The camera zooms in on a sports centre. Buster and Babs are wearing athletic gears.
"Hiya, toonsters." Greeted Buster, who was jogging in place. "Welcome to the ACME Acres Sports Centre."
"Today, we'll show you all sorts of active stuff." Babs added, who was holding a javelin.
Little Beeper dashed past both of them.
"Beep-Beep." He beeped.
Calamity zoomed past them shortly afterwards with the aid of rocket sneakers.
"It appears that Calamity and Little Beeper are still having some competitions." Buster commented.
"But what happens when they escalate to the point of involving the entirety of ACME Acres?" Babs asked before the screen fades to black.
(The Great Foot Race)
As you could well imagine, while Calamity and Beeper are good friends, they tend to compete a lot, and Little Beeper wins most, if not all competitions between them sports-wise. Beeper mostly defeats Calamity in sports such as soccer, basketball, tennis, badminton, cycling, and once boxing, but that was because Calamity broke his arm trying to do a spinning punch. He ended up heavily punching a turnbuckle, but it was less of an attack with his fist and more of an attack with his arm due to his spinning speed. Calamity ended up in an arm cast for three weeks. One thing that Calamity could beat Beeper at was mostly intelligence things such as maths, problem solving, inventing, writing, and not-admire-yourself-in-any-mirror competitions. Calamity always wins the last one of those against Little Beeper due to the red Road Runner's vanity. I guess it's because Calamity has more brains, while Little Beeper has more athleticism.
However, when it comes to sports and most things related to them, and even most games and board games, Little Beeper comes out on top. When they played Sonic Heroes battle, Little Beeper wins every battle with the aid of Team Dark's team blast. When they played Snakes and Ladders, Little Beeper only got ladders, while Calamity only got snakes. Actually, he did get a ladder once, that immediately lead to a snake which took him back to the very beginning of the board. When they did a painting competition, he tried to get the upper hand by using a robotic painting arm, only for paint to drip into the arm's circuits, and causing it to malfunction, resulting in paint getting all over Calamity, the windows, and everywhere else. The only area that didn't have paint all over it was Calamity's canvas. He had to spend the rest of that day cleaning the entire room and take a seventy five minute shower to get all the paint out of his fur.
Then one day, Calamity had had enough. He and Beeper must've played a thousand games and sports against one another and Calamity lost every single one of them. Beeper's vanity seemed to be growing more and more with each win. Calamity wanted to do something he hadn't been able to do: he wanted to beat Little Beeper in a sport. And not just any sport, a foot race. Because out of all the sports Little Beeper excels at, foot races are his passion, aside from admiring himself in mirrors of course. If Calamity could beat Little Beeper in a foot race, his vanity would be thrown out the window, along with his ego. One Friday afternoon, while Little Beeper was polishing a sports trophy in his locker, Calamity approached him with a sign.
"I want to challenge you to a foot race tomorrow morning." It read.
"Is that so?" The sign Little Beeper held up.
Calamity flipped his sign over, revealing more words on the back of it.
"Yes!" It read. "I'm sick of losing to you in every single sport!"
Little Beeper flipped his sign over, also revealing more words on the back of it.
"If you insist." It read. "ACME Looniversity entrance to start?"
Calamity nodded in response, then walked off.
That night, while everyone slept, Calamity snuck out to prepare the track. He was surprised to find Beeper waiting for him at the entrance.
"I figured you'd make our track for tomorrow, so I figured I'd make the track to save you from doing so." The sign he held up read.
Calamity was stunned and surprised. He didn't know whether to be grateful or annoyed, but he didn't hold up any sign just the same. Little Beeper flipped over his sign.
"Anyways, see you in the morning." The other side read.
The moment Little Beeper dashed off, Calamity read through the map of the track Little Beeper made, and was surprised to see that the entire track is the entirety of ACME Acres, and consisted of only one lap. Calamity set his other part of the plan into action. He went around the track, setting mirrors and bird seed around the track in unexpected places. Exhausted from his actions and planning, Calamity returns home and goes to sleep, anticipating the upcoming race against Little Beeper. Maybe tomorrow will be the day he finally defeats Little Beeper in a foot race, and brings down his vanity and ego from cloud nine to the very bottom of the ground.
The next morning, Little Beeper and Calamity met outside ACME Looniversity for the race. To Little Beeper's surprise, Calamity didn't bring any ACME gadgets that would've increased his running speed.
