MORE CLASSES AND LUNCH BREAK.

Gogo rang the bell for the day's second period. Skippy was particularly worried about this one, because it was his aunt's class. Wally wasn't feeling so good, either; probably the old squirrel would hate him already for being Walter's relative, and beating her nephew wasn't helping either.

The "Cartoon Violence" classroom was quite big because, besides needing a lot of space, many students from different grades attended it at the same time. Hillary and Ron had this class at the same time (as they had discovered, they had a very similar schedule, and would be together most of the time of this semester), but they were now more or less calmed thanks to Mary's little speech. The hyena sat next to Babs, while Ron sat between Calamity and Buster. Skippy sat at the middle of the classroom, next to Plucky and Sylvester Junior, and Wally was right behind Ron; Cal and Buster took the chance to introduce them to each other. Slappy entered the room a couple minutes later.

"Well, kids, as you guys know, I'm Slappy Squirrel. I'll be teaching you the basics about Cartoon Violence. As all of you must know, and if not, shame on you, I'm not exactly a kind granny… heck, even Granny isn't so kind when someone tries to harm that bird with hepatitis! Anyway, I don't want pussies on this class. If any of you can't handle my methods, I'm sending him or her to work with the Teletubbies or something like that!" Slappy directed to her class. Everybody nodded. They were expecting a speech like this.

"Good. Now, for this class, we need a test dummy. I had asked one former villain from my old cartoons to help us with the class. Beanie, the Brainless Bison." Slappy pointed. At that moment, a huge, furry, old, and silly looking bison entered the room. He waved hello to the students while walking towards Slappy.

"Uh, hello everyone. Slappy, you said I could have some pie if I helped you. Where is it?" Beanie asked the squirrel. Slappy smiled widely, and placed a paw on the bison's arm.

"Oh, I'll give you plenty of it in a moment, Beanie." Slappy smirked, and directed again to the students. "As the walking rug just said, we'll start with a classic, the pie throwing gag. Is one of the oldest ones on the book, but you can always find a way to make it funnier. Just look." Slappy said, and took a cream pie out of his body's pocket. She threw it to Beanie's face, covering it entirely. When the bison washed away the cream, he found something stuck on his mouth… a dynamite stick.

BOOM!

The dizzied bison shook his head, and smiled goofily.

"Tasty. There's more?" He said stupidly. The whole class laughed. Slappy crossed her arms, and directed to the young toons.

"Now, I want to see what you guys have to show me. Let's see… you, the pink rabbit…Babs, right? Come here, girl. Doofus is all yours." Slappy called Babs, who quickly ran next to the bison. The rabbit made a spin change as a circus clown, and took out a cream pie; she threw it to Beanie's face.

CRACK!

The dish fell to the ground, and, when Beanie removed the cream, there was a brick stuck on his face. This made everybody to laugh, including Slappy.

"I lose many pieces of my oven that way." Babs added in her clowny voice, and then changed back to normal. Slappy placed her paw on the rabbit's shoulder, and smiled.

"Not bad, Babs. I like a little more spectacular display, but this one was good." Slappy motioned Babs to return to her seat, while Beanie tried to recover his more or less normal state. Then the squirrel scanned the room to chose another volunteer. Hillary raised her paw.

"Hey, Mrs Squirrel, can I try something?" The hyena asked. Slappy nodded, and allowed Hillary to do her best.

The hyena took out a pie, but, before throwing it, she also took out a honey's jar, and dropped the content on the pie. She thensplatted it against Beanie; this time, the bison couldn't wash away the pie, since it was now more honey than cream, and his fur was extremely sticky. The students laughed at his efforts to get rid of the pie, but Hillary wasn't over. She opened a window, allowing a cloud of bees to enter the room, and fly surrounding Beanie. The bison ran through the room, trying to get rid of the bees, and ended smashing himself against a wall. This caused a huge roar of laughter from everyone.

