A/N: Crossover sequel to Cherry, Atticus, and The Rescuers, we only own our OC's, everyone else belongs to Disney. Also, Penny will be in this story, because well, she is a Rescuers character and she's family to Atticus now. Soo... Read & Review!
Mo was the winner of her class drawing for a vacation to Australia and she had called Atticus in advance to let him know that she won and she happily invited him and told him he could bring Cherry too.
"You guys think you might wanna go 'down under' with us?" Mo asked Scamp and Angel, if they stayed at home, they would have to be watched by Aunt Sarah and her cats, Si and Am.
"We can do that?" Angel asked her young mistress.
"Yeah, my teacher said I could take anyone, besides, it should be better than last summer... Though that was fun, I admit..." Mo smiled as she remembered because last summer was when she first met Atticus and Angel met Scamp.
"Yes, please take us with you, please." Scamp begged her.
Angel giggled at her boyfriend's enthusiasm. "Easy, tenderfoot."
"Okay, you guys can go." Mo smiled to the pups.
"Well, I think it's absolutely dreadful." Annette spoke up.
"Absolutely dreadful!" Colette echoed like always. "Who wants to go to a hot place with bugs and creepy crawlers and no home nuturing?"
"Sounds great to me!" Danielle spoke up, laughing, causing her sisters to glare at her.
"At least it would be better than staying here, having to be with Aunt Sarah and her evil cats." Scamp said.
"Aunt Sarah is not evil, she is just sophisticated." Annette huffed.
"Absolutely sophisticated." Colette repeated.
Danielle rolled her eyes. "I don't like Aunt Sarah... She smells like sweaty meatloaf and not the good kind..."
Mo chuckled, she then saw her adoptive baby brother. "Hi, Junior!" she beamed, picking him up in her arms to play with him.
Junior had began to like Mo more and more through out the days, weeks, and months since becoming his older adoptive sister. Mo loved Junior, but she had struggles, lately he had been able to say words instead of just simple baby talk, but he still hadn't called her by her name. She still loved the little tyke, but wished it would happen.
Cherry met Atticus, they were in her room, she lay down on her bed with her hair flopping against it as he sat in the chair next to the bed. "So, let me get this straight, you want me to go to Australia where there's humidity, a lot of bugs that'll creep me out, and I can't wear my jacket?"
"Yeah, that's right." Atticus said.
Cherry snorted a little, turning her back to him, staring at her dressers next to her bed. "No way... I'm not leaving to some hot spot while I could be here with the cool air of North America."
"It could be a new adventure." Atticus said.
"I've had enough adventure." Cherry smirked, still disagreeing.
"Alright, I guess I'll just have to be in Australia alone with Mo." Atticus said.
"Guess you will..." Cherry smirked.
There was a knock at the door.
"Yes?" Cherry asked.
Forte opened the door and looked down to his apprentice. "Ah, Cerise... Your parents and I have reached an agreement, since it's summer vacation, you'll have to spend twice amount of time with me."
"Say what...?" Cherry asked flatly.
"Well, since you spend two hours after school with me until your dinner time, I'll see you more now like on the weekends," Forte explained. "So that means, you and I will be spending a lot more time together with French lessons, organ lessons, and social interaction."
Cherry looked to Atticus. "How soon until we go?"
Atticus smirked, telling her when it was going to be.
"Oh, Cerise, don't you like spending time with your favorite mentor?" Forte leaned against the door-frame.
Cherry rolled her eyes. "Yeah... It's the best two hours out of my life that I coudl spend on the computer..."
"You spend too much time on that device anyhow..." Forte patted her head, before mysteriously walking off.
Cherry grunted, putting her hand to her face. "I regret saying goodbye to that jerk before I left Belle and Adam's place..."
"So, you better start packing for the trip." Atticus said, before leaving as well.
"Yeah, yeah..." Cherry rolled her eyes. "Welcome Australian mosquitoes to the all you can eat Cherry buffet..."
Atticus then tossed her a can of bug spray repellent.
"I suppose I'll be headed to the church..." Forte murmured to himself as he left Cherry's home. He then looked and saw Atticus walk by and out the house. "Excuse me, Atticus..." Forte said softly to the boy. "I better get myself home... I've dodged another bullet with spending quality time with Cerise..."
