Okay, I'm back! I know you've all wanted to see the next chapter of this story after reading the first one, and rightfully so! Thus, here it is! When we last saw the toons who are trying to save Babs, they had gotten into their sub, been shrunken down to microscopic size and entered into the bunny's body with the help of Granny. Now that they're in, they need to find a way to take out all of those parasites as soon as possible, and to, if they get out of her body having done so, make it so they find out who's responsible for this. You and I know it's Montana Max, but they don't, so let's see if they can find out and then see him punished for his crimes. This is, as I said at the end of the previous chapter, going to be a longer chapter than its predecessor.

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Parasite Present

Chapter 2: Every Body Needs Help Sometimes!

Within the stomach of Babs, the sub being driven by Buster and occupied by both him and the other toons who were looking to save Babs by destroying the parasites which currently infested her beautiful body was moving about.

And Buster was the one with the plan this time, as he said: "Okay, everyone! Listen up! We're all good and ready for taking on those parasites, but we've got to see them destroyed ASAP. So our best bet would be to, after we set this thing onto auto-stillness, swim to different organs and eliminate any and all parasites there, each one with a group of two! That'll cover more ground in less time and increase Babs's chances of living!" The others nodded, and Mary asked: "So, who's going where?"

Buster then clarified: "Furrball and Sweetie are going to be the ones who take out the parasites in her stomach like we're in right now. Calamity and Bookworm are going to be the ones who destroy the parasites in her brain. Little Beeper and Lil' Sneezer will get rid of those which are in her liver. Hamton and Mary will eliminate the ones in her small intestine. Shirley and Fifi will see dead those of them in her pancreas. Fowlmouth and Concord will take care of the ones in her large intestine. Byron and Ruby will exterminate the ones in her esophagus. Gogo and Dizzy will deal with those of them in her spleen. And Plucky? You're with me as we get rid of the parasites which are currently in Babs's ears." Everyone nodded, and Buster said: "Okay, it is now time to get to work!"

He set the sub to be stilled and stay where it was, then everyone got their way out of it and swam to their intended destinations in Babs's body, each duo in different directions for obvious reasons.

First, we look at how Byron and Ruby cleaned her esophagus of the parasites in it. Ruby said as they swam up into it: "My, oh, my! Do we have a LOT of parasites here!" Byron barked in agreement. "We'd best get rid of them fast!" Ruby let out, and she put to use what assets her special scuba suit granted her. You see, when Calamity and Bookworm had made those scuba suits, he'd made it so that the specific abilities each toon had would be put to use as special, parasite killing weapon gadgets as part of the scuba suits, as well as how they would not take any damage from inside of Babs's body while wearing them, they way they designed them.

And we'll first see a perfect example of this when we see how Ruby attacked the various parasites by whipping them with a metal tail, slashing them with metal claws and biting them by means of metal teeth. Along with how she used all of her moves and skills she'd learned over the years from her Perfecto days prior to reforming to see parasites aplenty eliminated.

Byron, in the meantime, used his teeth and claws, but also flaps of his ears, all of which were metallic versions of themselves as long as he was wearing his scuba suit, to pulverize the parasites he was facing. They went about the esophagus they were in until there wasn't a single parasite left to be seen or left at all, really.

"Marvelous job, basset boy." Ruby complimented. "I think that definitely does it for all of the parasites in here." Byron barked as if to say: "It sure does. Let's hope our teammates are doing just as well." "Oh, yes. Because if they are, then Babs is as good as salvaged." Ruby then nodded in response to this. "Though this was one job that was truly hard to swallow and a pain in the neck, but at least we got it done." All right, now that we've seen Byron and Ruby destroy their share of the parasites, let's go to the next duo and thus the next organ.

Now let's check out Hamton and Mary taking on parasites in her small intestines. Mary's words were: "Whoa nelly, look at all these unwanted, disgusting parasites! We're going to have to work real hard to get rid of all these, Hamton!" "True enough, but the lucky thing is, I'm quite the clean freak, so I don't think they stand a chance against both you and me working together!" let out Hamton. "Good point. Let's find out if you're right." Mary said.

They swam about all her small intestine, with Mary easily able to utilize a special microphone weapon, metal fists and feet to whip, club and beat parasites galore to bits and pieces until there was nothing left of them whatsoever, and Hamton more than capable of the task of using his vacuum cleaner, metal fists and feet and the metal hooves thereof to either suck up and annihilate the parasites or simply pulverize them to nothingness.

