Animaniacs is owned by Warner Bros. I don't claim any of them as mine, same as with any other franchise I use in here, they're not mine either.


3:30 PM

Bradley scratches his head and thinks about the address given. It was in Burbank again, which puzzled him as to why it was there again. Was it cause the Warner film lot was closer there? He was about to plop down the toon hole to go there before he was stopped by the Warners. "Whatchya doooooin'?" Dot asked.

Bradley softly sighed as the three of them looked at him expectantly. He didn't really want to lie to them, he knew to trust them and they knew to trust him by this time. So he had to come clean, or else they'd just follow him to the next one anyway. "I'm gonna head to check something out. Plotz kinda told me that... Well, toons are getting captured around and I gotta go help see who's doing it." He said a bit sadly, he didn't like this one bit, but it felt right to confess to them.

The three Warners legitimately looked shocked. "Taken toons?" Yakko said fearfully before immediately relaxing. "Where's Liam Neeson when ya need him?"

"Panic!" Wakko shouted before running around in a circle.

Bradley knew they were doing their "overreacting" schtick, but in a way, they weren't too far off on capturing the reactions of any other toon that would've caught wind of this news. But Bradley did have to shush them to grab their attention again before anyone else heard them, soon ending up grabbing them all in his arms. "Come on, calm down please?"

"Only cause you said the magic word." Yakko said with a smirk.

"And people say I'm the clingy one." Dot remarked before Bradley set them back down on the ground.

"Listen, if you really want to help me... Do you wanna come with me?" Bradley asked in a softer tone.

"You mean be like private eyes, detectives, gumshoes?" Yakko said a bit more happily at the idea.

"We don't wear shoes though." Wakko said as he slipped his foot paw off, revealing another paw exactly the same under it as he examined the one he removed for gum.

Bradley chuckled a bit, glad to see that they cheered themselves up like that so quickly. "Yes, exactly those." He points to Yakko. "You're the private eye." He then points to Wakko. "You're the gumshoe." Then to Dot. "And you're the detective." He said to hopefully satisfy them.

"So does that mean you're the Watson?" Dot asked.

Bradley shrugs a bit. "If that'll make you happy, yeah." He said with a smile back at them before taking the toon hole out of his pocket and plopping down on the ground.

"Ohhh, you got one too?" Yakko said in slight surprise.

"There goes our surprise present..." Wakko said sadly.

Bradley smiled and pats Wakko's head. "It's okay, really. We'll get something else. You ready?" He said to them, the siblings nodding. Bradley thought hard about their destination and jumped in, the three Warners deciding to jump in the same hole this time to follow him.

3:35 PM, In the real world

Bradley popped out of the hole with the Warners and ended up near the old warehouse. The human teen hadn't been here for a while, but things haven't changed much on the outside other than a clean-up from the toons putting the factory back in commission.

"I kinda dunno how to feel about this..." Bradley said, feeling uneasy.

"Not to worry!" Yakko said with all three siblings donning detective trench-coats and hats. "We'll find the clues or my name ain't Sir Yakkus Gleebman the Third, Esquire!"

"The perfect sounding detective from Mars." Dot said with crossed arms.

"Mars? You've met Marvin then?" Wakko asked, as if a big fan.

"Why yes, I helped solve his greatest case, why his inventions don't make the Earth go ka-boom!" Yakko said, now in a fake British accent.

Bradley rolled his eyes at their act. "We can do that later, now come on." He said with a smirk, heading towards the factory.

Due to the crime that had happened near here, Toontown actually shut down the factory, at least for the moment. There was already stop signs and tape around, just like a crime scene. No one else was around either, the factory must've had its remaining workers all evacuate for this.

The three Warners had their magnifying glasses up, leaning close to the ground like true cartoon detectives were. Bradley hummed a bit and looked around the area, it looks like it happened while they were at school if they only just now heard of this. "Alright, let's see if there's anything new here..." Bradley muttered to himself.

"Wonder if we can get Dick Tracy on the phone for this." Wakko said to himself.

Yakko shushed him. "It's 'Richard' Tracy, people don't take kindly to some words." He warned his middle brother.

"Does that mean we say it more?" Dot asked.

Yakko nods with a smile. "At least until the censors tug us away by our ears."

Bradley snickered softly and smirked, the Warners' humor always finding a way to lighten things up. But regardless, there was an investigation to do. "Alright, time for clue-searching." He said to himself, humming as he got his own magnifying glass from his hammer-space pockets in his jeans. The Warners did the same and looked around for a bit before Bradley found something.

"Hmm, what's this?" Bradley said as he saw a hole in the ground. It looked like the toon holes to teleport around. He peeked in to see what was on the other side.

