Season's greetings, fellow toonsters! I have come along with yet another TTA fic, this time one revolving around the Christmas season, but also around the dangers of parasites! In this story, during a Christmas-themed celebration the toons at Acme Acres are having before going home for Christmas break, Montana Max decides to get to Buster by striking at him through Babs. And he does so by pouring a special vial of parasite-containing fluid into Babs's eggnog drink during the party. Babs ends up in the nurse's office, but it turns out the only way to get rid of the killer parasites now in her body is for the toons who mean to save her to get shrunken down and go inside Babs, then eliminate them. Can they do it in time before Babs is the world's prettiest bunny corpse and an everlasting source of food for the parasites? Will Monty be found out as the culprit and justly punished? You know the routine! Read on to find out!
THINGS TO NOTE:
This story takes place about a year after the series finale of TTA.
This story was inspired by an episode of Captain Planet titled: "An Inside Job" as well as by that 2001 body comedy movie "Osmosis Jones".
I own none of the characters. They all belong to TTA. And I don't own either of the things that inspired this, either, as they belong to their respective owners.
Parasite Present
Chapter 1: Dangerous Drink Of Evil Eggnog!
It was the most wonderful time of the year once more, and a wonderful time the students at Acme Acres were having, indeed! Since it was the 23rd of December and thus the last day until the new year of school, a celebration was being thrown for the Christmas that was on its way! In the gymnasium, everyone at Acme Loo was enjoying various treats, Christmas carols, beautiful activities, decorations, Christmas movies and the like.
It was like heaven on Earth. But while all of this was quite delightful, added to by how Rhubella Rat, who had recently turned good and in the process defected from Perfecto Prep and become an Acme Loo student and better person(or rat), one of the ones enjoying the Christmas party that would precede their going home for their Christmas break had a fiendish plot on his mind.
That someone, as you may have guessed, was Montana Max. You see, Monty was not a guy who usually got into the Christmas spirit, but after learning what he did just prior to this, the fact that he knew about how this Christmas party would be thrown gave him an idea of how he'd be able to use it to get to Buster Bunny, his top nemesis.
He knew that Buster loved Babs Bunny and vice versa, their not having any relation and constant pranking each other notwithstanding. It therefore dawned on him that the best way to hurt Buster as badly as possible, which he'd wished to do for God only knows how long, would be to harm Babs in some way. And he knew the way, too.
That way was to, in the morning prior to school and thus the party there, have it so he got a special liquid containing various microscopic parasites conjured up and put into a vial. Hey, the guy had so much money that anything was possible for him. Anyhow, the vial completed, he full well made sure it was closed by a cork before putting it in his pocket.
Then, much later, when he saw Buster and Babs doing a little dancing with each other, among other ways the Acme Loo toon students were enjoying themselves(and even those who were normally rivals or enemies all got into the Christmas spirit and were harmonious to each other this time around), he saw that the pink bunny he was targeting had left a cup of eggnog she'd been sipping unattended.
So, making sure everyone was too caught up in the feel and joy of the moment and party to notice him, he swiftly ran over to the eggnog cup and poured in the whole vial of parasite-laden liquid, making sure he also put the cork back in the top of the vial and placed it in his pocket, then ran away out of sight so there would be no way he'd been seen, much less be in any danger of being suspected.
Just after he was no longer in sight, Babs said to Buster: "Hey, just a minute. I suddenly want more of my eggnog. We'll continue this after I've had another sip or two." Buster nodded, respecting Babs's wishes, and she walked over to drink some.
Realizing, though, that it would be best she finished the eggnog and then just resumed her dance with Buster until both tired of it, she drank down the whole thing and then returned to him, a second later going: "Okay, where were we?" "I believe you were doing a little twist." Buster an instant later replied.
"Ah, yes, I was!" Babs said, and she and Buster were dancing more. But just after a few moments had passed by, Babs suddenly started to feel pain on her insides. "UGH…" she said, and Buster asked: "Huh? Babsy? What's the matter?" Babs then put her hand onto her stomach and said: "My guts are starting to ache for some reason…can't be my eggnog…it's not like I haven't had it before...AAAAGGHHH!"
Suddenly, Babs not only was feeling even worse pain, but she fell to her hands and knees because of that and how she was suddenly feeling debilitated. Buster exclaimed: "Oh, my God! Someone, help me here! I think something's happening to Babs that might be damaging her!" Everyone else, except for Monty, who knew he needed to take off and did, gathered round to see the suddenly agonized and weakening Babs, much to their confusion and horror.
"Sacre bleu!" a cry from Fifi came out as. "What has happeened to Babs?" "Like, your guess is as good as mine, or some junk!" Shirley replied. "It must be something serious, from the looks of things!" Plucky let out. "But what could it possibly be?" asked Furrball. "Like Shirley said, your guess is as good as mine!" Mary Melody responded. "And anyone's, for that matter!" Hamton added in.
