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PROLOGUE

(It's recommended that you read "Mary", "The Fourteen", and "Mary's Quest: Only A Scar", available on this server, in order to understand this story.)

Everything that is done by one, eventually comes back to oneself, whether for good, or for evil, whether for reward, or for judgement, and it is all accounted for in Eternity. One toon will learn this first hand, and she will also learn that there is more than one way to leave behind an inheritance, a legacy, a posterity, a successor, and why not, offspring, whether for good, or for evil. And all that is left behind will continue to bring dividends, whether for good, or for evil, until the end of time.

This is the story of one such toon, and it begins with a vault.

This vault was…

…Empty.

Completely empty.

Save for a heap of rubble, and a layer of dust on the floor, obviously caused by a wall that had been blown apart.

It wasn't the dust that had her completely riled, and it wasn't the rubble, or the hole on the wall, or even the emptiness of one of her most secure vaults.

What had Dakota Dee completely riled was the fact that everything was exactly the same as she had left it. It was as if she had never travelled back through time and space to alter the destiny of her father's nemesis, who happened to be the father of her nemesis. Furthermore, Acme Looniversity was still standing, with no traces of riots, bigotry, religious intolerance, racism, or speciesism, save for her own, of course. She was so riled she didn't even bother to change the clothes she used in her time trip.

The J was still alive.

And not only that, that black panther was more of a Waiting One now than before.

The M, J's older sister, was alive as well, but that was beside the point.

And The J.A.M.—J and M's father—still had his left eye in his face.

What was also getting her riled was the fact that she had failed miserably, AGAIN.

But what was sending her wrath to the stratosphere was the fact that there would be no more time trips for her, or anyone, anymore.

The time machine was gone.

The hole in the wall was too small for such a huge machine to be pulled through, so it was somehow stolen through teleportation, i.e., warping.

And the only toons she knew who had the ability to warp, or at least simulate a warp, were the fourteen older sons and daughters of Buster and Babs Bunny (the Bunny warren actually had seven more kits, but they were still in kindergarten or diapers), The J, The M, and The J.A.M.

Professor Coyote and Calamity Coyote had mechanical transporters; so somehow, all of these toons got together and stole the time machine right out of her vault.

And now, all her plans to remove The J, The J.A.M., and Acme Looniversity from the plane of existence had themselves been removed from the plane of existence.

"Dee?"

Behind her stood her insanely faithful sidekick, Tex, a young green buck with a black shirt, one of Buster and Babs' kits.

"Dee, you're fighting a Higher Power."

She considered that perhaps her nemeses' victories were nothing short of miraculous. Since she didn't believe in miracles, even though she lived in toonity, the only explanation to her defeat was that someone must have helped her nemeses without her knowing it.

"Dee, you might as well be trying to stop an earthquake. You've already wasted too many resources into something you simply can't change!"

The humanmaid turned and saw that her sidekick's almond brown eyes were reddened and appeared to be pleading, and his ears were pointing straight down. Perhaps he was allergic to all this dust. She turned again and continued walking aimlessly through the empty vault.

"Dee, it's over."

Over…over…over…over…over…over…

At this point, something within Dakota Dee, daughter of Montana Maximilian and Elmyra Duff-Maximilian, not only snapped, but actually rebounded itself out of the plane of existence.

The Caucasian ran up to him, grabbed the buck's shirt with such force that her fingers tore through the fabric, and hissed into his face, "No, Tex, it's NOT over. Not until J or J.A.M. are gone. I WILL win. I'm RICH. I HAVE to win. No (CENSORED) felines are going to get the best of me, EVER! I WILL DESTROY THE J, IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO!"

With that, she threw him out of her way, and stormed out of the vault.

Tex toppled and fell on the rubble, and for a long time, he simply laid there.

And his broken heart continued to pour tears for the female he loved.

"Posterity doesn't necessarily require genetic compatibility in order to be so." — The J.A.M.

Cree Summer Franks is

JACOB MARLEY'S DAUGHTER

also starring:

John Kassir

Cree Summer Franks as Mary Melody

The N.I.M.H.

Francesca Marie Smith

Dick Van Dyke

and Chuck McCann

Special appearance by Bill Cosby.

Written by The J.A.M. (but please call me J.A.M.)

Some segments were co-written with Jennifer Cleckley a.k.a. Rottin Kid/The Incredible Werekitty.

Edited by professor Nathaniel T. Freeman

To Ebenezer Scrooge, Nicholas of Bari, Shaul of Tarshish, Zaccheus of Jericho, James Cash Penny, Milton Hershey, Adam Smith, Abraham of Ur, and all their sons and daughters.