The other day Alicia and I found out that the rumors are true and Jenna has passed away. She was more than just a fellow writer on this site or a character in our stories. She was our sister. Our friend. We will never forget her.

She would have wanted to see this story completed. So here it is. The final chapter.

Conclusion

Doom had taken them all to the Acme Factory, where they would have a front row seat as his plan came together. "We searched Valiant and the girls. None of them have the will," Smarty reported.

"Then frisk the woman!" Doom ordered, pointing at Jessica.

"I'll handle this one!" Greasy told his brothers. He reached his claw down Jessica's dress and felt around for a few seconds before yelping in pain and pulling the hand out. It was caught in a bear trap.

"Booby trap," Eddie realized, and Alicia giggled a little. The weasels were already laughing at Greasy, who was struggling to get his hand out of the trap while he cursed in rapid Spanish. The judge glared at them, and they fell silent just as soon as Greasy freed himself.

"What else you got in there?" Greasy grumbled, rubbing his hand. Jenna tried to look angry but failed.

"Lighten up, Yakko," she teased. "Anyway, whatever she has down there...I'm sure it isn't the will."

"Do they have the will or not?" Doom asked, turning back to Smarty and the plans he had in store.

"Nah, just a stupid love letter," Smarty reported, and Lulu frowned. His opinion of how to romance a woman sure seemed different when he was in the company of the judge. In fact, he came off as being a hypocrite.

"No matter. I doubt that will is going to show up in the next fifteen minutes," Doom declared.

"What happens in the next fifteen minutes?" Eddie wondered.

"Toon Town will be legally mine, lock, stock, and barrel," Doom bragged.

"I thought it already was," Jenna said, confused. Lulu nodded, not understanding what the motivations of the judge were.

"Do you know what this is?" As he spoke, the judge kicked open a barrel of...

"Oh, my God, it's DIP!" Jessica screamed.

"That's right, my dear! Enough to dip Toon Town off the face of the earth! Vehicle of my own design: five thousand gallons of heated dip, pumped at enormous velocity through a pressurized water cannon. Toon Town will be erased in a matter of minutes!"

"I suppose you think that no one is going to notice that Toon Town has disappeared?" Jessica snarled, placing her hands on her hips.

"Who's got the time to wonder about some ridiculous talking mice when you're driving by at seventy-five miles per hour?"

Alicia, Jenna, and Lulu mentally raised their hands.

"What are you talking about? There's no road past Toon Town!" Jessica said, exchanging a glance with Eddie and Alicia.

"Not yet! A few months ago, I happened to stumble upon something brilliant...a revolutionary idea! They are calling it...the freeway!"

"A freeway? Oh, no, not the freeway! Anything but that!" Lulu gasped, feigning fear and surprise, knowing that Doom would just ignore her. Eddie just looked confused.

"Freeway? What the hell is a freeway?"

"Miles of shimmering cement that will make traffic jams a thing of the past!"

"Oh, come on," Eddie smirked. "No one is going to drive this lousy freeway when they can take the Red Car for a nickel!"

"I bought the Red Car so I could dismantle it!" Doom announced.

"This is insane! You killed Acme and Maroon over this freeway?"

"Of course not. You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night. Soon, where Toon Town once stood will be a string of gas stations, inexpensive motels, restaurants that serve rapidly prepared food. Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful."

"Yeah," Lulu nodded, understanding everything. The judge was CRAZY.

"What the...?" A low grumbling sound had been heard in the distance, but now it was loud enough to make the ground shake. And the source of it was revealed when the explosion of water sent Greasy and Roger Rabbit flying up into the air. Greasy managed to grasp a ton of bricks suspended above the ground, but Roger landed on his feet near the judge.

"Okay, nobody move! Weasels, grab some sky, or I let the judge have it! Drop them, I say!" The Toon Patrol members dropped their guns and stared at Roger. The girls had not seen him this angry since the night he snapped at Eddie over those pictures of Jessica and Marvin.

"Roger, darling!" Jessica exclaimed. Roger softened and hopped over to her, taking her hand in his.

"Yes, it's me, my dearest! I'd love to embrace you, but first I have to satisfy my sense of moral outrage!"

"Put that gun down, you buck-toothed fool!" Doom growled through clenched teeth.

