*Act I Interlude*
Two days later, and in the middle of the night, Rem very quietly got up from her bed pulling her things together.
(Now Playing: Let's Get Lost by Beck and Bat for Lashes)
She carefully eyed Yakko, Wakko, and Dot who were deep asleep on their bunks. Then she tip-toed to the front door and carefully opened it, hoping like hell that it wouldn't make a creaking noise. Rem was going to try and leave again. Before exiting the Water Tower, she threw a glance back at the Warners. They were still asleep. This gave Rem the go ahead to make her move. Instead of completely closing the door, she left it nearly ajar. Stealthily, Rem made her way down the tower ladder and took the same route that she took the other day. She didn't want to risk setting off any alarms-if any-when going for the front gate. Just as soon as her feet touched the ground, Rem made a break for it.
Back inside the Water Tower, Yakko cracked a suspicious eye open and got up. He wasn't really sleeping, he faked it that whole time. Yakko had anticipated Rem to try and got out on her own again and he was just proven right. The eldest Warner quietly went outside, minding his two younger siblings as they were truly asleep. Getting onto the catwalk, Yakko scanned the nocturnal horizon and spotted Rem running past Soundstage 28 and 29 and then into the back lot. He placed his elbow on the railing and his hand under his chin in a leaning manner as he watched her climb over the fence. Yakko had to wonder if she happened to be a spider monkey in another life. Then the elder Warner let out a sigh and turned back towards the Tower.
(End Music)
Rem ventured into the series of trees that stood along side of the Warner Bros. back lot. There was only half a moon out tonight so there wasn't much light to guide her along.
Makes me wish I carried around a friggin' flash light or something.
She did have a lighter, but a tiny flame wouldn't be enough and she certainly didn't want to risk setting the trees on fire. As far as she was concerned, Nature had been massacred enough as it is. Rem tried to make her way through the almost pitch darkness. She looked up and barely made out the constellation Leo in the night sky that was nearly covered by leaf-filled branches. Every time Rem would get lost, she would always follow Leo to find her way home.
"Going somewhere?"
Rem swung around, taking her weapon and ready to use it when she suddenly heard the voice. Then she saw Yakko leaning against a tree with his arms folded. Tension quickly turned to anger.
"Dude, seriously, what the hell?" Rem ranted.
"Well, scratching the swearing, my question exactly." Yakko replied.
Rem made a face and turned away from him.
"Why won't you let me leave?" she muttered.
"What's the big rush?" Yakko countered. "You got a date or something?"
"No I don't. Don't want one or need one. Now if you don't freaking mind, I'd like to go now."
Rem started to walk away but Yakko appeared in front of her and held her back by placing a hand on her shoulder.
"Yeah, I do mind." the elder Warner said. "Considering your obvious streak of rebelliousness and being somewhat of a minor..."
"Oh please." Rem groaned, rolling her eyes. "Besides, I don't belong here. And I'm not even related to you, so why the hell do you care?"
"Well, call it older brotherly instinct."
Rem fumed for a moment. Yakko could swear that he caught a glint in her eye showing a very pained and sorrowful emotion as if she were remembering some awful memory. But like most glints, it disappeared instantly.
"Yeah well, I really don't' need any of that anymore." Rem said bitterly.
She tried to get past him again but he stopped her.
"Look, why don't you stay? Just for a little while?" Yakko said.
Rem emitted a low growl. She really did not want to stay. But now there wasn't too much of a point of trying to leave anyway.
I'm never getting back home am I?
"Fine, I'll stay." she said in a low voice.
With a scowl on her face, Rem walked past Yakko towards the studio. Yakko with his arms still folded, grinned and followed after her.
XXXXXXX
The next morning, the resident of the Water Tower all woke up to another zany and fun-filled day. The only person who didn't awaken to a cheerful demeanor was Rem. While the Warners zipped around the kitchen getting their favorite cereal, Rem simply walked to the table and sat there with a sour disposition. Then the siblings all came to the table.
"Morning, sunshine." Yakko quirked to which Rem made a face.
Go straight to hell...
