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.

Also sorry for the delay, went through some pretty bad things these last few weeks, just now getting back into this.


Thursday, 1 PM, at Bradley's school in P.E. in the real world

"Man, you actually found who did it?" Stan said as he, Bradley and Rick were running laps around the field outside with the rest of the class as a warm-up, now that lunch was over. The Warners were doing their own thing, using unicycles, bicycles, motorcycles, any kind of cycle they can think of as they lapped the other students. The coach wasn't pleased, continuing to yell at the three toons, but the annoyance was like music to them, and they loved it.

"Yeah, or at least part of them." Bradley said, running alongside him. "They were giving pictures to some guys in suits and telling them to go after them, but we managed to stop them before they got to do it."

"So does that mean this mystery's solved?" Stan wondered out loud, with Rick trailing behind, exclaiming to wait for him, which they did.

"Not really, it's still gonna happen, but we know what's going on, so they got it. They told me to relax and take it easy for a while this time." Bradley said with a smile, the running soon over as they took a little break. "Plotz and my mom both said it's time to focus more on my school and stuff, and with making more friends too." He added as they walked to the middle of the court for dodgeball under the shelter.

"Well good. You're still gonna let us know if you need us, right?" Rick said once he joined the other two.

Bradley nodded and chuckles a little. "Don't worry, I will." He assured them.

Soon the whistle blew and the game got started, the 14 students running to get the dodgeballs. Bradley and Rick managed to get one and tossed them at the others, with Rick managing to get one of them out already. The other team threw an onslaught of dodgeballs at them at once, which the three of them managed to get out of the way, but 2 other kids were in the path and got out.

The Warners ended up joining them as cheerleaders, cheering for Bradley's team. "Go go Bradley's team! If they can't do it... Well, someone else can for them." Yakko said.

Dot nudged his side. "Come on, more pep in that step!" The two brothers looked at her with a weird glance. "I know, that was nauseating to say too." She added with a shudder. "Next time I see my agent, I'm making him write the script next."

Bradley chuckles softly at their banter but didn't lose focus, throwing another ball and getting another person on the other team out. Rick and Stan were doing the lob and toss technique, with Rick tossing one in the air and Stan throwing another one for the out. Bradley hadn't played much dodgeball himself, but it didn't seem too hard, but he spent more time dodging than throwing, getting a close call or two as he rolled out of the way of another ball.

Then he saw a girl on his team actually doing pretty well. She was catching a lot more than throwing, but still got her fair share of throws in. She noticed Bradley and decided to copy the lob and toss technique, with the girl lobbing and Bradley sliding in and tossing it when he caught on to the plan. The Warners on the side cheered on, clapping and cheering incessantly with the coach trying to get them to be quiet.

"What? We're just expressing our true love for throwing stuff at other people for amusement!" Yakko said.

"It's like a hobby to us, really." Wakko said with a bright smile. "Like this!" He added as he tossed a pie in the coach's face, making him growl and blow his whistle, but some of the pie got in it and made the whistle sound rather pathetic now.

"Whew, good, that was getting annoying." Dot said, the brothers agreeing. "Can you imagine something that loud lasting that long?"

Yakko shook his head. "I couldn't for the life of me, sis." He said with crossed arms.

Both teams kept doing as best they could, the lob and toss working at least one more time before the other team could see it coming. They had to resort to distractions, like fake-throwing the ball while another student really threw it to throw them off. Rick didn't catch on in time and tossed his too early, the other team member he was targeting side-stepping and ending up getting Rick out.

However, Bradley, Stan and the girl soon saw the last person on the other team, nervous and staring down the business end on a 3-ball throwing squad. After a drum-roll by the Warners on the side, two of them fake-threw and Stan really threw, getting them out with the other two students throwing their dodgeballs right after for good measure because why not.

Soon the game was over and Stan, Bradley and the girl won the match, cheering amongst themselves happily and giving high-fives, with the students on their team that got out joining in the celebration. The whole game lasted about 5 minutes, which was expected. Bradley and his team got the congrats from the Warners too, throwing out confetti and playing music. The coach soon got his whistle working again though and blew into it, telling everyone to get to their next classes now that P.E. was over.

While everyone was saying "good game" to everyone else, Bradley noticed the girl again and decides to talk to her. "Hey, you were doing really nice with catching all of those dodgeballs." He said.

