Learning about the Funny Bunny's Past

"If I'm gonna find out what happened to Mr. Acme and clear Velvet's name then I gonna need to dig up the past." Jaune said to himself walking through the street until he stops at a building.

It's been a day since he started the case and hope to find something here.

"The past about Roger Rabbit." Jaune looked up at the building revealing to be a library.

Jaune walks into the library seeing the place is big with lots of books and people reading through them for their studies at school or just reading for fun, but for the young Detective Arc it's about doing some serious research on Roger Rabbit and maybe finding out if there's anything about him and Jessica making any announcement about their second daughter. He walks over to the computer and started typing through the search website to begin the history search on Roger Rabbit.

"Well, isn't this quite a surprise, a surprise indeed to see one of my old students here." A man said fast.

"Huh?" Jaune turned around seeing the man.

The man has messy green hair and his eyes are a sapphire blue. He wears a white shirt partially tucked into his dark-green pants and its collar raised, showing a slack yellow tie, along with mismatched brown and black shoes. He also has round glasses that appear to be opaque.

"Oh, Professor Oobleck, I didn't expect to see you here." Jaune surprised to see his old history teacher so soon after graduating from high school.

"Yes, I also didn't expect to see you after your graduating ceremony, and I heard you're doing some small jobs in your detective agency. Oh, and it's "Doctor" Oobleck, I didn't earned PHD for fun, you know?" Oobleck said.

"Heheh, glad to see you haven't changed much." Jaune chuckled.

"So, my boy, what brings you here besides some comic books then may I suggest going to a comic bookstore." Oobleck wondered.

"Actually, I'm here to study up about Roger Rabbit like what he was before his death." Jaune answered.

"Ah, I see, then I take it involves with the sudden news of his daughter and Mr. Acme's murder." Oobleck guessed.

"Yes, I'm going to clear her name and hopefully find out what really happened that night." Jaune determined.

"You're certainly like your uncle, but allow me to give you a little warning as your former teacher: be careful of where you snoop around on your case because you may end up upsetting the very people who maybe involve with the murder case, especially some who might be more dangerous than they seem." Oobleck concerned for Jaune's safety.

"I will, thanks Doctor Oobleck." Jaune nodded, correcting his teacher's title as well.

Oobleck left Jaune alone to continue his research on Roger's past like how his life started before entering the comedy life of entertainment, he finds out that Mister Rabbit used to live on a farm way off out in the country with his family as the farm was rabbits selling them as pets though mostly as meat which Roger hated being in that farm. He tried his best to give away the rabbits as pets with little money he's been earning and saving up to move out of that farm, by the time he got his money to move into the big city his family's farm was shut down because of his drunken father killing his mother and injured his siblings.

"Damn, it must've been tough growing up like and your own father making things a little more difficult." Jaune commented sadly as he continues scrolling through Roger's history.

He reads after Roger made his way to city, he started working at a toy store to earn some money to get through fine, it was good for him as he make lots of kids laugh with his jokes and doing a little show for those who the parents couldn't leave their kids alone at home or can't find a babysitter. Roger's reputation of being a mister funny man has spread through two blocks and then some which got the attention of a club manager who's looking for a funny man to do a show, Roger got a letter about offering him a chance to share his amazing laughter to others. He gladly accepts doing his comedy show though not everyone like his jokes at first thinking he's a loser or something, even throwing his tomatoes at Roger when they find his joke annoying.

"Everyone's a credit." Jaune sighed.

The grumpy looks soon turn into smiles and sounds of laughter from the people as Roger continue amazing everyone with his funniness as he always said at the end of his show "All I want is to bring everyone together with smiles and laughing making the world a better place!" as he state that has been his dream for a long time. He's been the club's comedy for a few years until one day during his show, he was introduce to the Ultimate Funny man himself: Marvin Acme and offered him an opportunity of a lifetime such as opening an amusement park and creating a new cartoon show starting Roger Rabbit.

"Wow, Roger started off from a small boy raised in a rabbit farm to becoming a big star! Guess big things can happen to the little people." Jaune impressed.

