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// Pinocchio Goes to School/"Hi Diddly Dee" 
// Story: Equestria Girls: Disney Odyssey: Pinocchio 
// by Mister V 
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The next morning, the school bells ring out over the village as doves flew throughout the sky. All the people walked about to do their daily duties and all the children in the village left their homes so that they could go to school. Pinocchio walked out and say all the kids in excitement as Geppetto tried to put his son's vest on. Meanwhile, The girls decided to hide out under his hat so that they could stay with him, all except Twilight, who stayed behind with Spike to try to get Jiminy and Antonio up out of bed.

(Pause at 0:50)

"I sure hope Twilight and Spike get Jiminy and Antonio up soon." Fluttershy said.

"Me too." Sunset said. "We were lucky last night, but who knows what we might run into."

"Don't worry." Rainbow Dash said. "What ever this world throws at us, we can handle it."

(Resume Video)

"Oh look father!" Pinocchio said impatiently "Look!" 

"Now, wait!" Geppetto said trying to put Pinocchio's vest on. "Stand still, now."

"What are those?" Pinocchio asked in excitment.

"Huh?" Geppetto asked before looking at the kids. "Oh, those! They are your schoolmates, girls and boys. Now get in"

"Real boys?" Pinocchio asked in awe.

"Yes?" Geppetto said before putting Pinocchio's vest on him. "But hurry now. Oh! Wait, wait, wait! Wait." He then pulled out an apple from his vest pocket and polished it. "Here’s an apple for the teacher. Now turn around and let me look you over." And Pinocchio did just that. Ofcourse, turning around wasn't hard for a puppet who can turn his body without turning his head. "Heh, heh" Figaro then came tugging at the strap which held Pinocchio’s school books before pulling on Geppetto's pants leg. "Huh? Oh yeah, yeah. Here." Geppetto then picked up the book and gave it to his wooden son. "Run along, now." And with that, Pinocchio starte skipping down the road to school, with Figaro following close beind. "Ho-ho-ho wait, wait." Geppetto said before grabbing him by the tail. "Come back here, Figaro." He then picked him up by the fur on his neck. "School is not for you."

"Goodbye father!" Pinocchio said as he continued down the road.

"Goodbye son!" Geppetto said while waving with Figaro still in his hand. "Hurry back!" He then started humming as he and Figaro went back inside. 

(Pause at 1:47)

As Pinocchio continued down the road, he met a small group of four anthropomorphic animal kids. The first among them was a little kitten girl with white fur & a yellow oval nose. She wore a yellow shirt, red overalls and a red bow on her left ear. The second in the group was a little bunny who also had white fur & a yellow oval nose. She a rose pink hood that covers her ears and a flower on her right ear. The third in the group was a little seal who also had white fur. He wore nothing but a quaint little red and yellow striped tank top. And the last in the group was a penguin who was Blue with white chest with a yellow beak & feet. All he wore was a cute sailor hat & bow tie.



"Hey! look guys!" The little seal said. "Here comes a new kid in town."

"Hello!" Pinocchio said. "My name is Pinocchio. What are your names."

"My name's Hello Kitty." The kitten said.

"I'm My Melody." The bunny added.

"And I'm Chip." The seal said. "The most popular guy in Venice." It was then that Chip's nose grew, indicating that it was a lie. But Pinocchio didn't notice. 

"Hi." The penguin said. "I'm Tuxedo J. Orville Samuel, but everybody calls me Sam. And I'm the most popular guy in Rome." Then, just like Chip's nose, Sam's beak grew a bit. "what's with the beak you think I told a lie or something." Then the beak grew even longer.

"Anyway, we're all going to school." Hello Kitty said. "You wanna come with us, Pinocchio?"

"Sure." Pinocchio said. And with that, the five of them set off for school. Now the girls over heard this and were pleased that Pinocchio was already making friends.

"See?" Rainbow said relaxing. "If he's already making friends that what could possibly go wrong?"

"Would you like the short list, or the long one?" Applejack said. The rest of the girls were right to be worried, for in another part of town while dozens of kids rush for school, a group of 4 sleazy characters passed by. The first of this group was a tall and slender anthropomorphic red fox with a beige face and muzzle, dark gray circles, thick black eyebrows, black nose, buff tail tip, copper eyes, a pair of 2 whiskers, sienna ear innards, and light brown feet with light gray soles and gray prints. He wore a old greenish gray top hat with light gray band, green shirt with gold buttons and light gray patches on his elbows, both light gray high collar and cuffs with white cufflinks, cream gloves with a hole on its right pinky), black cravat, teal stirrup pants with gold linings and both light gray patches on his knees, blue and red cape with gold brooch. He keeps a black cane on his person. 



