The Prankster II
The Prankster Lives!
By Michael M.  (mjm632s@mail.smsu.edu)

	During the early weeks of the fall semester at Acme Looniversity, Buster
had challenged Bugs into bringing in a new villain that was sneakier and could
cause more trouble then Montana Max.  Bugs accepted the challenge and brought
forth a new villain to replace Max, known only as the Prankster.  Bugs set the
goal that all Buster had to do was determine the Prankster's true identity while the
Prankster played a series of tricks on Buster and his friends.  They discovered that
the Prankster was really Fifi LaFume.  Buster also realized that the entire ordeal
with the Prankster had threatened his relations with his friends.  In the end, he
hoped never to face another Prankster again.  Even Fifi, herself, said she would
rather be a sidekick then a villain.  It was thought that the Prankster would never
show up again, or would he, or she.

	Spring semester at Acme Looniversity had come at a slow pace for the
students.  As always, the main stars of Tiny Toons would show up for their
monthly meeting to discuss future episodes and scripts.  Once again, Bugs
endured the incredible ordeal of getting order among the students.  Fortunately,
they agreed to have Hamton and Plucky for the next three cartoons, while Buster
and Babs hosted the episodes.
	"Well, that settles the business on future cartoons.  Now we can get back
to school activities." Bugs said.
	The students groaned.
	"Buster, what can we expect out of the football team?" Bugs asked.
	Buster stood up from his seat.  "We'll be ready for the Superbowl when we
play Perfecto.  Like you told me to, I taught my men about determination and the
need to do our best." Buster said.
	"To bad you didn't teach us how to improve in football." Plucky said,
hoping to discredit Buster.
	Bugs didn't like Plucky's attitude and extended his judge's mallet over
Plucky's head.
	"I take it back!" Plucky shouted when he saw the mallet over his head.
	Bugs pulled the mallet back towards himself.
	"Can I help it if Buster is a bad Football captain." Plucky groaned.
WHAM! Plucky never saw the mallet coming.
	"Now about prom.  Calamity, we need you to do decorations again." Bugs
said.
	Calamity sighed in frustration.  Every time he did decorations, he got
tangled in the ribbons and balloons.
	"Now, the final issue - transfer students.  We have decided to accept four
new students into our school in two days.  They will officially join Acme the
following school year, but I want them to get an understanding of the school
before coming in.  They will attend class for a few weeks this semester." Bugs
explained.  He then began to sift through the four folders of the transfer students. 
"I see one of your brothers is joining, Babs." Bugs said after looking over the final
folder.
	"That's right.  Second one in my family to join Acme." Babs said proudly.
	"Which one?" Buster asked.
	"Let me think." Babs said.  Even she did not know all their names.  "Let's
see.  There's Maverick, Eric, Johnny, Bob, Montgomery, and - ahh."
	"Mortimer?" Buster asked.
	"That's it!" Babs cheered.
	 "You can't remember your own relatives?" Plucky sneered.
	"What can I say, my family sure knows how to multiply." Babs shrugged.
	"No wonder your better in math than I am." Plucky said.
	The some students groaned to Plucky's remark, while others snickered.
	"All right kids.  I want you to show these new students respect and extend
all courtesy." Bugs said.

	Babs had to admit she wasn't particularly looking forward to having her
younger brother in the same school with her.  In her opinion, Mortimer was a pain
in neck.  He always took phone calls that had been directed to her and would steal
some of her stuff.  Unfortunately, everyone, including her friends, thought she
was over reacting to Mortimer.
	The day came for the new transfer students to arrive at Acme Acres.  To
greet them, Buster and Babs had agreed to wait at the front door and take the new
students on a tour.  The new students were dropped off in front of the school by a
school bus.  The group consisted of a swan, a raccoon, a wolf, and a tan rabbit,
Mortimer.
	"Greetings new recruits.  Welcome to Acme Looniversity.  I'm Buster
Bunny." Buster greeted the students.
	"And I'm Babs Bunny." Babs said.
	"No relation." Buster and Babs said in unison.
	The first to step up was the swan.  She wore a green dress and moved
around as if she was royalty.  "I'm Lucy Swan." the swan said.
	The raccoon then jumped up in front of Lucy.  "I'm Ralph!" the raccoon
shouted.
	The wolf then stepped up.  He wore a black jacket and sunglasses.  "I'm
Jeffrey Wolf." the wolf grunted.
	Mortimer then jumped in front of the three students.  "You know me
Babs!" he said to Babs.  He then turned to his fellow transfer students.  "I'm
Mortimer Bunny.  I am related to Babs Bunny." Mortimer said excitedly.
	Babs slapped her forehead in frustration.  She could not believe that
Mortimer took her famous introduction with Buster and used it to his advantage. 
"Someone shoot me." Babs moaned.
	"Okay." Jeffrey said as he pulled out a cannon from his jacket.
	"Hold everything!" Buster shouted and rushed over to Jeffrey Wolf.  He
then grabbed the cannon away from Jeffrey and threw it off into the lawn where it
exploded.  "Why did you pull that out?" Buster asked.
	"Cannon fun!" Ralph shouted.
	Jeffrey reached into his pocket and pulled out a letter in his pocket.  "Just
trying to get into the part.  I'm the new villain in this school.  Isn't it the job of the
villain to go against a hero?" Jeffrey asked hesitantly.
	"Yeah!  He and I will be squaring off against me!  Isn't that great!"
Mortimer said happily.
	Buster looked over Jeffrey's credentials for the new villain.  "So your just
starting out.  I wish you the best of luck since your going to need it.  Well, let's
start the tour." Buster said.  He then led the group through the halls of Acme
Looniversity, showing the various areas of the school.
	"And this here is study hall." Buster said as he continued the tour.
	"This is where you go when you don't have class during school hours."
Babs said.
	Jeffrey Wolf looked over the study hall with some interest.  His only real
interest lay in the classes he would take with Yosemite Sam to become a villain.
	"Bonjour Babs." Fifi said as she approached her friend.
	"Oh, hi Fifi." Babs said.  She then turned to the transfer students.  "You
guys, this is Fifi LaFume, one of the cast members of Tiny Toons.  She's my
sidekick and one of my best friends." Babs explained.  Babs then introduced Fifi
to the new transfer students.
	Jeffrey looked at Fifi, trying to recall where he had seen her before.  He
knew she had done something in the past that caught his interest, but couldn't
remember what.  "Excuse me.  But what kind of role do you play in Tiny Toons?"
Jeffrey asked.
	"She's the romantic in our group." Buster said.
	"Oui." Fifi said.
	"I know you played as something else as well." Jeffrey said.
	"I am just ze sidekick." Fifi said.
	Mortimer also tried to recall how he remembered Fifi playing a different
role.  "Your the Prankster!" Mortimer shouted after a few seconds.
	"Prankster!  Prankster!  Ha, Ha, Ha!" Ralph laughed.
	Fifi jumped back in surprise.  If anything, she had hoped that all memory
on that particular subject had been forgotten.  "Well, I-" Fifi found herself at a
loss for words.  She was to embarrassed and ashamed to talk about her former
character.
	"That's right!  I read about you in the newspapers.  It is a honor to meet a
villain such as you." Jeffrey Wolf said as he shook hands with Fifi.
	"Actually, the Prankster no longer exists.  Fifi ended her role when she got
caught." Babs explained.
	"It was set up by Bugs and Yosemite Sam to accept a challenge from me. 
Now that the challenge has ended, Acme is trying to forget all records of the
Prankster." Buster explained to Jeffrey.
	"Still, you can never imagine how much I wanted to meet such a sneaky
villain.  Ever since I read about you, I've wanted to meet you and ask so many
questions." Jeffrey said.
	"Perhaps another time." Fifi said.  She then made her way out of the study
hall.  She wanted nothing more than to escape such memories of her experience
as the Prankster.  It had nearly broken up her friends, and she would not allow
such a thing to happen again.
	"Perhaps we should continue the tour." Babs said, noticing how
uncomfortable Fifi was.
	Jeffrey on the other hand wanted to learn more about Fifi.  She was the
key he needed to make his future plans work out.  He decided that he would do all
he could to learn about the Prankster.

	At lunch, Jeffrey Wolf saw another chance to talk to Fifi.  Although he
knew he could also talk to Montana Max, or Elmyra, or some other villain on
getting advice to become a good villain, none seemed to catch his interest more
than the Prankster.  Max was always doing something for money and was not
willing to give away his best tricks.  Jeffrey found Elmyra to dangerous to
approach since she wanted to crush the life out of him in the name of love.  All
other villains in Tiny Toons, like Dizzy or Calamity, now assumed more of a
sidekick or hero role.  But the former Prankster had proven to be a challenge for
the Tiny Toons.  It was this villain he wanted.
	Fifi was sitting alone, opening a bottle of grape juice she brought with her. 
After pulling out the cork, she smelled the fragrance of the juice.  "Not ze best
vintage, but it will do." Fifi said happily.  She then poured the juice into the
champagne glass and sipped at it happily.
	"Excuse me." Jeffrey said as he tapped Fifi on the shoulder.
	Fifi was caught by surprise.  In response, she did a wild take where she
spit out the grape juice with her eyes opening wide.  She recovered her
composure and looked to the wolf.
	"I know I didn't introduce myself earlier.  My name in Jeffrey Wolf.  I'm
supposed to be Mortimer's new villain." Jeffrey said politely.
	"What do vou want?!" Fifi demanded.  She remembered Jeffrey all to well
and was not too pleased to see him.  She even began to emit the fowl odor all
skunks had when they got agitated.
	"Listen Fifi.  I know your not to pleased to see me.  But I need your help."
Jeffrey said.
	"What?" Fifi asked.  She calmed down a little from her stance.
	"I need advice on becoming a good villain.  Since you were the Prankster,
I figured I could ask you if you could tell me the secrets behind the Prankster. 
How you came up with such tricks." Jeffrey said politely.  Unfortunately, he did
not realize the mistake he just made.
	"Ze Prankster is no more!" Fifi shouted in Jeffrey's face.
	"Please instruct me." Jeffrey begged.
	Fifi lost all sense of sanity she had and grabbed her tail as if it was a gun
ready to go off.
	"Uh-oh!" Jeffrey said and ran away as fast as he could.  He stopped in
front of the cafeteria counter that served the Mystery Meat and looked back at
Fifi.
	Fifi growled and launched a single blast of skunk spray in his direction. 
She tumbled over the table when she let loose her spray.
	Jeffrey saw it coming and immediately ducked to the floor to dodge the
spray.  The spray zoomed over his head and went into the kitchen where the
mystery meat was made.  The kitchen was engulfed in a foul odor.  Every kid
around the area, and kitchen staff members, evacuated the area.
	Buster, Babs, and Plucky had been sitting at another table when Fifi had
launched her attack.  They didn't even realize what had happened until the kitchen
had exploded, followed by a series of screams.
	"Whoa!" Plucky said in surprise when he heard the explosion and turned
to its direction.
	"Someone sure doesn't like the mystery meat." Babs said.
	"I'll say.  They blew up the kitchen where the meat is made." Buster said.
	"Not with a regular bomb either." Plucky said when he detected a fowl
odor in the air.
	"A stink bomb." Buster said as he held his nose.
	"And I thought the mystery meat stunk bad enough." Plucky moaned.
	"No.  I think someone made Fifi angry." Babs said after looking around at
the rest of the cafeteria.
	"Why do you say that?" Buster said.
	"Call it a wild hunch." Babs said as she pointed to the entrance of the
cafeteria.
	At the entrance, Foghorn Leghorn was leading Fifi to the principle's office. 
Fifi held her head low.  The end of her tail had its hair standing on end from the
launched attack.
	"Why do I get the feeling that Jeffrey Wolf is involved." Buster said.
	"I sure wouldn't be surprised.  But what about Fifi?" Babs asked.

	Fifi stood and looked up at Bugs.  Bugs was reading the report Foghorn
Leghorn made on the incident.  Bugs then looked at the damages caused by the
skunk spray.  As Fifi watched Bugs sift through the reports, she felt as if she was
three inches tall.  Her body would have shrunk if Fifi had not done her best to
retain her composure.
	"So what's your account on this, kid?" Bugs asked as he continued to look
over the report.
	"I am sorry, Monsieur Bugs.  I, 'ow vou say, lost my temper." Fifi said.
	Bugs looked away from the papers and looked down at Fifi.  "You never
lost it before." Bugs said.
	"Oui." Fifi admitted.
	"Do you wish to explain, doc." Bugs asked.
	Fifi stood silent for a few minutes.  She did not know if it was a good idea
to tell Bugs that Jeffrey Wolf was trying to learn about the Prankster from her.  It
would complicate matters by bringing back the subject on the Prankster.  All that
time spent on hiding the information on the Prankster would be in vain if people
began to recall the subject.  "No." Fifi moaned.
	Bugs could tell she was holding something back.  "Well.  If that's the case,
I guess we'll have to find some suitable punishment." Bugs said.
	"Le sigh." Fifi said.
	"Since this is your first offense, and the fact that the mystery meat already
stunk, I want you to report to one hour detention after school.  I won't put this in
your record." Bugs said.
	"Merci." Fifi said.  She had gotten off lightly to her surprise.

	Fortunately, the word on Fifi's involvement on the cafeteria explosion
never got around.  The students only could surmise that someone didn't like the
mystery meat and placed a stink bomb in the cafeteria.  This false story had been
spread by Plucky since Plucky was the king at spreading rumors in the school.
	"Well, we saved Fifi's reputation." Babs said with relief.  She and Buster
stood outside of the school as the school day ended.
	"Where is she now?" Buster asked.
	"Bugs told me he sent her to detention for a hour." Babs said.
	Plucky then came walking up to the two rabbits.  "All right.  I spread the
rumor.  Where's my money." Plucky demanded as he held out his hand.
	Buster dug into his shirt pocket and produced a quarter and handed it to
Plucky.  "Here you go, Plucky." Buster said.
	Plucky jumped in the air and cheered.  "Finally!  Money for me!" Plucky
shouted.
	"All right.  Just keep your mouth shut." Buster said.
"Say, I should make a business out of this." Plucky said as he walked away.
	"Its good thing that Plucky is easily bought." Babs said.
	"Yeah.  But what do we do about Jeffrey." Buster asked.
	"I say we should schedule a small talk with him." Babs said.

	As the school began to close up, a single student figure still roamed the
halls of the school.  Secretly hidden in the darkness of the hall, the figure made
his way to the library.  He found the library locked closed, but this did not hinder
the figure at all.  Within minutes, he managed to pick the lock of the library door. 
Inside, the room was covered in darkness.  The figure did not dare turn on the
lights of the room in fear he would attract some unwanted attention.  He made his
way to the computer that Bookworm used.  It was the only computer in the school
that could display all school records the teachers made.  "At last." the figure said
as he typed in a single word.
	The computer came to life.  On its screen flashed a number of images
before finally stopping on a single picture.  The picture was that of the Prankster.
	"Bingo!" the figure said.  He then tried to get all the information he could
on the Prankster.
	"Access Denied!" a computer voice said.
	The figure growled and realized that Bugs would never want to make it
easy to access this file.  Fortunately he was familiar with the software that the
Acme Looniversity worked under.  The software was one month old, making it
obsolete in today's time.  He immediately keyed in a number of keystrokes on the
computer.
	"Access Granted!" the computer said.
	The figure smiled a wicked smile as he watched the screen come to life,
showing the reports on how the Prankster conducted his business.  As the figure
looked at the reports, he realized that the Prankster was more complicated then he
seemed.  Three teachers had funded and arranged all activities the Prankster was
in.  The Prankster just carried out the various jobs.
	One major problem to overcome was the list of materials he needed to
make the Prankster return to life.  Some of the things he needed was the outfit,
voice modulator, and a bag of tricks.  The last item on the list would be the
hardest to get, the book Sam had given Fifi to use in creating the Prankster.  The
book contained all the dirty tricks the Prankster had used.  However, the location
of that book remained secret.  Only one person knew where the book was, and the
figure doubted that Fifi would tell the location of the book.  He needed that book
if he wanted to fulfill his role.
	However, the Prankster did find a list of pranks that the Prankster had
used in the school.  But the list was only half-complete.  The book was what he
needed.  For now, he would use some of the old tricks the Prankster used.  As for
funding, he knew exactly who to turn to.  Silently he laughed as he began to print
out all the information on the computer.  The Prankster would finally return.

	Max yawned as he made his way to his bed.  It had been another long day
for him.  He had just dispatched another Rent-a-Friend in a game of Cowboys and
Indians.  Of course, Max had used a whole assortment of military equipment,
such as tanks, helicopters, and boats to hunt down his Rent-a-Friend, who was
only armed with a suction cupped bow and arrow.  It had proven to be a
interesting chase.  It was also becoming more expensive for him to rent a friend
from the company, but for this case, it was worth it.
	Max settled down on his bed and began to get under his sheets for a well-
deserved sleep.  He curled his arms around a bag of money that was on his bed. 
"The end of another fun day." Max said to himself.  Max then noticed a dark
shadow appear over him.  Quickly he got up and looked to the source of the
shadow to see a dark figure in a black outfit.  "Hey!  What are you doing here?!"
Max demanded.  He pulled out a water pistol from under his covers.
	"Oh please.  I came here to ask for a favor from you." the figure said.
	"I don't do favors unless money is involved!" Max answered.  Max then
reached over for a flashlight and shined it on the figure.  "You!  But it can't be!"
Max said surprised.
	The light shown on a figure dressed in the same kind of clothes that Fifi
wore when she played as the Prankster.  "It is." the figure said.
	"Get out of here you crazy skunk!" Max shouted as he got out of the bed
and walked up to the figure, ready to pick a fight.
	WHAM!  Max was flattened with a surprised look on his face.  He starred
up to the Prankster who was holding a mallet.  "That does it!" Max shouted when
he popped back to normal and charged the figure.
	The figure then pulled out a remote control and pressed the single button
on it.  From out of nowhere, an anvil appeared and came crashing down on Max. 
Max had to pull himself out from under the anvil before he was able to recover.
	"Are you finished!" the figure asked as he held a bomb with a lit match
just inches from the fuse.
	"You can't do this to me!  I'm rich!  I'm a Republican!  I know your name,
you stink bomb!" Max shouted.
	"I am not Fifi LaFume!  Do I sound like I have a French accent!" the figure
shouted back.
	"What?" Max said confused.  It took him a moment to realize that the
figure was right.  Fifi did have a bad accent.  This person spoke with clear
English.  "Who are you?" Max asked.
	"The new, improved Prankster." the figure said.
	Max began to shake slightly.  The last time he faced the Prankster, he was
made the laughing stock of the Looniversity for a while.  This new Prankster
seemed slightly more dangerous.  "What do you want?" Max asked.
	"You and I have a common enemy named Buster Bunny." the Prankster
said.
	"What about it?" Max demanded.
	"You want to see Buster made a loser?  If you fund me, I'll humiliate that
rabbit and his friends." the Prankster explained.
	Max became slightly interested in the proposal and was willing to go with
it.  But Max knew that there was always a catch to every deal, since he suckered
most people into such proposals.  "What's the catch?!  What do you get out of it?!"
Max demanded.
	"Let's just say that I want Buster and his friends to loose their self
confidence like they did when Fifi had taken this role.  Nothing more." the
Prankster said.
	"So you to want revenge on Buster." Max said.
	"You get me everything Fifi used, and Buster will never want to show his
face in class again." the Prankster said.
	"As long as no prank is played on me and you show results, I'll give you
what you need." Max said.

