A/N : Ok, yay! Somebody likes it. Thank you WinxPossible !
I do not own Top Cat, however, I do own Star and Penny. If you wish to see what Star looks like, comment and ask and I'll give you the link onto my DA account :)
I nicked a line from a popular movie, see if ya can guess what line and which movie :D
An English Star
By Charlie
Chapter Two: How The Heck Do We Find A Time Machine In The Streets Of 60s New York!
Star sat back down in front of the white fence and began to think. 'Ok, ok, ok, Star, girl. This is all a dream. It has to be a dream! Yea, it's just a...very...intense...dream.' Star opened her eyes in a flash. An idea has suddenly popped into her head. Star lifted her left paw, hovered it next to her face, squinted her eyes and slapped herself.
Star's eyes shot open again. She was still here! Star slapped herself again, and again, and again until she finally admitted defeat and let out a frustrated sigh. Star slammed her back into the fence behind her and just stared up at the sky.
Meanwhile, the six alley cats stood and watched the short, shocking scene in front of them. "Look, kid." Top Cat started once she had finished. "I don't know what's going on here, but if there is any way we could help..."
Star gave a slight snort. "Yea, yea…Even if I did know how you could help me," Star started as she got back up off of the floor. "I doubt any of you will truly believe me...I don't even believe me..." Star threw her hands up at that last part to emphasise her point.
"We believe you, don't we TC?" Benny said looking up to Top Cat.
"What? About the time travelling thing?" Top Cat asked.
"Yea, TC, What do ya think?" Benny asked.
"I don't believe it. You'll need some pretty convincing proof to get me to change MY mind."
Star rolled her eyes. "Fine." She said as she dug her paw into her pocket. "Ever seen one of there before?" She said as she brought out a thin, squareish, shiny thing attached to a long white thing with weird shaped balls at the end of it.
"No, what is it?" Asked Choo-Choo moving closer to look at the object. The rest of the alley cats did the same.
"It's called an iPod." Star said as she began to untangle the earphones.
"Like, err, what's an eye-pod?" Asked Spook.
"Ever wanted to take your..." Star thought for a second. "LP player? Anywhere you want? Play any song you wish at any moment in time? Ever wanted to store your music in a small space so you don't have to go digging through… LP after LP looking for what you want?" Star asked as she finished untangling the earphones. The male cats just looked at each other. "Well, you can now cram thousands of songs into one, small, palm size gadget." She finished, holding the iPod up to show everybody. "This is a generation 3, 8 gig iPod. Of course, none of that will make much sense to you, but yea, my iPod, everybody."
"You're telling me that you can play records on THAT thing?" Top Cat asked pointing towards it with a confused expression.
"Not records, no. But any song you wish without having to use records."
"You mean it's like a radio?" Fancy asked.
"No, it's not like a radio." Star looked at their still confused expressions and rolled her eyes. "Here, look." Star said, switching it on and showing it to them.
Like the iPod, their faces practically lit up with amazement as soon as it turned on. Star brought it back to her once again and gave Top Cat one ear phone and Fancy another. "Here," She said. "Put these up to your ears, but not too close because I've put it on full blast."
Top Cat and Fancy put the ear piece to their ears and listened. The other cats were leaning in to listen too. "I don't hear anything." Top Cat said.
"Obviously, I've not put a song on yet. I'm trying to find a 60's track for you." Star said as she searched her song list. "Ah. Hah!"
"There she was just walking down the street singin'
Doo wah diddy diddy dum diddy do!
Snappin' her fingers and shufflin' her feet singin'
Doo wah diddy diddy dum diddy do!..."
(Doo Wah Diddy by Manford Man)
The six alley cats were astounded. They shared the ear phones and each had a listen to the music. "Oh," Star exclaimed. "Or this…"
"Sugar
Oh, honey, honey
You are my candy girl
and you've got me lovin' you..."
(Sugar Sugar by The Archies)
"Or..."
"You can't hurry love
No, you just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
It's a game of give and take..."
(You Can't Hurry Love by The Supremes)
"See? Oh! And look...you can put pictures on it..." Star said as she shown them her photo folder. "And...It can play video!"
"So no one told ya life was gonna be this way
(Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap!)"
(FRIENDS intro)
"Look it's in colour..." Said Fancy.
"Well, would you look at that..." Top Cat said, obviously impressed. "That is one handy gizmo."
"Oh," Star cut in before anybody else could speak. "How about this?" She said with a smile, quickly pulling out another gadget. This gadget was candy pink, like Star's fur and has little tiny buttons on it.
