"We've got to find a place to hide somewhere until the Neo Army moves on," said Zack as he and his friends walked the jungle of Taz-Mania.
"Somewhere quiet," added Clive.
"Somewhere where they can't find us," Dia said.
"Somewhere there's no Neo Soldiers!" yelled Daffy.
Everyone looked at him.
"That's what they've been saying, Daffy!" snapped Melissa.
"No more places to run from," pointed out Lola.
"And no more spoofing Disney high-flying movies!" snapped Buster.
"The sooner we find it, the better," Zack sighed.
"Activating montage mode now," said Clive, pressing a button on a device.
The montage started with the gang just walking on the road. Then they all fell down. They were in the big hole. Then above the hole came Bull Gator and Axl who had a look.
"What did you do this time, Axl?" yelled Bull, hitting his partner with his digging spade.
"I just did what you told me," Axl said. "I dug a really big hole as you said to trap the Tasmanian Devil and – "
"Put a rock in it!" snapped Bull.
Axl grabbed a rock and threw it in. It shook the ground. Bull put a rock over Axl's head and let go. Axl's hat was lifted up as a big bump grew from his head.
Then Bull turned back to the hole. "Listen, I am really sorry about all this – "
They saw the hole was empty.
"It's empty!" pointed out Axl.
The next clip showed Zack, Dia and the team had entered Francis X. Bushlad's village. Zack was talking to him about accommodation.
"Of course," smiled Francis. "We'd be very honoured to offer you our motels." He let them to the huts where they were to stay at.
"They are the best huts we can offer," said Francis. "Beautiful, isn't it?"
"Then, Mr. Bushlad, how do you explain these rips?" asked Dia, as she saw the rips of the tents.
"Oh, those." Francis tried to think of something. "They must be from the tigers we had here."
"You mean you were attacked by tigers?" yelled Daffy.
"Sufferin' succotash!" yelled Sylvester as he ran.
"Now, there's a bunch of worst putty tats than you," Tweety said to the black and white cat.
Everyone joined them.
"I meant they were guests!" Francis yelled. "They were large tigers and the tents were too small for them. They probably ripped the tents by stretching." But they were gone.
Soon the gang met Daniel and Timothy Platypus.
"Well, we'd be happy to build you guys a place to stay," said Daniel. "Wouldn't we?"
"Oh, yes, we sure would," agreed Timothy.
Then, with all their tools and everything, they started building 'a place to stay'. Zack, Dia and their friends watched as they build. Like in cartoons, it took the platypuses about thirty seconds to build and finish. But, also like in cartoons, the building that they made wasn't secure and not properly built. The wooden sticks holding the building looked like it was going to collapse! So did the giant rocks that were on the top of the very loose building.
The platypuses went in.
"You see?" cried Timothy.
"Safe as – " Then, guess what, the building fell down.
" – as rocks falling on top of your head," muttered Daffy.
"That's not very s-s-s – free from danger," said Porky.
"Exactly!" said Daffy.
"Thanks, guys," Zack said to the platypuses. Then the gang moved on.
Sunset began and they walked and walked and found no place to stay. Then the keewee ran past them.
"Hey, excuse me!" yelled Dia. "Could you – "
But he was gone.
"It's sunset and we haven't found anywhere yet," said Zack.
"Clive's getting tired," moaned Clive.
"So's everyone," moaned Lola.
The Tiny Toons were so exhausted they were crawling on their feet. Everyone, that is, except Buster Bunny.
"Well, I feel like I could keep on going," smiled Buster, hopping happily ahead of the gang.
"Probably because of that orb he's carrying," panted Babs.
Then they heard someone talking. Then they saw it was Buddy Boar on the phone.
"Well, then, do that and we'll see how it goes," Buddy said. "Oh, I've got to go now." And he turned his phone off.
"Excuse me, Buddy," Zack said to the boar. "Sorry to disturb you, but do you know a place where we can stay?"
"Well, yes, there's the Hotel Tazmania," Buddy told him. Then his phone rang. "Hello. Well, what went wrong?" And, with that, he was gone.
"Hotel Tazmania?" pondered Dia.
"How could you be the greatest Looney Tunes fan and not know about this series?" asked Daffy.
