Chapter 10
Cheetara awoke from her induced sleep to find Pumyra sitting next to her bed. The cheetah was surprised that her husband wasn't there.
"Where is Lion-O?" She rasped out of her dry throat. The puma handed her a glass of water and the cheetah quickly quenched her thirst.
"He went to go check on the boys process with the navigational panels." Pumyra smiled.
"The Boys?" Cheetara asked.
"Sorry, Panthro and Ben-Gali. Those two have been joined at the hip for the past few days." The puma chuckled.
"I bet. So do you think I'm crazy?" Cheetara wondered.
"No, and neither does anyone else. That tape you found on the ship has proved that something was going on among the crew of Solvay's Pride. Lion-O is still extremely worried about you though." Pumyra told her.
"Sometimes I worry that Snarf somehow rubbed off on him." The cheetah cracked a smile. This made them both laugh.
"Well you are the mother of his cub and his wife. I think that gives him a right to worry." Pumyra said as she carefully lifted herself out of her seat. Cheetara smiled thoughtfully and changed the subject.
"So not much longer until your cub comes along."
"No, a few more weeks and I'll have my regular body back. Although I think I will miss the shelf I had." The puma joked.
"I know I didn't miss it. The not being able to go on missions and having to make Lion-O always running around getting things for me." The cheetah said. Pumyra was about to answer when the general alert went off.
"BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!"
"I'd better go check that out." The puma started waddling for the door.
"Oh no you don't." Cheetara removed the monitor patches that were on her chest and got out of bed. The instrument panel set off an alarm but the cheetah quickly shut it off.
"You keep your cub safe and I'll go check it out. I want out of that bed anyway." Before Pumyra could argue, Cheetara was gone in a flash.
The female ThunderCat raced down the hall to the control room where the twins had just shut the alarm off.
"What's going on?" Cheetara asked.
"Something tripped the sensors but we can't see anything." WilyKat told her.
"Shouldn't you be in bed?" WilyKit wondered.
"Did you run the Cat's Eyes?" The cheetah inquired, ignoring the girl's question.
"I did but they didn't pick up anything." Kat explained.
"Reset the sensors and keep your eyes peeled. I'll go find Lion-O; maybe the Sword of Omens can help." Cheetara said.
"He's with Ben-Gali and Panthro in the workshop." Kit told her. The cheetah gave a nod and was out the door in a second. Within a matter of moments she was in the workshop and found the three ThunderCats.
"What's all the hubbub?" Ben-Gali asked.
"Why aren't you in bed?" Lion-O wondered.
"I'm not sure what the hubbub is and as far as being in bed, I can't take it anymore. Lion-O can you look through the Sword and see if anything is going on outside?" Cheetara inquired. He wasn't sure why he should but he did it without question. If something had tripped the sensors and the cheetah needed him to look then he'd look.
"Sword of Omens give me Sight Beyond Sight." He commanded.
To Be Continued…