	The next day at school, Buster and Babs got together before classes began. 
Their goal was to find Jeffrey Wolf and ask him some questions.  For several
minutes, they wandered the halls until they found Jeffrey Wolf standing in front
of his locker.
	"Hey Jeffrey!" Buster called out.
	Jeffrey looked toward Buster and Babs and began to walk in the opposite
direction.
	"Hey!" Babs shouted.
	Jeffrey began to start to run.
	"Hold on there!" Babs shouted.  She then did a quick change into a
cowboy.  "We're roping you in!" Babs said as she twirled a lasso over her head. 
She then threw it toward the wolf.  The rope looped around Jeffrey's waist.  Babs
then yanked him back to her.
	"What's the deal of getting Fifi in trouble!" Buster demanded as Jeffrey
landed next to Buster and Babs.
	Jeffrey looked to both the rabbits but said nothing.  Instead, he tried to
struggle out of the ropes he was tied in.
	"Answer the question you varmint!" Babs said, still impersonating a
cowboy.
	"Buster!  Babs!  What's going on here?!"
	Buster and Babs turned around to see Bugs Bunny standing behind them,
looking angrily down at both of them.
	"You know you have to treat new students with respect.  I suggest you
release him." Bugs said.
	"But-" Buster began.
	"No buts." Bugs said.
	Babs then began to untie Jeffrey from her lasso.  As soon as she did,
Jeffrey ran as fast as he could down the hall.
	"Explain yourself." Bugs said.
	"Sorry Bugs.  Its just that we needed to ask him a few questions." Buster
explained.
	"These better be some good questions." Bugs replied.
	"Well, we think he was responsible for making Fifi lose her temper the
other day.  He was asking a lot of sensitive questions concerning Fifi's past." Babs
said.
	"Like what?" Bugs asked.
	"Her old identity you gave her last semester." Buster said.
	"The Prankster?!" Bugs said.
	"Yeah.  He brought it up on the tour when he first met Fifi." Babs said.
	"I don't care.  You know the rules.  We have to treat new kids with respect. 
Besides, I doubt that we'll have to worry about him taking the Prankster's role.  Its
impossible." Bugs said and then walked off.
	"Only trouble is that Acme makes the impossible, possible." Buster
moaned.
	"And Acme Looniversity is one such branch of Acme." Babs moaned.

	The lunch bell finally rang on that day.  For some, it seemed like a
eternity.  Plucky ran through the halls with the rest of the students to get his
lunch.  "At last!  I can escape from Elmer Fudds class!" Plucky laughed madly as
he opened his locker.  Elmer had driven him to the point of insanity with his
boring lecture.  As soon as Plucky opened his locker, a time bomb dropped out in
front of him.  On it was a note that said "From the Prankster".
	"Not again!" Plucky shouted as he jumped in surprise.
	BOOM!  When the smoke cleared, Plucky stood angrily in front of his
locker.  His body had been blackened and his beak lay on the floor.  He picked up
his beak and placed it back on his face.  "Fifi LaFume!  This means war!" Plucky
shouted as he dashed to the cafeteria.

	Buster walked to lunch with the new student, Ralph Raccoon.  From what
Buster could tell about the raccoon, Ralph was like Dizzy in many ways when he
got excited, but also had a sensitive side when he was calm.
	"So what made you join Acme?" Buster asked.
	"I always wanted a wild and crazy role to play.  I love to party!" Ralph
shouted.
	Buster slapped a hand on Ralph's mouth.  "First lesson in Acme
Looniversity.  Never say party." Buster whispered.
	"Huh?" Ralph said behind Buster's hand.
	Buster made a quick glance around the hall.  Once he felt it was safe he
removed his hand.  "If Dizzy had heard you, we would be in trouble." Buster said. 
He and Ralph then walked to the cafeteria.  Buster led Ralph to the table that
Babs, Fifi, Shirley, Hamton, and one of the new transfer students, Lucy Swan, sat
at.
	"Hey Buster!  Join our group!" Babs called out.
	"Hey guys!" Buster said as he and Ralph sat down.
	"Buster, me and the girls are getting together later today.  We were
wondering if you and Ralph would be interested in coming?" Babs asked.
	"Like, were planning to attend a new amusement park that came in last
night." Shirley said.
	"Oui.  It should be fun."  Fifi said.
	"All right by me." Buster said.
	"I love to party!" Ralph said.
	"Ralph!" Buster shouted.
	"Oops." Ralph said, but it was to late.
	Immediately the room began to shake as if it was in a earthquake.
	"Oh no." Buster said.
	The cafeteria doors then burst open as Dizzy Devil burst into the room
spinning and shouting in his native language.  "PARTY!  PARTY!" Dizzy shouted
once he stopped spinning.  He then pulled out a giant Boom Box and slammed it
on the table.  Music began to blast out of the speakers, sending some toons flying. 
Dizzy then went around the room, trying to get people into a party mood and
causing mischief.  Within minutes, the cafeteria had become a disaster area.
	Buster and his friends stood in the corner of the room as the room became
chaotic.  "Hamton.  Get the rope out.  We got to calm Dizzy down before one of
the teachers sees this." Buster said.
	"Got it!" Hamton said as he handed Buster the rope.
	Buster then ran after Dizzy with Hamton close behind.  Buster quickly
made a lasso from the rope and twirled it over his head.  He then threw it around
Dizzy, who was spinning around in the center of the room.  "I got him!" Buster
shouted when he saw the rope loop around Dizzy.  He was then pulled off his feet
as Dizzy continued to move about the room.  When Hamton saw this, he went
after Buster.  The students, who stood against the walls of the cafeteria, laughed
as Buster was twirled around the room by Dizzy, who was still spinning.
	"Should we help him?" Lucy Swan asked as she watched.
	"No.  Buster will eventually get Dizzy calmed down.  This is not the first
time." Babs laughed.
	"How often does this happen." Lucy asked.
	"Typical school day.  You'll get used to it." Babs replied.
	Fifi laughed uncontrollably as she watched her two friends wrestle with
Dizzy.
	"Hey Fifi!"
	Fifi turned around to see Plucky standing a few feet from her.  In his hand
he held a lump of Mystery Meat.  "I challenge you!" Plucky shouted angrily.
	"Ze French never back down!" Fifi said patriotically, finding Plucky's
challenge a game instead of a fight like Plucky wanted.
	Plucky threw the meat at Fifi.  Fifi quickly ducked the attack.   The meat
flew straight over her head and landed on Shirley.
	"Plucky!" Shirley growled.  She then summoned her powers to gather
several lumps of Mystery Meat.  The Mystery Meat floated around Shirley as she
focused her sights on Plucky.
	"Uh-oh!" Plucky said.
	Shirley launched the Mystery Meat at Plucky.  Plucky ran and ducked
behind a table as the meat tried to target him.  The meat missed him by inches
and landed on a few students on the other end of the cafeteria.
	"Food fight!" Ralph shouted as threw some of the mystery meat..
	Within seconds, the students were running around the room throwing
mystery meat at each other.  There was even a case where Ralph and brought out
a cannon that shot out giant globs of mystery meat.  What had once had started as
a normal day in the cafeteria, had turned into the wildest food fight ever.
	"Is this normal?" Lucy asked behind Babs back to dodge the flying meat.
	"Yeah!  A food fight always breaks out once in a while!" Babs said as she
threw a piece of meat at one of her victims.
	A large lump of meat then hit Lucy in the head.  Lucy rubbed the stuff off
and looked at the student who threw the meat at her.  "Well what are you waiting
for?!  Give me some meat to throw!" Lucy shouted.
	For several minutes, the food fight continued on.  As it did, Foghorn
Leghorn heard the commotion and decided to investigate.  "What, I say, what is
going on in there?!" Foghorn said as he made his way to the cafeteria.  Just as he
reached the door, the bell that sounded the end of lunch rang.  The students
charged out the door, running over Foghorn.  Foghorn sat up once the students
had ran him over. He looked bruised and blistered.  "Someone call the hospital,
trauma unit that is." Foghorn moaned before collapsing on the ground.

	The school never found out what exactly happened in the cafeteria.  The
teachers had been stumped by the students' reports on what happened.  The entire
incident was placed in the records as a freak accident.  Fortunately, the rest of the
day went without incident.  After school, Fifi, Babs and Shirley walked out of
school.  They were laughing over the entire incident at the cafeteria.
	"Poor Buster.  Like, he sure got the ride of his life." Shirley laughed with
her friends.
	"What about Fifi's answer to Plucky's challenge?  Now that really got
things going.  How did it go, Fifi?" Babs asked Fifi.
	"'Ze French never back down!', which ees true." Fifi laughed.
	"Like what ever got into that duck?" Shirley asked.
	"I don't know?" Babs said.
	She and her friends then continued to walk through Acme Park.  As they
did, Plucky spotted them and made his way up to Fifi.  "We have some unfinished
business, Fifi!" Plucky shouted.
	"What are vou talking about?" Fifi asked happily.
	"You placed that time bomb in my locker!" Plucky said.
	"Like, what time bomb?" Shirley asked.
	"Oh!  Like you didn't know!  Your stinky friend did her little prank that
she did when she started her role as the Prankster!" Plucky shouted.
	"I did not!" Fifi shouted back.
	"Plucky.  Fifi quit that role.  She would never do that." Babs said.
	"Yeah right!  Let's see what happens when you see she has taken up her
old role as the Prankster!" Plucky said and then stormed off.
	Babs and Shirley looked at each other in puzzlement.  They then looked to
Fifi, who only shrugged in puzzlement.

	"And Fifi doesn't know what's going on?" Buster said over the phone with
Babs.
	"Nope.  She says she never did anything like that." Babs said.
	Buster felt a little uncomfortable with the subject.  What Plucky said was
very suspicious.  He had to admit that Plucky wasn't trustworthy, and also noted
how a lot of people would enjoy watching Plucky getting blown up.  Still, it
sounded like what Fifi did to Plucky when she first assumed the role.  It was also
too much of a coincidence that it also happened when the Prankster issue was
brought to the surface again.  "This is strange.  We better keep our eyes open."
Buster said.
	"You're not thinking Fifi resumed her role, are you?" Babs asked.
	"I don't know what to think.  The truth is, anyone could take the role as the
Prankster." Buster admitted.
	"Well, I'll talk with Fifi.  Maybe I can find something out from her." Babs
said.
	"Good idea.  She knows the Prankster character better then anyone."
Buster said.
	"I just hope this was a random event.  I don't want to go through that
Prankster incident again." Babs said.
	"Me neither.  I'm going to go see Plucky.  Bye." Buster said.
	"Bye." Babs said and then hung up.
	
	It took Babs a hour to reach Fifi's house in the city dump.  She casually
walked up to it and knocked on the door.
	Fifi opened the door.  "Bonjour Babs." Fifi said.  She was wearing a blue
robe and had her hair in some curlers.
	"Am I disturbing you?" Babs asked.
	"No.  I was reading ze romance novels again." Fifi explained as she let
Babs enter the house.
	"Don't you ever get tired of those novels?  You never seem to stop reading
them." Babs said.
	"No.  I 'ave always loved ze romantic stories.  I sometimes picture myself
zere." Fifi sighed happily to herself.
	"What about Hamton.  Doesn't he give you enough attention." Babs asked.
	"Oui.  But 'e is not good at ze chase." Fifi said as she looked at a picture of
Hamton and smiled at it.
	"Don't tell me you still chase male skunks." Babs said.
	"Only for ze thrill of ze hunt.  Moi little 'ami can not run fast, but at least
he knows how to treat ze lady skunkette." Fifi laughed.
	Babs laughed as she began to understand what Fifi meant.  If anything, Fifi
loved to pursue men as a small hobby of hers.  It was who she was and what had
gotten her into the Tiny Toon series in the first place.  Babs could only imagine
what it was like if Hamton was in one of Fifi's chase scenes.  Babs then calmed
herself down to address the issue at hand.  "Fifi.  Buster and I are worried about
what Plucky said after school today." Babs said.
	Fifi growled at this.  "Zat duck!  To zink zat I would be ze Prankster
again!" Fifi growled between her teeth.  Lethal fumes began to emerge from Fifi's
tail.
	"Cool down Fifi, before your fumes kill us." Babs said as she covered her
nose.
	Fifi calmed herself down.  "I am sorry." Fifi said.
	"Buster and I are just worried that the Prankster may have returned." Babs
explained, getting back to the subject.
	Fifi looked at her friend stunned.  "I am not ze the Prankster!" Fifi cried. 
A few tears formed in her eyes.
	"And no one says you are.  Buster thinks anyone could take your role as
the Prankster." Babs said.
	Fifi froze and looked surprised at Babs.  "Zat can't be!  It ees impossible!"
Fifi said.
	Babs looked surprised to Fifi's response.  Babs always believed that the
Prankster was just a character put together in a short time.  "Why is that?" Babs
asked.
	Fifi sighed and sat on her couch.  "Ze Prankster ees not easy to make. 
Monsieur Bugs needed help from Monsieur Sam and Coyote.  Sam ees the one
who made me do ze pranks." Fifi said.
	"Still a person can perform the same tricks." Babs said.
	"No." Fifi said.  She then jumped out of her car through one of the
windows.
	"Fifi?" Babs said as she went to the window and looked outside.  She
found Fifi trying to squeeze underneath her car.  Already everything above her
torso was underneath the car.  Her back legs and tail struggled to squeeze her
body further underneath the car.  Babs jumped out of the car and landed next to
Fifi's struggling body.  "What are you doing?" Babs asked.
	Fifi ignored the question and continued to push herself underneath.  "Got
it!" Fifi shouted.  She then struggled to get out.  "Babs!  Pull moi out!" Fifi called
out.
	Babs grabbed Fifi's legs and pulled.  After several attempts, Fifi popped
out from under the car.  The two girls were sent flying into the air.  Fifi landed in
another wrecked car, while Babs fell into a trashcan.  "What are you doing?" Babs
asked as she climbed out of the trashcan.
	Fifi climbed out of the car.  In one hand, she held a book.  "Zis is for vou."
Fifi said as she handed the book to Babs.
	"What is it?" Babs said as she fingered through it.  In it, she found a list of
instructions for traps and pranks.  Babs even noticed that some of the sections had
been highlighted, mainly the pranks that Fifi had performed on the school.
	"Zis ees the book zat Sam gave moi.  I used zis to make all ze traps in ze
Looniversity.  I call it ze Prankster's manual.  Unless someone else 'as ze book, no
one can be ze Prankster." Fifi explained.
	Babs could see that Fifi was right.  In the book was all the low down and
dirty pranks a person could use.  Babs did notice that Fifi had only used the
smallest pranks in the book.  The larger and more complex traps could have
caused some real trouble in school if Fifi had decided to use them.  "Who else has
this book?" Babs asked.
	"Only Monsieur Sam.  Zis ees ze only copy of eet I know." Fifi said.
	"Did you ever intend to use all of these tricks as the old Prankster?" Babs
asked out of curiosity.
	"I have studied and learned zem, but I will not use zem.  Too dangerous."
Fifi said.
	Babs could only wonder what would happen if Max ever acquired the
book.  She and Buster would be in real trouble then.  But now that she had the
book, Babs knew she could stop a future Prankster from emerging.  "Thank you,
Fifi.  Can I use your phone?" Babs asked.
	"Oui." Fifi said.
	Babs rushed back into Fifi's home.  Quickly she picked up the phone and
dialed in Plucky's number.
	"Hello?" Buster said on the other hand.
	"Buster!  I was hoping you were there." Babs said.
	"Like I told you earlier, I would be.  I don't know how much longer at this
rate though." Buster groaned.
	"Plucky?" Babs asked.
	"He is really worried about what happened.  He really thinks the Prankster
is coming back." Buster said.
	"Well he was hit the most by Fifi when she was the Prankster." Babs
laughed.  Babs then noticed Fifi was coming in the car.
	At the other end the line, Buster watched Plucky pace around the room. 
Plucky was trying to figure out a way to get back at Fifi.  Buster had tried several
ways of getting Plucky's mind off the Prankster, with no luck.  "Did you learn
anything from Fifi?" Buster asked.
	"More than you can imagine.  She's right here and is willing to help us."
Babs said.
	"Fifi is with Babs?!  Give me that phone!" Plucky demanded.  He then
snatched the phone from Buster.  "Listen here, Babs!  Tell that stink bomb that
she will not get away with this!" Plucky shouted.
	"What?!" said a faint voice with a accent on the other end of the line. 
There was a struggle on Babs and Fifi's end.  "Zat ees ze worst insult I will stand
from vou, Pluvky!" Fifi said on the phone after the struggle ended.
	"Plucky.  I suggest you get off the phone." Buster said calmly.
	"Why?  Its not like she can spray me over the line." Plucky said to Buster. 
The receiver then emitted a terrible odor.  The odor hit Plucky directly in the face,
turning his body white and freezing all his movements.
	"Actually, she can." Buster said to Plucky as he pulled the phone from the
frozen duck.  "Fifi.  Its Buster, so hold the chemical warfare." Buster said.
	"Bonjour Buster.  Did Plucky get moi response?" Fifi demanded.
	"Oh yeah.  Lets just forget all hostilities for now.  Fifi, what can you tell us
about the Prankster?" Buster asked.
	"Babs and I will come to the school with what vou need to stop ze
Prankster, tomorrow." Fifi explained.
	"All right.  I'll bring Plucky as well.  Hopefully I can convince him to think
more clearly." Buster said.
	Fifi groaned on the line.  "Very well." she said after a long pause.
	"See ya guys later."  Buster said as he hung up the line.  He then turned to
Plucky.  "Now let's see what we can do to calm you down." Buster said.

