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Welcome to the city of Burbank, California. Known as the "Media Capital of the World", the city has numerous headquartered media and entertainment companies along with significant production facilities, including the famous multinational Warner Bros.
On a bright sunny day, a three-level enclosed mall named Burbank Town Center offered a choice of more than one hundred and seventy retail shops, entertainment venues, restaurants, and lifestyle services.
Inside the mall, Sabrina was looking up at the arcade in amazement.
"Yes!" Sabrina exclaimed.
Sabrina hurried towards the opened entrance and made her way inside only to catch her eyes on a fighting arcade game named Magica la Magica at the far-right side.
"Bingo." Sabrina smiled.
Sabrina inserted her quarter into the money slot and held her hand onto the joystick as she began moving it back and forward to select her fighting characters. After her selection, she chose a random fighting stage and pressed buttons rapidly to fight against her opponent.
Seven minutes later, Sabrina's superior reflexes caught everyone's attention. They all started gathering around behind Sabrina.
"And is this game really challenging?" A teenaged spiky-haired boy questioned.
"This is a pretty intense game." A preteen blonde girl said with a smile.
"Oh, please. This game is too easy." Sabrina said.
Sabrina finished the final boss level and earned the highest score in the process, causing all the preteens and teens to cheer wildly for her victory.
"Thank you. Thank you. Hold your applause." Sabrina said with a cocky smile. She typed her name on her new high score and casually walked out of the arcade with a V finger sign. "Thank you very much."
Down the concourse, Deja stopped in front of a toy store.
"Hey, a toy store." Deja said with a smile. "I know I have so many plushies back home, but I must have another!"
Deja went inside. But she didn't take her long to realize that one plush animal caught her eyes. A black cat plushie that has silver grey zippers for ears and a tail, and dark indigo pupil-less eyes.
"OMG!" Deja squealed. "I've gotta have it!"
With swift speed, Deja swiped the cat plushie and sauntered up to the female cashier.
"Excuse me, I would like to purchase this plushie cat." Deja said.
The female cashier stared at Deja with a raised eyebrow and took the cat plushie from her.
"You're sure that a strange little girl like you should purchase a plush cat?" The female cashier questioned with a smirk. "I mean, it's just..."
Deja stared with an evil smile.
"Just let me get it!" Deja demanded.
The female cashier quickly placed the cat plush into the purchase bag and handed it over to Deja.
"Thank you." Deja said sweetly. She went on her way with her bag. "One of the joys on my talent."
Catalina walked down the concourse while looking at multiple different stores. She suddenly stopped and peered into the display window of a comic book store.
"OMG!" Catalina exclaimed as she drooled at the sight of a latest superhero comic book. "Thirteen issues collection of Space Patrol Nova! I have to have it!"
Catalina sprinted inside and stood in front of a nearby male employee.
"Oh! Excuse me, sir, would I like to purchase Space Patrol Nova comic collection?" Catalina asked.
"Oh, definitely. Space Patrol Nova is so awesome." The male employee said with a wide smile. "I've read the entire issues and you really gonna love the last one. But I won't spoil your chances. Enjoy it."
Catalina quickly squealed and left the store with an excited smile as she hugged her bag that holds the Space Patrol Nova comic collection.
Sabrina stood in front of the sushi bar, reading over a poster on the restaurant's wall. Beside her, Catalina accidentally bumped into her.
"Oops, my bad." Catalina said. "I didn't see you there."
"It's okay." Sabrina said.
"Yo, little horn girl!"
Catalina and Sabrina quickly turned their heads as they saw a teenage jock holding a cat plushie high in the air while Deja was trying to snatch it back. The jock looked muscular and fit with short blond hair and dark blue eyes. He was wearing a royal blue-and-white letterman jacket over a black t-shirt, dark blue jeans, and white shoes.
Catalina and Sabrina turned at each other and nodded their heads, knowing that they can't watch some big guy bothering the little oni girl.
"What's the matter, little horn girl?" The jock said with a grin. "Feeling sad that I took your precious plush away? Well, too bad."
"Hey!" Catalina shouted as she and Sabrina walked up to the jock and Deja. "Leave her alone and give back her plushie!"
"Says who?" The jock growled as he turned to glare at Catalina and Sabrina.
"Says me, punk!" Sabrina snapped.
Sabrina swiftly moved in front of the jock and spun herself to deliver an upward, roundhouse kick that send him flying up in the air. The jock released the plush cat and Sabrina lashed her tail to seize it with her grasp. Sabrina, Catalina, and Deja then watched the jock crashing into the fountain, leaving him knock out with dizzy eyes.
"Are you okay?" Sabrina asked as she handed the cat plushie to Deja.
"Yeah, thank you." Deja replied with a smile.
"But, thanks to that jerk, I guess we should introduce ourselves." Sabrina said as she extended her hand out to Deja. "Hi, I'm Sabrina."
"Hey, I'm Deja." Sabrina said as she shook Sabrina's hand. "And you totally can kick butt with that jerk."
"You got that right." Catalina agreed. "And I'm Catalina. And it's a total pleasure to meet you both. You two want to head to the food court and get a milkshake to cool out jets?"