As it turned out, the hole led to somewhere in Toontown, which was under investigation by the Toontown Police. Also, at the same time, one of the toon cops poked their head into the other half of the hole, looking into the human world. The cops there jumped a bit in shock, with the human a bit surprised too. "Hey!" Bradley said with a smile, while the Warners back in the human world waved "innocently" at the cop looking in. The others waved at the human before Bradley pulled back out, hearing a *SPLAT* before the cop pulled his head back up simultaneously. He looked like he got pied, making the other toons snicker to themselves.

Bradley got back up, but noticed bits of food on the ground, looking to the Warners. "Banana split, huh?" He asked with a smirk.

"Now with 70% more bananas and 0% more Minions!" Wakko said in a proud tone.

"Lucky us." Dot chimed in.

Bradley chuckles softly and looks back to the hole, gently sighing. "Hmm, I bet that's the same hole our toon friend tried to go through..." He said as he got back serious, kneeling down to get a closer look around it. "But I didn't hear any other stuff about these people going through it... Why didn't they jump in?" He asked to himself, soon seeing more sleeping dust. "Looks like our friend got hit with the dust too... It's like their weapon of choice."

Soon something ended up moving out of the corner of Bradley's eye, there was 3 men in suits heading into the factory. He looked over to them and hid behind some stacked bricks, the Warners soon noticing as well.

"Hey, is that Tommy Lee Jones?" Wakko asked curiously. Bradley shushed him and called them over, soon joining him.

"Like we need a Men in Black 4. What're they doing here?" Bradley said to himself. He never saw them before and didn't recognize their faces at all. Their suits were all black while they carried a bag each. Of what, they didn't know yet. They looked empty.

"Is it time to throw caution to the wind again and see what they're up to?" Yakko asked, with Wakko and Dot throwing some toon with a "Caution" name tag into the air to be carried away, who screamed "Not again!" as they blew away.

Bradley sighed a little and nods. "Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Hope they land somewhere safe this time." He said as the suits entered the factory. The group followed them inside and sneaking in through the door, tip-toeing through and making gentle piano key noises as they did so, at least the Warners did. Bradley shushed Yakko, then he did the same to Dot, then to Wakko, then he did it to the music guy behind them, making him shrug and leave as their sneaking was now silent.

Soon they were in the main area of the factory, the human looking around the place. There were so many boxes stacked this time, making the area look like it had hallways. Bradley even had a little flashback to that fight 3 years ago with the cat, Rick and Stan. Other than the boxes and it looking cleaner and with reliable power to it opposed to the flickering before, hardly anything's changed about it. The teen shook his head a little and snapped out of it, focusing back on the task at hand.

The Warners decide to climb up to the top of the box stacks in their tower formation, bringing Bradley up with them as they slowly laid down and crawled along until they spotted the suits. Bradley keeps the three siblings back so they wouldn't be spotted.

They saw what looked like a meeting, between the suits and someone else, someone small that none of them recognized. It looked all black and inky, somewhat like the Warners, but definitely different and a little more threatening. It went around giving the suits spray cans, with Bradley getting a look at the labels. It must've been the ACME Sleeping Dust, but in spray form this time, at least that was what Bradley guessed when he linked it to the dust he saw on the ground before.

The suits were each given notes and pictures too. The four kids didn't get to see much more cause the short thing that passed out the items plopped down a toon hole right after and hopped in, disappearing.

He pulled back and whispered to the Warners. "I've seen that stuff before, that looks like the same dust we found on the ground..."

"You sure that's not just perfume samples?" Dot said, lounging along the crates.

"I don't think so..." Bradley said. "And that other person, I never saw them before... They had a hole with him, so they have to be some kind of toon." He guessed with a shrug. Wakko lets out a little sniff as a little spider was descending on him from above, not seeing it yet.

"Well we've never seen them, and we keep a scrapbook of everyone we met." Yakko said, bringing out said huge scrapbook, opening it, pointing out Donald Duck, Snoopy, Babs and Buster Bunny, Freakazoid, Elmer Fudd with the hat over his head and so on. Dot even pointed out a special occasion photo of Christopher Walken, but he acted so much like a toon anyway, they had to include him.

Meanwhile, when Wakko was about to chow down on a candy bar he brought with him, the spider came down and landed on his big red nose, making him freeze immediately.

Bradley pushed the scrapbook away, looking to the others. "Well they gotta be responsible for the toon-napping..." He said with a quiet tone, looking back at the suits reading the notes, getting a good look at a couple of the pictures. "You're the one with the photographic memory, you think you can get a good look at those pictures?" Bradley said to Yakko.

"You kidding? These babies can catch 20 megapixels easy. Right Wak-" Yakko said proudly before turning to see the middle sibling frozen with the spider on his nose. "Uh-oh..."

Dot also looked at Wakko frozen and staring at the spider too, looking worried. "Now that's not a good expression to have."

