Hello. I finally got around to finishing the latest chapter of my Equestria Girls and Tiny Toons crossover, which is an adaptation of Buster at Bat. Enjoy.
Chapter 15: Buster at Bat
A day or two later, Fluttershy was finally discharged from the hospital. Fifi, Furrball, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy's parents were helping escort her out. As they were walking, they approached by Sweetie Bird and Mousetrap. "What do you want?" asked Fifi, rolling her eyes.
"To give your owner advice," said Sweetie. She turned to Fluttershy. "If you don't want to end up the hospital again, I suggest you stop trying to stand up for Furrball and the other cats and just ditch him," said Sweetie. Hearing this made Fluttershy mad.
"I won't," said Fluttershy.
"What?" asked Sweetie & Mousetrap.
"'Cause it's wrong. Just because you want me to do it, doesn't mean that I will. Furrball is happy living with me. And I won't kick him out onto the streets just to save my own skin!" said Fluttershy.
"You better listen or . . . ," said Sweetie. But she was interrupted when Fluttershy began to give her the "stare", causing Sweetie to instantly be quiet. Sweetie wanted to say something, anything. But she was powerless as soon as she looked into the animal lover's eyes.
"Listen and listen well. There is no way I'm going to abandon Furrball just to satisfy you cat haters! SO LEARN TO LIVE WITH IT, CHUMP!" yelled Fluttershy. And with those words, Fluttershy and the others began to leave. Fifi was a bit troubled. But it wasn't because of Sweetie's threat or Fluttershy losing her temper. For when she watched as Fluttershy told off Sweetie, she could've sworn she saw Fluttershy's eyes for a split second turn reptilian. Was it an illusion or was there something that Fluttershy wasn't telling her or Furrball? After Fluttershy and the others left, Sweetie Bird let out an angry yell.
"She called me chump!" snarled Sweetie.
"Listen. We didn't think she'd stand up for herself without the help of her friends," said Mousetrap, trying to soothe Sweetie. Sweetie then shoved the mouse against the wall.
"We need to do much better threats if we're to get that putty tat loving bitch to go with the system!" said Sweetie.
"Y-y-yes Sweetie," said Mousetrap.
The first thing that Yamcha did to get enrolled as a baseball coach for Acme Looniversity was to go to Bugs Bunny's office. "So you must be that guy who saved Fluttershy not too long ago," said Bugs.
"That's right. I'm Yamcha. And this is my companion, Puar," said Yamcha.
"Hi," said Puar, waving.
"So what brings you here?" asked Bugs.
"I came cause I want to help coach the kids at this school in baseball. I played baseball professionally before, so I figured I could help," said Yamcha. Bugs thought for a moment.
"Well, Foghorn Leghorn's already our coach. But there's a spot for assistant coach open. If you do well enough, you might become a full coach under the right circumstances," said Bugs.
"Thanks," said Yamcha.
At baseball practice, all the students had gathered, all dressed in their baseball outfits. They were blue and white, the colors of Acme Looniversity. Foghorn Leghorn was present at the moment. "Students of Acme Loo. Today, we have a new assistant coach," said Foghorn. And with that, Yamcha stepped forward, dressed in the Acme Looniversity team colors.
"Ooh la la. Yamcha," said Fifi.
"That's right. I'll be helping you become star baseball players," said Yamcha.
"So what experience do you have?' asked Buster.
"I was a baseball player of the team known as the Taitans. I started out as a martial artist, but did baseball because the stadium where the World Martial Arts Tournament was held was destroying during the 23rd WMAT in the final fight between Goku and Piccolo, putting an end to it for a while. But after a while, I decided to move here to start a new life. So, I have a chance to teach you youngsters what I know," said Yamcha.
"Just a heads up, our biggest rival, Perfecto Prep has been know to cheat in the sporting events we compete in, including baseball," said Babs.
"The last time we competed in baseball, they put a magnet in their bat to ensure they hit the ball," said Furrball.
"Therefore, they lost by disqualification," said Dizzy.
