Back on the spaceship, LeBron was preparing the Toonsters for the upcoming basketball game.
"Ball!" LeBron exclaimed, before a ball launcher made by Calamity launched a ball into his hands. "I need us to focus so we can beat this Al G guy and I can get my son back."
"Hold it right there, coach!" Plucky exclaimed. "If I'm not going to be coach, at least allow me to teach 'em about the game!"
Plucky went to explain to the other Toonsters on how basketball goes, which was unnecessary seeing that they have played basketball with Michael Jordan and the Monstars once again had super basketball abilities without stealing the talent of any NBA players. In the process, Buster took Mary's remote and hit "mute" causing Plucky to become mute. His mouth moved but no words came out. When Plucky realised it, he became visibly annoyed.
"Look here, teach, we have our own way of doing things around here." Buster explained. "It's the ACME Acres way."
"Well this is the fundamental basketball way." LeBron replied.
LeBron shot the ball through the hoop to demonstrate.
"Buckets." He commented afterwards. "Let's see you try it. Max, shoot the ball."
LeBron bounced the ball to Montana Max, thinking he would take the ball and throw it to the hoop. But instead of grabbing the ball, Max took out a toy gun and began literally shooting at the ball, resulting in fake bullets being everywhere.
"Let's try that again, shall we?" LeBron asked, plucking a fake bullet that was stuck to his forehead.
They decided to setup a practise basketball game to help them prepare. Some of the Tiny Toons were on one side, and others were on the other. Buster and Babs were watching from the side-lines. LeBron blew a whistle and threw the ball into the air before going to join Buster and Babs in watching them to see how they play basketball. The moment the ball was launched, Sweetie used a paddle to knock Furrball away before knocking the ball to Shirley. Meanwhile, Furrball was knocked into Max, Elmyra, Calamity, and Dizzy, knocking over them like a bowling ball.
"What the?!" LeBron exclaimed.
Shirley started levitating the ball and herself to a hoop, only for Montana Max, who had picked himself off the ground, to use an expensive rope launcher to lasso Shirley and swipe the ball.
"Hahahaha!" Max cackled.
Max started dribbling the ball, only for Beeper to zoom past and replace the ball with a lit bomb that exploded, covering Max in soot. Little Beeper went to score a dunk with the ball, only for Calamity to tangle his legs in an ACME lasso launcher, making Beeper drop the ball in the process. Calamity managed to swipe the ball and start dribbling it the other way.
"What the?" LeBron went, raising an eyebrow.
"I'll handle these ball hogs." Hamton schemed.
The clean-obsessed pig took a bit of brown fur from Melvin and made it into a toupee that looked like Montana Max's hair. He then put it on his head.
"Hey, I'm open!" He yelled to Calamity, in a voice that sounded like Montana Max.
Calamity tossed the ball to Hamton, thinking he was Max. Hamton started dribbling the ball while cackling like Montana Max. When Melvin noticed some of his fur missing, he exclaimed in surprise. As Hamton had the ball, Furrball threw a ball of yarn at his face, resulting in the yarn wrapping around Hamton's head and face, blinding him and making him drop the ball.
"H-hey!" He exclaimed.
Furrball managed to get to the ball, only for Gogo to extend his neck and grab the ball with his mouth.
"My Wackyland roots are-" He exclaimed afterwards.
The zany dodo was cut off by a safe landing on him. The safe door opened and the ball ended up in Elmyra's hands.
"Oooh, a prize!" She happily exclaimed.
Suddenly, an anvil landed on her head, causing the ball to bounce over to Plucky.
"It pays to be a toon." He chuckled.
Then, a piano landed on the head of the green mallard. Montana Max rushed over to get the ball.
"Haha! Stupid duck!" He cackled, dribbling the ball.
As Montana Max was dribbling the ball, a piano landed on his head. The ball fell out of the piano and Lightning snagged it.
"Whose the fastest mouse in-?!" He excitedly yelled out, dribbling the ball.
He was cut off by a car falling onto him. The car's trunk opened, the ball came out, and it landed into Dizzy's hands. The student of Taz had a scheming look on his face.
"Dizzy, no!" LeBron exclaimed.
