Consider this, a Wizard of Oz AU featuring Lili as the protagonist.
Okay, so Lili is the protagonist and we're following the idea of "The Wizard of Oz."
So the stand in for Toto is going to be Lili's dog, Mephisto (as referred to on the Campster website). If not Mephisto, it would most likely be Harold the rat and someone who's just deeply offended a girl has a rat for a pet since it's a "filthy creature."
I may create another list of characters on the journey filled with the Campers, but my current idea is this:
At the Motherlobe, people are being a tad more vocal about how... Lili can act just a bit nasty towards them. Lili feels justified because she feels they're treating her poorly so she's just treating them the same. And like, any apologies she gives are similar to: "I'm sorry you feel that way."
The Senior Agents (Hollis, Sasha, Camilla, and Morceau) are even turning on her. Someone just not wanting Harold around in the Noodle Bowl area is essentially the last straw before Lili runs off, taking a page out of Razputin's book. (Raz is probably away on a mission or with his family, somewhere.)
Course, she doesn't get too far before something goes wrong. A really bad storm hits the nearby city as she's trying to get to it while also keeping Harold safe. Harold runs into a pretty run down building, and Lili chases after. Lili and Harold end up getting knocked out and the two wake up hours later.
Now in the world of Ot, Lili finds the building in the Munchkin city, and a giant orange bubble comes down. Out from it comes Raz, with slicked back hair. He introduces himself as "Razinda" and introduces Lili to the rest of the "Munchkins" which are made up of much smaller versions of the campers from Camp Whispering Rock.
They thank her for killing the "Wicked Fallen Crown of the East," and point out that there are legs sticking out from under the building. The munchkins all cheer and suddenly, Lili is left with something that the Wicked of the East carried on him.
Just in time for the Wicked Dentist of the West to arrive and try to take it. Razinda explains it's not his to take, as it now belongs to Lili, and the Wicked Dentist instead kidnaps Raz.
The munchkins can't do anything do anything to help him, but they can tell Lili where she can go to get help. From the "Wizard of Ot."
So she follows the brick road and comes across a scarecrow woman with a big heart and motherly instinct who can't really scare the crows away because "The poor darlings are just hungry! And the farmer has so much corn!" A bit ditzy and air-headed due to the literal lack of a brain. Though, she can't remember why she doesn't have a brain.
They don't have a long time before trouble brews from the corn field in the shape of a shadowy columbine that tries to chase the two until they get into the thick woods. Impacting the woods, the shadow simply disappears.
The next one they come across is the Cold and Heartless Tin Man, who tells a story of how he knew a woman he loved, but was terrified of his own feelings. Which drew upon something wicked that cursed his axe and chopped him up. The more the axe chopped up, the less he wanted the woman to see him. He was rebuilt, but nothing could mend the broken heart. So he doesn't really care about the other's being in a place they're not supposed to, nor seeing the Scarecrow, who is inexplicably compelled towards him.
But once again, shadows plague them in the form of evil trees trying to throw things like apples and beehives until they're chased into a deeper part of the forest and the shadows disappear.
The trio is running ahead, and suddenly, Lili realizes that Harold is missing! They hear a roar that she begins running towards, followed by the motherly scarecrow, and the tin man follows. The third and final member is a Tiny Lion who is trying to pick on Harold, only to be hit by Lili and she scolds him. The Tiny Lion tries to justify it, saying he's a wild animal that has to eat and Lili says "pick on someone your own size!" The Tiny Lion reveals that there's no one sized like him. They're all bigger, apart from Lili and Harold. And he's not courageous enough to stand up to those creatures.
Which one of them is revealed in the form of a beast covered in shadows that can breath black fire, which the Scarecrow is very scared about. The trio once again have to run. And again, the shadow chases them until it fades again.
The trio are left with the city where the Wizard of Ot lives, with only what's left of the brick road going through what appears to be a poppy field. The other three remark that they don't recall a poppy field around the city, but Lili's too determined to get answers and kick that Dentist's butt to care. She begins to run through the field, trying to get there faster and the others chase after her.
But... the flowers have a much stronger scent than what Lili remembers. Smelling familiar... of a warm voice long forgotten. She wants to remember that voice. If she pressed her ear to the ground, could she hear it?
The girl and her rat fall asleep in the poppy field, shortly followed by the Lion.
The scarecrow and tin man are without a solution, and soon it's revealed that the Wicked Dentist and Razinda is watching this unfold.