	As Max stood on the bridge and looked at the tunnel that led to
Wackyland, he felt hesitant about entering the realm, but he needed to purchase
supplies from Go-Go.  As Max entered the tunnel, he noticed a sign to his right. 
"Ten million nuts and one happy squirrel?" Max read in confusion.  He was now
beginning to question if it would have been better if he let his butler do this job.
	As Max continued on through the tunnel, he began to sense no pressure
from the ground as he walked.  "Oh-no." Max whimpered.  He put one hand down
and searched for the ground, but felt nothing.  He then made the mistake of
looking down.  The next second, he found himself plummeting down a mile drop
and crashing on the ground.  "I knew this was a bad idea." Max groaned to
himself.
	A giant mouth then appeared in front of him.   "Welcome to Wackyland!"
the mouth boomed, and disappeared.
	Max got up and looked around.  Nothing he saw made sense.  What
should be there, wasn't.  What should not be in a certain place, was.  It was the
standard rule of Wackyland, there are no rules.  "Go-Go!  I want to talk to you! 
Show yourself!" Max shouted.
	A giant door then formed from the ground twenty feet from Max.  The
door was at least forty feet high and twenty feet wide.
	"Presenting the Dodo!" a voice boomed.
	The door opened the next second.  From it flew a jet that climbed into the
sky.  At the controls was Go-Go.  "Taking her to five thousand feet!  Bombs
away!" Go-Go shouted on the radio.  The bomb doors then opened underneath the
cockpit.  What dropped out was Go-Go in the shape of a bomb.  Go-Go fell
straight to Max's position.
	"Look out!" Max shouted as he jumped to one side.
	Go-Go crashed to the ground and exploded.  When the smoke cleared, he
was standing proudly.  An unknown applause was heard, but had no source.  Go-
Go took a few bows and then motioned for the applause to stop.  He then turned
to Max.  "Welcome to Wackyland!  You've come to join the club?" Go-Go asked.
	"What club?" Max asked.
	"My golf club." Go-Go said, pointing behind Max.
	Max turned to see a giant golf club behind him.  The next second, Max
was sent flying as the golf club struck him from behind.  Max flew into a giant
floating platform in the shape of a "1".  His body had smashed through the bottom
of the platform and came out through the top.  "Go-Go!" Max shouted angrily.
	Go-Go appeared out of nowhere and began to examine the hole that Max
created when he crashed through the platform.  "What do you know, a hole in
one.  I'll have to play you again." Go-Go said.
	"Listen you!  I want to talk to you!" Max shouted.
	"Fine.  Just don't loose your shirt." Go-Go said.
	Suddenly, Max realized that his shirt had ripped off his body by some
unknown force.  "What?!" he said in surprise.
	"I told you not to loose your shirt.  Just don't loose your pants as well." Go-
Go said.
	Max held onto his pants before the same force that ripped off his shirt
could get his pants.  "Let's get to the point.  I need you to get me some
equipment." Max said.  He then produced a list of things he needed from his pants
pocket.
	Go-Go took the list and examined it.  His body shifted into several weird
positions as he looked at the items.  "Okay.  It will be twelve bucks." Go-Go said.
	Max growled angrily and handed Go-Go a twenty dollar bill.  "There. 
Now where's the stuff." Max demanded.  Max then felt the land rumble.  A crate
popped up from right beneath him the next second.  Max looked down in the crate
in confusion.
	"And for ordering now, you also get our special bonus set!" Go-Go
shouted as a commercial announcer.
	A second crate then came crashing down on the first crate.  Max was
flattened between the two crates.  His body slipped out from between the two
crates and popped back to normal.  "Hey!  Where's my change?!  I gave you a
twenty!  I want eight bucks in return!" Max said.
	"Oh very well." Go-Go said.  He then whistled.
	From the distance, eight reindeer, all Bucks, came charging up from
nowhere.  Each wore a pair of reigns that had each reindeer's name printed on it. 
The reindeer's names were the same as Santa's reindeer.
	"No!" Max screamed as the deer ran right over him.  After the stampede,
Max sat up.  His body was broken and covered in dirt.  He shook himself back to
normal.  "I got to get out of here!" Max shouted.  Unfortunately, he knew that he
had to exit Wackyland by a different route then the one he entered.
	"Don't forget the bucks!" Go-Go said.
	"You can keep the stinking deer!" Max said angrily as he looked for an
exit.  	Suddenly, one of the deer charged him and rammed him from behind. 
Max was sent flying back through the tunnel he came through.  He crash-landed
at the entrance to the bridge that led to Wackyland.  "Hey!  Where's my stuff?!"
Max demanded.
	The two crates that Go-Go had given to him came crashing down on top of
him.
	"This better be worth it." Max moaned from under the crates.

	Babs walked down the halls with Fifi behind her.  In her hands was the
book that Fifi gave her.  Babs then noticed that Fifi was holding her tail.  "Why
you holding your tail?" Babs asked.
	"Just een case we 'ave trouble." Fifi said.  She began to seriously wonder if
it was a good idea to show the book to Babs and the others.
	"Hey Babs!  What you got there." Buster asked when he saw the book.
	"The guide to stopping a Prankster, assuming there is a Prankster." Babs
said.
	"Oui.  Zis book has all ze tricks I used." Fifi said.
	"I bet." Plucky groaned.
	Fifi eyed Plucky angrily and wanted to attack the duck.  But she held
herself back so she could explain how the book could work for Buster and Babs.
	"Quiet Plucky." Buster said.
	Fifi then took the book from Babs.  "First, let us see if one ze lockers has a
trap on it." Fifi said.
	"Okay." Babs said.  The group then proceeded to look at each of their
lockers to see if a trap was in one of them.

	Just down the hall, at approximately the same time, Max watched the halls
as the Prankster rigged a trap.  The Prankster was dressed in his ninja outfit
rigging Buster's locker to shoot out rotten apple pies as soon as Buster opened it. 
Once these pies hit Buster, he would stink for a day at least.
	"Are you sure this will work?" Max asked the Prankster.
	"We'll just sit back and watch the fun from the janitor's closet." the
Prankster said.  The pitch of his voice was higher then his usual tone because he
wore a voice modulator like the one Fifi had.  In fact, it was one of two voice
modulator's Max managed to salvage from the original Prankster incident. 
"Done!" the Prankster laughed.  He then led Max into a janitor's closet to watch
the fun with him.  "This should teach Buster a thing or two." the Prankster
laughed madly.
	Buster and his friends came up to Buster's locker.  As Max watched them,
he laughed silently as to how he would not only see Buster hit, but Babs as well if
she stood in the right position.
	"Well Fifi.  Here's my locker." Buster said.
	Fifi nodded and then began to look over the front of the locker.  She then
spotted a small piece of tape at the bottom of the locker door that had a thin wire
attached to it.  She then began to sniff the locker.  "Oui.  Zis one ees a trap." Fifi
said.
	Inside the janitor's closet, Max and the Prankster stood surprised.
	Fifi then pulled out the book and flipped through the various pages until
she found the trap.  She knew exactly what she was looking for.  Within seconds
she read the procedure for destroying the trap in case of emergencies.  Slowly,
with a steady hand, Fifi cut the tape holding the wire.  "Zat's it.  Open it." Fifi
cheered.
	Buster was somewhat hesitant, but slowly dialed in his combination.  He
took one last glance at Fifi and opened his locker.  As soon as he did, he rushed
behind the locker door.  When he looked over the door, he saw the trap had not
been sprung.  The only danger was a foul odor coming from a pie.
	"Whoa!  If that had gone off, Buster would have stunk for the rest of the
day." Babs said.
	Fifi reached in and removed the trap.  "Oui.  Zis ees the first prank I used."
Fifi said.
	Babs looked at the pie and saw a letter in the pie.  "What's this?" Babs said
as she yanked it out.  "Compliments of the Prankster." Babs read.
	"I told you there was a Prankster!  Its Fifi!" Plucky shouted.
	Everyone looked at Plucky.  Even Fifi had a good mind to throw the pie at
him.
	"Plucky, Fifi just saved Buster." Babs said.
	"Oh, yeah." Plucky mumbled.
	"I guess my locker is next." Babs said.  She and her friends then headed
for the locker.
	Max growled deeply and looked toward the Prankster.  "You said it would
work!" Max shouted.
	"They have the book." the Prankster said.
	"What book?" Max demanded.
	"A list of all pranks Fifi used when she was the Prankster.  I need that
book.  Don't worry.  The job isn't over yet." the Prankster said.

	Buster and his friends checked each of their lockers, as well as Shirley's
and Hamton's locker.  Not only did they find a trap on Buster's, but also Plucky's
and Hamton's.  Like before, Fifi found the traps on the locker and disassembled
the trap.  They discovered that those traps also had letters saying the Prankster
returned.  Plucky's was the last locker to be checked.
	"Zat's all of yours." Fifi said.
	"Yeah.  But what about the rest of the students?" Buster asked.
	"We better tell Bugs.  He'll know what to do." Babs said as she held the
three letters that came with the traps.  Together they walked to the Principle's
office, except Plucky.
	Plucky stayed back and grabbed Fifi by the arm.  "Listen Fifi.  I really
want to apologize for what I said." Plucky said, in what was almost a whisper.
	"Vou do?" Fifi said, surprised.
	"Yeah.  I was acting like a-" Plucky began.
	"Fool?" Fifi said to fill the void.
	"Yeah.  I was also being-"Plucky tried to search for a word.
	"Arrogant" Fifi replied.
	"All right!  Don't rub it in!" Plucky shouted.
	Fifi laughed.  She was glad that Plucky was willing to apologize to her. 
She began to see, for the first time, Plucky's humble side.  To her knowledge, only
Hamton and Buster had seen this side of Plucky.  "Apology accepted." Fifi said. 
She and Plucky then ran up to catch up with the others.
	The group reached the principle's office, only to find themselves out of
luck.  The door to Bug's office was locked.  Only a note was on the class door. 
Buster ripped the note off and read it.
	"Is he sick?" Babs asked.
	"No.  Coffee break." Buster said.
	"Terrific!  Now what do we do?" Plucky asked.
	"I guess that leaves us." Babs said.
	"Us?  Hold on there.  The last time I helped you guys, I got chased out of
the school." Plucky said.
	"Don't worry, Plucky.  We got the strategy guide to winning this battle."
Buster said, holding out the book of pranks.
	Babs then heard a strange sound coming toward them.  She looked down
the hall and saw a sight she could not describe.  "What is that?" Babs asked
Buster, pointing in the direction.
	Buster looked down the hall to the area Babs pointed.  "The Prankster?"
Buster said in surprise.
	"On a flying banana?" Plucky said.
	Coming right to them was the Prankster.  He was riding on top of a giant
flying banana at incredible speeds.  The banana had to be at least ten feet long. 
The banana soared right to where Buster was standing and just stopped.  "I'll take
that!" the Prankster laughed in the high pitch voice.  He then grabbed the book
Buster was holding on to.  Once the Prankster had the book, he clicked his heels
against the side of the banana and was riding down the halls again.
	"I've heard of banana splits, but a banana splitting?" Plucky said.
	"Talk about a slippery escape." Babs said.
	"Ze Prankster has ze book!" Fifi screamed.
	"Get him!" Buster shouted as he led the charge.
	The toons chased after the banana, just a few feet behind.  The group
zipped through the halls past bewildered students.  The dark figure laughed wildly
as he zoomed by each of them.
	"Fifi!  Take him out!" Buster shouted.
	"Oui!" Fifi said.  She then grabbed her tail and held it like a gun.  She took
careful aim and then let out a shot of skunk spray.
	The skunk spray hit the back of the banana and spread out across its
surface.  The banana then began to slow down and stop.  The Prankster looked
down at the banana in confusion.  His ride then fell to the floor and rotted away. 
"What a rotten predicament." the Prankster said.  He then started to run by foot.
	Fifi took careful aim with her tail again.  She smiled a vicious smile as the
Prankster was locked in her sights.  She then fired her skunk spray at the
Prankster.  This time the concentration of the spray was ten times stronger.
	The Prankster looked behind and saw the spray heading right toward him. 
It seemed as if the spray would hit the Prankster.  Even the Prankster thought he
would be hit.
	"What in tarnation is going on here?!" Yosemite Sam shouted as he
stepped into the hallway.
	What happened next was disaster.  The Prankster managed to jump over
the bewildered Sam and continue running.  Sam watched in surprise as he saw the
dark figure.
	"What are you doing, you varmint!" Sam shouted, thinking it was Fifi.
	"Duck, Sam!" Fifi screamed.
	"Fifi?" Sam looked in the opposite direction.  When he did, he saw a blast
of skunk spray heading right at him.   Sam never had a chance to move.  The
spray hit him in the stomach at full force and completely covered him.  He was
sent flying back fifteen feet, flipping end over end until he finally landed on his
back.  He did not move after that.  Fumes rose off of his body.
	"No!" Fifi screamed as she and others rushed to where Sam had fallen.
	The Prankster laughed at just what happened.  He then pulled out a zipper
from his pocket and placed it on a nearby wall.  He unzipped the wall, creating a
new opening, which he entered.  "The Prankster lives!" he said and zipped the
wall closed.
	"He got away!" Buster shouted.
	"What about Sam?" Babs asked as she looked at Sam's body.  She and the
others, except Fifi, held their noses as they looked over Sam.
	"Ees 'e all right?" Fifi asked as she kneeled by his side.
	"I don't know?" Plucky said.  He then knocked on Sam's nose.  Sam's body
crumbled to pieces the next second like a stone statue.  "He could be better."
Plucky said.
	"We better get him to the nurse's office." Buster said.  He then ran to a
nearby janitor's closet and got a broom and dustpan to pick up the remains.

	"He'll be okay.  This is a common condition that was seen in a lot of Pepe
Le Pew cartoons." Granny said after examining the remains in the nurse's office.
	"Can you put him back together?" Buster asked.  He and Fifi were the only
ones in the room at the time since the others had to get to class.
	"Not right away." Granny said as she placed the pieces of Sam into a glass
container that was the size of a wastebasket.  "I'll have to take him to
Decontamination first." Granny said as she quickly sealed the lid.  Granny then
took the container into another room to begin the process of putting Sam back
together.
	"Zis ees all moi fault." Fifi cried.
	"No it isn't Fifi.  You almost had the Prankster." Buster said.
	"I should never agreed to take ze role!" Fifi sobbed.
	Buster found himself at a loss for words.  He had to admit that everyone's
life would have been slightly easier if she did not become the Prankster.  But if
she didn't, Bugs would have found someone else to take the role.  "Let's get you
back to class." Buster said after a long pause.  He placed a supportive arm around
the skunk and began to lead the way.
	"What about ze Prankster?" Fifi asked.
	"We just have to see." Buster said.

	The end of the day came without further incident by the Prankster.  Fifi
took some comfort in that small fact as she walked home from school.  However,
she knew that after that day, this new Prankster would appear and cause severe
trouble for the school.  Fifi could only wonder what would happen as she walked
down the steps of Acme Looniversity.
	"Fifi!" called a familiar voice.
	Fifi turned around to see Hamton running toward her.
	"Fifi.  I heard what happened.  Are you okay?" Hamton said.
	"Oui." Fifi groaned.
	Hamton did not buy it.  He had known Fifi to long to know that she was
trying to hide her feelings.  He could see how worried she was.  "Let me walk you
home." Hamton said.
	"Merci, Hamton." Fifi said as she placed her hand in Hamton's.  Together,
the two of them walked to the Acme Dump, where Fifi lived.
	"Is there anything I can do to help you?" Hamton asked.
	"No Hamton.  Zis ees moi problem.  I must, how vou say, face it." Fifi
replied.
	Hamton could tell Fifi was really worried.  Unless she told him what to
do, Hamton did not know how to handle the situation.  He never knew how to
respond to the first Prankster.  Of course, Fifi, never played a prank on him when
she took the role.  Fifi just placed pies in his locker for him to eat.  But now that a
new Prankster was created, Hamton didn't know what to expect.
	Hamton led Fifi straight to the Pink Cadillac at the center of the dump and
opened the door for her.
	"Merci, Hamton." Fifi smiled as she entered her home.
"Listen Fifi.  I know this comes at a bad time, but I was wondering if you were -
aah." Hamton began but began to choke on the words.
	Fifi gave a small smile of pleasure.  She knew Hamton was trying to ask
her to the upcoming prom.  Unfortunately, Hamton always got nervous when he
tried to ask her out.  "Oui.  I would." Fifi whispered.
	"You would?!" Hamton jumped excitedly.
	"Oui.  Vou are ze only one for moi." Fifi laughed.  She then leaned over
and kissed the pig on the forehead.
	Hamton became dazed and lazily danced about.  His eyes turned to hearts
while several smaller hearts circled his head.
	Fifi laughed at Hamton's antics.  "Au revoir, my sweet Hamton." Fifi said
and closed the doors.
	After Hamton got a hold of himself, Hamton exited the junkyard.  He did
remark that he did get Fifi to smile.  As Hamton was making his way home, he
saw Babs, Buster, and Plucky exit a copy store.  Each carried a box of pictures in
their hands.  Quickly, Hamton raced over to join them.  "Hey guys!" Hamton
called.
	"Hi Hamton." Babs said.
	"What are you doing?" Hamton asked.  He got a closer look at the pictures
in the box.  The pictures seemed to be students who attended Acme Looniversity.
	"We're going after the Prankster!" Plucky shouted.
	"You are?  How?" Hamton asked.
	"When the Prankster first appeared, we tried to eliminate suspects by
putting students pictures on a wall.  We then began to eliminate suspects one by
one.  Whoever was left, was the Prankster." Buster explained.
	"Did it work?" Hamton asked.
	"No.  Fifi found out about it and tricked us last time." Buster said.
	"But this time, no one but us will know." Plucky said.
	"Can I join?" Hamton asked.
	Buster looked to Babs and then to Plucky.  Both looked questioningly
back at Buster.  They were worried Hamton may have taken the role.  "Not to
sound cold hearted, but why do you want to join us." Buster asked.
	"Fifi is really worried about the Prankster.  It's ruining her life, but I don't
know how to help her." Hamton said.
	Buster turned to Babs and Plucky.  Babs smiled happily and nodded her
approval.  Plucky held back slightly before finally agreeing.  "Welcome aboard."
Buster said.
	"Thanks you guys." Hamton said.  He then helped the others carry the
boxes back to Buster's place.

