I do not own Space Jam or the Looney Toons, nor am I making any money from this story. I only own myself and bits of my friends, which are based on the characters from Animorphs… which I don't own either. 'Kay so enjoy! xD
Meanwhile, Amber and her friends are being pulled further and further underground, eventually squeezing through a big rubbery thing with the Warner Bros. logo on it. Of course, they're all too busy freaking out to notice that.
Finally, there's a loud 'BOOM!' as they all hit the ground, creating a giant hole from the impact. They all climb out of the hole, wobbly and disoriented, to look around. When Amber sees that they're surrounded by a cartoon world, she thinks that she may have hit her head a little harder than necessary. "What the…?"
Marco turns to her, "Are you seeing… what I'm seeing?"
She nods, "If you're seeing a cartoon world… then yes…"
"Holy shit…"
Cassie shakes her head, "There's no way…"
A familiar voice cuts in, "Eh, there's no way what, doc?"
They all turn to see Bugs Bunny leaning against a tree and munching a carrot. They gape at him in shock as Marco says, "But… you're a cartoon character! You're not real!"
Bugs walks over to them, "Not real, eh? If I weren't real, could I do THIS?" proceeding to grab Marco and give him a big kiss on the lips.
Marco pulls away, sputtering and wiping his lips off on the back of his arm, "YUCK!"
The others all laugh at Marco's disgust and other toons pop up to take a look at them. "Who is dat?" Elmer Fudd asks from the doorway of a barber shop.
"Is that our help?" Sylvester replies as he pops out of a manhole.
A spinning Taz bursts from a mail box, "Basketball!"
Tweety flies down, "I tat I saw…" he looks at them, "I did! I did see new peoples!"
As even more toons surround them, Daffy Duck walks over and eyes them suspiciously, "Hey! They aren't Michael Jordan! What'd you do this time, rabbit?"
Bugs shrugs, "They're somebody, at least…"
Amber and her friends just gape at them. Suddenly, Marco bursts out laughing, "Michael Jordan, Bill Murray… now Looney Tunes! What happened to our lives?"
Amber giggles, "They got fucking exciting, that's what!"
Bugs looks at Daffy, "See? Michael Jordan was up there! There was just a slight mix-up…"
Marco looks at him guiltily, "Oh, that was my bad… I thought it'd be cool to get pictures of us grabbing his ball for him and yeah…"
Daffy glares at him, "Great! Just great!"
Coming to Marco's rescue, Jake asks, "What'd you guys need him for? Maybe we can help."
Bugs chuckles and puts an arm over his shoulders, "I thought you'd never ask… Yah see, these aliens come from outer space sayin' they wanna make us slaves for their theme park. Whadda we care? They're little. So we challenge them to a basketball game, but then they show up and they ain't so little; they're huge!" He continues, slightly less calmly, "And we need to beat these guys because they're talkin' about slavery! They'll make us do stand-up comedy, the same jokes every night for all eternity! We're gonna be locked up like wild animals and trotted out to perform for a buncha low-browed, bug-eyed, fat-headed, humor-challenged aliens! What I'm tryin' to say here is… WE NEED HEEELP!"
Jake blinks before responding, "Well um… we won a basketball competition to meet Michael Jordan… I mean, that's gotta count for something right?"
Daffy continues to glare, but the other toons brighten up instantly. Bugs looks at Daffy, "Aw come on! I say we give dem a chance!"
Porky stutters, "The more, the me-eh-eh-eh… Six heads are better than one!"
"Exactly!" Bugs says before turning to Jake, "You kids got names?"
Jake nods and answers, "Yeah, I'm Jake and these guys are Marco, Tobias, Amber, Cassie, and Ashlee," gesturing to each of his friends in turn.
"Nice to meet you kids! Come on, I'll show you to our gym!" Bugs says, gesturing for them to follow him.
They all exchange glances and take off after the rabbit, the other toons following behind them.
Unknown to them, one of the opposing team was spying on their meeting from behind a tree. Nawt chuckles and thinks to himself, THAT'S their back-up plan? Oh man, wail until the guys hear this… before running off to tell the others.
The Monstars, the opposing team, are at the outside basketball court, toning up and developing their skills. Pound, the orange-skinned bulky leader, is playing basketball against Bang, the green-skinned monster with a big chin and spiny back. He dribbles past Bang before dunking the ball into the basket.
"Nice one, man!" Bang compliments.
Pound shrugs and replies, "With the talent we stole, we're gonna crush those pipsqueaks!" making Bang and himself laugh.
