Animaniacs is owned by Warner Bros., I don't claim any of them as mine, same as with any other franchise I use in here, they're not mine either.
This story's going to be a little different this time around. While it will use some of the same characters as "A Dare Gone Zany", it is in fact NOT a part of the same universe. This is sort of like a "what if" scenario/branch-off, and is its own separate story.
As a result, it is not related to my original "A Dare Gone Zany" storyline.
"Alright, we need to find Mom first! She said she was getting a drink somewhere!" Bradley shouted over the motor of the scooter.
"You got it!" Yakko shouted as well, putting on some goggles and revving the engine... To a paltry 2 miles per hour. Bradley just frowned at that, clearing his throat. "Any way to make this faster?" The human said.
"What, I thought tourists loved taking in the sights of theme parks." Yakko said with a smile.
"I'm not a tourist though!" Bradley said louder, sounding more annoyed.
"Ohhh, why didn't you say so?" Wakko said as he reached up and pressed some kind of turbo button, bringing them back up to speed before one of the guards caught up.
"There we go!" Bradley said more happily, holding on tight as Yakko slalomed around the guests, startling them. More security guards took notice and started to run after them, but their scooter was too quick. After several more seconds, they found Bradley's mom finishing her soda, stopping the scooter. "Mom!" He called out, waving at her to get her attention.
"Bradley! What in heck's name are you doing?!" She shouted angrily.
"She used the good half of the word, nice." Yakko muttered to the human boy.
"And why are these things here with you? Aren't they the ones from that new attraction we went to?" She added to her list of questions, but Bradley held up a hand to stop her.
"Look, before you launch into the 20 Questions game-" Bradley started before looking back to see more guards running after them and closing in. "I need you to get back to the car, and fast! This is a rescue mission!" He shouted urgently, with his mom looking as well.
She sighed after another second, reluctantly agreeing as she didn't have much time to argue. "Give me 10 minutes to get to the exit, do you know where the van's parked?" She asked to make sure.
Bradley nodded in response. "Yeah I do, we'll try not to get caught!" He said before Yakko revved the scooter and zipped away, the park security narrowly missing them.
After the guards passed her, Mom went a different path, mumbling to herself. "He'd better explain himself after this..."
3:30 PM
Bradley checked his watch to make sure, they had to stay un-caught until 3:40 at least. They reached the escalators connecting the lower and upper lots and rode the scooter on them to speed things up, making the vehicle and its drivers vibrate. As a result, it made Yakko, Wakko and Dot look more like struck tuning forks in slow-mo, all four kids going "Ai-yi-yi-yi-yi". The security guards had to take the long way up using their feet, the guests trying to get out of the way of both groups.
"Alright, so how're we gonna stay out of the way of these guards for 10 minutes?" Bradley asked over the sound of the scooter as they kept going straight towards The Simpsons ride area. "I've never had to do anything like that before!" He added, not really confident in himself.
"Don't forget, you're with the best guard-dodgers this side of the country!" Yakko said proudly. "Or maybe this side of the park, who knows?" He added with a shrug.
"Well we're doing good so far with the scooter, aren't we?" Bradley said reassuringly. A few seconds after he said that, one of the guards managed to get in front of them. Yakko turned around 180 degrees and sped off the other way to leave that guard coughing in the dust. Then another guard jumped right in front of them in their way. Bradley and the others yelped in surprise as Yakko pressed the same button for the turbo boost to make a big spring pop out the bottom, jumping over the guard who looked on with shock along with several other kids and parents.
"Wahooooo!" The Warners shouted happily as Bradley held on tight, the scooter continuing to bounce on its spring. "Told ya, stick with us and ya won't get snagged!" Yakko said.
That is, until they ended up in a tree a few hops later. The Warners and the human ended up tangled in the branches before Bradley fell out first onto the grass. He groans and brushes the leaves off and stuff off of him before he saw more park security closing in. He gets up with a grunt and jumps into the tree once more, evading one of the guard's leap and tackle.
