OK, here is the part I promised that Furrball has a major role and how he and Fifi became a couple, this, of course, got inspired by some stories by other authors like Rocket Racer, cartoonfan93, Timon64 and TTAfan (I hope they will make new stories for soon),but I'll also make their mentors, Sylvester (who's one of my favorites in Looney Tunes) and Pepé have their roles of helping their students rather than making them solve it themselves.
ToonFanJoey - Yeah, I know what you mean. And I promise you I will follow that not only on Furrball, but all of the guys in Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry (maybe some other toons from Disney). The reason is easy, like Daffy, Taz, Lola and Cecil (whose relationship is OK with Bugs when it's outside their shows, he's just a calm trickster but not a criminal) can't stand the way they acted in Looney Tunes Show, And also Tom's Alley Cat chums, Butch (a cunning guy, yes, but not a cheater/bully/jerk like most of the 2014 show), Lightning, Topsy and Meathead actually hate acting as jerks towards Tom (the only reason they acted like this is because they have to follow the script, plus there's no other characters the crew can use). Also, the hate towards the toon cats will be a future story focus on Furrball and Sylvester.
And yeah, about the part of Sniffles and Sneezer. Kinda funny because when I looked up at the Looney Tunes Wiki, they said that Sniffles and Sneezer are cousins, unsure if this part is true (haven't seen the show for a period). Though there are other characters who are based from Looney Tunes characters but didn't have them as their mentors. Plus, I wanna try something new.
"Oh please, please! At least you gotta teach me the way you impress to your girls in your cartoons so I can make use of it in my next date with Shirl!" Plucky, once again, begging Tom by hugging his legs.
"Ugh. This is getting old." Jerry groaned at the scene, "I don't know what is worse, being hugged by that girl to death, being annoyed by that rich boy or this!"
"You two are lucky enough since Fowlmouth is sick and had to be absent from the school for a while. Otherwise things would get worse for you." Babs whispered to the mouse as they watched Shirley trying to take Plucky away and comfort him, despite it succeed, it cost a bit in form of Plucky pulled down a bit fur on Tom's legs, "YEOW!"
Jerry winced on that. He would rather blow his eardrums than hearing the rooster swearing. Meanwhile, Plucky was excited as he grabbed Tom's fur he just pulled down, "Oh boy! I got one of the most famous star's fur, I'm gonna put this in my collection, next to Daffy's feathers I plucked when he was asleep!"
"Wait a minute, kid. But YOU DID WHAT?!" Daffy's angry voice could be heard off-screen, which made Plucky gulped and realized that he's in trouble.
A/N: Sorry about this. When I started this story I always felt that I forgot someone, but I didn't realize it's Fowlmouth until now. So I have to exclude him out of the story. He'll appear in my future stories.
Also, kinda have a feeling that he won't appear in the reboot either, due to his swearing problem.
When it comes to today's lunch time, Tom grabbed himself a roast fish, a piece of steak and a bowl of milk and Jerry got some cheese and cake for himself. Both of them were finding a seat to get their lunch but then they heard someone calling them,
"Hey guys, how about having the seat with us today?" They turned to see it was Sylvester and Pepe sitting by a table next to them and offering.
"Sure." Tom nodded as he and Jerry moved to the table. They didn't complain about Pepe's scent since they had encounter something worse before. "Thanks for inviting us for lunch." Jerry smiled.
"When I help my toon cat pal, it won't be a big bother to help his mouse pal, too." Sylvester smiled.
"You're welcome." Tom smiled, "Though I'm kinda surprised that you actually don't mind Pepé's scent."
"I was given some help." Sylvester laughed, "But good thing Pepé learned to control his scent."
"Ah, a skunk in amour knows when to control his scent." Pepé chuckled, talking in his French accent.
The four started to chat about their daily life. First Pepé brought out his new date with Penelope two days ago, which was also a double date with Bugs and Lola. Then Sylvester brought out that Daffy insisted pulling him into playing the villainous "Grand Duke" in his "The Scarlet Pumpernickel II", which he complained that he was sick of playing a villain, let alone he put Porky (who played as a villain in the first) as his sidekick and Tina as his girl, again.
