"Stop squirming!"

Yakko pulled extra hard at the needle, causing Nora to yelp. He glared at her as he stood up, angrily crossing his arms.

"You help a half-toon freak fix their stitches and all they can do is complain and not cooperate!" He ranted. He bent over, speaking through gritted teeth, "Now for the love of the animator who created me... STAY. STILL."

Nora gritted her teeth in anger, but she did eventually stay still while Yakko finished the stitches on her leg. Once he was done, he cleaned the excess blood and liquid Warnerium from the now sewn wound.

"Now please..." He growled, "Leave the stitches alone. Trying to rip the toon parts off won't get you your old body back. Once again, I threw the excess tissue and muscles in our incinerator."

"And I ate the bones!" Wakko said from across the room. He had grown bored with helping Yakko and took to snacking on a bag of chips.

"Before long, you'll be obselete anyways." Yakko warned her, "So you best stop trying to damage my work. Otherwise I won't fix it next time."

Nora raised a worried eyebrow, "What do you mean by that?!"

"I mean, you're still only a prototype to something much bigger." Yakko elaborated, purposely keeping it vague and confusing. He snickered at Nora's concern, "Don't you worry though. I'll still have use for you and the other half-toons." He suddenly approached closer, taking out a tourniquet from his coat, "One more thing before you go... I need to take a sample of your blood..." He tied the tourniquet tightly around Nora's toon arm, tight enough to cause bright blue veins to be visible under the inky black fur.

Wakko walked over, crunching from the chip bag, "What do you need that for?"

"For future experiments." Yakko said, "I need to see just how the toon and human DNA is reacting on a molecular level."

"Reacting? How are they reacting? Are they surprised?"

"Wakko that's not... No, never mind. Do me a favor and go grab your sister for me. I need to speak to her but I don't want to leave this nutcase on her own."

Nora muttered under her breath, "That's rich coming from the nutcase who turned me into a freakshow..."

Yakko suddenly whipped around, steam quite literally blowing out of his ears. From his coat, he pulled out the oversized bone saw and brandished it high, "What did you say? Why don't you say it again? Louder for the class to hear!" He pointed the saw at Nora like a microphone, inviting her to say something into it.

"I... Uh..." Nora hesitated and gulped, "I... Um... Never mind..."

"That's what I thought!" Said Yakko with triumph, putting the saw away. He turned and saw Wakko with Dot. Dot stared at him with annoyance.

"If you're done needlessly exerting your dominance on the half-toons..." She sneered, "What do you want?"

Yakko clasped his hands together and smiled, which was quite a contrasting sight with his blood-covered coat and gloves, "Dot, dear sister of mine... You never specified just how you got rid of that pigeon before I was distracted with Nora."

"What does it matter?" Dot shot back, looking more bored by the second, "You don't have to worry about him."

Yakko went over to Nora and took out a large needle, which caused Nora to tense. He continued to speak as he inserted the needle into Nora's arm. "That brings me no comfort, darling sister sib of mine. What did you do? Did you get him killed? Did you throw him in trash compactor? Did you incinerate him? I need to know the details! Where is he now if he's still alive?"

"Listen, all I know is that he followed me when I attacked Acme Labs and that's how he ended up with the other toons!"

"You're avoiding the question. Why did you go to Acme Labs anyways?"

"I told you, to get rid of that Dr. Magenta guy who's been snooping around recently! But then he outsmarted me and I had to make a break for it. Then that stupid pigeon followed me home!"

"So this Magenta guy AND Pesto are still alive?"

"And Dr. Scratchansniff too, but who's counting?"

"So there is a possibility that all these people know our plans and you're just shrugging it off like it doesn't matter?"

"I told you, I got rid of them!"

"HOW did you get rid of them?!"

"I got them all banned off the studio lot!"

Yakko rubbed his forehead, clearly unhappy with this answer.

Dot smiled awkwardly, "That's good, right?"

"No Dot..." Yakko started slowly, "The only way to guarantee someone won't go snooping in our business is to make sure they're dead... Or already in our captivity. And you didn't do any of those things, did you?"

Dot looked around, embarrassed and refusing to meet Yakko's gaze, "Well... Um... Not exactly, no..."

"And getting them banned off the premises... Isn't that just going to drive their curiosity MORE?"

"You have a point..."

"You're hurting me!" Nora suddenly screeched.

