Meanwhile with the others...
Tom and Jerry gasped and panted as they climbed up together.
"I can't believe it, finally!" Tuffy smiled. "Oh, you were right, Uncle Jerry, all we had to do was follow the star!"
"Yep." Jerry nodded out of tiredness.
"A little help here?" Paulie's voice asked.
Bandit and Patch soon helped up the elf decoration only to have a bunch of yarn coming loose.
"Can you imagine?" Paulie smile nervously as he was nothing but a head, hands, and a pile of string. "I got snagged on a branch, sure hope the Toy Maker's got some knitting needles."
"I'm sure he does." Muscles said.
Jerry turned around and the clouds cleared up to show a sign which read TOY MAKER with a star replacing the O. They then went to the workshop together.
"We've done it!" Tuffy cheered.
"Wahoo!" Patch smiled.
"I've never been happier." Jonny smiled back with Bandit.
"Nothing can stop us now." Paulie beamed.
Unfortunately, they were soon surrounded by the cats.
"Oh, come on!" Muscles complained.
"How did you even find us?" Tom glared at his cousin and ex-friends.
"Your little horsey friend told us." Butch smirked to Tom.
"I shall pummel you vigorously if you hurt but a single hair in her mane." Tuffy glared as he punched the air.
"Yeah, so she better not be hurt." Muscles added.
"Hurt her?" Butch laughed. "Alls we did was pull her string, and we couldn't shut her up."
"Uncle Jerry, we have come so far." Tuffy pouted up to his uncle with sad puppy dog eyes.
"Uncle Jerry, we have come so far." Butch mocked before laughing with George.
Muscles began to glare only for Patch to hold him back as he had a smirk as he had a feeling the toy maker would come out, opening the door which would send the evil cats flying.
"Hey!" Patch glared.
"Wait for it..." Muscles smirked.
SLAM! the door soon opened by the human toy maker who had a jolly smile, and the cats soon rolled down the mountain in a giant snowball.
"They had that coming." Muscles smirked.
"Huh, I'm kinda glad you stopped me." Patch smirked back.
They soon saw the man who opened the door. "Are you fine fellows here to see me?" The toy maker smiled.
"Yes, sir," Jonny replied. "I guess you're the toy maker?"
"At your service, lads." The man smiled.
"Thank goodness." Patch smiled back.
"You're also a toy repairer, right?" Paulie asked.
"Don't you worry," The toy maker soothed him. "I've fixed a broken toy or two in my time."
"That's great." Muscles said.
"I guess no one's weirded out about walking and talking toys." Jonny commented.
"Hmm..." Bandit hummed about that curiously.
"Oh, young boy, all toys have their own story," The toy maker said as he soon set Paulie down to work on him. "You just haven't noticed it before."
"I should be honest with you, I'm not really a toy." Paulie said.
"Yes, I remember, you're a decoration, not suitable for play, but you have the heart of a toy, so you shall be one, my son." The toy maker smiled to Paulie.
"Did you make all of these?" Jonny asked as he looked at all of the toys in the house.
"Oh, yes, and I've been following your adventures longer than you've known," The toy maker nodded as he began to help out Paulie. "You need a solution to your cat problem."
Jerry and Tuffy nodded to this.
"Well, I think I've got the answer." The toy maker said.
"Do you know what's happened to Nellie?" Patch asked.
"Oh, her," The toy maker frowned as he brought out a running toy of the horse toy turning away in sadness. "I'm afraid she's become discouraged, she feels she's betrayed you, and that you'd never want to see her again."
"But that's not true, she couldn't help it after they pulled her string." Tom said as he turned the toy around to show a happy Nellie.
"Oh, I knew I was right about you," The toy maker chuckled. "Little folks with big hearts! Are you ready?"
"Ready for what?" Tuffy smiled.
"Presenting the new and improved: Paulie Pixie!" The toy maker smiled back as he brought out their friend with a new look.
"Thanks, TM," Paulie smiled to him and the others. "Guess what? I'm a real toy! Suitable for play patterns!"
"That's amazing." Bandit smiled.
"Oh, Paulie, may I?" Tuffy asked as he came to pull on the elf's threads.
