A/N:
Pinky:
Gee, Brain, what do ya wanna do tonight?
Sparkle(me):
I know what we're doing tonight!
The Brain:
That's right sparkle! Same thing we do every night, Pinky, try to take over the world!
They're Pinky and the Brain,
Yes, Pinky and the Brain,
One is a genius, the other's insane.
They met a little girl,
Who changed their whole world,
They're pinky,
Sparkle and the Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain,
Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain,
Brain.
Before each night is done,
Their plan will be unfurled,
By the dawning of the sun,
They'll take over the world!
They're Pinky and the Brain,
Yes, Pinky and the Brain,
Their twilight campaign
Is easy to explain:
To prove their mousey worth,
They'll overthrow the earth.
They're pinky,
Sparkle and the Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain,
Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain...
Pinky: NARF!
Sparkle (me): *giggles*
"This is amazing! I can't believe Yakko managed to plan this beach party so quickly! "Sparkle exclaimed, as indeed, she was on the beach, in a pink bathing suit, with matching pink sunglasses atop her head, with way too much suntan lotion, making her body look like a ghost on her skin. But, pinky insisted, because as her honorary mother, pinky had a right to be overprotective.
It was July 18. The first day of their summer vacation. They all voted as a friend group to go to the beach for the first day of summer fun, and the oldest Warner really did know how to pull some strings to make sure they have the best beach party ever. It was secluded, no people were allowed on it, unless they were members of the class. Of course, there had been some liars, claiming that they were 'Bestest friends with so-and-so' when in fact they weren't. Luckily, the oldest Warner was sensible enough to include security, no paparazzi, and as much space as they wanted.
"Yeah!" Wakko exclaimed, while eating a mouthful of the sausages that had been kindly provided by one of the classmates, as he sat on the lounge chair, no turtleneck adorning his body, as it was too hot to even think about wearing a turtleneck.
"Wakko, at least chew your food before speaking." Dot hollered to the left of the beach party, also lounging lazily on a beach chair, wearing a pink swimsuit dress, with Rose gold sunglasses on her face, a drink of tropical fruit juice in her hand. The middle child frowned, swallowing his way too many sausages in his mouth, and repeated what he said before. "Yeah! My brother is fabboo like that!" Wakko said, before shovelling more food in his mouth, causing the youngest to roll her eyes.
Rob and Tress were sitting together, holding hands, continuously complimenting each other. Adorable. Tress wore a yellow dress, with silver sandals on her feet, and black glasses framing her face. Rob adorned a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles T-shirt, with his favourite turtle Raphael on it, and some white shorts, with also bare feet, sunglasses, that were coloured black, to replace his usual white glasses.
"Hey, lovebirds! You've said 'I love you' about five thousand times. Aren't you sick of it yet?" Maurice hollered, lounging on a beach towel with Jess, as they both were shirtless, with one of them wearing blue shorts, and the other wearing black ones.
Rob scoffed. "Hey, it's not my fault I love her! Besides Mo, you still haven't asked Billie out yet! I can't believe you didn't ask her for the summer dance! I guess you were chicken!" Rob teased, making chicken noises. The teenager being teased threw a beachball at his best friend, causing it to nearly hit 11 year old Tress in the back of her head, luckily it didn't hit her. Rob growled, but the boys weren't sure whether it was playful, or from real annoyance. He took the beachball throwing it back, landing Square on Maurice's Face,
"Next Time, I won't be sorry." Rob replied. Causing The teenage boy to walk over to him. "Hey, you know I'm only teasing you, right? I don't mean all those things I say, and I know you don't mean them either."
Rob sighed. "I know Maurice... and I'm sorry, it's just gonna be really hard for me, I have to go back to Michigan for the summer and I won't get to hang out with you guys as much."
Tress kisses his cheek. "Rob, we talked about this, remember? We were gonna zoom call each other every day, sparkle made the arrangement after you told us about you going back to Michigan to spend it with your family. And besides, you'll be back before school starts again, and we'll be able to do lots of fun things, For the rest of the summer. Besides, you're not going back for the whole summer, you're only going for about half. So you will have half the summer in California, and half the summer in Michigan. So I wouldn't worry about it hon." Tress reassured.
Rob nodded, looking down.
Sparkle wheeled over with Leela, Who wore a blue bathing suit, with her hair tied in braids. "I'm sensing negative feelings!" Sparkle declared. "Why are there negative feelings at the beach?" She asked promptly. "Rob's gonna miss us." Jess answered. Rob looked down, as Maurice elbowed Jess. "Knock it off. " He hissed. " don't keep reminding him, let's just enjoy our last week together before he goes to Michigan." Leela hugs Rob tightly. "Let's go and get some food, I'm hungry." She suggested, jess giggled. "If Wakko hasn't eaten it all first."
