Animaniacs is owned by Warner Bros., I don't claim any of them as mine except my own characters I put in. Rated K+ for action later on.
Friday, 12 PM, the real world, 2 days left.
Rick softly sighed as he was in the park, having called Stan here to talk to him about something. He couldn't get the thought of seeing Stan with that cat out of his head, looking tired because of it and not getting enough sleep. He didn't want to reveal what he saw though to him though, he didn't want his friend to get mad at him. Soon Stan entered the park and saw his friend, sitting down next to him and looking even more tired, not even fixing his bedhead. "Heya Ricky. What'd you wanna talk to me about? And make it quick, I got somewhere to be this weekend, it's the last one before school starts after all." He said in a rush, which only got Rick upset already, but kept his cool and didn't show it too much.
"That's the thing I wanted to talk to you about. Where have you been going lately?" Rick asked.
Stan looked at him weirdly like nothing was wrong with him. "What do you mean, dude?" The bigger bully said, slightly nervous-sounding again.
"We haven't been talking for a little while now, is everything alright with you?" Rick asked, looking worried for his friend.
"Yeah, everything's fine, why?" Stan said a little fast with a shrug, wanting to get out of there.
Rick sighed a little. "I'm just kinda really worried for ya, like, we haven't talked about or done anything outside of that stuff with the cat. That and you don't look like you haven't slept at all..." He said worriedly.
Stan shook his head. "Come on, man. What makes you think I've been hanging out with that cat guy more than you? I'm fine, honest." Rick said as he just looked at Stan with an eyebrow-raise.
"Oh." Stan mumbled after thinking that over. He sighs soon after. "Look, I just can't tell you, it's for your own safety, alright?" He said, starting to get up.
Rick kept him sitting down with a hand to his shoulder. "What safety? I can't be safe if you're being this mysterious and stuff." He said with a louder voice to him, the concern building up in his tone as well as a little anger.
Stan looked down at his friend, brushing his shoulder off and making Rick let go of him. "I just can't okay? I promise I'll tell you, but not now." He said nervously again. Stan had never acted like this before, especially since the incident in the park a couple of days ago.
Rick just shook his head. "Do you not trust me or something?" He said, sounding more upset the more he had to hear this.
Stan checked his watch and got up immediately, dodging the question. "Look, we'll talk later on, okay?" He said and left with a jog without even saying a goodbye, with Rick sitting down alone.
"That darn cat... Something's really weird here, he's with that thing more than me... That machine, the green goop it was making, all this toon stuff, trying to keep me 'safe' from something..." He sighs and gets up as well, seeing Stan run out the park and to wherever he had to go to. Rick shook his head and thought about going to the tunnel to Toontown again, or at least the Toontown version of the Warner lot anyway, to see if Bradley really was there. He shook his head though, deciding that finding out what his friend was up to was more important. "I need to see what's really up with him... He hasn't slept at all and he's a nervous mess, I've never seen him act that bad ever..."
If things didn't clear up between them and if Bradley didn't turn up soon, he'd have to do fix this himself, no matter what Stan wanted to do with his own time. Besides, they had two days until the dare was over, and depending on what happens, they'd either be safe or be a victim of their own punishment, or worse.
2 PM, Toontown
"So he's really that obsessed with our show?" Yakko said as the three Warners and Bradley were walking around the spacious Warner film lot.
"Yeah definitely, he got the voices and and some of the crew to be in the interview with him and everything." Bradley explained with a light smile.
Dot looked rather confused. "How can you interview a voice though? Doesn't seem like they're interesting enough to interview with anything." She said.
"He interviewed the people behind your voices, Dot." Bradley explained.
The younger sister brightened up at that. "Oh, well that's completely different then. Did they say the person behind my voice was the best?" She said with a smile now.
"Still not gonna give the voice itself some credit, huh?" Bradley added. Dot shook her head and responded with a "nope", holding her innocent smile.
"Hey, as long as he doesn't have an entire room decorated as a shrine dedicated to us, we're fine with it." Yakko chimed in.
"Why, you afraid of people making your own cult of 'Warner-ism' or something?" Bradley asked.
