The Cine-magic Series: Tom and Jerry: The Movie

While Twilight and the rest were in the midst of trying to find, and possibly rescue, their missing friends, Robyn, Rarity, and Pinkie were only getting more acquainted and friendly with Captain Kiddie and Squawk, especially after the whole song-bit.

"Well, my dears, should we take our show on the road?" Kiddie poured a glass of milk. "A toast to our new stars."

"Stars you say?" Rarity purred. "Oh, I like the sound of that."

"Wait. What about the rest of our friends?" Pinkie reminded them.

The unicorn and human froze upon realizing they had completely forgotten about their friends during the whole singing fiasco.

"Oh, gosh, you're right, Pinkie. How could we have forgotten?" Rarity said. "Mr. Kiddie, I don't mean to be a downer, but our friends are still missing. We need to look for them."

"Other friends you say?" The captain asked.

"Yes. They're probably worried sick about us. Can we please look for them? I promise to make the search worthwhile." Robyn pleaded.

"Well, if they're anything look you three, I'm sure they'll make great additions to the fair." Kiddie said with a smile. "The more the merrier, right?"

"Uh...I suppose." Rarity leaned over to Pinkie. "I'm starting to realizing the issue of becoming stars in this fair."

It was becoming blatantly apparent to the two ponies that becoming stars meant having to stay in this world. Now, there wasn't inherently wrong with this world, except for Miss Figg and Lickboot, but they both knew staying here meant living Equestria, probably for good. That also meant never seeing their home, their families, and other friends again.

While Pinkie and Rarity were confiding with each other, Squawk spotted something printed on the milk carton. A picture of a girl was printed on it's side with a reward of one million dollars at the bottom. He looked to Robyn sitting on the bed. It was the same girl, Robyn was the one printed on the carton, and there was a million dollar reward for finding her. The puppet parrot's mouth gaped, he had to tell the captain about this.

"Psst. Cap'n. Cap'n." He pulled on Kiddie's ear.

"What is it? Can't you see I'm conversing with our young guests?" Kiddie said with irritation.

"Cap'n. Cap'n, I gotta talk to ye." Squawk pushed the uniformed man off his seat.

"All right already." Kidde angrily conceded.

"Can we step outside?" The parrot pulled on the captain's mustache.

"Uh, is something wrong, darlings?" Rarity asked curiously.

"Will you excuse us for a moment, my dears?" Kidde asked, while being pulled toward the door. "I need to confer with my first mate."

With that, the captain and parrot slipped outside.

"Oh, sure." Robyn grabbed another cookie.

That's when Pinkie began to shudder involuntarily. Being of friend of hers for as long as she could remember, Rarity when something was wrong.

"What's the problem, Pinkie?" She asked softly.

"Something bad is going to happen." Pinkie shuddered. "Not like a doozy or anything, but like...It's an icky feeling."

"You don't think something happened to our friends!?" Rarity gasped.

"I don't know, but whatever it is, isn't going to be good." The earth pony said uneasily.

"What do you mean? Everything seems okay." Robyn overheard the two.

"Oh, it's her Pinkie Sense. It's a little hard to explain." The fashionista said.

"Well, you see. Sometimes I get these niggly feelings that means something will happen. Sometimes they're good sometimes they're bad, like when I get a twitchy tail, it means something's going to fall." Pinkie explained with a beaming smile.

"So, it's like a intuition?" Robyn asked.

"Hmmm. I suppose. I never that of it like that." Rarity responded. "But, never mind that. I suggest we be a bit careful. Pinkie feels that something bad will happen."

"Uh, okay then." The young girl said, now a bit wary.

Outside, Squawk tugged Kiddie to the middle of the lot and pointed to the milk carton. At first, the big man was confused, but Squawk urged him to study the face printed on the carton. As Kiddie studied it, he soon discovered the it was, in fact, Robyn's face printed on the carton. He looked back into the trailer where the young girl and her two friends were, then looked back at the carton. The same girl, and better yet, there was a one million dollar reward to the one who found her and brought her back to her guardian. Kiddie was awestruck, He almost couldn't believe it, but all the confirmation was there on the milk carton. A large, gleeful smile grew on his mustached face.

"I'm rich! I'm rich!" He bellowed with excitement.

