Unexpected Changes (Inside Out/Home/Rise of the Guardians)

Chapter 1: First Curve Ball

*Yawn*

Riley sighed and stretched as she sat up in bed. Her stomach hurt a bit, probably from all the popcorn she had eaten the night before. She rubbed her eyes and shuffled out of her room.

"Are you sure that's this afternoon?" She heard her dad ask from his room.

'They probably have to go to work,' Riley though with a sigh.

"Yes, I will personally take her home tonight, well, you know what I mean," another voice replied, probably an employee. "Remember, I just wanted to give you a heads up to prepare what you will say. Our daughter was ready since she was a baby so we really couldn't hide it."

"Tonight? So only a few hours will pass for us?" Her mom asked.

"Look, I know this is hard, but it has to happen. Do you think I want Boo going through all that?" The other voice asked. "I still have some time, but yours is running out."

"And we can't give her any advice?" Her dad asked.

"No, at least nothing too close to home. Give vague and normal advice you would give
anyone else. Whatever we can keep the same, we have to try," another female voice added from the phone.

'Hmm, maybe it's not about work," Riley thought and walked to the bathroom.

Her mind was still too sleepy to care about much.

~Inside Riley's Mind~

"Hello everyone! Did you all sleep well?" Joy asked happily as she saw her friends come down from their rooms. "Are you excited for today's picnic?"

"I guess," Disgust said from the top of the stairs while fixing her hair through her compact mirror.

She then walked down and went to the control panels to make Riley brush her teeth and get ready for her outing with Mom and Dad.

"What about everyone else?" Joy asked. "Did Riley sleep well last night, Fear?"

"Yeah, she had a pretty interesting dream too. She dreamt that was a chameleon. I don't know how they can even come up with this stuff," Fear replied as he sat on the couch.

"Anger?" Joy asked.

"It could always be better," Anger grumbled as he started reading the newspaper.

"What about you Sadness?" Joy asked as she saw that Sadness was looking at the screen wide-eyed along with Disgust.

"Sadness? Disgust?" Joy said as she shook her hands in front of them, but they wouldn't take their eyes off the screen.

Joy got frustrated and looked up at the monitor and grew wide-eyed. Fear and Anger looked around when they started to hear an alarm. The lights turned red and screens appeared all around them with the word "Puberty" flashing.

"What is making that noise?!" Anger asked furiously.

"Make it stop!" Fear exclaimed as he hugged himself and rocked back and forth.

They both looked up at the screen and screamed in unison,"What is that?!".

Disgust and Sadness were already pressing buttons while panicking.

"Calm down! We can figure this out!" Joy tried to reason.

Anger and Fear decided to "help" by flinging themselves at the controls.

"That is gross!" Disgust said.

"Is Riley going to die?!" Fear screamed.

"Oh no, she's going to die!" Sadness cried as she pushed some buttons.