The older sibling looked fake-shocked and gasped. "Now what made you think that?" He then leaned down to Wakko and Dot, in a hushed voice now. "Cancel the plans sibs, he's onto us."
Bradley just shook his head and chuckled. "I wouldn't tell a soul, I swear." He said.
"I'm sure you'd tell people though." Yakko said sternly, but that was basically part of the joke.
"That's what I meant, Yak." Bradley said in response, a little jokingly taken-aback at that himself. "Feels like we've been talking in circles though..." He added to himself as the four kids looked down at the ground.
By now, it was proven that they've been walking in a large circle around the empty part of the lot, even showing a little of a trench forming under their feet to show how long they were talking as a visual gag. Some of their topics they talked about before were mainly about space, Bradley's human world some more, and recently the big fan who made their tribute videos.
"You three bored or something?" Bradley asked after that.
"Yeah!" The three siblings said in unison.
"Well, anywhere you wanna go then?" The human asked next with a light smile.
"I wanna go to Charles A. Cheddars!" Wakko said happily.
"Weren't we banned from that place years ago for something?" Dot said curiously.
"Well, their pizza shouldn't have been good enough for Wakko to eat it all." Yakko responded.
Wakko just kept bouncing up and down, even making his head detach at the last couple of jumps, making it float until the last hop when it reattached. "I wanna go, I wanna go!" He said excitedly some more during his jumping.
Bradley just watched and chuckled, deciding to humor them by nodding in agreement. "Well, I wouldn't mind going there. Sounds like another place in my own world, Chuck E. Cheese or something." The human said.
Yakko crossed his arms a little. "I can see where the inspiration came from." The older sib said with a frown, but that quickly disappeared at seeing Wakko's happiness right now.
"Well let's go then, maybe they forgot that you were kicked out by now." Bradley assured them. The three Warners, especially Wakko, decided to give that a shot.
Wakko hopped on Bradley's shoulders in happiness, "Onward to Charles, mush!" The middle sibling shouted and pointed, the boy he hopped onto just snickering to himself.
"Yes, to Charles A. Something-Or-Other!" Bradley said proudly and jokingly in response, pointing too.
"No one else called him that, d'you know him personally?" Wakko asked. Bradley just rolled his eyes and smiled as he followed them out of the lot and down the path to where this place was. He'd been to the real variation of this place a couple of times when he was even younger, he wondered if it'd be the same sort of place. But hey, this is Toontown, so any notion of that was taken with a grain of salt.
2:15 PM
A few minutes later, they arrived at their destination thanks to Wakko's leading. Bradley walked into the C.A.C. place, looking around this new establishment curiously. It seemed to be a really busy day, with plenty of toony kids and parents around inside, along with an a tube playground, lots of pizza and lots of games.
"Heh, kinda busy here, huh? Well it's a Friday, so of course it'd be busy." Bradley said to himself, answering his own question. Wakko was already gone from the boy's shoulders, bouncing from wall to ceiling to wall again in excitement again before re-joining the group. The kids that were nearby saw it and laughed at that funny action too.
"I'd keep an eye on him if I were you. You're our caretaker here, remember?" Yakko reminded him, lightly nudging the human.
Bradley lightly chuckles at that, nodding. "Yeah, I know, you're right... Gotta make sure he doesn't wreck anything for some of that pizza." The human kid said to himself.
"Oh he'll do more than that, kid. If you let him, anyway." Dot said, making that sound like a warning.
Wakko was already heading to a long ordering counter in the front. He was a little too small to look over it, but he hopped up and down on his tail to try and reach. "Hey! Can! I! Get! Some! Pizza!" Wakko said each time he hopped, doing various tricks like being upside-down, head detached, doing a spin, etc.
Bradley let out a sigh at noticing what Wakko was doing. "Come on, gotta make sure he doesn't do anything too annoying." He said to the other two Warners with a little chuckle at the silliness already beginning, heading to the bouncing middle brother.
"Yeah, because that's always worked for everyone in 99 episodes." Dot said a little smugly and sarcastically.
