One cold day in the realm of animation, a coffee shop was just opening up. Inside, a cartoon squirrel was humming to himself as he wrapped a green apron with the logo of an acorn on it with big letters in it "SJ" which was SquirrellyJay's initials. The minute he switched the closed sign to open, he smiled and nodded before going behind the counter to await the customers. But little did he realize that today would be unlike any other day... Soon enough there was a long line in the cafe, customers ranged from familiar faces like Ash and Pikachu, Rocko, Solid Snake, Scooby Doo and Shaggy, Nathan Drake, Stitch, Yusuke Urameshi, Princess Peach and finally at the front of the line, Homer Simpson . "One hot latte if you please!" Said Homer. SJ nodded and headed into the back to grab some coffee beans to put into the coffeemaker. But when he got there, he saw some figures he didn't recognize walking out with huge sacks slung over their shoulders. The trio consisted of a grey rat wearing a steriotypical bandit mask, following an opossum also wearing a bandit mask both lead by a grey raccoon whose mask was outlined wearing a suave outfit and fedora. SJ gasped out loud and made a dive towards them, but they managed to slip away chuckling evily as they ran out the back door with their sacks in tow "And don't you dare come back!" Yelled the squirrel before he went into the supply room. What awaited him there was a horrifying sight, he had been cleaned out, ripped off, robbed! The whole room was bare, emptied out crates knocked over, spilled jars, coffee bean bags ripped open, even the cold storage was completely empty. SJ felt like crying, those villains had completely stolen his entire stock... feeling weak, he went back to the dining area where everyone was still waiting, starting to feel restless with how long SJ was taking to get the orders ready. As he came back to the counter, everyone watched as with a grim look, he grabbed a sign from under his counter and placed it for everyone to read in shock. "Due to lack of ingredients the cafe is closed... Sorry!" Homer let out a big no and was crying big time as he along with everyone else, feeling disappointed, they all walked out of the cafe. SJ also walked out after closing up the shop and slumped down on the front step of the shop. He was devastated, he never had to close so early before and now those bandits ruined his day! He was tearing up a lot until he heard a big friendly deep voice. "Duhh SJ? What are you doing out here? I thought you were running the cafe today?" He looked up and saw his best big bear buddy, Biggun Bear looking at him obviously worried for his little squirrelly friend. "Oh Biggun, it's terrible!" Sniffled SJ "I was just about to serve a customer, when these bandits showed up and took just about everything I needed to make coffee and treats for my customers!" "Oh dat's awful SJ! What are ya gonna do?" He sniffled one last time before getting up. "There's only one thing I can do... somehow... I gotta gather up all those ingredients!" When he got home, he began writing a list of everything he needed for his cafe Flour Sugar Eggs Milk Coffee Beans Cacao Beans Vanilla Extract Maple Syrup Nuts (All kinds) Fruits and Berries (Also all kinds) Mint Leaves Honey (Because Biggun likes it a lot) Red Hot Chili Peppers (In case someone wants theirs REALLY HOT) Once he made the list, SJ got his knapsack on and set out to collect ingredients for his cafe. But he wasn't alone, Biggun followed alongside him, and not just him, but a shirtless fox in blue jeans, a pink ballet dancing flamingo in a lighter pink dress, a pantless skunk in a red sweater and teal baseball cap, and a mouse inside an orb robot with a cat face. "Freddie, Charlotte, Snuff, Crysis! What are you all-" Is all he could say before the fox put a finger to his lips shushing him. "You didn't think we'd let ya go off on your own, did ya, SJ?" Said Freddie patting his shoulder "We're your friends, let us help you out with your journey!" Said the flamingo. SJ smiled as his toon friends accompanied him on his quest to find the cafe ingredients. The first destination would be a farm, it was the easiest way to obtain the eggs, milk, flour and sugar among other things. Biggun, Freddie and Snuff were at the mill collecting flour and sugar from the wheat and sugar cane they had all picked, Charlotte and Crysis took care of the milking, that left SJ to get the eggs from the hens. He was warned, however, that the hens were acting like regular Karens lately and would act less than friendly towards him, but he had high hopes. Or make that fool's hopes as the minute he walked in, he was bombarded with angry hens yelling at him. "Who do you think you are!? I'm telling your manager about this! You'll be hearing from my lawyer!" It was too much, even for him to handle so SJ quickly rushed through grabbing as many eggs as he could at the risk of being pecked and got out of there screaming. But he didn't watch where he was going and ran into a tree. Lucky for him it was an apple tree so that took care of a lot on the list. Next up, SJ decided to pay a visit to