"Sounds like good to me." Deja nodded with enthusiasm.
"I'm in!" Sabrina said with a thumb-up.
Catalina, Sabrina, and Deja high-fived each other before walking their way to the food court.
"You know, if you want, I can tinker your plushie into a lifelike animatronic." Sabrina suggested to Deja. "That way it can protect you from bullies."
"Sure, I like that." Deja smiled. "But don't make it all Five Nights at Freddy style. I don't want any nightmares."
The next day, Catalina stood outside the main building in the Warner Brothers studio.
So, this must be the place. Catalina thought to herself.
Catalina walked inside and made it into the main hallway, where she dashed straight into the elevator. By the time she made it into the main floor, she finally located the CEO office and prepared to enter. But she quickly found herself wedged between two people against the door frame.
"Hey, excuse me." Catalina said in annoyance. She immediately perked up when she recognized the two people as the same oni girls she met at the mall with a surprised expression. "Deja? Sabrina? What are you doing here?"
"I was called here." Sabrina said cheerfully.
Then, the oni toons forced their way through the door and fell forward to the floor.
"The CEO offered me an idol contract right here in the studio." Sabrina explained.
"Awesome. Me too." Catalina said with a smile.
"Me three." Deja said excitingly. "I mean, talk about a crazy coincidence of the century. It's like we're meant to hang out together."
"Ahem." A female voice announced.
Deja, Catalina, and Sabrina looked up to see a female CEO standing over them. The CEO was a tall, slender Latina woman with dark brown hair tied in a short ponytail, a large purple-framed glasses over her green eyes, and a pointy nose. She wore a dark blue suit over a pastel yellow collared shirt, a navy blue skirt, a black choker, sheer tights, and black high-heeled, knee-length boots. She also has gold earrings, red lipstick, and a beauty mark on the left side of her face.
Deja, Catalina, and Sabrina quickly stood up with big smiles.
"Hi, you must be Ms. Norita." Catalina said.
"How nice of you to notice." Nora said. She leaned forward in front of Deja, Catalina, and Sabrina. "Well, your creators informed me your potential to make it into show business. And considering your one-week practice of singing, dancing, and acting sessions, I've made my decision and welcome yourselves at Warner Brothers studio." She turned away from the toons and started jogging on the treadmill. "The construction workers will be here to assemble your new home here, so enjoy your time when they get here."
Deja, Catalina, and Sabrina cheered and squealed excitedly.
"I can't believe we are finally in the city's famous multinational company!" Sabrina smiled. "I think we should do a girl group together."
"I'm in." Deja agreed.
"Me two." Catalina concurred. "If we're gonna start a girl group, we need a name that will wow our future fans."
"How about...Atomoni?" Deja suggested.
"A portmanteau of atomic and oni?" Catalina asked. "I like that name. It's perfect."
"Same here." Sabrina grinned. "That'll be a name that will blow everyone's minds away sky high."
Then suddenly, something bursted through the "Wrecked Ralph" movie poster that destroyed the wall in the office. Nora paused her cardio on the treadmill and Sabrina and Deja jumped behind Catalina in surprise.
A male security guard wearing a warm-tinted grey uniform was trapped in a nut by a white remote drone.
"Boss! I got em, I got em!" Ralph said excitedly.
"Okay, that's not what I meant." Sabrina said to Deja and Catalina.
Three dog-like toon siblings stepped inside through the door. One toon appeared to be the tallest and the oldest of the trio as he has the height of a fourteen-year-old. He has black fur covering most of his body, white fur over his face, cheeks, and eyebrows, a small tuft of hair on the top of his head, black eyes, black ears, and small red nose. He wore a pair of smoky topaz slack pants up to his waist that was held up by a large black belt and has a black tail sticking out through his pants. The second toon has the height of an eleven-year-old. He has black fur covering most of his body, white fur over his face, cheeks, and eyebrows, a small tuft of hair on the top of his head, black eyes, black ears, small red nose, and a black tail. He wore a blue turtleneck and a red baseball cap. He also has his tongue hanging out of his mouth. The last toon has the height of a ten-year-old. She has black fur covering most of her body, white fur over her face, cheeks, and eyebrows, black eyes, black ears tied up by a yellow four-petaled flower ribbon, small red nose, and a black tail. She wore a short pink knee-length skirt.
"A female CEO!" Dot exclaimed. She ran over and sat on the treadmill controls with a cutesy smile. "Any chance for training a young future CEO?"
"No, I'm a firm believer in not having the ladder pulling behind me." Nora replied selfishly as she grabbed the female Warner by the cheeks and tossed her away. "Now, Ralph, what are these things?"
"Yeah, Ralphie, what are we?" The tall toon said to the security guard.
"Answer the woman." The female toon said.
The female toon then used the remote to move the flying drones in front of Nora.
"Dah, these are the Warner brothers." Ralph replied.
"And the..." The female Warner added.
"Warner sister. I know." Nora interrupted. "It's all right here."
Nora held a black tablet that distinctly showed a wiki overview about the Animaniacs.
Sabrina, Catalina, and Deja gathered around Nora to view the information.
"The Warners?" Sabrina asked.