"That duck always wants to be the brightest hero." Sylvester huffed, "At most he would only share this highlight with Tina, his girlfriend, and Porky, who always play as his sidekick."
"But you did play as a hero, Sylvester." Jerry laughed, "Did you remember that liar pet-owner Applecheeks?"
"Oh right, him!" Sylvester laughed, "How can I forget? Your strong cousin and I took him down for good together! And I still can't believe that he's your cousin!"
A/N: If you don't know what happened here, read the story "Team Up" by Zahir890. I got the permission of using the story.
"Wait until you meet Jerry's other relatives." Tom replied, "Trust me, you would never want to be their foils. And I was really worried that I didn't find Jerry, but then I watched the news of you two and the other four became heroes, and I was shocked that when we were busying helping Robyn got out of this mess, we forgot taking this cheat out for good."
"Hey speaking of this, where is Junior by the way?" Jerry asked.
"Here I am." Then they saw a black cat who looks like a basically mini version of Sylvester running towards them, it is none other than his son, Sylvester Jr., or he prefers others calling him Junior unless there are some other people named Junior too. Junior now sometimes works as Sylvester's assistant when he's free and he get along with the others well, "Sorry, pop. But I need to help Furrball and Fifi with their group work."
They all turned to see Furrball and Fifi sitting on the other table with their friends, chatting in happiness, "Love is a beautiful thing, non?" Pepé smiled.
"Oui." Sylvester mimicked a French accent.
"So, mind you telling us how they became a couple?" Tom asked in an interested tone, "No offense, it's just I don't know what happened to them ever since their show is finished."
"Oh yeah." Sylvester smiled, "After the show finished, Furrball was still trying to find himself a home, and Fifi with her true love. During those time, Furrball got the white strip more often and it brought him trouble being chased by Fifi. However, during these time, he also started to have feelings for Fifi, but he still had to choose to run away because of her scent."
"But Fifi might still think that he's a skunk." Jerry asked.
"Yeah, Fifi didn't know that he's Furrball, though she wanted to be his friend when she didn't think he as a skunk but afraid that he would not reply her. That is until that fateful day." Pepé replied, "from what nous were told, Furrball was trying to find some food for him in Acme Junkyard, during that time he found Fifi being chased by Elmyra, who wanted her to be her pet stinky-kitty, again."
"Yikes." Both Tom and Jerry gulped as they heard this.
"And I thought being a skunk would be safe from her..." Tom muttered.
"So Furrball took action immediately by pointing a wrong way to Elmyra. After Elmyra left, Fifi thanked Furrball and decided to let him tag along with her in the Girl's Day Out in the mall with Babs and Shirley. They were all surprised that Furrball did such a heroic action and praises him for doing this, but then it happened." Junior added.
"How did you know it?" Tom asked.
"He was with me, Tweety and his friend, Aoogah. And we all saw what happened." Sylvester referred, "Furrball accidentally stepped on a skateboard that was on sale, making him losing balance and knocking into a paint can. And unfortunately, that was a can of white paint and the brush inside directly slipped on his back."
"So, Fifi saw it?" Jerry asked.
"From what je was told, she did. She felt shocked to see this and who her 'skunk hunk' truly is, and she started to tear up, keep telling Furrball she was sorry and finally she ran away. Babs and Shirley tried to stop her but to no anvil." Pepé said, "She was really sorry on all the chasing she had on Furrball and thought that she made his life miserable, and she even skipped from school for the next few days."
"Furrball was quite a wreck, too." Sylvester added, "He hated himself for not telling the truth earlier or accidentally showing the truth. In the end, his cardboard box was being thrown away by someone so he ended up staying at our home, sulking and blaming himself for making Fifi sad."
"But it was neither of their faults." said Jerry.
