The twins look around at all the Toons surrounding them in the city, Cece was fascinated at the different types of characters some big, some small, some in color, some in black and white

"Hey sis move your butt!" Her brother snaps her out of her trance holding his hand out protectively for her to take. Cece speeds up to him grabbing his hand

"Where are we going now, Eddie?" Bebe asked Eddie as they walked away from the trolley

"We're gonna visit a close, personal friend of mine to help crack this case," Eddie replies as they all walk towards a bar, before they go in Eddie looks down at them with a serious face "Alright ya little short stacks don't go in here acting like Toons."

"But we are toons." Cece raises an eyebrow confused

"Exactly so don't go in there doing something stupid and embarrassing me." Eddie growls pointing a finger at her "Got me?"

"Relax what do you think we are idiots?" Bebe rolls his eyes leading his sister inside

"No worse ... your toons." Eddie mumbles under his breath as he follows them.

They walked in and saw a lot of men either shooting pool, sitting together with raunchy conversation, or drinking on a stool to drown their sorrows in the crazy world they live in.

"Hi Harry, you okay?" Eddie greeted one of the bar flies.

"Hi, Eddie." the man, Harry, spoke back, briefly.

The twins look around at everyone at the bar, Cece felt uneasy as everyone was staring  at her almost glaring slightly. She holds onto her brother arm as he makes sure to keep his eyes just in case to make sure there was no funny business

"You two over there." Eddie points to some stool at the front of the bar "Park it."

Bebe rolls his eyes but walks with his sister to the stool to sit down, they see a bowl of peanuts and start to chow down on it

Eddie spotted an officer and placed his cap back on his head, looking dead drunk. "What's with Earl?"

One of the men on a stool took out a notepad and wrote something down, showing it to Eddie to answer his question.

"Laid off?" Eddie was appalled.

The man with the paper nodded.

"A new outfit bought the red car," another man said to Eddie, explaining. "Some big company called Cloverleaf."

"No kiddin'," Eddie remarked. "They bought the red car?"

"Yeah, put the poor guy on two weeks notice." the man answered, walking away. "Cutbacks, they said."

Eddie sighed for his friend. "Oh, well, Earl. Here's to the pencil pushers. Maybe they all get lead poisoning, huh?" he then took out a shot to sip it, but a hand stopped him.

They saw the woman who had stopped Eddie from drinking his shot. She seemed to have been a waitress with puffy and short length black hair in a uniform with a strict look on her face.

"Tomorrow's Friday, Eddie," the waitress told him. "You know what happens here on Friday?"

"Fish special?" Eddie shrugged.

"My boss checks the books on Friday," the waitress swiped the shot glass from him. "If I don't have that money I gave you back in the till, I'm gonna lose my job."

"Don't bust a button, Dolores," Eddie said, coolly. "You've only got one left." he handed her the check from earlier.

"50 bucks?" the waitress, Dolores, eyed it.

"Yeah."

"Where's the rest? And who are these toon kids? Beat it, you two, you'll get me in trouble if I serve you alcohol!" She notices them eating the peanuts in the bowl "And stop eating the peanuts!" She snatched the bowl away

"Rude." Cece pouts with a huff lightly glaring at the woman.

"Well, this is only a snoop job away," Eddie answered "And these two are helping me this Bebe and Cece."

"Bebe and Cece what kind of names are those." Dolores looks at the two toon twins up and down

"What kind of hair dye doesn't cover your grey hairs!" Bebe huffs back

"Bebe that's not nice." Cece frowns bonking her brother on the head who looks at her angrily while rubbing his head

"Hey, have you got that camera of yours? Mine's in the shop." Eddie asked the woman

"Wouldn't be the pawn shop by any chance, would it?" Dolores scoffed.

"Aw, come on, Dolores. You need the other $50, we need the camera."

Dolores put some things up behind the bar table, and came to Eddie, Cece, and Bebe with her camera.