The second was a short, slender brown anthropomorphic cat with a tan face and a neck, a cream muzzle and green eyes. He wore a lavender shirt with a yellow cape, white opera gloves, purple pants, and an old gray top hat. 



The third was a slender cat with light green fur, sea form green legs and fur on the cheeks and tail, light blue eye lids with eye lashes, a triangular nose, and blue on the end of her tail and ears. She wore a dark blue dress, a pink bandana, a pearl necklace, and a fancy collar with a jewel hanging from it. The fourth and final member of the group was a big gray beefy bulldog with brown spots, a tooth sticking out of his jaw, a big brown nose, and one brown ear. He wore a a white shirt, a red vest, a black hat with a feather on it, a blue sash, and a spiked collar.



(Resume video.)

"Ah, listen, my friends." The fox said. "the merry laughter of little, innocent children wending their way to school. Thirsty little minds rushing to the fountain of knowledge." He chuckled as he picked up an old cigar with his cane. "School, a noble institution. What would this stupid world be without..." But before he could finish, he lit a match to light his cigar. But before he did that, sees a poster of a man who is obese and has black, balding hair. His beard is black as well. He has tan skin and his lower lip is pink, while his upper lip is red with his puppets. "Well, well, well! Stromboli! So that old rascal's back in town, eh?"

"Yeah, it's nice to see him still pleasing the crowds with his puppets." The bulldog said. "You looking at this poster reminds me of the time we I tied strings on Gideon here and passed him off as a puppet." 

"Yeah, that was a lotta fun." Gideon chuckled.

"And it would have worked too, if somebody didn't break the strings, Grinder." The female cat said while looking at the bulldog.

"I did say I was sorry, Catnip." Grinder said, a bit embarressed.

"We nearly put one over on that old gypsy that time anyway." The fox laughed as the four of them continued down the street before passing Pinocchio and his friends. "A little wooden boy. Now, who-" He started before being hit by reality. "A WOODEN BOY!" He and the others ran after him before peeking out from a corner. "Look, everyone. Look. It's amazing. A live puppet without strings." "

"A thing like that ought to be worth a fortune to someone."  Catnip said.

"Yeah, but who'd be crazy enough to buy a live puppet" Grinder asked.

(Pause at 2:55)

"Oh, I don't know." Catnip said while pointing at the poster with her tail. "Maybe someone who works with puppets."

(Resume video)

"That's it... Stromboli!" The fox said. "Why, that fat, old faker would give his-- Listen! If the four of us play our cards right, we'll be on Easy Street, or my real name isn't Honest John." 

"And ofcourse, it isn't, Mr. J. Worthington Foulfellow." Catnip said.

"Quick!" Foulfellow said. "We'll head them off." He, Catnip and Grinder then ran after them, with Grinder dragging Gideon along by the neck. So, as Pinocchio, Hello Kitty, My Melody, Tuxedo Sam, and Chip walked down the road, Foulfellow, Catnip and Grinder watched them from over a wall with Gideon trying to get a view as well. And when the three of them slip past a doorway, Gideon walks out with a potted flower in his hand, only to be hooked by Foulfellow's cane. The four of them then stop at a corner and see the five young friends coming. 

(Pause at 3:26)

"Their walking right into our paws." Catnip said.

"This'll be easy." Grinder added. Meanwhile under Pinocchio's hat, Pinkie Pie started feeling funny.

"Oooh." She said. "My tongue is getting dry."

"Did you not drink water before we left?" Trinity said.

"Yes, but that's her Pinkie Sense." Sunset said.

"What is that?" Trinity said in confusion

"Pinkie has a strange ability to predict the future through various twitches and involuntary motions made by her body." Applejack said.

"Yeah, like when my tongue gets dry, it means someone is about to trip on something."

(Resume video)

"Shh! Now's our--" Foulfellow began, but he saw Gideon was missing and turned to see Gideon raising a mallet to strike Pinocchio with. "No, no, stupid. Don't be crude." He then took the mallet from Gideon and hit him on the head. "Let me handle this." He then looked over the corner. "Here they come." He then turned around and stuck his cane out in the middle of the road. "Yes, Giddy, as I was saying to the duchess only yesterday..." But before he could finish he "accidentally" triped Pinocchio and the others, causing the Rainbooms and Trinity to fall out of Pinocchio's hat and into Hello Kitty's pants pocket. "Oh! Oh, how clumsy of me!" He then helped them up one by one "Oh, my, my, my, my. Oh, I'm terribly sorry. Oh, I do hope none of you are injured."

