/---------------\ | Skippy's | Charles "runt-abu" Brown would like to dedicate this story | Mom | to the following individuals who lived in a world full of |An A! Fanfic by| darkness but are now in the light. | runt-abu | Princess Diana, Mother Teresa and to all those who morn \---------------/ them; This is there space of memorial:- Thank you for remebering Legal type stuff:- This document is Copyright (C) 1997 Charles "Runt-Abu" Brown (runt@ooh.dircon.co.uk). All rights reserved. The characters of the Warner Siblings and related characters are copyright and trademark Warner Bros. Animation, and are used without permission. Their use within this work of fiction is in no way, meant to infringe or steal that copyright, nor to dilute the characters themselves. No profit on the part of the author is made from this document, and this document is used only for entertainment purposes. If there are any legal problems with this document, please contact the author to make arrangements to amend these legal difficulties. This work may be freely distributed in any media as long as it is not; altered for its original form, and that no money is charged for the document itself. It may be included on any archive collection under the same terms. Prelogue Skippy Squirrel stared out his wooden window into the dark night, clouds over head covered the half moon and obscured the stars. His aunt slappy came in, "What'cha thinking about Skippy?" She asked gently. "Oh nothing.." Skippy replied instinctivly. "You were wondering about your mom again weren't you." Slappy said softly. Skippy's attitude suddenly changed, became darker, sadder. "Yeah... I.. I just wish I had know who she was.." He whispered. "Now Skippy what have I always told you?" Slappy demanded. "Never to mix up dynamite with candy." Skippy paused for a second; "Always use live ammunition and ...." "And actions do things; thoughts don't..." Slappy finshed for him. "Tommorrow morning we'll go down to the hall of records and find your mom... If you go to bed now..." "Gee that'd be great Aunt Slappy!" Skippy said excitedly. "Come on kiddo, time for lights out...." Slappy said tucking Skippy in. Chapter 1 - Hall of Records The hazy sunlight filtered into Skippy's room, Skippy still asleep bundled the blanket around his head to keep the light out."Skippy, it's time to get up..." Slappy shouted from somewhere donwstairs. "Okay Aunt Slappy." Skippy said tiredly. Skippy clambered out of bed and headed down stairs. "You ready to find out about your Mom?" Slappy asked sarcasticly. "Hunh?" Skippy replied still half asleep, in fact more like 75% asleep... "Hall of records this morning, no?" prompted Slappy. "Oh of course..." Skippy said tiredly. After a filling breakfast of Nutritionly lacking suger coated generic ceral Skippy and Slappy went to the hall of records for all the 'toons in Burbank. "Here we are kiddo, you're about to meet with your past, it may be unpleasant..." Slappy intoned. "That's okay, no matter what I find inside, you'll still be here for me Aunt Slappy." Skippy said cheerfully. The big double doors to the hall of records swung open as skippy and slappy walked inside. "Good morning..." Said a familer voice from behind the counter, it was Hello Nurse. "What are you doing here?" Demanded Slappy. "Oh Warners don't pay me enogth to work as just a nurse so I work here part time to make ends meet, and I've not be in a cameo for quite some time..." Hello Nurse replied. "Oh Carefull there.." She shouted as skippy was about to step in some oil. "Yakko and Wakko came here earlier, they're still not quite over it.." Hello Nurse said pointing to the pools of oil. "Yeah yeah yeah..." Slappy said impatiently. "Look can you tell my nephew here who his mom was?""No." Hello Nurse said promptly. "Okaaayy Then what are we doing here?" Slappy asked. "Oh no Miss Squirrel, I can't tell your nephew, but I can show him which file it would be in.." Hello nurse replied. "Well, we don't have all day..." Slappy impatiently muttered. "Let me just feed his details into the computer, okay Name, Age, Character and ID#" Hello nurse asked politely "Skippy, I'm 8 and I'm a squirrel!" Skippy exlaimed. "My Id number is A1SQIP3" "Thank you Skippy.." Hello nurse gently spoke, "The computer is coming up with the details now.." The computer made lots of grindy disk noises, Skippy, Slappy and Hello Nurse covered thier ears in pain. The computer suddenly stopped, Hello nurse looked shocked as she looked at the screen. "Is something wrong?" Asked Skippy. "I'm not sure..." She replied. "Look!" She said turning the screen around. Skippy stared at the screen, large flashing red letters continuly blipped up. "NO RECORD FOUND?!" Slappy shouted, "What's that supposed to mean?!" "It may just be a system failure I'll get the mechanic on to it right away." She said running off to fetch a mechanic. A short while later