-TOON-
The dimension where cartoons, comics, and games are a reality living in their worlds. However, slowly drifting mindlessly into space was a massive dark purple Columbus Cloud in the form of a floating Nimitz-class aircraft carriers. It was firing out purple lightning strikes in different directions.
There were faint parts of the cloud that led a trail back to Blaze's home planet. The planet itself was quiet and vacant due to all the Pokemon being held prisoner inside the giant black and red castle. Inside a bedroom, Emma; the leader of the invasion was observing herself in the mirror, putting on mascara.
"It's such a shame that Mizella couldn't finish the Houndour off," Emma sighed. From the mirror, a large silhouette of a skinny man appeared behind her. "Are you able to handle him, Chouka?"
"Don't worry my queen..." He responded rather sophisticatedly. "...I will vanquisssh the kid before hessss even thinking about entering the TOON dimension."
Chapter 2: Hunting for Scraps
"Holy Cow!" Shaggy exclaimed with a bit of drool coming out of his mouth by countless fast food stores and restaurants in this small neighborhood. He along with Jesselyne and Tristan decided to cover Woodroffe street
"You're drooling," Jesselyne smirked at the teen.
"I can't help it!" The teen defended. "There's like so many restaurants and fast food joints! I don't know where to start!"
"Why don't you try Subway? They have the 5$ footlong special!" Jesselyne suggested.
"What a coincidence, I like just happened to have some money for one," Shaggy said taking out 10 dollars. "Man, I like, wish Scooby was here to experiences this. He would've loved to chow down on afoot-long sub with everything on it."
"I'm sure he's alright," Tristan reassured knowing that the teen misses his friend. "We'll come up with a plan to get them back."
"Thank you guys, but...is there a reason why I have to wear this overlapping coat?" Shaggy asked. He was wearing an old brown coat that was covering his entire body as well as a black hat and glasses covering his face.
"Well...we can't let people see you're…" Jesselyne paused trying to think of a good term. "Animated? Toonish?"
"I think cartoonish..." Tristan corrected.
"Okay..moving on…" Jesselyne replied. "They'll freak out to find someone like you walking around the streets. Plus, the FBI is still investigating the incident we had in our school."
"Oh, you mean the big giant octopus monster?" Shaggy asked nervously. "I read the newspapers and it makes the monster we've encounter look like a bunny compared to that."
"Really?" Jesselyne asked.
"Yeah, it was like some sort of worm monster with its own vortex wormhole," Shaggy explained nervously. "I thought that we were goners, man!"
Jesselyne and Tristan exchanges nervous glances at each other, wondering what kind of monster Shaggy witnessed.
"Now let chow down! I haven't eaten since...well since I got here," Shaggy announced and dashed into the Subway.
"Okay I know you don't want people to see me an all...but is it necessary for me to be wearing clothes that were created in the 21st century?" Irma asked a bit annoyed as the three girls were heading towards Ashley's house. She wore a black cashmere jacket and a black top hat.
"Would you rather have a garbage bag on your head and tell everyone that you're my ugly Aunt?" Ericha shot back, looking a bit annoying by Irma complaining all the way.
Irma just groaned as she lifts her hat a bit. "Once I find that lazy pumpkin I'm going to punt him across town."
"How did you even end up here on earth anyway?" Ashely asked curiously.
"The same way those robots you described came from, out of the television," Irma answered. "We were in the pumpkin's owner bedroom cornered by that thing. Then suddenly a bright light came from his small television, and Long Ears found out to be a portal."
"So that explains how you met Garfield, but what about did you meet Bugs Bunny and Shaggy?" Ashely asked confused. "You guys are from different shows. Er...worlds."
"Well yeah, that true…" Irma trailed off. "But...the bunny and the scary cat sorta, saved my butt when those heartless that just rain out of the sky and took my friends before we could transform. I thought I would be next on his menu since I froze up in fear by the size, but those two saved me… By bombarding me with fruit to snap me out of it."
Ericha and Ashely quietly giggled from the last one as Irma continued. "I just wish...I've could've saved my friends thought. Not just them, but my family too."