"Any film in there?" Eddie asked.

"Should be." Dolores said, handing the camera to him. "I haven't had that roll developed since our trip to Catalina."

"That sure was a long time ago." Dolores sighed, washing some dishes.

"Yeah, that was a long time ago." Eddie remarked. "We'll have to do that again sometime."

Cece looked between the two and giggles to herself, she could already tell they liked each other

"Yeah, sure, Eddie..." Dolores sounded disappointed in that statement. She then grabbed the utensils, plates, and glasses as another trolley passed and shook the bar.

Bebe and Cece shook in their sits bouncing in their seats before falling out of them completely onto the floor.

Dolores came back to them as she spotted Eddie looking into the newspaper. "Paper any good?"

"Just check the scrawl." Eddie showed the name on the check for $50.

Dolores took the check and read aloud; "RK Maroon? As in Maroon Cartoons?"

"Maroon Cartoons?" a voice came from behind the trio.

The twins looked to see a grungy man behind Eddie who looked like a real wise guy.

"Hey, so, who is your client, Mr. Detective and Partner to the stars?" the man laughed. "Chilly Willy? Or Screwy Squirrel?"

"What do you want to drink?" Dolores asked him, firmly. She knew that Eddie took cartoons personally.

"Eh, I'll take a beer, doll." the man told her, sitting right next to Eddie. Bebe could already tell where this was going and takes his sister's hand "Uhhh we'll be outside Eddie."

"Aw come on pipsqueaks stay for a little while." The man picks the twins up, Cece hangs upside down struggling to get free in the mans armpit as her brother is getting a rough noogie with the mans arm that she was hanging from.

"Knock it off Angelo let em go." Dolores grabs the twins from him and drops them to the ground making them land on their butts

"What I'm just having some fun with em." Angelo shrugs with snort, Bebe pulls out a mallet but to stomp over and smack him with but Cece shakes her head and grabs him by the back of his spenders dragging him out as he angrily shook a fist at the man.

"So, what happened, huh?" the man continued to harass Eddie. "Somebody kidnap Dinky Doodle?"

"Cut it out, Angelo." Dolores snapped at him.

"Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute, I know," the man, Angelo, wouldn't quit. "You're workin' for Little Bo Peep, she's lost her sheep, and you're gonna help her look for 'em, huh?" he laughed.

That did it. Eddie was really angry with him now. The wicked laughter made Eddie kick the stool from underneath Angelo and made the teasing man fall to his knees on the floor

Eddie grabbed Angelo by the face in a near choke hold and shoved a hard-shelled egg into his mouth to choke him. "Get this straight, meatball. I don't work for toons!" he then left in a huff.

Bebe stands at the top of the stairs as Cece sits on the stairs, Eddie comes out the bar stomping his feet as he mutters to himself "Mister Eddie are you ok?" Cece asked concern

"I'm fine."

"Are you sure you look really mad-"

"I Said I'm Fine!!" Eddie yells in her face as Cece leans back her eyes get big as tears appear in her eyes. Eddie soften his face but quickly frowns walking away "Come on you two move it!"

Cece whimpers as she rubs her tears away on her sleeve "Dont worry baby sis the sooner we get those stupid pictures the sooner we can go home." Bebe wipes his sister tears comforting her. Cece sniffs and nods, Bebe takes her hand and follows the detective.

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Later, that night, the kids and detective went into the deepest darkest alley of Hollywood to find the club Eddie went to the door since he was the adult and it might be dangerous and rough on the twins considering they were little kids . He knocked on the door and waited for an answer.

A red-eye came out and looked down at the three of them. "Got the password?"

"'Walt sent us'." Eddie replied.

The tiny door that showed the eye closed, and the door was unlocked and opened for them. It was shown to be a giant ape in a tuxedo as the doorman.

Bebe snorts looking the ape up and down snorting trying to keep himself from laughing. "Ya ate any good bananas lately?"