They walk back over, the oldest sibling dishing out food. He was wearing shorts, and a T-shirt that said 'I'm sarcastic and I know it' parodying the iconic saying 'I'm sexy and I know it' but because this is a fanfiction that all ages can read, we had to change the saying to make sure it wasn't too inappropriate.
" come and get some grub, guys!" Yakko hollered, as about 20 other classmates, that were scattered along the beach ran over grabbing a paper plate and filling it with food. Brain was reading, pinky was sunbathing. " get some food guys!" Sparkle called to her mice friends. They nodded, going over to the table and getting their mouse sized plates and putting some food on. They sat down next to the human owner, aiding her if she needed help with her food.
Later.
"...I still can't believe Carl wheezer is joining our class next year, he's gonna make it a laughing stock." Raphael spat.
" knock it off Raph," Rob defended. " we don't judge people like that, Carl is moving from a very abusive school."
The whole table rightfully gasp. "Yes," Rob continues, talking over everyone, who either made fun of Carl and various other students that would be joining them, or felt bad for Carl and the various other students.
"He was bullied a lot, simply because of him having asthma, and with his family situation. His mother and father are going through a divorce right now, I got his number at the end of transition day, and we've been talking a lot. So, don't judge a book by its cover even if that cover isn't the brightest." Rob finished his little speech, getting claps, cheers, smiles or scowls, but Rob didn't care.
" i'm excited to meet him! "Jemima piped up.
Rob chuckled. " good Jemima, because I invited him to come to the beach, he should be here any minute!"
Just as the sentence left Rob, a boy wearing a superman cape, and red swimming shorts, with red hair and green glasses appeared, running over to his new friend. " Carl! You made it! Welcome! These are sparkle, Leela, Maurice, Jess, my amazing and beautiful girlfriend Tress, Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, PJ, the Warners, Jemima, Sophia, Scarlett, Freya. And everyone else I can't see, wave." The people at the back of the table, the usually more socially awkward wave shyly.
Hi new Friends!" Carl exclaims exuberantly, bounding over to the table, and sitting next to the open space that Rob had provided him. "And Carl, we got you some croissants! We know how much you love em." Yakko said excitedly, holding a full plate of freshly baked croissants over to Carl, who squealed as he took them, taking one of them off the top and eating them. "Yummy! "Carl exclaims, with a mouthful of a croissant.
One week later. (The day Rob leaves to go to Michigan with his family)
Rob and all his friends were in the airport, crying, because Rob was going away for half of the summer to go and see his family in Michigan. He gave everyone each two hugs. He may of given Tress more hugs than everybody else, but they understood, they were going to be in a long distance relationship for half of the summer, so it made sense that he hugged her The most.
"Rob," his dad called. His dad had given him the same name as him, and hope that one day he will follow in his footsteps. "The flight leaves in 10 minutes, we need to get going if we wanna catch it on time." He said, knowing how hard it was for Rob to have to say goodbye to all of his friends, even though they would be back in less than three weeks.
The 12-year-old boy sighed deeply. " alright then." Rob followed his dad, as music started to play.
"when the hope crashes down
Shattering to the ground
You, you'll feel all alone
When you don't know which way to go
And there's no such leading you on
You're not alone
The world comes to life
And everything's alright
From beginning to end
When you have a friend
By your side
That helps you to find
The beauty of all
When you'll open your heart and
Believe in
When you believe in
You can believe in, the gift of a friend…" Rob's classmates sang, causing the 12-year-old to tear up.
"So you know that we'll always be with you until you come back," sparkle said. "We'll Zoom call you every day, we promise." She promised him giving him another hug. " now go catch your flight! Will call you when you get there!" The 12-year-old boy nodded, running after his dad, carrying lots of suitcases.
Sparkle watched her childhood best friend leave, she couldn't help but let a few stray tears rolled down her cheeks. Leela squeezed her hand. "He'll be back." The girl said reassuringly, hugging her best friend.
Later that night, sparkle and her two mice were in bed, watching Mary Poppins on the TV, but neither of them seem to be paying attention to it. "You're gonna leave me too, someday, you know that right?" Pinky didn't move from his spot atop her head, as he was too busy brushing her hair to get all the tangles out to notice her question.
