Macavity sighed as he got comfortable amoung the pillows and fabrics. “Well done, my sons. I approve of our new dwelling and I have some presents for each of you.”
Two of Macavity’s rats appeared carrying two exspensive feather pillows above thier heads. One pillow was decorated with gold oriental symboles while the other held an intricate design containing a tiger capturing a beautiful bird. The pillows were placed on either side of Macavity’s throne.
Wileysnark leapt onto his pillow and proceeded to personalize it with his claws. Vendartin stalked proudly onto the pillow and simply sat, choosing to keep the symboles intact.
Macavity smiled. “You make me proud, my sons. Tell me what plans you have made for my revenge on the Jellicles.”
Vendartin cast and angry look up at Macavity. Ever since his second defeat he’s become obsessed. He worried about the Jellicles when he should have been keepping tabs on his agents who were beginning to unsnap the leeshes Macavity held.
“I think we hold enough rats and agents to make a full frontal assault on the junk yard!” Wileysnark told Macavity. “Drive them out and take over!”
“Simpleton.” Vendartin muttered. “With all due respect, dad. I think we should leave the Jellicles until you are well enough to lead the attack yourself. Right now we should concentrate on convincing you agents that you arn’t dead, so they don’t rebel.”
Macavity sighed and shook his head at Vendartin. “My agents would never rebel. I have no fear of that. The Jellicles must be destroyed before I can freely lead my empire.”
Vendartin resisted the urge to snort. “Sure, they’d never think of rebelling. Mungojerrie didn’t rebel he just leapt ontop of you and tore off your ear!” he thought to himself. “I have an idea father. Would it please you if I brought that kitten you’ve been wanting, to torment? That might provide you with the angle we need to destroy the Jellicles.”
Macavity mused over this idea while Wileysnark snorted, thinking the siamese stupid for such an idea. “With the kitten we could learn more about the junkyard and its defences. This would please me, Vendartin. Wileysnark? Why don’t you work on figuring out what happened to Mungojerrie.” Wileysnark nodded and Macavity closed his eyes to sleep.
Vendartin leapt through a broken window and landed in the alleyway behind the store. “You think your so smart!” he heard Wileysnark snarl.
“I think I’m smarter then you, yes. Full frontal assault?! You’d be slaughtered! It’s better to pick the Jellicles off then take them all on at once. Exspecially on thier own turf!”
“We’d out number them three to one! There is no better time!”
“How do you know this? I have seen no proof of such an idea! For all you know they could have called in reinforcements after our attack on Sootaput!”
“And how would they accomplish that?! The nearest group of Jellicles must take a train to get here and leave thier homes ungaurded!”
“Never underestimate a fellow cat! You know what you alone can accomplish. Now think what a large group of you would acomplish! If you can think at all!”
“Do not test me, siamese!” Wileysnarks fur began to rise.
“I’m not testing you. I’m pointing out the obvious errors in yours and our fathers fanatical idea to destroy the Jellicles! Even now his agents are slipping through the cracks of the walls he built around them! He does not realize it but if you ever do defeat the Jellicles ther ewill be no empire to control!”
“Oh shut up!” came an unfamilier feline voice. Both kittens turned thier gazes upwards to find a striped feamale looking down at them from the window of an old apartment building. She was older then the two boys with white and grey striped along her body. She glared down at them and they, in turn, looked dumbfoundedly up at her. “You two have been watching Star Wars too much! Evil Empire my fuzzy butt! I soppose you’ve got Darth Vader down in that basement!”
“Stay out of our business, woman!” Wileysnark screamed up at her.
The gray cats fur stood on end as she climbed slowly down the fire escape. “Woman?! You dare call ME woman?! OH when I get a hold of you!”
Wileysnark looked around, suddenly frightened. He’d never dealed with an angry feamale before, even his mother had never acted this way before. Quickly he turned tail and ran off to find somewhere to hide.
Vendartin fell over laughing while the striped feamale reached the ground. He found her accually quite small for one with such a loud voice. She was more white then gray and seemed quite pleased with herself. “I’m looking for the Jellicle cats.” she announced, turning to face the siamese.
“The junkyard across town.” he replied, pleased with the way she had dealt with his, so called, brother.
Pouncival was chasing shadows through the junkyard when he spotted Bombalurina walking alone. He grinned as he found she didn’t know he was ther and got ready to pounce on her. “Gotcha!” he called, tackling her from the side.
He laughed down at her and then realized it wasn’t Bomby, this cat had more black in her coat. The cat gave him a startled look before he was tackled from behind.
“How dare you...Oh! You’re cute!” the white and gray cat above him smiled.
“It’s alright, Enigmatat.” the Bomby impersonator called. “He thought I was someone else.”
“I don’t care what he thought. I still want one.” she purred.
“Happy hunting.” the other cat laughed.
“Who are you?” Pouncival asked, watching the older females carefully.
