Veroni: Alright everybody! Time for the fun to begin again.

Munku: I can hardly contain myself.

Veroni: Just imagine! We only have two more parts until the end. It's all gone so fast!

Misto: (aside) It hasn't gone fast enough for me.

Veroni: (has snuck up behind him) You were saying, Misto?

Misto: Oh, nothing important.....

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SCENE 1

As the curtain rises, we see Pouncival in bed having a nightmare....

Pounce: I see people spending lots of money in a 'stock market', a panic over a.... Y2K insect, a strange weather occurrence known as El Nino, and- this may be stretching it.... but a professional wrestler becomes the governor of Minnesota?

Tumble: And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, was *the* worst joke to date!

Not that vision! The other one.

Pounce: Oh. Ooops! Okay, I see a brightly colored box and firemen. And look! It's Hairy Mistini! Warn the dude!

Alonzo: Who is this dude anyway?

Misto: What did he say? Oh, well. Back to my singing....

Holding his breath, he dances with death.

As daring as he can be!

Houd-- I mean, Mistini is locked in the box by the firemen and a time bomb is thrown in with him. It looks like the end for the master magician. There is a sudden explosion, but Mistini isn't inside! He magically re-appears in the audience to wild applause.

Pounce: Wow!

Vicky: Yeah, that was pretty good!

Pounce: No, that's not what I meant. I just remembered how you said that I had a really dopey character.... So who has the last laugh now? My character is psychic!

Vicky: Darn.

Pounce: Mother! Mother! I had a dream!!

Jenny: It's okay. Just calm down- you had a nightmare.

Pounce: There was a bad storm called El Nino and a wrestler became the mayor of---

Jenny: Uh.... okay honey. Whatever you say.

Pounce: But then there was an explosion! Cats are going to die!

SCENE 2

Across town, Tumble is distraught over Cassie's death and looses his scruples.

Tumble: Hey!

To make a long story short, Tumble creates a gang of darker-colored cats and runs around the city in search of Macky Conklin, destroying firehouses as he goes along. Back in New Junkpille things are getting really tense, so Father decides to take Pounce to see a baseball game to escape the tragedy, (just like a male!).

Tugger: Hey! I had a good line there, and you just skipped over it with no regard whatsoever for my feelings and how vital that line is to my character. And furthermore....

Veroni: Alright! You have your line back. Do it quickly before I change my mind!

Tugger: (to father) YOU ARE A COMPLACENT MAN! With no thought of history! (he storms out the door).

Munku: He'll be back.

Jenny: No he won't--- I read the script.

Munku: Oh. Well then... how about going to see a game with me, Pounce? You'll like baseball, it's a civilized pastime.

They go to the stadium where they encounter many rowdy fans, (Alonzo, Misto, Coricopat, Mungojerrie and other background male cats) crowding the stands. Father Munku and Pounce stick out like a sore thumb in this crowd.

Alonzo: PLAY BALL!

All:

Ain't this the kind of weather for smackin' leather?

For playin' baseball!

The kind'a weather makes a man hit like he--

Veroni: Ahem?!

Misto: Heck.

Veroni: Thank you.

Mungo: 'Et's go 'ya sons 'o b---

Veroni: S'cuse me?

Mungo: Sam?

Asparagus: Let's see some pitches!

All: Let's play some baseball!

Cori: The kraut is strikin' out again!

Veroni: Rule #3... No derogatory or otherwise demeaning language is to be used within a said G-rated fan fiction.

Cori: Huh?

Alonzo: In short, you have to be politically correct here.

Cori: Oh. Darn it!

Cori: The man-of-German-decent is strikin' out again.

Plato: Schmidt, 'ya smell!

Veroni: Since this'll be a really long song if we try to alter it to fit my G-rating... let's just move on here.

All Males: Awwww.....

SCENE 3

Needless to say, the game wasn't what Father Munku had expected..... Back in Carlem, Tumblehouse is wrecking havoc in the streets.

Tumble: Until my demands are met, I will continue to burn down firehouses!

Tumble: Veroni, I'm sounding really mean! I though Coalhouse was a good guy!

Veroni: Remember, he's lost Cassie and due to that tragedy, isn't exactly thinking rationally here.

Tumble: Aw, shoot....

Cetera: Bang! Bang! There goes your millionaire!

Lectra: Not now, 'Cet!

Cetera: But he said.....

Lectra: Forget what he said.

Back at the cardboard box... Mother Jenny decides that the family needs to escape the trouble in New Junkpille. So she and Father Munku collect up the family for an impromptu vacation to Atpantic City.

Veroni and Lectra: *Now* you go, 'Cet!

Cetera: Whee! Let's run away to Atpantic City!

Misto: No one will find us there!

Suddenly a whole bunch of background cats fly onto the stage to sing and dance, and we are transported to Atpantic City. In the middle of this celebration, Cetera Nesbit and Hairy Mistini appear....

Cetera: Whee!

I was once the lady friend of Coriford White,

Made me a celebrity overnight!

Well, overnight things change I guess.

I'm in New Jersey wearing even less.

Veroni: (throws paws up in the air) Bang! Bang! And there goes your G-rating-- shot to bits by a kitten who just *had* to sing!

Jenny: While we pick up the bits and pieces of our G-rating, let's take a break....

Veroni: (sobbing) And I had made it all the way through the baseball game, too! Why?! Why?!

Jenny: It's alright, dear.