"Nice monkey suit." Eddie commented.

The ape snarled at them, slightly. "Wise asses..."

Cece frowns at the two and looks like at the giant ape lightly patting his giant arm "Y-You have a good night mister ape." The ape watches her walk away and gets a small smile on his face "Hm sweet kid."

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The twins follow Eddie inside the club, there so many people and so many toons socializing, working, laughing together

Cece looks on the stage to see Daffy and Donald Duck in a battle of the pianos "Wow! The Daffy and Donald Duck in the same room! I think I died and went to toon heaven." Cece's eyes sparked as she giggles to herself watching, Bebe rolls his eyes with a smile glad that his sister was enjoying herself

Hey, hey, cut it out!" Donald snapped.

"Does anybody understand what this duck is saying?" Daffy asked the audience. "I've worked with a lot of wise-quackers, but you are DESSSSPICABLE!"

"Here I thought Daffy couldn't get any stupider." Bebe rolls his eyes looking at the black feathered duck from back in the day

Eddie rolled his eyes at them, and continued to watch the ducks outstar each other.

The audience gasped once Donald Duck slammed Daffy into his piano.

"Oh he shouldn't have done that." Cece elbows her brother snorting knowing Daffy and his antics

"This means war..." Daffy grumbled.

Eddie, Cece, and Bebe took a seat next to a man who looked a little bored and focused on them. Suddenly, the man squirted his ink pen on Eddie's shirt and started laughing.

"Hey!" Cece frowns at the man's practical joke

"What? You think that's funny?" Eddie demanded.

"Just say the word Eddie I'll take care of him!" Bebe pulls out the mallet patting in his palm ready to hit the man with it

"Oh, it's a panic!" the man continued laughing.

Eddie grabbed the man by his collar. "You won't think it's funny when I stick that pen up your nose!"

"And when I stretches ya underpants to your skull!" Bebe growls cracking his knuckles ready for a fight.

"Now, calm down, kids, will ya?" the man tried to settle them. "Look, the stain's gone. It's disappearing ink. No hard feelings, I hope."

The group looked to see the stain vanished like magic.

"Ummm ... I guess he apologized?" Cece crosses her eyes a little dumbfounded but accepts the mans apology

"Look, I'm-" the man was about to introduce himself.

"I know who you are," Eddie cut him off. "Marvin Acme, the guy that owns Toon Town. The Gag King."

"'If it's Acme, it's a gasser'," Marvin sloganed, holding out his hand. "Put it there, pal."

Eddie sighed and shook his hand, only to get buzzed and annoyed.

"The hand buzzer," Marvin laughed. "Still our biggest seller!"

Cece snorts a little placing her hands on her mouth so Eddie wouldn't hear her laugh, like him Cece enjoyed a good hand buzzer

Eddie shoots a glare at Cece puts her hands behind her back looking away whistling a hand tune as sways back and forth on her heels. Eddie grunted and sat back down with the kids.

A waiter came up and cleaned up their table to take their order.

"I'll have a root beer float." Cece told him.

"Nice try sis just cause mom and dad ain't here doesn't mean you get away with stuff." Bebe squints an eye at his little twin sister disappointed that she forgot that he knew she shouldn't have a certain amount of sugar. "She'll have a water and I'll have a root beer."

The waiter nods writing down their orders and walks away Cece crosses her arms slumping down pouting "Hmph your a killjoy big brother."

"Yeah you love me." Bebe smirks ruffling his sister's hair

"Scotch on the rocks." Eddie placed his order.

The penguin nodded, then walked off.

"AND I MEAN ICE!" Eddie added with emphasis. He looks at the twins "Speaking of parents where are yours?"

"Our parents weren't born-" Bebe quickly covers his mouth "If our parents weren't bored out of their minds they went on vacation to um .. Canada! Yeah Canada."

