"Sledgehammer O'Possum is next?" Cleo asked Cherry. "I can't wait to meet him. I'll love him."
"Will you now?" Cherry asked her kitten sarcastically.
"Oh, sure!" Cleo replied before she tied a napkin around her neck and carried a fork and knife. "With a little salt and pepper, he'll fit right in!" she then licked her muzzle while patting down her stomach.
"Don't even think about it," Cherry reminded Cleo. "We're supposed to help him move on and look out for any suspicious characters that might not belong in his story. I made a promise to Drell."
"Does Drell really have to know?" Cleo asked innocently.
"He'll find a way of knowing, I know he will," Cherry told her kitten. "He has ears and eyes everywhere."
"Gross." Cleo grimaced, taking that a little too seriously.
"Now, I'm not sure where exactly to look for Sledgehammer, so we better keep our eyes peeled." Cherry advised Cleo.
Cleo nodded as she and Cherry began to walk through the park, wondering where to look first as a car began to speed down past them. There appeared to be a dog driving the car as he looked calm and relaxed for now.
"Boy, it sure is nice leaving the noisy, hectic city during lunch to eat in a quiet, restful serenity of the countryside." The dog remarked to himself.
"Cherry? I think I found him." Cleo spoke up.
"That's a dog, Cleo." Cherry reminded her kitten.
"Yes, but that guy is looking for peace and quiet and what do we know about cartoons when it comes to tempting fate?" Cleo clarified and rhetorically asked.
"Must've been a Butch Hartman collaboration." Cherry scoffed to herself once she realized Cleo had a point.
The two then went to follow the dog and his car, just to keep an eye on him while also looking out for the pink rat known as Sledgehammer O'Possum. Both of them kept their eyes peeled, especially since they knew that the pink possum had to be tricky considering he was the main character of this little adventure and he didn't have the best reputation in the cartoon community which was fortunately downsized to only two adventures. The dog drove into Griffith Park and soon took out his briefcase to open it up and then showed his hot dog lunch.
"What? No Jellystone?" Cleo shrugged at the park name.
"Oh, yeah. Last thing this guy needs is to get harrassed by a hyperactive jerky pink possum and a picnic basket hungry brown bear." Cherry scoffed in response.
Cleo grinned sheepishly at that. Eventually, the scent of the freshly cooked hot dog wafted into the air which seemed to be the ultimate set-up for this cartoon misadventure to begin. Cleo tapped Cherry on the shoulder and pointed into a nearby tree and Cherry looked over to see the pink possum dangling from a tree branch, sleeping soundly until the smell of fresh food woke him up.
"Great... Sledgehammer O'Possum..." Cherry remarked dryly. "I'm really gonna enjoy this cartoon experience."
"Can I eat him after this is over?" Cleo asked hopefully.
"We're not killers," Cherry reminded her kitten. "I don't go on adventures to kill people."
"Wuss." Cleo muttered at that.
Sledgehammer soon woke up and darted down the tree eagerly. "LUNCHEON IS SERVED!" he then announced to himself and snatched the hot dog as the dog was about to bite down into it, smashing his teeth instantly, causing Cherry to wince and cringe in disgust since she never liked that kind of cartoon violence. "Say, uh, pal, got any dijon poupon?" he then asked the dog.
The dog then reached into his glove compartment and took out a bottle of hot, spicy mustard, allowing Sledgehammer to reach out and take it. He then started to drench the hot dog with mustard only for Cherry to snatch it away before he could eat it and then the possum bit into his hand, then screamed out in extreme pain.
"Boy, this stuff feels great with the way it burns the throat on the way down, but not so much with my hand!" Sledgehammer complained as his hand was now red and throbbing in pain.
"Dude, get out of here while you still can, this guy is gonna ruin your life!" Cherry told the dog, giving him his hot dog back. "Just go back and never return!"
"But I-" The dog said as he took his lunch back.
"JUST GO!" Cherry urged him. "If you don't, this will be the worst day of your life!"
The dog then suddenly reversed his car in a quick pace and began to leave the park.
"Hey, that was MY lunch!" Sledgehammer glared at Cherry.
"It definitely was not," Cherry glared back. "I'm not letting you ruin another person's life through painful and hard to watch slapstick that would make Bubsy the Bobcat blush."
