Wanted Fugitives

After inspecting the crime scene Bebe and Eddie go back to take a little break especially Bebe, Eddie figured he would need to lie down for a minute after learning his twin sister is now wanted for murder.

They then saw beside Eddie's office, there was a woman with a baby carriage. She then took out a lighter and started to put it in the carriage.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey, wait a minute!" Eddie rushed over to stop her, but it was shown she was lighting another cigar for Baby Herman.

"I've been trying to make him quit, but he just won't listen to me." the woman said, waving away the awful smoke.

"Whatya know, ya dumb broad?" Baby Herman scoffed in his gruff voice. "You got the IQ of a rattle! You Valiant and that little girl?"

"Yeah." Bebe and Eddie answered.

"I wanna talk to you two about the Acme murder," Baby Herman told them, then turned to his possible girlfriend. "Hey, doll, why don't you run downstairs and get me a racin' form?" he then slapped her butt.

The woman called out, then glared at him. "Okay, okay, I'm goin'!" she walked off.

"A ladies man, huh?" Eddie remarked.

"Isn't she like old enough to be your mommy?" Bebe raises an eyebrow a little confused

"What's that supposed to mean?" Baby Herman scoffed at him. "My problem is I got a 50 year old lust and a three year old dinky."

"Yeah, must be tough." Eddie said.

"Look Valiant and kid, the rabbit and your sister didn't kill Acme," Baby Herman explained why he wanted to talk with them. "They're not murders, I don't know that Cece as well as you do, kid, but I should know about the rabbit, he's a dear friend of mine. I tell you, guys, the whole thing stinks like yesterday's diapers! Look at this," Herman took out the newspaper article about Cece and Roger killing Acme. "The paper said Acme left no will. That's a load of succotash!"

"Every Toon knows Acme had a will," Baby Herman continued. "He promised to leave Toon Town to us Toons That will and possible cartoonist's been a son he bumped off."

"Has anybody ever seen this will?" Eddie asked the baby.

"Uh, no," Herman shrugged. "But he gave us his solemn oath!"

Bebe digs in his pocket and pulls out a piece of paper and a pen walking up to Baby Herman "Hey Baby Herman you mind if I get your autograph it's for ya know .. my sister."

"Sure thing kid anything for a fan." Baby Herman waves a hand with a smirk signing his name.

"If you believe that joker could do anything solid, the gag's on you, pal!" Eddie turned Herman's carriage around and walked off.

"I just figured since you were the one who got my pal in trouble, you might wanna help him out." Baby Herman told Eddie. "I can pay ya!"

Eddie didn't like the sound of being paid by a cartoon character. "Save your money for a pair of elevator shoes!" he then kicked the carriage away.

Baby Herman wailed as he was rolled away and bumped into his girl, knocking the cigar out of his clutches. "My stogie!" he then cried, obnoxiously and immaturely.

Eddie and Bebe glanced at him and Eddie slammed the door behind them.

Eddie threw down the newspaper and took a closer look at it at his desk

"It ain't my fault the rabbit and kid got themselves in trouble." Eddie mumbled, taking a drink.

Eddie shrugged and took a big gulp of his drink. He placed it down and made himself comfortable to end his work day. "All I did was take a couple of lousy pictures."

"It just doesn't make any sense! Cece still sleep with a night light! My sister can't be a murderer!! I don't want her to get dipped!!" He grabs Eddies collar panicking, the detective grabs Bebe's hands calming him down

"Calm down kid it's gonna ok ya sister's gonna be fine." Eddie looks into the Toon kid's eye "Alright?"

Bebe sniffs a little wiping his nose with his sleeve "O-Okay." Bebe spotted something. The glass was magnifying the photograph in the paper, making him look squinting his eye closely. "Hey Eddie, check this out."

Eddie leaned with him to take a closer look. He picked up his glass and saw closely into Marvin Acme's pocket that there was a Last Will and Testament. Eddie then took out his detective kit and took out a magnifying glass to take a closer look to make sure his eyes weren't fooling him. He looked through the photographs with Bebe and still saw the will in his jacket pocket. "The baby was right." he whispered. Eddie had a dawning realization look on his face, but shrugged it off. "The Hell with it!"