"Now that's a dirty trick. I can assure you, when Yamcha gets involved, no amount of cheating is gonna topple us," said Yamcha.
"Yeah!" said Puar.
Yamcha proved to be a strict, but fair assistant coach. He taught the toons a couple of new strategies about playing. The toons also told him about all the cheating tactics that Perfecto Prep have used in the past. Yamcha also gave the students tips of how to get around their rival's cheating too.
Very soon, it was time for another baseball game between Acme Looniversity and Perfecto Prep. Sylvester was the announcer of the game. "It looked extremely rocky for the Acme 9 that day," said Sylvester. Babs tried to hit the ball, but she missed and Rhubella Rat caught the ball in her mitt. Elmer Fudd was the umpire.
"You're out!" said Elmer.
"The score stood 2 to 4 with but an inning to play!" said Sylvester as Lil' Sneezer as changed the score. Perfecto Prep had more points than Acme Looniversity right now.
"Come on. We can turn this around," said Yamcha.
"Ahh . . . ahh . . . . ahh . . . CHOO!" sneezed Lil' Sneezer. The sneezer caused part of the scoreboard to be messed up.
"The Rival Team from Perfecto Prep hadn't given up a hit," said Sylvester. Furrball was the one up to bat right now. Fluttershy was watching the game in the audience.
"Furrball's up. I know he can do it," said Fluttershy. Roderick Rat was the pitcher. He threw the ball and Furrball tried to hit it, but missed.
"Stee-wike one!" said Elmer.
"But the underdogs from Acme Loo were not about to quit!" said Sylvester. Furrball managed to hit the ball. He was about to run for first base, but Rhubella stepped on Furrball's tail, preventing him from moving. Yamcha, Puar and Fluttershy saw this and gasped. Danforth Drake caught the ball and used it to tag Furrball.
"You're out!" said Elmer.
"TIME OUT!" called Yamcha.
"What now?" asked Elmer.
"Puar and I saw what happened. We saw Rhubella step on Furrball's tail, preventing him from reaching first base. That's cheating!" said Yamcha.
"I did not," said Rhubella.
"Oh yeah. Then what's that you're stepping on?!" asked Puar, pointing to Rhubella's foot. Everybody gasped. Rhubella's eyes widened when she realized she was caught red handed.
"Perfecto Prep is penalized. So Furrball gets to first base and is safe," said Elmer.
"Yay!" said Fluttershy. Rhubella glared at Yamcha and Puar.
"Despite what happened, it's not enough. We'd I'd say, beat these bush leaguers if Buster were at bat. Hitting that is," said Foghorn. It was now Fifi La Fume's turn to do some batting now.
"But Fifi preceded Buster, and she was far from great. She hadn't gotten on first base since 1988," said Sylvester. He then laughed.
"Sacrebleu! I'll show you!" said Fifi. She discarded her bat and grabbed her tail. She was going to use her tail as the bat. Roderick threw the ball at the purple skunkette. She whacked the ball with her tail and ran to first base. Everybody cheered. As she ran, she let off her stinky skunk smell. Rhubella grabbed at the ball to try to throw it, but she got a whiff of Fifi's smell. Rhubella fainted due to the smell. The ball actually coughed due to the stinky smell left behind. Fifi reached first base and was safe. Puar laughed seeing what happened.
"Hmm. That was pretty unorthodox, but effective," commented Yamcha.
"Sweetie was the next at bat. Though she wasn't very tall, the pitcher threw a wicked curve," said Sylvester. And Roderick did.
"But the umpire shouted . . . ," said Sylvester.
"Ball! Ha!" said Elmer. Roderick threw the ball again and Rhubella caught it. "Ball two! Heh heh," said Elmer. Roderick was getting pretty steamed. He threw the ball and Rhubella caught it again. "Ball twee! Heh heh heh," said Elmer. Roderick just rolled the ball toward Sweetie. Elmer got out a ruler. "Ball four. Heh heh heh heh," said Elmer.
