Flippy sat down in his office, and opened the morning paper. He thought about that toon... That fragile memory. Everything shocked him... It all started on a dark night. There was a young toon who aspired to be much more than an ordinary toon. Everyone believed in him to be an amazing toon in the future; but they may have thought wrong. Flippy wanted to be the leader of Toontown. The rest of the toons thought that it was a cute achievement that little Flippy the dog wanted. And then, one day, he achieved just that. He was mayor of Toontown!

It may have seemed like a golden light to all the toons. "Such an amazing leader in their hands", everyone thought that at the time.

But then, that dark night came. Flippy was angry. His orders weren't followed! These toons were not obeying him! Flippy wanted the Cogs DEAD. The Cogs originally shared the land with the toons. At the time, all the toons just went with it. But Flippy wanted all the land to himself. He was a greedy toon. He wanted to rule everything. The more he ruled, the bigger of a leader he was! Flippy loved being in power. So with that, he told toons he wanted them to murder the Cogs. He announced it, enforced it. Flippy created Gags to murder these Cogs.

Why would he allow the toons to share the land with a bunch of robots? The land of Toontown could be so much bigger. There was no Donald's Dreamland at the time. There was no Minigolfing place. There was no Racing place. Flippy wanted to enhance his land. He wanted money. If he had big land, more money! More space for toons, more taxes of jellybeans he could collect! He would be the richest toon in the Tooniverse!

But NO. Those pesky Cogs had half the land! The toons wouldn't agree to murder the cogs. Why not! They believed in sweet things, hapiness and joy. No toons interacted with Cogs. They both just did their happy deeds everyday. The Cogs enhanced a life of business, while the toons enhanced a life of games. There was no battling and wars. It was just hapiness in everyone's lives. Flippy ruined it all.

So after announcing it, he required that all toons had to murder cogs if they wanted to stay in Toontown. Most toons were furious! Killing the Cogs? They just wanted to live life! The toons would not agree to Flippy's law. Flippy grew furious with the disobeying toons. So he began lawing out toons. The toons realized that there was no other home for them... Where would they go after he kicked them out?

Flippy said he surely with kick them all out. So then, with that, he showed them models of Gags. The toons began to fight the Cogs, and it became a tradition of force. Flippy said not to speak of the forcing, and just act like it was a part of the Toontown system already.

The toons followed his order, and did not speak of anything.

One day, a young black cat named Smokey had entered the now-dark realm of Toontown. He thought it was a happy life, like it was before Flippy enforced the dark rules. Smokey, after realizing the death and terror of Toontown, protested against Flippy's laws. Before Smokey could go any further with his protest of kicking Flippy out as chairman of toons, Flippy...

Flippy murdered one of his own kind. He... Murdered... Smokey!

He told no one how Smokey died. Many wondered, but did not question Flippy. Nobody accused him. They all believed that Smokey had either died on his own, or had left Toontown, feeling nobody had believed his protest. The Cogs were kicked out of their half of Toontown, and Flippy remodeled it to be all the newer places. He said he was "enhancing" the toons' experience in Toontown, when really all he was causing was sadness and war. Flippy had a cruel "curse" that spread to other toons called... The Dark Heart.

It caused toons to be just plain bad; force themselves to do acts of cruelty and terror. Toons then on became meaner, badder, and worse. From murdering the Cogs by force, they went to creating a habit of doing cruel things to others. Serge and Max knew the true story of Toontown, but they did not know about The Dark Heart.

The Dark Heart had not been spread to some lucky toons of Toontown. Serge and Max did not like to murder Cogs, but Flippy said they must do the deed.

And now, back to the present time of the realms of Toontown...

"Good morning, Flippy!" A toon exclaimed.

"Arrrgh!" Flippy cried, "You awoke me from my daydreaming, pesky toon! I mean... Good morning, fellow toon! How may I, Flippy, the mayor and leader of Toontown, service you today?"

"The mailman had to go to some funeral of this toon he knew," The toon said, "So he told me to deliver today's mail."

"Is it important enough for me to stop reading my paper?" Flippy asked, harshly.

The toon gulped and replied to the harsh mayor, "I believe it is, Mr. Flippy... It is a message from the Cogs... I don't know what it says, but it's signed by the C.E.O of the Cogs."

"Alright, I guess it is important," Flippy said, but he couldn't stop thinking about the funeral, "Okay, give it to me, and run along quickly. I have alot of things to do!"

The toon's eyes quickly flashed black. A sign of the Dark Heart gazed apon him. The toon handed Flippy the letter, and then kicked the scientist on the way out.

"Hey!" The scientist yelled, "That wasn't very nice of you, toon!"

"I don't care for nice," The toon snapped, "Now shut up."

The scientist gave him a glare, which fired up the toon's Dark Heart abilities. The toon turned back angrily, and twisted the scientist's arm, causing the poor scientist to moan in pain. The toon surveyed the area for any watching toons.

"Don't speak of this." The toon said and ran away quickly.

Flippy smiled evilly at the sight of his Dark Heart cursing the toons that came around the corner. He opened the message from the Cogs and read it. The message from the Cogs read,

We know you want power, Flippy, but I really am asking you peacefully to return one half of the world to us. We don't have much of a home anymore, and business isn't the same. We mean no harm to any of the toons. Please put down all the actions towards the Cogs and return the half of our world, or a secret operation will take place, and you cannot fight it. We are asking you, meaning no harm. This is your chance. If you do not accept it, we will have to begin our plan. You cannot fight this plan. So be wise.

-The C.E.O of Cogs

Flippy laughed and shook his head.

"I'm not afraid of any crazy Cogs..." Flippy said, "I invented the tradition to fight them!"

Flippy quickly wrote a letter declining their harmless request. He wasn't afraid of any attacks. He had all these toons with the Dark Heart on his side! The land was his forever. Flippy felt the Cogs should just forget about reclaiming a half of the land. Flippy ruled everything now. If he started the war revolution and took over one half, he could take down their next about-to-fail attempt of it.