#figg

[set during the fire in the cabin]

The fire was spreading through the cabin like... well, a fire.

Robyn was up on the top floor, and she was backing away from the flames, whilst Aunt Figg and Lickboot were by the upturned table.

"You fools!" Figg yelled angrily, "Look what you've done!" Realizing they were now in danger, she turned to Lickboot, who was rubbing his knee from when Robyn kicked him, and she said, "Lickboot, grab the girl and let's get outta here!"

Lickboot stood up, and stared up at Robyn. "Robyn, the house is burning down!" he pleaded, "You must get out before it's too late!"

"No!" Robyn shouted, "No, I won't go with you! You'll never take me back!"

At that moment, a beam got loosened by the flames and fell down onto the stairs, trapping Robyn on the top floor, cutting her off from Figg & Lickboot. She backed away and screamed in alarm, as the flames got ever closer to her.

"Lickboot, let's get outta here before we all fry!" Figg wailed, as she ran toward the door.

"But the girl-!" Lickboot protested.

"Forget her!" Figg snapped, apparently not caring about Robyn anymore. "We gotta save ourselves!"

She tugged at the door, forgetting that is was already locked.

"No." Lickboot said firmly.

Figg immediately stopped tugging at the door. "What?!" she said in shock and horror upon hearing what she'd just heard.

"You heard me, Pristine." Lickboot said firmly. "I'm not going with you! I'm going back for Robyn!"

"I told you to leave her, Lickboot!" Figg snapped. "If that pathetic brat wants to stay and get burned to death, that's fine by me! I'll still claim her daddy's money either way!"

As Figg & Lickboot were arguing, they didn't see that Tom and Jerry had reached the sunroof from outside, and they saw Robyn crouching down in a corner. Tom taps the sunroof to get her attention and she looked up to see him and Jerry on the sunroof with delight.

"I can't leave her, Pristine!" Lickboot stated firmly. "I have to help her!"

Words could not describe how angry Figg was at that moment. Any words she woulda said at how she felt at this moment would almost be words even Spike the bulldog and his son Tyke, or Mammy Two-Shoes, or Nibbles, or the abusive chef owner from the cartoon 'High Steaks' shouldn't hear.

"ALRIGHT, You double-crossing, mud-sucking, no-good lawyer!" Figg yelled. "If you want to go back for her and get burned to death, be my guest! We're through!"

"Fine!" Lickboot said sternly. He headed towards Robyn, and then turned back and said to Figg, "By the way, the keys are on the hanger."

Figg quickly grabbed the keys on the hanger, and used the key Lickboot used to unlock the door. She grabbed Ferdinand, skateboard and all, and said, "Come on, Ferdy, let's get outta here!"

She raced down the stairs as fast as her legs would let her, jumped onto the paddle steamer, grabded the wheel, and sped off down the river.

"So long, Robyn! So long, Lickboot!" Figg chuckled evilly as she sped away down the river, as Ferdinand covered his eyes at the sight of the burning cabin.

"Don't worry, Ferdie." she laughed. "When Robyn dies, I'll make sure to claim her father's money!"

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By this time, Robyn had just been rescued by Tom and Jerry. They were just about to leave when they saw Lickboot jump to the opening and grab on by his fingers.

"Lickboot?!" exclaimed Robyn in surprise, as she and Tom pulled him out. "What are you doing?" she asked. "I told you I wouldn't go with you and Aunt Figg."

"I know, but I just couldn't abandon you, Robyn." he said. "I'm getting you to your father."

Robyn gasped, as well as Jerry. Tom's jaw dropped down so fast, and so hard, it made a small hole in the roof.

"I did not see that coming." Jerry said to the viewers.

"Oh, Lickboot, I knew you cared about me!" Robyn said joyfully, hugging Lickboot.

"Uh, excuse me, Robyn," Tom said, "I really, really, REALLY hate to interrupt, but can we save the emotional moment till after we're off this burning cabin?!" the last part rising to a yell of panic.

Lickboot and Robyn didn't need to be told twice; They climbed onto the top of the roof as it shakes. Immediately, they saw a helicopter appearing from the woods and flying over to the burning cabin. Leaning outta the cockpit was Robyn's father, Michael Starling. "Look, the cabin's on fire! Maybe we're too late!" he called.

"Daddy!" Robyn exclaimed.

"Robyn, I'm coming! Hang on!" Michael Starling called loudly.