The girl smiles and nods. "Well I'm just glad I got someone to do the lob and toss technique with me this time." She said, going to her locker to get a book and a snack. Bradley got a better look this time now that nothing was being thrown at them in a court, the girl being around his age of 13 with red ginger hair down to her shoulders. Her complexion was soft and she had only a couple of freckles, and was an inch shorter than Bradley. She looked lithe like he was, even slightly more so, dressed in a white and blue-striped collared shirt and long jeans. She wore a bracelet on her left wrist and her hair style was a single ponytail in the back.

"And the firing squad maneuver too." Bradley said with a little laugh. "The last one really looked scared."

The girl giggles too, closing her locker. "I take it you don't know me, huh?"

Bradley rubbed the back of his head. "Not really, never talked until now." He said with a little bashful smile.

"It's fine." She said, holding out her free hand. "Name's Shannon." She introduced with a friendly expression.

"Bradley." He responded, shaking her hand in his. "Good to meet ya!" He said happily, then the bell rang for class.

"Same to you. Gonna go to class, see ya later?" Shannon asked.

Bradley nods and smiles brightly again. "You bet! Maybe we'll talk once there's no dodgeballs to watch out for."

As Shannon left for her classroom and Bradley turned around, the Warners were grinning ear to ear at the boy, baring all their teeth.

"What?" Bradley said with a chuckle.

"Bradley's got a giiiirlfriend, Bradley's got a giiiirlfriend!" They chanted with bright smiles in a sing-song tone, dancing around him.

Bradley shushed them as best he could, getting to his locker. "What do you mean girlfriend, I only just met her." He said as he opened it and got his stuff for his next class.

"Oh you can't hide it, you know there's love in the air!" Dot said with a bright expression, tossing hearts around which popped in the air after a second.

"Tell her you like Don Knotts videos, she'll fall head over heels!" Wakko suggested, with a "no" from Bradley.

"No no, tell her you know a good hairstylist so your hair can match her's!" Yakko suggested as he brought out with a wig of the same style from behind him, again with a "no".

They continued pestering him through the halls and up to the classroom door, to which Bradley had to yell to get their attention. "STOP, PLEASE!" Bradley screamed, making the Warners freeze with a screech in mid-air. Even the class inside looked out to see what had happened through the window on the door.

He sighed softly and looked at them a little calmer. "Listen... I wanna try to do this on my own this time. I don't even know if it'll go anywhere, but I wanna see how this goes myself, at least for now. If I need your help, I'll let you know, okay?" He explained, trying to not leave things too open-ended so they weren't confused or take it literally.

The Warners nodded and landed back on the ground once he was done talking. "Don't need to tell us twice!" Yakko said with a smile again.

"But 47 times?" Bradley said with a happier tone, dropping the whole angry attitude. He couldn't stay mad at them.

"Or just until they sic Ben Stein on us." Dot said.

"Heh, right." Bradley said as the discussion ended there, heading into class.

3:30 PM

After school was done, Bradley's mom came in to pick him and the Warners up, driving down the road. "So how was your day today?" She asked curiously.

"Went good, dodgeball was a lot of fun while Yakko, Wakko and Dot were cheering us on at the sidelines." Bradley said with a happy tone. "That and we got to see Yakko in a cheerleading outfit."

The other siblings snickered at that, but Yakko wasn't amused. Bradley apologized when he saw that reaction though.

"It's alright, at least you got yourself your girlfriend." Yakko said with a smirk.

Bradley was about to say something when Mom interrupted. "A girlfriend, really?" She said curiously.

"Well, we only just met, she helped our dodgeball team and we talked a bit after. Her name's Shannon." Bradley explained.

"She's got hair as red as fire, and cute freckles to trace out a boat with..." Yakko said dreamily... but in Bradley's voice.

"And she can throw those dodgeballs with the best of 'em..." Dot added with a swoon, also in Bradley's voice.

Bradley snickers and turned back. "Stoooooop!" He said with a smile, knowing they meant well. It seemed like a joke anyway, but who knows what'd happen. She definitely seemed nice, maybe getting to know her more would build that friendship.

"Well it's good you're making more friends at that school, I was worried about those 8th graders I saw earlier while I was waiting on you." Mom said.

