It had been three hours into their road trip. Buster had gotten tired of driving so Babs took over. As for the other Tiny Toons, they occupied themselves by looking out the window, wandering around the mobile home, talking to one another, and so on. As Calamity sat at the back of the mobile home, reading an ACME catalogue, he was looking visibly annoyed.
"I can't take the silence anymore!" He yelled.
Everyone looked at Calamity surprised. They haven't heard him talk before.
"I'm tired of speaking with only signs!" Continued Calamity. "I want to speak normally!"
"I hear you, brother." Replied Little Beeper. "All that beeping and honking was giving me laryngitis."
"So you both can speak normally?" Sweetie asked, sounding amazed.
"Like, I knew that already." Shirley informed.
"Jeez Shirl, I should ask your help if I ever decide to get lottery tickets." Plucky replied.
"Don't expect my help if you do." Shirley replied. "You've gotta earn the win yourself or some junk. Otherwise, that would be cheating and dishonest."
"Gee, thanks a lot, Shirl." Grumbled Plucky.
"This driving is making my arms ache." Complained Babs. "Does this thing have an auto-drive?"
"I could look into installing that." Calamity offered. "I've taken up cartoony mechanics. I could turn a microwave into a food cooler, or a blender into a toaster."
They pulled over, allowing Calamity to examine the mechanics of the mobile home. After an hour and a half, Calamity walked back into the mobile home with sweat dripping from his head.
"It's done." He said, collapsing onto a table from exhaustion.
"I brought this strange card game." Informed Sneezer. "It's called Uno."
"Uno?" Queried Fifi. "What kind of game ees zhat."
"A card game." Plucky replied, snarkily.
"I know zhat, smartass!" Snapped Fifi. "I am asking 'ow zhe game ees played."
"Let's try to find out." Suggested Buster.
Everyone sat at the table and read the rules. Byron was still sleeping, even though he had been given his own cards.
"So, does he sleep all the time?" Furrball asked.
"Most likely." Babs replied. "We'll try to wake him when his turn comes."
Buster started with a blue reverse card, followed by Little Beeper placing down a blue four, then Sneezer a green four, Sweetie a green five, Calamity a yellow five, then Fifi a green five.
"I have a green card with a prohibition sign." Said Hamton.
"That's a skip card." Said Buster, reading the rules of Uno. "If you place it down, Plucky's turn is skipped."
"Don't do it, Hammy!" Exclaimed Plucky.
"Pay Fifi a compliment." Hamton replied.
"What will that do?!" Demanded Plucky.
"If you compliment Fifi, I won't place the card down." Explained Hamton.
"You're bluffing." Said Plucky, nervously.
He was quickly proven wrong by Hamton placing down the skip card.
"I have a card that has spin-y arrows on." Said Furrball.
"That's called a reverse card." Explained Babs. "If you place it down, the turn order is reversed. Which means Plucky will take the next turn instead of Shirley."
"Place it down!" Plucky yelled. "Place that card down, cat!"
"Don't peer pressure him." Said Hamton to Plucky. "Furrball, place down whatever card you like."
"That is, if it's the reverse card!" Plucky added.
"Plucky!" Hamton yelled.
"Hammy!" Plucky yelled.
"Hamton!" Sneezer yelled.
"Plucky!" Fifi yelled.
"Skunk girl!" Plucky yelled.
"Fifi!" Sneezer yelled.
"Pl-ucky!" Shirley yelled.
"Shirley!" Plucky yelled.
"Shirley!" Sneezer yelled.
"Sneezer!" Sweetie yelled.
"Sweetie!" Sneezer yelled.
"Sneezer!" Buster yelled.
"Buster!" Babs yelled.
"Woof!" Byron barked.
"Byron!" Little Beeper yelled.
"Beeper!" Calamity yelled.
"Calamity!" Fifi yelled.
"STOOOOOOOOOOP!" Furrball bellowed.
The Tiny Toons stopped yelling and looked at Furrball, who was panting.
"I don't think I want to play anymore." He said. "This game is making us all hostile towards each other..."
"Don't be like that, Furrball." Said Plucky.
"Is there... any other games in here?" Furrball asked. "It's just that... I don't want anything to wreck our friendship group."
"Friendship group?" Queried Sweetie. "Not all of us are friends, cat. Some of us barely know much about some of the others. Take me and Byron for instance."
Furrball looked bashful after saying what he said. Shirley gently placed her wing on his paw.
"Like, it's okay Furrball." She said to him telepathically.
She then spoke on her normal voice.
"Like, how about we get some food, and figure out what to do later or some junk." She suggested.
"Works for me." Buster replied.
