CHARACTERS

Star Clan

Deceased Spirits of other Cats

Earth Clan

Fossil - Brown Tom-Leader

Discovery - Khaki She-Cat Hunter with grass-marks

Colossus - Dwarf Tiger Tom-Warrior

Rock - Dark Grey Tom-Cat Warrior

Terra - Olive-Colored She-Medic

Zone - Japanese Bobtail She-Kit who is obsessed with Mecha Cat Robots

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Nebula Clan

Chaos - Maine Coon White-She-Leader

Eclipse - Black and White Tom-Warrior

Degree - Green She-Medic

Fragment - Silver Tom-Kit

Kuiper - Silver She-Kit

Corona - Silver Queen

Lumina - Yellow-Coated She-Elder

Ice - Periwinkle Tom-Warrior

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Gamma Clan

Quasar - Orange-Tabby Tom Leader

Hubble - Tortie Tom Medic

Umbra - Black She-Warrior

Zeal - Maine Coon Gold Queen

Jupiter - White Tom-Kit (in honor of Jupiter the Talking Cat)

Data - Siamese Double-Agent-She-Kit (pretends to be abandoned)

Anomaly - Persian Elder-Tom-Cat (who always has burrs on him)

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ROGUES AND KITTYPETS

Zodi - Galaxy-Colored Rogue She-Cat

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CHAPTER ONE

Zodi walked aimlessly along the inactive hover rails. She was careful as she tiptoed past the clan bases and the Twoleg places, because she didn't want to arouse any conflict. She was always wary when she caught the distinctive scent of a Twoleg, the pungent odor of another cat, and the metallic smell of a Mecha. The Mecha were built by Gammaclan, and they weren't exactly programmed to be friendly, either. As she was walking, she heard the distress call of another cat. She ran to the source, and woke up from her dream. Zodi was in an abandoned pod, which was mostly decorated in neon colors. She tiptoed to the door, which opened automatically. She decided to walk along the rails, still being careful as she had in her dream, but another cat had startled her by leaping up in front of her.

"Ack!" Zodi hissed. The cat in front of her was a lavendar-ish shade of blue, the kind her mother called periwinkle. The cat sat up on his haunches, making himself look like a Twoleg sitting in a chair. He cocked his head, and went back to standing.

"Please, I mean no harm, whatsoever," Zodi calmly pleaded. The cat slowly inched toward her, and sat normally like any feline would sit.

"I'm Ice. I also mean no harm, but if you harm my clan, I might just change my mind about you." What a peculiar name for a cat, Zodi thought to herself.

"I must be going. I was planning to go to Natural Lake, and I would've gotten there by now if you hadn't interrupted me." Ice knew she was exaggerating, but he thought nothing of it as he continued walking in the grass. Why would he have bothered with some lowly rogue like her, anyway? It wasn't like she was raiding the mice and rabbits from the Nebula base.

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"You will never guess what treasures I found in Quasar and Chaos' base?" Discovery announced. Fossil was chasing Zone, who was carrying a C battery in her little mouth.

"It's impossible to transform into a Mecha!" Fossil shouted. Zone always fantasized about one day being a Mecha, so much that it annoyed her clanmates. Discovery was frustrated, and she wanted to be heard.

"I have food for the clan!" All of the cats turned towards her, and Zone was still holding the battery in her mouth.

"I nosed around Quasar and Chaos' base, and I discovered a surplus of mice and rabbits!" Discovery hissed.

"They have broken the law of the Warriors, that we must share our resources with the lesser cats!" Fossil was not offended, because he knew what she meant by lesser cat. Discovery then continued.

"We must get back at them! For generations, we were Riverclan! Leopardstar was our leader many centuries ago! She wouldn't give up!" Then, Fossil was offended.

"Who proclaimed you as our leader? As I remember, our clanmates called me the leader!" Fossil said with a condescending tone. Discovery backed away and looked down, because she remembered what happened to the last cat that stood up to him.

"Yes, Leopardstar was our leader many centuries ago, but the thing is, she had bees in her brain!" He said with a chuckle.

"You were named after a dead lizard," Discovery remarked without thinking.

"And those lizards did great things!" He purred while sharpening his claws on a revolving, metal rotator. Discovery was concerned, so she decided to curl up in the neon-pink chemical toilet.

"The Twolegs used to excrete fecal matter there, ya know," Zone mewed.

"TMI, Zone. TMI."

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Corona was in labor. Luckily, Degree wasn't on duty for healing any wounded Warriors, or else Corona would be paranoid. Who would take the kits to the glass crib? Who would make sure that nobody would harm her kits?

"Okay, I need you to breathe, or else somebody will have to tell them about how their mother turned blue!" Degree calmly mewed. Corona was hyperventilating, just as Ice returned to the base. Ice was Corona's older brother, and he had news to share.

"I came across a rogue today." Every cat had their jaw hanging open, except for Corona and Degree.

"She wasn't dangerous, she just said she wanted water from Natural Lake, and that she meant no harm." That statement woke up Chaos, who batted Ice on his nose.

"What was her name?" Chaos asked furiously, thinking that the rogue was the one constantly raiding the well-hidden cache of food.

"She never told me," Ice lied.

"Oh, I guess I wasn't clear enough!" Chaos said sweetly.

"What was her name?"

"I didn't catch her name, I was captured by the beauty of her coat!" Wow, great save, Ice! He thought to himself. Chaos decided that if she couldn't shake any information about the rogue's name, she had to ask about her coat.

"So, what color was it?"

"What?"

"Her coat," Chaos remarked sternly.

"Well, if you looked at the galaxy, and imagined it in lighter colors, that's what you'd get." Oh, Holy Starclan! Ice thought after he realized what he had just said. Chaos then dashed out the door, bashing her head into it because she was too thrilled to even think about waiting for the door.

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Umbra was constructing a Mecha while Zeal had laid down and watched. The other cats were fighting over who would get their own re-programmable Mecha first, and Jupiter, who was trying to sleep, groaned at them to shut up. Since they didn't take notice, Jupiter scratched his claws on the old chalkboard, drawing everybody's attention.

"Some of us actually like to sleep at night!" Jupiter yowled.

"I agree, I can't work with this noise level!" Umbra hissed. Since every cat knew what Umbra's Mecha could do for the clan, they tiptoed to the kitchen and whispered there.

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Zodi continued drinking water, as she had always waited two days until her next drink. The water was refreshing against the dry barbs in her tongue. She heard a rustling in the bushes, and she sat up on her hind legs as she had seen that Warrior do. She forgot his name, but she remembered his coat. Before she could get back down to drink more water, an angry looking black cat jumped out at her.

"Oh, hello, sweetie!" The she-cat remarked sweetly.

"Oh, how rude of me! My name is Chaos! Wanna raid some bases with me?" She asked, making Zodi think she was also a rogue.