it was pitch black and raining in Burbank California, the wind was blowing its fiercest, and lightening was lighting up the sky, in an alleyway filled with boxes and other rubbish the rain struck the ground at high speed, in a dumpster in said alleyway, Rita and Runt were trying to sleep, but were having trouble doing so, Runt in particular.
''Hey Rita?''
''What'' she replied bluntly, she had only just managed to sleep
''Its loud outside'' said runt
It took every ounce of Rita's willpower to not smack him upside the head, that and she was two tired
''I know runt, just ignore it and go to sleep'' she moaned
''Okay, you're a good dog Rita a real good dog'' he stated proudly
Rita sighed exasperatedly and shut her eyes to try and sleep
Suddenly a bolt of lightning hit the alleyway, followed by another and another and another, they were focusing in and Rita realised this with a shock, and she realised that a metal dumpster was not the best place to escape electricity, she shook runt awake
''Huh wha what's happening who's there?!'' he stuttered
''Runt we have to go! there's lightning hitting the alleyway for some reason and we have to get out of here, we'll find somewhere else now lets go!'' she cried, the two leapt out of the dumpster right as a bolt struck a metal bin near them and sent it hurling to the back of the ally partially melted and sending bits of flaming rubbish everywhere, this was quickly cooled and put out by the heavy rain but it was enough to make Rita and runt freeze in fear, quickly runt picked up Rita by the scruff so he wouldn't hurt her and ran off with her because out of the two he was fastest, they reached the street and looked back to see several bolts all at once strike the ground, this was scary enough but the fact they were green was enough to give runt the adrenaline to speed off in toon fashion, leaving a puff of smoke behind,
meanwhile in the ally way the green lightning bolts were moving closer until they merged, there was a flash of green, an explosion of sparks, the lamps in the street went out as the fuse box in alleyway burst, the sparks settled and the lightning cleared, boxes were burned and singed all around and the rain continued to beat down undeterred on everything
And in the midst of it all, there was a small figure in the same spot the lightning had been,
A small, unconscious, purple clad figure.
it was still dark, and the rain still beat down, Lucy lay there in the rain, then her eyelids began to flutter, she moved slightly, she was soaked from the rain and cold, her body was racked with agony after what happened with her father, and she felt ill, she got to her hands and knee's slowly, she felt different, but right now she was more concerned by the fact she was suddenly in an alleyway, and everything looked drawn, she stood up straight scared, she didn't know what was happening, this was an awful lot for a child of 7 years old, her legs quivered and she held her hands up in front of her chest and she looked everywhere, her stomach did not agree with this, she felt something begin to come up and darted over to a bin, she began to throw up, she felt weaker than ever before and scared, when she finished hung her head down so she was looking at the ground and her feet,
But these weren't hers, they where bright white and larger than before, she leapt back in shock at the sight of them, these weren't hers! And neither were those legs! There were black and furry, so where her arms, and on her hands were the most bizarre thing, white gloves.
She rushed over to a puddle and saw her reflection for the first time, if she could have screamed she would have,
her face was white with a black head, her black hair was the same and still had the purple bow, but her ears where gone and now she had them on the top of her head and under her hair, they had been under before but not on the top of her head, and they was a different shape, they where long and thin and black, she looked behind he and saw a long black tail protruding from a small hole in the back of her skirt that wasn't there before, she looked just like...
No, she couldn't be... she was...
She looked like a Warner, one of the zany trio, she still had her violet turtleneck and purple skirt, and they were still torn here and there, but they fit her perfectly, she still had the horrid purple/red scar on her neck, the one key difference was her nose, it was bright blue.
Lucy was terrified, she couldn't be in they're world, right? she stumbled over to the street and looked around, it was still dark, around 2 in the morning, she looked up and down the street, against the darkness she saw a big wall up the street fencing of a massive area, and against the sky coming from the area, there was something she saw that scared her so much that if she wasn't already white in the face she would have turned it anyway, a large yellow water tower standing on four red steel legs, it had a bright red roof and the Warner Brothers shield logo on it, she was terrified. She knew who lived there, what should she do; she couldn't let them see her! What would they say?! What would they do?! It was a terrifying thought; she couldn't let any of them see her, or anyone for that matter, so she did what anyone in her position would do,
She ran
she had to get out of this town, she had to, there was no-one around to see he as she ran past the studio lot, and up the street to the end of the town limits, no-one to see the little newly toon girl run away frightened
No-one to see the tears or the look of terror on her already soaking face
Rita and Runt had run straight to the studio lot when they had been frightened off by the lightning, they saw the green volt fall down from the sky, now willing to go back even after it all stopped they stayed under the water tower, so when the trio happened to jump down the next morning they very nearly trod on Rita's tail, she wasn't happy.