"He, he, he! Nice one, girl! A little too sweet for my taste, but funny!" Slappy told the hyena, and motioned her to return to her seat. Then, she took a look at the dizzied and sticky bison. "Can someone wash him?" Slappy asked. Then, a powerful water blast crossed the classroom, and washed the honey and the cream, and scared the bees away as well.

"My pleasure, lady." Buster proudly said, while holding a water gun. Everybody chuckled. Hillary took the chance to give Ron a proud smile, happy to show the guy what she was capable to do if he ever made her angry. Ron sighed and rolled his eyes. Max, who was also in this class, smiled to himself; the hyena was a good option as an ally as well.

The class continued until all the students had thrown a pie at Beanie's face. Some were kind of lame, but others were just as hilarious as Babs and Hillary's stunts. Slappy then organized a little pies' fight, making everyone to be covered in cream after a few minutes. Shortly before the end of the class, while Dizzy was cleaning the whole mess (eating it, of course), and after everyone cleaned up themselves, Slappy cleared her throat, and talked to the students.

"Very good. We had a good start. For next class, I want all of you to check chapter one of your "Classic Gags" book. We'll work on some tricks from The Three Stooges next time. Ok, since we had finished for today… class time is over, go to next one." Slappy said while waving her paw to the toonsters to make them leave. All of them said their good byes, and started walking out of the classroom. However, Slappy cleared her throat, and called two particular students.

"Skippy. Wally. Wait a second. I must talk with you two." Slappy ordered. The squirrel and the wolf gulped, and walked through the room and next to the teacher. Beanie ended cleaning the cream from his fur, and walked away to have some rest, since Slappy would need him a couple of hours later for the day's next class.

"Very well. Wile told me about your display on his class. He told me you caught my nephew. Is that right?" Slappy directed to Wally. The wolf gulped hardly, and nodded. However, Slappy didn't seemed as angry as he expected; she just rubbed her chin, and continued.

"Well, at least someone in Walter's family has half of a brain. Look, kid, I have nothing against you, and can't get angry with you for doing your job. Just promise me you'll not attack my nephew out of the class' hours, and you'll be fine in my book. Disobey me, and I'll give Skippy access to my biggest missiles. Deal?" Slappy offered her paw to the wolf. The canine sighed, and shook it.

"Yes, ma'am. And don't worry. I have no intentions of hurting Skippy, or any other classmate. And, for the record, I really like your cartoons. Actually, that's how I learned how to fight back Skippy's tricks." Wally admitted. Skippy glared at him. Slappy nodded, and motioned the wolf to go out of the room.

"Fine, kid. Now, go to your next class." Slappy said. A moment after the wolf was gone, she directed to Skippy. "Look, Skippy, I'm not proud about what happened today."

"I know, Aunt Slappy. I should had thought about another way to beat Wally, but I promise I'll do my best next time…" Skippy told his aunt, but was cut by her.

"I'm not talking about the chase. Sure, it would be nice to hear you defeated Wally, but that's not the point; Wile told me that you made a quite decent job." Slappy smiled, but changed immediately to a stern look. "No, what I'm talking about is the way you were showing-off to the other students before the chase. Even if you are a good student, and I know it well, you can't expect to be a toon star before mastering the basics. That's why you are here, to learn new skills and improve your own. You can't just wait to be admired just because I'm your aunt, the same way I can't hate Wally unless he makes something really nasty to us, despite being my worst enemy's grandson." Slappy explained to Skippy, who looked down the whole time. Slappy sighed, and placed a paw on his shoulder.

"Look, you know I can't play favorites as a teacher, and none of the other teachers will do it either. So, I want you to apply yourself, and try to make it better each time, so you can really have reasons to showing-off, ok?" Skippy nodded, and smiled weakly to his aunt. Slappy smiled back, and changed to her usual cranky tone.

"Now, kid, go to your next class, and don't expect me to play "nice auntie" with you all the time. Goes against my principles… heck, I really want to wash my mouth with soap just for talking you that way!" Slappy concluded. Skippy laughed, and gave his aunt a little hug right before running out of the classroom.

