Wicked Ways 2: EVEning the score
By Kieron Wells ( Dark Helmet ) ( Dark_Helmet5@Hotmail.com )

			
	"Who knew leveling a city block could be so exhilarating?!?" Eve
exclaimed, short of breath as she walked down the cold street with her arm
around Dizzy.
	"Dizzy like!" Dizzy replied with a wide smile on his face.
	It had been only a few days since Dizzy and Eve started going out, and
they had already caused loads of destruction and headaches for several people.
Eve liked how Dizzy never questioned anything, unlike her last boyfriend.
	The two walked for a little while longer before reaching Eve's newly dark
red painted house.
	"Look, I promised Eddie I'd go somewhere with him. He thinks I'm
neglecting him or something, so this should shut him up. See ya," Eve said. She
then picked Dizzy up and kissed him for a few seconds, and threw him down. Then, she
walked up to her house and walked through the pitch black door.
	Eve unzipped the sides of her knee high deep black boots and slid them off
as she walked over to the phone. She glanced back for a moment and noticed the
envelope next to her mail slot.
	"Wow, they're early this week," Eve commented as she picked up the
envelope and placed it next to the phone.
	She picked up the phone, dialed, and waited a few seconds before and
answer came.
	"Hello?" a slightly muffled voice on the other end said.
	"Hey Eddie. What's with your voice?" Eve inquired
	"I just woke up."
	"It's five in the afternoon," Eve pointed out.
	"Really? Oh well. Anyway, what's up?" Eddie asked.
	"You said you wanted to go somewhere, so we're going to a movie and stuff
tonight."
	"Okay. I'll be over in an hour. See ya," Eddie said as he hung up the
phone.
	Eve opened up the envelope and began flipping through a wad of cash,
counting the green bills.
	"This is more than usual," Eve commented as she pocketed some of it and
placed the rest in a drawer.
	After another hour, Eve's doorbell, which played loud guitar music,
sounded and she answered.
	"You ready?" Eddie asked, his voice muffled a little because he was in
the middle of a yawn.
	"Yeah, let's go," Eve replied as the two walked outside. Eve pulled open
her garage door to reveal a new motorcycle.
	"Nice bike," Eddie commented.
	"Thanks. This was Dizzy's idea," Eve replied. Eddie rolled his eyes.
	Eve threw Eddie a large, black helmet. Eddie got a little of the wind
knocked out of him when the helmet hit him in the stomach.
	"Climb on," Eve instructed as she climbed into the front of the cycle.
Eddie placed the helmet on his head, climbed on and very willingly held onto
Eve's hips as they drove off.
	"Y'know, your hands aren't supposed to rub around my hips like that while
you hold on," Eve explained. Eddie just then realized Eve was conscious of what
he was doing and quickly stopped.
	Eve's now very short and newly spiked black hair blew around a little as
the motorcycle whipped down the street.
	"Watch this!" Eve commanded. She then sped up and tipped the bike to the
side. Eddie shrieked as he saw his face was only inches from the pavement. Just
as Eddie could feel his heart stopping from fear, Eve turned the bike back
normal.
	"Are you insane?" Eddie asked with a little shock still in his voice.
	"You shouldn't have said that," Eve replied. She then tipped again.
	The tipping continued as the two sped around downtown Acme Acres for an
hour before they arrived at the movie theater.
	"So what are we going to see?" Eddie inquired.
	"Titanic 2: Jack's Revenge," Eve replied.
	"It can't be any longer than the first one."
	"It's seven hours. Why do you think we're here so early?"
	Everybody waiting in line outside of the Acme Megaplex theater began to
stare at the sight of Eve's white face, close to twenty rings on her face,
strange lightning design in black makeup over her left eye and a strange, almost
hypnotic spiral on her right eye over the white makeup that enveloped her face.
	Everybody's stares continued as Eve cut through the entire line and past
the ticket window.
	"This always works," Eve chuckled as they walked up to the refreshments
counter to a huge line with the bright advertisements all over.
	As a man walking out of the line walked by the single file groups of
people awaiting refreshment, he saw Eve who smirked at him. The man's eyes grew
wide and he dropped his drinks and popcorn. Before they landed on the floor, Eve
and Eddie dashed over and grabbed them.
	"That always works, too."
	They took their food, with only minimal amounts of it now on the floor in
the lobby, into the dark movie theater.
	As the two sat in the dark for hours, making fun of just about every
actor, scene, line and piece of music, they finally got sick of talking and shut
up for a while. As the two sat quiet now, Eddie began to fall asleep.
	"I am really loving this. I've been waiting a long time to get this close
to you," Eddie heard a feminine voice say. Half asleep and assuming it was Eve
talking, he shouted in reply," me, too. I have waited so long to go on a date
with you, Eve."
	"I love you."
	"I love you, too.
	"I never want to leave your side."
	"Me neither. I love you! I want to be with you forever!" Eddie shouted.
The entire theater turned around and stared at him.
	"What?" Eve asked, sounding shocked.
	Eddie suddenly realized that he was dreaming while half asleep about Eve
and hearing the woman in the movie's dialogue.
	"Sorry, I was dreaming," Eddie said as she rubbed his eyes trying to wake
up. Eve gave him a frightened look and faced the screen again.
	Meanwhile, across the theater, Buster and Babs sat watching the same
wretched movie, but Buster seemed a little distracted.
	"Buster, you're sweating like Hamton. What's going on?" Babs asked.
	"I wish Eve wasn't leaving us in suspense like this."
	"You're still worrying over that? Look, she said days ago she was going
to find us for something and we haven't heard a thing since. She's probably
forgotten about whatever it was," Babs assured him.
	"You're probably right."
	Nobody knew yet why Eve had said she was going to seek out Buster and his
friends and " discuss something." Most of Acme Looniversity had become at least
somewhat familiar with her behavior, so naturally Buster assumed whatever it
was, it wasn't good. Buster stopped thinking about it and put his arm around
Babs.
	"You suck!" Eve yelled out with the appearance of the lead character on
the screen.
	"Evie, please quiet down," Eddie pleaded.
	"Fine, but don't call me Evie. It's just Eve."
	"I still say you should stop the aliases."
	"Who cares what you think?"
	"Let's stop arguing and watch the movie."
	Eve complied and they sat back. Eve just chuckled whenever she thought of
a rude remark to make about the movie. Eddie frowned each time that happened.
	Finally, the movie ended and Eve was chuckling loudly as the two walked
out of the theater.
	"That was awful!" Eve exclaimed between laughs. Her chuckling was now
becoming hysterical laughter.
	"You're making a scene."
	"Who cares? Whenever I go out in public I make a scene. I can't help it."
	"Well, I wish you wouldn't. It was a terrible movie, though."
	The two walked closely out of the dark theater and into the neon glow of
the signs outside at night. Eddie slowly advanced his arm around her, but
stopped halfway.
	"Don't read too much into this... it was just going as friends..." Eddie
thought to himself.
	The two hopped back on the motorcycle and began heading to Eddie's house.
	"Hey, I just realized something," Eddie stated," you're not old enough to
have a motorcycle."
	"I know. I finally found my fake driver's license," Eve replied, showing
it to him. " Actually, I only need it 'till my birthday next Tuesday. Thanks to
a " special arrangement " I get my license the day I turn sixteen."
	"Nice. Can you hook me up with one?"
	"I'll see what I can do," Eve told Eddie as she started the cycle and the
two took off down the street.
	Eve came to a sudden halt when she saw Eddie's house.
	"See ya Eddie," Eve said as she shoved him off the cycle.
	"G'night Eve."
	Eddie stuck his face out towards her, almost expecting a kiss, but it never came.
Instead his lips tasted the dust as she drove away.
	Eve drove down a few more streets, breathing in the cold air of this frigid
November night in Acme Acres. She pulled into her gravel driveway with the red painted
walls lining it and walked inside her home.
	"At least now he won't whine about me neglecting him. He was stranger than usual
tonight," Eve thought to herself as she checker her phone messages.
	"First message: " Hi honey, it's mom. In case you didn't see, we dropped off the
envelope today, and included a little bonus. Call back soon." End of message."
	"Of course I noticed mom. How stupid do you think I am?"
	Eve then walked up the blood red carpeted stairs with a gray book in her hands.
He slid the door open slowly, with the book caressed against her, and walked inside,
locking the door even though nobody else was there.
	Eddie was lying on his bed, twirling a navy blue Boston Red Sox hat on one hand
and flipping the pages of a photo album with the other.
	"Man, she used to be beautiful. She's still beautiful," Eddie sighed as he looked
through the pictures. Shortly, the blue skunk fell asleep with the lights on and the pictures
open. His head was left resting on the dark blue size 7 3/8 hat.
	Eve woke up about nine the next morning. She stumbled into the bathroom and
began applying her unique makeup. She kept her face down to the floor and out of view
until she applied it all. 
	"I'm early. Today I might make it to school by ten thirty."
	She walked downstairs and drank three gigantic mugs of black coffee that were
bigger than she was to wake up. The caffeine jolt sprung her eyes from half shut to wide
ipen, and brought her face from sagging down to being full of life. 
	Eve walked out the door about 10:15 and saw Eddie walking down her street.
	"Where are you going?" Eve called to the skunk heading past her house.
	"Just wandering around."
	"Why don't you go to school?"
	"I guess I could."
	"Let's go," Eve said.
	Eddie walked over to her motorcycle and the two sped off. Eddie's hand touched
Eve's thick gelled hair to discover just how solid it was. He knocked on it and it sounded
like hitting a door.
	"So why'd you want me to go to school?"
	"Unfinished business," Eve explained.
	"More of it?"
	"Yeah. We have to send a little reminder today, remember?"
	"Oh, that."
	They decided to take the scenic route. As they drove around the mostly empty
roads of Acme Acres, both Eve and Eddie noticed the large dark school building over the
horizon. 
	Eve began lifting her right arm and before a finger came up, Eddie stopped her.
	"This is only a PG rated story. I don't think you can give it that hand gesture," the
concerned skunk warned her.
	"Sorry, but I'm surprised you aren't ready to do the same thing."
	"Let's just go to Acme Looniversity already," Eddie instructed. Once again the two
took off down the road, this time actually in the direction of Acme Loo. Twenty minutes
later, they arrived.
	As usual, Eve got several long stares as she walked into the school.
	"Y'know what? This is a cartoon. I would think you've seen weirder things than
me!" Eve shouted at everybody. They all turned around.
	"It's lunch time," Eddie pointed out, looking down at his Gogo watch.
	"Good. We've earned a rest," Eve replied.
	As they walked in the direction of the cafeteria, they heard a loud rumbling and
crashing resembling an earthquake. The two ran into the library, where the sound was
emanating from, and saw a small mouse sneezing up a storm and blowing out walls with
every sneeze. Eddie fired some skunk scent and knocked him out with the terrible smell.
	"What happened here?" Eve asked.
	A person who had a ripped shirt and messed up hair from being blown by the
sneezing replied," somebody came in and sprayed pepper in this room."
	"They used pepper spray?"
	"No, they sprayed pepper. The stuff you put on food. Sneezer is terribly allergic to
it. We have no idea who it was."
	Eve began laughing when she saw the blown away library.
	"Calm down Eve," Eddie instructed as she began leading her out of the room. She
kept on laughing until they reached the cafeteria to see hundreds of fellow students sitting,
eating, and talking.
	"I wonder if anybody in here was responsible for that pepper incident," Eddie said.
	"I don't think so. It doesn't seem like these toons."
	The two went and searched for a table. When they could find only one open seat,
one at Buster's table, Eve grabbed Plucky's shoulder and tossed him away from the table.
She sat down in his spot and Eddie sat in the vacant seat next to it.
	Meanwhile, Plucky had travelled through several brick walls and finally landed on
