Disclaimer: I could easily make this story darker, really violent, bloody and gory but I'd rather not, otherwise this fic could be considered animal abuse. Besides, I love implying the violence in a clean manner, it gives the imagination something to work with, also, I kinda don't like reading about that kind of stuff, I'd rather watch it in a Friday the 13th movie. With that being said, I'll keep doing what I've always been doing, keeping the more mature content to a believable minimum. Part 2 of the 'big reveal' arc of the story, Furrball made quite the entrance wouldn't you say? I don't own the characters so enjoy!

Chapter 14

Furrball's eyes turned feral at the sight of Lious. He was deadlocked to the big orange Alley Cat and he in turn glared back. Furrball didn't even blink, his painted smirk was near identical to his actual smile. The blue cat could see everyone else from the corners of his eyes but paid no attention to them, the sooner he took care of his business the quicker he would leave them. To him, they didn't need to know about his unfortunate demise.

Lious just stared back at this cat in the leather coat, his Alley recruits did the same just as everyone else. He shuddered, he was actually started to get scared. He was pretty much looking at his own death in the face! He saw the painted cat tilt his head, eyes still on him, the evil grin made Lious shake his head to his own disbelief.

"What's the matter, Lious?" Furrball's tone came out serious, "cat got your tongue?"

"Wh-who are ya'?" Lious wouldn't show any fear, not in front of everyone else. The cat has faced many beings tougher and scarier than he was but what was in front of him looked to not be of their planet.

"Boss?..." now Nicus started to question the situation, "is dat'…? But it can't be…right?!"

"No! It isn't, remember?! We took care of him, we all did!"

Eric cawed which startled everyone, he flew to Furrball and landed on his shoulder, "I see you haven't changed a bit, Lious," he told them, "tell me, how's the rest of your gang?"

"It was you!" Mestic yelled, "you…Tus, Whisk, O'Wildec-"

"Call it whatever you want, I call it climbing the food chain, you cats always told me to survive the streets and I just proved to you that I did."

The painted cat slowly stepped down from the bar counter only to be annoyed by a piercing scream. Lious pointed his gun where it came from but rolled his eyes and swiftly went back to Furrball as everyone looked deadly at a screaming Plucky. Shirley tried to calm him down but the green duck still shrieked. Using her powers she made an anvil appear and dropped it on him but that still didn't seem to work.

Furrball was about to speak up again but was interrupted by Plucky's screaming once more, this time while pointing at him. Having had enough, Shirley smacked him as hard as she could with her purse and at long last was finally quiet. The green mallard was unconscious with his head on the table, tongue sticking out, and his eyes seeing stars.

"What have you done with Clawz?" Lious growled.

Eric provided Furrball a vision to back up his own claim. It consisted of him back on his last night when he was still tied to the chair. There stood Clawz with the gun.

"This one's for pizza!" echoed in his ears and was brought back to reality when he opened his eyes.

"Well," Furrball teased, "since he loved pizza so much, he became one."

Everyone gasped while others stood there confused, the black-clad cat unsheathed his claws and clarified, "he's sliced, stuffed in a box, ready to be delivered."

"You're sick!" Lid cried out, "you're a…monster!"

"I'm no different than you six, I've done what you've done to me, I'm just returning the favor."

"You've been offin' my men for the past few nights? You…"

"So it is ya'," Nicus pointed out, his eyes widened, he reached for a blade while he thought no one was looking, "how did ya' even make back here?!"

Eric cawed in response, "that should answer it," the painted cat replied as well.

"Yeah well wherever ya' came from, I'm sendin' ya' back there!" Nicus then threw his switchblade directly at Furrball and awaited the painful result.

With both paws, Furrball caught the blade as it pointed at his face. Everyone was amazed and surprisingly applauded at the act.

"Great show, Dizzy!" Babs pointed out, "they're really talented!"

"Yeah, they're a sight to see," Buster followed, "ya' think I could get them to guest-star for me?"

"Shut up!" Lious yelled, but while he was getting frustrated, Furrball switched the blade around and threw it back at the grey cat. Before Nicus knew it, he was hanging on the wall via his own weapon stabbed through him. He hung on the wall while gasping for air while blood trickled down from him. Now everyone realized that this wasn't a show.

"Get 'im outta' here!" Lious ordered, Lid and Mestic quickly and carefully took down Nicus while the younger siblings of Babs started crying in fear. Lious was really starting to lose it as he was now no longer afraid. He now knew who was behind the demises of his soldiers and now he just wanted to fix that problem right in front of him. Nicus' blood started pouring a bit when he was taken down but it made no difference, he was still alive.

"One down, eight to go," Furrball teased, "but don't worry, 'boss,' I'm saving you best for last."

"Alright that's it!" Lious pointed his gun directly at Furrball's face while more crying was heard, "I will do it! I've done it before, I'll do it again!"