"I have two reasons for not using that kind of stuff." The sign Calamity held up read. "One because it would be cheating, and two because I don't think I'll need them. I have outran you before, it was the day you somehow fell in love with me."
Little Beeper's face was that of discomfort.
"Please do not mention that day ever again." The sign he held up read. "Let's just begin the race."
Beeper and Calamity got into position for the race. Wile E approached Calamity.
"What is this race about, my student?" Wile E asked. "I would've preferred it if you caught Beeper instead of racing him."
"I want to beat him in a sport for once." Read the sign Calamity held up.
Once Road Runner had hit the gong, Little Beeper immediately dashed off until he came across the first mirror, and started admiring himself. Calamity sniggered to himself as he ran past Little Beeper, until he tripped over a little mountain of bird seed.
"Talk about irony." The sign he held up read as Little Beeper dashed over to the bird seed and started eating it.
When Little Beeper finished eating the bird seed, he took off again, only to come across several of his fans (most of them females) who were eager to get his autograph. Calamity looked on with astonishment.
"I didn't put them there." The sign he held up read.
Seeing his opportunity while Little Beeper was signing autographs, Calamity took off. He imagined himself winning the race while running, only to end up bumping into a mirror.
"Talk about a pain in the glass." The sign he held up read.
Calamity shook it off and carried on running. Little Beeper dashed past Calamity, causing him to spin in place as if he was Dizzy Devil. Little Beeper stopped at another bird seed mountain and started eating it. Once he finished eating it, he immediately dashed to another mirror, and again started admiring himself.
"Can I go at least five seconds without something backfiring on me?!" The sign Calamity held up read.
It seemed to be a clear path for Calamity to continue on, apart from all the mirrors, birdseed, and Little Beeper fans. When Calamity was only fifteen feet away from the finish line, he began to feel very exhausted. He was running for what felt like hours. He heard Little Beeper dash up from behind him. Calamity took out another sign and threw it a few feet in front of him just before Little Beeper dashed past him. When the sign landed in front of Little Beeper, he stopped to read it.
"Why can't I win against Little Beeper in a sport for once?!" It read.
Reading the sign made Little Beeper have a re-think. He did win against Calamity in every sport, which made Calamity visibly mad every time. Thinking back, Little Beeper did feel bad for Calamity when he broke his arm during that boxing match they had. As a result of his thinking, he came to a decision: he was going to help Calamity win the race. After all, Calamity finally would've won a sport against him. And besides, one loss wasn't going to harm his ego. He turned back to Calamity to discover that he had collapsed with exhaustion. This allowed Little Beeper to set his ideas into action. He picked up Calamity with his left wing, and carried him a few feet away from the finish line, poured fresh water into his mouth to rehydrate him, then dashed a distance behind Calamity before waiting for him to wake up. While waiting, Little Beeper jogged in place to make himself look exhausted. By the time Calamity came to, Little Beeper was sweating, and Calamity noticed that he could win. Calamity saw his opportunity, and dashed across the finish line, declaring himself the winner.
"You finally beat me in a sport, Calamity!" The sign Little Beeper held up read, as his face changed from exhausted to proud.
Calamity held his trophy high and Little Beeper stood by Calamity, applauding him. Today was quite a day for Calamity. For the first time ever, he had finally beat Little Beeper in a sport. Well, that's what Little Beeper ensured anyways.
There was "Danger! Electricity!" signs everywhere.
"Watch out for electricity, folks!" Babs exclaimed. "Because there's gonna be a lot in this next tale. And the biggest one is: I'm not in it!"
(Sup, Station?)
Buster was sitting in his burrow, and was using a lot of electrical appliances. Several lights were on, his TV was showing a movie marathon, several wall sockets were plugged in and switched on, his computer was downloading a computer game about carrots, his microwave was heating up a carrot dinner, his blender was making carrot juice, his heater was warming up his burrow, his washing machine was washing his other shirts, his kettle was boiling, his toaster was making toast, and his dish washer was washing dishes. Man, his electricity bill is going to be through the roof.
"Ain't this the life?" He sighed, happily.
Suddenly, he heard loud noises above his burrow. Instead of going out to investigate, he decided to turn up the volume on his TV in an attempt to drown out the noise, but it was to no avail. Then, something strange happened. His lightbulbs grew stronger, his TV turned brighter, his washing machine spun faster, his toaster ejected two pieces of over-burnt toast, and his computer game download became faster and immediately downloaded, even though it was originally on twenty percent. And while Buster wondered what was going on...
