Acme Acers/Serca Emca
A Fan Fic By: Tesla2251
Chapter 1: Trans-Dimensional Movement
Like every reaction has an equal and opposite reaction, there is always an opposite to every object in the known universe. This is where the term 'alternate universes' stems from, where everything exists in opposite from its counterpart. Which one the originial and the counterpart is, is open to interpretation. While we never see this opposite version, it co-exists along side our current universe. What if this alternate could be seen? Or, even better, be experianced?
In the science lab of Acme Looniversity, Calamity was working on a device that could bend the laws of physics, allowing the movement of matter from one dimension in time to another dimension in time. In short, a time machine.
The body of the machine was from an old 1974 Dodge Monaco. The wheels had been removed, and covered with metal plates to keep the fragil software safe from wear and tear. The body had an extended front and rear bumper, and had wires trailing all over it. The four doors on the car body were allowed to open so accessibility was always easy to obtain. If this was successful and didn't blow up in his face, this might be the best invention Calamity ever built.
Calamity heard the door open and close, but when he looked up, no one was there. Scratching his head, he turned back to his work. Usually, as his brother Chaos told others, he forgot some nuts and bolts and other parts. This time, he didn't want to mess up like he usually did by rushing things. As he worked his nose picked up a strange oder. It was an oder he'd always both hated and loved. Then, when purple furred hands settled on his shoulder, he knew who it was.
" Good Morning, mon cherie," Fifi whispered into his ear.
Being completly mute, Calamity had learned how to communicate with others by use of signs he cept in his body pocket. How they could always say what he wanted to say, no one knew how it could be. He pulled out a sign that read," Good Morning to you too, my purple rose of romance," and Fifi sighed lovingly.
The door opened again, causeing the two to jump. Buster came in, followed by Babs, Shirley, Plucky, and Hamton. Their sudden presence was not strange, Calamity had invited them to come to the lab at noon because he wanted to show off his latest invention. He replaced the panel on the side of the machine and scrubbed the oil off his gray furred fingers.
" Like, what is this supposed to be, or some junk?" Shirley asked when she saw the machine standing in the middle of the room.
" Yeah, Calamity. Don't keep us in the dark, what is this machine?" Buster put in.
" What is it?" chorused the others.
Calamity dug into his body pocket and took out a sign." It's a time machine. Able to bend the law of physics, this machine could probably take us anywhere in time we want," it read.
" Fire it up, lets see my future as most popular television star," Plucky excaimed, rushing towards the machine. The small green duck had high hopes for himself, even though his role as comic releif seemed eternal.
" Hey, what about me?" Babs quipped, dragging Plucky back.
Soon the other toons started arguing about who should go into the future first. And they would have gone on arguing if Fifi didn't intervene.
" How you zay, SILENCE!"
The toons stopped and looked at her.
" Monsieur Calamity vould like to say somezing," she said, directing their attention to the grey coyote who had been waving his sign around like a semaphore flag to try and get their attention when they had been arguing.
" You'll all get to see your futures because I'll take us there. Just stop arguing!" it read, Calamity shaking his head from side to side in annoyance. How can a genius think when everyone around him argues?
" Are-Are you sure it's wise to see our futures? If we already knew what we were going to be in the future, wouldn't that ruin our chances of it actually existing?" Hamton asked, nervously, thinking about what the consequences would be if they saw their futures.
And, as with all cartoons, the others said,"NO! Then there would be no plot for this fan fic."
" Besides, wouldn't be cool to know who your future wife was, and what your kids would be like?" Plucky asked, trying to convince Hamton that nothing bad could come from this travel.
" Okay, but I want to be on record as being against it."
After they had been settled in the machine, Calamity prepared to begin traveling foreward through time and run the first trial run of the machine. He had a sense of pride for his machine. Not only because it was something that could do something most people beleived was impossible, not because it was something new, but because it was his machine, his special child, in it's own way.
" Come on, nerd! Fire it up already!" Plucky quipped from the backseat. The small green mallard was getting squished between the door panel and Buster. With seven toons piled into a car originally built for five grown adults; three in the front, four in the back; it was crowded beyond comfort.
Calamity turned back and held up a sign that read," If I don't let it warm up and try to go anywhere in time, I could tear the fabric of time and end all life as we know if before you could even realize what happened." He flipped his sign around and it read," Besides, shouldn't you watch your attitude in the precence of ladies?" He looked over at Fifi as he showed this sign. She sighed quietly.
