1947

Hollywood, California

A wormhole opens as Cece screams falling out landing on top of a man who was walking dowm the street

She was now wearing a knee length purple dress with white stripes and giant purple bows in her two puff balls with black dress shoes and white socks

She looks up dizzy but is cut short when her brother lands on top of her

"Man that was one heck of a ride." Bebe's eyes swirl in his head as he holds it in pain. He was now wearing a blue button up shirt with black spenders and black pants, his baseball cap was now a black newsboy cap

"Nice going doofus!" Cece shoves her brother with a frown

"What! I didn't do nothing!" Bebe huffs

"You blasted us back in time!"

"We didn't go back that far."

"Oh yeah then why you are dressed like papa Henry!"

"I'm not dressed like-" Bebe turns his head looking into the window of a store and saw he indeed was dressed like a cartoon in the 1940s

"Oh this is bad." Bebe cringed, knowing her messed up

They feel the weight under them move as they fall on their butts, the man gets up putting on his hat revealing to be a police office "You!" He darts his eyes at the twins "Come here you little brats!!"

The twins scramble onto their feet and run as the cop chases them towards Maroon Studios, they bolt around a corner and into one of the sets

Cece looks over her shoulder making sure that cop wasn't behind them anymore, she accidentally bumps into someone's pant leg

Eddie Valient turns around with an angry scowl "Hey!"

"S-Sorry mister." Cece backs up slowly smiling sheepishly

"What are ya blind are something! Watch where you're going!" Eddie yells at her, Cece gets tears in her eyes about to cry

"Hey! You can't talk to my sister like that!" Bebe pulls his sister behind her puffing put his chest protectively pointing at Eddie

"Shouldn't you little brats be in school or something?" Eddie glares at Bebe

"Shouldn't you be in a coffin floating down the river old man!" Bebe snaps back

Eddie gets wide eyed but quickly growls angrily

"Uh oh." Cece shrinks cringing

Eddie grabs Bebe and starts walking "I think you need a time out little man!"

"Hey! Let me go! put me down!!" Bebe yells angrily as he tried to wiggle out of Eddies grip as Cece follows, Eddie gets to a coat rack on the wall and hooks Bebe on it by his pants "Now stay up there for all I care!" Eddie dusts his hands before walking pass Cece mumbling "Toons."

"Hey get back here I ain't done with you yet!!!" Bebe snarls shaking a fist but Eddie ignores him walking away

"Bebe do you know who that was." Cece continues to look back at Eddie as she grabs her brothers legs trying to help him down

"Yeah a really jerk!" Bebe yells out for Eddie to hear

"No that's Eddie Valiant! Papa Henry talked about him, he's a detective in the 1940s." Cece pulls on her brother's leg trying to get him down but his legs just stretched

"Ow! Ce stop! You're making it worse!" Bebe crosses his eyes as he waves his arms in pain

"Oops sorry." Cece smiles sheepishly

"Come on please just one more take I'll get right I promise!" A voice is heard begging

"No Roger that's 24th time!"

A door is heard being slammed, Roger Rabbit walks away slumped over sad he looks up to Bebe struggling to get down from the coat rack "Jeepers are you ok little guy?" Roger runs over to the twins grabbing Bebe under his arms gently putting him down

"Yeah I'm ok." Bebe grumps rubbing his butt

Cece stares at Roger star struck before letting out a excited squeal scaring her brother and the rabbit "Ahhhhh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! You're Roger Rabbit!! T-The Roger Rabbit!!! Oh my gosh I love you so much! when I grow up I wanna be just like you!!" Cece hugs Roger's waist looking at him with a big smile on her face

"Aw jeepers you don't wanna be like me." Roger rubs the back of his neck with a sad frown "I can't do anything right."

"Well that's ok Mister Roger our dad always says 'Perfect practice makes perfect.'" Bebe mimics his father perfectly

"Can I get your autograph mister Roger please please please!" Cece bounces up and down holding a notebook and a pen with a cute pleading face

"Aw shucks why not!" Roger smiles as his signs 'Roger Rabbit' in cursiveon the notepad.

"ROGER!!"

