Just An Experiment: Animaniacs Epic Novel (Back in Black and White Edition)

4: Happy Pictures

  Sakko is NOT an original character. He is an actual warner cousin from issue #33 of the Animaniacs Comics.

Plainesvillage, Nebraska Old Research Center . . .

It was upsetting, to say the least. Still, all three of them illegally went searching for clues. The courts had begun investigations on the lab only to find it abandoned now. Yakko, Wakko and Scratchansniff were illegally trespassing on the grounds, but they had to find something. Some clue as to where Dot's location could be. Scratchansniff was not fond of the idea, but the warners agreed if he came with them, they'd tell them more about home.

Curiosity got the better of him. Besides, three heads were better than two.

Yakko blew some dust off another old cell they found. "Notta." He looked over at Wakko who was searching another cell. "Anything Wakko?"

"Nothing but dust and scattered paper." Wakko went through the papers. "Nothing."

Scratchansniff checked another cell. "They've cleaned up well. I don't know what we could possibly find. Simply scraps here so far."

"Come on Mr. P-sychiatrist." Yakko bounced up on Scratchy. "Stay positive. We'll find something." He tried to smile. "Why don't you psychoanalyze the place?"

"I analyze cartoons, not places." Scratchansniff pulled Yakko off. "And if you are grown up you should act like it."

"What do ya mean?" Yakko looked at him. "Oh, you're doing the earthling thing again."

"We don't become sweet and mannered and hospitable as we change, Scratchy." Wakko laughed, trying to stay happy too. "We just become a little less energetic is all."

"Yeah, and not by too much." Yakko checked the next empty cell. "Olly olly oxen free!"

"Free oxen?" Wakko smiled. "Is that a clue, Scratchy?"

Scratchy ignored them. Adults or not, they were still very much the same. It's just their race. Strange. He smiled. I can't believe I can know all about another planet now. Different life forms. Different ways of living. This will be so exciting. He picked up some papers scattered on the ground. He had picked them up expecting them to be only scraps but that wasn't what he found. Scratchansniff scratched his bald head. "Dot did not draw very crude, did she?"

"Naw," Yakko said as he jumped on Scratchy to get a good look at what he found. Wakko jumped on the back of the doctor.

"Faboo! I recognize those," Wakko said as he pointed at it. "Look, Yakko."

"Haven't seen that since Anima," Yakko laughed as he pointed at the drawing. "Crudely drawn but that's it."

"What is it?" Scratchansniff said as he moved the paper diagonally and back again. "What am I looking at?"

"A cookie." Yakko pointed straight at the mess. "It's a happy picture."

"A happy picture?" Scratchansniff seemed confused.

"Oh yeah, little warners are encouraged to draw happy pictures," Wakko said. "See the chocolate chips? Cookies are always popular to draw."

"Yep, and there's the happy sig below." Yakko pointed to the small smiley face. "Definitely a happy sig. A little warner drew this."

"A little warner?" Scratchansniff frowned. "There are more warners on Earth?"

Yakko looked over at Wakko. "Wait . . . no. Cousin Sakko, that's it."

"Yeah, but he wouldn't draw little warner pictures." Wakko looked toward his brother. "Yakko, who could have drawn this?" The warners stared at the picture. There was no name on the paper. Just a number in the upper right-hand corner. It was typed on a sticker that was on the paper.