The race for Acme Acres v2
chapter 1
Well people, here's the improved version of the first. This one involves Fifi's accent unlike the first one. Enjoy. Also, if I miss any words for her accent, please tell me as I'm not an expert with accents.
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Acme Acres, a place where young toons live and to also attend the best university toons have: Acme Looniversity.
But there is one toon who instead wants to claim Acme Acres as his own.
This toon lives in a luxurious mansion that contains a large vault full of riches, and which holds numerous traps for the greedy.
This toon can be found wearing grayish-blue jacket and pants, with a green shirt and black shoes. He was also a brown haired male with black eyes. This individual is Montana Max.
This certain toon was currently pacing back and forth while ranting.
"Darn it, no matter what I do, I can't seem to get a break. It's all those rabbits fault. If only there was some way to get Acme Acres where those rabbits can't get it back." said a ranting Max.
As he was pacing, he passed in front of his xbox that had a copy of Sonic Free Riders in it.
Max saw that ranting was getting him no where, so he decided to just unwind and began to play the game.
A few minutes into the game, a light bulb suddenly lit up above his head, literally.
"That's it! With my latest idea Acme Acres will soon be mine and then I can get rid of those rabbits." said Montana Max with an evil grin on his face.
He proceeded to his phone and quickly began to make some calls to some people to help out.
"Hello? Yeah, this is Montana Max. I got a proposition for some of your best students. Trust me, if this works, your school's gonna be on the map instead of that stupid Looniversity." grinned Max as the camera panned away.
Meanwhile, in a red Cadillac located at the Acme Acres junkyard, is where we find a purple skunkette with a big white stripe going down her tail. Some of her purple fur cascaded down part her face. Her eyes were also purple and she also had a pink bow in her hair. This toon was Fifi Le Fume.
Fifi had come to Acme Acres for two reasons. The first was to get a healthy education at the Looniversity. The second was to hopefully find the one she would always love. Luckily, she has already met him.
The one she had fallen in love was a a blue fur colored cat that was known to have a hole in his right ear and have a bandage around his tail. This cat's name was Furrball.
She had seen Furrball at school many times, but never really took the time to say hi. But on a night where she was reading a romance novel of hers, was the same night she had caught sight of Furrball with a white stripe down his back and had mistaken him as a skunk. She then ended up chasing him around the city trying to get him to be her boyfriend. Eventually, she had caught him behind a fence, but he didn't have a stripe on his back.
She didn't want to scare Furrball, so she decided to play dumb and see if he would confess to being the skunk. But sadly, her hopes were crushed when she saw him holding his breath and shake his head. It saddened her because if he confessed, it would have shown that he did care about her.
While she was walking away, she had spotted a couple more cats painted to look like skunks. She had a feeling her beloved was responsible for this, so she decided to play along with this and pretended to have fallen head over heels for the two and chased them.
After that little incident, she has held the biggest crush on him yet. But she had been too busy with cheer leading to really ask him out any time soon.
She was talking with her best friends Babs and Shirley. Shirley was a white feathered loon with a pink shirt and bow in her blonde hair. Babs was a pink bunny with a yellow blouse on with a purple skirt, same color as the bows near the tips of her ears.
She had invited her friends over to try and help her come up with a plan to get Furrball's attention.
"So, are you really going to spend more time with him?" Babs asked Fifi.
"Oui. Moi ees très sure Furrball and I weell be happy togezer. After all, I know zat deep down, Furrball really loves me. Just like I love heem." Fifi answered back.
"Like, if you say so or some junk. But I have a feeling that he will not like it." Shirley said.
"Aw come on, Shirlee. Don't jump to, how you say, silly conclusions. Furrball and I were made for each ozer." Fifi said.
"Well, your best bet is to talk to him tomorrow. Say around lunch." suggested Babs.
"OK. I weell." Fifi said.
Meanwhile, Furrball was in his cardboard box, reading a book. After reading a few more pages, he stopped reading and put the book down, thinking about something else. He was thinking about Fifi. He remembered the day when he was being chased by her because she mistook him for a skunk and it was all because of a white stripe he accidentally got on his back and tail when he was run over by an Acme Street Painter Truck. At first, he was scared of her as he kept trying to outrun her, but no matter where he went, she was there too. Eventually, he found a can full of blue paint and managed to cover the stripe he got, right before Fifi found him. When she asked him if he saw the boy skunk, he held his breath and shook his head 'no'. When Fifi left heartbroken, he felt relieved, but also crestfallen because he just realized that he really had feelings for her and instead of telling her the truth, he decided to cheer her up by painting two cat bullies, who usually picked up on him, as skunks so that she could chase them. Since then, he has had a crush on her. Recently, he said to himself that he should reveal his feelings for her, but he feared things would not work out pretty good, but he decided to give it a shot.
'The real question is, when should I tell her?' wondered the cat in thought.
Thinking about that made him feel kinda depressed. He then heard his tummy rumbling and left the box, looking for something to eat.
As he walked along the sidewalk, he found himself blinded by what felt like a flier of some kind.
Furrball grabs the flier and looks at it. On the flier, it says "ACME ACRES BOARD RACE"
Furrball was confused on what a board race was, but he saw the date the event would take place at is Montana Max's place, tomorrow, and that there was a cash prize!
Furrball's eyes became dollar signs at hearing that and raced back to his cardboard box to put the flier away before heading back out for some grub.
The next day, the toons were having lunch at Weenie Burger. Fifi was with Babs, Shirley and Sweetie at table. Fifi kept looking at Furrball, who was sitting with Calamity, Little Beeper and Dizzy at another table.