Bradley kept climbing but found no trace of the Warners in the tree until he was at the top. He saw that they were back on the ground, holding out a trampoline, seemingly for him. While the guard got up and started climbing towards the boy, Bradley took it as a hint and jumped off, landing in the middle and letting out a few "whoa"s as he kept bouncing up and down. Eventually he stopped, looking somewhat dazed.
"Welp, that takes care of this one, now our usage of circus tools is complete!" Yakko said as he tossed the trampoline away once Bradley rolled off.
"I knew we forgot something in that last ride." Dot said.
The guard dropped down and fell on his behind with an "ow", getting back up and calling for reinforcements.
"Uh-oh. RUN!" Bradley shouted, with Wakko hopping onto the boy's shoulders as they booked it out of the Simpsons area. Bradley ran and ran as fast as he was able, with two more guards showing up behind and one in front, to which the group juked out the one in front of them and made him trip and fall.
After several more seconds of sprinting and dodging guests, they came to a three-pronged fork in the path. Wakko reached down to pick it up and put it in his hat as they ran, but then they came to the real split in the road, one path to the Harry Potter area and two going around either side of Universal Plaza. "SPLIT UP!" Bradley shouted, with him and Wakko going into the Harry Potter area while Yakko and Dot ran towards Universal Plaza.
"No thanks, I think we got a few good years left before we think about that." Yakko quipped, with Dot agreeing. But they still went down their paths, with Dot going to the left and Yakko to the right. The guards split up as well, one to each pathway. By now however, the PA, which normally was playing some sort of song, was announcing that the Warners from their new attraction had escaped and are wandering the park, warning guests to be careful and not talk to them, but instead let park security know before they do anything horrible.
"Horrible?" Wakko said as he popped out of Bradley's shirt from the back when he heard the PA say that.
Bradley shushed him. "They think you're gonna hurt the other guests or something... I know you won't, but they don't know that." He said in a whisper, keeping and eye out for any guards and diving out of sight.
3:34 PM, with Yakko
Yakko seemed to take this more casually, however made sure to hide every so often in umbrellas and behind benches and other things until he reached the Despicable Me area. He frowned at the sight of the Minion Mayhem building and the Minions around on the sign, shaking his head. "Hm..." He hummed before getting an idea.
He got out a paintbrush and hopped onto the roof, doodling and painting over the Minions with a smile and a painting smock on, humming a segment of The Barber of Seville as he worked, the song itself even playing in the background while he was there. Other guests seemed to watch as well, with mixed expressions of interest and weirded-out.
Once Yakko was done painting and humming some seconds later, the Minions outside looked just like Yakko and his siblings. They each had different faces and expressions on them, especially with the one-eyed Minion now having two eyes and so on. Even the sign was different, saying "Warner's Mayhem" instead, with their matching colors.
"Now that's an endorsement worth looking at." Yakko said to himself after blowing a kiss of satisfaction, in a French accent no less. "Wouldn't ya agree?" He added in his normal accent to one of the kids that happened to pass by, letting out a giggle with an "I guess" after they saw the sign, the other guests watching either clapping or dispersing.
Soon after, he donned his normal clothing again and resumed slinking around and trying to buy time for the others, until he ended up getting grabbed by a guard from behind. "Gotchya!" He shouted proudly.
Yakko just smirked at the readers, raising his eyebrows as if to say "watch this".
"And gotchya you did, you just won the big prize!" Yakko said in response.
The guard got confused, was this just a game? "What big prize?" He said curiously with a raised eyebrow.
"Oh just the valuable Golden Mallet! More famous than any Oscar, one showing of this and you'll see more stars coming at you all at once than a Smurfs cash-in!" Yakko explained, building up with an eager tone to make it sound more enticing.
"Hmm, I dunno, that sounds really suspicious... I never heard of any 'Golden Mallet'." The guard said curiously.
"Oh come on, with a face like this, what's there to be suspicious of?" Yakko said as he pointed to his own smiling face.
"Well, let me see it then, what does it look like?" The guard said with crossed arms. With that, Yakko smirked again and brought out said golden mallet.
"Here ya go!" Yakko said as he plopped it right in the guard's hands. It was very heavy, likely about 100 pounds, making the guard drop it on the ground and try to pick it up.
