A/N: Greetings and salutations everybody! It has been quite a while since I posted something here. I have been practicing my writing skills, and I'm planning on making this my largest story written.
What's going to happen to my other two fanfics? I'm cancelling them for the time being. Don't worry though, because I most likely will redo them and complete them in the future. Thank you so much for your support!
As to what I'm planning to do with this fanfic, it's going to be mostly a test about humor and foreshadowing. Some characters might act a little different than how they act in the game, I'm just trying to flesh them out a little bit, that's all :)
To those that play Toontown, some of the foreshadowed parts might be very obvious, and I'm sorry XD
A blue, anthropomorphic dog was resting on the park near the town hall. This was Flippy Doggenbottom, the recently elected mayor of Toontown. Toontown was (or rather, still is) the place where toons, cartoony-looking animals, lived and prospered. The whole place was bright, colorful, and cheery; thankfully not hiding any sort of dark secrets.
When Flippy got elected as mayor, he had promised that he'd be the best mayor he could be, that nothing would happen to Toontown or its citizens. But as if a challenge from the universe, something that had never happened occurred. The whole place began to get invaded by strange, robotic beings. And poor Flippy, clueless as to whether this was just some sort of mean-spirited initiation into town leadership or an actual, latent threat, began to grow paranoid about Toontown's safety.
Soon enough the first attacks by these robots were recorded. Strangely, there were no casualties. The robots seemingly didn't attack to kill, and the victims of their ambushes only grew sad for a couple of hours. However, the toons seemingly could attack to destroy.
Flippy recalled one day a very grumpy gag shopkeeper assaulted a robot with her merchandise, causing the thing to somehow literally die laughing and explode. Since that day toons learnt to counterattack the robots with all sorts of cartoony gags, from squirting flowers and fake bills to cream pies and safes.
The citizens were holding up very nicely after this discovery, but Flippy was still worried. Deep down inside he felt that everyone was in jeopardy. Everyday he'd have to put on a happy façade if his worries surged again.
"Mayor Flippy, I have news to tell you!" A tan horse called out from behind, snapping Flippy out of his trance.
"Clancy? What's got you in such a hurry?" He asked, sitting up, "Something wrong?"
"Oh, on the contrary, Mayor!" The horse huffed, "The Dimensionator successfully passed its beta testing; now the portals are stable enough for living beings to travel through!"
Flippy grinned and stood up, "Excellent news, Clancy! But keep you volume low, we don't want this to go public." He hushed, and Clancy covered his mouth in embarrassment, "Well, anyways, care to bring me along for its inauguration?" he asked, and the horse nodded.
Flippy and Clancy headed towards the town hall. Upon entering a huge machine could be seen adorning the lobby, full of wires, trinkets and strange contraptions. This, however, wasn't the invention Flippy was eager to see tested. The dog and the horse entered the sole area restricted to visitors: a door leading to the building's basement. The two walked down the stairs and reached a room with an elevator on the other end.
"Excuse me for asking, Mayor, but -"
"Please, call me Flippy. No need for formalities." The dog smiled.
"Ah, sorry. Well, uh, excuse me for asking, Flippy, but why exactly do you want the Dimensionator to remain secret?" Clancy asked as the two toons hopped onto the elevator, descending even further into the ground.
"Oh, don't get the wrong idea, Clancy. If I had the opportunity, I'd make the whole project public in a heartbeat. But with how things are recently, it's best if it remains hidden," He sighed, "We're living in a crisis of sorts right now, and I'm certain that letting everyone know about what we're doing would endanger the lives of not just us, but anyone who lives across the portals the Dimensionator makes."
Clancy gulped and just stared at the elevator's ceiling, "So… What do you plan to use the portals for, Flippy?" he asked nervously, thinking about the recent invasions in their quaint little town.
"Get as many help as we can," The doors of the elevator opened, revealing a room with a metal door and a reception desk at its side with a security guard focused on the elevator, "I know I probably shouldn't trust the Dimensionator that much but…"
"But what?" Clancy asked as the two approached the guard and showed their passes. The guard gladly pressed a button, causing the metal door to slide open.
"I- Err, have a good feeling about the outcome, that's all." Flippy assured, giving Clancy the best cheerful smile he could manage.
The toon really was putting much trust on the Dimensionator, but even though things had been going relatively good so far, he was paranoid and was looking desperately for backup before anything went awry. Just recently he was bestowed upon the title of mayor; the poor dog didn't want anyone to suffer.
'If we don't manage to get help,' Flippy thought, 'I hope the Dimensionator can support exiling en masse…'
The room inside the metal door was filled with computers and scientists running back and forth checking whatever kind of information popped up in the screens. Adorning the center of the circular room was the Dimensionator itself, a moderately large contraption with a generator attached to its back, several modules connected with each other by wires and tubes and a ray beam on the other extreme, aiming at an empty space on the floor.
Flippy and Clancy greeted some of the scientists that approached them to ramble about what they found. Eventually Flippy shook his arms to motion everyone to calm down and let him speak.
"Okay guys!" Flippy chimed, "Clancy here told me about how the Dimensionator is good and ready to go," he gulped, excited yet anxious about the upcoming display, "Is everyone ready for the grand opening? Heh, get it? Opening…?" he joked, but nobody seemed to react.
A black cat in a lab coat raised her hand up to garner everyone's attention, "We have adjusted the Dimensionator to target a specific dimension, I'm pretty sure we're ready to try it out after the previous tests!" she assured proudly.
"Alright guys!" Clancy exclaimed, clapping his hands, "You heard Flippy and Shade, everyone to their stations!" he ordered, and with a collective "Woohoo!" all the toons in the room flocked to different areas. Most went towards computers and their control panels, meanwhile Flippy, Clancy and a small group of scientists gathered around the area the Dimensionator aimed for, ready for a portal to open.
Clancy gave thumbs up to a green pig in the computer team, who quickly began to input commands on a computer. The Dimensionator's generator began to light up and whir, and soon enough the connecting modules of the machine followed the same display of light and noise. As soon as the energy reached the module connecting to the ray, its structure lit up piece by piece, and its tip began to summon small electricity rays as it steadily grew brighter and brighter. Soon the tip of the ray was fully charged with energy and made a metallic noise, signaling it was ready to shoot.
With the computer command of someone, the Dimensionator's light switched from a bright white to a very pure black and shot a beam in front of its audience, creating a perfectly circular black hole with tiny purple and blue rays stirring inside of it.
With a whir, the Dimensionator slowly powered down, leaving Flippy, Clancy and the rest of the scientists staring with their mouths wide open at the portal beneath them.
"Is it…" Flippy whispered, breaking the awkward silence "Is it stable?"
"I guess- I mean… Yes, our tests said it was stable now…" Clancy muttered.
"Clancy?"
"Y-Yes?"
"…Where does the portal lead to?"
Clancy opened his mouth to reply, but closed it again in doubt. After some moments he replied:
"I have no idea."