Chapter 3: Showtime!

It wasn't very long until all but three of the four thousand seats inside the Go go a-dodo's Ballroom were filled.

"This is the last time I trust Minivera Mink in getting me seats" Dot commented bitterly as the Warners took their seats. Wakko sat in the middle while Dot sat on his left and Yakko on his right.

Needless to say, the Waners were not too thrilled with their "special seats". They were several rows away from the stage. The seats were very rough and uncomfortable. It didn't help that chattering fans surrounded them in every direction. Most of the members were either holding up posters proclaiming their love for Giovanni, or getting their cameras ready to snap pictures of him. While this didn't really annoy Dot, her brothers however were frantically searching through their hammer spaces for ear muffs. It also didn't help that the Warner brothers were still miffed at their encounter with the short-tempered singer earlier. When they had already told Dot about what they thought of him and what happened, she simply dismissed them as being jealous. This led to a brief argument between her and Wakko, and a very grumpy Yakko.

"It's good thing you know how to keep yourself occupied Wakko." Yakko spoke up, trying to change the subject. Before taking his seat, Wakko had already gotten an enormous pile of snacks from the concession stand. In it were items such as popcorn, nachos, hot dogs, jellybeans, and several other sweet and salty treats.

"I can't help if I get munchy attacks" Wakko stated as a matter of fact. The pile of snacks dangerously hovered directly over Dot and Yakko.

"Watch it with the food! This satin dress wasn't cheap you know" Dot warned.

"Considering how it looks on her, I think few stains would be an improvement" Wakko muttered jokingly to Yakko, who laughed in response. Both of them clammed up at the sight of a glaring Dot wielding a tray of nacho cheese, aimed directly at them.

"Can you repeat that sentence? I didn't catch that." Dot asked sweetly. Wakko's eyes grew briefly in alarm as he knew Dot had deadly good aim.

"Uh, It looks good you, Yakko those chips give me bowel movements" chattered quickly without thinking. Yakko simply stared at him in confusion while her sister reeled in disgust.

"I'm sorry I asked" Dot said regrettably.

"But that guy was a jerk to Bugs Bunny!" Wakko protested, continuing the argument on Giovanni that he and Dot had started earlier.

"So? So is Yosemite Sam and Wile E. Coyote, but you like them" Dot counteracted.

"That's different, their music doesn't give me a headache!" he complained.

"Oh come one! That was just a cartoon, and were not in a cartoon" Dot added dismissively.

"Uh, that's debatable..." Yakko cut in. Dot began to respond to his statement as the lights in the ballroom began to dim. Now there was complete darkness.

"Good eve, I say good evening everyone!" an off-screen southern voice announced, who the Warner's immediately recognized as Foghorn Leghorn's.

"I know that new Looney Tunes Show doesn't pay well but he doesn't have to resort to this" Yakko commented before Dot reached over and placed her hand over his mouth.

"It is my honor, and privilege to announce our special guest tonight; you've heard him on the radio, you're gonna hear him tonight, Please welcome, the one and only, Giovanni Jones!" On stage, a single white spotlight shone down on stage, illuminating the man against the dark background. From the Warner's perspective, he appeared to be as small as their red noses.

Within seconds, an ear-splitting choir of screaming fan girls resonated throughout the entire ballroom. Had the ballroom contained any windows or chandeliers, the audience would have been drenched in a shower of glass. Wakko and Yakko hastily covered their ears while Dot contributed to the crowd's wall of sound by giving a shrill scream of her own.

"My ears hurt Yakko" Wakko winced in pain as his head literally started pounding.

"Ah, it could have been worse. If we were at a Bieber concert our ears would have been completely liquidized." Yakko spoke over the cheering. After a few more seconds of crowd noise, Giovanni swiftly raised his right hand, silencing everyone in the ballroom. It was so quiet one could hear one of Wakko's jellybeans drop to the floor.

"So far this is the best part of the entire show" Yakko joked quietly. A few audience members around them responded with some harsh shushes.

"Geez, what are you guys, air pumps?" Yakko muttered before Dot clamped his mouth shut again. Everyone sat in silence for a few more seconds. The regally dressed singer slowly put his hand down as he turned to the conductor behind him.

"Maestro, theme music" he commanded smoothly, whose speaking voice was devoid of the harshness the Warner brothers experienced earlier. The conductor followed suit as he raised his hands as a signal to begin. The band swelled into a big crescendo accented by a bright trumpet solo. And then the show began…

What followed afterwards was probably the most entertaining yet frustrating one and a half hours the Warners had ever experienced. Giovanni certainly knew how to put on a show, aside from his wide vocal range, his concert also provided a laser and light show, a symphonic rock band consisting of the standard guitar, bass, drum, and keyboardist setup, along with a brass and string section. Giovanni also happened to be one of those artists that successfully managed to crossover between genres.