Another reason he was taking so long, though he decided not to mention it,was because he wanted to spend a little more time with his machine before he put it through it's paces. After a minute or two, Calamity then decided to start. He turned around, and held up a sign that read," Here we go."
Calamity flipped the switch and slowly pressed down on the gas pedal. The machine hummed in the lab, a blue translucent light enveloping the machine. The light grew in intencity and suddenly, was gone in a flash. The flash was much like a flash bulb from a camera, leaving a empty spot in the air that the machine with it's seven passengers had once inhabited.
The only feeling that anything had happened was a slight bump. As the machine went foreward, Calamity kept his eyes on the clock and the calander he had left on the wall. The clock hand moved like it always did, it didn't speed up as if they were going foreward, it cept moving along at the same pace it always had gone. The calander didn't change either, the date stayed the same, and the year did too. He took his foot off the gaspedal, and stepped on the brakes. The machine sat down again and the room still looked like nothing had happened.
" Well, that was a waste of time!" Plucky exclaimed, opening the door and falling to the floor.
The other toons agreed that, like most of Calamity's inventions, this one had failed too.
" I don't understand what could have gone wrong," a sign he held up read. He had high hopes for this machine and it failed him. His eyes now stared at the floor and his ears drooped to the side.
" It's okay, Cal. Rome was never built in a week," Buster said, trying to comfort the sad canine. Calamity's ears perked up a bit.
" Like, we should get back to lunch, or some junk," Shirley mentioned as it was the beginning of lunch time when they had come to the lab and lunch was only an hour long.
" Lets go already," Hamton said, wasting no time getting out the door, heading for the lunch room.
The other toons left, but Calamity stayed behind for a second. He thought the lab looked different than before, but he could not place it. But he was in a hurry, so he left to catch up with the others.
When they exited the science lab, the group was confronted with Elmyra Duff. Elmyra was a small percentage of the human student body at Acme Looniversity, and she was the most frightening because she had the tendency to capture the Tiny Toons cast and issue to them life force crushing hugs that usually resulted in the death or injury of the recipiant. The group prepared to run when Elmyra screamed and ran the opposite direction. The group looked on in question.
" Like, did Elmyra just scream and run?" Shirley said, scratching her head.
" Didn't see that one coming," Babs muttered.
" Maybe she looked at zee Monsiure Pluckys face and got scared," Fifi chuckled.
Pluckys face got red and he would of have gotten in a fight with her if Hamton and Buster were not holding the mallard from attacking the purple skunkette.
" ME! I resent that remark! It stinks, just like you, polecat!" he shouted.
" Are you, how you say, insulting moi?"
" What do you th-?" started Plucky when Hamton covered his beak. Making Fifi mad never ended well.
" He has zee anger issues, non?"
" Well, you have zee zmell issues, non?" Plucky blurted out, mimicing Fifi's accent. She probably would have sprayed him if Shirley hadn't got between them.
" Like, can everyone just calm down? I'm getting, like too many strange vibes," Shirley sighed, floating cross legged in the air. She extended her perception to try and understand the ambiance in the air.
" Who cares about vibes? It's lunch time. Lets go eat," Hamton replied, his mind more occupied on lunch than anything else.
" I'll catch up with you later, I have to ask Ms. Bunny a question," Babs said.
" Can I join you?" Buster asked.
" Sure, why not?" And the two stars walked down the hallway.
" Ah, how romantic," Fifi sighed.
" What a suck up. May I walk you to the lunch room, Shirley?" Plucky asked.
" Like, if I needed an escort, it would be to keep you away from me," the white loon said, before strolling away with Hamton, and Plucky following her. She stopped when she noticed that Fifi wasn't with her.
" Like, are you coming, Fifi?" she asked.
" Maybe later, Monsieur Calamity eez going to help moi wis my Algrebra," Fifi said, drapping her tail over Calamity's shoulder.
" Okay. Like, see you there." And they left, for what they could all agree would be the weirdest day in their lives.
As Buster walked along with Babs, he noticed something strange about the halls as they walked. The walls were blue instead of yellow and the lockers were painted green instead of red.
' Maybe the school decided to repaint and didn't tell us,' he thought.
His train of thought was interrupted when he ran into something solid blocking his way. As he rebounded, he looked at what he ran into and saw himself.
Only it wasn't like he had run into a mirror, a usual favorite with cartoon characters, but it was himself. Only, it didn't look at all like himself. Buster's 'reflection' had a leather coat on, and brass knuckles on his one hand. He was also a bit talller than Busted was himself, even with his ears.
" Watch where your going, twerp," his double grunted, his voice much deeper in tone than Buster's own.