"Be my guest." Paulie allowed.
Tuffy began to pull Paulie's head. Paulie laughed as he was able to stay all in one piece.
"Oh, Tuffy, careful." Jerry told his nephew.
"I think Paulie's going to be okay, cous." Muscles chuckled.
"Your cousin is right," The toy maker told Jerry. "I used a lot more glue this time, but there's something you should know."
"What is it?" Jonny asked.
"When the sun rises, the magic that created your kingdom will begin to fade, and if you fail to reclaim your throne by the time the sun has climbed into the sky it will remain the domain of the cats forever." The toy maker began as he showed them a storybook.
"That's terrible." Jonny frowned.
"Is there a way to fix it, sir?" Patch hoped.
"There is a way to recapture your kingdom," The toy maker informed. "And this, my little friend, is the key."
"A wind-up key?" Jonny asked the toy maker.
"But of course, and it's right here." The toy maker smiled as he held out the key.
"Um, thanks?" Jonny said, confused.
"I wish I could stay to see what's in store for you, but I have some important errands I must run." The toy maker told the group as he soon went into another room, taking off his work apron.
"He looked kind of familiar." Patch said after the toy maker left.
"You think so?" Bandit asked.
"Something about him does, I just can't put my paw on it..." Patch replied. "Oh, well, come on, guys, we've got a kingdom to save."
"Yeah, but how is a wind-up key gonna help us?" Jonny asked.
"Hmm..." Jerry hummed in thought before he soon looked over to see The Store Room. "Maybe something in there can help."
"Are there any toy soldiers in there?" Patch asked.
"Yeah, there's a whole bunch!" Jerry replied. "It's like a whole toy soldier army in here!"
"So, that's how the key is going to help." Jonny smiled.
"Ooh, this is going to be awesome." Tom grinned in excitement.
"Yeah, it is." Muscles smiled.
George looked into a window to see the soldiers and panicked as he then rushed off to tell the other cats.
Meanwhile, back at the kingdom...
"Sir, what are you doing?" The adviser asked his king.
"Huh? Oh, uh, well..." The Cat King stammered as he soon sat up from the floor. "Um, I'm certainly not playing with keys."
"Keys?" The adviser asked before seeing where one of the keys was. He saw that the cage was open and the girls were gone. "Oh, no..."
"Don't worry," The Cat King told him before holding out the key. "They left this."
The adviser could now see how stupid the cat king was. He soon ran off to alert the guards of what had happened with the trapped girls. Everyone else was soon getting ready and Tuffy was playing a drum like a Little Drummer Mouse.
"Take the lead, cousin." Muscles smiled to Jerry.
"You sure, Muscles?" Jerry asked.
"You're the Mouse King." Muscles smiled.
"All right..." Jerry smirked as he then took out his own sword. "Frontward, ho!"
The soldiers then put their weapons up.
"Wow, they do whatever I say," Jerry chuckled before looking serious again. "Ready, all of you, and go!"
They began to make their way back to the kingdom.
"This is kinda fun." Jerry chuckled about being the Mouse King.
Meanwhile, George had arrived at the kingdom. Jerry led his army toward the kingdom to rebel against the Cat King. George rushed into the castle and began to try to get the Cat King outside.
"Do you mind?" The adviser huffed to him. "We're right in the middle of a doll crisis."
George was soon able to get the Cat King out.
"Your Majesty, we have bigger problems, though ironically small." George told him as he pointed to the incoming army.
The sun soon rose as the army came.
"Oh, boy!" The Cat King panicked and soon held out the adviser for safety. "Do somethin'!"
"Don't just stand there!" The adviser panicked to George. "Do something!"
"Um, y-yes, sir." George said.
The Cat King glared which soon sent off George. George nearly dropped his whistle as he ran off, but he soon blew it to summon in the other cats. And where the other cats soon arrived and where Butch began to try to keep balanced as he had big muscles almost too big. George gathered them together like a police who directed traffic only to get hit by all of them due to the cluster.
"This way, men." Jerry told his soldiers.
"Maybe I went a little high on the helium of my fake muscles." Butch said.
"Ya think?!" George complained. "Men, get ready, they're coming!"