	Fifi wandered across downtown Acme Acres at midnight.  All the stores
were closed, with all their lights out.  The only lights in the entire city were the
street lamps at the intersections of the streets.  An eerie silence seemed to cover
the entire city.  Fifi felt cold, afraid, and alone as she wandered the streets.  She
wondered why she even left her home to walk through the streets.
	Fifi then heard the sounds of whispering within the town.  The sounds
seemed to emit from all over the city.  Fifi could not understand what the voices
were saying.  She did notice that they seemed to repeat the same thing over and
over again.
	"Bonjour?" Fifi called out.
	The whispers still continued their chant.
	"You hear them, don't you." a high pitched voice said behind Fifi.
	Fifi turned around to face the voice.  But she found no one there.  "Whose
zere?!" Fifi demanded.
	"No one is here except you." the voice said.
	"Who's zere?!  Show vour self!" Fifi demanded.
	Fifi then noticed some movement within her own shadow.  Slowly a figure
rose from the darkness of her shadow.  The figure seemed to slowly float to the
surface.  When he was completely out of Fifi's shadow, he stood before Fifi with
crossed arms.  It was the Prankster.
	"No!" Fifi said.
	"Like I said, you are the only one here." the Prankster said.
	"I am not ze Prankster!" Fifi shouted.
	"Did you not accept the job?  Did you not say that you wanted a bigger
part to play in the Tiny Toons series?" the Prankster laughed.
	Fifi stood bewildered.  She had accepted the part because she wanted to
get a bigger part on Tiny Toons, but now she didn't want it.  She did the only
thing she could do, she ran away as fast as she could.
	"You can't run from yourself!" the Prankster called out.
	Fifi continued to run as fast she could.  As she did, the whispers in the
town started to become clear to her.  They kept on whispering "Prankster" into the
streets.  Fifi put her hands over her ears and continued to run.  She then ducked
into a corner alley.  There she cried in fright.
	"You can hear them." the Prankster said.
	Fifi looked down the alley and saw the Prankster emerge from the
darkness.
	"Do not deny it.  You are the Prankster!  Even your friends believe it!" the
Prankster shouted, he then pointed behind Fifi.
	Fifi turned to see all the school students standing in the streets, looking at
her.  	"Prankster!" they repeated over and over again.  Even Hamton stood
among them, pointing a accusing finger at her, shouting the name.
	Fifi then looked down at herself to find that she was dressed in her old
costume, without the hood.  "No!" Fifi shouted as she tried to rip off the clothes. 
But whatever was ripped off, was replaced by another set of the same clothes.
	Fifi jumped and hit her head on something.  She rubbed her head and then
began to look around.  She found herself back in her home.  She looked to the
ceiling and saw a dent, where she hit her head.  It took a moment for her to realize
that she had a nightmare.
	Quickly, Fifi reached for her phone and dialed in a number.  She heard the
phone ring on the other end several times before someone answered.
	"Hello." said a sleepy Babs.
	"Bonjour Babs.  Can I come over!" Fifi said.
	"Fifi?  Are you okay?  You sound horrible." Babs asked concerned.
	"I do not know." Fifi cried.
	"Stay there.  I'm coming over." Babs said and hung up.
	Fifi hung up her phone and sat in the corner of her room, clutching her
blanket.  She began to shake with uncontrollable fright.

	 Buster walked with Plucky to school the next mourning.  Both felt a kind
of dread as they made their way up the steps.  They knew that this new Prankster
would strike now that he had the book.  Together, Buster and Plucky strolled to
their lockers.
	"Well, let the beginning of a rotten day begin." Plucky groaned.
	"Check your locker, Plucky." Buster said as he began to check his for any
signs of wires or triggers.
	Plucky did the same.  "I don't see anything." Plucky said.
	"Me neither.  Only one way to find out I guess." Buster said.
	Plucky looked to Buster, then at his locker.  Who knew what kind of trap
lay in the locker.  Plucky then thought he would let Buster open his locker so he
could know.  "Why don't you open your locker first." Plucky said.
	"Actually I was planning to let you go first." Buster said to Plucky.
	"No.  I insist that you go first." Plucky said.
	"Age before beauty." Buster said.
	"I'm the beauty." Plucky said, making a pose.
	Buster looked toward his locker and then to Plucky.  "We'll open them
together.  On three." Buster said.
	"Okay." Plucky agreed.
	"Ready.  One.  Two.  Three!" Buster shouted in the last second.  He and
Plucky opened their lockers at the same time and then dove for cover around the
hall corner.  When they did not hear any sound of a prank being sprung, they
looked around the corner to their lockers.
	The two lockers just remained open.  Nothing, except a few loose sheets
of paper, dropped out.  Slowly Buster and Plucky went to the lockers and
examined them carefully, ready to spring at a moments notice.  With the
exception of the normal books, papers, and school accessories, nothing was in the
locker.
	"What do you know.  Its empty." Buster said.
	"Yeah.  Imagine that." Plucky said, happily surprised.

	The same results had been seen all over school.  When students had heard
of a new Prankster, they took the same precautions to make sure they didn't fall
victim to a cruel joke.  But they encountered the same results as Plucky and
Buster.  Even when they took precautions in class to look around, they discovered
nothing.  Instead, the school proceeded normally, in its own sense.
	Buster met with Babs, Plucky, Hamton, and Shirley in the cafeteria. 
Despite the fact that the Prankster did not strike, Buster was taking no chances. 
Until the book with the pranks in it was found, Buster believed no one was safe. 
He then noticed that Fifi didn't come to lunch.  "Where's Fifi?" Buster asked.
	"She's at my place.  She couldn't sleep well last night." Babs said.
	"Why not?" Buster asked.
	"She said she had a terrible nightmare.  After that, well, I had to get
Shirley to knock her out." Babs said.
	"Like, that wasn't easy.  I had to use some fairly drastic means.  A
technique that is considered centuries old." Shirley said.
	"What kind of technique?" Plucky asked.
	"Like this." Shirley said.
	Plucky looked up in time to see a mallet over him, before it came crashing
down on his head.  Although it did not flatten him, it did leave a ring of stars
flying around Plucky's head.  "Nighty night." Plucky said before collapsing on the
ground and falling asleep.
	"Your right.  It was drastic." Buster said.
	"Will she be okay?" Hamton asked.
	"Yeah.  She'll awake as a her old, love crazed, self." Babs said.
	"Okay.  So what do we do about the Prankster?" Buster asked.
	Babs searched the cafeteria and spotted the person she was looking for.  "I
think we should start with him." Babs said, pointing to Jeffrey Wolf.  Everyone
turned to see the wolf sitting at the table along with the rest of the new transfer
students.
	"Let's wait until he's alone." Buster said.
	As soon as Buster had said that, the other three new students got up.
	"What good timing." Babs remarked.  She and Buster then walked over to
the table to talk with him.  They took a seat opposite from him.
	"Buster.  Babs.  What are you doing here?" Jeffrey asked.
	"We need to ask you a few questions concerning a book that was
originally in Fifi's possession." Buster said.
	"What kind of book?" Jeffrey asked.
	"The Prankster manual.  We know that you became interested in Fifi's old
character.   The figure then shows up and steals the book." Buster explains.
	"You mean that flying banana incident?" Jeffrey asked.
	"How do you know about that?" Babs asked.
	"Everyone knows.  You did run through almost every hall." Jeffrey
explained.
	Babs sat back down.  She had to admit that running across school would
definitely catch someone's attention.  There was also the fact that all though some
people would expect it at the Looniversity, toons rarely, if ever, went flying
around in school, at least not on a giant banana.  Had a person had a rocket
attached to them, it would have been a different story.
	Plucky then jumped up from underneath the table next to the wolf and
looked straight into Jeffrey's eyes, pointing a accusing finger at him.  "Where
were you on December 25, 1989." Plucky shouted.
	Jeffrey was surprised by Plucky's sudden appearance.  "I was celebrating
Christmas." Jeffrey answered.
	"A likely story.  Christmas is celebrated on January 1." Plucky shouted.
	"Plucky.  That's New Years.  Christmas is celebrated on the December
25." Buster groaned.
	Plucky looked to his friends in surprise.  He then realized he got the two
dates mixed up.  "Okay.  What about November 28!" Plucky shouted at Jeffrey.
	"Thanksgiving." Jeffrey whimpered.
	"A likely story.  I see it all now.  You were going to do her in, you say. 
Take her out for good, you say.  You then could exit with a bag full of money and
one brand new pink Cadallac!" Plucky said.
	"Huh?" Jeffrey said, confused.
	"Plucky.  No one is after Fifi.  She's not even rich or has a brand new car."
Babs said.
	"Oh." Plucky said as he remembered Fifi lived in the dump and the
Cadallac, Fifi's home, was wrecked beyond repair.
	Jeffrey then bolted from his seat.  "I'm going to try the Mystery Meat!"
Jeffrey shouted.  Instead of running for the cafeteria counter, he ran for the door
exiting the cafeteria.
	"Isn't the cafeteria counter the other way?" Plucky asked.
	"Smooth move, Plucky." Babs said.  
	"We better tell Bugs about this right now." Buster said.

	Bugs had listened to Babs and Buster's story with considerable interest. 
He had to admit that the notes found with the traps that Fifi disabled was a clear
sign.  There was also the fact of students seeing a ninja like figure riding a
banana, which Bugs didn't know how to put in the record books.  "I have to admit
that it seems that there is a new Prankster." Bugs said.
	"Do you know who controls him or finances him?" Buster asked.
	"Sorry, kid.  Not me this time.  Acme Looniversity will not fund another
Prankster." Bugs said.
	"Where does that leave us?" Babs asked.
	"You did say he got the book, right? Bugs asked.
	Both Buster and Babs nodded.
	"Does Fifi remember all the traps?" Bugs asked.
	"She thinks she does.  But right now she is suffering a identity crisis."
Babs said.
	"And Sam's still in Decontamination." Bugs added.  Bugs sat in thought
and chewed on the eraser of his pencil.  The Prankster was supposed to be
nothing more than a challenge for Buster that ended last semester.  "All right you
two.  I need you to help me investigate the matter.  If you can catch the last
Prankster, you can catch this one." Bugs explained.
	"But we didn't catch the last one.  Montana Max cheated on that one by
stealing your file.  We only caught the Prankster then because the file had the
Prankster's schedule." Buster explained.
	"Oh yeah.  Well just look at the clues.  That's all I can say." Bugs said.
	
	"Look at the clues.  We got nothing." Babs complained.  Together, she and
Buster walked down the steps of Acme Looniversity.  Walking behind them was
Mortimer who was listening in on the conversation.  Babs had to walk Mortimer
home today, since her mother demanded it.
	"Well, there's got to be something." Buster said.
	"But what?" Babs asked.
	"I don't know.  Listen, I got a soccer game with Ralph Raccoon.  I'll see
you later." Buster said and then ran off.
	Mortimer walked up to Babs so he was side by side with her.  "Looks like
it's just you and me, Barbara." Mortimer said.
	"I'm going to kill Buster for leaving now." Babs growled.  She did not
wish to be left with her younger brother, who she considered to be a thorn in her
side.  She wondered how Jeffrey Wolf, Mortimer's villain was going to fair
against her brother.  Normally she would not cheer for a villain, but she
considered this an exception.
	It then struck Babs.  Mortimer had talked with Jeffrey Wolf.  Perhaps he
knew something about the wolf.  "Hey Mortimer." Babs called out gently.
	"What?" Mortimer asked, knowing Babs was about to ask him to do
something.
	"What can you tell me about your villain, Jeffrey Wolf." Babs asked.
	"I have seen a few villains, but this one is the worst.  I think they really
scraped the bottom of the barrel for that one." Mortimer said.
	"You mean he's not a good villain?" Babs asked.
	"Nope.  Even Go-Go is a better villain than he is." Mortimer said.
	"Go-Go isn't a villain." Babs said.
	"Exactly.  Jeffrey doesn't know how to act like one" Mortimer said.
	"That bad." Babs said.  All hopes of having Jeffrey beat Mortimer
disappeared.  Still, she wondered if Jeffrey Wolf had assumed the role of the
Prankster so that he could work on his role.  It would explain why no one was hit
by a prank.  Jeffrey would be taking his time to study up on being a good villain.

	Buster and Ralph Raccoon met each other on the way to the soccer game. 
It was to be held in park.  The teams would consist mostly of Buster's friends,
who would play against Montana Max and his Rent-a-Team.  It wasn't considered
to be a good game, but Buster figured it could relieve some tension on the recent
Prankster appearance.  "Hey Ralph.  What do you know about the Prankster."
Buster asked.
	"The Prankster.  Now that guy is crazy.  I never even knew about the
Prankster until Jeffrey Wolf mentioned it on the tour." Ralph said.
	"Ever see him?" Buster asked.
	"On that banana.   I didn't know you had flying banana's here." Ralph said.
	"We don't.  At least I didn't think we did." Buster said.  Buster did feel that
there was something weird about that floating banana, but he could not figure it
out.  He knew very little on the life of plants in Acme Acres.
	"Now that's fast food." Ralph laughed.
	"No kidding." Buster said, remembering how fast the banana traveled
down the halls.  "What about Jeffrey.  Could he be the Prankster?" Buster asked.
	Ralph burst out laughing.  "You got to be kidding!  Jeffrey is the worst
villain I know!  Mortimer is going to kill him!" Ralph laughed.
	"That bad." Buster said.
	"Yep.  Wait till you hear who he's related to." Ralph said.
	"Who?" Buster asked.
	"Big Bad!" Ralph laughed.
	"As in Big Bad the Wolf?  The one who blew over the three pig's houses?"
Buster asked.
	"Yeah!  He's a distant cousin, or so I heard from him." Ralph said.
	Buster decided this was a critical piece to the puzzle on the Prankster. 
Could Jeffrey Wolf be trying to impress his distant uncle by assuming this role? 
Buster considered this as a theory only.  There was no standing proof.  He decided
to look into this matter later.  For now, he just wanted to play soccer.

	Fifi lay on a extra bed that Babs had placed next to hers.  She found it hard
to sleep after such a disturbing dream.  Fortunately, Shirley had helped her get
some sleep by doing one of her "magic tricks".  Fifi's head ached a little from the
spell, but she did manage to get the rest she needed.  At least the dream didn't
return after Shirley knocked her out.
	Babs then entered the room.  "How you feeling Fifi?" Babs asked.
	"Better.  Merci, Babs." Fifi said.
	"I think you will be happy to know that the Prankster has not struck at all
yet.  We already reported it to Bugs.  I think we can take him out before anything
bad happens." Babs said.
	Fifi sighed in relief at the news.  "Zat ees good news." Fifi said.  She then
sat down on the bed to relax.
	Suddenly, a small version of the Prankster jumped into the room and
started to scream and laugh.  Fifi screamed and jumped into the air.  The top half
of her body crashed through the ceiling and got stuck.  Everything below her
waist could be seen struggling to get out of the ceiling.
	"Mortimer!" Babs yelled to the dark figure, recognizing the laugh.
	Mortimer pulled off the mask.  "Now that was funny!" Mortimer laughed.
	"So you want to see funny.  I'll show you funny!" Babs growled.  She then
chased after Mortimer.  Eventually she caught him within a matter of seconds. 
She stuffed him into the washing machine and turned the washing machine on
full cycle and went back to help Fifi.  Mortimer was washed, and then spin dried
in the machine.  When he finally got out, he looked like a giant, round ball of tan
fur.  Babs went back to her room and began to pull on Fifi's tail to get her down.
	"Not ze tail!" Fifi cried, her voice muffled by the ceiling.
	"Oops.  Sorry." Babs said as she released Fifi's tail and grabbed Fifi's legs. 
After quit a bit of effort, Fifi did finally pop out of the ceiling and land on the bed
with Babs.  Fifi rubbed her head and then looked toward Babs for an answer.
	"That was just Mortimer trying to be funny.  Don't worry, I got him back."
Babs explained.
	"Mom!" he called as he walked by the door.  His hair was still puffed up in
all directions.
	"I am not impressed." Fifi growled as she tried to brush the dirt out of her
fur.
Babs could understand Fifi's frustration.  As soon as she got Fifi's hopes up,
Mortimer had to scare Fifi.  Babs wondered if her brother was the Prankster for a
second.  But Babs knew that if Mortimer was, she would know.  "Cheer up, Fifi. 
We may not have to worry about the Prankster at all." Babs said encouragingly.
	Fifi looked toward Babs questioningly.
	"Think about it.  As soon as the Prankster shows his face in school, Bugs
will catch him and he's toast." Babs explained.
	Fifi could not doubt that.
	"So do you think you can come to school tomorrow?" Babs asked.
	"Oui." Fifi said.  She could not hide forever.