"Oops that's me gotta go!" Roger waves at the two as he runs off

"Ok now that over it's time to go pay that Eddie jerk a visit!" Bebe grabs his sisters hand as he marches into the studio.

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Bebe and Cece look around the corner and see Eddie walking up to the receptionist "I'm here to see Mr Maroon." The receptionist nods picking up the phone

"Alright now's our chance!" Bebe smirks evilly

"But how are we gonna do it without him recognizing us?" Cece looks up at her brother, the twins rub their chins thinking. They look to see a man putting his hat and coat on a rack before stepping into a office, the twins look at each as they both nod to each other with smiles

"How long is this gonna take I don't got all day." Eddie asks the receptionist impatiently

"It'll just be a minute sir Mister Maroon is a very busy man." The receptionist looks up at Eddie filing her nails bored

A crash is heard as a giant 'man' in a coat and hat bumps around knocking into the wall and people

"Oops!"

"Sorry!"

"Excuse me!"

"Watch your feet!"

The 'man' stumbles but makes his way to the desk standing beside Eddie "I would to speak to Mister Maroon." The 'man' clears his throat

The receptionist chews some gum in her mouth looking at him "Have a seat he'll be with ya shortly."

Eddie and the 'man' walk to the seats that were side by side, the 'man' takes a seat as Eddie's on his way to sit down the 'man' slips a cartoon mouse trap onto the sit.

He snickers quietly as his stomach starts to move with a giggle, he quickly but quietly puts a finger to his lips shhing it.

Eddie sits down but shots back up "Yeow!" He looks down to see a mouse trap stuck to his butt, he grumps angrily as he rips it out tearing a hole in his pants showing his boxers

The 'man' giggles to himself but suddenly a sneeze comes from his stomach

"Gesundheit." Eddie nods

"Thank you!" The stomach says back making Eddie turns his head suspiciously

Stomach don't talk

And they definitely don't sound like little girls!

Eddie grabs the 'man' ripping the coat showing it was Bebe sitting on top of his sister's head

The twins look at each and then back at Eddie giving him sheepish smiles waving at him

"Why you little!!" Eddie angrily lunges at them, Bebe and Cece screaming with their eyes popping out of their heads. The twins quickly scramble out of the chair running towards the door, Bebe jumps on the door trying to pull the knob while Cece bangs her fist on the door.

"You two are gonna get it!" Eddie grabs them by their collars ready to pound them but the receptionist walks in front of them opening the door

"Mr. Maroon, a couple of kids and Mr. Valiant are here to-"

The man put his hand up to give him a moment as he watched something with one of his assistants.

"He'll be right with you." the secretary told them, then went back to her desk, closing the doors behind her.

"This ain't over you two!" Eddie scowls at them before dropping them both on the ground making them land on their butts.

"No, no, NO!" Maroon snapped at his assistant. "Wait until he gets to his feet, then hit him with the boulder!"

"Right, RK." the assistant nodded, then collected his things and left the room.

Maroon turned to them, looking stiff and serious. "How much do you know about show business, Mr. Valiant?"

"Only there's no business like it, no business i know." Eddie replied, cynically.

"Yeah, and there's no business more expensive," Maroon said, walking toward him but noticed the twins "What's with the kids? There yours or something?"

"These two?! Oh ho no they ain't my kids if anything they're but a bunch of troublemaking trespassers!" Eddie shoots the twins a glare

"Hey we are not trespassers!" Bebe crosses his arms with a frown

"You need to go back to school mister and learn a lesson on kindness!" Cece sticks her tongue out at him

"Just say the word and I'll throw them out the window myself." Eddie says to Maroon with a growl still looking at the twins

"No in fact they might be able to help you." Maroon smug

"Help me?!"

"Help Him?!"

Maroon chuckled

"I'm 25 grand over budget on the latest Baby Herman cartoon. You saw the rabbit blowin' his lines, he can't keep his mind on his work, you know why?"

"One too many refrigerators dropped on his head?" Eddie guessed.

"Nah, he's a toon." Maroon replied. "You can drop anything you want on his head, he'll shake it off."