"Kinda parents would leave their kids without em." Eddie shook his head a little in disgust

"Kinda kids would leave their parents." Cece mumbles looking directly at her brother them both knowing it because of him they got stuck into the 1940s

They all continued to watch the show. Daffy was having a fun time playing both pianos. His hands on his main piano and his foot skidding across Donald's.

Donald then opened the piano over him and started playing both pianos too. His tail feathers on Daffy's piano keyboard and his fingers across his own piano.

Daffy then punched him and played Donald's piano wildly like Beethoven.

It ended dramatically as Donald launched a cannon ball on him and both pianos blew up, ending the show.

Cece stood up, clapping with the crowd. Eddie rolls his eyes at the toon girl

"Hey, those ducks are funny," Marvin commented once everyone sat down. "Th-They never get to finish the act!"

"I know right man Daffy's a crack up!" Cece giggles in her seat as Marvin and her laughed hysterically

"Great," Eddie grunted, then took his drink once their waiter came back. "Thanks." he was about to drink, but he saw that his scotch had actual rocks in it instead of ice cubes. "Toons..."

"Cigars? Cigarettes?" a voice said near by

The twins turn to the side and their eyes get big and wide with expand joy

"Betty Boop!!" Cece squeals

"Huh? Who said my name?" Betty turns around and sees Eddie ""Eddie Valiant!"

"Betty?" Eddie looked at her in surprise

"Long time no see." Betty gives him a wink.

"What're you doing here?" Eddie asked

"Work's been kinda slow since cartoons went to color, but I still got it, Eddie." Betty Boop then did her infamous booping to show him.

"Yeah, you still got it." Eddie smiled.

"Who are these little cutie pies?" Betty points to the twins

"They're helping me with a little project." Eddie answered

"Wow Ms Boop I'm a huge fan would you sign my notepad?" Cece gives her a pleading smile

"Oh aren't you a doll." Betty smiles taking the pen and signing her name in cursive, Cece squeals to herself holding the pad close. Betty sets a plate of strawberry shortcake on the table in front of Cece "Here ya go sugar, on the house." Betty pinches Cece cheek as the little girl giggles.

Suddenly, another act on stage finished and the crowd went wild. The lights went dark and the crowd whistled and hooted and hollered more than the Big Bad Wolf in Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood. Marvin Acme even sprayed himself

"What's with him?" Eddie asked Betty, referring to Acme.

"Mr. Acme never misses a night when Jessica performs." Betty explained.

"Got a thing for rabbits does he?" Eddie asked with a smirk

"Ha she's probably gonna be munching on a carrot the whole time." Bebe elbows him as they smirk

A spot light hit the stage and all went silent.

A femmine leg came from behind the curtain while it slowly opened up. When the curtain was pulled back all the way back, it revealed Jessica Rabbit.

A beautiful red headed toon woman, one side her face was covered by her hair. She was wearing a glittering pink dress with matching pink high heels.

As she sang one guy to try to get closer on stage, and Jessica responded by kicking him off. Not hard enough to hurt, but enough for him to get the message.

"She's married to Roger Rabbit?" Eddie and Bebe asked in shocked after how beautiful she was

"Yeah, what a lucky girl." Betty said as she closed Eddie mouth.

"Ooooo she's pretty!" Cece awes, Bebe and Eddie shush her now interested in the show "Hmph meanies."

Jessica comes down the isle of the stage, another man stood up almost transfixed. Jessica gently pushed him by the forehead back into his seat.

When she came to the edge of the stage Marvin took her hand and helped her down. She came behind him pinching his cheeks, and then took the handkerchief from his shirt pocket and rubbed on his head the same way one would shine a shoe.

When she came to the table that Bebe, Cece, and Eddie were sitting at, she sat in his lap straightening out his collar, taking off his hat and leaning towards him as if she was about to kiss him.