Jerry and the others were very close now. Two cats got the cannon ready and a kitten shot his rifle at the soldiers. Muscles was able to keep the soldiers from getting hit. The ones that did fall though were instantly brought back up. The black kitten soon backed up in slight fear, he tried to shoot again only to overdo it and soon ended up in the cannon and his cork fell flat on the ground.
Butch began to march towards Muscles. Muscles glared up at Butch. Butch smirked as he looked back down at Muscles.
"Time that I made you shorter." Butch smirked.
Muscles soon grabbed a hold of his whiskers and plucked them out like Uncle Pecos did around Tom.
"YOW!" Butch yelped before glaring. "Oh, you little cheese muncher!" He soon raised his fist and hammered it down onto Muscles only for it to be dented like in a classic cartoon.
"When the kids these days say 'Pound it', I don't think they mean this..." Muscles muttered as he was flat as a pancake now before he soon puffed out back to normal.
"Hello there, Cousin," George glared at Tom. "You seem to have come out short lately."
"Yeah, but I've gotten stronger." Tom sneered.
"Don't even think of trying to scare me with your mouse friend," George glared back. "I got over that a long time ago."
Tom soon stomped over to him and grabbed his tail.
"What the?!" George asked out of surprise.
Tom soon smirked as he started to lift his cousin up.
"Put me down!" George demanded.
"No, I don't think so." Tom glared at his cousin as he used his strength, and started to spin him around.
"Stop it!" George begged.
"Oh, I will." Tom smirked to his cousin. He soon sent his cousin flying to the cat army.
The cat army ran to attack the toy soldiers but soon skid on the ground to stop as George whammed into them like a bowling ball to a bunch of pins.
"Strike!" Tom cheered.
"Way to go, Tom!" Jerry smiled.
"Why, thank you." Tom bowed.
Another cat tried to launch a cannon, only for it to be turned right-side up and the ball plummeted into the air and then came back into the cannon, destroying it.
"Ooh, that's gotta hurt." Patch smirked before checking on Muscles.
"Back for more, huh?" Butch taunted Muscles.
"You better believe it." Muscles glared.
"Alright then," Butch smirked as he hammered his right fist down on him only for his fist to be dented on impact. "OW!"
"You leave Cousin Muscles alone, you big bully!" Tuffy glared at the black cat before going to stop him only for Jerry to hold him back by his tail.
"Uh, let's leave this to your big, strong cousin." Jerry smiled nervously.
"He is beating up Muscles though, Uncle Jerry!" Tuffy glared. "Let go of me!"
"But do you see Muscles getting hurt?" Jerry asked.
"No." Tuffy said.
"Then he's fine," Jerry told Tuffy. "Besides, you're too young to fight on your own."
"I guess." Tuffy pouted.
Jonny and Bandit were even fighting as Jonny had a steely-eyed gaze in his eyes of determination to save Robyn, and where Bandit was already ready to fight the cats.
"You're not bad, Golden Boy..." The fat cat glared as he fought Jonny.
"I'm more than just a simple boy," Jonny glared back. "I'm Jonny Quest, and I will win back Robyn Starling."
"We'll see about that, kid." The Cat King smirked.
"Try and get me, you overgrown hairball!" Jonny glared at the Cat King.
The Cat King began to get more aggressive after what Jonny said. Jonny glared as he sword-fought against the Cat King.
"Don't give up, Jonny!" Bandit coached. "Do it for Robyn!"
After sword-fighting for a while, Jonny had won. The Cat King soon fell down as he lost his own sword.
"Do you give?" Jonny smirked as he held his sword bravely and heroically.
"Yeah, kid," The Cat King frowned. "I give."
"Good..." Jonny replied as he then put his sword away. "Also, I believe your throne rightfully belongs to Jerry."
"Oh, o-of course." The Cat King said.
"I don't wanna have to do this again," Jonny replied. "Now go."
"Of course." The Cat King said.
Jonny nodded firmly as the Cat King soon surrendered and ran off like a coward and the cat army soon retreated since they couldn't face the others.
"AND STAY OUT!" Bandit and Patch barked loudly to ruin their escape since they were cats by making it worse.