The only person behind the counter right now groaned and headed over to Wakko, who kept on bouncing until he was answered. The staff was a human-looking guy who looked like he didn't have his coffee yet, with blonde hair and looked to be in his late 20s. "What, what?!" He complained in a loud tone.
Then Bradley noticed a "banned for life" plaque behind the guy, which the man didn't notice yet. It had a picture of the three Warners on it doing some of their silly faces, including Wakko's infamous "gookie" face. Bradley "pssts" to Yakko and points it out to him silently. "Ohhh, I gotchya." The older brother said with a smirk, ducking and slinking out of view. Bradley wondered what his plan was this time.
"Alright kid, what do ya want? And where're your parents?" The man said, disgruntled already. He must've been out of it today, since he didn't recognize the Warners enough to remember to look at the plaque behind him. Wakko hopped onto the counter, sitting down on top of it. The middle brother then got a pencil out from under his red cap, setting it down on the counter.
"Well here's daddy, mum's out of town though." Wakko explained with a smile and his tongue out as usual. "Go on daddy, say hello." He said to the pencil, followed by silence. The man looked confused and befuddled already.
"The... Wait, the what? You trying to be funny?" The man said, annoyed.
"He doesn't need your help with it, that's for sure." Dot chipped in with a shrug.
While Wakko and Dot were on distraction duty, Yakko slipped out from behind the man quietly and took their picture off the plaque, quickly replacing it with a crude drawing of the man's angry shouting face that Yakko happened to have. Then the older sibling popped back behind Bradley and was standing by him again, making the human jump in surprise. "Talk about a two in one deal. Always wanted to use that picture before we got thrown out, and now we got one to put on our fridge." Yakko said to the boy as he waved the picture of the Warners around in his hand, then pocketed it.
"What's that picture supposed to be though?" Bradley said with a snicker, having said nothing so far until now.
"Jesse McCartney. We had it finished a decade ago, and I wanted to get it signed too!" Dot explained with a frown. Bradley just rolled his eyes with a smile.
"Look, we don't have pistachio-nut-fudge-floorwax-and-brussel-sprout toppings for the pizza here, where'd you even get that idea?!" The man yelled at Wakko now, growing madder. It seemed like he was very easily annoyed and just wanted to get some coffee. Wakko didn't seem to notice it though.
"Betchya only half our fans'll get that reference." Yakko said all hush-hushed to the readers with a smirk.
"Jeez, how angry can you get? Has anyone used your head as a grill by now?" Bradley asked with crossed arms.
"Ooh, I wanna try that!" Wakko said at that, hopping up, standing on the employee's shoulder and putting a raw steak on the guy's head, already starting to sizzle the more angry the man got.
"Well there's a lesson for ya: If you're paying too much and if the electric's high, cut out the stove and hire this guy." Yakko quipped.
"Save the poetry for me, will ya? I still got my own corner for that." Dot added, hands on her hips as she said that.
The man growled more loudly and shook his head, knocking Wakko and the steak off of his head and screaming as he flailed his arms. "Gah! Get off me, you weirdo!"
"Eh, kind of a good thing really, you were making the steak all hairy." Bradley said with a shrug.
Not long after, two other staff people came out and wondered what was the noise was. Bradley explained the situation as if he was a bystander, then they saw the plaque with the man's picture on it when the kid pointed at it. Despite it being a poor drawing, they seemed to believe it. Besides, the Warners weren't on it anymore, that was the important part.
"Ya really gotta keep a better track on who's banned around here. Poor Wakko here's in distress, and this doof didn't even say please, insulting his daddy and everything." The older Warner said as the staff questioned it, with Wakko and Dot soon joining in the act. They put on sad and pouty faces for them as if on cue, even having tears at the ready. The man stammered and looked between them, trying to come up with some way to defend himself, but failing at it. Next thing he knew, two of the staff threw the now-fired angry man out on his butt with the Warners waving at him happily, the sad faces gone immediately.
"Heh, nice work guys." Bradley said happily, with the Warners bowing in response. The human really was proud and interested in the plans they can come up with sometimes.