"Whaddya'll have?"
Rem looked up and saw the cereals that they all got.
"Jesus, no wonder you guys bounce off the walls." she said, taking a box. "You ever heard of taking your four basic food groups?"
"Oh sure." Dot said. "But where would be the fun in that?"
The Warners set off on their breakfast, while Rem just slowly took bites instead of spoonfuls. Yakko noticed that her bowl was only a third full.
"Is that all you're gonna eat?" he asked.
"I'm not a very big eater." Rem murmured.
Before Yakko could push the subject, their Bugs Bunny telephone suddenly rang out. Instant grins appeared on Yakko, Wakko, and Dot's faces.
"I'LL GET IT!" they cried in unison.
"I'll get it!" Dot insisted.
"No, I'll get it!" Yakko protested.
"I never get to get it!" Wakko whined.
Rem watched them in annoyance as the telephone continued to ring. With a heaving sigh, she got up and went towards the phone while the Warners were busy arguing and in a cartoonish cloud, pushing each other around.
"'Yello." Rem spoke into the phone.
"Erm..yes, hello."
It was Mr. Plotz on the other end of the line.
"Um...my secretary has gone home sick again and I uh, need some help in my office."
"Hold on."
Rem placed her hand over the receiver and turned to the Warners, who were in a frozen position of their argument and staring blankly at their house guest.
"It's that guy from the Administration Office." Rem said.
"Mr. Plotz?" Yakko asked.
"Yeah, him."
"What does he want?" Dot inquired.
"Something about his secretary leaving for the day and needing some help."
The siblings glanced at each other with wide grins and Yakko scurried over to Rem and took the phone from her.
"Don't you worry about a thing, T.P." he declared. "We'll be right over!"
Suddenly Plotz realized who he was talking to.
"No! You kids stay in your Tower! Do you he-"
Yakko hung up before the CEO could finish.
"Come siblings!" the elder Warner declared. "Plotz-y needs our help!"
"Uh, I'm pretty sure he doesn't want us there..." Rem said.
"Don't be such a spoil sport, Rem." Dot told her.
XXXXXXX
Mr. Plotz frantically paced back and forth, appalled by his own mistake.
"Wha-What do I do?" he whimpered. "I know, I'll call Ralph!"
He hurried over to his phone, but when he picked it up, the three Warners sprang out of the receiver.
"Hiya Plotz-y!" they said in unison before laying a big smooch on him.
"ARGHH! GET OFF OF ME!" the chairman of the board cried. "I WANT YOU OU-wait, where's the other one?"
Then the door to Plotz's office slowly opened and in came Rem.
"I walked." she said.
"We're here ta help ya, T.P.!" Yakko announced.
"Yeah, just like last time." Dot added.
"LAST TIME, YOU MADE A MESS OUT OF MY OFFICE!" Plotz screeched.
"Relax, T.P." Yakko insisted as he and his siblings pushed the little man towards his desk. "You just go right back to work and leave everything else to us!"
"I don't want-"
Suddenly, the CEO let out a huge gasp when he saw Rem at a cart in the outer office which had coffee and tea dispensers. Rem got a Styrofoam cup and filled it with coffee, then she put cream and quite a lot of sugar in it. Plotz was beside himself with fear, imagining a Warner on pure caffeine.
"NO!" he cried. "DON'T DRINK THAT!"
But he was too late as Rem was already taking a nice long gulp out of her cup. To Plotz's surprise, she remained in her calm and still demeanor. Not going absolutely high crazy.
"I needed something to calm my nerves." Rem murmured.
Yakko and his siblings raised an eyebrow while Plotz blinked in surprise.
"Eh, heh-heh-heh, of course." Plotz laughed nervously.
"You know if you drink that stuff, you'll stunt your growth." Yakko pointed out.
"Too late. Already had one." Rem replied nonchalantly.
