"Goodbye... Bye... Goodbye..." Dorothy said softly as she soon woke up somewhere else.

"Are we back?" Estelle groaned as she woke up next.

Felicity rubbed her eyes before looking up and around before they seemed to end up in the middle of a normal forest, seeing a bird in a high tree, chirping away.

"Looks like we're back." Jetta said before flinching in disgust as she looked dirty.

"I think they ended up over here." Clifford's voice said before he and the other dogs began to sniff for their humans, going towards them as they followed their noses.

"Come on then, let's go!" Scruffy's voice added.

The dogs and Snow White soon came over as they went to look for their humans after the great big flood before the adventure in Oz.

"Toto?" Dorothy soon called out for her dog. "Toto! Toto! Toto! Toto!"

"That's my girl!" Toto yipped before he ran towards Dorothy and she smiled as she hugged him in her arms.

Eventually, the other pets did the same with their own humans as Clifford was the happiest to do it with Emily Elizabeth since he couldn't do it very often due to his normal giant size.

"That sure was something." Jetta said.

"Even if you got a little dirty?" Max asked.

"Yes," Jetta rolled her eyes. "I might have to spend the next few months in the bathtub to get these stains out and that doesn't even begin with my clothes!"

"Dorothy? Dorothy! Dorothy!" A familiar man's voice called out before it was shown to be Uncle Henry as he rushed out with delight and ran to his niece to hug her right away. "Oh, are you and your friends alright?"

"It's pretty good to see you, sir." Vaz smiled as he felt happy for Dorothy's reunion.

"We're alright, sir." Vincent said.

"I'd almost given up hope." Uncle Henry smiled warmly.

Aunt Em soon rushed over with a happy laugh before she wrapped her niece up in a nice, warm blanket as some officers and Em and Henry's helpers from the farm came with her.

"Up you go!" Uncle Henry smiled as he wrapped Dorothy up in the blanket and carried her in his arms.

"And you all, it's good to see that you're alright too, though you shouldn't have come way out here to help Dorothy," Auntie Em told her niece's new friends. "You could've gotten sick or hurt."

"Guess the crystal doubles must've expired after a while back on the farm." Akito said to himself since Auntie Em realized that they were here too.

They soon began to walk past the group of people.

"I wonder what happened here last night?" Felicity asked from what happened in Kansas while they were left in Oz.

"Hard to say." Max replied.

"But I know." Emily Elizabeth whispered to herself.

"The clinic was hit by lightning and it burned to the ground," Aunt Em said as she comforted Dorothy. "Everybody was rescued except Dr. Worley. He ran in to rescue his machines."

"Wow." Vaz said.

"What happened to the nurse?" Jetta asked.

"I think the authorities are having a word with her." Aunt Em replied.

The others wondered about that before they saw a paddy wagon rolling by with Miss Wilson in the back, being carried off, like Princess Mombi in the cage back in Oz as she stared at the kids in defeat.

"Serves her right." Emily Elizabeth said.

"I had quite the time with my new friends." Dorothy said.

"You were always quite the dreamer," Uncle Henry replied softly. "Like your mother was. You remind me so much of her."

They soon went to go back to the farm as Uncle Henry was putting their home back to normal and in better shape, unlike their last home that suffered from the tornado storm.

"Sure looks great." Estelle smiled.

"I'm sure you'll feel a lot happier here, Dorothy." Emily Elizabeth added.

"I'm sure I will too." Dorothy smiled as she looked out the window as she pulled out the curtain to see her uncle working.

"Hi, hon!" Uncle Henry smiled as he saw her and waved at her.

Dorothy smiled back, though she frowned a little bit as she looked at the henhouse as she just thought about Billina being gone before she soon came over to the mirror to look at her reflection. "Ozma." She whispered.

The blonde girl soon appeared in the mirror and smiled at Dorothy as she hugged Billina in her arm who wore the Oz key as a necklace.

"Aunt Em, come and look!" Dorothy soon called out urgently.

"What is it, darling? I'm busy." Aunt Em's voice replied.

"Time for my time to shine." Scruffy said before going to have a talk with Aunt Em.

Toto looked over while everyone stayed in the room.

"Nothing," Dorothy soon called back to her aunt. "Just a reflection." she then decided to turn the mirror around to the other side after seeing Ozma and Billina as she knew that Oz wasn't just a dream.

"Why don't you just show her?" Jetta asked.

"I'm not sure." Dorothy replied thoughtfully as she took out what Toto found for her from the old house and looked at it again as it brought her some kind of comfort.

"Ooh! Puppy, settle down now!" Aunt Em said as she tried to soothe Scruffy as he pulled onto her dress before she took out a glass container of doggy treats and decided to hold one out. "Maybe a biscuit will settle you down, but you have to do a trick first."