Without any hesitation, Dizzy's bottom half became a tornado and he began spinning the entire spaceship around like a merry-go-round at high speed. Everyone on the spaceship was rather dizzy when it stopped (no pun intended).
"That devil be crazy!" Babs laughed.
After Nawt got a hold of the ball, the Monstars stood on each other's shoulders. From the bottom to the top was Pound, Bang, Bupkus, Blanko, and Nawt.
"Monstar three point!" They yelled in unison.
Nawt chucked the ball to the hoop, only for the ball to stop in mid-air. It was revealed that Mary used her remote to stop the ball. She then used a spring to leap up and grab the ball. She then threw the ball to the opposing hoop and hit pause to freeze it before it could reach it. In front of her was three giant springs. She leapt into the air and started bouncing on them one-by-one to the ball.
"Where did she get the springs?" LeBron asked.
After bouncing off the second spring, Mary pressed the play button, causing the ball to start bouncing on the hoop. The girl with the remote bounced off the third spring and grabbed the ball.
"In your face!" She yelled out, scoring a slam dunk.
"This isn't real basketball!" LeBron exclaimed.
"You're right, but it's fun!" Buster replied.
"You remember fun, don't ya?" Babs added.
"Game, blouses!" Mary yelled, slamming the hoop onto the ground. "What?"
LeBron rolled his eyes in slight aggravation.
Back in the real world, Malik was talking to a Warner Brothers security guard.
"You lost LeBron James?!" The guard exclaimed. "And his son too?! Man, I hope you like butter, because you're toast, my dude. You'd better find him, he's on my fantasy team!"
"I didn't lose LeBron James!" Malik retorted. "Stop saying that!"
Malik's phone started ringing. The one calling him was Kamiyah. Malik groaned when he saw the caller ID.
"Listen, man." Malik continued. "His wife keeps calling me every ten minutes. I gotta get back to her soon or she's gonna kill me! I don't have any app on my phone that says LeBron Finder or LeBron Locator. It's your job to secure something!"
"With all due respect, I went to school for six months to be accredited as a security specialist, specializing in the securial arts." The guard replied. "And the sooner you come to terms with the fact that you lost the second best basketball superstar of all time, the sooner you'll be able to move on with your life. The first being Michael Jordan in case you're wondering."
Malik's phone rang again. It was Kamiyah. Malik decided to answer it.
"Hey Kamiyah." He answered, in a fake laughing voice. "I've got the funniest story tot ell ya. Uh oh, you're breaking up! I'm going through a tunnel!"
"No he's not!" The guard yelled. "He's in my office bothering me to death and he needs to find LeBron and his son who have gone missing!"
What Malik didn't realise until too late is that Kamiyah pulled over in her car behind him. It was only when he heard her voice that he found out.
"Hey!" She snapped to Malik. "You have zero seconds to tell me where my husband and my son are!"
"Uhh, Neptune?" Malik nervously chuckled.
Kamiyah wasn't amused.
Back in the Serververse, Al G and Dom were doing work on rebuilding the latter's character.
"Okay, young prince." Al G said. "Time to rebuild your character."
"Al, have you ever done this before?" Dom asked.
"Why, of course I have, Prince James." Al G replied. "Look at Pete. He used to be hideous, but because of my skills, he's adorable. Right, Pete?"
Pete gave a smile that showed off his crooked teeth.
"Don't look at Pete." Al G continued. "Just focus on yourself."
Al G loaded up an icon of Dom's character much to the amazement of Dom.
"That's the character customisation menu from my game!" He exclaimed in surprise.
"Yes it is." Al G replied. "Now, with this, you can become the player that your dad always wanted you to be. Time to be great without putting in much work. Best part is, you get to do it your way. You have control. You pull the ropes here."
Dom got control of the customisation menu and upgraded his character's handles to seventy five.
"That's it, huh?" Al G asked. "You're good with seventy five? We're not here to win three quarters! Pete's seventy five and he can't even rebound! Turn up, Dom! Turn up!"
Following Al G's words, Dom turned his character's handles to one hundred. He also did the same to the other stats such as shooting, speed, rebounds, and so on.
"Ha-ha! Yes!" Al G cheered. "Now Prince James, you are finally gonna be who you really are. Captain of my basketball team!"