Ron and Hillary glared at each other on the corridor before going separate ways. This was one of the few periods they wouldn't be together; Hillary would be on "Advanced Spin Changing" with Professor Bugs Bunny, while Ron would attend "Cartoon Props", with Porky. Wally was on Hillary's class as well, so he sat next to her. There weren't many students on this one, and they were mostly girls, like Babs, Mary, and Shirley (who just started developing this skill as well); besides Wally, the only males on the classroom were Plucky and Buster. Bugs entered right after the bell rang, and greeted everyone. After calling the list, he started the class.

"Ok, boys and goils, let's see how good you guys got during vacations." Bugs said. "As usual, ladies go foist. Shirley, you start." The rabbit pointed to the fem loon. She walked in front of the class, and made a spin change; she ended using black tights, and covered mostly with a deep blue hood and cape; she was also wearing red round amulets on the back of her hands/wings, and boots the same tone of the cape. The class looked at her in awe, and Plucky chuckled.

"Nice one, Shirl. Wanna hang around with the Batduck after class?" Plucky joked. Shirley smirked, and her eyes got a white glow. Plucky gulped.

"Like…AZARATH… METRION… OR SOME JUNK!" Shirley chanted, and Plucky got covered by a black aura. A second later, he was blasted through the room, and smashed on one wall. The whole class and Bugs chuckled, while Shirley returned to normal.

"Nice one, Shirley." Bugs said. The loon thanked him, and returned to her place. Bugs motioned Mary to be the next one. The girl walked in front of the class, and made her change; when she ended, she was using an over grown outfit, consisting on a red baseball cap (that covered her eyes), blue shirt (that covered her shorts), and white sneakers.

"Numbuh Five is glad to be here. Now, let's keep this party moving so she can go early and kick some adult butts." Mary said in a cool tone. The class got a good laugh. Mary, pleased, returned to her usual self after receiving Bugs' congratulations.

Babs was next. She moved in front of the class, and made the spinning. When she ended, the bunny was wearing a red long sleeved shirt, covered by a blue dress; her legs were covered with purple tights with yellow spots, and had blue sneakers as well. She also had a yellow wig that covered her ears, but also had two pigtails that looked a lot like them. Babs frowned, and walked next to Mary.

"Okay, Carmicheal, you did a nice demonstration, but I must remember you I'm the top girl of this school!" Babs talked to Mary in a faked angry tone, while Mary and the rest of the class made their best to hold the laughter. Babs fumed, and walked in front of the class again. "And the rest of you, dumb babies, should remember it as well. Now, I want one of you to get out and find me some cookies."

Buster couldn't resist anymore, and spin-changed on his seat. After he ended, he was wearing a messy red wig, geeky glasses, and a blue shirt with a planet Neptune's symbol on it.

"I don't think that's a good idea, Angelica. The teacher can get angry." Buster said in a scared tone. Babs walked next to Buster, and followed the joke.

"And who asked you, Finster? Now, you have to go and get me my cookies, unless you want me to do something so nasty I hadn't even thought about it yet!" Babs yelled, while Buster cowered on his seat. Bugs cracked laughing and applauded, as well as the students. Babs and Buster returned to normal, and vowed to thank the applauses.

Hillary was the next one. She made the tornado-like effect, and re-emerged using a blue vest, lots of fake-gold chains, a Mohawk, and big earrings.

"I pity the fool that tries to make fun of me! And don't think I'm playing, because I'm dead serious. Mess with me, and you are doomed. Miss T says it!" Hillary ended with a grunt, causing everyone to laugh at her impersonation. Hillary returned to normal, and Bugs placed his gloved paw on her shoulder.

"Good one, kid. Hadn't seen a good Mister T's impoisonation in some time. Now, since we are now moving with the new guys, I'll like to see Wally. Your turn, boy." Bugs called the wolf while motioning Hillary to seat down. Wally moved in front of the classroom, and took a deep breath. Then, he started spinning, ending with a black Zorro-like outfit.

"Pfft. Zorro? Please, we see that impersonation every year!" Plucky said, mocking Wally. The wolf walked next to him, and talked in a cowboy-like voice.

