Author's note
This story has 2 chapters left, so let's keep it moving.

Chapter 11: End of the Toys?

At this moment, the gang find themselves in darkness, right in garbage. Or at least the garbage inside a dump truck.

"Guys, can you hear me? Everyone okay?" Mickey’s voice was heard calling out to his pals within the darkness.

“Of course we’re not okay, you big palooka!” Donald snaps at Mickey in annoyance over such a question.

“We're doomed here!" Daffy cried out in seeing this was the end for them.

“We’re not doom yet, Daffy!” Penelope issued off to tell the duck this issue.

“S-s-s-so how do we get through here?” Porky asked in not being able to see anything.

Just then, the others saw Bugs coming out from a mountain of garbage, glowing a bit.

"I believe our friend's glowing personality can help us." Emerl advises to the others.

"Everyone! Go to Bugs, hurry!" Mickey issued the order for the gang to go where there was light.

The toys nod in agreement as they begin walking towards Bugs. The group gathers around Bugs as Mickey looks around now.

“Gosh? Is everyone here? Minnie? Goofy? Willie?” Mickey called out in wondering if everyone was accounted for.

“I believe we’re all here." Minnie said with a nod that they are all present, even Figaro was in her arms.

"Hooded, you here?" Unknown calls out for his colleague.

Hooded pushes off some garbage off of him and said, "I'm good, Emerl! You in here?!"

"I'm here and I'm with Nicole!" Emerl said holding onto Nicole as he gets out of the trash with her and looks her over and asked, "You okay Nicole?"

"Yes...luckily Ursula and Mantis weren't too rough on me but thank you...for standing up to Scourge for me." Nicole said blushing bright red, referring back to when Scourge had them hostage and she didn't have the time during that to thank him for that.

"Well I wasn't going to let harm come to you...after all, I have an astrology program, I...wanted to use with someone special." Emerl said blushing as well looking into her eyes; he then said, "We...we should see about reuniting with the others."

Nicole nods and said, "Y-yes....that is a wise decision."

“All but one that seems to be elsewhere.” Unknown issued in knowing that Scourge was here, but he was not seen….the old hedgehog must know he’s outnumber with them all here.

"Best not to think about Scourge right now." Hooded said to his colleague seriously.

Suddenly the truck came to a stop, much to the concern of the toys. Suddenly the hydraulic motors begins to start which made making Mickey, Minnie & Unknown look up. To anyone’s horror, a dumpster is appearing above them outside the truck itself, about to drop more trash!

“Oh my gosh! Everyone, against the wall, quickly!" Mickey orders in alarm in seeing what’s coming at them.

“No need to tell us twice!” Oswald issued off that they will listen to Mickey.

Mickey leads the toys to the front of the truck to avoid the falling trash in time. Of course, a certain familiar Japanese version of Bugs remains behind, looking around for Lola while yelling out to her: *Miss, miss! Where are you, answer me?”*

“Bugs!” Lola calls out to Bugs, making him turn upon hearing her voice. She is in this darkness somewhere while trash begins to sprinkle into the truck from the dumpster above like mad.

Bugs calls out to the girl rabbit in danger: *”Miss!"*

Bugs rush through the falling trash and finds Lola pressed against the far wall, looking terrified. But the space rabbit digs her out of danger without fear.

“Lookout from above!” Unknown yelled out in alerting his friends.

"Incoming trash!" Hooded calls out.

Suddenly something large falls behind the rabbit duo, making them look up to see more garbage falling out. Bugs takes Lola by the hands as they rush across the truck bay while dodging the falling debris that is falling down upon them.

As the toys watch from safely, Iago exclaims this off. "Oh man! They won't make it at that rate!” From how it’s looking, Bugs & Lola won't be able to make it to their friends in time.

Bugs grabs Lola and carries her to dodge and weave the trash more easily; the girl stare to the male in feeling as if this was a romantic heroic moment between them.

“Oh my goodness! Look out!" Daisy hears a scraping sound and gasps as she cries out to point at something to warn the running rabbits.

The rushing rabbits look up to see a falling TV coming right at them very fast. Bugs gasped at seeing this before he quickly lunges and toss Lola out of the way.

Lola turns just in time to see Bugs getting up...and being smashed by a TV that just landed on him. More trash piles on the space rabbit, burying him completely.

“Bugs!” Lola exclaim in horror at having seen what happened.