The red cat walked over and smiled down at Pouncival. “I’m Amyflit, Munkustrap is my cousin. Enigmatat and myself took Skimbleshank’s train to come visit.” she told him.
“Can I get up now?” he asked Enigmatat quietly.
Enigmatat pouted and jumped off. “I’m sorry, cutie.”
“Um...it’s alright.” he replied, getting up and dusting himself off.
“So where were you?” Amyflit asked her friend.
“I got off the train and waited for you on the platform!” Enigmatat repied.
“Did not! I waited on the platform!”
“Okay, so I wandered off!”
“Why?”
“Because...”
“Oh why do I bother?”
Rum Tum Tugger appeared around the corner and glared at Amyflit.
Enigmatat took one look at Tugger, stood infront of Pouncival, and stuck her fur on end. “Look out Amyflit! He’s exploading!” then she promptly fell over laughing.
Amyflit stifled giggles as she replied. “That’s not funny, Enigmatat!”
“Yes it is!” Pouncival laughed and hid behind Enigmatat as Tugger took a swipe at him.
“Ha ha! Very funny. Who’s the barrel of laughs?” Tugger ‘thwuped’ at Enigmatat and glared at Amyflit.
“This is Enigmatat. She came here with me on the train.”
Tugger snorted.
“Oh, go use a kleenex! You’d think you had something stuffed up your nose!”Enigmatat laughed at the maned cat.
“Yah? Well I’m going to stuff this can up your nose.” Tugger murred, rolling a pop can under his paw.
“Enough you two. You’d think you were siblings or something!”
Tugger looked at Enigmatat, Enigmatat looked at Tugger, then they both stuck out thier toungs in disgust. Pouncival laughed at them and purred.
“I gotta go now. See you around!” he called running off after a yellow winged moth.
“Bye Cutie!” Enigmatat called after him.
Mistoffelees popped into view. “Tugger? Is Sootaput with you?”
“No, she’s sopposed to be in a lesson with you.” Tugger replied.
“Yah, well. She never showed up and no one’s seen her.”
“Who’s Sootaput?” Amyflit asked.
“A kitten.” Misto murred and turned back to Tugger. “I’m going to tell Munkustrap.” with that he disapeared.
“Well he was incredibly friendly! I hope he electrocutes himself!” Enigmatat meowed, looking at Amyflit.
“Sootaput’s done this before, she fallowed a strange siamese and almost got eaten by another kitten.” Tugger hissed at Enigmatat who stuck her toung out at him.
“So you think she might have done it again?” Amyflit asked.
Tugger nodded. “Munkustrap will need all the help he can get finding her. Come on.” Tugger ran off towards the center of the junkyard and Amyflit and Enigmatat fallowed him.
In the center of the junkyard many of the cats had already gathered. Munkustrap sat on the tire planning what to do. “Alright.” he announced, silencing the other cats. “We’ll send three teams out to try and find her. However we’ll have another two in reserve, just incase. We cannot risk leaving the junkyard ungaurded. We don’t know where she has gone and I can only guess she’s gone to find the siamese. Who volenteers to try and find her?”
Tugger and Mistoffelees stepped forward first. Fallowed by Alonzo, Tumblebrutus, and Pouncival. Enigmatat finnally clued into what was going on and stepped forward, Amyflit looked at the group of volenteers and decided they needed one sane cat amoung them and stepped forward.
Munkustrap looked them all over. “Alonzo and Tumble, take Pouncival for experiance. Go to where you found her with the siamese the first time. Tugger and Amyflit go to the south end of the ruined buildings. Misto, go with...Enigmatat?” Enigmatat grinned and waved. “You two go to the North end. I’ll keep Tantomile here with me and I want Coricopat on the fence to wait for you to send messaged through them.” The group of cats nodded and got into their appropriat groups. Munkustrap made sure everyone was ready then nodded. “Go bring her back.”
“Vendartin?” Sootaput whispered, peeking out from behind a trash can.
Someone bopped her on the head. “Your it!” she heard the siamese cry before he jumped off the trash can and ran off down the alley. Sootaput laughed and ran after him. Vendartin tripped on a peice of ribbon and Sootaput tackled him.
“Gotcha!” she grinned.
“I’m glad you came back. Those other cats were really mean.” he smiled up at her.
“They’re over protective. You should have heard the lecture I got!”
“Do they know you’re here?”
“No. They wouldn’t have let me come if I’d told them.”
“Good.” Vendartin’s smile grew as he pushed her off and stood up. He gave a small meow and dark shadows began to emerge from the trash cans to either side.
“Rats!” shouted Sootaput. “Run Vendartin!”
Vendarting laughed as the rats left him alone and continued to stalk after the black kitten. Sootaput’s eyes grew larger as she realized he had tricked her. She ‘thwuped’ and thought fast. Glaring at the siamese she began to spin. The rats stopped, wondering what she was doing. The golden bubble grew out of the kitten tornado.
“Grab her you dolts!” Vendartin hissed.
