Animaniacs is owned by Warner Bros., I don't claim any of them as mine except my own characters I put in.

Welp, ending time, let's see what's wrapped up here, besides the Christmas presents.

Sunday, 12:30 PM

Bradley and his mom drove to the pathway to the tunnel as promised, both getting out and seeing Rick and Stan there as well, Rick waving and Stan doing the same to a lesser degree, who was now all cleaned up from before.

"Heh, hey to you too." Bradley said, dressed in a green collared shirt and blue jeans. "So, we all ready?" He added, the other three humans nodding.

Stan looked unsure though, dressed in an orange T-shirt and blue jeans as well. "You sure this stuff'll work? All I did was just see the real world, not the toon crud." He said nervously now.

Rick nodded, dressed in a blue-white striped collared shirt and shorts. "It'll work, I promise. Just stay close to us, alright?" He assured him.

Stan groaned a little in annoyance. "Fine, we'll give it a whirl..."

The mother nodded softly. "I hope it works with me too." She said with a soft smile. "It's been a really long time since I watched a cartoon myself." The mom admitted.

All four entered the tunnel, walking through the long pathway. "What if this isn't what to expect, though? The anvils, the peels-" Stan started.

Bradley shook his head. "Nothing like that, unless you make them need to use that stuff. Sometimes they just do it for fun, though." The boy said with a light smile.

Stan just hung his head for a little. "Thanks for the reassurance, kid." He said sarcastically, rolling his eyes.

In the Warner Movie Lot

They soon entered the toony side of the Warner movie lot, the three siblings on top of their water tower waving down at the humans.

"Hey, ya made it!" Yakko said, hopping down to meet them, along with Wakko and Dot. "Just in time too, we thought Plotz was gonna flip at seeing you here after we brought Mr. Pussycat back here."

"It'd definitely be the most nimble part of his career." Dot added.

"Did he though?" Bradley asked as Stan looked around the place along with the mother, muttering a little to themselves.

While Bradley and the toons were talking, Stan saw the town in the distance away from the lot, looking a little surprised. "Heh, so that's the town the cat tried to melt?" He asked Rick quietly, who nodded in response.

"Apparently, and this place too." Rick responded.

Meanwhile, back in Bradley's conversation: "So how'd he react?" He asked the siblings.

"Weeeeeeeeeeeell..." The three Warners said and shrugged uneasily in unison at Bradley's question.

"BRADLEY! WARNERS!" Said the booming and old voice of Plotz as he walked to them, with Ralph by his side as all four humans jumped from the sound of it. It was like he was waiting for them. "There you are! You need to explain so much to me right now, you have literally no idea until I think I'm happy with the explanation!" He shouted, with his face steaming red.

"Aww, will it take long? We'll miss candy time!" Wakko said, pouting.

"Yeah, you reeeeeally don't wanna see or play 'Hungry Hungry Wakko'." Yakko said as a warning. Plotz ignored it though, he was too mad to care.

"Do you have any idea how much you did to unravel what we've done to keep this world a secret to these people! One of you was bad enough, and I gave you a chance, but now you've led three more humans here, two of which tried to work with the same toon we banished, whom you've brought back the night before, to destroy our movie lot and Toontown! Explain yourself right this minute! And you better give us a good reason to not kick you out of here right now!" Plotz shouted himself hoarse by now, he couldn't be angrier by now, while Wakko was cooking a few eggs on the top of his bald head. The chairman wiped it away, shouting at the middle brother who fell off.

"Aww, but your head doesn't leave any hairs behind on the food..." Wakko said sadly, his stomach rumbling audibly, almost like a lion's roar by now.

Bradley sighed a little and tried to explain as best he could, about the cat, what happened at the warehouse, the dip machine and how it submerged the entire inside of it by now, and how the cat and the two other kids learned their lesson in all of this. Stan stepped forward a little after Bradley was soon done, with the CEO just crossing his arms and still having an angry expression. From the looks of it, he didn't believe the kid.

"Y-yeah, what he's saying is true... I never would've believed that these toons existed before, and after seeing this, I... I guess they're not all that bad." Stan said with a little shrug. "At least I can say the word now without getting sick."

"We'll keep a bucket on standby just in case." Bradley said, the Warners softly giggling to themselves at that.

Rick stood forward too. "Yeah, I know it's mandatory to respect your elders and stuff, but... Bradley's telling the truth here, you're wrong. He's a nice guy, and sure he's happy almost all the time, but the warehouse... He's got determination with him, even when he was about to break. He definitely looked like it, you should've seen the tears coming out of him..." Rick said with sincerity. "He's got real friends now, in a place where his imagination can run around, and it helps that we can actually see it this time."

