Chapter 11
The Sword of Omens gave Lion-O what he ordered. It showed the outside of Cat's Lair and it scanned around. The Lord of the ThunderCats didn't see anything and he was beginning to wonder what was going on.
"I don't see anything." He said as he pulled the Sword away from his face and sheathed it inside the Claw Shield.
"That makes no sense. Why would the sensors go off and then nothing be there?" Ben-Gali asked.
"I have no idea unless they malfunctioned. Let me get up to the control room and check and see." Panthro said.
"All right, we'll keep working on the navigational panels." Lion-O told him. The panther nodded and headed upstairs while Ben-Gali got back to work. Before joining the white tiger, Lion-O turned to Cheetara.
"You should be in bed." He told his wife as he wrapped his hands around her waist.
"No, I can't lay there anymore. I need to get up and move around. I want to hold Sahara." The cheetah argued crossing her hands over her chest.
"I just want you to be one-hundred percent. I worry you know." Lion-O smiled.
"I know you do but trust me I'm all right." Cheetara said, moving her hands onto his muscular forearms. The Lord of the ThunderCats leaned in and kissed her on the cheek.
"Promise me you'll have Tygra check you out before you do anything else." He told her.
"I promise." The cheetah gave him a peck on the cheek and then headed back upstairs to find the orange tiger.
Outside the Lair, Dolosa hid in the shadows, trying to avoid the staring gaze of the Cat's Eyes. Getting into this place is going to be harder than I thought, she said to herself. However, the shadow creature wasn't about to let the ThunderCats stop her. With her plan proposed to Mumm-Ra it was too late to turn back now. Besides, it only took one ThunderCat and then the rest of the group would follow.
Back on the inside of the Lair, Panthro struggled to understand why the sensors were picking up something that didn't appear to be there.
"Let's run a thermal scan, see if we can't pick up something that way." He told the Kittens. WilyKit hit the buttons and a thermal scan commenced. After about five minutes it reported absolutely nothing.
"Well that didn't help." Kat sighed.
"All right well let me go up in the Cat's Head and check a few things. We'll be down for a few minutes but its possible there is only something flying around up there." The panther told them.
"Like when we had that bat problem about a year ago?" Kit asked. This made Panthro swallow hard. If there was one thing he couldn't seem to handle, it was bats.
"Do you want me to go with you?" Kat volunteered.
"No, just keep an eye on the monitors in case you see anything." The panther told them. No way was he going to have someone else up there in case there were bats. No way was he getting embarrassed. Without saying anything else he headed out of the control room and up toward the Cat's Head.
Dolosa watched as the great red eyes shutdown. Now was her chance. She slipped through the darkness and found her way to the main door of Cat's Lair. With ease, the shadowy figure slipped between the cracks and entered the ThunderCats' fortress. Like taking candy from a baby, she smirked.
To Be Continued…