teach her how to ice-skate.
At first, Disgust and Anger made Jack grimace. He didn't want Emma learning; he was the best ice skater in their town and didn't want to lose his title. But when he saw Emma's hopeful brown eyes, Jack's heart clenched painfully and Sadness broke down in tears, making Jack feel guilty for even thinking that.
"Of course, I will teach you, Em" He had said, ruffling her straight brown hair.
Since then, the nine girl old girl hadn't stopped jumping up and down in excitement, something that really pissed Disgust and Anger sometimes.
The day had started like always. Jack opened his eyes, yawned, tried to wake up and…felt asleep again. Then, hours later, Emma came into his small room and woke him up definitely.
"Jack! Come on! You promised it!" She cried, pulling the still sleepy boy out of bed.
Joy loved their sister's enthusiasm and made Jack laugh
"Haha I know I promised it, Em but let's have breakfast first, ok?"
The girl nodded and both siblings said good morning to their mother, who was cooking breakfast.
Jack noticed that the food was even less than yesterday.
Sadness pushed Joy from the panel and moved a few levers and buttons, making Jack's smile slowly turn into a sad pout.
"We won't have food anymore! We will starve to death because we can't get enough food!" Sadness wept, falling to the floor face first, trying to hide from the cruel world.
Fear shrieked and tried to approach the panel too; wanting to tell Jack that they could die, that Emma could get sick, that they shouldn't go to ice-skate because they weren't healthy enough, but Joy, Anger and Disgust prevented him.
"Calm down, Fear!" Anger screamed, fire bursting from his head and slapping the purple emotion a few times. "We are going to ice skate and you aren't ruining the day!"
Joy rolled his eyes and with Sadness help, they offered Emma and their mom the rest of their food, watching as the blue and yellow orb rolled to the storage.
When they were done, Jack couldn't find another excuse to tell his sister no, so he let himself be dragged to the door. He barely had time to actually grab their skates and put on his cloak.
Joy was controlling the panel, waving at their mom as Emma pulled Jack towards the frozen lake.
"Be careful!" Said their mom and Jack laughed.
"We will!"
Jack looked one last time at his mother with a smile and followed Emma.
Disgust rolled his eyes.
"Why does she worry so much?! We are not two! We can obviously take care of ourselves!" He said, crossing his arms, disheveled green hair covering part of his eyes.
Joy giggled. "Oh, come on, guys! This will be fun! And we will try our new skates!"
Jack smiled at the thought.
When they arrived, Emma let Jack's hand go and sat down on the snow to put on her ice-skates.
Fear looked at the frozen lake in front of them. "Gu-guys…I don't think it is solid enough…we should wait a couple of days…or a year"
Anger glared at him. "It is fine! We checked it yesterday!"
Fear cowered behind Joy, but that uneasy feeling inside him didn't go away.
"Urgh! She is doing it wrong!" Disgust said, pointing at how Emma put on her skates and Joy made Jack help her.
"Ok, young lady, come on! You are ready!" Jack said with a smile, helping his sister stand up and taking her to the ice.
Joy chirped with, well, joy and dragged the other emotions in a team hug, most of them didn't return it.
Joy hummed and separated, approaching the panel and pressing a few buttons. A yellow orb, which was a memory of when Jack learnt to ice skate at a great speed and do flips in the air, appeared and was projected to Jack.
"hey, Em, you are doing great! I know that with practice, you will learn to do flips in the air like me!"
Emma smiled brightly and Joy sighed happily. He loved to see their sister smile.
"Will you also teach me that?!"
Jack smiled. "Of course I will"
The emotions in the Headquarters didn't know how much time passed since that adorable memory, didn't know what exactly happened, but they heard a sound.
Fear jumped into action and Jack frowned worriedly. The boy looked down at Emma and saw the ice under her, cracking.
Fear screamed at the top of his lungs and panicked, running everywhere in the quarter until Anger punched him.
Sadness immediately took control of the panel. "Emma is going to die!" He cried, tears streaming down his light blue cheeks.
Joy, who had been frozen in shock, blinked and ran to the panel. Jack took off his ice-skates to keep the ice from breaking under him too.
"It's ok, it's ok, don-don't look down, just look at me"
Joy frowned, wondering why Jack's voice stammered. He looked at his right and saw Fear in the panel too.
"Jack…I'm scared…"
Emma whimpered, looking down at the ice which continued breaking
The other emotions didn't dare to speak, so concentrated in what Joy and Fear were doing.
"I know, I know…"
Jack gave a step, trying to approach his sister, but the ice cracked under his bare foot.
Fear screamed and Jack made a scared face, not knowing he made Emma grimace.
Joy insisted in making Jack smile.
"But-but you are gonna be alright, you are not gonna fall in…"
Joy didn't know what to do, Fear was keeping Jack scared and didn't let him think straight.
Joy suddenly widened his eyes and looked at the hub which contained Jack's core memories. He looked past the window, were 'Fun Island' was shining.
He got an idea.
"Em..um..,we are gonna have a little fun instead!"
Jack opened his arms with a small smile, waiting for her sister to believe him.
She didn't, and she cried. "No, we are not!"
"Will I trick you?"
Jack asked with a nervous laugh.
"Are you kidding me, Joy? This isn't time for stupid questions!" Disgust shouted.
"Yes! You always play tricks!" Emma whimpered.
"The girl knows us" Anger admitted and Disgust nodded. Sadness couldn't even see, he was curled up in a ball, rocking back and forth. They will lose their baby sister!