"Excuse me, but I'm not El Zorro. I'm El Kabong, and doooon't forget it." Wally pointed to Plucky. The duck scratched his head. Bugs moved next to the wolf, and gave him an "I'll allow it" kind of look.

"El Kabong? I think I had heard about that one before. What are you supposed to do?" Plucky asked. The whole classroom looked at the pair with lots of attention.

"This. KABONG!"

KAAABOOONG!

Wally smashed a guitar against Plucky's head, causing everyone to laugh. He then returned to his usual self, and thanked the laugh. He then directed to Plucky.

"Sorry, man, but you gave me the cue, and I had to do it. How are you feeling?" Wally asked. Plucky looked at him with a pained and confused expression.

"I'm okay, Miss. At what time we'll arrive to Tijuana?" Plucky said. Wally shrugged, and returned to his seat. After a few seconds, while Plucky fully recovered, Bugs continued with the class.

The rabbit took notes all the time to make a little summary about each student's main spin-changing ability. Babs, as expected, could adopt almost any outfit or character; Wally seemed to be at his best mimicking toon heroes and villains; Shirley, who was still a little new in the advanced spin-changes' area, seemed to be more comfortable suiting into characters who were, like herself, of the magical type (fairies, witches, and so); Hillary liked the tough characters' impersonations, like wrestlers, amazons, and similar; Mary, Buster, and Plucky were more of the generic kind of outfit (police officer, firefighter, business person, and so), but also had a few well developed special impersonations, plus adapting to their partners changes.

Some time later, Gogo announced the lunch break. In a matter of seconds, the Loo's Cafeteria was filled up with hungry students. Wally had his food on a lunch box, and looked for a seat. He passed next to Hillary, who was waiting for Mary and Babs (who were about to buy their lunches) to sit with them.

"Hey, Hill, you aren't going to buy anything? You don't seem to had brought a home made lunch." Wally pointed. Hillary shrugged, and pointed to Max and Marcus.

"I have my ways to get a free meal, pal. Just take a look, and learn." Hillary told Wally, and approached the humans, who were about to eat the cafeteria's mystery meatloaf. Hillary sniffed slightly the meat, and made a delighted face.

"Not bad. It smells like something that came from Kentucky." Hill told Max and Marcus.

"Fried chicken?" Max asked.

"Nope. Derby." Hillary said while looking casually to her right paw's claws. Max and Marcus made nauseating faces, and ran away from the place. Hillary smiled, and took both trays of food for herself. She sat along with Mary and Babs, and a few seconds later Buster joined them.

"Nice trick, Hillary. Is that really horse's meat?" Buster asked the hyena.

"Trust me, you don't want to know." Hillary said to the rabbit. Luckily for him, he, Babs and Mary (who liked to eat meat, but knew better about buying her lunch at the Loo) were having vegetarian meals, so they didn't cared so much about the meatloaf.

Wally sat on a nearby table, along with Calamity and Fifi (who were sharing their meals), Furrball, and Beeper. Ron joined them a moment later. Except for Beeper, who was eating a bowl of seeds, they all were mainly meat eaters, but, since they didn't wanted to make any of the prey kind of animals uncomfortable, they ate mostly not meat based food. Wally had a cheese sandwich, and some Scooby snacks (a great meal for any canine toon); Furrball a bowl with dry cat food, with some milk; Fifi and Calamity were eating pasta with veggie bacon, and a little salad; and Ron brought himself a huge tuna and sardines sandwich. Before eating, Ron gave Hillary a fast look, just to be sure she wouldn't start a fight during the lunch; the hyena just glared at him for a moment, and returned to her meal in peace.

"Like, Hillary, why you are so hostile towards Ron? I feel on his aura that he is a nice guy, and you don't seem to feel that way with Wally, Dizzy, or any other predator." Shirley asked the hyena, while sitting next to Mary with her lunch. Hillary sighed, and decided it would be fine to explain them.

