Brothers Under the Skin
By 18lzytwner
Chapter 1
Things had been relatively peaceful for a few weeks and Lion-O was pleased with how things were going. Slowly but surely the Thunderians seemed to be accepting their new planet-mates. He made his way down from the control room into the hangar where Panthro and his trainees were busy trying to resurrect the Feliner.
"Bang up job you did." Panthro smirked as he saw the Lord of the ThunderCats enter the hangar. All of his trainees immediately stood at attention, afraid to offend their King.
"At ease boys and girls. I'm on a friendly mission." Lion-O chuckled and turned to the panther.
"I thought Lea was helping fix this thing, if fixing is even an option." He said.
"Hey honey somebody wants to talk to you." The panther called out and Lea slid out from underneath the ship. She was covered in grease and oil.
"Damn Pan this thing is leaking like a sieve. I'm going to have to talk six showers to clean this all off." The lioness stood up and her coveralls made a thwacking noise as she walked over to them.
"Later baby. You know that hole in the wall has just been patched. We gotta let it dry." Panthro teased her as he handed her a towel. A couple of the apprentices chuckled at the remark.
"Not in front of the kids dear." She reminded him before smacking him on the ass with her dirty hand leaving a dirty handprint behind.
"Well its good to see you two are still at it despite having three kids." Lion-O chortled before moving onto the business at hand.
"Mind if I borrow the Tank?"
"Making a picnic for you and Tara?" Lea teased.
"I wish but I must visit our friends over at Lynxus' farm. See how things are going." The lion smiled.
"Sure. She's over next to the ThunderClaw. Full of gas and raring to go." Panthro said.
"Excellent. I should be back in a few hours. Tygra is in the control room." Lion-O told them.
"Good to know. Maybe we can get ol' Ben-Gali away from the missus and the baby long enough to see if he has any ideas. Snarfer is already making his third parts run so we need all the help we can get." The panther shook his head.
"Would we be better off just building a new one?" The Lord of the ThunderCats asked.
"Are you suggesting I can't fix it?" Panthro chuckled.
"I'd never dream of doing that." Lion-O laughed, as did Lea. Panthro never gave up on one of his babies. He said goodbye to them and headed over to the ThunderTank.
About thirty minutes later, the lion arrived at Lynxus' farm and was greeted by one of the Mutants called Mongul.
"King Lion-O." The Monkian bowed.
"Please Mongul, no need for such formalities. Where is Lynxus?" The Lord of the ThunderCats wondered.
"He is sick I'm afraid. The Gods have seen fit to make his time on this planet a difficult one." Mongul explained.
"That's not good. Has a doctor been by?" Lion-O asked.
"Our medic, Nafir, has looked at him but I'm afraid our medical knowledge of Thunderians is somewhat crude." The Monkian told him. Lion-O nodded.
"Where is Lucius? I'll discuss this with him."
"He's at the barn. We had another incident last night." Mongul said. The two walked over to the large building to find Lucius and a few other men scrubbing the East wall of the barn. Red spray paint covered the wall with obscenities.
"That stuff is hard to get off isn't it?" The lion remarked.
"Indeed it is my King but we'll get a new coat of paint on it before nightfall." Lucius turned from his work and his men immediately turned to their new leader and bowed.
"You guys really need to stop the bowing. We're all friends."
"A form of respect I'm afraid. What brings you here? I know it isn't the spray paint." The reptile smirked.
"I wanted to see how things were going. I hear from Mongul that Lynxus isn't well." Lion-O said.
"Nafir has him under constant watch by his cousin, Salib. They promised to let me know if he gets worse. Right now all he has is a cough and a stuffy nose but the cough sounds as though it is coming from deep within his chest. The plan was…" A vulture interrupted Lucius before he could finish.
"Nafir is trapped under the tractor!"
"Come on!" Lucius shouted and all his men sprang into action. Lion-O ran along with them.
"It tipped over after the back left tire fell off." The vulture explained. They arrived to find the jackal pinned.
"We need to lift this off of him." Mongul said.
"We do that and we could kill him. We have no idea what is keeping him from bleeding to death." Lion-O told them. Then the Lord of the ThunderCats pulled the Sword of Omens from the Claw Shield on his hip and pointed it into the sky.
"Thunder… Thunder… Thunder… ThunderCats HO!!!!!!!!!!"
To Be Continued…