Wakko Runs Away

Chapter 5

Wakko woke up and found himself in the water tower, wondering how he got back here so quickly.

"Where am I?", the middle Warner sibling asked himself.

"Why, you're at home where you belong," Yakko replied, not realizing Wakko didn't direct the question toward him.

"But how did I end up back here?," Wakko asked. "I was sleeping in the middle of nowhere last night."

"What do you mean?," asked Dot, confused by Wakko's response. "You never left at all last night."

"Yes, I did," said Wakko. You were both mean to me and I left the water tower because I had enough of you picking on me and making fun of me."

"Well I don't remember you ever being gone at all," said Yakko.

Though Wakko knew he didn't fall asleep in the water tower, he knew that his brother and sister were up to something.

"Wait a minute," Wakko said. "I know what's going on. You brought me back here so that you could hurt me more."

"Wow," said Dot. "That sounds like some dream you had, Wakko."

"No, it was real," Wakko said angrily. "You hurt me, and now you're out to do it again! I gotta get out of here while I can!"

Back to reality...

Wakko woke up and saw that he was still in this camping tent sleeping. "It was only a dream," he said, half-asleep. "But it seemed so real too."

Unlike the previous days, Wakko was now feeling a different feeling. Suddenly, he was starting to feel he made a mistake by running off on his siblings. Yet, there was still something in his unusual mind that Yakko and Dot don't deserve to have a brother like him.

"It was just a dream," Wakko said to himself. "But there was something different about it. I feel like Yakko and Dot are coming to look for me."

Was this really the same Wakko that had, for the most part, a carefree life, or were we seeing a change in the middle Warner sibling?

Meanwhile, Yakko and Dot resumed their search for Wakko.

"Hopefully he's out here somewhere," said Yakko.

"Oh, I'll bet he is," Dot Retorted. He's probably all the way to Texas by now."

"I don't think he could have gotten that far overnight," Yakko replied. "He probably got tired and went to sleep somewhere."

"Okay, but if I'm right, you have to treat me like a princess for a whole year!," said Dot.

"Trust me, Dot," said Yakko. "He couldn't be that far away."

Although Wakko put the dream behind him, something still seemed different. Suddenly, he felt lonely, like something was missing.

"Maybe it isn't so bad being with Yakko and Dot," he said. "Still, there's no excuse for what they did to do."

Wakko was stuck in that situation with an angel and devil on his shoulder. The angel was telling him that he should go back to his siblings, while the devil was saying they don't need him and don't bother going back to them again.

Wakko was truly stuck in a pickle. However, one thing was certain; he wasn't going back to Yakko and Dot. Not yet anyway.

On the other hand, Yakko and Dot were beginning to feel sorry for Wakko, feeling that they totally humiliated him.

"I feel so terrible, sister sibling," Yakko told Dot. "I wish we had been a little nicer to him."

"You know, Yakko," said Dot. "I think we really should treat Wakko better, once we find him and get him back."

"Deal," said Yakko.

Wakko was still angry over what Yakko and Dot did to him despite a small change of heart. It just wasn't big enough for him to forgive them.

"I could get used to living without them," said Wakko. "I have my gag bag with me, and that's all I need."

One thing Wakko did miss was using his gag bag for pranks and hitting mean people with his big mallet. It would be different now because he did not intend on going back to Burbank to live in the water tower with Yakko and Dot. Despite his new happiness, something was still missing.

Though he didn't realize it at the time, Wakko was about to find out what that something was.