Bupkus, purple-skinned and extremely muscular, stops doing push-ups and stands up to joke with the others. Blanko, blue-skinned and the tallest of them all, stands up from doing crunches. He doesn't laugh though, being nicer than the others and not really wanting to cause the Looney Tunes pain.
Soon Nawt returns and they all go over to greet their smaller, red-skinned teammate. Pound asks, "Did yah find out what the toons are plannin'?"
Nawt chuckles darkly before replying, "Yeah... They were gonna get some famous basketball player, but they messed up 'n now they got these six kids to help 'em…"
The others burst out laughing at that. Once he regains control, Pound asks, "So where are these kids at?"
Nawt shrugs, "I think they were takin' 'em to their gym."
Pound chuckles cruelly, "Come on, boys… let's go give 'em a welcoming party…"
The others laugh and follow him to the Looney Tunes' gym.
Upon entering the gym, Bugs exclaims, "Look at our facilities!"
They do. Amber exchanges glances with her friends and thinks, Wow… this place is a wreck…
Daffy jumps up, grabs onto a hoop, and says "We've got hoops!" before falling.
"We've got weights!" Elmer adds. Taz picks one up, but topples over from the heaviness.
"We've got balls!" Sylvester adds excitedly, opening a locker that buries him with them.
Marco gives him an incredulous look and says, "You sure do… This place is a mess."
Daffy looks at him, "Mess? You're worried about a little mess? There's nothing a little spit shine wouldn't fix... SPIT SHINE!"
"SPIT SHINE!" Yosemite Sam echoes.
They all start spitting on the floor, making Amber and her friends exchange more glances. Cassie cringes with disgust. Taz grabs a couple of mops and starts spinning around, cleaning up the mess. Once he finishes, the gym is sparkly clean. He growls, "Lemony fresh."
Amber and her friends burst out laughing. Marco says, "You guys are nuts!"
"Eh-eh, c-c-correction, we're L-L-Looney Tunes!" Porky stutters.
Daffy holds up his butt, which has a Warner Brothers logo on it, adding, "And exclusive property and trademark of Warner Brothers Inc.!" before kissing it.
They all laugh again, but stop short as a loud, rumbling noise fills the gym and makes everything shake. Suddenly, a red monster bursts through a set of doors with a growl, followed by a bulky orange one with a roar. A big, green monster and an even bigger purple monster break through a set of doors at the same time, the purple one growling, "I'm here!" A blue one, taller than any of the others, then comes in and says, "Me too!" before hitting his head on part of the ceiling, "Ow! That hurt!" They crowd around Amber and her friends, grinning evilly down at them.
"Um… who are these guys exactly?" Marco asks nervously.
"Remember the tiny little aliens I told you about?" Bugs asks before pointing at the monsters from behind him.
"Oh…"
"You heard of the Dream Team? Well we're the Mean Team, wussy boy!" the orange monster says, sneering down at him.
"Wussy boy!" the purple one echoes.
"Wussy boy?" Marco asks, looking offended.
The red monster hops onto the orange one's shoulder and says, "We're the Monstars! M-O-N… oh, um…"
The orange one cuts him off, "Let's see what you got, tough!" before tossing Marco a basketball.
Marco throws it back and says, "I'm not in the mood for basketball!"
The purple monster mocks him, putting his arm against his forehead dramatically, "I'm not in the mood for basketball!'" making the others laugh.
The green one adds, "Maybe you're chicken?" before walking around the gym, flapping his arms and making chicken noises.
Foghorn Leghorn cuts in, "Hey, I say, I resemble that remark!"
Marco glares up at him, "You callin' ME chicken?"
The orange monster says, "Hey, come here!" and grabs Marco. He squishes him up into a ball and says, "Here, take 'im!" before passing him to the red one.
The red one dribbles him and says, "Watch the footwork! Can you believe it?!" before tossing him to the green one.
The green one growls, "Get out of the way!" before dunking him into the basket, shattering the glass from the hoop in the process.
He bounces away before taking back his normal shape and shaking his head to clear it. Ashlee and Jake run to Marco to see if he's okay, Ashlee dropping to her knees beside him. The others just stand there in shock.
The orange one says, "Look at your little heroes now!" making himself and the other monsters laugh.
Marco glares up at them all and says threateningly, "You guys are makin' a BIG mistake…" as he dusts himself off.
The green one sneers at him and says, "You're all washed up, girly boy!"