“Oh man, what a way to go out….being crushed ON TV! I knew the rabbit hit it off on TV, but this…this is looney!” Daffy exclaimed off in shock by the irony of how Bugs was taken out just now, a star on television, taken out BY television.

“Never mind that, help us get Bugs out.” Penelope snaps off to the duck to save such things & to help out.

Soon the trash was stopped being dropped, allowing the heroes to rush forward to begin digging for Bugs. It took the combine power of all of the present toys to even help lift the TV up enough.

"He must be in this mess somewhere!" Twilight stated that if Bugs was here, they should see him.

“Let's hope so.” Applejack stated in hoping they can find Bugs.

"Anyone see him?" Mickey ask his friends in concern in looking beneath the risen TV.

“I-I-I-I, I can’t see a thing.” Porky replied off in not being able to see what they are looking for.

"Guys, over here! I think I found him!" Goofy exclaim quickly as he found something, getting his pals' attention.

Bugs’ friends rush over and found Bugs, unconscious and buried. They manage to drag him out of the pile but he won't stir a bit. Lola quickly shakes her love while crying out his name. “Bugs, you okay? Come on Bugs! Bugs!” In sadness, Bugs still won't wake up. "No..." The girl shakes him again like mad, this can’t be the end of her love.

"Looks like the TV trashed him." Emerl said grimly to the others.

"I'm sorry darling…but it looks like Bugs has met his final mission of adventure.” Rarity said in sadness of what has befallen their friend.

“Ohhhh…this is too sad!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed in feeling like this was too sad to be seen.

Lola begins to hug Bugs’s body, sobbing in sadness. Her love is gone...she never wanted him to go!

Suddenly, a beep is heard as Bugs jack-knifes forward then lurches back. Lola quickly pulls away as the space rabbit sits up with his eyes open...and looking a bit concerned. He sniffs the air in disgust before looking at the others. Mickey and the others stare at him in wonder. It seems Bugs had survived...but is he feeling all right?

“Ehhh….what’s up docs? By the way, that wasn’t me that step in something smelly, right?” Bugs frowns off to question this statement here.

“Bugs, you're back!" Lolal exclaim in happiness as she hugs Bugs tightly. The other toys smile and cheers on in delight. Their friend is okay and back to his normal self. "You're back, you're back, oh; you're back!"

"Yeah, I'm back! Uh...where was I anyway?” Bugs asked off in suddenly being more lost of where he was.

“To the 24th & 1/2 Century & Beyond, Bugs.” Mickey said to Bugs with a loose chuckle before he pat his friend on his back, relieved to see him safe and back to normal.

“Mickey! Minnie!! Even little Figaro! You’re back with us.” Bugs exclaims to say, happy to see his friends back (since he only met them through his Demo Mode and Japanese Mode). “Man, last thing I remember was Scourge holding me & my team captive, what happen afterwards?” He vaguely recalls the last bits of what happened to him before he was set to Demo Mode.

“Brother, a lot of stuff happened.” Daffy rolled his eyes in stating that what they been through, was crazy.

"Seems that blow to the head must've brought you back." Emerl said thoughtfully. The TV that hit him must've allowed his real personality to come back at last.

“An-an-and we managed to stop Scourge.” Porky spoke off in mentioning something else to the picture.

“And Sunnyside is no longer under his control.” Penelope spoke of the positive side of their news.

“Great, good to hear, oh by the way, where are we now?" Bugs asked off in being curious of where they were.

"Oh, I know this! We are in a garbage truck that’s, ugh….on the way to the dump!" Willie exclaim excitedly to Bugs.

Bugs’s smile disappear, being replaced by shock and worry. The gang are heading to the dump? That isn't a good thing to hear. The space rabbit has missed out on more than he thought.

"Awkward thing to say, Willie." Hooded said with a sigh beneath his hood.

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The truck droves into the entrance of the dump for the Tri-County area. To the toys inside, it was their last & their final destination before their destruction. The vehicle came to stop before backing up, ready to dump its load out.

“Uh-oh fellas, stay together!" The toys inside the truck look around with Mickey calling out this message.

Suddenly everything lurches as the whole thing begins to tilt up higher and higher with trash pouring out into the dump below. The back flap opens as everything, including the toys, begin spilling and sliding out to a trash pit below.