	The next day, Bugs had ordered a search by all teachers before class
began.  They were to search for traps or signs for the new Prankster that had
shown up.  Most especially, they searched for the Prankster's guide that Fifi lost. 
They never found anything, which surprised even Bugs.  Class started up as usual
and proceeded normally.  Buster and the entire group met in the cafeteria.
	"This is to weird.  Why doesn't the Prankster strike?" Buster asked.  He
looked to his friends for guidance on the issue.
	"Maybe he's on vacation." Plucky suggested.
	"Or doesn't have the nerve to show." Babs said.
	Buster dismissed both of these suggestions.
	"I'm glad he doesn't show up.  I don't think I could handle such a person."
Hamton said.
	"You handled it when Fifi was the Prankster." Babs said.
	"Fifi never played a prank on me." Hamton said.
	"I never would." Fifi said.
	Buster sat in thought with his friends.  He had to admit that the Prankster
was already making their lives slightly difficult, and he hadn't really shown up
yet.  Had the Prankster decided to stop before he could start?  If that was the case,
they were worrying for nothing.  Buster decided to change the issue in hopes of
getting their spirits up.  "Let's forget about the Prankster for now.  We have other
things to consider." Buster said.
	"Like what?" Hamton asked.
	"There's the prom in two weeks and the Superbowl we play two weeks
after." Buster explained.
	"What about tall, dark, and having a poor sense of humor." Plucky
demanded.
	"The Prankster has not struck yet.  There's nothing we can do.  We can't let
this dominate our lives." Buster said.
	"Your right Buster.  Forget this Prankster business and let's look forward
to our own special events." Babs said.
	Fifi was the first to take Buster's suggestion.  She took a quick glance at
Hamton and then laid her head on the table.  "Ze prom.  How romantic eet will
be." Fifi said as she entered her dream world.
	"Proms not for another two weeks and she already acts as if she's there."
Plucky said.
	"Like, let her have her romantic dreams." Shirley said.  Shirley knew that
as long as Fifi concentrated on love, she would forget about the Prankster.
	"What about Football practice?" Hamton asked.
	"We'll wait until after prom.  Right now, let's just worry about our next
classes." Buster said.  Buster hoped to get everything back to normal soon.

	It had been almost two full weeks and no sign of the Prankster was found. 
The instructors kept watch over the school with no sign of their quarry.  Buster
and his crew also didn't have much to go by.  Buster did believe Jeffrey Wolf may
have been involved, but without proof, it was impossible to convict.
	Bugs fingered through the remaining reports on the teacher's findings,
which only appeared blank.  Bugs then turned to Buster.  "I take it your reports
are the same." Bugs said.
	"That's right Bugs.  In fact, the students don't even talk about the Prankster
anymore.  All stories stopped about a week ago." Buster said.
	"And there's been no sightings for a long time." Bugs said.
	"Personally, I don't know.  Maybe the person who stole the book was a
hero trying to overcome every villain trick known to us toons." Buster suggested.
	"A very good theory, doc.  It would explain why there has been no
activity." Bugs said.
	"Yeah.  I'm just glad things are returning to normal." Buster said.
	"I think that was done by you as well." Bugs said.
	Buster blushed in embarrassment.  "Well I only told my friends." Buster
explained.
	"With Plucky's big mouth, it would spread throughout the school." Bugs
said.
	"You got a point there." Buster said.
	"All right, doc.  Back to classes." Bugs said.
	Buster walked out the principle's office.  As he did, Bugs stood up from
his desk and took one final look at the folder.  He then closed the file and placed
it in his records cabinet.  He began to think the last of the Prankster had been
seen.

	Everywhere, toons got ready for prom by looking at the various stores to
rent tuxedos and dresses.  They no longer feared the Prankster since Buster had
spread the word that the problem had ended.  The students could now do what
they wanted, mostly get ready for Prom.  For Babs, Fifi, and Shirley, it had taken
most of the time after school to find the right dress for the prom.  For Buster,
Plucky, and Hamton, they only went to "Crazy Taz's House of Tuxes".  News
spread on the upcoming prom being the largest so far.  Bugs had hired a catering
company to handle all food and drinks.  An extra supply had even been ordered in
case Dizzy made a sudden appearance.
	On the night of the prom, Fifi, Babs, and Shirley came to Babs's home to
get ready for the prom.  The three of them sat in front of large mirrors, working
on their faces and getting their dresses on.
	"Oh, Sacre Pew." Fifi cursed.
	"What's wrong, Fifi?" Babs asked.
	"My hair.  Eet ees being ze pain." Fifi replied as she continued to try to
smooth her hair out so it was nice and even.
	"Like, that's nothing.  Try working with my hair." Shirley said as she
hovered in front of a mirror.  Her aura was combing her hair.
	"But vou have help." Fifi said.
	"You can try calling your aura or some junk.  Just concentrate on opening
your inner self." Shirley suggested.
	Fifi decided to try Shirley's suggestion.  After a lot of concentration, a
transparent version of Fifi jumped out and looked around in surprise.
	"Wow ze prom!  I must get ready for eet!" said Fifi's aura.
	"I need vou to help moi first." Fifi said.
	"No.  I will take Hamton out.  Vou can stay here since vou are so dull."
Fifi's aura said and began to run out the door.
	"No vou don't!" Fifi shouted.  She then grabbed her aura and pulled it back
into her body.  "Vour staying here!" Fifi said.  She then looked to Shirley angrily.
	"Like, I guess some auras are more stable than others." Shirley said.
	The girls eventually had finished putting on their dresses and makeup
within three hours.  Together they waited patiently for their dates to arrive.  None
of them knew if their boyfriends would pick them up individually or together.
	Babs then heard the sound of a car approaching.  "Someone's here.  Get
ready girls." Babs said as she ran up to the entrance to the hole.  Fifi and Shirley
followed in hot pursuit.
	The three of them jumped out of hole to find a stretched Limousine in
front of them.
	"Ooh, La, La!  How romantic!  Maybe its Hamton!" Fifi cried excitedly.
	"If Plucky came here in that, like, I'll be totally surprised." Shirley said.
	Buster then opened the door at the back of the Limousine.  "Hey girls."
Buster said.
	Shirley and Fifi frowned at the rabbit's appearance.  Babs on the other
hand was pleasantly surprised.  "Now that's what I call transport.  How did you
get your hands on a Limo?" Babs asked.
	"I rented it with some help." Buster admitted.
	Plucky and Hamton then jumped out of the Limousine.  "Hey Shirley!"
Plucky said as he ran up to her.
	Hamton walked up to Fifi and took her hand graciously.
	"So much for the princess being swept away by her date." Babs moaned.
	"Sorry Babs.  But my salary couldn't rent a whole Limo alone." Buster
explained.
	Shirley then looked to the driver of the Limousine.  "Like Plucky.  Why is
your dad driving?" Shirley asked.
	"Well, we couldn't afford a driver, so we got him instead." Plucky smiled.
	"Come on kids!" Plucky's father said in a slurred tone.
	"Guess we should have paid the extra thousand." Plucky moaned as he led
Shirley to the Limousine.  The others followed right behind him.

	Montana Max paced in front of his door waiting for his date to arrive.  He
had placed an order with Rent-a-Date so he could go to the prom.  Tonight would
be the big night for him.  He could at last humiliate Buster.  Unfortunately, the
only way he could see what happened was if he went to the prom.  He decided
that it would be better for his own health if he rented a lady instead of going out
with Elmyra.  Max could not stand that girl.
	Max then heard the doorbell rang.  He immediately answered it.
	"Rent-a-Date.  Date for Montana Max." said a man who was wheeling in a
crate.
Max quickly paid the man and shoved him outside.  He then turned to the crate. 
He began to picture a young swimsuit model inside the crate and started to rip
open the box.  "No!" Max screamed as soon as the box was open.
	"Hi Monty.  I'm your date." Elmyra laughed.
	"You?" Max demanded.
	"They said I was the only one willing to go out with you." Elmyra
answered.
	Max's jaw dropped open.  "I've been ripped off!" he shouted.
	Elmyra then grabbed him and dragged him to the prom.

	Although there was some problems with the idea, of having Plucky's
father drive, the girl's quickly forgot about it as they became interested in the
number of gadgets in the Limo.  They spent most of their time playing with the
phone, looking through the refrigerator, or clicking through channels on the small
television.  All the girls laughed happily as they played around while the boys sat
on the seats, acting as if they were Mr. Popular.
	The group soon reached the dance. Each of them got out with their dates
and strolled into the gymnasium.  The place was a mad house as toons danced and
partied.  Even Dizzy had shown up and quickly made himself the life of the party. 
Buster and his group quickly joined in with the activities, including a round of
"Will Dizzy eat it?".  The girls decided to head for the back room during that
time.
	Buster noticed all the new transfer students enter the area, except Jeffrey
Wolf.  "Hey guys! Come and join the fun!" Buster shouted.
	"What are you doing?" Lucy Swan asked when she saw a whole bunch of
activity around Dizzy, along with some unsavory items lined up.
	"Its the game where eating is the rule, and having a bottle of Alka-Seltzer
is a blessing.   Its Will Dizzy Eat It?!" Buster shouted.
	The transfer students watched as Plucky threw up some rotting turkey
covered in Paper Cement.  The devil launched right up into the air and gobbled
the turkey whole.  Although, the devil did have trouble swallowing, due to the
Paper Cement, Dizzy eventually got it down his gullet and ordered more.
	"I think I'm going to be sick." Lucy said.
	"Oh boy!" Ralph shouted.
	"Cool!" Mortimer said.
	Lucy left the group and joined the other girls while the guys continued to
play.  Eventually the game ended and the fast pace dancing began.
	Ralph, not having a date, walked over to the punch bowl.  He then took a
glass of punch and swallowed it down.  The next second, he began coughing and
wheezing as if he choked on something.  He ran to the nearest bathroom.
	"What's wrong with him?" Buster asked.
	Plucky went to the punch bowl and took a cup of punch.  He took a quick
sniff and then poured the contents on the floor.  Instead of punch, five rail spikes
fell out.  Plucky grabbed one of the spikes and looked around.  "Someone spiked
the punch again." Plucky said, not noticing Go-Go snickering behind the table.
	Bugs then got on the microphone.  "All right, kids.  Its time for the big
moment.  Get your date and dance the night away." Bugs said.  He then put on
some slow romantic music.  It didn't take long for couples to form.  Even Elmyra
and Max, still struggling, appeared on the dance floor.
	"May I have this dance?" Hamton asked Fifi as he took her hand.
	"Oui." Fifi said in a romantic tone.  She and Hamton then began to dance
with the other toons.  Fifi pulled herself as close to Hamton's body as she could. 
She could feel all her dreams becoming reality as she held Hamton close to her. 
Fifi then looked up to the ceiling in her dream state.  She could see a whole bunch
of shiny objects covering the ceiling, believing they were stars.  She then realized
that there wasn't supposed to be any stars in the gym.  Fifi stopped dancing and
continued to stare to the ceiling.
	"What is it, Fifi?" Hamton asked when he saw Fifi had stopped.
	"Look zere!" Fifi said, pointing to the ceiling.
	Hamton looked up but could not believe his eyes.  All along the ceiling
were hundreds of buckets, slightly hidden by the decorations in the room.  They
appeared to be attached to planks of wood, which were attached to a series of
ropes and pulleys.  "What's going on?" Hamton asked.
	Fifi looked over the buckets and tried to remember where she had seen
this exact same contraption.  It took her a moment to realize that it was trap, one
of the many pranks in the Prankster manual.  She then spotted a dark figure
swinging from the ceiling.  "Sacre Pew!" Fifi shouted.
	"Hey Acme!  I'm back!" laughed a high pitched voice.
	Everyone turned and saw the dark figure hanging from a rope on the
ceiling.
	"The Prankster!  It can't be!" Bugs shouted from the podium.  Other
teachers and Buster made the same reaction.
	"Time to make this party a little sweeter!" the Prankster laughed.  He then
pushed a button on a control pad that was attached to his belt.  The buckets, still
attached to the wood planks, tipped their contents on the dancing toons below. 
The toons never knew what hit them until it was to late.  When they did, they
were covered in gallons of maple syrup.  The toons could only stumbled around in
the sticky mess.
	"Gross!" Babs shouted as she tried to wipe the stuff off.
	"Talk about a sticky situation!" Plucky shouted as he struggled in the
syrup.
	Fifi watched in horror as she saw the Prankster swing around happily from
the ceiling.  The Prankster then started swinging up to a corner window near the
ceiling.  While he did, he accidentally hit one of the boards that held the buckets. 
Although it did not impede his progress, it did cause one of the buckets on the
plank to break off.
	Hamton looked up just in time to see a bucket come falling down on his
head.  Hamton had fell to the ground with stars around his head.
	"Hamton!" Fifi shouted as she kneeled to her boyfriend's side.  She looked
over Hamton to see he was dazed.  She then looked at the Prankster and grabbed
her tail.  "Time to end zis!" Fifi shouted as she tried to let loose her spray. 
Unfortunately, her tail was covered in syrup, making it impossible for her to vent
her dangerous odor.  Only a few bubbles appeared on Fifi's tail.
	The Prankster laughed and jumped out the window.
	Fifi fell to her knees in shock and started to cry.  Her whole night had been
ruined.
	Babs and Shirley ran to Fifi's side and tried to comfort her.  "Its okay Fifi."
Babs said, but still Fifi cried.
	Hamton got up when he recovered.  "What happened?" he asked as he
looked around.
	Buster looked out the way the Prankster had escaped.  "We just got a big
problem." Buster said.
	"I'll say.  Who does he think he is?!" Plucky demanded.
	"The Prankster.  Only this time, the Looniversity can't control his actions."
Buster said.

	Bugs allowed the students to shower in the school locker rooms before
heading home.  It was the least he could do to pay for the damages.  Afterward, he
and the teachers got together for a full investigation of the area.  The students
were sent home early to prevent any more damage from occurring.  A lot of
students went home unhappy, especially one skunk.
	Buster and his friends went home in their Limo.  They originally thought
that they would be partying on their way home, but because of the events, their
happiness had been shattered.
	"I think we should just go after Jeffrey Wolf!" Plucky shouted.
	"Like, we don't know if it was Jeffrey Wolf.  it could have been anyone."
Shirley said.
	"But he was the only one not there." Plucky stated.
	Everyone agreed with him.
	"So let's get him!" Plucky said.
	"No!  We have no proof.  All we know is that he is interested in the
Prankster and that he is trying to be a villain." Buster said.
	"Isn't that enough?" Plucky groaned.
	"What if Shirley was accused?" Buster asked.
	Plucky looked to Shirley and then back at Buster.  He then lowered his
head in thought.
	"Well?" Babs asked.
	"I'm thinking!" Plucky growled.
	"What?!" Shirley demanded.  She then let loose a electrical charge through
Plucky's body for several seconds.  Plucky's body shifted into several poses during
that time he was shocked, even one Egyptian pose.  When Shirley was finished
with him, Plucky fell to the floor of the car.
	"I sometimes wonder how you put up with him, Shirley." Babs said.  She
then looked to Hamton who held Fifi in his arms while Fifi laid her head against
his body.  Babs could only wonder the kind of torture that Fifi felt at the moment. 
Babs knew Fifi blamed herself for the Prankster appearing, since she started the
legacy.
	"Next stop, the Dump." Plucky's father shouted as he stopped the car.
	"Merci." Fifi said, not in her usual happy or romantic tone, as she got out
of the car.
	Babs leaned over to Hamton.  "Go with her!" Babs whispered.
	"Huh?" Hamton asked.
	"She needs someone right now.  Go with her." Babs insisted.
	Hamton looked to Fifi.  "Wait Fifi.  Let me walk you back to your house."
Hamton said as he stumbled out.
	Fifi looked toward Hamton.  Although she felt she had to be alone, she
could not say "no" to Hamton.  Hamton had been to kind to her in the past and
had always given her the company she wanted, even when she dropped him and
pursued a person with a white stripe down their back.  She gave him a slight smile
and held out her hand to him.  Together, she and Hamton walked back to Fifi's
house.
"Smooth move Babs." Buster said to Babs.
	"Right now, Fifi is going to need someone.  Hamton is the best choice in
this case." Babs explained.
	"Like, now what do we do?" Shirley asked.
	Babs turned to Plucky's father.  "Floor it, Mac!" she shouted in a male
tone.
	"You got it, Babe!" Plucky's father shouted as he slammed the gas pedal to
the floor.
	Hamton was opening the car door to Fifi's home when he saw the car
begin to speed off.  He stood surprised for a few seconds before he realized he
had been left behind.  "Hey!  Wait!" Hamton shouted from Fifi's door, but it was
to late.
	"I zink zey left you behind." Fifi said.
	"Guess I have to walk back to my house." Hamton said.  Hamton was
about to start the trip home when the sound of thunder echoed through the skies,
followed by a flash of lightning.  It then began to rain hard.  "Now what do I do?"
Hamton asked himself.
	Fifi saw his situation as well, and knew that Babs was the cause behind
this.  She felt sorry for Hamton at this point.  "Vou can stay here." Fifi suggested.
	"I can?" Hamton asked, surprised by the offer.
	"It ees, how vou say, not zee problem." Fifi said.  She then opened her
door to let Hamton in.
	Hamton followed her into the car.  Together, the two of them set up a
sleeping bag on the floor.  Fifi had always kept an extra sleeping bag at her house
in case Babs or Shirley decided to spend the night with her.
	As Hamton settled himself into the sleeping bag, he looked toward Fifi
who was resting on the couch that also served as her bed.  Fifi was remaining
quieter than usual.  Although she appeared to be reading a romance novel,
Hamton could tell that she was trying to hide her feelings.
	"What's wrong Fifi?" Hamton asked.
	"Did I do zis?" Fifi asked sadly.
	"Do what?" Hamton asked.
	"Am I responsible for ze Prankster, 'amton?" Fifi asked.  A single tear
rolled down her cheek.
	Hamton looked at her in surprise.  "You were never responsible.  He just,
sort of, appeared." Hamton said.
	"But I created him.  I made him who 'e ees." Fifi said.  Fifi placed her
novel over her face to hide her crying.
	"Fifi.  You just did what Bugs asked you to do." Hamton replied.
	"Oui, and made ze worst villain." Fifi sobbed.
	"Don't worry.  We'll figure this out." Hamton said.