Eddie sits there frozen as Bebe leans in to see if she would do it, she took his hat and shoved it in his face. She then got up and walked around him and sat on the table between him. As she sung her finale line of her song she grabs Eddie by the tie and the two's face's were mere inches apart. As she sang the very last part she loosened her grip and eventually let go.

Eddie is left speechless as she returns back on the stage

"Oo Ho I think I'm in love." Bebe puts his hand into his hands leaning on the table with a dreamy love look on his face

Eventually, Eddie came to, and the group decided to do some detective work.

They spotted that Acme was going backstage to Jessica's dressing room with flowers. Eddie, Cece, and Bebe tried to eavesdrop the best they could as Acme was showering Jessica with complaints.

Eddie took a look through the key hole, but felt a furry hand on his shoulders.

"What do you think you're doing, chump?" the ape doorman growled at the boys.

"Who are you callin' a chump, chimp?" Eddie scoffed.

The ape growls at him rolling up his sleeves

"Uh Oh." Cece hides behind her brother with a sheepishly smile

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The ape threw Bebe and Eddie out into the garbage, Bebe wiggles, his head stuck in a trash can trying to get out. He then held the door open and pointed out while Cece walked out, unharmed.

"Sorry." Cece looked downs ashamed and sad, the ape cracks a small smile giving her a pat on the head "Well at least you apologized, you're forgiven."

"And don't let me catch your peepin' faces 'round here again, got it!?" the ape growled, then slammed the door.

"Ooga Booga!" Eddie taunted, glaring at the ape.

Bebe finally is able to get his head out of the garbage and glares at Cece with a rotten banana on his head. "How come you didn't get thrown out on your butt?"Bebe points to his own butt

"Because I don't call people names and make fun of peeper like someone I know." Cece frowns pulling his hat over his head

Eddie chuckles a little seeing the two siblings interact with each other it, it kinda reminded of him and his late brother.

The group then walked off and saw a nearly open window. Eddie hopped up and saw Acme and Jessica and decided to quickly take pictures.

Bebe couldn't see so Cece gestured to her head, he climbs on top of his sister's head and looks into the window.

"Come, my dear, Jessica, come over here." Acme told the beautiful toon

"Ugh are they about to do what I think they're about to do." Bebe gagged sticking out his tongue.

"Hey! A little kid like you shouldn't be look at this kinda stuff close your eyes!." Eddie told him smooshing the little toon boy back down, then got a closer look and started to take pictures.

The twins do as their told and cover their eyes as Acme was screaming and Jessica kept yelling out his name. Eddie kept snapping pictures, but he grew disturbed. "You gotta be kiddin' me..."

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Back in Maroon's office, the group showed the photographs to Roger.

The poor cartoon rabbit was having a mental breakdown he was so heartbroken.

"Patty-Cake, Patty-Cake!?" Roger grunted, crying. "I don't believe it! Patty-Cake! Patty-Cake! Is that true?"

"Take comfort, son," Maroon offered a hanky. "You're not the first guy whose wife played patty cake on him."

Roger continued to cry his little eyes out and sloppily blew his nose which made disgusting honking noises. "I just don't believe it. I won't believe it, I can't believe it, I shan't believe it."

"Believe it, kid," Eddie said, slapping down the photographs for Roger to see for himself. "I took the pictures myself. She played patty cake."

Roger rambled as he looked through the photographs of Jessica and Acme playing patty cake. "Jessica's the light of my life, the apple of my eye, the cream in my coffee..."

"You better start drinkin' it black, cuz Acme's takin' the cream now." Eddie remarked.

"Eddie!" Cece glares at him and comes by to Roger's side, Roger throws himself over her shoulder sobbing as she pats his head holding him "Dont cry Mister Roger it'll be ok."

"Hard to believe," Maroon sighed. "Marvin Acme's been my friend and neighbor for 30 years. Who would've thought he was a Sugar Daddy?"