The song material ranged from classical operas, "Rasori e pettini, lancette e forbici, al mio comando..."

To romantic ballads, "…With my heart in contempt, I should not see the light…"

To high energy rock operas, "…From sea to shining sea, we blast the mighty titans…"

And even a few tweaked cover songs, "I am the champion, my friends. And I'll keep on…"

However there were a number of things that kept them from fully enjoying it. One reason was that since they were so far back, it was hard to hear as the ballroom did not have good acoustics. It didn't help that a surge of crowd noise would drown out the music every time Giovanni would occasionally take off his suit jacket only to put it back on.

The Warner brothers desperately kept searching for earplugs, as they literally already heard most of the songs over a million times in the water tower. But they had no such luck. Wakko even pulled out his gag bag in a futile attempt to find some. After a while, both brothers quickly noticed that Giovanni liked to show off constantly. Aside from his bombastic stage presence in which he pranced all over the stage, he would always sing loudly over the other musicians. One instance he did an improvised vocalization over the guitarist's solo. Other times he would give a side glare at the conductor behind him if the music's volume rose anywhere near the loudness of his own voice.

While Dot was enjoying the show far more than her brothers, she struggled to get close to the stage. Seeing her idol the size of a gerbil was not cutting it for her. Despite her best efforts, which included climbing over other crowd members, and even whacking a few of them with her mallet, she could not get a closer view of him.

"Thank you, thank you" Giovanni stated eloquently towards the cheering audience. He had just finished an extended 20 minute version of a 5 minute hit song called "To Be on Top". "For this next one, I'm going to need a lovely lady to assist me" Several hands rose up among the ecstatic audience. The man reached underneath his suit jacket and pulled out a single red rose. "All you have to do is catch…the rose" With that, he tossed the unsuspecting flower in the audience. The rose bounced in the air and to the sides as a rabid pit of fans scratched and clawed to get ahold of it.

"Forget piranhas, this is what bad guys need in their lairs" Yakko uttered, observing what was probably first time a flower had ever crowd surfed. Giovanni simply stood with a smug smile as he waited for the lucky fan to claim it.

"Wakko, give me your gag bag" Dot said anxiously.

"What? No way its mine!" Wakko responded defensively.

"Please, can I have it?" she pleaded, fluttering her eyelashes at him.

"Will you get rid of your Giovanni CD's if I do?" Wakko asked.

"Sure, this once in a life time moment is worth far more than a few CDs. Now come on!" Dot answered. Wakko handed her a small duffel bag in which Dot snatched hastily from his hands. She tossed a number of items from his bag such as anvils, licorice, mallets, and a swimming pool until she came across what she needed; a fishing pole. She stood atop of her seat and cast a line out towards the rose. At the end of the line was a small white-gloved hand that successfully manged to grab the rose. Dot excitedly reeled it back towards her before anyone else could grab it. She happily jumped up and down on her seat.

"Yes! I've got it. I've got it!" She squealed triumphantly, as she was quickly drawing the attention of everyone in the ballroom, Giovanni included.

"Ho!, who is that lovely woman I see out there?" Giovanni exclaimed as a large circular platform suspended by two chains, descended from the ceiling. He stepped aboard the platform and held on to both of the chains as it began to float away from the stage, and right towards the Warners.

"Brace for impact, an Unfriendly Floating Object is heading right for us!" Yakko joked dramatically as both him and Wakko put on military hard hats. A blue spotlight light followed right under the singer as he held out his hand with a warm smile. Dot grabbed on and was pulled on the platform. As the platform began to hover back towards the stage, Giovanni looked back as he noticed the Warner Brothers waving at him, Yakko with a sly smile and Wakko with his signature gookie face. He gave a brief glare before redirecting his attention towards the stage he was returning to. He got off first and helped Dot off, who still had the rose tightly gripped in her hand and cheerful smile plastered on her face.

"Hello fair maiden, how do you do?" he bowed gracefully.

"I'm so excited I don't care this thorny rose is piercing my hand!" Dot chirped ecstatically.

"What's your name?"

"It's Princess Angela Cont-"

"Short version sis!" She heard her older brother call out in the far back of the stage, another wave of shushes came afterwards.

"But you can call me Dot, heck you can call anytime or anything; except Dottie, or you'll die."

"Well now, what full song would you like to sing with me? Whatever you pick is entirely your choice" A few shrieks rose up from the audience at Giovanni's request.

