Hey! I'm back, thanks to everyone who's favourited and followed this story so far and to preciouslittletoonette for reviewing the last chapter.
See chapter 1 for the disclaimer and let's crack on!
Bugs only managed a few hours sleep before he found himself wide awake again. This wasn't unusual - Toons only needed about 4 hours sleep a night to function and a few ran on even less than that - but it was annoying.
After trying and failing to get back to sleep Bugs decided a early-morning stroll was in order. He checked his watch and sighed. Still three hours till they were due to set off again. Maybe if he took the long way round...
The long way round took him via a familiar-looking water-tower. Bugs smiled up at it and decided to have a rest at the bottom. Seeing as it was the middle of the night he decided not to knock on the door and see how the Warner Siblings were but instead reminisce.
Ah, those kids. Even though the had been created relatively recently [1990] they had settled into the Looney Tunes 'family' quite well. Annoyingly Bugs didn't have that much time to spend with them, as he was always busy filming or dealing with an inter-family crisis, but he liked the kids and got on well with them.
He sighed and looked up at the tower.
"Eh...what's up Doc?"
Bugs gave a laugh and turned round to see Yakko Warner - the oldest of the three Warner Siblings - leaning against a fence and chewing a carrot.
"Eh..." Bugs indicated the carrot. "Oi'm takin' it that's a shout-out and not one of yer 5 a day?"
Yakko nodded and slung the carrot into his hammerspace.
"...How's the reboot going?" Bugs asked.
Yakko shrugged and a faint smile appeared on his face. "Alright. It seems harder this time around though."
Bugs nodded, sympathetically. "It is a bit like dat. Especially if ya leave it jus' over 20 years before startin' it again. Oi remember when we started up again after de company signed us off for a bit." He sighed and shrugged. "It wasn't easy, les jus say dat. It's gettin' back into the swing of filming for hours, bein' under the lights, learnin' scrips..." Bugs trailed off as he remembered the general atmosphere of panic, apprehension and 'Oh-My-Avery-This-Is-Harder-Than-I-Remember'. Not to mention the likes of Petunia, Elmer and even Foghorn panicking because they weren't sure if they could hack it. There had been quite a lot of tears the first few months...
A small cough brought Bugs's attention back to Yakko who was looking at him with an air of 'teenage insolence'.
"You'll be fine." Bugs reassured him. "An' talk ta Doctor Scratchy if yer strugglin'. Don't worry about botherin' him - that is literally what the guys paid for."
The young puppy-dog-kitten-thing moved his head in something that was between a nod and a shake of the head while folding his arms. "Yeah...we'll see." He murmured, then immediately brightened up. "Anyway, there is actually a reason I'm here apart from cameo purposes and that's to give you this-" And with a flourish he presented a horn that was in the shape of a fish and what with it being painted red as well, Bugs put two and two together and asked.
"Are you literally giving me a red herring, Yakko?"
Yakko laughed and made a 'yeah, so what?' gesture. "Look, I'm not writing this script but all I need to do is give you that-" He pointed at the horn. "-And tell ya that if, for some reason, you get stuck or need help or something you can blow into that and me and my sibs will be there like a flash..." He snapped his fingers to emphasise. "...Should you need us to whack anyone over the head with a hammer or anvil."
Bugs grinned. "Well...we'll see how it goes." He checked his watch again and did a double-take. "Fer Jones's sake, I'm due on the ship now! Look-" He gave Yakko a quick hug and said, hurriedly. "-Thanks for the herring-horn-thing and Oi'll catch ya around. Remember what I said about Doctor Scratchensniff!"