Hey guys. Chapter 9. Yes. It has come. ;)

(Warners jumps into my arms.) And so have we!

Me: Gah! Don't do that.

Yakko: Aw, c'mon let us have a little fun! We already had to walk all the way up here just to appear in this author's note. We're getting paid, right?

Me: Not likely.

Wakko: Ugh. Well at least get us the solid gold golf cart we want to badly!

Dot: Yeah. That's really the only thing we ask of you.

Me: I told you guys it's not in the budget!

Sigh, okay I've got to do some "babysitting" right now so go ahead and read.

Dot: BABYsitting?

Chapter 9- Girls Night out

Cassie thought she was going to die of excitement. They had been staying at the Resistance for nearly three days and she'd already come close to death at least five time. It was awesome! This place had everything.

A training room, rock wall, basketball court, shark tank, an archery room and, an indoor, of course, swimming pool. It was like the dangerous life Cassie had always wanted all rolled up into 3.4 square miles of pure underground paradise. She'd already tried everything, well, except for the shark tank. Even she had her standards. Yakko had had to drag Wakko away to keep him from diving in.

It was the third day and Cassie was already on her way to dinner with Dot. Dot was talking about… well, Cassie didn't even know anymore.

"And he said I couldn't beat him, and I said sure I can, so I sat down and arm wrestled him for four straight minutes, and then he just cheats and wins! So I gave him a 'makeover'. And he gets mad! Can you believe that?"

"Yes."

Dot pouted. "Well at lest he looked adorable. But still not as cute as me, of course."

"Now that would have been a catastrophe."

"Got that right."

Dot pushed open the double doors and they both walked into the mess hall. It was basically just a big room with twelve long tables piled high with the food they had "borrowed" from up above. Dot ran off to eat with the popular kids, mostly cute teenage boys and jealous teenage girls who Dot was ready to make green with envy.

Cassie scanned the room for Yakko and Wakko, who were sitting at the far end of table number three. Wakko was having a pizza eating contest with another guy and there were his new friends all sitting around him, chanting, "Go! Go! Go!" as he ate slice after slice.

Cassie rolled her eyes. Do I have to solve everything? She started to take a step forward before someone caught her arm.

"Hey Cassie. Can I talk to you?"

Oh God. Again? Cassie faced Rosetta, who judging by the look on her face, did not want to talk to her at all. What's wrong with her? She's been asking me to sit with her for three days!

"Uh, well, I'd love to but… I have to go… Oh fine."

"Great!" Rosetta put on this perky smile that Cassie wasn't buying one bit. She dragged her over to the table farthest from Yakko and Wakko and almost threw her into the chair. Looking up, Cassie saw three other girls who weren't talking, as if they had been waiting for Rosetta to kidnap her and drag her here against he will.

"Hey!" said an Indian girl with straight hair down to her hips. "Casey, right?"

"Um, it's Cassie."

A stocky girl with curly red hair twirled her fork in her spaghetti. "OMG, we heard that you were the one who came here with the Warners, right? That's so cool."

"Thanks." Cassie was so confused about what was going on. These overgrown five-year olds were Rosetta's friends? Well, she wasn't surprised. But seriously, this was what Rosetta had wanted them to meet for? It didn't seem at all real.

The redhead flipped her curls. "So, I'm Danielle. This is Anisa." The Indian girl waved.

Rosetta sat down in her chair and scooted up. "So you like the Resistance so far, right?" she and the other two girls stared at her.

"Ye- well, it's okay, I guess." Cassie grabbed a glass of water and took a sip. "The shark tank is pretty cool."

"Oh, Charlie? He's harmless. He's a nurse shark, he can't hurt you. We're just using him to test marine biology and stuff like that." Danielle tapped her fingers on the table. "Plus he's helping us design our submarine."

Cassie was suddenly interested. "You guys are building a submarine?"

Anisa nodded. "We have lots of prototypes but we're getting around to it. Jared's interested in the way a shark moves, so he's basing the outline of it off of that. But seriously, enough about submarines. I wanna know about you!"

"Yeah, how did you ever get so pretty?" Danielle rested her face on her hand, smiling.

Cassie blushed. "Oh, you know… beauty tips from Dot, I guess."

"Omigosh!" the girls exclaimed, yelling and laughing. "Dot is so cute!"

Cassie laughed nervously. "Yeah…" These girls were seriously freaking her out.