"Well... it's a little complicated. I can handle being with a predator when I sense he or she isn't a competition or a danger to me. And Ron is a lion, which makes him my natural rival. Hyenas and lions have a very ancient feud, and we can't stand each other." Hillary explained.

"But why? That might happen on the wild, but here you are having lunch with 2 rabbits, a loon, and a human, and you seem to be quite comfortable. Maybe you can handle Ron's proximity as well." Babs told her. Hillary sighed, and continued her explanation.

"Is not just the species, Babs, but the way we think, and how much lions had damaged the hyenas' image. You see, if you ask any person his or her opinion about a hyena, the answer will be "Is a dirty and coward scavenger", but, if you ask about a lion, the answer is "Is a brave and noble hunter", and that's not true! Hyenas can eat already dead animals, sure, but we also hunt many of our preys, and the lions are the ones who usually steal our meals... I admit we also do it once in a while, but it usually works the other way. And there's also the way we act according to our genders. In lions' prides, the males spend almost all their time sleeping, while the females do almost all the hunting and raising of the cubs, but the male still is the one who gets the best part of the caught preys. In hyenas' clans, however, we, the females, are the ones with the power, but females and males hunt the same, and have similar obligations. In my case, my mother is the one who works, while my dad do the house labors; I love them both, but they always make clear that my mom is the one who controls the relationship. So you see, Ron and I are very different to each other, so I don't think we can hang around so easily." Hillary ended. Her new friends decided to respect her opinion, and made no more comments about the subject, at least for the moment.

Monty and Marcus returned from the bathroom a short time later. Max decided to make his movement on both Wally and Hillary. They were on nearby tables, so he could talk to both of them at the same time. Monty cleared his throat, and directed to the predators.

"I think there's something wrong with this picture. A mighty hyena shouldn't sit alongside with silly little animals, and a smart wolf deserves better than a simple cheese sandwich for lunch." Max said in a salesman tone.

"Well, I like cheese a lot, thank you." Wally said while biting his sandwich.

"Yes, and I like the company. So, what do you really want, shorty?" Hillary asked Max. He smiled evilly, and placed a hand on the girl's shoulder.

"I'm making both of you a great offer. If you and the wolf boy over here work for me, we can control this school. Think about it; with his cunning, your strength, Marcus' size, and my intelligence and fortune, we can be a great villains team." Monty said. Everyone on both tables looked at Wally, Hillary, and the rich brat.

"First of all..." Hillary told Max, while removing his hand away from her shoulder, "...don't touch me unless I allow it. Second, I might be a tough girl, but I don't want to be a villain. Maybe a rough star, or a strong sidekick, but never a villain." Hillary crossed her arms and turned to ignore Max.

"Are you guys sure? Max gave me a good offer. Look." Marcus said, and took a few dollars out from his pants' pocket, waving them in front of the wolf. Hillary rolled her eyes to see them, and actually got a little interested. However, Wally kept his cool, and returned to his meal.

"Sorry, but no. My grandpa is the family's villain, not me. I'm not interested in your offers, but thanks anyway for considering me." Wally said, as politely as possible. All the toons on both tables smiled to the young wolf, and Hillary decided to take his example.

"Yeah. Nice try, but this girl isn't for sale. Now, shorty, if you excuse us, we are trying to have lunch here." Hillary said to Monty, and returned to her meal as well. The other toons made the same, ignoring Max. Of course, Monty wasn't pleased.

"What? Are you fools rejecting me? I'm rich! You can't ignore me!" Max fumed. When everyone kept ignoring him, he directed to Marcus.

"Marcus, give them something to remember us!" Max said. Marcus smirked, and prepared his fist to punch the wolf. However, he was cut by an open brown paw that appeared in front of him. It was Ron's.

"You listened my friend. If you are going to ignore him, maybe you'll like to hear from my other pals." Ron said, in a frightening tone, and then extended his claws out from the paw. They seemed to be extremely sharp, so Marcus decided to move one step back. Max growled to his new bodyguard, making him return to his menacing posture.

