Veroni: (slurps shake) Everyone finished?

Munku: S'pose so...

Veroni: Great! Let's pick up where we left off.

All Cats: Great.

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SCENE 1

The family has assembled on the New Junkpille harbor dock. They have come to see off Father Munku on his trip to the arctic....

Munku: It's only a year, Mother. Not much happens in a year.

Victoria: You realize that his saying that indicates that something *is* going to happen.

Jenny: (sobs)

Tugger: Hey! It's Cetera Nesbit! See 'ya later! (runs off)

Munku: Goodbye then.... Something tells me that he didn't hear me. (turns to Gus) I'll miss you sir.

Gus: Then don't leave!

The family has all left by now, except for Mother, who watches as the boat pulls away and runs down the dock after it. Unfortunatly, she didn't realize that it was a really short dock and lands in the water...

Misto: Way to ruin a really romantic moment!

Jenny: (from the water below) Goodbye my love (gurgling)... Journey on!

Jenny: Life preserver, anyone? Hello?

Tantomile: Well, that was an inventive way to avoid singing, Jenny.

Jenny: You think this was on purpose? Now I not only have a character with no life, who sits around the house spitting anti-feminist garbage, BUT I'M SOAKING WET TO BOOT!

Veroni: And I want you to know I heard every bit of that Jenny.

As Mother Jenny is rescued from the water, we see Father Munku and Admiral Admetus-Perry on the boat, which is being slowly pulled across the stage by two stage-cats.

Misto: I'll ignore that vicious swipe at our prop department...

There is some dialogue that we'll skip because this fic is gettin' kinda long as it is.

Munku: What's that in the distance?

Admetus: A garbage barge.

Munku: No, *that* one....

Admetus: Oh, that's an immigrant ship.

The immigrant ship, (which, with it's lovely accomidations, could be mistaken for the garbage barge) which is also towed in by those poor satge-cats, pulls past Father's ship....

Skimble: Being the overprotective Father that I am... If people ask, how....

Jemima: I know, I know.... No answer, no name, mother dead and "This is my father, he won't let me talk."

Skimble: Excuse me?

Jemi: (really sarcastic) "This is my Father, he speaks for both of us."

Skimble: (sees Father Munku) That cat must be in search of something....

Jemima: Probably a candlestick... I know I am! It's pitch black out here.

SCENE 2

Tugger: Younger Bro was in love with Cetera Nesbit! He wanted to write her name in the sky in lights! (waves his hand and the backdrop lights up).

Misto: Despite what we've seen, that was actually kinda cool.

The scene changes and we are at the Vaudeville House....

Gus: (as the judge) Queens and Toms.. Miss Cetera Nesbit! (nothing happens)

Cetera: (off-stage) BUT I WANNA SING!

Bomb: Pl-ease don't, 'Cetera! If you sing, we'll all have to.

Cetera: I don't care anymore. I'm gonna sing and there's nothing you can do about it!

Bomb: Fine! One verse and thats IT!

Cetera: Whee! Whee!

Your honor, I was once the kitty friend of Coriford White...

Swing Cats: (aka Bomb, Lectra, Exotica and Jellylorum)

He's the famous architect!

Cetera: Yes, that's right!

He put me on a velvet swing and made me wear....

Veroni: Okay! That's enough. I feel that my G-rating is in extreme danger is you keep going.

Lectra: Thank you!

After the show, Younger Bro rushes to meet Cetera, and she brushes him off. He is crushed.

Cetera: I must be crazy! He's perfect!

Tugger: Well, I wouldn't really be crushed if you brushed me off. Let's face it 'Cet, we're both going against our characters here...

Cetera: True. Hey, wait a minute.. whaddya mean, "I wouldn't be crushed?" Tugger, you come back here!

SCENE 3

A lot happens here that we're just gonna skip over for space sake.. Mother Jenny finds a siamese kitten buried in the garden and saves its life... The mother of the baby (Cassie) is taken in by the family.... and Skimbah and his little kitten, Jemi, land on Ellis Island.

In Carlem...

Tumble: I thought she'd forgotten about me!

Misto: One can always dream.

Background Cats: His name was Tumblehouse Jogger!

Mungojerrie: Was a na'ive of St. Louis some 'ears before.

Rumpleteazer: Won 'e 'eard tha music o' Skip Topplin...

Veroni: Let's just skip the singing here! With those Cockney accents, the audience will *never* understand what you're saying.

Vicky: A miracle! Ms. Broadway-obsession actually admits to skipping a song!

Tumble: The Everlasting Cat put Cassie in Tumblehouse's life. And... she.. is...

Haunting me just like a melody

The only song I seem to know is

Cassie my life has changed.

Cassie I miss you so..

Cassie I did you wrong...

Cassie where did you go?

Pounce: I thought we were skipping this song!

Tumble: Sorry, but I love that part! Tell me when a cat gets to say, "I did you wrong"?

Veroni: Could we please move on?

Tumble: But anyway, I'm gonna get her back. Queens and Toms.. The 'Get-me-Ready Rag'!!

Everyone sings and dances and when Tumble is ready, he goes out to purchase a car. He comes to the factory. Lonzy ford appears on the scaffolding high above...

Alonzo: Whoa! Too high! Scared of heights! GET ME DOWN!

Veroni: Alright, alright! Just calm down!

Alonzo: Calm down? CALM DOWN?! I'm about to become a black-and-white kitty splat and all you can say is 'Calm down?'

Lonzy Ford is pushed in on a platform...

Alonzo: Thanks a lot...

They build the car and Tumble rides out in it.. although ride may not be the best word for it-- he is pushed in by those stage cats.

Misto: Yet another shot at our prop department!

SCENE 4

There's a cute little train scene that we will skip over..

Back at the house in New Junkpille, Cassie is cuddling her baby and singing... but we can skip that song as well.

Cassie: Oh no you don't! This is a good dramatic song!

Veroni: Why is it that half the cats want to sing while the others don't? Someone tell me why!

Cassie: Only darkness and pain, the anger and pain!

The blood and the pain! I buried my heart in the ground

IN THE GROUND!

IN THE GROUND!

WHEN I BURIED YOU IN THE GROUND....

Rumple: Oi get tha idear, Cass.

Cassie: Did 'ya like it?

Munku: Words can't describe, Cass. Words can't describe.

There is a knock on the door...

Tumble: I'm looking for a queen named Cassie so that the story can keep moving.

Jenny: I'll get her.

Cassie: (screams from the attic) Don't bother! I won't see him!

Jenny: You heard her.

Tumble: Well, I'll be back just like the love-sick fool that I am!

Misto: Oh Good Grief!

Veroni: Hey... There's an idea! Next we can spoof, 'You're a Good Man Charlie Brown!' Thanks, Misto!

Misto: It was nothing.... really.

Vicky: Can we take a break? I think I thew my back out during the 'Ford' number...