	At Max's house, Max finally made it to his door, breathing heavily.  He
quickly had bolted the front door.  Elmyra was outside, calling his name.  Max
could not believe that the brainless girl wanted a goodnight kiss.  The idea sent
several cold shivers up his spine.
	At least it was not a total loss.  He, along with the Prankster, had pulled
off one of the greatest pranks in the school.  The students never knew what hit
them.  By tomorrow, they would be pestering Buster to remove the problem, and
the Prankster would make Buster's attempts look bad.  In the end, Max predicted
that Buster would lose his self-confidence.
	Max proceeded to his office to do what he liked to do the most, count
money.  As he entered the room, he saw the Prankster sitting at the desk, talking
on the phone.  The Prankster was turned away from Montana Max and did not
know Max was watching him.
	"Relax, Roderick.  I'll make sure that Acme won't win the Superbowl. 
Perfecto will become number one again." the Prankster said.
	Max looked confused for a second.  It took him a moment to realize that
the Prankster he helped was a student or spy of Perfecto Prep.
	The Prankster then turned in his seat and looked toward Max.  "Got to go
Roderick.  I got some lose ends to tie up." the Prankster said.
	"Your from Perfecto Prep?!" Max demanded.
	"Does it matter?  You'll still see Buster humiliated." the Prankster said.
	"Acme may not be the best of places, but I will not aid a student from
Perfecto Prep!  That school is the pits!" Max shouted angrily.
	"To bad." the Prankster said.  The Prankster then jumped into Max and
wrestled with him.  For a few seconds, the two could be seen struggling with each
other within a cloud of dust.  Occasionally a club or mallet was seen coming out
of the cloud.  In the end, the dark figure had tied up Max.
	"You can't do this to me!  I'm rich!" Max shouted.
	"Now what should I do with you?  Torture you?  Hide you away?" the
Prankster asked to himself.  The Prankster then heard the faint voice of Elmyra
outside calling to Max.  "That's it!" the Prankster shouted.
	"What are you going to do?" Max asked.
	Elmyra stood outside Max's mansion and continued to call out to her
boyfriend.  She then saw the door open.  The Prankster stood at the door and
handed Max to Elmyra.
	"Why don't you take him home and love him to pieces." the Prankster said
in a kind tone.
	"NO!  Not that!  Anything but that!" Max cried out.
	"Oh boy.  Now we can play tea party!" Elmyra laughed as she carried Max
to her house.
	"No!" Max shouted as Elmyra carried him away.

	That night, Fifi found herself in the same nightmare she had when she first
saw the Prankster.  She was in the city of Acme Acres, with only the streetlights
along the corner intersections dimly lit.  She could hear the same whispers
coming from nowhere.
	"No!" Fifi cried as she placed her hands on her head and kneeled on the
ground.
	"Did you really think I would disappear." said Prankster.
	Fifi looked toward the direction the Prankster's voice came from.  She saw
the Prankster materialize a few feet in front of her.  "Eet ees not moi zis time!"
Fifi cried.
	"But you created me, or did you forget!" the Prankster laughed.
	Fifi looked to the Prankster and growled.  "Zen I shall destroy vou!" Fifi
shouted.  She then whipped her tail into her hands and let loose her defensive
spray.  The Prankster only fanned it away with just one swipe with his hand.
	"Really.  You can't hurt me like that.  You can't even kill me.  I am you."
the Prankster said.
	Fifi found herself defenseless.  She quickly ran as fast as she could away
from the Prankster.  As she did, she could hear the Prankster laughing at her.  The
Prankster then appeared directly in front of her, grabbed her, and started to shake
her.  "No!" Fifi cried.
	"Fifi!" the Prankster shouted.
	Fifi struggled to break away but could not.  She slowly felt herself
beginning to wake up.  The city disappeared, leaving the interior of her house. 
The Prankster's evil face was replaced with Hamton trying to wake her up. 
Hamton was looking at her with a face of concern.
	"Fifi!  Are you all right?!" Hamton asked.
	Fifi reached up and wrapped her arms around Hamton.  "Oh Hamton!" she
cried.
	Hamton held her in his arms as she cried.  He to was scared.  Fifi's
screaming had awakened him.  He could only assume she had a nightmare. 
Knowing he needed some help, he reached over and grabbed Fifi's phone and
dialed a number.  After several rings the phone was finally answered.
	"Like, hello." said a sleepy Shirley.
	"Shirley.  It's Hamton.  Fifi just had another nightmare.  I need your help."
Hamton said.
	"I'm on my way." Shirley shouted.
	
	Shirley arrived in record time to see Fifi and Hamton.  Shirley first started
by making a series of medical checkups on Fifi to see if she was sick.  Shirley
then asked Hamton to describe Fifi's actions when she slept.  Hamton described
all he saw.  The loon then turned to Fifi.  "Can you describe the dream, Fifi."
Shirley asked.
	Fifi took a quick glance toward Hamton.  "Its ze Prankster.  He haunts my
dreams, saying I am 'im." Fifi moaned.
	"But your not the Prankster." Shirley said.
	"Oui, but I did make 'im." Fifi said.  Fifi then explained the details of her
previous dreams to Shirley.
	Shirley stood in thought for a few seconds after Fifi was done explaining. 
"Okay.  I'm going to put you to sleep now." Shirley said.  She then pulled out a
giant mallet that she had hidden in her skirt and hit it over Fifi's head.  Fifi fell
sound asleep instantly.  "It always works." Shirley commented as she got rid of
the mallet.
	"What about Fifi?" Hamton asked.
	"I think she's being haunted by her guilt." Shirley explained.
	"Her guilt?" Hamton questioned.
	"Like yeah.  Think about it.  Fifi has tried to destroy all evidence she was
the Prankster and doesn't wish him to reappear.  Then this new figure shows up. 
Fifi feels that she is the one who made the Prankster, since she first started the
character.  In some ways, she fears him because it reminds her of what she did to
us when she was the Prankster." Shirley explained.
	"Is there anything we can do." Hamton asked.
	"Like, not really.  She is the one who has to face him." Shirley stated.
	"There must be something." Hamton stuttered.
	"All we can do is support her or some junk.  Like, I suggest you keep a
close eye on her.  I'll tell Babs to do the same." Shirley said.

	Buster met on the weekend with the rest of his group to practice football
with the rest of his team.  Today would be the first practice for the upcoming
Superbowl against Perfecto.  It was up to Buster to make sure that his team was
ready for any tricks Perfecto had.  On his way to the stadium, he met up with
Plucky and Hamton.
	"Hey guys.  How you doing?" Buster asked.
	"That was sure some party.  My head feels like it was in another Anvil
Chorus." Plucky said.
	"Or had several thousand volts pass through it." Buster laughed.
	"Very funny." Plucky said.
	"And you, Hamton.  What happened with you and Fifi?" Buster asked.
	"Fifi had another one of her nightmares.  Shirley thinks Fifi is blaming
herself." Hamton explained.
	"But she's not the Prankster." Buster said.
	"I know, but she believes she caused this new one to be created.  Right
now, Shirley is watching her." Hamton said.
	"Well.  Let's put this mess aside for now.  We have to get ready for the
upcoming game." Buster said.  Buster knew how much the students of the
Looniversity looked forward to this game.  It would be their first chance at
becoming the number one team.  But he knew Perfecto would be doing
everything in their power to keep their position as the champions.
	Together the three of them made their way to the stadium.  There they met
with the rest of the team and began to practice on several new plays Buster had
come up with.
	"All right Plucky!  Long bomb on three!" Buster instructed.
	"Got it, Buster!" Plucky shouted happily.
	"Hike!" Buster shouted.  The ball was hiked to him.  Buster waited to
throw the ball to Plucky when Plucky was half way down the field.  Once Plucky
was in the right position, Buster threw the ball.
	Plucky ran as fast as he could.  Hamton was trying to block the pass to
simulate what the Perfecto team would do.  But Plucky was much faster then
Hamton and managed to gain considerable distance.  "I got it!" Plucky shouted
happily.  The ball came right into his arms and exploded.
	"He got it!" Buster said as he saw the explosion on the field.  He and the
rest of the team then ran to see what happened.
	Hamton, who had been trying to block the pass, was the first one to reach
Plucky.  He found Plucky was charred and blackened.
	"Now I know why they call them Long Bombs." Plucky groaned, and fell
to the ground.
	"What happened?" Buster asked when he arrived on the scene.
	"Plucky caught the ball and got blown up." Hamton explained.
	"Next time, let Hamton make the play." Plucky groaned.
	A laugh was then heard through the stadium speakers.  It did not take
Buster very long to identify the laugh.  "The Prankster!" Buster said.
	"What's he doing here?" Hamton demanded as he shook in fright.
	"It doesn't matter.  We have a game coming up, and we have to practice
for it.  Can't let the Looniversity down." Buster said.
	The practice resumed, but encountered a few problems.  Buster discovered
that three of the footballs had been rigged with bombs inside.  Plucky had been
blown up by each of these.  Never the less, Buster urged his team on.  It was
natural for Plucky to question this since he was the one who got blown up.  But
the team continued to practice, knowing Buster would lead them to victory.
	After the practice session, the group went to the lockers to shower and
change.  Hamton stood in front of his locker and dialed in the combination.  As
soon as the lock had popped off, the locker door swung open and buried Hamton
in tons of packaged meat.  Hamton climbed out of the meat.  "What is this?"
Hamton asked.  He then picked up one of the packages and read it.  "AAAAH!"
Hamton screamed.
	"Hamton?" Buster called as he and Plucky rounded the corner.  They
looked just in time to see Hamton jump out of the pile of meat and crash through
a nearby wall.
	Plucky and Buster ran over to the meat to see what had scared their friend. 
Plucky picked up one of the packages to get a closer look at it.  "I don't get it?  Its
just pork and bacon.  What's wrong with that?" Plucky asked.
	"Nothing, unless your a pig." Buster said as he surveyed the hole in the
wall.
	"Oh." Plucky said.
	Outside, Shirley, Babs, and Fifi walked to the stadium entrance.  They had
decided to pick up the guys after practice.  Fifi also wanted to talk to Hamton so
she could thank him for helping her last night.
	"Well, the guys should be coming out soon." Babs said as the three of
them waited by the door to the stadium.
	Suddenly, a wall exploded next to the stadium door.  The girls had to duck
from the flying debris.  They then saw Hamton disappear over the horizon in his
football uniform.
	"Hamton?" Fifi called out.
	"Like, I thought this was out of bounds in football." Shirley said.
	A few seconds later, Buster and Plucky ran out of the stadium doors and
looked around for their friend.  The two ignored the girls until they found that
Hamton was nowhere near to be seen.
	"What happened?" Babs asked.
	"Guess." Plucky groaned.
	"Ze Prankster?" Fifi asked.
	"Give that lady a cigar!" Plucky cheered.
	"What he do this time?" Babs demanded.
	"He packed several tons of pork and bacon into Hamton's locker.  The
poor guy never knew what hit him." Buster explained.
	"Like, that is very low." Shirley said.
	"He also blew me up several times." Plucky said.
	"Like, that's acceptable." Shirley said.
	"Hey!" Plucky shouted.
	Babs looked into the distance where Hamton had disappeared.  She had to
admit that Hamton never deserved such a prank to be pulled on him.  It was true
that Plucky had played a few jokes on Hamton, but nothing Plucky did could even
compare to this insult on Hamton.  "I wish there was a Prankster to play tricks on
this Prankster!  Teach this guy he can't mess around with us!" Babs shouted.

	Buster and his friends tracked down Hamton and took him to a nearby
Weenie Burger restaurant.  The food made Hamton quickly forget about the
incident in the locker rooms.  Buster paid for most of the burgers Hamton ate. 
Buster was broke in a short amount of time.  He never thought Hamton could eat
so much.  Of course, Hamton was a pig.
	"All right guys.  We know the Prankster is out there.  We got to find some
sort of clue as to his identity." Buster started off.
	"We do know he appears to be a gardener.  He sure had a big banana to
ride on." Babs said.
	"Like, we don't have any banana plantations around here in Acme Acres."
Shirley stated.
	"And a giant flying banana is a little to weird for Acme Acres." Hamton
stated.
	"Weird?  That's it!" Buster jumped happily.
	Everyone turned to him.
	"That banana didn't come from here!" Buster explained.
	"Buster, I think you need to keep off the bananas." Babs groaned.
	"Babs!  Listen!  Where is the best place to find stuff that disobeys all the
laws of Toon Physics?" Buster asked.
	"Wackyland!" Babs answered.
	"Right!  Go-Go may be supplying our dark friend." Buster said.
	"And Go-Go probably knows who the Prankster is!" Plucky added.
	"Let's go!" Buster shouted.  The whole group then charged out the door
and made their way to Wackyland where they hoped to find the clues they needed
to solve the mystery.

	At the entrance to Wackyland, Buster and Babs told everyone else to wait
at the entrance.  Wackyland was a place a person could easily get lost in.  It was
best to let everyone wait outside so Buster and Babs would not have to search for
them if the group got lost.  After crossing through the portal, Buster and Babs
found themselves in the center of a place that made no sense to the normal
person.
	"Here we are." Buster said.
	"So where's Go-Go?" Babs asked.
	A stage then appeared ten feet from Buster and Babs.  The stage consisted
of a wooden platform and red curtains.  "Presenting the one and only Go-Go." a
voice boomed in the air.  The curtains then flew apart to reveal nothing but open
space.
	"So where is he?" Babs asked.
	"I don't know.  Usually he makes grand appearances such as this." Buster
said.
	Go-Go then walked by Buster and Babs casually.  He was dressed in a
director's suit.  "Oh no!  My main actor is not here.  What will I do?" Go-Go cried.
	"Go-Go!" Babs and Buster shouted.
	"Who me?" Go-Go asked.  Go-Go then made a quick change into a
tuxedo.  "Yes I am Go-Go Dodo." Go-Go said in a gentleman's voice.  He then
jumped onto the stage and began to dance.  "Ta-da!" he shouted when he was
done.  There was no applause.  	"Why can't I ever get people to applause? 
Hmm?  Huh?  Huh?" Go-Go asked.
	"And I thought Fifi had a problem." Babs whispered to Buster.
	Go-Go jumped off the stage and joined his friends.  "Welcome to
Wackyland!  Care to join my club?" Go-Go asked.
	"Actually, no.   We wondered if anyone has purchased anything from you
lately." Buster said.
	Go-Go smiled happily and disguised himself as an accountant. 
"Wackyland commodities are fast growing investment." Go-Go explained as he
typed a few numbers on a calculator.
	"Has anyone purchased anything from you?" Babs asked.
	"Sorry.  All transactions are secret." Go-Go said, he then  zipped his
mouth close in defiance.
	"Now what?" Buster asked.
	"I'm still the Wackyland queen, right?" Babs asked.
	Go-Go nodded his head.  His mouth still zipped shut.
	Babs's head then grew ten times its normal size and peered down at Go-Go
angrily.  "Then I order you to tell me what I want to know!" Babs growled.  Her
head then shrank back to normal size.
	Go-Go unzipped his lips.  "I hear and obey!" Go-Go said as if he was a
slave.
	"So who purchased the stuff." Babs asked.
	Go-Go then began to speak as fast as he could, telling the story of what
happened.  Within seconds, he had finished going over his last transaction, but
neither Babs nor Buster knew what he had just said.
	"Now what?" Babs asked Buster.
	"Hey Go-Go.  Do you have a remote control for a VCR?" Buster asked.
	Go-Go pulled out a remote control from his body and handed it to Buster.
	"Now explain again the story you just told us." Buster said.
	"Buster, what are you doing." Babs asked.
	"Just go with me, Babs." Buster said.
	Go-Go started his story all over again.  As soon as he did, Buster aimed
the sensor of the control at Go-Go and pushed the "slow" button on it.  As soon as
Buster did, Go-Go began to talk in a normal pace Buster and Babs could
understand.
	"I'm not even going to ask.  Nothing makes sense in Wackyland." Babs
said.
	Buster and Babs continued to listen to Go-Go's tale.  Go-Go first started
off by explaining how Max had come to join a game of golf, followed by Max
loosing his shirt, and finally making the purchase.
	"So, Montana Max is behind the Prankster, or is at least funding him. 
Let's go get him!" Babs shouted.  Both Buster and Babs then made their way out
of Wackyland.
	"Bye!" Go-Go said slowly.  He was still working under the "slow"
command Buster had used.

	"So, Montana Max is the one causing all the trouble." Plucky said.  Buster
and Babs had just finished the tale they heard from Go-Go to all their friends.
	Everyone seemed surprised by this information, especially Fifi.  It was
always believed that Max hated the Prankster.  In fact, the Prankster Fifi played
could have easily taken over Max's job as a villain if Fifi had decided to keep the
role.
	"I never zought he would go with ze job." Fifi said.  Fifi could remember a
number of incidents where she played a prank on Max as the Prankster.
	"Okay.  Plucky, Babs, and I will go take a look at Max's house.  We'll meet
later when we find something." Buster said.
	"Why do I have to go?!  Can't I watch over Shirley instead and make sure
the Prankster doesn't get her?" Plucky demanded.
	"Like, if you don't go, then you will get another dose of shock therapy."
Shirley said as she raised her arms over her head.  Lightning bolts began to flash
between her hands.
	"I'm going!" Plucky shouted when he realized his situation.  "The things a
man has to do to please a loon." Plucky remarked.

	Buster, Babs and Plucky made their way up to Montana Max's house. 
Buster rang the door and waited for an answer, but no one did.  Buster tried the
doorbell again and again.
	"I guess he's gone." Plucky said after Buster's final attempt.
	"Great!  Now what do we do?" Babs asked.
	Before Buster could answer, they all heard the familiar scream of Max
coming toward them.  They looked in the general direction to see Max running
around the countryside with Elmyra hot on his heels.  Elmyra was carrying a large
net.
	"Well I'll be." Buster laughed.
	"Guess Elmyra is taking up Fifi's habits of chasing men." Babs laughed.
	"Come back Monty!" Elmyra called out.
	Max then ran up to Buster and kneeled before him, pleading.  "You got to
help me!  Elmyra wants me to sit at her tea party!" Max cried.  He then looked
behind himself to see Elmyra coming after him.  Max then screamed and
continued to run.
	"What do we do?" Babs asked.
	"I can never let a poor animal suffer, especially a snake like Monty."
Buster said.
	"Well someone has got to distract Elmyra to get to Max." Plucky said.  He
then turned to Buster and Babs.  Both looked back at him with evil grins.  "What
are you two thinking?  Uh-Oh." Plucky said.  Buster and Babs then jumped him.