"Good thing too, talking to himself still creeped me out. That and he couldn't hold anyone down worth nothing." Stan said with a chuckle as well in regards to Bradley's tackling ability, then shutting up when Bradley's mom looked at him sternly.

"I'm not too experienced with the toon place either." The mom said this time, it was her turn to talk. "Even though I've been believing in it like Bradley has for as long as he watched you people on your shows. But I was worried constantly, about him leaving his comfort zone like this, taking on something as big as this, and constantly going out to do this sort of thing. I keep worrying about him, but after what happened, maybe it's time to let him do some big stuff like this more often. Especially after going through what he had to with no problems." She said with a smile on her face. "And it wouldn't have been the same seeing my son depressed if he couldn't do it." She added, resting her hand on Bradley's shoulder.

"Well that's all well and good, but there's still the matter of our cat that tried to take us down." Plotz said with a stern, still angry expression.

"Then let go of my tongue this time and let me tell my own part of the story." Said the toon feline that had approached, having gotten a new cane and new feet, which were clown shoes courtesy of the Warners having drawn them on him. He was still trying to get used to them, due to his steps being a little wide. "I never wanted to destroy Toontown entirely. I wanted to change it, to something appealing to my tastes, but mainly to make it grow with our audience. But perhaps, I went too far when I wanted to remake the dip machine. The plans you found, it wasn't destruction, merely reconstruction, but again... I now understand that it was taken much further than I thought it would. It just wasn't worth taking more toon lives, like what happened last time decades ago..." The cat confessed, sighing softly. "I understand if you wish to cast me back into the real world, or even have me dipped completely this time." He added with whatever dignity he had left.

Plotz shook his head. "No toon deserves to be dipped but one, and he already suffered that. But to think you wanted to continue his work in your own way, even attempting to remake the dip and that cursed machine... It was stupid and it only proves how dangerous the real world can be, still having those kinds of supplies to make it!"

The cat shook his head. "Not dangerous. The youths I've met were very friendly. The Stan and Rick fellows I've met, I've tried to make them happy with me, and I even tried to fix their fractured friendship. I'm not just a villain you put a label on when I was made and drawn. It's possible to change for the better. I have, and these children have as well. Stan for taking the time to fix the friendship and finally believing in us, Rick for giving his friend a chance at forgiveness and making a friend in Bradley and taking the time to learn about us, and Bradley himself for being determined to save his friends from the dip and me, at the point of mental fracture no less, and to make a bond with us, the first human to try to do so in years." The cat had explained calmly, with a smile now. "These human children are going to be the future one day, I understand it. If these Warner kids like them, why can't the rest of us? There's no need to keep our existences separated any longer. You can't take a chance if you're not given one."

"Yeah, yeah!" The three Warners added in agreement.

"The human world's so much fun!" Wakko said, hopping up and down for a moment. "There's lots of food to try and lots of people to make crazy!" He added with a bright smile.

"Well, if you don't count that green goop that tried to make us into a puddle of our former selves." Dot said.

"Trust us Plotzy, you know we ain't serious all the time, but come oooooon, look at this kid!" Yakko said as he went over to Bradley, shaking him in place. "He's been with us the whole week and actually DIDN'T wanna hurl us away. If he can do it, I'm sure these other guys can too!" He added with the other two siblings nodding in agreement.

Plotz just grumbled, thinking this whole thing over. He had no idea this many people, toon and human alike, would support this boy. That and he legitimately didn't expect Bradley to stay with the Warners for the entire time. "Well... As reckless as this entire week has been, I suppose it has been a learning experience as well." The CEO said, sounding more calm. He looks back up at the cat. "If you've really changed, we'll find a place for you again, but you know what'll happen if you repeat yourself."

"We'll keep an eye out for him!" Wakko said finally.

"If you count dots for eyes, we got six to spare." Yakko added, all three sibs blinking their lashes. Plotz let out a simple hmph.

"And what about you? What'll you do?" The chairman said to Bradley. "It's obvious you can't juggle two worlds' worth of responsibilities. After all of this, where'll you stay? You're still their caretaker after all, and you're only here because as much as these Warner kids aggravate us, they're still toons like us."

"Depends, what's the less depressing way to go about it?" Dot asked curiously.

Bradley softly sighed, hoping to not hear that question as he looked away. The three Warners looked at the boy pleadingly, puppy-dog eyes and everything. Bradley then looked to Stan, Rick and his mom behind him. It was a really hard choice, he had his new toon friends on one side, but he had his own world and now new friends to go to as well on the other side. He couldn't just leave one whole world behind him, not after everything that happened. If it weren't for making friends out of Rick and Stan, and maybe getting the confidence to make more now that he was right in his sayings that Toontown was real, he'd go with the toons in a heartbeat, but now... It was honestly tough to side with either one. He had to think about it for a solid minute, trying to find a way to compromise and make sure he didn't HAVE to leave either world.

