Chapter 6: Regrets & Realization

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[Valiant, Jinmay Rabbit, Cream the Rabbit, Cheese the Chao and Roger are at a cinema]

Background: Ah. Now that wasn't so bad was it?

Roger: Hoo hooo! Hooo hoo hoo! [With a popcorn] Boy, did you see that? Nobody takes a wallop like Goofy! What timing! What finess! What a genius! Hooo hoo! [Valiant pulls Roger back to the seat next to him by his ears.] Ow!

Valiant: We're supposed to be hiding. What's wrong with you?

[Valiant slaps Roger upside the head]

Jinmay Rabbit: What's wrong with you? You're the only person in this theatre that isn't laughing!

Roger: Yeah! Is there nothing that can permeate your impervious puss? Hey Eddie! [Pulls funny face.] Plplplll! Boy, nothing. What could have possibly happened to you to turn you into such a sourpuss?

Valiant: You wanna know? I'll tell you. A toon killed my brother.

[Jinmay, Cream and Cheese the Chao gasp.]

Roger: A toon? No.

Valiant: That's right. A toon. We were investigating the robbery of the first national bank of Toontown. Back in those days me and Teddy liked working in Toontown. Thought it was a lot of laughs. Ha. Anyway, this guy got away with a zillion semolians. We trailed him down to a little dive down in Yahtzel Street. Went in. Only he got the drop on us. Literally. Dropped a piano on us from fifteen stories. Broke my arm. Teddy never made it. I never did find out who that guy was. All I remember was him standing over me laughing,with those burning red eyes and that high squeaky voice. He disappeared into Toon town after that.

Roger: Boo hoooo hoohoohoo hoooo! No wonder you hate me! If a toon killed my brother, I'd hate me too.

Valiant: Come on. Don't cry. I don't hate you.

Roger: Yes you do!

Valiant: No I don't.

Roger: You do hate us. Otherwise you wouldn't have yanked my ears all those times.

Valiant: Come on. I'm sorry I yanked your ears.

Roger: All the times you yanked my ears?

Valiant: All the times I yanked your ears.

Roger: Apology accepted! Put it there pal. I feel better... Oh boy! I hope it's another cartoon!

[The newsreel starts.]

Roger: Jeepers. Another stupid newsreel. I hate the news.

Jinmay Rabbit: Booo!

[Dolores sits down beside Valiant.]

Valiant: You got all my stuff?

Dolores: Yes. They're packed up in the car outside. Would've been here after you called but I had to shake the weasels.

Background: ...in Atlantic city the Shriner's march. Wearing their fezzes and bright uniforms, they parade before a hundred thousand spectators as a highlight of the Shrine Convention.

Valiant: Yeah. I'm sorry about the trouble in the bar.

Background: ...That's the gay side. There's a serious side when Imperial Potentate George H. Row of Buffalo urged all Shriners to help halt the spread of communism.

Dolores: Hell. Stuffing olives for a living wasn't for me anyway.

Valiant: Dolores. You oughta find yourself a good man.

Dolores: But I already have a good man.

Background: ...Many cities are represented in the march, and many temples, as the Imperial Council meets once again. -It takes a steady eye and a stout heart to heave knives at the apple of your eye but this female William Tell has no qualms...

[They are about to kiss when...]

Roger, Jinmay, Cream & Cheese the chao: Hmmmmmm.../Chaoooo

[...they turned their heads to the rabbit family. They have hearts in their eyes as they watch the two ready to kiss.]

Roger: Plplplllease. Don't mind us.

[Cream the rabbit giggles and nods in agreement with her uncle.]

Jinmay: Yeeees.

Background: ...and plenty of faith...

Dolores: You better get going Eddie.

Background: ...a near miss, but this miss says that's as good as a smile.

Valiant: I'm glad Teddy's not here to see me running away with my tail between my legs.

Background: Dateline: Hollywood, California. Cloverleaf Oil was on the move this week, acquiring two Hollywood institutions...

Roger: It's not so bad. Once you get used to it.

Newsreader: '...the Pacific Redcar Trolley Line and the venerated Maroon Cartoon Studios. Here R. K. Maroon is seen clinching a deal with Cloverleaf's bankers and executives in one of the biggest real estate deals in Californian history.'

Valiant: That's it! That's the connection!

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