"True. And I was kept telling Furrball about this." Junior replied, "Me and my father not only made him realize this point but also made him to ask his heart that if he really loves Fifi."
"In the end, not only he apologized to Fifi for not telling her earlier, but also admitted his love to her." Sylvester and Pepé both replied, "That was because we were both there, and we were proud of all this fact."
"And Fifi was really happy because of this. She finally have someone who can love him back, and she even offered Furrball to live with him." Junior smiled, "It was a really good end for their terrible past, Fifi found her true love, and Furrball finally found himself a home. He also started to talk more often."
"And it directly gave Furrball better luck, too." Sylvester laughed, "Sure he got some interactions with the main gang before but it wasn't too frequent, but since with Fifi on his side, he got more friends with him, Buster, Babs, Plucky, Shirley, Hamton, Calamity, Beeper, and in the end, Sweetie and Sneezer. I was shocked to hear that he would befriended with the latter two in the end despite what they had done to him, but it's his own choice and we respected that, as long as they don't make harms on Furrball again or they'll hear from my claws."
"You really care about Furrball that much, Syl." Tom smirked, "Suddenly I was reminded that there was a rumor that you actually PLANNED to adopt Furrball before, was it true?"
A/N: This is referred to Timon64's "Furrball's Story" with my take on, and I want Junior have a part here.
"Actually, it was my idea at first." Junior smiled, "And when pop heard that Furrball was homeless, he immediately took action by asking Furrball to it. But Furrball refused it in the end, because as long as he wanna find a home, he doesn't want being treated specially and he believed he could find a home on his own, and live like the others."
"Despite this, we still regard him as a family of ours." Sylvester smiled, "And we'll provide some help if it's necessary."
"Same with moi and Penelope." Pepe added, "Especially with Penelope since both of them have similar experience, they have a similar mother-and-son relationship, actually. Those who are from Animaniacs care about him, too. Mainly, Rita, Runt, Skippy and Buttons."
"Never thought he would get such popularity." Tom smiled, then his expression darkened again, "And it made me angry to think what those trolls would react on this." He growled in anger.
"Yeah. They are only interested in making us toon cats look like villains and deserve all the bad luck!" Junior groaned, "Seriously, what's their mind exactly?"
"Yeah, Je ne suis pas un chat, but I can understand their pain." Pepe also growled, "Furrball is kept attacking online by those heartless guys, who kept mentioning that he don't deserve a home or any good stuff."
"Similar to how they say that I don't deserve catching Tweety or winning and my son is a spoiled brat!" Sylvester snapped in anger, "Sometimes I hope that I could give them a piece of my mind, at least this is far more easy than catching my preys!"
Tom then turned to see Furrball chatting happily with his friends, and even sharing a kiss with Fifi.
"That kid doesn't deserve all the bad stuff." Jerry said.
"Are you pondering what I'm pondering, Jerry?" Tom then asked his mouse co-star in a Brain-style.
"You know me, Tom." Jerry smirked, "Who do you think I am? Pinky? Though let's don't disturb them for it now."
"True. They seemed so happy." Tom nodded.
In the afternoon class taught by the cat-and-mouse duo, they showed the students some of their old films. All the students looked at these in curiosity. They laughed at the comedy, they, especially the girls, cried at the scene of "Blue Cat Blues", they gasped and screamed in horror as they watched the end scene of "The Two Mouseketeers" (with Tom had to calm them down by telling them it was just an act). After Gogo played his role of cuckoo clock to tell that school is over, the students cheered and prepared to leave. Furrball was one of them until Tom called him.
"Hey, Furrball, one moment please? We wanna have a private talk with you." These words made Furrball tense up and became nervous, so did his other friends.
"Oh, don't worry, he didn't make any mistakes, we just wanna talk with him about something important, that's all." Jerry smiled as what he said made everyone relieved.
"Sure." Furrball nodded then he turned to face Fifi, "I'll be right back, my love."
Fifi giggled, "I'll wait for you, mon amore.", as she placed a kiss on Furrball's cheek.