Bradley thought a little about that. "Oh, you mean those big guys with football gear and jackets?" Wakko said. "They seemed like a nice bunch, so I offered them some cake!"

Bradley raised a eyebrow at that. "Did you do that while I wasn't looking?"

Wakko smiled brightly and pressed the top of his head, with a screen popping out from his opened cap to show the conversation as if there was an outside camera recording it for a TV show. The three 8th graders told the Warners to get out but to give them the cake anyway. "Well okay, since you asked so nicely." The Yakko in the screen said, holding up the cake while Wakko and Dot put their faces in it before running off. It must've been somewhere else in the school while Bradley was talking to Shannon.

The human teen just huffed and rolled his eyes. "Of course you did."

"Gotta pass the time somehow. It's not like we can watch Cartoon Network and their 24/7 'new favorite show' marathon." Yakko said with a bit of a disgusted face.

"And they wonder why people don't like them anymore." Dot said as she relaxed in her seat.

"Would you rather have Nickelodeon and force your theme sequence to change to all 'Nick' all the time?" Bradley said with a smirk.

"NOOOOOO!" All three Warners screamed, almost making Mom's van swerve off the road.

"That's what I thought." The teen said with a laugh after having to hold onto the overhead handle to be safe. After that, it went back to games as usual on the way to Toontown.

Back in Toontown

They soon went through the tunnel to the Warner lot as the four of them were dropped off back at the tower. The Warners rolled out a red carpet from the door and onto the ground, waving at cameras and paparazzi that happened to show up as well. Bradley rolled his eyes as they relished in their fame, deciding to head out the other way and walk around to Mom so the two of them wouldn't be distracted the the siblings' popularity bit. "Can I ask you something Mom, before you go?" He asked with a softer tone.

Mom nods while the Warners were distracted with the autographs and attention. "Sure, what is it?"

Bradley gently sighed as he explained. "Well, the whole thing with meeting Shannon, and the Warners making a big deal out of it... She did seem really cool though. I think I could talk to her again to see if we can hang out after school next time." He said with a little smile.

Mom couldn't help but feel a little proud of what he said, smiling brighter. "Oh, sure!" She said happily. "I bet you'll be great friends!"

"Yeah, I just hope the others don't really rub it in..." Bradley said with a shrug.

"Rub what in?" Said the familiar voice of Yakko, as the Warners were now right beside him and up close.

The teen jumped a little and sighed, rubbing the back of his head. Still hadn't gotten used to that kind of greeting. "I dunno, food in our faces? Aren't we hungry?" He said, trying to switch topics.

Wakko raised his hand. "Oh ooh, I am!" He said eagerly, listing off lots of foods, normal and combinations alike.

Bradley faced his mom again after a little laugh as Wakko talked. "Well, we'll see either way, I'll let you know how it goes." He said, to which Mom nodded in understanding.

"Alright then, I'll keep an ear open." Mom said as she put the car in reverse.

"If you can't, we got 6 to spare!" Yakko said. Mom said she was fine, laughing a bit too before she backed out and drove out of the lot and towards her toony home, though that happy look faded a little, having missed those kinds of conversations with her son.

Bradley sort of caught the same expression change too before shaking his head. "Daydreaming about Shaaaaanon?" Dot said on his shoulder suddenly, saying her words in a teasing tone.

Bradley rolled his eyes at that and starts to walk to the Water Tower. "Like I said, I don't even know if it'll go anywhere. If you see us holding hands soon, then you can say we're a couple." He said with a laugh.

"Okay, now can you repeat that for clarity?" Yakko said as he held a voice recorder to Bradley's face while Wakko wrote down something, which was really a drawing of a cow.

Bradley snickers a bit at that, pushing the recorder away. "Come on, time for some games, maybe we'll see some reruns of your show on TV." He said with a smile as he soon reached the top, opening the tower door.

"Oh yeah, we were still doing that apparently." Yakko said with a little huff. Bradley looked a bit confused at that.

"I thought you wanted to, Plotz even gave you three another shot, remember?" The human said as they entered the tower.

"Yeah, but we wanted it to be a surprise." Wakko said with a frown.

Bradley thought back and remembered seeing some stuff about the Animaniacs reboot online on their computer a long while ago, humming a little at remembering all those articles about it. "Hmm, right..."