"Congrats to our winner folks, and be sure to tune in to the Academy Anvils next week!" Yakko said to the guests around them before bowing, falling into a somersault towards the guard and honking his nose, hopping over him like a leapfrog game. The guard ended up dropping the heavy mallet after another second of pulling, rubbing his nose and growling in frustration and running after Yakko.
"Just be glad he didn't get the booby prize." Yakko said to the readers before zipping away.
3:36 PM, with Dot
Dot ended up running off into the Waterworld attraction with a few more park security guards chasing her. She ended up losing them at the entrance, but put up signs ahead of time saying "she's in here" and "this way for Warners" and other phrases. The guards followed the signs into the attraction, which was actually currently closed off for refurbishment.
When they entered, the door closed behind them and the show actually started with various other Dot lookalikes on jet skis and plunging into the water. It seemed the pool was now filled with water too, confusing the guards further as they thought it was drained, as Dot seemed to be recreating a part of the show, with equally great music accompanying it.
During that, the guards tried catching some of the Dots that ended up falling into the audience, specifically the "Soak Zone". But when they did, they turned into one-piece dummies with Dot masks, wondering how they were moving like they were alive before.
They got soaked in the water with each splash and backed up on reflex when they saw the explosions. Soon the big finale approached with the big plane crash, with another Dot driving it with a "Yahooooo!". The splash further soaked the guards as the ground around them was littered with fake Dots, but the one that was in the plane got out and jumped onto the tip on the wing, who seemed to be wearing another Dot mask.
"Thank you, thank you!" She said as she pulled her mask off, turning out to be the real Dot as she bowed and curtsied. "But won't you help a poor little girl off this dangerous plane?" She added with a slight southern accent. The guards hopped the railing and ended up falling into the pool, trying to swim across to catch her.
"Well I didn't know you wanted to be swimmers." Dot said in her normal voice as she thought for a moment. "I know the perfect swimming coach to help out!" She added as she brought out a little white box from behind her. The guards actually didn't know what that was and seemed unconcerned.
"Poor thing got taken away from me, but now I found you and we're together again, aren't we?" She said in a cute baby-talk voice to the box before opening it. Now they recognized it, it was one of the things that were taken away from the Warners when they arrived, and they definitely looked concerned now.
It turned out to house Dot's pet, this time taking the form of a rather tall and green alien with four eyes, whose green tentacles grabbed the guards and waved them around like simple toys. "Aww, it means he likes you!" Dot said with a bright smile.
"Let us go, get us down!" The guards shouted angrily and fearfully.
"Well who am I to keep a swimmer away from water?" Dot said with a light sigh, the pet letting them go so they can fall into the deep end of the 23-foot-deep pool with a few big splashes.
"Good pet!" Dot said as she closed the lid on her little box, hopping off and landing on dry land, letting out a sigh. "Boys. A little flair and damsel in distress act gets 'em every time." She said with a smile before running off and out of the attraction, making the guards swim back to the audience section.
3:39 PM, with Bradley and Wakko
Wakko was still on Bradley's back as they tried sneaking through the crowd in the Harry Potter area, the human having to set him down to recover his energy, away from the rest of the guests. "Whew... I think we lost them." Bradley said as he stretched his arms and legs, sitting down against one of the buildings out of view.
"Don't worry, I found them again!" Wakko said as he brought out some glasses.
Bradley chuckled and shook his head. "It'd be nice if they were filled with a drink, but not what I meant."
Wakko shrugged and shook the two glasses together, making what seemed like a soda between them and drank the newly filled drink in one gulp, tossing the glasses away. Bradley just rolled his eyes.
"Look..." Bradley started. "I know I'm not responsible, but I really am sorry you got taken away like that. You couldn't have known they'd do this to you, right?"
"Oh it's fine." Wakko said, waving his gloved hand dismissively. "We make everyone laugh and it's good being remembered." He added, trying to find a bright side.
"Don't you miss home though? Like, your real water tower? All your friends too?" Bradley asked worriedly. He frowns softly at that thought, being taken away from your old home like that. It'd definitely make him sad for sure.