"Hey, look who's back." Tom smiled as he saw Nellie.
Nellie smiled as she came toward the others while the girls came out of the kingdom.
"Oh, Jerry!" The ballerina beamed as she hugged the brown mouse. "I never doubted you."
"Tuffy, thank heavens!" Mariana gasped with tears while hugging and kissing her son.
"Mama, not in front of everyone." Tuffy blushed.
"I was just so worried about you." Mariana cooed to Tuffy.
Robyn soon hugged Jonny, Bandit, Tom, and Jerry. Jonny blushed from the hug.
"Oh, I'm so glad you guys are okay," Robyn smiled to Tom and Jerry before looking to Jonny and Bandit. "Especially you guys."
"No biggie." Jonny smiled back to Robyn.
Robyn soon gave him a kiss as a reward.
"Aw!" Mariana smiled.
Robyn and Jonny smiled back to Mariana, though Jonny blushing more than Robyn did earlier. Nellie was coming to see the others only to be crushed by a bunch of bricks.
"NELLIE!" Tom and Jerry cried out and ran to the fallen horse doll.
"Is she...?" Tuffy was about to ask until he buried his face in his mother's dress.
Patch started to get the bricks all out of the way.
"Oh, Nellie, please don't die..." Jerry begged as he reached out and pulled on the horse doll's string. "Please... Speak to me!"
Nellie didn't say anything that time, even with her string pulled.
"Oh, no..." Patch frowned.
Tom frowned himself, he tried not to cry, but he couldn't help himself.
"She was the bravest one of us all." Tuffy said as he cried.
A spotlight soon shined down on the horse doll. Everyone was saddened for Nellie until they looked up at the light. A magic spark soon came down and hovered Nellie into the air like when Prince Adam was going to turn back into a human after Belle proclaimed her love for him to break the spell. She was then zapped and looked alive again, only this time, she didn't have a string.
"I'm alive!" Nellie smiled to the others.
"And you can talk without a string." Patch smiled.
"It's a Christmas miracle!" Muscles even cheered.
Robyn and the ballerina soon danced with Jonny and Jerry. Mariana smiled about how sweet and romantic that looked.
"Look at 'em." Paulie smiled.
"Now that's what I call a happy ending." Nellie smiled back.
"Same here." Patch added.
The toy maker and ballerina dancer seemed to be in the audience and applauded the show. The ballerina dancer even threw a rose to Jerry and he caught it before bowing as the curtain closed.
"That was amazing!" Robyn smiled.
"Just like you." Jonny smiled back to her.
"Jonny~..." Robyn blushed.
They were soon brought back to their original size. Robyn and Jonny blinked before looking around to see that they were back in the theater seats as though nothing had happened.
"Was it all a dream?" Robyn wondered.
"Maybe." Jonny said.
"Come on, kids, time to go." Dr. Quest told Robyn and his son.
"Okay." Robyn and Jonny said.
"Robyn, where's your locket?" Mr. Starling asked.
"What do you mean, Daddy?" Robyn asked as she was pointing to her empty neck. "It's right-*gasp!*"
"Uh... I have it, remember, Robyn?" Jonny smiled as he put the locket around her neck like a gentleman. "Here, let me put that there. A pretty girl without a necklace is just a girl."
"Thank you." Robyn smiled back.
"I guess you two enjoyed the ballet too?" Mr. Starling asked.'
"Oh, yes, Daddy, it was wonderful," Robyn smiled. "Especially with Tom, Jerry, and Jonny."
Everyone soon left the theater. Mariana carried Tuffy in her arms as he had fallen asleep.
"I'll ask Mike if you guys can visit sometime soon." Muscles said to Jerry and Patch.
"Awesome." Patch smiled.
"Thanks, cous." Jerry added.
"No problem," Muscles replied. "You wanna come to Pus-I mean, Tom?"
"Maybe another time," Tom said. "I kinda wanna rest after a big adventure like this against my cousin."
"Alright." Muscles said.
"But sign us up." Jerry said about him and Patch.
"Can do." Muscles nodded as they were on their way back to the Starling household since they were part of Robyn's family now too.
The End