"We're all right." Pinocchio said as Gideon dusted him of with a brush before reaching his hands into his back pocket.

"Ah, splendid!" Foulfellow said before hitting Gideon on the head. He then picked up Pinocchio's book and apple and started reading the book as while eating the apple. "Well, well. Quite a scholar, I see. Look Giddy, people of letters." He then picked up all of the books and gave them to the children. "Here are your books."

"Thanks." Hello Kitty said. "We'll need some to read as school."

"School!" Foulfellow said while pulling the little ones back in as they were leaving. "Ah, yes. Then you haven’t heard of the easy road to success." The kids looked at eachother then shook their heads.

"Uh-uh." They said.

"No?" Foulfellow asked in shock "I’m speaking young ones, of the theatre!" He then gave Pinocchio the remains of the apple. "Here’s your apple. Bright lights, music, applause! Fame!" He then shook his eyebrows up and down in a fan

"Fame?" Pinocchio asked while doing the same thing with his eyebrows

"Yes!" Honest John said in excitement. "And with that personality, that profile, that physique… why! He’s a natural born actor, eh Giddy?"

"Yeah, uh, he sure is, Honest John." Gideon said while chuckling.

"And how about you, little penguin?" Catnip said to Sam. "Do you have any experience in showbiz?"

"Sure." Sam said. "I sang La Traviata at La Scala and the Star-Spangled Banner at the World Series." This caused his beak to grow some more

"Good enough." Catnip said before tweeking Sam's beak. "After you're a hit, Strombolli may get you a nose job."

"Pinocchio, Sam and I are a team." Chip said. "We've been together for years." Chips nose then grew again to be the same length as Sam's beak

"Perfect!" Catnip said. "Then the three of will perform in a show being held tonight by The Great Stromboli."

"Will we be paid?" Sam asked.

"But of course." Catnip said, which caused her tail to start growing. "Why I'll bet you'll be paid a king's ransom after your first show."

"But they're going..." 

"Straight to the top." Honest John said before Hello Kitty could finish. "Why, I can see your names in lights, lights six feet high. Sam, Chip and uh, what is your name again?"

"Pinocchio."



"Pinocchio!" Honest John said before he attempted to spell the name in vain. "P-I-N-U-O- uh, ha-ha, we’re wasting precious time. Come on to the theatre!" And with that, Honest John, Pinocchio, Catnip, Sam, Grinder, Chip, and Gideon went off, leaving Hello Kitty and My Melody confused.

"So, we should problably go after them." Hello Kitty said.

"Yeah." My Melody replied before seeing something moving around in Hello Kitty's pocket. "Hey, you got something in your pocket." Hello Kitty then reached into her pockets and say a group of small girls dizzy from their air travel.

"Waiter, there's some wood in my soup." Pinkie said in a daze.

"Need to know what else could go wrong?" Applejack asked in sarcasm.

"No, not really." Rainbow Dash said.

"Hey, who are you?" My Melody asked.

"I'm Sunset Shimmer." Sunset said. "This is Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Trinity. And we need to catch up with Pinocchio, before he get's himself in trouble."

"We can carry you if it'll help." Hello Kitty said.

"Thank you very much." Rarity said in gratitude. "That's very generous of you." Our heroes then proceeded to go after Honest John, Pinocchio, Catnip, Sam, Grinder, Chip, and Gideon as they were parading across town like a group of merry men. Meanwhile, Jiminy, Antonio, Twilight and Spike were racing down the street, with Jiminy still trying to get dress.

"Whew!" Jiminy said. "Fine conscience I turned out to be! Late the first day!"

"Yeah, but he can’t get in much trouble between here and school." Antonio said. The small group got out of the way as a parade passed by.

"Oh boy, a parade." Jiminy said as he marched in place.

"Uh, is Pinoke suppose to be in the parade?" Spike asked.

"Huh?" the three little guys asked in shock when they saw Pinocchio in the middle of the group.

"Why it's… it's Pinoke!" Jiminy said before he went after them. "Hey where you going?" Twilight, Spike and Antonio heard Sunset call out.

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"Hey guys!" Sunset said from Hello Kitty's pocket. "Get on!" Twilight used her magic to levitate the three of them into her pocket.

