A/N: Welp guys here it is, my newest update after quite a while, thanks for waiting. As I said on my profile page, i'll be saving the Hero Ark for its own separate story and instead alter the path of this story as a result, hope you like this ark of last period before school's out. Alright read on!

Back at Acme Loo...

"Alright everyone settle down, I say settle down" came the ionic voice of Professor Foghorn Leghorn trying to calm down his noisy 6th Period Film study class but with no luck.

Furball and the others had made it back to the Looniversity with a few minutes to spare and were in class. They all sat together near the back of the room, talking and relaxing from their previously intense adventure.

...

"Thanks you guys" Furball spoke getting the attention of his friends.

"Whatever for Furball?" Fifi questioned as the rest listened.

"For helping me save all of the animals, I couldn't have done it without you guys" Furball answered giving a sincere smile.

"Don't worry about it" Buster replied with a thumbs up, "You're our friend so of course you always count on us to help you out"

Babs then spun around suddenly becoming a boss gang member "Definitely see?, we're in this together see?, cause we're all friends see?" Babs spoke with the classic mafia accent. Furball chuckled, nodding at the pink rabbit for the funny act.

"Oui" Fifi spoke as Furball then turned to her, "We are your friends so we weell always be at your side, zat eez a fact" she said giving Furball another sly wink. The embarrassed blue cat nodded while holding back a blush.

"Yeah besides the trip was very rewarding" Calamity said taking out his device, "I got to see how this thing worked"

"But Calamity…" Hampton spoke, "You still never told us why you even have something like that"

The gray coyote turned to Hampton, "Well let's just say that before today, I was getting pretty desperate with Lil Beeper if you know what I mean" he answered giving Hampton a devious smile.

"Ohh" Hampton answered abit nervous.

"Speaking of Lil Beeper" Furball asked, "Where is the little guy?...isn't he in this class?"

Calamity turned back to Furball, "Yeah he is, but he had to run some major errands for the school so he's probably not going to be here for the rest of the day" he answered.

"Oh" Furball replied.

"Yeah but anyways" Hampton spoke licking his lips and rubbing his satisfied belly, "Im glad we went too, their food was delicious!"

"Yeah, like we didn't have anything better to do anyway" Shirley replied with a smile but then turned to Plucky lying back on his chair.

The mallard caught sight of her and soon everyone's stare, "What?" he asked. Shirley then glared daggers at the duck.

"Humph fine!" Plucky finally replied, "I guess it was a little fun, I mean I did get to have a slushee, and heck I even got to meet…"Gasp!" Toucan Sam!" the green duck remembered shaking Furball's hand,

"Aw thanks pal!, we've got to do this again sometime!"

"Uhh…sure?" Furball replied with a fake smile, actually hoping in his heart that they would never again have to.

As Plucky continued chatting about his 'amazing' experience, Furball with the roll of his eyes, looked around the class to see his other classmates doing their own toony thing, from Fowl-mouth and Dizzy Devil teaming up against Montana Max, taunting him about him 'liking' Elmyra to little Sweetie bird trying to eat Bookworm to Concord condor doing whatever it was Concord did with the confused looks of Mary Melody and Lil Sneezer as a result.

Furball couldn't help but let out a sigh, after what they had just been through, it was nice to get to unwind with all his friends. He took a quick glance at Fifi and saw that she too was rolling her eyes at the duck as she caught Furball's glance and gave a sweet smile that he found ravishing, he always did love that about her. The blue cat smiled back and never felt so happy to be back in school and for once actually felt lucky, though knowing his track record, it wouldn't last long...

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"…No homework, I say no homework for the first student quiet" said a whispering Foghorn to the class.

Silence ensured. Foghorn looked to the audience, "Kids I say Kids, they'll do anything for some incentive" he said getting down to business.

"Now class today we have a special treat" Foghorn said he brought the topic of today in. It was a tall glass container containing a parasitic tick.

"For today's film: "The T.I.C.K.", we get the chance, I say we get the chance to actually study this complex creature to finds out what makes this creature 'tick' The big bird chucked, "See what I did there?" he asked his class getting nothing but forced chuckles in return.

The crew was no different, "Oh brother!" Plucky face-palmed, "Why did we leave Elmyra's place again?" the green mallard said before getting bonked on the head by Shirley as usual as the crew laughed.

As Furball was laughing too, he heard a familiar voice in his head.

"…I don't like the look at that guy Furball.."

Furball smiled as he recognized the voice as his friend Filo of the flea family, a family of parasites that lived on Furball, but the blue cat didn't mind...much. The little Flea was abit older now at 12 years old but still wore his trademark blue cap, he was looking at the tick through Furball's ear, no wonder the blue cat felt kinda itchy all of a sudden.

"Heya Filo, what do ya mean?" Furball thought. He didn't actually need to speak the words as Filo could hear them in his head.

"I don't know but he just looks menacing" Filo warned and he couldn't shake the feeling that he knew the parasite from somewhere...

Furball took a look at the flea and could see what he meant. The tick was magnified through the glass so it was see-able, it's most defining trait was its glowing red eyes that bore into Furball's soul, it actually put him on edge, how something like that got passed the PTA he'd never know, but he brushed it all off with a confident smile as Foghorn attempted to place the glass case on his desk.

"Its all good though, I mean he's trapped in that seemingly ultra tough, durable, resilient, reinforced glass, ya know the premium stuf…!"