"What do you mean, you're rich? You mean we're rich." Squawk put his hands in his hips.

"Oh, yeah. I-I forgot." The captain said sheepishly.

"It's the jackpot!" The hand puppet snatched up the carton.

"The end of the rainbow!" Kidde snatched it back.

"The pot of gold!"

"Rich!"

"Richer!"

"Richest! Wahoo!"

The two excitedly spun in circles and throw the milk carton high into the air with sheer joy. The cardboard carton sailed through the air, far beyond the fairgrounds. The carton was had done it's job now. Kiddie had to make a phone call.

Not too far away, Twilight, Tom, and the others were still looking for their missing friends. So far all they could find were trees, sticks, rocks, and a small plastic container filmed with some weird looking candy.

"Chalky." Spike said, munching on one of pieces. "Also, who names their candy "Flintstones?" It just sounds so unappealing."

"I don't know and, frankly, that's not really something we should be worrying about." Rainbow said, exasperated. "Seriously, I feel like we've combed this entire place looking for Rarity, Pinkie, and Robyn."

"We're bound to run into them eventually. They're probably out searching for us, too." Fluttershy did her best to keep the optimism alive.

"Let's be realistic here, guys. We could be searching for days before we find them." Tom said. "This place goes on for miles."

"Well, we ain't just goin' give up like that. If we have ta search fer days on end ta find 'em, then so be it." Applejack said stubbornly.

"Exactly. We're not going to complete our mission and rescue Robyn if we're separated." Twilight said, but then she let out a loud, frustrated groan. "But, I really wish something could clue us in on where they could be."

Whatever higher being was listening in on the discussion seemed to have decided to oblige to the princess’s wish. Out of the blue, something dropped down from the sky and bounced off the alicorn's head.

"Ow!"

The object then landed right in front of Tom.

"What the hay was that?" Twilight rubbed her head.

"It's a milk carton." Spike said

"Thanks, Captain Obvious." Rainbow rolled her eyes.

"Just when I thought, shouting to the heavens would actually work." Twilight grumbled. "How is this going to help find Rarity, Pinkie, and Robyn?”

"It won't. It's just a carton of milk." Tom replied bluntly. "With that said, oh, boy! Food!"

The housecat snatched up the container and began chugging the milk.

"Hey!" Jerry yelled.

"Leave some for us." The cyan pegasus said.

"Ah, sorry." Tom handed to carton over.

"No, look! It's Robyn!" The mouse hopped in place.

"What? Where is she?" Twilight asked.

"Where? Where?" Tom looked around.

The ponies, dragon, and cat all looked around to see Robyn. Jerry facepalmed.

"Right there, on the milk carton!" He jumped from the stem he was standing on to the carton.

The others looked for themselves, and there she was. A picture of Robyn printed brightly against the white-colored material.

"Ah, yeah. That's her!" Tom exclaimed.

"Huh. What do you know." Rainbow said.

"But, why is her picture on a milk carton?" Fluttershy asked.

"That's strange." Spike pondered.

"Ain't it obvious? That no-good Figg tryin' to get others ta find her." Applejack said angrily.

"She's bribing with a reward, as well." Twilight eyed the carton.

"Wow! A million dollar reward." Tom read through the printed text. "Hey, you don't suppose..."

As Tom shifted to the others, Jerry lost his balance and fell into the open carton with a splash.

"Uh, oh." Spike said.

Tom turned the carton upside down. The milk poured out along with Jerry.

"No doubt about it, Robyn must be here." The mouse said.

"And if that's the case, so are Rarity and Pinkie." Twilight concluded.

"Yeah, let's take a look around." The grey cat suggested.

"Guess the milk carton was a help after all." Rainbow said with a smug smile.

"Yeah, yeah, I guess it was." Twilight sighed. "Now let's go find our friends.

What are friends didn't know, was that they were closing to Rarity, Robyn, and Pinkie were closing than they thought. Just beyond the mountainous wall of bushes and shrubs stood Captain Kiddie's Carnival. Just beyond the shoreline was Kiddie himself, vigorously dialing a number on an old telephone.

"Hmm. Miss Pristine Figg. What a lovely name. It sounds like a million dollar." He chuckled gleefully, barely able to contain his excitement.

