Inside Out

Who's your friend who likes to play?

With Riley, she walked off into the fog about to run away from her new home back to her old one.

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Joy falls, clutching the satchel of core memories. He lands hard, rolling down a hill of faded memories. He sits up, looks around. The satchel! All the memories are still there. Panicked, Joy runs up the hills of memories. Off in another part of the dump, Bing Bong comes to.

"Joy?" Bing Bong notices his hand beginning to fade as he gasps, "Joy!" He finds Joy desperately clawing her way up the hill, "Joy? Joy, what are you doing? Will you stop it please?" Joy ignores him; keeps trying, "Don't you get it, Joy? We're stuck down here. We're forgotten." This stops Joy.

All around, memories are fading to dust. Vapors blowing in the atmosphere, they disappear.

"We used to play tag and stuff." Joy recognizes this. She finds Sadness' Blue Core Memory: Riley crying in class, "But everything's different now since we moved." Seeing Riley cry breaks Joy's heart.

He falls to her knees as he picks up a nearby memory of young happy Riley coloring, "Do you remember how she used to stick her tongue out when she was coloring?" Another memory: Riley talking to a bug, "I remember...(Y/N) and I could listen to her stories all day." Another memory: Riley spinning, "I just wanted Riley to be happy. And now..." He holds the recent blue memory of Riley in class.

Joy hugs them all until the memories fall out of his arms. Joy cries. A long, deep, painful cry. Joy has lost everything. Around him, memories fade and disappear. A tear falls onto the faded twisty-tree memories. Joy wipes it. In wiping the tears, the memory rewinds. Its color changes from gold to blue. In the memory: Riley sits in the tree with her parents, the team approaching in the distance. Joy looks closer. What's this? She rewinds more. In the memory: Riley sits in the tree, crying, alone. Joy remembers what Sadness said about the memory.

"It was the day the Prairie Dogs lost the big playoff game. Riley missed the winning shot. She felt awful. She wanted to quit." Joy heard Sadness' voice say.

"Oh! I remember that day...I love that day!" Joy heard (Y/N)'s voice say, "Riley was so disappointed...but her family showed her all the love she deserved!!"

In the memory: Mom and Dad come to console Riley. Joy fast forwards. In the memory: The hockey team lifts Riley on their shoulders and cheers. Riley smiles.

"(Y/N). Sadness. Mom and Dad, the team... they came to help because of Sadness...(Y/N) was right..." Joy turns to Bing Bong, ready to take action, "We have to get back up there!"

"Joy, we're stuck down here. We might as well be on another planet." Bing Bong sighs.

Joy gets an idea, "Another planet." Joy then starts to randomly sing, "Who's your friend who likes to play?" Silence, Joy sings louder, "Who's your friend who likes to play?"

Bing Bong quickly understood the mission; excited, "His rocket makes you yell 'Hooray!'" Far off, Bing Bong's Rocket answers as they run towards it, "Who's the best in every way and wants to sing this song to say, who's your friend who likes to play? Bing Bong Bing Bong!" Joy and Bing Bong find the rocket!

They perch the wagon atop a hill. Joy looks resigned, "Hop in! Both inside, Bing Bong pushes off.

They speed down a slope to gain momentum, singing all the way. They reach the bottom and shoot up another hill, launching up towards the cliff top. Joy and Bing Bong enthusiastically, if not desperately, sing at the top of their lungs. Not even close. They crash back to the bottom.

"C'mon!" Joy begs.

They shoot down a taller hill for another go. They sing faster and louder. Joy reaches for the ledge but they fall with a thud. Bing Bong stands. There's no way they'll make it. He looks up at the ledge and then to his hand -- it's disappearing!