Holy freaking mother of cows! Has it really been this long since I have last updated? What's wrong with me? I have gotten so far off schedule that it's not even funny.
I am so sorry for the wait. I've just been so distracted lately. Every time I tried to finish this chapter I kept getting hit with writer's block. When my writer's block finally left, I lost inspiration for this story, but as I said in my profile, I'm not the kind of guy who abandons his stories.
Nothing will stop me from finishing this story. NOTHING!
I'll do my best to finish this story no matter what happens. Anyway, I'm sure you're dying to see what happened to Buster and the gang so I'll let you read for now.
Disclaimer: Don't own Tiny Toons. Never will.
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Buster, Babs, Hamton, and Plucky got off the bus and the first thing they noticed was how dark and spooky the place was.
There was a sign that said, 'Welcome to the Black Lagoon, where your worst fears come alive!'
"Buster. Where are we?" Babs asked.
"I wish I knew. It sure looks spooky though." Buster said.
Buster took a look around.
Around him lay the dull, grey expanse of the Black Lagoon. There was nothing but darkness and misery everywhere he looked… one thing was certain; this wasn't Happy World Land. But there were thousands of hazards. Boiling acid, unclean water, toxic waste…a guy could get killed here. Although, this does remind him of something that happened a long time ago…
Flashback…
It was a dark and stormy night, as many stormy nights are. Buster sat in the school's library. He was doing research on a very important assignment.
And by that, I mean Buster paid Bookworm to do his assignment for him while he sat there eating potato chips by the handful and sipping cold sodas. They were engaged in lively conversation, while Buster's robot slave fed him more junk food. Don't ask how he got the robot slave. Trust me; you REALLY don't want to know.
"What do you think is the scariest place on Earth?" Buster inquired happily while gobbling up potato chips.
"Hmmm… probably Elmyra's house. Trust me; her house is what nightmares' are made of. But Babs' closet is also pretty scary as well …" Bookworm said, while researching some stuff for Buster's project.
"Well, what's the scariest place outside of Acme Acres?" Buster questioned, chuckling faintly.
Bookworm stopped what he was doing and thought about the question he had been asked. After thinking for a minute, he responded.
"Hmm… the Black Lagoon, probably. That place is scary! It's full of hazards, monsters, and danger!" Bookworm said.
"Hmm…sounds like my kind of place! I'll have to visit that place one of these days" Buster said.
"You don't want to go there…unless you want to die!" Bookworm said.
Lightning flashed at that very moment, giving the room a creepy atmosphere.
Bookworm smiled.
"I always wanted to say something like that. It creates dramatic tension. Anyway, there are rumors that anyone who goes there will have their worst fears come true!" Bookworm said.
"What if you don't have any fears?" Buster asked.
"Well, then I guess you won't have to worry about that then. What you would have to worry about is the creature that is said to live there. It is said that a horrible, murderous creature lurks around those parts. This creature has an evil fascination with animals, especially bunnies and rabbits. It is said that when the creature catches you, it drags you to its lair…"
"What happens to it then?" Buster asked.
"You don't want to know. It's too gruesome. But, I advise you to stay as far away as possible from that evil place. But I'm sure you have nothing to worry about. After all, it's not like you will ever get tricked by an evil, psychotic classmate and end up going there thinking that you're going to a theme park" Bookworm said.
End flashback…
Buster gasped.
He knew where they were, and it wasn't a good place.
"Guys, I think we're in trouble." Buster said.
"What do you mean?" asked Plucky, who was busy reading his IRSS (Immature Radioactive Samurai Slugs) comic.
"We're at the lair of an evil creature," Buster said.
"Wait- what about an evil creature?"
"We're at its lair!"
"We're at what's lair?"
"The creature's!" Buster shouted.
"What creature?" Plucky asked.
Buster grabbed his face and stretched it before slowly repeating what he said.
"We are at the lair of an evil creature who will not hesitate to kill us in a place where our worst fears come to life!" Buster slowly repeated.
"Oh…"
Plucky took a moment to process this…before he responded in the only way he knew how.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" he screamed in terror.
Buster clamped his hand over Plucky's mouth.
"Quiet, moron! Do you want to alert the creature to our presence?" he asked.
"Why yes, Buster, I do. Here's an idea. How about we just sit here and call for the creature? And when the creature shows, he can soak us in digestive juices and slowly consume us over a period of weeks." Plucky said happily.
