Within a dark underground lair stirred a few busy puppy toons. The collection of machines within their secret laboratory hummed low, creating the scent of metal and electricity. Their machines had since been upgraded, their laboratory now far more professional, clean, and optimized for questionable human experimentation.

Over in one corner, Wakko sat patiently on one of the metal tables. He swung his legs while gazing around. His appearance had changed considerably since the fated kidnapping of Ralph the guard. Spikes covered in his fur jutted from his back, a vein of glowing blue running through them. His eyes and tongue also glowed an unnatural blue. Two big blue stones jutted from his bottom jaw, replacing his lower canines. Where his claws and toenails should have been, more blue stones grew. While this should have been uncomfortable, he seemed to hardly notice.

A few minutes later, his brother Yakko, faithfully dressed in his imitation Dr. Frankenstein costume rounded the corner, carrying a clipboard. In his other hand he held a piece taken from Wakko's back spike; the fur had been carelessly raked off and revealed the blue glowing stone underneath.

"Well, I don't know how," Yakko began, looking perplexed, "But you appear to be growing Warnerium out of your body."

"Neat!" Wakko replied, hardly seeming bothered by it.

"And just how many shards of Warnerium having you been sneaking everyday for the past twenty years?" asked Yakko, his expression shifting to one of annoyance.

Wakko thought for a moment, "I dunno. Two, three, four, twenty-five a day?"

"That explains why it's been disappearing so fast..." Yakko studied the piece a little closer, seeming fascinated by it, "Well... It's no matter. This may still be useful for us."

Wakko got up from the table, following his brother into the other room. Yakko placed the shard of Warnerium harvested from Wakko's back into a jar, labeling it "Gross back spike Warnerium." He put it on a shelf filled with more jars of the glowing blue ore and turned his attention to a nearby table. A sheet covered an unknown, body-shaped mass.

"How's the Dot rebuilding going?" Wakko asked.

Yakko rubbed his head in pain. He pulled the sheet back to reveal the electrocuted body of his little sister, cold and unresponsive, "The Frankenstein method didn't work. In fact, it seemed like it responded negatively to electricity. I guess since that's the thing that killed her in the first place. It's a good thing toon bodies don't rot, or else I wouldn't have anything to work with." He glanced around and leaned in to whisper in his brother's ear. "To tell you the truth, I've been putting it off a lot to focus on refining the toonification procedure. She's been a big brat about it anyways."

"Who you calling a brat?!"

Yakko and Wakko jumped. They whipped around to see the industrial sized computer behind them sparking with pink electricity and shuddering violently. The computer spit out a ghostly pink smoke, which soon formed into the spectral entity that was the Warner sister. Instead of coming out majestically however, she faceplanted on the floor, the smoke dissipating with an unflattering fart noise. Wakko giggled at the silly noise.

"Ow." She groaned.

Yakko seemed furious, "Dot! What have I told you about spying on us?!"

"Hey! I can't help it when you're trash talking me!" Dot argued back, levitating herself up to his height.

Yakko glared back at her, "This exact behavior is why I'm taking so much longer to rebuild your body!"

"Well if you don't, I'm gonna haunt you foreeeeveerr!"

"You already haunt me forever!"

Wakko stepped between them both, holding up a piece of his toe nail that he had just broken off, "Would it be weird if I ate my toenail since it's just Warnerium?"

"Ew." Both Yakko and Dot gagged at him. Yakko immediately snatched the Warnerium toenail from Wakko and put it in the same jar as the "Gross back spike Warnerium."

"Listen, Dot, it's not like I'm not trying to fix your body." Yakko said sincerely, turning back to his ghostly sister, "It's just a lot more difficult for me to get it just right. You complained last time it wasn't cute enough and immediately electrocuted yourself to death."

Dot seemed offended at the accusation, "I did not! I accidentally stepped on that live wire and you know it!"

Yakko raised an eyebrow, "Suuuure you did." He turned away from her and started walking down the nearby hallway, his siblings following behind, "Besides, you both know I have much more important matters to attend to. As long as you are both safe and comfortable, I have no reason to devote so much of my scientific genius to you."

"Safe and comfortable?" Dot asked, stunned, "I'm DEAD."

"Not technically." Yakko corrected, "Your body and soul were temporarily severed. You could go back to your body at any time, but Yakko it's not cute enooouuughhh!"

"Oh whatever Dr. Yakkenstein!" Dot teased, her biting sarcasm showing through.

"Hey, you guys never answered my question about the toenail thing." Wakko brought up.

"NO!" the other two screamed at him.

Yakko was rubbing his temples in frustration, "You two are getting on my final nerves. I think it's time we had some... Fun." His pained look faded to an evil grin as he picked up the pace down the hallway.

"Fun?!" His siblings piped up, rushing to his side with a look of fiendish glee in their eyes, "We wanna have fun!"

Yakko glared at them both, but he couldn't mask his smirk at their eagerness to participate, "Oh, I thought you were too busy criticizing your big brother."

