"TOONBUSTERS" by Ryan Farnsworth Featuring:Buster,Plucky,Hampton,Babs,Fifi,Shirley, Calamity,Montana Max, & Bugs Bunny Summary: They dress up in costumes kids wear on halloween, Blast ghosts with souped up vaccume cleaners, And expect to be taken seriously. Not quite. But they can still try. It's a beautiful Saturday morning in Acme Acres. But things aren't always what they seem. Buster is in his rabbit hole kicking back, munching on a carrot, and preparing for a ghost movie marathon on tv. His movie going experience is briefly interrupted by the loud ring of the telephone."Hello?" said Buster impatiently, wanting to go back to his couch potatoing. "Hi, Buster. Wanna do something?" Babs said gleefuly over the phone. "I`d love to, Babsie, but I've got so many things to do. You know, clean the burrow, mow the lawn." "You're watching tv aren't you?" said Babs. "Am I that predictable?" Buster questioned. "More than you think," said Babs breaking out into laughter. Buster slammed the reciever down on the phone and turned his attention back to the tube. Meanwhile, across town in Montana Max's mansion, Monty is having phone troubles of his own. "What do you mean Acme Acres isn't for sale?" Max screamed into the phone. Max had been planning to buy Acme Acres, tear it down, and build condos, malls, casinos, and other places that could cater for the super rich. Unfortunately Monty was less than successful. "You can't do this to me! I'm rich! I'll sue!" Max yelled before throwing the phone up against the wall. "There has to be a way to get a price tag on Acme Acres, but how?!" Max slammed his fist against the wall causing a book on top of the shelf to fall, knocking him senseless. When Max came too he examined the book. The cover read: GHOSTS FACT OR FICTION. Max's angry frown turned to an evil grin. "That's it!" Max yelled as he picked up the phone and dialed. "Hello? Warner Bros. animation department? Montana Max here, I have a proposition for you." Back at Buster's burrow, the ghost movie marathon has finally ended. Buster decides to go find Babs and the guys and maybe head off to the movies. As he dashes down the road toward Babs's rabbit hole, he runs into Plucky and Hamton. "If you're looking for Babs, you're too late," said Plucky. Buster stopped cold in his tracks. "What doya' mean too late?" replied Buster. "You just missed 'em," Hamton interrupted, "Babs, Fifi ,& Shirley took off twenty minutes ago for the mall." "So? We'll meet'em there. Come on," Buster called as he sped off towards the Acme Megamall. Plucky and Hamton shrugged at each other before running after him, trying to catch up. The Acme Megamall was one of the most well known spots in Acme Acres. It was packed full of teenagers, shoppers, or just people hanging around with nothing better to do. Buster arrived at the mall minutes later with Hamton and Plucky still dragging behind. Buster reached for the handle to the front door."I'll meet you guys inside," Buster called. But just as he pryed the door open, the front doors collapsed on top of him as hundreds of shoppers and security guards poured out through the doors. Plucky and Hamton quickly rushed over and lifted the door up. But Buster wasn't underneath it. "Where'd he go?", Hamton asked. "A little help here!" Buster called. "Buster?" Plucky said lifting the door upright. A large blue puddle covered the front side. Hamton whipped out a spatchela and pryed Buster off the door. Pop! Buster immediately returned to his normal shape. "Ouch," he said lifting himself up off the ground. "Buster are you okay?" Hamton asked concerned. "To tell the truth," Buster started to ansewer just as Babs, Shirley, and Fifi ran outside knocking him once more to the ground, "no." The girls were a complete wreck. Their skin turned pale white and were quivering. The expressions on their faces looked like they were scared to death. "Babs what's wrong?" Buster began to question. "G-g-g-g-g-g," Babs said still trying to recover from the shock. Finally when she calmed down she ansewered Buster. "Ghost!!!" she screamed into Buster's ear. "Oui! oui!" Fifi shouted in agreement, "we were in ze department store ven suddenly. . . " "These five ugly ghouls came out of nowhere and started trashing the stores and scaring customeres," Shirley finished. "That's ridiculous, everybody knows theres no such thing as ghosts," Plucky said modestly. "Oh yeah? Well why don't you see for yourself, Plucky," Babs said pointing to the doors. "Fine by me," Plucky said peeking in through the doorway. "I don't see any. . ." Suddenly there was a loud splash sound followed by heinous cackling from inside. Plucky walked back from the door with his entire face covered in green slime. "Now it's personal," Plucky yelled. The door magicly floated by itself and reattached itself to the doorway. "Buster, tell me you have a plan," asked Babs. Buster was silent for a minute. "I've got a plan!" Buster answered enthusiasticly. "I just wish I knew what it was." "Buster, I've got an idea!" Hamton said. The three huddled and whispered to one another. "To the Looniversity!" Buster cried. Inside the Looniversity's laboritory, Calamity Coyote was hard at work trying to complete his science experiment. He swished blue chemicals inside a large beaker. Then took an eyedropper full of red chemicals. He dropped in a spec of red liquid into the beaker. There was a loud KA-BOOM! just as Buster, Plucky, & Hampton entered the room. When the smoke cleared, Calamity was covered in soot and ash. He shook himself off as he approached the boys. "Calamity, we need your help!" Buster said. "Yeah! There's these ghosts and they're really destroying the Acme Megamall," Plucky continued. Calamity turned on the overhead television screen to the local news channel. Bugs