the highway. Once he got up and recovered his fallen teeth from the street, he noticed a
huge truck headed his way. He screamed in fright, with his eyes popping out a couiple of
feet momentarily. He then dashed to the side of the road right before being hit and began
reattaching his teeth.
	"Eve!" Buster exclaimed.
	"You remember what I said? We still need to talk. All of us," Eve said, addressing
the whole table, consisting of Buster, Babs, Hamton, Fifi, and Shirley.
	"What about Plucky?" Babs inquired.
	"No," Eve replied bluntly. Everybody gave each other suspicious, momentary
glances  .
	"Did any of you see what just happened in the library?" Eddie inquired.
	"I did," Hamton replied," and I told everybody else."
	"Any idea who's behind that?"
	"That was the funniest thing I've ever seen," Eve stated, beginning to laugh
hysterically again.
	"Probably Perfecto," Buster said.
	"Suddenly it's not so funny," Eve said with an angry tone in her voice.
	Just then, several rats came running out of the kitchen in the cafeteria, covered in
food.
	"I'm guessing that's them, too," Eddie said. Buster nodded yes.
	" I don't know," Babs said,"
	"We really need to have that talk soon. I'll be calling all of you soon enough," Eve
informed them. Then she and Eddie got up and walked out.
	Hamton looked over and saw Fifi's eyes following Eddie as he walked out. He got
a little annoyed and said," I don't know if we can trust them."
	Plucky walked back, covered in dirt from his recent trip to the roadside, and sat
down in his seat and said," I think I'll have to go with Hamton on this."
	"I think we should go when she asks. It probably has something to do with
Perfecto," Buster said.
	"Obviously."
	"Besides, if we don't go, she'll get mad, and I don't think that's what any of us
want. Just ask Monty."
	Enough had been said. They had all seen ( and had a good laugh over ) her
treatment of Montana Max a short time ago, but it wasn't something any of them would
want to experience first hand.
	Fifi looked over and saw the frown on Hamton's face, but didn't ask why he looked
angry.
	Eve was walking very fast down the hall with an angry and determined look on her
face.
	"Eve, wait up!" Eddie called, running to get up next to her.
	"I shoulda guessed. I wonder if Derek has anything to do with this," Eve growled.
	"I doubt he'd bother. He was never much into this school rivalry thing."
	"I'd bet he's into it now. He knows we transfered here."
	"Look, does it matter? So Perfecto's starting to pull more of this crap. Who cares?
So far, it isn't our problem."
	"THEY are our problem. We're meeting tonight. Expect a call. I'm not waiting
around!" Eve shouted as she stormed out of the school.
	Eddie shook his head and thought," when is she gonna get over it?"
	Eve stormed off on her motorcycle and headed home while Eddie began walking.
If Eve wasn't there, then there was no point in him staying.
	The rest of the day passed with a little more talk about Eve and Eddie, and Plucky
feeling a little excluded.
	"How come she wants all of you for this and not me?" Plucky asked.
	"Plucky, you hate her," Buster pointed out.
	"So? I still want to go."
	"We don't even know when we're going."
	Eve was now at home, looking through a picture album of her own. She had a
black marker in her hand and was systematically crossing out faces in the pictures.
	"I should've done this a long time ago."
	She then pulled out her gray book as she kept cross them out, and realized her
bedroom door was open, so she slammed it shut and locked it.
	The time after school passed with no call. Maybe she'd forgotten whatever it was.
At least, that's what everybody thought until 1:30 AM when their phones rang. One by
one, Eve told them to go to her house. Plucky didn't get the call.
	A knock on her door came at around 2:00. She opened the door to see a tired
group of toons standing there. Eve looked perfectly awake.
	"Get in here," she ordered. They all stumbled in with their eyes half closed. All of
them were still wearing what they sleep in. 
	"There actually is a reason why I wanted you here. What happened today just sped
things up. Dizzy already knows all this, by the way. You guys all have a problem with
Perfecto Prep, correct?" Eve asked. They all nodded yes.
	"Good. From... a source, I heard about Perfecto planning to do several things to
Acme Looniversity in a short time span every year. Did they do it last year, too?" Eve
asked. Buster nodded no, too tired to speak.
	"What source would that be?" Eddie asked with a now angry look on his face.
	"Shut up Eddie!" Eve whispered harshly in reply.
	Out of the corner of her eyes, Babs noticed a small gray book on the edge of Eve's
pitch black coffee table. She reached for it to see what it was when Eve snatched it away.
	"Excuse me," Eve said, standing up. She took the book and brought it upstairs.
Once again, suspicious glances were exchanged. Eddie sat there, looking puzzled.
	Eve walked back down without the book and sat down. She crossed her legs and
started talking again.
	"You wouldn't be opposed to getting at Perfecto first, would ya?" Eve asked.
	"What do you have in mind?" Babs asked.
	"I have ideas. Some things me and Eddie can take care of. Some things I might
want some help with. How much do you hate Perfecto?"
	"I don't know," Hamton said nervously.
	"You all seem to have a passive rivalry it seems with Perfecto. That's not how they
see it!" Eve aggressively shouted to them.
	"How do they see it?" Buster asked.
	"They hate you guys. They want your school gone so they'll have no competition,"
Eve said. Eddie raised an eyebrow at that statement.
	"Like, how do you know this junk?" Shirley asked.
	"Sources."
	"I never thought it was that bad. I think it's time to do something... Buster style!"
Buster exclaimed. Eve laughed.
	"Two reasons why that won't work. One: there are seven of us, not just you. Two:
They laugh at " Buster style." They're probably hoping that's what we do, something
Buster style. I think it's time I took over," Eve said. Buster looked slightly offended.
	"Like, I'll wait and see what it is we're doing before I agree to anything," Shirley
said. The others concurred.
	"Okay. When I decide on something, I'll let you know," Eve said. The others still
seemed reluctant to commit to anything.
	"I don't know if I want anything to do with this," Hamton said.
	"You have some time to think, but for now you can all go home," Eve explained.
	Quickly, everybody but Eddie got up and walked out. Eddie began frowning at
Eve.
	"What?" Eve asked, sounding like she was being accused.
	"Why'd you tell 'em all that stuff? You know it isn't true!"
	"So I needed a few lies. They still don't want any part of it."
	"I think you're what they don't want any part of. You weren't exactly the most
pleasant person when all of you first met," Eddie said.
	"So? We have something in common: we both hate Perfecto."
	"For them it's not hatred: it's just a rivalry. You hate Perfecto more than they ever
could. Don't drag a buncha others into your problem."
	"It's your problem, too!"
	"I realized that," Eddie assured her," but you don't see me trying to come up with
revenge plans. I'm going now. I hope you come to your senses!" Eddie then got up and
stormed out of her house. As soon as he'd slammed the door shut behind him, he lifted his
blue furry hand to his face and sobbed as he walked.
            Eve, with a look of disgust on her face, kicked a few pieces of furniture before
storming upstairs and slamming her bedroom door.
	The next morning at Acme Looniversity, Buster, Babs, Shirley, Fifi and Hamton all
sat with their heads half down and their eyes half closed, sipping coffee trying to wake up.
	"Did you all have fun with the Dee Snider groupie?" Plucky asked. They all looked
over at him with annoyance very prevalent in all of their faces.
	"Oh yeah Plucky. We love being pulled out of bed in the middle of the night by
weirdoes," Babs replied sarcastically.
	Eve walked into the cafeteria and the tired toons cringed a little. She opened her
mouth and stroked her tongue ring a little before she sat down next to Dizzy.
	"Remember what we talked about?" Eve asked. Dizzy nodded.
	"Excellent."
	The two then exchanged wicked smiles and locked lips. Plucky looked at them
from across the room and pretended to gag.
	"What a disgusting couple."
	"Sadly enough, I've never seen two toons so right for each other," Buster
commented.
	As they continued to stare, they saw a blue skunk in jeans and a white shirt come
up behind Eve and tap her on the shoulder.
	"What was wrong with you last night?" Eve asked him.
	"I was angry. I've gotten over it now," Eddie explained with a guilty sound in his
voice as he intentionally held back any apologies.
	"Fine, but don't do it again. Now, next week, it all begins," Eve chuckled
devilishly.
	"What are you talking about?"
	"It's a birthday I know I'll never forget," Eve laughed.
	"Okay, you're starting to frighten me," Eddie said.
	"Everything begins next Tuesday, and I can't wait."
	Right then, Eddie realized what she was talking about. She'd been waiting to rip
into Perfecto, and now was her chance. The question in his mind was who could she
convince to join in?
	Plucky couldn't hear what they were saying, but he didn't like it. He wasn't used to
being left on the outside of anything and frowned as he tried to figure out what they were
talking about.
	"They've gotta be planning something, and I want to know what it is!" Plucky
exclaimed.
	"Why are you so concerned?" Hamton asked.
	"Because, it's evil and we've gotta stop them!"
	"We?"
	Plucky replied with a slow yes nod.
	"Why did you want me to come along for this?" Hamton asked as he walked
parallel to Plucky down the cold dark street around midnight. They were both dressed
entirely in black.
	"Because, I know you'd have a moral problem if you didn't stop whatever evil she's
planning," Plucky explained.
	"Really?"
	"No, you just have her address and you're the only one who'd give it to me,"
Plucky confessed.
	The two kept walking until they reached Eve's home. They crept slowly through
the bushes and around the side of the house until they were below her window.
	"What do you expect to find in there" Hamton inquired.
	"Incriminating evidence."
	Hamton sighed and threw the rope up and it hooked to the side of the open
window. The two then ascended up the wall and through the window. They saw a girl
with her face buried in the pillow and long hair covering everything not under the blanket.
	The two walked on the edge of their toes, trying to be as quiet as possible. They
walked downstairs and began to look under couch cushions, on bookshelves, and
everywhere else. Finally, Plucky lifted up a chair and discovered a small gray book.
	"This has to have something!" Plucky exclaimed quietly with glee. He tried to open
it, but noticed the lock on the side. He tried to pull it open with little success. As he
continued to pull, he began jumping and pulling. He ran into the wall and knocked a few
pictures off. The sounds of the frames shattering could be heard upstairs, and Eve's eyes
shot open.
	"Run!" Plucky commanded. The two began to dash towards the door when Plucky
slammed right into a bookshelf. It knocked it down and created a much louder noise.
	Plucky and Hamton ran out and down the street with the small gray book sitting in
Plucky's green hands. Eve walked down the stairs and saw the disaster area that was now
her downstairs.
	"Uh oh."
	She realized right then she left her small gray book downstairs, and was filled with
an extreme sense of panic. She looked frantically and didn't find it. She began to straighten
up and said to herself," it better not have been him."
	Plucky and Hamton ran a few more blocks before stopping, completely out of
breath.
	"Plucky, why did you take that?" Hamton asked.
	"I'd bet it has something bad in it. Why else would it be locked?" Plucky asked.
	"Maybe it's something private."
	"Ha! I don't think so. It's probably plans for world domination or something."
	"That's ludicrous!"
	"I don't think so. Now, help me open this!" Plucky ordered. Plucky then pulled out
a mallet and hit the lock. It didn't break. He then pulled out a blow torch, put the
protective mask on and tried to open it. Nothing. He walked away from a second and
came back in a tank. He drove right over it and still nothing happened.
	"This book can't be opened!" Plucky exclaimed.
	"Maybe you should've looked for the key."
	"We'll try to get the lock open tomorrow. For now, I'm taking this evidence
home."
	Then, Plucky and Hamton both started to walk away. Meanwhile, Eve was livid
back in her living room, with her face turned a bright red that could be seen through the
pitch dark and steam shooting out of her ears.
				
