Wander over Yonder belongs to Craig McCracken and Disney.

Part 1: Crash and Burn

A loud cry could be heard all around Oithea. The crying came from Melina Evangeline Star, or Dot as her big brother Wander called her ever since she was born, and she was the only one awake in the cuddle pile. Her older brother, Wander was still asleep, and Sylvia was still asleep which frustrated the eight-month-old that not a simple cry woke them up. Crawling over to Wander, she climbed onto her older brother's belly and as hard as she could, she hit her balled up fist on Wander's nose. The seven-year-old yelped and Dot took this as her chance to cry louder than she had before in order to show her older brother how upset she was. And Wander did receive his baby sister's message and started cradling Dot close, humming a song that he learned from his and Dot's mother, and gave his little sister a couple of kisses to the baby's right cheek.

"You hungry?" Wander asked and Dot shook her head. "Need a diaper change?"

Dot shook her head and just held onto her big brother as the cradling continued. She just wanted to tell her brother to hold her, she just couldn't and Dot wished she could tell Wander that she just wanted to be held by him. Wander sat up and leaned against Sylvia and started up at the sky where the sun was starting to rise high in the sky and smiled. Dot looked too and cooed happily at seeing the sun too.

"Me and mom used to watch the sunrise all the time on the weekends since I didn't have school. And then on then we would watch the sunset together if I could stay up and watch it." Wander told Dot. "Mom was so set on naming you Sunita right after finding out you were a girl. But then dad met Grandma Sunita and Grandpa Eder, and mom couldn't bare to name you Sunita anyone."

Dot looked intrigued by her brother's story from before she was born. Wander started to wonder when babies started recognizing what their parents looked like, Wander had been taking care of Dot ever since she was two-months-old with Sylvia coming into their lives when Dot was three months, so even with the short period of time that their parents were in Dot's life, Wander couldn't stop himself from wondering if his baby sister even knew what their parents looked like.

"Good morning you two."

Wander looked over his right shoulder to see Sylvia was now awake. She still looked sleepy, but she was awake.

"Mornin'" Wander greeted his and his baby sister's caregiver.

"How'd you two sleep?" Sylvia asked as she stood causing Wander to sit up to support both him and Dot.

"I slept fine until little Miss Melina over here decided to bop her big brother on the nose." Wander answered while looking over at his younger sister.

Dot only clapped her small pudgy hands together in response, clearly still proud of what she had done. Wander stood as well and grabbed his hat and started walking towards a pond not too far away from Sylvia.

"Okay Dot, let's get you cleaned and then we can go eat, then play." Wander told his sister who cooed and clapped her hands again.

Wander pulled a rag out of his hat and got to work on cleaning his baby sister. He started with her face, then her hands, he washed between her fingers on both hand, washed her legs, then her feet, and finished with washing between Dot's toes on both feet. Wander put Dot's pink socks back on before picking her back up along with his hat and carried her back to Sylvia. Wander pulled out baby food for Dot and fed her the baby food before pulling cereal out of his hat for him and Sylvia to eat.

"Okay kids," Sylvia turned towards the siblings. "You can go play, but don't go too far."

"Okay!" Wander nodded his head and Dot clapped her hands while Wander picked her up.

"And no talking to strangers!" Sylvia called as Wander started down the hill.

"Okay!"

Wander carried Dot over to a park that was not that far from Sylvia. Dot gasped as she looked around at all the playground equipment. Wander had forgotten that his sister along with himself have not really have time playing on a playground, or just a park in general. With Hater chasing him, Sylvia, and Dot, and Dominator showing up, Wander and Dot never really got a time to be actual kids. Dot wiggled in her big brother's grasp and Wander lowered her down to the ground so she could crawl. Dot stared curiously at the playground and sat on her bottom so she could look up at Wander for what to do.

"It's okay Dot, it's safe." Wander reassured his little sister.

Dot nodded and crawled forward to the first step leading up to a bridge. She stopped again and waited for Wander who sat down and slowly scooted down the first end of the bridge and held and helped Dot down too. Wander scooted across with Dot following by crawling and once the two reached the other end, Wander lifted Dot up to the platform the other end of the bridge led to. Dot clapped her hands triumphantly and gave her older brother a big smile. The next couple of minutes the siblings played on the other playground equipment until Sylvia came over calling their names.

"Did you two have fun?" Sylvia asked.

Wander and Dot nodded and followed Sylvia as they walked down a path leading to where other people were at. But, as they walked, Wander could tell something was wrong with Sylvia. She just looked sad as the walk continued and something inside was just telling Wander that something was up.

"Sylvia?" Wander looked at her. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah I'm..." Sylvia started, but stopped herself, she couldn't lie to Wander. "We're going to a funeral later, bud."

Wander froze. "A f-funeral?"