Emperor Jon's Universe, Vetvix's Ship…
Through the magic cauldron, in a restroom on Vetvix's ship, Garzooka, Odious, Starlena, Abnermal, and Compooky appeared.
"I knew it!" Garzooka cried. "Sorcerer, I can't thank you enough for pulling us away from that lady's eggplant casserole."
"All right!" cheered Abnermal. "Pet Force time!"
He fired an icy blast, which immediately froze one of the toilets.
"Shh!" Sorcerer Binky hissed. "No one can know that we're here!"
It was then that Abnermal realized what he'd frozen. "Are we in Emperor Jon's bathroom?" he asked.
"And why are we sticky?" added Garzooka.
"Negative," said Compooky, hovering overhead. "If my sensors are correct, I'd saw we're on board Vetvix's ship. And we're sticky because we just came through a cauldron filled with bubble gum."
"I'm working with limited recourses," Binky said.
"Vetvix?" asked Starlena. "I thought we took care of her."
"Apparently not," said Sorcerer Binky. "She took me and all of my belongings away from the palace, and she plans to dispose of me and the cauldron that brings you here."
"Well, what do we do?" asked Abnermal. "We can't just go out there and start beating up people."
"What are you talking about?" asked Garzooka. "That's perfect!"
"He's right," agreed the sorcerer. "That's a great plan."
"Yeah, it's hard to believe that Abnermal came up with it!"
"Thanks, I think," said Abnermal unsurely.
"Compooky," Garzooka continued, "stay near us. After the K-Niner incident, we can't take any chances."
"Agreed," said the cyber-teddy.
"Okay, are we ready to break out there?"
"Yeah, but shouldn't you yell your battle cry?" asked Starlena.
"Not a chance."
"Please?" chimed Starlena, Abnermal and Compooky.
Garzooka looked at Odious, who was giving him those classic sad dog eyes and whining.
"Oh, very well," the leader said. He cleared his throat and then yelled, "LET THE FUR FLY!"
They burst out the door, taking everyone by surprise.
"Intruders!" shouted some random guy.
"Starlena, hit it!" Garzooka shouted.
Odious, Abnermal and Sorcerer Binky covered their ears. Garzooka covered Compooky's.
Starlena used her siren song to hypnotize everyone in sight. Everyone froze in their tracks and tipped over.
"This is strangely easy," commented Abnermal.
"Well, it's about to get harder," said a voice.
Everyone turned around and saw quite the mutant. It had a lion's head, moose antlers, a tiger's body, a kangaroo's legs, a shark's mouth, bat ears, an eagle's feet, and a triceratops's tail. It was one vicious yet cleverly made creature.
"Sweet mother of holy yarn balls!" Garzooka cried.
"I'm officially weirded out," added Sorcerer Binky.
"Could we take him?" asked Starlena.
"I'll do a scan," said Compooky.
A beam of light shot out and went over the creature, angering it. It barred its shark teeth and advanced. The sharp talons shone. It hopped over them.
"Garzooka and Odious might be able to take him, provided they avoid the teeth," Compooky decided. "He's immune to Starlena's song, and he's strong enough to break out of an iceberg."
"Okay," said Garzooka. "Here's the deal. Odious and I will handle Fangs here. You three need to get to Vetvix and steer this ship back to Polyester. Sorcerer Binky, you need to get your things ready to go back to the palace."
"Right," said Binky.
"Right," said Starlena.
"Right," said Compooky.
"Right," said Abnermal.
"Slobber," said Odious. That was his way of agreeing.
"Break!" shouted Garzooka.
Garzooka and Odious tackled the creature as best they could. They managed to knock it to its back. Apparently they eagle feet weren't very strong.
Binky ran past and up to the next room, avoiding all the limp bodies that were going to make him throw up.
Starlena, Abnermal and Compooky hurried up the long steps. Starlena and Abnermal were taking out everyone in their path, whilst Compooky gave them directions.
"She's behind that door," Compooky whispered at last.
"I'll go in first and hypnotize her," said Starlena. "Then Abnermal, you can freeze her over. Then Compooky can steer us back home."
"Got it," said Abnermal.
"Agreed," said Compooky.
After they'd counted to three, Starlena kicked the door open, and Vetvix was instantly whirled around, definitely surprised.
"PET FORCE?" she cried. "But how—? Who—? Where did—?"
Starlena sang out, and Vetvix, along with anyone who came to her aide, was sent under a trance.
"Eat ice, Vetvix!" Abnermal shouted. He jumped past Starlena and sprayed Vetvix with an icy shower, incasing her into an ice block.
"Compooky!" Starlena ordered. "Start steering for Polyester!"
"Right."
The half-computer, half-teddy bear floated over to the coordinate controller. He let some electric cords snake out from the undercarriage and hooked on. Using he controllers, he managed to set up the correct coordinates to send them to Emperor Jon's home planet, Polyester.
"Coordinates are set," he said. "We're on our way home."
Meanwhile, Garzooka and Odious were still up against the extreme mutant. It was extremely strong. It tried to bite them with its rows of shark teeth, grab them with its talons, and smack them with the triceratops tail, spikes and all.
Garzooka slashed with his razor-sharp right-hand claw. He fired off gamma-radiated hairballs. He tried to punch the creature, but this thing was super-strong, and that was pretty strong.