Scruffy shook his head before he thought about it and nodded as that sounded like a good plan.

"Let's see... Can you sit?" Aunt Em tried out. "Sit, boy! Sit!"

Scruffy blinked at her.

"No? Okay... How about... Roll over!" Aunt Em then said, but Scruffy still didn't budge. "Oh, I hope Toto doesn't mind this... But alright... Maybe you'd like to... Speak?!"

"Hey, how's it going?" Scruffy then smirked innocently.

Aunt Em looked a bit wide-eyed before cleaning the inside of her ear as she thought she was hearing things. "I must be hearing things; I could have sworn that-" she then started to say.

"I talked? Yep, I did." Scruffy nodded.

Aunt Em nearly dropped the glass container.

"Whoa! Careful!" Scruffy said before he rushed over to carry the glass container on his back before it would hit the floor. "I don't think Toto would've liked it if this thing got smashed."

"Not really, I wouldn't," Toto replied as he came down the stairs. "I thought I smelled my dog biscuits."

Aunt Em then looked at him as he talked.

"Don't worry, you're not crazy, and that place you took Dorothy to was horrible!" Toto soon told Aunt Em. "Animals can talk in Oz, and I guess somehow I'm able to talk here in Kansas even though I couldn't before."

"You can thank magic." Dot smiled.

"Magic is not real..." Aunt Em said softly.

"But it's true." The pets told her as Snow White looked sleepy since it was daytime and she was more playful at night.

Dorothy soon put the mirror back before she opened up the paper that Toto got for her as she looked at the married couple in the photograph again as it brought her great comfort somehow, probably because it came from her hold home. Aunt Em was about to disagree with the pets when she saw Dorothy looking at the married couple in the photograph.

"They seem nice." Emily Elizabeth said about the people in the photograph.

"I think so too." Dorothy smiled.

"Dorothy, let me see that." Auntie Em told her niece.

Dorothy looked over and soon let her aunt look at the picture.

"...Where did you find this?" Auntie Em asked softly as she took the picture, putting her glasses on to make sure that she saw it correctly.

"We ran into the old house in the middle of Oz," Dorothy told her guardian. "The old house that fell on and crushed the Wicked Witch of the East from the first time that Toto and I went to Oz and we met the Munchkins."

After seeing the photograph, Aunt Em now knew that Oz was real since the photograph was in the old house before the twister came. Dorothy looked up at her aunt.

"Oh, Dorothy... I'm so sorry we didn't believe you about the last time..." Aunt Em said emotionally.

"Auntie Em, what's wrong?" Dorothy asked.

Emily Elizabeth and the others had a feeling they knew who the married couple were with of how emotional Aunt Em was. Aunt Em hugged Dorothy good and tight.

"Are they... Are those... Were...?" Vaz stammered as he tried to ask his question.

"Dorothy, do you know who these people are?" Aunt Em rhetorically asked her niece before simply telling her. "This is John and Annie Gale."

"John and Annie Gale? But if they have the same last name as me, then that means that those two in the picture are-" Dorothy started.

"Yes, Dorothy, they are your parents," Aunt Em said softly. "You don't remember them and I'm sorry."

"What happened to them?" Dorothy asked.

"Just think of them as being right here..." Auntie Em said as she touched her niece's heart. "They'll be in your dreams and be in your heart forever."

Dorothy gave a small smile from that, though she still felt sad as she knew this was going to be a sad story.

"Long before you were born, your father was drafted into a war, but I'm afraid he didn't make it..." Aunt Em frowned. "Your mother and father shared letters with each other very often and were crazy in love."

The others smiled a bit, happy to know that Dorothy's parents loved each other very much.

"Your mother felt so devastated and didn't know what to do," Aunt Em then continued. "Soon, she came to us for help... Your Uncle Henry insisted that your mother stay with us, but she was also about to have a child and I'm sure you can guess who that child was."

"Me." Dorothy realized.

"That's right," Auntie Em nodded. "When it was time for you to be born, we did everything we could to help... However, after you were born, your mother's heart quit on her..."

Dorothy frowned after hearing that. Aunt Em hugged Dorothy good and tight as she knew just how her young niece felt.

"You all did a very nice job, even your Birdwell Island friends." A familiar voice said behind Akito, Estelle, Felicity, and Vincent.

The four then turned around to see that it was Celestia. "Celestia." The Fudo cousins said.

"It's good to see you kids." Celestia smiled.

The four soon hugged her instantly once they saw her.

"What're you doing outside of Silver Shoals?" Felicity asked.