Anyway, by the time they were through, Babs once more had a clean, parasite free small intestine, and Mary said: "Nicely done, Hamton! No more parasites! Not even one!" "A superbly done job yourself, Mary, and you're quite right!" Hamton stated. "We sure cleaned out the small intestine of Babs!" "That we did, and here's hoping everyone else is just as efficient in seeing to it the parasites are kaput!" Mary declared. Is it time now to go to the next duo and the next one of Babs's organs? Oh, yes. Most definitely. Indeed it is.

All right, time for Gogo and Dizzy battling parasites within her spleen. Gogo let out as they came across the parasites there: "Good gracious! Those parasites are as prominent here as they are prevalent!"

"Parasites gotta go before they make Babs go!" Dizzy added in, and he'd a second later start spinning, his scuba suit making it so he was a metallic kind of tornado with a set of sharp metal claws and teeth, all of which ensured he would tear through every last one of the parasites he attacked. Gogo, in the meantime, took out a metal mallet, fired metal spikes, hit parasites he didn't use those things on with his wings and landed both kicks and pecks onto some other parasites.

He also used his reality warping powers to make sure any parasites not hit by any of this, if there were any, would be blinked out of existence. It wasn't long before Babs's spleen was back to normal, with no more parasites.

"OOOOOH, Gogo do really good job! Parasites gone now!" Dizzy smiled. "Yes, and you did real well yourself!" Gogo told him. "Now that the parasites in Babs's spleen are gone, we've gotten our part done, but that still leaves the parts everyone else is doing, so I hope to God their work is as adept as ours just was!"

"Dizzy hope it will be, too, but me think it's got to be!" Dizzy then said to Gogo in response. I do believe it is time for us to go to the next of organs with which one of the teams of two we look at next. So let's make our way to that, shall we?

Let's next look at Beeper and Sneezer facing those of the parasites in her liver. Beeper, as they saw the parasites present, held up a sign that said: "Holy crap! Look at all these parasites! It sure is a good thing my kind of speed is present here!"

"Yeah," Sneezer agreed, "but what makes this hard for me is that there's so many parasites everywhere, and I'm allergic to them…HEY! Actually, on second thought, that's a good thing! Round up as many as you can in front of me!"

Beeper, understanding Sneezer's idea, zoomed about and took out plenty of parasites on his own by means of his lightning speed, the fire and wind it created and lots of pecking, as well as how all of this was added to by his scuba suit.

Furthermore, after all of the other parasites, all of those still living, obviously, got made to be right in front of Sneezer, Beeper dashed out of range of what was going to happen and then Sneezer, having contained the giant, wicked sneeze he knew was brewing from all of these, now unleashed a humongous, powerful, seismic sneeze which, magnified by his scuba suit, shook Babs's liver just a little and was more than powerful enough to destroy every single last one of the parasites in front of him.

After it happened, Little Beeper zoomed back over and held up a sign that said: "Well done!" "Thanks. And a nice job yourself." Sneezer acclaimed. "But I wonder how well everyone else is faring? It sure would be nice if we could know." "I agree." Beeper's next sign held up read. Time for us to transition to the next of organs and the next of twosomes here.

Following that, we've got Furrball and Sweetie confronting the parasites in her stomach. Sweetie, as she and Furrball saw loads and loads of parasites all around, said: "You know, I've gotta say, Furrball. I don't think even our combined efforts are going to be enough to take out all of these, even with the enhancements from the scuba suits!" "I know!" Furrball said, an idea all of a sudden coming to mind.

"Huh? What?" Sweetie asked, confused. "I'll make a deal and bet with you to give us both some motivation! If I take out more parasites than you, then you've got to admit it's your fault we're enemies and that you started the feud between us and got me kicked out of what should have been my home in the process despite how I was minding my own damn business! If you take out more parasites than me, I stay quiet and never reveal it to anyone at all for as long as I live, nor that I'm much smarter and nicer than you make me out to be when you can and that you're far worse than you try to act, all of which you also must reveal if I kill more parasites than you do!"

"Seriously? You mean it?" Sweetie asked, trying to make sure Furrball wasn't bluffing. "Serious as a heart attack." Furrball replied. "YOU'RE ON!" Sweetie said, accepting Furrball's challenge, and though Furrball had been unlucky in the past, this time it was not so.

