Chapter 2: 20 Years Before and Later

"So what exactly do you want me to do?" asked Lion-o, "This time travel idea, it's amazing." He hoped that he didn't sound like a complete idiot.

"All you need to do is walk through the portal, check out what's on the other side, and get out," Allie said, pulling a wisp of her feathery, blond hair out of her face. "You need to be really careful there. If it gets too dangerous just get out of there, your life is a lot more important than any data I could get."

"So how is this going to work again?" Lion-o asked.

Allie then jumped into a full explanation of how the portal was going to open and why. Lion-o thought it was really cute actually, how she knew just about everything. In fact, Lion-o thought that everything about Allie was great. He really wanted to ask her out but, just like Ben-Gali with Ro, Lion-o couldn't. Unfortunately their reasons were very different. Allie had just joined the ThunderCats and, even though she might be more capable than all of the cats combined, she was generally avoided by every one of the cats except for Lion-o. It was all because she was Avian (Thunderian/Avistian/human) and Vultaire's daughter. This really made Lion-o angry because she had saved all their lives and nearly died trying to.

Lion-o was so absorbed in his thoughts that he barely noticed the bright blue time portal that opened up behind him.

"Yes, it's here now,' she said quietly. "You will be careful won't you?"

"I will," Lion-o assured her, "I definitely will."

"Good" she said.

Then Allie kissed Lion-o on the cheek and pushed him through the portal.

Lion-o fell face first into twenty years later. The future didn't look that much different to Lion-o. He was in the same hallway he had been in a couple of minutes ago, except it was night here. If he was in the same hallway he was just in, Allie's lab would be in the next room. Lion-o started towards Allie's lab. He couldn't wait to tell her that the portal had worked and see what happened to him in the future

Lion-o was so into his thoughts that he didn't watch where he was walking until he tripped and fell down a flight of stairs into a dark room. Lion-o groaned, then the world went black.

When he awoke again the lights were on and two girls who looked around 12 years old, one was blond, the other a tigress, were standing over him looking freaked out. The tigress was holding him down with a forked staff that was cutting off his supply of air.

"Who in the name of the three moons of Thundera is this?" the blond one said.

"I'm Lion-o, lord of the ThunderCats, you're suffocating me." Lion-o replied, or tried to reply. All that came out was, "huuuuuh"

"A better question is what is he doing in our bedroom?" the tigress asked.

"What's going on? Leeah, Astrid, who's that?" a sleepy male voice came from the doorway. At least, Lion-o assumed it came from the doorway because his vision was starting to become very blurry. He had to get air.

Lion-o swept the tigress's leg so that she fell and dropped the staff. Lion-o stood up. He felt great, he could breathe, he was free and….

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Someone tackled him from behind, pushing him onto the floor, and beat the crud out of him.

"Don't you dare hurt them ever again!" His attacker capped off every word with a blow.

Lion-o stared up in shock at the cat who was attacking him. Even though the color of his hair was a bright, cold, white now there was no mistaking that snarl.

"Tygra."