“Oh my, we’re going in!” Minnie exclaim to her friends in alarm in seeing they are heading out now…

"Whoa!" The toys exclaim in alarm, as many seem to brace themselves for the worse. As the garbage truck extends fully, the stream of garbage became a torrent with the gang, clinging together, or some like Unknown used an object to slide down, as everyone was sliding out into the open night.

Pretty soon we see that Mickey lands on a trash heap with a thud. As a plastic bag whips by, the mouse toy got back up to look around. Yep, he and his pals are in the landfill alright. Everyone seems to be recovering from that wild experience, while also getting back up nearby the rest of the gang that went through that ordeal. Oswald was struggling to get out, that it took all them pony horse power & Spike to get him unstuck. Unknown and Emerl were seen helping Nicole up like gentlemen while thanking them for that. Iago and Willie were getting out of the trash with Donald was helping Daisy up from her spot as Hooded got out from where he's at.

"Honey, you got all your pieces?" Donald asked off to Daisy in concern, not wanting the female duck toy to lose all her parts before she can get her other eye back.

The duck triplets came out and gasps upon spotting something in the distance, one of them points at it. It's some sort of giant claw which is a junkyard crane.

"The Claw!" Huey, Dewey & Louie exclaim in awe as they rush to it, obviously wanting to meet 'the Claw'. The other toys gasp in alarm and horror. Don't their friends knew that it's not safe to wander through this place?

"Wait, guys, don't, no!" Mickey protests in alarm in seeing the little ducks wander off.

"Stop, that isn't your Claw." Hooded warns the trio of ducklings.

Suddenly the little duck trio are covered in headlights. Before the others can do anything, a bulldozer pass over the alien toys. When all is cleared, Huey, Dewey & Louie are gone.

“Our Ducklings!" Daisy exclaim in horror, her adopted children are gone, taken by the dump!

“I’ll trail them, Nicole, with me….we may need your connecting ability here.” Unknown issued forth a plan of action to go after the missing ducks with someone by his side.

"Allow me to assist." Hooded said, offering to assist his friend in finding the trio. "Emerl?"

"Yes, of course." Emerl said as he follows Hooded quickly.

“Understood.” Nicole nods off in understanding this as she held onto Unknown while the action toy was rushing off to find & rescue the ducklings. Hooded and Emerl follows the trio soon after.

“This is bad, what else can go wrong?” Golden Heart exclaim din wondering if anything else could possibly go wrong here.

“Don’t look now brother, but I think it just did.” Pinkamena exclaimed in about to see what was gonna happen next that spell trouble.

For suddenly without warning, a blinding light appears over Daisy, enveloping the toys. Mickey turns to see another bulldozer heading for them. Willie screams in terror as the machine begin pushing him and his friends backward towards a trench.

"Whoa, hang on!" Mickey calls out to say this, as everyone was hanging on for this wide ride. The gang scream as the bulldozer push them all over the edge, right into the tunnel itself.

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The scene changes to where the duck triplets were being pushed by the dump-plower near their own destination. Until Unknown managed to tie a string to his shield, toss it for the little ducks to hold onto, and with Nicole, Emerl and Hooded's help, pulled them out with all they got which got them out of being pushed by the machine.

“Thank you, you have saved our lives, we are for secondly eternally grateful!” Huey, Dewey & Louie spoke off in speaking their thanks to their saviors.

“I wonder if this is what Donald meant got on his nerves.” Nicole ponders to say in seeing if this was how Donald has been dealing with over the years; it’s not so bad.

"Must be, I wasn't there." Emerl reminds Nicole.

“Never mind such small matters, Nicole, do you have any data about this place?” Unknown stated to say this in knowing that they need to focus on more larger scales.

“In case we ever got sent to the dump, I learn about the process of this area’s function.” Nicole stated this since when she was hacked into Sunnyside’s security system, she search on the web to learn about this scrapyard they landed in.

“And what was it you learned?” Unknown asked off in pondering what the lynx girl has learn.

"I've learned of this place during my time of searching online back at Xion's as well." Emerl said with a serious look. "We must get our friends now."

“He's right. That if we do not hurry, our friends will be endangered…they maybe on an approach to the Trash-Grinder.” Nicole issued off to say this in what their friends are likely to head towards. “The information states that for all trash products will head for the grinding room, all metal objects will be magnetized, before any non-metal left will be shredded. Before the final destination will be a boiler.” She explained how that those that they last saw, might have been taken by another bulldozer towards a spot where this place will turn the toys into shredded or melted scrape.