Fifi, Calamity and Sylvester stepped ahead of the others despite their pleas, Furrball noticed them but kept his eyes on the gun-wielding Alley Cat.

"Please be okay," Fifi said to herself, "je can't lose vous again."

Furrball stepped closer to Lious, "it's just you and me now," he teased, "no Alley Cats here to protect you, just this gun."

"This gun can wipe ya' out again," Lious replied but the painted cat didn't seem to listen, much less care as he steadily paced his way to the gun the Alley Cat held.

He gently placed his paw on the muzzle of the pistol, "go ahead then, take your best shot."

Lious looked at him, he couldn't believe this, this cat was just begging for it.

"You…are seriously outta' it!" he almost laughed, "now I know you're not Furrball, ya' can't be, he's not brave enough to be this close up to me especially when he's starin' at a DIP-soaked bullet, again!"

"Furrball?!" everyone glanced over to the painted cat and tried to put two and two together.

"I knew it," Buster said, "I knew he wouldn't just leave like that."

""I was like, right all along," Shirley realized as she glanced over to Babs, "he never really did leave, he just…what happened to him anyway?"

Hamton looked over to Fifi and noticed that she was looking at the painted cat with a worried expression.

"If that's Furrball, then why is he here? Where did he even go?" he had so many questions racing through his head that one came to him and stuck out the most, "if he's here now…then where does that leave me?" he shook those thoughts out of his head, "he ditched her, remember? She won't want him now, but then again…"

"I'll shoot," Lious threatened once again but Furrball grew impatient.

"Are you sure?" he continued to taunt him, "I dare you."

Lious gripped the gun tightly, he wasn't sure if he was bluffing or if this was some kind of mind game he was playing.

"I am Furrball, if you don't believe me then take your best shot and find out."

Furrball's paw was still on the muzzle but felt a kind of heat from the barrel when a shot was heard.

"NON!" Fifi cried out.

Lious had pulled the trigger which caused Eric to rapidly fly off to another location of the bar, this was everyone's cue to evacuate the premises. Fifi was quickly shoved and pushed to the side by an alert May.

"Come on!" she ordered, "we have to get out of here before anyone else gets hurt!"

"Je can't just leave 'im!"

"Come on! Everyone out!" Sylvester yelled as he motioned for everyone to rush out. Fifi was pushed against her will with her last glances of Furrball were him crying out in pain as he turned around with his stripe facing Lious.

"Bulls-eye!" he celebrated but it was cut short. While everyone was still running out, the Alley Cat heard giggling. Furrball turned around and gasped, the painted cat was still holding on to his wounded paw and cackled mockingly at Lious. He held up his paw and showed Lious his wound close up with the DIP disintegrating, healing himself up.

Furrball's laughs became more and more psychotic, he whooped and hollered meows as he healed up.

"What are you?!" Lious yelled.

As the last few Toons exited the bar, Lious noticed that Feral had stayed behind with him, he stood right behind the laughing cat.

"I'm everything you always wanted me to be!" Furrball's taunting laughter filled his ears but was finally put to a stop when Feral pushed him right through the muzzle of Lious' gun!

The cat winced his eyes and looked down at his chest, Furrball's paws tried to wrap around the wound to pull himself out but couldn't get himself to do it. Lious laughed at him, "not so funny anymore," he taunted back, "tell me, what's it like on the other side?"

The big orange Alley Cat was met with Furrball's unsheathed claws piercing right through his ribs as an answer.

"To be honest," Furrball responded, half-chuckling, "it hurts."

Lious could feel himself getting weaker, Furrball gently retracted his claws from the big orange cat's body as he heard him gasp for air. Lious let go of the gun and took a few steps back before fainting.

…

Outside, everyone was scurrying to their cars and speeding off, Babs told her family that she and Buster would meet them back at their hole in the forest while the other Toons gave quick apologies for the interruption of the shower, but it was Dizzy who was upset most of all.

"Blegh, damn Alley Cats!" he yelled as he spun out of control, "ruin Dizzy's business, me hate them!"

He began spinning up a whirling tornado and proceeded to head back inside but Mitzi grabbed on to whatever she could in the spinning whirlwind her boyfriend became.

"Don't go in there!" she pleaded, "they could hurt you!"

Hamton took out his phone and started to dial 911 while Fifi sat in her car watching everyone lose their minds. She noticed Sylvester driving off and honked back at her. He gave her a stern expression and nodded at her implying that he knows what's going on. She turned to another car not far from her and saw Calamity and Camilla there. The coyote closed the car door on his wife and strongly implied for her to stay in there while he turned to face the club.

Camilla grabbed his arm, "you're not seriously thinking about going in there?!"

Calamity pulled out a sign, "I have to," it said, he turned it around to show her the other side, "he's my best friend, I can't just leave him there to die."