The others stared at him.
"What?! Don't you recognize sarcasm when you hear it?" Plucky asked.
"That didn't sound like sarcasm" Hamton said.
"Well, it was." Plucky said.
"It didn't sound like it, though"
"Just because it didn't sound like it doesn't mean it wasn't sarcasm"
"Can we focus on the subject?" Babs asked.
"What was the subject again?" Plucky asked.
"We are at the lair of an evil creature who will not hesitate to kill us in a place where our worst fears come to life!" Buster repeated.
"Oh…"
Plucky took a moment to process this…before he responded in the only way he knew how.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" he screamed in terror.
Buster clamped his hand over Plucky's mouth again.
"Is anyone else feeling déjà vu?" Hamton asked.
"Enough of this! Instead of standing here, how about we try to escape?" Babs asked.
"Why do we need to escape?" Plucky asked.
"Because we are at the lair of an evil creature who will not hesitate to kill us in a place where our worst fears come to life!" Buster slowly repeated.
"Oh…"
Plucky took a moment to process this…before he responded in the only way he knew how.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" he screamed in terror.
Buster clamped his hand over Plucky's mouth.
"Seriously, Plucky, you are starting to get on my nerves!" Buster said.
Suddenly, they heard something growl, followed by a huge roar.
"Oh, shoot! Come on, guys! We need to escape! Let's head toward the creature" Buster said.
They ran in the direction the creature was.
"Wait a minute, if we're trying to escape, shouldn't we be heading AWAY from the creature?" Babs asked.
"Where's the fun in that?" Buster said with a cocky grin.
Buster, Babs, Hamton, and Plucky entered the dark realm of the Black Lagoon, unaware of how much danger they were really in…
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The moonlight gleamed on the Black Lagoon. Seven miles of boiling toxic sludge, acid pools, and lava pits surrounded the dark place. A howl split through the air as the creature stirred from its waking place.
After a while of exploring, the toons had deduced that the creature's lair was close by. The monster's hideout was revealed to be a cave (how surprising is that?). To make matters worse, there were laser tripwires and cameras surrounding it, so there was very little chance that they could get in without being detected.
"We're going to have to use our ninja skills to get past this" Buster said.
"We don't have any ninja skills" Hamton said.
"Of course we do!" Buster said.
"We do?"
"Of course. Getting ninja skills is easy. All it takes is faith and trust and pixie dust." Buster said as if such a statement was not utterly ridiculous.
"THAT MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL!" Babs shouted.
"Whether it makes sense or not is irrelevant," Buster said. "You just have to believe in yourself and you can accomplish anything!"
Babs rolled her eyes.
"Shouldn't we be wearing black cloaks or something if we're going to be ninjas? At least, that's how ninjas dress in my IRSS comics." Plucky said.
"Enough of this!" Buster snarled. "Here's the plan. We use our ninja skills to avoid detection and get into the cave. We'll scale the upper walls to avoid any landmines buried in the soil and any other traps as we go through the cave. We'll enter the creature's hideout, and capture it. Once that's done, we'll set off some bombs, hide somewhere and wait until they explode. Once this place explodes, no one will be able to come here again. Then, we can continue our quest for Happy World Land. Any questions?"
All of them raised their hands.
"Hamton" Buster called.
"So, when do we get to eat?" Hamton asked.
"Next question." Buster said.
"Where are we going to get the bombs?" Babs asked.
"I keep some in my pocket for emergencies" Buster replied.
"I just thought of something," Hamton started, "you never wear pants at all. So then, if you don't wear pants then you must not have pockets either. So where do you keep all your stuff?"
"Actually I do have pockets." Buster said.
"What do you mean?"
"Nothing much. I just made large cuts in the sides of my legs and I put stuff in them" Buster replied.
"I…see" Hamton said.
"Plucky, what's your question?" Buster asked.
"Huh?" Plucky asked.
"What is your question?" Buster said.
"What?" Plucky asked.
"What's your question?!"
"My what?!" Plucky asked.
"What…is…your…QUESTION?!" Buster asked, unable to put up with Plucky for much longer.
"Um, you know, in all the excitement, I seem to have forgotten what I wanted to ask" Plucky said.
Buster delivered a stunning roundhouse kick to Plucky's face and he went out like a light.
Moments after Plucky regained consciousness, they worked their way to the cave.
