LATER...
"It seems bleak, but let's remember, there's an entire half left to play." Ernie commentated while he and Lil Rey waited for the game to start again, along with other characters in The Serververse such as Peter Potamus who tried to get a closer look with his telescope.
"Ohh... that first half was interminable..." Marvin groaned as he rubbed his head after popping up. Suddenly, he got flattened by the deck of his own spaceship. "Are you kidding me?!"
Immediately, Daffy and Plucky ran out with construction gear and began setting up a platform.
"You okay, Daddy-o?" Marcia asked Marvin.
"Help me!" Marvin grunted and groaned.
"'Scuse us, people! Ducks at work here!" Plucky called out as he worked with Daffy.
The two ducks were drilling, hammering, pounding, and even had time to eat sandwiches in the meantime during their construction work before they put up an orange tarp that looked rather familiar with a certain circular logo.
"I-I-It's-" Porky stuttered as he came out of the center.
"Showtime!" Hamton, Plucky, and Daffy cheered as they came out next along with the other Tiny Toons and Looney Tunes.
"We're invading your TV!" Babs and Buster added as they popped out with the rest of their Tiny Toon gang.
"Yeah! Let's go, Tunes!" LeBron beamed as the crowd cheered while he came out of the spaceship next with Bugs by his side. "Yep, we in here. Are we ready?" he then smiled at his teammates as they all slapped fives (and fours) together. "Tune Squad, we in the building! Ha-ha. Yes, sir!"
"And now, the real battle begins." Lionel said as he rejoined the others in their seats.
"I told you guys I wouldn't let you down." Cherry said once she got comfortable.
"Sure..." Atticus responded with a smirk. "Anyways, here we go."
One by one, the Tune Squad stepped forth, led by LeBron. Al G smirked at LeBron who just smirked back while the Looney Tunes joined his sides, making goofy faces at their opponents.
"Hey, they may be down a gazillion points, but LeBron James and the Tunes are coming back out here for the third quarter with some renewed energy." Ernie commentated.
"And I don't understand why," Lil Rey replied. "They are losing really badly."
They soon heard the sound of the buzzer as the next part of the game was about to start.
"All right, here we go in the third quarter." Ernie then stated.
"Aw, yeah," said Brow as he stepped before Tweety, who was holding up the ball. "Bird vs. Baby bird!"
"Do you have your ticket?" asked Tweety. "Because the 11:59 express is wight on time~!"
"Hmm? Huh?" Brow asked out of confusion until he heard the blare of a train horn. When he turned to the side, he saw a speeding train suddenly coming out from a painted tunnel, causing Wile E and Calamity to smirk as they were responsible for that.
Tweety chuckled at the two mute coyotes before tossing the ball to Bugs. "Cwassic."
Bugs soon caught the ball and smirked as he munched on a carrot.
"Gimme that ball, Rabbit!" Wet Fire glared as he stormed towards Bugs.
However, at the last second, Gossamer stepped in and poked his finger out, soaking up Wet Fire's water like a sponge.
"Someone's absorbed in the game." Buster chuckled.
"Well said, my little friend." Bugs agreed before he then tossed the ball to LeBron next.
LeBron caught the ball in his hands before he whistled for someone. The Roadrunner then zipped by quickly, snatching the ball right away as Brow, White Mamba, and Arachneka surrounded him.
"Hey, guys." LeBron greeted casually, showing that he was empty-handed.
"Where's the ball?" Brow demanded.
The Roadrunner sped by again before temporarily slowing down. "Beep, beep~" he then said in "Acmevision Slow-Mo", covering everyone in smoke briefly.
The smoke then cleared as Tweety had the ball then and shot the next basket for his team, giving The Tune Squad now 75 points on the scoreboard.
"Oh, no! Are you kidding me?" Al G complained once he saw that. "Roadrunner smokescreen? It's the oldest trick in the book!"
"I gotta try that sometime, huh guys?" Rev asked his fellow Loonatics, speaking in a very fast pace that it was hard to understand what he was saying most of the time, being the descendant of The Roadrunner after all.
"Tweety!" LeBron yelled out with a thumbs-up.
"Ooo, swam-dunk!" Tweety beamed with pride.
"Just like I draw'd him!" Daffy beamed.