"No…well, not-not-not this time…I promise, I promise you are gonna-you are gonna be fine…You have to believe in me…"
Joy sighed nervously; 'Family Island' was working.
Sadness cries got louder.
"Guys! I need help! What do we do?!" Joy asked loudly, trying to be calm.
Everyone frowned in thought when Anger noticed something next to Jack and ran to a box, searching between many light bulbs the correct one.
"Joy! Think fast!"
Joy frowned but caught the light bulb and put it in the panel.
Jack looked at his right and his eyes lit up.
"You wanna play a game?"
Joy smiled at Anger. "You are a genius, Anger! This should works!"
"Do you wanna play hopscotch? Like we play every day"
Emma smiled a bit.
"Guys, it's working!" Joy cried happily, Emma will be fine; they won't lose their sister as they lost their dad years ago.
"It is as easy as…one"
Jack stepped forward and the ice cracked. Jack winced, thanks to Fear, but when he looked at Emma, he smiled and made as if he had lost his balance and was about to fall.
"Wow, wow, woah!" He said and Emma giggled.
"Two…"
"Three!" Jack smiled, reaching the staff and thicker ice.
He turned toward her with his arms spread out.
"Alright…"
Everyone in the Headquarters was dead quiet, watching the life or death situation.
Jack reached down to pick up the staff lying on the ice. He extended it towards her. Sighing to control himself, he said.
"Now, it's your turn"
The fourteen year old teen started to count.
"One…two…"
Sadness started pressing some buttons when the ice started to break dangerously fast with each step their sister took.
"She won't make it!" He wept.
"That's it…come on…" Jack and the other emotions said at the same time when the girl gasped
"Three!"
Jack used the crook of the staff to hold her waist and with all his might, he slang her to safety. But the strong movement propelled him into the cracked ice.
No one noticed it though.
The emotions cheered and hugged each other willingly.
Jack looked up at his sister and smiled, looking at her grateful smile.
A bright yellow and purple orb came rolling, but it didn't went to the storage like the rest did, it rolled by a new trail, going to the core memories' hub.
The emotions didn't have time to pry over the new core memory when Fear gave a high pitched scream. Before he could reach the panel, though…
Jack was plunged into the dark cold water.
"Jack!"
They heard, but the emotions team was having more serious problems.
Sirens started to sound all around the place, illuminating the quarter in red.
The emotions gasped as the screen started to have static, a report from the lungs telling them the time they had before they run out of air.
The five emotions panicked, trying to do something with the panel, anything! But the buttons and levers slowly turned black and rigid, so no emotion could touch it. For some reason, Fear was the only one allowed in the panel.
Jack continued struggling under the cold water, but he felt so afraid! Was Emma ok?! Had she made it to the shore?
He was starting to lose strength, his arms stopping moving, his legs went numb…it was too cold…he felt so tired…
"What's happening?!" Joy screamed to be heard with the loud sirens sounding.
Sadness couldn't stop crying. He had read this in the manuals…
"Jack is dying!" He cried, tears streaming down his blue cheeks.
The emotions froze in shock, tears welling up in their eyes.
No…Jack couldn't be dying…He-he was too young! They had just pressed the 'puberty' button a few years ago!
Anger was gaping in shock, Sadness was weeping on the floor, Disgust had a confused and sad expression, Fear was shaking convulsively as he did everything in his power to keep the panel working, and Joy felt to his knees, couldn't believing what was happening.
He couldn't protect his Jack…He failed him…He failed Emma…He failed them…
He heard Fear scream as the screen turned black, meaning Jack had lost consciousness. There was a strong tremor in the Headquarter and the emotions lost their balance.
"Joy! Look!" Anger said, pointing at the window from where they could see the personality islands.
The emotions' eyes widened and approached the window. Joy shook his head slightly, watching how Jack's multiple islands started to crumb and fall into the Memory Dump.
"No…" He whispered, breathing getting quicker and quicker, he was hyperventilating "No! No!" He screamed, hitting the window.
Joy watched horrified how all the islands fell into the abyss. All but two, Fun and Family Island, but were off.
"The-The long term memories…" The green emotion pointed at the storage area.
The tall and curved shelves started the shake and, much to the emotions' horror, the glowing orbs, yellow, red, purple, green and blue came down, and rolled to the Memory Dump as the floor trembled.
The memories which had been stored for almost fifteen years…
In a blink of the eye, gone, leaving thousands of purple shelves empty.
The Headquarter shook again, and the emotions shouted. The sirens had stopped sounding, and the lights which illuminated the head quarter started blinking furiously, threatening to shut down.
All the mind and body workers started sending their scared messages to the emotions.
"Sir! We are losing co-with-body! What-do?!"
"The heart refuses to continue beating!"
"Sir! The lungs need oxygen!"
"HELP!"
"Joy…what are we going to do…?" Sadness asked hopelessly.
Joy didn't hear him though, focusing on how the lights and the world outside the quarter slowly turned off.
"I-I don't know…" Joy admitted defeated, almost falling to the floor when another tremor shook the Headquarter completely, disconnecting it from the islands.
Joy whimpered, and looked up. One island was still shining, one island he had never seen before… It seemed it was snowing there; there was a giant snowflake in the middle and a staff near it.
The hub where Jack's core memories were had blocked itself and most of the multicolored orbs inside had lost their glow and color. Except one, the most recent core memory, that was powering the only island shining.
Two minutes had passed since the boy fell, and Jackson Overland exhaled for the last time.
The Headquarter plunged into a complete darkness, and the emotions closed their eyes.
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