	"It's gone?!?" Asked Eddie in a horrified voice.
	"Yeah, my house was all torn up and I found a rope in the window. The book is
gone," Eve said.
	"This could be a problem."
	"I know. If it's somebody here then I guess we can't move on."
	"Why do you even keep that thing anyway?"
	"`Cause I want to. What's it to you?"
	"Just wondering," Eddie sighed. Eddie was more curious to see the contents of
that book than anybody else, but he would never invade her privacy like that.
	With a distressed look on her face, the two walked around the school that morning
trying to figure out what could've happened to it.
	"Y'know Vi..err, Eve. That Buster guy seems pretty smart. Maybe he could help
ya find it."
	Eve raised an eyebrow.
	"I don't think he'd help if I asked."
	"You weren't afraid to ask before."
	Eve shrugged and the two walked up behind Buster. Eve hit him on the right
shoulder.
	"What is it Eve?" Buster asked.
	"I need you to help me find something. A small gray book."
	Plucky was within earshot of this, and he cringed when he heard that.
	"You don't think she'll find you out, do you Plucky?" Hamton asked in a whisper.
	"Me? What about you? You were involved, too. In fact, you're more guilty than I
am."
	"Any idea who took it?" Buster asked after Eve explained the situation.
	"I have an idea. By any means necessary, you need to find out if the guy here has
it," Eve explained, handing Buster a piece of paper containing an address.
	"Why can't you find out?" Buster asked.
	"Because I can't. Don't ask questions, just go if you're willing. If not, then don't
go," Eve shouted angrily. She then grabbed Eddie by the arm and stormed off. Buster
stood there, more confused by Eve than before. 	
	"So, are you going to go?" Babs asked him.
	"I don't know if it's a good idea. And, I'm really confused about what's going on."
	Buster obviously didn't want to just be lead around like this. Eve could tell that
very easily, so she moved to her back up plan.
	"Diz!" Eve called as she stepped into the Looniversity hallway. Within seconds a
whirling purple tornado appeared in front of her. As soon as it stopped Eve saw her
growling, drooling boyfriend standing there.
	"Dizzy, can you do a favor for me? I need you to get into this guy's house and find
a small gray book for me."
	Dizzy took one look at the address, picture of the book, and picture of the guy.
	"Oh, and anything you want to do to him while you're in there is okay by me."
	Dizzy's face lit up and he spun off after a few seconds of kissing with Eve. Eddie
stood back and watched this, barely keeping a neutral face. He resisted the urge to turn
away or say anything.
	"Is that really the best idea?" Eddie asked as soon as Dizzy was gone. " I mean, he
isn't too likely to find the book, and he'll rip Derek's house to shreds. He'll know it's you."
	"Oh yeah, I really care if he rips Derek's house to shreds," Eve said sarcastically.
	"I'm just saying that if the book's in there, that'll get wrecked, too, and if anything
gets damaged Derek'll be looking for you."
	"He doesn't know where to find me," Eve stated as she began to walk away. Eddie
ran to catch up with her.
	The two walked out of the school and hopped on Eve's motorcycle. The two took
off down the dirt road behind the school with no particular place to go. They didn't feel
like staying at school anymore for the day. Eve had too much on her mind and Eddie didn't
want to leave her side right now.
	Meanwhile, Buster and company were still left back in the school cafeteria.
	"So, are you going to do what she asked?" Babs inquired.
	"Of course not. I just didn't say anything while she was here because of how she'd
react."
	"Makes sense."
	Everybody got up and left except for Plucky. Hamton tried to get up, but Plucky
pulled him back down.
	"Don't tell them about the book," Plucky ordered.
	"Plucky, I think you should return it," Hamton replied.
	"We can't bring it back now. She'll go off on us," Plucky explained. " Besides, I
want to find a way to open it."
	"How do you plan to do that?"
	Plucky began whispering in Hamton's ear. Hamton's face turned from a look of
worry to a frown as Plucky explained.
	"Plucky, that's the most ludicrous plan I've ever heard!"
	Plucky said nothing more. He just got up and walked out. Hamton threw his hands
in the air due to frustration. He knew he'd end up going with Plucky's plan anyway, no
matter how silly it was.
	Meanwhile, Eve had told Dizzy to hold off on the plan until at the earliest
tomorrow night. That night, Eve decided to stay home because she'd been out every night
for fourteen straight days and she wanted a little rest. After hearing about her plans for the
evening, Eddie was surprised. This wasn't like her.
	"You look fine. Trust me," Plucky said. Hamton walked out in a suit full of
magnets.
	"Do you really think this is going to work?" Hamton asked.
	"Of course it will! As soon as you walk in there, the key to the book should attach
right to these magnets," Plucky explained with the confidence obvious in his voice. Before
Hamton donned the magnet uniform, all magnetized objects were removed from the room.
	Plucky pushed Hamton out the door and they started walking down the street
towards Eve's house. Whenever they passed by a car, Plucky stood on that side of Hamton
to stop him from being launched into the cars due to the several magnets strapped to
Hamton's body.
	Finally, after fifteen minutes of walking, they got to Eve's house. It was about nine
o'clock at night and dark outside. Plucky and Hamton both peered through the window
right next to the front door. The lights inside were all off, but they could see the dim light
from the television screen illuminating the couch. There sat Eve, hunched over a little as
she watched with a very intense look on her face.
	"What do you think she's watching?" Hamton asked in a whisper to Plucky.
	"Who cares? Go knock on the door!"
	Hamton looked more closely at the screen. He saw a girl with long brown hair
with a transparent glass full of bright red liquid in it in her hand. Her other arm was around
a male cougar who appeared to be about the same age as her. They were standing in front
of a large swimming pool and several other people in bathing suits or with towels on them
could be seen walking in the background. The two were smiling widely and laughing a lot.
	Hamton opened the window a crack trying to hear what they were saying. As soon
as he did this, the magnets kicked in and the TV was sent flying through the window and
slammed right into Hamton. He was knocked down and the TV was on top of him, screen
side up. Plucky started watching.
	"What a party," the cougar commented. He then kissed the brown haired girl next
to him.
	"Hey Derek, watch this," the girl with the brown hair instructed. She then walked
off the screen for a second and came back with a hose in her hand. He then fired the hose
at several people standing right by the pool and knocked them all in. She then began
cackling, as did Derek, the cougar.
	"Why is she watching somebody else's home movies?" Plucky asked with a
confused look on his face.
	"Maybe it's her," Hamton suggested with his voice muddled from the heavy TV on
his chest.
	Meanwhile inside, Eve just realized her TV was gone. She seemed to be in a daze
judging by how long it took her to notice the TV was missing. She stood up, rubbed her
eyes, and began to walk through to the door.
	"Uh oh. Run!" Plucky instructed. Plucky then dashed away. Hamton was unable to
move due to the weight of the TV stuck to him. He squirmed on the ground as Eve
walked out the door and saw the pig laying underneath the TV set.
	"Hamton, what are you doing?" Eve asked with one eyebrow up. Hamton started
stuttering.
	"Uh...uh.."
	"Are you stealing my TV?"
	"Uh...uh...no. Magnets are just the new fashion this year....yeah, that's it," Hamton
said. Eve looked very skeptical and started pulling her TV off him. After a few seconds of
pulling, the TV was detached from Hamton.  Eve pulled so hard that she was sent flying
backwards through the wall of her house and back into her living room. Some of the
magnets went with the TV.
	Just then, a car went by and Hamton was magnetized to the bumper. The driver
sped off down the street not realizing there was somebody attached to his car.
	As this was going on, Plucky was in the middle of dashing home while trying to
figure out what he saw on that video she was watching. He didn't believe it was Eve in
that video.
	Eve grumbled as she put the TV back in front of the couch in the unlit room. She
walked over to her VCR and hit the stop button. Then she walked upstairs with a look of
disappointment on her face. Out of force of habit, she found herself reaching for the gray
book on her bed, only to realize that it wasn't there. She stood up, walked over to the wall
and punched it. She quickly discovered how solid the wall was, and her hand grew to five
times its normal size and was beat red. He held it and yelled in pain momentarily, but
quickly shook it off.
	With a look of anger, disgust, and a slight grimace on her face. Eve walked into
the bathroom, drew her make up remover, and slammed the door shut.
	Plucky had just ran through the door without opening it, leaving the impression of
his dashing body in the wood. He then stopped, trying to catch his breath while breathing
heavily. He poked his head out of the door hole and checked to make sure Eve hadn't run
after him. This was the first time he'd looked back, so he didn't realize Eve hadn't even
tried to go after him.
	Plucky walked over to the gray book on his desk He once again started trying to
pry it open to no avail. He took the book, stuffed it in his school bag, and went to sleep.
	The next morning, a very tired Plucky and a very beaten up looking Hamton stood
by their lockers. Buster and Babs walked up and saw their fatigued friends.
	"What happened to you?" Buster asked.
	"I spend half the night being dragged down rocky streets. The highlight was when
he decided to drive through the cactus field," Hamton said, still pulling thorns out of his
body.
	"I ran the minute and a half mile," Plucky said. Buster chuckled a little at them, but
resisted laughing much more than that.
	"Anyway, I've gotta go do something," Plucky explained.
	"What?"
	"Uh....nothing."
	Plucky then grabbed his bag and took off down the hall. Buster got a confused
look on his face as he watched a frantic looking Plucky run off.
	Plucky took a left turn, a right turn, and went through the door to Calamity
Coyote's lab. He saw Calamity with a test tube filled with green liquid in his hand.
Calamity added a small purple drop to the tube and the contents exploded, leaving
Calamity's face black with soot from the explosion.
	"Cal, I need you to do me a favor," Plucky said.
	"What?" Calamity asked via a sign.
	"I need you to help me open this," Plucky said, handing Calamity the locked book.
Just then, Hamton came running into the lab.
	"You're still trying with that stupid book?" Hamton asked.
	"Of course. I got it open for a second yesterday," Plucky lied. " It said that Eddie
likes Fifi."
	"It does?" Hamton asked in a worried tone.
	"Yes. I told you we could trust them. He wants to steal your girlfriend. Who
knows what she, the evil one of the two, wants to do," Plucky said.
	Hamton was now fuming mad. His face turned beat red with a look of extreme
anger on it. Smoke began coming out of his ears He was now just as intent as Plucky on
opening the book. Since he was so mad, he didn't ask the usual questions that he would
normally ask out of common sense: how did you open it, why did it shut and lock again,
what kind of book is it, etc. His mind was clouded with anger at Eve's friend trying to
steal Fifi from him.
	"I don't know if she's so evil," Calamity said with a sign.
	"That was my nickel!" they heard Eve screaming from the hallway. They looked
outside into the hall and saw Eve swinging a huge mallet at  Furrball as she chased him
down the hall. The two came back during the chase after a few seconds. This time, Eve
was driving a tank.
	"I could be wrong," Calamity's next sign read.
	"So that's why I need you to help me get this permanently open," Plucky said,
tossing Calamity the book.
	Calamity pulled out a stick of dynamite. and shoved it right next to the lock. Once
everybody in the room realized this stick of dynamite had an especially short wick, they all
jumped to the floor underneath the table. The dynamite exploded with a massive force due
to all the chemicals in the room. the roof  of the lab was shot hundreds of feet into the air,
but landed perfectly in place and in one piece. It was just black from the explosion, as was
the whole lab and the occupants within.
 	"I can't believe it's still locked!" Plucky said, looking at the perfectly in tact book.
The gray color was still perfect as well. Hamton coughed out some smoke.
	Eve stopped her pursuit of her nickel to see what the explosion was all about.
	"Quick! Hide the book!" Plucky ordered. Calamity and Hamton started running
frantically back and forth trying to think of a place to put it. Plucky picked up the book,
shoved it in Hamton's mouth and said," don't open your mouth!" Hamton's face was now
stretched from the book being inside, but he kept it closed and kept a confused look on his
face.
	"What the Hell was that?" Eve asked as she poked her head in the window.
	"Science experiment," Plucky said. When Eve saw who it was, she gave him a
dirty looked and walked away. A few seconds later, she ran by the classroom again, this
time with a hand full of dynamite, and Furrball a few steps in front of her.
	"Don't you have a skeleton key or something we could open it with?" Plucky asked
with frustration in his voice.
	Calamity walked into the lab closet and walked back out carrying a skeleton which
had keys for legs.
	"Ha ha," Plucky stated sarcastically.
	Just then, a loud scream was heard from down the hall. Quickly Plucky and
Hamton ran down the hall to see what was going on.
	They saw Fifi standing with a small tear in her eye holding her tail.
	"What's wrong Fifi?" Hamton inquired in a very sympathetic voice.
	"Mon scent.....iz gone!" Fifi wailed. She then demonstrated a pink, sweet smelling
gas was released. It smelled like perfume.
	"I waz turned around at mon locker when somebody came up behind moi. Next
thing I knew, mon tail was covered in something and mon scent was gone."
	"Maybe it's only temporary," Hamton suggested in an attempt to comfort her.
	"Maybe it's Perfecto," Eve said walking up behind them. " In fact, I don't think
there's any maybe about it."
	"Why would they do that?" Hamton asked.
	"Why do they do a lot of the stuff they do? Don't ask me to explain. They're just
jerks, and it's not like this crap from them is gonna stop any time soon!" Eve exclaimed.
	"What can we do about it?" Hamton inquired.
	"Remember what I was talking about before. If you want to join me in turning the
tables on Perfecto before they can do anything else to Acme Looniversity, gimme a call,"
Eve instructed. She pulled out a marker, grabbed Hamton's hand and wrote her number
across it.
	"Eddie won't be there will he?" Hamton inquired.
	"Why? What's wrong with Eddie?!?" Eve asked in a loud, irritated voice.
	"Uh....nothing," Hamton backed down, trying not to incur the wrath of Eve. Eve
and Eddie then walked off while Hamton gave Eddie an angry look from behind.
	"Hamton! What are you doing?!?" Asked Plucky, sounding stunned
	"I can't just let those snobs mess with my girlfriend," Hamton explained.
	"You can't just go off with her. For all you know Eve did that to Fifi and she'll do
something mean to you, too," Plucky warned.
	"That's a chance I'm willing to take. I can protect myself against her," Hamton
explained. Plucky began laughing hysterically and rolling around on the floor.
	"Oh, who asked you?" Hamton asked as he walked away. After laughing for
another hour, Plucky finally got up. As he stood up, the bell to end class ran and a huge
wave of students ran him over.
	After getting up from that trampling, he heard a teacher down the hall say,"
Driver's Ed class will be moved inside today. Then, five cars raced down the halls and ran
Plucky over.
	As soon as Plucky unflattened himself after that beating, he got up and heard
somebody yelled," all right circus club. Let's trying riding the elephants!" Plucky's eyes
grew wide as a herd of elephants charged down the hall and ran him over.
	It took him a while, but Plucky got up from that and ran out of the school before
anything else ran him over.
	Meanwhile, Eve was off taking a walk with Dizzy. As those two walked through
the park looking for something to do, Eddie proceeded by the same park and saw them
together.
	"I can't believe it. Eve is actually getting close to that doorstop!" Eddie exclaimed
to himself. He looked in  disgust as he saw Eve and Dizzy walk, Eve with a sinister look
on her face and Dizzy with a goofier one. Eddie decided to walk over to them, trying to
stop them from getting any closer.
	"Hey guys," Eddie called as he walked up behind them. Eve turned around, angry
that Eddie was there, but she forced a very fake looking smile on her face.
	"What is it Eddie?" Eve asked, sounding angry.
	"Whatcha doing?" Eddie inquired.
	"Stuff."
	"Like what?"
	"None of your business, now can you please go somewhere."
	"This is somewhere."
	"Somewhere else!"
	Eddie reluctantly walked away. Eve's face turned down a little. She knew exactly
what Eddie was doing. He'd done it before and it had bothered her, and he was doing it
again. Dizzy didn't notice the down turned, angry look on Eve's face and he wasn't
intelligent to understand it anyway.
	"Hey Diz. You wanna get something to eat?" Eve asked. Dizzy spun into a
tornado and destroyed the entire forest.
	"Okay, that's not quite what I had in mind," Eve sighed. Eve figured she'd be going
to Weenie Burger or something like that afterwards due to Dizzy's culinary enjoyment for
lumber.
	Eve stayed with Dizzy but kept a highly uninterested look on her face as she went.
Dizzy never questioned what, if anything, was bothering her. To anybody who had a
higher IQ than a fire hydrant it would've been obvious, and maybe that was bothering her
more than anything else.
	Finally, she walked through the door of her house around nine that night after
several mind numbing hours with Dizzy. She looked miserable. She couldn't force the
kinds of things that she did to Monty on him.
	Eve noticed the red light flashing on her answering machine. She pressed the
button and heard," Victoria, this is your mother. I don't know where you could be. Please
call back sometime."
	"Why don't my parents realize I've got nothing to say to them?" Eve asked herself.
	Looking at the calendar, Eve noticed it was Friday. She was anxiously awaiting
next Tuesday, where she had a special type of party planned. She'd tell everybody later.
	Meanwhile, Plucky was at home still trying to open up the book.
	"Who knew picking a lock on a book would be so hard!" Plucky exclaimed to
himself.
	After a few more minutes of trying to open it, he tossed it on the ground it
frustration. The book broke open. Plucky looked annoyed, as he had wasted all that effort
when all he had to do was toss it on the floor. Plucky began reading over the contents of
the pages.
	"Aw, it's just a diary," Plucky whined to himself. " I was hoping it was something
incriminating."  It took Plucky a second to realize a diary would have more incriminating
stuff than anything else. After reading a little of it over, Plucky dashed to the phone and
dialed.
	"Buster, get everybody," Plucky ordered," you've gotta see this."
	In about half an hour's time, Buster, Babs, Hamton, Fifi, and Shirley were all
standing in Plucky's living room.
	"So what was so important that we all had to rush over here?" Buster asked
sounding skeptical.
	"Look what I've got," Plucky said, sounding very impressed with himself as he
handed Buster the book.
	As Buster began to read, Babs walked over and read over his shoulder.
	"Plucky, you stole her diary. What's wrong with you?" Babs asked, sounding
angry.
	"Aren't you the slightest bit curious about what's in here?" Plucky asked.
	"Of course I am," Babs said as she grabbed the book away from him," I was just
trying to get you to put the book down."
	All of them sat around and read it. The first entry was labeled July 17th of last
year. It read like this:

July 17th:
	Dear diary. Today was one of the happiest days of my life. Derek Cougarmoore's
pool party was absolutely amazing. All of my friends from Perfecto Prep were there, but
of course I came to see Derek. Even his butlers say he's a great guy, which is amazing
since I thought everybody's butlers hated them. I know mine hate me.
	The best part of the day was when Derek gave me this nice, little $20,000
friendship bracelet. Sure, it isn't a really expensive one, but it was a nice little present.
Maybe there is a future for us.
	Everybody was mad when I shot them with the hose and knocked them into the
pool, but me and Derek laughed. nobody liked it when I stole their clothes so they were
stuck wearing their bathing suits when the rain started, but it was fun.
	I met several of Derek's friends. Most of them were pretty forgettable. In fact, the
only guy I really remembered out of Derek's crowd was this strange blue skunk named
Eddie who tried getting in on some of mine and Derek's little stunts. He seems all right.

	Everybody looked a little surprised after reading the first page. They all had
different comments to make.
	"She used to go to Perfecto?" Buster asked. " Actually, that would explain a few
things."
	"$20,000 isn't an expensive gift? And since when does she have butlers?" Babs
asked.	
	"Like, haven't we seen this Eddie guy around school before?" Shirley asked. She
hadn't seen as much of Eve or Eddie as the rest of them had.
	Meanwhile, Eve was still sitting at home. She picked up the phone to call Hamton
about him being part of her Perfecto Prep retaliation. When Hamton's parents answered
the phone, they explained that he was at Plucky's. they gave her the address and she was
out the door within seconds and onto her motorcycle.
	As the group of them kept reading on, the next significant date they found was
August 1st.

August 1st:
	I can't believe it. Me, Derek, and some of our friends were just hanging around his
pool today and Derek all of the sudden asked me out. I couldn't believe it. I was so happy.
At the time I was in the middle of holding one of Derek's friend's head under water
because he knocked over my cherry coke, but I released him when I said yes to Derek.
	We're going to the movies for the first time this Friday. I can't wait.

	"She really must like this Derek guy," Plucky commented. " I wonder why they
aren't going out anymore."
	Just the, there was a knock at Plucky's door. He opened it and saw Eve standing
there.
	"Where's Hamton?" she asked in a monotone voice.
	"Not here," Plucky lied.
	She peered inside and saw him. She also saw her diary in the hands of Buster with
everybody sitting around reading it. Her eyes lit up.
	"What the Hell are you doing with that?" She screamed so loud it knocked all the
books of the shelf in the entire house and shattered the windows.
	She pushed Plucky to the floor and rushed over. Buster, not sure what to do,
threw the book to Hamton. Hamton got down like a football center and Buster stood like
the QB. Eve began to rush at them, and Hamton threw the book backwards to Buster.
Plucky stood up and Buster tossed it to him. As the book flew through the air, Babs pulled
out a TV remote and hit the pause button.
	Babs took out a yellow marker and circled Buster. She then drew several lines
around the room that seemed to go nowhere, trying to look like a football commentator
who outlines the plays. She then said," here, Buster calls the diary pass duck outside
pass." She then drew a mustache with the yellow marker on Eve's face and unpaused. The
yellow marks disappeared.
	Plucky caught the book, so Eve snapped her fingers and an anvil dropped on
Plucky. She then picked up the book. and stepped on the flattened Plucky.
	"Why'd you have this?" Eve asked, trying to hold back her incredible anger.
	"Plucky had it. He got it open and showed it to us," Buster said. " After that, we
were all curious about what it said."
	"Why?"
	"We don't know anything about you, and some of us are really curious," Buster
explained, trying to sound diplomatic.
	"Then why didn't you ask?" Eve said sounding incredibly angry. She decided to
hold back any violence, however. She just took the book, kicked down the door and left
Plucky's house.
	"Does anybody else feel really guilty now?" Babs asked. Everybody but Plucky
nodded yes.
	"No," Plucky stated. Everybody scowled at him.
	Eve stormed off on her motorcycle in the direction of Eddie's house muttering
profanities under her breath. As soon as she arrived and knocked on the door, the blue
skunk came to the door in a black shirt. Eve summarized the situation for him.
	"They had it all along?" Eddie asked.
	"Yeah. I'm really mad right now. Remember what happened the last time
somebody tried to take it. What's in there is none of their business."
	"What's the big deal about them knowing about what's in it anyway?"
	"If we're going to put ever being at Perfecto behind us, we've gotta keep it a secret
so nothing about it ever comes up!"
	Eddie shrugged with one shoulder. " I suppose you're right."
	Eve walked up next to Eddie and began whispering in his ear.
	"That'll show them," Eddie commented after hearing her. Eve smirked and the two
hopped on the motorcycle and left.
	Two hours later, everybody was still sitting in Plucky's house when they heard a
loud rumbling coming from outside.
	"What's that sound?" Buster asked.
	Everybody rushed to the window and saw a bulldozer with Eve and Eddie at the
controls heading straight for them. Everybody's eyes popped out of their heads, and as
soon as they returned everybody ran out of the house and jumped into the swamp Plucky's
house was located on.
	Eve's red eyes were unblinking and her face was angry and determined as she
plowed down Plucky's house. All the parts of it were knocked into the swamp. She and
Eddie then jump out the back of the bulldozer and began running in the other direction.
	The bulldozer went off the edge of the dock leading to Plucky's house and it
landed in the swamp, knocking all the water out and leaving the swamp dry as a bone. The
impact threw the six toons several feet in the air, and they all landed in the mud and
everybody landed on top of Plucky, crushing him into a small muddy circle.
	It took a few minutes, but all of them cleaned themselves off and Plucky re-
inflated. As they all stood in the spot where Plucky's house used to be, they heard the snap
of somebody's fingers and within seconds, Dizzy devil came up as a tornado. He cut a
circle directly around the six standing toons, and they fell down back into the empty
swamp.
	As they all sat in the mud, the water that was launched out several minutes before
came back down and soaked them all, refilling the swamp with muddy water.
	"Don't EVER take something from me again," Eve screamed at them.
	After all that, all six of them headed home to clean off and think about what little
they had learned from the few pages they read. Eve and Eddie drove around on her
motorcycle a little while longer before they stopped at Eddie's house and sat down inside.
	Hamton and Fifi were walking home together, hand in  hand.
	"Fifi, can I ask you something?" Hamton asked.
	"Oui," Fifi replied.
	"You could never...like Eddie, could you?"
	Fifi nodded her head no. " Why do vous ask?"
	"Just wondering."
	Hamton breathed a small sigh of relief knowing that even if Plucky was right and
Eddie did have feelings for Fifi, they weren't mutual.
	The two arrived back at Fifi's cadillac and they kissed goodnight before Hamton
began walking in the direction of his house.
	Eddie and Eve both heard a loud crashing sound outside his
	"I'll be back in a second," Eddie said to Eve as he got up off the beige couch and
walked outside. He saw Hamton walking by. As soon as he recognized him, Hamton faced
Eddie and frowned.
	"What?" Eddie asked.
	"Stay away from Fifi," Hamton ordered. Eddie raised one eyebrow and continued
to search outside. Hamton kept walking down the dark, cold street.
	After a few more minutes, Eddie found Furrball in his trash, looking for food.
Furrball meowed aggressively and then ran off. Eddie got a confused look on his face and
walked back inside.
	"What was that all about?" Eve inquired.
	Eddie sat down next to Eve on the couch and tried to put his arm around her. Eve
slapped his arm and he withdrew it.
	"Furrball was outside for some reason. Something weird happened while I was out
there: Hamton walked by and said something about me staying away from Fifi," Eddie
explained.
	"Why would you be goin' near Fifi?" Eve asked.
	"Beats the Hell outta me," Eddie replied.
	After a few minutes of just sitting and watching TV, Eve started talking again.
	"Eddie, we have to talk about what happened at this park this afternoon," Eve
said.
	"Why? Did you and Dizzy do something?" Eddie asked.
	"No! You coming up to us. I know what you're doing Eddie, so don't."
	"What are you talking about."
	"Every single boyfriend I've ever had you have tried to pull me away from. Monty
is the most recent one. Derek,  even though I'm thankful you did it for that one, Rob, and
now Dizzy. Why do you always do this?"
	Eddie was shocked that she was coming out and saying this to him. She was
frowning at him. He had to make up something fast, because there was no way he would
give his real reason right now.
	"Uh....uh...I've been...jealous...yeah, that's it. I haven't had a girlfriend this whole
time and you've had all these guys."
	"You've been jealous," Eve asked sound skeptical. Eddie nodded. " Think about
the losers I've been out with. You've had no reason to be jealous."
	"I suppose you're right, but still," Eddie argued. Eve sighed a little and began
flipping through the channels.
	"I'll be back in a second," Eve said. She then grabbed a black back which she'd
carried with her into Eddie's house and walked upstairs into the bathroom. Eddie knew
what she was doing up there.
	She walked back down the white carpeted staircase minutes later with a flesh
colored face, but all her piercing remained. So did her artificially black hair, which she
dyed quite frequently. Like this she looked somewhat normal, with almost blemish free
skin and, since the gel was out of her hair, it flowed and extended down her back now.
	She then sat back down on the couch in a chair away from Eddie. After a few
hours, she fell asleep on the chair. Eddie remained awake. When he noticed she was
asleep, he walked over and brought his lips close to her forehead, and was about to kiss
her when he resisted the urge to do so. He just shut off the TV and walked up to his room.
Eve had fallen asleep in Eddie's living room before. Normally because Eve drank a lot of
coffee around midnight and Eddie didn't keep coffee around the house. Every time she'd
fallen asleep down there, Eddie thought about kissing her, but always resisted.
	Eve woke up about two in the morning and saw she was still in Eddie's house. She
grabbed her black bag, which had a silver heart with an "SP" inside decorating the outside.
Eddie was waken up by the sound of the revving of Eve's cycle engine. She was gone
within seconds. Eddie was a little disappointed she didn't say goodbye before taking off.
	The following day, Eve slept in until three in the afternoon like she did every
Saturday. She stumbled out of bed just as the phone began to ring.
	"Hello?" Eve said in a raspy voice. She was talking on a portable phone as she
walked downstairs.
	"Hey Eve. It's Eddie," Eddie said in an equally raspy voice.	
	"Sorry `bout falling asleep at your house last night. You've gotta get some coffee
around next time I'm there."
	"Are you planning to follow up on what happened involving Buster and them
yesterday?" Eddie inquired.
	"Nah. I'll still get `em to help me Tuesday. After all, how would they know
Perfecto really isn't planning anything against them. Enough about those losers. How
`bout we go to the mall now."
	"Why?"
	"Something to do."
	A few minutes later, Eve pulled up and Eddie jumped on the motorcycle. Eve had
now applied all her makeup and was looking as creepy as ever. Her hair was gelled back
up now and her motorcycle helmet made her look more dangerous.
	The two pulled into the Acme Acres mall around three - thirty PM. In the parking
lot, Eve got strange looks from everybody around.
	"To me, you all look just as strange!" Eve shouted to them all as she walked into
the mall while they all stood stunned.
	"Do you have any idea how sick of this I'm getting?" Eve asked Eddie.
	"Yeah. This never used to happen."
	"I've been thinking about...going back to my old look. The only problem is it
would be hard to go back, and I would be giving up my self expression. On the other
hand, it would save me a ton of money."
	"I think it would be a good idea."
	The two walked into a clothing store that also had a sizable makeup counter in the
middle. From across the store, Babs and Shirley noticed Eve and Eddie.
	"Well, look who's here," Babs commented to Shirley. Quickly, Babs rushed over to
behind the makeup counter, kicked the real makeup counter girl out, donned a wig and a
large amount of lipstick, and the store uniform and stood up just as Eve walked by.
	"Hey hon! Looks like you need a makeover!" Babs called in a fake southern
accent. Eve walked over, picked up the entire makeup counter, and dropped it on Babs. It
flattened her, but she slid out flat as a pancake and reinflated herself.
	"What I meant hon is that you've almost got that look right, but I've got just the
thing to help you perfect it," Babs explained.
	"But-" Eve began before Babs grabbed her and threw her in the makeover chair.
Babs then tied her up. Eddie stood back, looking confused.
	Babs grabbed some makeup removed and said," here, this should make it just
right." She then splashed the blue liquid makeup remover across Eve's face. Within
seconds, all of her makeup was gone.
	Babs then brought a sink over, pulled Eve's head back and washed the dye out of
Eve's hair.
	Then, Babs threw some jeans and a white shirt on Eve.
	"Oh, and hon. Free tip: these rings belong in your ears, not everywhere else."
	Babs then pulled out all of Eve's piercing and handed her the rings and other facial
accessories. She then ran off.
	Eddie ran over and untied her. Babs was watching from across the store, back in
her normal clothes, next to Shirley the Loon. Babs cringed as she expected Eve to explode
from anger. To Babs' great surprise, Eve stood calmly and just said in a normal tone," so
much for self expression."
	She then started walking out of the store with Eddie following close behind her.
	"You're not mad?" Eddie asked. Even Eddie, her best friend, expected her to
explode after that.
	"Nah. I'm fine. She just made my going back to normal really easy."
	