Yakko looked down, noticing he had pushed the needle in Nora's skin too far. He quickly pulled it out and cleaned the puncture wound, "My apologies. Perhaps it isn't the best idea for me to handle sharp objects while my sister is angering me." He took the needle and emptied it into a vial, closing it up tight and storing it away in his coat.

"Look, what did you want me to do?" Dot asked, "I watched them have a conversation with Mr. Plotz about the half-toons, and they almost convinced him! I had to fake being an executive and lie to that fat capitalist about everything so he wouldn't choke and support them!"

"Wait a minute," Nora interrupted them, "Mr. Plotz? Thaddeus Plotz? The old CEO?"

"Yes sweet Nora," Yakko answered her, "Didn't you hear that he's taken your place as CEO since you mysteriously disappeared?"

Nora seemed distraught at this news. She looked down, nearing tears, "Th... They replaced me already?"

"Oh don't start with the waterworks." Yakko sneered, "We needed you out of there anyways. Plotz taking the seat works in favor of our plans." He turned back to Dot, glaring, "So this group... Pesto, the Magenta guy and...?"

"Dr. Scratchansniff." Dot answered.

"Scratchy, yes. Pesto surely informed them all about what he saw. So now they're most definitely going to try and infiltrate our lab. Even if they get banned off the premises!"

"How was I supposed to know? I couldn't murder them all in broad daylight! What was I supposed to do?!"

Yakko sat and thought for a moment. The only sound in the lab was Wakko crunching on his chips and Nora seemingly fighting back tears. Before long, an evil smile crossed Yakko's face.

"Simple." He said, "We let them come to us."

Wakko and Dot exchanged concerned glances, as if to say "he's finally flipped his lid".

"Hear me out!" Yakko started as he suddenly pulled down a whiteboard from seemingly thin air. He started scrawling doodles on the board of him and his siblings, as well as Pesto, Scratchansniff, and Dr. Magenta, "They are the only ones actively looking into our plans. Which means they'll stop at nothing to get into our lair and expose us." He doodled some more drawings showing the group trying to get into their underground lair. He then doodled himself and his siblings waiting right below the infiltrating group with various traps and weapons, "Except... We'll amp up our security so we'll know just when they're coming and we can lie in wait to capture them!" He then scribbled the group cut up into bloodied pieces with X's in their eyes. He then laughed maniacally and rubbed his hands together like the evil genius he was.

Dot studied the board carefully, "Okay, but what about Hello Nurse?"

Yakko stopped his manic laugh to look at her in confusion, "What about that drop dead gorgeous woman of my dreams?"

Dot raised an eyebrow, "Did I forget to mention? She's working with Scratchansniff too! That's probably why she was snooping around in the water tower!"

Yakko cursed under his breath, "I knew toonology was a lie! That sneaky little minx!" He rubbed his chin, thinking hard, "Alright, if she's in with the rest of them, then we'll just have to take care of her as well. Toonification does not discriminate between male or female!"

"Except when it's your own sister." Groaned Dot.

"Hush." Yakko hissed, "Besides, I'd love to have a captive audience for when we put the final part of our plan into action." He turned to Wakko, "Wakko, will you please take Nora back to her cell? I'm done with her for the time being."

Wakko nodded, eating the entire bag of chips including the bag before going over to Nora and undoing her straps. He then led her out of the room while Yakko went over to a table with a microscope. He removed the vial and placed it in a holder with other vials while he changed his coat and gloves. Once he had done that, he took the vial with Nora's blood and carefully dripped a single drop on to it before putting it under the microscope. He made approving noises as he scrawled notes on to a nearby notebook while looking into the microscope.

Dot came over as her brother gestured for her to look into the microscope. She peeped inside and frowned, "I don't get it. How is it any different from the last sample you took?"

"Ah you fail to notice the finer details!" Yakko told her, "The toon and human DNA is mixing much easier now. Before, they would reject each other violently. Now, they're working in near perfect harmony!" He rubbed his chin, deep in thought, "The only thing is... The toon DNA seems to be eliminating the human DNA and replacing it with itself... I don't want that, I want a perfect mix!"

Dot yawned, "Well, good luck with that. It's taken us twenty years just to get this."

"I'm close, Dot. We're close. We're nearly at a breakthrough! I just need to start taking purified samples from Wakko. Perhaps if I force feed our toon captives Warnerium instead of injecting them..."

Dot seemed unenthused, "You do that. I'm going to bed."

Yakko seemed not to notice as he giggled excitedly, "I can taste the scientific breakthrough! It's so close!"