17 (part 2): The Past in the Future

Kenton and Quinn had the pleasure of going through the process two years ago. Ever since, they'd been left alone, for the most part. Now, they risked their own safety to put a stop to the latest test.

Being one of the only ones to have allegedly succeeded, they were the only ones to have tried to stand in the way and in the way was a very dangerous place to be.

Having had no success in contacting them so far, they wished to vacate the premises of all this immediately.

Quinn insisted on trying this rescue mission again while Kenton found it all too risky. Caught, they'd be as good as dead and unlike Andrew and Skylar, no one would miss them if they just disappeared.

"The end of the People Mover, 1995 wasn't it?" Andrew asked, trying to recall the history of the land of the future.

"Yes, I believe so. And then it was Rockets Rods..." Skylar's voice trailed off as the People Mover seemed to react to her words.

They had stopped back at the beginning station and everything became distorted, rearranging itself.

The People Mover's little square-shaped vehicles elongated and the roofs just dissolved all together. Seats formed, putting themselves in single-file and metal bars came out on both sides of them, curving until they planted themselves to the ground as well. With the sides completely open, the only thing holding them into the car was the seatbelt fastened, a little too tightly, across their chests.

The Rocket Rods vehicle seated five people, three in single file and two as somewhat of a love seat in the back.

Skylar and Andrew repositioned themselves into seats as the attraction shifted to another part of the past.

Rockets Rods was a short lived ride which lasted only two years. The main complaints were that it had a long line and a short riding time. Although, I think Andrew and Skylar would have to add it was too fast!

Going through, almost if not the exact, track of the People Mover, the Rocket Rod car sped up, slowed to almost a stop and then ran forward with another burst of speed.

Whizzing past Star Tours first, the rest of the ride was going by just as fast.

The Rocket Rods were designed to make the rider feel the full effects of speed. The cars were open to allow as much air as possible to hit the passenger. A loud whining sound was also made to give the illusion of a jet in flight.

Rumor has it, Rocket Rods was cracking the concrete tank on Submarine Voyage.

There were many memories that went along with this ride.

Skylar compared the two owners of the track that now just lay empty in the present. The track was home to the fastest and slowest ride in the park. That in itself was pretty cool.

Before either of those attractions there was one more, but not on the track. It used the space of Rocket Rods queue and was eventually called Circle Vision 360.

The attraction showed four different films over the years. You would stand and look up at one of the nine screens that formed a circle very high above eye level.

This show of sorts was forgotten by most but it did last a good while from opening day.

Skylar and Andrew made it to the Innoventions building, but were reminded of its previous owners as well.

Inside was a mix of both the Carousel of Progress and America Sings.

The Carousel of Progress first debuted at the New York World's Fair in 1964. After Walt Disney presented it there, he moved it to his park for all to enjoy. Many say it was his favorite ride for he seemed especially devoted to it.

It was a four scene show that depicted an
Auto-Animatronic family that admired the technological advances of their time such as an ice box and gas lamps.

The attraction was eventually moved to Walt Disney World where it still lived today.

America Sings came next. The show consisted of many Audio-Animatronic animals singing a variety of songs from different times in America's history. When this closed almost all the animals headed over to Splash Mountain to keep on singing and a couple geese were turned into droids for Star Tours.

Used as office space for another decade people gave up much hope for another attraction in that building but finally Innoventions came to  be.

Mostly all of this history was known between the couple of teens in the Happiest Place on Earth. Their reason for collecting proof was not very strong at all. Although, neither seemed to notice for the most part.

Rocket Rods finally ended and after going around on that track twice, the pair were happy to leave it behind.

Back on ground level, everything around them was so different but very familiar as well. It had the same format but different attractions to fill the space.

Before they could do or say anything a metal clanking sound caught their attention.

"Hi yah!" Came a high-pitched slightly metallic voice.

Skylar gasped with delight.

"It's Push!" Andrew exclaimed.

A little silver trash can glided up to them.

Push was known as the talking trash can. He wandered through Tomorrowland talking to people and collecting trash as he went. People adored Push and his jokes in his squeaky voice made him all the cuter.

Nowadays, it was unclear what Disney had done with him but he no longer patrolled at Disneyland.

"Have any trash?" He asked in his chipper voice.

"I don't think so." Skylar giggled, still in awe him.

Andrew and Skylar both remembered him when they were young. Push was especially interactive with little kids because they always were putting their hands in his mouth (inside the trash can).

"You know, every time I see Pluto he treats me like a fire hydrant!" Push told them turning from one person to the other.