" Like Cece." Bebe snorts, his sister didn't think it was quite funny as she grumpily pulls his hat over his head

"But break his heart, he goes to pieces just like you or me." Maroon continued talking with Eddie and held out a folded newspaper. "Read that."

Bebe and Cece jump up looking over Eddie's shoulders as he opened the newspaper to see an article.

"'Seen cooning over Calamari, with not-so-new Sugar Daddy, was Jessica Rabbit, wife of Maroon Cartoon star Roger"." he then turned to the exhausted cartoonist. "What's this got to do with me?"

"You're the private detective," Maroon answered him. "You figure it out."

"Look, I don't have time for this." Eddie handed the paper back.

"Look, Valiant, his wife's poison, but he think she's Betty Crocker. I want you to follow her, and take those twins with you, they look like they got a good eye and could help you blend in more. Get me a couple of nice, juicy pictures I can wise the rabbit up with."

Eddie shook his head, walking away from Maroon. "Forget it, I don't work Toon Town."

"What's wrong with Toontown?" Maroon asked, holding him back. "Every Joe loves Toon Town."

"Then get Joe to do that job, cuz I ain't goin'!" Eddie still protested.

"Whoa, fella," Maroon gripped his shoulder. "You don't wanna go to Toon Town, you don't have to go to Toon Town. Nobody said you had to go to Toon Town anyway. Have a seat, Valiant and little ones." he forced the detective and two children down in his seats across from his desk. "The rabbit's wife sings at a joint called the Ink and Paint Club."

"Ink and Paint Club where have I heard that name before." Cece mumbles to herself

Maroon replied, sitting in his chair and putting his feet up. "Toon Revue. Strictly humans only, okay? So, what do you think, Valiant?"

Eddie looked at him, then spots a bottle of alcohol over his shoulder

"Well?" Maroon leaned forward, demanding that he answer.

Eddie stood up and walked behind Maroon's desk. "The job's gonna cost ya 100 bucks, plus expenses."

"100 bucks!?" Maroon shot from his seat. "That's ridiculous."

"So's the job." Eddie told him, coming with a flask of liquor and cup.

"Alright, alright," Maroon tried to settle him. "You got your 100 bucks, and these kids can have anything they want from cigarettes to jump ropes. Have a drink, Eddie."

Eddie glanced at him, then poured himself a drink. "I don't mind if I do."

"Uh we're not allowed to smoke." Cece raises her hand, Maroon starts laughing making the twins look at each other confused "Haha you don't smoke you kids are adorable! I might have to give you your own cartoon." He grabs two lollipops from a jar and sticks in both of their mouths

There were some voices heard outside the window. Eddie took a look, curious the twins walk over looking out the window too.

They saw several human men wandering around with Acme products such as wooden boxes, giant blocks of cheese, and animate inanimate objects. There popped out chairs playing loud orchestra music from instruments.

There came a gray face with big blue eyes, startling Eddie.

"Dumbo!!" Cece cheers looking at the elephant

"What's up Dum!" Bebe high- fives his foot

Maroon stood up to see Eddie hiding under the window. "Kinda jumpy, aren't ya, Valiant?"

"It's just Dumbo, scaredy baby." Bebe snorts with a smirk looking down at the detective

"I know who it is." Eddie glared at the toon boy.

"I got him on loan from Disney," Maroon explained. "Him and half the cast of Fantasia. The best part is, they work for peanuts!" he threw peanuts out the window for the elephant.

Dumbo sucked them all up in his trunk and flew off, happily.

"Bye Dumbo!" Cece waves

"Well, I don't work for peanuts." Eddie shook his head, showing the check Maroon wrote for him. "Where's the other $50?"

"Let's call the other $50 a carrot to finish the job," Maroon chuckled.

"You've been hangin' around rabbits too long." Eddie rolled his eyes. He then walked out the office with Cece and Bebe. "Alright twerps, you can come with me to take these pictures , but don't be askin' me for any money or getting on my nerves got it."

"Yeah Yeah whatever." Bebe swats his hand rolling his eyes walking pass him "Let's get out of here before detective scaredy pants wets himself." Bebe smirks to himself

"What was that?!"

"Oh nothing!"