	Just then, Babs came up behind them and asked," gee, I would've expected you to
explode after that."
	"You saw?" Eve asked.
	"I was the store clerk."
	Eve shrugged.
	"Well, I'm not angry. I don't really care."
	Babs looked at Eve's face, which was full of small red spots where the piercing
would soon be filling it. Within an hour, they'd all be gone.
	"Oh," Babs said, sounding somewhat confused.
	"And by the way, call me Vicky. My real name's Vicky Blake."
	Babs and Vicky walked in separate directions.
	The two eventually made their way back to Vicky's house. As soon as they got in,
Vicky headed straight for the bathroom. Eddie snuck slowly upstairs, trying to remain
very quiet. He went into Vicky's room and took her diary.
	"I'll be back in a few minutes," Eddie called through the bathroom door.
	Eddie ran out the door and down the street into the photocopy place. He rushed
his hands to photocopy parts of the book, then ran back to Vicky's house.
	To his great surprise, the whole house had been overhauled in two minutes. It was
now brighter, with all the black and red replaced with white and light blue. Vicky came
back down with a smile on her face.
	"I love what you've done with the place," Eddie commented. " Even your parents
would be impressed with this."
	"Now that's saying something."
	Vicky chuckled and continued to walk Eddie around her house, showing him all
the changes. Eddie hid the photocopied pages under his shirt.
	After a few more hours at Vicky's house, Eddie decided to go home. He was still
surprised at this sudden, miraculous change she'd undergone. He was also now finding
himself as attracted to her as he used to be now that she was back to normal. He didn't
question her reasons for spontaneously reverting to her old self.
	After the dark set in, Eddie pulled out a couple of his photocopied pages and
wrote a little note. He then tied some white string around it and ran out of his house. After
a few minutes of running, he arrived at Hamton's house just as him and Fifi were walking
out the door.
	"What do you want?" Hamton asked in a somewhat rude tone.
	"To talk to you."
	"So, you're not here to see Fifi, huh?" Hamton asked, sounding skeptical of Eddie's
motives.
	"Y'know what. Forget it. If you're going to accuse me of being interested in Fifi
again, then I'm not going to waste my time here. It really doesn't matter which one of you
I talk to anyway."
	Eddie then stormed off with a frown on his face and eventually found himself by
Babs' burrow. He had ended up here completely by accident, but he decided that this was
good a place as any to drop off these papers. He released them down the hole and ran off.
	Babs was standing right underneath the opening and the papers landed right on her
head. After rubbing her pink, furry head for a moment, she looked at what had just
descended through the opening of her burrow.
	The first thing she looked at was the note on top of all the photocopied papers:
Dear fellow Acme Looniversity Student,
	Sorry about not personally addressing this. I wasn't sure who's hands this was
going to end up in. Anyway, I know you were reading Vicky's ( known at the time as Eve
) diary, and you only read part of it. After that, more of her violent ugliness showed
through. I know that's the only side you ever see, but she isn't totally like that.
	What's included here are parts of her diary that will explain a little bit about her.
These are things we both went through while at Perfecto Prep. Maybe if you know a little
more about her and begin to understand her, you won't hate her so much.
							-Eddie
	Babs began browsing the papers. What she discovered in the pages was very
revealing about Vicky's past. As soon as she read them all over, she picked u the phone
and called Buster, Shirley, and Plucky. She thought they'd have to read this.
	"So what was so important you had to drag all of us over here?" Plucky asked in
an irritated tone.
	"Eddie dropped these over," Babs explained, holding up the photocopied diary
entries. Hamton frowned,.
	"If Eddie dropped it off, I don't want to see it!" Exclaimed Hamton.
	"Why is that?" Buster asked, sounding confused.
	"He's trying to get Fifi."
	Buster immediately looked over at Plucky who was sweating huge drops of sweat
and shaking nervously. Buster sighed.
	Hamton and Fifi had already talked about Eddie, and he knew she didn't like him,
but it still bothered him.
	"Before we begin," Babs said," from now on, I guess we're supposed to call Eve
Vicky."
	Everybody sat down in Babs' house as she started to read from the diary entries.
All of them had some significance to explaining the back story of Vicky.

August 2nd,
	I had the greatest conversation with Derek on the phone today. We walked for
hours. Also, he told me even his friends liked me. This guy Derek sometimes hangs out
with, Eddie, said I'm a hottie. That made me laugh, but his friends aren't really my type.
They're too caught up in this whole rich, high society crap.
	Speaking of caught up in that high society crap, my parents heard about me and
Derek. they couldn't be happier, which frightens me. I guess they and Derek's parents are
friends, and Derek's family is as rich as ours. They think us going out is a great idea, and
they said something about marriage in the future and merging the wealth. I guess this is
better than them trying to set me up with a bunch of losers who they think I'm perfecto for
because they're rich snobs like them. At least Derek isn't a snob.
	This is all I'm going to write for tonight. I have to call Derek again. I love that
cougar.

August 7th
	Me, Derek, and a few of his friends ( including that Eddie guy who keeps looking
at me with this strange fondness in his eyes ) decided to go downtown. He said I was the
only one who knew the wicked ways that he loved. I didn't see what impressed him  so
much. We spent three hours running into the street as cars were coming so they swerved
to the side and ran into telephone poles. We then saw this blue cat chasing around some
pink bird, so we nailed the bird with a mallet and left it for the cat. Some big dog came
and throttled the cat after a minute, but it was still fun. Eddie got in on some of this stuff
too and seemed to be enjoying it. He reacted like he had never done anything wrong
before in his life.
	
September 1,
	It's my on month anniversary with Derek, and the first day of school. I missed the
hot tub, using the telescopes to spot and laugh at poor kids, the personal trainers and the
daily makeovers, so I'm happy to be back at school. I couldn't think of a better place to go
than Perfecto Prep.
	For a few hundred bucks, I got my schedule changed so all my classes are with
Derek. Anything at this place can be bought. Grades, classes, vacation days. I feel sorry
for those suckers who don't have that option.

December 1
	I am starting to get annoyed. Between the constant snob parties, acting rich
pointers from my parents, Eddie calling me five times a day for no apparent reason, and
Derek starting to look at other girls, I think I'm going to snap. I hit one of my teachers
with a mallet today. It felt good. Really good. Better than all of these semi - violent pranks
and stuff we've done to tick off others since we started going out. I'm to angry to write
anymore tonight.

December 23
	Well, that jerk Derek didn't show up at the snob Christmas party he promised to
save me from. He promised to crash it with anvils and dynamite and stuff like that, but
instead I was left mingling with teenage snobs who I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.
An eleven foot pole maybe. Anyway, I'm going to have a talk with that boy tomorrow.
The least he could've done would be to send Eddie. At least the night could have been
made bearable.

January 1,
	Well, Derek canceled his New Year's party. He hasn't spoken to me in a week and
he had Eddie tell me about the cancellation. I don't know what has gotten into that boy. I
really have to talk to him. If he doesn't call me tomorrow, I'm busting into his house.
	
January 2,
	I followed through on busting into Derek's house and confirmed the worst: he's
cheating on me. I found him with this little blonde rabbit. I almost snapped, but I held
back. He didn't even know I was in there, and he never saw me. I don't know if he's doing
anything else, so I'm going to wait and see if there's anything else before I call him on it.
	If that wasn't bad enough, my favorite silver bracelet is now missing. This has been
the worst day of my life.

January 20,
	I can't believe I'm still going out with Derek. He has faked interest in me a couple
of times a week, but I know he's off with Sheila all the nights he doesn't call me. He thinks
I don't suspect anything. I've been waiting this long for something else to call him on, and
thanks to a anonymous letter left on my locker, I found out he stole my bracelet, a few
hundred dollars, and a ton of other stuff of mine that's ended up missing up over the last
month or so.
	My biggest problem with confronting him with any of this is not only do my
parents have both a personal and business relationship with his, but I would still miss him.
Even if he is faking, he still acts sweet around me. I hate him when I think about him, but I
really like him when I'm with him. It makes no sense to me.