"This is my phone." Star said as she held it up for the alley cats to see.
"A…phone…?" Asked Fancy.
"Yehh, it's my mobile phone, or in America you usually call it a cell phone."
"Where's the wire?" Asked Choo-Choo.
"There is no wire."
"Then how do you call people?" Asked Fancy.
"It's wireless connection."
"So would it work now?" TC asked.
"Ehh…no. I don't think so. There are no mobile phone signal receiver thingies yet. Not until the 80s at least. I think." Star thought…"But, It does record audio and video and it can take pictues. Look."
Star lifted up her phone so it was just in front of her face then she moved to each side slightly with it. She then brought her phone back down, pressed a few buttons and then gave it to TC.
"Press that middle button." She said.
Top Cat pressed the button Star pointed to and it began playing a video. It moved from one alley cat to another, making sure that it got everybody's face in it.
"Wow it works." Said Benny.
"It sure does…" Top Cat said still staring at the little screen. "Right," Said TC, grabbing everybody's attention. "Everyone, we have a time machine to find...I never thought I'd say that."
A wide smile spread across Star's face. "You mean you believe me...?" Star asked as TC gave her phone back.
Top Cat smiled also "Yea." He said with certainty in his voice. The rest of the gang smiled at that.
The happy silence was soon disturbed when a slightly chubby police officer came towards them. "Ok, now what's all the racket?" The police officer asked scanning the area.
"Why officer Dribble, nice to see you again." Top Cat greeted with a cocky smile. The officer was about to say something when Star cut in.
"Oh, nice to meet you Mr. Dribble." She greeted out stretching her hand. "Sorry if we have caused any bother. We promise to keep the volume on the down low from now on." She said with a sweet smile.
"Why thank you." He said accepting the gesture. "Oh, my name is actually Dibble, by the way." He then turned back to Top Cat with another frown.
"Conning money out of tourists again, Top Cat?" He asked noticing her accent.
"Now why would you think that, Dribble. We were merely helping her find her way." Top Cat old him.
Dibble crossed his arms. "For how much!" He demanded.
Top Cat's smile never faltered. "Why we would never even dream of charging this lovely girl for our services." He said whilst tacking his hat off and bowing slightly at Star.
Dibble looked from the grin on Top Cat's face to Star's perfectly straight, but confused face and back to Top Cat again. "Don't let me catch you cheating this poor girl out of anything." He stuck his finger in Top Cat's face then his expression suddenly changed as he turned back to Star. "If they give you ANY trouble, and they will, you come straight to us, ok?" Dibble said nicely and before Star could answer, Top Cat gave another cocky grin.
"Don't be soo sure of yourself, Dibble." He said putting his hat back on. Dibble shot another dirty glance at Top Cat before he walked off disappearing around the corner.
Star turned to Top Cat and raised a stern eyebrow. "You con people?"
"Well, when you live on the streets like we do, you need a way of staying alive." Top Cat explained.
Star's face softened. "You live on the streets?"
Top Cat, once again, taken his hat off and held it to his heart. Putting on the most sorriest face he could muster. "Yes, unable to find jobs, we are forced to con people out of money and food, we have no other way." Top Cat said almost dramatically. "Without me helping them along," Top Cat looked towards the rest of the gang. "Those poor creatures over there will starve." He then looked back at Star. "I'm sorry if we make a few little white lies every now and again, but I'm afraid we just have no other way to get by." Top Cat finished by placing his hat back on top of his head. If you listened really close, you could almost hear the soft, sad violin music playing in the background.
Star smirked, crossed her arms and raised her again eyebrow.
"What? Don't you believe me?" Top Cat asked slightly surprised.
"Oh, no. I believe you. I believe you live on the streets and have to fend for yourselves and con people to get by, but I don't believe that there is no other way."
Top Cat looked at his gang who shrugged in response.
"You look decent enough to get a job."
Top Cat's head snapped forward and his and the rest of the gang's eyes widened. "A job?" He asked.
"Yea, why not." Star smirked. "I think you'll make a brilliant lawyer." Star was suddenly reminded of something and her eyes went wide.
"Oh, no...how am I going to get home? Where will I sleep?"
Top Cat thought form a moment "Can you do a posh London accent?" He asked.
"Umm..." Star thought then cleared her thought. "Excuse me, waiter, there is a fly in my soup!" She said in the poshest voice she could conjure up.
Top Cat grinned. "And err...how well can you lie?"
Benny looked round the corner of a wall at a very posh looking hotel with the word 'Ritz' written on it in fancy letters. "What was the plan again, TC?" He asked.