"That's it, Doom, give me another excuse to pump me full of lead! So you thought you could get away with it, didn't you? Hah!" Jenna glanced up and exchanged a wicked smile with Greasy when he pulled out his knife and began to cut the ropes that held the bricks together. "We Toons may act idiotic, but we're not stupid!" Roger continued, advancing towards the judge. "We demand justice! Why, I bet the word hits you like a ton of bricks!" As soon as he spoke, the ton of bricks hanging above him fell, knocking him out. Jessica rushed to his side.

"Oh, Roger, say something!"

"Hey, look, stars! Ready when you are, Raoul!"

"Tie the lovebirds up," Doom ordered.

"No." It was Smarty who spoke. The judge stiffened.

"What did you say?"

"You heard me. No. This isn't what we signed up for. Toon Town is our home! No. I quit!"

Doom smiled, and Lulu panicked. "It's a shame, really," he mused, striding over to the weasels. With a single motion, he grabbed them up in his fist, clutching them by the necks. They all gasped and struggled to breathe...typical Toon behavior, trying to lighten the mood. "You threw away a promising career."

Jenna and Lulu gasped before fainting in an over-the-top way.

"It's over, Mr. Valiant," Doom declared. He walked towards the Dip-O-Matic, whistling an odd tune to himself. Lulu and Jenna opened their eyes to find that they were suspended in front of the wall separating the factory from the Toon Town, tied together with the weasels and the Rabbits. The Dip-O-Matic machine was in front of them. They would be the first of many Toons to die.

"You two really didn't have to faint over us," Greasy joked, straining his head to wink at Jenna.

"We didn't have control over it!" Jenna protested. "It was like...a weird reflex...like I had been doing it for years, or I had been trained to do it...a Toon Sense!"

"Does your new sense tell you how we can survive our impending Doom?" Lulu wondered, watching the Dip machine move closer to them...closer...closer...

...and then it stopped...

"I wasn't worried. Were you?" Roger smiled. Just moments before he had been screaming at the top of his lungs. But Eddie had switched off the machine, turning off the supply of Dip.

"He's not gonna kill the wabbit," Psycho sang happily. He fell silent to watch Eddie take on Doom, using Toon weapons and other props to defend himself. At first, it seemed like victory was impossible for the brilliant Valiant. But then Doom had to go and get his foot stuck underneath the steamroller...

Now was thrashing around on the ground, making incoherent, almost Toonish wails of alarm and pain as he was flattened by the equipment that he had used to try to crush Eddie and Alicia. Eddie just stood and watched, but Alicia contemplated going over and helping the man out. But she watched the machine pass over the judge. There was no blood or guts to be found. But Doom was as flat as a pancake, and, much to their surprise, he got to his feet and smiled at the onlookers. "Oh, my gosh, he's a Toon!" She gasped.

"Surprised?" Judge Doom was taller and thinner, but he was less threatening now that he bore a resemblance to Flat Stanley.

"No, not really. That lame-brain freeway idea could have only been cooked up by a Toon," Eddie retorted. As this was going on, Lulu and Jenna turned their heads to look at Greasy and Smarty, who, like the others, were mute with shock. All of this time, they had no idea that they were working for a Toon.

"He's one of us..."

"Not just any Toon!" The Judge wobbled over to the helium tank, where he pumped himself full of air, like a balloon. He returned to his normal size and shape, but his hat went flying off of his head, and his eyes fell out of their sockets and landed on the ground. Then the Judge turned to Eddie and smiled.

His eyes were red.

"Remember me, Eddie? When I killed your brother I talked JUST...LIKE...THIS!" His eyes bugged out of his head and formed daggers. Eddie panicked and tried to dart away from him. Alicia screamed and looked around. Doom...or whatever his real name was...was not going after her. He was going to hurt Eddie, and finish what he had started it Toon Town all those years ago. But the largest thing in the room was the dip machine. She didn't hesitate. She darted towards the machine and powered it up. But instead of allowing it to continue into Toon Town, she swerved it around and began to pursue the Doom Toon.

The result was not pretty...but Eddie was impressed. "Nice work, Alicia," he complimented as he helped the Toon hostages get down. "You used his own weapon against him." Alicia shrugged and blushed, and then the cops burst it, along with a few familiar faces.

"Sister Mary Frances! What the hell happened in here?" Benny the Cab shone his headlights on the corpse of the judge. The other Toons arrived, one by one, and they took the death of the judge...rather well. But this could only be expected. They were free from his cruel reign.

"Come on, let's get out of here before you guys get in trouble," Lulu urged, grabbing Smarty's hand. Alicia glanced back at Eddie, who was talking to Dolores, and sighed before following her friends outside.