February 2,
	It's groundhog's day, and surely enough I'm still going out with a different kind of
rodent: Derek. I still haven't gotten around to telling him off, but tomorrow is it. I found
out something Derek did that was so shocking and terrible, his life would be over if I told
anybody. I'm not even comfortable writing it in here. And, his best friend, the guy who has
seemed to support Derek in everything he does, Eddie, told me about it. He begged me
not to say he revealed it to me, but he had to. He said something about me deserving
better than to have something terrible about the guy who is technically my boyfriend. I
don't know why Eddie would risk friendship and social status, but I'm happy he did.
Maybe that blue skunk isn't the twit I thought he was.
	
February 3,
	I was all ready to tell that idiot Derek off when he approached me first. He started
to break up with me as his bimbo hung off his arm. As soon as he said we should break up,
I whispered in his ear how I knew his secret. I then told him we were going to keep going
out, and asked the question," did I say you have a choice?" His face when pitch white and
he told the bimbo they can't see each other anymore. I then dragged him down the hall
with me. I'm making him stay with me for two reasons: to avoid my parents' complaining
because they want me to date a member of that rich family, who are all boring snobs by
the way, and also, he doesn't want to be with me. This his punishment for being a
complete idiot. He has no choice, and every date with me will be pure torture for him. He
deserves it, of course, so I'll be enjoying watching him suffer.

February 10,
	Dispite objections, pleads, bribes ( he doesn't realize I am the only person at that
school who can't be bought for everything ), and fake illnesses, I forced Derek to go out
with me today. I could hear him groan and the look for anger and frustration on his face
was beautiful. He hated every minute of it. He was probably thinking about that bimbo he
wanted to date so badly. I've also noticed Eddie and him talking less. I wonder if he's
caught on to the fact that Eddie informed me of Derek's wrong doings.

March 1,
	I have been forcing dates on Derek for months now. Watching him suffer has been
very enjoyable, but it may be getting closer to ending. I saw him and Eddie arguing in the
hall. All I heard Eddie saying was," I didn't say anything!" He repeated that over and over.
Derek shoved him, and Eddie shoved him back. It didn't escalate any further, but it seems
like only a matter of time before it does.

March 10,
	I knew this would happen! Eddie and Derek got into a fight into the hall today.
They threw some punches back and forth before Eddie sprayed some skunk scent at him.
After that, I decided to intervene. Derek looked almost relieved to see me, thinking that I
was going to help him. I reached into my back pocket, pulled out a cruise ship and
dropped it on his head! Watching him get flattened was so much more fun than putting
him through the emotional torture our dates have been. Eddie looked pleasantly surprised
when I fought on his side. Derek looked like he was ready to kill somebody.

March 12,
	I was at Derek's house when I heard him and his parents having a discussion on
how important it was to look proper, which basically means dress and look like a snob. I
have been guilty of that my whole life. I knew Derek and his parents would snap if I broke
that look and he still had to go out with me. Thus, I got a nose piercing today. He'll freak
when he sees it.

March 13,
	Derek flipped out when he saw the ring! His eyes popped out of his head and his
jaw dropped to the ground. It was great! Of course, I can't leave it at this. I have to go
further. Wait until he sees where this is leading.
	
March 21,
	After a little over a week of adding something new everyday, Derek is about to
snap. Also, I got another great idea of how to make this worse for him. Me and Eddie
were watching TV today when we saw a talk show with the subject " I may sound like a
geike, but your teen is a gothic freak." Stupid subject, huh? What I saw was people who
were expressing themselves Dispite others around them. That made me reflect on myself. I
haven't ever been able to express myself because of my parents forcing all this proper, rich
stuff on me. This new idea should kill two birds with one stone. Hey, that's not a bad
idea....
	
March 22,
	Derek practically had a heart attack when he saw my face covered with white
makeup with a couple of black designs. I was also dressed in all black. The whole school
was staring at me with great disdain, except for Eddie. Eddie laughed when he saw Derek
snap. I saw the steam shooting out of Derek's ears, his face become dark red, and his head
erupted like a volcano. As fun as this is, I can tell Derek is getting really fed up. I'll have to
wait and see what happens.

March 25,
	After a few days of avoid everybody, Derek finally showed up again. I've kept this
look going, since everybody knows Derek is going out with me. The entire school is
talking about it. I couldn't care less what they say about me, but they're ripping on Derek
too.
	When I first walked in the school, I saw Derek and Eddie punching each other. I
walked over with a giant boxing glove on my hand ( it was about twice the size of my
body ) and I punched Derek through a wall. I then began laughing hysterically.
	As soon as he recovered and replaces his missing teeth ( most of which had gold or
diamonds in them ) and covered over his black eyes, he dumped me. He said he didn't care
if I revealed his nasty little secret, so I did. To everybody. I accidentally let it slip that
Eddie revealed the secret to me. I'm a little afraid for Eddie now.
	When I got home from school, my parents had already heard about what went on.
I was lectured for letting Derek slip away. They also yelled at me about my look again.

April 1,
	Derek has been threatening Eddie and spreading rumors about me since the
breakup day. My parents have  been all over me. I can't take it anymore. I talked to Eddie
and he agrees that the situation at Perfecto is now terrible. Tomorrow, we're going to deal
with it.

April 2,
	Me and Eddie went down to the Perfecto office today and purchased report cards
with B averages, then we stormed out of the school. We both returned home, collected
some things, and walked away. My parents pleaded with me to stay, but I left. Apparently
Eddie's parents reacted the same way. After walking away for a few hours, we ended up in
Acme Acres. With no real place to go, we both stayed in a hotel. Eddie was in the room
next to mine. Maybe next year, we'll enroll at Acme Looniversity. Now there's something I
never thought I'd be saying.

April 3,
	I woke up and there was an envelope waiting outside my door addressed from my
parents. Eddie had one from his, too. Inside, there was a note that said," if you have to
live elsewhere, at least keep living the life you did before." There were thousands of
dollars inside. I put a down payment on a house in the Acme Acres suburbs. Eddie's house
is a little ways away. The not also said every couple of weeks or so, more money would be
sent. I called my parents and told them about my new place. I am going to decorate in
black and red.
	I think I'll keep my new look. I've started to like it. I feel stronger than ever before.
Maybe I'll find a guy around here that fits my needs better than Derek ever could.
	There is one thing: I don't want Perfecto ever come up in this new place. I have
even come up with a new name to use: Eve Ill. I wonder what Eddie will think.

September 1st,
	Today was Eddie's and my first day at Acme Looniversity, and man was it boring.
	First period was spent listening to a monotone teacher explain something about a
real world and a tooniverse. It was incredibly boring and I don't think I was the only one
who didn't care, but he seemed to think it was very important. Then he handed us some
notes, and his writting made no sense. I know I'll hate that class.
	Second period was spent listening to some whiney old teacher explain how great
the old Looney Tunes cartoons were, and when I disagreed he got incredibly mad and said
my homework was to go home and watch them. I'm obviously not going to do it.
	Everything else is just strange. everything is smaller, stranger and less expensive
than at Perfecto. I don't know if I'll like it here.	

	After reading all that, everybody reading those diary entries felt more enlightened.
Vicky was now. They were curious about what this secret was.
	As they put the papers down, the turned around and saw Eddie standing there.
	"So, do you get her now?"
	The other toons talked amongst themselves for a moment before turning around
again.
	"I think so," Buster replied.
	"She's been like this forever. I wish she could change. However, I think that this
diary has shown she has done something good in her life."
	"And that would be what?" Plucky inquired.
	"She helped me get out of Perfecto. My life there was going to be terrible all
because I felt she deserved to know what that idiot Derek was doing."
	The other toons nodded and made sure everybody agreed before continuing to
listen to Eddie speak.
	"And now I've gotta ask you all for a favor. Eve is planning to start getting back at
Perfecto next Tuesday. It's her birthday. She doesn't just want to get back at Perfecto
because she had a few bad experiences, but because they're now after Acme. You've seen
a few things lately that they're doing, and it'll only get worse. Are any of you willing to
help?"
	"No way!" Plucky exclaimed.
	"Good. I don't think she'd want you there," Eddie shouted at Plucky.
	"I'm not helping you," Hamton declared. Eddie frowned at the pudgy pig.
	"I could help," Babs said reluctantly. Fifi and Shirley also agreed.
	"Me too," Buster joined in.
	"Okay. I'll talk to you all then."
	Eddie then took back the photocopied entries and walked out.
	"Hamton, what is with you?" Babs asked, sounding shocked at Hamton's rudeness.
	"Don't you know? Eddie is after Fifi," Hamton said.
	"Didn't you listen while we were reading those diaries? Eddie is obviously in love
with Vicky!"
	Hamton still wasn't convinced. Plucky didn't look convinced of that either.
	After a few minutes, the three guys left, leaving Babs, Shirley and Fifi.
	"I have a great idea," Babs told the others.
	"What iz it?" Fifi asked.
	"What if Vicky really could be changed? Eddie seems to be convinced she's got
some good in there. Remember the machine Buster used to get Fowlmouth to stop
swearing?"
	Shirley and Fifi nodded yes.
	"Well, it can be reprogrammed to make her stop being so violent. Think about it.
No more violent outbursts to worry about."
	Shirley and Fifi thought about the idea as they walked out of Babs' burrow.
	Meanwhile, Eddie had already arrived home again and he was in the middle of a
phone conversation with Vicky.
	"I really think it would be the best idea. You have to start dating people with an IQ
higher than a doorstop," Eddie explained to her.
	"I know. And, I haven't been happy with any guy since Derek before he became an
idiot. He was at least a little intelligent. Dizzy is a rock that can spin. I'm going to break it
off with him tomorrow and hold out for a real guy," Vicky replied. She then hung up the
phone and dialed in Dizzy's number.
	"Diz, be over here in exactly on minute," Vicky said.
	When Dizzy got there, Dizzy was holding a stop watch.
	"1:01. Sorry, Dizzy. You're too slow at doing stuff. I said be herein one minute. I
don't think this relationship is going to work out," Vicky explained. She then picked up
Dizzy, pulled back her leg, and kicked him. He flew over five streets before landing in an
open manhole cover.
	Dizzy pulled himself out, covered in sludge, and was upset. From across Acme
Acres, a large group of beautiful women heard Dizzy's crying. Within seconds, Dizzy was
surrounded by them, and suddenly his pain was gone.
	Vicky, feeling good about herself, walked into her room and went for her diary.
She noticed it wasn't in the place where she left it. She could feel a little heat remaining on
it, which probably came from the photocopier. Of course, Vicky had no way of knowing
that. As soon as she realized her diary wasn't in its place, she called up Eddie.
	"Hey Vicky," Eddie said when he answered.
	"When I went for my diary, I discovered somebody moved it. Any idea who?"
Vicky asked in an annoyed tone.
	"Uh...uh..." Eddie stuttered.
	"It was you wasn't it?"
	"Sorry."
	"You know how I hate apologies. What did you do with it?"
	"I photocopies a few pages. Then, I showed them to Buster and them."
	Vicky got a furious look on her face. She then punched the phone hard enough to
break into several pieces. Somehow the receiver still worked, though.
	"I thought we agreed we were going to put all that Perfecto garbage behind us.
Why did you have to bring it up?"
	"I...just want them all to stop hating you. They don't know you and I really think
your behavior since you got to Acme has given them the wrong idea."
	"Eddie, how I've acted since I got here is how I've always been. There is nothing
else there. They haven't gotten the wrong idea!"
	Eddie felt bad about doing what he did, but he felt that there was a good side to
her that she never showed.
	"I'm sorry, but now they know everything. Maybe you should talk to everybody.
One good thing did happen, though."
	"What would that be?" asked a skeptical Vicky.
	"They have all agreed to help you with your little Perfecto raids or whatever you
want to call them. I didn't tell them you're making up all that stuff about Perfecto planning
things against Acme."
	"Why on Earth would they be willing to help?"
	"I have no idea," Eddie replied," but does it really matter. The point is, when we
go, it'll be a lot of fun."
	The following day, a Sunday morning, Babs, Shirley and Fifi were on three way
talking about the upcoming Tuesday.
	"I'm guessing you two are wondering why I agreed to help Vicky."
	"Oui."
	"Like, totally."
	"It all goes along with my idea about reforming her behavior. If she trusts us, she'll
be more likely to go along with it. If she doesn't or won't go along with it, we'll be close
enough to get the machine by her anyway."
	"Zat makes sense."
	"Like, I hope this totally works and some junk."
	They continued talking for a little while before the subject changed. Meanwhile,
Eve and Eddie were just walking through the door of the copying shop.
	"What are we doing at mail slots n' stuff?" Eddie asked.
	"This is for day one of the Perfecto plan. What do they value more than anything in
snob town?"
	"Butlers?"
	"No. Money. Counterfeit money is practically an executable offense there. What
would all those snobs do if they found Derek and his friends with money picturing Jay
Leno on it?"
	Eddie began chuckling as Vicky brought a briefcase full of Leno cash over the
Xerox machine.
	"I would've thought you'd just go in there and bust some heads," Eddie pointed
out.
	"There would be one huge problem with that: Derek taught me a ton about toon
violence. We taught each other everything we knew. He'd be ready for all of it. My plan is
go in and do a couple of non-violent things to get them expecting something like that, then
switch to violence."
	Eddie gave an approving smile. Eve threw the stacks of phony money onto the
machine and made 10, 000 copies. She pushed them all into a large, brown sack and
tossed it to Eddie. The bag was so heavy that when Eddie caught it, it pushed him through
the floor and left a giant hole.
	"You okay?" Vicky called down the hole.
	"I can't feel my legs," Eddie groaned in reply.
	A few minutes later, after getting Eddie out of the hole, the two were dragging the
bag down the street. Together they could barely lift it, so the bag was being pulled along
the ground. They didn't notice Plucky close behind them as they brought the money.
	The sack was dragged over a rock and a hole was ripped open in the back. Neither
Vicky nor Eddie noticed the team or how money began spilling out. Plucky did spot what
appeared to be real money. Plucky's eyes flashed dollar bills as he grabbed the money. He
then noticed Eddie as one of the people dropping it. Only Babs had seen Vicky's look, so
Plucky didn't recognize her.
	After getting all he could without getting too close, Plucky took the money and
dashed off  to go spend it. As Plucky ran, Eddie caught the hole in the bag out of the
corner of his eye.
	"Vicky, the bag's ripped," Eddie pointed out.
	Vicky turner her head back and noticed. She reached inside and grabbed the
remaining money.
	"I guess somebody stole the rest," Eddie said.
	"I would hate to be the moron who tries to spend what they just took."
	
