Episode 3: A Game of Cat and Mouse

I finished watching all Season 2 episodes!

I'm sad ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; I have a lot of work to do as well HAHA wish me luck in writing!

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"And if you twist it, it becomes your portable MUT!" King Lauqui chirped happily through Verge's MUHU. The King and Queen of Fairy World were communicating with their daughter, teaching her how the different functions of the device they gave her a few days ago.

"Wow!" Verge grinned, sitting cross-legged on her matchbox bed. "This is neat! I can visit any time?"

"Of course, sweetie," Queen Lareon smiled gently. "We all still miss you very much, and you left so soon. Please consider coming back? We want to teach you the ways of this world."

The King nodded. "How we work, how fairies travel to your dimension…you know, we bring the seasons there!"

"Oh!" Verge's blue eyes widened. "How come I never saw any fairies here?"

Her father smirked. "Fairies are very good at hiding. We don't tell anyone everything." Verge playfully rolled her eyes. "We need to get going now, dear. Have a nice day!"

"Love you Mom, love you Dad!"

The King and Queen disappeared, and Verge got out of bed, returned to human size, and pocketed her MUHU.

At the same time, Penn entered the room and dropped his bag onto the floor. "Ready to go?" he asked, beaming.

Verge smiled back, putting her red vest on. "Always."

They headed out of the house and met up with Boone and Sashi. The four walked their way to the Odyssey together.

"Okay, listen up children," Phyllis said, standing before them as they stood on their zap platform. "I want you to pay very close attention."

Suddenly, Phyllis made a gagging sound and opened her mouth. Verge shrieked, hiding behind Penn, expecting vomit. But all that came out of the mechanic's mouth was a smaller, holographic version of herself, that spoke as well and seemed to have her own Specs to check. "Today's mission is to get thrust generator chip back to engine room so spaceship is not sucked into black hole."

The mini holo-Phyllis disappeared and Sashi raised an eyebrow. "No offense Phyllis, but mission briefings are usually my thing."

"Your thing is not to screw up mission." Phyllis shot a grappling gun to her platform and began to zap the heroes. "Good luck!"

Penn looked sceptical. "Well, we just kinda breezed past you shooting a holographic Phyllis out of your mouth, but—"

"—I suppose we could handle this—"

Verge was still in her regular form today, and when they arrived in the new world, she heard squeaking.

"What? What's this?! HELLO?!"

"Zero?!"

The fairy turned smaller and found herself face-to-face with a white mouse. It looked distressed, and when it looked at her, it was surprised.

"Verge?"

"AWWW!" The fairy practically tackled Mouse Penn to the ground in a big, bear hug. Or was it rodent hug? "You are sooo cute!"

Penn's white mouse face turned a shade of pink. "Wait, you can understand me?"

"Yeah, dum-dum! I have Animal Fairy powers! I speak animal."

"Right…well great! Where's Boone and Sashi?"

"Dunno…"

"Hello? Penn? Sashi! Verge! Where are you guys?"

Boone's voice seemed to be calling out, and this made Verge and Penn look around. They seemed to be in a giant spaceship, as Phyllis said, and the galaxy was right outside their window. There was a giant table of buttons and controls so the two approached it. "Boone?" Verge called back. "We're right here! Are you in my stomach again?"

"Uhh it doesn't look like I'm in your stomach! Actually, where am I?" The Wiseman gasped. "Are we in like, hide-and-seek world?! Am I it?!"

"I don't think so…Zero is a mouse, by the way."

"Oh! Okay, okay!"

Penn and Verge reached the controls and the mouse tripped on a button with a squeak. It made Verge giggle and let a video on one of the ship's screens to play. A man that stood before what looked like a burning city appeared. "Hello remaining people on Earth!" he spoke. "I'm Bill Nye. Obviously."

"Who?" Verge crossed her arms. Penn shushed her.

"As you thaw from your cryogenic pods we hope you enjoyed your one thousand-year journey." Bill held up a small model of Earth. "Your ship should be orbiting Kepler-452B, a beautiful, uninhabited Earth-like planet where civilization will begin anew. Unless something in which case humanity's last chance of survival has been snuffed out, and I'm completely wasting my time."

"Whoooa!"

Penn and Verge pressed their faces to the window before them and gazed upon the millions of cryogenic pods that each held a single, thousand-year old sleeping human. It seemed like humanity wasn't going to die after all.

"Neat, technology," Verge smiled. "And they're all going to be free soon! This mission should be simple enough—"

"Oh no! Verge, look!"