"Of course, sir." Atticus said.
"She never wants to be alone with me..." Forte sounded hurt.
"Well, like all children, she doesn't like doing any lessons no matter what they are." Atticus explained.
"Doesn't seem like her though, she's a very good student in school from what I've heard... Maybe she just doesn't like me..." Forte looked distantly. "I did nearly kill her on Christmas one year..." he murmured quietly.
"Yikes, well, I'm sure she hasn't held that against you." Atticus said.
"I don't know... Cerise is a bright girl, but has issues with her own life... I just wish I could make it up to her..." Forte looked to Atticus, then went into the church.
"You could come with us to Australia and try to relax." Atticus said.
"I would, but you don't want an old man like me to spoil your good time." Forte chuckled lightly.
"Would you rather be bored?" Atticus asked.
"I'll be fine, don't worry about me... You all go and have fun..." Forte assured he would be fine.
"Alright." Atticus said as he began walking away.
Forte smiled, but frowned as he sealed himself inside the church, away from everyone else again. Atticus was now home and going to his room to pack for the trip to Australia.
"I'm afraid I have to work." Patrick said to Atticus.
"And I promised a spa day with Jessica, Penny, and Darla," Emily added in.
Penny was sitting at the table, she was visiting over for a little during the summer. "Can I go?" she asked, wanting to go on another adventure with her cousins. "Please?"
"Oh, dear, I don't know..." Emily said softly. "What about the spa?"
"Please, Aunt Emily...?" Penny pouted, giving puppy dog eyes.
Emily knew that she just couldn't say no to her with those puppy dog eyes. "Okay, dear..." she smiled. "You can go with Atticus."
"Yes!" Penny cheered, she had been a lot happier ever since Bernard, Bianca, Cherry, and Atticus helped her get adopted. She then went to get packed for the trip.
"Sorry, girls, but we're going to be short one plus one today." Emily sighed, telling her daughters.
"Aww..." Darla pouted.
"We'll be okay." Jessica gently stroked Darla's curls.
Atticus went to his room to start packing for the trip.
"So, who's Moe?" Darla asked. "Does he play football at Atticus's school?"
"No, Mo is short for Monique, she's Atticus's girlfriend." Jessica smirked.
"Atticus has a girlfriend?" Penny asked in mild interest.
"Yes, I do have a girlfriend," Atticus said. "And you're just jealous, Jessica."
"Jealous?" Jessica raised a brow. "What would I be jealous of?"
"Of me having a girlfriend." Atticus said.
"I've had boyfriends..." Jessica mumbled.
"Yeah, but not one to stay long," Darla said, putting her hand on her hip. "Even I've had a boyfriend..."
"Fan boys don't count..." Jessica argued with her.
Darla rolled her eyes at that. "They do so!"
Penny came to her cousins. "Please don't fight, you guys are family."
"Sometimes families fight, but we all still love each other," Atticus said. "And the same in relationships."
Jessica and Darla exchanged glares, but they then soon hugged each other, being sisters now.
"Never been to Australia before..." Penny whispered. "What's it like?" she asked her cousins.
"I think it's humid, but I do know that there are lots of animals there." Atticus said.
Penny smiled, she was excited to be apart of this. "I guess I should pack shorts and shirts, right?"
"Yeah, sweetie, Australia's pretty warm," Jessica advised. "I learned about it in school last year and did a geography report on it. Made me wish I was there myself, maybe next time though."
"Yeah, we're about to get beautified." Darla patted her face with a smile.
Atticus had packed everything he needed for Australia. Emily, Jessica, and Darla helped Penny pack up too since she wanted to go with Atticus.
Mo finished packing for herself as Junior watched from his crib. "Well, I guess I'm ready to go." she smiled, looking to her baby brother. "Come on... Say my name... Please...?" she begged and pleaded.
Junior looked as though he was about to say something, it started with M, which kept Mo in suspense, but Elizabeth walked in then to check on things. "Mummy!"
Mo sighed, shaking her head.
Elizabeth saw what Mo was going through.
"Mom, why won't he say my name?" Mo looked up to her adoptive mother, when with other people, she tended to call her adoptive parents by their first names, but when home with them, she would call them 'Mom' and 'Dad', mostly for Junior's sake.
