Hampton was still out in front of the people crying like a baby in it's crib, twenty minutes after giving his emotional and dramatic speech. But evnthough most of his immideate friends were trying emtremely hard to keep from bursting out laughing,..
BUSTER TO THE READER: We knew he was gonna be a dramatic pig in a blanket.
...the rest of the crowd really seemed to feel the emotion that Hampton was trying to get accross. Plucky saw the reaction that Hampton was getting from the crowd and something inside him just snapped.
"Oh boy, here it goes," Plucky muttered to himself.
He didn't know why, but for some reason he felt he had to try and be one step above everyone else and try to upstage them. Finally, Hampton was done and he walked back to his seat.
"Okay, Mr. Pig. Thank you very much for that- uh...marvelous speech of yours," said the priest as he walked up to the stage while clapping his hands with the audience members.
Then he turned his head away from the crowd, rolled his eyes and mouthed the word, 'wow'. Then he looked out at the audience as he said, "Is there anyone else who wants to pay their respects to the departed?"
Plucky tried to control his inner urges, but resistance was futile. Plucky raised his hand as he stood up.
"Very well. Please come up to the front," said the priest.
Plucky walked up and turned to face the crowd.
"Uh,...h-hello. Um...dear friends, I feel the beast way to pay tribute to this departed icon,...is through song."
Everyone in the audience started chatting amongst themselves. But all Shirley could do was whisper, "Please, God, no."
Plucky cleared his throw and then Plucky's voice rang throughout the church as he sung his rendition pf Ave Maria as a dedication to Bugs in front of the crowd. Four minutes into his performance, people in the crowd were either sleeping or trying hard not to laugh. The only one who seemed moved by Plucky's singing was Daffy, who had a tear falling from his eye.
"I taught him this very song," said Daffy.
"I should've known," Tweety responded.
"I would say that's why his performance is putting people to sleep. But that would be a lie before God and we are in his house. It's better to tell the man of the house the truth. And the truth is he's ripping apart this audience's ear drums the same way a rock drummer tears apart his drums," Yako whispered to his siblings, Wako and Dot, who had to cover their mouths and try to keep from laughing out loud.
"Well what do you expect? He did take lessons from the quacky quaker himself," said Dot.
"Very true. Have you seen his elementary school talent show video of when he did this song?" asked Wako.
This got Daffy's eyes to super widened in surprise.
"Wait a minute, have you three been breaking into my house and going through my stuff?!" asked the angry red duck.
"No, of course not," said Dot as she gave a cutesy, innocent look.
"No, we break into everybody's house and go through their stuff," said Yako.
This got everyone in their row and everyone in the row in front of them and behind them to stare at them with surprise and anger.
"Was it something we said?" asked Wako.
Meanwhile, as Plucky continued his singing, Hampton leaned over to Buster who was sitting behind him and said, "This is madness. This is insanity. They should've ended after me. He's only been going for like five or six minutes. But it feels like days."
"Yeah we all thought you were the one who was gonna play up the drama role at full ham. Hey I'll bet ya five bucks it takes him down to one knee." said Buster.
Hampton chuckled a little and said, "You're on."
Meanwhile as Plucky continued, Babs, Buster, Gogo, Shirley, Hampton and Fifi all tried very hard to hold back laughs, but some of them let it out in small pitter patters of laughter. Plucky sang for another minute before he slowly started down on one knee. Despite the fact that Hampton was shaking his head, he had a big old smile on his face. Then when Plucky was fully on one knee, Hampton slipped Buster a five dollar bill as they were both silently laughing. After Plucky's song ended, Babs made a sound like a buzzer at a sporting game and everyone laughed out loud. Plucky looked up at everyone then shrunk to the size he was as a kid and his clothes even turned into the white tank top he wore as a kid.
"Grow Up will ya?!" Plucky screeched at the laughing audience.
"You're gonna look like that one day," Shirley said to Lil' Pluck Jr. as she pointed to Plucky in his kid form.
Lil' Pluck took one look, then held the end of his beak as he said, "Eeeewwww."
After that, the funeral continued without any problmes, or delays. And then everybody went outside for the wake. But Dot was confused, having never been to a funeral before didn't know where everybody was going. So she tapped on Yako's shoulder and asked, "Where is everybody going?"
"They're going out for a wake," Yako explained.
"A wake, why dont they just go to sleep?" Wako asked.
One of the people in a crowd, a wel dressed, yet over weight lady scoffed at The Waners' antics.
"How can you horrid band of degenrates possibly be making jokes at a funeral?" she asked in a snotty, british accent.
"Like this, stereo typical snotty person," Yako said.
"I like your hair," Dot said to the lady.
She smiled as she ran her hand through it, as she tried to speak, "Well,...I say,...thank..."
"Who does your hair?" asked Wako.
"Well, I got it..."
"I DONT WANNA GO THERE." all three of The Warners said at the same time before taking off, leaving the lady standing there speechless.
"Why is there always a cliched, uptight, person at these kind of things?" asked Wako.
"The answer is in the question," Yako responded.
"Huh?" Wako asked with a confused look on his face.
"Because, it' as cliche," Dot explained.
When they got outside, Yako and Wako suddenly came to a screeching halt. Fore, they had spotted a beautiful woman walking around and chatting with other people. Dot kept running for a little bit before she realized her brothers were no longer along side her. She looked back to see them staring at someone with hearts in their eyes and their tongues hanging out of their mouths and laying on the ground. Dot face palmed as she shook her head. She started walking up to her brothers as she started complaining.
"Honestly, I cant take you two anywhere anymore. I mean, I turn my back for one minute and the next thing I know, you're..."