Through another screen, a security camera caught the scene of a cat with Rippen's face in the level 5 engine room. The Rippen cat laughed maniacally as it stole the chip they were supposed to protect.

Boone's voice suddenly spoke in a robotic voice and sirens blared out. "Warning! Warning! Danger! Thrust generator chip has been removed. Gravitational pull will suck ship into black hole in nine minutes."

"Oh dust," Verge's wings flapped rapidly as the word Warning! flashed on one screen. "Zero, what do we do?!"

"Who said that?" Boone's voice asked. That's when Verge noticed his face on another one of the ship's screens.

"Boone?"

The face gasped. "I said that! I'm the ship's computer! Are you seeing me right now Verge?!"

"Uhh, yeah buddy, you're looking pretty…high-tech."

"Whoa so that means…I'm smart! I can finally realize my secret dream of becoming the galaxy's hottest electronic DJ!"

Another screen flashed colored lights and the buttons around Boone's electronic face began to glow. Verge deadpanned. "How did that secret dream even come to pass."

"I don't tell you everything! Hit it, CPU!"

Rave music sounded out across the computer, and Penn looked confused. He accidentally stepped on a button that had the words "Cryo Pilot 1" on it. One of the pods opened up and Verge flew to it. Sashi was inside, and she wore a uniform just like the other people in the pods. Her eyes fluttered open and they widened when Verge was too close to her face.

"Verge!"

"Sashi!" the fairy cried. "You're alive!"

The part-time sidekick looked down at her body and tried to wriggle. "Why can't I move?!"

"Uhhh because your body has been asleep for almost a thousand years?"

"What?!"

"I know, right? Good luck getting the pins and needles out."

Penn had to go do his job, so he hopped off the main computer table and squeaked at Verge. "You help Sashi and Boone! I'm tracking Rippen down!"

Verge saluted. "Aye aye!"

As Penn scampered off, Sashi blinked. "Did you just talk to a mouse?"

"You've seen me talk to animals! And that was Zero, by the way."

"Hmm…I suppose he's had weirder forms."

"So we're in a ship with the remnants of humanity's civilization sleeping in beds that help them live for a millennium until they find a new Earth-like planet."

"Technology has really stepped up… Anyway, help me get out!"

"Right! Just how exactly?"

"Well, how did you wake me up?"

"Zero just stepped on a button!"

"Press another button!"

Verge flew back to the computer and nearly fainted at the millions of controls before her. "I don't know which one to press!"

"Just press some and see what they do!"

"Uhhh…"

The fairy hopped on a button and Boone's face appeared on the computer screen. He seemed to be wearing shades. "Ooh! It is bread and jam time!" Colored lights began to flash like a real party was going on. "DJ Pajamy-jam is in the spaceshiiiip! How about some old-school dance beats for some old-school play for the boogie, the woogie human space travellers!"

"Boone, you made that happen by yourself!" Verge complained.

"Just lovin' my job, Vergie!"

"Ugh, you gotta get out of your pod yourself Sashi!"

The Japanese girl rolled her eyes at the music continued to wriggle in her bed and was getting very frustrated. "Okay, gotta get out of this contraption…" Verge flew back over and managed to push her out of the pod. But even as she was now on the floor, Sashi still had to use her chin to move towards the computer. "Stupid…frozen…body…!"

"What if I dust you?" Verge suggested.

"It's still hard since you technically need the whole body to fly with dust!"

Verge returned to human size and tried to help her stand but could only drag her by the wrist.

The girls managed to make it to the computer and Sashi tried to stand up by grasping for something. But she accidentally pulled a lever down, and apparently that made both of them start to float without the help of fairy dust. "What—" Verge gasped.

Bill Nye appeared once again on the screen. "Artificial gravity has been disengaged."

Sashi deadpanned. "Awesome."

"Gravity: an interesting subject and by gravity, I'm talking about the natural phenomenon by which all things with mass are brought toward each other. Not gravity as in I'm talking in a very serious way like, 'I'm sorry sir, I don't know how to tell you this but, we're out of peanut butter.'"

"We know, Nye!" the fairy shouted.

Verge, who was already an expert on floating and flying, tried to pull Sashi back to the computer. Boone's face appeared on the screen. "Ship will be sucked into black hole in two minutes. Whoooaaa that black hole looks sca-ry! I can't wait to see how Penn, Verge, and Sashi save us!"