"Somebody must've made her do it..." Roger sniffled

"Sorry dude she played patty cake and sounded like she was enjoying it too." Bebe shook his head, Cece pulls out a mallet and smack her twin brother flat

"Now, drink this, son, it'll make you feel better." Maroon offered him a drink.

Roger came out of Cece grasp and took the drink in a cup as his eyes turned as red as his overalls. He then took the drink, gulping it down.

He then started to have this weird physical and chemical reaction within his body, zipping up in the air and having a loud, whistling noise and making glass around him break.

Bebe and Cece tried to hold to the table but lost their grips and faceplates into the wall.

Eddie and Maroon covered their ears, trying to block out the sound. Roger suddenly landed back in the desk and settled down. "Thanks, I needed that..." he slammed his head on the desk again.

"Son of a bitch," Eddie mumbled as he got the liquor all over his clothes. "Look, Mr. Maroon. I think our work here is finished. How 'bout that carrot you owe me, huh?"

Maroon nodded and took out a check from his jacket pocket. "A deal's a deal."

"Great, thanks." Eddie nodded and took the check.

Roger lifted his head, breathing slightly heavily.

"Roger," Maroon came to his Toon. "I know this all seems pretty painful now, but you'll find someone new. Won't he, Mr. Valiant?"

"Yeah, sure." Eddie shrugged. "A good-looking guy, like that? The dames will be breakin' his door down."

"DAMES!?" Roger snapped. "What dames!? Jessica's the only one for me, you'll see! We'll rise above this piddling peccadillo! We're gonna be happy again, you got that? Happy! Capital H-A-P-P-I!" he zipped out the window, leaving a large rabbit shaped hole in the glass.

"Well, at least he took it well." Maroon shrugged, then his window blind fell clear off the window plate.

Cece looked at the smashed window and sprints out the room, Bebe notices and follows outside the room "Sis where are you going?"

"I'm going to talk to Roger." Cece says determined

"Let em go Ce he'll be fine." Bebe grabs her shoulder but Cece slaps it away "No! Roger just found that his wife just cheated on him and you and Eddie don't even care! He needs a friend and it's gonna be me!" Cece frowns stomping away

"Alright geez go snuggle with your bunny friend." Bebe rolls his eyes going back into the room. Eddie and Maroon see him coming back in the room "Where's Cece?"

"She went to go comfort the crybaby rabbit." Bebe rolls his eyes jabbing a thumb at the door.

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Roger walked alone, sobbing as he looked at photographs with his lovely wife, sitting on an ACME box. "Oh, Jessica... Please tell me it's not true... P-P-Please..." he sniffled.

Cece catches up to him "H-Hi Mister Roger."

Roger put his pictures away, wiping away a tear with his ear. "Oh great, what do you want from me now?"

"I wanted to make sure you were ok." Cece walks up to him

"I don't really feel like talking right now." Roger hugs his knees still sobbing

Cece looks down sad "I-I actually kinda know how you feel."

"You can't possibly understand how I feel."

"I know it's not the same as your wife playing patty cat but .. I-I do, I'm not from here and a long long way from home a-and my brother acts like he doesn't even care." Cece quivers her lip as tears form in her eyes "I-I just wanna go home I miss my mommy and my daddy a-and my papa Henry." Cece covers her face in her arms as the tears finally roll down her face.

Roger softens his face at the little girl crying "Hey now it's ok." He gently lifts her up placing her on his lap "Sweet little girl like you shouldn't cry." He takes out a handkerchief from his pocket and wipes her tears

It's just I know what it's like to be sad too, and you look like you could use a friend" Cece wipes her tears giving a small smile. "I can be your friend Mister Roger."

"You will?" Roger beams a little with happiness

"Uh huh." Cece nods her head

"Jeepers aren't you sweet." Roger smiles ruffling her hair suddenly Thunder is heard in the sky "Oh dear storms coming, we better get to my house and wait it out we'll call Mr Valiant and let him now where you are." Roger holds Cece's hand as the two walk down the road .