AUTHOR'S NOTE: Hey, everyone! Raccoonqueen here! You know it's been a long, long, long, long, LONG time since I've written anything on there...well, this time things are going to be different. Right now I'm writing what would be the remake of "The Zoo", perhaps the most popular stories I've ever created; what will be different about it is that, instead of cutting to the chase where the original heroines of the earlier version find out about the horrors of the Cartoon Zoo, it'll expand upon the background a bit and tell the whole story about the Zoo itself (and its unfortunate victims).
Plus, like the first version, it's based on the video "Trip To The Old Cartoon Zoo" which, unfortunately for all of us, has somehow been taken down from YouTube. Luckily I have acquired the assistance and guidance of another very good friend of mine-I'm not sure if she's also gonna collaborate on this story with me, but time will only tell. Now that the introduction's done and over with...enjoy the show. ;)
DISCLAIMER: I do not own all the Hanna-Barbara characters featured in the story, only the OCs.
Prologue
"The whole value of solitude depends upon one's self. It may be a sanctuary...or a prison. A haven of repose...or a place of punishment. As we ourselves make it."
It was a day of great sorrow in the world of entertainment. Over the years, many people have asked the same question: "What has become of the good old cartoons that we have grown up with? Where are they now?" The answer to that long-debated question is ominous enough to bring tears to one's eyes-they are all in a dire and cold-hearted place known only as "the Zoo".
Cartoon Network, which has been for a time the place for classic cartoons, went downhill when it had new shows and programs. The shows were awful-nothing but anime and live-action shows that would make any classic cartoon fan vomit. And the old cartoon characters were unexpectedly put into the Zoo.
The Zoo was not like any of the cheerful zoos that you know in the human world. It had a desolate and eerie air around it, and its lanes and public places were almost entirely empty. Here and there Hanna-Barbera cartoon stars wandered around, living miserable lives as prisoners of the Zoo. Others were locked up in places one should never peek in, in cells similar to those of penetientaries. All of them were forced to suffer a wide variety of situations concerning their time in the Zoo-starvation, thirst, death, emotional disturbances, and worst of all...deprivation of contact with their long-lost fans.
Eddy, of "Ed, Edd, n' Eddy" fame, had never agreed to the decision to lock up the cartoon stars in the Zoo, but he did it only because he wanted the money. The one person who pushed him to found the prison in the first place was the most dreaded of all the cartoon villains...the Red Guy. So how, you ask, did he got roped into this situation? The answer lies in the next chapter, where it all began...