Wakko's belly grumbled a little loudly now, and by a little, that meant the whole place could hear it. "Jeeze, can you let Chewbacca out of your stomach already? Let's get to eating!" Bradley said with a laugh. The two that threw the guy out offered to give the three Warners and Bradley some free pizza for the day to forgive them for having to put up with the angry employee, to which all four nodded happily and accepted the offer.
They got to a table and Bradley ordered his own pizza, which was plain cheese. He didn't want anything complicated anyway. It'd definitely take a while to get the Warners' pizzas though, due to some of the odd orders and choices for toppings they made. Wakko started humming and hopping in his seat impatiently, his belly still grumbling. Bradley noticed and shook his head as Wakko started fidgeting.
"Come on, stay calm... Don't eat the table or something..." The kid said to Wakko, looking around at the place to see a couple of people were staring at them, the other kids talking among themselves about the weird-looking boy and the three toons with him. Bradley was worried that a good chunk of those eyes were on him too for not being a toon. "You think anyone here still remembers you from before?" Bradley asked the three siblings quietly, trying to put the stares out of his mind for now.
"Well we got lucky so far, right?" Yakko said, with Wakko growing more impatient by the second. "Gonna need chains to hold this guy down though." He said, pointing at the hopping middle toon with his thumb.
"Wakko, you're gonna cause a scene, the pizza's coming soon, don't worry." Bradley warned with a soft tone.
"But we already got a scene going though." Dot said. "Alright, take 5 everyone." She said with a disappointed sigh and a wave-away to the crew that was suddenly there, leaving all saddened. Bradley looked confused at that sudden appearance, but shook his head. Seemed like he still needed to get used to that sort of stuff around them.
"How about we play some games around here to distract from the... Well, the 'P' word?" Bradley suggested quietly.
"Please?" Wakko said.
"Exactly." The boy responded with a nod. He got up to head for the arcade section that was in the back of the place, with the Warners following along.
Meanwhile, the man was grumbling to himself and had snuck into the place again through the back entryway. "Throw me out thanks to a couple of kids, huh..." He mumbled as he looked through some of the costumes, wanting to get back in to teach them some lesson without getting recognized. He came across a costume of a certain orange dinosaur and it looked like the only one that fit him, so he put it on. "Ugh, it's all sweaty in here! Did like, a sumo guy get in this before me?" The man said to himself. Then one of the other staff came in some time after, saying something about the man being a special guest for the day and shoved him away into the building, despite the man protesting otherwise.
As that was going on, Bradley and the siblings were busy playing the games in the back while the big and weird order of pizza was being made, and it wasn't really going well. Bradley was the only one actually playing, and he wasn't doing that great.
Wakko "accidentally" destroyed the whack-a-mole game with his own huge mallet shouting "I won!" and jumping("Guess I dunno my own strength when I'm hungry." Wakko said bashfully after the early celebration).
Yakko was busy at the skeeball game being a smirking show-off, especially to a pretty, blonde older girl that was watching, determined to win her heart like he would try with any attractive girl.
Dot was criticizing Bradley on his performance every so often on his own skeeball game and "attempting" to show him what she'd do, in a few impossible ways no less not unlike what'd be in a pinball machine.
Then the P.A. said there'd be a special guest coming within a few minutes. So Bradley stopped, called the Warners and went to their seats again, the many plates and platters of pizza having been ready by now.
The man in the orange dino suit however was complaining to the people dragging him to the stage that he wasn't ready for the show along with other excuses. But he was pushed out anyway behind the closed curtain, his muffled words falling on deaf ears as they just wanted the show to start.
"Wonder what this special guest is." Bradley asked himself at the table as Wakko stuffed down multiple slices of his pizza in his gullet at once. The host of the parties was building up the entrance for the group of kids around him, as clueless to who was behind the curtain like the four of them were. Even Mindy from the "Buttons and Mindy" shorts was a part of that group with her mom.
"Now, on loan from the SBS-" The host started, with the Warners' ears twitching at hearing that and making them look up as the drum rolled.
"The what?" Bradley said, only hearing those letters once. "Sounds familiar..." He whispered to himself, trying to remember what episode that was from.
"Aww, no Charles?" Wakko said sadly, ears drooping a little.
"Maybe he got sick or something." Bradley assured him while he nibbled his own slice of cheese pizza.