Hello nurse returned with a monkey. "Who's he?" Skippy asked indignetly. "Abu, pleased ta meet ya!" The monkey replied, "I'm the mechanic." Abu took out a small laptop and plugged it into the large PC that _was_ the hall of records mainframe. Abu tapped away franticly with the keyboard and it was almost an hour before he said anything. "This is not good..." Abu said looking at Skippy. "According to this there is no Skippy Squirrel..." Abu finished. "How can that be?" Asked Skippy tearfully. "Probably just a mistake at the hospital kid." Abu said trying to cheer Skippy up. "A hospital could do a INK test on you Skippy." Hello Nurse offered, "That way we could then match your INK to all the INK's in our database and find out that way.." "I'm not sure..." Slappy started, but then she saw Skippy crying. "Come on, let's go to the hospital..." Chapter 2 - INK Skippy sat nervously in the waiting room, Slappy beside him equally as nervous. A George Clooney clone walked by causing both of them to stare as he went. "Skippy Squirel to room 1, Skippy Squirel to room 1." The voice came over the intercom. "No matter what happens inside..." Slappy started speaking very softly. "You still be there for me..." Skippy finished. The doctor looked very stern as Skippy entered the room, it was pretty much a normal 'toon doctor's office. If you can call a 'toon's doctor office normal... "Look Skippy, I'll be honest with you, these results are A) Not good and B) very strange." The doctor said with great precision. "Oh, there's nothing wrong with me..." Skippy started, "I'm just here for an INK sample.." "Yes, I know that, but unfortunatly the tests revealed something we did not expect, if you would not mind waiting outside Skipy, I'd like to have a word with your Aunt..." Skippy looked up at his aunt with _that_ pleading looking in his eye. "Sorry, kid. If the doctor says wait outside, you wait outside..." Slappy finished quickly looking away from Skippy. Skippy jumped down off the chair and left the doctor's office closing the door behind him. He pressed his ear hard against the door but it was sound proofed and he could not here anything. So he sat outside and waited reading one of the terrible magazines that are indigionus to doctor's offices everywhere. After reading every magazine several times the doctor's office finally reopened. Slappy stepped outsidem something was really wrong as even her flower was drooping more then normal. She took Skippy by the hand and lead him in without saying a word. "Skippy, I've had a long chat with your ahem, aunt here." The doctor stared, he said aunt with a tone of disgust. "Yes I had noticed..." Skippy retorted. The doctor continued unpreturbed by Skippy's remark. "and well you've probably already guessed that something must be pretty wrong.." The doctor continued. "Oh boy here it comes..." Skippy whispered. "The fact is that your INK is not that of a toon squirrel." Skippy looked at the doctor in disbelif. "Come again!" He said shocked. "You are not a squirrel, your INK is more that of a toon cat..." The doctor concluded. "Get real!" Skippy managed to joke. "I am quite serious, we checked the results three times, each time they came up the same..." Was the last thing Skippy heard before he fainted.... Chapter 3 - Skippy the cat "Well I don't see how it could be anyone else..." said Hello nurse's distorted voice. "I think we should check again, I mean she's never even had a kid so how could it be her?" a less distorted voice came from Abu. "How ya doing kid?" asked Slappy who's sounded fairly normal. "I had a horrible nightmare Aunt Slappy.." Skippy started "Sorry kid, no nightmare..." Slappy replied sadly she held up a mirror for Skippy, a strange looking kitten looked back. "What, what?" Skippy stammered pointing at the reflection, "Me...?!" "Yeah, scary. Doc says the fright returned you to your true form..." Slappy explained solmely. "Look it can't be her!" Abu screamed. Then suddenly looked at where Skippy and Slappy where to see them glaring at him. "What they arguing about?" Asked Skippy. Hello nurse was the one to answer his question, "_I_ think I've found your real mom..." She said. "But it can't be her.." Abu interjected once again. "And Abu disagrees with me.." Hello Nurse retorted. "So who is my mom..." Skippy enquired tentivly. "Well I think..." Hello Nurse started "Even though it can't be..." Abu interupted. "I THINK IT'S....." Chapter 4- Skippy's Mom "WHAT?! You can not be serious!! How could Skippy be my son?! What; like I just happened to forget having a kitten?" Rita screamed at hello nurse. "But the INK test is conclusive, Skippy is a perfect INK match for your son..." Hello nurse defended. Rita just moaned. "I suppose if you REALLY squint and streched out his face, gave him a good singing voice, blue eyes and made him a lot smaller he could just about pass for being a cat!" Rita