While it was true that Sweetie was able to dispatch quite a few parasites with her pecking, clawing and wing hits, as well as flying through them, all of which were added to in terms of potency by her scuba suit, the fact of the matter was that Furrball decimated considerably more parasites with his claw attacks, bites, punches, kicks and the skills he'd learned on the streets in order to keep himself alive, along with his pouncing attacks and the use of the fury he felt for how cruelly life had been treating him until recently, all of which were increased by the abilities of his scuba suit and how they went paw-in-paw with his design, like everyone's scuba suit went in with theirs.

In the end, all of the parasites were out of sight, and Furrball asked: "Were you keeping track, Sweetie? Because I sure was." "Oh, I was…" Sweetie said in a dejected tone of voice, as she could tell Furrball had beaten her.

"Then you know I took out the most parasites and that I thus won our bargain. Besides how this proves it's only my bad luck and how the writers force things that aren't true on me that allows you to survive, you now need to come clean when we're out of this body. Fully. Got that?" Furrball proclaimed.

"Yeah, yeah. Don't rub it in or remind me." Sweetie sighed, hating losing to Furrball, and especially with the knowledge that the way things should have happened were far different from the way they did happen due to force now having been proven irrefutably.

"But hey, we've cleaned out Babs's stomach!" Furrball pointed out. "Yep! No more of any of those parasites! It's nice and clear now!" Sweetie concurred. "I wonder how the others in this body are doing against their share of parasites?" "Hopefully at least this well," Furrball said. "I sure hope we can save Babs. I'm no stranger to parasites myself, actually."

Sweetie looked at him with a look of confusion on her face, so he sighed and explained: "Fleas. I got them a while back and it was utter torture. They're gone now, but not forgotten. Yuck." Sweetie then gave a nod, the matter having been cleared up for her, and said to herself: "Guy must have itched like hell. It would bring me pleasure to know this if I wasn't so depressed about him beating me and what lies ahead now that I've lost the bet." Let's move on to the next organ and team of two now so to continue the story, though.

How about we look at Calamity and Bookworm fighting the parasites in her brain now? It was a ghastly sight to see so many parasites infesting the bunny's brain, Calamity holding up a sign which said: "Yikes! I knew we'd need to expect parasites, but I didn't think there'd be this many!"

Bookworm made noises as if to say: "Neither did I! We've got to get rid of them by any means necessary, though, so let's get cracking!" "Yes, let's!" Calamity's next sign said while he held it up. Both made a special anti-parasite laser launcher device and used each one of said anti-parasite blasters to gun down each and every parasite as quickly and fully as possible. Once they were done, all of the parasites were as good as gone.

Calamity held up a sign which said: "Nice work, and excellent shooting, Bookworm! We did it, just like we did what needed to be done to get into Babs's body and help her!" Bookworm made noises which could be translated as: "A good job well done yourself, Calamity, and you are quite correct! We made our sub, weapons, suits and devices beautifully, and we did just as well at making our launchers and seeing the parasites exterminated with them!"

They gave each other a praising smile, and Calamity held up a sign that said: "But what of all the others?" Bookworm made noises as if to say: "Good point. Let's hope to God they're faring as well at this as we just did and that Babs is becoming less and less of a potential goner as we speak." Calamity held up a sign which read: "Well said, Bookworm." Let's go along to what organ and team of two is next.

It's high time for Fowlmouth and Concord's clash with the parasites in her large intestine. Fowlmouth was cringing at the amount of parasites he saw, although this was admittedly partially due to how this was the place where Babs's shit was, but still, and he extremely loudly stated: "Yuck! I knew the large intestine would be disgusting for obvious reasons, but dad gum it, even knowing we'd see parasites here, this is making me cringe and making me glad we ain't able to smell shit while in these scuba suits! Literally!"

"Very, very true, Fowlmouth," Concord said, "but you know what they say. It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it." "Yeah, so let's get it outta the way." Fowlmouth said. "The sooner we do, the sooner Babs is saved and we can leave this dump!"

So Fowlmouth made it so he pecked, punched and kicked away at as many parasites as he could reach, also using his wings and the metal sharpness his suit granted those and his beak to at the same time be certain he had wiped them out of existence. And Concord flew about, pecking at parasites and also clawing at them with his talons and flying through to batter them with both of his wings. His suit making it so that all of the damage was increased and metal parts added to it further ensured the parasites would cease to exist.

Once they were finished and both were next to each other, Fowlmouth went: "Well, that does it for the whole dad gum lotta them!" "It sure does." Concord concurred. "You did a great job." "And hey, so did you!" Fowlmouth spoke. "It sure would be swell if we knew whether or not everyone else was doing equally well, though." "I think so, too, so here's hoping." Concord commented. Okay, let's move on to the next one of the organs and the two-member teams.