Brain sighed. "Yes, my darling. We will leave you someday, but not for a long time yet. Besides, we wouldn't dare leave our favourite girl alone." Sparkle laughed. "Aren't I your only favourite girl? "She asked. Brain chuckled.
"precisely, my beautiful angel. You are our only favourite girl, and we love you so much." Brain told her.
" there we go! No more tangles in your hair! My goodness, that was a job and a half NARF!"
They actually watched the rest of Mary Poppins, instead of being plagued by questions. They were at the scene where George Banks got Jane and Michael's kite fixed. " we should totally do that. It would be fun to go kite flying. "Sparkle daydreamed. " maybe we will. "Brain said, snuggling in to his human. " so, what are we going to do tomorrow night, Brain?" Pinky asked expectantly. Brain and sparkle looked at each other, smiling. "The same thing we do every night, Pinky! Try to take over the world!"
They're Pinky, Sparkle, and The Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain
Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain!
A/N:
….And they lived happily ever after. Pffft, you didn't think this was the end of the story did you? Oh, believe me friends, we are far from finished.
Okay okay, let's get on with the real authors notes.
Wow… I can't believe these will be the last notes I will write for this book. Honestly, I don't know how I feel. This is actually one of the first times I've actually completed a story, (that isn't a one shot) on here or archive. I usually just ditch them after five or so chapters, I get really annoyed or upset when people don't read my stories. It really hurts. That's possibly why I ditched them, because people don't like them. They're all cliche, overdone, reused, pieces of shit that people have heard before. But I am honestly honoured to say that as someone with a disability, I'm so happy because of The endless support, by Shay, Ashley, and most importantly, the girl that inspired this series in the first place. Fanimaniac4ever101, A.k.a. princess lavender, a.k.a. Leela, a.k.a my bestest friend in the whole entire Animaniacs fandom. No, I'm not over exaggerating. This girl. This goddamn amazing, talented, extraordinary girl has been the only one following me through this whole entire journey. This whole entire journey, this girl followed through. She didn't ditch me, she didn't make me wanna stop writing this. She, if I'm being honest, make me want to write more, and if I'm being honest, if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't even have thought to make a sequel, or a third, or possibly even a fourth. (I don't know about the fourth, but there are definitely going to be at least three) this girl is just amazing. And I don't care if she hasn't written anything over the summer. Girl, you have been with me through my lowest shit, even before I had a girlfriend. Who I love to absolute fucking pieces. You were there for me. You excepted me, just like everybody else, but there was something about you accepting me that, made me feel less alone, or not weird.
Thanks Lee, I really really owe you one.
Now, this is something that I kind of have to put in here. Somewhere.
The Animaniacs cast mentioned in the story Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell, Maurice LaMarche and Tress MacNeille, if you guys are reading this . I'm really sorry. I am really sorry that I added you, if I'm being honest, (how many times can I say that in this whole entire authors notes, count and let me know when you leave a review lol) I just wanted to add you because you four are amazing people. You really are. You guys have gotten me through a lot. If it wasn't for you four, and the amazing support I have around me, I don't think I would be here writing these notes. Now, I do have to admit that I favoured Rob over everybody else, and I'm sorry, but he's just been in a lot of shows and movies that I really like. I love all of you guys so much.
I really hope you guys don't find it stalkish of me that I added you. I'm really sorry.
And, this apology is directed at Rob specifically. I'm sorry I mentioned the throat cancer thing, and I'm sorry I made it such a relevant theme throughout my story. I understand that it's, quite a sensitive topic… but no way, do I do it to shame you. I do it because I wanted to share your story with the world, even if, it was having a younger counterpart of you watch your older self go through it(yes, their parents are just the older versions of themselves)
I really admire how strong you are, I have never faced cancer before, and I hope and I pray that I never have to endure that type of pain, because I've heard from people that have suffered with it, it's not nice , it's horrible. I wouldn't wish it on anyone, even the cruellest of people.
Thank you Rob, thank you so much.
I'll be bridging the gap between this chapter with one shots. The second book won't be released until next year, that I know for definite. So sense I still wanna keep this universe alive, you'll be getting one shots, because I fucking love this universe, it's so good. So keep your eyes peeled for those. And, the prologue of Love Is In Bloom Will be a one shot, and then the chapter story will follow on directly after that.
But, I honestly don't know what to say now. So, I just wanna say thank you one last time for the kind reviews, your favourites, the follows, thank you. It's been a pleasure writing this book, and I hope to see you in the next instalment.
Gift Of A Friend started May 13 and completed September 4th 2021.