shouted. She wondered out of the alley and over to Skippy Squir... Cat. Skippy stared at her and then at his "Aunt" Slappy. Skippy moved towards Rita slowly, his new longer thiner tail tangled up in his feet and he tripped and rolled into Rita's legs. Rita picked him up by the scruff of the neck and placed him on his feet again. "Mom?" Skippy asked softly. Rita looked down at the small kitten and smiled a bit. "Maybe kid, maybe..." Slappy stood looking at Rita and her "new son" with tears in her eyes. Rita saw Slappy's tears and had a great idea... "Slappy, I was just wondering, now i've a kid _AND_ a dog to look after if we could find a home somewhere, I mean even just a simple TREE house would be great..." Rita hevily emphsised the tree bit but it still took Slappy a few seconds to recognise what Rita was proposing. "I think that would be a great idea..." Slappy said tearfully, but these were tears of happiness. Chapter 5 - The start Rita and her new son Skippy had moved in with Slappy almost a month ago now, Skippy had almost forgotten about being a squirrel entirly except when late at night he'd wake from a horrible nightmare and not be able to remeber it, which was a shame as he would never know if it was the nightmare or not remebering which was worse. Rita too had forgotten what it was like to be free, as far as she was concened Skippy was the most important thing in the world. Much to the amazement of Runt who after saving the world several times had returned only to find that his best friend had new responsiblities. Slappy did very little, she mostly just sat in her rocking chair staring at Rita and Skippy playing happily like cats normally do. "Erm Slappy.." Runt said agian. "What, oh it's you.." Slappy said sadly. "I'm worried slappy; about you and about Rita. You just sit there everyday doing nothing, the C.E.O. Called, he says that unless you come in they'll revoke your pay or play contract and make it play for pay, he said the same thing about Rita and Skippy..." He stopped himself mid-sentence, "I don't think anyone has told the studio about him yet." Slappy just ignored Runt and stared at an old picture of Skippy. Runt snapped his claws and Slappy came around. "Slappy a wise old friend of mine once said actions do things; thoughts don't..." Runt said gently. Slappy for the first time in a while listened, she sat up."You know something Runt, you're right..." Slappy replied leaving her chair, she walked over to a large desk and opened it, from inside she took another key and went across the room to a small drawer which she unlocked as well, there where a row of 10 keys she counted along to the 8th key and took it She then went a picture of skippy and herself hanging on the wall she moved it away to revel a safe. "I've never seen that before.." Skippy suddenly said. "No, nobody except me has..." Slappy replied without looking. She put the key carefully into the lock and turned it to the left. The safe slowly opened with a hiss of air. "I found this the same time I found you Skippy." Slappy said removing a small wicker basket from the safe. Inside there was a small tartan blanket, a picture of Skippy as a baby (Really Cute!!) and a small letter; Slappy unfolded the letter, "It's been almost 8 years since I last looked at this.. Slappy, I know that you are busy and have a carreer but I am completly mad and unable to take care of Skippy now I know that you will make a good and loving mother, more then I could so take care of my little one and keep him from the shadows... R She finished reading the letter, "I never knew who sent this, or who your mom was." Slappy finished. "R? Rita!" Skippy excalimed brushing against rita. Rita backed off and shook her head. "I'm afraid not kid, I could not write that letter..." Rita said sadly. "Why not?" Skippy asked. Rita suddenly extened a claw and cut the letter. "Becuase I can't write..." Rita admitted proudly. "Then what does R stand for?" Skippy asked sadly. "I think I know who might know...." Runt interjected. Chapter 6 - The Nevada desert "R?" Abu asked, "Hmmm, Well It's worth a try." Abu typed in some characters on the keyboard. "Right I'm searching for anyone called R who had a baby 8 years ago." The computer screen came up with the familer egg timer.... Several hours later the computer beeped loudly. Abu looked around in a daze, "Oh.." He said. Abu typed some more things in and the computer spoke in a mechanical voice. "Report: Found three matches. Rags Dog, Romana Squirrel and Roz Cat." "Okay I think we can rule out Rags to start with..." Abu said ironcily. "What about the other two?" Slappy asked. "Let's split up, You and Runt can go after Romana. Rita, Skippy and I will go for Roz." Runt and Slappy arrived after an overnight ride on the bus in the middle of nowhere, the Nevada desert. "This is pleasant." Runt said yawning widely. "Hmmm, it could do with some