Later, in Tom and Jerry's office (which the Looney Five had prepared before they officially hired them), Furrball was seen coming inside.
A/N: Cut isn't a fact that may not related to this story, but the future stories. "The Looney Five" is a group I made that consists of Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Elmer, Sylvester, due to these five are the most frequently appeared characters. (Another reason was because their scene together in Space Jam, and besides, I found that I mimicked their voices well)
"I'm here, teachers." He said.
"You know, I'm not kinda used to seeing him talk." Tom whispered.
"True, but on the other hand, fans don't get used to seeing us talk, either. Well, at least on me since you had talked more frequently in our early cartoons." Jerry whispered back.
"Fair point." Tom shrugged, then he turned back to Furrball, "Listen, Furrball. First, Pepé, Sylvester and Junior had told us about your story, and we wanna congratulate you for this."
"Thank you." Furrball smiled.
"And actually, this is also the topic we wanna talk with you." Jerry said, "Though they had told us about this, we are kinda more interested in hearing the stories on your side. Do you mind talking this to you?"
"It's okay. If you don't feel like talking about this, you needn't to tell." Tom added.
"Well, it's not bothering me. Go on and ask." Furrball replied.
"So, first question, how long did you have the feeling on Fifi before you showed her your love?" Jerry asked.
"Well... it's a bit later after our first encounter. You know, when I tried to get rid of those two bullies, Abby and Lloyd, who always made troubles on me, I accidentally got a white stripe on my back." Furrball explained, "That was how Fifi got her attention on me for the first time. At first, I was glad that someone nice like her would get attention on me, until when I realized that she's a skunk, I immediately ran away because I really couldn't stand her scent. And of course she kept chasing me behind, just like how Pepé chasing Penelope before they became a couple. When I found a can of blue paint that could help me cover the stripe, I was really glad that I finally got rid of her, until I saw her sobbing about no one loving her, that made me feel bad. That was also the reason I made those two jerks into skunks, not only make myself get rid of them, but also cheer her up." He smiled, fonded at the memory, "And after this and my school days, I started to realize I had feelings for Fifi, despite I wanted to show her, I never had the nerve of doing this because I was unsure how she would react, even with Sylvester, Pepé and Junior encouraging me."
"And I heard after this you got accidents like this more often. However..." Tom suddenly smirked, "Not every one of these is accident, is it?"
Furrball gasped in shock, "H...How did you find out?"
"We just figure it out." Jerry shrugged, "Don't forget that we played similar acts in our cartoons before and we are known as detectives in our recent show. So just tell us, you did some of these on purpose, right?"
"Yes." Furrball finally told the truth, "It was because sometimes when I saw Fifi went depressed because she failed to find her love, I felt bad for her and I wanted to cheer her up, so sometimes I decided to get the stripe on my back just want to cheer her up. Despite my usual bad luck, every time I did this Fifi always enjoyed this, and she never found out the truth, but I controlled myself not to tell her my true feeling because I'm unsure about what she might think, until that day when she found out."
"But now, look on the brighter side, you are in love." Tom smiled, "You needn't to use that stripe to let Fifi get the attraction on you anymore."
"Yes, but turns out Fifi actually tried to make friend with me before. It was when I tried to find myself some food in the junkyard where she lives, she happened to see me there and she felt bad for me when she saw me finding for food." Furrball sighed, "She wanted to help, but when I saw her approaching to me, I thought I got the white stripe on my back again so I immediately ran away before she could ask. After this, she thought I was afraid of her and didn't want to be her friend." This was quite a sad memory the blue little cat had, each time when he thinks of this, he couldn't help but feel ashamed on himself.
"But now she's your friend, well, more than friend." Jerry smiled, "Especially she's the first one that gave you the friendly feeling."
"With help from her, look at those bad lucks you actually don't deserve on the show." Tom nodded, "Always being the butt of the joke..."
"Being tortured by that Elmyra Duff..." Jerry added.