Bebe looks down at the paper with a sad look "Man I hope that knucklehead's ok."

"Whatever, I need a nap, feel free to look around but stay out of Teddy's things, alright?" Eddie told him, pulling out his filing cabinet and making up his bed.

"Yeah whatever." Bebe huffs sitting at Eddie's desk with his arms crossed putting his head in his arms, Eddie swears he heard him sniffing with sadness but he chooses to ignore it.

Eddie kicked off his shoes and laid down in his bed. He then turned over, opened his eyes slightly and screamed once he saw Roger and Cece had been in his bed.

Bebe shoots up and sees Cece with wide eyes hopping out of the chair "C-Cece?"

Cece looks at Bebe and gets wide eyes with tears as she runs to him crying "Bebe! Big Brother!!" She hugs him tight "I don't like it here!! It's scary!! The people are so mean!! I wanna go home!!" Cece exclaimed as her hug grew tighter

"Cece ... can't ... breathe ... crushing ... spine!!" Bebe squeaks with his eyes bugging out

"Sorry." Cece puts him down

"How the hell did you two even get in here?!" Eddie demanded.

"Through the mail slot. I thought it would be best if we waited inside. Seeing as how We're wanted for murder!" Roger explained

"No kidding! Just talking to you can get us into wrap for even betting... Wait a minute." Eddie started but came to realize one important detail. "Does anyone know you're here?"

"No I don't think so." Cece shakes her head

"No body, not a soul, except uh..." Roger began but became nervous.

"Who?!" Eddie asked getting even angrier, if possible.

"Well, you see..." Roger came close to Eddie to explain, jumping onto the bed. "We didn't know where your office was. So we asked the newsboy, he didn't know. So we asked the fireman, the greengrocer, the butcher, the baker, they didn't know. But the liquor store guy, he knew..."

"It was all Roger ideas! Not mine!" Cece points to Roger hiding behind her brother afraid of Eddie

"In other words, the whole damn town knows you're here!" Eddie grabbed Roger his throat and grabbed Cece's collar to throw them out.

"No!! Put my sister down!!" Bebe grabs his sister's leg dragging his feet trying to pull her away

"No Eddie please I don't wanna get dipped!!" Cece cries trying to get free of Roger's grip

"Eddie, take it easy, will ya!?" Roger cried. "Please Eddie, don't throw us out! You're making a big mistake! We didn't kill anybody, we swear! The whole thing's a set up, a scam, a frame job, OW!" Roger started to feel pain once Eddie tried to make them leave.

"She's gonna get dipped!! I not gonna let them dip my baby sister!!" Bebe yells

"Please I'd never hurt anybody let alone kill!!" Cece holds onto Eddie's arm, he grunts angrily trying to get her off.

"Eddie, I could never hurt anybody, and this Cece seems like the gentle type! OW!" Roger continued to clear their names to him. "My whole purpose in life is to make people laugh!" he then fell with Eddie once he got loose, then settled himself down. "Okay, okay, sure, I admit it. I got a little steamed once you showed me those pictures of Jessica."

Eddie went to tackle him, but he missed once Roger hopped out of his way.

"So, after talking with Cece, we rushed over to the Ink and Paint Club," Roger continued to explain, dodging Eddie at all possible ways. "But she wasn't in her dressing room, so I wrote her a love letter!"

"What?" Bebe said, flatly looking at his sister who shrugs her shoulders "Hey romantic gestures can win any girls heart."

"Wait a minute, wait a minute," even Eddie thought that was strange, even for a Toon like Roger. "You're telling me in a fit of jealousy, you wrote your wife a love letter?"

"That's right," Roger smiled. "I know that she was just an innocent victim of circumstance!"

"We suppose you used the old lipstick on the mirror routine, huh?" Eddie guessed.

"Lipstick yes, mirror no." Atticus said.

"I found a nice, clean piece of paper," Roger showed the paper written in Jessica's lipstick and started hopping on the bed. "'Dear Jessica, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. One one-thousand! Two one-thousand! Three one-thousand! Four one-thousand!'."

"ThenWhy didn't you guys just leave the letter there?" Bebe asked.