"Dammit…I think my body's turning into some kind of torture chamber…" Babs gasped out, clutching her sides and belly in the awful pain she was in. "She needs to be brought right to the nurse, fast!" a sign Calamity Coyote held up said. So Buster swiftly picked her up and said to her: "Babs, I'm sorry if this doesn't feel nice, but we've got to get you to the nurse!"
Babs then a second later nodded, in too much pain to speak by now, and everyone rushed to Nurse Granny's office. Once there, Little Beeper used his speed to hurriedly and rapidly knock on the door. Thus, it wasn't long before Nurse Granny came out and asked: "Yes? Who is there?"
"We are!" Little Beeper held up a sign that said this. Then Dizzy stated: "We here 'cause Babs need help!" "During the Christmas party, she fell over in pain for some reason, and it looks pretty serious!" Fowlmouth told Granny. "You've got to help her! Fast!" Buster said. "I wish we had a way of knowing what happened and why!" Lil' Sneezer said. "Don't we all?" Ruby went. "Good heavens! Let's get her in, then!" Granny exclaimed.
So Babs was brought to a nursing bed and placed down there, then Granny said: "Okay, all of you out! Thank you for your help, but I need to treat her now and find out what's causing this!" The others nodded and rushed out, then, after the door was shut, Buster said: "I hope Babs isn't a goner…" "Oui, eet wouldn't be ze same around here weethout her!" Fifi added in. "Like, you're telling me, or some junk!" Shirley said.
"Can't believe the Christmas party had to be ruined like this…" Sweetie commented. "It would have been bad enough if it were ruined at all, but especially in a way like this…" Concord added in. "Still, let's focus on what's at stake here." Hamton let out. "Namely, Babs's life!" said Gogo. So they waited a while, then, when Nurse Granny came out, she said: "You are all still at the door? Well, good, because now I can let you know what I've found out about Babs and her current condition!"
The others all listened intently, especially Buster, Fifi and Shirley, and then a sentence from Granny said it all: "I've discovered that the reason Babs is in her current shape is on account of how, somehow, liquid with numerous microscopic parasites in it was put into her eggnog and, after she drank it, they spread throughout her body!"
Everyone opened their eyes widely in shock, and Buster exclaimed: "Dear God…we've got to help her! Those parasites will kill her if they aren't eliminated!" "True," a sign Calamity held up said, "but I have just the thing!" Bookworm made noises as if to say: "And so do I!" In the next instant, Byron Basset barked as if to ask for everyone else and himself: "What needs to be done here?"
Bookworm made noises as if to say: "We need to have ourselves put into some special suits and shrunken down to microscopic size!" Calamity held up a sign which read: "In doing this, we'll be able to enter Babs's body, though with a special submarine which will also need to be shrunken down, and get those parasites eliminated!" "Well thought out, Calamity and Bookworm! It sounds like a plan!" Furrball complimented. "Oui, most definitely so, monsieur worm and coyote!" Fifi spoke before Buster added: "Couldn't have thought of a more ingenious plan myself!"
"So, are we gonna get started now or what?" asked Plucky. "We sure are!" a sign held up by Calamity said. So he quickly invented the submarine and the shrink ray, while Bookworm got the scuba suits he, Calamity and everyone else entering Babs's body would require for this vital mission. Once they were done, everyone got into their respective suits(obviously made for each one of them specifically, given their differences)and they got into the submarine.
Calamity then used the special activation device he'd made for the shrink ray he created so the submarine got a second later shrunk down along with everyone in it. Once they were microscopic and so was it, Granny said: "Well done and well thought up, and I will help you enter Babs to save her!" They heard this and Buster got to the steering wheel of the submarine as Granny picked it up. Then in the next instant, she walked into where Babs was in her office.
"Babs?" she said. "Can you hear me?" "Yeah…I feel like shit…can barely keep awake at all…" Babs moaned, but Granny then said: "It's okay…just said aaaahhhh for a moment to let me give you a special pill. Then you can pass out." "All right, but I don't know how a pill will help this…" Babs managed to squeeze out.
She opened her mouth and Granny placed the sub in it, then poured water into her mouth from a glass of it she had nearby to wash down the sub. As soon as this happened and Babs had swallowed the sub, Granny told her: "Okay, you can go to sleep now if you want. I know you could use it at this moment." "Thanks…" Babs groaned, and she passed out. In the meantime, the special sub hit her stomach acid(though it obviously wasn't melted, being designed for that sort of thing)and the toons meaning to save her life were all in and ready to pick off parasites.
TO BE CONTINUED…
So, how was this for a start? Can the toons find the parasites in Babs' body and kill them before it's too late? Will Monty be found out as the one who did this, if that turns out to be so? Can the Christmas spirit possibly be maintained in the aftermath of such a disaster as this? Find out in the next chapter, which will be rather longer than this one, though how much so I'm not sure yet. In any event, you know how it is! Please rate and review, everyone!