Wakko thought about it as he ate a huge hot dog he got out of nowhere, making Bradley laugh softly to himself. He ends up nodding in agreement. "Of course we do! Just thought we'd get it done on a Tuesday, nothing that important happens there anyway." He said with a goofy smile and his mouth full.
Bradley just shook his head and smiled back. "Well, Tuesday or not, you still deserve to be free and stuff, ya know?" He said.
Wakko nods in agreement once his mouth was empty again. "Ya really don't wanna see what I can do in a cage." He said as a sort of warning.
The human raised his hands at that, like "Whoa, slow down". "Don't worry, I'll take your word for it." Bradley said with a nervous smile now. "But... Do you really trust me though?" He added, he just wanted to make sure he wasn't deemed untrustworthy.
"Depends, is today the 12th?" Wakko asked, jokingly dodging the question.
Bradley just shot him a look with a raised eyebrow. "Really Wakko?" He said, with a chuckle from the middle sibling as a result.
"You know I'm spoofin' ya! Of course I do!" Wakko said with a more warm smile this time, the human boy patting his head and the red cap that was worn on it.
Bradley looked at his watch, it was 3:41, meaning Mom must've gotten to her van by now. It was just about time to leave as Bradley stood back up. "Ready to go home?" The boy said.
Wakko finished his comically-huge hot dog and nods after gulping the rest of it down with a huge burp. "Yup, now I am!" He said happily. Someone definitely heard that from outside, for sure.
"Alright then... Let's hope Mom made it, but let's find your other siblings first." Bradley said as he lets Wakko hop onto his back again, smiling at the middle Warner Brother before dashing out of there, now out in the open.
Immediately some of the searching park security guards took notice, hearing the burp before, but now confirmed it was who they were searching for. "HEY YOU! DON'T MOVE!" They shouted at him.
Bradley looked at Wakko and smirked at him, looking back at the guards. "You didn't say pleeeeeease!" The human said in a teasing way with Wakko making his gookie face at them, infuriating the guards as the two kids ran off.
They ended up losing them and looked around, seeing what looked like Warner ears on someone entering the "Flight of the Hippogriff" roller coaster. They ordered that person to stop, but they got on the coaster first and it started moving, soon showing it was one of the singing kids that got a hat from before back at the Animaniacs attraction.
The kid blew a raspberry at the guards much to their confusion before they looked back and saw Bradley and Wakko flee the Harry Potter attraction, with the park security guards pushing through the other guests to catch up to them.
3:43 PM
Bradley and Wakko soon ended up in front of the Universal Box Office/Plaza, surrounded by other guests. They were now in a bigger panic at knowing those three toons still aren't caught yet and are only making more havoc. "Come on, where are they..." Bradley muttered to himself, trying and failing to jump high enough to see above the adult guests' heads. Wakko got on top of Bradley's shoulders and cranked his own tail to raise his neck up higher and higher, like a periscope.
"Can you see them?" Bradley shouted up at Wakko.
After another couple of seconds and even some radar pinging sounds, Wakko notices two streaks of smoke darting around other parts of the park, like in the lower lot again and at the Simpsons area. "Yeah, they're far out though!"
"Good, they haven't gotten caught, but how're we gonna get them here?" Bradley asked as Wakko retracted his neck back down to normal.
"Oh, I know how!" Wakko said as he hopped off Bradley's back and got out his gaggy bag, digging out a chicken, a Websters dictionary, fragile plates and so on, startling other guests around them as he tried finding something they could use. He finally did dig out a useful item, an alarm with an extendable pole. "This'll work!"
"Yeah, and alert every guard in the park!" Bradley said with worry, but Wakko just flipped the switch and sounded the alarm, the pole extending upwards by 15 feet before sounding off.
It was very loud and Bradley covered his ears with a groan while the other guests around them screamed in shock, trying to flee from the noise covering their ears too. Yakko and Dot did show up to join the other two after another few seconds though. "Finally got to use your birthday present?" Dot said, with Wakko nodding eagerly after Yakko shut it off.
"So, what brought us all together? It's not a Kranks Christmas reunion, is it?" Yakko said with arms crossed.
