I am sorry to disappoint, but I have to say that this is the final chapter for this story. Sorry if it's a bit shorter than usual, but I promise that the next story will be much longer.
AnonymousZGirl- I love all your ideas for that spin-off story, and this is just a suggestion, but we might want to consider making a few tweaks because there are gonna be some big things happening in the next story. But, it is funny that you're mentioning Greasy settling down and having a wife. Something like that is actually going to happen in the next story.
spannerette- Oh, you're such a flatterer! I don't think I could ever be that good, but thank you. I'm sure you could be a good writer, too. Anyway, would you mind explaining the 'kind of good but sad guy'? I get the 'kind of good guy', just not the 'sad' part.
imaginarytoon1- Thank you. This is the last chapter, unfortunately, but I hope you stick around for the sequel.
StoriesUnleashed- Funny you should suggest something like that. Something like that is going to happen in the next story. It's not going to happen exactly like that, but I hope you won't be disappointed.
I don't own WFRR or its characters. I only own my OCs. Have a good day!
'What's the plan?' Pepper mouthed to Eddie. Eddie turned back to the snickering Smart Ass and said, "Anythin's funny to you, ain't it, needle nose?"
Smart Ass snarled at him, pressing the tip of the revolver at him and backed him up, "You got a problem with that, Valiant?"
"Nah," Eddie 'nervously' laughed as he stopped in front of a podium. "I just, uh, want ya ta know somethin' about the guy yer gonna Dip!"
He spun around, pushing a lever and slamming his hand on the button marked 'Merry-Go-Round Broke Down.' The musical machine suddenly light up and play the music loudly.
Now this caught the weasels attention, and Pepper's interest. Even Roger and Jessica couldn't believe their eyes or ears.
What the hell is he doin'? Pepper arched an eyebrow.
"Now, Roger is his name, laughter is his game! C'mon, you dope! Untie his rope, and watch'im go insane!" Eddie sang, strutting forward and pretending not to notice he was walking right up to a broom. He jumped right on it, hitting the handle right in his face.
This caused questioning looks from the Toon Patrol, especially Smart Ass. However, the suspicion was lifted when Eddie was hit with the broom again, sending him forward in a somersault right in front of the lead weasel. Smart Ass burst out laughing, making the rest of the weasels laugh, excluding Pepper of course.
"He's lost his mind," Jessica said, voicing Pepper's thoughts exactly. At least, that's what she thought at first.
"I don't think so," Roger said.
Pepper merely arched an eyebrow as Eddie picked up three bowling balls. Oh, this oughta be good.
"This singin' ain't my line, it's tough ta make a rhyme! If I get stuck, I'm…I'm out of luck…uh-"
"I'm running out of time!" Jessica called.
"Thanks!" Eddie threw the bowling balls up, looking like he wanted to juggle them. As they hit him on the head, Pepper suddenly thought of something to help him.
She smirked, crossing her arms and leaning back against one of the crates as she called out, "That's pitiful, Valiant! You couldn't rhyme if you were drawn in a Dr. Seuss book!" (I actually did my research and there were quite a few Dr. Seuss books already written by 1947)
"Ha HA! Dr. Seuss! That's a good one!" Wheezy wheezed out, cracking up with laughter.
From the wreckage of broken boxes, Eddie came out on a pogo-stick. Pepper shook her head, "C'mon! Leave the bouncin' ta Jiminy Cricket!"
"Keep goin', doll! Yer on a 'toll'!" Smart Ass laughed, yet somehow still keeping a firm grip on his revolver.
Pepper winced as Eddie bounced right up into a hanging light, convulsing as it shocked him.
"Ladies and gentleman: Your complimentary light show!" Pepper announced, throwing her arms in the air dramatically. The weasels, even Jessica and Roger, laughed hard at the comment.
Stupid laughed so hard, he fell of the ladder on the side of the vehicle, his bat clutched in his paw. Her heart broke a little as Stupid convulsed, giving out a final gasp before going rigid, holding a flower in his paws as his soul flew out of his body, looking as dopey and clueless as ever. She didn't hold anything against him and he didn't seem so bad. Well, except maybe hitting her over the head with his bat.
Wheezy, who was hanging by his feet on the other ladder, panicked as his soul tried to leave his body. He grabbed at it, coughing and laughing at the same time as he tried to stuff his soul back in.
"Hey, guys, keep it up! You're killin' them! You're slayin' them! You're knockin' 'em dead!"
