Long before there was a country in the untamed lands of Nuevo Iwerkos. foreign sailors found their way to the great Timed Rivers.
Captain Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell was amongst one of the first settlers to sail to the Timed Rivers (pronounced tie-med rivers). His crew composed of him, the captain and his cabin boy, William 'Willie' Mouse. The seasoned Maverick admired Willie's loyalty and hired him to explore the new lands.
Oh, and I forgot to mention, this is a world populated by anthropomorphic animals. It is also a world where our laws of physics is practically, non-existent.
Therefore, expect wacky, nonsensical and hijinks to occur.

The day Captain Mitchell and Willie set sail, they shook each others' hands like they were in a band and ready to explore new lands.
What Maverick, a greedy, calculating but fair bobcat, did not know was, while young Willie was a loyal subordinate... he was also, a bit of a rascal, literally.
The little mouse would often play practical jokes with his colleagues. 'Jokes' such as tying someone's cow up a tree or playing a hippo's teeth like a set of instruments.
It was quite fortunate for Willie that Maverick did not know of his troubled past, most would say.

"Boy! Yer and me are going to be the first to set foot on the new lands! That's today, today yer hear me?" Captain Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell growled whils smoking his cigar, steering his comically small steamboat that appears 'massive'.
"Haha, we're going to build an empire! Traders will think of us first in this whole new world, haha!" the mouse giggled while cleaning the cabin.
"Well s'cuse-a-you! You mean, I am going to be thought of first, in my whole new world, muhaha!"
Willie smirked, cracked a devilish smile and stopped what he was doing. His instincts were taking over, he must teach the captain a lesson.

Little Willie took his bucket and stealthily climed on top of Captain's room.
Still with cigar in mouth, the bobcat blinked and sheepishly mumbled,
"Now boy, I will divide that share ev-"
Maverick was interrupted when the trapdoor above was knocked open.
"Look, Captain! There's a helpless mouse in distress who seemed to have drifted here somehow!" Willie whistled and yelled.
"Where now??" the mischievious rodent dumped the large bucket of salt water onto Maverick's head, startling him. Willie snorted and laughed to himself and tried to slowly walked away from the trapdoor to the Captain's room.
Of course, the bobcat immediately bursted into the cabin upwards and in swinged his arms around utter rage.
"Why you little- I'll turn yer into seven servings of ratatouille! You'll hope yer never set foot on this ship! I will m-"
While Maverick continued cursing at Willie mindlessly, the little rodent looked at what's in front of the boat and gasped soundlessly...

"You will regret crossing me, yer hear me??? No one ever crosses Captain Pete 'Maverick' Mi-" the flaming bobcat suddenly stopped, turned around and gulped like a fish.
A giant iceberg lied ahead of the steamboat, taunting the two sailors with its reflective, shiny shell. Its image reflect in the eyes of the pair, frozen in place.
"YEOOOOOOOOW-' Before they can react, the ship made contact with the iceberg, colliding and blowing up into countless, little smithereens.
S. S. Maverick was no more...
...
...
Deep underwater, the lifeless Willie was drifting into the endless void, under the sea. He would have surely, soon enough, drift to his immediate death but... he did not.
Suddenly, a bright light drew near Willie and literally, extracted him from he was. He was pulled from the water in lightspeed, to an underwater, airlocked chamber, who knows where in the deep ocean.
..
"Gosh, where am I??" awakened, the mouse squealed and looked around.
"I have been expecting you." a disembodied voice called out to Willie."
"You?? Me?!? Who are you!" he questioned.
"I am... of another world. Where I come from, mice are pests who get removed."
"Haha, that's funny. Now show yourself, you big palooka!" Willie folded his noodle-arms.
"Hmph."
A light flickered in the shadows and reveal a tall, robed man. A sage, some may even say. This man was wearing a long, pointy blue hat patterned with stars.
"Ahhhh! Whaaat are you?" Willie screamed with hands on his cheeks.
The man shook his head and stared at him.
"I am a socerer, foolish little mouse. Now, if you want to explore the new lands, you are going to have to do something for me."
"What may that be, Mr. Socerer? Just letting you know, I am tired of taking orders, haha!" the mouse tapped his comically large shoes impatiently, arms folded.
"I need you to prevent wicked, evil forces from changing the flow of the worlds that I am tasked to protect. You will face great trials while traversing thru those worlds."
"Hot diggity dog..." the mouse blinked and then, he bursted into laughter.
The socerer stomped angrily and muttered,
"Fool! There is no humor to this. Your world will also be involved if we do not stop those forces! You will face dire consequences if you do not take up this role."
"Just let someone else do it, haha. I am no hero material, y'know!" Willie put his arms behind his back and grinned.
"Winnie will perish too, if you decide to sit back and do nothing. It has to be you, Willie." the socerer muttered truthfully with glimmers of hope in his eyes.
"What... did.. you... just... say???? Ok, y'know what? I'm sicked of playing your games. Let's get this over with, haha!" The mouse chuckled.
"I take that as consent. I will now send you to the first world. Protect those displaced and eliminate the evil forces. Good luck, mouse." the socerer shook his head and did some weird gestures. He performed some sorcery that made Willie vanish into thin air.


Meanwhile... deep within an enchanted foresr. A shadowy figure stands on a giant leaf on top an equally giant willow , seemingly observing something oh so severely important from from the green shadows...
"Insolent fools... you did not hide her well enough."