XXXXXXX
An hour later, Plotz eventually let the Warners help him again in his office-although he would probably regret it later-in the place of his stricken secretary. Yakko was at the desk using his fingers as a make-shift invisible type writer. Dot was literally filing file folders with a large metal nail filer, and Wakko screwing around with the copy machine before finally smashing it with a huge mallet. Rem all the while was seated on the couch, reading a magazine. She wasn't really reading it, just looking through the pages. Normally, you wouldn't catch her even glancing at gossip magazines since most of them were all about sensationalism. Rem absolutely hated those, but it was the only kind of reading material there. Then, Plotz came out of his office with a pencil in one hand and a paper pad in the other.
"Wakko." he called out. "I need you in my office."
The red-capped boy's eyes sparkled, feeling somewhat special, and he hopped at Plotz's heels as they went into his office.
"Sit down, Wakko." Plotz told the middle Warner.
Wakko sat in the chairman's desk with his big red tongue hanging out of his mouth.
"Can you take a letter?" Plotz asked, handing the toon boy the pencil and pad.
"Where do you want me to take it?" Wakko asked in reply.
"No, no, no. I mean write a letter!"
"Oh sure! Dear Santa, I've been very good this year-"
Before he could even finish, Plotz let out another growl of frustration. How could he forget how difficult dealing with the Warners was? Without boosting his stress level, he took Wakko and threw him out of his office.
"Dot! In my office now!" the studio boss ordered.
"Mr. Schwarzenegger, could you please hold?" Dot said into the phone on the secretary's desk in a polite tone.
Then the youngest Warner sibling followed the portly man into the office.
"Now I want you to dictate for me." Plotz told her.
Dot cheerfully sat on the chair that was behind the desk and began to write as Plotz began speaking. As soon as he was done, he turned back to Dot.
"Dot, read that back to me." Plotz said.
The youngest Warner gave a blank look.
"Read what back to you?" she asked.
"The letter I just dictated!" Plotz exclaimed.
"Oh...was that for this?"
Then Plotz saw that she was really drawing a picture of herself and movie star Mel Gibson to which the CEO let out a furious and frustrated cry. He kicked Dot out of his office. In total desperation, he turned to the elder Warner.
"Yakko, can you take dictation?" he asked.
"Where do you want me to take it?" Yakko remarked.
"AARRRGHH!"
Plotz was just about ready to blow his top. Then he spotted Rem sitting on the couch silently browsing through another magazine.
"Rem?" the CEO called out anxiously.
Rem lowered the magazine in her hands and gave a low stare to which Plotz winced.
"Er...um, can you take dictation?" he asked with caution in his voice.
"...sure, whatever." Rem mumbled, getting off the couch.
She followed the short studio boss into his office and sat in the rolling chair.
"Okay...um, let's begin." Plotz stammered.
The CEO began talking and Rem began writing on the pad. Plotz nervously paced around the room as he dictated.
"Slow down." Rem spoke out. "You're going too fast."
"Oh, heh, yes...uh ahem." Plotz chuckled.
10 minutes later, the portly studio boss concluded the statement he wanted on his letter and turned back to Rem.
"Would you read that back to me?" Plotz asked.
"Issues on budget cuts, yada, yada, yada. Keep production on time..." Rem droned.
Plotz took the pad from her and read it. Her hand writing was a neat cursive script. It had everything that Plotz wanted on the memo. The Warners were curiously listening to the office door when it finally opened.
"Thank you very much, Rem." Plotz said with a surprised, amazed, and grateful expression while shaking Rem's hand.
"Yeah, whatever." Rem mumbled.
The Warners crowded around her as the CEO disappeared into his office.
"Whadja do?" Dot asked.
"Wrote him a freaking letter." Rem replied with a shrug. "Honestly, the way you guys work, you're going to give the man a heart attack."
They watched her walk off and shrugged at each other.
XXXXXXX
The next day, Dr. Scratchansniff was having individual sessions with the Warners. After toiling frustratingly with the other three, he finally got to Rem with much interest. As the P-sychiatrist had observed before, she was quite different from Yakko, Wakko, and Dot. All the while Rem didn't smile or partake in any jokes.
"Zo, Rem," Dr. Scratchansniff began. "can you tell your full name?"
"Rem Roth." she automatically answered.
"Just Rem Roth?"