Finally, Wheezy lost his soul and stood rigid on top of the ladder, his yellowed paws over his heart as the ladder fell backwards. The ladder fell onto a rope, releasing a fifty-ton block onto a board, which threw metal balls across the room. One of them hit a lever, starting a conveyor belt with a few vases. Pepper could say that although he wasn't as nice, she felt a bit bad for the smoking weasel.
"I'm through with takin' falls! I'm bouncin' off the walls!" Eddie sang at Smart Ass, pointing harshly at him, which caused the Sergeant to cease his laughing and mimic using his gun, "Without that gun, I'd have some fun, I'd kick you in the-"
CRASH!
A vase fell off the conveyor belt, smashing over Eddie's head and knocking him to the floor. Roger took that opportunity to finish, "Nose!"
"Nose? That don't rhyme with 'walls'!" Smart Ass yelled.
"No, but this does!" Eddie got up, but before the weasel could even use his revolver, he kicked him between the legs, sending him flying…right towards the DIP TANK!
Pepper's paws clamped over her mouth to hold in a gasp as he got closer and closer to the Dip. She would admit that he would have to answer for his actions, but he didn't deserve to be Dipped?!
Right before he could touch the Dip, Smart Ass clamped his paws onto the metal bar of the stirrers of the vehicle. Psycho and Greasy continued to laugh, completely oblivious to their leader being in danger. She saw Greasy choke and fall out of the driver's seat, which also released the brakes on the gigantic vehicle. The last she saw of him was his soul leaving out of his body. Meh…She could care less, but that didn't mean he deserved to die.
As his soul flew by Psycho, Pepper noticed he was still giggling while dancing in his spot. Seriously, of all the weasels to die laughing, she expected him to be one of the first. His straightjacket covered arm triggered a lever, spraying the Dip straight at the brick wall.
"Yikes!"
"Oh my goodness!"
Pepper snapped at the startled cries, feeling a bit relieved that it just barely missed them. Psycho lost his footing and grabbed onto the lever, making the water cannon turn its direction away from Roger and Jessica.
Psycho yelled as he fell down into the sweeper. She didn't know exactly what did it, but she saw Psycho's soul leave his body. She thought she would miss Psycho the most. He was the most gentlemanly of all of the Toon Patrol weasels, especially to her. But before he left for good, he moved the lever back, making the cannon start turning back turning towards the two toons.
"Bye-bye. Hee hee!"
"Eddie! Pepper! It's coming back!" Roger cried out, squirming in the ropes.
Pepper took off from her spot, trying to get to the driver's seat. She figured if she could turn off the vehicle itself, the cannon would stop firing Dip. Just as she turned the corner, she hissed in pain as the excess skin on the back of her neck was jerked upward, lifting her to her feet.
She growled as she came face to face with Judge Doom. He didn't say anything, but he lurched down and threw her up high, right over the edge of the Dip tank. She gasped and grabbed onto the bars of the stirrer.
"Fancy meetin' ya here, doll," Smart Ass sarcastically greeted, his paws and legs wrapped around the same bar as hers. The only thing was that he was hanging from the bar and Pepper was safely on top of it.
"Pepper? What the hell are ya doin' up here!?" Eddie asked as he got to the top of the ladder.
"Oh, I'm just goin' hangin' around…STOP THE DAMN CANNON, VALIANT!"
And that made Eddie get onto Psycho's platform and switch the lever. Just in time, too, as it was so close to hitting Jessica and Roger.
"Eddie, look out!" Pepper cried out, but was too late. Judge Doom slid down from vertical conveyor belt and knocked Eddie off the machine. With the cannon unattended, it would slowly move back to Roger and Jessica. Again.
"Ya know, if you would've thought more of doin' the right thing, we wouldn't be here right now!" Pepper hissed at Smart Ass.
"What damn choice did I have?! The Judge has more authority than I do!" He countered.
"Go against him!" She said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. "Ya did that against yer dad when we were younger. He was the god-damned chief of police, fer cryin' out loud!"
CRACK!
The two froze, turning to the far end of the metal bar. The bar had become damaged somehow, and was breaking off. Pepper looked at the other end and saw that a screw was becoming loose. It looked like one sudden move could break the bar and make the two weasels as good as Dipped.
God, if she lived through this, she would kill whoever put this thing together.
"This is not good," Pepper said aloud. "What the hell are we gonna do?"
"I don't know about you, but I know what I'm gonna do."
