Time passed, not much happened the next 5 days, Ralph partied and the others fought the cogs. Time seemed to have slipped away from them as the final day has arrived faster than a cream pie. The toons were at the estate planning out the plan for the day.
"Ok so we are following the same plan as yesterday?" Asked Ralph
"Yes, only we have to meet back here at 11:54 PM so we can meet Lionel's alternate." Said Jinx
Raven groaned "Or make an utter embarrassment out of ourselves..."
Jinx glared at Raven. "Oh yeah science master, please explain the whole deal with why Lionel's reflection is the same as his nightmare counterpart?"
"I-I don't know, reflections have to do with light rays, no matter how hard I try I can't find a scientifically accurate explanation. And I REFUSE to think it's magic, that stuff is fake without a shadow of a doubt. It was most likely something to do with the silly meter." Barked Jinx.
"Settle down ladies, let's just go." All the toons head to the playground
Ralph headed to off to the Party Gate while Lionel, Jinx and Raven Smartygoose met at the gazebo.
"So where should we go? Loopy Lane, Punchline Place or Silly Street?" there was a long silence, finally Lionel spoke "I say we head to Loopy lane" "Sure, why not"
Lionel, Jinx and Raven SmartyGoose enter Loopy Lane. "I'm going to run ahead okay guys?" "That's fine Raven, just stay away from those higher level cogs ok?" "Yeah yeah, I know" Raven ran off.
Somewhere near the HQ she spotted an out of place Legal Eagle. "Huh? Is that a Legal Eagle? I thought those cogs were only seen in Cog Buildings..."
The cog was just standing there not doing anything.
The blue dog carefully approached the robot to investigate.
The Legal Eagle faced Raven.
"Oops, I think I got too close..." woofed raven.
"I am going to give you legaaa- aw forget it... Let's just get this over with." said the cog as they entered battle.
Raven pulled out a cupcake and threw it at the cog.
The Legal Eagle didn't attack back.
Raven was confused at first but just ignored it and pulled out her squirt flower, she pressed the button making it spray the cog.
Once again the cog didn't attack.
Raven went to grab another gag, however she was out. "Rats! I forgot to restock my gags!"
The cog still refused to attack.
Raven called for her friends.
Lionel and Jinx teleported to Raven.
Lionel's jaw dropped. "Is that a flipping Legal Eagle?!"
"No, it's a Bloodsucker." said Raven sarcastically.
Lionel groaned. "Okay okay, no need for sarcasm"
Lionel and Jinx entered the battle.
Jinx looked at Raven's Laff Meter confused, "How come your Laff Meter is still full, shouldn't you have gotten hurt in the time it took to SOS for both me and Lionel?"
Raven shrugged "He hasn't attacked me yet."
"Who cares how she's safe, she just is and that's all that matters." said Lionel.
Lionel and Jinx then looked at each other and nodded and then they both pulled out Seltzer Bottles and sprayed the cog.
The mechanical eagle dusted himself off. "Well?"
"Well what?" asked Lionel.
"Aren't you going to finish me off? It might take a bit but I'll wait."
Lionel jumped back in shock, "Wait, you're TRYING to get yourself killed?!"
"Now let's see, I haven't attacked once even though I could have clearly taken all of you out easily. If that's not a sigh then I don't know what is."
"Let me rephrase the question, why do you want us to kill you?" asked Lionel.
The bird let out a mechanical sigh. "Because, I'd rather die in combat then be stuck in a grey limbo forever. If there is an afterlife for cogs it's got to better then being stuck in a digital vault forever, and even if there isn't one I'll be saving myself the suffering."
The toons looked at themselves confused, then they looked back at the cog.
"How do you know about the vault?" asked Lionel.
The cog looked at the toons with a look that was mixed with concern and confusion. "I thought only us cogs were allowed to know about that, where did you toons hear such information?"
"Oh about that, you're not going to believe me when I tell you this buuuuuut... long story short one night I had a dream where a demonic version of myself told me that on the 19th I'm going to be stuck in a vault for only Disney knows how long." said Lionel.
There was a small silence, Finally the cog replied "Hmm, As unlikely a story that may sound I can easily tell you aren't lying"
Lionel looked at his friends then back to the cog, then he spoke.
"That wasn't all he said. The next night he said that he was able to bring me and 5 other of my friends, I have an open slot. Would you care to come with us?"