"Then from the gladden multitude went up a joyous yell," said Sylvester.
"YAY!" cried everybody.
"It rumbled through the mountaintops, it rattled in the dell, it struck upon the hillside, and rebounded on the flat. For Buster, Mighty Buster was advancing to the bat," said Sylvester. Buster arrived to the stadium on a private plane and it landed in the stadium. A red carpet rolled out of the plane and Buster then exited out.
"Talk about a showy entrance," said Puar.
"Yeah," said Yamcha. Photographers flashed their cameras and reporters held out their microphones. Plucky and Arnold who were his agents exited out too.
"No flash bulbs. You'll hurt his batting eye," said Plucky.
"You're here, I say, just in time, boy," said Foghorn.
"About time you showed up," said Yamcha.
"Go up there and swing some fences!" said Foghorn.
"Just a minute, coach. Before we do anything, we have got to renegotiate my contract," said Buster.
"Re . . . I say, renegotiate?" asked Foghorn.
"What do you mean?" asked Yamcha.
"My agent, Plucky Lazaar will handle the details," said Buster.
"My client has a brief list of demands," said Plucky, showing Foghorn a long list.
"Brief? You call that brief?" asked Puar.
"$100,000 for every single, $200,000 for every double, 10% of the parking receipts, a candy bar named after him," said Plucky. As Plucky was explaining, Babs was manicuring Buster's nails. Hamton was fanning him and Furrball was shining his foot. "Just sign on the dotted line, coach," said Plucky, holding out a pen. The contract paper was wrapped around him.
"Okay. When do you want me to pick up my firstborn?" asked Foghorn. He signed it, but Plucky felt himself getting poked by the pen and his toupee fell off.
"Hey, easy on the punctuation marks," said Plucky.
"I'll give you $1,000,000 to endorse my sneakers, Buster" said the owner of a shoe company.
"I'll give you $2,000,000 to wear my athletic shoes," said another shoe company owner.
"I'll give you $3,000,000 to wear my shoes," said Babs.
"It's a deal," said Buster, shaking Babs' hands. Puar just rolled his eyes. Babs' shoes were high heels. "Confidentially, I wear flats," said Buster. He turned to the bleachers. "Hey, bat boy," said Buster. Emerging from the shadows was a hulking guy who wore a purple suit that looked like a rip off of the Batman. Except his symbol was a baseball bat. Buster opened up the symbol on his chest to reveal a bunch of baseball bats. Buster pulled out one to use for the game. The limo pulled up and Arnold the Pit Bull exited out. Buster then went into the limo and drove up to the home plate. Buster exited out again. Yamcha did a facepalm.
"This is getting silly," said Yamcha.
"There was ease in Buster's manner as he stepped onto his plate," said Sylvester. Buster began to remove a bunch of gloves from his left hand. "There was pride in Buster's bearing and a smile on Buster's face. On the mound, the writhing pitcher ground the ball into his hip," said Sylvester. And that was exactly what Roderick was doing. And his teeth were chattering. "Defiance glared in Buster's eye. A sneer curled on Buster's lip. And now the leather-covered spheroid hurtled through the air, and Buster stood a-watching it in haughty grandeur there," said Sylvester. Unfortunately, Buster was signing an autograph for Elmyra, whose house arrest term was up.
"What?! He's signing autographs at a time like this?!" asked Yamcha.
"Close by the sturdy batsman the ball unheeded sped," said Sylvester. The ball went into Elmyra's mouth.
"That's not my style," said Buster.
"Stee-wike one!" the umpire said.
"Kill him! Kill the umpire!" shouted someone in the stand. Fans began throwing cans, grenades and rotten produce at Elmer.
"It's likely they'd have killed him had not Buster raised hand," said Sylvester. Which Buster did.
"With a smile of wholesome charity, Buster silenced the throng. He stilled the rising tumult. He moved the game along," said Sylvester.
"Move along," said Buster.
