"Well, here we are," smiled Eric. "The Island of Magink. The birthplace of magic."
"Magink?" said Danny. "You're not picking up Bugs's accent, are you?"
"No," said Eric. "They took the word 'Magink' and made is shorter to 'Magic'."
Eric Epic, Bugs Bunny and the puppets were on green grass with giant rocks in front of them.
"There ain't nothing but just rock and dust," moaned Danny.
"Correction," said Sweet Corn. "These are the remains of the Wizard civilization."
"But what happened?" asked Trolley.
"Maybe we'll find out," said Eric. "But the sooner we get rid of these orbs and my magic, the better." The puppets moved on, but Eric stopped Bugs. "Bugs, can you go underground and check there are no traps underneath?"
"Consider it done!" Bugs dug down and a rabbit tunnel passed Eric and the puppets.
It wasn't long until Bugs came back up from the ground.
"I've searched the 'hole' island," Bugs told the audience. "And I can't find 'nothink'! Or hear 'anythink'!"
"Bugs," said a female voice.
"That sounded like Lola," Bugs said.
He climbed out of the hole and went behind the near big rock. He peered around to see Lola on a rock all in chains and shackles with tape around her mouth.
"Lola!" cried Bugs, as he ran towards her. He took the tape off.
"It's a trap, Bugs!" Lola cried.
"What?"
Then a mighty whack was heard. Bugs smiled and fell down unconscious.
Eric and the puppets pass from broken pillar to broken pillar.
At the back of the line, Danny turned around.
"Did you hear something?" Danny asked Sweet Corn.
"Either the wind or your breath," teased Sweet Corn.
"Very funny!" snapped Danny.
"Yes, it is funny," laughed Sweet Corn, rolling on his back. "I couldn't re – "
Then he looked ahead. He saw that the dwarf had vanished. "Danny? Where are you?" he called. There came no reply. "Ok, my joke wasn't that funny, but this is not funny at all. Come out now."
But the unicorn just trotted around for his dwarf friend.
No one had noticed anyone missing. But Trolley noticed something bright and glowing in a worn-down old stone house. He couldn't resist. He walked in and found nothing but darkness and dust and stones.
"Put your hands out," ordered a voice. Trolley looked around. There was nothing, not even as much as insect's marks around the dusty floor.
"I said, 'put your hands out'!" the voice repeated itself.
"Yeah, you did," said Trolley.
"So, put them out, already!" the voice yelled.
Trolley put his arms off and handcuffs were on them now.
"Thank you, I suppose," said Trolley.
"You're welcome," said the voice.
Only Eric, Shou Off and Choc were the only ones left when they approached to about eight stone stairs which led to a stone base.
"Well, here it is," said Eric. "The temple of the Gods of Magic."
"There isn't even a throne here," said Choc.
"But those are the steps of the throne," said Eric. "And this is where we need to be."
Then Choc heard something. He turned left. Then he disappeared in such stealth mode.
Up above, Shou Off was flying just normal. Then he fell to the ground.
Eric turned around. "Shou Off, are you all right?" he asked. Then he noticed he was the only one with him. "Where's everyone?"
Shou Off tried to get up, but he couldn't. Eric turned around and back holding a large bag of plain flour. He flew it over Shou Off.
"Is that the best idea you have, Eric?" snapped Shou Off. "Pouring flour over a drag – " Then he looked up and saw flour marks over him.
"You're inside an invisible cage," said Eric. "This means one thing. The Epics are here. Hold on, buddy." Then Eric went to help Shou Off.
Shou Off was about to sneeze. "No, get rid of the orbs before it's too late!" Then he, still inside the cage, sneezed away. Some flour fell over some bodies that were standing up.
Eric turned around and headed up the stairs. At the base on the top, he saw a hole in it and the hole had colourful liquids in.
"All right, my buddies," Eric said, as he got out the bags of orbs. "You are relieved of your magical duties."
He was about to throw them in, but he was stopped by the bag that was hovering above him. He couldn't move it. Then he kicked his right leg behind. There was a lot of groaning.
"I know you're here, Jim and John," said Eric, as he turned around.
Then Jim and John appeared out of invisible form.
"Watch the pretty face, Jim!" snapped John.
"That's a fine way to treat your brothers and the world's future rulers, Eric," said Jim.
"You may have beaten me here," said Eric, "but I have the orbs and you can't stop me from throwing them into this Pool of Relief."
"Relief?" asked John.
"Relief of Magic," explained Eric.
Then he turned and saw Jack standing in front of him.
"Maybe not us," Jack smiled evilly, "but perhaps they will."