"Yup."
Scratchansniff frowned. Quite an unusual name for a girl.
"Eh-heh-heh-heh. Vell Rem, vhere are you from?" the doctor asked.
"Palm Springs. In the projects district." Rem replied nonchalantly. "I'd rather be there than here."
"Vhy?"
"Well, forgive me for saying this, but I hate being around 1st class areas. I don't belong here. And I'm definitely not comfortable talking to a therapist."
"Vhy iz that Rem?"
Now the doctor was interested.
"I'm not comfortable with expressing myself." Rem admitted in a low tone.
"Nobody understands you?" Dr. Scratchansniff deduced.
"More along the lines of nobody can't or will never understand me. It's complicated.
"How do you feel?"
"I feel...nothing."
"Nothing?"
"Nothing. Nada. Zip."
"Vell you must feel zomething."
Rem was silent.
"Well, I will tell you this. I'm very good at suppressing stuff." she said in a matter-of-fact tone.
Scratchansniff made a deeper frown. That certainly wasn't healthy mental-wise. It also signaled a few red flags in his mind.
"Vhat about then you first came to us? Did you feel anything then?"
"I was pissed. I won't lie about that."
"Und Doktor Frankeninni?"
"If he's smart enough, he'll stay very far away from me. Cause if he doesn't, he'll get his neck snapped. Actually, that's too quick, I want the basterd to suffer."
Dr. Scratchansniff listened to Rem rather intently. He could see very clearly that this was definitely no Warner. There was no cheerfulness, no zaniness. The girl didn't even crack a grin for heaven sakes, not even when she expressed desire to murder Frankeninni. Her facial expression remained totally deadpan. The only emotion Scratchansniff seemed to find was anger and rage. But Rem wouldn't willingly disclose the reasons why. The feeling just popped out of nowhere like that, out of a deep dark void.
"Let's move on to zomething else, ja?" Dr. Scratchansniff said.
"Alrighty." Rem replied.
"Anything about family you vould like to discuss?"
Rem made a face and was quiet for a few minutes.
"That's...not a good topic for me." she said quietly.
"I'm villing to listen." Scratchansniff offered.
"I'm sure you are but, I just don't want to go into that. Ever."
Dr. Scratchansniff made a face. Rem was putting up quite a lot of resistance against him. It was like she was shutting everyone and everything completely out.
Thees iz no gud. Perhaps I zhould work a little more with her.
XXXXXXX
After escaping the Water Tower, the Warner Brothers and Sister surfed atop a whale in the open ocean. Keeping their balance as the marine mammal playfully swam in the water below. Finally, they all got to the beach and disembarked from their vessel. The Warners waved good-bye to as is disappeared into the ocean. Then two minutes later, Rem walked onto the beach soaking wet.
"Interesting way of travel." she droned sarcastically.
"Whadja do? Catch a ride on Willie's tail?" Dot asked.
"More like his underside."
"Mwah! Gooooodnight everybody!" Yakko declared after hearing Rem's last statement.
"So what the hell are we doing here?" Rem asked, wringing out her skirt.
"Glad you asked that question, Rem." Yakko replied with a grin.
Then he and his younger siblings whipped out specifically colored mats, a cooler, and an umbrella. They put on sunglasses and laid out on the mats.
"You mean to tell me we came all this way just to freaking sunbathe?" Rem exclaimed.
"Why not?" Dot asked. "Don'tcha wanna tan?"
"Uh, no. I detest sunlight."
She started to walk off as Yakko sat up and lifted his sunglasses.
"Where ya goin'?" he asked with suspicion slightly coating his voice.
"Nowhere." Rem droned.
With that, she walked off. The Warners exchanged glances, then shrugs and returned to their relaxing poses.
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Rem walked across the beach in silence. The sound of waves crashing onto the shore put her almost at peace.
Well, I guess this does beat the studio. The air's a lot fresher here.
She went up a hill, where a patch of grass began to grow as the sand turned to fertile soil. Rem looked up and saw big puffy white clouds slowly floating across the blue sky. Plopping down on the grass, she spread herself out and stared deep into the heavens above her. Relishing in the silence and the sounds of air and water.
