Author's Note: Another new chapter yay! Enjoy.

Chapter 16

Judge Doom and the weasels took Eddie, Linda, and Jessica to the Acme factory. Doom had instructed his henchmen to check the siblings for Acme's will.

"We searched the Valiants boss," Smarty informed. "The will ain't on them,"

"Then frisk the woman," Doom ordered.

"I'll handle this one," Greasy volunteered, walking over to Jessica.

He put his hand down her chest only to have it caught in a bear trap.

Greasy yelped in pain and the other weasels laughed.

"Nice booby trap," said Eddie.

"Good work Jessica," Linda added.

Doom whacked Greasy with his cane, causing him to crash into a box of Acme eyeballs.

The weasels continued laughing until Doom shot them a look.

They stop.

"Do they have a will or not?" Doom asked.

"Nah, just a stupid love letter." Smarty replied.

"No matter, I doubt if that will is going to show up in the next 15 minutes anyway."

Linda grabbed the letter from Psycho and handed it to Eddie.

"What happens in the next 15 minutes?" Eddie asks.

"Toon town will be legally mine," Doom answered. "Lock, stock, and barrel."

Meanwhile, Benny looked up to see Roger driving the car the Valiants had borrowed from Dolores.

Roger stops.

"Benny, is that you?" He asked.

"No, it's Shirley Temple!" Benny walks over, groaning in pain; his tires soggy from the Dip.

"Jumping jeepers!" Roger exclaimed. "What happened?"

"Doom grabbed your wife and the Valiants…and took them to the Acme factory."

"The Acme factory. I know where that is, get in!"

Benny gets in.

"Move over, Roge. You've done enough driving for one night."

The toon cab sits in the driver's seat.

Turning on his headlights, Benny drives off with Roger in the passenger's seat.

"Toon town right on the other side of the wall, boss." Stupid said.

"You see Mr. Valiant and Miss Valiant," said Doom.

"The successful conclusion of this cases…draws the curtains on my career as a jurist in Toon town. I'm retiring to take a new role in the private sector."

"That wouldn't be Cloverleaf Industries by any chance?" Eddie asked, moving a bit closer until Smarty stops him.

The judge turned around.

"You're looking at the sole stockholder."

Benny and Roger arrived at the factory.

"Benny, you go to the cops." Roger instructed. "I'm going to save my wife," He gets out, the gun shaking.

"Be careful with that gun," Benny warned. "This ain't no cartoon, you know."

Shutting the door, Benny drives off grumbling.

"This is no way to make a living.,"

Roger tried to get the window open, but couldn't.

"Wouldn't you know?" The rabbit asks. "Locked,"

Then suddenly, Roger pushed the window open and fell into a toilet. He gets flushed away.

Inside the factory, Doom puts an aluminum plate down.

He turns the knob on and the dip pours out.

"Can you guess what this is?" Doom questioned.

"Oh, my God it's…DIP!" Jessica screamed.

Linda flinched.

"Not so loud!" She whispered hissed.

"That's right my dear, enough to dip Toon town off the face of the earth!" Doom shouted.

Pulling a rope, the green curtain falls revealing a huge vehicle.

The detectives and the red-haired toon stared, stunned.

"A vehicle of my own design, five gallons of heated dip…pumped at enormous velocity through a pressurized water cannon. Toon town will be erased in a matter of minutes!"

"I suppose you think…no one's going to notice Toon town disappeared?" Jessica demanded.

"Who's got time to wonder what happened to some ridiculous talking mice…when you're driving by at 75 miles per hour?" Doom replied.

"What are you talking about?" Jessica retorted. "There's no road past Toon town,"

"Not yet, several months ago I had the good providence to stumble upon this plan of the city's council's- a construction plan of epic proportions." Doom explained.

"They are calling it a freeway."

"Freeway?" Linda asked.

"What the hell's a freeway?" Eddie questioned.

"Eight lanes of shimmering cement," Doom informed walking over to the trio. "Running from here to Pasadena smooth, safe, and fast." Traffic jams will be a thing of the past."

"So that's why you killed Acme and Maroon?" Eddie inquired. "For this freeway? I don't get it."

"Me neither," said Linda.

"Of course not, you two lack vision." Doom responded.

"I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on- all day, all night!"

The Valiants and Jessica shared a look.

"Soon, where Toon town once stood…will be a string of gas stations…inexpensive motels, restaurants that serve rapidly prepared food…tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see." Doom announced.

"It'll be beautiful,"

"Oh, for heaven's sake," Linda scoffed.

"Come on, nobody's going to drive this lousy freeway…when they can take the Red Car for a nickel." Eddie said.

"Oh, they'll drive, they'll have to." Doom responded. "You see, I bought the Red Car so I can dismantle it."

Then everyone heard a rumbling sound.

"What the…" Smarty started to say.

Water shot out of a hole, sending Greasy up in the air and Roger springs out.

Greasy held on to a net of bricks.

Roger landed on his feet.

"OK, nobody move." Roger instructed, holding a pistol.

"All right weasels, grab some sky or let the judge have it. You heard me, I said drop it!"

Smarty dropped his weapon.

"Roger, darling!" Jessica cried.

"Yes, it's me my dearest!" Roger zipped over to his spouse.

"I'd love to embrace you…but first I have to satisfy my sense of moral outrage."

"Put the gun down, you buck-toothed fool!" Doom snarled through clenched teeth.

"That's it Doom!" Roger snapped. "Give me another excuse to pump you full of lead."

"You thought you could get away with it, didn't ya?"

"Ha, we toons may act idiotic, but we're not stupid." Roger continued; walking towards the judge.

"We demand justice. Why the real meaning of the word…probably hits you like a ton of bricks."

Without realizing it, Greasy cut the net and a ton of bricks fell on Roger with a crash.

The weasels cackled with laughter.

"Roger!" Jessica runs over to her husband.

"Roger, say something." She pleaded.

Roger's head stuck out, surrounded by stars.

"Look, stars!" He remarked. "Ready when you are, Raoul."

Linda shook her head, amused.

"Tie the lovebirds together," said Doom.