"Here's our special guest for your party, having come all this way just for your entertainment... None other than Baloney the Dinosaur!" With that, the curtain opened and showed the man in the Baloney suit, in all of its weird delight.
The Warners immediately screamed at the sight of him as they jumped out of their seats, eyes widely bulging and everything, jumping straight up into the air and diving behind a small wall by their table on the other side, grabbing Bradley with them a little later and harshly yanking him over.
"Oww... What was that for?" The boy said, rubbing his head as he got up and peeked above the little wall they were hiding behind, with the three Warners peeking up as well, not responding to his question.
"What's that thing?... I swear it looks familiar..." Bradley asked, in a confused daze for now from the sudden grab and landing. He thought he saw that costumed thing from one of their episodes before back in the real world. He hasn't really seen every single episode of the show, at least not fully, hence his confusion.
"It's the Baloney schmuck-o-saurus we got stuck with a long while ago." Yakko said. "We tried getting out with some of our tricks and anvils, but it's like he just shrugged them all off. Makes for good gag practice though, as we've found out before, just don't look into his eyes." Yakko added, shuddering at that.
"He said that thing looked like the color of an IHOP too, he'd blend right in." Dot chimed in.
"Well now I don't even think that House of Pancakes'll take him anymore." The older sibling responded, shaking his head.
"What if he took away Charles?" Wakko said in worry. Bradley thought for a little while, wondering how to turn this around for the better, for them anyway.
"Hm... Well then, how about we play one more game? Let's call it 'Annoy the Baloney out of Baloney'." The human offered with a smile. The Warners huddled and talked some gibberish, then nodded, thinking it was a great idea. Soon all three Warner siblings were getting playfully-evil and mischievous smirks.
The guy in the Baloney suit looked down at the kids around him, now nervous and stuttering on what to do and say. He started dancing a little stiffly and uttering some "do-do-doos", not really thinking about what the kids really wanted out of him. While that was going on, the Warners behind the wall got out Wakko's gag bag and got to digging inside to find something they can use, with Bradley bringing soon a catapult out of it with Wakko's help.
"Better hurry, he's losing the kids already." Bradley said as he kept lookout, the other toon kids not laughing at all from the man's lack of comedy knowledge. Yakko then brought out some baloney from his slacks and loaded up the catapult with several stacks of them.
"What, did ya think our theme song joked about that?" Yakko said to the readers again.
"Alright, ready?" Bradley whispered to them, raising his hand. The three nodded, with the Wakko's hand grabbing and holding the launching rope.
"Annnnnd... Fire!" Bradley ordered and lowered his hand. Wakko pulled on the rope, launching the lunch meat up and splatting on the man in the costume. A good few slices of meat hit him on that big head and more landed at his feet, making him slip on one of them and fall, making the kids laugh as a result. "Heh, dinner and a show, look at that." Bradley said, letting out a fun snicker. The man groaned from that sudden onslaught and got back up in a daze. The four of them ducked back behind the wall out of sight, the man in the suit now confused as to who launched all that meat. "Heh, good start, what's next?" The boy asked.
"Anvil time?" Yakko, Wakko and Dot said.
Bradley shook his head. "No, not yet..." He looked in the bag some more, bringing out dozens of eggs in cartons. "Okay, what about these?" The boy suggested. Wakko opened his mouth wide, pointing to it. Bradley shrugged and dumped them all in there, the middle sibling closing his mouth and cheeks bulging. "Part chipmunk too?" Bradley said with a smile, putting Wakko over his shoulder and aiming at the faux-Baloney above the wall, who was now dancing a little and trying his lack of routine again, da-da-daing much to the boredom of the kids again while avoiding the deli meats on the ground.
"Baloney boring!" Mindy shouted, the other kids agreeing and starting to complain and get restless again.
"Alright, let's make him really dance." The boy said, with Dot gripping Wakko's tail, which now was bent like a turning crank, and the top of Wakko's hat had a simple target reticle on the top of it. Bradley recognized that form from "The Big Candy Store", and was happy it could make a reappearance for this.