...

Furball couldn't even finish his sentence as they all heard the loud sound of breaking glass. The blue cat went completely straight-faced.

"Oh you have got to be kidding me!" Furball thought looking at the now broken glass. The class watched in horror as a red light bounced quickly out of the class. It was the tick no doubt.

"And that is why, I say that is why you don't attempt to get out of paying for the premium stuff" said a flabbergasted Foghorn who knew something like this would happen.

"Alright who saw that one coming?" Buster said as the crew raised their hands, not to mention the hundreds of viewers at home for that matter...

Unfortunately Foghorn saw that, "Oh a wisenheimer eh?, well I say you guys just volunteered, i said just volunteered to go capture him" the big bird retorted as he started pushing Furball and others out of class. "What! wait don't we get a say in this?" Furball pleaded trying to reason. "Oh hush, i'll give you guys extra credit" said a whispering Leghorn to the group.

"Extra credit?!, bribery?!" Babs couldn't believe what she had just heard, "What kind of students do ya take us for?!" Foghorn knew her game, "Students that wanta pass my class!"

The pink bunny ears dropped in an innocent fashion, "Hehe, well said" the pink bunny replied before the toonsters were out of class.

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"Hahaha!" came the annoying voice of Montana Max, "Too bad for those losers!, haha!" Once again Foghorn caught wind, "Don't worry Maxy boy, because you get to help me clean up"

It was Max's turn to straight face as he rose from his seat "Yes sir..."

...

Eight toonsters stared at each other, utterly confused on what the heck just happened and how they got in this mess. "Smooth move, Buster now we gotta go after that thing" Plucky duck retorted with a huff.

The blue bunny shrugged it off with a carrot, "Hey at least we get to miss class right?" Everybody blinked and realized he was right.

"But like how are we going to find him?" Shirley the loon pondered alongside her best friend Fifi la fume, "Oui, we cannot even see zhe teek anymore" Fifi agreed.

Furball looked over to Calamity who was rummaging through his compartment bag and the blue cat smirked. "Calamity what ya got for us this time?"

The coyote looked at his pals as he threw them all a new device. "It's a mirco-organism sound locator with heat signature scouter with tick setting, with it we can hear the tick and find its location by its heat, it goes over your eye like this"

The others saw the coyote now with the high tech scouter and followed his lead. Furball saw all the others with the devices on the faces and looked at this device. "This ...kinda reminds me of something" Furball couldn't help but say as he put his copy on. "What do ya mean Furball?" Hampton asked with that innocence piggy charm of his.

...Suddenly the toonsters could feel a huge heat signature coming from down the hall as the scouter were going nuts.

"Woah!, what does the scouter say about that tick's heat level?" Buster asked. "Check the top left corner of the screen, you'll find it there" Calamity replied.

Babs saw it and couldn't believe her eyes, she quickly took the device off and spun into a super bunny with warrior armor and anime-like black hair. "Its over 9000!" she yelled crushing the device.

"What 9000?!" Buster said having transformed in a massive bald guy with a goatee.

Calamity shook Buster out of the little act, "You guys watch too much tv" the coyote said as he annoyingly handed another copy of the device to a playfully sorry Babs bunny.

"Yup definitely reminds me of something" Furball chuckled before getting down to business. "Alright guys lets get that tick!" He said as they all ran down the hall but realized that the heat sig was all around the place.

"I can't pinpoint an exact location and with a heat sig over 9000, that's no normal parasite" Calamity said. "We've got to keep looking" Furball said.

Unbeknownst to the toonsters, the tick that they were looking for was right above them on the lockers planning out his next move...

"A skunk huh?...perfect..."

...

Suddenly they heard some trashcans fall from around the corner. "There he is, get him!" Plucky yelled as they ran around the corner. "What the?"

The toonsters looked all over the fallen trash cans but didn't find anything but a couple a stray mice.

"Hmm, that's weird wonder what caused this" Furball pondered.

Shirley agreed but noticed something was off, "Not sure but like what happened to Fifi?" Shirley asked as the toonsters looked behind them to see Fifi did not come with them around the corner.

Then suddenly the purple Skunkette was in sight, taking slow steps till she was a few meters away from the others.

"Fifi?" Furball said with concern as he looked into her eyes. They seemed lifeless and blank, suddenly they glowed a radiant yellow!

"Oh don't tell me!" Furball said with a sweatdrop. "Uh everyone, I have some bad news" Calamity announced as Fifi started to reach for her tail.

"I researched today's film "The T.I.C.K." and found out that T.I.C.K. is actually an acronym that stands for The Intellect Controlling Knat"

This time it was Plucky's turn to straight face with annoyance, "Remind me to give that rooster a zero on the next teacher evaluation form" he huffed backing away slowly as did the others.

"If we make it to the next teacher evaluation!" Hampton gulped behind Plucky.

Fifi had her tail pointed at them ready to fire. "Oh boy…" Furball spoke with Fifi staring them down with her tail in hand.

"Only at Acme Loo!"


A/N: Oh boy!, what a mess indeed, but seriously who didn't see this coming? How will the Toonsters get out of this one you ask? Well tune in for the next chapter of the T.I.C.K. ark coming at ya soon! Later!

P.S. From Furball and the Crew to all of you, Merry Christmas!, Happy Holidays! and Happy New years you guys! =)