World of Disney

Chapter Thirty-One: "Dimension B" Zone - 2011

The immense geodesic sphere shadowed over most of the attractions in the Tomorrowland area, including Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters and Star Tours. Staring up at its towering structure, Sean got a sense of déjà vu; he was used to seeing it up close in the Epcot theme park in Walt Disney World, standing tall and shiny in the midst of nothing but a garden of beautiful flowers and well-structured hedges. He could not deny that there was also a sense of oddity in what he saw: a Disney World attraction in Disneyland. There was not enough time to process its origins, as the women Sean accompanied were highly anxious to check it out.  

"This ride is twenty-nine years in the making...literally!" Feather stated. "Rumor has it that Disney Imagineers kept it hidden within a secret warehouse, somewhere far out in the Mojave Desert, to prep it for its imminent debut next month."

"Why did they keep it hidden for that long? And in a Mojave Desert warehouse of all places?" Aubrie questioned.

Feather shrugged. "Who knows?"

"And who cares?" Danny snapped. "I just wanna see this thing in action! To think, we can finally go into the cartoons that we all grew up watching as kids: Beauty and the Beast, Pinocchio, The Fox and the Hound, Cinderella...the list could go on and on!"

Whereas the three blondes were beyond ecstatic, Sean was hopeful; the machine could be his only access back into the world of Disney, finding out where his real sisters might have gone. As they approached the front of the attraction, which looked much like the Spaceship Earth attraction from his reality, the four soon discovered people walking away from it rather than into it. Witnessing the scene, Aubrie asked, "Um...what's going on?"  

Feather spotted one of the cast members for the attraction and forwarded Aubrie's question to him. The cast member responded, "The ride's been shut down for the moment, due to technical difficulties."

Needless to say, Danny did not take this lightly. "What? You've gotta be kidding me, man! You had twenty-nine years to do test runs with this thing, and you're already havin' technical difficulties?"  

"What kind of technical difficulties are they having?" Aubrie inquired.

"I don't know." The cast member replied. "Something about the machine shutting us out from the 'Disney Worlds' or whatever. Look, folks, I'm just as confused as you are about this thing. I don't know how it works."

"No, but you do know how to put on a good poker face, Lady Gaga." Danny retorted.

Her comment stemmed an argument between her and the cast member that Feather and Aubrie were forced to break up. Sean looked on the incident with amusement, seeing just how much of a loose cannon Danny was. I feel a little sorry for my counterpart to have to deal with her on a bad day, he thought. It was the perfect opportunity standing out in front of him while Danny created the scene: he could walk right into the attraction undetected.  

He moved into the loading area of the attraction without being seen by anyone, including other cast members. As he passed through, he spotted one noticeable difference: the mural representing the ages of science and technology was instead one of the "D" in Walt Disney's signature, animated to look like a cluster of stars forming a galaxy. He found it to be original and creative; a perfect representation of the universe that Bunsen Honeydew's machine created, if not an actual model of it from the outside. Continuing on his path, he expected to have entered a loading area just the same as the one from the original ride he knew; however, he soon discovered something vastly different...