The race for Acme Acres v2
chapter 7
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Back with Buster, Babs, Plucky, Hamton, Shirley, Calamity, Little Beeper and Fifi. They were all thinking how to save Furrball.
"Ok, here's the plan. We wait for them to show which teams go next. If only one of our teams goes, the others can sneak into their hotel and see if they have Furrball their." suggested Buster.
"Great idea, Buster." Plucky agreed with his rabbit friend.
"But what if both our teams get picked?" asked Hamton.
'Good question.' Little Beeper's sign read.
'I say we wing it.' read Calamity's sign.
"Calamity, vous are a, how you say, genius." Fifi said smiling.
Calamity smiled at the praise while the teams for the next race had been shown.
On the board, it said...
Round 4: Babs, Shirley, Fifi vs Binky, Margot, Bimbette.
"Well, while you girls race, me and the guys will try and break Furrball out." said Buster.
"OK. Just be careful." Babs said, hugging her boyfriend.
Buster hugged her back while Plucky gave Shirley a thumbs up.
"Good luck Shirl."
"Thanks, Plucky." Shirley said, before hugging him too.
Babs and Shirley ended their hugs as all of them grabbed their boards and headed down to the track.
"Racers, get to your places." Gogo announced.
Babs and the girls glared at Margot and her team as they stood on the starting line.
"What's the matter, stinky polecat? Missing your boyfriend?" Bimbette teased Fifi.
Fifi scowled at Bimbette. "What have vous done to Furrball?"
"Don't worry. He's alright. Unfortunately, you'll never be able to see him again." Bimbette said and started laughing with the other girls.
Fifi was about to tackle the pink skunkette, but Shirley held her back.
"Like, leave them alone, Fifi. They will find out they were wrong or some junk." Shirley told Fifi.
Fifi let out a breath to calm down when the lights began to start.
"Get ready, girls." Babs said.
As soon as the lights hit green, they rocketed over the line and down the road.
Meanwhile, Buster, Plucky, Hamton, Calamity and Little Beeper were looking for Furrball.
They had managed to sneak into the hotel with ease using a cloaking device Calamity made and were in their suite.
"OK. Spread out and look for him." Buster ordered his friends and they all did so.
Plucky threw books from the shelf while Hamton was looking through the fridge.
Little Beeper looked under one of the beds and Calamity looked in the bathroom.
"Find anything?" asked Buster going through the drawers.
"No. It's as if they took him with them when they left." Plucky said.
"That's crazy. How could they hide him with them?" asked Hamton.
"Oh you know how those Perfecto girls are." Plucky said.
"Not really." replied Hamton.
"Calamity, do you have something with you to help us locate Furrball?" Buster asked the coyote.
The coyote scratched his head to think.
'We're waiting.' Little Beeper's sign read, the roadrunner feeling impatient.
'I might have a scanner, but I need some of his DNA.' read his sign.
"And how are we gonna get some of his DNA?" Hamton asked.
"Found some!" called Plucky holding up a strand of hair.
"Good job, Plucky." Buster said.
Calamity took the strand and popped it into the scanner.
They all waited for the scanner to finish.
The result was a red bleep appearing.
The toons gasped.
"The highway?"
"What? That scanner says that they took him back from where they kidnapped him?" Plucky asked.
'Looks like it.' read Little Beeper's sign.
"But why?" Buster wondered.
'No clue.' read Calamity's sign.
"We'll have to go back and find out." Hamton said.
All of them rushed out of there and we find ourselves back to the race.
"They'll never beat the last Perfecto team. Never." Max said while looking at the screen.
Bimbette was trying to run on top of the trucks like last time, but Babs and her team were managing to keep up with them.
"We will finally give them the taste of defeat." Babs said.
"Like, totally." agreed Shirley dodging a motorist.
Babs noticed Fifi was looking sadly. "Fifi, what's wrong?"
"I can't help but worry about Furrball" Fifi answered back.
"Well, we need to focus. Otherwise we won't get him." called Babs dodging a truck.
Buster, Plucky, Hamton, Calamity and Little Beeper arrived back.
"Keep an eye out for Furrball." ordered Buster.
His friends nodded.
And so they spread out to try and find the cat.
Meanwhile, Binky looked behind and saw Babs and her friends catching up. This caused her to glare.
"Not gonna happen." Binky swerved near one of the trucks and pulled a knife out before slashing one of the tires.
"What the?" Babs said surprised.
The result was the truck swerving out of control as the driver jumped out just as it started rolling towards Babs.
"Babs, look out!" Shirley yelled.
Babs narrowly avoided the truck as it crashed and exploded behind her.
"Alright!" Fifi yelled with joy.
But her joy was short lived as Bimbette grabbed one of her grenades.
"Eat this!" Bimbette said, throwing the grenade.
All their eyes widened before they swerved out of the way.
"That did the trick!" Margot said with a smug.
However, the girls managed to stick together and began to gain speed.
"Guess again." Binky said, furiously.
This time Bimbette had a chain of grenades tied together she tossed at the girls.
"Try to avoid this!" Bimbette said smirking.
The girls panicked and tried to find a way around it, but once it hit the highway, the explosion was enough to cause a huge gap to break apart.
"Whoa!" Babs exclaimed.
All of them had to stop as their boards didn't have enough power to make it over the gap.
"Why those cheaters!" Shirley yelled with her blood boiling..
That was when we go back to the boys as Plucky stumbled across a wooden box located near the first highway.
Plucky knocked on the wooden box four times.
He received four knocks in return.
"Yikes!" Plucky panicked.
"What are you doing?" asked Hamton.
"This wooden box answered me!" Plucky told Hamton surprised.
"That's impossible. Unless..." Buster looked over the box and noticed slight gaps in the exterior of it.
Buster looked through the gaps and gasped.
"It's Furrball!" exclaimed Buster tearing at the boards.
"Furrball?" Little Beeper's sign read, the roadrunner looking surprised along with the others.
They helped tear the planks away as the blue cat himself popped his head out.
"Furrball!" Buster said happily.
'Finally. It was getting cramped in there.' read his sign.
Calamity hugged the blue cat. After 5 seconds, they break the hug and Calamity reveals a sign which said 'Are we glad to see you. Are you OK?'
'Never better. How's the race going?' read his sign in reply.
"Babs, Shirley and Fifi are trying to defeat Binky, Margot and Bimbette." Hamton said.
"Uh, guys? Look." said Plucky pointing up.
The others looked at what Plucky was pointing and gasped.
Margot's team had crossed the finish line while Babs and the girls were stuck on the other part of the road.
"The nerve of them!" Buster said crossly.
"Now we're the last team to face them." pointed out Hamton.
'We have to be careful. They are cheating.' Calamity's sign read.