"Friends of yours?" Hello Kitty asked.

"Yup." Sunset said. "Let's go!" The then continued after the party. Meanwhile, Jiminy tries to stop the troup from continuing.

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"Wait!" He said as he slid down a railing to stop them "Halt! Hold on there! Pinoke!" Jiminy then jumps onto Foulfellow's tail, then up onto his hat. He then whistles to take attraction.

(Pause this at 0:02)



(Pause music at 1:27)

"What was that?" Foulfellow asked in concern.

"Wasn't me!" Grinder said. Pinoke then saw his dear friend Jiminy on Foulfellow's hat.

"Oh it's Jiminy!" He said. "What are you doin' up there?"

"Uh?" Foulfellow asked, looking up in confusion. "who? what? what? who? Jiminy? up where?" Gideon and Jiminy then see each other, eye to eye.

"Shh." Jiminy said to the simple cat, who repeated this until he realized just that Jiminy is.

"Oooh, that dirty bee!" He said, pulling out his mallet. "I will smash him!"

"Why, my boy, you must be seeing things."

"Oh no, that's my conscience." Pinoke explained.

"I can see him, too." Chip said.

"So can I." Sam replied.



"Now, now, now, boys, just calm down." Foulfellow said in a calming voice, unaware that Gideon was walking up his back to where Jiminy was standing. "Why there's nothing up there to be afraid of." Jiminy, however, was very afraid, for he had seen Gideon, standing over him with a mallet, and managed to jump out of the way before the blow, causing Gideon to Foulfellow instead, covering his face with his hat.

(Pause at 0:09)

"I don't understand it." Gideon said, examining both the mallet and the spot where it landing. "I thought I smashed the bee."

(Resume music)

"You smashed something alright." Catnip said before motioning down to Foulfellow, who was groaning and screaming from under his hat.

"Uh oh." Gideon said. "I see your point." He then gave his mallet to Grinder. "Here, you hold this, I'll go get something that'll help with that."

"Psst, Pinoke." Jiminy Cricket said from a lily when the others caught up to him. "Psst, Pinoke, over here. over here."

"Oh Jiminy." Pinocchio said. I made some new friends. And Sam, Chip and I are gonna be actors.

"All right boys, take it easy now." Jiminy Cricket said.

"Remember, what we said about temptation, Pinoke?" Twilght said.

"Aha?"

"Well, that's him." Jiminy Cricket said pointing Foulfellow with his umbrella

"Oh no Jiminy, that's Mr. Honest John!" Pinocchio said in naitivity.

"Honest John?" Antonio said. "Fuggetaboutit!"

"Uh, is there anything we can do for you, uh, John?" Gideon asked while opening Foulfellow's hat.

"Get me outta here!" Honest John screamed. 

"Dahh, don't worry John." Gideon said. "I got just the thing that can help." He then grabbed Foulfellow's cane and props it on his hat, before grabbing the mallet he used to get Foulfellow stuck and using it to knock him out of the hat and right into a tree.

"Oooh!" he said as he sank into a puddle, before getting his head out of the water and shaking some of the mud off.

"All right then." Jiminy Cricket said after the group explained the situation to the boys. "Here’s what we’ll tell’em. You can’t go to the theatre. Say “thank you just the same” You’re sorry but you’ve got to go to school."

"Mm-hmm." Pinocchio, Sam and Chip said.

"Hello-o-o?" Foulfellow said as in a high voice as he and his cohorts looked for "Oh, bo-o-o-o-o-oys! Woo-hoo."

"Here they come." Jiminy Cricket said as he and the others hid away. "Now you tell ‘em."

"Woo-hoo!" Foulfellow said. "Oh little boys! Ah, there you are! Now, where were we? Ah yes… on to the theatre!"

(Play music at 1:18)

"Goodbye Jiminy." Pinocchio said. "Goodbye everyone!" 



"Goodbye?" everyone asked in confusion before looking in shock as Pinocchio, Sam, and Chip go as went with their new "friends". "Huh? Goodbye?!"

"Hey, Pinoke, you can’t go." Jiminy Cricket said in panic. 

"Guess we better go after him." Sunset said before motioning to Hello Kitty and My Melody to go after them.

"What’ll I do?" Antonio asked in panic. "I’ll run and tell his father." 

"No that’d be snitching." Jiminy said after stopping him. "Let's go after him too." The two insects then ran after the group who ran after Pinocchio, his new friends, and the con artists.