the famous Mr Willy Wonka, coincidentally he had recieved a letter from Mr Wonka saying that one of his squirrels had fallen ill and was willing to pay him in cacao beans if he would come and assist him in shelling walnuts at his chocolate factory, also stating he would be free to take some of those walnuts too. So SJ was set up by a table where a walnut would come to him and using his squirrelly instincts, he would check to see if it was a good nut, or a bad nut. So he tapped every single nut that came his way with his knuckles, listening to hear if it's hollow inside and chucked each bad nut behind him. As he kept on chucking, he had heard a door open up, turning to expect Mr Wonka checking in, he was surprised to see a little girl instead. SJ then remembered the girl as Veruca Salt, one of the bad little kids that had won one of Wonka's Golden Tickets, she was the spoiled rotten one who was so self assured that she would always get whatever she wants. That's when the other squirrels turned to see her coming in and smiling in hopes to catch a squirrel to keep as her own personal nut shelling pet. But oh surprise as the squirrels ganged up on her, holding her down to the floor leaving SJ to climb up on her head which he tapped with his knuckle and listened well. He then turned to the squirrels and made a thumbs down while blowing a raspberry indicating that she is a bad nut indeed, and so the squirrels carried her towards the chute and chucked her into it as SJ waved "buh-bye" to her chuckling mischeivously. Dusting his hands off, he was surprised to see Wonka come in with a sack full of cacao beans for him, and even gave him a sack full of some extra nuts to thank him for ridding his factory of Veruca. Next stop was a place called Hundred Acre Wood, Biggun caught the scent of honey here and so SJ followed where he was going until they reached a giant tree where Biggun was drooling like crazy, he then began to climb up to get the honey. Once he reached the top, he stuck his head into a hole where he saw it... a whole treasure trove of sticky, gooey yummy honey all dripping and making Biggun's mouth water. "Biggun! Try to save some for the Cafe!" Called SJ snapping biggun out of his trance. He then tried to push himself from out of the hole but his head was stuck. "Guh?! Uhngh! I-I can't get out!" He grunted struggling to free his head out. Grunting, pushing, straining, kicking, Biggun tried his best but it was no use, he was stuck. "Duhh SJ! Help! I can't get my head out!" SJ gasped as he quickly climbed up the tree and started pulling on Biggun's bottom half. Biggun's eyes widened as he saw some bees starting to come out, they all glared at him as angry buzzing was heard "Uhh, hurry, SJ! The bees aren't happy to see me in here!!" Said Biggun shuddering. "Ohh, this isn't working!" He then saw his backpack and climbed down to it, he then started rummaging through it trying to find it tossing a bunch of random items such as a frying pan, a backscratcher, a case containing his Nintendo switch, and a whole kitchen sink! Until finally "Ah-ha!" he found a bottle of lotion in his backpack and went back up. Biggun was scared out of his mind, one of the bees had drawn a target on his nose intending to sting him as he sobbed. "I-I-I don't wanna be target practice!" He wailed tearing up. SJ managed to get back up to Biggun and smeared some lotion around his neck. "Guh?" "Hang in there, Biggun, on the count of three, push!" He counted to 3 and then with a loud "POP!" Biggun's head came out, he bounced off some branches before landing on his butt on the ground. SJ came down landing on his big belly after. The buzzing got louder and a whole swarm of bees poured out chasing Biggun and SJ who ran for it, they found a hiding hole to dive under which the bees passed over. Once they were out of sight, the two toons came out heaving sighs of relief. "Are you okay Biggun?" Asked SJ concerned over his shook up friend. "N-n-no! I coulda been stung bad!" Biggun sobbed. SJ hugged him as he cried his heart out. "W-why are bees so mean!? They make so much honey and yet they can't find it in their stingers to allow us to have some!" He sniffled as SJ handed him a handkerchief to blow his nose in. "It'll be alright, Biggun, you stay here, and I'll figure a way to get the honey out..." So he left Biggun who went back under the hiding hole and curled up with his head in his arms. Glaring up at the tree, he swore hear the bees laughing, well no more of that! He reached into the back pack and found a small spherical object that had the words "Tear gas bomb for insects. WILL DEFINITELY WORK FOR BEES TOO!" So he pulled off the key to it and tossed the bomb inside ducking down before it went off in a large *POOF!