[TO BE CONTINUED]

Deep in the forest laid a seemingly ordinary cottage. It was the cottage that could belong to any peasant... but this one did not. This cottage was home to the seemingly peasant Briar Rose, who was secretly the princess of this faraway kingdom, Aurora.
As an infant, Princess Aurora was put under a curse by the evil witch, Maleficent, who has not been seen since the princess's christening. She was cursed to fall into an eternal slumber after she prick herself with the spindle of a spinning wheel.
To protect the princess from the curse, Flora, Fauna and Merryweather, the good faires loyal to the king and queen, brought Aurora to a deep forest where no spinning wheels could be found and raised her as the peasant, Briar Rose.
Early after sunrise, Briar Rose, as usual, made her way down the stairs to greet her guardians. She climbed down the stairs barefoot while wiping the railing of the stairs, as part of hsr daily routine.

"Well, and what are you three dears up to?" Briar Rose asked curiously, as the three 'ladies' quickly turned around.
"Up to? Up to? Up to? the trio acted rather suspiciously surprised.
She stared at the them with broom in hand.
"Eh, eh, eh, we, we, well, we, we…" Flora stuttered.
"Want you to pick some berries." Merryweather took over.
"That’s it, berries!" Flora exclaimed.
"Berries?"
"Lots of berries!"
"But I picked berries yesterday." Briar Rose was puzzled.
"Oh we need more dear."
"Lots, lots more!"
Soon, Briar Rose got dressed in her cloak and with basket in hand, made her way out, listening to her guardians' requests. She walked into the forest green domain barefoot, nurtured by the wonders of nature and started to hum..

Meanwhile, a few minutes earlier, our cabin mouse, Willie, had fallen into a vast, endless field.
"What did you do to me! Where am I?" he yelled but to no avail, there was no answer. Only the chirping of birds and the sound of the wind.
He started to investigate the enviornment around him, seemingly seeing nothing but large, tall patches of grass.
"Oh boy... how am I going to get home to Winnie?" Willie sighed and continued to walk.
As he continued to walk, he remembered what the socerer said to him, to find the evil forces and eliminate them.
Maybe I will knock them out by chance, he thought. Willie started to look further around, titling his head up and scanning up, down, left, right, nothing special, it seemed. "Wait what?? Hot dog! That tree is huuuge!" he stared at the giant willow miles in front of him. Soon, Willie would have discovered that was not the only thing that was huge.
BOOM.
BOOM.
BOOM.
The ground rumbled as Willie slowly turned around. What laid in front of his eyss were a pair of monstrous, giant feet. They were larger than at least five hills combined and each had five giant round and slender toes in front of them, each big enough to flatten the steamboat he was on about an hour earlier. As he tilted his head upward, he found out that the pair of feet belonged to a gorgeous young woman, with violet eyes and a black headband that accompanied her golden hair.
"Hot dog! This is probably not the 'evil force' that the socerer warned me about, but I gotta go!"
Despite her being thousand or million times larger than Willie, the unsuspecting Briar Rose was catching up really quick, especially for that size.
"Please, oh socerer.. give me a hint of where the evil forces are!" Willie cried real tears while spinning like a tornado, running away from the godly, dirt-filled sole that was about to crush him. A lot of things were pasted on it from a trampled flower to a dead insect...
BOOM!
The monstrous foot barely missed. Willie Mouse would have been turned into mouse-paste had he ran a second late! Willie quickly ran to the left as he saw the right sole about to land.
BOOM!
The mouse dodged again but this time, large debrises of dirt flown from Briar Rose's foot to Willie, stunning him temporaily.
"Oh boy... it's over.." he yelped.
...
Just as Willie thought he was about to be ended by the unaware Briar Rose's gargantuan bare feet, she stopped moving.
Then, something graceful came from her mouth, her beautiful singing. Graceful to the regular-sized animals in the forest but not to Willie.
Quickly getting back up, Willie ran away covering his round ears and yelled for help.

Unfortunately, Willie caught the attention of someone he did not expect, not the socerer... not the gigantic Briar Ross... but the evil witch herself, Maleficent, on the giant willow.
Unaware that the witch was on that, Willie climbed up the willow like his life depended on it.
"Hmm... this must be the creature that is sent to meddle with my affair. I must eliminate it!" Maleficent raised her staff and cackled.

Willie overheard the witch's words and gasped. There was no way he could defeat that evil witch! Just as he was about to give up, a magical broom flew to his hand like a boomerang returning to its owner.
At this moment he heard the voices of the socerer.
"Use the broom! Swing it across the evil witch!"
Willie nodded and continued climbing up, with broom in hand.
Maleficent spotted him prepared to strike him with her dark magic. Luckily, he used his small size as an advantage and nimbled onto the leaf.
"You imbecile!" the evil witch grit her teeth and prepared for a second strike.
"I think you are the imbecile here, 'mam!" the mouse striked his broom at the evil witch, knocking her head with a critical hit.
"Agh! You'll pay for this... THEY WILL COME FOR YOOOU!" the witch laughed as she fell onto the vast grass field of the giga-sized forest.

Willie scratched his head and then spectated on top on the leaf, as the Maleficent's body was soon covered by a large shadow, belonging none other than Briar Rose's giant foot.

BOOM!

"Huh.. weird... why is there green smoke coming from underneath my foot..." Briar Rose raised her eyebrow and stared at the ground.
"Oh well, off to pick up more berries!" she smiled and continued to sing her song, about a stranger she met once upon a dream...

"Boy..." Willie stared in shock and awe. He wanted to go home now... after this near-death experience.

Just as he started to climb down, a mysterious hand grabbed his leg and dragged him into a portal that appeared out of nowhere.

"Aaaaaaaaaa!"

[TO BE CONTINUED]