re-decorating..." Slappy quipped. "So where is this Romana?" Runt asked. "How am I meant to know?" Slappy asked. "You still got that letter?" Runt suddenly asked. Slappy pulled out half of the letter and showed it to Runt. Runt took a deep sniff of the letter and then smelt the air around. "This way..." He said excitedly. Runt lead Slappy to a small hole in the ground. "THIS IS IT?!" Slappy shouted. "Smell's like it..." Runt replied. "Okay then, you're the one with the nose...." Slappy pointed out. A female squirrel poked her head up from the hole. "YELLO!" It screeched. "Hello, do you know this boy?" Slappy asked showing the squirrel the picture of baby Skippy. "ME no, I no nothing of cream cheese!" The squirrel replied not looking at the picture. "Are you sure?" Runt asked. "Why of course Mr Strawberry top..." The squirrel started, then it saw the picture and calmed down. "Skippy?" She asked very quietly. "Yes, Skippy!" Slappy said happily. The squirrel took the picture of skippy and held it close to her. "Are you Romana?" Runt asked. "Why yes I am." The squirrel replied. "Romana, your Son needs you..." Slappy said gently. "Slappy! I knew I recognised you! Is Skippy all right?" Romana asked. "You'll have to come with us to see if he is okay..." Runt said slyly to both Romana but mostly to Slappy. Slappy imediatly so that the dog had a plan and followed his lead. "Yesss.. Skippy really needs to see you." Slappy followed. "Well come on, what are we waiting for? Let's go see my son!" Romana yellped. Epilogue Runt and Slappy arrived back with Romana to find everyone else asleep. "This way.." Slappy said quietly, tiptoeing past Abu sleeping on the couch and into the spare room. Skippy was snuggled next to Rita in a large padded basket. "Skippy..." Romana whispered. Skippy stirred in the basket, he groaned gently and opened his eyes. He stared up at the strange squirrel. "Skippy!" Romana shouted running towards Skippy (in slow motion natch!) "MOM!!" Skippy shouted in return then he also started to run towards Romana. On the way there Skippy was engulfed in a bright flash of light, when the light cleared he was a squirrel yet again. Romana and Skippy met in the middle and gave each other a huge hug. "So why you been a cat?!" Romana asked. "That was the hospitals fault, they said my INK was that of a cat...." Skippy cried angrily. Slappy looked slightly evily at the mention of the hospital... The next morning the hospital which had given Skippy the INK test had mysterousily blown up into several thousand peices, fortunatly there was a big warning and nobody was hurt (well nobody that wasn't already hurt..) "Hi I'm Mary Hartless and you join me live at the 5th Burbank toon hospital where last night a huge bomb went off, police said they have no leads..." Slappy smiled coyly at this news. "I guess we'll be leaving then.." Rita said. "Yeah, we're defenitly out of here!" Runt quipped. "Hey Aunt Slappy..." Skippy started, it was the first time in quite a while that Skippy had called her that. "Can Rita and Runt come back and visit?" Skippy finished. "Well that would only be fair..." Slappy replied. "Thanks Slappy... Thanks for everything..." Rita said. "I should be the one thanking you, but before you go tell me; would he have made a good cat?" Rita glanced at Skippy, "Nah, he did not have the claws for it..." She joked. Skippy hearing this tried to pounce on Rita but she moved out of the way. "See what I mean..." Rita concluded. Rita and Runt left waving bye to Skippy, Slappy and Romana as they went. "And what of you Romana?" Slappy asked. "Well I think I'll try again in showbiz.." she said jokingly. "And then who knows..." "You would always be welcome here..." Slappy offered. Postlogue The battered reamins of the hospital where still smoldering gently well into the evening. A strange looking doctor came along and picked up a test tube that had been remarkably unsmashed in the exsplosion. The doctor picked it up and read the label: "Sample 01| Skippy| Feline| Male." He looked at the tube and noticed that something was wrong with the label, there was another label stuck on top of it. The doctor carfully peeled it back but it ripped halfway so that only the last bit of it was readable..." ...line, Male." He held the INK sample up to the light and could just make out the rest of it. "Sample 03| Rita | Feline| Female." The End... Dedication ========== As well as the dedication at the start I would also like to dedicate this to the following people for trying to keep me sane over the past week:- MasemJMouse | Keeper | Colin | Plucky | LeloniBunny | DEViaNT | Wakkymouse| Mollymouse | Wakko | Skippy | ALL (else) at #watertower and ALL at a.t.a. /---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Skippy's Mom 1.1 | 491 Lines | P-S 6 | Ranking 8.6/10 | 5/9/97 21:52 GMT-1 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------/