Rosetta joined in. "No way, Wakko's cuter!"

That set them off again. "Yeah! It's so cute how his tongue sticks out!"

"I know right?"

Danielle turned to Cassie. "God, you are so lucky to be able to hang out with him."

"Yeah, Yakko too." Anisa giggled. "Do you… do you think he would go out with me?"

Cassie almost threw up. She wanted to say yes at first, because obviously Yakko would love to date anything that had hips and hair. But she didn't think even he could survive the giggly torture. She didn't know how she was.

Before she could answer, Danielle elbowed her friend in the ribs. "Shut up!"

"What?" Cassie asked.

"Sorry, Anisa's just being tactless." Danielle glared over at her. "She should know better than to try and ask out your boyfriend."

Rosetta did a spit take and Cassie dropped the fork she was eating her salad with. She considered gagging but she started laughing too hard. "He's not my boyfriend!" she gasped between laughs. Rosetta sheepishly wiped up the water she had sprayed.

"Yes he is. He's always talking about you." Anisa said, wiping water off her hair.

Cassie raised her eyebrows. "I'm going to have to talk to him about that. But whatever he says, we're not going out or anything. I just came with them to help them out with the problem with Acme Falls."

"Okayyyyy…"

"Whatever you sayyyyyy…" They sang.

Cassie rolled her eyes. She was not going to sit down and listen to this "Well, if we're done here." She got up and pushed in her chair.

"Wait!" Rosetta suddenly said. She looked back at her friends and they nodded. Cassie was about to explode. What the heck was going on here?

Danielle pushed away her plate. "What are you doing tonight?" she asked.

Cassie shrugged. "Sleeping."

They broke into their girly giggling again. Cassie just waited for them to finish. Let them have their fun, she thought. The obviously need it.

"Honey," Anisa said, getting up. "Get ready for the night you've been waiting for."

Danielle and Rosetta followed. "We're going to have the time of our lives. So let's go!"

Danielle grabbed her hand. Cassie immediately ripped it out. "Wait, hold on!" What if I don't want to go out and have fun? I have plenty of stuff I'd rather be doing tonight."

Rosetta looked exasperated. "Oh, like hanging out with Tweedle dumb, Tweedle dumber and Alice in Wonderland?"

Cassie looked over at Yakko and his sibs. Dot had her face glued on top of some other guy's, Wakko was on the floor, having passed out from eating a ton of food and Yakko was in the hands of a bunch of girls, obviously enjoying the attention. She felt a stab of anger and Rosetta's comment but realized that yeah, she was a bit tired of their crazy antics and weirdness. She also remembered that she had never gone out like a real teenager to just have fun once in her sad life.

Looking back, she'd never even at least tried to have fun… She'd always been the one who had to take one for the team and do everything herself. Being independent was sometimes a pain in the ass and Cassie had just decided that she needed a break from it all. Even if it was with half the cast of Pretty Little Liars.

"Okay. I'll come. Where to?"

Danielle clapped. "Yay! There's a night club down town that we sometimes sneak off to. Nobody recognizes us anymore so we don't have to go in disguise, finally. Just don't tell Jared… or really anybody else around here, and you're officially in the group! You look like you need a night off anyway."

Cassie didn't even really hear her. "Okay, fine. Sounds great."

"Hey, I forgot my purse," Anisa turned back and started to walk to the table again.

Danielle started walking with her. "I'll go with you."

They left Cassie and Rosetta behind in an awkward silence. Rosetta kicked at an empty soda can. Cassie nonchalantly fiddled with her hair.

Then it happened. "Cassie, I'm sorry. I'm really, really truthfully sorry, okay?" Cassie blinked. First the silent treatment and now this? What, is she bipolar?

"I know we got off on the wrong foot and all but I think we should take this opportunity to start over. I'm sorry." Rosetta stuck out her hands.

Cassie rolled her eyes on the inside. Sure why not? "Me too." They were pulled into an awkward hug. People around them started to stare; she had only been here for three days but Cassie knew that most of the people here knew that they couldn't stand each other. So to see them hugging in the middle of the mess hall must have been quite a show.

Anisa and Danielle were suddenly back with the purse. "Ready?"

Rosetta and Cassie broke apart like they'd been electrically shocked. "Uh huh!" Cassie said.

