"Now tell me!" The C.E.O. shouted as he drove the piece of rusty metal ever deeper into the toon's leg. "WHERE IS HE?"
"I would rather die." The toon struggled to say this as she was in pain that could only be compared to dip.
The C.E.O. pulled out a ray gun. He loaded it and said, "I've been going easy on you, toon, but my patience is running thin. Where is the toon that you gave the pendent?!"
"Long gone… you will never see that pendant again… never… nev… er…"
The C.E.O. shot the toon, and she fell silent.
***
The C.E.O. sighed when he was doing the paperwork after he retired from the torture chamber. The toons were putting forth ever more resistance, and it seemed that he might have to import cogs from Cog Nation on the other side of the world. It was sad, really. He didn't want to go around capturing toons and then killing them. He really didn't. But if they didn't give him the information he needed, he had no other choice. If he let them go, the Attack Toons would just try harder.
It was time to end this once and for all.
***
Woody Stockings wistfully gazed at his estate. Since the last party, it was in sorry shape. He was the last of a dying breed. The guild Party Animals was deeply in debt and even the combined efforts of the twenty-eight members of the guild were not enough to pull the group into a profit. The parties were just too costly, and too often.
Woody thought about a girl he had a crush on. She was a witty black cat. But she was wild, and Woody, well, liked to think before he acted. The cat's name was Rosita.
But he had other friends. There was Lucy Clemens, an uptight old mouse who is one of the few toons in Toontown that follows a religion. Another friend was Pop Hop, a fat dog who was a native of Donald's Dock. He was the closest replica to Santa Claus that Woody ever met.
Woody started cleaning up when he noticed his mailbox flag was up. He checked what was inside. He saw a necklace.
And on the end of the necklace was about the shiniest circular pendant he had ever seen.
***
"…the shiniest circular pendant I have ever seen." –Woody Stockings