	"This is humiliating!" Plucky said a short time later.  Buster and Babs had
disguised Plucky as a baby duck.  Plucky wore a baby hood, diaper, was sucking
on a sucker, and had a baby rattle.
	"Just act sweet and innocent." Buster said.
	"I don't think that's possible." Babs said.
	"This is crazy!" Plucky shouted.
	"Hey Elmyra!  Here's a baby duck for you!" Babs called.
	Elmyra stopped chasing Max and looked towards Babs.  It did not take
long for her to spot Plucky in his baby costume.  She jumped up happily and then
ran towards Plucky.  "My own little ducky!" she laughed.
	"You'll hear from my lawyer." Plucky groaned.  He then looked back at
Elmyra, screamed, and ran as fast as he could.  Elmyra was only a few footsteps
away from Plucky.  As the two raced across the landscape, Buster made his way
to Max, who had collapsed on the ground.
	"Okay Max.  I need you to answer some questions." Buster said, disguised
as an investigator with a trench coat and hat.
	"I won't tell you anything!" Max said.
	"Yes you will." Buster corrected.
	"What are you going to do?" Max laughed.
	"Do it Babs." Buster said.
	"Elmyra!" Babs called out.
	Max grabbed Buster's shirt.  "I'll talk!" he cried.
	"What is your relation to the Prankster?!" Buster demanded.
	"Nothing!" Max shouted.
	"Babs." Buster said.
	"Okay!  He came to me saying he needed funding.  He agreed to ruin your
reputation if I funded him.  So I did.  I found out he was a Perfecto spy after the
prom.  He then threw me to that thing so I wouldn't tell anyone." Max explained.
	"Who's the Prankster?" Buster asked.
	"I don't know!  He never showed me his face!  That's the truth!" Max
cried.
	Buster decided to believe Max's story.  Whenever his hide was concerned,
Max always did anything he could to save it, including betraying his comrades
and friends.  "Okay Babs." Buster said.
	Babs gave a devilish grin.  "Hey Elmyra!  Your date is getting lonely!"
Babs shouted.
	"I'm coming Maxxy!" Elmyra called out.
	"What are you doing?!" Max demanded.
	"Payment for your crimes." Buster said calmly.  He could think of no other
method that was more severe on Max then being chased by Elmyra.
	"No!" Max screamed as he ran away.  Elmyra was now hot on his heels
again.  	The two disappeared along the horizon.
	"So, Perfecto is behind this." Babs said.
	"There must be a spy in the Looniversity, but who?" Buster asked.
	"I'd say Jeffrey Wolf!" Babs shouted.
	"Don't convict anyone yet, Babs." Buster said.
	Plucky then walked up to them, out of breath.  "With friends like you, who
needs enemies." Plucky said, and collapsed on the ground.

	Fifi sat in her car alone and depressed.  She felt sorry for Hamton and
knew that the Prankster had pulled a real low trick when he packed Hamton's
locker with pork and bacon.  Even when she was the Prankster, Fifi knew she
would never go so low.  Fifi then decided to call Babs to see if she was home. 
She was interested in finding out the news on Max's relation to the Prankster.
	"Hello." Babs said over the phone.
	"Bonjour, Babs.  Do vou have anything new?" Fifi asked.
	"Not really.  It seems our Prankster is from Perfecto Prep.  Max had
supported him." Babs explained.
	"Oh, that Max!  I will give him, how vou say, a piece of my mind!" Fifi
growled.
	"Don't worry Fifi.  Buster already sentenced him to stay with Elmyra."
Babs laughed.
	Fifi laughed when she heard this.  Though Fifi knew she could make
Max's life rotten, she could not deny the fact that giving him to Elmyra was an
even greater form of torture.  "Zat will do.  What about ze Prankster?" Fifi asked.
	"Max doesn't know his real name.  We'll find him." Babs assured.  The
voice of Babs's mother could then be heard in the background.  "I got to go.  See
you later!" Babs said and hung up.
	Fifi hung up a few seconds later.  She felt that not enough was being done
to stop the Prankster.  Fifi did not wish to see her friends suffer anymore,
especially Hamton.  Something had to be done if the Prankster was to be stopped.
	Fifi put the thoughts aside for a moment and decided to go for a walk. 
She went to her wardrobe and looked for one of her coats.  As she did, Fifi
spotted a bag in the far corner of her wardrobe.  It was barely visible.  She pulled
the bag out to see its contents.
"Sacre Pew!" Fifi said in surprise as she looked in the bag.
	Inside the bag was some black clothing that Fifi knew all to well.  It was a
costume she had worn when she assumed her dark character.  At first, she
wondered how the clothes managed to appear in her closet, since her Prankster
costume had been burnt to ashes.  She then remembered that it was actually a
spare in case the original costume was ever destroyed.  She had completely
forgotten about it and had managed to always overlook the costume until now.
	"Why do vou haunt moi?" Fifi asked to the outfit.  Fifi then threw the
outfit out of the car.

	Jeffrey Wolf walked down the city streets alone.  He had just exited a
Weenie Burger shop and decided to take a small tour of Acme Acres city region. 
Since his family lived in the country, he rarely did get to see what the city was
like.  For him, it was gigantic and cramped.  He found it hard on how anyone
could live in the city.
	Jeffrey walked by a nearby store that was having its front being repainted. 
A large number of paint cans had been left open and on the ladders the painters
had used.  Jeffrey didn't notice this as he walked backwards to look at some
posters.
	CRASH!  Before he knew what happened, Jeffrey found himself covered
in black paint that had fallen off a ladder he bumped into.
	"Huh?" Jeffrey said.  He stumbled backwards in surprise into a nearby
white pillar.  After leaning on the pillar to regain his balance, Jeffrey walked a
small distance away to survey the damage he did.  When he looked at the pillar he
backed into, he saw that it also had been painted, and now some of the paint had
been removed, presumably on his back and tail.  "Oh no." Jeffrey said.
	"Ooh, la, la!  Le skunk-hunk!" said the all to familiar voice.
	Jeffrey looked down the road to see Fifi watching him.  Fifi always
seemed to be around when someone who looked like a skunk appeared.
	"Let ze chase begin!" Fifi shouted.  Her feet then made the usual spin
action as she took off after her new playmate.
	"Wait!  This isn't what you think!" Jeffrey shouted as he took off down the
road.
	"Vou can run, but vou can not hide from moi!" Fifi shouted happily.  As
Fifi chased her "skunk", she forgot about all her worries and troubles.
	Jeffrey continued to run.  He had to find a way to get the paint off of him
and fast.  It would not take long for Fifi to come up with a way to snare him.  Fifi
was an expert when it came to snaring guys, especially with her lethal tail. 
Feeling he was beginning to outrun her, Jeffrey ran into the park and hid behind a
tree close to the water fountain in the park.  "This can't be happening to me."
Jeffrey said.  He then looked around for the love crazed skunk, but saw she was
nowhere around. 
	Without his knowing, a lavender tail snaked its way down the tree trunk
until it was next to Jeffrey's head.  At this point, Jeffrey smelled the foul odor.  He
looked to the tail that was next to his head and screamed.  Before he could run,
the tail had looped itself around his neck to hold him.  "Oh no!" Jeffrey gagged as
he struggled to get out.
	"Fifi has got you now, no?" Fifi said.  She was hanging from a nearby
branch with her tail extended to its limits.
	"No!" Jeffrey shouted.  He then pushed away from the tree in a last effort
to get away.  He managed to finally break away when she lost her balance.  As
Fifi fell out of the tree, Jeffrey stumbled into the water fountain, causing the water
to turn black and gray.
	"Come out!  Come out!" Fifi called as she ran to the fountain and reached
in.  Her hand swept the bottom of the fountain for several minutes before she
finally grabbed something.  She pulled the wolf out by the head.  "Jeffrey Wolf?"
Fifi said in surprise.  She then felt a wave of anger hit her.  "Of all ze people I 'ave
mistaken as ze skunk 'unk!" Fifi growled.
	"Like I said, this isn't what you think." the wolf said, and started coughing
out the water he swallowed.
	"Vou are ze one who started zis!" Fifi shouted.  Lethal fumes started to
emerge from her tail.  The odor was even stronger when compared to the odor Fifi
emitted when she was chasing skunks.
	"What?" Jeffrey asked as he got out of the fountain.
	"Vou ruined my special evening!" Fifi shouted as she grabbed her tail and
pointed it to Jeffrey.
	"Wait a minute!  I tried to tell you I wasn't a skunk!" Jeffrey cried as he
stumbled backwards.
	"Not zis!  Ze prom!  Vou were ze Prankster!" Fifi cried angrily.
	"No!  Give me a few minutes to explain!  I'll tell you everything!  If you
don't like what I say, you can shoot me!" Jeffrey pleaded.
	Fifi looked over him.  She knew he was a villain in training and probably
had some scheme to get away.  But Fifi's curiosity on what Jeffrey had to say was
getting the better of her.  She had to admit that she could be mistaken, and Buster
was right not to judge Jeffrey quickly.  Fifi had to know before she would spray
him.  "Talk!" Fifi ordered.
	"I admit that I was curious about the Prankster.  I figured that perhaps he
could teach me to be a better villain." Jeffrey started.
	"Why?" Fifi demanded.
	"You probably heard this already, but in case you didn't, I am a distant
cousin of Big Bad." Jeffrey said.
	"Ze wolf, Big Bad?" Fifi asked, surprised.
	"Yeah.  My whole family has always tried to follow in his footsteps, well,
almost all.  I'm the exception.  I could never be vicious enough.  I did try, but
never got the hang of the role of being a villain.  I was a disappointment to my
family." Jeffrey said.
	"What does zis have to do with ze Prankster?" Fifi asked, holding her tail
even more firmly.
	"I heard about the Prankster you played on the news.  When I found out
how you had been converted from the love chasing skunk to the playful villain, I
decided to find out how you did it so I to could become a villain as well." Jeffrey
said.
	"Ze role stinks." Fifi said.
	"Well, I decided to come to the Looniversity in hopes of learning more at
being a villain and to meet you.  I wanted to learn from you, as the Prankster.  I
then could become a villain to impress my family." Jeffrey said.
	Fifi eased up on her tail slightly.  She had never really had a family before,
but she could understand why he wanted to impress them.  Whenever she was at
Hamton's house, she always tried to impress Hamton's parents into thinking she
was the perfect girl.  Of course, she sometimes screwed up in the process.
	"But then someone else took the role.  When I first saw the Prankster, I
thought you had been willing to take up your old character.  I then learned
someone else assumed the role." Jeffrey said.
	"If what vou say ees true, why didn't you appear at ze dance?" Fifi asked.
	"I can't dance.  I didn't want to look like the fool." Jeffrey admitted after a
brief pause.
	Fifi almost didn't buy this excuse until she remembered what happened
with a certain blue rabbit at his first prom.  Buster didn't know how to dance and
almost made a complete fool out of himself.
	"And that's the truth." Jeffrey finished.
	Fifi looked into his eyes closely.  As she did, she could hear Buster telling
her not to make any convictions on anyone without solid proof.  Fifi had to admit
that there was no proof.  It was true that the Prankster never showed up when
Jeffrey Wolf was around, but neither did Shirley when Fifi played as the
Prankster.  It was a clever trick to shift the blame.
	Fifi lowered her tail.  "Do vou know who zis new Prankster ees?" Fifi
asked.
	"No.  I have tried to find that out so I could learn from him at least.  But
he doesn't appear in school." Jeffrey said.
	"Zis ees not ze role to pursue.  I learned ze hard way when I accepted ze
job.  I almost lost moi friends and was driven out of school by ze students.  It ees
not worth it." Fifi said.
	Jeffrey could see the sadness Fifi felt when she told him not to pursue the
role.  "If this character is so evil, what are you going to do about this new
Prankster?" Jeffrey asked.
	"I don't know." Fifi said as she started to walk away.
	"Wait!  Surely you have to do something.  He stole your character.  Maybe
you can assume your role again and stop him." Jeffrey said as he pursued Fifi.
	"I don't want to be ze Prankster!" Fifi cried.  She then ran off as fast as she
could.
	
	Days went by and the situation with the new Prankster got worse. 
Although the Prankster did not play any pranks in the school, he still played
pranks out of school, especially on the football team.  Buster and his teammates
suffered a number of brutal pranks on the field at the Acme Stadium.  Buster
knew not only did this disrupt practice for the big game, but also lowered the
spirits of the team.  Unless the Prankster was found soon, Buster feared the worst.
	Shirley, Babs, and Fifi were eating at a Weenie Burger.  They had just
finished in creating some new slogans for cheering the team on during the big
game and upcoming Pep Rally.
	"Like, here they come now." Shirley said as she peered through a window.
	"Looks like they have had better days." Babs said.
	Buster, Hamton, and Plucky walked through the entrance to Weenie
Burger.  They appeared to have survived a war.  They even wore bandages around
their arms and legs.
	"Who won the war?" Babs asked as Buster and his friends took a seat at
the table.
	"The Prankster hit us again.  We had checked all our equipment and field
supplies.  Everything seemed all right.  But when we stepped on the field -"
Buster said.
	"KA-BOOM!" Plucky shouted.
	"The Prankster had placed mines all over the field." Hamton explained.
	"Ouch." Babs said.
	"You're telling me." Plucky said.
	"And that's not the worst of it.  Two players quit until we can resolve this."
Buster explained.
	"Can't Bugs help you?" Fifi asked.
	"Nope.  He's trying to make sure the Prankster doesn't show up in school. 
If he helps us, the school will be vulnerable." Buster explained.
	"Well, if push comes to shove, me and the rest of us ladies will join your
team again." Babs said.  Both Shirley and Fifi nodded in agreement to this.
	"That won't make much difference with the Prankster loose." Plucky said.
	"Why not?" Babs asked.
	"Well, being blown up all the time has made practice a dangerous sport."
Plucky said.
	"The Prankster has interfered with each of our plays and caused us a lot of
trouble.  We can't complete one play without falling into one of his cruel jokes."
Buster said.
	"Unless he's stopped, we'll lose big time." Hamton said.
	"There's got to be something we can do?" Babs demanded.
	"What?  We got no weapons to fight off this guy." Buster said.
	"I say we go after Jeffrey Wolf!  He is the Prankster!" Plucky shouted.
	Buster was about to tell it was wrong to accuse, when Babs jumped in. 
"Maybe your right.  Jeffrey has never been around when we saw the Prankster. 
Maybe we should take him in, just in case." Babs said
	"Babs!" Buster said and gave Babs an angry stare.
	"I zink Jeffrey ees innocent" Fifi said.
	The entire group looked to Fifi in surprise.
	"Like, why do you think that?" Shirley asked.
	Fifi immediately began to tell about her conversation with Jeffrey the
other night.  She even explained how she reasoned that Jeffrey was just a curious
spectator, who was just in the wrong spot at the wrong time.  The only thing Fifi
neglected to mention was how she had mistaken Jeffrey as a skunk, a fact she
didn't want Hamton to know about.  After the story, the group had mixed
reactions to the story.  Buster, Babs, and Shirley felt that Jeffrey probably was
telling the truth.  Plucky still thought Jeffrey was the Prankster.  Hamton was
unsure.
	"The story does fit what Mortimer told me about Jeffrey." Babs said.
	"Ralph told me the same thing as well." Buster said.
	"So what do we do?" Hamton asked.
	"I don't know." Buster said.
	"We better think of something.  The Pep Rally is tomorrow night." Babs
said.
	"Like, I don't know if there is anything we can do.  We all have to appear
on stage." Shirley stated.
	"The most we can do is keep a sharp look out for that Prankster." Buster
said.

	After the conversation at Weenie Burger, the group headed home with
heavy thoughts on the upcoming tragedies.  Fifi and Shirley had decided to walk
home together since both of their houses were in the same general direction.  The
two had spent the better part of the walk in thought.
	"Shirley.  Can you read ze future?" Fifi asked.
	"Like, I can read anyone's future.  You know that Fifi." Shirley said.
	"No.  Not palm reading.  Can vou see what ees een ze future?" Fifi asked.
	"Well, not really.  A lot of things can happen in the future.  I can only,
like, get a few flashes." Shirley explained.
	"Can vou see what will happen tomorrow night?" Fifi asked.
	"Like, I guess I can try." Shirley answered.  The next moment, Fifi ran to
Shirley's house, while towing the loon behind her.  Once there, Fifi helped Shirley
setup Shirley's crystal ball in the living room.
	"Like, I can not say this will work." Shirley said as she took a seat in front
of her crystal ball.
	"Zis may be our only chance to know ze Prankster's plan." Fifi stated.
	"Very well." Shirley said.  She then began to wave her arms over the
crystal ball and began her chant.  The crystal ball glowed as Shirley looked into it
for answers.  "I see the Pep Rally.  I see Bugs talking over the fundamentals of the
game.  Now I see - What?" Shirley said as the visions of the crystal ball went
dark.
	"We're sorry.  The information you have requested can not be shown at
this time." said a operator voice from the crystal ball.
	"What happened?" Fifi asked.
	"Writer's block.  Guess we aren't aloud to see what happens in the future,
or some junk." Shirley explained.
	"Zis ees terrible." Fifi said.
	"Guess we'll just have to see what happens." Shirley said.

