Wakko took a piece of Warnerium out of the jar. He crunched happily as he put the empty jar back on the shelf and went for a full jar. Yakko was preoccupied with meeting Hello Nurse, while Dot had said she had something important to do. Wakko was left alone to chow down on the highly radioactive material. He had nearly cleared out half the shelf when the angry voice of his brother froze him in place.

"Wakko!!"

Wakko dropped the jar he was holding, scattering Warnerium crystals all over the place. He looked up at his annoyed brother glaring at him from the doorway of the laboratory. Yakko crossed his arms and tapped his foot impatiently.

"Uhh..." Wakko started, looking guilty, "I was hungry?"

"I can't leave you alone for even a few minutes without you eating my research, can I?" Yakko snarled, stomping over to the shelf and observing the damage, "Where's Dot? She was supposed to be watching you!"

"She said she had somewhere she had to be. Something about a nosy man!" Wakko cocked his head to the side, "How'd it go with Hello Nurse?"

"Oh I tried to subdue her," Yakko said, "But darn that sexy minx, she's smarter than she used to be, that's for sure!" He rubbed his chin, "I think she may have been a bit suspicious of me but... There was nothing to give away our plans other than the fridge..."

Wakko gave a sad whimper, "I wish I could have seen her!"

Yakko ignored him and picked up an empty jar and groaned, "Ugh, this is fine. Whatever. I can work with this." He threw the empty jar over his shoulder. It hit the wall and shattered, scattering glass shards everywhere. "This is all old Warnerium anyways. The recent experiment with the purified Warnerium proved far more successful."

Wakko twisted himself around to stare at the big spikes of Warnerium growing out of his spine, "You mean the one from my back?"

"Exactly. I think having it... Uhhhhh... Pass through your body purified it. And using it in a procedure stabilized the subject far more than if we used the one with impurities-"

Wakko had lost interest and was nibbling on his spike.

"Never mind, never mind." Yakko sighed, "How is the new specimen doing?"

Wakko stopped his nibbling, "Umm... I didn't check on her. She... Kinda scares me."

"Didn't I tell you to keep a check on her?"

"I don't remember."

Yakko threw his hands up in exasperation. He made his way to the opposite side of the lab, disappearing down the corridor. Wakko followed him, worried that he might be mad at him. Yakko reached the industrial metal door at the end and punched in the code to open it. The doors whooshed open and the two stepped in. As soon as they entered, the half-toons occupying the cages rushed to their doors, growling, roaring, and moaning loudly.

"Wakko, I know this science stuff isn't your forte..." Said Yakko, rubbing the bridge of his nose, "But this is very important to me. I need to make sure this new half-toon stays stable. If she does, that's a huge leap forward in the toonification process!"

"I'm sorry Yakko." Wakko whined, trying his best to look as sorry as possible, "I just didn't think about it. I don't think very good when I'm hungry!"

They passed a particularly loud half-toon, a woman fused with a cat toon, who screeched loudly at them. Yakko took his hacksaw from his coat and struck it against the bars.

"Ahhhh SHADDUP!"

The female half-toon backed off immediately, retreating to the corner in fear. Seeing that she had calmed down, Yakko put his saw away and continued on. He set his sights on a cage at the end of the hall, occupied by two half-toons. Yakko gently tapped on the bars to get their attention. When they both kept their backs to him, he took out his saw yet again and scraped it across the bars, producing the horrendous shrieking noise of metal against metal. Both half-toons jumped and shouted in pain, but it finally forced them to turn their attention to their captor.

"Oh Nora, sweetheart!" Yakko called in a sing-song voice, "How are you feeling?"

Nora regarded him with white hot rage. She bared all of her toon teeth and refused to answer him. In the other corner, Ralph went back to staring at the wall, chosing not to watch them.

"I said..." Yakko snarled, his voice dropping to a dangerous gutteral growl, "How are you feeling?"

Nora hesitated, her rage fading for a moment and being replaced with fear, "I-... How do you expect me to answer that?!"

Yakko suddenly produced a clipboard, scratching notes on them as he spoke, "Subject still seems to retain her motor skills. Speaks perfectly and responds normally." He turned to Nora again and smiled, "Nora, sweetie, would you stand up for me? I'd like to see how your body is holding up."

Nora hesitated again, but decided her best course of action was to stand. Yakko looked her up and down. He stopped his gaze on large gaping holes in her leg and arm, where the human and toon parts connected. The holes leaked both Warnerium and human blood, mixing together to form a sickly purple color that ran out on the floor.

"What have you been doing?" Yakko asked accusingly, "Those stitches shouldn't have come apart unless you were actively trying to tear them off. The blood transfusion hasn't finished yet and you're just going to end up hurting yourself more."

Nora simply stood there, refusing to look him in the eye.

"If you're going to be that way..." Yakko snapped his fingers, getting Wakko's attention, "Wakko, help me restrain her. I need to get those stitches re-sewn."

Wakko nodded happily. Yakko pressed the button to open the cage door. Nora pressed herself into the corner to get as far away from them as possible.

"If you know what's good for you, you'll cooperate." Yakko growled. He reached into his coat and produced a rod. Flicking a switch on the side, the rod sparked to life with electricity.

Nora gulped and decided to let Wakko grab her wrists and put them behind her back. He led her out of the cage while Yakko shut the cage doors behind them. Wakko kept her wrists firmly in place while Yakko walked behind them, still holding the sparking electric rod firmly in his grip in case she tried anything. They led her back through the corridor and to the laboratory they had first performed the awful procedure on her.

Yakko pointed to the metal table in one corner of the lab, "Get her strapped down while I get my tools."

Wakko forced Nora to the table, strapping her down tight. Nora tried to fight him after Yakko had left the room, but the small puppy toon was surprisingly strong for his size and still managed to get her restrained.