"Gossamer! He's the quicker, ah say, the quicker picker-uppah!" Foghorn Leghorn joked as he squeezed the red monster out like a sponge in a bucket, as Wetfire popped up, rubbing his head in confusion.
"Boy, Wet Fire, you look a little... washed up!" Atticus told him before laughing at his own corny joke.
"Booo." Lionel said flatly.
"Oh, what a no-look pass ahead to Dom!" said Ernie as the game continued, with White Mamba chucking the ball to Dom. "And it looks like the Goons are playing keep-away!"
Dom caught the ball before dribbling it, then passing to Brow on their side of the court.
Suddenly, Ernie and Lil Rey began to hear static and checked their headphones before everything went black and white as Bugs took over the commentary.
"Dom passes to Wet Fire. Wet Fire back to Brow. He's gonna dunk... Oh! But he freezes at the rim!" Bugs commentated as he made a reference to The Wild World of Sports.
"Oh... Huh?" Brow blinked in confusion as he was frozen in place.
"Uh, Bugs, what's going on here?" Cherry asked out of confusion.
"Like it, Cher? I'm giving new meaning to 'suspended from the game'!" Bugs explained with a smirk.
"Ha." Cherry rolled her eyes, but smirked at that.
Al G had enough however as he swiped the microphone away from Bugs as the color came back. "Gimme that!" he then glared at the gray rabbit.
"Hey!" Babs glared.
"Not cool, dude!" Buster added.
"But the Goons fast break, take it to the other end!" Al G soon said once he took the microphone. "These silly Tunes don't have what it takes to win."
Suddenly, everything went dark and it turned into an epic rap battle.
"Now you've done it," Hamton told Al G. "You started an epic rap battle."
"No, wait, wait. I wasn't trying to start a-" Al G panicked as he tried to stop the hip hop music.
"Oh, we rappin' now? We rappin'?" Daffy challenged as he and the other Tunes dressed like gangsta rappers. "Hey, Porky, fry 'em."
"Fry 'em? M-M-Me?" Porky asked nervously.
"Show 'em who you really are, Notorious P.I.G." Plucky urged the older pig as he gave him his own microphone.
Porky wiped his head as he stepped up. "Oh... Oh, boy. Here goes nothin'." he said as he started stammering... and then it began sounding like a record scratch. " What up? It's Porky Pig! They call me P-Double! Al G, step to me? He don't want no trouble! "
"Boo!" yelled the Brow.
" I was famous before the internets! Since 1935 I've been getting respect " Porky continued. " This pig is lit! I'm super legit, everytime I'm out in public people askin' me for pics! You, nobody knows you when you walk the street; how your last name Rhythm and you still off-beat? "
"Off-beat!" shouted Plucky.
" From beginning to the end, I'm here for all the smoke! Your squad ain't all-star, your squad is all jokes! " Hamton joined in.
"All jokes!" whooped Monty.
" End this with one bar, most famous of all quotes; this battle is now over, Th-That, that's all, folks! " Porky concluded as he dropped the mike.
Everyone then cheered for Porky for the rap while Tweety flew by in his own astonishment.
"That's all, folks!" Mo smirked after the epic rap from Porky Pig of all characters.
"Get off the stage!" The Brow complained.
There were then 50 bonus points added for time, points, and style altogether, giving The Tune Squad 251 points including a Mic Drop from the rap number.
"Style points!" LeBron cheered as an air horn was heard tooting through the crowd's excitement.
"I'm not exactly sure what we just witnessed here." Ernie remarked.
"He just got bonus points for those bars," Lil Rey laughed. "He was spittin' hot fire."
"Yeah!" Ernie added.
"Sweet, 251!" Lionel beamed. "And they'll need every point they can get!"
"Taz brings it up. He can really pat the rock." Ernie soon commentated.
Taz babbled as he dribbled the ball only for Brow to zoom by and take the ball with his wings.
"And it's stolen by The Brow!" Ernie then added as Taz fell on the floor.
"Back to Tasmania, ya little devil." The Brow mocked as he stole the ball.
"Well!" A tall and dashing man with dark hair and deep brown eyes named Lucifer Morningstar scoffed in a British accent as he crossed his arms, taking offense to that.
"Let it go, Lucifer." A woman with a dirty blonde ponytail told him.