A bright light appeared behind him and saw Bugs Bunny and his servant friends in chains and shackles just like Zack, Dia, Clive and the Looney Tunes and the Tiny Toons guarded by Neo soldiers right in front of him.
Jack snatched the bag of Orbs from the defeated Eric and looked in. "We have one, two, three, four – "
"Five?" said Eric.
"Yes, five," said Jack. "But aren't you forgetting one thing?"
Eric didn't reply.
"I know you are," Jack went on, "so I brought it, or should I say 'him', to you?" He clapped his hands.
Eric was shocked when he saw two Neo soldiers carrying Buster Bunny chained to a stick.
"Now, get rid of that rabbit and bring the orb to me," ordered Jack.
Eric sighed and pulled his hand out.
"I said, 'Get rid of that rabbit', first!" yelled Jack.
"I am not hurting this bunny!" Eric snapped back. "And you can't make me!"
"Oh, yeah?" cried Jim. Eric saw him holding a Neo gun at Dia's head. "It's either your favourite Tiny Toon or it's your fishy girlfriend who you're trying to steal away from your best friend, if he ever was your friend."
Eric looked between Dia to Buster to the other prisoners. "Sorry, Buster," he sighed, as he took Buster away. All the prisoners gave muffled protests under the duct tapes around their mouths or beaks.
Eric slammed the stick in the middle of rocky area with full of cracks.
"Please, Toonster, don't do this," Buster begged.
Eric just put his hand on his forehead and the rabbit went unconscious. He took three steps back and life his arms up. Out of the cracks came a grey gas. It covered Buster and the whole area.
Then the prisoners watched Eric waved his right arm as the gas cleared. They saw on the ground was Buster's red jumper, white gloves, his stick, his chains and the Acme Orb.
"Pick up everything," Jack ordered.
Some Neo soldiers picked up the Orb, while Jim picked up Buster's jumper and white gloves. He walked to Babs. "Three presents for you, Barbara Ann," Jim chuckled evilly, as he threw them over the pink rabbit.
"It will only take ten minutes to get these Orbs mixed," Jack told Eric. "So why don't you catch up with your mates and your heroes?" He threw him to a rock near the prisoners.
"Remove the duct tapes," Jack ordered. The Neos obeyed.
The prisoners caught their breath.
Jack and the Neos left Eric with the prisoners. For a while, no one said a word or looked at each other, except Clive who was looking at Eric.
"Eric," she whispered. "Eric. Clive knows Eric didn't kill Buster."
"But how do you know that?" snapped Daffy. "As far as I'm concerned, I think he's an evil villain in his own way, not a henchman like those two idiots with the capital Js."
"If I was a villain, Daffy," said Eric, "why would I want to give up my power instead of taking advantage of it like the Epics?"
"Fifteen years have passed," said Dia. "I'd be very surprised if you hadn't changed at all."
"I may have grown taller and more powerful," said Eric, "but I don't think I've changed much."
"Like the fact that you still have a crush on my girl," said Zack. "Is that why you want to get rid of your magic powers, so you can be with her?"
"Is this true, Epic?" Dia demanded.
Eric made no movement and no sound.
"I also saw you in the Deep-Sea Hunger Games," Dia went on. "You just took the Orb, while my sister Nell and Hamton fell down into darkness."
"And now you just killed Buster!" snapped Babs.
"Oh, now you care about Buster?" said Eric.
Everyone was surprised that Eric knew so much.
"Oh, yes," said Eric. "I'm powerful enough to work out what you guys have been up to. And I know, Babs, that you were more focusing on your career than poor Buster."
"It's not my fault!" protested Babs. "It wasn't like he didn't do anything different."
"Want to find out?" asked Eric, as he got up.
"No!" cried Babs. "Buster's charms had never worked on me recently. Your magic will be no diff – "
Eric put his hand on Babs's forehead. Then her cute face turned from anger into regret.
Then Jim grabbed Eric. "The Orbs are ready," he said. "We need you to mix the potions to get ready for us to get our magic senses again. So come on!" And he dragged his magical half-brother with him.
"Living with his adopted family has certainly changed him," said Zack.
"He ain't as bad as you dink he is, doc!" Bugs protested. "I've only bean with him for a few weeks but I know him well."
"You've been friends with him too long!" cried Daffy. "You've got to come back with us. Back to Warner Bros. where you belong. Hey, buddy?"
"Don't call me 'buddy', Daffy," snapped Bugs. "You took my stardom and saw me gettin' kicked out of Warner Bros. I was fired from Acme Loo and replaced by Dewey Finn's triplet brothers." Then Bugs turned to Lola. "And you left me all alone to go for a tryout for the N.B.A.!"