"Alright, Boone!" Verge turned smaller again and tried searching for the button. "Argh, it's no use! The only way we can be saved is if Penn gets the chip back!"

"Isn't there anything we can do?" Sashi asked, exasperated.

"Not sure…I'll try to look for Penn!"

"Okay. I'll keep holding on for dear life!"

"Try to turn on artificial gravity again!"

"But I forgot the control for that—"

But Verge was already flying off.

She tried to check each room quickly but she had no idea where Cat Rippen and Mouse Penn could be. She was checking all the levels that weren't near the engine room but still couldn't find them. Suddenly, Verge felt gravity returning.

"Whew," she still chose to fly but at least it made flying easier. "I wonder if Penn and Sashi are okay…!"

As she kept searching, she suddenly heard explosions. Down a hallway she was flying in, she saw Rippen was now a robot cat skeleton and Penn had the generator chip.

"Zero!" She quickly flew to him and picked him up, carrying him to an elevator that would lead them to level 5. They managed to escape just before Rippen caught them.

"That was close!" Penn squeaked. "What's happened so far?"

"I think you heard from Boone," Verge frowned. "We have less than two minutes left!"

Suddenly, they heard someone underneath them. The Robot Cat Rippen was ripping through the elevator floor and tried to get to the two. They screamed and immediately tried to run get out of the elevator. Verge quickly dusted Penn, who thanked her quickly, and they flew upwards. They reached a door and slipped through the cracks of the elevator door, leaving Rippen to burn.

"Zero, return the chip!"

The part-time fairy guide pointed to the engine room's control panel, where Penn scurried up and was about to put the chip back in place.

But just then, Rippen appeared from behind and slapped them both away. "Hey!" Verge complaind. The robot cat only laughed, pressed the "Airlock open" button, and suddenly a door opened, exposing the ship to outer space and starting to suck Penn and Verge out. "Oh no!"

Rippen stood behind another door and waved.

As the chip went sailing, Penn managed to catch it with his tail and hold his breath at the same time. Verge also had to hold her breath, and while Penn struggled to hold on, she grew to human form so iy would be easier to hold onto the walls. The fairy did her best to flap her wings to keep them in the ship and stop herself, Penn and the chip from exploding into space.

Bill Nye appeared on the screen above them. "Carbon-based mammals unfortunately do not have the ability to survive in space. And if for some reason you're wondering if mice are carbonated mammals, why, yes they are!"

The look in Penn's eyes when he glanced at Verge was pure hopelessness. But the look Verge shot right back at him was determination, and the shake of her head helped him remind that they were never going to give up. Her grip tightened on the mouse, and it let Penn know that most importantly, they weren't going to give up on each other.

Lucky for them, Boone found the Airlock door button and managed to close it. Penn and Verge were able to breathe again, and they both panted for air. "We're alive!" Verge cried, flapping her wings. "Now to put that chip back!"

Rippen was obviously furious, and tried to shoot them his laser hands. Verge carried Penn in her palms and managed to dodge each shot. She became smaller and the two managed to escape through a hole Rippen created. In the end, he and Larry – who was a robot as well, apparently - were the ones who ended up getting sucked into space.

And the rest of the ship was about to sucked into space.

"Ship to be sucked into black hole. In 10…9…8…7…6…"

"Hey, Mousey Penn! And Verge too!" Boone's voice called. "I need that chip like, right now, or we might all be sucked into that black hole."

"…2…1…"

Together, Penn and Verge shoved the chip right into its proper place. Slowly, the ship regained its thrusters, and shot itself right out of the black hole right on time. As the ship picked up speed, Boone made the flashing lights act up again, bring the whole ship to life.

"Wooo! I can feel the power!"

"Yes!" Verge pumped her fist and grew to a bigger size. She picked up Penn in her palm and with their biggest grins, they did a tiny fist bump reversed.

"WOOO! DJ Jamy-jam has left the galaxy!"

Verge and Penn reunited with Sashi at the main computer room, and Sashi gave the fairy a big hug. "We're headed right for Kepler-452B!" the girl reported. The three looked out of the ship's window in satisfaction.

"Aw yeah!" Boone cheered. "Time to crack open those thousand year-old nachos!"

Verge frowned. "He realizes he can't eat them right…?"

Penn just shrugged.

Alright! Done with that! Honestly, didn't really like this episode much either HAHA

I had a 21st Literature class in high school and we talked about shows like the Road Runner, Tom and Jerry are all about nothingness and their content is full of nihilism.

Idk what else to say! Pls get people to read this :3