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

Chapter 48 Part 2: A Future Lost

Disclaimer: I do not own Animaniacs. Yakko, Wakko and Dot and all of the other characters belong to their own respective owners. I only created Tiger and Caress and some other original characters. I claim no rights to any of this. This was made purely for entertainment. No profit is made off of this.

Just An Experiment

Chapter Forty Eight Part II: A Future Lost

////This still resembles the lightning strike////

Somewhere new. Reachable, in a way but very few beings knew of its existence...

"Why not?" Yakko asked again. He was in the middle of an argument now with Warner. A heated argument. "I've seen it. When we went back in time and went back to the present, Aroma's sister was there and just fine. I want to go back."

"Yakko, I know you do," Warner groaned. Yakko was being stubborn. He wanted to go back and start changing things, so he could return to his time, and have everything be super happy again. Only thing was, he wasn't listening. "I know you want to go back and change things."

"Yeah. Number one, let's get rid of the Burbank Studio Slaughterers." Yakko grinned. "No tragedy, no killing, no jail, and no kidnapping."

"Yakko, if it were that simple, I would have done it," Warner reminded him. "Changing events in the past isn't a good idea unless you have to. Like with my Happily Ever Afters? Present, always hooked to the present. I don't do future or past, just present."

"It is that simple. Just change it," Yakko whined. "Come on, do your thing. Don't we deserve a happily ever after?"

"Okay, Yakko." Warner agreed. "You know what? Let's say I did go in the past and made sure there was no slaughter. What then? What would you do?"

"Are you kidding? I'd be happy!" Yakko grinned. "Yessiree, we would be back in the tower."

"As the warner trio." Warner smiled. "That sounds great. You could enjoy the...what...last year of the Universe? You know, before you become kaput?"

"What?" Yakko looked at him strangely. "What do you mean?"

"The Universe is already in trouble," Warner explained. "What did you think those pink and purple clouds were? You know what I'm talking about."

Oh yeah, Yakko knew. Those strange clouds that looked eerily a lot like the clouds around that planet. "A year? It'll end in a year?"

"Look, just trust me." Warner tried to explain. "Yakko...I've been trying for years to stop this. You have no clue how much your time has changed. Still, someone is going back and changing everything I change. Sorry, but the future is so messed up right now, even Hope wants to throw in the towel. I can't help you much anymore. You have to start helping yourself." He gestured toward the sky in front of him. "Those purple and pink clouds cannot do much in the other times right now. As the rip becomes bigger though, the past, present and future will be seen as the lightning will eventually come. Once anyone can get close enough to the lightning, it's all over. Past can travel to future. Future to past, past to present. Inventions made before their time. Different children made, beings dying in a past before they were born? Can you imagine?"

"Everything together?" Yakko couldn't imagine it. "Impossible. Everyone could travel back and erase anyone. Everything would be erased."

"Sooner or later, everyone and everything would be erased." Warner agreed. "It WOULD be the end of the Universe."

"Then what do we do? How do we stop it?" Yakko asked frantically.

"Well...this did happen before, very briefly." Warner confessed. "When we were younger and very gungho about time travel, we did a lot of things we thought were 'fun' at the time. When we saw the clouds starting to appear in different times, we quickly stopped." He smiled. "The rip was healed faster than it could be damaged. Everything was okay."