"Ok, we are all going to walk into that hotel just like we own the place, ok? Do not walk in front or next to Star. When we get stopped, let Star do the talking." He told everybody one last time. He looked at Star. "Know your lines?"
She flashed him a wide smile. "You betcha!"
"Good, everybody ready?" He looked round at everybody just in case. "Good, let's go."
Star led them towards the large hotel. Like the plan, everybody walked in like they owned the place, but was, like planned, stopped. A man wearing a tux immediately blocked their way.
"And where do you think you're going?" He asked in a snobby voice.
'Time to begin' thought Star. Star gasped and looked very surprised. "Excuse me?" Star spoke in her rehearsed accent. Top Cat and the rest of the gang, except Brain who was totally out on another planet, acted surprised. "Do you know who I am?"
"I'm sorry, but you obviously do not belong here." The man said looking down on them.
"I'm sorry, But you," Star pointed at the man, making him raise an eyebrow. "compared to me," She pointed at herself then put her hands on her hips. "is lower than a piece of dirt! Now let me pass otherwise I will call Daddy!" Star demanded.
The man looked surprised. "And who is 'Daddy'?"
Star gasped again. "Daddy is somebody who can wipe the floor with your sorry ass and can immediately get you fired if so much as breath a word about you!" The man gave a slightly scared look at the word 'fired'. "Also, " Star went on. "Daddy owns places like this. He sends me and my six associates to see if this is up to scratch!" Star casually began looking at her nails. "Daddy has the power to turn five star hotels such as this all the way down to three and yes, he has done it before!"
The man was quiet for a few seconds. "And why was we not notified of your visit?" The man questioned.
Star raised an eyebrow. "Well it won't exactly be a surprise visit if you were told we were coming, will it?"
The man cleared his thought. "No, no it won't..."
"Now are you going to take me to the leader, president, governor or whatever you people call the highest power?" Star put her paws on her hips.
"On the contrary, I am the highest power here." He said neatening himself up. "Miss...?"
"Tyler, Starlight Tyler."
"All right Miss Tyler, would you like to continue this conversation in my office?" He asked motioning to a door behind them. Star walked confidently towards the door then turned back to face her new friends.
"You may wait here." Star said and the small group of cats nodded.
At least ten minutes later, Star and the man came walking out. Star was looking pretty confident and the man looking very frightened.
"So," Star started. "Who is going to escort us to our rooms?" She asked looking round. The man cleared his throught again.
"I will send somebody immediately, Miss." He said calmly.
And sure enough, somebody was sent straight away. Star, Top Cat and the gang were escorted to some of the most posh rooms in the whole hotel. Star's room had a gorgeous four poster bed, individual bathroom and toilet, silk sheets and umpteen comfy looking comfy chairs, footstools, suttees...There were even colour TV's, although it didn't look impressive in Star's eyes, A radio in each room and several phones.
Each of the boy's rooms were very similar and all the rooms were on the same floor as Star insisted. The Manager had offered free catering for all members for being 'so very rood' before.
It was now 7pm and was all lounging in Top Cat's room after stuffing themselves silly from the all you can eat buffet downstairs.
"So what else do they got in the 20th century?" Choo-Choo asked.
"It's not the 20th century, Chooch," Top Cat but in. "We are in the 20th century. Star is from the 21st century..."
"Huh..." Replied Choo-Choo "I don't understand, TC..."
"Well it started from zero, right? then from the year zero to ninety nine was the first century, but when it became the year one hundred it started all over again so that will be the second century..." Top Cat explained.
"Oh, right..." Choo-Choo nodded, but still looked confused though.
"Carry on, Star..." Top Cat said looking back towards her.
"Well...They are hard to explain really...Ok, umm... we have TV's with much better picture quality, I have one at home that is as wide as..." Star looked around. "Just a little bit wider than this chair." Star pointed down at the chair below her, the kind you will get with a suttee. "And just this thin!" Star held her fingers only an inch apart from one another.
"Wow!" Everybody said almost in unison.
"We also have things called computers. You have them here, but ours are a lot more sophisticated."
"Oh, how?" Top Cat asked.