The two girls exchange glances quietly from the water-users words. 'Just what on earth is going on here?'
"I need a what?"
"A catchphrase or something doc," Bugs Bunny answered. After searching around a Park area behind the Community Center, The two end their search at a Park and were sitting on the bench. Luckily it was abandoned so they didn't have to go undercover so they decided to take a breather.
"Okay...why do I need a catchphrase?" Blaze asked a bit confused.
"Well everyone has a one," The Bunny answered. "Irma has her sarcastic one-liners, Garfield has his craving for food, and Shaggy...well he said 'ZOINK!'"
"That..was a really good impression of Shaggy," He commented. "But...I never thought of catchphrase…"
"Just think of the first thing on your mind," Bug advised.
Blaze pondered long and hard before he finally got an idea. "...Okay, I think I got one…"
The Houndour suddenly posed triumphantly as he announced his battle cry, in a menacing tone. "...I'll burn you till your skulls are ashes~!"
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"...That was a bit too morbid, right?" Blaze asked glancing at the rabbit. Bugs starred with his eyes widened looking freaked out.
"Eh, a tad bit," Bugs responded, trying to calm his heartbeat.
"Well what about, 'I'll crush your intestines in half!'" Blaze suggested.
"...Let's forget the"catchphrase" stuff for now," Bugs answered, trying to change the conversation with a question. "How did a little pipsqueak like you enter into Earth on your own?"
"The same as you," Blaze answered. "The Heartless are coming from my world. My family and the others were defending themselves against the army, but the last assault caused us to scatter. My mother thought it would be too dangerous for me to stay, so she sends me away from my world on a spaceship. That's how I ended up on earth."
Bugs Bunny pondered a bit. "Hmm, so you didn't land here from a portal or anything?"
"No, this is the first time I ever heard of portals and other worlds, beyond the first two," Blaze answered.
"Yeah, it does feel awkward when you found out that your world is based on cartoons/TV series people here see most of the time," Bugs admitted nibbling on a carrot. "Especially when it a world that has a sick enjoyment of killing a clay copy of yourself."
Blaze shuddered a bit. "T-There's a world like that?"
Bugs nodded. "Yeah, over my years of traveling through worlds, I've heard rumors of a twisted and dangerous world that's ruled by a mechanical fowl."
'Note to self, stay away from that world,' He reminded himself. "Anyway, I apologies for heartless invading your world Bugs."
The cartoon bug glance at him oddly."...Why are you apologizing for doc? You weren't the ones who summoned them."
"Well yeah but...those Heart Balls...My sister used one to create that Octillery Heartless you just saw in the newspaper," Blaze confessed. "My family and the others were supposed to be fighting them off back in my homeworld, but…judging by what you guys had experiences, I think whoever's behind is beginning phase two of their objective. I just feel guilty for not staying and helping them."
"But didn't you defeat that octopus monster that attacked here?" Bugs asked showing the newspaper. "That my friend is a hero work."
"Yeah, but I feel that I make things worse for Ericha and her family," Blaze confessed. "The FBI has been hounding on them for weeks, and thinks that I'm hatching some master plot to conquer this world."
"Well, you don't look like a terrifying beast, unless you go berserk if you eat candy. You, my friend, are a hero," Bugs Bunny said patting the Houndour's head, which got Blaze to smile a bit.
"Anyway," Bugs sat up and stretched a bit. "Let's continue our search for the chubby orange before he snacks on every restaurant."
"You're right," Blaze nodded as he jumped off the bench. "Which restaurant should we search fir-"
BURP~!
The two cartoon character turned their head towards the source of the sudden belching sound which was a garbage can. The two peeked inside to find Garfield surrounded by plastic hot dog wrappers.
"You look wasted," Blaze commented bluntly.
"You get that way when scarfing down two hundred hotdogs," Bugs explained jokingly. "I won't be surprised to find a sinkhole forming in front of him."
"Is that your joke of the year?" Garfield sarcastically and bitterly asked.
"How should I know where we are?!"
"Well, you're the one who got us into this mess Dimbot!"
"It was not my idea!"