"You guys aren't from around here, are you?" Smarty said after they had been walking in no particular direction in silence. The girls froze. How could he have known...?

"No, we're not," Jenna admitted.

"Do you want to go home?" Wheezy asked, flicking away a cigarette. Lulu and Alicia nodded.

"Things are great here, but Eddie has someone else," Alicia admitted. "I want to go back."

"And...I do want to go home, too...but I'll miss you, Smarty..." Lulu scooped her favorite weasel up into a hug, which he returned.

"I won't get over you, Lulu Toons," he promised. When they pulled away, he smiled. "I'll take you guys to the train. It'll take you wherever you want to go."

"And I won't get over you," she whispered. She followed him to the train, which was surprisingly empty. When it had passed through earlier, hundreds of Toons were aboard. Alicia and Lulu started to enter the train, but Jenna stood still. "Jenna, are you coming?"

"No."

"What do you mean?" Alicia laughed. "Come on, it's time to go home."

"But I'm already home," Jenna said, her voice calm and soft. Lulu and Alicia stared at her, unsure if she was joking or not. "Guys, don't you see? This is everything we've dreamed of! It's a place where Toons and real people can live together...forever, if they wanted to. And I want to stay here."

"What about the fan fiction? Do you think you'll be able to make do without a computer?" Lulu asked, half-joking.

"Oh, I'll manage," Jenna shrugged. "Besides, it's not like anyone read my stories."

"What's fan fiction?" Stupid wondered, scratching his head. No one paid attention to him.

"Come on, Jenna, quit that modesty crap and let's get going!" Lulu pleaded.

"No," Jenna said for the last time. Alicia was already crying, and now Lulu wept, too. The three girls embraced, and it was Jenna who pulled away to hand her friends a small box. "All of my souvenirs from the fan girl experiences are here. I want you to have them and remember me."

"We are never going to be able to forget you," Alicia choked out. "You're too amazing." Lulu nodded in agreement.

"I won't forget you, either!" Jenna promised. "And hey, this isn't goodbye! I'll see you guys in a little while."

"How do you know that?" Lulu wondered.

"I just know," Jenna winked. "Now, hurry up or you'll miss the train."

"Do you think that we'll see her again?" Alicia sniffled, staring into the contents of the box in her lap. Lulu thought about it for a moment, and then nodded.

"I don't know how...but I think we will. Maybe this is how things are meant to be." The two of them were quiet for a while. In fact, they never spoke until they reached their homes. They parted ways, not knowing that their next adventure would be around the corner...and they had no idea that they would be seeing Jenna sooner than they thought...

Jenna watched the train vanish from sight. But she cried once it aws gone. She was alone. She was about to run after the train and travel on foot until she caught up with her friends.

But then she felt a tug on her sleeve, and she smiled at Greasy and Smarty. Her mouth fell open when she saw that they were accompanied by their brothers, and she laughed when she saw that they had brought the motorcycles from Anime Town. "Wanna race?" Smarty smirked from where his motorcycle was parked. Greasy tossed her the keys to another one.

"You need to come with us. He's been waiting for you. It's time to meet him." Before any of them gave her a chance to answer, the Toons revved up their bikes and dashed away, just as fast as the Roadrunner. Jenna narrowed her eyes and pursued them.

They passed by crows of characters she recognized. Some of them were famous, some of them would be in the future. She knew them. She knew what their legacy would be.

She came to a halt when they stopped in front of the only live action house in Toon Town. Jenna gave Greasy a confused glance, and he smiled. "Go inside," he urged. "He's waiting, and we'll be outside." They pushed her through the open front door.

Jenna looked around. This was the nicest house she had ever seen. She wandered through it before she entered a room that looked like a Toonier version of the Oval Office. And standing in front of a window at the back of the room was a tall man with a nice moustache. He was dressed in an elegant, old-fashioned way, and it suited him nicely. Jenna realized who this was, and she suddenly was at a loss of what to say.

"Hey," she whispered. He did not seem to hear her, so he did not answer. "Hey, you!" Jenna said, raising her voice a little.

"Yes?"

"Are you the first original Mickey Mouse?"

"Yes."

He was crushed by her hug. After recovering from the surprise, he gave her shoulders a soft squeeze. "Welcome home, Jenna Keith."

"Thank you, Mr. Disney...for everything."

In loving memory of Jenna Nicole Keith

July 2nd, 1995-October 5th, 2013

Beloved friend, Talented writer, Great sister

Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten