Acme Murder!
Eddie opens the door to his office stepping inside Bebe steps inside seeing the detective's office "Hey uh where's ya sister?"
"She's probably somewhere rolling around in daisies." Bebe crosses his eyes in a mocking voice
Eddie slightly frowns at Bebe's brattiness "Look kid I don't know ya but you should be a little more concern about your twin sister." He pulls out the bed he slept on out of the wall
Bebe frowns crossing his arms looking away "She can handle herself."
Eddie growls a little and picks the toon boy up by his spenders placing him on the bed making look at him face to face "Look here you! She's your sister and I can tell your the oldest making you her big brother."
"I'm only older by three minutes!" Bebe huffs
"Which makes you the big brother." Eddie points a finger at his nose "Which means it's your job to look out for her and protect her."
"Why do you care? It's not like you have any siblings." Bebe rolls his eyes, Eddie stands up tall and walks over to his desk picking up a framed picture. He walks back to Bebe handing it to him
Bebe looks at the photo of Eddie and another man smiling on a beach
"Who's this?"
"That's my brother?"
"You have a brother?"
"Had."
"W-What happened to him?"
"He's dead."
Bebe eyes get wide looking up at Eddie in shock "He was killed and I could t help him, he was my brother and I couldn't save him." Eddie glares sternly at Bebe while pointing at the picture "Being a detective is what I am but being a big brother .. that's the most important job of all."
Bebe looks back down at the photo brushing his thumb on the picture "I'm sorry." Bebe looks up at Eddie
Eddie just lets out a sharp sigh. "Whatever, I gotta move on" Eddie tucked him into his bed "Get some sleep tomorrow we're waking up bright and early to find ya sister." Eddie sits down in his chair starting to fall asleep.
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The next morning Eddie had fallen asleep at his desk with a beer bottle in his hand as Bebe laid on the bed still asleep a bottle hit a metal can, snapping Eddie awake as Bebe yells out falling out of the bed.
"Oh, Lieutenant Santino." Eddie looked sharp at the the man in the office. "Where'd you come from?"
"Gee Whiz, Eddie, if you needed money so bad, why didn't you come to me?" Santino asked, seeing the photographs between Acme and Jessica. "And to what? Keep you company with a toon kid?"
"So I took a couple of dirty pictures, so kill me." Eddie shrugged, pouring himself another glass of alcohol.
"I already got a stiff neck on my hands, thank you." Santino answered.
"Huh?" Eddie asked.
"What's a stiff?" Bebe asked confused
"A dead body." Eddie response, Bebe gasps in wonder "Woow cool!"
"No! Not cool!" Eddie frowns bonking him on the head making the toon boy glaring at him rubbing his head "Ow! Man!"
"Marvin Acme," Santino confirmed. "The rabbit and some toon kid kacked him last night."
"What?" Eddie breathed, finding that hard to believe.
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Eddie took Bebe into his car to examine the crime scene. "Okay, you let me do the talkin', kid. This place can be dangerous for a kid"
"Relax I've seen way worse my grandmère Iva's false teeth." Bebe sticks his tongue out shuddering in disgust
The two go inside Acme's factory.
There was distant laughing, which stopped them. They looked far behind a brick wall to see a laughing sun with a magical rainbow and cheerfulness throughout the area.
"What now?" Santino, seeing him see a bit squeamish at the cartoonish background.
"It's just I haven't been this close to Toon Town for a while." Eddie replied.
Bebe looked in awe
Was it really toon town?
He shook his head snapping out of it "Nah! He's just imagining things."
Then a man shoots out from the air with his butt on fire it was Yosemite Sam.
"My biscuits are burnin'! Fire in the hatch! Oh, great horny toads, that smarts!" Sam placed his butt in a puddle and cooled down instantly.
"Come on, you two, let's get this over with." Santino told Bebe and Eddie, going inside Acme's old factory. "They're with me." he told the security guard as they walked inside the place.