"Oh... then maybe you'll like a taste of this!" Sledgehammer said before he reached into Cherry's mouth and pulled out her tongue in a cartoony way and drowned it in the mustard before clamping her mouth shut.
Cherry grunted as her eyes started to water and she had steam coming out of her ears and nose before screaming as she felt like her tongue was on fire. Sledgehammer then slid down a pole, dressed like a fireman before zipping over to her with a bucket filled with gas and threw it onto the perky goth's head, causing her to explode suddenly and become a pile of ash with her glasses and eyes sticking out. Sledgehammer then laughed ruckusly at her pain and misfortune, but soon, Cherry was restored back into her proper self, looking very angry right now.
"Ooh! You nasty little woodland delinquent!" Cleo hissed as she jumped down in front of Sledgehammer. "No one treats MY friend like that! I'll yank your teeth out!"
Sledgehammer smirked at her before he grabbed her nose and honked it a couple of times and then zipped away again. Cleo then got ready to go after him only for him to put a frying pan in her way, making her crash her face right into it, making him laugh more and keep running.
"Now can I eat him?" Cleo asked Cherry.
"Not yet..." Cherry replied. "Maybe there's a reason behind this selfish behavior... It's time for me to..." she then started to say as she brought out a certain medallion she owned.
"Oh, boy... This story was good until you decided to bring Equestria into it..." Cleo rolled her eyes.
"Re-lax, I'm not calling the Mane Six or anything, I'm just going to unleash the element I was bequeathed," Cherry replied as she closed her eyes and wore her medallion and soon glowed into a rainbow aura briefly. "Element of Empathy, I summon thee!" she then announced, almost like Sailor Moon.
"Can we go now?" Cleo complained.
And so, Cherry and Cleo chased after Sledgehammer.
"When we get our hands on you, we'll gouge your eyes out, stuff 'em up your nose, and I'll make your toe eat 'em!" Cleo threatened as she and Cherry went after the pink nuisance.
Sledgehammer then sped up the nearest tree and Cherry and Cleo just kept following him until they made it up to a branch. He then looked at them and made them both hold onto a random refridgerator, causing them to plummet down to the ground suddenly. He then opened the fridge door, showing Cherry and Cleo both frozen solid and sliding out of the fridge. "Keep still, guys, I'll let ya out." he then told them before he took out a mallet and a chisel, putting the chisel into the ice and then shoving it in with a pound from the mallet.
Cleo yowled as she went jumping high in the air, hitting the tree's branches from above before going over the tree and then hitting those branches on the other side on the way back down. Sledgehammer then brought out a cement truck and flooded the forest floor with the wet cement before it turned solid right away, causing Cleo to clank right down on her head in pain.
"Oh, my! What a nasty little lump~" Sledgehammer taunted before laughing at Cleo's agony, sounding like a donkey.
Cleo snarled as she roamed in, looking eager to kill and eat Sledgehammer right then and there.
"No, no, no," Cherry told Cleo before she suddenly brought out a chair and a therapy couch, holding onto a notepad, putting Sledgehammer on the couch as sat in the smaller chair. "Let's try to approach this rationally."
"So what are you? The therapist for Equestria?" Cleo asked.
"No, that's Dr. Wolf, if he's even still relevant these days," Cherry rolled her eyes before she faced the possum. "Now, Sledge... Can I call you Sledge? Let's have a talk. Hit the couch." she then advised.
Sledgehammer shrugged at that and laid down on the couch for a moment.
"Now, let's approach this rationally, I can easily be your best friend or worst enemy depending on how you take this lesson," Cherry told Sledgehammer. "Let's take a dive into your childhood. What was your mother like?" she then asked.
"I dunno." Sledgehammer replied.
"What was your father like?" Cherry then asked.
"I dunno..." Sledgehammer shrugged. "To be honest with ya, I ain't really got any family left. I lost 'em a long time ago... You see, Girly, I used to have all of that. My own place, surrounded by loved ones, universal remote, but then all that went away with... the weed hacker incident. Oh, God." he then added before he covered his face and began to cry emotionally.