"Always being bullied..."
"Never being successful in finding a permanent home..."
"Failed at catching preys and no food to eat..." Both of them smiled, concluding, "All of this, disappeared and never returned to you anymore."
"Well, she's not the first one to be my friend, actually. I actually made some friends before, like you must have heard Sylvester telling you that he and Junior wanted to adopt me before, then Calamity's my best friend due to we have similar experience of catching preys. Gogo is friendly to me, and actually, he was the first one who knew that I had my crush on Fifi. Mary, Beeper and Dizzy are nice to me, too. But Fifi," Furrball smiled again, "She is the truly one that gave me the warm feeling of no longer being alone, and thanks for her help, the others from the gang began to understand me more and we officially becoming friends, and they truly regards me as a part of them."
"Buster, Babs, Plucky, Shirley, Hamton. Well, I can understand them." Tom replied, "But why Sweetie and Sneezer? After all the things they had done to you?" True, he remembered they always made troubles on Furrball when he tried to eat them, especially Sweetie, always going too far on Furrball made her became one of the fans' most hated characters on the show. Heck, Jerry would never go that far on Tom, same with Tweety on Sylvester.
"I know, but after being accepted by my friends, I wanted to make peace instead of war. The reason I wanna eat them was because my instinct kicked in, and I don't want this trouble going too long so I actually tried to tell them I want to be their friend." Furrball then explained, "Sneezer accepted my offer, but Sweetie, on the other hand, was quite tough. She never believed me even with the others trying to convince her, she just wanted me to get out of her sight." He sighed, knowing how tough and stubborn the pink canary could be. "Until one day, I found her and Sneezer got attacked and was going to be eaten by a wild cat, so I immediately took action and saved them, that was when Sweetie is finally convinced and we decided to put our past behind and become true friends."
"Well, I guess your luck did become better."Tom smiled, at meanwhile, a bigger idea is shining in his mind, "Say, Furrball. How about having a sleepover in our house tonight? We can share some more talk."
Furrball was surprised at this offer, but soon he smiled back, "I would love to."
"Great. Now you just stay here for a while, when we finished packing our stuff, we can go." Jerry smiled.
As he went out of the office, he found his friends were waiting outside. "Guys?" Furrball asked in surprise, "What are you doing here? And how long had you been here?"
"Fifi gathered all of us here." Sweetie answered.
"Since we heard that you got called in," Buster replied, "We couldn't help but worry about this."
"Vous didn't get any trouble, did vous?" Fifi asked in worry.
"Are they angry?" Hamton asked.
"Hey, did they mention anything about me?" Plucky asked in excitement, but only got a head bonk from Babs and Shirley.
"Actually, it's on the contrary." Furrball smiled, "In fact, Tom and Jerry just invited me to have a sleepover on their house!"
"Wow, like, really?!" Shirley gasped in surprised, and when she turned to see Plucky she could have already seen he is going to whine.
"So, is there anyone wanna go with me?" Furrball asked.
"As long as I want to, mon kitty." Fifi smiled, "I have already planned a girls' night out with Babs, Shirley, Sweetie and Mary."
"Well, it's OK." Furrball gave her a kiss on the cheek, "Just don't forget to tell me the fun you are gonna have."
"Hey! I want to go!" Plucky exclaimed, but Buster have already stopped him, "Sorry, Plucky. You know we had plans tonight."
"Oh, yeah." Plucky sighed in frustration, "Monty and Elmyra are gonna have a date night and we're gonna make it a mess. Looks like I'm gonna miss the fun."
"Hey, don't be that sad, Plucky." Furrball tried to cheer the duck up, "If you did a good job messing with them, maybe you can show them how good you can be, they might be impressed of this and even can give you some advice."
"Hmm, well it's true." Plucky seemed to regain some confidence.
Meanwhile, as Furrball finished packing his stuff he met Tom and Jerry outside the school. "All right, kid." said Tom, "let's go."
"OK. But, um..." Furrball was confused, "what about our transportation?"