"Nooo! We wanna have fun too!" Dot squealed.

"Don't leave us out!" Wakko added, giving Yakko big puppy-dog eyes.

Yakko chuckled, "Ah, you know I can't say no to you two. Come siblings! To fun!"

"Yaaay!" The two younger siblings cheered. They all three took off down the hall, screeching to a halt in front of a big metal door. Yakko input a number combination on a keypad by the door, causing it to whoosh open and allow them entrance.

Lights snapped on, illuminating a large underground warehouse. The Warners raced down the main path between massive amounts of human sized cages. Though some were empty, most held captives. Most were asleep or hardly regarded the Warners. It was normal to see them down here teasing their most recent test subjects.

"Who are we gonna let out, Yakko?" Wakko asked, eyeing a number of their captives with curiosity.

"I have an idea." Replied Yakko, an evil chuckle escaping his throat. He stopped at a set of older cages, standing in front a particularly large one. Yakko tapped on the bars, gaining the attention of the prisoner within.

"Grrmph? Fooood...?" Rumbled a distorted male voice. A huge mass of... Something stood up in the cage. All around the cage was more of the blue ore, both a liquidized and crystallized version of it. A pair of glowing blue eyes fixated on Yakko, one eye missing a pupil. An angry growl rumbled in the creature's throat at the sight of the mad scientist toon. Without warning, it charged into the light, slamming into the bars of the cage.

It was Ralph. Or what was left of him anyways. Parts of his body had been replaced. His right arm was long, black, and noodly, ending in a four fingered white gloved hand. His thin toon legs could hardly support his body and struggled to move about properly, though the large paws did help him keep his balance. Half of his face had been replaced with the face of prototype Yakko, Yakky. The human and toon flesh were stitched together; out of the stitch points jutted jagged blue crystals, deadly sharp and dangerous. Blue ooze would leak from the stitches, crystallizing and adding to the larger mass.

"Ralphy! Big boy!" Yakko greeted him, his voice full of joyous malice, "You certainly seem uhhhhhh... Happy to see us."

"GRRROOOOOOAARR!" Ralph bellowed at the top of his lungs, reaching his toony arm through the gaps in the cage and swiping at Yakko. Unfortunately for him, Yakko was standing too far away.

Yakko gasped, "Oh my! He's extra angry today!"

"Well uh..." Wakko started, smiling with guilt, "Someone may have eaten his food before he got it..."

Dot rolled her eyes, "What a shocker."

Ralph let out another roar, showing off his missing teeth that had since been replaced with crystallized Warnerium fangs. Drool mixed with the liquidized ore dripped from his mouth and on to the floor of the cage.

"This works in our favor." Yakko grinned an even wider grin, "In fact... It works out just perfectly!"

Going to the cage door, Yakko pressed a button, opening the door. Immediately, Ralph charged out, setting his murderous sights on Yakko. Just as he was about to tackle him, Yakko pulled a rod from his lab coat. Pushing a button on the side, it electrified, sparking with a deadly high voltage. Ralph yelped and backed away, immediately cowering away from the sight of the electric rod. He tried to run in the opposite direction, but Dot blocked his way, her spectral form also sparking with electricity.

"Don't even try it, big boy." She warned, a fiendish smile on her face.

Ralph backed away, whimpering at the two toons threatening to shock him. He stood rooted to the spot and wouldn't move to attack them.

"Good, good..." Yakko snickered evilly as he got dangerously close to Ralph with the electric rod, "You know what will happen if you don't do like we say, don't you?"

Ralph nodded, whining in fear.

"Excellent, then if you don't want to get shocked," continued Yakko, "Go out in the lot. Find us a new specimen and bring them back here before the studio opens. And bring them back in one piece. I don't want them broken in half like last time."

Ralph nodded frantically.

"And if you do good, I might just give you a steak dinner!" Yakko added.

Ralph suddenly perked up, his tongue lolling out with more Warnerium drool dripping out, "Steeeaaak?"

"Steeeaaak?" Wakko said in unison, clearly intrigued by the thought of a steak dinner.

Yakko ignored his brother and approached Ralph, still holding the rod. Ralph shied away again, making sure to avoid the rod as much as he can. Instead of using it on him, Yakko took a harness big enough for Ralph and put it over his head. Attached to it was a small camera and microphone, so the Warners could see what he was doing and give him commands.

"Now get outta here!" Yakko gave a maniacal cackle before he pushed the rod against Ralph's rear, electrocuting him harshly. Ralph yelped in pain and clumsily ran off out of the warehouse and down the hallway. The Warners laughed in amusement.

"Who do you think he'll bring back?" Dot asked, her devilish excitement evident on her cute little face, "I'm so excited!"

Wakko clapped his hands and jumped up and down, "Yeah! Let's make them a cute little bunny toon next!"

"Whoever it is, I'm sure they'll turn out to be a very, very interesting experiment!" Yakko replied. He gave a low chuckle before throwing his head back and cackling wildly. His siblings joined in as their crazed laughter echoed through the underground lair.