“We probably won’t make it, but knowing our resourceful friends, they might at least hold out until the boiler. We’ll need to find something to help in their rescue.” Unknown held his chin to think this through in knowing that Mickey & the others should manage to survive the trials, but near the last obstacle will require some extra assistance.

"But how will we get them before they reach the boiling point?" Hooded ask in concern, wanting a solution and fast.

“The Claw!” The little duck triplets point to a claw in the distance as they said this in union which also…got those nearby to think for a moment.

“That’s it, we’ll try to access the crane system.” Nicole stated in having an idea in what they can do to help save their friends.

“Then let’s move.” Unknown issued off that they need to hurry & perform this feat…while there is still a chance.

Now Unknown quickly has Nicole, Hooded, Emerl & the duck triplets hurry up to race towards where they need to be….and hope they reach it to save Mickey & the rest from certain demise.

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The good guys landed on a conveyor belt that goes into a dark tunnel. As they recover and saw the lights receding behind them, Daisy calls out, "Mickey! What are we going to do now?"

"Everyone, it's going to be okay. As long as we stay..." Mickey suddenly was interrupted when Goofy without warning was pulled right off the belt. "Goofy!"

"Gah! Mickey!" Goofy exclaims as he is send right up to a fast moving conveyor belt right over head, getting stuck up there as a result.

"What are you doing up there?" Pinkie ask in alarm as Mickey, Minnie and the ponies chased after him.

"Goofy, get down from there!" Minnie calls out to Goofy in concern.

Suddenly the toys yelps as hammer flew up and ends up on the belt above, narrowing missing Goofy. Rarity gasps, "Oh my! What is that happening?"

"Ah done have a bad feeling about 'dis." Applejack said, frowning as more bits of metal bits of metal are flying upward and ends up sticking to the ceiling. Soon, the toys figure out what's going on here.

"Yikes, it's a magnet!" Lola exclaims to her friends in alarm.

"But what is it for?" Golden Heart ask in concern, suspecting that the magnet is on the ceiling for a good reason.

"Everyone, you might wanna look at this." Goofy gulps as he saw something up ahead from his position.

Everyone climbs up a pile of debris to see what their friend just saw. Fluttershy screams, "Eeeek! What's that?!'

"It's a shredder!" Rainbow screams as the toys saw the shredder, which Nicole mentioned earlier. It is shredding everything on the lower belt. "We gotta do something or we will be shred to pieces!"

Bugs spots a lunch box which is shaking due to the metal nature. The rabbit grabs the lunch box as it is being pulled up to the magnetic belt, calling out, "Docs, quick! Get something metal!"

Mickey and Minnie, the female mouse holds Figaro, grabs a metal handle which causes them to go flying upward and winding up on the ceiling. Getting the idea, Iago jumps into a nearby pot which ends up upwards. The parrot calls out, "Come on, you hear what Bugs said!"

"Grab something metal!" Penelope exclaims quickly.

Each toy grabs a metal object, causing each one to be lifted to the magnetic belt. Willie however rush all over to find something of metal, grabbing an aluminum can, a CD, anything. Nothing is working.

"Hurry up, Willie!" Daffy calls out to Willie in concern

"Nothing's working!" Willie exclaims frantically to his pals.

"Get the metal fan!" Twilight calls out as she motions to a metal fan which is about to fly upward. The giant grabs the thing and is lifted upward to the magnetic belt in time. "All right, we're all..."

"Help, someone help!" A familiar voice yells out in terror. Mickey turns to see a familiar glove coming out of the trash below. It's Scourge who is trapped underneath a golf bag. "I'm stuck, someone, help! Please!"

"Oh dear, someone help him!" Fluttershy gasps in shock and alarm.

"Are you kidding?!" Rainbow yells out to Fluttershy in shock and disbelief. "He's the reason we are in this dump in this first place and torture us with insane kids! And you wanna help him?!'

"Ah say let him git shredded!" Applejack exclaims in agreement with Golden Heart screeching. There isn't any reason to even help Scourge after everything he did!

Mickey on the other hesitates a bit. Scourge deserves what's coming to him for all he done...but then, the heroes would be as worst as he is! Mickey lets go of his metal object, much to Lola and Minnie's shock as they yell out, "Mickey!"

"Are you crazy? Get away from him!" Penelope exclaims as Mickey lands on the belt below once mow.