Dizzy Devil soon came over to his mentor and offered some advice for the older Tasmanian Devil before spinning in his own tornado. Taz then gibbered in response before he spun into his trademark tornado, making the whole courtyard spin around with him.
"Ooh! Twister bonus!" Ace cheered.
"Let's see you try that sometime, Slam." Duck smirked at their Tasmanian Devil teammate.
Slam snarled and warned Duck not to cross him as now The Tune Squad had 476 points. Roadrunner was using one of Wile E.'s machines to clone the ball and fire them into the hoop. This boosted the TuneSquad's points up to 488... then 503... then 515!
"Now that's what I call a MULTI-BALL!" Lionel exclaimed.
Dom frowned as he began to realize that Al G wasn't the friend that he thought the man was before looking amazed at what Wile E. and The Roadrunner were doing. "Whoa." he said with a smile.
"Whoa! Watch out, buddy!" Tech warned his ancestor.
Wile E. soon got his tail caught in the device and began to clang around on the inside.
"Look out!" Ernie exclaimed as he saw that. "Looks like Wile E.'s gotten himself mixed up in the machine."
Several Wile E.'s soon burst out of the machine and four held up signs together that read "What Have I Done?". Soon, the several balls and the coyotes were dunked into the basket and now The Tune Squad had 1,000 points.
"And just like that, the Tunes have a thousand points on the board!" Ernie commentated.
"All right!" Atticus cheered for The Tune Squad with his friends and the crowd.
"We havin' fun yet?" LeBron asked his son playfully as The Roadrunner and Li'l Beeper rode by on a Zamboni to clean up the coyote and ball mess.
"They're gonna clean these coyotes off the court and keep the game going." Ernie then remarked.
"What's wrong, Al?" Dom laughed and beamed, seeing Al G frustrated. "That was awesome."
"What do you mean, 'What's wrong?' They're catching up," Al G glared before he decided to signal Chronos. "Run Dame Time." he then commanded.
Chronos then stood up off the bench and came to take his turn in the game.
"Oh, no! Not him again." Buster complained.
"He's gonna make bacon out of the Looney Tunes!" Hamton panicked.
"Oh, don't worry. Time's on our side," Mary Melody said before facing the iconic old woman of the Looney Tunes. "Granny, I think you should maybe help out for this round." she then suggested as she was the closest thing that Granny had to a personal student in Acme Looniversity.
"Certainly, dear~" Granny replied before she took out her walker and began to hobble over onto the court.
"She knows time is literally on their side, right?" Daffy asked.
"Just trust me on this." Mary told him confidently.
"I'm goin' old-school on his butt!" Granny declared. She suddenly jumped up and spun around atop her walker, before landing in front of it.
"Whoa." LeBron remarked in awe.
"Whoa is right." Atticus agreed.
Chronos soon dribbled the ball at rapid speed back and forth before balancing the ball on his fingertip and spun it.
"Come on." Granny challenged as she gestured for Chronos to come forward.
Chronos glared and soon came right toward her, charging with the ball.
"Stop!" Granny then called as she held out her hand and somehow made him stop at a very slow pace before she then cartwheeled over him, going straight for the ball. "Tick-tock~" she then taunted as she made him age several years, even older than her.
Chronos soon went super slow and turned into a rusting old man, even with a beard before he held his back, having new aches and pains in his body suddenly.
"HYAH!" Granny yelled out as she kicked the ball, giving the Tune Squad a "Senior Discount" with 30 extra points.
"She is the one." LeBron murmured in shock as he saw that along with Bugs.
"I told you guys Granny could handle this one." Mary said to her fellow Tiny Toons.
"Sorry for doubting." commented Lightning.
"Looks like Chronos has gotten RUSTY!" Lionel remarked.
"I'm not sure if even an oil can can save the day here." Cherry remarked.
There was a squeaky and grunting sound heard then.
"No offense." Cherry said as she looked over, seeing Dorothy Gale and The Scarecrow trying to tend to their Tin Man friend who appeared to need his oil can.
"None taken." Dorothy and The Scarecrow reassured her.
"What in the AARP is going on out here?!" Al G complained once his team started to lose against The Tune Squad.
Wet Fire dribbled the ball until LeBron walked through him, splashing a bit, as he stole the ball right then before passing it.