Furrowing her eyebrows, she turned back to Smart Ass. He used one paw and let go of the bar, reaching into his pocket. The gold chain that dangled from his pink jacket was removed, only for Pepper to realize it wasn't just any golden chain.
It was her father's golden pocket watch.
Smart Ass wrapped it up in his paw and reached over, pushing it into Pepper's violet vest. He took the same paw and set it on her shoulder. Pepper looked him in the eye for a good moment; lavender and golden eyes staring right at each other.
"Love ya, doll."
With a rough shove, Smart Ass pushed Pepper up and onto the platform where Eddie once was. She landed on her back with a grunt and a thud.
SPLASH!
Her eyes opened up wide and she sat up abruptly. She hastily crawled over to the edge and peered down. The bar floated in the Dip, right on top of a light pink paint mark in with it.
Tears welled up in Pepper's eyes, hissing in the Dip as they fell from her eyes, though she couldn't tell whether it was from sadness or joy. After all the effort, after all the work she put in, it wasn't wasted. She never thought she'd see the same Smarty she fell in love with seven years ago…and she finally did up at the end.
"Pepper! Help!"
The she-weasel turned at the voice of Jessica Rabbit, only to panic as she saw that Dip cannon was so close to coming at the two toons. She rushed at the lever and pulled at it.
"Damn it! It's jammed!" she pulled and pulled at the lever, but it just wouldn't budge. Suddenly, the whole vehicle stopped all together.
All the toons let out a gasp of relief. Roger looked up at Jessica and said, "I wasn't worried! Were you?"
"WOOOHH!"
Everyone turned their attention to the source of the noise. Pepper's lavender eyes widened as she saw Judge Doom get caught under a steamroller. It wasn't until they got up to the head that everyone turned away to avoid the sight of blood and brains splattering.
The only thing was…it didn't happen.
"Eddie! Look!" Roger yelled, pointing down where Doom was flattened with his ear.
"What the hell?" Pepper whispered to herself.
Doom's flattened body lifted itself off of the ground, looking a lot like a cardboard cutout. He stumbled around a little, trying to regain his balance.
"Holy smoke! He's a toon!" Eddie cried out, stepping a bit away from the driver's door of the vehicle.
"Surprised?" Doom asked, his voice sounding just a bit higher than usual. Yup, Pepper thought, definitely a toon.
"Not really. That lamebrain freeway idea could only be cooked up by a toon!"
"Not just any toon!" Pepper couldn't help but notice that his voice was getting higher and higher as he walked over to a helium tank.
Doom put his mouth to the tank, blowing himself up, even popping off his hat and his…eyeballs? What the hell was this guy?! He's certainly no toon that any of them had ever seen before.
When he was all blown up, he turned to Eddie with a creepy smile and toonish red eyes.
"Remember me, Eddie? When I killed your brother, I talked just. Like. THIS!" He said, his voice becoming higher and more shrill as he literally glared daggers at Eddie.
Note to self: If we get out of this alive, I'll be sure to update that file on Teddy Valiant's murder, Pepper thought to herself, but she kept in mind the matter at hand.
Doom sprung forward (literally on yellow springs coming out of his foot) and grabbed Eddie, turning him around to face him.
"Jumpin' jeepers!" Roger gasped out as Doom shoved Eddie to the ground. He smiled viciously and turned the key to the 'Doom Machine' and the Dip started shooting again while slowly pushing forward.
"Oh my goodness! Oh no!" Jessica struggled in her bind.
Doom suddenly lurched to the side as a ball of gray pounced at his head. Pepper growled as she clawed at his face, allowing the animal to come out of her for as long as she could.
Unfortunately, it didn't last long as Doom, once again, grabbed her by the scruff of her neck. He threw her off of his head and up to Jessica and Roger, where she luckily grabbed onto the hook and held on tight.
She had to say, she felt like Roger and Jessica felt as the line of Dip came ever more closer. Pepper looked over to see Eddie lying further away. And Doom was coming at him with a yellow power saw for a hand.
Dear God, they were doomed, weren't they?
Doom lunged the saw at Eddie, but he rolled out of the way and grabbed onto a toon hammer. The toon jurist took another strike, but missed again. Eddie brought up the hammer, which shoved the extendable boxing glove just past Doom's face. Now, she wasn't sure what exactly it hit, but from the terrified expression on Doom's face, it must not have been good.
Pepper looked back down, squealing and squirming up higher with Jessica and Roger as the Dip line was about to hit them.