Time now for how Shirley and Fifi attacked the parasites in her pancreas. Shirley was saying: "Like, this is totally revolting, or some junk." "Mon dieu! Vous are right, mon a mi!" Fifi agreed. "Look at all of zese awful parasites! We seemply must remove zem and save our friend Babs!" "Get crucial!" Shirley responded. "And remove them we will!"

Fifi used both her musk attacks, her tail smack attacks, her kicks and her punches, all of them amped up some by her scuba suit, to either melt or pulverize lots of parasites. At the same time, Shirley used her psychic bolt attacks, lightning blasts from her auras, hits of her wings, punches, kicks and hits of her bill to either electrocute to death, blast apart or simply beat to pieces as many parasites as she possibly could. That her suit enhanced the potency of these made further sure of this.

Soon enough, Shirley and Fifi were done, because there weren't any more parasites in the pancreas of Babs. "Well, I zink we are done weeth zis, no?" Fifi asked, while Shirley said: "Like, totally. I can't detect a single parasite left here with my aura, so there can't be any more. I'm just hoping all the other ones are performing against the parasites with equal adeptness, especially in light of how this is a close friend of ours we're trying to save her."

"Oui, well said. I hope to ze almighty dieu zat Babs eesn't goeeng to die from zis! It wouldeent be ze same weethout her!" a comment from Fifi came out as. "One of the many reasons I hope she lives as much as you do." Shirley nodded. Okay, time for the last of the organs and the final twosome.

At last, we look towards Buster and Plucky assaulting the parasites in her ears. Buster let out: "Okay, Pluckster, we both know there are going to be floods of parasites in each ear, so you get the ones in her left one while I get the ones in her right." "Sure thing, blue ear," Plucky spoke after that, "but if it turns out there were more parasites in that ear than in the one you're headed for, I am going to let you know of how I killed more than you did."

"Fair enough." Buster said. It was followed by them each swimming into opposite ears and thus in opposite directions. Plucky, in her left ear, let out: "UUUGHH…this is one repulsive sight! Only way it'll get better for me and the rabbit is to exterminate every parasite!"

So he made weapons aplenty, which were made even more potent by his scuba suit, and he used them on the parasites, seeing plenty of them destroyed in the process with his various big weapons, and the rest of the parasites in Babs's left ear were killed when Plucky swam forward a second before using his bill, wing smacks, punches and kicks to make the parasites literally go to pieces and die.

After he was done, he said: "Ha, ha! Score one for the Pluckster! Or actually, lots and lots! Wonder how blue boy's doing in Babs's right ear? Well, her left one is definitely clean and cleared of parasites now, that's for sure! Better remember to let her know she owes me one."

And now we go to Babs's right ear, where Buster was swimming in and he saw the loads of parasites in that ear as soon as he entered it. "Damn!" he exclaimed. "This definitely calls for some considerable measures of elimination! Well, anything for my love, and that's what Babsy is, among other things!" Just like Plucky, he made various big weapons be formed and used them to dispose of a lot of the parasites.

That their strength was enhanced by his scuba suit only made extra sure this would be so. Additionally, the rest of the parasites he got rid of by hopping about, punching, kicking and spinning through them, in the process making them go out of both sight and existence, especially since these attacks were enhanced by his scuba suit, as well. And once he was done, he stood still and said: "Well, that does it for the parasites in this ear! Hope that the duck is doing as well and with as much diligence! But at least her right ear has been salvaged!"

The parasites in Babs's body were now kaput at last, and due to how Shirley used her aura to find out how everyone else was doing at the time they were all done, then made it clear they were to be commended and that this was over, since it was at the time all the parasites that were in Babs's body had been killed, the toons could tell it was time for them to return to the submarine and get out of the bunny's body, then return to normal size.

It was for that reason that they all made their way to where the sub was in Babs's stomach via both swimming and help from their special scuba suits. Once they all got there, Buster said: "Hi there, everyone! It would seem we've all done our part and Babs's body is now parasite free!" All the other toons said in unison: "Oh, yeah!" "All right, then! Let's get in the sub and get out of Babs's body, then!" Buster commanded, and they all made their way into the sub.

As soon as everyone was inside the submarine, the door to it was shut and Buster got his hands on the controls once again. "All right, everybody, time to depart from the interior of Babs! Here we go!" So Buster drove the submarine up into the esophagus of Babs and kept driving up until it was in her mouth once more. "Okay, so how do we get her to spit us out, now that we're in her mouth again?" asked Sneezer. "I've got the perfect way." Buster replied. He then said to Plucky: "Hey, Pluckster! You like to talk, so shout out to Babs that she needs to spit us out and be sure to explain everything to her!"