Razinda begs the Wicked Dentist to allow him to help the group, and the Wicked Dentist agrees, only if he approves of the spell. Razinda says "a little flurry" and the Wicked Dentist agrees, proclaiming that the snow will melt soon anyways.
But it's enough that the girl, rat, and Lion wake up, and that the Tinman gets rusted and the four others help him.
They head to the City, and the guard at first refuses to let them in, until the others start bemoaning how they'll never be able to help the ones they love without seeing the Wizard. Swayed by this, the Gaurdswoman with glasses lets them in and begins to show them around. She remarks her own love is one she doesn't get to see a lot, that being the "Good Witch of the South."
The group get all gussied up and presentable to see the Wizard, who is powerful and all knowing. He tells them that the only way to get what they want is to find the "True Evil that Plagues Ot."
The five set out against the Wicked Dentist anyways, Lili thinking that he's the only one that could be the "True Evil."
As they try to approach, the Wicked Dentist now sends his own creature to try to take the girl and get the little trinket he's been after. Now, a lumbering creature he calls "Linda" with several other mutated fish goes out and fights the group, Linda ultimately grabbing Harold and Lili grabs onto it, trying to get her to let go as Lili desperately tries to make sure Harold is fine.
Meanwhile the other three are left worse for wear after the fish retreat.
The Wicked Dentist holds Lili hostage, trying to get her to give up the trinket so "the shadows stop bothering him." Until then, she's kept in a dungeon, far from Harold.
The others have to break in and they think Lili needs to be saved, but the Wicked Dentist comes into her dungeon screaming as the shadow beast tries to harm him.
Lili runs up to it, and the shadow beast cowers in fear. Lili fights it and it spits out a golden compass, which the Wicked Dentist gathers up. He suddenly has a change of heart, releasing the control of all of the creatures and Lili takes the chains off of Razinda before the Wicked Dentist declares that "there will be no more cruel experiments, because this place will be BLOWN TO SMITHEREENS!"
As the trio is trying to head in, Harold, Lili, and Razinda bump into them and push them away from the building that is about to EXPLODE.
Once it does, Razinda remarks about the shadow that forms. The most evil thing in all of Ot. It takes away people's hardships to continuously torment them with it. And there's no way for them to heal without those things.
The shadow reforms out of the rubble, and tries to attack, but Lili is ready.
She individually attacks the different traumas that they all had, gaining pieces of their old selves, like the Scarecrow's brain, the rest of the Tin Man's heart (and that allows the Scarecrow and Tin Man to finally realize they remember each other), the Tiny Lion's bravery, but during the time she's about to fight Razinda's fear, the trinket she has is torn off. Razinda tries to give it back to Lili, only for Lili to have to face something that she found traumatic.
She's left staring into a box that she knows holds someone dear to her, as she holds the hand of another version of herself crying. There are also others who care about her also crying.
The shadow tries to take this from her, but Lili defies it. Right after, the trinket is thrown back and Lili instead throws it to the creature that tore it off of her. The creature cannot handle it, and fades away. Leaving Lili as the hero.
But she needs to get back home. She realizes this now. She tries to go back to the Wizard to explain she defeated the two wickeds and the evil that plagued the land, but the Wizard refuses to help her. As the four argue about it, Harold goes over to a curtain to pull back, which then everyone turns to stare at, seeing Otto.
Otto explains that he came during a storm and people were so impressed that they thought he was a wizard, from there, he cultivated the city and land where he was now in charge. But he still has the way to get home.
Lili has tearful goodbyes and tries to head off with Otto, but Harold is no where to be seen. Someone tries to help her find him, only for them to realize that Otto is now leaving without her. He can't head back down, only up.
Lili fears that she may never go home, never see her father or friends again and Razinda returns with the worn out trinket. He explains the magic in it was repelling the shadows because it had the warmth and safety of a home imbued into it. The magic in it would take her to the place where she felt like she was home.
She has one more goodbye and then she and Harold leave, waking up in the Motherlobe. Some people are surprised she's there because she's clearly been out in the storm, with her soaked to the bone. Later, Truman and the rest of the "Dream Team" (Milla, Sasha, Morry, and Raz) arrives, having been trying to find the two and they're relieved.
Bonus after this adventure, Lili now has the capability of teleportation, as she teleported from that wrecked building, back to the Motherlobe.
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