"What?" Bradley said before seeing the frozen sibling. "What's wrong, haven't seen him act like this before..." He said a little worriedly. "Well hurry and get the pictures before something else happens, I'll calm him down." The human said as he went over to Wakko while Yakko "snapped" the pictures with each blink of his eyes.

"Don't worry Wakko, it's okay... It's just a small thing..." He said in a soft tone as he slowly took the spider by the web to get it off of Wakko's nose. "See? Just a small little-"

"SPIDER!" Wakko shouted, getting his mallet out and making Bradley let go of the web and back up, shushing him to no avail. With one slam, there was one dead spider and three suits staring right at Yakko when they heard the scream.

"Jeez, almost got my foot..." Bradley said as he went back. "Feel better?" He added. Wakko nodded with a smile as if nothing happened.

Yakko however slunk back to where they were, the suits yelling. "Stop, children! Intruders!" One of them said.

Bradley looked over to the Warners as he got up. That shout was their cue to leave, ASAP. "You got the pictures?" He said, with Yakko nodding.

"Got 'em here!" Yakko said as he knocked on his head.

"Alright, let's get out of here!" Bradley said with an urgent tone. By now, the suits already climbed up the boxes and reached the same level as the kids. There wasn't enough time to plant the holes and escape to Toontown, they had to run. Bradley went one way and the Warners went the other way, making the suits split up as well.

Bradley jumped down to from the boxes to the ground, running and turning corners in these hallways of boxes while one suit tailed him. The other two were chasing after the Warners above them.

The three Warners hopped and went "boingy boingy" around them, confusing the two other suits as they tried going in different directions to catch them to no avail. Dot hopped on the bald head of one of them. "Poor thing needs a wig to keep his head warm. You'll catch a cold in this drab factory!" She said as she brought out a bag and picked out a beehive-style wig to put on the suit's head with a few bees in it "to make it a real beehive", she explained.

The bald suit swatted the insects away as best he could, the other one busy dealing with the other siblings. Yakko and Wakko got out a football and pretended to play a game complete with jerseys and gear, having fun with their chase by confusing and tiring out the other suit. Yakko faked getting caught, instead giving the suit the football, making Wakko go after and tackle him. Dot blew a whistle and threw out a yellow flag acting as the ref, calling that there wasn't enough players so she also joined in on the dog-pile on the suit.

The other one, now free but full of stings, ran after the Warners, making them scatter and leaving the first suit exhausted and groaning on his crate.

Bradley meanwhile was mostly trying to hide, the third suit having a little trouble following him thanks to switching between going above and below. He needed to make sure they'd be safe enough to use their toon holes to get out of there.

The Warners were doing good with holding their own, but Bradley remembered they were armed with that sleeping spray. He managed to dodge a spray of it by rolling under the suit's legs, holding his breath and closing his eyes when he did so to be safe. He reached into his pocket and dropped some marbles on the ground too, tripping up the suit and making him fall down and groan in a bit of pain.

Bradley then got an idea, but started regretting it when he reached for the ACME sleep spray in the suit's hand, the other hand grabbing his own. He was trying to get up while Bradley grabbed the other hand with the spray as he fought and grappled with him. Both hands were gripped tightly with the other's as the suit tossed him around and against one of the boxes, but still didn't let go. He grunted and tried to wiggle out to no avail with a "Let go!", trying to keep the suit from getting a spray off.

The human teen got another idea, slamming the suit's hand against another box to make him let go of the spray can and get distracted enough for Bradley to get out the flashlight from his hammer-space jeans pocket. He flipped it on and flashed it in the suit's eyes to get them closed and to stun him.

Sufficiently distracted, Bradley swiped the spray and gave the suit a good dose of it, making him fall back down with a thud, knocked out in seconds. Bradley smirked and climbed back up the boxes, the other two suits sufficiently thrashed with the Warners' puns and covered with either bee stings or pies and bumps from the mallet and so on. But they already had their own sprays out, about to fire, but the Warners leaped up to make them spray each other. Both suits also fell equally unconscious, all three now in a deep slumber.

Bradley sighed in relief as he joined the Warners again when they were sure the suits were conked out. "Whew, you alright?" He asked with a little worry.

Yakko just waved his hand. "Oh it was fine. We do this all the time with the people that tried to censor us on our show."

"And we even got some practice for football tryouts too!" Wakko said happily, jumping up and down.

While Wakko was doing that, Bradley went to the knocked out suits, humming a little in thought. "We oughta take the pictures and notes from them just in case." He said as he took those things from the sleeping suits, looking at the pictures. "Huh, they all look like toons..." He said, before reading the notes. They all were written the same:

"This toon is your target. Do whatever you want to get them back to me."

Bradley definitely looked worried, these definitely were toon-nappers and they definitely had the tools for the job. He took the spray cans too, pocketing them in his jeans before joining up with the Warners. "Alright, we might as well get out of here, we gotta tell Plotz this now." He said with a tone of urgency.