"Oh! Oh! I know the perfect one, "Let You Shine"

"Ah, a ballad, a duet, a wonderful choice. Maestro…"

Long story short, it really wasn't much of a duet. Giovanni sang most of the lines and kept upstaging Dot. The only line Dot was able to sing was part of the chorus "…To share your time, with our hearts sublime, to give me a chance to shine…" And even then, her voice was drowned out by Giovanni dramatically bellowing into the mic. While Dot didn't mind this, she noticed that her choice of song had been shortened by a few verses. Meanwhile her brothers were busy cheering her on, while at the same time wanted to gag at how mushy the song sounded. As soon as the song ended, she jumped up and into her idol's arms.

"You're Welcome "said Giovanni with a self-satisfied smile; it disappeared when he struggled to shake her off as she had a very tight grip. "Please, would you…"

"Don't'! Lets just stay like this forever" Dot pleaded as she kissed his cheek.

"Ahem, excuse me for a moment, it's time for a brief intermission" he quickly uttered to the audience before walking off stage with Dot still in his arms. The rest of band followed suit as the curtain began to fall onstage.

"Come on, my older brother sibling sense is tingling that our sister will need us" Yakko explained as both him and Wakko got out of their seats and managed to find their way backstage. Meanwhile, Giovanni was still trying to pry Dot off of him as he walked into a backstage hallway. Dot placed the rose he gave her in her head so it would match the other one she already had.

"How did you know I look cute in red?" she swooned dreamily.

"I didn't, I just know it looks cuter on me." Giovanni scoffed. For the first time all night Dot's smile had disappeared from her face.

"Hey watch it! You may be good-looking but I'm the cute one around here." Dot answered offended.

"Whatever, Now please ,Get off!" he strained harshly.

"Could we try doing that song again, or sing another one? I know the song was supposed to have two extra verses" Dot pleaded innocently just before the singer finally manged to get her off him and back on the floor.

"Sorry, that was the abridged version. Time constraints. I'm sure you can understand" Giovanni replied harshly as he took out a picture from underneath his jacket and signed it before giving it to Dot.

"Now be a good girl and get lost. I have an audience to attend to" he added as he walked away from her and disappeared down the hallway. Her brothers appeared at her side a second later. It didn't take long for them to noticed her frowning.

"What's wrong Dot?" Wakko asked sympathetically.

"I don't understand..." Dot uttered softly. "He didn't have time to do a full five-minute ballad with me..."

"...But he had more than enough time to do a twenty-minute song all about himself" Yakko finished her sentence with his arms crossed. She looked down at the picture and gave a small smile. It was a glamour shot of Giovanni in a blue tux standing against a white background.

"Well at least I also got an autograph… What the…?!"

Dot was taken aback at what Giovanni had written on the picture. On the bottom right corner was his signature, but below that was an extra note; "To the 2nd cutest person I know , Dottie. She clenched her fists as both of her roses literally burst into flames before turning to ash.

Why that pompous overblown….! Dot yelled before her dialogue turned into a tirade of swearing and muttering that mimicked that of Yosemite Sam.

"That's the most wonderful thing I've heard all night" Yakko retorted sweetly as he held his hands up to his ears.

"Well what are we waiting for?, let's go get him!" Wakko exclaimed as he and Yakko took out enormous mallets that towered above their heads. Dot was about to do the same when the trio noticed a commotion going on at the end of the hallway, It was Giovanni in a heated argument with the conductor. The conductor angrily stormed towards a door with the singer follow right behind him.

"...Come on, please! I'll need you for the finale!" Giovanni pleaded.

"Bah! Find yourself another conductor! I quit!" the other man spat as he walked out and slammed the door shut. The distressed singer was left alone as he rustled his hair in frustration.

"What am I gonna do? I can't go on with the show without a conductor, I'm a performer not a musician!"

"Pop artists in a nutshell folks!" Yakko joked. Wakko emphasized his point by playing a short rimshot on a drum set that happened to be in the hallway. "Sibs, this convenient and almost contrived plot point just gave me a better idea! And Dot, I think you'll love this one!" Both of his younger turned towards him with excited smiles.

"Really? We'll spit it out already!" Dot chirped.

"Sorry I prefer to say it not spray it" Yakko joked. "Now all we really need is a wig" he added placing a pondering finger on his chin. Suddenly, Paul the bouncer the Warner brothers met earlier appeared right next to them.

"Need this?" Paul asked shoving a clothes rack filled with wigs in front of them. "Your welcome" he added before running off.

"Who was that?" Dot asked.

"New friend, I'll tell ya later" Yakko replied as he found what he was looking for, a puffy white wig. "Now huddle up guys, here's the plan..."

Hope you all had a great Independence Day! I meant to have this up earlier, but kept postponing it due to other plans. Plus I somehow managed to erase most of my revisions twice on the Doc Manager. So I had to redo them all over again.

So what is their plan exactly? Well I'm not telling you, you'll have to find out next chapter. XD