Roger and Marvin made a big hit on their park Toon Remnant as the picture shows their grand opening, bringing in lots of people from the whole country to the whole world like making new friends every day, Roger's cartoon show was a big hit too making tons of episodes with goofy and crazy scenes. Many merchandises of him were sold like very hotcakes and Roger would sometime go on a world tour to make everyone in every country laugh, even to the ones who don't like laughing and funny business much, and meeting some wonderful people making them guest stars to his show. They soon met R.K. Maroon as they created the Maroon Cartoons company as Maroon wants to help them make cartoons more popular and fun for everyone to watch, including the adults and elders. The cartoon show ran for three years until Roger and Marvin hit a roadblock on trying to come up with some new funny scripts for the season four, then Maroon came up with the idea of adding a new character to Roger's show. They soon meet with an upraising singer, Jessica and ask to be part of the show while adding some of her songs into the show as well.

"That must've been when Jessica was recruited and met Roger for the first time." Jaune guessed he reads through more.

As Jessica and Roger work well together while bringing in more people who wants to make people laugh in their own way, including Jaune's old babysitter Betty Boop.

"Betty must started there before being asked by parents to babysit me and my sisters." Jaune surprised to find a picture of Betty with Jessica and Roger.

Most people would see them being opposites of each other would work great though Jessica smile and laughs cute, before anyone knew it the two stars have started dating and sharing their love to everyone. When they asked about why Jessica would date a clown like him and what does she see in him, she simply answered "He makes me laugh" with a smile sexually smile and they hit it off great, even more surprising when the news reveal Roger and Jessica have a daughter together naming her Velvet Rabbit.

"Aw, Velvet looks very cute as a baby and now she's a cutie woman with great jokes and love making people laugh and has a nice body to boot" Jaune quickly slapped himself in the face.

"No Jaune, bad Jaune, you have a girlfriend! Focus on the case!" Jaune muttered to himself, but his mind is still thinking about Velvet imaging her winking at him. He shook the thoughts out and continue reading.

"Now, let see if there was any news about this second daughter being reported two years later." Jaune typed in to see if there any hints or rumors about the second child, but nothing came up.

"Odd, not even some old social media said anything about her. Must mean Roger and Jessica must've kept the second child a secret maybe to surprise Velvet, or someone is trying to hide her from the public." Jaune tried to figure out why has there not been any news about the second child.

"Umm, maybe it has something to do with Roger's death." Jaune typed again looking up for how Roger Rabbit died.

He found an article that shows a picture of Roger sitting on the statue of himself as a rabbit cartoon that is at the Toon Remnant park, his eyes are closes and blood stain on his clothes, his ears are down to each side of the head and he was also smiling upon his death.

"Whoa, did not expect to see how a cartoon-loving man would go out like that." Jaune shocked and narrow his eyes little seeing the article mentioned of who found the body like that.

"Maybe I should see this man myself." Jaune decided to check out the amusement to find the man who happens to be working there.

(Toon Remnant)

Jaune looks around seeing the amusement park in person and smile upon sightseeing the very park he and his family comes here on Holidays and some family vacation whenever they get the chance, but now Jaune has come back to investigate about Roger Rabbit's death and to ask the man who found the body.

"Uh, excuse me, I'm looking for a man called "Shopkeeper", is he here today?" Jaune asked an employee.

"Yeah, he's usually by Roger Rabbit statue right now." He pointed the way.

"Thanks." Jaune thanked before walking to the statue.

Along the way he sees all the rides like the roller coasters, joyrides, buildings with restaurants, toy stores, and games like the arcade making him remember all the good times he spent all the time here with his family and friends including the time with Pyrrha when going there on their dates.

Then his thoughts got interrupted when he bumps into the statue and rubbing his forehead where his head hit the statue.

"Are you okay, young man?" An old man asked.

The old man is an elderly, balding, gray-haired man with wrinkles under his eyes and over his brow. Typically, he wears a green shirt with a red apron and gray pants. Being older, he appears to have trouble moving around and moves sluggishly, occasionally being hunched over. His eyes always seem to be closed but he can still see.

"Yeah, yeah, should've paid more attention." Jaune whined a bit from the pain.

"Say, are you the Shopkeeper?" Jaune asked.

"That's me, I do more than one job in this town." The Shopkeeper nodded.

"I hope you don't mind asking you a few questions about Roger Rabbit's death 9 nine years ago." Jaune took out a notepad and a pen.

"Ah, you're the detective who nearly screwed everything with Jessica and Velvet." The Shopkeeper glared.

"…You heard about that?" Jaune gulped.

"Jessica called my herself, told me what happened, and how she's willingly trusting you to help her daughter." He mentioned.

"I am, which is why I'm here to help solve the case." Jaune nodded.

"Alright, I can tell from just looking into your eyes you got a strong fire and a good heart. Ask away." The Shopkeeper said.