"I... Well, how can we make this work? Can my mom stay and move here, maybe? I bet there's somewhere near the lot or on it she can move into so she can still take care of me and visit and stuff." Bradley suggested.

His mother nodded softly. "Whatever it'll take to make you happy, son." She said with a warm and caring smile.

The two Warner brothers looked extra happy at that with bright grins at each other, and Dot just sighed. "I got nothin', that spoke for itself." She said to the readers.

Plotz nodded. "If she could handle this place, then of course."

"And I could still go to human school? Last day of summer vacation after all." Bradley said, with Stan and Rick groaning in realization and facepalming.

"Aggh, that's right, school's almost here man." Stan said to Rick with a frown.

Plotz nodded as well, getting an idea himself. "And you can take the Warners with you too if your school would allow that. A few hours a day of peace and quiet here would do wonders for my stress." He suggested. The siblings cheered happily at that, hopping around now that they could go to a new place to show off their zany stuff, to other kids no less. Plotz groaned out again, hoping to not regret what he said.

Bradley then smiled with more determination and nodded. "Then I made my choice." He said with a confident voice. The humans and toons leaned their heads forward towards the boy, listening to what he was about to say and decide with rapt attention.

"I'll... I'll stay in the toon world." Bradley said sincerely. "I worked really hard to find it and believed in it for a really long time, and I'm not about to leave it and my new friends behind me just like that. This whole week has... Really been the best time I've ever had." He said, everyone listening to the boy's words and the Warners' smiles growing brighter in excitement.

"I've finally made friends here... I had lots of great and funny times, even if they got annoying." Bradley continued, looking to the Warners who nodded at him as if proud of that. "I got the chance to be their caretaker and best friend to them." He said also, looking at Plotz. "I managed to get the courage to help others believe in this world too." He said when he looked at his mom, Stan, and Rick. "I even gave a reforming villain a chance to believe in himself and in the new friends he made too." He added, looking to the anthro toon feline who smiled at him, nodding.

"And after all that's happened, after getting used to the Warners and this place, and after realizing that being a caretaker like this won't ever be easy with these three..." He shrugged and chuckles softly, the three siblings suddenly hopping into Bradley's arms all at once, smiling widely at him and making him fall down on his butt on the ground with a grunt. "Hehe... I still wouldn't wanna miss a single moment of it." He said with a bright smile, giving the three Warners a big group hug back.

"Aww, he likes us, he really likes us!" All three siblings said in excited unison, sounding the happiest they've ever been. All 3 siblings gave him a big, over the top and happy, toon-style kiss on his face at the same time, leaving Bradley dazed and chuckling more bashfully, holding their group hug, even shedding a little tear of joy which he wiped away.

"Well... I can't really complain with that, honestly." Rick said. Even Stan couldn't help but nod in agreement.

"I think it's safe to say we've all grown up at least a little from this week of events." The feline toon said, sighing softly. "I only pray that this friendship will continue to build and stay strong." He tipped his hat gently to them all. "Now if you'll pardon me, I'm off to my home, to which I hope is still untouched." And with that and with one more farewell, the nameless cat left, with Plotz and Ralph leaving as well to lead him to his home.

"Yeah, we're gonna go too, we gotta get our stuff ready for tomorrow." Rick said, starting to leave too. "Stan, you coming?"

The bigger ex-bully nodded. "Yeah, yeah, give me a bit." Stan said. He looked at Bradley who got up as the Warners hopped off of him, and even lightly smiled at Bradley as he walked over to him. "I... Really didn't think you could do this, Brad. But I'm honestly kinda glad I got proven wrong. At least go easy on the punishment on us both, will ya?" He asked.

Bradley nodded with a smile back. "No promises, I got three new friends to talk it over with, remember?" He said as the Warners smirked mischievously at the older kid from behind him.

"Yeah, sure... Just..." Stan sighed in defeat, annoyed at himself now for what could be coming to him tomorrow. "Thanks for everything." He managed to say before leaving back through the tunnel and back to the human world with Rick.

Bradley then looked over to his mom, who was the only one left as he walked over to her. "I'm really proud of ya, hun. Was all of this everything you hoped for?" She said with a warm smile at him.

Bradley thought it over, then Yakko intervened. "You mean the almost death-defying stunts and tricks and adventures we went on putting us and himself and everyone in that warehouse in jeopardy?" The older Warner said casually, making the mother look worried, but Bradley shushed him, just shaking his head.