"It's not like I wrote the letter and invited myself," Lola snapped back. "But when I got there, they said I wasn't good enough and, when I came back, there was no lover bunny boy to comfort me after all I've been through. And so the best job I could find afterwards was a stripper on a cruise."
"Oh, so ever'thing that happened back in America is my fault, is it?" snapped Bugs. "Everyone's depending on me so much that no one can take care of themselves."
And everyone kept on arguing and arguing with each other, except Clive.
"It's a dramatic moment in the story," she said to the audience. "What would audience except Clive do? Clive says, 'Stay out of it'."
The Epics watched Eric mix up the special potions on a wizard alchemy set.
"While those potions are mixing," said Eric, "is this character entitled to one last question?"
The Epics didn't make any move or sound.
"What I always wondered was if Jack was the God of Trouble and Disaster and Stress in the wizard religion," said Eric, "how did Jim and John become your sons? And how special are they if all you've been after is my magic all these centuries?"
"What kind of a question is that?" yelled John. "When I get my powers – "
"Hold it, John," interrupted Jim. "For the first time in your life, Eric, I'm glad you mentioned it." He turned to Jack. "What happened to our mother?"
"Father already told us about mother," said John. "She was beautiful, kind and very – "
"Father told us that," said Jim. "It may not be the truth."
"You dare question your own father?" screamed Jack.
"Are we real gods, demi-gods or just mere mortals adopted a god?" Jim demanded.
"Jim, you're acting like Eric," John warned.
"Now this is in the open," said Eric, "the potions are ready for you all… gods or not."
The Epics took their vials and drank the potions.
"Yes, yes, yes!" cried Jack. "The powers are all coming back to me. Soon the world will be under my – Ohhh!" He put his hand in his stomach. Jim and John did the same.
"What did you do wrong, Eric?" asked John, with tears coming out of his eyes.
"I don't know," grinned Eric cheekily, holding an empty bottle of Johnson's Baby Shampoo. "It says, 'No more tears'."
"What have you done to me?" groaned Jim.
"Well, you muscle-bound moron," chuckled Eric, "you managed to taste the life of water under a fallen-down rotten tree." He turned to Jack. "As for you, chief, you just swallowed something rustic."
"Rustic chips?" asked John.
"No, rustic nails!" smiled Eric, holding a jar of rusty nails.
"That's it!" Jack yelled, grabbing him by the shoulders. "I was going to leave you till last on the death bill, but I'm gonna kill you now and take your magic powers that way."
Eric held his hand out, but it didn't stop them. Jim and John picked them up and slammed him on a big rock. While they held him down, Jack got out an axe. He lifted it up and lowered it down.
The prisoners couldn't watch.
"Where is the axe?" demanded Jack.
They opened their eyes. The axe was out of Jack's hands and Eric was still undamaged. Jack got out a sword, put it above his head and lowered it, but it vanished before it got anywhere near Eric.
Jack picked up a huge rock and was about to drop it on Eric, but Eric was taken off before the rock split the giant rock on the ground into flying pieces hitting the Epics in their faces.
"Thanks, Road Runner," Eric smiled.
"Beep beep," replied the Road Runner, before he dashed off.
"Don't just stand there, you morons!" Jack yelled at the Neo soldiers. "Get them!" But they had their hands in the air with the weapons on the ground.
"Why are you just standing there like statues?" Jack demanded.
"Probably because of him!" John replied, pointing to Wile E. Coyote, who was aiming a cannon at them with cannonballs behind him. In his left hand, he held a sign that said, 'STICK 'EM UP!'
On his left, Calamity Coyote had a little cannon aimed for the Neos too and held a sign that said, 'YEAH, STICK 'EM UP!"
"Do I have to do everything myself?" snapped Jack. "Let's go!"
He and his sons ran, but then they saw a giant wooden Bugs-Bunny-like rabbit statue approaching behind the prisoners.
"Let me guess," chuckled Jim. "A Trojan Rabbit."
"You guess right!" said a voice that sounded very familiar. Then the mouth opened and a rope came down followed by –
"Buster Bunny?" cried the prisoners.
"Buster?" Babs said very shyly.
"Yep," smiled the blue rabbit who wasn't dead and was wearing an army jacket and cap. "And you bad guys know what follows next."
"C-C-C-H-H-A-A-R-G-G-E-E-E!" yelled Gogo Dodo, turning into a marching bugle.
More ropes came down and more Looney Tunes and Tiny Toons came down and charged.
"Get them!" ordered Jack.
Jack and Jim ran. John ran, but he tripped over a big rock.
"Gee, are you okay, Mr. Bad Guy, huh, sir?"
John groaned as he looked up to see Li'l Sneezer. "What?"
"It's good to be back after a very, very, very long time," went on Sneezer. "Yeah, it sure is."
"It's been way too long!" moaned Sweetie Pie, who was standing next to the baby mouse. Then she turned to John. "You're going down, chum!"
"No, I'm getting up," said John as he got up on his feet. "Taking me down? You the canary and you the baby and what?"
"Our noble steed," smiled Sweetie.
"Meow," meowed Furball, who was the 'steed' Sweetie and Sneezer were riding. They were on top of the cat's head.
"Ohh, I'm so scared!" John teased. "I must defend myself from these three tiny imbeciles!" Then he grabbed a huge rock behind him and lifted it up. "And I know how!" he said in his serious voice.
"I'm allergic to threats," said Sneezer.
"And I'm allergic to tiny creatures trying to stop me from taking over the world," said John. "So what are you going to do?"
"A – A – A- "
Furball and Sweetie put their heads down
"ACHOO!" Sneezer unleashed a powerful sneeze to send John up high into the clouds. John's M.I.P. fell next to the tiny three.
Speedy Gonzales, Pepe-Le-Pew and Mary Melody were trying to free the prisoners, but Jim whacked them away with his sword.
"Get away!" Jim yelled. Then his sword was yanked out of his hand. He saw it getting eaten by Dizzy Devil.
"Me loves swords!" yelled Dizzy. Then the purple devil spun around the prisoners who no longer were in chains.
Jim ran for them, but Little Beeper stopped him and squirted water in his face. "Beep beep!" cried Beeper as he dashed off.
Jim wiped his face and charged, but Penelope Pussycat got in his way.
"Don't think just because you're a beautiful female feline, Penelope," scoffed Jim, "that I'm going to take it nice and easy on – "
And neither did Penelope as she jumped up to Jim's face and scratched him.
"Whoa!" cried Pepe. "She is good, no?"
Penelope jumped off and Danny used his axe to whack him between his legs, sending him up into the air. He was caught in mid-air by Shou Off who turned him around, pinched his M.I.P. and let him drop. Jim's head and chest were deep in the ground.
"Well, it's, I say, it's time we taught that this boy a lesson," said Foghorn Leghorn as he used a plank with a nail and knock Jim's legs further down like a tent peg. Beaky Buzzard, Speedy and Trolley helped him.
Meanwhile, Eric got back to the Pool of Relief and started dumping the Orbs in. He was about to put the Acme Orb in, but his arm was pulled by Jack. He took him near the edge of the island and made it looked like he was going to throw him over.
"Let Eric go, Jack!" shouted Clive. "Jack's lost!"
"I don't think so," grinned Jack. "Put your weapons down or Eric goes over!"
Clive, Zack, Dia, the Looney Tunes and the Tiny Toons did. The Neo soldiers picked up the guns and pointed at them.
"Coyotes!" yelled Jack. "Put your cannons away."
Wile and Calamity did so and they joined the other prisoners.
"I'm allergic to moments like this," said Sneezer. "A- A- A- "
"Do not let that smelly disgusting baby mouse sneeze!" Jack screamed.
"A- " Sneezer was picked up by one Neo soldier while another used a little piece of string to tied around his neck so tight that he could just breathe. He was hanging like a hangman or a hang-mouse.
"A- A- I'm – I'm – I'm – All – " He couldn't talk or sneeze.
"Well, I see you planned this very well," chuckled Jack. "Getting your friends to help you find the orbs, getting here, faking that blue rodent's death to get his friends here to help and for what? Was it so you can have a life with that fish babe when she had the hots for this mental rhino?"
Zack angrily started to move for him, but the Neos reminded him of the guns in front of him.
"Was this whole adventure to make the world a better place without magic? Well, that's unlikely because there are plenty of wizards who chose to desert this civilization and live with the people instead of serving me! But all of the living wizards will pay for their ancestors' crimes just like you.
"Or was it for the last of the Morans to see his heroes before he vanished into thin air?" Jack smiled evilly. "Well, you got you last wish and now the time has come."
Jack held his adopted son by the throat and hung him over the cliff. The prisoners couldn't look. Then a huge rumble shook the whole island. The prisoners and the Neos fell on the ground. Sneezer was free… and free to sneeze which sent the Acme Orb into the Pool of Relief.
Jack let go off Eric, but the young sorcerer held a big branch. He grabbed Jack's M.I.P., saw him fall off and headed for the sea and the rocks. Then he climbed back up.
"Eh, ya really shook the hole island, doc," said Bugs.
"It wasn't me, Bugs," said Eric. "It was – "