Olivia Goes West

A  Cross Over fan fiction by The Masked Bard, aka  Surenity, which links  The Great Mouse Detective with  An American Tail, and a sequel to  Basil's American Tail.

 The novel-length, 30-chapter undertaking can be read on  deviantART  here, or on  Fanfiction.net  here. The third part of the trilogy,  The Great Mouse Reporter, is currently being written, and also available on both sites.

Plot
A year has passed since Basil's battle with Ratigan atop Big Ben, and the Flavershams have moved to the American West to put that horror behind them. However, once arriving in Green River, Olivia's father is kidnapped once again. Can Olivia hone her detective skills to find him? Luckily, she'll get a little help from one Fievel Mousekewitz, setting the two of them off on a journey that will include many old friends and foes alike.

Little do the two of them know that Ratigan survived the fall from Big Ben, and has teamed up with Cat R. Waul in a scheme to take control of Green River, and eventually, the United States.

The story takes place four years after Basil's American Tail, in 1890. This creates an alternate timeline in which the events of The Great Mouse Detective were moved back seven years.

Main Characters

 * Olivia Flaversham
 * Hiram Flaversham
 * Fievel Mousekewitz
 * Tanya Mousekewitz and the Mousekewitz family
 * Tiger
 * Tony Toponi and Bridget
 * Nellie Brie
 * Basil of Baker Street
 * Vartan Mookian (original character)
 * Ratigan
 * Cat R. Waul
 * Fidget
 * Chula

Background Information
The sequel to Basil's American Tail was first posted on Deviant Art May 21, 2012, and on Fanficion.net the following December. A much longer story than the first, it took most of the rest of the year to complete. It can be read here or here.

Timeline Shift

Reasons for having the story take place in 1890 come from a variety of factors. Basil and Nellie would have been apart for eleven years otherwise, and the author wanted Fievel and Olivia to remain close in age. The story takes place two years after the events of An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, and assumes the events of the direct-to-video An American Tail sequels took place in 1887. Meanwhile the events in The Great Mouse Detective take place just as they did in the film, but seven years earlier.

Original Character

Though not the first original character in the fan fiction series, Vartan Mookian was the first prominent one. The author did not want the character to take too much prominence in the story, as often happens in fan fiction, so he is a secondary character. Vartan is an Armenian immigrant from the Ottoman Empire, which in the AAT universe is ruled by Turkish cats. His name is derived from the Armenian word for mouse, "mook", and ends in "ian" like most Armenian names do. The human equivlant would be "Manookian", much as Moscowitz is for Mousekewitz.

Sequel
Its sequel, The Great Mouse Reporter, takes place a few months after this story. it is currently in production. It is unknown (even by the author) if there will be a fourth story in this series or not.