Author's note: Hi everyone! This chapter, we'll meet our main characters as life goes on in Acmetropolis.
Winter has come to Acmetropolis, though people don't really care, as they're still depressed. They even ignored a figure trying to sell something.
"Kindling, kindling, fresh kindling!" the figure said in a Brooklyn accent. He was a rabbit wearing a black and yellow uniform, with a triangle in the middle, a tattered scarf, and had dark blue eyes. His name was Ace Bunny; a young man just living in the streets with his friends.
"Hey Doc! Betcha can't cook food without a fire, right sir?" He slowly trailed off as the citizen walked on, ignored him.
"Ace!" a small voice screamed, causing Ace to turn. What he saw was a small, yellow bird being chased by a black and white cat with a red nose. These were Sylvester Cat and Tweety Bird, pets of Ace and his friends. Ace gave a deadpan look; it's really common for this to happen with those two.
Just as Sylvester was about to pounce, Ace calmly grabbed him by the tail; causing the cat to land face-first into the snow. "Sufferin succotash!" he sputtered, spitting out snow. He looked up to see Ace glaring down at him.
"Let's try not to eat our friends now, okay Slyth?" Ace lectured him, using the cat's pet name.
"But Ace," Sylvester whined, "I'm starving. I can't get anything else; not even a crumb!"
"I know Sylth." Ace sighed. "I'm hungry too. And I don't think Slam and Tech are doing much better."
He turned to see said friends trying to sell snow cones...except it's actual snow on cones! One was a tasmanian devil with red eyes, and wearing a black and purple uniform. His name was Slam Tasmanian. The other was a coyote with yellow eyes, and wearing a black and green uniform. His name was Tech.
"Snow cones!" Slam called with his limited English.
Tech turned to a man walking by, "We've got all kind sir! Plain and..." Of course, he sighed as the citizen pass by without noticing or even caring.
Ace, Sylvester, and Tweety approached them. "Hi guys!" Ace called. "How's business?"
Both Loonatics sighed as they looked at the snow cone they failed to sell. "Not good Ace." Tech replied. "If we can't sell any snow cones, Slam will probably eat them." Slam shrugged as he ate one anyways.
Ace suddenly smiled. "Don't feel bad guys. Come on, Secret hand-shake!" He held out his hand for them.
Tech and Slam looked at it for a moment before grinning. They slapped Ace's hand before they all made the symbol of an Egyptian. Tech laughed as the Loonatics went, "Moola, moola, moola!"
Next, Ace, Tech and Slam elbow their elbows and laughed before flipping their fists down, putting each other's head to each other and flip around together. That was their secret handshake.
"Why, one of these days, we'll be eating like Queen Grannicus herself!" Ace said as he pointed to the castle. The five watch as a cart of gold and food (most likely stolen by Swackhammer) was being driven to the castle itself. "With lots of turkey, and ham, potatoes, corn and carrots by the bushel!"
Slam drooled as he listed some more things. "Ice cream, cookies, pie…"
"Let's not forget the fruit tart and cobblers that are about this high!" Tech smirked as he motions how high said cobblers would be. He then began to sing.
Tech: Oh, give me a suckling pig
He removes a bottom bucket from nearby, showing a pig made out of snow that got made.
To make my belly big
Ace laughed as he sang along too.
Ace: I'm just a little guy
He picked up the snow pig and tossed it into the air. When it landed back in his hands, it was now a pizza.
Give me a pizza pie
Slam took a big bite out of the 'pizza' much to Sylvester's horror, as Tweety laughed at him. Tech suddenly tripped and landed with a bucket on his rear.
Tech: I have a happy place
Ace laughed as icicles fall during this; making a shape like a fireplace. The heroes pretended to warm themselves up.
Next to the fireplace
Ace helped get the bucket off, though the bottom part of Tech's uniform came with it. Needless to say, our hero kept on singing as he wore the bucket like a hat.
Ace: I'd like a hat to wear
Tech yelped, as his brown fur was now exposed to the cold. He tried to cover it up.
Tech: And thermal underwear
Tech managed to get his pants back as the five danced happily down the street.
Ace: It would be appealing
Slam grabbed a curtain from nearby as Tech sang.
Tech: To have a royal feeling
Slam puts the curtain on Ace's back like a cape as the three sang.
Three: Doing everything
They looked at the castle, wanting to be like the people living there.
A little bit like a king
Next, The Loonatics, Sylvester, and Tweety 'rolled out' an old red carpet down to the rabbit as the song continues.
Tech and Slam: Like a king
Ace: Like a king
He walked on the carpet and got on the cart, posing like a king or a prince.
Three: Just a little bit like a king
Ace sat on the cart, holding a high note as the song progressed.
Ace: Ahhhhhh
Slam and Tech: Just be like
Just a little like
Just be like
Just a little bit like
Ace: IIIII would love to live just like a king.