Speaking of Figg, she was in middle of having an argument with Dr. Applecheek. The doctor's two lackeys were parked outside the Starling mansion in their old, animal control truck.

"My fault? What do you mean, it's my fault?" Figg asked the doctor angrily. "If you done away with those miserable pests, like I paid you to, that brat wouldn't have run away again."

"Nevertheless, those animals have cost me a bundle." Applecheek interjected. "Not to mention the damage."

"Damage? I..." The argument was put on hold when the telephone rang. "Excuse me for a moment, doctor, I must get the phone."

Pristine stepped inside the lounge room and closed the sliding doors. Then, she picked up the phone. Meanwhile, a suspicious applecheek quietly opened the doors, just a little, to eavesdrop an the greedy lady's call.

"Hello." She greeted.

...

"Yes. Yes, I did offer a one million dollar reward for the return of my precious little Robyn."

...

"Captain Kiddie's Carnival!" She laughed victoriously. "We got her! I've got her!"

The twister doctor heard everything. A million dollar reward. That would be enough to pay for the damages, all the lost animals, and then some. Applecheek knew what he had to do. He had to get to Robyn before Figg could and then she have to give the reward to him instead. He swiftly and quietly went back to the truck and he and the straycatchers tore out of the mansion's driveway.

"Yes, yes, yes." Figg was still verbally celebrating as she made her way out of the lounge. "Now, doctor. You were talking to me about damages?"

She found that Applecheek was gone with no trace left. She looked around to see where he could have gone.

"Doctor? Doctor? Where is that creep?" She wondered skeptically.

The old truck raced out of the open gate of the mansion. Lickboot, meanwhile, was heading towards the house in the red convertible. He spotted the truck charging for him. The sleazy lawyer swerved out of the way to avoid it, tearing through a front yard and a wall of bushes. He sped through the gateway and screeched to a halt at the mansion's front entrance as Figg and Ferdinand hurried down the stone steps.

"They found her." Figg notified.

"Where?" Lickboot asked as he opened the door for his penny-pinching girlfriend.

"Captain Kiddie's Carnival. You know it?" Figg said.

Lickboot gave a knowing smirk. Meanwhile, Ferdinand leapt into the the backseat of the car.

"All have us there before you can say "one million dollars." Lickboot slammed the gas and the car sped out of the driveway in a cloud of dust.

"One million dollars!" Applecheek said as the truck bounded down the street. "If I can get to Robyn before Pristine Figg, the reward will be mine. All mine!"

"Uh, what are we gonna get?" The purple masked straycatcher asked expectantly.

"Yeah. What's in it for us." The orange-masked one added.

"For you?" The doctor asked angrily. "If you'd gotten rid of that cat, mouse, ponies, and lizard, like I ordered, we wouldn't be in this fix. You get nothing."

Both were taken aback for the amount of harshness from their boss. Of course, they wouldn't have any of it. The two catchers looked at each other with evil grins. They both had the exact same idea. They purple-masked catcher stopped the truck right at an intersection and the orange-masked catcher shoved Applecheek off the vehicle and onto the curb. The two then sped off, leaving a shell-shocked doctor behind. The straycatchers shared a hardy laugh. That money was as good as theirs now. Applecheek watched as the disappeared down the street.

"Come back! Come back! We'll share it fifty-fifty! Uh, uh, sixty-forty." The stout doctor pleaded loudly. "Come back! We'll negotiate."

He stumbled onto the road to try and flag them down, but at this point, the truck was long gone. Then heard the sound of screeching tires from behind him. Applecheek turned around and saw Figg and Lickboot veer around a corner and speeding down the road right for him. He jumped out of the way just in time as the speedy convertible zoomed past him.

As he stood on his knees, believing his chances of getting the million diminished, he heard cheery music coming from the other side of the street. His eyes fell upon something and he smile with twisted malice. On the opposite side of the ride, a motorized ice cream bike was parked against the curb. The driver was busy handing ice cream out to some children to notice the stout, corrupt doctor. And it was just what the doctor order. Well, maybe not what Applecheek had in mind, but it would do. He stumbled toward the unguarded vehicle, his conniving, evil grin unwavering. That one million dollars will be his.

To be continued