"Goodbye my darling. Good bye. Ahh! Oh!" Jessica gasped as the shooting Dip became weaker, and then none was shooting out at all. "I think…I'm going to faint."
"You and me both, sister," Pepper panted out, finally relaxing a bit.
"Waaaaaaaaahh! Waahhhhhhh! I'm melting! Melting..,melting..." Pepper looked over the machine and immediately turned away at the sight of Doom squirming and sinking into the flooding Dip all over the floor.
Doom was finally dead. Now there was just one more itty-bitty problem to deal with.
"Eddie! Do something!" Roger cried out, the three toons struggling to get out of the machine's way with little success. "Hurry up, Eddie! DO SOMETHING!"
Eddie rushed through the Dip and grabbed the controller for the giant hook. He pressed the button and the hook lurched as it moved out of the machine's way just in time. It broke through the brick wall and the entire room was filled with a bright light color of Toontown.
They watched the vehicle pull forward just a little bit more, but flinched as a toon train rushed by, crashing into it and smashing it into bits. Toontown was saved.
"Great, now how are we gonna get down without gettin' Dipped?" Pepper asked, waving an arm towards all the Dip.
Eddie, appearing to already have a plan for that, ran over to a center of fire hydrants. He pulled on the handle, and kept pulling on it until all of them were pushing out water and going down the drain, taking the Dip with it.
Once the Dip was gone, Eddie pressed the button on the controller to lower the hook down.
"Jeepers, Eddie! That was a close shave! I thought for sure our goose was cooked!" Roger said as Eddie got him down from the escape-proof toon rope.
Pepper jumped down to the ground the same time Jessica was set down.
"My hero," Jessica began, brushing past Eddie and picking Roger up, giving him multiple kisses. "Oh, Roger, you were a pillar of strength."
Pepper smiled at the happy couple. Somehow, though not in the exact same way, she always imagined her and Smart Ass being like that when they married.
A rush of wind blew her midnight hair past her shoulders and she felt something soft brush against her hand. She looked down and her eyebrows furrowed together. She bent down slightly and picked up Smart Ass's pink hat. Somehow, it must not have gotten Dipped with him.
"Have I ever told you how beautiful your hair is, Pepper?" Jessica asked, styling it with a brush to make it look less spiky than it usually does.
The two were dressed in fancy outfits: Jessica was blue in color and was sleeveless, much like her other dresses, but went all the way down to her ankles and didn't show any skin. Pepper was in a light violet, double-strap dress that rested right over her snow white ankles.
The two were in Pepper's office and it was decided that they and Roger were going to go out to celebrate the finding of Acme's will (hidden behind Roger's love letter to his wife) and the end of the case.
"Aw, not as beautiful as yours, Jessica. It sure is nice of ya ta take me out for dinner."
"No, no. It's the least we can do. If it weren't for you, Toontown would've been erased forever," Jessica objected.
A knock sounded at the door and Pepper responded, "Come in."
"Hellloo, ladies," Roger popped his furry head and walked in all suave-like and was dressed in a black tuxedo with a bow tie. This made Pepper chuckle to herself, but she didn't mind all that much. "Ready to go?"
"Just about. I'll be right back, Pepper. I have some lovely perfume you can use for tonight," Jessica smiled and patted Roger's head as she left the room.
"By the way, I'm sorry, Pep," Roger said after a moment of silence.
"Hmm," Pepper hummed, reaching for her jacket on the coat hanger next to her desk. "What do ya mean, Roger?"
"Smarty. I saw what he did. He saved your life!"
Pepper froze, her ears perking down, "Oh. Thank you, Roger."
"I also wanted ta give him these!" Roger reached behind his back and pulled out a bouquet of pink roses.
Pepper couldn't help but smile lightly. It was considerate of him to get Smart Ass flowers in his favorite color.
"Boy, he must've really loved ya if he would do that! Especially if it meant getting Dipped!" Roger went on as he stepped towards the small table off to the side where Smart Ass's hat and the golden pocket watch sat. He put the roses on top of the table and stepped back.
"Yeah. I thought I lost him for a while, Rog," Pepper nodded, frowning a bit at the thought of her old love and partner's death. "It was nice to see his old self one more time."
"If it helps, I think you two would've made a great couple."
Pepper's smile returned. Yeah. They would've made a great couple. An extraordinary couple, even. And, even though she wouldn't admit it to anyone else, maybe if she had known the rest of the Toon Patrol weasels before any of this happened, they may have made a damn-good family.