As the song ended, the quintet yelped as snow suddenly came out of nowhere and buried them. Ace managed to get out and spy the culprit; a cart being ridden by some of Swackhammer's minions and the big man himself, as it drove towards the castle. The minions were laughing, and chanting their leader's name.
"Swackhammer! Swackhammer! Swackhammer!"
"Can't they be more careful?" Tech grumbled as he brushed the snow off himself.
"We never, ever met a man, who could bring gloom, gloom, gloom!"
As Sylvester got the snow off himself, he saw something that peaked his interest: A link of sausages hanging from the back of the cart!
"Yahooey!" He hollered. "Food at last!" he then took off after the cart, much to Ace's notice.
"Bad old puddy tat!" Tweety scolded him, but made no effort to go after him, as he knew Sylvester would try to eat him. Ace however, did.
"No Sylvester!" Ace yelled, hurrying after the group's pet, who chased the cart all the way to the castle itself.
The Nerdlucks laughed like mad as the cart goes inside the castle ground, unaware that Sylvester was chasing it. By the time the guards and the cat are inside the castle, the doors closed, preventing Ace from chasing their pet further.
"Not good." He muttered as he looked at the doors. He knocked them, hoping that one of Swackhammer's minions would answer and let him in to find Sylvester.
"Yeah? What do you want?!" a voice snapped in annoyance, causing Ace to jump.
"Well you see, I just want to find my cat." Ace explained. "You see, he ran in there so…"
Inside the gate, an Orange Nerdluck named Pound gasped in alarm. He was being held up by 4 others named Blanko, Bang, Bupkus, and Nawt.
"Who is it?" Bang asked Pound.
"It's his royal highness!" Pound replied. Panicking, the others ran around, causing the stack to fall. Once they recovered, Pound opened the door, while the others dropped into a bow.
"Come in sire." Pound invited Ace in; all the while his knees shaking.
While Ace was a bit confused at what Pound called him, he was happy to be admitted. "Thanks Docs!"
Once Ace has made his way in, Pound closed the door, with him and the others sighing in relief. Just after, however, they yelped as felt a fire on their back-sides. Swackhammer, the culprit, glared at them angrily. "What do you fools think this is? An open house?!" He grabbed, and lifted them up, causing them to shiver under his glare.
"But sir, that was Prince Bugs Bunny!" Blanko said worriedly.
"Oh really?" Swackhammer asked. "Then who's that, idiots?!" He forced their heads in the direction of a window, where a figure was looking out.
The prince himself was looking out of the window, bored stiff. He was currently being taught math by a psychiatrist named Dr. Scratchansniff. He was a grey furred rabbit, wearing an 18th century tunic, a cap to go with it, and white glove. He was Bugs Bunny, the prince of Acmetropolis.
"Let's review again, yah?" Scratchansniff asked in a thick Austrian accent, as he continued the lesson. "All triangles have 3 sides..."
Of course Bugs, being bored, paid no attention to his teacher and frowned. He found the lessons from Scratchansniff a cure for insomnia, and his royal duties to be a pain in the- well, you know. Bugs turns as four figures are also in the room busy as well. Three of them are going through the same class as he was, while the last one is doing some chores.
The three taking the lessons all had similar dog-like appearances, with black fur and red noses, though there were some differences. The oldest simply wore brown khaki pants with a large belt. The middle wore a light blue shirt and a red cap on backwards. The youngest, and only girl, wore a pink miniskirt, and a flower that tied her ears together. These were the Warner sibling, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, the adopted children of Bugs, and soon-to-be princes and princess of Acmetropolis.
The other figure in the room, who was cleaning, also wore a 18th century tunic and a cap to go with it. He was a black duck with a white strap around his neck. He was Daffy Duck, a servant.
"Man, and here I thought Scratchy was bad as our psychiatrist." Yakko complained quietly to Bugs, who nodded in agreement.
"And the relations between these sides are known as rations." Scratchansniff droned as he kept teaching. The students look bored at this. They wanted to go have fun big time, but they knew they couldn't leave class without permission.
Bugs gazed longingly out the window as Buster, Babs, Plucky, and some of the other Tiny Toons had a snowball fight together. He smiled at them. Those kids looked like they were having so much fun! If only the rabbit could leave his duties behind and play with them…
"Ahem, Master Bugs!" Scratchansniff called, noticing Bugs wasn't paying attention. The prince snaped his head up.
"Huh, what?" Bugs ask innocently. "I was..."
"Please give me your full attention. A prince needs these lessons if he's to become king someday. And Warners, you also need to pay attention as these lessons will help you as a prince and princess when Bugs is king."
Daffy chuckled at this. He found it funny whenever Bugs or the Warners got into trouble. Bugs glared at Daffy. He can't make fun of him, or his kids and get away with it. He turned to us and whispers, "Of course you realize this means war!"
"Now, name the 3 secondary trigger nametric ration." Scratchansniff instructed. Bugs saw his back was turned and took the chance. The Warners noticed that Bugs was up to something as Scratchansniff said, "Master Bugs, please begin first before your children goes next."