"He signaled to the pitcher. And once more, the spheroid flew," said Sylvester. After throwing it, Roderick put up a brick wall in front of him to protect himself from the ball if it ever gets hit. Suddenly, Buster's cell phone rang and he answered it. "
Hello? Really? Well, sell the junk bonds and buy the CDs," said Buster.
"Come on. Stop fooling around, Buster!" cried Yamcha.
"But Buster still ignored it. The umpire said . . . ," said Sylvester.
"Stee-wike two!" yelled Elmer. "Fraud!" cried Buster's teammates and fans.
"'Fraud!' cried the maddened thousands, and the maddened answer echoed fraud," said Sylvester. As people shouted fraud, Elmer looked around.
"Yes . . . who is it?" asked Elmer.
"Not Fudd. Fraud! You mutant doorknob," yelled Plucky. In response, Elmer grabbed Plucky by the neck, snatched his toupee and stuffed it into the green duck's mouth.
"But one scornful look from Buster and the audience was awed," said Sylvester.
"Aww!" said everybody.
"They saw his face grew stern and cold. They saw his muscles strain. And they know that Buster wouldn't let the ball go by again," said Sylvester. Buster sprayed his feet. "The sneer is gone from Buster's lips, his teeth are clutched in hate. He pounds with cruel vengeance his bat upon the plate," said Sylvester. Buster grew muscular, while Roderick actually shrunk temporarily. Buster pounded the ground with his bat until there was a dent in the dirt. "And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go," said Sylvester. Roderick spun it around until he literally threw it with the force of a cannon. "Now the air is shattered by the force of Buster's blow," said Sylvester. Everybody was sent flying backwards by what happened next. "O, somewhere in this favored land, the sun is shining bright. The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light. And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout, but there's no joy in Acme Acres. Mighty Buster has . . . it's a home run?!" cried Sylvester. Buster hit it so hard that the ball hit a nearby blimp, causing it to deflate rapidly. And Buster ran all around the field til he went back to home base. Everybody cheered loudly, including Fluttershy "Say, that's not the way the poem goes!" objected Sylvester.
"You're expecting me to strike out? I'm the star of this show," said Buster. Acme Acres now had 5 points, beating Perfecto Prep by one point. Babs Bunny approached her classmate, carrying a microphone and a video camera.
"Buster, you just won the big game! What are you gonna do next?" asked Babs.
"I'm going to build my own amusement park," said Buster, taking out a sack of money. After being interviewed and having his pictures taken, Buster Bunny went to where his teammates were. He noticed that Yamcha was frowning at him. "What? We won, didn't we?" asked Buster.
"Yes, but by one point. You were goofing off in the last part of the game and not paying attention to the ball. As long as I'm helping coach you and your teammates, you all need to take playing baseball more seriously. I know baseball is a game, but even games have to be taken seriously. Especially when dealing when our opponents are a bunch of cheaters," lectured Yamcha.
"Yamcha's right. Not taking sports seriously is what got this one softball player's life ruined. She heavily relied on luck and anti-bad luck rituals to win to the point that she blamed her only brother for causing her to lose a game. What made it worse, her family believed her and began labeling him as bad luck. But when they went too far by kicking out of the house and selling his stuff, they got in big trouble. The girl was blacklisted from sports as a whole and she and her family were arrested and are facing serious jail time," said Puar. Everybody's eyes widened hearing that.
"That's terrible," said Buster.
"Yes. And that's exactly one reason why you must take sports more seriously. Will you promise to do it?" asked Yamcha. Buster sighed in defeat.
"Okay," said Buster.
"Very good," said Yamcha.
I hope enjoyed reading this new chapter. Yes, I added a well deserved jab toward the atrocious episode of the Loud House, "No Such Luck". I know it's been years since it aired, but there are many people who still haven't gotten over it. I haven't seen it myself. But know about it to know to NOT watch it because of how terrible it is and I don't want to mentally scar myself. Next chapter will focus on Furrball starting a bond with Jewel the Dalmatian. And it'll show how Fluttershy adopted her . . .