ANOTHER DISCLAIMER: "Cars" is a trademark and copyright of Pixar and Buena Vista International. The "Betty Rubble Center" is taken from the "Off the Mark" comic strip, created by Mark Parisi. I do not own these.

Chapter Two: Hurt and Heal

Later, Daffy Duck was reading the newspaper. It was a late evening. He found an article that grabbed his attention.

"Look! Cars won the Annie Award!" Daffy angrily shouted. He then threw the newspaper on the ground.

"I knew it would," Wile E. Coyote sadly said. "I just didn't say anything."

"Oh! YOU knew it would win! HOW DID YOU KNOW?" Daffy screamed.

"Well, how do I put this?" Wile E. began. "Because it's a PIXAR movie!" he angrily told Daffy. "It doesn't matter if the plot is good or bad, and it doesn't matter if it becomes a box-office smash, and it doesn't matter if the soundtrack is a full, lush orchestral score or a cheap synthesized score. The fact that makes it a shoe-in is because it is a Pixar film!"

Bugs Bunny entered, just having taken a shower. "Eh, what's going on, Duck?" he asked, with a bathing cap on and holding a towel.

"Just look at this!" Daffy zoomed the newspaper up to Bugs Bunny's face. "ANOTHER Pixar film won this year's Annie Awards!"

"It did WHAT?!" Bugs Bunny made an awful face. His left eye bugged out and showed its veins, and his teeth were clenched. A loud fire alarm rang inside his head, and then he ran out of the house screaming, doffing his towel and bathing cap. He fell down the steps and crashed to the ground.

…

Later, Bugs Bunny was over at the Betty Rubble Center. It was a hospital for recovering 'toons that were in accidents or were being recovered from addictions and sicknesses. In one room, Linus Van Pelt was being treated for his "Great Pumpkin"-imagining and hallucinations. In another room, Popeye was being deprived from his steroid-filled spinach. And in another room, Sneezy from the seven dwarves had a terrible cold. But in the room where Bugs was in, the rabbit was sitting in a wheelchair. He had a broken leg, and it was in a cast. Daffy and Wile E. came to visit him, of course. And so did Porky Pig and Sylvester and the Tasmanian Devil and Lola Bunny.

Porky began, "We're-a a-really s-s-sorry for what happened to you Mr. Bu-bu-bu-bu, Mr. Bu-bu… er, Bugs."

"It's all right…" Bugs moaned. "It was Pixar's fault."

"Ooh…" Sylvester shuddered. "I hate Pixar!"

Lola said, "I hope you get well soon, Bugs." She kissed Bugs on the cheek. This caused Bugs Bunny's eyes to form into hearts for a few seconds as Bugs began babbling stupidly, like a toon in love typically would.

"So, what happened?" Sylvester asked.

Wile E. Coyote explained, "We told Bugs Bunny that Pixar's 'Cars' movie won the Annie Awards, and Bugs Bunny just had a major freak-out! He raced out of the house and fell down the porch steps, breaking his leg. I didn't expect him to take it so seriously."

"I was angered at that 500th achievement Pixar made, too!" Daffy said. "But at least I didn't do something stupid like Bugs did!"

"Yes, but why don't you guys go on ahead and let Bugs heal?" Wile E. suggested. The gang left, except for Bugs, Daffy and the coyote. They pushed Bugs in his wheelchair.

Bugs explained, "Da doctor said it was a minor stress fracture. Dey had to give me a booster shot in my butt! Then dey put my cast on."

"I'm glad you didn't kill yourself," Wile E. said.

"Yeah, me too," Daffy added. "So Bugs, how ya feeling?"

Bugs angrily said, "I now vow revenge on Pixar!"

Daffy evilly smiled. "Hey, I'm with ya, bub!"

"Here we go again…" the coyote said to himself.

…

That night, Bugs and Daffy were in Wile E. Coyote's living room. The only sole light was from a floor lamp. The two former cartoon stars had a map laid out on a table, and they had some small figures and models, too. "OK, so here's da plan," Bugs Bunny began from his wheelchair.

"We're gonna ambush them, right?" Daffy asked.

"No," Bugs said. "Villains always fall for cheesy disguises, right? So we disguise ourselves! Then, when they least expect them, we make da company go BANKRUPT!"

Daffy said, "Say, that's a great idea! But what shall we disguise as?"

"Well dey already know about you," Bugs said, "so we'll have to put you in a really convincing disguise… hmm, how about a fox? I still got the costume I wore in that 'Foxy by Proxy' cartoon I did once to fool the hunting dogs. I will just pretend to be a special executive, which WILL be a rabbit, congratulating dem and giving dem a big, fat check! Then, you sneak into their computer room and mess everything up! Dey will lose everything!"

Laughing, Daffy said, "Gosh, Bugs old pal, you really are a stinker!"

"Yeah! Ain't I?"

But unknown to them, Wile E. Coyote was overhearing the plan from upstairs. He was wearing his nightshirt and slippers. He was nervous. "I must stop them!" he said. "If they mess with Pixar, they'll be in jeopardy, and I do not mean the game show!"

From downstairs, Daffy said, "Now Pixar's really gonna get it! Woo-hoo!"