"Alright Fifi, go over and talk to him." urged Babs.
"If you think he is going to accept, you are utterly wrong. He is a cat and you are a skunk. He cannot date someone who is not his species." Sweetie said.
"Oh really? Then how come I've seen you smile at Little Sneezer?" asked Babs with a smirk.
Sweetie's eyes grew wide before turning away with a huff.
"Like, ignore her, Feef. You know how Sweetie can be sometimes or some junk. Go on now." Shirley encouraged Fifi.
Fifi took a deep breath to calm her nerves and stood up before slowly making her way over to Furrball and the other guys.
Furrball noticed Fifi coming in his, Calamity, Little Beeper and Dizzy's direction. He made a surprised expression.
'Ït's Fifi! She's coming this way!' Furrball said in his mind.
He tried to keep cool as she drew close and soon looked as she stood next to their table.
Just then, Calamity noticed Fifi near the table and smiled, before waving, prompting the others to do the same.
"Hi, Fifi. What's up?" Calamity's sign said.
"I merely wanted to talk to monsieur Furrball." said Fifi.
Furrball pointed at himself, looking surprised, as if to say "Me?"
"Oui." Fifi answered back.
"Whatever she wants to tell you, Furrball, it is OK. We will wait for you here." Little Beeper's sign said.
"Yeah." Dizzy said.
Furrball nodded, though he was nervous inside as he stood up and followed Fifi out of the restaurant.
Once they were outside the restaurant, Furrball held up a sign that said "So what is it you want to tell me, Fifi?"
"Well, I wanted to talk to vous." replied Fifi beginning to feel nervous.
"Sure. Whatever it is, go ahead. I'll listen." Furrball's sign read.
Fifi took a deep breath and looked Furrball in the face. "Furrball, I like-" her sentence was cut short as a mob of toons ran by them and had accidentally grabbed Furrball.
"Wh-" Fifi was stunned and saw her friends following. "Babs! Shirlee! What is goeeng on?"
"Like, check out this flier." replied Shirley handing Fifi the same flier Furrball found earlier.
"An Acme Board Race?" Fifi said surprised, reading the flier.
"Yeah, and everybody in town is rushing over to Monty's mansion." said Babs grabbing Fifi's arm and pulling her along. "It's worth a look.
'Sacrebleu! I was zees close to ask Furrball out.' Fifi said in thought.
Fifi was discouraged for losing her chance, but maybe she could try again when they got to Montana Max's mansion.
Later, the toons arrived outside Montana Max's mansion. In front of the mansion was a stage set up. But they weren't the only ones there. In front of the stage was a large crowd.
All the toons began to go quiet as Max walked on stage.
"Welcome losers! Today, I'm proud to announce a special tournament! This will not only grant you a special prize, but will ultimately decide the owner of all of Acme Acres!"
Silence. There is a sound of crickets chirping.
"I am pleased to announce the first ever Acme Board Race! If my teams win, then I own all of Acme Acres!"
"What?" Buster asked quietly, yet surprised
"And if any of you dorks got something to say, go ahead." smirked Max.
"Why that creep. This is another plan of his to take control of Acme Acres." Babs said.
"Not on my watch." replied Buster jumping onto the stage.
"HUh? Oh it's you, rabbit." Monty remarked, upon seeing Buster.
"Yeah, and I speak for everyone when I say you can't stake a claim like that. Acme Acres is owned by all toons, not one person."
"Yeah!" the other toons from the crowd shouted.
"Oh really? So you don't want to be rid of me for good?" asked Max crossing his arms.
"What do you mean get rid of you?" asked Buster.
"I mean, win this tournament, and I'll move away and never bother any of you again."
"And why should we believe you?" Babs shouted.
"Because, I've already put it on a contract, legally binding me to the agreement." responded Max pulling out said contract.
Buster carefully read the contract.
After seeing all of it was binding he nodded to the crowd who were surprised.
"But that only applies IF you can beat the teams I've hand picked." replied Max with a smug grin.
"OK. It's a deal." Buster said, shaking hands with Monty. "But don't try any dirty tricks."
You have my word." replied Max shaking his hand, while also hiding his crossed fingers that not even the crowd could see.
Buster then jumps off the stage.
"Buster, are you crazy? How could you trust Max? After all the bad things he did to all of us." Babs yelled.
"You forget Babs; we beat him all the time, so this will be a walk in the park." replied Buster with a nonchalant wave.
"Yeah, we may beat him again, but what if he won't keep his promise?" Babs was still insecure.
"We'll come up with something." replied Buster.
"Ha ha! Things will go according to plan." Max said quietly with an evil smile while rubbing his hands.
"So, how is this race gonna work?" asked Buster.
"Simple. Using these." replied Max as he pulled the cover off a device, which looked exactly like the extreme gear used in the sonic video game Max played earlier.
"Are those boards?" Babs asked.
"Like yeah, but they're like from that sonic video game." said Shirley.
"You expect us to race using these?' Plucky asked.
"Either you agree, or I win by default." grinned Max.
The toons remain silent for some seconds.
Seeing how it was either this or lose their home, Buster spoke for all of them again.
"Well do it."
Buster and Max shake hands.
"But this has to be an honest race" Buster said
"Of course." grinned Max who would do just the opposite.
Buster jumps off the stage and leaves along with the other toons.
Max waited til they were all talking among themselves before pulling out his phone. "It's Max. We're ready."
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Hey people, remember to thank ToonFan for helping me with this and for helping out with Fifi's accent.