KidsWBYungsta's Animation Multiverse: The Series – A Merrie Melodies Cartoon: Harley & Ivy
KidsWBYungsta's Animation Multiverse: The Series – A Merrie Melodies Cartoon: "Harley & Ivy"

A/N: Greetings, ladies and gentlemen, it's time for another installment of the Looney Tunes Cartoons in Animation Multiverse: The Series! This time around, I am going to switch up from the Looney Tunes Cartoons and utilize its sister series, Merrie Melodies, for this next installment. Taking a cue from the series of DC Comics-Looney Tunes crossovers, this installment of the Looney Tunes Cartoons, which will actually serve as the first Merrie Melodies installment of this series, will mainly focus on the antics of the dynamic duo of Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy, who will run afoul of a certain rabbit by the name of Bugs Bunny. During one of their crime sprees, Bugs ends up getting entangled in one of their misadventures, so he decides to play a few mind games with the two super villains.

Cartoon Synopsis: While Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy try to set out their latest plot in the Animation Multiverse, their antics end up getting the attention of a certain Looney Tunes star in the neighborhood: Bugs Bunny. When Bugs becomes aware of the two girls' plot, he decides to utilize his classic style of Looney Tunes trickery to outsmart the two girls and stop their latest plot. However, he realizes that his skills might not be enough, so he decides to call in a certain group of super hero girls to handle his light work by dishing out their signature brand of karmic justice.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the cartoon and anime characters who appear in this story. The cartoon and anime characters who do appear are owned by their respective companies.

Dedication: A tip of the hat to Sam Register and Pete Browngardt, two of the main creative driving forces behind the 2019 Looney Tunes Cartoons content initiative, and, of course, Warner Bros. Animation.

KidsWBYungsta Proudly Presents:
KidsWBYungsta's Animation Multiverse: The Series

A Merrie Melodies Cartoon: "Harley & Ivy"

Starring the Voice Talents of:
Tara Strong as Harley Quinn / Harleen Quinzel
Cristina Milizia as Poison Ivy / Pamela Isley
Billy West as Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd
Grey Griffin as Wonder Woman
Nicole Sullivan as Supergirl

Don't Tell Anyone:
Bugs Bunny is the current Batman

Written and Directed by:
KidsWBYungsta

It was just another regular evening in the Animation Multiverse, one where nothing seemed too out of the ordinary for a multiverse of its kind. Bugs Bunny was relaxing in the deluxe accomodations of his upper-middle-class home until he turned on the television and saw a news story about a bank robbery that had occurred at the Acme National Bank. Reporter Elmer J. Fudd announced, "Wadies and gentlemen, this is Elmer J. Fudd, weporting from the Acme News Network to give you the watest update: there has been a bweak-in at the Acme National Bank and two cwooks just swooped in and stole millions of dollars from the vault! If you happen to see these two villains by the name of Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy, call your wocal powice station—or the DC Super Hero Girls, if you wike—and they will handle the business. This is Elmer J. Fudd, signing out."

As Bugs turned off the television, all he could do is just whistle in surprise as he said, "Sheesh, another bank robbery? You'd think that the people at the Acme National Bank would've hired someone who would actually do their job and stop those bad guys! Then again, when that same guard is someone who is constantly outsmarted by the Warners, what more can you do?"

When Bugs rewinded the television to see the picture of the two crooks, he noticed that something looked very familiar about those two: mainly in terms of their facial features. Bugs seemed to pick up on it very quickly, but he turned to the audience and said in a sotto aside, "Eh, I arleady know who those two girls are, but I think it would be best if I utilized the element of surprise, should they decide to use my humble abode as their secret hideout …"

Just as Bugs made this statement, Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy were already on the run from the Animation Multiverse police force, who were hot on their tail after they robbed the Acme National Bank. Poison Ivy glared at Harley and said, "Dang it, Harley! Did you really have to use those sticks of dynamite to break into the bank?"

"Oh, come on, Ives, don't ya love it when we make a big entrance?" Harley said in a playful tone.

"Normally, I wouldn't mind, but since your little stunt has caused two of the biggest stars of the Animation Multiverse's police force, Osmosis Jones and Drix, to be on our tails, I would have to make an exception," Poison Ivy said in a slightly-annoyed tone.

Harley took note of the police cars coming after them, then she turned to Poison Ivy and said, "Oh, Ives, those police officers are still chasin' us! Do you know where we can hide 'til the heat cools down?"