"The short answer is... Yeah, it definitely was." The human child said as he hugs her tightly with a bright smile of his own, even sniffling lightly from the welling emotion in him as the mother hugged him back.

"D'aww, almost brings a tear to your eye." Yakko added, twitching his eye slightly to feign getting a tear to come out.

"Almost." Dot repeated. Bradley chuckles at that, knowing the quip-filled sibling meant well.

"Heh, so what do we do now?" Bradley asked.

Before anyone could talk, someone dressed as a geek was nearby screaming "ship, ship, ship!" in a lisp and holding a big sign that said the same word in purple paint, mostly at Dot and Bradley. The sister looked perturbed, then annoyed as she clipped a nearby rope with big gold scissors without even looking, dropping a heavy, shiny brass anvil on the shipper fan, squishing the person flat.

"Yay, my Christmas present got some use after all!" Wakko cheered happily.

"Come on, he's been a nice kid and we'd probably make 'Cutest Child Couple'-" Dot explained as she pulled out a pre-made magazine with a picture of them smiling together from off-screen for the joke, then tossing it away to the side. "But save that for the Disney-sponsored stuff, will ya? They do the couples schtick around there on top of creeping people out with big, costumed mice trying to play cute." Dot said to the readers, showing an ugly parody picture of said mouse before tossing that too.

"Did you really think we'd end up together in the end? Honestly? Have you seen what happens to ships if they sail far enough?" Bradley said to the readers as well as he joined Dot with a laugh, the other Warner sibs joining in the merriment.

"They find America, right?" Wakko asked after some thought.

"Hey, if it worked for Columbus. Sort of." Yakko added with a shrug, the boy laughing a little more at that.

"True, very true." The human child said with a warm smile and shrug.

Epilogue

-Bradley ended up moving into the water tower with the Warners, progressively over a couple of days to get really settled in and get all of his stuff in. The mother moved into Toontown as well, living close-by to the lot and bringing in her minivan too, to take him to and from school among other needs and wants. He's since shown the notes and pictures he took to throughout the week to Rick and Stan, to which they've shown lots of appreciation for and accepted as a form of extra credit to the proof of Toontown's existence, along with other kids at his school. His old imaginary friends remain in the back of his mind and he hasn't heard from them, needed them, or dreamed of them since. He still goes to the human world for school and on trips with the Warners, but not letting Yakko drive their van either.

-Stan and Rick ended up getting nipped by their own punishment on Monday at the start of their school year, and Stan finally agreed to go through with it with his friend. Yakko suggested making an indoor petting zoo in their human school, to which the other Warners and Bradley agreed with. The two human boys ended up dressed as a sheep and a goat, even getting matching face paint and respective, convincing costumes. That and getting pied every so often at lunch as a bonus touch from Wakko's added suggestion, thinking it was always good to start the school year with pies and pets. Despite that, Stan and Rick visit the toon world sometimes to visit Bradley and hang out after school, and both kids have since dismissed all of the rumors about him to everyone at Bradley's own school.

-The cat ended up getting back into his own home and even got his own show again, being allowed to keep his integrity and poise and personality, though never really being answered what was up with his lack of name. The new clown shoes never helped matters either and took some getting used to, but it helped with getting him his needed attention to his own witty humor, despite some intrusions by the Warners when they were bored. Regardless, he's glad to be settled back into the life of a toon, and has no future plans against the town and its people.

-The human and toon worlds, over the weeks as word spread around, had slowly started to become linked again through different other portals around, including the original tunnel portal to the Warner lot if they could find it. Until then, that portal was reserved for Bradley, his mom and his friends. More toons were gradually being let into the human world on a building trust system, as well as the other way around for tours and recreation during specific times. After plenty more convincing and time, they had made the separation of the two worlds null and void, with plenty of rules on both sides of course, and ways to distinguish who was what. Now there's plenty of toons back on the streets in the human world, with the humans slowly growing more used to the idea now, even though they were jarred at first, but now unafraid for the most part. There are definitely still other humans and toons that are uneasy at it though, the events that caused the separation in the first place most likely still on those toons' minds, and because it was just weird for the humans.

-The factory, having since been drained of the last of the dip over time, and the toon gags still preserved in the sealed crates except for what was already opened or exposed, would be used to store more excess toon gags in the future from Toontown, and have since labeled it as such when it was put back into commission as a legitimate storage warehouse for those gags and tools.

-The dip machine inside the warehouse has since been destroyed for good, requested by the cat himself actually. The remaining dip barrels and machine were dumped and drained and dismantled, and the parts disintegrated, the device never to be rebuilt.