"I got hops! Whoo!" Lola laughed as she dribbled the ball, slid on the floor, and hopped around while avoiding The Good Squad.
"Too bad she doesn't have Brain Blasts like me." Lexi commented.
"And you're both not super hilarious like me." Babs added with a boastful grin on her face.
"And so humble." Lionel commented sarcastically.
Babs sent him a look for that.
"Lola!" LeBron soon called out as he was open.
"Gotcha, Bron!" Lola replied as she tossed him the ball.
LeBron soon jumped up high, much to the shock of the crowd as he caught the ball before dunking it and yelling out like Michael Jordan scoring the winning basket from 25 years ago, giving the Tune Squad now 1,040 points with a picture of Gossomer that had a caption called "Monstar Jam". Al G then let out a horrified shriek at that while The Nerdlucks cheered for The Tune Squad. The James family even looked pumped over the game since LeBron's team was finally catching up.
"And the Tunes take the lead! What a play from Lola and LeBron James!" Ernie cheered. "A Monstar jam! LeBron came back from three-one down. Can he come back from this far back?" he then added.
"Let me tell you this, I woke up today and only knew one world," Lil Rey remarked. "Then I got sucked into my phone, and at this point, anything's possible!" he then added with a heart-filled laugh.
"Way to go, Tunes!" Bugs exclaimed as LeBron and Foghorn did a chest-bump.
"Ah say, that's awright!" Foghorn beamed.
"Cowabunga!" Lionel whooped as he and Taz did multiple hi-5's.
"This is some fun basketball right here!" LeBron beamed at his team. "Be yourselves! Be yourselves!"
Fowlmouth was even cheering for The Tune Squad, though he had to be escorted away due to using some salty language. Shirley the Loon rolled her eyes and face-palmed at him, feeling embarrassed to be seen with him. Dom frowned as he watched how happy and excited his father was which began to make him have some second thoughts over what led to this whole adventure in the first place.
"Hey, Dom, are you a Tune or are you a Goon?" Al G called out to the boy. "Tune or Goon? Tune or Goon? Make up your mind. Make up your mind."
Dom then looked over at him and went to sit with the rest of The Good Squad.
"Let's go. Sit down." Al G then urged him.
"Yeah!" Atticus smiled at the Looney Tunes. "Way to get looney out there."
"We did it!" Tweety beamed.
"Michael would be proud of you guys." Cherry told them.
"I sure am, guys, I sure am." Michael B. Jordan chuckled as he was shown, eating some popcorn.
"What the-?" Cherry asked him before shoving the actor away. "Would you get out of here?!" she then complained to him.
"Hey! What did I do?! Come on!" Michael B. Jordan complained at this sort of treatment.
"Everybody happy, huh? Everybody having a good time? Yeah? You having a lot of fun out there? 'Cuz that's all that matters, right? Is that you're having fun!" Al G soon said to his team, getting more and more angry and tense all of a sudden. "THAT DOESN'T MATTER AT ALL! WHAT MATTERS IS THAT I WIN THIS (bleep) GAME! Oh, and you, Dom," he then added before facing the young boy who began to look unhappy. "HOW ARE YOU LOSING AT YOUR OWN GAME?! FOR SERVER'S SAKE, I DIDN'T EVEN THINK THAT WAS POSSIBLE! I EXPECTED A LOT MORE OUT OF YOU, SON! GET YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME! I NEED TO WIN! I'M STARTING TO THINK I'D HAVE BETTER LUCK IF I HAD KIDNAPPED THOSE TINY TOONS OR BRAINWASHED THOSE SO-CALLED LOONATICS UNLEASHED ON THIS TEAM! WE EVEN COULD'VE USED BETTER ATHLETES LIKE TIGER WOODS OR TONY HAWK!"
Dom glanced over at LeBron, who gave him an aside glance.
"Yeah... maybe your dad was right about you," sneered Al G. "Letting you be you was a mistake."
Dom frowned as he began to feel very bad now.
Al G then went to sit down on the bench with his team only to land on the floor suddenly. "Okay. If everybody would move down, then we could all sit on the bench. Let's all sit on the bench!" he then told the others as they scooched over slightly.
"Whoo-hoo! Yee-haw!" Yosemite Sam cheered as LeBron seemed to be distracted from his team.
"Drinks on me!" Granny jeered.
"Boy, that wath awethome!" Sylvester beamed.
"Go team!" Hamton added.
"Now that's what I call momentum, son." Foghorn nodded.
"Way to go!" Tweety cheered.
"I'm so tickled." Porky chuckled.
"Hey, LeBron? You okay?" Cherry called as she came up to the man, putting her hand on his arm in empathy.
LeBron looked back at her before he focused again and nodded in determination. "Let's end this. I'm getting my son back." he then told everybody on his side.
"Yeah! Let's take it to 'em!" Lionel beamed. "Awright-awright-awriiiight!"
The Looney Tunes then strode out onto the courtyard once they were now in the fourth quarter.
"And thanks for everything." LeBron then said to Atticus, Cherry, Lionel, and Mo.
"Just doing our jobs, sir." Cherry replied as she saluted him.
"What's with that outfit though?" LeBron then asked her as she wore an orange jacket, a white undershirt, black pants, and black shoes. "It's so 1991."
"It's my tribute to the other best-known MJ of the world," Cherry defended and crossed her arms. "Now get going and get outta jam." she then added, making a song reference.
LeBron nodded and went out onto the field, getting ready for the final showdown. Cherry then decided to play some music to help get everybody in the mood for the final quarter of the game. Lola tossed the ball to LeBron as everybody else got into position.
"So, uh, anyone interesting in the crowd that I missed?" Cherry asked Lionel, looking over his notepad of random characters. "The Jetsons, The Wicked Witch of the West, Pennywise the Dancing Clown, Kayley and Garrett from that one time we did a quest for Camelot..." she then added.
"Peter Potamus, The Flintstones and the Rubbles, Magilla Gorilla," Lionel listed off. "Also Adam West Batman and Robin, Jim Carrey as The Mask, Penelope Pitstop, The Herculoids..."
"Hm... sorry that I missed most of them." Cherry remarked and nodded.
"Aw, you're okay." Lionel reassured her.
Cherry nodded as they started to watch more of the game together.
"Iso. Clear out." LeBron soon started to say.
Elmer panted and rushed out of the way as Dom was close in his father's line of sight. LeBron continued to dribble the ball as he shared eye contact with his son. Bugs and Lola were soon running across the court together.
"I wonder what move he's gonna do?" Bugs commented.
"The post-up?" Lola guessed.
"Maybe the fadeaway." Sylvester suggested.
"He's gonna dunk all over him." Speedy piped up.
"Look at that kid!" Daffy laughed at Dom. "Kid's too small."
"Shortstuff!" Plucky added.
LeBron continued to dribble the ball until he stood right in front of his son and stopped, holding the ball in his arm.
Dom then looked around in confusion before facing his father again. "Dad, what are you doing? We're in the middle of a game." he then reminded his father.
"Hey, what's goin' on?" Ace wondered.
"I don't know." Lexi shrugged in response.
"Dad..." Dom frowned in concern.
"Dom, your game is amazing, son, but I guess I would've known that if I would've listened more. Sorry I didn't," LeBron soon told his son gently. "For me, when I was a kid, the things that I went through to get where I am now, I had to be a certain way," he then added before sighing. "Yeah, it helped me win games, but not so much being a dad. I'm still learning how. You're teaching me. I want you to be yourself. Do you understand how much I love you? Do you understand how important you are to me? How very special you are? I mean, I don't even know if I'm saying this right." he then added before he tossed the ball away, sending it bouncing down the courtyard.
Dom looked silent and distant for a few moments until he finally spoke again and gave his father a hug right away. "Sounds right to me. I love you, Dad." he then said softly in the hug.
"I love you too, son." LeBron smiled as he hugged Dom back.
Immediately, everyone applauded at this.
"Oh, now, that's beautiful." commented Babs.
"Let's go!" cheered Granny.
"Whoo!" beamed Yosemite Sam.
"I think I'm gonna cry." Lola said as she wiped her eyes.
"Not me..." Bugs sniffled, before he burst into tears. "BUWAAAAAAGH~!"
"Bugs, pull it together." Lola insisted.
Cherry's eyes flashed into a rainbow pattern before going back to their normal chocolate brown once she felt The Element of Empathy deep within her dark and icy soul.
"DOM!" Kamiyah soon called out to her and LeBron's younger son. "Dom!"
"Mom!" Dom called back, seeing his mother before waving at his little sister. "Hey, Xosha!" he then added.
"Are you serious?" Al G glared as he came by before glaring dangerously at the crowd. "ZIP IT!" he then told them, forcing them to quiet down.
"Hey! Don't ruin the good moment!" Cherry snapped.
"You be quiet in particular!" Al G told her before he scoffed at LeBron and Dom. "You two are a joke, you know that?"
"I got this, Dad," said Dom as he stepped up.
"Oh, what? You got something to say?" mocked Al G.
"Yeah," replied Dom. "I think you want people to fear you more than anything. And I'm not about that, Al G. I'm playing with my dad."
"First of all, it's 'MISTER Rhythm' to you, you little traitor," snapped Al G. "Second of all, you're not; you're playing AGAINST your dad." he pointed at his jersey. "See what this says? "Goon Squad." You already made your choice, Dom." he looked to his diminutive partner. "Right, Pete? He can't…" but then he did a double-take when he saw the little guy's eyes quivering. "Pete, are you crying? There's no crying in the Serververse, Pete!"
Dom smirked as he backed off, joining up with the Tune Squad.
Al G. scoffed at this. "All right. Yeah, all right... I see how it is, Dom. I see how it is," he snapped. "I GAVE YOU EVERYTHING!"
"Yeah, well Nuts to You!" Lionel remarked, pulling the sides of his mouth and sticking out his tongue.
"I say, I say, good to have you, son." Foghorn said before fist-bumping Dom.
"Great spot for you right here, kid." Daffy added kindly.
"We got 'em now!" Yosemite Sam cheered as Dom came to sit on the bench with his father's team.
"Bienvenido, senorito!" Speedy beamed. "Somebody get him a new jersey."
"Welcome to the hunt." Elmer told Dom.
"Thufferin' thuccotasth!" Sylvester exclaimed.
"I made this, just in case." Granny told LeBron as she held out a jersey with the number 7 on it for him to give to his son.
"Thanks, Granny." LeBron smiled back at her as he accepted the jersey.
"Eh. What's up, Dom?" Bugs greeted Dom, putting a spin on his usual catchphrase.
"Oh, it's so nice to meet you." Lola added.
"Here you go, Dom." LeBron said, giving Dom the jersey.
"Thanks, Dad." Dom smiled as he took it right away.
"Weally gwad to have you on the team!" Tweey beamed at the boy.
"Welcome to The Tune Squad, kid." Cherry told Dom kindly.
"Thanks," Dom replied. "Are you guys Looney Tunes too?" he then asked, looking at her, Lionel, Atticus, and Mo.
"Not exactly, it's a bit of a long story." Mo replied.
"Especially with me here instead of with my study group, but I guess I work too hard in college anyway." Sabrina added.
"How about you guys?" Dom then asked the Tiny Toons.
"Eh, we sorta are Looney Tunes, but at the same time we're not," Buster explained. "I guess you'd be too young to know about us Tiny Toons and our adventures."
"Basically." Lionel nodded.
"You wanna join these losers?" snapped Al G. "You go ahead, Dom. 'Cuz it's not your game anymore... I AM THE GAME! King Kong ain't got NOTHIN' on me!"
The famed ape himself, who was seated next to Frankenstein Jr, gasped, and crossed his arms, as if he were saying "Well, I NEVER!"
"Hey, Kong." Sawyer greeted the giant ape.
"Hey, Sawyer." Kong replied as they seemed to know each other.
Al G soon began to glitch out a bit and transformed into a whole new form that nearly matched the rest of the Goon Squad and he even grew in size, giving himself his own sports jersey.
"Did you see that?" Lil Rey asked out of shock.
"Uh-huh." Ernie nodded, looking shocked as well.
"The man just grew, like, five feet." Lil Rey then added.
"Dang..." Ace gulped as he saw that with his fellow Loonatics. "Any chance that he could be stronger than the comet that hit us all the way in the 28th century?" he then asked.
"Uh-uh." The others mumbled and shook their heads.
"Yo, King," Al G mocked LeBron as his voice sounded creepy and dangerous. "You're about to lose your family, your friends, those Tunes, everything you love."