"But they'll hurt you, they're ten times your size and have guns!"

Calamity threw the sign down and pulled out his voice box, "you're talking to a Toon who's been hit with objects for a living, this should be nothing at all!"

"They have DIP, Calamity, they won't just hurt you, they'll kill you too!"

Things were starting to get a little heated and emotional for the two as Camilla embraced her husband's arm.

"Let me go, Calima!" Calamity protested, "I can't lose my best friend again!"

"And I can't lose you!" she cried, "I can't lose you the same way F-"

That's when the female coyote noticed the purple skunkette looking at them, Calamity noticed her too and bowed his head in shame, giving in to his wife's protests.

Fifi wasn't mad at them, they were right, no one should lose someone so close to them in such a violent way. She remembered the imagery Furrball transferred to her from his last night. Those visions made her cringe, what followed that was the fact that that same night was also when Hamton took her to their bed. There was so much going on, with Furrball back in her life, at least she hoped he was, May now back in both her's and Hamton's lives as well as her feelings for Hamton on his actions towards her. She kept thinking over and over what her friends have been telling her but she still couldn't believe them, she still called it love and affection but no matter how she kept seeing it, part of her knew that she had been…violated. The only reason she was calm to an extent was because of Furrball's return.

His kind and gentle heart always made her smile and knowing that he was seeing them together like that had to have broken his heart. She knew how he felt about her, along with his memories, she gained his emotions and with that, she was able to calm down from all that was going on. She knew how the cat felt about her but through him she realized that his kindness could no longer be a factor in his personality.
She remembered the time when she first saw Furrball since his return, it was in that same area she was in. Fifi re-imagined the whole thing from the Alley Cats being tossed around to Furrball walking out of the shadows and looking right at her. Fifi also remembered her mistaking him for a skunk with the stripe purposely painted on his coat. Just looking at him made her heart beat faster, it distracted her from all of her surroundings that she didn't even notice when Tus started to run off from him. Looking back on it now, she realized that in a way, she knew it was Furrball all along.

There was a knock on the window and Fifi turned to see Shirley and Babs standing outside.

"Tell us the truth," Shirley said, "is…that really Furrball in there?"

Fifi wanted to ignore them, she almost forgot that Shirley was the one who provided the honest vision of what happened to Furrball. That vision was now proven wrong, but why were her friends surprised about it? She took one last quick look-around and saw Calamity explaining everything to Buster and a near-conscious Plucky, Bugs, Porky and Foghorn pulling out Arnold and Arnolda from the club and Hamton still on the phone. To the skunkette's surprise, she saw May staring back at her! The female pig looked down to her feet and turned to walk away from everyone.

Ignoring the random act from the female pig, Fifi turned back to face her friends, "oui…zhat' iz' 'im," she confessed, "but vhy' are you both, how you say, shocked to see 'im? Didn't vous already know vhat' 'appened to 'im?"

"We thought he ran away, remember?" Babs replied, "but we also thought that maybe Shirley's vision was wrong."

"We like, wanted to tell you, Fifi," Shirley claimed, "we just didn't know when would be the right time, we decided that now is as good a time as ever since there never really is a good time."

"So, nei'zher of you knew vhat' really 'appened to 'im?"

The girls shook their heads, "this was all news to us, all of us, honest!" Babs stated.

Shirley tried convincing Fifi that they were all unaware of the whole ordeal, she had the powers to back it up, "I really don't know how, or why my powers like, clouded his…I'm sorry, but I can't explain this!"

"Zhe' crow, it iz' zhe' crow."

The Loon and the pregnant pink bunny glanced at each other, wondering what she meant by 'the crow.'

"So like, what really happened?" Shirley asked, "why is he like, dressed up like a depressed Joker?"

Fifi quickly explained to them the whole story in a nutshell and to add more to their shock once again, Babs screamed.

Buster turned to his wife, she started gasping and heaving. "Babs?!" alert, he ran towards her, "what happened?!"

"Buster! My water broke!"

Hamton heard the whole thing and turned back to the phone, "and bring an ambulance, hurry!"

To be continued…

A/N: how's THAT for a cliffhanger? There's so much going on I just hope everyone can catch up and not be lost lol. Thanks for reading everyone, sorry if it's a little short but I had to end it here, seemed fitting. Also, I'm sorry I uploaded a little late, I was out with some friends to go see 'Devil's Due' & I got to be honest, it made me sick to my stomach. And no, that's not me saying it was bad, that's up to YOU to decide if it was but ME, it literally made me sick, I was holding my turning stomach the whole time. Anyway, be sure to review and I'll return next week with a new update. Oh, also, I've been updating my profile so if you want to know more about me author-wise and fandom-wise then be sure to check it out whenever possible! It's still in progress but you guys can still check out what I've put up so far. Until next time!