"Maybe so but I am not Scourge and won't be ever." Mickey said as he rushes over to assist the trapped Scourge.

The ponies hesitates then let go of their metal objects, falling down as well. Spike gasps, "Girls!"

"Sorry, but Fluttershy's right. It wouldn't be right to abandon him like this." Twilight said as the Ponies heads over to help Mickey out to help out Scourge.

"Right, who knows? Scourge may see the errors of his way if we save him." Rarity said in agreement looking thoughtful.

"Oh thank you." Scourge said as Mickey and the ponies come over to help him out.

"Don't thank us yet." Mickey said as he and the ponies work on lifting the bag off, but is having trouble doing so.

"Come on, guys." Bugs said to his squad as he lets go of the metal object to land near to their friend. Penelope and Porky lets go to help their leader out.

"Ugh, I will do it, but I will hate myself in the morning." Daffy groans as he lets go of his metal part and helps his friends help the one who tried to kill them all.

Minnie and Lola gasps as the ones below are approaching the shredder fast. Lola calls out, "Bugs!"

"Oh dear, Mickey!" Minnie yelps to Mickey. The ones on the magnetic belt watch on as Mickey, Bugs, the ponies and the Looney Tune Squad members are having trouble in moving the belt. This could be the end.

Luckily, Mickey manages to take a golf club out of the bag. Although the magnet is trying to tug the thing upward, Bugs and the others grabs it and pulled the thing down. The group then uses it to jam under the bag for leverage, causing the heavy object to be lifted up as a result.

"Move, move!" Mickey calls out to Scourge who got out from under the bag. The mouse grabs the hedgehog before he, Bugs, the ponies and the Looney Tune Squad pointed the club upward, causing the group to be pulled up to safely. And in the nick of time too as the golf bag is being pulverized.

Scourge looks relieved to be spared a terrible fate. He look up, saying gratefully, "Thanks, mouse."

"Hey, we're in this together, right?"

"Yeah, just h-h-h-h-hope this t-t-t-teach you an l-l-l....how to be nice!" Porky exclaims sternly to Scourge.

The others turns to their pals but saw that they are no longer on the belt. Twilight yelps in concern, "Guys?"

"Down here, everyone!" Lola calls out as she and the others wave from the conveyor belt below. They must've let go of their metal objects a while ago.

The good guys let go of the golf club, allowing them and Scourge to land on the conveyor belt which is surrounded by metal walls. Pinkamena glares at Scourge while scowling, "Why didn't you let him be shredded?"

"And how would that make us better than he was?" Fluttershy ask Pinkamena in appointment. "No toy deserves to be shredded, not even anyone like Scourge."

"She's right." Golden Heart said with a sigh of agreement.

"Mickey, Bugs, guys!" Lola and Minnie exclaims as the other toys are gathered around the mentioned two. Everything is going to be safe now.

"Hey, look, everyone!" Willie exclaims as the belt ascend upwards to another part of the area which he saw something. "I can see daylight, we're going to okay!"

Willie points to a bright amber glow at the top of the belt, apparently the machine is taking everyone to outside the machine. The toys scrambled upward, hoping that they will get out of this madness okay.

Twilight however drops her smile as she realizes something. The pony yelps, "Err, Willie? That isn't daylight."

"No, it's..." Applejack said in worry. Sure enough, the toys finally saw what was at the end of the conveyor belt: it's an area where garbage falls into a burning, churning fire hole, most likely fire hole below.

"Mother." Daffy whimpers in fear.

"Run for it!" Mickey exclaims frantically. Everyone was unable to jump off, forcing the toys to run down the belt while staying clear of the coming trash. But yet, the rising conveyor speed makes it difficult to escape.

"We're doomed for!" Spike exclaims frantically.

Scourge trips and falls down before getting up. He spots a blue light object high on the wall up ahead. It's the Emergency Stop Button with a ladder leading to it! If one were to press the thing, the whole conveyor belt could stop!

Scourge got back up before rushing over to the ladder, grabbing the bottom rung. The hedgehog is having trouble pulling himself up. Golden Heart, noticing, calls out, "Scourge?"

"Mouse, the button! Help me up there and I can press it to save us!" Scourge calls out to the toys who look back to see him trying to climb up the ladder then spots the button.

"He's right! Let's go!" Twilight calls out. As the gang passes by, Mickey, Bugs, Minnie, Lola, the ponies and the girls manages to help Scourge right up the ladder.

