The Lucky Cat Cafe was closing up, the last few customers were finishing up their food and exiting out.
"What a day," Ari yawned, she had been helping Cass in the cafe out of sheer boredom.
"You looked tired Ari," Cass gave her a pat on the shoulder, "you should get some sleep."
"I will, but I wanna wait for Hiro to get home," Ari mumbled, "I sleep better when I know he's home safe."
Cass smiled at her, "that's very kind of you sweetie." Their attention is brought by a knock on the cafe door, Cass goes to open it.
"Hello? Oh hi!" she recognized the visitors in a heartbeat, Ari walked over to see who it was.
"Rachel?" Ari raised an eyebrow, the girl was at the door with her mother Sarah, "whatcha doing here so late at night?"
"Well," Rachel gestured to the fluffy blue cat in her arms, "my parents and I are going on a vacation to visit my grandparents and uncle in New York, so..."
Sarah finishes for her, "so we need a babysitter for Katie cat here,"
Katie scowls, "yes we're talking about you kitten," Sarah crosses her arms, "you picky girl you."
"Oh of course she can stay with us during your vacation!" Cass responds before Ari could, "it would be an honor to have Katie the Talking Cat around here."
"Talking Cat?" Ari raised an eyebrow.
"I'm an internet celebrity that speaks human language," Katie speaks up in complete sentences, she turns to Rachel, "I'm shocked you didn't tell her that."
"She never asked," Rachel shrugged.
"Woahhhh," Ari exclaimed, "that's so cool!" She had never heard of a talking cat before, but anything was possible nowadays.
"Thanks," Katie twitched her whiskers.
Rachel goes inside the cafe, and plops Katie down on one of the tables, "be good alright Katie? No breaking windows again."
Katie rolled her eyes, "no promises," Rachel huffs, then rejoins her mother outside.
"Here," Sarah hands Cass several bills of money, "Katie's a pain to look after so here's payment ahead of time."
"Oh wow," Cass had wide eyes at the money, "are you sure? I don't need that many."
Sarah hums, "I insist, now we have to catch our flight now, my husband will probably contact you about more details when we've recovered from jet lag..If he remembers," both adults chuckle at the joke. "Well best of luck to you,"
"Enjoy your trip Rachel!" Ari waved to the girl as she and her mother left.
"Thanks!" she waved back, when they were out of sight, Ari headed back into the cafe.
"So," Katie meowed, inspecting the cafe, "are you going to enforce any rules on me?"
"Just don't try any escape attempts," Cass chuckled, "we already get enough from Mochi."
Ari's eyes widened, "umm Cass? What if Mochi and Katie don't get along?"
Cass frowned, "huh, haven't really thought about that at all, Mochi tends to get along with everyone..then again he hasn't interacted with other cats."
"Speak of the devil," Ari whispers, as the calico cat began walking up to where Katie was perched. Mochi hopped up the table, sniffing the newcomer.
After what seemed like hours, Mochi purred and gave a happy meow.
"Well, nice to meet you too," Katie smirked.
Both Cass and Ari gave sighs of relief, it looked like Mochi made a new friend, the girl hummed.
At that moment, Hiro and Baymax entered the cafe, looking worse for wear, "Hi Hiro! Hi Baymax!" Ari waved at them, "you doing alright?"
"We were-"
"Stuck in traffic!" Hiro cuts off Baymax, placing a hand to the robot's side, "a lot of it downtown, took forever to get out of..heh."
Cass walked over to give him a hug, "I'm glad you're home safe sweetie," she then turned to the table where the two cats are conversing, "the Rosemarys were here awhile ago to drop off their cat Katie, so we'll be looking after her during their vacation."
"Oh," Hiro hummed, he walked over to the cats, "h-hi Katie."
Katie twitched her whiskers, "nice to see you again too."
"Hello," Baymax waved to the cat, who stared at him with curious blue eyes.
She tilted her head at the robot, "...that looks like a fluffy marshmallow with legs.."
"I know right?" Hiro mumbled, chuckling, Mochi meowed something as well.
"Well I'm tired so…." Ari yawned and began walking up the stairs.
"Wait for us!" Hiro and Baymax followed after her, the former dragging the latter up the stairs and Ari helping him out with that.
"Hm," Katie twitched her tail, "well it's nice to stay at a place that doesn't gawk at the famous speaking feline."
Her ears perked up at something Mochi meowed, "oh now you tell me.."
The next morning at the cafe, Ari was explaining last night's events to the rest of the gang, "and she and Mochi get along fine! So it doesn't seem so bad!"
"You have spoken too soon," Fred declared, "cats are always up to mischief! It's in their blood!"
"Guilty as charged," all of them yelp in surprise as Katie hops on top of their table and walks to an empty spot, "is this seat taken?"
"It is not," Baymax tells her.
Honey Lemon was squealing in excitement when Katie lied down next to her seat, "I can't believe I'm meeting the talking cat in person!" A big smile was on her face, but the feline winced at the loud volume.
"Is she always this hyper?" Katie's ears flattened.
"Yep," Gogo nodded.
"Hooray.."