* of smoke. He heard the bees crying as they flew out, once all of them were gone, SJ went in with a pot labeled "honey" and started scooping the golden goo into it until he filled up three pots. Once he got back down, he gave one of the pots to Biggun who started feeling better after getting that whiff of fresh honey. SJ smiled as Bigugn got back up and were about to leave when a familiar yellow bear in a red shirt appeared in front of them both. "Pardon me, but would either of you care to spare a small smackerel of one of those honey pots you have there?" Both SJ and Biggun looked at each other and said "Oh bother!" Later the team was up in the snowy mountains, they had just collected Vanilla and were down to one last ingredient, chili peppers. Along the way, Snuff had picked up some mint leaves which were leading to a cave. A strong smell was in the direction Biggun was sniffing, and sure enough there were the peppers! "Ok, this is it guys, these are just what we need to complete our..." Is all SJ got to say before he was pushed out of the way! Everyone gasped as they witnessed SJ being pushed aside by the Raccoon, Rat and Opossum that had robbed SJ's Cafe. The trio chuckled as they grabbed the peppers themselfs stuffing it in a big sack labelled "Loot." "Hey!" Said Biggun "Duh you guys stole from SJ!" "Well of course!" The raccoon chuckled alongside his rat and opossum friends in a nasally high brooklyn accent "We're da Triple S bandits, I'm Sneaks." He motioned to the rat "Dis is Sniffs" "And dat's Swipes!" He motioned to the opossum. "If you three know what's good for you, you'll hand over those peppers!" Charlotte said in a chiding manner, pointing a feather at them as if scolding and disciplining children. "Yeah!" Boomed Freddie "Our friend found them first and he's rightfully earned them!" "Fughettaboutit!" Snapped Sneaks "Dese are ours now, and we'll be using 'em for our own food truck business. Triple S Noshing! Where we serve only the finest and freshest ingredients we've scavenged throughout the land!" "Stolen ingredients!" Snuff said glaring. "It isn't fair! You guys don't even look like you'd make decent chefs!" Crysis said as her robot cat growled. "Yeah, but hey, it's not like we're trying to outdo Chef Ramsay or something!" Sneaks said as he and his cronies laugh. "Now, if you'll excuse us, we need to get down this mountain" The bandits hefted up the sack and were just about to go before Biggun took a deep breath and let out a very very loud roar! It was so loud it made the mountain shake! Next thing you know, an avalanche was starting. While the bandits were shaking, Biggun grabbed the sack and got one of the peppers eating it. He then got all sweaty turning red all over. "Guys? Hold on to me... I think I'm about to get us all down duh hard way..." So everyone grabbed ahold of the big bear as he turned his back to the entrance of the cave and opened his mouth up. "FWOOSH!" Biggun was blasted backwards towards the three thieves knocking them for a loop as everyone held on tight. When all got outside of the cave, Crysis let go and hit a button on her robot cat that immediately turned him into a mini snow plow with a cat face. She raced the others on Biggun who kept shooting flames as they all went down the avalanche. Meanwhile the triple S bandits all rolled down together forming a giant snowball that rolled down hill. Further down, a grey ermine named Erwin was building a snowman when he got scooped into the snowman. Meanwhile SJ and his friends had managed to get as far from the avalanche as they continued their descent down the mountain and were whooping with joy as they approached a slope with a big ring in front of it. They all jumped through it making a perfect landing as Biggun's fiery breath finally stopped. An audience cheered as the team was awarded with gold medals, a big gentlemanly walrus in a suit, top hat and spats on his flipper feet stood by them as their picture was taken. Then the big snowball containing the Triple S bandits and Erwin Ermine finally rolled in and broke open with a bunch of dizzy bandits all spilling out. Two officers, a mastiff and a german shepard, came up. "Hey, it's the Triple S bandits! You guys are under arrest for Cross Country Robbery!" "You ain't got no proof of us doing anything!" Said Sneaks as bags of coffee beans fell off from him all bearing the insignia of SJ's Cafe. "We'll take that as proof" Officer Mastiff said collecting the bags. "Here ya go, son, these obviously belong to you and your cafe'" "Thank you officer!" SJ said chuckling "No thanks necessary, just be sure to have our donuts ready once we lock up those masked boneheads." So the officers got to their duties. With that out of the way, SJ and co. went back to the cafe to celebrate. SJ quickly brewed up cups of coffee for everyone. "Thank you guys, you really saved the day." "Duhh it was nothing, SJ!" Said Biggun. "Anything for you, pal." Freddie said. "We'll always be on your side when you need us." Charlotte said. "No one should have to face challenges alone." Snuff said. "The best plans are best done when working together" Crysis said with her cat meowing in approval. Then everyone clinked their coffee mugs together before drinking and having a big cake they all made. Once the celebration was over, SJ went to open the cafe up once again. The customers returned happy to see the place up and running again. And SJ managed to get Homer's latte all ready for him. Along with a jumbo donut as big as his head.