"Go, go; hit the button!" Mickey frantically calls out to Scoruge who climbs up the ladder as he heads towards the glowing button.

As the toys are carried up the conveyor belt right towards the pit, they watch Scourge climbs up some more with his focus remaining on the button itself. Soon the gang reaches the belt's acme which is right near the edge of the trash waterfall that heads to the fire hole. It won't be long now.

"Hurry, Scourge, hurry!" Minnie calls out to Scourge who reaches the walkway near the button. But the gang looks concerned as the hedgehog turns and glares at the soon to be doomed toys. Why isn't he doing anything?

"Scourge, push the button, hurry!" Mickey calls out to Scourge in worry. He doesn't like the looks of this.

"Doc, what are you doing? Push the button!" Bugs calls out to Scourge in concern.

Scourge just smirks evilly as he gave a mock salute, saying, "Where's your kid now, mousie?! BWA BWA BWA BWA!!!!"

With that, Scourge run down the walkway, the toys watch on in shock and horror as he laughs. That hedgehog is leaving them all to die, he didn't change at all, even when he was rescued!

"No, no, no, noooooooo!!!!" Mickey screams out in horror and shocked.

"Scourge, you traitor!" Bugs exclaims furiously and in disbelief.

"Ugh! We should've just let him be shredded!" Rainbow exclaims furiously. If the toys knew that Scourge would turn on the toys like this, they would've left him to die in the first place.

"Well talk about being down in the dumps." Pinkamena said in worry.

"Well we got more to deal with than that." Golden Heart said. Gold wing screeches as she looks, noticing the large amount of heat at the end of the rail.

"Well I guess we better find a way out or we will have a meltdown."

"Too late!" Twilight screams as the toys tumble off the belt, they are about to meet their demise soon enough.

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Soon we find the inside of the crane controls, where Unknown has managed to open the thing that was left unlocked to get him, Nicole, Emerl, Hooded & the duck triplets inside. Now Nicole starts to plug her connector cable into the machine system to try to get access to its port.

“Nicole, how long can you gain access to this?” Unknown asked the lynx girl in how much time till Nicole takes control of this vehicle.

“Connecting now, analysis complete: manual controls are online.” Nicole responded off in having already finished the preparations.

“Can you control the system?” Unknown asked if Nicole has complete control to move the crane to do what they need to do.

“I’m afraid I cannot, the vehicle hasn’t been upgraded & we need to pilot its controls then by a computer programming.” Nicole shook her head while explaining that there are other parts that need to be done by hand then by computer coding.

"And I have no idea of how to control this thing." Emerl said in concern. "Does anyone..."

“Ohhh! The Claw!” Huey, Dewey & Louie were seen surprisingly on the manual control nobs & lever sticks to strangely know how to use them.

“Perfect, we may have some help here after all.” Unknown held his chin to say this in seeing that they may have a solution after all.

"Since they were from a Crane Game, it makes sense." Hooded said, remembering how Huey, Dewey and Louie were from a Crane Game back at Pizza Planet.

“Emerl and I’ll help with what we can here, the rest will be up to them.” Nicole stated to say in helping the duck triplets in what can be done on her end.

“Then we best get everything set, before Mickey, Bugs, and the others meet a terrible fate of what should not be.” Unknown stated to say this in sounding serious, if they fail, then their friends are doomed.

Now without warning, everyone here gets to work on guiding, hacking, & controlling this machine. The time to save Mickey & the gang was now or never, and hopefully…it was gonna be a successful one.

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Mickey and his group lands on trash that is being sucked down towards the fire hole. Everything is tumbling down as sparks and ashes flew through the air along with an overwhelming roar.

"Everyone try to get out!" Rainbow calls out. Mickey and his friends got up in hopes to climb out and escape this, but no matter what, they kept on slipping and falling before getting up.

"T-t-t-t-t-t-this is an n-n-AHHHHHHH!!!" Porky screams in fear, preparing for the worst.

Willie gasps as he slides past Mickey towards the incinerator, causing the mouse toy to exclaim, "Willie!"

Mickey grabs Willie's hand, causing him to slide further towards the inferno. The toys are being pulled downward inescapably, there's no chance for everyone to get out now. It's over.

"Bugs, what will we do now?" Lola ask Bugs in sadness.