"Yeah, I could go for some grub." Plucky agreed. "There a Weenie Burger around? I've got coupons."
"You mean the ones that expired months ago?" Babs asked.
"Shut it, rabbit!" Plucky snapped.
Furrball had a problem. Being homeless, he didn't really carry much pocket change on him, but he didn't want to bother his friends about it. Shirley, aware of Furrball's lack of funds, spoke to him telepathically.
"Like, don't worry about paying." She said to him. "There'll be enough food for everyone, even you."
When they walked inside, none of them noticed a sign on the window that says "no sharing, especially with those with no money". When they got inside ordered their food (which was like a smorgasbord), and sat at their table, nobody came to bother them at first. But when their food came and they split the food among them, the manager (who happened the be the same guy from Buster's Guide to Part-Time Jobs) came out and stormed over to their table, his face was red with rage.
"What is the meaning of this?!" He boomed. "Sharing meals is not allowed in here! Especially with those without money!"
Shirley used her psychic abilities to clamp the manager's mouth shut, levitated him into the air, bang his head into a wall several times, and throw him into the janitor's closet, using a mop to seal the door shut.
"You beat us to it, Shirl." Buster informed. "I take it Babs told you about that one time we worked at Weenie Burger?"
"Like, she showed me the episode or some junk." Shirley explained. "He totally deserved that."
"Hey, where's my drink?!" Demanded Plucky.
The waiter brought Plucky's drink to him.
"Ahh, Mango juice." Said Plucky, before a boat mast somehow fell onto him, flattening him. "Damn references..."
Later that evening, the Tiny Toons were wondering how they were going to sleep that night.
"We can't possibly sleep here!" Complained Plucky. "There's no way there can be enough beds for all of us!"
"You have any better ideas?" Buster asked.
"Yeah!" Replied Plucky. "I say we check into a hotel. We could get room service in there."
"And by room service, I expect vou mean zhat vou will be ordering zhe room service and expect us to pay for eet all." Fifi replied, sounding like she wasn't falling for any tricks.
"Hammy, keep your woman under control!" Exclaimed Plucky.
"Um, is there a way we can all sleep here?" Hamton asked, sensibly.
"I'm looking at the instructions, Hamton." Babs replied. "How do we load up the beds on this thing?!"
She kicked the side of the mobile home which suddenly grew in sizes and loaded up multiple beds.
"Wow." Chuckled Buster. "You got a kick out of that, Barbara Ann."
"Don't call me that!" Seethed Babs, after she spun into her pyjamas.
"This can't be any better than a hotel." Plucky thought to himself, climbing into one of the beds.
As soon as Plucky was under the covers, he instantly fell asleep. Later that night, when the clock struck midnight, the shadowy creatures from before came out. They started vandalising the area the Tiny Toons were in a similar way to what they did back in ACME Acres. The first one to be awoken by their ruckus was Sneezer. He climbed out of bed and saw the shadow creatures through of the windows.
"I'm allergic to shadow creatures." He said. "Ah... ahhh... AAAHHHHHH... CHOOOOOO!"
The sneeze blew Sneezer across the mobile home, bumping him into a wall, and causing the mobile home to wobble. The shadow creatures saw the mobile home wobble, and ran over to it. They began shaking the mobile home, which caused the other Tiny Toons to wake up.
"Morning already?" Hamton asked.
"Sneezer?" Babs asked, sleepily. "What is going on?"
"There are shadow creatures outside!" Exclaimed Sneezer.
Sweetie flew up to a window. When she saw the creatures, she screamed and bellowed in her gruff voice:
"Shadow creatures twelve o'clock! Red alert! Red alert! This is not a drill!"
"Ahh shaddup!" Bellowed Plucky, throwing his alarm clock at Sweetie.
Sweetie ducked under the clock which shattered a window and bonked one of the shadow creatures on their head.
"What shadow creatures?" Asked Buster, rubbing his eyes.
When he looked out the window, he was wide awake.
"Oh crap!" He yelled. "They're real!"
"Hamton!" Fifi exclaimed "Hold moi! Zhey might get us!"
"Get ahold of yourself, woman!" Plucky yelled.
"Wait!" Yelled Babs. "I know what we can do! We become the Just-Us League!"
Within a flash, they don their Just-Us League attires and go outside to confront the shadow creatures.
"Little Dasher, go long!" Exclaimed Keen Arrow, firing a barrage of arrows.
Little Dasher ran in a large circle which made a tornado. The arrows got sucked into the tornado as a result. Little Dasher then leapt into the tornado and started kicking the arrows in various directions. The arrows skewered the shadow creatures with added power, causing some of them to vanish. One of them even took an arrow to the knee.