Bang!
Everything electrical in his house either powered down, stopped working, or exploded (especially his lightbulbs).
"Okay, who is the bozo that messed with my electricity?!" Buster demanded.
He looked out his burrow, and discovered to his astonishment, that there was a large Substation built above his burrow. Whoever built the Substation, Buster had a pretty good idea who it is and climbed out to confront that person. He couldn't be more correct about the identity of the Substation builder as he heard the person's voice.
"Hey, make sure you cut the rabbit's power!" It yelled. "He's been using too much and it's not making my Substation as powerful as it can be!"
Buster turned around, and there he was. The builder of the Substation was none other than Montana Max. I mean, who else could it be?
"Monty, what is the meaning of this?!" Buster demanded, storming over to Montana.
"I'm making my own Substation!" Montana cackled. "With this, I can cut the power of anyone I'd like, and charge them a big amount to get their electricity back! Look at the bright side, rabbit: you won't have an electricity bill anymore, because all the money goes to me!"
"You're being ridiculous!" Buster scoffed. "Don't you already have enough money?"
"You can never have enough money!" Montana bellowed. "In fact, there's no such thing as too much money!"
As Montana Max walked off, cackling to himself, Buster was left standing, pondering what to do. He had to do something to recover not only his own electricity, but to save everyone else's electricity.
"I've got it!" Buster proclaimed with a snap of his fingers.
Later on, while Montana was busy cutting the electricity of various ACME Acres residents, Buster was preparing his next disguise.
"Wig, uniform, eye shadow, lipstick, jewellery, that seems to be everything." Buster listed. "Just wait until Montana gets a load of my newest persona."
Montana Max was pulling levers at random, when Buster in his new attire came into the room. His attire was a brown curly wig, pink eye shadow, red lipstick, a purple headband, jewellery mostly on his fingers, high heels, and an electrician uniform.
"Do my eyes deceive me?" Buster asked in a fake feminine voice. "Is it you? Mister Electricity himself?"
Montana Max had no idea what Buster was talking about.
"What are you saying, lady?" He asked.
"You're the owner of this new Substation that can control the electricity throughout ACME Acres." Buster replied, in the same fake feminine voice.
"So what if I am?!" Montana snapped.
"I'm looking for someone to give a visual demonstration." Buster explained. "As well as you're intentions for making this place, wondering what charity it's for."
Montana Max scoffed.
"I have no reason for doing any of those things or telling you!" He yelled.
"Not even the fact that I'm with the ACME Acres news?" Buster replied.
Montana Max stopped, and gave a look of interest.
"Wow, and you didn't even give me time to prepare." He laughed. "I'll give a tour of my awesome Substation that I bought with this week's allowance."
Montana Max gave a tour of his Substation.
"This next bit is private, so keep all cameras off!" Montana yelled.
"Don't worry." Buster replied with a secret giggle. "I didn't bring any cameras."
"Good!" Cackled Montana.
He cleared his throat and began unveiling his intentions.
"People in ACME Acres use a lot of electricity, and it racks up their electricity bill, which comes to quite a lot. I figured I could use this as an opportunity to get even richer! Using my allowance, I purchased this Substation above Buster Bunny's burrow specifically to cut all his electricity so he, along with everyone else in ACME Acres to pay me for electricity!"
Buster, who had been listening to every word Montana Max said, could barely hold back his laughter.
"What's so funny?!" Montana demanded.
"Well..." Snickered Buster. "It's just one fact."
Buster removed his attire, much to Montana Max's horror.
"You've been had!" Buster cackled.
Buster then took out an audio recorder and pressed play. It played everything Montana told Buster word-for-word. Before Montana could catch Buster, the blue bunny boy bounced off out of a window. Montana's jaw reached his ankles as he realized what happened. The next morning, a newspaper headlined that Montana Max had been arrested for property damage, theft, and fraud, and his Substation had been shut down.
"O'l Monty got what he deserved yet again." Buster shrugged.
Suddenly, Buster's electricity bill came in. He looked at it and his eyes widened in surprise from how big it is. Suddenly, his expression changed and he pulled out a credit card, which is revealed to be owned by Montana Max.
Buster and Babs both had two basketballs in each of their hands.