"Well...Urm...there's this thing called the 'internet'. You can contact people with it. Even people in Japan or China within seconds if you wanted to. You can also browse the internet for pictures, music and video. You can play tonnes of games on them. Classics like Space Invaders or Pac-Man or Mario or whatever games you like playing." When Star stopped talking she taken one look at the boy's faces and almost started laughing. All six of them were trying to imagine what a computer would look like and how it'll work. Needless to say, they all had very confused faces on. "I'll tell you what," She started, grabbing their attention. "If we ever find a way to get me home, I'll see if you could visit my world, eh? And I'll show you what a computer looks like. I'll also let you watch a few films and TV shows, yea? You can stay for dinner." Everybody smiled.
"Why, that's very kind of you, Star." Top Cat then looked at his gang. "How about a little show of appreciation, guys?"
"Thank you Star." They all said simultaneously.
"Like , err, TC," Spook started. "Where do we look for this...time machine anyways?"
For once Top Cat didn't have a clue. Well, there is a first time for everything. "Err..." Top Cat scratched his head. "I dunno, Spook..."
"Well," Star started. "We'll figure that out tomorrow...We'll be refreshed and had, had time to think about it."
"Hmm...good plan." Said Top Cat. "What time is it?"
Benny looked at the small clock beside the bed. "It's almost nine."
"So, " Started Star, grabbing everybody's attention. "What do you guys do in the 60's?"
"We like to play cards." Choo-Choo said.
"And err, roulette." Spook said.
"Don't forget a little snooker." Top Cat said.
"Snukker?" Star asked a little confused for a second before it clicked. "Oh, snooker."
"Yea, don't forget bowling." Fancy added.
"Well, I do love bowling, but I doubt they have a ten pin bowling alley in the Ritz hotel, I know a little snooker, but I don't think they'll have that either, I know the basic rules of roulette, but again I don't think they'll have that...So, I guess we'll have to play cards."
"Good idea, You any good?" Asked Top Cat.
"Well," Star shrugged. "Sorta."
"What do you play?"
Star shrugged again. "Blackjack, Poker...snap..."
"Good, then it's settled," Said Top Cat. "We'll just call room service and ask them to bring up a pack of cards."
"Sure," Said Star getting up and walking up to the phone. She picked up the receiver to her ear. "Yes room service?" Star spoke in her posh voice. "I would like a deck of cards please...yes...thank you." Star hung up and walked back to her chair. "They'll be here any minute."
"TC's really good card games, Star." Benny spoke. "He's better than all of us."
"Oh, yea?" Star asked.
"Yea. You'd better not bet a lot 'cos you'll lose it."
"Thank you for the advice, Benny, but if I do bet any money, you'll have no use for it here." Star said withdrawing her 20 pound note and looking at the date. 2002. Hmm...
"How much do you have anyway?" Top Cat asked.
"Oh, just two twennies ." She said putting it away again.
"And how much is that worth in good old American dollars?"
"Hmm? Oh about $80 that's all."
Top Cat and his gang's eyes widened. "T-th-that's all?" Top Cat asked. "You mean $80 is candy money to you people?"
"Well, I wouldn't say 'candy', but a few big tubs of Ben and Jerry's ice cream, yea," Star smiled. "Why that a lot in the 60's?"
Suddenly there was a knock at the door. Fancy was the one to answer it and brought the cards in. Star cleared a round table they had in the room and everybody sat round it. Top Cat dealt.
Five minutes later...
"She beat 'cha, TC." Benny informed him.
"I know, Benny..." He said stunned. Star only smiled. "Beginners luck...let's play again..."
Another five minutes later...
"She won again, TC." Benny said again.
"Ok, Benny, stop telling me!"
Five minutes after that...
"She did it again, TC."
"Ok, quit it, Benny! I know when I'm beaten!" Top Cat said then turned to Star. "Where did you learn to play like that?"
"My dad." Star answered simply. "Another game?"
"No, you'll only embarrass me again." TC said covering his face with his paw. "I'm getting beat by a girl!" He said dramatically.
It was now ten pm and Star had suggested getting some rest for the day. Everybody said goodnight before leaving Top Cat's room and disappearing into their own.
- the year is 1962. I didn't believe them at first, but then I asked a police man and he said 1962 also. I'm really scared. Really, really scared.
Top Cat and his gang seem nice. They are going to help me get home somehow. We dunno how yet, but we'll think of something. In the mean time, We are staying at the Ritz hotel. Yehh, you heard me, the RITZ hotel.
I really didn't want to sleep in the streets like Top Cat and his gang does, so as much as I hate it, we conned the hotel in giving us free room and board. If I find a way, I will repay them. Not with money ofc! I don't think I can afford that much, especially with all the food we've eaten!
On a happy note, I won Top Cat at cards like, 6 times! He was well gutted!
I hope I'll get home soon,
Love Star 3