The time came after lunch. Gatoclaw would get to practice her new abilities. Dr. Cockroach let her watch Link before she attempted to do the training course they made. Link came to the finish at the time five minutes and fifty seconds. The doctor turned to Gatoclaw, "You don't have to try today if you don't want to." He said nervously. Gatoclaw got up.
"No, I have to do this today." Gatoclaw stood at the starting line and the buzzer to start went off. She raced to the first obstacle. She had to swing on a long rope over a huge gap. She grabbed the rope and took off. When she reached the other side she unconsciously did a back flip and, of course, landed on her feet. She ran on to the next one. She had to find a pattern to get past a set of crushing blocks. She listened closely then she headed in. 'Up, down, left, right, under, over' she repeated the pattern until she was out. She sprinted to the next obstacle, she had to cross a thin bar suspended above a water ditch. She easily ran across the bar without missing a single step. Then finally she had to dodge one hundred disks in the dark. She entered the darkness and saw perfectly fine. She saw every disk coming, and with amazing agility, dodged every one. She raced to the finish line and stuck a perfect landing from a back handspring. She looked up at her time expecting it to be horrible, but when she saw the big, red letters show on the scoreboard it said three minutes and fifty-five seconds. She let out a loud squeal in sheer happiness; she finally discovered her real power. Dr. Cockroach, B.O.B., Susan, and even Link came to congratulate her.
"Well done my girl!" explained Dr. Cockroach positively.
"Wow, that was almost as fast a Link!" said B.O.B.
"B.O.B., she was faster than Link!" said Susan.
"Hey, I'm right here you know. I told you all already, papa's a little bit of shape!" Link said a little irritably. Gatoclaw felt ecstatic, she never felt like she had accomplished something before, but now she felt on top of the world. Dr. Cockroach was thrilled for her, but he was still worried about what he overheard. He was about to go talk to her when suddenly he saw General W.R. Monger fly in on a jet pack.
"Monsters, there's a mutant bird, named Peckanormous, on the loose. I need you to go down town and fight It." the general put all of them, including Gatoclaw on to Butterflysaurus. He let all of them off and said, "I bid you farewell monsters." The door closed.
"Typical to abandon us like that." said Dr. Cockroach. They felt a huge shift in the ground. Then a huge, ugly bird-like thing revealed itself. It was at least as big as Butterflysaurus. It started to peck fiercely at all of them, but Gatoclaw was so terrified she couldn't move. Dr. Cockroach pulled her wrist to move her out of the way. The bird started to hit the surrounding buildings with its beak. The force from the pecks made huge pieces of rubble come flying down right on top of Gatoclaw. Dr. Cockroach, in the knick of time, pulled her small body under his making all the stone crash down onto him. Gatoclaw screamed in fear that the doctor was hurt. When he got up and yelled, "YOU CAN'T CRUSH A COCKROACH!!!" She knew he was fine, but probably scratched. She had to be brave and she knew it. She braced herself and extended her claw. The small, sharp claws pierced through her already damaged skin, her bandages, and her gloves. She winced as the blood dripped onto the pavement below her. She crawled up the creature's leg up to the back and started scratching as hard as she could. The Bird squawked in pain using its beak to try to find her. Gatoclaw moved to another part of its back.
Link looked up and got the idea. "It's a flea effect." He did as Gatoclaw did and started biting another area of the creatures back. B.O.B. got on its beak and kept it shut winding himself around it. Susan pushed the bird down making it shriek in surprise. Dr. Cockroach followed the lead of Gatoclaw and Link. That's when Gatoclaw knew what to do. She climbed her way up its neck, jumped into the air and did a graceful flip landing hardly, and roughly, with great force onto Peckanormous' pressure point. The bird squawked loudly and passed out. Gatoclaw slid down the beak and onto the pavement. Everyone ran to her and immediately cheered for her. She enjoyed being a hero for a few moments when suddenly the pain from her claws came back to her. She looked at them to see they were once again bloody. Dr. Cockroach looked at them and bandaged them again. On the way home she fell asleep with her head resting on the doctor's lap. He stroked her head gently. She needed sleep and she definitely earned it.