"I've been looking forward to this next story." Babs informed before starting to dribble the balls with her ears.
"This next story is about basketball." Buster informed before staring to spin the balls on his ears.
"And to make things better, I'm in this one." Babs added.
(Take 'em to the Court)
The Tiny Toons have all been called to the gym for a special announcement and event.
"Students, toons, lovable characters, and Elmyra." Bugs announced. "I would like to introduce to you all the new teacher for gym class: Lola Bunny!"
When Lola stepped forward, the crowd went wild, mainly most of the males. Buster's jaw dropped to the floor (much to Babs' annoyance), Dizzy was spinning around like crazy, Plucky was repeatedly hitting himself on the head with a mallet, Hamton was bouncing around on his belly, and Little Beeper was loudly beeping, just to name a few.
"QUIET DOWN!" Bellowed Bugs.
The male Tiny Toons stopped.
"Greetings everyone." Lola greeted. "I know you're not fully acquainted with me, but to show you guys how awesome of a teacher I can be, I decided to put together a basketball tournament featuring four teams of three. It is up to you who is on your team, but I have decided to assign the four team leaders, as instructed by Bugs."
The cheers of excitement could be heard throughout the entirety of ACME Acres. Lola was waiting to continue.
"Anyways, the four leaders are writing on this checkboard." She continued. "Buster, Babs, Little Beeper, and Montana Max."
"You know Buster, it's kinda a benefit that we're on opposite teams." Babs informed. "Because we could work with our other friends and compete against each other to determine who is better at basketball."
"I couldn't agree more, Barbara Ann." Buster chuckled.
"Don't call me that!" Babs seethed.
She then composed herself and walked over to Shirley and Fifi.
"You two wanna join with me?" She offered.
"Like, totally." Shirley replied.
"Oui, absolutely oui!" Fifi added.
Buster went over to Plucky and Hamton.
"Before you ask, I'm in." Plucky informed.
"I wanna join too!" Hamton informed. "It'll be a fun thing we can do since we don't do much fun things with just the three of us."
Little Beeper was about to ask Calamity to join his team, but saw that Montana Max already recruited him along with Dizzy. So he went to Furrball instead.
"Hey Furrball, wanna join my team?" The sign Little Beeper held up read.
Furrball nodded in response. And as the two of them wondered who they were going to have as a third member, Gogo came in through the floor.
"Cuckoo! Cuckoo!" He chirped. "If you don't choose me as your third member, you're cuckoo!"
Little Beeper and Furrball looked at each other, and shrugged.
"Looks like all four teams are decided." Lola announced. "The winners of the tournament each get a shiny basketball trophy. The tournament begins tomorrow at eleven o clock sharp."
That was when the bell rang for the end of school.
"Well Barbara Ann, I shall be seeing you on the court." Buster informed.
"I told you not to call me that!" Growled Babs. "But we'll see who wins."
"Tell ya what." Buster replied. "If you win, I'll never call ya Barbara Ann again."
"It's a deal!" Babs exclaimed, shaking Buster's hand so hard, his head banged on the ceiling multiple times.
The next morning was the start of the tournament.
"You know your teams, so just take a look at the board to discover who you're playing against first." Lola informed.
They checked the board and discovered that each of the four teams was labelled team 1, 2, 3, and 4 respectively. Team one was Buster, Plucky, and Hamton, Team two was Babs, Shirley, and Fifi, Team three was Little Beeper, Furrball, and Gogo, and Team four was Montana Max, Dizzy, and Calamity. The first two matchups were Team one vs Team four, and Team two vs Team three. Furrball started sweating at the fact that he's going against Shirley.
"Keep your head in the game, Furrball." Little Beeper informed.
When the game started, Furrball had the ball first.
"Oh, Furrball." Shirley cooed in a romantic voice. "Could you pass me the ball or some junk?"
As Shirley gave Furrball a wink, Furrball's legs wobbled, his face turned pink, and his arms trembled, causing the ball to roll out of his hand. Before Shirley could grab it, Little Beeper dashed past and snagged it, only to trip on a strange sticky black substance which turned out to be oil, and a drone painted a long white line down Little Beeper's back.
"I didn't do those things!" Read the sign Calamity held up.
Fifi took one look at Little Beeper in his condition, and was overcome with love.
"Ooh-la-laa!" She yelled, dashing over to scoop up Little Beeper. "Mon petit skunk hunk!"