If the clouds would cover up the damn sun, I'd really be complete.
Meanwhile, a pirate ship was sailing along the island. Her captain spied on the Warner trio as they sun bathed, and was not too pleased to find them there.
"Those Warners be trespassin' on my Private Pirate Property again!" he shouted. "Full speed ahead ya scurvy knaves!"
The large vessel zipped all the way to shore. As soon as it landed, Captin' Mel went strutting about the deck.
"Load the cannons and fire!" he barked.
Cannons popped out of portholes of the ship and opened fire on the snoozing toons. The cannons balls all exploded upon landing, but when the smoke cleared, the Warners were already standing at a safe distance.
"Ehhhh, I think the cartoon just started." Yakko quirked.
"You be trespassin' on my Private Pirate Property!" Captin' Mel exclaimed.
"Say that 5 times fast." Wakko playfully told him.
"Private Pivot Pooperty, Pirat Puvot...Ooooooo! FIRE!"
Another cannon was fired but the Warners easily dodged it. The explosions caught the attention of another unwanted trespasser.
"What's all this?"
It was Rem.
"Oh hi, Rem. Nice of you to join us." Yakko said in a sarcastic tone.
"Whatever."
"WHO BE THIS?" Captin' Mel roared.
Rem stared at the short and stubby pirate with an expression of pure annoyance and total disinterest.
"You know what?" she declared. "I don't even wanna know what's going on."
She turned and started to walk away as Yakko and his younger brother and sister raised eyebrows at her while placing their hands on their hips. But the pirate boss wasn't about to let Rem get away that easily.
"OI! GET BACK HERE!" he shouted.
Rem continued to ignore him and walk away, making Captin' Mel growl in anger.
"I'll teach ye! Fire a cannon ball a'er!" he commanded.
Seconds later, a cannon ball was fired towards Rem's position. But she didn't seem to notice, and the Warners got a little nervous when the projectile got dangerously close to her.
"Rem, look out!" Wakko cried.
(Now Playing: Run Rabbit Junk by hide)
Before the warning even came, Rem slid out her blade and swiped it at the cannon ball, slicing it completely in two. The two separate pieces flew past Rem and at separate directions, exploding seconds later. Rem's fur and clothes fluttered by the force of the explosion. She slowly glared at Captin' Mel, who along with his crew of pirates, had a mask of shock.
"So you like to play rough, do ya?" Rem hissed.
"F-fire another cannon!" Captin Mel stammered. "FIRE! FIRE!"
His crew scrambled to fire more projectiles at Rem as she rushed forward like a silver bullet. The Warners flinched a little as she flew past them. Rem dodged every ounce of ammo that was fired at her and leapt onto the deck. Instead of using the actual blade, she swatted the pirate violently with its sheath. The pirates were knocked backwards, one was slammed into the mast. The others came at her, hoping to subdue the blue and lavender clad girl. Instead, they got a sample of 7 years experience of ninjitsu class from her. Nobody stood a chance. The Warners suddenly appeared on the deck, tapping their feet and shaking their heads at her.
"You know, this could very well turn out to be the next Bruce Lee flick." Yakko remarked.
"Or The Karate Kid." Dot added.
Rem continued fighting until the last pirate fell to the deck floor unconscious. The she turned her attention on Captin' Mel. Shivering in his place, he whipped out a pistol and unloaded a few rounds on her. But she repelled each bullet with her blade at a high speed. Rem continued approaching hime as he backed away until she lifted him off the ground.
(End Music)
"Got anything else, asshole?" she snapped.
"Must it always end in violence with you?" Yakko sighed, suddenly appearing by Rem's side.
"Then you deal with the basterd!"
Rem threw the stumpy pirate down on the wooden floor beneath them in a huff, and walked away.
"A bloody nightmare she be!" Captin' Mel rasped.
"You're tellin' me." Dot remarked.
XXXXXX
The next week, the Warners and Rem were back for a short session with Dr. Scratchansniff. The mood was noticeably different than before. The four of them were all in a sour mood.