"Is that so?"

"Yeaaah!" Push complained. "And who are you guys anyway?"

"I'm Skylar and that's Andrew." She said gesturing between them.

"Coooool, hehehe." The trashcan laughed in such an adorable way. "Well, if you haven't got any trash, I'll be seeing yah!"

He rolled past them tittering some more.

"Where to?" Andrew asked as they headed in the direction of the Innoventions building.

Skylar took a look around and one specific attraction caught her eye.

"Fancy a ride on a UFO?" She asked.

"Sure, Flying Saucers it is." He replied compliantly.

Flying Saucers was a ride that was much like bumper cars. Sitting on the round spaceship with a seat that formed out of the middle, people would lean in the direction they wished to go. A whole grid under the UFOs was covered with valves that would stream low-pressure air out to propel them up. So, the experience was quite fun as people would float to and fro crashing into other, rather squishy, spaceships. In this sense, the ride's design was much like Luigi's Flying Tires, that was now also closed.

The attraction that Andrew and Skylar approached was a tad different. There were only two saucers just sitting in the middle of the floor. No arena surrounded them so that they wouldn't just go skidding down Tomorrowland and from what they saw there weren't any air valves to even make them float.

They walked up to the vehicles almost expecting a little green alien to emerge from it for the UFO was very real looking and bigger than they were at the park. There were no seats, but Skylar pried a hatch open from the circle part of the middle and looked down in to find that it was way bigger on the inside then it could possibly be. In that sense, it reminded her of a particular woman's carpet bag.

She crouched on the side of the disk and then gingerly stepped down into the hole. Feeling rungs of a ladder, Skylar carefully climbed down into the unknown until her head disappeared from the top. The cold metal of the ladder felt soothing to her perspiring hands that made her slip more than she wanted to.

Reaching the floor, before doing anything else, Skylar called up to Andrew to do the same with the other saucer. Her words just resonated back to her, bouncing off the steel walls.

"Hey! Look out the window!" Came Andrew's voice suddenly, but it was patched through a radio.

Skylar saw what she had gotten down into for the first time.

Almost a 360 degree long window panel showed lots of Tomorrowland and Andrew in the second UFO waving.

"The black joy stick in the middle basically controls all movement. I have no idea what all the other buttons and things do." His voice came from a radio hooked on a rack.

Under the elongated window was a control panel just as long. The joystick Andrew described was there along with many other interesting looking things to push or switch.

Skylar was about to pick up the radio when a thunderous crash shook the whole place. She found it was the result of the other saucer hitting hers as it was thrown bouncing back.

Grabbing the joystick herself, Skylar thrust it forward. The other spaceship filled up her whole window as she rammed it back. Both sprung back, turning and bobbing in different directions.

She heard chuckling over the walkie-talkie and looked across the pavement to see Andrew had rubber banded the talk button to stay on as the radio swung off the rack from it's wire.

"Is that all you got?" He challenged.

"Most definitely not." She replied, also strapping the radio to stay on.

Another few forceful hits and Skylar was beginning to recall more about this old attraction.

"You know, a German engineer first showed Walt a design of this ride but it had blades that made it float." Skylar called out.

"I did know that." Andrew said, taking to opportunity to slam into her. "I also know that Walt took that similar idea and created a safe way to bring in into his park with the help of the firm Arrow." He relayed this information cockily.

"Right!" Skylar said, hitting him back. "This attraction only lasted 5 years though, because it had many maintenance problems and didn't serve many people of the massive crowds at Disneyland."

"Now it is replaced by the Tomorrowland stage."

"You know this isn't a contest." Skylar said finally.

"I know, but we know so much already. I don't see the point in collecting evidence that we clearly already know."

"That's a moot point."

They had finally realized something that was hoped wouldn't be noticed. Whatever 'evidence' they had gathered was easily found on the internet, albeit most people didn't know about it. These two individuals were very up-to-date on anything and everything that had to do with Disneyland and overall Disney. Why were they even here?

The two didn't have but a moment to ponder this, when all of a sudden it was like the invisible valves shut and the two saucers just fell to the ground. It was a padded landing and their original height was only several inches off the ground so it wasn't a huge shock.

Having nothing left to do, both teens resulted to climbing back up and out of their UFOs. It was a weird sensation coming out to see the vast Tomorrowland and realizing they were in a tiny rocket that couldn't possibly fit a whole spaceship's interior let alone a person. It was as if they grew as they climbed but neither felt a change to themselves at all.