"Then let's go!" And Cassie let them drag her slowly out the door.

….

Wakko groggily woke up from what seemed like a coma. "Ugh… what happened?"

He sat up and held his head, almost physically feeling his migraine. He looked around, remembering he was in the mess hall. Now it was deserted and empty, with trash scattered all over the place. Wakko pulled a slice of pizza off his back. "Yakko?"

Wakko slowly stood up, his legs wobbling, and walked over to his limp brother who appeared to be fast asleep on the table. Wakko looked up at the clock on the wall. It was 1:30 in the morning. Looking back at him, Wakko poked Yakko on the shoulder. "Wake up."

Yakko mumbled something like, "Yeah, I'm single…" in his sleep, and he rolled over.

Wakko poked and shook him. "Yakko! Wake up already!" He seemed to be a really deep sleeper.

Wakko didn't mean to but he got so fed up he shook his brother so hard that he rolled over and fell off the table. "OW!"

Wakko took a few steps back and watched as Yakko slowly pulled himself up. "Hey Yakko. Why are you on the floor?"

"Nice try, sib. Next time, a simple 'Wake up' will do." He said irritably. Yakko rubbed his eyes and sighed. "What time is it?"

"Like one thirty. We should go to bed." Wakko said, stretching out.

"Yeah, I'm tired." Yakko muttered. He put his hands in his pocket but looked down in confusion. "What's in here?"

Wakko stopped and watched as Yakko pulled out a bunch of crumpled up pieces of paper. Wakko picked one up that he dropped, unfolded it and said, "Hey, it's a girl's phone number!"

Yakko kept on digging out more papers. "It's the motherlode!" He smiled, holding them up and unfolding them. "Boy am I gonna have fun tonight."

Yakko took off down the hall in the other direction. Wakko yelled after him, "Hey, I thought you said you were tired!"

"Not anymore!"

….

Rosetta sat down. "So are you having fun?" she said.

Cassie put a hand to her ear. "What?" the music was way too loud.

"Never mind!" she yelled.

They were sitting at a black table with blood red leather seats around it like a booth. Cassie had to admit the club wasn't that bad. There was a DJ, some dancing. But she wasn't enjoying this 100%. She felt like an outsider, like she didn't belong here. And maybe she didn't.

For one thing Anisa and Danielle kept drinking. They didn't seem likely to stop anytime soon. And they were like what, fifteen? Sixteen?

Of all the moronic beings on planet earth, why these two? She thought. Why ME?

Danielle returned from the bar to the far right of the club, holding yet another beer. "Hey." She laughed.

Cassie tried to fake a smile but even that seemed impossible right now. Danielle tripped and fell over onto the seat next to her, laughing again. "Whoops."

Rosetta got up suddenly. "I have to go," she said, before whipping around and running to the bathroom.

Danielle pushed the cup towards her. "Here. Go ahead."

Cassie looked up. "Are you kidding?"

Anisa joined them, popping out from behind a corner. She looked sweaty from dancing for the past two hours. "Hi guys. What are you-" she saw the beer on the table. She blinked, looking at Danielle, and then sat down. "What are you doing?" she finished.

Cassie pushed the cup away from her. "Not drinking, that's for sure."

"Why not?" she asked.

"Because it would be the dumbest thing to do tonight, next to jumping off a cliff." Cassie crossed her arms, annoyed by their idiocy. Anisa rolled her eyes.

"Come on. You came all this way just to sit here and be a baby?" she said.

"I came all this way to have fun. And frankly, I'm not having anything in here. This place is disgusting." She jerked her head to the booth behind them, and judging by the noises coming from it, the two back there had had a lot more to drink than Danielle and Anisa combined.

"I should have known. A thirteen year old wouldn't understand anyway." Anisa scoffed.

"Reverse psychology isn't going to work, Anisa." Cassie looked at her.

Anisa stared. "How the hell do you know everything?"

"I read. You don't. It's all pretty obvious." Cassie explained. "And if I know one thing, it's that I'm out of here." Cassie slid out of the booth, over the dozing Danielle, just before the redhead started vomiting under the table.

Cassie looked back. "Have fun with her." She said before storming out the doors of the club.

Anisa angrily yelled back. "How do you think you're even going to get back?"