"Zo my little...friends," Scratchansniff stammered anxiously. "how are things coming along."
"They stink." the Warners said together.
"Like being in the fourth circle of hell..." Rem muttered.
"Oh that's such a cheerful expression." Yakko growled sarcastically.
"...shut up." Rem growled back.
"Now, children." Dr. Scratchansniff began in a stern voice. "Let's all be a little friendly with eet each other, ja?"
"Tell that to her." Dot replied, pointing a thumb at Rem. "I mean she slices everything she sees."
Rem suppressed a growl but chose to ignore Dot's last remark.
Not everything...
She got up and started to walk away, fed up already.
"Now where the heck are you goin'?" Yakko exclaimed.
"Nowhere. Again." Rem replied rather rudely.
As soon as she left, an irritated Yakko got off the couch and pulled out a mallet out of his hammer space.
"That does it!" he growled as he went after Rem, carrying his mallet.
Then the elder Warner felt a hand on his shoulder. It was Dr. Scratchansniff.
"Eh, Yakko. I think that you zhould give Rem her zome time to herself, ja?" the therapist told him.
"Are you kiddin' me?" Yakko exclaimed.
"Scratchy, she's rude, violent, and she's got a potty mouth!" Dot added.
"I know, I know." Dr. Scratchansniff admitted. "But Rem jus needs her zpace for now. I believe her anger towards Dokter Frankeninni eez making her act out a little."
Although there could be more to it than zat...
"Oh, you think?" Dot exclaimed.
"Jus give her zome time to herself, ja?"
The toon children exchanged highly irritated glances. Rem was starting to wear their patience thin.
XXXXXXX
Rem stomped out of the studio lot, not caring of she ran into Ralph or any other security guard for that matter. She went around the corner and walked past a few buildings trying to get as far away from the Warners as possible before they decided to follow her. Rem's presence around Burbank however did not go unnoticed. Peeking from a trashcan as Rem walked by, was Rita and Runt. They exchanged curious glances as she went past them.
"Is that another Warner kid?" Rita asked.
"Duh...definitely don't know." Runt stammered. "Duh-Definitely."
Rem continued her walk and caught the attention of others. Buttons and Mindy curiously watched her as her shadow slid across the sidewalk before them. When she passed by the Acme Labs, she gained the attention of Pinky and the Brain. Finally, Rem came to a local park and sat down on a white bench to rest a little. A bit further ahead, was the statue of Martin Scorsese. She let out an exasperated sigh, which awoke the three snoozing pigeons. They saw Rem sitting on the bench and looked at each other.
"Well, well." Bobby said. "Look what we got over here."
They fluttered down from the statue and perched atop the back rest of the bench. Rem become aware of their presence but decided not to take any note of it.
"What's with you, kid?" Pesto asked.
"A large sea of calamity..." Rem muttered lowly.
The Goodfeathers looked at each other confusingly.
"I think she might be a Goth." Squit whispered, putting his wing to the side of his beak.
"I'm not goth." Rem said aloud. "I'm just...really, really, emo."
"What's that?" Squit asked.
"Like being submerged in a deep void where you hate everything."
"Hmmm, I think had one of those before." Pesto mused thoughtfully.
"Bada bing, like having a bad day, ya know what I'm sayin'?" Bobby added.
Rem was quiet.
A really bad day...
"So kid, ya new around here?" Pesto asked.
"A little.." Rem sighed.
Frankly, she was getting really tired of all the attention she was receiving since she got there. It seemed like everywhere Rem went, there was always some curious bystander that wanted to meet her. The whole thing sort of hurt her ego because she was so used to being alone.
I wonder if this is what Alice goes through everyday.
XXXXXXX
Meanwhile, back in Dr. Scratchansniff's office, the studio therapist was working with both Wakko and Mr. Plotz in their cases of Clownophobia.
"A clown eez my friend." Scratchansniff dictated.
"A clown is my friend." Wakko and Mr. Plotz repeated together.
"A clown weel not bite me or throw me in za basement."
"A clown will not bite me or throw me the basement."