Odious was basically just punching and drooling. When one's brain is so small, it's amazing how forgetful they can be.
"I don't think we're going to win this one, old pal!" Garzooka shouted.
"Arf!" replied Odious.
Garzooka arched an eyebrow. Well, technically cats don't have eyebrows, so he just looked confused.
Odious used the power he'd forgotten to use, and he shot his tongue out. It was his super-stretchy stun tongue.
Apparently Vetvix had never counted on Odious remembering he could use it.
When Odious gave the creature a good SLURP, the creature suffered mental meltdown, and it fell to its knees, defeated.
"Well, Odious," Garzooka said, "I bet you think you're something right now, don't you?"
Odious nodded vigorously, sending slobber everywhere.
"Well, WHY DIDN'T YOU USE THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE?" Garzooka demanded.
Odious simply nodded. It was rare if Odious ever had anything on his docket.
Garzooka sighed a mighty sigh. "Well, you could've used that thing sooner. Just look at us. Our uniforms are tarnished beyond belief. Come on. Let's see if the sorcerer needs any help."
The two muscle-bound heroes snuck around the corridors until they had finally located the room where Sorcerer Binky was finishing loading his stuff into a giant bundle.
"This is all your stuff?" asked Garzooka, looking at the monstrous bundle.
"I collect a lot of stuff," the sorcerer said. "You'd be amazed what I took home from sorcerery school alone."
Garzooka sighed. He grabbed onto the giant thing of stuff effortlessly, and they hurried up the stairs to the captain's quarters where everyone else was waiting.
"About time you showed up!" said Abnermal, the minute he saw the two battered heroes and the sorcerer. "Do have any idea how long we've been waiting?"
"It's been about fifteen minutes," said Garzooka.
"Well, fifteen minutes can seem an eternity when it comes to you. And by the looks of things, I'd say you didn't do too well. Now, if I were in charge—"
SPROING! SLURP! THUD!
Odious' tongue sprang from his mouth, and it slurped Abnermal, who was knocked out and he fell on the floor.
"Oh, now you use it appropriately?" Garzooka asked.
"We're approaching Polyester's atmosphere!" said Compooky.
Starlena lit up. "Maybe this is it! Maybe we'll finally turn in Vetvix!"
"Not on my watch!" shouted a voice.
All of Pet Force whirled around to see a recovered lion-moose-tiger-kangaroo-shark-bat-eagle-triceratops standing at the doorway.
Abnermal stirred. "What happened?" he asked groggily.
"Wow, Odious," said Garzooka, "you need to work on your tongue."
Odious growled.
The lion-moose-kangaroo… Oh, forget it. The creature instantly lunged for them. It just missed Garzooka and Abnermal, and instead attacked Compooky, who just barely got out of the way.
"RUN!" shouted Garzooka. He grabbed onto the Sorcerer's things and lugged them down the stairs for a hope of finding an exit. Odious grabbed the Sorcerer Binky and carried him down after him. Starlena followed. Abnermal took the tail, holding onto Compooky to protect him. They ran down the corridors, taking out everyone they could.
As they neared one of the doors, they discovered a familiar sound just behind it.
"Isn't that the Lightspeed Lasagna's horn?" asked Garzooka.
Suddenly, the exit door was broken, and a long tube was opened. It was a long platform that was covered so that oxygen could flow through.
"It is the Lightspeed Lasagna!" said Compooky. "But how did it get here?"
It was then the Emperor Jon entered.
"EMPEROR JON?" everyone shouted.
"Yeah, it got lonely, so I thought I'd help out," he said.
"Same ol' emperor," sighed Garzooka.
"Quick! Let's get everything into the ship."
Sorcerer Binky ran through the door and across the platform that connected with the Lightspeed Lasagna. Garzooka and Odious pushed and pulled the bundle o' junk across the platform, but it was difficult in such a low space.
After ten minutes, they had everything across. Starlena followed after them as fast as she could.
Compooky was the next to cross, but Abnermal was still winded from his encounter with Odious' stun-tongue.
"Abnermal, hurry up!" called Starlena.
But Abnermal couldn't hurry up. He passed out on the floor. Worried, Compooky went back to help.
"Abnermal, you need to get up!" he said frantically.
Suddenly, the giant creature approached.
"COMPOOKY! ABNERMAL!" shouted Garzooka. "YOU NEED TO HURRY!"
But it was no good. Abnermal was out, and Compooky wouldn't leave his teammate. That left them in the open, and they were instantly pulled back by the creature, therefore capturing them. Then it turned back to get the others.
"Forget about them!" said Garzooka. "We'll come back for them later."
"But we can't leave them!" said Starlena.
"Don't worry. We'll go back for Compooky later."
"Hey, they took Abnermal, too!"
"So?"
"GARZOOKA!" everyone shouted.
"Okay, fine, but we can't get either of them now," said the exasperated leader. "We'll go back for them later. Maybe we'll get lucky and she'll hold them for ransom."
"How would that be a good thing?" asked Emperor Jon.
"Well, at least they'd stay alive."
"Good point," said Binky. "Let's get back to the palace to figure this out."
They quickly sealed off the entrance, leaving the creature behind, as well as Vetvix, and, worst of all, Compooky. Oh yeah, and Abnermal was left behind too.