" Hey watch it yourself, you big ape," Buster rebutted. He wasn't about to be frightened by this twisted version of himself, no matter how tough he sounded.
Babs was shocked at seeing her co-stars double. She suddenly noticed someone standing behind Buster's double. She looked and was shocked to see herself staring her in the face
The pink bunny that stood behind Buster's double looked like Babs, but that was where similarity stopped. Babs double had on a blue business suite and her ears were held back in a bun like some woman had their hair. Her double also had on thick green glasses.
" Who are you two supposed to be?" Babs asked their doubles.
" Who wants to know?" grunted Buster's double.
" He's Buster Bunny and I'm Babs Bunny, not related mind you. I am pleased to meet you," said Bab's double, only it didn't sound like Babs. Her double had no life in her voice, just an atonal drone of herself.
" Move it, small stuff," said Buster's double, shoving Buster back a step. " Hey, hands off, freakazoid, "Buster growled, swatting his hand away.
" I would suggest that you move and get on with you day, arguing with him is quiet childish, and usless," replied the pink bunny with glasses.
" Why do I even take you anywhere?" asked the brutish, blue lagomorph before stomping off, towing his nerdy co-star behind him.
" Did you just see that?" asked Buster, even though he knew Babs had seen it too.
" Yeah, I a nerd!" Babs exclaimed, as if not noticing her co-star also acting weird.
Buster smacked his palm against his face and groaned," What about me? I look like a freak! What the heck is going on?"
" Maybe the principle will know why," Babs said, grabbing her co-star and dragging him after her down the hall. She pulled a bit too hard, because she stretched Buster's arm out.
" Yeow!" When they got to the principles office, Buster compared his arms length. Babs grabbed her co-stars ear, and ratcheted his arm back to its original length.
" Ehh, come in," came the voice of the principle.
They opened the door and entered the office of principle Bugs Bunny. Buster looked at his mentor and saw he was different too. Bugs was wearing a suit and tie, he had glasses and instead of a carrot, he had a piece of celery.
" What seems ta be da problem?" he asked the two.
" Uhhh, what is wrong with us? We are acting...," started Buster.
" ...like model students. I've never been prouder of you two," Bugs interupted.
Buster couldn't beleive his ears, his mentor actually didn't mind his doubles behavior, more like he was encouraging it.
" Is that what you came to ask me?" Bugs asked. The two just nodded their heads because they couldn't think of what else to say.
" Good. Now go on, return to lunch," said Bugs, ushering the two back into the hall. The two stars looked at each other, both couldn't beleive they had just heard. Not only were their doubles acting weird, but so was their principle. Buster looked back at his mentor and started to wonder, what was going on?
While Hamton got a drink at the water fountain, Plucky was still trying to convince Shirley to go on a date with him.
" Come on, Shirley, you know you can't resist me," he coxed.
" Like, I wouldn't date you if you were like the last man on Earth, or some junk," she said.
Hamton had just finished his drink when he backed into someone standing behind him. He turned and saw he had backed into himself. Shirley and Plucky could only stare as Hamton stared at his own double. But, like Buster and Babs doubles, this double looked different. Hamton's double had muscles and was alot more physically fit than Hamton was himself. His double was also a mess, he had dirt smuges on his cloths, and dried mud on his pants.
" Watch where your going, twerp," his double grunted.
" S-s-s-s-s-s-sorry about that. W-w-w-won't happen again," Hamton stuttered.
" You better not, or next time I'll do something worse," his double grunted.
" Worse than what?"
" Hey, pick on someone your own size!" Plucky said, defending his friend.
" Like you, feather brain?"
" I didn't say anything," Plucky stuttered, retreating behind Shirley. He didn't want to get on this guys bad side.
" Now, as I was saying, next time I'll do something worse than this," said Hamton's double. He grabbed Hamton, picked him up, drop kicked him into a garbage can. The porcine double then shuffled away.
" Glad he didn't do that to me," Plucky said, while helping Hamton out of the garbage can.
" You chicken," Hamton muttered as he hoped out of the can.
As Shirley watched Plucky pulling Hamton out of the garbage can, she didn't notice Furball coming up behind her. She only noticed when he stepped on her foot.
" Ouch! Like, watch where your going!" she scolded.
" Why don't keep you foot out of my way?" Furball scolded, causing Shirley to jump back in surprise by the fact Furball was mute, yet he just talked back to her. She just stared at him untile he walked away,
" Dumb broad," she heard him mutter.
" Dumb? I'll show you whos d-," she started at him when Plucky turned her around.