Sootaput stopped and hissed at Vendartin. “Bye Bye!” with one claw she popped the bubble and blinded Vendartin and his rats.
“Why are you doing this?” Tugger asked the female beside him as they ran through the alleyways and peeked into the abandoned buildings.
“I thought you might need some help, pretty boy.” she replied.
Tugger snorted. “Don't call me that.”
“You got it...pretty boy.”
“Stop it.” A bright flash of light burst into life a few alleyways down. “Sootaput!” Tugger yelled, running off towards the alley with Amyflit close behind.
Enigmatat frowned as she fallowed the sparkley freak through the alley way. He hadn’t said a word to her since they’d left Coricopat on the fence. “So who is Sootaput?” she asked, sick of the silence between them.
“Tugger’s adoptive kitten.” he replied simply.
“Uh huh. And?”
“And what?”
“Talk to me here! Tell me a story or something! Don’t let all your lightbulbs fry out your toung!”
“Look, Enigmatat. Sootaput is my student and I’m worried. I’m not up for story time.”
Before Enigmatat could make a witty response a flash of light made the two small cats cringe.
“I know that flash! Sootaput!” Mistoffelees called and ran off. Enigmatat shook her head, confused (as always) and ran off behind him. “Nice butt.” she thought to herself.
Sootaput snarled up at the tan kitten who held her pinned. She’d not seen him behind her when she’d burst her light bubble. While Vendartin was blinded she’s intened to run home.
“Good job, Wileysnark.” Vendartin called, blinking furiously.
“Couldn’t let you take all the glory!” Wileysnark growled.
“Knock her out and we’ll go.” he snorted as the rats watched the kittens from the shadows.
“Oh no you don’t!” Tugger yelled, leaping into the alley way and launching himself at Wileysnark, claws extended.
The rats swarmed into the alley chittering angrily. Amyflit, close behind Tugger snarled and began knocking the rats around before they were able to sink thier yellow teeth into Pretty boy.
With a Tarzan scream Enigmatat leapt from a garbage can onto a large rat. Mistoffelees began electricuting rats once he’d entered the alley.
Lightning blasted, claws slashed, the cats fought braveley but the rats outnumbered them.
Vendarting watched the fight from atop a dumpster. Two rats and Wileysnark couldn’t take Tugger and the red female down. The strange gray cat that he’d seen earlyer that day screamed like a kung-foo fighter as she scared many of the rats away. Mistoffelees electricuted as many rats as he could but it was visable that he was loosing energy. The rats would soon take him. Vendartin frowned. Where was Sootaput?
“Rat.” came the angry hiss behind him. Vendartin turned to see the black kitten behind him. Her slitted eyes burned with energy created from her own anger. Her fur stood on end, her claws fully extended.
“Now Sootaput. No hard feelings, just doing my job.’ he stuttered.
“Rat.” he hissed again. With a snarl she smashed her two front paws into the siamese’s chest. Vendartin went flying backwards off the dumpster, dark purple lightning extending from the black kitten’s claws to the burn marks she left under his neck.
Enigmatat found herself with no more rats to scare off and looked for someone to help. Tugger and Amyflit stood tail to tail fighting off the circle of rats that surrounded them. Then she spotted Christmas tree boy. The rats swarmed closer and his lightning dwindled. Letting loose a Xena scream she charged head long into the rats sending them flying. “Go!” she screamed at Misto, spinning and kicking at the rats that milled about her, confused. Misto climbed wearily out of harms way before Enigmatat managed to fallow.
“Retreat!” came Vendartin’s pained cry. The rats took the first oppertunity they had to scramble out of harms way. Vendartin limped painfully out of the alley, Wileysnark took one last swipe at Tugger before fallowing his brother.
“You’d better run!” Enigmatat quoted herself and laughed victoriously.
Sootaput grinned from atop the dumpster. “Woo! Woohoo!” she laughed.
Mistoffelees grinned, Enigmatat gave him a quick lick on the nose, then turned away blushing, if a cat could.
Tugger and Amyflit lay side by side panting and purring. Tugger looked up at Sootaput. “Boy are you in trouble!” he yelled at her.
Sootaput’s ears flattened as she tried to hide ontop of the dumpster.
Pouncival, Alonzo, and Tumble ran into the alley. “Did we miss all the fun?” Pouncival cried.
Tugger and Amyflit lay on the back of the old Ford. Misto and Enigmatat sat together ontop of the oven. Sootaput sat infront of the tire listening to Munkustrap as he lectured her. Every now and then Tugger would provide Munku with a scrap of information or key word that fit the lecture, fully intending on getting his full share of the scolding.
Amyflit purred and licked one of the rat bites on Tugger’s shoulder. His ears flicked towards her and he gave one of his signature smiles. Snuggling closer to him she grinned over at Enigmatat who sat nose to nose with Mistoffelees, whispereing and laughing at thier own jokes.
Sootaput sat infront of Munkustrap pretending to pay attention but really thinking of other things... Like the siamese that now wore a permanent sign of her existance and power.