She stopped when she saw who her brothers were staring at. Her tongue fell to the ground and hearts filled her eyes. She couldn't help but be entranced at the beauty of the lady on the otherside of the crowd. This lady was none other than Fifi La Fume. They ran up to her and howled as loud as they could, "HELLOOOOOOOOOO, SKUNK!"
They all quickly sniffed her before Yako added, "A surprisingly good smelling skunk."
Then Yako jumped up to Fifi's face and kissed her. Then Wako came up and kissed her. Then Dot came up and kissed her, giving the longest kiss. When it was over, Fifi stared at Dot in confusion.
"Are you a, how you say, a lesbian?" Fifi asked Dot.
"No, I'm a democrat," Dot responded.
"I'm a narcisist," said Yako.
"And I'm Mexican," said Wako.
Then everyone just looked at Wako for a moment.
"Okay, well...we gotta get going. Good night, everybody," said Yako before The Warners took off.
"You're beautiful," Dot shouted to Fifi as she ran off with her brothers.
Fifi giggled a little. Dot looked back at Fifi for a little bit before she turned her head to see what was in front of her. Theeeeeeeeeen she ran into Babs and Buster Bunny knocking them both off their feet.
AUTHOR TO THE READERS: So much for seeing what was in front of her, eh?
Dot got up first. When she saw who she knocked over, she hurried to help Babs up to her feet and brush her off as she said, "Oh, I'm so sorry. If it were anyone else, it would've been funny, but I really respect you. I'm truly sorry."
"Dont worry about it. It's not the first time I've been knocked off my feet and I know for a fact that it wont be the last," said Babs as she shook Dots' hand.
"Why do I feel like I'm talking to myself?" Babs asked the readers.
Yako and Wako came back when they realized what had happened. They were joined by Buster and Hampton.
"So where is the rest of the Animaniacs gang?" Buster asked.
"Well they wanted to be here, but the author felt that too many cameos would take the focus off the main characters, a la, you," Yako explained.
"Oh,... well thanks for dropping by," said Buster.
And with that, The Warners were off as they were chased away by a policemen (who's name ironically is, Ralph), who the snotty lady from before had complained to about The Warners.
HAMPTON TO THE READERS: Did you folks enjoy that? You know, that cameo by The Warners? Well, drink it in, because they wont be appearing in this story again.
After that message to the viewing public, Buster, Babs and Hampton were left there to talk amongst each other. Hampton turned to Buster. Buster greeted Hampton with a friendly smile.
"Hey, it's gonna be a few days before we go out to the island and spread Bugs's ashes and Riley said we could stay in her cabin by the lake until then. Are you gonna stay long enough to do it with us?"
"A couple of days? Why cant we do it today?"
"Hey, dont blame me, I'm just going by what Babs told me, who was told it would take sometime to deliver the ashes so we can dump them. What's the big deal?"
"What's the big deal? Well, I-I gotta get back to California and take care of my studio. It's lost without me. I gotta be there in case something big like a buyout or other business transaction turns up."
"Oh, come on, Buster, you're gonna stand their and honestly say that your company can't last three or four days without you there to babysit it?" said Babs.
Buster let out an exasperated sigh.
"Let me explain it like this, Babsy. I may be the top of my studio, but that also means I'm the bottom of my studio, the base if you would. And if you take the base of a structure out from underneath it, what happens to it? It colapses. So to answer your question, yes. My studio can't last without me there to run it with an iron fist."
Babs scoffed in annoyance at Buster's corperate reasoning. But then she caught herself and then took Buster's hand in hers.
"Please stay, Buster. For Bugs, for the guys,...for me?"
Buster looked into Babs's pouty eyes as she did the lower lip thing. (Think, Kim Possible) Buster felt a crack in the shell of the person he has become, as the person he was, was trying to break out. It was all Buster needed to change his mind.
"Alright, I'll stay long enough to spread Bugs's ashes. Who knows, we may end up having some fun over these few days."
Babs smiled at her school years best friend.
"Thanks Buster," said Babs as she put her head on Buster's chest.
"Thank you so much."
Buster didn't know what to do, as his face turned bright red. Babs caught herself and took her head off Buster's chest, stepped back a little and cleared her throat as her face turned as red as Buster's was at the moment. Buster also cleared his throat and looked away, his hands in his pockets.
"So um...see you there?" asked Babs.
"I promise," Buster replied.
"Great, I'll go tell the guys," said Babs before she walked off, Hampton following behind as he waved goodbye to Buster.
Buster watched her walk up to the group made up of their old school friends and then looked up at sky with a conflicted look on his face. He truly was tired of being a corperate fat head, but at the same time it seemed almost impossible not to be one when you run a whole studio. Even now the thought of not being there to run the office even for only three days was making the corperate man in Buster cringe in agony. Maybe these few days away will be just the thing I need for me to come out of my shell and be my true self again. Maybe it will all end up working out for the better, Buster thought to himself. And with that, he started preparing himself to head for the lake.
I'll say it right now, this chapter isn't as good as the other ones are. I don't know, I guess I'm just a little out of whack. I need to get myself back in the swing of writing this story and comedy in general since lately all I've been writing is action and Sci-Fi stuff. But if you actually do like this chapter, then great, I'm happy to please you. I just think I need to step up me game for the future chapters. But, hey, if you think otherwise, you can tell me by writing a review for the story. Be brutally honest no matter what your feelings are, whether you liked this chapter, or not, or how you feel about the story as a whole. I'm The Guy Who Likes To Review Stuff, signing off.
Disclaimer: I don't own Tiny Toon Adventures, or Looney Tunes, or Animaniacs they and everything related to them belong to Warner Bros.