Well guys, a freak blizzard has blown in, so I'll be up a little late tonight writing this new chapter. May it bring warmth and cheer to you all.

ALSO, I'll be referring to the authors by their aliases, just for the fact that it's cool. Here is a key for you all to look at in case you forget:

-Ezekiel (Anti-Twilight Forever (me!)) *ATF for short

-Aaron (Luckycool9) *LC9 for short

-James (Scoobycool9) *SC9 for short

-Alexia (NarniaCrazyGirl) *NCG

-Liz (Tracker78) *Tracker

-Luna (Wherever Girl) *WG

-Shaun (Fangface the Second) *FF2

~2~

"Um… what do you mean, 'the real world'?" Pugsy questioned, staring at the portal that appeared behind Ezekiel.

"I mean the place opposite of the cartoon world, complete with immorality, chaos, depression, and poorly written movies based off old cartoons." Ezekiel answered, having Ryoji slither back around his waist.

"I know what the real-world is!"

"…No you don't. You've never been there,"

"He's got a point there," Aaron said.

"Ah, shut up! How's come Shaggy, Scooby, Fangs and I have to go with?" Pugsy demanded.

"Like I said before, you guys have a close connection to my sister and her friends," Ezekiel replied. "Now are we going, or what? Because this portal won't stay open for long, and we gotta meet up with some friends of mine pretty soon,"

"Hold it…" Alexia spoke up, tapping Ezekiel on his shoulder. "Isn't it dangerous for cartoons to go into the real world? I mean, you've seen the live-action Fat Albert movie, haven't you?"

"Oh, that's right… Well, we're not planning on staying there, long. And if our time starts running long, we can always come back to the tooniverse before anything bad happens."

"Whoa, hold it! What do you MEAN by 'anything bad'?" Shaggy asked, startled.

"Yeah, what may happen to us if we don't come back in time?" Pugsy demanded.

"Rhere was a rive-raction Rat Ralbert rovie?" Scooby asked.

"Oh, you'll just disappear into particles, that's all." Ezekiel replied with a shrug.

"WHAT?!" Brielle, Kasandra, and Kite shouted, while the toons' mouths hung agape.

"Don't worry, it won't happen unless they're there for more than three days- and we'll have found everyone before then," Ezekiel assured.

"What about the OTHER thing?" Aaron added, hands on hips.

"Oh, right. Reality might take an effect on you and also turn you out-of-character, as well, up until you return to the tooniverse. It's like… a badly written fan-fic."

"That's it. I'm not going." Fangs said, crossing his arms.

"Really, Fangs? You're just going to abandon your daughter- whom, I should add, has recently gone missing TWICE now in this time period- just because you're afraid of a couple risks?"

"He's got a point, Fangs." Fangface added. "Besides, I always wanted to know what I'd look like live-action! *grr*"

Fangs let out a long, heavy sigh. "Alright… But we'd better find her before my clothes start looking bleached!" he said, sternly.

"What about us?" Kite asked, referring to himself, Kassy, and Brielle.

"You guys are based off the authors, you're their counterparts, their OC- you'll be fine." Aaron said.

"Now lets get a move on, we haven't got any time to waste," Ezekiel said.

Together, they all stepped through the portal.

[insert awesome toon-to-live portal sequence here]

"WhoooOOOOAAAAH!" All the toons screamed, feeling their skin, bones, hair, organs, and clothing shift wildly as they stepped through, and suddenly, they all blacked out once they entered reality.

"First-timers," Ezekiel scoffed.

"Where are we?" Kassy asked, looking around, seeing they were near some woods, on the edge of a large city.

"You're in reality Brooklyn, my dear- my hometown." Ezekiel looked at his watch. "Yow, and we gotta go find my friends! NCG, you and the OC stay with the toon-heads. LC9, you come with me,"

"Okay, hurry back!" Brielle called.

"Hey, ATF, can I ask you something?" Aaron said as he followed the short boy around a corner. "Having lived in the tooniverse practically my whole life, what happens when a real-world person- other than an author- stumbles into the tooniverse?"

"Oh, that's simple. You see, when someone from reality first comes to the toon-world, they slowly become a toon themselves, if they stay more than three days." Ezekiel answered. "I found this out when I first brought my friends with me to show them it existed- they remained in real-form the first couple days, but after that, *poof*, they're toonerized."

"Yeah… by the way, who ARE your friends?"

"You'll know 'em once you meet 'em." Ezekiel stopped after they cut through an alley, and looked around. "Huh, weird… they were supposed to meet me here."

"Where are they?"

Suddenly, a police-whistle blew, and a gang of teenage boys raced by. "There they are! HEY GUYS! WAIT UP! WHAT'S THE RUSH?"

"Better split, Zeke! The coppers are real sore today!" A teen with short, curly blonde hair called.

"Stop right there, you bunch of gorillas!" A cop shouted as he and his deputy raced after them.

Ezekiel shook his head. "(Looks like the gang's got into trouble again…) C'mon, we'd better help them out," he said to Aaron, and took off down the street.

"Help them OUT?" Aaron questioned.

[Now Playing: Tramps Like Us by Bruce Springsteen]

There were six boys in the gang, one of them being shorter than the rest (though taller than Ezekiel) and the leader. "Time to split up, guys!" he called, and he ran left with a boy with short brown hair wearing a striped shirt and a taller boy wearing a sweater and a cap with the bill bent upward. The other three consisted of a boy with dark hair, the curly-blonde, and a black boy wearing a cap also with the bill bent upward.

"I'll go after those goons, you go after their pals!" The officer ordered his partner, and they split up.

Ezekiel and Aaron took shortcuts through alleys, across small backyards, and even went as far as climbing up a fire-escape (to see where his friends were running) and climbing through an open window of the building to cut across to the other side. "Sorry about that!" Aaron called to the patron of the building, who cursed at them and shook his fist. "Do you have to take shortcuts through everything?!"

"Heh, you should see it when I get in trouble," Ezekiel joked, and they raced downstairs and out a back door, running over to a junkyard where they ducked behind a fence, moving a loose board. "Skinny! Peewee! Scruno! Over here!"

The blonde, dark haired, and black boy all paused, then slid through the opening, hiding from the cop that was after them. "Boy, are we glad you showed up. Where've you been, Zeke?" Scruno asked, then noticed Aaron. "And who's this?"

"I'll explain later. Right now, we need to get the others,"

"They ran down 36th Ave.," Skinny answered.

"Good, I know where they're heading. C'mon!"

"Huh boy…" Aaron sighed, tired of so much running- and the action had barely begun!

Back with the other three, they were racing down an alley. "This way!" The short one called, running to the left… but the boy in the cap accidentally ran the other way! However, it was a good thing, considering they had come across a dead end. "Crap, wrong direction!"

[End song]

"You boys are in for it now…" The officer snapped, grabbing them by their shirts. "Just wait until-"

"Officer, come quick!" Aaron shouted, running down the alley. "Some nut-job is causing a riot at the drug store on the corner! The lunatic has a gun!"

The officer sneered at the two boys. "I'll deal with you two later… Lets go, kid!" Aaron lead him out of the alley…

…doubling back, as Ezekiel met up with him. "Good, now lets get out of here before he finds out we duped him," Ezekiel said, and they caught up with the other two boys and ran out of the alley and down the street, back toward the others.

"I don't see why I had to fool him…" Aaron muttered.

"Because the cops know me and probably wouldn't believe me, doy!"

"Hey, Zeke, are you going to introduce us to your friend, or what?" The short boy demanded.

"Oh, right." Ezekiel stopped them. "Aaron, these are my friends- Skinny, Scruno, Peewee, Danny, and Muggsy- known as the East Side Kids or The Bowery Boys. Guys, this is Aaron, he's a friend from the toon-world."

"Nice to meet you," Danny, the boy in the striped shirt, said as he shook Aaron's hand.

"These are all your friends, huh?" Aaron asked.

"You'd better believe it," Ezekiel said, proudly.

"Wait… wasn't there six of you?"

Everyone looked around. "Ah, crud. Where'd Glimpy go?!" Peewee asked.

"The lame-brain probably was dumb enough to get help from the cops to get away from the cops," Muggsy, the short one and leader, sneered. "He'll turn up sooner or later. In the meantime, Zeke, why don't you fill us in on where you've been the past couple days, you missed one of our baseball playoffs."

"Family emergency, guys. You know WG, my sis from the toon-world? Apparently, she and a few other friends went missing, and they're in this world somewhere. I was hoping you could help us out in searching for them,"

Muggsy crossed his arms. "What's in it for us?"

"A ticket away from getting thrown back in reform school."

Muggsy arched an eyebrow, then shrugged. "Alright, sounds good."

"Great. Some of our other friends are waiting for us, we gotta get back to them. This way,"

They ran down the street where Alexia, Kite, Kassy, and Brielle were waiting for them… and all looking distressed. "Guys! What's going on?" Aaron asked, concerned.

"We turned our backs for two seconds and the others went missing, that's what!" Brielle replied.

"To clarify, Scooby woke up first and started barking at something in the trees, and we went to check it out and found nothing. When we came back, Scooby, Shaggy, Pugs, and Fangs vanished!" Alexia explained.

"Ah, c'mon! The story's barely started and ALREADY MORE people are missing?!" Aaron snapped, then grabbed Ezekiel by the shirt. "What kind of writer ARE you?!"

"Hey, hey, calm down! We'll find them!" Ezekiel snapped. "But we won't get it done with you criticizing my style of writing… neener-head."

"Well, lets get searching then," Muggsy said, and everyone split up and began to search the area.

~2~

If none of you heard of the characters mentioned, you can look them up on Youtube. You may not be into the old 1940's kinds of movies, but The East Side Kids is worth the entertainment with its acting and witty humor, I can promise you that.

I also borrowed the song-insertion from Rabbit '91's "Nocturne" story… just because I didn't feel like writing lyrics. (Yes, there will be some musical chapters in the story, but not as many as the inspired stories- and I will be only including Oldies songs, with a few exceptions).

Anyway, please review but don't flame.