"Thank you, now exactly did you know Roger Rabbit?" Jaune asked.

"It was when he first arrived at the city, the first thing he did was cheering up a little girl." The Shopkeeper remembered.

(Flashback Decades Ago)

Roger is walking around amazes of how big the city is compare to the countryside and saw a little girl crying for accidently dropping her doll in a puddle, Roger took out a bubble bottle and start blowing them while performing a magic trick that made them into different shapes while dancing silly. The girl laughs being cheered up and thanked Roger for the fun before leaving with her mom and dad as they too thanked Roger for the show.

Then Roger soon meets the Shopkeeper who was cleaning some windows of a store.

"Roger came to me, asking me if I knew a good place to stay and a toy store to work at."

Roger walk up to the Shopkeeper after he finished cleaning the window, they talk and Shopkeeper lead Roger to a little hotel and gestured toward the toy store right across the street.

"After he settle in at his new home, Roger worked at the toy store for about a year and three months already making a name of himself that's when I told the club manager about him offering Roger a job as a standup comedy man."

Roger is on stage sliding across comedically falling on his butt making a loud farting noise which reveals to be a whoopie cushion, the audience laughs and so did the Shopkeeper as he claps his hands.

"That man was really good at making people laugh, I thought I was gonna have a heart attack."

(Flashback End)

"That young boy had a bright future, meeting Marvin Acme and becoming a star of his own cartoon show. Not to mention marring the most beautiful woman in the world, what a lucky guy." Shopkeeper sighed smiling.

"Y-Yeah, he sure was… now about how you found Roger dead?" Jaune asked.

"…It was the most tragic day of my life; the sun was raising, and I was about help out at the park that day." The Shopkeepers remembered sadly.

"Roger was walking into the park when it was barely opened, or at least it looked like he was walking." The old man said.

(Flashback Nine Years Ago)

The Shopkeeper is seen swiping the ground with a broom to clear out some dusts and trash, then he heard footsteps to his left, turning to see Roger coming up though appears to be limping toward his statue reaching out his hand. But the rabbit-Faunus man trip over face-first to the ground.

"Roger!" The Shopkeeper gasped dropping the broom and running to the white rabbit.

"Roger, what happened? You're bleeding!" The Shopkeeper asked.

Roger pointed at the statue asking the Shopkeeper to set him down there, the old man did that and felt something being put in his hand by Roger. He looks at his hand seeing a little thorn.

"Hehe… ara… sting…" Roger chuckled and his hand falls to the ground and his eyes close.

The Shopkeeper gasps and scream to Roger's name hoping that this is a joke and he's going to wake up any second now, but Roger didn't respond at all as it only took him a full twenty minutes to realize that Roger Rabbit is dead.

"That was when Roger Rabbit died."

(Flashback End)

"I'm so sorry, it must've been tough for you." Jaune apologized.

"It was. The police couldn't find anything of what caused Roger's death thinking he might've died from a disease he got." The Shopkeeper mentioned.

"Was it really?" Jaune asked, getting a weird feeling about this.

"I don't know, something about it didn't seem right to me." The Shopkeeper commented.

"What about the bloodstain?" Jaune asked about that.

"They said he got into a car accident and a metal shard from the car pierce on his torso, Roger was never the best driver when it comes to cars." Shopkeeper explained.

"Guess he leaves all the driving to his wife." Jaune figured.

"Yep, though it remains me of another car accident Roger went through around nineteen years ago." The Shopkeeper mentioned.

"Roger didn't say much except for driving crazy again." The Shopkeeper said.

"(So, Roger went through two car accidents and one was nineteen years ago.)" Jaune thought.

"Sir, do you still have that thorn on you?" Jaune asked hopefully.

"Weirdly enough, I do." The Shopkeeper showed the thorn.

"May if I borrow it, this could help with the case." Jaune asked.

"I'm not sure how one little thorn is gonna help but go right ahead if it means helping Velvet." The Shopkeeper handed Jaune the thorn.

"I hope so too." Jaune said and putting the thorn in the plastic bag.

Jaune doesn't know yet, but his instincts are telling him that this little thorn may lead him to the truth.

KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!

Jaune has dug up some history about Roger Rabbit's past of how he started his silly comedy career to the end of how he died, getting his first clue in hopes to find some lead of what happened to Marvin Acme and find Velvet soon before Swollac and his men does. Though he may get a surprise at his apartment soon.

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