Poison Ivy noticed that they were driving into the neighborhood where the Looney Tunes lived, driving past the homes of Granny, Witch Hazel and Yosemite Sam, but then they stopped at one of the homes as Poison Ivy pointed at it and said, "There! We'll hide right over there!"

"I don't know about that, Ives," Harley said, raising an eyebrow in confusion. "You sure they won't find us in there?"

"Trust me, Harley, I know exactly what I'm doing," Poison Ivy said in a confident tone as she and Harley hid behind Bugs' car, then she looked up when she noticed that the police stopped looking for them and decided to search the other areas of the Animation Multiverse.

Poison Ivy wiped the sweat from her forehead as she whispered, "Phew! Was that ever close …"

"You ain't kiddin', Ivy," Harley whispered in response. "At least we lost those coppers."

"Yeah, well, at least we can crash here until the heat blows over and we can go back to our usual routine," Poison Ivy whispered.

"You mean, our routine of being high school students during the day and super villains during the night?" Harley said as her eyes shined brightly.

"Precisely," Poison Ivy said as she and Harley made their way to the door.

However, just as Harley walked up to the door, she noticed that Bugs Bunny was inside the house, reading about the latest events in The Acme Times. Upon realizing where they had stopped, Harley gasped in shock as she ran to Poison Ivy, and pushed her away from the door and into the bush. Poison Ivy was annoyed by her teammate's antics as she said in an annoyed tone, "Harley, what's the matter with you? I was just going to see if anyone was home!"

"Yeah, that's the thing, baby doll!" Harley said. "You realize that the house we stopped at is the house of Bugs Bunny!"

Poison Ivy's eyes bugged out in response as she said, "Wait a minute, hold up! You mean to tell me that we ended up stopping at the home of Professor Bugs Bunny?!"

"Yeah, that's what I just said," Harley said. "What do you propose we do now?"

"Hmm … well, just like Bugs would say, I guess it would be the most-opportune time to employ a little … strategy," Poison Ivy said in a sly tone as she leaned towards Harley and whispered her plan into her ear.

Just as Poison Ivy was giving her the details of her latest plan, Harley giggled in response as she said, "Oh, Ives, you're such a card! Where do you come up with such crazy ideas?"

"What can I say? I've learned from the best," Poison Ivy said with a smirk.

Meanwhile, inside the house, Bugs was on his cellphone talking to Daffy, who was on a roadtrip with Porky Pig, saying, "Daffy, listen, you know how Porky gets when it comes to the Peach Festival. Besides, you'll finally get to understand why it was such a chore for me to go up there with him every year."

Suddenly, a knock was heard on Bugs' door, which caused the rabbit to look at his phone and say to Daffy, "Eh, Daff, I'm gonna have to call you back in about 4½ minutes."

As Bugs hung up the phone and walked up to the door, he looked around for a moment until he saw Harleen Quinzel and Pamela Isley standing at his front door. Bugs was surprised to see two of the new students from the Warner Bros. Cartoon Tooniversity arriving at his doorstep, which led to him saying, "Well, well, well, if it isn't Harleen Quinzel and Pamela Isley! What brings you two around here this evening?"

"Uh, sorry for interrupting your evening, Professor Bunny, but we just wanted to know if you had an extra bed to spare this evening," Harleen said.

"An extra bed, eh? What happened? Your house is being fumigated or something?" Bugs asked curiously, raising an eyebrow.

Harleen was left speechless in terms of how she would have responded to Bugs' question, but Pamela jumped up and said, "Uh, not exactly. You see, Professor Bunny, Harleen and I were planning on going on a vacation this weekend, but we realized that we didn't have enough money, so, instead of going on an extravagant cruise or something like that, we decided to just stick around here and see what was going on."

Bugs thought about it for a moment, then he said, "Well, I don't know, girls … I mean, Daffy is still on his roadtrip with Porky to that Peach Festival, so—"

"Great, we'll just come right in and make ourselves comfortable!" Pamela said as she and Harleen barged their way into Bugs' house, leaving the rabbit confused as she said, "Good to know that you're still that lovable, hospitable bunny we all know and love!"

Bugs was left scratching his head in confusion, then he looked outside and noticed the bags of money laying out on his yard. Just as Bugs was about to pick up the bags, Harleen rushed outside and hit Bugs on the head with her mallet, leaving him with a serious bump on his head. Once Bugs regained consciousness, Harleen hid the mallet behind her back as she giggled and said, "Heh-heh, uh, sorry about that, Professor Bunny, force of habit. I'll just go ahead and take those bags off of your hands."