"I don't think so." LeBron remarked.
"Oh, it's on." said Bugs as he did a fist-bump with his ears.
"If he wants to cheat... then I say we teach 'im a lesson!" Lionel remarked as he cracked his knuckles.
"You said it, buddy," Bugs nodded. "Speaking of which... Cherry?"
"Yeah?" Cherry replied.
"Why don't you guys help us out a little like in the old days, huh?" Bugs suggested. "I like the way this Lionel friend of yours thinks. He's really got Looney Tune potential." he then added.
"Who, me? Awwww, sheesh!" Lionel blushed as he fiddled with his fingers.
"Couldn't hurt," replied Cherry. "Let's bring the pain."
"Yeah!" The others cheered at that.
An air horn soon blared as Dom put on his new jersey and came to join his father and the Looney Tunes out onto the court. LeBron shot to Lola, who threw it to Atticus while leaping over the Brow, who tossed the ball upward, and sent it into the hoop. The scoreboard jumped up to 1,042 points, and the Tune Squad let out a cheer.
"That's cute," sneered Al G. "But I thought I told you..." And as he snapped his fingers, the ball went in reverse as it flew out of the hoop and beaned Atticus right in the face. The result was that the score was bumped down to 1,040. "...it's my game." he finished smugly.
"Al-RIGHTY then!" Lionel remarked. "Looks like we gotta go full Toonage!"
"Let's do this thing!" Cherry announced. "Remember what we learned from Roger Rabbit!"
"You guys got to meet Roger Rabbit too?" Lionel complained. "Aw, maaaan!"
"Sorry Lionel, but if I knew you at the time, I'd totally ask you along for that adventure," Cherry reassured him. "I'll make it up to you someday."
"Okay... I'll let you think on what we could do for that." Lionel shrugged as he followed behind them.
Cherry nodded at him as she and the others began to get ready for the ultimate showdown against Al G and the Goon Squad. LeBron dribbled the ball before White Mamba came to his side, so he tossed the ball to Lola.
Lola then caught the ball before sliding behind Brow and Gossamer, then tossed the ball as she hopped high in the air. "Count it!" she then called out.
Al G simply watched as the basket made it in, giving the Tune Squad two more points.
"Yeah, Lola!" LeBron cheered for the adult female bunny.
"All right!" Bugs cheered.
"Nice toss, King!" Lola smiled at LeBron as she dashed off.
"That's just adorable," snickered Al G before he made the ball fly out and subtracted the two points the Tune Squad had. "...but like I said: it's MY game!"
"Hey! That's cheating!" Atticus glared.
"What're you gonna do about it?" Al G smirked mockingly. "Teach me a lesson with a song about the power of friendship being magic?"
The Mane Six glared and glowered at that remark as they cameoed yet again despite not being from Warner Bros. studios like everyone else in the crowd.
"Yo, yo, switching everything!" LeBron soon told his team. "Yo', stay home. Bump out!"
"You guys get out there and distract," said Lionel as he pulled out a yellow bag. "I'm gonna get a few disguises!"
"Be careful out there, okay?" Cherry told Lionel cautiously as she pulled her hair into a curly ponytail to complete her Michael Jackson cosplay.
"I promise!" Lionel said as he jumped into the bag, rummaged around, and then came out in a Tune Squad jersey. "He might know the other Tunes... but he DON'T know ME!"
"I guess that's true," Cherry smirked and shrugged. "How do I look?" she then asked as she posed in her Jam outfit from the 1991 music video starring Michael Jordan and Michael Jackson.
"Amazing," Lionel told her. "Okay, I'm READY LIKE SPAGHETTI!" And he headed out onto the court.
"Get back, Rabbit!" Brow glared as he flew out to Bugs and wafted him away with his wings.
Bugs cried out and was soon sent flying backwards onto the floor.
"Come here!" White Mamba mocked Lola before ensnaring her into her coils.
Arachneka soon jumped up and trapped Gossamer into her webs. Wet Fire then came on top of his team's fire and began to block Dom away with his flames, causing the boy to stop cautiously to avoid being burned.
Al G then climbed on top of them and soon lunged out, grabbing the ball in the air, then went to score the basket. "Incoming!" he then yelled out.