"Watch this." The Cat-And-Mouse duo smirked as they showed something surprising.
"Oh... wow!" Furrball gasped, what he had saw are two race cars, the same one the duo drove in their film "Fast and Furious".
"Surprised at this, is it?" smiled Jerry.
Meanwhile, in somewhere dark, three sinister shadows hulking at the place, taking something evil in anger.
"I wanna have revenge on that cat and that mouse!" One feminine voice snapped, "If it wasn't their meddling, I would still have her and the fortune in my hand!"
"Don't you think that you're the only one!" A male voice replied, also snapping, "First, they made me lost all my pets I caught. And then, that mouse, his cousin and another cat and his son made me ended up in cell. I swear when I got my hand on them, I'll make sure they'll beg for death! Also, if it wasn't you promised that fake reward, I wouldn't end up being humiliated by them, Figg!"
"That was your thing, Applecheeks!" Figg snapped in anger, "If it wasn't because you and I have common enemies, why should I care about you!"
"All right, enough with this." Suddenly, another feminine voice snapped in, "If it wasn't those cat and mouse you mentioned are teachers in a school where those two rabbits study in, I won't pay the bill to bail you two out!" The lady revealed herself as Gotcha Grabmore, who was shown poaching on the show twice but both got foiled by Buster and Babs, "Or I should say, the Force told me to bail you out and gave me the information of the school those two rabbits are in, with those cats and the mouse you mentioned are in this school, too." Grabmore showed the other two a picture of all of the staff and students in the school standing in front of the front gate of the school.
"There's that blasted cat and his son." Applecheeks groaned, "but where's the other cat and his mouse?"
"They just got there a few days ago." Grabmore explained, but then Applecheeks paid attention to Furrball on the picture, in the picture, the blue cat was standing on the right of Sylvester, with Fifi standing on his right and kissing him, "And why there's an alley cat here? He doesn't belong to here!"
"The Force gave me details on that, that cat's name is Furrball, and Sylvester, the cat who sent you to jail, is his mentor and favorite teacher." Grabmore added, "They have a, um, father-and-son relationship."
"Is that it?" Applecheeks heard that as he showed a devious grin, "Hmm...if I can't that cat or his son instead, I'll have his student instead! I'll torture the kid in front of that pussycat's eyes and watch him going heartbroken!"
"Go on and do whatever you want on that cat!" Figg sneered, "At the same time, I'll teach those meddling cat and mouse to never meddle with MY business, and once I ended them, I'll have that girl and all of the money under my claw and not ever her father can save this! Isn't that right, Ferdy?" A brown dog on a skateboard slithered to Figg, barked in evilly in agreement.
"Do whatever you want, at the same time I want those rabbits' fur!" Grabmore growled, "And their friends will be a great bonus for me." She then looked at Fifi on the photo, "Especially this purple skunk, which the Force told me that she's the cat's boyfriend! She'll be a perfect hat on my head!"
"Yes, and if those teachers dare to meddle our plan, we'll always have spare plans for them! Either putting them into my business and getting tortured, or putting them into collections." Applecheeks added, "The Force assigned you to come up with a plan, get any, fur lady?"
"I've got a brilliant idea." Grabmore smirked evilly, "But this is gonna recruit some more people. And according to the source, I know who they are and where to get them."
Now all of this chapter is finished. Furrball had a nice talk with the duo and even would spend more time this night. And uh-oh, some old enemies seemed to come back and prepare to revenge. And who are the Force they are talking about?Can our heroes handle them? Find out in the future stories.
Also, I just checked the news about the reboot. Despite I'm glad that Lola will appear and become Babs' mentor, I'm kinda surprised to see the change of Plucky, Hamton and Sweetie. Well, now I just hope that Furrball and Fifi will still appear and remain the same (or better for Furrball is a better luck), and the show won't dropped out too many original characters just like the Animaniacs reboot. I may made a story on the toonsters' reaction about the reboot.
That's all. See ya later, folks.