Their first challenge was passing the laser tripwires.
"So, how are we supposed to get past these?" Babs asked.
"I told you. With faith and trust and pixie dust" Buster said.
"You don't expect me to buy that lame story, do you? There is no way that you can get through all these lasers." Babs said.
"We'll see" Buster said.
He took out some pixie dust and sprinkled some on them.
"I believe…" Buster murmured.
Then, true to his word, Buster used his newfound ninja skills to dodge all the lasers like a…well, like a ninja, much to Babs' confused anger.
"Come on, guys. Jump!" Buster shouted.
"Here goes nothing" Hamton said before jumping toward Buster, skillfully avoiding the laser tripwires.
Babs sighed and shrugged her shoulders, "Oh, what the heck"
Babs jumped across the field with the skill of a ninja.
"Well, as the Samurai Slugs say, cowabunga!" Plucky said.
Plucky jumped through the lasers without a problem, until he tripped and fell flat on his face, setting off an explosive landmine and setting off a hundred alarms.
"PLUCKY!" Buster shouted.
Hamton shook his head.
"Even as a ninja, Plucky is a clumsy fool…" he said.
Plucky punched him in the face.
After they silenced the alarm, Buster gave Plucky a massive beating.
Then, using their mad ninja skills, they sneaked inside the cave.
"The monster must be taken to the mystical fire pit of the Black Lagoon, only there can it be destroyed" Plucky said, pretending to be a wise sage.
"We're trying to capture it, not kill it," Buster said.
"Oh…yeah" Plucky said.
So they walked throughout the cave, up until the point where they reached the Door where the shadows lie. They knew that the horrible creature lives behind this door.
"Behold, the Dreadful Door of Deadly Doom. Behind this door can only be the monster" Buster said.
"But, alas, it is impossible to open it. Even our ninja skills will do us no good in this situation. Which only leaves us with one thing to do…we must run away and go home!" Plucky said dramatically.
"Nice try, Plucky. We're not going home" Buster said.
"Besides, we've gone too far to turn back now!" Hamton said.
"Yeah, let's see what this scary monster looks like!" Babs said.
Buster, Babs, and Hamton pushed the door open and walked in the room. Plucky gulped and took several trembling steps inside the room.
Inside the room was the scariest creature in all of existence; a creature so frightening and gruesome that it will make the bravest of men run away in terror, a creature so bloodcurdling and frightening that it will give you mental and emotional scars just by looking at it.
This horrible and evil creature happened to be a…
"Platypus?" Buster asked in confusion.
"That's it? The horrible and evil creature is just a cute little platypus?" Buster asked upon seeing the platypus on the ground.
Buster began to laugh.
"What a laugh. And to think we went through all of this trouble for a platypus. The so-called 'scary' monster was actually just a non-frightening little creature"
"Um…Buster?" Babs said nervously.
"And to think we wasted our time hunting down this little animal, thinking that it's a monster. It's pretty funny in retrospect"
"Buster?" Babs said.
"I should've known that there was no such thing as a big scary monster. It's just ridiculous and childish."
"Buster, that's not the monster" Babs said.
"Come again?" Buster asked.
"That's not the monster. The monster is…above us!" Babs said.
Buster looked up and saw a hideous looking monster staring down at him with its monstrous eyes.
"Oh…" Buster said, "The monster…is…on the ceiling…above us"
A moment passed.
"RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!" Buster shouted.
The toons screamed as the monster jumped down and headed straight for them. They ran away screaming as the monster ran toward them.
Buster looked behind him and saw that the monster was closing in.
"Run faster!" Buster shouted.
"I…huff…can't…run…faster" Hamton said.
"I knew it. We're gonna die!" Plucky shouted.
"Calm down, guys. We need a plan and we can't come up with one if you keep whining." Buster shouted.
"Wait- didn't you say that you had bombs?" Babs asked.
"What are you talking about? I don't have any bombs." Buster said.
Babs almost exploded.
"WHY WERE YOU SAYING THAT YOU HAD BOMBS THEN?" she screeched at an agonizing volume.
"Hmmm… I don't know. Funny how these things work out, isn't it?" Buster said.
"Guys, I think I know how to stop this thing, but it's pretty risky" Plucky said.
"Whatever you have in mind, do it!" Buster said.
