The gift shop was quiet and empty. Hello Nurse sat behind the counter, waiting anxiously. Every little noise frightened her. She was worried a half-toon would come in at any moment and attack her. The anxiety got to be too much that she had to stand up and pace around.

The TV in the corner was displaying a dead air signal. It hadn't changed since the live newscast was abruptly cut off. She had been praying that at least some of the newsroom employees had survived. Though by the sound of the anchor woman's scream, it was highly unlikely. She paced, picking up a Daffy Duck doll from the floor and putting it back on the shelf with the others. The many faces of famous cartoons stared back at her, cheerfully and ignorantly blissful. She wondered if their real life counterparts would survive this vicious attack.

BEEEEEEEEP

Hello Nurse nearly leapt out of her skin. The TV had come back on the air and was playing yet another emergency broadcast. The screen once again bathed the store in an eerie red light. The loud beeps caused her ears to ring. But... It was wrong. It was terribly, horribly wrong. The computerized alert sounds played in a way she'd never heard before, as if they were struggling to even stay on the air. Instead of a robotic voice, a familiar voice player through the speakers, heavily bit-crushed and compressed.

"Helloooooooo nurses! We interrupt your current apocalyptic situation with breaking news!"

The emergency broadcast cut back to the newsroom. Hello Nurse gasped in horror at what she saw. Instead of the news anchor, there sat the horrendously mangled Yakko Warner, wearing a well kept business suit like an actual news anchor. His dead blue eyes stared at the camera, seeming to stare right into Hello Nurse. There was a coffee mug on the desk reading "1# God Defying Scientist" on it. The previous woman was nowhere to be seen. It was just Yakko with his horrible toothy smile and glowing eyes.

"Goooood morning Burbank, and the rest of the world!!" Yakko greeted cheerfully as Warnerium floated off his body, vaporizing into the air around him, "I'm your new news anchor and soon to be overlord of your entire society, but you can call me Yakko Warner. This just in! Humanity is rapidly coming to an end! Now is the time that toons rise and take control of the Earth! And it's all thanks to a handsome genius scientist who decided to become god himself. Oh wait, that's me!"

Yakko let out a loud cackle that seemed to cause the camera to briefly lose signal. His body twitched and contorted in ways that were disturbing to watch. He turned back to the camera, his smile so wide it almost seemed like it was going to pop off his face.

"And now, Dot Warner with the weather!" He said casually, as if he didn't just threaten human genocide.

The camera swung over to a green screen weather forecast. There stood Dot, her floating form cloaked in a nice business suit of her own. She gave a too-nice smile and nodded to the camera.

"Thank you, Yakko." She said as she turned to the map behind her displaying the state of California, "We're expecting heavy death and destruction in the north. While there's a 100% chance of Old Testament smiting in the south. The beaches are expected to run red with the blood of the damned. San Francisco is clear and humid. Back to you Yakko."

The camera swung back to Yakko, who was still smiling, staring unblinking at the camera. He straightened a stack of papers before he threw them in the air carelessly, "Oh, humanity, did I forget to mention who we are? Why, we're the Warner brothers!"

"And the Warner sister!" Dot called from off camera.

"And we've been working for years to overthrow humankind." Yakko continued. His left arm snapped off and hit the floor, but he seemed to not notice or care. The tendrils from inside his arm slithered out and pulled it back into place again with a disgusting squish, "You've taken us toons for granted for far too long. And you, fellow toons, you've aided them for so long!! This is PAYBACK!!!"

Yakko slammed his fist on the desk. It crumbled to pieces instantaneously.

"You think you can walk all over us? Forget about us? Leave us to rot for decades? And have your actions go unpunished?!" He threw his head back and cackled, his body tensing up as it seemed to unravel on a molecular level briefly before snapping back to reality, "Well, we the Warners say no more!! You'll get a taste of your own medicine!! I'll make you all feel what it's like to suffer for eternity!! You'll be nothing more than ENTERTAINMENT FODDER FOR THE GODS WHO HAVE FORSAKEN YOU!!!"

"Yakko, Yakko, take it easy." Dot chided him off screen, "It's the news. Not a soap opera."

Yakko suddenly composed himself, straightening his tie, "Hehe, apologies ladies and gentlemen. I seem to have gotten carried away with my theatrics. Anyways, let me tell you a little bit of what's going to happen..."

Yakko reached off screen, snatching a human figure into the camera's line of sight. Hello Nurse found her stomach dropping as she recognized the woman. It was the news anchor who had been reporting on the half-toon attack. Except now, she had been turned into a half-toon herself. Most gruesomely, a chunk of Warnerium skewered her throat, which seemed to be causing her immense pain that she was unable to voice... Since the chunk was going straight through her vocal chords.

"You see," Yakko continued, "You can either die... Or become one of the new species. Tell 'em, Ms. Newscaster lady!"

The woman opened her mouth, but it wasn't her voice that came out. It sounded like Yakko speaking in falsetto, combined with strained gurgles that were actually coming from the woman's throat.

"It's true!!" The newscaster "said", "Being a half-toon is amazing! And Yakko Warner is incredibly good looking and you should become one of his half-toons! He's great and being a half-toon is great!!"

Yakko snickered as he pushed the woman out of the frame. She fell off-camera with a loud sound as Yakko turned back to the camera, "Oh lovely viewers, please consider becoming a half-toon! Because you don't have a choice. And if you refuse..."

The camera cut out into static for a moment before it came back. Yakko's face now took up the entire frame as he roared in a voice that sounded nothing like his regular speaking voice.

"I'LL GROUND YOU INTO THE DIRT YOU CAME FROM!!!" He stepped back and giggled, his voice returning to normal, "And then I'll use your carcass dirt to plant my flowers! Gotta have nice greenery in the new toon ruled world!"

The feed cut out to static. Hello Nurse stood there, clutching her chest. She had no idea what to think of the horror show he had just seen. The Warners treating human genocide like a joke, the woman who had been forcefully toonified, Yakko's frighteningly unstable form... It was all so much to take in.

The TV feed came back. This time, Yakko was unnervingly close to the camera, a horrible smirk across his face.

"By the way..." He purred, "Hello Nurse..."

Hello Nurse's entire body went cold.

"We know exactly where you are at this very moment." Yakko started to chuckle, before his terrible laugh seemed to fill the gift shop.

THUD

Hello Nurse whipped around. The barrier she and the others had constructed had been completely destroyed. Standing there in the gift shop doorway was Wakko. A desk was part way into his stomach mouth, being forced down by the horrible blue tendrils coming out of his wounds. The sound of crunching wood was all she could hear as she watched the nightmarish scene. Wakko had eaten everything that had been protecting the door with ease, and she hadn't even noticed.

Hello Nurse stepped back as the last leg of the desk disappeared into the disgusting stomach maw of the Warner before her. She took off running to the back of the gift shop, not sticking around to see Wakko eat more.

"Aw come on!" Wakko's voice cried from behind her, "I wanted to invite you for dinner!"

Hello Nurse dared to check over her shoulder. A literal nightmare was giving chase. The tendrils from Wakko's body were extending, propelling him forward like a giant spider's legs. His mouth hung open, his jaw seeming to unhinge at the thought of tearing her body to pieces and eating it whole.

She screamed bloody murder as the creature that was once the food loving Warner closed the distance between them.