	That night, Fifi found herself returning to her nightmare world.  Only this
time Fifi was at the Looniversity itself.  She stood on the steps that led to the main
entrance.  Although the Looniversity was usually cheery and happy, in the dream,
it had the appearance of an evil tower in front of a black sky.  She could hear the
whispering voices calling out "Prankster" from within the building.
	"Zis can not be happening!" Fifi cried.
	"It's happening.  You can not stop it." said the all to familiar voice.
	Fifi turned around to see the Prankster appear behind her.
	"No matter what you do, I will always be within you.  There's nothing you
can do." the Prankster laughed.
	Fifi ran through the entrance of the Looniversity in hopes of escape.  The
halls seemed dark and endless.  As she ran, the lockers around her began to
morph into large mirrors.  Each mirror showed the Prankster's face in it.  The
image of the Prankster shouted and laughed at her.  The faces then changed into
the students of the Looniversity, who still taunted her.
	"No!" Fifi shouted as she collapsed on the ground and began to cry.  As
she did, the mirrors faded into the darkness.  Fifi began to wonder if there was
any hope of ending the madness.  Was it her destiny to be haunted forever by this
demon?
	"It's, like, a pretty tough fight, isn't it." said a voice behind her.  It was not
the Prankster's, but someone Fifi recognized.
	"Shirley?" Fifi asked.
	The image of Shirley appeared gave a slight smile.  "Not really.  You
might say I'm, like, your subconscious and the will you have to destroy the
Prankster." the image said.
	"But why take ze image of Shirley?" Fifi said.
	"She's the only one you know who understands this subconscious junk."
the image answered.
	Fifi accepted the answer.  She then turned to the problem at hand.  "Ees
zere a way to get rid of ze Prankster?" Fifi asked.
	"Not really.  That all depends on what you do." the Shirley image replied.
	"What do I have to do?" Fifi asked.
	"You have to face your fears.  Like, you have to admit that you are the
Prankster." the Babs image said.
	"I am not ze Prankster!" Fifi cried.
	"Maybe not the Prankster that terrorizes your friends now, but you are. 
This new Prankster reminds you of all the things you did to your friends, or some
junk.  Like, you don't want to see the events when you became the Prankster to be
relived." the image said.
	Fifi shivered as tears poured down her cheeks.  Images of what she did as
the Prankster appeared all around her.  Fifi looked at each of them and wondered
why she even took the role.  "When I was ze Prankster, I betrayed moi friends.  I
hurt zem so bad.  Ze character represents all ze evil I did to zem.  To see him ees
torture.  I want him out of moi life." Fifi said.
	"Perhaps what you need is a new image for the Prankster." the Shirley
image said.
	"Huh?" Fifi asked.
	"A new way for the people to see you as the Prankster." the Shirley image
said.
	What followed were two flashbacks to her past.  The first flashback was
after Hamton had ran through the stadium wall.  Fifi relived the entire
conversation that happened, but one part caught Fifi's attention the most.  The part
where Babs shouted "I wish there was a Prankster to play tricks on this Prankster! 
Teach this guy he can't mess around with us!".  The second flashback occurred
when she had last talked with Jeffrey Wolf.  Just before she had left, Jeffrey said,
"He stole your character.  Maybe you can assume your role again and stop him."
	"Vou are saying I must - " Fifi found it hard to accept the fate.
	"It may, like, be the only way." the Shirley image said and faded away.
	Fifi awoke the next second.  She sighed in relief to be back in the safety of
her own bed.  "I have to end ze Prankster's reign of terror." Fifi said to herself. 
She then took a quick glance out her window.  To her surprise, she saw a skunk,
or a cat with the misfortune of having a white stripe down his back.  "But ze call
to love must be answered first!" Fifi said patriotically.  She then gave chase.

	The next day, Shirley and Babs met in front of the Looniversity wearing
their cheerleading outfits and carrying gym bags.  At the front of the school, a
giant stage had been erected in front of the Looniverity entrance, as well as some
bleachers to overlook the stage.  The stage consisted of red curtains that were
twenty feet high and a yellow background piece with the Warner Brothers shield
on it.  There was also a podium for Bugs to read from.
	"Like, the decoration committee did a good job on the stage." Shirley said
as she looked over the stage.
	"Yeah.  I wonder where Fifi is?" Babs asked as she looked around.
	"Like I stopped by her house, but she wasn't there.  I thought she came
here." Shirley said.
	"You don't suppose she's in trouble, do you?" Babs asked.
	"I hope not.  Let's ask around." Shirley suggested.
	The two girls looked around and called all the members of the football
team.  No one knew where Fifi was.  The girls became slightly concerned until
they came back to the stage, where they found a note addressed to them.  It read:

	Dear Babs and Shirley,
		I will not be able to make it to ze Pep Rally.  I have found ze
Skunk-hunk of moi dreams.
						Fifi

	"Of all the times to become love sick.  Well, at least she's okay." Babs
said.
	"Yeah.  But, like, what about us.  We need a third cheerleader or some
junk.  The Pep Rally will be ruined if we don't have a third cheerleader." Shirley
said.
	"Who do we have for replacements?" Babs asked.
	Shirley fingered through her gym bag and pulled out a small notebook. 
"Well, there was Mary Melody, but she is televising the event.  I don't think we
can get Calamity to dress up as a girl again.  No one can understand Dizzy."
Shirley said as she paged through the notebook.
	"Who does that leave?" Babs asked.
	Shirley's jaw dropped.  "Like, you don't want to know." Shirley said as she
closed her notebook.
	Later that day, Babs and Shirley watched their new cheerleader practice
on the stage.
	"Two!  Four!  Six!  Eight!  Who do we appreciate!  Bunnies!  Bunnies! 
Bunnies!" cheered Elmyra in a cheerleader costume.
	"Shirley, I have to say that this was a definite sign of desperation." Babs
commented.
	"Like, very." Shirley added.
	"Remind me to kill Fifi." Babs growled.

	"Don't worry.  After tonight, Acme will have lost all hope of winning,
guaranteed." the Prankster said on a pay phone.
	"I don't believe in guarantees." Roderick Rat of Perfecto said.
	"How about my word." the Prankster said.
	"Fine.  Just get the job done.  Remember, we don't like to loose.  This is
Acme's chance of becoming the number one team.  We can't let that happen."
Roderick said.
	"I've ruined every practice.  They won't be a challenge.  After all, you have
been practicing for a long time." the Prankster said.
	There was a long pause on the phone.
	"Roderick?" the Prankster asked.
	"That's none of your concern!  Just ruin the Pep Rally.  And loose that
high pitched voice, its giving me a headache." Roderick said and hung up the
phone.
	The Prankster hanged up the pay phone.  He then adjusted the voice
modulator on his face.  If anything, he wanted to get out the costume of the
Prankster.  It was hot, uncomfortable, and just plain ugly.  The only reason he
even wore it was because it covered his true identity.  He wondered how even Fifi
ever got involved with the Prankster idea.  Fortunately, after tonight, he could
finally be accepted into Perfecto Prep.
	The Prankster then turned to the giant box of fireworks next to him. 
"Buster Bunny.  This will surely light up your life." the Prankster laughed.

	That evening, the front of Acme Looniversity was lit up and a feeling of
celebration was in the air.  The teachers gathered on the stage, along with the
football team.  The cheerleaders stood in the corner of the stage and did their
victory dances.  After the music and crowd had quieted down, Bugs got up and
began to give his standard speech about Acme's team.  Little did they know was
that the Prankster was getting ready to strike again.
	The Prankster laughed silently to himself from behind the stage.  Slowly
he stuffed the fireworks under the stage.  If he got the bearings correct, the
fireworks would launch right underneath the area the football team sat.  He also
put some fireworks underneath the podium to light up Buster's life when Buster
did his speech to the students.
	The Prankster then overheard a part of the speech Bugs was doing.  "With
all their hours of practice, Acme will send Perfecto into orbit." Bugs shouted to
the crowd.
	"More like vice versa." the Prankster said as he fitted the last of the
fireworks under the stage.  He then crawled out from under the stage, at the back
end.  He reached into his backpack and pulled out the switch to activate the
fireworks, along with some wire.  "Now, all I have to do is attach this wire to the
fireworks and KA-BOOM!" the Prankster laughed.  He then placed the switch on
the ground at the edge of the stage and crawled to the fireworks.
	As the Prankster went under the stage to connect the fireworks, another
figure crawled out of the bushes and replaced the switch for the fireworks with
another one.  After the swap, the dark figure sneaked back into the bushes.
	The Prankster then came out from under the stage.  He took the remote
control and waited patiently for Buster's speech.
	On stage, Bugs had just finished his speech to the students on what he had
taught the team.  "Now, without further due, Buster Bunny." Bugs called out.  The
students applauded and shouted happily as Buster walked to the podium.
	"Fellow toonsters.  The team has worked long and hard during these last
few days, and I guarantee that this season will go out with a bang!" Buster began.
	"You can say that again." the Prankster laughed silently to himself.  He
then hit the switch.
	BOOM!  When the smoke cleared, the Prankster was on the ground in a
smoldering heap.  "What happened?" he asked himself.  It took him a moment to
realize that the controller he held had exploded and had not ignited the fireworks
under the stage.  "That's the last time I buy from ACME." the Prankster said.
	As the Prankster bent to pick himself up, he felt something brush up
behind him.  Immediately he turned around to meet his provoker.  To his surprise,
he was starring straight into another Prankster.  "What's going on here?" the
Prankster demanded.  He then made a series of movements, starting off with
small waves and ending up with crazy dances.  The second figure copied every
movement he made without error.  "Where did this mirror come from?" the
Prankster asked himself.  He spent a few moments pondering.  "Wait a minute! 
There is no mirror here!" he said.
	"Bingo!" said the second Prankster in Fifi's voice.  She quickly pulled out
a mallet from her backpack and hammered the Prankster into the ground.  She
then disappeared in a flash.
	The Prankster's head was the only thing not driven into the ground by the
mallet.  "Anyone got any aspirin?" the Prankster said in a dazed state.  He then
returned to his normal state and pulled himself out of the hole.  "Fifi!  I should
have known!" the Prankster said.
	"Give ze man ze cigar." Fifi said as she appeared out of the bushes to stuff
a cigar in his mouth, and disappeared the next instant.
	"Huh?" the Prankster said.
	BOOM!  The cigar had exploded in the Prankster's face.
	Fifi leaned against the stage and laughed uncontrollably.
	"That does it!" the Prankster shouted and charged Fifi.
	"Uh-oh." Fifi said just before the two crashed together and wrestled
around.  The two went spinning into different directions, surrounded by a small
dust cloud.

	On stage, Buster continued with his speech on how hard he and the team
practiced for the coming game.  No one knew of the wrestling match happening
behind the stage.
	"And let this be known that no one will stop my team from winning, not
even that sneaky Prankster - " Buster began before something caught his eye. 
Wrestling across one side of the stage and rolling to the other side of the stage
were two Pranksters.  "Who seems to be wrestling with himself across the stage."
Buster finished.
	The crowd made a collective gasp.
	"At last!  I can get even with the Prankster." Plucky shouted.
	"Plucky, wait!" Hamton called out.
	But Hamton was to late.  Plucky jumped right into the two wrestling
Pranksters.  Seconds after, Plucky was tossed out, his body in the shape of a
pretzel.  "Maybe I should sit this one out." Plucky groaned.
	"Uh oh.  I think I have a idea on who the second Prankster is." Babs said
to Shirley.
	"Like, it must be Fifi." Shirley said.
	"And the other one is probably Jeffrey Wolf!" Babs said.
	Suddenly, Jeffrey Wolf jumped onto the stage next to the cheerleaders. 
"At last!  I get to see the Prankster in action!" Jeffrey shouted happily as he
pointed a video camera at the two Prankster's wrestling around.
	"Huh?" Shirley said.
	"If that's not Jeffrey, who is the Prankster, and why doesn't Fifi just skunk
him?" Babs asked.
	"I don't think she can.  Her tail is inside the costume.  We got to stop this."
Shirley said.
	Bugs jumped to attention after being stunned by the sudden appearance of
the two Pranksters.  "This has gone on quite enough!" Bugs said as he rushed into
the fight, trying to split the two up.  Instead of separating the fight, Bugs was
pulled into it, and thrown out in the same condition Plucky was.  "I'm only three
and a half." Bugs said.
	The teachers and students on the stage ran off to avoid a similar fate.  A
few seconds afterwards, the two Pranksters separated from their wrestling match
and stood growling at each other.
	"What's going on here?" Buster asked.
	"One of those is the Prankster and one is Fifi trying to stop the Prankster."
Babs said.
	"Which is the Prankster?" Hamton asked.
	"He ees!" both Pranksters said, pointing a accusing finger at each other. 
They then looked angrily at each other.
	"Let's just pick one!" Plucky said.  He then rushed up on the stage with a
mallet in his hands and smashed it down on the Prankster on the right side of the
stage.  The Prankster Plucky hit fell down dazed.  Plucky pulled off the mask to
reveal Fifi underneath the mask.  "Oops.  Wrong one." Plucky said.  
	WHAM!  Plucky was hit on the head by a mallet from the true Prankster.
	"Thanks, duck!" the real Prankster said and ran off.
	"Get him!" Buster shouted.  All the students followed Buster's lead to
catch the villain, except Babs and Shirley.  The Prankster and the group of the
students vanished over the horizon.
	Shirley and Babs went to their fallen friend.  "Are you okay?" Babs asked
as she and Shirley helped Fifi to her feet.
	"What happened?" Fifi asked.
	"Like, you can blame a certain green mallard." Shirley said.
	"The real Prankster got away, but everyone is on his heels." Babs said.
	"Non!  I must get 'im!" Fifi said.
	Shirley then looked to the horizon and saw the rushing mob of students
chasing the Prankster.  "Like, here they come now." Shirley said.
	"I zink I have ze idea." Fifi said with a devilish grin.

	The Prankster found himself running back to the Looniversity.  He was
tired from the fight with Fifi and he couldn't let the students know who he was. 
He had to find a hiding spot fast.  As he approached the Looniversity, he saw Go-
Go motioning him at the stage.
	"Quick!  Hide under here!" Go-Go said.
	The Prankster wasted no time in jumping underneath the stage.  He went
as deep as he could go.
	After the Prankster had jumped under the stage, Go-Go unzipped himself
to reveal Babs Bunny in disguise.  She acted innocent as the mob ran past her.
Babs then motioned to Fifi in the bushes.  "He's all yours!" Babs shouted as she
ran to take cover.
	"Huh?" the Prankster said from his hiding spot.  He then noticed the cache
of fireworks next to him.  "This is going to hurt." the Prankster groaned.
	"Fire in ze hole!" Fifi shouted as she pressed the switch the Prankster was
going to use to ignite the fireworks.
	The stage exploded as rockets shot up from underneath the stage. 
Firecrackers exploded all along the ground in a dazzling display of light.  A single
large rocket erupted from the ruined stage, with the Prankster clinging onto it,
screaming.  The rocket zoomed across the heavens, making the most complicated
spirals in the air.  It finally came crashing down where it exploded in front of the
Looniversity.  A small crater was created, with the Prankster in the center of it. 
The dark figure was in a state of shock as he saw his whole life flash before his
eyes.
	As the Prankster tried to recover from the experience, Fifi walked behind
the Prankster, holding a club.  She eyed the dark figure for a few seconds.  "I do
not have ze heart to do zis." Fifi said as she tossed the club down and walked
away.
	The Prankster sighed in relief as he began to recover.
	"But we do!" Buster said with the entire Looniversity backing him up.
	"Mommy." the Prankster whimpered as thousands of toons jumped him.

	After the students of the Looniversity had settled down after their attack
on the Prankster, the villain was held down as Bugs, Buster, and the rest of the
gang gathered around him.  They had the figure wrapped in several chains and
locks to make sure he couldn't get away.
	"Finally, we can find out who our friend is.  Fifi, will you do the honors."
Bugs asked.
	Fifi walked to the Prankster and ripped the mask off with ease.
	"Ralph?  Like, our new transfer student?" Shirley said surprised.
	"You were expecting Scooby Doo." Ralph groaned.
	"But he was at the prom with the rest of the transfer students." Plucky
said.
	"But he ran off and disappeared just before the Prankster struck.  It
happened after he drank some of that spiked punch.  Remember." Buster said.
	"Oh yeah." Plucky said.
	"But why?" Babs asked Ralph.
	"You losers don't know what you're missing.  Perfecto was willing to let
me into their school with full suite accommodations and a diploma, provided I
could give them everything on the football plays.  When I learned about the
Prankster, I decided to ruin your game.  I would have gotten away with this if
wasn't for that polecat." Ralph answered.
	"Take him to detention." Bugs ordered.
	Arnold started to carry Ralph away.
	"Sorry Bugs.  I'm not enrolled in this school.  Therefore you can't put me
in detention." Ralph laughed.
	"Uh-Oh.  He's right." Bugs said.
	"May I offer a suggestion?" Babs asked.
	"Go ahead." Bugs said.  Babs proceeded to whisper in his ear.  "Not bad,
kid." Bugs said, giving a devilish grin.
	"Take your best shot!  The Looniversity can't touch me!" Ralph shouted.

	The next day, the football game against Perfecto and Acme started. 
Despite Perfecto's desperate attempts to cheat, their attempts were in vain.  They
had expected that their Prankster would have left Acme in the worst condition. 
So confident was Perfecto that they didn't even practice.  But with the Prankster
caught, the Acme Football Team got their morale back and crushed Perfecto, 77
to 0.
	That night, the team celebrated at the Looniversity.  They lit a giant
bonfire in the courtyard and danced the night away.  In one corner of the party,
Buster, Babs, Shirley, Plucky, Hamton, and Fifi sat and talked.
	"It's a good thing we had our own Prankster to help us.  Buster would
never have solved the case." Babs said to Fifi.
	"Hey!  Who's side are you on?" Buster demanded.
	"Fifi's, of course." Babs said.
	Buster slapped his forehead in frustration.  Everyone else laughed.
	"Like, whatever happened to Ralph?  What did you tell Bugs to do?"
Shirley asked Babs.
	"Well, since the Looniversity could not punish Ralph, we decided to
donate him to someone who would appreciate his company." Babs said in a sly
tone.
	"You don't mean-" Plucky began.
	"Elmyra." Babs burst out laughing.
	"Calamity even donated a special escape proof cage to hold Ralph in."
Buster said.
	"Like, isn't that cruel and unusual punishment." Shirley asked.
	Everyone looked at each other for a few seconds.  "No." they all said in
unison.
	"At least we can finally relax." Hamton said.
	"Oui." Fifi said.
	"Like, whatever happened to that Prankster's manual that was stolen?"
Shirley asked.
	Everyone turned to Fifi, expecting a answer.  Fifi frowned a little.  "Ze
never found eet.  Ralph did not have eet on him." Fifi said.
	"So there can be another Prankster?" Plucky asked.
	"Oui." Fifi said.
	"Well, I know one thing.  We now have our own Prankster to fight back."
Buster said motioning to Fifi.
	"Moi?" Fifi asked, surprised.
	"Yeah.  Everyone knows you took your old role to save the Pep Rally. 
They respect you and your Prankster role now.  You've become quit a hero."
Buster explained.
	Fifi was speechless for a few moments.  Her frown disappeared and was
replaced by a smile.  "Ze Prankster shall appear whenever someone uses 'is name
against ze Looniversity." Fifi proclaimed.  No longer would Fifi allow the
Prankster to appear.  She would make it her sworn duty.
	"Hopefully, no one will ever again." Buster said.

The End?
I don't think so.  HA!  HA!  HA!

The Prankster idea is my idea and I ask that no one use him without my
permission.  All other characters belong to Warner Brothers and are not used with
permission.  Hope you enjoyed it.  This is hardly the last you'll see of tall, dark,
and having a poor sense of humor.  I plan to try my luck with "Prankster III: Not
Him Again!".  This may be the last of my Prankster stories I write.
	I want to especially thank Pepe for looking over the story.  I appreciated
your suggestions and help.  Thanks.