"I'll find a way." Cassie said. She vowed to never speak to Rosetta again. This whole thing had been a setup to get her to do something that she wanted, Cassie was sure of it. But what it was didn't even matter. Cassie was getting out of here, and telling the Warners that they were leaving first thing tomorrow. The sooner they got out of the Resistance, the better. Rosetta had stooped low enough to run herself into the ground where she belonged.

And speaking of her- "Cassie where are you going?" Of course she had to pop up now.

"I'm leaving. Goodnight." Cassie tried to push past, but Rosetta blocked her path.

"Why are you leaving?" she asked.

Cassie tried to keep her voice level. "You want one reason or a thousand?" Too late.

"Cassie I know you don't like it here but please just stay. Just try?" Rosetta took out another beer. "Here you want a sip?"

"No."

Rosetta snapped out of her kind and gentle tone. "Come on you witch! Just drink it already! Wouldn't it make Yakko proud to see his little girlfriend do something mature for once?"

….

Yakko stumbled out, his vision blurred by feathers. He'd been kicked out of the girl's room almost five times before they had finally told him that they were going to dump him in the shark tank. When that didn't work, they'd beaten him with pillows until he was disoriented enough that they pushed him out and locked the door, swearing that they were never giving anyone their numbers again.

"Well, it was nice while it lasted. They were in PJs and everything!" Yakko sighed to himself. He guessed he going to go back to bed now that it was four in the morning. Yakko looked down the hallway which was pitch black except for a blue light above him. It got duller and duller as he walked away from it. Then it shut off and another one in front of him snapped on. Cool. Automatic lights. This place has everything.
Still, the blue light was kind of eerie and gave him a shiver down his spine; Yakko suddenly realized that it was chilly, and he pulled his arms around himself. Yakko thought he heard someone walking behind him, but when he turned back, the noise stopped. Yakko slowly turned around and kept walking, this time faster. Don't be a baby. You're too old to get scared by that stuff now. He silently scolded himself.

But Yakko froze when he heard the walking noise again, this time right behind him. His heart pounded out of his chest when he heard a whisper. "Yakko?"

Yakko stayed silent before recognizing the voice. "Cassie?"

"Yeah."

Yakko exhaled the breath he'd been holding in. "God, don't do that! You scared me…"

Cassie laughed. "Sorry, I didn't think people were usually up this late just strolling around for no apparent reason."

"Okay little miss irritable, what are you doing up?" he asked.

Cassie hesitated before answering. "Well if you have to know…"

"Yes?"

Cassie scoffed. "It was stupid. Rosetta tried to "bond" with me or whatever and she took me out to a night club with her friends. Then they wouldn't let me leave and kept trying to get me drunk. Let's just say I didn't handle it well."

Yakko grinned. "What did you do?" he said in a singsong voice.

"I poured a beer down her shirt and smashed the bottle on the floor."

They both laughed. "Classy." Yakko said.

"Well she deserved it! She kept bossing me around. She even called me your- never mind." Cassie smile subsided. "Okay, your turn. What are you doing?"

Yakko decided it was best to keep the details to himself. "Oh, you know, just talking with some girls."

"Like you were 'talking' with those girls at dinner?"

"Yeah, you could say that." Yakko said to his feet.

Cassie narrowed her eyes in the dim light, getting closer to him. "Is that a slap mark?"

Yakko rubbed his still stinging cheek. "Feels like it."

Cassie snickered. "Well at least one of us got to do something fun tonight."

"Are you kidding? Besides all the drinking I would have loved to go to a night club. Were there any hot babes there?" he asked excitedly.

Cassie shook her head. "Well it's kind of hard to tell when they're throwing up in the corner, but no. And for the record, ew!" She playfully pushed him into the wall.

Yakko rubbed his shoulder now. "Ow! Jeez, you hit like a guy." He tried to hit her on the shoulder but when he did she just laughed.

"And you punch like a girl."

"Then we're perfect for each other," Yakko said, doing his sexy eyebrow thing.

"Normally I'd be annoyed by that but after tonight I'm exhausted and annoyed." Cassie sighed. "And by the way, you know all that stuff I said at lunch yesterday about you being the most annoying person ever? I take it all back."

Yakko pretended to gush. "You really mean it?" he asked.

"Not until that."

"I don't care. I know you like me." Yakko said, skipping ahead.

"You wish." Cassie ran ahead of him. "Are you trying to beat me back to the room?"

"That depends. Are you going to try to impress me by beating me back to the room?"