Jinx shouted at Lionel, "Lionel are you CRAZY!? He's a cog! Cogs have been trying to suck the fun out of ToonTown for years! And you think it's a good idea to bring one of them to the new world?!"
Lionel glared at Jinx, "The Cogs only do what the CEO, VP, CFO ,CJ and Chairman tells them to do, none of them coming with us... Also need I remind you that he snuck off agents orders just so he wouldn't have to deal with the vault?"
Raven then chimed in. "-and if by any case he's faking being on our side I can always reprogram him, that and we still have our gags"
"Yeah , he's no more a threat to us then we are to him." Stated Lionel.
Jinx tried to make a comeback but failed, she then admits defeat, "Well, umm... Darn I can't argue with that logic."
The Cog looked shocked. "I'm surprised you two are actually supporting me even though I'm a cog, there aren't many toons like you. I'll gladly take you up on that offer Royal Blue Ca-"
"-My name's Lionel..."
"Sorry, Lionel. Anyway as I was saying, I'll gladly except your offer. I must say I was a little skeptical at first, but seeing how your dream counterpart was able to tell you information that is supposed to be highly classified. That's clearly enough evidence for me to believe you."
Everyone was withdrawn from battle due to the lack of anyone attacking.
Lionel looked at his watch, "I think we should get to the estate early just so we won't worry about being late."
"Okay, let's go" Jinx pulled out her Portable Hole and left.
Lionel sighed then whispered Jinx. "HEY! Get back here and walk like the rest of us!"
The black cat replied, "Why do we have to walk?!"
"Because the cog can't follow because he doesn't have a portable hole like we do!" hissed Lionel.
"Oh well, I'm not back tracking" whipped Jinx.
Lionel mewed angrily to her. "Darn..." Lionel looked to everyone and then spoke out loud, "Well looks like Jinx isn't coming back..."
Raven rolled her eyes and muttered to herself, "Of course it's Jinx who ditches us..."
"Okay so we can't use our Portable Holes, are we going to have to walk?" asked Lionel.
Raven looked to Lionel. "No, I've got a better idea!" She puts on her jetpack, "We fly there."
Lionel looked surprised. "Wow, why didn't I think of that? "
The Legal Eagle looked to Raven. "Which one of us is going to have carry him, you or me?"
"How about neither of you..." groaned Lionel.
Raven scoffed, "Oh what, are you going to do, sprout wings out of your back?"
Lionel jumped up in the air and began to fly and then crosses his arms.
Both Raven and the cog were surprised.
"Why didn't you mention your friend was a hacker?" asked the cog.
"He's not, HOW ARE YOU FLYING LIONEL?!" asked raven in shock.
Lionel shrugged.
The cog walked up to Lionel and pointed it's finger at him, "You can't just break the rules like that!"
"Why not? Besides I'll only have these powers for plot convenience. After this scene and the next I won't have them anymore."
The cog glared angrily at the him, "It's not good story writing. Plus you got super powers just for plot convenience, IS that really the best solution the writer of this could think of? I think not!"
"No, but what else could they do?" asked the cat.
"Ghee I don't know maybe have you USE YOUR PORTALE HOLE?! It's right there and would make a lot more since then you magically gaining the power of flight just so we can advance the plot."
"Yeeeah, about that. If I did that I'd be leaving Raven without protection, she doesn't have any gags to defend herself remember?" said Lionel.
"I know but still, I don't think that's a proper way to fix this mess!" groaned the lawbot.
Raven looked over to Lionel and the cog confused, "Umm what are you two talking about?"
Lionel looked to her. "We just broke the Forth Wall, a lot."
Raven looked around and then back to Lionel. "We are outside, There aren't any walls out here!"
The metal bird looked over to the dog, "It's better you not know, it might be too much for you to handle." The cog stepped away from Lionel and a propeller appears on his back, "Anyways, let's stop it with the chit-chat and get moving."
Raven and Lionel nodded in agreement.
Raven looked to the cog, "Wait! Before we leave, can I ask you something?"
The cog looked to the toon. "Of course, just make it quick."
"Okay so I've wondered this for this for the longest time, How is that propeller able to lift you larger cogs?"
The cog thought for a moment before replying, "That's a good question, one that I'm not sure if I can answer."
"That's ok, I'm sure when I look at your coding I might be able to figure it out." Raven got her jetpack ready to take fight. "Let's get moving."
The cog nodded and then the three of them took to the sky.