"Awww, but I wanted to go to the hot-dog eating contest in town..." Wakko said sadly.

"Don't worry, we'll get you a pass for next time." Dot said as she pats his back before he went over to look at the suits. "Until then, we can have our own and you can go against Bradley there."

Bradley shook his head a little, waving his hands. "Uhh, no, I'm good thanks." He said with a laugh. "I probably wouldn't win that one."

"Oh come on, we'll give you a big stomach to go along with your jeans." Yakko suggested with a smirk. "Act now and you'll get the worlds cutest sibling for shipping and handling!" He added as he held Dot up for him.

Bradley just smiled and rolled his eyes. "So silly. Come on, let's go before they wake up." He said as he plopped down his toon hole, the other Warners doing the same as they fell through and back into Toontown. Wakko however had a marker in his hand when he came through a little after them.

From the looks of it, the suits' faces all had different writing on them. One looked like a cat, another like the Joker and the third like a Guy Fawkes mask. It'll definitely be embarrassing when they wake up.

4 PM, in Toontown

The group of four returned to the Warner lot, with the human a little exhausted. "Did not expect to be in any sort of fight today..."

"Well good news, you can join the MMA and be just as convincing in one of their fights." Yakko said with a smirk.

"As fun as that'd be I'm sure, I'll pass." Bradley said as he started walking to Plotz's office with the Warners close behind. Bradley did get to thinking though, who even were those suits, and the person giving them the papers to go after the toons? Without them, the toons on the pictures would be safe for now, but for how long?

In Plotz's office

"So you actually found out who was behind the toon-nappings?" Plotz said when Bradley explained what had happened.

"Yup, at least a part of it." The human said. Yakko hummed and danced a bit until some pictures began printing out from his back pants pocket, with printer sounds coming from it too.

"Because the pants printer from Ned's Declassified needed another cameo." Dot said.

"And no one's patented it yet? What a shame." Yakko responded as he finished dancing, passing the pictures he took to Plotz, along with Bradley's own papers of the toons' pictures and notes.

Plotz read them over, muttering to himself at the suits in the pictures, looking between them and the pictures of toons they were given. "What's this small thing in the pictures?" He asked Bradley.

"I... Honestly don't know what or who that is." Bradley said sadly. "It didn't even say anything, just gave the pictures and off it went through a hole. Then we were spotted and we had to put them to sleep with their own spray." He explained with a little worried tone again, mainly at what they'll do when they wake up.

"Well I didn't expect that little extra development along with the investigation. Other than putting the Warners in danger, that's some good work there. I don't really say that often, so don't get used to it." Plotz said as he wagged a finger at the human when he said that.

"Awww, he cares about us!" Wakko said to Plotz's annoyance as he hopped onto the CEO's head.

"Maybe next he'll send us some unions and a Slap Chop! That'd be the nicest thing he's done for us yet!" Dot said happily.

"No and no, now pipe down!" Plotz shouted, steamed already as he shook his head to get Wakko off of him and back to the others. He sighs a little and looks back to Bradley. "Thanks for bringing these, we'll be sure to keep an eye on these three toons especially. I think it's time you get a break from this, we'll let you know when something like this happens again." He said to the teen.

Bradley nods softly in response and smiles. "Good, break time is always nice to look forward to." He said, then there was a big CRASH. The others looked to Wakko having just smashed Plotz's new desk with his mallet.

"What? What else do you do during 'break time'?" Wakko asked curiously.

Bradley chuckles a little and decides to usher the Warners out before Plotz popped a gasket, back to the water tower. Who was that last toon though, he thought to himself. He decides to keep the sleep spray cans in his hammer-space pockets for safekeeping, who knows when they'll come in handy.

7 PM, in an undisclosed location

"Grr... So you were stopped by 4 kids? 3 toons and a human, correct?" Someone said with a slightly young voice, crossing its arms as the suits returned, with their faces still smudged with marker.

"Yes, we're sorry, and they took the pictures and notes too..." One of them said, the one with the cat face on him.

"Hmph, what a shame." The creature said, looking a little irked, but soon slowly shifted to a grin. "Looks like someone finally figured out what we were doing. At least with these toons specifically that we targeted." It added. "I almost thought this would be too easy. Oh well, round up the next batch of toons. Looks like this could be fun after all, setback or not." It said, the suits nodding. "AND CLEAN YOURSELVES UP ALREADY!" It shouted at them, the three suits nodding and backing away.

"They still don't know what I am either, so that's good... That's the way it should be..." It mumbled to itself. "They need to be taught that being forgotten is all that they'll ever look forward to..."


Ooooh, dark. And the mystery continues to grow, who IS this creature? Find out soon as the story progresses!