"I don't have to try to impress you Yakko. It just happens" Cassie smirked. "And I'm sorry, but you're already losing the race anyway." She whipped around and started running.

"Bring it on, bookworm!" Yakko zipped past her in a flash.

It all happened too quickly. They kept on slowing each other down by pushing and shoving. Then they started laughing and they couldn't stop. Finally they collapsed and took a break by somebody else's door while they caught their breath from laughing and running.

Yakko guessed that they had been too loud because some lady came out of her door and told them to shut up. They just started running away again, laughing and talking the whole way. Yakko thought about a lot of things after they reached the room and silently slipped into bed.

Actually, I think right now is the most fun I've had all night. Next to the pillow fight of course.

…

Rosetta entered Jared's room, still sticky, damp and irritated from having to drag a puking Danielle all the way home. Jared was still up, his eyes slowly closing then snapping open while he sat at his computer waiting for Rosetta to come back. When she did, he stared at her and sniffed.

"Why do you smell like-"

"Don't ask!" Rosetta raised her voice as she stormed in, throwing her purse on the bed. "It didn't work."

"How did it not work?" Jared asked. "Didn't I tell you exactly what to do?"

Rosetta angrily took a seat on his bed. "The girl's as stubborn as a mule. She didn't drink at all, didn't even dance, and then she just decided she could get up and leave. I tried to get her at the last second but she… never mind. The point is-"

"We're going to have to try out something new." Jared said, thinking already.

"Well no duh!" Rosetta exclaimed. "That stupid drinking idea was dumb anyway! Of course she wasn't going to do it! She's like fourteen!"

"And so are you. You shouldn't be drinking either."

"I'm fifteen and I wasn't drinking at all. The whole club idea was yours and it didn't work, Jared. Now she's even more suspicious of me than ever! What on God's green earth made you think-"

"That's enough!" Jared snapped, standing up from his chair. Rosetta looked up at him, scowling.

After a while, Rosetta asked, "Jared, why can't we just tell her?"

Jared sighed ran a hand through his unwashed hair. "Because there's a million things that could go wrong. She could not believe us. She could run away. She could use it against us, because no offense, but she hates you," he said, Rosetta glowering at him.

"She could try and destroy it-"

"That's impossible. It's indestructible." Rosetta said.

Jared shook his head. "There is one way… but only the true heir of the Jewel can do it. And we don't know who that is."

"It could be her." Rosetta pointed out.

"No," he said. "The true heir of the Jewel would begin to show signs of power at a young age. And so far Cassie hasn't shown any signs of anything."

"But Jared, if we get the Jewel, I don't think we'll be able to use it. She's been wearing it ever since birth. She's the lost kid from that story that Dad used to tell us, remember? She has a connection with it that we can't break. If we can get her to use it for us, then we can take down Griselda and save Warnerstock." Rosetta finished with a smile. "We won't have let Dad die in vain."

Jared thought about what his sister had said. Sure, it made sense. But would it work? "Okay." The words were out of his mouth before he knew it. "But even if we do decide to tell her… how would we do that exactly? How do you tell someone 'Hey! Your dad was the former leader of this resistance and he left you with a powerful crystal that can either destroy the world or save it! So could you please help us out with a really dangerous mission that could lead to certain death?'? It doesn't seem serious."

Rosetta stared at the floor. "Well even though I despise her, I think I have an idea of how we can break the news."

Jared leaned forward in his chair. "Go for it."

And, cut! That's a wrap everyone.

Yakko: Sheesh, it's about time. I'm going back to my trailer and finding a new agent.

Me: Drama Queen.

Dot: Whatever. Hey, Wakko, need a ride? (beeps the horn)

Me: You bought a solid gold golf cart?

Wakko: You wouldn't. Come on, let's go to the beach!

YW: Helloooooooo bikini wearing nurses!

Me: What the- how did you even pay for that?

Yakko: We used your credit card. Hope you don't mind.

Dot: Floor it! She's about to kill us!

(Warners zoom away)

Arghhhhh well I need to go fix our current financial crisis right now (and do some re-casting) so buh bye sweethearts! PS I don't own any Animaniacs characters. Warner Brothers does. So sadly if I decided to get revenge on them I'd be in very big legal trouble. Well you try working with them! They're all divas. Anyway, thanks, hope you enjoyed and please review! See ya ;)