"Oh, I don't know," said Zack. "Maybe I was too busy watching Daffy Duck cartoons."
Daffy was taken aback by this. "Oh…"
"Hey, guys, I see it!" cried Tweety. Sylvester turned around and everyone else saw they found the hotel on the hill a distance away.
"Well, it's about another five miles away," said Zack. "Sooner we get there, the better. Come on!" Everyone groaned and started walking.
The calm and cool Buster cheekily pasted the panting Tiny Toons.
"You won't be laughing when you're finished with that orb!" Babs yelled after him.
Finally, they arrived at the Hotel Tazmania.
"Deactivating montage mode now," said Clive, pressing the button on the device.
Zack pressed the bell at reception.
Bushwhacker Bob arrived. "Yeah? What do you want?"
"Any rooms for about – " Dia turned around and started to count the toons.
"Sixteen," Zack finished for her.
Everyone was amazed with Zack's quick counting.
"Wow! That was amazing," said Dia.
"Well, I'm not letting you in my secret," Zack told her.
"Well, guess what?" snapped Bob. "We ain't got nothing for you!"
"'Nothing that we can't do for you', is what sonny meant to stay," said Bob's mum walking to the desk. Then she turned around her son severely. "Isn't that right, sonny?"
"Yes, mother," sighed Bob. Then he pressed the bell. "Bellboy!"
No one came.
Zack, Dia and their friends peered around the corner and saw the Tasmanian Devil with Didgeri Dingo.
"So you think I have nothing else to show you, Taz?" said Didgeri.
Taz nodded.
"Well, then, I bet you don't want to see this?" Didgeri got out a very large diamond.
Taz gasped with excitement and mumbled loudly. He reached for it, but it was pulled away.
"It'll cost you... all your ancient coins!" Didgeri said, holding his hand out.
Taz hesitated. Then he pulled out his bag and he and Didgeri swapped possessions. Taz was very pleased with the shiny diamond.
"You know, Taz," Zack cried from the corner, "that's not a real diamond. Didgeri's just bought that from the nearest mall and tricked you into handling over your real ancient coins."
"WHAT?" Taz turned around and saw Didgeri walking out. He began to spin out.
"TAZ!" Bob shouted from reception. "Quit playing around and show these people to their rooms!"
Taz sighed and let Zack, Dia and their friends to their rooms.
After the rooms were sorted out, Clive went to the bar, which had no one around. Then she got out her remote and pressed the green button. The lights went off and the blinds went down. The room was as dark as the inside of a beehive without the bees.
"Clive knows Zack and Dia are behind her," Clive said. "Clive knew Zack and Dia would be."
Lights around the live action characters shone from neck straps around their necks.
"We just want to check that what you said about Eric and Bugs being alive is true, that's all," said Zack.
"Gather around the pool table, then" Clive said. As they did so, Clive pressed the yellow button of the remote. Around the table, a digital blue map of Earth. Then a digital version of Bugs appeared on the island. Then he was transported to England. Then, like they were being fast-forwarded, Bugs arrived at England to meet the digital Eric and his puppet friends. Then it took them to Japan, to an island above England…
"As soon as Bugs joined Eric and his friends," Clive explained, "they've been after the Five Orbs to help Eric get rid of his own magic. Only Eric doesn't know he'll need the Acme Orb."
"Then why did he sent you?" asked Zack.
"Because Eric thinks it's just a back-up Orb, but must not be in the Epics' hands," replied Clive. "Now here's where everything got separated," she went on, demonstrating with the map. "They arrive on Clive's planet, to look for the Orb, then the planet is about to die…"
"Jack's trying to frame Eric," said Zack. "He's trying to make everyone in the universe hate him."
"Now he's replaced Matt Damon as Jason Bourne," said Dia.
"But," Clive went on, "Eric and his friends saved every living creature including Clive and her cellmate Marvin the Martian and then we were in space when a missile came from Earth and hit out ship. But Eric used his spells to send us away. And we landed…"
The map showed that they landed on Taz-Mania.
"While Eric and his friends went off to find the last two Orbs, Eric gave Clive the job of finding the Acme Orb and I found it with Buster."
The map went off and Clive pressed the green button. The room wasn't dark any more. Nor was it very empty either.
"Entertaining?" asked Clive to the toons.