Bugs gave a sad look to his love and decided on one more thing left to do now: he reaches out and takes the female bunny by the hand. Lola nods while grabbing Pluto's paw. Goofy's hand grabs Iago's wing, the ducks held onto each other as did the ponies with Spike holding onto Twilight and Pinkamena onto Golden Heart and Golden Wing, Donald grabs Willie who takes Daffy by the wing while he grabs Porky's hand as the pig takes Penelope's paw. Everyone is embracing what is going to be their demise soon enough.

Bugs reaches out to Mickey as the pals takes hands. The male grabs Minnie's, who held onto Figaro while she takes Goofy's other hand. The circle is complete, if the gang must go out, may as well do so together.

As the toys approach the vortex, the heat waves blast their faces, making them see their life flash before their eyes: the day that Tommy has got them and played with the toys themselves, their friendship, their adventures, etc. How sad that everything's about to come to an end.

The toys close their eyes and turn away. They don't wish to face their demises when the time finally comes. Mickey closes his own eyes while staring at the fire. This is the end.

Suddenly without warning, a light from above shines on Mickey’s face, causing him to open his eyes. To his surprise, a familiar Claw lowers towards him and the others. The thing plunges into the trash around the gang, closing everything in its grip, raising the heroes up and saving them in time.

As the toys are being carried away from the roaring incinerator, Mickey looks around in disbelief. What was going on here & who has saved them? The mouse toy's group soon spot their saviors as the claw's crane brought them to see who's in the control booth...it was the duck triplets; Huey, Dewey & Louie along with Unknown, Emerl, Hooded & Nicole nodding to their work.

"The Claw!" The duck triplets replied in their chant as they see that their friends are okay.

“Mission accomplished. We have secured our friends.” Nicole issued off in seeing they have rescue their friends from almost ended up incinerated.

“Then let us secure them to the backside, away from anything else that would come for them.” Unknown issued this off to the rest here as the duck triplets did this while Huey waves to the leaving group.

"Huh, the same device that doomed Mickey and Bugs to be taken to Melvin's house is what saves us in the end." Unknown said smiling under his hood

"Well, I will say in this day and age life is full of unexpected surprises." Hooded said laughing as he takes in the view.

The little ducks steers the Claw to safely before lowering it and open the thing, dropping the toys and trash onto the earth. The gang, spilling out, cough and groan like survivors of an apocalypse. Mickey & Minnie sits up, looking around in amazement. They survived that disaster!

“Cough-cough…..duuuugh…whew, that was a close one." Willie coughs out trash, as he came out while remarking that moment.

"Well...that was too thrilling for one day." Rarity said, still on the shredded trash. The toys has faced death and survive yet still profoundly shaken by the whole thing.

"Guys, you know the bad stuff that I said about Tommy’s attic?" Donald asked off the question as he stares at the sky. “Well forget what I said then. It's better than this!” Donald stated in seeing after this, the attic is better than what they went through.

“Yep, you got that right." Goofy nods off in agreement, at least in the attic, they won't be shredded, melted down or betrayed by a back stabbing green hedgehog!

"You got that right." Iago remarks with a frown over what they went through.

Bugs & Lola sat up, still holding hands. The girl looks at the boy toy, smiling here while the space rabbit smiles right back at her, holding her daze.

"Oh Donald! You were so brave back there!” Daisy happily takes Donald’s’ hands while saying this stuff.

Just then the white duck toys heard familiar squeaking, turning to see some of their saviors, Huey, Dewey & Louie, approaching their adopted uncle & aunt.

"You've saved our lives!" Daisy said in surprise to see that her little nephews had saved her, her boyfriend, and their pals just now.

"And now it is we who are eternally grateful." Donald bow to thank the three little ducks for the save as he states this also. “Gee, guess after all this time, now that it’s finally over…I’m glad. But, glad your family. My boys!"

Suddenly, Donald now grabs the duck triplets and hugs them with joy for the first time after he met them. “Uncle Donald!” Huey, Dewey & Louie replied in being grateful to repay their long debt to the one that saved them long ago.

“It appears we managed to reach you all in the nick of time.” Unknown’s voice is heard, as he along with Nicole, Emerl and Hooded also enter the scene to check on their friends that were saved from being turn into….well, scrape in a scrape yard.

“Unknown, Nicole, Emerl, Hooded.” Fluttershy spoke out in seeing their other friends have come to join them.

“You both made it out along with the little ducks.” Rainbow Dash smiled off in seeing that their pals here were alright after being separated.