Plucky stopped running, turned around, and took a karate stance. His arms traced the air like a calligraphy brush on a scroll. He prepared to punch the monster into orbit.
"PLUCKY DUCK SPECIAL ATTACK: The Punch of Justice!" he shouted.
In a surprising show of nearly impossible physics, Plucky punched a rampaging, 450-pound monster into the air.
At least, that's what Plucky wanted to do.
What really happened was that Plucky punched the monster's leg, hopped around in pain while clutching his fist, and was promptly stepped on several times.
The monster kept charging towards Buster, Babs, and Hamton.
"Guys…I…can't …keep running! If I…don't make it out of this alive…tell my cherry pie, I love her" Hamton said before getting stepped on by the monster.
"Hamton!" Babs shouted.
"We can't go back for them now! We've got to keep moving!" Buster said.
Buster and Babs kept running.
"How are we going to get out of this?" Babs said.
"No choice. I'll have to use my bombs…" Buster said.
"WHAT?! You just said that you didn't have bombs!" Babs said.
"I never said that. What are you talking about?" Buster asked, confused.
"Never mind, just use your bombs before that thing kills us." Babs said.
"Got it" Buster said.
He took out a bomb and activated it.
Buster, Babs, and the monster were caught in the explosion.
Moments later, the dust settled to reveal an unconscious monster, and two barely conscious rabbits.
"Buster," seethed Babs angrily, "next time you activate a bomb, make sure that we don't get caught in the explosion as well"
"Sorry" said Buster sheepishly.
"Well, at least we got the monster. But what about Hamton and Plucky?" Babs asked worriedly.
"We're right here" Plucky said.
"They're dead, I'm afraid" Buster said.
"What are you talking about? We're right here" Plucky said.
"They risked their lives to help us, and they paid the ultimate price" Buster said.
"Hello, we're right here" Plucky said.
"I know it's sad but we'll just have to move on. They wouldn't want us to get depressed because they died." Buster said.
"We're alive!"
"We'll just have to go to Happy World Land without them. We do it for their memory" Buster said.
Plucky strangled Buster.
"We…are…alive!" Plucky shouted.
"Plucky, you're alive!" Buster said.
"Of course I am" Plucky said.
"Well, why didn't you just say so?" Buster asked.
"That's what I've been trying to…oh, never mind. Come on. Let's get out of here. The sooner we get out of here, the better I'll feel." Plucky said.
"Yeah, let's get out of here so we can get to Happy World Land," Babs said.
"And then we can eat!" Hamton said.
"Hold on, guys. There's still one thing that doesn't make sense" Buster said.
"And what's that?" Babs asked.
"According to Bookworm, this place is supposed to make your worst fears come to life. But we've been here for one hour, and none of our worst fears have come true" Buster said.
"My worst fear came true" Plucky said.
"Getting chased by a killer monster is scary in my opinion." Hamton said.
"Yeah, my worst fear came true as well" Babs said.
"Huh, I guess I'm the only one whose worst fear has not come true." Buster said.
Then, the monster regained consciousness and stood up.
"Uh-oh" Buster said.
"Come home with me, little bunny, so I can hug you and squeeze you and cuddle you!" the monster said.
"Wait a minute! That voice! It can't be…" Buster started.
The monster took off its head, revealing it to be a mask.
Underneath the mask was…Elmyra!
"Now I can cuddle you, and squeeze you, and crush you!"
"AUUGGGGGGGGGGH!" screeched Buster.
His worst fear had come true.
Plucky and Babs took seats on the ground and began to chuckle maliciously as Elmyra chased the blue rabbit all over the Black Lagoon. Buster was only barely avoiding being crushed at the hands of Elmyra.
Buster kept running before he ran into a wall.
He slowly backed away from the wall. Unfortunately, he backed right into Elmyra's embrace.
"Get her OFF!" he howled with misery, writhing to escape her clutches.
"Oh, you poor little bunny! You look so miserable! You need love and attention" Elmyra cried enthusiastically.
Buster started to cry as he felt every bone in his body break into pieces.
Plucky was laughing and trying unsuccessfully to cover it up with repeated sneezes.
Babs was also chuckling while Hamton shook his head.
The rest of the night was filled with the sounds of hugging and plenty of screaming.
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Again, I'm sorry for the really long update. I know it must be hard to wait on a story that you like to read.
I hope I haven't lost any readers with that long wait.
Anyway, please review!