"What more are you going to do to me?!" Nora snarled, "Haven't you ruined my body enough?!"

Wakko shrugged, "Yakko says if you don't keep your stitches in, it'll hurt even more!"

"I don't want these stitches! I don't want whatever this is you did to my body! I want my old body back!"

"Well, Yakko might have it stored in a jar somewhere..."

"GIVE ME MY OLD BODY BACK!!"

Yakko suddenly appeared over her, growling in his throat, "Quiet you! The parts of your body I didn't use I threw in our incinerator."

Nora's eyes widened, "You what? How dare you!! I worked for years on my body, getting it perfect, and you just throw it away?!"

Yakko produced the electric rod again and set the tip on Nora's arm. It sent a high voltage shock through her arm, causing her to let out a shriek of pain. Yakko left it on for a few seconds before he turned it off and glared at Nora, who was now panting and twitching from the shock.

"For everyone's sake, shut up." He growled.

Nora gasped, trying to catch her breath. She decided not to speak while she was stuck here with the Warners to avoid angering them.

Yakko unstrapped one of her arms: the one with the open wound. He re-strapped it where it was straight out, partially hanging off the table. He sat next to it and pulled up a small table with a varying collection of tools resting on it.

"Now, Ms. Nora," he started, "If you want to heal quicker, you're going to have to stop ripping your stitches. The Warnerium can't complete the blood transfusion if you keep opening your wounds."

Nora froze, "B-b-blood transfusion?!"

"Oh it's not as scary as it sounds. We're just getting rid of that pesky human blood and replacing it with Warnerium. So you can reach your true potential."

"I don't understand..."

"What's not to understand? Is it too much for that tiny monkey brain of yours? Do I need to speak in monkey for you to get it?"

"No! I don't understand what's the point to all this!"

Yakko sat up, staring for a moment at Nora. He took one of the tools from the table: a sharp scalpel looking thing. He turned back and started carefully ripping the old stitches that were still haphazardly holding the human and toon arm together. Nora winced as he pulled them out.

Yakko started, "Nora, sweetheart, if I spent time explaining our plans, we'd be here all da-"

"We're gonna destroy Warner Brothers Studios and everyone working for them!" Wakko blurted off, smiling proudly.

Yakko sighed, "In the simplest of terms... Yes. Our main goal is vengeance on the people who have mistreated us." He pulled out the last of Nora's old stitches and held her toon arm tight as it detached from her original human arm, which was now just a stump. Blue and red briefly gushed from her arm and stopped, quietly dripping on the floor. Nora gagged and turned from the freakish sight to stop herself from vomiting.

"Toonification is essentially turning humans into toons." Yakko continued casually as the blue and red spattered on his pristine white coat, "Of course, humans are so fragile that I haven't quite figured out a way for a full transformation. So you're stuck as the prototypes for full toonifcation." He gave a friendly smile as he inserted a syringe full of blue liquid into the toon arm, "You got lucky. You're the second form of the prototype: an animatic half-toon. You could have ended up like Ralph, our first experiment."

Nora grimaced as she remembered the man she shared her cell with. He seemed to be in an incredible amount of pain and lacking his personality and memories.

"We hadn't meant to go after you, to tell you the truth." Yakko explained, "While you are a disgusting scum of the earth WB CEO... Our quarrel isn't with you personally. Don't get me wrong, we still hate you. That's why we snatched you for experimentation."

"So all of those disappearances..." Nora breathed.

Yakko gave an unhinged chuckle, "Are our doing. You're absolutely correct! Tell her what she's won!"

Wakko threw his hands up in the air, "A date with me!" He looked down at Nora and grimaced, "Uhh... On second thought, you can date Yakko."

"Absolutely not." Yakko sneered. He took the toon arm and set it against Nora's human shoulder and began to sew it together. Nora winced when the needle went into her human skin. But as he sewed them closer together, she felt it going into both the human and toon parts. By the time he was finished, she had full feeling in the toon arm, as if it hadn't just been detached from her a few minutes earlier. That shouldn't have been possible. Human bodies didn't work that way.

"How is that...? How did you...?" She asked, befuddled.

"You can thank the Warnerium." Yakko said to her, "It's what's stabilizing your body and allowing your human and toon parts to fuse effortlessly."

Nora stared at her arm, clenching and unclenching the toon hand now attached to her.

"Hold on..." Nora suddenly realized something, "This entire set up must have cost thousands... No, millions of dollars. How did a couple of toon orphans afford all this?"

Yakko and Wakko shared a glance. They both giggled at the question.

"When you're selling the cure to death itself, you're bound to have some scared human investors!" Laughed Yakko, "Even if it means sacrificing a few along the way!"

Nora stared at him shocked, "There's someone actually investing in these experiments?!"

"And they fully know what we've been up to as well!" Yakko added, "Isn't the human race just fantastic?!" He laughed maniacally, as if the thought was just the most hilarious thing to him.

Wakko suddenly perked up, "Oh, Yakko! Aren't we supposed to meet our investor tonight?"

Yakko cursed under his breath, "Ack, you're right! I nearly forgot!" He put down his tools and stood up, "Ms. Nora, I'm afraid we'll have to fix your other wound later tonight. You just sit tight and we'll be back to continue."

As Yakko went to change his lab coat and gloves, Nora called out to him, "Wait!! You're just going to leave me here?!"

Yakko chuckled, "It's not like you can go anywhere, now can you?"

The two left the room in a hurry, leaving Nora strapped to the table in an uncomfortable position. She screamed more at them to let her go. But when it was clear they wouldn't be coming back for a while, she gave up and laid back down on the table, staring up at the cold fluorescent lights above her.