"I see, so you act out because you lost your family," Cherry realized as she took note of what he was saying. "That must've been very hard and traumatic to lose them from a weed hack-" she then stopped and glared. "Hey, wait a second... That's RJ the Raccoon's backstory and it was a load of baloney!" she then realized.
"Congratulations, you won the prize!" Sledgehammer laughed and whacked her with the letters of his laughter "HAHA" to lump her in the head before he ran off.
"Maybe he's an orphan who needs empathy, Cherry?" Cleo smirked at that.
"Maybe he's just a little jerk." Cherry retorted as she rubbed her head in agony.
"Let's get him then." Cleo said with a grin.
"Yes~" Cherry grinned in agreement.
Soon, the two chased right after Sledgehammer as he ran away from them. Eventually, Sledgehammer saw them gaining closer and suddenly dropped dead in the middle of the ground and brought out a lily to symbolize his cartoony death. Cherry and Cleo then caught up to Sledgehammer, but Cherry was suddenly brushed over by a wave of her rainbow aura from her medallion.
"What? Now you feel bad for him?" Cleo asked, unimpressed.
"Stupid Element of Empathy... it never left me alone ever since I started these Equestrian adventures." Cherry complained.
"Maybe a certain friend of yours was onto something about not watching that or participating in those advetures," Cleo commented to herself. "I'm a simple girl as a cat. I see a dead rodent, I wanna eat it."
Soon, due to being suddenly overcome with emotional empathy Cherry began to bury Sledgehammer and left flowers for him despite being enraged by him moments before. Sledgehammer then sprouted out from the ground right behind Cherry and whacked her with his tail as he took it off like a prop, sending her crashing through the headstone with the flowers. The pink rodent then accepted the flowers out of love and whacked her in the face before running off again. Cleo looked mad about that and decided to chase after Sledgehammer that time and the two dove into a hole in a nearby tree. However, when Cleo went through the hole, Sledgehammer appeared behind the tree and pushed it right off a cliff and it suddenly fell down. Cleo peeked around for Sledgehammer only to see that she was about to crash down on the ground in a Wile E. Coyote fashion and had a noisy crash straight through the ground along with a few other trees, making the noise a lot louder and more destructive. Sledgehammer laughed, chirping like a dolphin until he saw Cherry recovered from her injury and began to back Sledgehammer over the cliff with a club, looking absolutely seething with rage and Sledgehammer looked nervous until he found his second wind.
"Aww... simmer down, just what do you expect to do with that little thing?" Sledgehammer scoffed as he pushed her aside and pointed at the club, seeming unimpressed until he brought out a bigger and bolder club. "Now this is a club." he then told her.
"Say, that's a big one," Cherry remarked. "Whatcha gonna do with that?"
Sledgehammer then whacked her in the head repeatidly to answer her question before he dashed off again.
"You just had to ask, didn't you?" Cleo asked as she came back beside Cherry.
"Yeah, it's like I had no choice but to say that like one of my OCs saying that Uncle Pecos is the best Tom & Jerry cartoon or finding a boy version of Mike Mazinsky sexy and blushing over it." Cherry replied.
"Godmodding is a crime that needs to stop in roleplaying especially if you don't own the character you're using." Cleo said to the fourth wall, glaring at a certain someone but no one really knew who right now.
Cherry and Cleo then darted off after Sledgehammer once again and he beat them over to a stump with long branches until he turned it over, causing the two to run into and hit the branches. Sledgehammer was about to reach out and rip one of their heads off comedically.
"You know what? Screw empathy!" Cherry glared as she grabbed onto Sledgehammer right away. "I don't need my Element of Harmony to stop you!"
"Element of Harmony? Wow, that's so girly," Sledgehammer scoffed. "That sounds girlier than Monster High, The Winx Club, and even Totally Spies."
"SHUT UP!" Cherry snapped at him.
Sledgehammer looked unimpressed with her and soon bit down into her hand, making Cherry shriek and drop him before he went running again.
"Now can I eat him?" Cleo asked Cherry.
"No... In fact, SCREW HIM! I'm gonna end this story my way!" Cherry glared as she had an idea before she took out her emergecny cell phone to place a certain call.
"You calling Atticus or something?" Cleo asked.
"Not quite..." Cherry replied as she had another idea in mind.