As Harleen picked up the bags of money and carried them into the house, Bugs just looked at the audience and said, "You really think I'm gonna let that one slide? Yeah, me neither."

Moments later, as soon as Harleen and Pamela made themselves comfortable in Bugs' home, Bugs noticed that something was suspicious about the way the two girls just swaggered into his house without any warning. Bugs started to pick up the clues and realize that those two might have been behind that robbery that occurred at the Acme National Bank. Seeing as how a stern talking-to was already out of the question, being that their roles as villains was pretty in their DNA—not to mention, their contract—Bugs tried to come up with a more subtle approach that would scare the girls out of their wits and hopefully have them confess to their crime.

Once an idea came into Bugs' mind, he gave a devious smirk when he decided to put his plan into action, but not before he looked at the audience and said in a sotto aside, "Well, I'll do it … but I'll probably hate myself in the morning."

While Harleen and Pamela were watching TV in Bugs' living room, there was a knock at the door as Pamela looked at Harleen and said, "Hey, Harley, you wanna go and see who it is at the door?"

"Yeah-yeah, sure-sure, my love," Harleen said a la Bertie the Mouse as she walked up to the door and saw Bugs dressed up as a door-to-door salesman. "Uh, who are you?"

Bugs walked into the home and shook hands with Harleen as he said, "Well, I'm glad you asked, my dear! The name's Haraboose Hare; I represent the Acme Gags-a-Plenty Company of Walla Walla, Washington! My company has chosen you and your friend here to have a free trial of the variety of gags we have in store."

"'Gags-a-Plenty', you say?" Harleen said, sporting a devious smirk as she looked at Bugs and said, "Tell me, mistah, what kinda gags do ya have in store?"

"What kinda gags, you ask? Why, I've got a million of 'em in here, but I'll go ahead and show ya the crème de la crème of our product inventory," Bugs said as he looked into his bag of gags and pulled out the Acme Batman suit. "Presenting the Acme Batman Suit! This baby allows you to fly through the air as if you were the real Batman! Unfortunately lacks the impressive array of gadgets that are common with the Dark Knight."

Harleen looked at the Acme Batman Suit in amazement as Pamela jumped up and looked at Bugs' disguise, getting more and more suspicious as she asked, "You know? You look rather familiar to me. Have we met before?"

"You might've seen my work in the old Looney Tunes cartoons from the Golden Age of Animation!" Bugs said as he pulled out another classic gag from Acme. "How about the Acme Disintegrating Gun? As Duck Dodgers would say, 'When it disintegrates, it disintegrates'!"

As Pamela looked at the Acme Disintegrating Gun, a devious smirk appeared on her face as she pointed it at Bugs and said, "Alright then, long ears, let's see how you feel when I decide to do … this!"

Once Pamela shot the Acme Disintegrating Gun, she was surprised to see that Bugs did not disintegrate into smithereens like Duck Dodgers did. Pamela looked at the gun, then she looked at Bugs as she said, "What the? How is that possible? You should've disintegrated like Duck Dodgers did in his first cartoon!"

"Eh, sorry to tell ya, kid, but sometimes, these gags won't work against certain characters like they did in the old cartoons," Bugs said as he pulled off his jacket to reveal that he was wearing the Acme Disintegration-Proof Vest. "Besides, you obviously can't do jack when I'm wearing my Acme Disintegration-Proof Vest."

Pamela and Harleen were both dumbfounded by this revelation as Harleen investigated the salesman and said, "Wait just a minute … you're not a door-to-door salesman! You're actually—"

Just as Harleen pulled off the salesman disguise, Pamela and Harleen were shocked to see that it was Bugs Bunny pulling a prank on them, as they both said in surprise, "Bugs Bunny?!"

"Yeah, that's right, in the flesh!" Bugs said in a proud tone, then he pinched Harleen's cheeks as he said, "Ya goofy little rascal!"

After he planted a big kiss onto Harleen's cheeks, Bugs moved to the upstairs part of his house as Harleen and Pamela were left annoyed about being tricked by the rabbit. The two girls looked at each other as Pamela said, "You know what, Harley? I think it's time we switched back into our alter-egos and show that rabbit what we're made of!"

"Oh, I love where you're going with this one, Ives!" Harleen said with a smile as she and Pamela switched back into being Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy, respectively.