"WAS SO!"
"WAS NOT!"
Once they heard the two voices, Bugs and Blaze quickly leaped inside the garbage can Garfield was in. The three-peaked into the cracks on the side to witness two cartoon-like robots. One looks like a rooster man, and the other one was a small dark green with treadmill wheels and drill nose and arms.
"Whatever, let's just find our way out of this weird world," replied a scratchy voice from the rooster. "Dr. Robotnik will be very angry at us if he comes back and we're not there guarding his lair."
"Robotnick?" Blaze repeated quietly.
"I think we've found our two other intruders," Bugs mumbled.
Suddenly there was a beeping sound that startled the three of them. "Hey, Scratch! The machine is working!"
"Really?!" Scratch asked. "What does it do Grounder?"
"Nothing special, the screen only blinks when it near the trash can. Maybe it's a recycle device," Grounder guessed a bit unsure.
"Why would Robotnick make something like that!?" Scratch scoffed. "He hates recycling!"
"BURP!" Garfield suddenly belched loudly, causing the two robots to look inside the trash can.
"You couldn't tone it down a notch?" Blaze rhetorically asked the cat.
"Well well well, what do we have here?" Scratch snickered as he snatched Blaze and Garfield by the back of their necks. "A cat and a dog for Dr. Robotnik's robotic armies!"
"What about the rabbit?" Garfield questioned.
Grounder scanned inside the trashcan. "I don't see a rabbit."
"You see?" Garfield groaned. "This is why I never trust a rabbit!"
"You never said anything like that," Blaze deadpanned.
"S-Scratch Look!" Grounder announced getting his partner's attention. The GameBoy-like devices he had in his metallic hand began to beep louder when he put it close to Blaze. "This device is going crazy whenever I pointed at him!"
Grounder put the devices closer to Blaze resulting in the screen to flicker red and the sound beeping faster. "I wonder why?"
"Maybe he ate some kind of power gem!" Scratch suggested. He then turned to Blaze. "All right furball, cough up the gem!"
"Sure, give me a second to puke it out by command," Blaze rhetorically answered.
"Eh excuse me bots!" Bugs Bunny who was wearing a police uniform appeared suddenly which got their attention. He showed his badge to the robots."I'm Officer Bugs!"
"O-Oh is there a problem officer?" Scratch asked nervously.
"There is sir," Bugs took out a black book and rapidly skimmed the pages. "According to page 14, section 1, subsection B-4: All treadmill robots should be put on a leash at all times."
"Aww! Do I have to?" Grounder whined. "I hate being on a leash. I always lose my nose that way."
"Sorry but eh, I going to have to take yah in," Bugs said as took out some handcuffs. Scratch dropped the two and got into a begging position along with Grounder.
"No please!" Scratch pleaded desperately. "Don't send us to jail~! I beg of you!"
"Yeah, I'm not cut out to spend years in the slammer!" Grounder pleaded as well.
"Well…" Bugs pondered a bit. "...I guess I can let you out with a warning...but eh, you're going to have to do a little favor."
"Anything~!" They both cried loudly.
"He's good," Blaze commented.
"Okay," Bugs brought out a pink box behind his back. "All you have to do is open this box, but only when we're out of the park. If you don't follow my orders, then I'll have no choice but to arrest you two."
"Yes Sir~!" Scratch and Grounder announced as they stood stall and saluted. Bugs grabbed Garfield and Blaze and ran out towards the exit of the park.
"Remember, until I'm out of the park!" Bugs called out before he, Blaze and Garfield disappeared in only leaving their cloud silhouettes. Scratch and Grounder opened the box to reveal a pink cake with four candles on it.
"Hey, we get a cake?" Grounder asked confused.
"Maybe it's an apology cake for accusing us," Scratch remarked. "Either that, or it's some kind of trap."
The two bots inspect the light candles on the cake, which were small TNT sticks. On the side of the sticks has the letter "TNT" in white font color and the fuse sparking closer to the stick.
"...
…
...
"...NAH!" Scratch and Grounder denied just as the fuse ran out.
BOOOM!