"Go!" Bradley shouted, with Dot now turning the tail and Wakko spitting out eggs at a rapid rate. The man in the suit didn't even see them coming, the first few eggs making him yelp from surprise when they hit him, then he just tried to block the rest of them by throwing his hands up. But the eggs flew at him so fast, they just covered the costumed man in egg yolk and white in record time. Bradley then aimed at the feet to make him dance around, the kids clapping and cheering now as the Baloney-costumed man slipped around, flipped and fell again.
"Grrr, who's doing that...! It's not funny!" The man grumbled to himself, then shouting, the onslaught of eggs not stopping for a good minute before he and the Warners ducked down again, the boy holding in his loud laughter.
"Haha, he's right, it's hilarious!" Bradley said happily.
"Hmm, something 'bout him feels off though. Like he's more harmless than he needs to be." Dot said curiously.
"Yeah, like we're actually not scared of him." Wakko said in that same tone. All four kids looked at each other and Yakko smirked again a second later, getting another devious idea.
The costumed man now had the suit soaked in egg and the costume's namesake lunch meats, grumbling and spinning around while he looked for who was doing all of this.
"You wanna know something, buddy?" Yakko said as he suddenly appeared behind the costumed man. Bradley looked beside himself and noticed that the older Warner had indeed vanished and seemingly teleported again. "You can't make a good impact on kids being all dirty like that. Lemme spritz ya up so you can get back to 'em, m'kay?" Yakko said in a fast pace, getting a seltzer bottle from behind him and immediately spraying the ex-employee's face with it before the latter could say anything, making him stumble back from the pressure. He shook his head as the costume was now soaked and dripping through. Bradley watched on from behind the wall, deciding to get a closer look by hopping over it as the group of kids laughed again at the man's misfortune.
"Hmm... Nah, not clean enough. Oh, siiiiiiibs?" The older brother said in a sing-song voice after he hopped off. The middle and younger siblings appeared on cue from behind the wall, right by either side of him. "Why don't we help this 'gentledino' get shiny and presentable for the kids, huh?" Yakko added. The other two nodded and got a few hairdressing tools from behind them, holding one in each gloved hand as the man in the Baloney suit shook his head "no". The Warners didn't pay attention, and hopped onto him.
Bradley laughed as they put him through a sudsy scuffle, with bubbles covering them all like a "fight cloud" would. Wakko was getting the "teeth" of the costume brushed, and Dot was getting him all shampooed and prissy, humming a happy little tune as the little party now had lots of others watching. By the time they were done a minute later, the costume had turned into something like a Frou-Frou dog with a collar, trussed-up hair, a bow on the tail, and it was all shiny too.
"Now there's an blue ribbon-winning dino if I ever got to see 'em." Yakko said with a smile of approval.
"Hehe, funny dino doggie!" Mindy said with a giggle from the group of kids, pointing at him as the kids laughed. The man inside was disoriented from the cleaning, but he growled and shook and took every part of the frou-frou stuff off of him.
"Gah, enough, I've had it with you kids! I never signed up for this stuff, man!" The man inside shouted. The head of the costume however made his voice sound muffled, almost unable to be understood at all from the outside.
Yakko just hissed softly and shook his head and tsked a few times. "Mmph, the nerve of some people. You help clean them up for the show and they growl and shout at you in return. The ways they show thanks, am I right?" Yakko said to his brother and sister, who followed suit with the head shaking and frowns.
"Wakko, ya wanna put the finishing touch on him? Maybe a nice bow on the head there?" He added, the middle brother getting out a switch remote from under his red hat and pressing a button on it. Before the faux-Baloney could do anything other than get up, a big anvil dropped down square on his head, causing him to become flat like the ground and groan, springing up and down and sounding like an accordion. Yakko and Dot gave Wakko a stern look.
"What, it's got a bow on it, see?" Wakko said and pointed to the big pink bow on top of the anvil, the other two relenting immediately and nodding with a smile, now congratulating themselves on a "job well done".
Bradley walked over to the disoriented Baloney costume as the head strangely started coming off and rising by itself, revealing the annoyed employee from earlier, with a long visible bump on his head that lifted the large costume head off of him. The staff noticed too and picked him up, and after some mumble-jumble between them and the dazed person, tossed him out again after taking the costume off him. The Warners all gave each other handshakes while the man outside yelled out some muffled obscenities at the establishment thanks to the walls and windows.