Bradley uncovered his ears and shook his head no in response. "Nope, we're finally getting out of here!" He said triumphantly, the Warners all hooraying in response.
"Good, I just hope our pet didn't chew up the couch while we were gone." Wakko said.
"Too bad you always chew it up first." Dot said in response, with Wakko sheepishly grinning and rubbing the back of his head.
The alarm got the attention of a lot of park security guards that time, almost every one of them were pushing through the guests and running after the Warners and Bradley. "Talk later, RUN NOW!" Bradley shouted, all four kids making a mad dash towards the park entrance/exit. All the guards, including the ones previously outwitted by Yakko and Dot were in the group parting the panicking crowd of guests, even shoving some away to get to the kids.
The Warners couldn't just use their super-escaping speed this time because then Bradley wouldn't catch up to them, so they kept running normally through the guests. They split up again to juke out more guards in front of them before getting back together in a group, feet and shoes slapping on the ground as the guards shouted at them to stop running.
"Still not saying please!" Bradley said. Thankfully the guests were doing a good job in slowing the guards down when they got in their way in their running and panic. One of the guards spotted another pair of Warner ears close by him while they were distracted, grabbing them but seeing it was another kid that happened to have an Animaniacs hat on. The guard apologized and the mom huffed and looked rather angry, ushering her kid away after taking the hat back.
The Warners and Bradley snickered at seeing that, but they were approaching a clear spot near the exit, which was blocked off by the remaining park security. "ROADBLOCK!" Bradley shouted in fear, they looked trapped.
"Or is it?" Yakko said, having an idea. "Wakko, gag bag, now!" He said, with the middle sibling nodding and getting it out. They couldn't stop running now, so Bradley had to put his trust in them as Wakko brought out a big bounce pad from the bag. Yakko got it and tossed it in front of them, with Dot and Wakko holding each of Bradley's hands as they jumped onto it.
"Hold on!" Yakko warned as they bounced up high above the exit gate and above the guard's heads, the human looked scared and screaming as they fell back down. Dot then brought out an umbrella and opened it, acting like a parachute as the other three landed more softly by Yakko.
"Whew... First and last time I'll skydive." Bradley said with a nervous laugh, the guards recovering from their shock and opening the gate to run after them. "Not out just yet, come on!" Bradley said as he and the Warners ran down the exit path, trying to think of where Mom said she parked.
"Alright, where is she, where'd she say she'd be parked at..." Bradley muttered to himself, looking to see if one of the parking garages was close-by. He looked to see that "Frankenstein Parking" was close. "A-ha, 'Frankenstein Parking', that's the one!" Bradley said with a bright smile, heading in.
"A lot less wonder in this part of the park." Yakko critiqued, him and the others staying close to each other.
"Come on, come on, where is she..." Bradley said tiredly, he wasn't told what level of the garage Mom would be on. Meanwhile the guards were closing in on them, they had to keep ahead as much as possible until they found her. Wakko then got an idea to use the other cars there to distract the guards, whispering it to Yakko and Dot.
While Bradley was searching, the three Warners would play "Whack-A-Mole" and pop their heads out from behind the cars and trucks. Any time the guards came close to nab them, they'd vanish and go to another vehicle, practically moving to the other side of the entire garage at times. They even teased them with every miss: "Here I am!", "Catch me!", "So close!" "Next time!", "Carl Lewis has nothing on you!", and more.
Bradley checked the next level down a minute later and ended up finding Mom waiting on them, who waved him down when she saw him. "There she is, come on!" Bradley said as he ran towards her with the Warners close by, the guards hot on their trail. The siblings "boingy"-ed around the top of the other cars to distract the guards further, making them swipe at nothing. Mom had the van already started and in drive, with one guard narrowly missing tackling Bradley as his legs were getting very tired and aching from all the running.
The human boy managed to get in and the other Warners slipped in right after, closing the doors and locking them and rolling up the windows too. "Strap in!" Mom warned once everyone got in their seats: Bradley and Yakko were in the middle seats while Wakko and Dot were in the back.