"Gud, gud! Now today, I'm going to do zomething a little different. I'm going to have you confront your inner feers."
"What do you mean, Scratchansniff?" Plotz asked.
"You'll zee."
The p-sychiatrist got up from his chair and went to his desk.
"Bring in za clown." he spoke into the intercom after pressing the button.
Both Wakko and Plotz threw panicked looks.
"C-clown?" Plotz sputtered.
Bursting into the office was a tall, skinny man dressed up like a clown. As a matter of fact, this was the same clown that came to the studio for Wakko's birthday.
"Hello, nice people!" the Clown shouted.
Both Plotz and Wakko shot up towards the ceiling like rockets as soon as they saw him. They clung to the chandelier paralyzed with fear.
"Now, now, T.P., Wakko, thees eez not a gud way to conquer your feers." Dr. Scratchansniff said sternly.
"SCRATCHANSNIFF! I ORDER YOU TO GET THAT CLOWN OUT OF HERE THIS INSTANT!" Plotz bellowed.
"Oh poor Mr. Man..." the Clown said shaking his hand.
Then the jovial man pulled out a microphone and started to sing.
"When you want to scream, put away
that frown. And never be scared of a
clown.
Laugh on, laugh on, you'll never laugh
alone!"
But Wakko and T.P. shook even more in fear and let out terrified screams before literally throwing themselves out the window. Dr. Scratchansniff let out an irritated sigh.
"Don't worry doctor man." the Clown said. "I'll do my entertainment for the boy and Mr. Man so they'll scream no more. Hoyle!"
And with that, the down walked merrily out of the room in search of Scratchansniff's frightened patients. Whom of which were hiding in earnest from the Clown.
"Where are you boy and Mr. Man?" the curly orange haired man called out.
Then he came to a bushel of small palm trees. When he pulled the branches apart, he found both Wakko and Plotz hiding beneath them.
"Oh there you are!" the Clown happily cried.
"CLOWN!" Wakko screamed.
He pummeled the unfortunate jester with his large mallet and followed after Plotz who was already racing to get away. They got to the front of the studio when Rem was just barely coming back. Wakko caught her in the corner of his eye and quickly made a grab for her.
"Rem! Help! CLOWN!" the turtleneck shirt clad Warner cried.
"The who what now?" Rem slightly stuttered.
Then she saw the Clown coming towards them.
...What the HELL?
As the Clown approached, Plotz and Wakko quickly took cover behind Rem. The Clown became even more jovial when his audience slightly increased.
"Oh! Hello, nice girl!" he cried.
Rem blinked once as she carried an expression of shock mixed with annoyance and irritation. The Clown quickly saw her refusal to grin and laugh at his antics.
"What's wrong? Can't you smile?" he asked.
Rem remained silent, retaining her expression. Seeing this and Plotz and Wakko's continued cowering in absolute terror, prompted him to pull out his microphone and sing again.
"When the whipporwill whippers
in the wind, the wind can whipper
back. Oh nice and chu-"
SLAAAAAAAAAAP!
While the clown was singing, Rem had slowly brought her hand up and swiped it hard and fast across the Clown's cheek. She hit him with so much force, the clown actually flew backwards. Yakko and Dot were just barely coming around a corner of a soundstage when the clown landed violently into three trash cans to their front left, making them stop dead and jump.
"Whoa!" Yakko exclaimed.
They turned and saw Rem standing tall with her hand a little over her chest and with a dark and furious glare.
"Out of my face, you worm." she hissed in a murderous tone.
With that, she left the scene and back to the Water Tower, silently fuming. Wakko and Plotz stood there in total shock.
"I don't know who's scarier. Rem or the Clown." Plotz nervously remarked.
AN: Captin' Mel is from the episode H.M.S. Yakko(I think), and the Clown is from Clown and Out. The X's represent change in scene and the small x's represent the same scene but in the passing of time if that makes sense.
Song List
-Let's Get Lost (Beck and Bat for Lashes)
-Full Moon (The Black Ghosts)
-Run Rabbit Junk (hide)
-Sick (Evanscense)