"And in our world?" Vincent added.

"I had to help a very dear old friend of mine next to Zeus," Celestia replied. "I had a vision that something terrible was happening and I knew that you could help young Dorothy Gale while I had to help Ozma somehow, so that's why I sent you all here away from that place, Birdwell Island."

"Ohh." The Fudo cousins smiled.

"So thank you all so much." Celestia smiled back before rewarding them with their very own Equestrian medallions like their parents used to have when they transferred to Canterlot High School and had their various adventures in Equestria.

"Ooh." The Fudo cousins beamed.

Celestia smiled back warmly. The Fudo cousins then hugged Celestia happily before a new bright light appeared.

"Come on, you two," Auntie Em soon told Dorothy and Toto as she decided to frame the picture of her niece's parents to make her feel more comfortable and happy to have the image with her. "It's too nice a day to stay inside."

Dorothy smiled in agreement. "Come on, Toto," she then told her dog before they ran outside together. "Toto, come on!"

As Dorothy and Toto rushed outside, the bright light filled the whole area.

At the Howard house, Norman and Carolyne were coming back home, similar to when George and Mary Darling came home after their kids had an adventure in Never Land.

"I sure hope the kids were alright despite the storm." Norman said to his wife as they began to come to the house.

"I'm sure Max kept a good eye on them," Carolyne smiled. "My nephew is very responsible for his age."

"Of course, you're right." Norman replied.

They soon arrived at the house before walking up to the front door. They passed the living room as they went straight to Emily Elizabeth's room and felt concerned before they saw their daughter on the couch with their friends as the movie was over.

"Emily Elizabeth!" Carolyne gasped.

"Hm?" Emily Elizabeth blinked before she woke up and beamed. "Oh, Mom! Dad! We're back!"

"Back?" Norman asked out of confusion.

"I guess you kids fell asleep watching your movie," Carolyne said. "I'm glad the storm didn't bother any of you though."

"Yeah, the power went out all over, we had to get to safety ourselves, but it's good to see you're all okay." Norman added with a smile.

"It was all a dream?" Jetta asked. "Oz? Meeting Dorothy? Everything?"

"Oh, I don't know about that," Akito smiled innocently as he held his medallion. "You could say it's the start of some brand new adventures."

The others looked confused as Akito, Estelle, Felicity, and Vincent each shared a knowing smile before they soon had some breakfast before the guests would go back home after a big adventure together.

"It couldn't have been a dream." Vaz said.

"It sounds like it was to me." Norman replied.

"You believe us, don't you guys?" Charley asked the visitors outside of Birdwell Island.

"Of course," Estelle smiled. "We go on adventures like this all the time."

"Those are nice necklaces, kids," Carolyne said as she walked by. "I don't think I saw you wear those yesterday."

"Aha!" Jetta smiled. "Those medallions are proof that it wasn't a dream!"

Felicity chuckled a bit with her cousins.

"Okay, so I had a bit more fun than I thought I would," Jetta shrugged as she crossed her arms. "Though I wish that Mac could've been with us."

"Max, I'm so sorry I acted so jealous," Mike frowned as he bowed his head at the older blonde boy. "I had no idea that you were Emily Elizabeth's cousin."

"It's okay," Max smiled. "I just hope you keep a good eye on her for me whenever I'm gone. She's like a little sister to me."

"I sure will." Mike nodded.

"Then you're forgiven," Max smiled. "Maybe you guys could visit me next time and face Skullmaster. You can meet my friends there too," he then suggested. "Bea, Felix, and Thor."

"You have a friend named Thor?" Felicity asked.

"Well, okay, Thor's my pet iguana," Max replied. "He's back home with my mom."

"Eww!" Jetta complained about meeting an iguana.

"Which is why I didn't bring him." Max then said as he expected that reaction from a girl like Jetta.

"Smart decision." Akito said.

"Meanwhile, I think when we get home, I'm gonna meet Barbie and Kelly's cousin they told me about." Estelle smiled.

"Cousin?" Akito asked. "Which cousin?"

"I haven't met her, but they said her name was Polly Pocket," Estelle said as she took out a photograph of a cute young blonde girl. "They told me she was gonna come visit sometime and that when she does, we should come over to meet her."

"...She seems cute." Max whispered bashfully.

"I suppose she is." Emily Elizabeth smirked playfully.

Max looked a bit bashful as everybody shared a bit of a laugh together while continuing their breakfast before they would go back home after a very unforgettable and wonderful adventure together. Soon after breakfast came time for the guests at the Howard house to go back home. There would be many other surprises as Mike smiled as he decided to hang out with Max a bit as friends and honorary family once he got over his jealousy, but until next time...

The End