"The comedy of Animaniacs was a broad mix of old-fashioned wit, slapstick, pop culture references, cartoon violence, and wackiness." Deja read.
"Sadly, we never heard of them." Catalina said to Nora.
"Then, allow us to introduce ourselves." The female Warner spoke. "I'm Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana Fanna Bo Besca III. But you call me Dot. Call me Dottie, and you die."
"I'm Wakko." The short male Warner added.
"And I'm..." The tall male Warner finished. He gasped and looked at Catalina with hearts in his eyes. "...in love."
"He's Yakko." Wakko and Dot said as they pointed their thumbs at their older brother.
"Well, nice to meet you guys. I'm Deja de Castro." Deja introduced.
"I'm Sabrina Noir." Sabrina added.
Catalina noticed that Yakko was still staring longingly at her.
"And I'm...Catalina Andersen." Catalina finished.
"You're pretty hot for an oni girl. Gonna love the writer's character idea in this fanfiction." Yakko commented with a smirk. "If I was your heart, would you let me beat higher and higher?"
Catalina crossed her arms and rolled her eyes with a sigh.
"Uh, what's that?" Wakko asked as he stared curiously at the tablet that Nora was holding.
"Oh, that's right, you're from the 90s." Nora said snidely. She held out the tablet for the Warners to get a closer look. "This is a tablet. It contains the sum of all human knowledge."
Yakko looked closely at the tablet screen before looking up back at Nora.
"All human knowledge in an easy to swallow to tablet?" Yakko asked. He took the tablet from Nora's hands. "Don't mind if I do."
Yakko dropped it in a glass of water and shallowed it down all the way to his stomach before releasing a loud burp that made Nora, Catalina, and Deja uncomfortable.
"Heh, I like them already." Sabrina said with a smile.
"Hey! I'm the eating stuff guy!" Wakko said annoyingly as he and Dot walked up to Yakko.
Yakko suddenly started to feel as if he was getting an electric shock throughout his body. In his stomach, the tablet was inserting the current year's information directly into his brain. Yakko then spun around while several images began popping all around him in an instant. After that, he felt dizzy and fell down, but Dot and Wakko caught him from hitting the ground.
"Quantum mechanics. Quinoa wraps. Queen Bey. We've missed so much." Yakko spoke. He got back up from his siblings. "But now...I know everything! About the last twenty years."
"Tell us! Oh, tell us!" Wakko pleaded.
"Huh?" Deja and Sabrina asked in confusion.
"You've learned everything that goes on in this time year by shallowing a high-tech tablet?" Catalina questioned.
"Uh-huh." Yakko replied. "I'll prove it by singing a song."
Nora handed to a cabinet full of tablets and grabbed one out.
"Ugh. Please do this somewhere else." Nora said as she started touching the tablet screen.
"But then you girls will miss the song." Dot said.
Dot grabbed Nora and Wakko grabbed Catalina, Sabrina, and Deja as they slammed them onto the sofa chairs before sitting on the armrests to prepare Yakko's song.
Yakko: Taxis are Ubers, the stars are YouTubers, Neil
Tyson gave Pluto the axe.
Cell phones got smarter, the oceans are hotter, the global economy collapsed.
We get internet deals on our high potent meals like cage-free vegan paleo sausage.
We don't leave our homes thanks to Amazon drones. They track what we do through our watches.
The Warners: What's going on? Will we be okay? Has it all
gone mad since we went away?
Oh, update us please and put us at ease 'cause we've run out of jokes... about the 90's.
Yakko: Al Gore lost bad 'cause of one hanging chad,
Dubya hunted for WMDs.
Obama brought hope, so Clinton thought,
"Dope! 2016 should be a real breeze!"
Dot: So Hillary finally broke that glass ceiling?
Yakko: No, but it certainly does feel like it's raining
shards of glass all around us.
The country's cut into two, the red and the blue, Facebook's a toxic waste-dump.
The Fox Friends are doting, the Russians are voting and now there's a President
Truuuuum—
At least we think there's still a President Trump. You see, the writers are writing this in 2018.
Wakko: How is that possible? The people rely on
Animaniacs for outrageous and relevant content!
Dot: Well, how can we finish catching up if we don't
know what happened in the last two years?
Yakko: I don't know, wild guesses?
Dot: Sounds good to me!
Yakko: We have chips in our brains, we no longer feel
pain, there are worsening climate disasters.
Now we live underground, and we can't make a sound lest we anger our polar bear masters.
Wakko: They've come south for revenge!
Dot: We breed birds without arms on our factory
farms, and we live in aluminum bunkers.
We sent people to Mars all the food come in bars and the top-rated show is called Clunkers!
Wakko: It's about a talking police car!
Yakko: Who's also a time machine!
Dot: Wow, here comes the star, Clunko!
Clunko: I travel through time, solving crime!
The Warners: That's what's going on in the world today, it's
as crazy now as when we went away.
Our ratings depend on knowing the trends...
We're all caught up, that's how this song ends!
Catalina, Sabrina, and Deja exchanged astounded looks before clapping with smiles.
"That's the Warners for ya, folks." Sabrina said to the readers.