"Now we gotta postpone it longer so we can really surprise them. Cause that's what we're all about!" Yakko added.

In response, Wakko and Dot jumped up in front of Bradley and screamed "EXACTLY!", making him jump back, then laugh.

"And you still do a good job at it." Bradley said with a smile, hopping onto the couch and turning the TV on, indeed having one of their finished new Animaniacs episodes on. Since they were done making them, Toontown would air them first, Bradley personally finding that really a cool perk. The Warners all bunched up together around him, again demonstrating that personal space was a myth to the three toons, and watched the show.

7 PM

The sun was setting and the moon was about to rise, another day come and gone. Bradley was putting some stuff in his hammer-space pants pockets for later, like a phone, the sleeping spray cans he got before, his wallet, the flashlight and a few more gags. He can never be too prepared to when he'll be called to action again.

"You heading out again?" Wakko asked from behind the teen.

Bradley shook his head. "Nah, just preparing just in case."

"In case of what? I always keep extra things in case of a food emergency." The middle sibling said as he pulled out a comically-big turkey leg from under his red hat and bit into it.

Bradley just rolled his eyes with a little smile. "In case Plotz calls me over about the toon-napping case, I can't stop thinking back to that last toon that left when we were at the warehouse." He said as he sat on the bed. "I know he said nothing else has happened yet, but I'm still worried."

"Well don't be, we ain't your normal toons, remember?" Yakko said as he joined the others.

"Besides, with what we've seen, who could possibly WANT to take little ol' us?" Dot added as she walked in.

Thinking back to all those episodes Bradley had seen, she had a point, shrugging. "Eh, fair enough. Other than me, of course." He said with a proud smile.

"Well ain't you a special one." Yakko said as a joke, meaning well.

Bradley snickers at that, heading outside to the edge of the Water Tower with them. "I just hope we can solve this mystery soon though. Maybe I just need to take my mind off of it though..." He said as he watched the sunset.

The Warners got together and muttered some gibberish to themselves, thinking of an idea, before breaking the huddle. "Then kid, have we got an idea for you!" Dot said happily.

The human turned around to see them. "Yeah?" He said curiously, clearing his throat because puberty. "What is it?"

Yakko walked over, leaning on the railing of the tower with a smile. "When was the last time you saw something 3D here?" He asked.

Bradley hummed a bit in thought for a second. "I... Don't think we've ever seen something in 3D here yet." He said, leaning on the railing too. "Why do you ask?"

"Then we've got something really fun to show you!" Wakko said happily with his goofy smile.

"It's a no-no place to Plotzy, so that means it's REALLY fun!" Dot added, hopping onto the railing too, balancing on it like nothing.

"Well what is it then?" Bradley said with a little chuckle, all that build-up must be leading up to something really good. The Warners all smirked and dropped down a rather big toon hole to the ground at the bottom of the tower, then all held on to each other's hands as they hopped onto the railing and brought Bradley with them.

"One, two, three!" They shouted before jumping with Bradley in their hands before the human could say anything to object, ending up screaming as the four of them fell through the whole and up somewhere else, with the teen panicking cause he didn't know where they would take him.

At the other side

The four kids hopped out from the other side of the toon hole and landed on their feet, with the human looking more than surprised and almost falling on his butt, but managing to recover.

"I'd like to see Disney World try to have a ride THAT intense." Dot said with that smirk again, hands on her hips.

Bradley shook his head as he got back up. "Jeez... Where'd we go anyway?" He asked with a curious tone, looking everywhere but behind him. The Warners fixed that by turning him right around. When they did, the boy saw what looked like a huge city, full of lights and people, but unlike Toontown, it was all full of 3D characters walking along the roads and wasn't bouncing around every so often.

The human looked even more surprised, he never saw this place before. "What is this, where'd you find it?" He said in awe.

"The things you can do with a spyglass these years." Yakko said with a proud tone.

The Warners then hopped in front of him, about to say something in unison with a drum roll sound in the background. "Bradley... Welcome to CGI City!"


Author's Note: Sorry this wasn't out sooner, life hit me pretty hard lately. That and I was kind of stuck on a couple of parts on how to continue this. But we finally did it, now onto the next part, which hopefully won't take forever this time!