"I don't know, dear, but I'm sure that he will say your name sometime in the future." Elizabeth said.
Mo sighed, but then smiled. "I'm all packed. Angel and Scamp told me... I mean, I think I should take Angel and Scamp with me to Australia... I know they're puppies, but they could use a little culture, don't you think?"
"Well, alright, you can take them with you. But tell them to not get into any trouble, okay?" Elizabeth asked her adoptive daughter while winking.
Mo chuckled. "Yes, ma'am..." she nodded.
Junior clung to his mother, smiling up at her.
"And seems like someone wants to spend sometime with his mommy." Elizabeth said, bending down to pick up her son.
Mo smiled. "Go ahead, he's probably hungry."
Junior whimpered slightly, he actually did look hungry after his foster sister assumed that.
"Okay, okay, I'll feed you." Elizabeth chuckled as she picked up her son so then she could go and feed him.
Mo giggled. "Babies..." she smiled softly as she made sure she had everything.
Angel came into the room, nuzzling against her mistress. "I can't believe just a year ago we were in that junkyard, but on our way to a new home..."
"Yeah," Mo picked up her dog, nuzzling noses with her. "We're finally home, Angel."
"Yeah." Angel agreed.
"Now we're going to a whole new place." Mo placed Angel on her bed a she sat down beside her and showed the globe to the continent of Australia. "This is where we're going... From here," she pointed to where they were now and used her fingers like legs to walk across the globe to the new place. "To here!"
"Wow, that's going to be a huge new experience for us." Angel said.
"I never thought we'd be able to travel the world after the lives we had," Mo smiled as she put the globe back on her desk to do homework on. "By the way, nice bow." she teased her puppy about the pink bow Elizabeth and James gave her after they were moved into and adopted into the home.
"Tease me all you want, I like it and you're just jealous." Angel retorted.
Mo scoffed. "Who'd be jealous of their dog? ...Except for the fact I have to go to school while you're here with Scamp, the triplets, Junior, Lady and Tramp." She now saw Angel's point of how she could be jealous of her. "Whatever..." Mo playfully said, then got her bags under her bed so she would be ready. "I heard Atticus has a new cousin his aunt and uncle adopted named Penny."
"Does she like dogs?" Angel wondered, her puffy tail wagging.
Mo shrugged. "I dunno... Hopefully..." she smiled.
"So do I." Scamp said as he entered the room.
Angel smiled and nuzzled with him.
Mo rolled her eyes at the pups. "Get a room..." she teased them like a single friend with her friend that had a boyfriend, even if she liked Atticus, but wasn't ready to quite tell him yet.
"Oh, fine." Angel and Scamp said in unison.
Angel and Scamp then left the room so then they could enjoy each other's company, not wanting to disturb Mo. Mo chuckled, gently shutting the door after them.
James was letting Lady sit on his lap like old times, gently stroking her while Elizabeth had Junior. "I guess we'll all have to get used to Australia... I just hope the baby doesn't cry on the plane ride over."
"I'm sure he won't, he's been maturing lately... I can't believe he'll be three soon and ready for preschool..." Elizabeth gently rocked Junior for a nap.
"I can't believe it either." James said.
Lady smiled up at Junior, her best memory with him was how there was a rat in the house while 'Jim Dear' and 'Darling' were out of town and she tried to tell them, but Tramp came to the rescue to save Junior from being diseased and became adopted into the home.
Junior nuzzled against his mother.
"Jim Dear, could you put this away for me please?" Elizabeth handed the bottle filled with mother's milk.
"Of course, Darling." James took it with a smile.
The next day, everyone met at the airport to go to Australia.
"Everyone ready?" James asked.
"I believe so." Elizabeth said as she held her toddler son close in her arms.
"Let's get going." Cherry said as she joined them with Atticus.
"Yeah, before our flight leaves." Atticus said, he then blushed as he looked at Mo.
Mo blushed back as she got ready to go with them.
"Hey, wait for me!" Penny followed the others as they went to their plane to Australia.
"Hold on, everyone." Atticus said.
Penny panted as she tried to catch up. "I'm sorry I'm so slow..."