"Just as we practiced!" Keen Arrow smiled.
"Since when have you two had time to practice that?!" BatDuck asked, as he was holding a shadow creature in a headlock.
"Since we had the time to date every girl you were interested in." Smiled Little Dasher.
BatDuck's eye twitched at Little Dasher's comment. He was about to hurl a duckarang at Little Dasher's face when he saw another shadow creature fly over his head after it was whacked by HawkLoon's mace.
"Like, what even are these things?!" HawkLoon exclaimed.
Furrball was trying to fully control his ring in combat. He was shaking his hand in the air, hoping for something to happen. Suddenly, a construct of a hand came from the ring and slapped the shadow creatures.
"Need a hand, Lean Lantern?" Asked SuperBun, after he burned a couple of shadow creatures with his heat vision.
"I'm trying to get the hang of my ring." Said Lean Lantern. "How does this thing even work?"
"Try thinking of something to fight them with." Suggested SuperBun. "Something like a chainsaw."
Lean Lantern used the ring to conjure a construct of a chainsaw which ended up cutting through a tree which landed on SuperBun.
"At least you're learning." Said a dazed SuperBun.
"Try flying!" Suggested Wonder Babs, holding off other shadow creatures with her shield.
Lean Lantern held his fist in the air before a green circle surrounded him. Lean Lantern then took to the skies. At first, Lean Lantern didn't know how it worked. He just kept flying upwards and upwards until he lowered his fist, which caused him to start falling to the ground.
"Lean Lantern!" Came the voice of HawkLoon who was holding two more shadow creatures by the scruff of their necks. "Like, try pointing your fist in the direction you want to fly or some junk!"
As she banged the heads of the shadow creatures together, Lean Lantern pointed his fist north, and began to fly north. It seemed like he had finally gotten a hold of flying.
"Hey Lean Lantern, try summoning another weapon!" Suggested Decoy.
Lean Lantern conjured a construct of a hammer which he used to crush some of the shadow creatures.
"Nothing like a game of whack-a-shadow-creature." He laughed.
Sneezeam was having a sneezing fit due to his allergy to shadow creatures. Every time he sneezed, another blast of electricity came out of his nostrils which electrocuted more shadow creatures. Wow, the words "shadow creatures" have been written a lot on this chapter, huh?
"Lean Lantern!" Scentana yelled. "I 'ave an idea!"
Lean Lantern flew to Scentana, who whispered her idea to him. Lean Lantern looked impressed at her idea.
"Hey shadow creatures!" Yelled Pink Canary. "I know your favorite dessert! I Scream!"
Pink Canary let out a super-sonic, echoing, and ear-numbing scream which caused the shadow creatures, and even some of the Just-Us League members, to drop to their knees and cover their ears from how loud the scream was.
"Okay you two, go ahead and do your plan!" She said to Lean Lantern and Scentana.
"What?" Lean Lantern asked, not being able to hear her due to the sound waves the scream produced.
Pink Canary realized the problem and took a sign out from Ken Arrow's sign bag. She wrote in the sign "Go ahead and do your plan!"
"Oh, our plan!" Said Scentana, as the sound waves started to clear off.
Scentana released her odor into the air. Lean Lantern used his ring to gather the odor clouds in a ball-shape. Scentana then held onto Lean Lantern's shoulders from behind before he ascended into the air.
"It's showtime!" Said Lean Lantern, before he sent the ball downwards which exploded in a stinky cloud, consuming the shadow creatures and causing them to disappear.
"Gah! It smells like Uncle Stinky around here!" Groaned BatDuck.
"Well, eet worked." Scentana replied. "Zhe shadow creatures are gone, no?"
Suddenly, a dark aura began to swirl on the ground. And out came a giant shadow creature with the figure of an anthropomorphic rabbit.
"Uhhh, AquaMutt?" Asked BatDuck. "You've barely done much to help us throughout this battle. Any help from you now would be helpful!"
"Don't rush him, BatDuck." Said SuperBun.
AquaMutt appeared to have finally awoken and stood up. He raised his right paw in the air, summoning his trident. With a wave of his trident, AquaMutt encased the giant shadow creature in a large whirlpool.
"I know what to do next!" Announced Decoy.
He took out a pepper container, went over to Sneezeam, and began pouring the pepper into Sneezeam's nostrils. Sneezeam's eyes widened before he felt the sneeze come.
"Ahhh... aahhhhh...AAAAAHHHHHHHH- CHOOOOOOOOOOO!"
The resulting sneeze resulted in the giant shadow creature being electrocuted to where there was a wide explosion which almost knocked back the Just-Us League and caused their mobile home to wobble.
"Phew." Said Wonder Babs. "Glad that's over."