Bebe and Eddie came to see a safe had been dropped on a chalk outline.
"Just like a toon to drop a safe on a guy's head." one of the detectives scoffed looking at Bebe in disgust who frowns "Whatcha looking at me for?!"
"You toons are all the same! Ya don't know when to quit!" The detective stomps over about to hurt Bebe but one of the other detective puts a hand on his shoulder pulling him back "Lemme go Frankie he's not worth it."
Bebe scowls and looks at the chalk
Yeah sometimes toons could go a little overboard
A mallet over the head
Sure
Dynamite in the pants
Hilarious!
But killing an actual human
That's ... brutal
Bebe grips on Eddie pants standing by him close who looks at the others detective's glaring and pulls the bit closer to him
"Sorry Eddie, you and the kid better wait here, alright?" Santino then walked off to investigate.
Bebe and Eddie looked around as the detectives worked. They could see that upstairs that Jessica Rabbit was talking with somebody in Acme's office on her way down.
"Hey, Chisold, get a load of this." one of the detectives took an old dynamite with a fuse.
"Haha Oh, that's a classic." Bebe walks over to the detective smiling holding it in his hands and slapped it onto a wall, putting his hand in and out as the detectives laughed
"Hey, guys!" another detective called, holding a giant mallet. The mallet sprung out a boxing glove fist and knocked down some boxes, and came in and out and closed up, noticing Eddie. "Didn't you used to be Eddie Valiant?" The guys laughed at Eddie.
"Or did you change your name to Jack Daniels?" the man continued, taunting him.
Eddie rolled his eyes and went to investigate the safe. "What's that?" he noticed some yellow smudges over the rope with some finger prints and a large purple bow.
"Paint from the rabbit's glove and little girls bow." the man taking samples told him.
When Bebe saw the bow his heart dropped in his stomach "Cece." He whispers to himself the detective looks at him raising an eyebrow "You say something kid?"
"Uh n-nothing." Bebe sweats a little on his forehead, the detective squints an eye but goes back to gathering evidence
"Mr. Valiant and little boy?" a voice came behind.
The two turned to see Jessica Rabbit, looking at them
Jessica then slapped Eddie clear across his face and shoved Bebe hard making him land on his butt. "I hope you're proud of yourselves and those pictures you took!" she then stormed away from them.
Some cops went to take away Acme's corpse, but one of the cops fell over a closed crate with cartoon shoes like Nazi boots, clown shoes, pink slippers, green heels, and brown loafs. The cops had trouble with them and tried to capture them
One of the clown shoes hit one cop in the groin, making him nearly drop Acme's body with his hand opening up and dropping the hand buzzer. Eddie decided to walk over and take the hand buzzer as evidence, but a cane dropped on his hand, buzzing it, and making him grunt in pain.
He angrily looked up to see a man dressed in all black with a flat hat on his head, wearing nearly sunglasses and gloves
"Is this man removing evidence from the scene of a crime?" the man demanded.
"Uh, no, Judge Doom, Valiant here were just pickin' it up for ya." Santino covered up. "Weren't ya, Eddie?"
"Hand it over." Doom demanded with his hand open.
"Sure." Eddie agreed, slapping his hands around Doom's hand, buzzing and jolting him. "His number one seller."
Bebe snorts covering his mouth, Judge Doom snaps his neck looking down at him making Bebe quickly silent "And who is this toon child?" Judge Doom leans over glaring at Bebe, the little boy was so scared he almost peed himself
"B-Bebe."
Eddie pulls Bebe behind him as the toon boy hugs onto his leg tight scared
Doom eerily grinned at them. "I see working for a Toon has rubbed off on you."
"I wasn't workin' for a Toon, I was workin' for RK Maroon." Eddie defended.
"Yes, we talked to Mr. Maroon," Doom agreed, still bearing a frightening look on his face. "He told us the rabbit you know became quite agitated when you showed the rabbit the pictures. The rabbit said, 'one way or another, he and his wife were going to be happy' and the toon child you know went to help him. Isn't that true?"