"Girly boy?!" Marco asks angrily.
Tweety flies up to the monster and says, "He is not washed up! Marco will help us beat you!"
The monster growls, "Shut up!" and flicks Tweety away like a bug, making him hit a wall and crumple to the floor.
Amber gasps, making Tobias and Cassie exchange glances. Tobias laughs and says, "Uh-oh… you guys just made an enemy…"
Ignoring him, she runs to Tweety's aid and takes him in the palm of her hand, "Aw Tweety! Are you okay?!"
The blue monster looks down with concern and asks, "Yeah, are you okay?" which makes the green and purple monsters grab a hold of him and growl. Seeming to remember that they're the bad guys, the blue monster says, "Whoops…"
She giggles at them before looking back to Tweety.
"You're not scared of them, are you, Amber?" Tweety asks with watery eyes.
She looks up at the Monstars, who leer down at her threateningly. She is scared of them, but she's also tired of their crap. She stands up and glares at them, trying to act much braver than she feels, "I'm not scared of anyone that needs to beat up a little bird to feel tough… Count me in."
The toons cheer and high-five each other, but Marco interrupts, "Are you crazy, chica? You can't even play basketball!"
The Monstars all laugh at that, making Amber glare at him, "Shut up! I can learn!" She turns to Bugs, "When is this game of yours?"
"Two days from now…"
"Oh… See, Marco? I have another two days to learn…"
Marco laughs, "Oh, hold me back…"
Cassie jumps in, "I'm not lettin' my girl do this shit by herself! I'm in!"
Jake chuckles, "I guess that means I'm in… Gotta protect the girlfriend…"
"I'm in too!" Ashlee says excitedly; she's always up for any challenge.
Tobias shrugs, "Eh… why the hell not?"
They all turn to look at Marco, who glares defensively, "What? It's not my fault that you guys are nuts! Didn't you see what just happened?! I was a BALL!"
Ashlee snuggles up to him and gives him sad puppy-dog eyes, "Pweeeaaase?"
"Hey! Woman, that's cheating!"
Jake chuckles, "Women are good at that…" making Cassie walk over and hit him. "Ouch, Cass! I was just kidding!"
After looking at Ashlee's adorable sad face for too long, Marco breaks, "Alright, fine! But you owe me, missy!"
She giggles and gives him a peck on the lips, "I know, babe!"
Marco glares at the others, making Amber say, "We all love you too, jeez!"
He laughs, "Says the girl that doesn't blink when I'm hurled around and slam-dunked, but comes runnin' when the bird gets flicked…"
She laughs too, "Oh shut up! You had two people checking on you already, yah big baby…"
He pouts at that and Ashlee pats him on the head sympathetically.
Amber looks over and sees the Monstars eyeing them all with amused looks on their faces. She giggles and turns to Bugs, "So where are we gonna be stayin' 'n junk?"
"Eh, we'll get you kids into one of our best hotels."
They exchange excited glances and Ashlee goes, "Sweet!"
Wanting to practice, Amber turns to the orange monster and puts her hands out, "Ball?"
The Monstars all chuckle at her and he passes her the basketball, saying, "This oughta be good…"
She glares at him briefly and then turns her attention to the ball. She dribbles it around a bit before throwing it at the hoop nearest her. To her surprise, as well as everyone else's, the ball goes through it. She giggles and claps her hands excitedly, "Yay! This isn't so hard!"
The purple monster goes over and grabs the ball before standing in front of her. He passes it to her and says, "Try to do that past me, sweetheart…" making the other monsters laugh and jeer at her.
She eyes his 12-foot-tall, muscular form warily before gulping back her fear and saying, "Fine!" She dribbles the ball and tries to move past him, but he takes the ball from her easily.
He dribbles towards the hoop and dunks it backwards, smirking down at her as he does so. After letting go of the hoop, he grabs the ball and passes it to her, "Still think it won't be hard, princess?"
She shrugs, "So what? I still have practicing to do so… you shush!"
He chuckles and looks her up and down before saying, "You're a little cutie, but don't think that'll make me go easy on you…"
"Hmph! I don't need you to!" she says defensively before dribbling the ball at him again. She lasts a little longer this time, but in the end he wraps his arms around her to trap her before snatching the ball and dunking it. When he drops from the hoop and turns to face her again, she says angrily, "Hey! That's gotta be cheating or something!"
He chuckles, "I never said I was gonna play fair, did I?"
"But but…" she turns to Jake and Marco, "don't you HAVE to play fair?"
