Season 1, Episode 1: Squirrelflight & Bramblestar
"Hello there! It's mee, Reedsong and welcome to I Ship It, the place where Warrior Cats come together to get… SHIPPED! How this works is YOU GUYS, the readers/reviewers, give me two cats and I'll tell you if I ship them and why. We may even feature the reviewers' opinions on here as well! Plus the characters being shipped will appear on the show to react!" Reedsong meowed.
"Wait, we're characters?" two muffled meows were heard offstage.
Reedsong ignored that. "The first two cats I'm going to ship are none other than Squirrelflight and Bramblestar!" The audience cheered because this couple was canon.
Squirrelflight walked onto the stage. This was the Squirrelflight from the Omen of the Stars series, so Brambleclaw was still mad at her. She pawed at the ground nervously. "I hope I'm not shipped with him!" she cried at Reedsong. "You already know we're not mates anymore."
Reedsong just winked evilly at her. "I know things that you don't."
Then, Brambleclaw padded onto the stage, again, from Omen of the Stars. He noticed that Squirrelflight was there and turned away, trying to sit as far away from her as possible.
"If you can't already tell," Reedsong mewed, "I totally ship them! Just because they're mad at each other now doesn't mean they always will be!"
Brambleclaw glared at Squirrelflight. "She LIED to me. I really thought I had gained her trust, that I had finally found some cat who doesn't judge me for my father. I guess I was wrong. Reedsong, we are never getting back together."
Squirrelflight stared back at him, trembling. "I… didn't know you felt that way. I'm sorry, Brambleclaw. I'm not sure there's much I can say."
Brambleclaw narrowed his eyes at her. "NO! THERE ISN'T!"
Squirrelflight cried, "I WAS JUST TRYING TO DO WHAT I THOUGHT WAS R-"
"NO YOU WEREN'T! YOU DIDN'T TRUST M-"
"I THOUGHT IT WAS PRETTY OBVIOUS THAT I D-"
"MOUSE DUNG!" The two cats screamed and yowled, and it was clear that they weren't going to stop anytime soon.
Reedsong had had enough. "Poof!" she waved a paw in the air, and then Squirrelflight and Brambleclaw became Squirrelflight and Bramblestar. The two cats immediately fell silent.
Squirrelflight stood there, appalled. "What? What happened?"
Reedsong replied, "Oh, you were just arguing about the whole 'They're not our kits' thing."
Bramblestar gazed lovingly at Squirrelflight. "I understand what she did now." He stepped closer to her and they started nuzzling.
"Perhaps it was a mistake to start this mouse-brained show," Reedsong grunted. "Quit the PDA's."
"Hey, uh," Squirrelflight stopped nuzzling. The dark ginger she-cat glanced at Reedsong. "You said you would say WHY you ship us, not just sit there and watch us… uh…"
Beneath her tabby fur, Reedsong turned bright red. "Sorry. Um, yeah, I totally ship Squirrelflight and Bramblestar, mostly because I really think they're meant for each other. There's really not much to explain mostly because Leafpool already knows it's their destiny."
"Uh… what about Jessy?" someone from the audience meowed.
Reedsong pawed at the ground angrily. "I'm not going to answer questions that aren't directly related to the ship we are discussing right now!"
Squirrelflight, still with Bramblestar, paused for a second to look at Reedsong, and her eyes narrowed when she remembered how Jessy and Bramblestar had almost become mates. Bramblestar gave her a sheepish look.
"Anyway," Reedsong continued, "One reason why I love this couple so much is the fact that there's a lot of conflict between them. It's always been about trust. It took a while for Squirrelflight to trust Brambleclaw when he worked with Hawkfrost, and then there was the whole issue with Jayfeather, Hollyleaf, and Lionblaze. Who knows: maybe Squirrelflight shouldn't have lied to Brambleclaw. I personally think she shouldn't have-"
"Hey, Reedsong," Bramblestar interrupted. "Squirrelflight's a tad bit uncomfortable with this, so am I, so can we move on?" Squirrelflight gave him a loving look at this and pressed herself against his side.
"I guess so. So one thing, Bramblestar, why did it take you so long to forgive Squirrelflight?" Reedsong asked.
Bramblestar glanced at the ground, his ear twitching nervously, his tail swishing from side to side. After a while, and after a few cats in the audience threw potatoes at him Bramblestar finally replied, "Honestly, I don't know what I was thinking at the time. I remember being extremely angry at Squirrelflight for a very long time, trying to avoid her and forget anything ever happened. And then I saw how great Jayfeather and Lionblaze had become, and found myself missing Hollyleaf-" his mew broke off at her name. "I don't know. I really don't. I just thought about my own siblings, how they were all in different clans and how close Squirrelflight was with Leafpool and then I understood."
Squirrelflight gazed at him lovingly and smacked his face with her fluffy tail. "I also remember when you were angry you wouldn't lash out, you were just cold."
Reedsong looked very happy at this. "See, this is why I totally ship you two! I think this first episode has been a success! But will it be the last?"
Bramblestar looked flustered. "I really hope I don't return to this show. Who knows who the audience will ship me with. Your management is bad, Reedsong. I don't think that Squirrelflight and I enjoyed that very romantic, hot room you trapped us in-"
Reedsong cackled. "EVERYONE CAN AND WILL FIND LOVE! Please, Bramblestar, don't um, let the fans know the lengths we go to in order to make these couples happen. We're out of time, everyone. Bramblestar, Squirrelflight, thanks for coming on here."
"No problem," they meowed in unison, tails twined.
"LEAVE A REVIEW GUYS WITH YOUR SHIPS AND INTERVIEW QUESTIONS!"
Reedsong: Don't forget to leave a review! Remember, if you do review, it would help if you included a ship you want to be on the show, as well as interview questions you want me to ask the LUCKY COUPLE! That's all you need to do! I can't do episodes if no one gets shipped! HEHE Thanks for reading!
Jayfeather's Review of the Episode: That was a weirdly romantic chapter. Honestly I can't even forgive her for lying to me, why would Bramblestar?