The three cartoon animals were at a safe distance when the heard the explosion. They could see a puff of black smoke floating in the air from the Park.
"Wow, who knew candles could be that dangerous," Blaze marveled in awe.
"The last time...I ran this much...was when...I was chasing down...the ice cream truck," Garfield said while breathing heavily. He flopped down on the bench exhausted.
"Well, the good news is that you lost a few pounds," Bugs smirked.
"I would scratch you right now, but I'm too tired," Garfield sighed as he flopped on his back.
"...Luckily that explosion probably got the FBI's attention on that area for now," Blaze said staring at the distance. "That kills two birds with one stone."
"Hello, there~!" Blaze flinched when a familiar voice rang his ears. He along with Bugs and Garfield slowly turned their heads to reveal who that voice belongs to; Harry and Marv standing behind the bench.
"Eh, who's your friend's doc?" Bugs asked Blaze.
"Bugs, Garfield, this is Harry and Marv," Blaze acknowledged. "Harry and Marve...Garfield and Bugs."
"Can I have your autograph Bugs?" Marve asked, earning an elbow jab from Harry.
"We don't have time for autographs moron! We're taking these looney toons to the FBI," Harry determined.
"No, you're not," Bugs answered.
"Yes, we are," Harry argued.
"No your not,"
"Yes, we are!"
"Yes, you are!"
"No, we are not!"
"Yes, we are!"
"NO, WE ARE NOT GOING TO GIVE YOU TO THE FBI!" Harry roared angrily.
"Suit yourself," Bugs Bunny shrugged calmly. "Let's go guys."
Harry stood their dumbfounded while Bugs, Blaze and Garfield left the two. "...What the heck just happened Marv?"
"You just got outsmarted by a rabbit," Marv chuckled. Harry just glares at Marv as he continued laughing, waiting for him to stop and starred nervously at his fuming partner.
"You want me to chase after them?" Marve dumbfoundedly asked.
"No I want you to stay there laughing like an idiot," Harry grumbled sarcastically. "OF COURSE GET THEM~!"
The three animals were ahead of the two thieves by a mile. However, their victory was short-lived when they noticed Scratch and Grounder coming around the corner. The two were covered in soot and icing.
"There they are! Get em!" Scratch angrily shouted as the two robots charged at the three once they saw him.
"Oh great, more running," Garfield whined as he noticed Harry and Marv right behind them. Quickly the three dashed across the street in a puff smoke, blinding the two robots causing them to crash right into Harry and Marv, creating a dog pile.
"Move it bot brains!" Harry snapped, shoving Scratch off of him. "I'm gonna kill those creatures!"
"Not if we get them first!" Scratch shot back as he stood up on his feet. Scratch noticed Grounder's head was missing as his body was searching for it.
Marve slowly sat up and noticed Grounder's head on his lap. When their eyes met, they stared in shock before screaming at each other in horror. Marv flung the head out of his lap and quickly stood up going behind Harry who facepalms in annoyance.
"Like, did you two hear that explosion?" Shaggy asked confused. He and the others around him were startled by the explosion
"I think it's coming from the park behind the Community Center," Jesselyn whispered to the two. "It might've been Blaze fighting someone or those robots causing trouble. We better make sure no one sees them."
"Wait so like...we're going towards the area that exploded?" Shaggy questioned with whimpered. The two siblings respond by snatching his hands and dragged him forward. "I guess so…"
Jesselyne, Tristan, and Shaggy went towards the park hoping to find the culprit responsible for the explosion. However, once they got to the entrance, fear came full-throttle on their minds.
The first thing they witness was a dark-purple portal surfaced on the pavement and emerging out of it was pitch black human with black straight hair reaching down to his shoulders. The heartless logo on his back which made the sibling gasp in horror, however, that wasn't the worse part. Below his torso was a long snake-like tail with a linear pattern of black and dark purple, and at the end was a black rattle.
"I can ssssmell you a milessss away, Hound," The serpent snickered. His voice was calm yet had a malicious tone to it. "Let's begin the hunt shall we?"
To be Continued.
Next Chapter: NOVAH Commander Conflict