Al G started whooping, cheering, and dancing while Pete was playing a trombone.
"Wait, wait, wait." Dom intervened. "You said you were rebuilding my characters, you didn't say anything about me actually playing."
"Dom, you do want your dad to respect you, right?" Al G asked, in a serious tone.
"Well, yes but-" Dom replied.
"No, Dom!" Al G cut off. "No buts!"
Al G stormed over to Dom, his voice becoming somewhat distorted.
"If you want your dad to respect you, then you beat him in a game of your own creation!" Al G informed, in his distorted voice. "Dads don't understand reason, Dom. They understand power! You take the power and use it to make him respect you for you! You make him see that you are special, as a video game developer and a basketball star because of it!"
"Just wondering, do you think dad actually got the Tiny Toons to play in this game with him?" Dom asked.
"Only time will tell, prince." Al G replied, in his normal voice.
As it was, Dom was upgraded to achieve high-class basketball skills. His hoodie colour also changed from yellow to dark blue. Pete threw to Dom a basketball, and Dom started dribbling it so fast, it looked like he was dribbling multiple basketballs at once.
"Hey, how about we show your teammates some love?" Al G suggested afterwards.
Dom fused a picture of a snake with the character of Diana Taurasi. The resulting fusion was a snake-like character who gave a fierce snarl.
Back in the real world, LeBron's family and Malik were searching for King James and Dom.
"He's not answering my calls or anything." Malik informed. "You think aliens abducted him or something?"
Just then, there was a Twitter notification.
"Guys, guys, dad just tweeted." Darius informed.
They looked at the tweet and saw the banner for the upcoming game between LeBron and Dom.
"Wait, if he's tweeting from his phone now, that means you..." Malik said.
"I can track him on my phone." Kamiyah finished.
Back in the Serververse, the spaceship had finally returned to ACME Acres.
"Oh goodie!" Marvin the Martian happily exclaimed. "My ship is back! Now finally, I shall get my-"
The cranky Martian from Mars was cut off by the step-path for the ship landing on top of him.
"Isn't this great?" Buster asked, as he walked out of the ship followed by LeBron and the other Tiny Toons.
"Yeah!" Babs agreed. "We're all back together!"
"Come on, Toonsters." LeBron spoke out. "We've got to get to work. You can't be great without putting in work."
"Move it or lose it, rabbits!" Plucky yelled, shoving past Buster and Babs.
"Gee, can't two rabbits stop and smell the roses?" Buster asked as the other Tiny Toons got off the spaceship.
"Uhh, a little help here." Marvin requested.
"Buster! Babs! You're back!" Marcia's voice came as she rushed over. "And I see you've got the whole gang back together."
Marcia then saw Marvin under the ship's path, pulled out another remote, and pressed a button that moved it upwards, releasing Marvin.
"Oh, what a relief." Marvin sighed, as the effects of his anti-gravity gun wore off. "Now, to get my revenge!"
"Uhh, Marvin, would it be okay if I was in the basketball game with Buster, Babs, and LeBron James?" Marcia requested.
"Are you serious?!" Marvin retorted. "What would I consider doing something nice for those ra-"
He was cut off when he saw Marcia's eyes widened to the size to two circular shields.
"Oh, alright!" Marvin sighed. "Besides, I've been told to go somewhere where the other Looney Tunes are anyways. I've been told that Penelope will not be there due to certain reasons, but I suppose we'll find out later."
Later on, while the Tiny Toons were practising basketball, LeBron was trying to teach them his step-back technique via whiteboard.
"Alright, one more time." He said. "In-and-out, crossover, step-back, shoot."
"That's some fancy footwork, King James." Babs complimented. "Let us try!"
The next ting LeBron knew, Buster and Babs have donned 80's disco attires, "U Can't Touch This" was somehow playing, and the two aforementioned rabbits started breakdancing. While doing so, Buster took the marker out of LeBron's hand, much to the latter's annoyance, and started drawing dancing rabbits on the board.
"Okay, stop!" LeBron yelled.
"Can't touch this!" Buster sang, moving the marker out of the way when LeBron tried to grab it.
"What the?" LeBron said in a puzzled voice as the rabbits on the board laughed. "Really?"
He then flipped the board over, showing "My court, my rules" written on it, and started speaking in a firm voice.