Bunny flashed on the screen. "Eh, this Bugs Bunny reporting live from downtown Acme Acres. Reports are coming in from all over town that ghosts are showing up everywhere. Please stay in doors and do not panic." A fat blue ghost appeared behind Bugs. The ghost opened its mouth wide and snarled and groweled at the terrified rabbit. "Start panicing!!!" he yelled as the tv screen went black. "So it's not just happening at the mall, it's happening all over town!" cried Buster. "What can we do?" Hamton replied. Calamity thought for a while, scratching his head. Then a light bulb lit up over his head. He escorted the three out of the room and closed the door behind them. They put their heads close to the door listening to the sounds of a drill, the banging of a hammer, and other loud noises. Five minutes went by before the door opened and Calamity showed them back into the room. Lying on a metal table were three devices that looked like vacume cleaners. They each had shoulder straps and a hose that was connected from the pack to a thin metal barrel. It looked like a shotgun barrel, but not quite. The hose connected to a curved handle with a trigger. "Oh swell! We're going to fight ghosts with screwed up vacume cleaners!" Plucky complained. "You got a better idea?!" Buster asked. "Well can we at least get a change in clothes so if we get slimed we won't ruin our clothes?!" Plucky insisted. "I suppose we should wear some sort of uniform," Hamton said. "Great idea, come on!!" Buster yelled as they thanked Calamity and burst back outside the Looniversity. Back in Montana Max's mansion, the origin of the ghosts are far from unknown. "This is perfect! By having the animators draw in ghosts, everyone will leave Acme Acres, I'll buy the land cheap, tear down the city, and build in its place, 'Montanana Max Land,' the most unhappiest place on earth, with plenty of free parking." Back in front of the mall Babs and the girls are worried. "What'll we do now ?" Babs complained. From the back of the line of the hundreds who had fled from the mall, a path started to form that lead up to the front door. Buster, Hamton, and Plucky walked toward the mall entrance. They were dressed in brown jumpsuits with Calamity's packs strapped around their shoulders. On the the left shoulder of each suit was an embroidered logo of a ghost inside the Warner Bros. symbol with a vertical slash down the middle, which meant "no ghosts." They slowly opened the front doors and walked inside the mall's lobby. Though there were no signs of the ghosts at the moment, destruction was everywhere. Store windows smashed, yogurt from a health food cart nearby sprayed everywhere, and more. "Well guess they're not here, let's go!" Plucky called. Suddenly a glob of slime shot through the air from above and hit Plucky right between the eyes. Buster & Hamton gazed up at five ghastly ghosts grinning and laughing. One floated downward towards the them. "Quick, Hammy, blast'em!" Buster ordered. "How?! We've never used these things before," Hamton replied. The ghost grabbed Hamton by the collar of his suit and lifted him off the ground. The ghost pulled back it's fist, preparing to knock the little porker senseless. Hamton felt around his weapon pushing buttons. The ghost started to move his fist foward as Hamton found the trigger and ZAP!!! Hamton opened his eyes to see a flamming puddle of slime on the ground. "I got one! I got one!" Hamton yelled in delight. But he was still up in the air. He dropped to the ground. Buster and Plucky found they're triggers as well. ZAP!! ZAP!! ZAP!! Laser fire flew every which way. Having not used the weapons before, their blasts often strayed. Buster managed to obliterate an over head lamp, and Plucky wasted a drinking fountain. One by one, heaps of flamming slime hit the floor til' only one ghost was left. Hamton, recovered from his last incident, took aim and fired. The ghost barely dodged the blast. Hamton ground his teeth and fired again. He didn't miss. Back outside all was quiet. "Do you sink zey're all right," Fifi asked sounding worried. "I don't know, but I'm gonna find out!" Babs rolled up her sleeves and marched towards the door. Just then, the door flew open revealing Buster, Plucky, and Hamton with green slime smeared all over their uniforms. "We came, we saw, we kicked their (BEEP)," Plucky cried out victoriously. Hours later, Buster, Plucky, and Hampton had pretty much wrapped up the ghost problem. The local news claimed that practicly every ghost that had appeared was now nothing more than a puddle of lifeless goo. But not everyone was happy. Monty threw the controler through the tv screen. "How!! How do they always beat me?! Oh well, I can pay the animators to keep crankin' out ghosts til' doomsday!!" "Guess again, Monty," a voice called from behind. Max turned to see Buster and his friends with their weapon trained on him. "Now now! let's not be hasty!" Monty cried as he slowly backed away. "I'm rich! I'll pay you whatever you want!!" They looked at each other for a split-second. A grin flashed across their faces. They lowered their weapons and left the room."Monty, we don't want your money," replied Buster. "Well, what do you want?!" asked Monty nervously. "You'll see," and with that he left. Monty ran to the front window. Hamton and Plucky were waiting for Buster. They formed a line, and pointed their weapons at Monty's mansion. "Revenge is much better than money," Buster said. "No!!!!!!" Monty screamed. ZAP!! ZAP!! ZAP!! ZAP!! ZAP!! ZAP!! Montana Max's mansion collapsed into nothing more than a pile of rubble. The three toons holstered their blasters on their packs and walked off with the girls. Buster with Babs, Plucky with Shirley, and Hamton with Fifi. The End Coming Soon: TOONBUSTERS II