 	Just as Vicky said that, Plucky was bringing a 125 inch TV to the counter of an
electronics store. The green duck groaned as he lifted the massive television to the
transparent counter with several small electronics inside.
	"That'll be $5000," the tall, dark haired store clerk said in a deep voice. Plucky
handed over a large bundle of the money he found.
	The clerk raised one eyebrow as he looked at the money.
	"Who is pictures on the $50 bill?" the clerk asked. Plucky shrugged.
	"It sure isn't Jay Leno!" The clerk shouted as he threw the money back at Plucky.
People in the parking lot were greeted by a duck flying off the boot of a store clerk a few
seconds after Plucky attempted to pay. Plucky landed in a thorny bush. When the thorns
poked him, Plucky jumped up, shouted in pain, and ran down the street.
	The following morning at school, Babs went into Calamity's laboratory to inquire
about the behavior correction machine.
	"Cal, do you still have that stop swearing machine?" Babs asked. Calamity pointed
to a room attached to his lab and Babs headed back there.
	The device was covered in dust and spider webs. Babs flew on it and the dust
spiraled up in the air, causing her to cough a little before examining it. There was a large
sign on it that said " failure." Babs picked up the warranty booklet and discovered why it
ended up as a failure: it says if you're trying to use this device on Fowlmouth, the warranty
is voided. The machine isn't strong enough for that.
	Babs pulled it out from the back and asked Calamity," can you reprogram this
thing to stop people from acting violent?"
	"I can try," replied Calamity with a sign.
	Calamity pulled out some tools from under the desk, opened up the metal casing of
the machine, and began adjusting the circuits within. Babs walked out of the lab, knowing
Calamity would notify her if and when Calamity and reprogram the machine.
	Vicky and Eddie were back at her house planning out some of the details of what
they'd be doing over the next few days.
	"This'll be one happy birthday," Vicky commented.
	"Well, since we'll be at Perfecto Prep for much of the time tomorrow, I wanted to
give you this now," Eddie said as he handed over a present wrapped in white wrapping
paper.
	"Thanks, but I'm not going to open it now. I want to wait until our business is
complete," Vicky said.
	Eddie shrugged and said," it's your birthday."
	For the rest of the day, these two conspired, Calamity fixed, and Babs, Fifi, and
Shirley thought about not only what they'd be doing with Vicky over the next few days,
but also how to reform her.
	Finally, Tuesday came. At lunch, Vicky, Eddie, Buster, Babs, Shirley, and Fifi all
met outside the school. Fifi had tried to get Hamton to go, but he still resisted and begged
Fifi not to go. Fifi thought she should be there to support her friends, and also she still had
to work out some things about Babs' plan with her.
	Except for Babs and Eddie, everybody was seeing Vicky's new old look for the
first time. They were all informed of the name change.
	"She's gone from Marilyn Manson to Shirley Manson," commented Buster.
	"Quiet," Babs replied.
	Plucky and Hamton were left in the cafeteria without any of their other friends.
	"I can't believe you can just sit here while all of this is going on," Plucky said to
Hamton.
	"What are you talking about?" Hamton asked.
	"What am I talking about? Your girlfriend is off with a guy who is interested in her
and you're not there to remind her she has a boyfriend."
	Hamton sat, twiddling his thumbs for a moment before standing up and declaring,"
I'm going to go to Perfecto and stop Eddie from making his move!"
	Plucky then stood up and said," and I'm going to go to find out what Vicky is
really up to. My guess is she's leading them back to Perfecto so she can conspire with her
old Perfecto buddies."
	"Gee Plucky, I never thought of that," Hamton said. Hamton then grabbed
Hamton's arm and they both dashed off. By this time, everybody else had already left.
	"Comfortable?" Vicky asked.
	Everybody else was hanging onto a long rope coming off the back of her
motorcycle except for Eddie, who was riding on the side.
	"Oh yeah, I'm loving the ride!" Babs shouted sarcastically as they kept being hit by
rocks on the ground. They were also being covered in mud as the rope dragged them
along the ground.
	After fifteen minutes of racing through the roughest and dirties roads in Acme
Acres, they arrived at Perfecto Prep. Buster, Babs, Fifi, and Shirley could barely stand up
after being dragged along for so long. They managed to dust themselves off and start
walking.
	"I couldn't help the lousy ride. It'll be better tomorrow when we come at night and
there's not hurry to get here and get back," Vicky explained.
	Eve walked up to them and took a whiff.
	"Ick. If Eddie sprayed you guys you'd smell better," Vicky commented.
	The three saw the big gates in front of the school with a security guard sticking his
nose in the air. Vicky motioned to Eddie with her shoulder and Eddie grabbed his tail and
pointed it towards the guard's nose. Fifi did the same.
	"Go!" Shouted Vicky.
	The two skunks began firing scent right up his nose. The guard quickly passed out
and the group of toons kept on going.
	They snuck past the valet parking attendants that were waiting for students to be
driven up to the school and walked in the door.
	"What a weird place," Babs commented.
	"Like, this place is totally freaky," Shirley added
	" Is anybody else feeling sick to their stomach?" Eddie inquired. Vicky put her
hand up.
	" Are you sure this is a good plan?" Babs asked.
	" Of course it is," Vicky said," now put on your disguises. Remember, they like
you here about as much as they like me."
	Everybody slipped into what looked like a butler's uniform. They then headed into
the class " getting your parents to pay for everything 101." 	
	"What is it?" the teacher asked when he saw the seven toons in butler's uniforms
standing in the classroom doorway.
	"Wallet cleaners, sir," Babs said in her best British accent.
	At the front of the room, Vicky saw a spotted face turned around to see who was
at the door. Vicky immediately recognized him as Derek, but she was wearing a mask so
he didn't recognize her. Vicky stuck her tongue out at him. The leopard turned around
with a slightly offended facial expression.
	The teacher had all the students pass their wallets to the front of the room. All
seven toons took out the real money and put in the Leno cash. They then threw the wallets
on the ground, all grabbed floor buffers, and started buffing the wallets.
	As they were doing this, Hamton and Plucky arrived in the school and spotted
them all.
	"This is terrible!" Hamton exclaimed.
	"What is it? Are Eddie and Fifi kissing?" Plucky asked.
	"No, they're..they're.. cleaning together!" Hamton cried. He then began sobbing
and buried his face on Plucky's shoulder. Plucky looked at Hamton like he was insane.
	Meanwhile, the others handed the wallets back. They then ran outside, knocking
down and trampling Hamton and Plucky without even noticing their presence.
	They heard the bell ring from inside. Just as Hamton and Plucky were getting up,
the crowds of students dashed out for lunch and ran them over once again.
	"At lunch at Perfecto prep," Vicky began explaining," they buy really expensive
food. They also buy jewelry, cars, electronics, etc. When even one of them tries to buy
something with that fake money, the vendors will snap."
	A few seconds later, they heard a loud yell from within and the roof flew off
Perfecto Prep. It landed in place perfectly. The seven ran inside to see what had happened.
	What they saw were several students now tied up in ways like witches were burned
hundreds of years ago.
	"Fake money, This is by far the worst thing you could have done!" Shouted the
principal at the tethered students.
	"We didn't know," protested Roderick Rat.
	"Yeah, my money was real when I got here," Derek said.
	Vicky was chuckling, trying not to laugh hysterically. Just then, Buster looked
down at his watch.
	"Unless we want to be late, we really have to get back to Acme Looniversity,"
Buster pointed.
	"Aw, just when it was getting good," Vicky whined.
	The seven dashed back outside and this time all crowded on the motorcycle. Piled
on one another, they were sped back to Acme Looniversity on a speeding motorcycle.
After a few seconds of going incredibly fast, they could no longer see the scenery around
them. It all became a blur of different colored lights.
	"We've gone to warp speed!" Cried Eddie.
	As they went, they plowed through hundreds of trees and several houses. They
were finally stopped when they slammed through the Acme Looniversity wall and flipped
over right on Bugs' desk. All of them were piled on top of each other under the
motorcycle. Bugs didn't look amused at the small fire from the crash that had now started
in his office.
	"Hey teach, what's up?" Eddie asked with a fake smile on his face. Bugs scowled
at them.
	That mess was eventually cleaned up and all the students headed back to their
classes. Vicky and Eddie were very pleased with themselves.
	"Tomorrow will be even more fun," Vicky said to Eddie.
	"You didn't tell me what you're planning for tomorrow," Eddie reminded her.
	"You'll see. I think it's the best part of this plan."
	Buster and the others will a little surprised at their first glance of the inside of
Perfecto Prep.
	The following night came. Vicky managed to convince Plucky and Hamton to
come to the unveiling of that night's plan, along with everybody from yesterday. The guys
weren't involved tonight. There was a huge snob dance going on at Perfecto Prep tonight.
	"We'll be out in a minute," shouted Vicky from the other room.
	The guys were all sitting in Vicky's downstairs couch while the girls got ready
upstairs.
	"How does moi look in zis?" Fifi asked.
	"Perfect," Vicky replied.
	After ten more minutes, the guys heard Vicky yell something from upstairs.
	"Let's go girls."
	The guys peered to the top of the staircase and saw Babs, Fifi, Shirley and Vicky
all walk down in a row. They all had long, gorgeous red wigs on, thick red lipstick, a
beautiful makeup job and wearing short red dresses. After a second, a fifth woman, the
cartoon Shania Twain came up next to them. the other four girls stared at Shania and
frowned, so she left.
	When they saw these beautiful girls, all four guys' eyes popped out of their heads,
then their jaws dropped to the ground and their tongues hung out and they all drooled so
much that the room almost flooded.
	All four girls took buckets of cold water and threw them on the four guys. The
returned to normal.
	"Does this have anything to do with your plan for tonight or have you decided to
fulfill my dreams?" Buster asked.
	"Oh, shut up," Vicky replied. " It's for our plan. We're going to go in there, get all
the Perfecto guys to try to get us so their girlfriends will get jealous and beat `em up."
	"How do you know it'll work?" Hamton asked.
	"Because every man becomes a love sick jerk."
	Vicky then pointed towards the door and started walking. The others followed her
and they crowded onto the sleek black motorcycle in Vicky's driveway. Vicky's driver's
license was being delayed since she legally had her name switched back so it had to be
changed. She did pick up an altered fake on with her original name on it earlier in the day
so she could drive during the wait.
	 They drove slowly and over only smooth roads to avoid getting their hair messed
up or anything like that that would detract from their appearances, which were key on this
night.
	As soon as they arrived, they noticed the guard they had skunked before.
	The girls walked up right by him.
	"Honey, why don't you be a good boy and open this gate?" Vicky asked in a
seductive voice. The guard drooled as he pulled the gate open.
	As the four girls walked in, Vicky said," you wouldn't believe how long it's been
since I've used my looks to get somebody to do something."
	"Judging by how you looked when we first met you,  yes I would," Babs replied.
Vicky frowned a little, but it faded quickly as she realized how right Babs was. 
	They got inside and entered the ball room.
	"This is much better than an Acme dance. We shove into the gym and you can still
smell the sweat from the basketball team practicing earlier in the day," Babs said.
	"Don't be too impressed," Vicky instructed," there is no music, no dancing, no fun
at all."
	Looking around the dance, it looked about as lively as a funeral. Everybody was
standing around, discussing stocks and sipping non - alcoholic champagne.
	"See what I mean?"
	As soon as the four toon girls stepped in the room, all the guys turned around and
started staring and drooling. Babs pulled out a stereo and began blasting loud dance
music. The whole room shook, but the guys remained frozen and staring.
	All of the girls walked over to a different part of the room and started dancing
subtlety. All of the boys quickly surrounded them, trying to get them to dance with them.
	Unfortunately, Vicky picked the section with Derek in it. Derek didn't know who it