"Look Buster and Babs, you two already got what you wanted! Your friends, ACME Acres, I still need my son back! Outside these lines, be as tiny and tooney as you want. But inside, you do what I say!"
The other Tiny Toons gasped as LeBron grabbed Buster's wrist and snatched the marker out of his hand.
"Oh, I see." Buster coldly replied, removing his hand from LeBron's grip. "You're that kind of king."
"Look you two, it's my way or the highway!" LeBron snapped.
"Oh yeah?" Babs asked, in a cold voice.
"Yeah!" LeBron snapped back. "Fundamentals win championships!"
What neither Buster, Babs, nor LeBron realised until afterwards is the countdown reached zero and some sort of CGI basketball court started to form. Little Beeper and Calamity embraced in fright, Sweetie and Furrball tried to hide behind one another, Plucky's eyes literally dropped out of his head. Even the Monstars looked intimidated.
"He's here." LeBron spoke out.
The longer they stared at the CGI court, the bigger it became. It then looked as if it was about to fall onto them.
"Go! Go!" LeBron yelled out, as he and the Tiny Toons ran out of the way. "Out of the way!"
When the court landed on the ground, ACME Acres itself began to look different. Instead of moving in a cartoonish way, the buildings and objects in ACME Acres looked and bounced into the air in a CGI fashion, which gives an impression on what's to come. Buildings have crumbled, trees were on the ground, and the entirety of ACME Looniversity has completely fallen apart to rubble. When the dust cleared, LeBron and the Tiny Toons found themselves in a red basketball court with a logo reading "Dom Ball" above it. They looked up and saw none other than Al G and Pete appearing from the sky.
"Well if it isn't the old news Tiny Toons!" Al G cackled. "Looking just as washed up as you were during your original show's airing! Think it's time for a little upgrade."
"An upgrade?" Buster asked, raising an eyebrow.
Al G loaded up avatars of each of the Tiny Toons and LeBron. He first tapped the avatar of Babs, causing a light to appear below her. She was floating in the air and the light went up her body, causing certain changes.
"Babs!" Buster yelled, putting a hand out attempting to reach her.
To the surprise of all the other Tiny Toons, Babs has turned from 2D to 3D.
"What in the world?!" She exclaimed afterwards, examining her new realistic looks.
Al G cackled before tapping Fowlmouth's avatar. Then Little Beeper's, then Fifi's, then each of the Monstars, then Furrball, and so on. One by one, each of the Tiny Toons turned from 2D to 3D.
"I look expensive!" Plucky exclaimed, after he turned 3D.
"What's happening?" LeBron asked, as he turned from a cartoon to back to his human self.
Buster, who is the last one to be turned into 3D, whimpered as he turned from 2D to 3D.
"Oh no!" He exclaimed afterwards.
"They're alive!" Al G laughed, as Pete giggled with him.
All the Tiny Toons (and LeBron) were all glaring daggers at Al G. If looks could kill, Al G would've been wiped out of the Serververse in less time than it takes to switch a TV on.
"Looking sharp, Tiny Toons." Al G snickered.
"Al G, this means trouble!" Buster snarled.
"Whatever, Buster." Al G scoffed.
"Where's my son?!" LeBron demanded, with heat in his voice.
"Now you wanna be daddy of the year?" Al G replied. "Just calm down, LeBron. He'll be here, okay? In the meantime, you and I have got bigger fish to fry. Let's get some butts in these seats!"
Suddenly, ACME Acres started rumbling.
"How big are these butts?" Buster asked.
To the surprise of LeBron and the Tiny Toons, various WB characters were stampeding to the court. Iron Giant, King Kong, the Flintstones, Yogi Bear, the Gremlins, you name it. The most notable of them all were the Looney Tunes, who have been assigned their own seats. Much to their confusion, Penelope was missing, well from the seating at least.
"What in tarnation happened to our students?!" Yosemite Sam yelled.
"Beats me, doc." Bugs replied. "What I do know is that they have a basketball game coming up."
Suddenly, footsteps were heard. What approached was Penelope, donning a Toonsters cheerleader attire.
"I wanted to be part of the team since I wasn't in the original, but this will do." She informed.
See ya next time, Toonsters.