-The Warners remained being their zany selves and resumed pulling off lots of tricks and pranks on Ralph, Plotz, Scratchansniff, the toony movie actors, more wrongdoers, even Bradley for fun when they felt like it, who sometimes laughed with them or sometimes got annoyed depending on how bad it was on him. They even did them at Bradley's school once they were taken in as new students there, making the other kids laugh and telling them about their show much to the annoyance of the teachers too. They were also elated and happy when Bradley told them that lots of people keep watching "Animaniacs" to this very day, proving that none of them had been forgotten despite the massive time between their cancellation and now.

The siblings even asked Plotz to give their show one more chance with their new friend based on that continued popularity.

"No!" The chairman shouted in defiance. "The last time years ago was a disaster, there's no way in the world I'd ever want to try that again with you three!" The three Warners looked at each other, humming and thinking in his meeting room.

"Wanna bet your stored toupees, Plotzy?" Yakko said with a smirk, transitioning to a sound-stage by turning a page.

A new director, a Steven Spielberg toon caricature, was in the chair on a new set and studio. Plotz was in the back of the set now and rubbing his temples on his head. "This is going to hurt..." He mumbled to himself, feeling like he'd regret this.

"New theme song, take one, in three, two, one, aaaaaaaand action!" Orchestral buildup, and-

The Warners:

It's time for Aaaaa-nimaaaaa-niacs!

And this time, we're really back!

So sit down and have a look

Throw out that boring book.

We're Animaniacs!

.

The Warners:

Come join the Warner Siblings...

.

Bradley:

And their new best friend Bradley!

.

All:

Having fun and chaos

As far as the eye can see.

They'd lock us in the tower

Whenever we all flee.

Then we break loose

And then vamoose

So now you know our plea.

.

We're Animaniacs!

Dot is cute and Yakko yaks,

Wakko snacks and Bradley knacks

While we all get paid in stacks.

We're Animaniacs!

.

Meet Ralph, Plotz, Dr. Scratchnsniff,

Say hi to Hello Nurse! (Warner Brothers: We do!)

Cause we are a children's show

We never try to curse!

Don't forget our new friend,

Our cat who sings a verse!

The writers struck,

Script's out of luck!

Why bother to rehearse?

.

Everyone:

We're Animaniacs!

And you know we're coming back!

We're zany to the max!

Better pack up all those snacks!

We're Animani-

Totally insane-y-

Then a record scratch was heard and someone barged in the set, derp-eyed, big-nosed, and with a messed-up suit, with everyone else freezing where they were. "Guys, I know we just started, but we need to cancel this show early, cause I think-" He then sniffed big, wiping his nose. "-Too many adults will watch it, even though more than a million kids will still watch it and even though lots of other shows would have adults in their fanbase too!" He said in a sort of nasally voice, obviously a parody of... Let's just say "someone" familiar. The Warners and Bradley looked at each other with raised eyebrows, then they simply sang at him, blowing him away and off the set as a result:

"No way in Spain-y!"

Aaaaan-iiiii-man-iiiii-aaaaacs!

Those are the facts!

.

And with the credits scene later, here's how the ending segment from the water tower went:

The tower door opened. "Yakko, Wakko, Dot, You three managed to help the toons and humans work and live together again, what're you going to do now?" Said a male interviewer, as well as some camera flashes from the ground being seen.

The three Warners shrugged. "Eh, order out." They said in unison, leaving out of view. Then Bradley popped up.

"And what about you?" The interviewer asked to Bradley.

The human's response was, with a chuckle and smile: "Gonna have to get very used to this."

With that, the tower door slammed closed.

END

Author's Note: Wow. I actually never expected to complete this, which started from a little idea from seeing someone disgusted with another more... Mature fanfic, and then blossomed into this big story, actually feeling like it continued from an old movie. I'm kinda shocked at myself, to be honest. X3 But yes, it's over, story's wrapped up, everyone take a bow, exits to the left and right, and food on the side if Wakko hasn't eaten it all. :)

At this point, any future A! fanfic I may do will most likely either be one-shots or ones with short, few chapters; things like that, following the events of this story and not full sequels to this, to which I'll let everyone know if it's part of this storyline or its own thing. I could include other A! characters in them, but what I'm the most familiar with are the Warners. Also, I could come back to this story to touch up any mistakes I find that I overlooked before, or add anything to have made something more understandable, coherent or funny, but that's it.

And don't expect ships either. That's Disney's thing, or that weird, flattened geek guy's thing, not Animaniacs' thing.

Goodnight, everybody! :D