was, and as soon as Vicky noticed who it was she came up with an idea.
	"How `bout you big boy?" Vicky asked as she grabbed him by the neck. Derek
giggled but was unable to form any actual words.
	Vicky began dancing with him, and as they went she kept throwing him. First
through a wall, then after pulling him out of that, she tossed him in the champagne.
	"Now, check out this dance move," Vicky instructed. She then pulled him tight,
moved him for a second, and slammed him on the ground. She then jumped down with her
elbow sticking far out and dropped it right on his face.
	Derek was now missing a bunch of teeth, but he was still entranced by her beauty.
After a few more minutes of abusive dancing, Vicky noticed all the girls around the room
getting incredibly mad. Just as the Perfecto girls were ready to erupt, Vicky made her
biggest mistake of the night.
	"I want to stop dancing," pleaded Derek, his jaw practically devoid of teeth now.
	"You're not stopping."
	"Yes I am!"
	"Did I say you have a choice?"
	Vicky bit her tounge in the hopes she could call those words back, but it was too
late. Derek froze immediately. His face turned to the most vicious expression ever on
anybody's face. He pulled off the wig.
	"You stupid--" Derek began.
	"Hi honey, I'm home," Eve said in a rude tone.
	"Hey guys, look who's back!" Derek shouted.
	The entire room took their eyes off the beautiful red girls for a moment to see the
most infamous girl in Perfecto history.
	"You three! Get outta here!" Vicky ordered, speaking to Shirley, Fifi and Babs.
	"We can't just leave you here with these people!" Babs replied.
	"Go! Now!"
	Nobody realized it, but Plucky had been waiting in the room the entire time. He'd
been hiding behind the lone plant in the room. Plucky was chuckling to himself at what
was about to go on here. 
	What Plucky didn't realize is Buster, Eddie and Hamton all heard about Plucky
going to spy there. They had just shown up to get Plucky to come back when Babs, Fifi,
and Shirley ran the three over while they were leaving the Perfecto ball room.
	As soon as Babs realized she'd flattened Buster, she picked him up. The same went
for the others.
	"What are you running from?" Buster asked.
	"They found out that girl was Vicky. Everybody in there is about to go after her.
We were going to stay to help but she ordered us to leave," Babs explained.
	Buster sat thinking for a moment. He then called over Hamton and Eddie and they
began consulting each other on what to do.
	Meanwhile inside, the entire room was now circling Vicky.  There were a few
hundred students surrounding her. Derek was right in front of her.
	"You never should have come here tonight."
	Vicky chuckled for a second.
	"What is so funny?"
	She laughed for a second more before pulling out a mallet and nailing Derek over
the head with it, flattening him like a pancake. Derek pulled himself together, got up and
pulled out a mallet of his own. So did all the other Perfecto students in the room. The
entire circle backed up, preparing to charge with their mallets.
	Vicky began nervously laughing. she then got idiotic smiles that were probably the
result of the overwhelming fear she was experiencing right now. Still, she wasn't about to
beg for mercy.
	Just as everybody was about to advance, music was heard from the hallway. It
sounded like the A - team theme song. A loud thud was heard and a tank drove in through
the door. It was the A - Team theme song! the top opened and Buster ( dressed like Mr. T
) popped out with Eddie and Hamton dressed in military fatigues right next to him.
everybody began staring at the people who just busted in.
	Buster and Eddie jumped out of the tank and Hamton kept driving. Buster started
dropping anvils around the room, and Eddie was holding his tail in rambo position and
began firing skunk scent around the room.
	Vicky began laughing as the Perfectoites were run over, sprayed and crushed.
Vicky grabbed a mallet and started hitting people with it.
	Hamton wasn't all that great at navigating a tank. He lost control of it and it sped
towards the plant in the corner. Plucky jumped up screaming and ran out of the way.
	"What are you doing here duck?" Vicky asked scornfully.
	"Finding out what you're up to! Now I know. You're drawing everybody into this
huge fight to get rid of them!" Plucky yelled.
	"You idiot! I'm fighting Perfecto!"
	Vicky knocked Plucky out with a mallet and ran back into the fight.
	Anvils and dynamite were going off everywhere. Vicky looked over and saw the
tank headed right for Eddie, who had his back turned. Before Vicky could stop it, the tank
flattened Eddie.
	"Are you okay?" Vicky yelled.
	"Ow, my body," Eddie replied, his voice muffled in pain.
	Vicky ran over to the tank, lifted the lid and jumped down. He saw Hamton
driving.
	"What are you doing?" Eve asked.
	"He's after Fifi. I have to stop him somehow."
	"You're insane!"
	Fifi picked up Hamton and threw him out of the tank. She then started driving over
Perfecto students.
	"Buster," she yelled from inside," go get Babs and them back in here. If you can
think of any reinforcements we could get, get `em!"
	"We could get Arnold and Dizzy," Buster suggested.
	"Yeah, there's a good idea," Vicky said sarcastically," I dumped one and blew up
the other."
	Vicky kept driving and began firing the cannon. She missed the students entirely
with it and knocked down a wall. She then started rotating the turret and blew up all the
walls.
	Meanwhile, Fifi, Babs and Shirley just arrived back in the room. Fifi stood next to
Eddie and they both fired skunk scent on opposite sides. An anvil came within inches of
landing on Hamton before Shirley used her powers to stop it and toss it onto Perfecto
students.
	The tank had just driven through the wall and was now destroying other
classrooms. After a few had been plowed through, a section of the next floor fell through. 
This continued until a huge room from above landed on the tank, disabling it.
	Vicky decided not to return to the brawl room. Instead, she got a load of dynamite
and started spreading it in the office.
	"Vicky, what are you doing?" Eddie asked, sneaking up on her.
	"Making sure the job gets finished. I'm kind of disappointed, actually. This mess
was tomorrow's plan.
	Babs had just come up to the office and started listening to what they were saying.
	"Are you sure you won't have any regrets about doing this?" Eddie inquired.
	"The only regret in my life is that Derek is the closest thing to a real boyfriend I've
ever had," Vicky explained. " And what I wouldn't give to change that."
	It was at that moment Babs realized her plan to try to reform Vicky had to be
done. Not just for the protection of everybody in Acme Acres, but because she knew
Vicky would actually want it.
	"Here we go," Vicky laughed as she set the timer.
	Vicky and Eddie walked out together and saw Babs.
	"Babs, we've gotta get out of here. This place is going to blow in three minutes,"
Vicky warned her.
	The three ran back into the ball room, which was now a total wreck. They got
their friends and everybody ran out. Just as the timer went on the dynamite, the Acme
students took a flying leap our of the door and narrowly missed being blown up.
	The school was left a pile of burnt rubble with all the students pulling themselves
out from under charred rocks. Vicky and Eddie left on the motorcycle and the others
walked.
	"I can't believe it. Our big rival is gone. Who are we supposed to have a football
rivalry with now?" Buster asked.
	"Don't tell me you're sad that the snob academy is gone," Babs replied.
	"No. It's just weird that it's gone," Buster said. Babs shrugged.
	"I have never been happier in all my life!" Vicky declared.
	Eddie seemed distracted. He was thinking about what Vicky had said back there.
Maybe it meant he should tell her how he feels about her. He had never expressed a
romantic interest before, but Vicky practically pleaded for a real boyfriend back there.
Eddie decided he'd make his move soon.
	The following morning, everybody at Acme Looniversity had heard about the
destruction of Perfecto Prep. Everybody involved got a standing ovation from the entire
school when they walked in.
	"You people are easily impressed, aren't you?" Vicky asked.
	Vicky was pulled aside from everybody else for a second by Babs.
	"Vicky, we need to talk."
	"About what? Look, I had to take that red dress back. I can't afford to buy a
replacement."
	"No, not that. I heard what you said last night, about a real boyfriend. I think I
know what would help."
	Vicky raised an eyebrow, but listened to Babs continue.
	"What may stop you from getting a real boyfriend instead of another doorstop is
your violent temper. I had Calamity Coyote prepare something. It'll help you kick this
violence habit."
	Vicky stood silently for a second, thinking if she really wanted to give up what had
been her identity for so long. But, there would be a reward involved. Finally after a few
minutes of standing silently, Babs said to her," Earth to Vicky: are you going to answer or
what?"
	"I'll see you after school in Calamity's lab and we'll get this thing started," Vicky
replied. She then walked off.
	"One more question," Babs said.
	"What?"
	"Why did you just suddenly give up your strange look without any resistance?"
	"Its reason had passed, and I stopped liking it. It's that simple."
	As Vicky walked down the hall, she saw Eddie and Hamton arguing.
	"Pig, for the last time, I don't like Fifi!" Eddie yelled.
	"Plucky says he knows you have a thing for her," Hamton replied.
	"And you believe him? I've only known the guy for a couple of months and I know
not to believe him."
	Hamton still didn't look convinced. Just then Fifi came up and saw the two staring
at each other angrily. 	
	"What iz going on here?" Fifi asked.
	"This pig thinks we have something going on with each other!" Eddie exclaimed.
	Fifi turned towards Hamton with a scornful look on her face.
	"I...I...I..." Hamton stuttered. He couldn't even get off the words to explain he
never said that.
	"Vous do not trust moi? Vous thinks I would cheat on vous?"
	Hamton just got a nervous look on his face. Fifi slapped him and walked away
down the hall.
	Hamton's face went from its usual pink to bright red with anger. Eddie smirked
and walked off down the hall.
	"Maybe now he'll finally shut up," Eddie thought to himself as he walked off.
	After school, Vicky showed up in Calamity's crowded lab and looked around at all
the machines.
	"Let's get started," Vicky ordered.
	"Are you sure?" Babs asked with one final chance being offered to Vicky to
cancel.
	"Go now," Vicky ordered.
	Vicky sat down by the machine. It was adjusted so every time she did something
violent, she would have something violent done to her. It took a while, and after being hit
over the head a few hundred times by mallets, she stopped. It took less than a week and
she no longer felt like hurting anybody. Over this time, she became apologetic to Babs and
the other toon girls ( except Elmyra and Sweetie ). Apparently their experience in blowing
up Perfecto had made them more friendly towards each other.
	She was talking to the toons who were becoming her friends, Shirley, Babs, and
Fifi, in Babs' burrow one Saturday night.
	Meanwhile, Eddie was with Buster and Plucky at Plucky's house across Acme
Acres.
	"I am so happy it worked," Eddie commented in reference to the violent habit 
kicking device.
	"Yeah, we no longer have to worry about a psycho running around town who'd
hurt you over anything," Plucky commented.
	Eddie frowned at Plucky after that comment.
	"I heard her say something the night Perfecto died that made me make a decision. I
have wanted to confess my feelings towards her for a long time. I think tonight I'm going
to do it," Eddie declared. The others looked surprised, but supportive.
	"I've gotta go now,"  Vicky said. " I'll call you all tomorrow."
	Vicky and Eddie both stepped outside simultaneously but in different locations. It
was raining outside and very dark. Vicky started walking relatively fast and Eddie was
running towards Babs' burrow to talk to Vicky.
	After fifteen minutes, the two ran into each other, knocking the other to the wet
ground. Vicky's brown hair was thinned by the rain and a large amount of it kept going in
front her face. Both of them were soaked and underdressed for the cold, rainy weather.
	"Eddie, where are you going?" Vicky asked.
	"To see you," Eddie replied.
	Vicky looked confused, and Eddie continued.
	"I don't quite...know how to say this. Vicky,...I've..I've really wanted to go out
with you since the day we met."
	Vicky didn't look shocked or surprised.
	"I suspected it all along."
	"So what do you say? Do you want to go out with me?" Eddie asked.
	Vicky lowered her soaking head.
	"I'm...sorry, Eddie. I don't like you like that," Vicky said. She then walked off with
her head still lowered down the street, leaving Eddie cold and alone in the dark wet streets
of Acme Acres. He stood still for a second before beginning what would be a long trip
home.
			THE END