"Well, I'm not afraid of your manicure, stupid cat!" Marcus grunted. Before Ron could answer, Fifi stood on the table, and walked towards the human toon, taking everyone by surprise. Marcus directed his attention to the skunk girl, but, before he could do anything, she made her trademark tail grip, covering entirely Marcus' head.

"Fire in zhe hole!" Fifi screamed, and, a second later, some little stinky fumes appeared surrounding her tail. Then, she loosened her grip, and Marcus, with a green face and a shocked expression, fell to the floor, knocked out by the scent. Everyone but Max looked at the scene pleased, while Fifi returned to her seat next to Calamity.

"Moi hate when a jerk interrupts mon lunch with mon amies." Fifi said while holding paws with Calamity, who just smiled to his girl and gave her a slight kiss on the cheek. Max was now red with anger.

"Why you, stupid purple pest..!" Max was cut by the snarling from all the predators on both tables. Monty gulped, and tried to run away, but was stopped by Hillary, who grabbed him from his shirt. The hyena then directed to the guys on the other table.

"Well, since you guys got rid of one problem, please allow me to do the same with this one." Hillary said in a casual tone. Then, she made a fist with her free paw, and, in a dashing action, gave Max a powerful uppercut, sending him through the ceiling.

"Hey, good hit!" Ron said Hill, truly impressed.

"Thanks... but don't talk to me, or I'll show it to you in a more personal way!" Hill replied Ron, in a calmed but still hostile tone. Ron sighed, and everybody on the cafeteria returned to their stuff. Plucky and Hamton, who were on the food's line next to Skippy and Sylvester Junior, saw the whole scene.

"See, Plucky?" The pig said to his friend. "Wally isn't a bad wolf. He rejected Monty, right?"

"I don't know, Hammy. I distrust anyone who rejects a lot of money so easily." Plucky replied. "Besides, he had already attacked me once today."

"But that was just because he was on character, or not? Well, that's what the guys from the "Advanced Spin Changing" class told me." Junior joined the conversation. "And besides, isn't good to judge someone because of his family. Just look at me; I should be an expert in Wild Chases and other classes related with Father's stuff, but I'm better with Crafts and Dancing." The kitten concluded. Skippy shook his head.

"Maybe you're right, but I still don't trust Wally. For all I know, maybe he's just pretending to be nice to take me by surprise, and, before I can even imagine, I might end as his lunch." Skippy said, with a hint of fear on his voice, while looking at Wally sharing some of his snacks with Calamity and Ron. Plucky watched the scene as well, while rubbing his beak. Hamton recognized that look.

"Plucky, think about it. You always suspect from every new student that happens to be a predator, and 9 of 10 times, you are wrong and cause a major problem. Remember Mary's boyfriend?" Hamton pointed. Plucky sighed.

"Well, it was her fault for falling for a jaguar." Plucky defended himself. Hamton shook his head. It was a good thing that said jaguar had to return home for a couple of months to arrange some family's business, or he would be in the cafeteria, probably hearing Plucky.

"Man, Mary is a toon as well, and inter-species couples aren't so rare on Toonity. I used to date Fifi, and she is with Cal now; Fowlmouth had been crazy about Shirley for years, Sweetie and Sneezer are dating as well, and so on. Anyway, when you first met this guy, you freaked out, and started a campaign against him; because of that, Mary got hurt, and you almost ruined her friendship with Shirley, Fifi, and Babs." Hamton remembered Plucky. The duck had to admit the pig was right; luckily, the girls settled their problems, and now were closer than ever, but, before that, they had a very rough time because of him.

"Fine, Hammy. I'll keep my beak closed, but my eyes will be very open. I'm not so worried about Hillary and Ron, since they seem to be more interested about their feud than about us, but I still have my doubts about the wolf." Plucky concluded, and he and Skippy nodded to each other.

"I agree with you, Plucky. Actually, Ronald seems to be a good guy, and he doesn't scare me, but it wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on Wally." Skippy said. Hamton decided it was the most he could do about the problem, and decided to end the discussion there.