The helicopter flew as close as it could to the roof, but the blades whirled so fast that the wind they made forced Tom and Jerry backwards.

"Robyn, take my hand! Hurry!" Michael Starling called, holding out his hand. Robyn reached out and grabbed it as he pulled her to the cockpit.

"Oh, Daddy, I know you'd come." Robyn said gratefully.

"You're safe now, Robyn. I'm here." Michael told his daughter.

Just then, Robyn noticed Tom, Jerry, and Lickboot. "Wait, no! We can't leave them!" she said.

"I'm coming, Robyn!" Lickboot cried. He took a big leap, and only just managed to grab on to one of the helicopter's landing skids.

"Tom! Jerry!" Robyn called, "You're gonna have to jump!"

"Are you kidding?!" Tom said, aghast. "I'm not gonna jump! What if I miss?"

"Well, you can either stay and be roasted by a burning cabin or you can fall into the river. Your choice." Jerry said smugly, leaping onto Tom's head.

Tom became annoyed. "If I ever get outta this movie alive, I'm getting a replacement mouse." Tom complained to the viewers.

"Hurry up!" Robyn called, "The cabin's gonna go any second!"

"Hold on, Jerry!" Tom said. With Jerry clinging on tightly to his head, Tom ran, jumped and leapt as high and as far as he could. Robyn closed her eyes, waiting for the worst. Her father still held onto her, just as concerned for them as concerned as he was for his daughter.

Then, there was silence.

"Robyn!" Jerry called. "We're alright!"

Robyn opened one eye, then the other, and saw that Tom & Jerry had grabbed onto Lickboot's pants leg. She was relieved, and so was her dad.

"You made it!" Robyn cried.

"And just in time!" Michael Starling called. "Look!"

As he said this, the fire burnt through the cabin's supports, and then the whole cabin collapsed into the water; the splashes made from when it landed extinguishing the flames.

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Once it was safe to land, Tom, Jerry, Robyn, Lickboot, and Michael Starling all came down onto the dock.

"Tom, Jerry, I'm so glad you're alright!" Robyn said, as she hugged them.

"Yeah, more or less." Tom said.

Michael Starling came over, hugging Robyn.

"Robyn," he said, "I promise I'll never leave you again." He looked at Tom & Jerry. "And I want to thank you, Tom & Jerry, for helping my daughter."

"We're real sorry about the cabin, though." Jerry said.

They stared at the wreckage of the cabin, with furniture and wood littering the water.

"Don't worry." Michael Starling said, "We can rebuild the cabin, bigger, better than before."

"Yeah." said Tom, "And we'll use our million dollar reward to help fund it for you."

"What?" Robyn asked, confused.

"The million dollar reward we saw on a milk carton." Tom said. "That's the reward we get for finding you."

"Yes," Lickboot said, "The reward that I said we'd give to the one who found Robyn and brought her back to me and Aunt Figg, even though we'd have no intention of paying, and..."

Lickboot stopped dead upon seeing Robyn & Michael Starling glaring at him, thus making him realize too late that he'd blurted out the whole 'phony reward' scam.

"...I shouldn't probably have said that out loud, should I?" he said sheepishly.

"Wow. Who would've thought that there was no million dollar reward at all? I certainly wasn't expecting that." Tom said to no one in particular.

"And I certainly think the cops will be sure to hear about this from you and Figg." Michael Starling said sternly, getting out his phone.

"Wait." Robyn said, getting in front of Lickboot, "Daddy, he did save me, and he did care about me. Couldn't you consider something a bit less harder on him?."

Michael stared at his daughter, and at Tom & Jerry, and Lickboot.

"Well..." Michael Starling said hesitantly, "I might be able to consider something..."

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Thanks to Tom & Jerry, Robyn was finally reunited with her father, and now they would never have to worry about Figg again.

Figg was found out for cruelly abusing Robyn, and she was arrested, and given a life sentence in prison for child abuse, and for exploiting Robyn for money. And her dog Ferdinand was sent to the dog pound.

Lickboot was fired from his job as Michael Starling's lawyer, and he was sentenced to prison for setting up a phony million dollar reward.

With enough good behavior, Lickboot was given an early parole, and he moved into a better business - real-estate. He sold Dr Applecheek's house to a worthy buyer, and soon, married a blonde-haired woman when he met her outside her new house.

So now Lickboot had found his happy ending.

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In loving memory of Tony Jay

(2 February 1933 – 13 August 2006)