"INTERCEPTION!" Lionel exclaimed as he leapt up and smacked the ball out of Al G's hands. "Not today, Al G. Reject!"
"Hey!" Al G glared at that.
Lionel snickered and chuckled. "Head's up, guys!" he then told the Looney Tunes.
"Oh, boy! Now's my chance!" Sniffles the Mouse piped up as he jumped up and tried to catch the ball since he was literally squashed in the last Tune Squad game by The Monstarz.
Lionel took a deep breath before he spun the ball and threw it to the others. Li'l Sneezer tried to get the ball only to be squished by it as it bounced on top of him and ended up in Plucky's hands.
"Wuh-oh." Plucky gulped nervously once the Goon Squad came to steal the ball from him.
Al G and his team grinned darkly as they stormed right toward the young green duck. Plucky looked around and then tossed the ball right to Elmyra Duff.
"Come here, stinky kitty itty bitty witty~" Elmyra cooed as she took out a giant net to trap Fifi with.
"Get away from moi at once!" Fifi cried out and complained.
Elmyra then caught the ball suddenly, looking confused until the Good Squad suddenly ambushed and tackled her while Fifi was able to get up and get out of the way. The other Tiny Toons gave Plucky a slight look at that.
"She was wide open!" Plucky shrugged in defense.
"Good boy, I taught you well." Daffy nodded.
"Oooo! A big birdy-wordie!" Elmyra cooed, squeezing The Brow like a visegrip. "I'm gonna love you and hug you and cuddle you and feed you wormies~!"
"Aw, maaaan!" The Brow groaned as he was carried off the court.
"That's right, we can use the Tiny Toons too!" Cherry realized and then called out to them. "Attention, mediocre and overrated beloved incarnations of the Looney Tunes! Attention, please!"
"Who? Us?" Lexi asked Cherry as she pointed to herself and her fellow Loonatics.
"Not you guys." Cherry face-palmed and shook her head.
"Yeah, she said beloved after all." Buster added with a boastful smirk.
"You mean us?" Babs asked. "But we're beloved characters from 90s nostalgia, not mediocre."
"Whatever!" Cherry said before she looked at the Tiny Toons. "Guys, I know what I said about you guys not being as good as the original Looney Tunes, especially when Babs and Buster act like Designated Heroes such as when Plucky was about to be taken by Elmyra when she thought he was The Easter Bunny or when Montana Max didn't want to go to the prom with Elmyra, but you made him anyway, but I think the Looney Tunes actually need your help this time. You're tiny, you're, you're all a little looney, so go and spread that looniness with the Goon Squad if you value your lives!" she then told them urgently.
Babs and Buster looked at each other, before shrugging.
"Well... when you're right, you're right." Buster responded.
"So, let's get this show on the road!" Plucky remarked. "Move it, Long Ears! Go-go-go!"
"Watch it, Plucky!" remarked Babs.
"Talk to the laser-eyes!" retorted Plucky as his eyes flashed red.
"Just wait 'til you get to try out powers like The Power Orb Randomizer, Aqua Dense, or Quantum Quack." Duck advised Plucky.
"Thanks, Danger Duck!" Plucky beamed at the future superhero.
"Please, you can just call me Duck." Duck reassured him.
"Noted!" Lionel commented. "Now, three of you take a seat, and three others join us on the court!"
"We're in it to win it!" Babs and Buster announced as they came onto the court.
"Just try not to brag while you're at it." Cherry said to the two bunnies.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Buster rolled his eyes.
"Ruin our fun, why don't ya?" Babs complained.
"I can tell you two are gonna be more work than Yin and Yang." Cherry grumbled to them.
"Well, I guess I could give it a shot," Plucky then offered to help out. "Maybe I can redeem myself as a Tiny Toon by helping out."
"No time like the present!" Lionel said as he cracked his knuckles and got ready, while the other Tunes joined him on the court. "It's slam-n-jam time!"
"Let's have at it then!" Cherry told the others before blowing the whistle.
"My whistle!" Marcia complained.
"Let it go, Mars girl." Cherry advised the young female Martian.
"I'm gonna win," Al G glowered. "And nobody's stoppin' me... least of all you!"
"Well, we'll just see about that!" Lionel retorted. "Yee-ha!"
And the game continued.