"Oh no! Not again!" Read the sign Little Beeper held up.
Before Fifi could begin smothering Little Beeper with love, Gogo hosed Little Beeper with water from an ACME portable fire hydrant, much to Fifi's surprise.
"Hey!" Babs yelled. "Since when were hoses allowed in basketball?!"
"Since stick insects knew how to figure skate while juggling bowling balls." Gogo replied.
As stick insects skated across the court while juggling bowling balls, Babs took the ball and threw it at Gogo, who avoided it by bouncing on his nose and catching the ball with one of his eyes.
"Enough!" Lola yelled. "This basketball not dodgeball! Change of plans, Team one and Team four will square off and you lot can restart your match afterwards."
Montana Max was hiding a sinister smile and a sinister plan which we going to sinisterly go ahead with on the court in a very sinisterly manner. How sinister, very sinister indeed.
"What're ya planning, Monty?" Inquired Buster.
"Oh, just planning on winning." Snickered Montana.
Everyone got into position for the game. Before anyone could take any action, Montana Max whipped out a remote with a single red button, and pushed it. There was a rumbling from the ground, and out from various spots popped several basketball playing robots.
"Say hello to my new and better team!" Cackled Montana Max.
"Hey, you can't do that!" Lola yelled. "That's against the rules."
"Can it, rabbit lady!" Montana retorted. "This team will guarantee I win this tournament!"
"Everyone, change of plans!" Lola announced. "Everyone will take on Montana Max and his robot team!"
"Hey, can I play too?" Elmyra asked.
"NO!" Bellowed everyone else.
Billy came out with various basketballs.
"Billy?" Babs inquired.
"Lola asked me to be the ball boy." Billy explained. "Also, I'm finally in another story."
They got into position for the bigger game. As Lola threw the ball into the air, one of the robots tackled Buster and grabbed the ball.
"That's not how basketball goes!" Lola yelled. "Well, it kind of did in that one basketball game against the Monstars but this is different!"
"Yeah, and we're watching this current game!" Pound announced, standing on the side-lines along with the rest of the Nerdlucks.
Throughout the game, Montana Max's robot have been dominating the Tiny Toons, just as the Nerdlucks had when they played against the Tiny Toons. Bupkus, after seeing one of the robots step on Fifi's tail, was the one to speak out.
"Alright guys, desperate times call for desperate measures!" He spoke out. "It's clear what we have to do."
"Order some chilli cheese dogs?" Guessed Blanko.
"No, we steal the powers of the robots." Corrected Bupkus.
The Nerdlucks put Bupkus' idea into action. They absored the powers of each of the robots, much to Montana Max's outrage.
"That's cheating!" He bellowed.
"Isn't that the pot calling the kettle black?" Bang replied.
"He's right, Montana." Lola agreed, sternly. "You cheated first, so they are excused."
To Montana Max's horror, each of the Nerdlucks once again turned into the Monstars, having absorbed the powers from the robots.
"And now we're joining the Tiny Toons' team!" Informed Nawt.
As each of the Monstars cracked their knuckles, Montana Max became more and more agitated. But when Nawt held Montana Max in the air by his underwear, Montana flew into a blind panic.
"I forfeit!" He yelled. "You win! You win! Don't hurt me!"
Bupkus then kicked Montana Max into the distance like a soccer ball before all five of them returned to their Nerdluck forms.
"And that's for hurting Fifi's tail!" Bupkus yelled.
"Well, looks like the Tiny Toons team wins by default." Lola announced. "Huh, wow, alliteration. Regardless, you all get trophies."
As everyone was recieving their trophies, Bupkus approached Fifi.
"Is your tail hurt?" He asked.
"Not as much as before." Fifi replied. "I am so grateful zhat vou stood up for moi."
Fifi scooped Bupkus up in a big hug, while the purple Nerdluck blushed and chuckled.
"Heh, looks like Bupkus got his girl." Pound chuckled.
Then everyone laughed before the screen turned to black.
Gag credit: News Flash! Fifi has broken off her engagement to Paul Tibbit!
Buster and Babs appeared in the rainbow circle, both wearing hawaiian clothing.
"Aloha!" They both said in unison.
In the next story, Furrball assembles an orchestra of alley cats, Gogo Dodo puts on a new dance number which ends up causing chaos around ACME Acres, and Buster, Plucky, and Hamton put together a boy band. See ya next time, toonsters!