"Like, what even were those things anyways?" HawkLoon asked. "Are they even gonna come back or some junk?"
"We'll figure out what they are soon enough." Replied SuperBun. "For now, let's just go back to bed."
As they walked back into the mobile home, HawkLoon suddenly stopped and held her head.
"Is something wrong, HawkLoon?" Asked Lean Lantern.
"Like, I'm getting a strange psychic reading." She explained. "For some reason it seems to be... similar to mine. And now I'm started to hear a strange voice that kinda sounds familiar or some junk."
("I know your identity. You're coming to see me and the others at ACME Looniversity. I'll see you at the dorms, and make sure you have a strong bond with Furrball.")
Everyone looked at HawkGirl with dumbfounded expressions.
"Like, let's just go back to bed." HawkGirl replied. "This whole thing has left me totally tired. Mondo-tired-o."
Then she walked back into the mobile home, followed by the rest of the Just-Us League. As they changed out of their super attires and went back to sleep, Plucky, feeling that Shirley might develop feelings for Furrball, decided to move Furrball's head onto Shirley's lap as they were both sleeping before going back to sleep himself. Shirley noticed Furrball's head and instead of being mad or pushing him off, she proceeded to gently pat his head from his cute he looked. His fur was soft and warm, even more than Shirley expected. She could hear him let out a gentle purr as she pet him, which brought a smile to Shirley's face.
The next morning, Furrball noticed that his head was on Shirley's lap, and removed his head in surprise. Shirley felt his head leaving her lap and opened her eyes.
"Like, morning Furrball." She whispered.
Furrball looked visibly nervous.
"Don't worry." She said to him, telepathically. "Like, it was Pl-ucky who put your head in my lap. Psychic powers. I gotta admit, you totally looked cute when your head was on my lap."
Furrball began to blush a little at Shirley's words, which caused Shirley to giggle a bit.
"I... I did?" Furrball asked, shyly.
"Like, yeah." Shirley replied.
Furrball's blush became more visible as a result.
"Pl-ucky is probably jealous of you or some junk." Shirley continued. "We've been getting on well and he's still bitter about Hamton and Fifi so maybe that's why."
Furrball nodded in agreement.
"He was always the jealous type." He replied. "Oh, and thanks for helping me learn to fly last night."
"Don't mention it." Shirley replied. "Like, you totally needed all the help you could get."
Furrball walked over to Shirley and began hugging her again.
"You've been so kind to me the last few days." He whispered. "I'm grateful for it, and grateful for you."
Shirley, touched by Furrball's kind words, reciprocated the hug.
"You're like, so sweet." She whispered to him.
She ended the hug the moment she saw Plucky wake up, followed by the rest of the Tiny Toons.
"Alright Toonsters, shall we continue on?" Buster asked.
"Not so fast, blue ears." Replied Babs. "I say we get breakfast!"
"Are ya kidding?!" Plucky exclaimed. "I ain't sticking around in this city any longer! Who is to say those shadow creatures won't come back! Let's book it while we can!"
"Now-now Plucky, zhose creatures came out last night." Fifi replied. "Zhey also came out last night the day before, so eet ees clear zhat zhey only come out at night."
"How do ya know that for sure, sister?!" Plucky yelled. "They could come back and attack us at any moment! They could even recognise us! Their attack on us would be a total ambush! We'd never see it coming! It could end up being our last surprise!"
"In case vou 'ave forgotten, we were in our Just-Us League attires!" Fifi replied, coldly. "Zhey wont recognise us!"
"Easy for you to say, sister!" Replied Plucky. "I mean, you could try to cover your identity better if you wanted to! You don't even wear a mask! Well, neither does Babs, Buster, Byron, Sweetie Sneezer, well Beeper kind of wears a mask."
As Plucky reeled off his list, Fifi looked ready to slap him. Buster and Babs went to intervene, but Sweetie, who was wearing her Pink Canary attire, flew in front of them.
"Allow me." She said.
Everyone but Fifi and Plucky covered their ears for what was about to happen. Sweetie flew to the duck and skunk and let out another one of her screams. The windows shattered, and all the two of them could hear was a ringing sound in their ears for a brief amount of time.
"That screaming made me hungry." She said afterwards. "Anyone got any Unlucky Worms?"
On the next chapter, the Tiny Toons travel to a city they haven't been before to say hi to Fowlmouth and his uncle who is the mayor of that city, only to discover that the city they're in has outlawed cartoon slapstick. They encounter the leader of a rebellion who is looking to change this law, and they encounter their first major foe in the form of a clown who looks strangely familiar. Can the Tiny Toons change this law? Who is this clown foe? Find out next time.