The guards jumped out of the way once the van started moving, the Warners cheering with each swerve and raising their arms like on a roller coaster. Yakko even got a camera and snapped a picture of them like it was a real ride's photo op. Mom kept going as fast as safely possible with all the turns she had to do to get out of the parking garage, enough to where the park security didn't have a hope of catching them anymore, so they stopped at the exit and some just threw their hats onto the floor.
The kids cheered happily and Mom sighed in relief once they were finally out of there and on the road, picking up speed to put as much distance from them and the park as possible. "Now THAT was a vacation!" Bradley said happily, ending up laughing as he finally relaxed. The Warners were all talking to themselves now about what they did to outwit their guards, then Mom shushed them.
"Alright, now that everyone's out, do you mind telling me why you decided to take these three out of the park?" Mom asked a little sternly. She trusted Bradley on a lot of things, but this was very "out there" for him to do.
Bradley ended up launching into his part of the story about what he saw and what the Warners told him, that they were taken from their home and rather forced to play what the park thought would be good for them. But it turned bad fast, and thanks to lousy writing, quickly hated it and wanted to get out of there, but they had prepared by keeping all eyes on them so they wouldn't just vanish. That is until Bradley distracted the guards around them and making them lose sight of them.
"I knew there was a reason why you wanted to go back, and not just for the phone." Mom said after another few seconds once Bradley was done talking. "No wonder you seemed nervous when you came out." She added.
"Well we're out, and that's what matters." Bradley said with a smile.
"We're out?!" Wakko said as he took out an empty jar, frowning.
"Don't worry, we'll get you more back home." Dot assured him.
"Speaking of your home, where is it?" Mom asked.
4 PM
The van stopped at a closed-off road on the side, after playing a few more games to pass the time between the kids. "This is your home?" Bradley asked curiously.
"Ehhhhh, we kinda have a thing against letting others really see it." Yakko explained.
"Uh-huh..." Bradley said, feeling suspicious, but he understand, not pressing the topic further. The van doors opened and the Warners were let out. "Are you three gonna be alright?" He asked curiously.
"Oh we'll be more than alright! We'll be downright... Meh." Yakko started out saying that excitedly, but shrugged at the last word.
Wakko just smiled and nods. "We'll be fiiiiiine." He assured their human friend.
"Yeah, I need to get a new flower anyway." Dot said as well. "And maybe make my own Waterworld play again when we're not in danger of being tackled by the park guard varsity team, that was fun!"
"Besides, Ralph's more fun anyway. He just tries so hard." Yakko added.
"Alright then, good luck with that." Bradley said with a soft smile. He was about to close the van door, but had to ask one last question. "Wait!" The Warners stopped before they walked away. "Will we ever see you again?" Bradley asked with a softer tone.
The three Warners gave conflicting answers, Wakko and Dot nodded while Yakko shook his head. "We won't say 'believe and you can do it', but ya never know. Either way, you weren't half bad, kid." Yakko assured him before giving him and Mom a thumbs up.
Bradley sighs lightly through his smile and gives them a thumbs up in return. "Thanks, really. Well, see ya eventually then!" He said as he closed the door. All three Warners waved "bye" at the mom and son as they started driving away towards their home.
"See ya whenever!" Yakko said with a smile.
"I'll keep your seat warm!" Wakko said too.
"Don't forget to e-mail!" Dot said right after.
Bradley waves one last time at them before sitting back in the van and rolling up the window. "That was something..." He muttered to himself.
"So was that a good enough visit to Universal?" Mom said finally, smiling at him through the rear-view mirror.
Bradley thought it over for a few seconds, smirking and nodding. "Not sure if we can go back there again after that, but... Yeah, it really was." He said as he relaxed during the drive home.
Meanwhile...
"Hey Mister Ploooootzyyyyy!" The three siblings said in the same tone as Dennis the Menace when they arrived at their home. "We're baaaaaack!"
And if you hear really carefully, you could make out a distressed voice of a familiar-sounding CEO, screaming "No, no, noooooo!"
END
Author's Note: I'm personally kind of proud of this one, this situation came to me in some sort of dream or brainstorm, which I thought would be really cool. Hope you enjoyed it!