“Boy howdy, ain’t ye a sight fer sour eyes!” Applejack replied off to say in being glad this bunch were safe.

“Yes, and you helped save our necks back there.” Rarity nods off in being very glad to have been saved when it seem hopeless.

“We owe you one.” Spike stated that they owe this bunch their lives.

“Do not worry, you all would have done the same for us,” Nicole stated fairly to say in knowing the others would have done the same in their position.

"Right, consider it a debt repaid." Emerl said to his friends with a smile.

"Hey, where's that self-centered stubborn arrogant jerk in plush hedgehog's clothing, Scourge?!” Iago demands off with an annoyed face, as he looks around for Scourge. The toy is still ticked off for what that hedgehog did, leaving him and the other toys to die like that.

“Yeah, I say we make him pay for what he did to us and the rest of Sunnyside Daycare and make him sorry and wish he never messed with us by tearing his stuffing out!” Goofy exclaim with a frown and in agreement.

“Get in line, out of all annoying folks, that hedgehog is more so than long-ears here.” Daffy snapped off in seeing that Scourge is more a pain than Bugs, and that’s something with his persona.

“He was despi-ic-ic-ca-ca-pl-e, he was terrible!” Porky issued off in sounding furious as well here.

"Forget it, fellas. That hedgehog bully's not worth it. Besides, I have a feeling someone out there will make sure Scourge will get what he deserves in the end, and that's a promise! And trust me, guys, before this fanmake is over, let's say that said someone will take care of our new evil 'pal' personally." Mickey said sternly, still angry by Scourge’s betrayal earlier.

Bugs couldn't help but smirk and nods in agreement at what Mickey had said. When the mouse makes a big promise like that, he is bent on keeping it.

“Still, I wish he get what’s coming to him for all the trouble he caused.” Penelope frowns to say they wanna give payback to Scourge for what he’s done.

“I’ll say, after escaping his evil that’s been running Sunnyside, hate to think he’ll repeat that act somewhere else.” Pinkamena stated that if Scourge was loose, he start the whole system of strong toys survive all over again.

“Actually, you all don’t have to worry.” Nicole pointed out this in making a relief notice here.

“What are you talking about Nicole, the bad guy got away scout free!” Oswald protest to say that Scourge was still out there, on the loose.

“While connected, I learn of the scrape-yard’s business process, one of them states a truck arrival at this moment near the east wing.” Nicole explained out that she dug up something of this scrape yard’s schedule of when its workers come in, especially in a certain direction.

“Wait, Scourge was likely heading in the east wing?” Twilight yelps in realizing where the enemy went off to from her knowledge of geomantic longitude by latitude.

“So, what does that mean?” Golden Heart asked off as he and Golden Wing stare off confused.

“In short, we can safely rest easy, that Scourge’s punishment shall be one he will repent the evil he’s done.” Unknown spoke forth in stating this message to put everyone else minds at ease now.

The toy gang weren't sure of the meaning of Unknown’s message or what Nicole was stating. But little by little, some of the toys began to picture something, making some show sly smiles in imagining what fate awaits for their enemy Scourge the Hedgehog.

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Scourge arrives at the dump exit. He is almost freed. The green hedgehog is planning on coming back to Sunnyside with an army of toys. He will take it back and make them all pay.

Suddenly Scourge hears a truck arriving, making him drop and go into toy mode. The truck stops right in front of him before the door opens. A worker named Bibbo Bibbowski came out and picks the hedgehog up.

"Hey, bub!" Bibbo calls out to his co-worker with a smile.

"Whatcha got, Bibbo?" The co-worker ask his pal.

"Got one of these things as a kid." Bibbo then buries his nose in Scourge's tummy for a moment to inhale the scene. "Ahhhh, chili dogs! Perfect!"

A while later, the truck leaves the trump. Scourge looks horrified as he finds himself strapped to the grill with more mud-covered, bug splattered dolls like him on the whole thing. He's now trapped forever, a prisoner! How ironic!

"Hey green boy!" A frog toy named Captain Ginyu spoke to Scourge. "Here's an idea: Keep your mouth shut so the bugs wouldn't get in your mouth!"

The other toys laughs as Scourge groans while closing his mouth while the truck heads off. He's going to learn love again no matter what.

Author's note
Ha to Scourge and the toys are saved. The final chapter is coming up so read, review and suggest. Also, the REAL fate of Scourge is coming up.