"Yeah!" yelled the toons.
"But where's Bugs now?" asked Lola.
"Yeah, you haven't showed us that bit yet," Buster told Clive.
All the toons started asking questions.
"Clive don't know!" yelled Clive. "If Eric can make himself immune to Neo tracking, Clive's not going to be much use, is it?"
"Clive, did Eric say when we'll meet him again?" asked Dia.
"Eric said he will meet us when he is needed the most and the least expected," Clive replied.
"She's right," said Zack. "We must help Eric by getting Buster to – Did Eric say where to take the Orb?"
"Just a little unknown island that's about…" Clive got out her tracking device and checked it. "…429.7 miles southeast from here."
Zack yawned. "But not tonight. First round's on me."
"Oh, yeah?" The toons were wearing boxing gloves and started to make Zack out of the door by walking to him and getting their moves on.
"Guys, that's not the round I meant," said Zack. "This isn't funny!"
Only Dia and Clive were left. Dia, with her jet-pack still on, began to fly her way out. Clive got in front of her.
"Dia, here's the real truth that Eric asked Clive to tell Dia," she said. "If Zack knows about it…"
"Just tell me," Dia said. Clive went to Dia's ear and whispered in it. Clive walked out, leaving a stunned and puzzled Dia hovering above the room. Then the power of the jet-pack went out and she fell to the ground.
Then Mr. Thickly came in. "Do you need a hand, luv?" he asked.
"No, thanks," smiled Dia. Then a feather duster took over her.
"Do you feel better now?" asked Constance Koala. "Do you feel clean like the room now?"
The room was now a pool of dust.
"Y-y-yep!" sneezed Dia, as she stood in the dust.
"Dia the mermaid says, 'Y-y-yep!'," Mr. Thickly said to Constance. He even imitated the sneezes.
Soon, outside the hotel, Taz, Constance and Mr. Thickly was in charge of a barbeque. Everyone was there and was very excited to eat the delicious food. Everyone's plate was piled up like a mole hill and was eating happily. Everyone except Dia. She had her plate with food on it, but she just sat down on a deckchair near the pool and didn't eat her food.
"Are you okay, hon?" asked a female voice.
Dia turned around to see Taz's mother, Jean Tazmanian Devil, who was wearing sunglasses and a brown dress, on the right-hand deckchair next to her.
"Did Taz burn your food?" asked Taz's sister, Molly Tazmanian Devil, who sat in the deckchair in a pink bikini next to her mother. "He can't cook and he – "
"No, nothing's wrong with the food," Dia told them. "It's just – "
"Let me guess," said Molly. "Is it two guys you can't choose from between?"
Dia looked away. "It's between that man here and a wizard whose friends to us both. Zack here's cool and adventurous which I like, but something tells me that I'm for Eric."
"Well, you've only met Zack yesterday," pointed on Taz's Father, Hugh, who sat on the deckchair on Dia's left-hand side. "Wait to you meet Eric, see what he's like and then make you decision."
"How do you know about my life?" asked Dia.
"It's all in the script, remember?" cried Jake, Taz's little brother, who was on the family's pet turtle, Dog, and he gave Dia a script. She read the scene they were doing now.
"We read it in the script reading before we appeared in this story, remember?" Jake went on.
"Oh, yes, that makes sense," said Dia. "But the other thing is I can't leave Nell behind. She needs me."
"Oh, your dolphin sister," said Hugh. "I think she's fine."
They looked ahead to see Nell sitting by the pool eating a plate of greens.
Behind her, the Tiny Toons were talking and laughing in a circle. Then Buster turned around to see the lonely dolphin. He got up and walked to her.
"Uh, listen, Nell," said Buster. "For helping me avoid getting caught like you did, I just wanted to say – "
Babs and the rest of the Tiny Toons were behind him. They approached Nell. And then –
PHOOSH! They were all wet.
" – thanks," Buster finished at last.
"Oh, so sorry about that," chuckled Nell, turning around to face them. "But I can't leave you fell for the oldest trick in the dolphin trick book."
Hamton got out a book entitled Dolphin Tricks. They read the first page.
"The oldest dolphin trick is when you approach a dolphin and they will shoot water out from their blowhole when you least expect it," Hamton read.
"Turn to the newest trick in the book," Babs said.
But as Hamton turned to the last page, they soon found out without reading. They were in the pool now.
"Sorry, I couldn't resist," laughed Nell. "But I am a dolphin and dolphins are quite playful."
No one found it funny, except Babs who did her loud laugh. "For a tiny dolphin, you sure have a large sense of humour, Nell," she said.
"Why do you hide yourself?" asked Fifi
"Well, that's a long story, if you really want to hear it," said Nell.
It appeared that the Tiny Toons had made a new friend and wanted to know more about her, so they got in pool rings with drinks and sunglasses.
"Tell us where you come from, Nell," Buster said.
"Well, the earliest day I could remember seven years ago," Nell began, "was it was all dark and then one day I found light and I was swimming around but all the other creatures ran away from me. Then I saw Dia buying sea groceries. So I hid in her basket and then she found me. Then she quickly tidied me up before her stepfamily came to find me in the kitchen. Then they quickly became my stepfamily too. Dia let me into her room and, from that day, we share everything including our siren missions and her favourite shows and that means you, the Looney Tunes, Animaniacs, Loonatics Unleashed, Taz-Mania here and so on. And that's what my life has been like ever since. "
"You see," Hugh said to Dia. "She'll be in good hands."
But Dia was still unsure where to go once the Acme Orb was delivered to the island.
Sunrise came early the next day. Dia was still unhappy.
"Something the matter, Dia?" asked Zack, as he sat next to her at the big breakfast table. All the toons were also there eating greedily and noisy like they always do.
"Nothing," said Dia. "It's just that… I'm not used to being served breakfast. I mean, there's nothing wrong with this food; it's delicious. But it's just that those dolphins have been working me too hard without a break."
"Well, those days are over!" said Zack. "I mean, they could be. If you want that."
Then Mr. Thickly arrived. "You guys want anything else?"
"More sugar in my tea, please, Mr. Thickly," said Zack.
"Constance, Zack says, 'More sugar in my tea, please, Mr. Thickly," Mr. Thickly told the Koloa.
Constance got out the sugar bowl and a spoon to spread the sugar, but she fell over and poured all the sugar in Zack's cup.
"Is that enough sugar, sir?" asked Constance.
"Yep," said Zack. Then he drank his tea with the mountain of sugar in it, but it wasn't sugar. "This is actually salt," he whispered to Dia. They laughed at this.
Then Zack turned to Clive, who was on her laptop. "Any news of the Neo Army, Clive?"
"Clive's laptop can find no trace of the Neos whatsoever," Clive reported.
"I'm telling you, you can't stay here!" Bob's voice yelled. "I have no more vacancies!"
Zack, Dia and Clive got up and crept around the corner. It was Jim and John with the Neo Army!
"No, no, we don't want to stay here," said Jim.
"No way!" agreed John. "It's small and smelly and – "
Jim hit him to shut him up. "Mr. Bob, we are friends of your guests and we just want to pay them a little visit."
"Oh, fine! Then beat it, will ya?" Bob left reception.
Zack look at Clive. "Clive, I thought you said – "
"Clive couldn't trace or predict a teleport jump in five seconds," Clive protested. "Clive means, who could? Zack thinks someone like Bob could?"
Then Daffy, wearing a knight's shiny armour and helmet, appeared. "Don't worry. I've got a plan. Follow my lead!"
He ran for them with a sword and shield. Jim and John and the Neo Army turned around, looking unsurprised. One Neo fired at his gun at Daffy's shield, while another fired at his sword. Nothing happened.
"Ha ha!" yelled Daffy. "Is that all you got?" Then both his sword and his shield were falling down like dust. "Backfire," he said to the audience. "Run!" And he did. Zack, Dia and Clive joined him.
"Run!" cried Daffy. "They're here! Run!"
The toons didn't believe him.
Then Zack ran in. "He's right," he said to them.
Then the toons screamed, got up and ran like maniacs. The Epic twins and the Neo Army were chasing them through the hotel.
Zack, Dia and the toons passed Constance, who was on a ladder painting the ceiling. Luck was on their side when Constance fell off the ladder and landed on Jim and John. About half a dozen tins of white paint fell over the Neos.
Soon they caught up with them. Then Mr. Thickly appeared who was sweeping the hallway. The Neos fell over him.
Zack, Dia and the toons finally reached the entrance. "Look! The entrance is just there!" cried Zack. "Come on, guys! The sooner we – "
"Stop, the better!" smiled Jim nastily, pointing at a gun at the gang. They tried to turn around, but John was there with also a gun. But they were looking at his back!
"John, you're facing the wrong way," Jim told him.
"Oh, okay," said John. He was now facing the gang, but his face was on the ground. "This better, Jim?"
Jim sighed. Then he turned to the gang. "It's been fun, O'Marrows, but I've have just had enough of this. So come on and – "
Then Taz came around spinning around. He picked up Jim and then John. The devil stopped, but the twins were spinning like twisters.
"Thanks, Taz," said Dia.
"Spinning exercise," Taz explained.
The twins stopped and collapsed to the floor.
Jim growled. "SOMEONE PLEASE JUST GET THEM!" he yelled. The Neo Army, now clean from the paint, came rushing in.
"Taz, can you do five more miles of spinning exercise?" Zack asked.
Taz was panting. "Taz try."
"Good," said Zack. Then he turned to the rest of the gang. "Now, let's spin out of here!"
All the toons span like twisters out of the hotel.
"Hey, no spinning in the hotel!" Bob yelled. "How many Tasmanian devils do I have in this hotel?"
Zack walked normally and Dia hovered calmly past him. "Only one and that's you," they told him together.
Back on the beach, Wendal was still cleaning Chip.
"…and then I got sick as a parrot," went on Wendal. "I mean, I was the parrot on that ship, metaphorically speaking, of course…"
Chip sighed. "Twelve hours of non-stop talk," he muttered to himself. "I wish we'd be sailing off again, no matter how tired we all feel or how dangerous the waters are."
He saw Zack, Dia and the toons running towards him.
"Thanks, Wendal," said Zack, giving him some Taz-maian dollars. "He looks like new now. Now go!"
Wendal counted his money as he left the beach.
The gang used all their strength to push Chip back onto the sea. When Chip was deep enough to sail away, the gang ran to the port side. Shirley used her powers to lower the ramp down into the water.
"Well done, Shirley," Dia said.
"Right! Everyone onboard!" Zack ordered. And everyone got on.
But the Neo soldiers were still coming. Wearing wetsuits, they ran in the water and they charged for Chip.
On Chip, everyone was working fast. The sails were released and Melissa had control of the helm, but there was no wind to push Chip along.
Buster saw the Neo soldiers coming closer and closer. "You guys aren't going to get me that easily!" he shouted to them, putting his fists up.
"Yeah, that's because he's got me!" Plucky shouted, drawing out a pirate's sword.
"Trying to be the hero again, Pluck?" Buster scoffed. "What else is new?"
"Well, not you for a change!" snapped Plucky. "You can't be this time anyway. They're after you."
"Yeah, time for you to be protected for a change," said Babs, walking next to them with little pistols in her hands.
"And what will you do when you get captured?" asked Buster nastily.
"I am an intelligent, independent… what is another 'in' word that make will me sound good?"
While the three were arguing, they didn't notice the Neos were coming near them. But Hamton did. He had a spare plank and he charged it at the Neos. They were knocked off! When he turned around, a pair of Neo hands caught their end of the plank and Hamton was thrown off!
"Hamton!" yelled Buster, Babs and Plucky together.
Everyone turned around to see Hamton in the hands of the Neo Army… literally. But he wasn't the only one.
"Nell!" shouted Dia. She ran after her dolphin sister, but Zack and Lola held her.
On the sand, the Epic twins arrive. The Neo soldiers brought Hamton and Nell to them.
"These are the wrong guys, you morons!" shouted John. "We want Buster Bunny! Does this pig or this dolphin look like a bunny to you?"
"Hold on, loud and babbling!" interrupted Jim. He aimed his gun at the big sail and fired. But it didn't put a hole in the sails. It made them sail away!
"Why did you send them away with a wind bullet?" John asked Jim.
"Because, genius, this could be the only way to get Buster," Jim said. Then he turned to Hamton and Nell. "And you two are going to help. You're going to make your friend want to give up the orb and surrender to us."
Hamton and Nell gave each other worried looks.