Dot grew bored of it immediately, groaning and taking the switch from Wakko. She pressed the button again and another anvil fell on the ex-staff out of the sky after he turned around and started walking away, making him flat once more and silent. This time the brothers looked at Dot sternly.
"What, he was getting yappy." The sister said.
The kids cheered and laughed as they watched the whole thing. "Bye-bye, mister flat man!" Mindy said happily too, waving at the man.
"Heh, guess you guys saved the day." Bradley said, clapping as well. The three Warners bowed like it was the end of a show and Wakko's belly grumbled a little loudly again.
"Can we finish our food now?" The middle brother said, rubbing his tummy.
Bradley chuckled and nodded. "Yeah, let's go eat our food." He said with a smile.
4 PM
By now, all four of them were full of pizza and were just about ready to go. Wakko was pretty much rolling around with the other three pushing him out the door from how big and full he was, which was a bit difficult. They did finally get outside though despite the difficulties and continued walking. "Well that was really fun for my first time there." Bradley said, passing the flattened guy and waving bye to him before continuing to walk with them.
"I bet it was, I was wondering why our tricks actually fazed him." Yakko said. "And why he didn't have that fear-inducing air around him."
Bradley shrugged in response. "I guess, more angry than scary." He said with a little smile. A little while later, they were back in the Warner movie lot, and Wakko had shrunk back to his normal size again. So other than dinner and some games and pranking, everything seemed like that zany kind of normal in the lot. Bradley wrote and scribbled in his notepad about the day, the Warners played keep-away with his camera to the boy's annoyance, then went to bed.
11 PM
Bradley couldn't sleep though, and woke up some time later after everyone else had fallen asleep. He hopped out of bed quietly and exited the tower, sitting down behind the railing and looking up at the moon. He had more thoughts going through his head wondering what to do about Sunday, which was when the dare would be over and he had to give some proof of the toons' existence to the two bullies. He had his notes and some pictures he took for fun of them together, but he wanted as much as he could. He had the best week of his life so far and he didn't wanna leave the Warners, but he had to come back to reality eventually. But would he even want to by now? He shouldn't have to go back to a lonely life. He sighs a little as he kept thinking this over.
"Made more friends here than I did in the real world..." He said softly to himself.
"That so?" Yakko said behind him in his pajamas, the boy looking at him and nodding.
"Yeah. Everyone there didn't wanna be with me cause of some rumor those bullies made that I had imaginary friends and stuff, and they though that was too weird for them or something." Bradley said softly, getting up slowly.
"Well now you got real imaginary friends, don't ya?" Yakko said with a lighter smile this time, elbowing the human's side gently.
"No kidding." Bradley said with a chuckle.
"Just remember that moral, okay? We don't do second spins around here." The older toon said. "Unless it's for Tahiti, then we just spin it 'til the credits roll with it."
"I got it, don't worry." Bradley waved his hand away, chuckling before things got off track. Yakko did have a point though. That homesickness did return again, and he missed his human world. It's strange to him, he didn't like it, yet he still missed it. But with friends like the Warners... It didn't feel that bad to him anymore. If it was possible, he could give the "making friends" thing another chance with them.
"Well then, unless you're going werewolf, come on back in. Can't have fun with a sleepy mind, see?" Yakko said as he showed a little sleeping brain in his hand, wearing a little nightcap too. He put it away and went back in the tower, the boy nodding and doing the same as he got into his own bed.
"Heh, good night everyone." He said softly, with all three Warners shouting "Good night!" back at him, making Bradley tense up in surprise before they went right back to sleep like it didn't happen. Bradley sighed and smiled, closing his eyes and sleeping, but unaware at what was building in the real world... He'd eventually have to go back, but he'd have no idea what would be waiting for him once he did.
Author's note: I thought it was about time to give Baloney some payback as well.
By the way, in the beginning with the tribute video discussion that went on, I WAS talking about Doug Walker in there. Sorry, it just fit so well with how much he loves that show.