"Oh no… no no no!" Munkustrap stared at the mirror in horror.
Demeter had not awoken yet, she was still asleep in their nest, but Munkustrap was wide awake… and scared.
"What happened?" He (ahem, she) asked herself, staring at her new body.
Quickly, she ran outside the den and into open of the Junkyard.
"Mom! Look at me!" Cetty sang, pouncing up and down around Jellylorum.
"Goodness!" Jellylorum hissed in a much much deeper voice.
"Order! ORDER!" Munkustrap called, climbing on top of the huge tire, "ORDER!"
All the Jellicles looked up at Munkustrap and stared at her with their huge eyes.
"Stop looking at me like that!" She hissed at them, "It's distracting!"
All the cats just blinked and Munkustrap let out a huge sigh.
"Alright, until we figure out how this happened… we will all just have to all keep calm."
"HOW CAN WE KEEP CALM?" Bombalurina growled in his new voice, "LOOK AT ME!"
"Just… calm down!" Munkustrap hissed, "For now, we need to rename each other."
"Why would we do that?" Alonzo asked, standing on her tippy-toes.
"Just to get used to the idea if we get stuck like this for a long time," Munkustrap answered.
"Will we be stuck like this for a long time?" Electra asked, cocking his head to the side.
"Hopefully not," Munkustrap replied, "Now, Alonzo, you can be Alonza."
"Oh! Cool!" Alonzo, now Alonza, sang bouncing over to sit next to the rusty old car.
"Tugger… you can be Tuggera," Munkustrap meowed, looking at her brother, (I mean sister.)
"Awesome!" Tuggera meowed cheerfully.
"HOW CAN YOU BE IN SUCH A GOOD MOOD?" Bombalurina cried, slapping her hand onto her forehead.
"Have you seen my new toys?" Tuggera asked, looking at her… husband, "I love being a queen!"
As Munkustrap continued to name Jellicles, Demeter woke up and went outside to see all the commotion.
"What's going on?" He asked, walking up to Cassandra, her vision slightly blurry.
"Nothing much… Munkustrap is assigning new names to everyone," Cassandra answered.
"What? Why?" Demeter asked, looking at her friend in confusion.
"We all changed genders," Cassandra answered simply.
"What?" Demeter meowed, suddenly suspicious.
"Look at yourself," Cassandra sighed.
"Wha?" And at that, his eyesight quickly cleared up. He let out a long and sharp wail, and then ran to Munkustrap.
"Munku!" He gasped, looking at his mate in complete horror.
"I want my name to be Sarah!" Pouncival sang, bouncing up and down.
"Munkustrap? What happened?" Demeter asked, trembling.
"Can I be Sarah?" Pouncival asked.
"OI have no clue, but we just have to live with it," Munkustrap answered.
"Live with it?" Demeter murmured quietly, "HOW CAN WE LIVE WITH IT?"
"I DON'T KNOW!" Munkustrap screamed back.
"I WANT MY NAME TO BE SARAH!" Pouncival yowled.
"Hush!" Jennyanydots growled at his daughter in annoyance, "You will not get a new name and like it!"
"All I want is for you to find out how we will get back our original gender," Demeter hissed, glaring at Munkustrap.
"We will," Munkustrap promised, "but we just need to calm down and get used to the idea that we may be like this for a while."
Demeter let out a sigh, and then walked off, passing Cetty and Electra by the rusty old car, still cooing over the Tugger although he was a queen and they were toms.
"Do I make a hot tom?" Etcetera asked.
"Do I?" Electra mewed, batting her eyelashes at the female Tugger.
"Of course you do!" Tugger answered, staring at his new legs.
"Wouldn't it be weird if we mated?" Cetty asked curiously.
And Demeter silently nodded.
On the other side of the Junkyard, inside Misto's Den, the Pipe...
Misto woke up from his nest and took a look around. Same old thing... as ususal.
Mistoffelees stood up and stretched, then touched his toes.
But something wasn't right.
He looked around. Nothing new with the den...
He went into the potion cellar... nothing strange in there.
What was it?
Then Misto looked down.