''Watch were yer goin will ya!'' she snapped
''Gee, sorry Rita, we didn't see you there'' said Dot
''He's right there dot'' said Wakko, pointing at a Ukrainian man
''Not Yuther Wakko, she said 'you there''' said Yakko
''I'm there? But I'm here, not there'' stated Wakko, dot stared exasperated at him
''Middle kid syndrome'' said Yakko
''What are you doing here anyway?'' asked Dot to R&R
''we was trying to sleep in a dumpster last night in an ally when all this green lightning showed up and began hitting everything, so we ran off''' said Runt
''Green lightning? You don't think it could be...'' she grabbed a torch, held it under her face, and the background turned black as she turned it on, ''ALIENS?!'' she said in a creepy voice
''Hey! maybe our friend yoda's come back!'' exclaimed Wakko, fondly remembering the time he, his brother and sister had driven the bug eyed alien out of his mind after making him they're 'special friend'.
''Eeehhhh I doubt he would be coming back anytime soon Wakko'' said Yakko,
''Look are you clowns done?'' asked Rita, growing annoyed
''fear not Rita, Sherlock Warner is on the case with his trusty sibs'' claimed Yakko pulling out an enormous magnifying glass and looking through it making his eye comically big, and the zany trio shot off towards the alleyway, leaving R&R standing there
when they got the they saw that Rita wasn't kidding about the lightning, there was burnt rubbish and burnt boxes everywhere, and a semi melted bin in the corner, there was a patch of ground that was blackened and burnt.
''Boy look at this, it looks like the terminators made an appearance'' said Yakko
''You mean Arnold Schwarzenegger's here?! He's so muscular and dreamy!'' said dot making little hearts float above her head, Wakko and Yakko rolled they're eyes, as they did Yakko's eye caught something, a footprint, heading towards a bin,
''Well it may not be a terminator but something came out of this thing'', he said looking at the footprint closely, Wakko walked over to the bin where they led to,
''I think I got it, it's in here!'' he exclaimed and stuck his head in, he pulled it out again quick, his white face was green,
''Was it in there?'' asked dot
''No but its lunch is'' he said
''is it just me or do these thing look familiar?'' said Yakko still looking at the footprint, dot walked over, eyeing her brother sceptically, ''where would you have seen them before?'' she got no response, so she brought back her foot and kicked the glass upward into her brothers face, where it stuck comically, seeing this she put her hand on her hip and gave him a look, then with her other hand she grabbed the handle and yanked it of his face, it stretched out then when it came free it snapped back, in the shape of a perfect circle with too ears sticking out on top, it snapped back with a ping showing Yakko with a triumphant face, ''I've got it!'' he shouted, then he grabbed his sisters ankle and brought it up, this of course made her drop down much to her annoyance but he cared not, despite her voicing her anger, he slammed down her foot on the footprint,
''BINGO!'' he exclaimed, the foot was the exact shape of the footprint, same size as it as well,
''put me down you big lug!'' shouted dot, who was dangling in the air, now this was a bad choice of words for her current position, as she unfortunately found out when he let go suddenly letting her fall, she came up with a flattened head and an annoyed look, Wakko came over wearing a 1850's sailor costume and inspected it,
''I knew it! The world is flat!'' he exclaimed, dots head snapped back, she glared at him,
''Of course I could be wrong'' he finished lamely
''Dot have you been sleep walking lately?'' asked Yakko
''No I have not!'' she shouted, thoroughly annoyed by her brothers, ''I don't now how those footprints got there!''
''well, were the only toons with these feet, so it must have been one of us'' he said, ''and their your size, so it must have been you'' he finished up, he instantly pulled out a desk lamp and turned everything black and white (except there red noses witch were immune from that) and summoned an interrogation room and a desk, he put the lamp on the desk and turned it on, he pointed it at dot, who was sitting in a chair and wearing a dress with one of those furry scarf things and an absurd amount of lipstick, looking uninterested,
''we know yer did it dot, just admit it and save yourself a whole lot of trouble'' said Yakko impersonating a 40's detective, ''or we can make things very difficult for you'' he continued
''I aint afraid of you, I have a solid alibi so you can't do squat'' she pouted smugly
''She's right yaks'' said Wakko in a fedora and trench coat, ''she sleeps in the same room as us, if she got up we would have woken up and seen her, she's clean'' he said
The scene fell away leaving them stood in the alleyway still,
''Well if it wasn't one of us, then who was it then?'' questioned dot,
''Well sibs, there's only one way to find out!'' exclaimed Yakko, ''follow the trail!'' and with that the trio walked out the ally determined to find this mystery toon, and when they reached the street...
They argued about which way to go.