"Contagion." Bugs answered as he got a pea shooter out. The siblings could see what he's about to do...and tried their best not to give him away by giggling. He fired a spitball at Daffy, whose back was also turned to him. The duck yelped in slight pain when he felt something on his head.
"Hey! Who's doing that?!"
Dot giggled as Yakko answered innocently, "Seekant." Bugs fired another spitball at Daffy, who felt it on his tail this time.
"Alright, who's the wise guy?"
"Now, what was that last one?" Wakko pretended to pounder, while the others looked at him.
Daffy groaned as he turned around, thinking he was imagining being hit by spit balls.
"Oh, I know, I know!" Dot called, raising her hand and waving it like mad.
"Yes Dot?" Scratchansniff asked her in expectation.
Bugs gave a thumbs-up to them, before firing one last spit ball at Daffy, who whirled around and glared at Bugs angrily, just at Dot answered, "Cosecant!"
The boy cheered her on. "Good answer! Yes! Atta girl sis!"
Daffy slowly turned boiling red with rage, until even the feather on his cap burnt off. He spied a candle holder, and made it into a make-shift pea shooter; determined to take revenge on Bugs.
"No, no, no Dot! We've been through this again and again." Scratchansniff frowned, unaware that Bugs blew a raspberry at Daffy behind his back as the duck aimed. The Warner smirked, knowing what would happen next. Sure enough, Daffy fired a spitball fast and hard at the rabbit.
"It's hypothinous. HypotiNOUS!" the last part was because the spit ball had hit him hard on the back. Bugs had managed to get out of the way in time, causing Daffy to hit the teacher by mistake.
Dr. Scratchansniff managed to regain his composure as he calmly walked toward Daffy. Realizing he's been set up, Daffy tries to hide the candle holder behind his back.
"Daffy, I'll have you know, I don't find this sort of behavior amusing." All the while, Bugs was imitating the psychiatrist behind his back as the Warners snickered. "If the prince is to assume the royal duties of his mother, and his kids are to be like him, then…"
"But sir, he started…" Daffy tried to protest.
"Daffy!" Scratchansniff warned. He then pointed out the room, forcing Daffy to go. As he went out, Daffy was complaining.
"This, is the big role I was promised? Getting humiliated by that stupid rabbit again?!" he ranted as he continued out. "Brother! If I knew this was it, I never would've agreed to help him move that trunk!"
As soon as Daffy was out of the room, Scratchansniff turned to the students, who tried to act innocent. "As for you four, you know your mother is still ill, and need quite so she can rest."
Just then, Bugs heard someone say, "Hey, let him go!" He opened the window to see Swackhammer holding a citizen, though Bugs couldn't tell what he looked like, as the alien had him covered. He was also fending off a cat, who, unbeknownst to Bugs, was Sylvester.
"Back, back, you dumb cat!" Swackhammer barked.
"Not until you let him go!" Sylvester hissed back.
"Captain!" the alien turned to see Bugs looking down at the scene. "Eh, what's the big idea doc?"
"Oh, nothing your highness." Swackhammer assured him. "Just dealing with some local rift-raff."
"Even the lowliest of subjects need respect." Bugs explained to him. "Bring him to me at once!"
As Bugs turned away from the window, the sibling noticed. "So, guess that means we'll have an unexpected guest, huh Dad?" Yakko asked.
"Mu-hum. I need a distraction from Scratchy and his teaching." Bugs said as he saw that the psychiatrist has left the room, thank goodness. "I want you three to come with me so I can show you what the people of the outside world look like ever since you got adopted."
Outside, Swackhammer uncovered his victim, who was revealed to be Ace, and said sarcastically, "Oh! The prince wants to see you. Allow me to show you the way!"
He grinned evilly as he placed Ace down, then booted the Loonatic towards his Monstars, who grabbed him and took him to see Bugs and the Warners; with Ace struggling the whole way.
"Alright wise guy! You've gone too far now!" Sylvester said angrily. He then noticed Swackhammer behind him, and started to growl. Swackhammer growled back, resulting in the two growling at each other for a bit.
Outside the castle, Tweety was frantically searching for Ace, when he heard a scream, and saw Sylvester flying out the castle.
"I tawt I taw a puddy tat." He said to us. He then watched as Sylvester crashed into the snow. "I did! I did taw a puddy tat!" He then flew towards Sylvester. "Are you alright puddy tat?"
Sylvester groaned as he shook the snow of himself and turned to Tweety. "You wouldn't believe me if I told you what happened."
Tweety smirked. "Try me."
Author's note: Man, poor Sylvester can't catch a break can he? Next time, the two rabbits (and the Warners) meet for the first time, and make a scheme to get the other what they want. See you there!
The fact that the Warners' are Bugs' adopted children, is reference to one fanfiction story I read; called Looney to the Max. It's really funny, and I recommend you read it.
Bugs' line is what he sometimes says when someone gets him angry.
When Daffy was ranting about his role, I made reference to my previous story, The Aristosmashers.