"Obviously, a poem of this power and sensitivity, must-" Roger was interrupted as Eddie yanked his ears. "Be read in person..." he said once he was placed back down. "So I went home to wait for her with Cece, but the weasels were there waitin' for us. So... So... We ran..."

"So why come to me?" Eddie asked. "I'm the guy that took the pictures of your wife, Roger!"

"Yeah," Roger said as he looked at old newspaper articles of Eddie in his business. "And you're also the guy that helped all these Toons. Everybody knows when a Toon's in trouble, there's only one place to go, Valiant & Valiant!"

"Not anymore." Eddie mumbled.

Roger went to sit in the other dusty desk.

"GET OUTTA THAT CHAIR!" Eddie snapped at Roger.

Roger looked scared and worried, stepping away from it and leaving a print stain on the chair. Cece hugs her brother shaking also scared.

"That's my brother's chair..." Eddie said, softly.

"Yeah, where is your brother, anyway?" Roger asked, simply as he looked at an old photograph of Eddie and Teddy standing together. "He looks like a sensitive and sober fellow."

"What happened?" Cece whispered.

Bebe does a gesture of slitting his throat with his finger with a cringed look

"Ooooooh"

"That's it," Eddie grabbed his telephone. "I'm callin' the cops."

"No mister Eddie please don't tell on us!" Cece drops to her knees in a begging motion, Eddie huffs trying to dial to call the number anyway

"Go ahead, call the cops," Roger took Cece's hand to walk right out. "We come here for help and what do you do? You turn us in. No, no, don't feel guilty about us. So long and thanks for nothing." he slammed the door behind them.

"Did they just walk away in the closet?" Bebe asked.

"Stupe," Eddie mumbled. He then walked in the closet to get the Toon and rabbit out, but found no one in there.

"Eddie Valiant," Roger came out, impersonating a gruff officer and putting handcuffs on his wrist and Eddie's. "You're under arrest!"

Cece laughs a little making Eddie glare at her making her squeak in fear bolting pass him

"Idiot, I got no keys for these cuffs." Eddie growled at Roger.

Suddenly sirens roared. Parking outside the building were the weasels.

Roger screamed for his dear life. "It's the Toon Patrol! Hide us, Eddie, p-p-please!" he grabbed Cece jumping into the drawer. "Remember, you never saw us!"

"GET OUTTA THERE!" Eddie kept yelling at Roger.

"Don't let 'em find us!" Roger pleaded to the detective. "Come on, Eddie, you're our only hope."

The weasels were banging on the door, wanting to be let in.

"Open up in the name of the law!" Smarty hissed from outside.

"Just a second fellas!" Bebe called to them.

"Big Brother."

Bebe is taken back a little by his sister looking at her with big tear filled eyes scared "Am I gonna go to jail?"

Bebe stammers a little not knowing what to say, Cece burst into tears as her tears pour on the floor like a waterfall "Waaaaaaaah I don't wanna go jail!! I want my Mommy!!!"

"Shhhh shut her up! Before they bust down the door!" Eddie whispers/growls at Bebe who looks a little panicked but grabs his sister's shoulders looking into her eyes as she continues to sob "Shut off the water works sis, I not gonna let you get dipped I promise. So knock it off with the tears ya big baby."

Cece whimpers a little wiping her eyes before hugging her brother close, Bebe is taken back but smiles hugging his twin sister back

"P-P-Please, Eddie," Roger continued to sound weak. "You know there's no justice for Toons anymore. If the weasels get their hands on us, I'm as good as dipped and who knows what they would do to Cece"

Eddie looked like he was gonna hesitate but turns to Bebe still comforting his sister he softens his face for a second thinking about him and his brother

"Don't make us play rough, Valiant!" Smarty continued to grow impatient. "We just want the rabbit and puff haired brat!"

"What're we gonna do, you guys?" Roger sounded desperate. "What're we gonna do?"

"What's all this 'we' stuff?" Eddie asked, glancing at him. "They just want the rabbit."

"No way!" Bebe frowns standing in front of his sister with his arms spread out protectively

Eddie shushes him. "I got an idea, just play along."

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