Either way, they had arrived right under a giant white rocket that had bright red stripes painted on it called the "Moonliner". The one currently in Disneyland is two-thirds this size, but the original towered very high indeed.

Seeing this, Andrew knew they were now at "Rocket to the Moon" or "Mission to Mars". He wasn't sure which due to the fact that they used the same building, one after the other, and were about the same ride.

They walked in the building which had two giant strangely shaped domes on top of it. Supposedly they opened to let the rocket shoot into space.

A sign above read "Next Flight Boarding: Now."

Down a hallway that had many exotic planets painted on it's walls, they came to a lab of sorts. The door's air tight seals were heard detaching from the door when they opened it and slipped inside.

The room they entered was the giant center of mission control, which consisted of three rooms of computers and Audio-Animatronic people sitting there controlling everything. The variety of screens on the wall showed various viewpoints of the space station they had and were managing.

"Welcome to mission control space travelers. The first part of your trip today will be directed through this room and also when your landing and returning to Earth." A mechanical man's tiny voice said.

He stood facing them while everyone else typed and talked through headsets. The man had an aged face and very thin hoary hair. Though a robot, it gave off a creepy vibe to both space travelers. It only reminded them of one thing as well, the Walt statue.

Half scurrying, half walking through curtains on the left as the man kept talking of the 'wonderful' things 'us humans' had done in space, Skylar and Andrew found themselves in the circular room of the rocket.

On the floor, dead center, was a screen/window that you could look through as Earth got smaller and smaller, and on the ceiling was another that allowed you to see where the craft was heading. All around the two viewing areas were rows of seats stacked like you were at a baseball game but there weren't any extremely high levels.

Circling half way around, the two teens picked seats on the very bottom row, their feet next to the window on the floor.

A captain spoke up from the cabin and a count down commenced. The first thing they saw through the bottom window were bright flames waving around violently in the sudden high winds helping to thrust the rocket to a start. Anaheim then came into their view, shrinking into the distance. Sooner than later, the whole Earth became a tiny speck as the adventure in space continued.

Turbulence in their seats was very minor, even when they went into 'Hyperspace' to reach their destination quicker.

The surface of the Moon was circled twice then Mars was reached. It's orange surface was flown very close to but never touched.

The captain began to spout factiods about the planets and the new-fangled hyperspace they used to get there so fast. Then suddenly, the ship is damaged but they were not 100% sure from what.

Back down they went and when the rocket finally landed, Skylar and Andrew were happy to depart, and not "come back again soon!" as the pilot had suggested.

Out into bright Tomorrowland again, there was one more ride of the past.

"Ready to go into a snowflake?" Andrew asked.

"I suppose, as long as it doesn't melt." Skylar responded, knowing very well what awaited them.

The Adventure Through Inner Space attraction had them play with the laws of human size much like Flying Saucers had in this alternate universe. Shrinking down to fit inside a snowflake was something everyone did at Disneyland from 1967 to 1985. Maaagggniiiffficccaatttion with the help of a microscope turned Andrew and Skylar smaller and smaller until they were the size of an atom. It was a fascinating sensation as well but being back to normal size was relieving.

Something else began to change, though they were glad it wasn't themselves. The giant snowflake diagram,the microscope, everything having to do with where they were began to change. The structure of the room was relatively the same but all it's contents were different.

The teenagers knew that in 1987 Adventure Through Inner Space was changed to Star Tours, and as two stormtroopers ran toward them it was apparent that they were back in the present.


"Bing!" Rang an alert on the computer.

Quinn jumped at the sound and ran to her laptop. "They're back online!" She exclaimed.

"You see them on the radar?" Kenton asked, joining her at the screen.

Two red blimps pinpointed the location of two people in Tomorrowland.

"Now I can try again." Quinn breathed with determination.

"What if they notice? Our transfer could have left some trace." He replied, balling his fist at the thought of them.

"They won't notice. I used their own encryption against them. They won't realize a thing." She talked with confidence but truly felt sick with uneasiness.

These two had escaped the organization, for now, without raising alarm and had retreated back to the only place they could call their own. Although before they left, Quinn may have downloaded some databases in order to have the same access they had there on her own computer.

"What will you send them?" Kenton questioned.

"This, to begin with."

"Good, they need to know."

So, hello my readers.
You may have noticed we have two *new* characters now. They seem interesting.

Anyways, I probably overwhelmed you with history! And if you knew some of it that's great!

Shout out to Push the Talking Trashcan, I miss him!

We now venture to the Star Wars attractions where things get more hectic.

Give this a vote, and comment if you wish...
~Thanks for reading <3

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