Eddie stays silent Judge Doom looks down at Bebe staring hard at him slightly tilting his head "In fact I believe the toon girl looked very much like you little boy, too much like you, like a copy ... or a twin."
Bebe tighten his grip on Eddie who could the little boy was terrified
"Hey, pal, do we look like stenographers?" Eddie mocked Doom.
"Shut your yap, Eddie," Santino sneered. "The man's a judge."
"That's alright, Lieutenant," Doom said, coolly. "From the smell of him, I'd say it was the booze talking. No matter, the rabbit and kid won't get far, my men will find them."
Suddenly, the doors busted open with a car and loud horns blared right in. The car stopped and made a swerving, sharp turn, knocking some boxes over.
"Weasels!" Santino gasped.
"Yes," Doom replied. "I find they have a special gift for the work."
"Alright, ya mugs, fall out!" Smarty, the leader said, getting out of the car first with the others following.
"Did you find the rabbit and child?" Doom asked.
"Don't worry, Judge," Smarty assured him. "We got 'deformants' all over the city. We'll find 'em."
"You wouldn't have any idea where the rabbit might be, Mr. Valiant and little boy?" Doom asked.
"Nope No not Uh Uh haven't seen em!" Bebe rambles looking away frantically
"Have you tried Walla Walla?" Eddie asked, stalling him. "Cucamonga? I hear Kokomo's very nice this time of year."
"I'm surprised you're not more cooperative, Mr. Valiant," Doom came toward them, dangerously close. "A human has been murdered by two toons. Don't you appreciate the magnitude of that?"
Suddenly there was random squeaking. Doom looked to find the source of the sound and looked down to see a Toon clown shoe by his leg.
Doom took out an extra rubber glove to capture the Toon and get rid of it for good. "Since I've had Toon Town under my jurisdiction, my goal has been to reign in the insanity. And the only way to do that is to make Toons respect the law." he then grabbed the clown shoe as it tried to escape.
"How did that gargoyle get to be a judge?" Eddie asked, whispering to his lieutenant.
"Spread a bunch of simoleons around Toon Town a couple of years back, bought the election." Santino explained.
"What is that stuff?" Bebe pointed to a tank Doom opened of what appeared to be acid.
"Remember how they always thought there wasn't a way to kill a Toon?" Santino leans over to Eddie sounding uncomfortable. "Well, Doom found a way. Turpentine, acetone, benzene. He calls it 'The Dip'."
"W-What does do it?" Bebe stutters nervously
"I'll catch the rabbit and child, Mr. Valiant," Doom spoke up, about to dip the clown shoe. "Then I'll try to convinct them and execute them..."
The clown shoe whimpered over the dip. It then got a splash of the dip and squeaked in pain and misery as it was slowly being killed in front of everyone. Instantly, the clown shoe was killed as the weasels laughed at its sudden death and Doom looked eerily at the detective and young toon boy.
"That's one dead shoe, eh boss?" Wheezy laughed a little.
Doom's hand dripped with red paint, it almost looking like blood. He came forth to the duo. "They're not kid gloves, Mr. Valiant and little boy. This is how we handle things down in Toon Town. I'd think you of all people would appreciate that." he then balled a fist in his glove with the dripping paint.
All the color in Bebe's face flushed as it splats to the ground like paint making his face absolutely white, he puffs out his cheeks and pushes Eddie to the side running out
"Looks like the kid couldn't hold his lunch." The weasels laugh as Eddie runs after him, Eddie looks around until he sees Bebe hunched over around a corner throwing up
"Bebe! Kid ya alright?" Eddie pats his back as the toon boy coughs and heaves
Bebe didn't hear him as he kept saying a single word over and over "Cece Cece." He fell to knees in realization
Cece
His twin
His baby sister
Was gonna get dipped
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