Tales of the Disneyverse

...A Hero Falls...

            Armageddon. Apocalypse. Ragnarök.

            No matter in what world it was referred as, it still had the same meaning in situations like the one that had befallen the Disneyverse. Merlin had chosen to call it what it was: the end. He, Wart, Archimedes, Russell, and their newest "roommates," Carl Fredricksen and Dug, could see the chaos take place from his tower residence, which wavered more violently than before, thanks to the continuous earthquakes. Any moment it could give with the six of them still inside; for this reason, he instructed everyone to evacuate.  

            They got away in time to avoid the immediate downfall of Merlin's residence – the first section of the Ector/DunBroch castle to suffer from the devastation. Merlin had no qualms over losing his temporary home, which was merely a place for him to stay while tutoring Wart. What he did fret over was how long the merged worlds had before their ultimate destruction with the rest of the universe. There was no other place for them to go.  

            "Is somebody gonna tell me at any time what the heck's goin' on?" A baffled and terrified Carl asked while running through the halls of Ector/DunBroch with a group of strangers he had only met for a day. "Am I just dreamin' all of this craziness?"  

            "I assure you, Fredricksen," Merlin said in his haste, "all that you are experiencing right now is very real."  

            "Everything will be alright, Mr. Fredricksen." Russell calmly assured his elderly friend. "Genevieve will save us!"  

            "Oh, that's wonderful. That completely lifts my fear of suffering from an attack in the next sixty seconds," said Carl, clearly expressing his lack of knowing who "Genevieve" was through sarcasm.  

            As the six of them ran through the halls of DunBroch/Ector, pieces of the castle itself crumbled all around them. One large portion nearly crushed Wart while the group finally arrived in the Great Hall. There, they found Fergus and Ector engaged in another shouting contest. Apparently, the two men had accused each other of an attack on their castles.  

            "Oh, you have got to be kidding me!" Merlin voiced his aggravation over the atrocious topic of the debate, which could not have occurred at a worse time than then.  

            "Admit it, DunBroch!" Ector yelled. "This is an elaborate attack that you have been planning since the moment you and your clan arrived!"  

            "You are crazy to think I have anything to do with what's going on!" Fergus barked back. "It's you who's behind all of this! Behind the disappearance of my daughter, my wife, my wee sons, and everything else I hold dear!"  

            "Never mind your wife and daughter!" Ector retorted. "What about my son Kay? Hmm? What did you do with him?"  

            Their mentioning of the new disappearances of Elinor and Kay alarmed Merlin, who realized what little time the merged realms had left. Seeing no end to this pointless squabble, he stepped in between the two men and said, "Alright! Enough! Can't you two buffoons see that your castles – which are one in the same – are coming down over your ears?" As he pointed this out, a large chunk of the ceiling broke away and crashed just a few feet near them. "The world's ending, men! We don't have time to waste on bickering!"  

            "Are you insane?" Fergus asked of Merlin.  

            "I've been asking myself that same thing, buddy." Carl made his presence known in his acknowledgment of Fergus's inquiry.