"All right, I could use some attention just now, anyway!" Plucky replied. He then yelled out: "BABS! Can you hear me?" "Plucky?" Babs asked. "Where am I hearing you from?" Then he said: "Your mouth! Calamity made a special submarine and set of scuba suits for us, as well as a shrink ray and an activation device for it, alongside Bookworm! Their intents were to make it so we all got shrunk along with the sub and got into you in order to kill off all the parasites in your body! And it worked! They're all gone! But we're in our sub, and it's currently upon your tongue! We need you to spit us out so we can drive our sub to the shrink ray and Calamity can reverse it and restore us to normal size!"

"All right, I feel much better anyway, and I'll walk to where the shrink ray is!" Babs then called back. She got up and did so, then she spat the sub right towards it. "Bingo! Well done, my lady!" Buster smiled. "Nice job, by the way, Plucky!" "Why, thank you." Plucky smiled. "But I ain't exactly surprised I did so well, all things considered." "Like, don't spoil the moment or some junk, okay?" Shirley asked him. Plucky sighed and said: "All right, if it'll make you happy, Shirley." Shirley nodded and said: "It will. Thank you."

After they landed in front of the shrink ray, they all got out and Calamity took out his activation device to reverse the shrink ray's work with a second button pressing. And when he pressed the button, the shrink ray blasted him and the others again, only this time they were all magnified to normal size again. "Ah, it feel so good to be big again!" Dizzy smiled. "And now that we are, we know Babs is going to live and will be fine, with the mission accomplished!" let out Hamton. "Well said, Hammy." Mary complimented. "Sacre bleu! I zink we've got ourselves an unexpected and uninvited veesitor, no?" Fifi exclaimed all of a sudden.

Everyone else looked to what she was pointing at, and it turned out to be a now gigantic parasite! "Holy shit!" a sign Beeper held up said. Then Furrball cried out: "It must have been the one parasite not killed in Babs's stomach and snuck onto the sub!" "Say, I think one of the ones I was trying to kill slipped out of my reach and I couldn't see where it went!" Sweetie pointed out. "This must be that one!" "Well, nice going, canary!" Plucky remarked. "Now we've got a damn parasite bigger than my ego to deal with!"

"Well, we do know all the parasites are out of me and all, but now the last one still living, from my belly or otherwise, is here, and I don't think it wants to just play with us!" Babs stated. It was clear she was making fun of the obvious, what with her sense of humor and all. But in any event, Mary said: "I can tell, along with the rest of you, that this is going to be anything but easy for us." "Oui, eet weel be quite ze challenge, no?" Fifi added in. "We've got to fight it, though, so fight it we will!" Buster proclaimed. "Let's see it take on all of us at once!" Fowlmouth then a second later shouted out. So all the toons got ready for their fight with the giant parasite which at this moment was in front of them and ready to strike.

Suddenly, Babs fell over, going: "UUUUUUH…" The other toons spun around, and then Buster asked: "Babs, what's wrong?" "I think I'm still weak from those parasites and how they'd almost killed me, and I just got a sudden jolt of energy after my body was cleared of them. But I guess the damage they've done that I need to recover from has caught up to me just now and I'll need to sleep it off. I'm sorry, guys. I can't fight. I wish it were otherwise…" "It's okay, Babs." a comment from Shirley came out as. "We weel steel be able to take eet down, I promise vous." let out Fifi. Calamity then held up a sign that said: "True enough, but not if it's given a chance to try and strike and kill us!" "In other words, let's get it fast!" Furrball added in after the others looked at Calamity's sign.

Thus, the fight was on once again, the toons more ready to fight than ever and knowing all of them would need to be careful now that Babs was too tired and drained to take part in this. They couldn't help but wonder what would happen to her in the end, since she would live but of course had taken some damage from those parasites despite how she wasn't a goner, but that'd need to wait for until the parasite was taken care of…if that happened and they survived through their fight, that is. What would happen? Well, this is an exemplary time for a cliffhanger, so you will find out in the next of chapters.

TO BE CONCLUDED…

So, how did you like this chapter? Can the toons fight off the now supersized parasite they've got to deal with? Will Monty finally be caught and made to pay for what he's done? And now that her body is no longer infested but she's still weak as water, what's to become of Babs? Find out in the conclusive chapter of this story, and in the meantime, please rate and review, everyone!