"Nothing," said Clive. "Nothing."
She was holding a little grey device with a green radar screen. The toons were gathered around her.
"Anything, Clive?" cried a panicking Babs. "Anything?"
"Clive won't be able to find out if Babs is going to keep on pestering her!" Clive snapped.
Babs huffed. "Well, excuse Babs for worrying about her friends!"
"Shh!" said the Tiny Toons to Babs with their fingers on their lips.
"Clive's sea tracker has searched the entire Deep Sea Hunger Games battle arena," said Clive. "And the entire Pacific Ocean. Clive can find nothing about Hamton or Nell. Not even a hoof or a flipper print mark. There's nothing more Clive can think or do."
"Well, if you can't find their bodies," Lola said, "they can't be dead yet we can't find them."
"Yes, this is a good riddle," said Daffy. "Say, I've got a better one. I live in water yet I live on dry land. I am high yet low. I am ruffled in feathers. What am I?"
"A duck?" answered Lola.
"All right, Miss Smart Ears," said Daffy.
"Um, guys?" said Chip.
"Just hold it for another half an hour, Chip," said Lola. "We're all upset at the moment. We don't need any more – "
"No, we've got company!" cried Chip.
"What? Where?"
Everyone searched everywhere.
"I don't see anything," said Sylvester.
"Me neither," said Tweety, who was still stuck on the back of the cat's head.
"Are you having mirages, Chip?" asked Melissa.
Then the whole ship was being lifted up.
"You call this a mirage?" said Chip.
Chip was shaking and Clive and the toons were shaking up and down. When Clive hit the aft side, she looked up to see Chip's big sail was being held by a crane grabber. She looked down to see they were being lowered to a huge orange hovercraft with nothing but two giant propellers and the entire Neomarvek army and Jim and John Epic! The Epics waved to them menacingly.
Chip was turned upside down and Clive and the toons fell down next to where some Neo soldiers were waiting with balls and chains and shackles for them all.
Daffy stood up. "All right, come on!" he cried. "Show me what you got!" And he was shown what they got. "They're all despicable, aren't they?" he sighed to the audience as he showed them his chained-up wings.
While everyone else was getting chained up, Taz managed to spin his foes away from him, but more soldiers wrapped ten more chains with ten balls around Taz. The devil couldn't spin his way out.
Zack and Dia fell down and joined them in chains and shackles, but they didn't fight them; it looked like they welcoming it. Dia's jet-pack was taken off her back.
"Hello, guys," said Jim Epic. "How are Hamton and Nell?"
"They didn't make it, Jim," said John.
"I know, fish brain!" snapped Jim. "I was being sarcastic."
The big doors opened and out came the evil Jack Epic. Jim, John and the Neos bowed before him. The prisoners didn't. Two Neo soldiers pushed them down with brushes.
"Everyone captured, My Lord," Jim reported to Jack.
Jack pulled his sons by the hairs. "You call yourself gods? These cheap CGI characters can do a better job than you."
"Jack destroyed Clive's planet and nearly killed her people," said Clive. "Now Jack's trying to rule Earthlings and kill Clive and the Looney Tunes and the Tiny Toons? Some god Jack is."
"Yeah, what has anyone done anything to you?" asked Melissa.
"You have no idea what these Earthlings have done to me," Jack said.
"What, you think you're some evil god whose powers have taken by some people and now you want them back?" said Daffy.
"Well, you're right about my powers being taken away from me," said Jack.
"Aren't I a smart duck or aren't I a smart duck?" Daffy said proudly to Melissa.
Because she was all in chains, all she could do was blow in his face which knocked him down.
"But for the evil…"
"Oh, come on," said Lola. "We're not sheep, so there's no wool you can pull over our eyes."
"Yeah," agreed Sylvester. "We know you and your sons are the villains in this story."
"That's what you heroes think, isn't it?" said Jack. "Well, here's what we villains think."
He whistled and every Neo on the hovercraft was around the toons. All the females were wearing hip hop dance outfits. Jim was next to his father and so was John, who had an electric guitar and was playing the intro for Back in Black. Jim stopped John.
"Just warming up for the music number," said John.
"Play something more terrifying while Father tells his story," said Jim.
"About six millenniums ago," began Jack, "when I was first busy ruling the world with my magic, everything was perfect as they could be."
"Let Clive guess," said Clive. "Some Earthlings weren't happy with Jack's ruling so they planned to take his powers away from him."
"Eric's first ancestor was the leader of those backstabbing stabbers," said Jack. "And thanks to him, I had to work my living being advisers to all the Kings and Queens and all the rulers in the world."
"I think we found out the man who was responsible for all the wars that has ever happened," said Daffy.
"Yeah, a-a-a-a really i-m-m-p-o-o-r-t… special discovery," said Porky.
"But I take it that advising these rulers wasn't enough for you?" said Lola. "You had the best places to live in."
"And the 'est' 'ood to eat," said Tweety.
"And the best toilet facilities," said Daffy.
"Advising is not the same as ruling," said Jack.
"And our stepbrother has to pay the price for something his ancestor did?" asked John.
"His ancestor got away with it," explained Jim.
"So I bet the price is gonna cost more twenty billion dollars?" said John.
"Father, what about the other wizards?" asked Jim.
"Once we deal with Eric, all the wizards in the world are next on my list," answered Jack. "Then things will go back to where they should be – worshipping me, not these brainless hand-drawn creatures and their little children."
"We're not related to – " Buster began.
"Bang it!" snapped Jack. "So you see why we're the victims and your friends are the enemies."
"You think we're the evilest guys the world's ever had," sang the Neo dancers. "When actually you're the ones who are bad."
"We will never j-j-j-o-o-o-i… turn against Bugs and Eric," cried Porky.
"Yeah, you'll never change our minds," agreed Buster.
"Oh, really?" said Jack. Nothing happened. He turned to his sons. "I said, 'Oh, really?'"
"John, that's your cue," Jim whispered to his brother.
"But there's no line in front of me or behind," said John.
"Never mind," sighed Jim, as he snatched the remote out of John's hand. He pressed the big red button and everyone turned to a big giant screen. It showed the paper-cut animated clownfish receiving the Orb of Survival.
"That's the little orange puff-fin who just stood and let my friend fall down," said Plucky.
"Oh, it gets better," said Jack. "For us, anyway."
Then, on the big screen, at a quiet spot at Vancouver Beach, the clownfish emerged on the sand.
"Like, he's so gonna dry up," said Shirley.
"Oh, you think?" said Jim.
The clownfish then vanished into a purple cloud and out came Eric Epic. Zack and Dia gasped.
"I don't believe it," said Zack.
"Eric would never do anything like that!" snapped Dia. "If he had to for any reason, you would drive him to it."
"I never sent Eric to get those orbs to rid of his magic," said Jack. "Neither was this a part of my plan."
The big paper-cut animated whale arrived on shore. Eric waved his hands. The whale vanished in a purple cloud and out came…
"Bugs?" gasped Lola.
"I can't believe it!" yelled Buster. "I won't!"
But it was true. It was Bugs Bunny who came out of the cloud where the whale was.
"You think we're the evilest guys the world's ever had," sang the Neo dancers. "When actually you're the ones who are bad."
John began to play the guitar solo of Summer of '69. Jack and Jim looked sternly at him to make him stop.
"Speaking of bad," said Jack, "look at you guys. Take you three." He was pointing at Lola, Buster and Babs. "Wild rabbits roaming around wherever you want and taking our vegetables whenever you want and how much you want."
"Oh, ha, ha," said Babs sarcastically. "Very funny, Mr. Exaggerate."
"You'd like us if you watched us more often," said Buster.
Jack just moved on. He faced Daffy, Melissa, Plucky and Shirley.
"And I believe we have you birds to blame for all the bird diseases in the world," he said to them.
The birds were offended.
"Like, that is so untrue!" snapped Shirley.
"You're right," said Jack. "I've forgotten to include your canary friend on the cat's head."
"He don't know what he's 'tolking' 'bout," said Tweety.
"And look, an ever-greedy cat!" Jack went on, ruffling Sylvester hair very hard.
"Stop it!" cried the cat.
"What, the hair-ruffing or the insults?" chuckled Jack as he moved on. "My, my, my, if it isn't the deadliest dumb creature ever to spin on this Earth."
Taz tried to break free by spinning himself out, but he couldn't and Jack had moved on to Fifi.
"And what have we here, but the smelliest creature on this planet," smiled Jack.
"If that's not bad enough," said Jim, "she came from one of the countries that conquered the world. Isn't that right, Fifi?"
"It's not the one with Hitler, is it?" asked John.
"No, it's the one with Napoleon Bonaparte," replied Jim. "Still proud of being French, Fifi?"
Fifi just growled and turned red with steaming coming out where the odor would usually come out.
"You see why I need Eric's powers?" Jack said to his prisoners. "Once I have them, I'll be able to make the world a better place to be?"
"You think we're the evilest guys the world's ever had," sang the Neo dancers. "When actually you're the ones who are bad."
John once again played Summer of 69 on his guitar. It was snatched away by Jim.
"Why are you doing this?" asked Lola.
"Because I thought the guitar solo of Summer of 69 goes well with it," replied John.
"No," said Lola. "Why are you singing and playing guitar? Whatever this is isn't a musical number. This isn't even music. It's just noise for nothing."
"Besides you're just wasting your time," said Zack. "Eric and Bugs will beat you in the end."
"That's where you're wrong, O'Marrows," smiled Jack evilly. "You see, without Buster's orb, Eric would not only not lose his powers, but he would release a dark evil undoable force into the world which will rule the world forever. So, you see, with that Orb in my power, everything will be all right. Besides, we've got to the island before them."
The prisoners looked up to see they have arrived at the island.
"Shirley, use your powers to warn Eric and Bugs to stay away!" Dia ordered.
Shirley went into her mediating. She shut her eyes tightly and then she opened them in a quick flash. "Like, that was so painful," she panted. "I never had no problem with my powers."
"Because you never had this," Jack smiled evilly, holding a little black rectangle object with buttons. The entire Neo army was holding one, too.
"Let me guess," said Zack. "Objects that makes you immune to magic."
"That's how you guys are immune to Eric's magic," said Dia. "While you don't have your own powers."
"Isn't there something you want to add?" asked John.
"I'm not going to say 'Yet'," Dia protested. "When Eric finds out about those gadgets – "
"Don't you mean 'if'?" interrupted Jim. "And besides he would never get these off us, even if he did try or he was more powerful."
"Anyway, I think these MIPs – which stand for Magic Immune Pods – will be the perfect gifts to welcome Eric and Bugs here," grinned Jack evilly.
The prisoners said just nothing. Then…
"Can a starving prisoner get something around here?" asked Sylvester. Then he got a baby's hat on his head and a pacifier in his mouth.
"Well, 'tat' east it'll put me at ease," Tweety sighed happily. Then his stomach growled. "If not my 'wittle' tummy."