" Shirley, don't argue," he chucked nervously.
" But, like, did you not see that? He talked back. Mondo bizzarr-o."
" Hamton just got drop kicked into a garbage can by his own double. So I'm not at all shocked too much, babe."
" Who calls their girlfriend 'babe?' Kind of childish," said a voice behind them. Shirley and Plucky looked back to see Plucky's double. He had on a suite instead of his normal white tank top, and his feathers on his head were combed back neatly.
" Like, right," said Shirley. She was clearly taken back by this sauve version of Plucky.
" Hey get lost, Washed Up, she's my girl," he said to his double, poking him in the chest.
" I have to no time to dabble in matters of a girl with you. I must get back to my many girlfriends," his double sighed, and he turned around.
" How many girlfriends?" Plucky asked his double. As if on que, his double was smothered in a mob of girls, all swooning over him.
" Quite a few," he said before walking away, leaving Plucky speechless, and red in face.
As Calamity and Fifi came around a corner, Calamity stopped, turned around and hide behind the corner. Fifi looked back, and wondered why he had stopped. When she looked in the direction he was looking and saw the reason why he had stopped. It was his chase partner, Little Beeper and he was at his locker, unaware that Calamity was there.
Calamity looked around the corner and saw Little Beeper still standing at his locker. He decided that instead of setting a trap, he would just go catch him. Calamity broke out in a jog, jumped up and grabbed Little Beeper. His momentum was such that they tumbled for a bit before they stopped in a heap, Calamity on top of Little Beeper.
" HEY! GET OFF ME, IDIOT!" shouted Little Beeper. Calamity at first didn't know who was talking until he looked down, the red and orange roadrunner had said it.
" Did you just... Talk?" his sign read.
" When did you learn to write? I said, get off me!" shouted the roadrunner, only this time he threw Calamity off his back, he didn't wait for him to move.
" What did I tell you, idiot? I told you to stop knocking me down! Do it again, you'll get a mouthfull of fist, get it?" the small red and orange roadrunner said, poking Calamity in the chest.
Calamity nodded his head. This was scary, not what his chase partner was saying, but that he was being shouted at by his mute partner. Actually shouted at. When they used signs, being shouted at wasn't bad, but actually being shouted at by a friend who was as silent as yourself, was frightening.
Little Beeper, content with Calamitys answer, turned and walked away. He didn't run as he always did, he walked slowly away. This was not right. Fifi came and she picked him off the floor.
" What eez wrong wis Leetle Beeper?" she asked Calamity. Calamity didn't know what to say.
" By all, how you say logic, he's acting like he always do. Logic eez zee bane of my existance," said a voice that sounded really familiar.
Fifi turned and looked at the source of the voice, it was herself. Only her double was wearing a black sweater and didn't have a bow. Calamitys jaw dropped to the floor, he couldn't beleive he was seeing two LaFumes at the same time, with no mirror present.
" Don't I know vous from somewhere?" Fifi asked.
" Non. No one knows me from anywhere. I'm alone. Le boo hoo," her double sighed.
" Sacre bleu! How strange, I zhink I know vous. Moi is certain."
" Certainly rediculous. How can vous be happy when we are all condemed to zis illusion of zis thing we call life. What is life, anyway?" her double sighed.
Calamity stepped up and held up a sign that read," We must be going." On the back, which faced Fifi, it read," Lets get out of here. She's depressing me."
" Oh course, leave. Everyone does, because that eez life. Life eez a horrible black hole, we are all doomed to zee end," her double muttered.
Her double then sulked away, leaving Fifi speechless. The violet skunkette was still dumbfounded at seeing herself acting so strange." Sacre bleu! What is wrong with moi?"
The toons gathered in the hallway to discuss what was going on, with disregard for normal school rules. That didn't matter, as this school was warped in some way, though no one could say why.
Calamity showed a sign, reading," The clocks are all the same, the date is too. We should not be running into our selves. We shouldn't have even gone foreward if my machine didn't work in the first place."
" What is wrong with Acme Loo?"
" I'm seeing doubles around every corner, and my double is more popular than I am," Plucky exclaimed, his face still tinged red from his run in with his double.
" Like, how can we exist in two places at once, but be total opposites?" Shirely added, pushing the red faced mallard aside.
" Zis eez ze Acme Looinversity, right?" Fifi asked. To test this idea, they went outside and looked up at the letters spelling out the school, expecting to see Acme Looniversity in red letters.
But when they looked up, the sign didn't say Acme Looniversity. Instead, it read," Emca University."