"That's alright, sweetie, we wouldn't leave without you." Elizabeth smiled at the former orphan girl.
Soon, everyone got on the plane, since they were small like cats, Scamp and Angel were allowed to sit in seats on the plane like anyone else.
"This is so cool." Atticus said as Scamp and Angel were able to sit in one of the seats.
Penny sat with Cherry while Mo was showing she got to sit with Atticus. Elizabeth played with and tickled Junior so he wouldn't cry, people were already complaining she brought her baby on the plane, but assured them he would be fine.
"It sure was nice of them to allow Junior, Angel, and Scamp on the plane." Atticus said while blushing.
"Yeah... Elizabeth and James told me they might not be able to do it because Scamp and Angel were dogs, but it was nice," Mo smiled back with slight blush. She saw it was time to go to the bathroom and when she got up to go herself, she saw Penny needed to go too. "I'll walk you, sweetie."
Penny smiled, taking Mo's hand, they also decided to use that time to get to know each other better. Cherry only got out into the aisle to briefly stretch her legs before going back on her electronics before they would land. Atticus began thinking that maybe after Mo got back from the restroom with Penny, that he would tell Mo about his feelings for her.
Cherry looked to Atticus. "You okay, buddy?"
"Y-Yeah, I'm just waiting for Mo so I can tell her something." Atticus said.
Cherry smirked a bit. "Yeah...?" she looked like she knew.
"Don't tell her, I want to be the one to tell her." Atticus said, knowing what she was thinking.
"What makes you think I would tell?" Cherry asked teasingly.
Atticus glared at her, telling her he was serious.
"Okay, okay, I won't tell her." Cherry chuckled, she was serious to promise not to tell though.
Mo waited for Penny outside the lavatory door as she was thinking about Atticus, sort of daydreaming about him. She even didn't notice Penny washing her hands and coming back out to be taken to her seat.
"Uh, Mo, you can use the restroom now." Penny said.
Mo blinked. "Huh? Oh, thanks, honey..." she smiled sheepishly, then went into the room. "Wait for me to take you back." she said before shutting and locking the door.
"I will." Penny said while waiting.
Mo did her business, then washed her hands, she thought of Atticus again before she wrnt out, then she took Penny's hand.
"Why are you acting so funny?" Penny asked the older girl.
"It's a big kid thing, Penny, you'll understand when you're older." Mo said a little shifty, but blushing before they went to return to their seats.
"Is it about Atticus?" Penny asked.
Mo bit her lip. "Maybe..." she said as her face grew red instantly.
"It is about Atticus." Penny said once she saw Mo turn red.
Mo sighed, rolling her eyes a little, but smiled. "Yes, it's about Atticus..." she admitted.
"Yes, I knew it!" Penny said out of victory.
"Don't tell him though," Mo got down to Penny's height, putting her hands on the girl's shoulders. "I want to tell him myself when I get the courage to."
"Okay, I won't tell him." Penny said, zipping her lips.
Mo giggled at that with a sweet smile. "You're a good kid, Stacy and Jeffry were lucky to have adopted you."
"And I'm lucky that they adopted me too." Penny said.
"I sorta know how you feel, kid..." Mo smiled sadly. "It's tougher than it seems for most people to be an orphan... You're born into the world with two people in your life you long for, but you don't know who they are or where they are... Sometimes you dream about them, even if you don't remember them very well, but if you believe in your heart, someone will take you in."
"Yeah." Penny said.
"I feel we were the same when I was your age," Mo smiled, she then took Penny's hand to take her back to their seats. "Come on, we'll be landing soon."
"Okay." Penny said as she followed Mo back to her seat.
Mo sat next to Atticus again while Penny sat with Cherry. Elizabeth was feeding Junior to soothe his gentle cries. Scamp and Angel had fallen asleep on the way, but they were almost there. Atticus and Mo were both now blushing, wanting to tell the other about their feelings for the other.
"Atticus/Mo." the two said each other's names at the same time, but blushed and laughed a little nervously.
"Atticus... I... I..." Mo tried to spit it out, but the pilot made an announcement that they were landing and had to get ready to get off the plane.
'*sighs* Thanks a lot.' Atticus thought.
Mo sighed, she missed her chance.