As the two girls proceeded to chase Bugs upstairs, unbeknownst to them, Bugs had planted rabbit ears onto Poison Ivy's head, even putting her into a rabbit suit for good measure, which caused Harley Quinn to pull out one of her bombs as she said, "Aha! I knew you were right under my nose the whole time!"

Poison Ivy was confused as to what Harley was talking, but then she noticed that she was covered head to toe in a rabbit suit, then she backed away as she said, "N-N-N-No, Harley, wait! I'm not the rabbit! It's me, Poison Ivy!"

"Nice try, long ears, but I know Poison Ivy when I see her," Harley said as she gave a menacing smile to Poison Ivy while Bugs proceeded to put a rabbit suit on her as well. "She wouldn't be pleading and begging for mercy all because of a case of mistaken identity!"

Poison Ivy stopped backing away from Harley Quinn when she noticed that she was dressed up in the same rabbit suit as her, then she gave a menacing smile as she said, "My, my, Harley, how the tables have turned. You thought you would get away with that old gag?"

"Huh? What are you talkin' about, Ives?" Harley said in a confused tone. "What kinda gag are you talkin' ab—"

Suddenly, Harley stopped dead in her tracks as she said, "Uh-oh …"

"Uh-huh, now you know I was feeling when you tried to pull that bomb on me!" Poison Ivy said in a threatening tone until she noticed that the bomb was still lit, eventually exploding and leaving the two Super Villain Girls covered in soot, though they were now out of their rabbit suits. "Harley, next time, just throw the bomb out instead of leaving it in your hands …"

Harley just groaned for a bit as she said, "Point taken, girlfriend."

Suddenly, the girls heard someone clearing their throat, then their eyes bugged out in surprise when they saw that Bugs had called up the Super Hero Girls to handle his light work for him. Wonder Woman looked at Bugs and said, "Thanks for giving us the update, Professor Bunny."

Bugs just took a bite from his carrot and said, "Eh, don't worry about a thing, Wonder Woman, but you can call me 'Bugs'."

Wonder Woman smiled in response as she looked at her fellow Super Hero Girls and said, "Well, sisters, why don't we just go right ahead and, how you would say, 'take out the trash'?"

The rest of the Super Hero Girls smiled and nodded in response as Supergirl cracked her knuckles and said, "With pleasure. I was waitin' to get into some kind of action tonight."

As the Super Hero Girls started to gather around them to inflict their brand of karmic justice onto them, Harley and Poison Ivy could only gulp in response as they hugged each other and screamed in terror while the Super Hero Girls gave them the ultimate taste of defeat: basically utilizing their newfound knowledge of cartoon logic and using it to their advantage against the duo of Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy.

While this was going on inside Bugs' house, Bugs was busy placing the stolen bags of money into one of the police cars and sent them on their way as they were going to take that money back to the Acme National Bank.

After all was said and done, Bugs took another bite from his carrot as he turned to the audience and said, "If there's one thing that you can take from this cartoon, folks: crime doesn't pay!"

When he heard the shrill screams of Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy inside the house, Bugs then added, "… especially if you can't handle the ways of the Looney Tunes and cartoon logic!"

Bugs then laughed to himself as the cartoon drew to a close.

Merrie Melodies
"That's all, Folks!"
A Warner Bros. Cartoon

Well, folks, I hope you all enjoyed the first installment of the Merrie Melodies for this series! This is basically taking a cue from the series of DC Comics-Looney Tunes crossovers, particularly the crossover that involved Harley Quinn and Gossamer. In case you haven't noticed, Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy appeared as their 2019 incarnations from the DC Super Hero Girls animated series, so that would explain why they were a bit more "cartoony" in this series, compared to their usual incarnations.

I originally thought of having a gag where Bugs appeared as his BatRabbit persona and show both Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy what he was capable of, but I didn't know how well that would've been executed, so I just settled on having Bugs play the role of a door-to-door salesman a la Daffy Duck as a way for him to get the upper hand over Harley and Poison Ivy. I feel that a premise like this had some untapped potential in regards for more gags and interactions, but I hope what was featured is serviceable enough.

Anyway, folks, I hope you enjoyed the first Merrie Melodies installment because there is more where that came from! Also, two updates in one day—that's rare for a fanfic writer like me, but this one ended up being written quicker, so it was worth it. Besides, it should make up for the shorter length of the previous episode I had uploaded earlier. Anyway, "Stay Tooned" for the next new episode and thanks for reading, folks!