Marco nods, but Jake turns to Bugs, "In real life we have to, but… what about here?"
Bugs shakes his head sadly, "Anything goes, doc."
Amber's heart sinks, "Like… anything-anything?"
"Anything-anything."
"Well fuck…"
The purple monster comes to tower over her threateningly and growls, "Still wanna play with me, baby?" eyeing her body and suggestively licking his lips.
She whimpers and shakes her head, moving back to hide behind Tobias. She gives the ball to him, "Here go!"
He laughs, "Thanks a lot!" but moves towards the purple monster anyways. He dribbles the ball and just as the monster is about to snatch it from him, he says, "You know, I'm really into big, muscular guys…" giving him a wink. The monster looks at him with disgust and moves back, giving Tobias the opportunity to run past him and dunk the ball.
His friends burst out laughing and Amber says, "Aw poor Tobias, bein' rejected…"
He rejoins his friends and chuckles, "Eh, I'll live... He's not really my type anyways. But hey, look on the bright side… if anything goes for them, anything goes for us!"
Their moods lift at that and Marco says, "Haha that's right!"
The Monstars glare at them and the green one says, "Let's leave these losers to practice, they're gonna need it…" starting for one of the exits.
As they leave, the orange monster turns to them and growls, "You kids better watch yo' backs…"
When the Monstars are gone, Amber turns to exchange nervous glances with the others, "Please tell me that one of you has a plan?"
Jake gives her an encouraging smile, "Don't worry about it. We have the next few days to think of one. For now, let's just practice."
Marco chuckles, "Whatever you say, great and almighty leader…"
The toons all whoop and agree excitedly, happy to finally have some help.
Jake takes the time to explain the basics of basketball to the toons before having them practice. Amber and her friends soon realize that this is going to be even harder than they thought. The toons hurt each other more than they actually play the game. Jake sighs, "Does ANYBODY here know how to play basketball?"
"I do!" says a girl voice from the doorway. They all look over to see a beautiful blonde rabbit walking towards them, basketball in hand. She continues, "I'm here to try out for the team."
Bugs runs up to her, looking love-struck. "Heeeyyy…"
She holds out her hand, "Hi, I'm Lola Bunny."
"Lola?" he asks, shaking her hand.
She giggles, "Yes."
"Hi! My name is BUGS!" he says, accidentally belching the last part. He clears his throat and continues, "Wanna play a little one-on-one, doll?"
"Doll?" she asks, fire burning in her eyes.
"Uh-huh!" Bugs replies with hearts in his own.
"On the court, BUGS…" Lola challenges, mocking the way he belched his name.
"Sure!" he says, stumbling after her as she walks by him.
Tweety exclaims, "Ooo she's hot!" which makes Amber, Cassie, and Ashlee all start to giggle.
Jake, Marco, and Tobias chuckle and Marco says, "Dude… she IS pretty hot for a rabbit…"
Ashlee hits his arm, "You're disgusting!"
He shrugs, "It's true!"
"Ready?" Lola asks Bugs once they're in position.
"Yes," he replies. She starts dribbling and he tries to get the ball from her, "I got it! I got it!" But he doesn't. She dribbles circles around him and dunks the ball, leaving him dazed. Afterwards, she walks up to him and he dreamily asks, "Yes?"
Touching his face, she says, "Don't ever call me 'doll'," before walking away.
"Check!" Bugs says, going stiff as a board and falling flat on his face.
"Whoa! She's got skills!" Ashlee exclaims.
The others voice their agreement and Cassie says, "She is SO on the team!"
Lola smiles up at them, "Thanks girls." She then turns to leave, looking back at Bugs and saying, "Nice playing with you," before walking out the door.
Jake laughs, "Very smooth…"
Bugs sighs dreamily, "She's obviously nuts about me."
"Obviously," Amber says, smirking.
The others laugh and Jake says, "Well I'm glad that one more of us can play at least…"
The toons grin guilty at that and Bugs says, "Okay, okay, back to practicing!"
So they do just that. It takes a while before they start accomplishing anything, but at least they get there eventually. After a few hours, they're all beat. Jake says, "Okay, guys, that's enough for today. You're all doing a great job! Same time tomorrow?"
The toons all say yes, looking rather proud of themselves. With that, they all leave and go their separate ways. Only Bugs and Daffy remain behind with Amber and her friends.
Bugs says, "Come on, I'll show yah kids to your room now," gesturing for them to follow him. They do.