At that moment, Cass walked up to the table holding Mochi, "hey gang!"
"Hey Aunt Cass," they all waved at her.
"Just wanted to show you Mochi's latest trick because it's something you must see! I mean well, you don't have to, it's completely optional no presh." She places the cat on the table, who meows with excitement, "is shortening words still a thing?"
"Oh totes," Fred tells her, "that's short for absolutely."
"Awww I live for cat videos!" Honey Lemon pulls out her phone to record.
Cass releases the cat from her hold, "okay Mochi, slow clap."
Mochi begins to clap his paws, slowly, "oooh I wanna try!" Katie purrs, she attempts to do the same thing Mochi does but it's not quite right. Mochi meows something to her, "oh like this?" and soon Katie is slow clapping as well.
"Aww," Hiro smiled when seeing Mochi help Katie out with the trick.
"Okay it's cute," Gogo admitted, she was smiling a little.
"Too cute," Wasabi nods.
"I am totally posting this!" Honey Lemon stops recording and posts the video online.
Cass picks up Mochi and chuckles, "aw, sweet," she walks away.
"Hey, I didn't say you could post," Katie narrows her eyes at Honey Lemon, "and I could've told you Mochi's opinion about it."
Honey Lemon had a look of horror on her face, "oh my god I'm so sorry!"
The feline chuckles in response, "nah I'm just messing with you, I don't mind there being an extra video of me floating online, it just increases my fanbase so more people see my handsome face." Katie gestures to her fluffy cheeks.
Ari snorts in response, "isn't handsome a masculine term?"
"I am not bound by the rules of society, I am a cat, I do what I want."
"Oooh I almost forgot!" Fred pulls out two tickets from his pocket, "I have an extra ticket to Maximum Insane Obstacle Challenge."
"Maximum what?" Hiro raised an eyebrow.
Fred leans in, "Maximum Insane Obstacle Challenge! The number one online game show!" He pulls out his phone to show a clip, "contestants compete in these maximum insane obstacle challenges!"
"Thus the show's name," Wasabi pointed out.
"Show good...host bad," Katie grumbles under her breath, loud enough for Ari to hear her, what's that supposed to mean?
Fred stared at his phone, "huh, never picked up on that, basically a hidden message."
"Looks fun Fred, but I gotta work on something to deal with our sui….class problem!" Hiro catches himself before spilling anything to the nearby Ari, he grabs Baymax and they head to the garage.
Fred turns to Wasabi, smiling and raising his eyebrows. "I'm busy too Fred," Wasabi tells him, "I'm reorganizing my..organizer!" Wasabi runs off somewhere.
Fred turns to the girls to see if any of them wanted to go, "Ari? I know you're a fan of the show, wanna go?"
"Can't," Ari explains, "cat sitting remember?" she lifts up Katie, "you have fun without me though!"
"Gogo do you want to go?"
"Hard pass, no excuse." was Gogo's response.
"Oh come on, but-" Fred begins to protest.
She gives him a deadpan look, "there's nothing anyone can say that can make me go to a dopey game show."
"Honey Lemon?"
"I would go Freddie, but I'm throwing a sticker party!" She exclaims, which Gogo flinches at the memory of the last sticker party. So many stickers...everywhere..so colorful..too many stickers.
"I'm in!" Gogo bursts out, "I can't do another sticker party.."
Fred pumps a fist in the air, "alright! This is gonna be a maximum insane hangout!...No pun intended."
Katie rolls her eyes in response, "I cannot believe I heard that with my own ears."
Ferns and Nerds group chat:
Mikan Ferns: Heads up, I'm adding someone new to the group chat
Fredilicous24: Ooooh who is it?
Hiro Hamada: Is it Karmi?
TheLittleMermaid: Why? Do you want her in this chat?
Hiro Hamada: NO! I just want to know who it is
Mikan Ferns added Rachel Rosemary to the chat
Mikan Ferns: give our newcomer a hand
Sara Ferns: *gives hand*
Wasabi: Hello!
Gogo: Is this about the cat sitting thing?
Honey Lemon: Hello newcomer!
Rachel Rosemary: Howdy
Rachel Rosemary: I asked my friend Ari to get me into this chat so I could have updates on Katie, has she broken anything yet?
Hiro Hamada: No she's mostly been bonding with our cat Mochi
TheLittleMermaid: No property damage yet!
Rachel Rosemary: Excellent : )
Fredilicous24: Hey Rach! Glad to see you again!
Rachel Rosemary: Nice to see you too Frederick
Sara Ferns: Finally some new blood around here :3
Wasabi: ...Sara no
Sara Ferns: SARA YES
Rachel Rosemary: goodness gracious
At the Lucky Cat Cafe, Katie was having the time of her life. She was chilling on the counter with Mochi after a few hours of playing, both cats were tuckered out and just watching the TV.
"Oh look, Maximum Insane Obstacle Challenge is on," Ari pointed out, seeing the show logo.
"Ladies and gentlemen today's show is presented by Yaki Taco. Break out of your hard shell," the announcer stated the sponsorship first before panning the camera to the stage. There was laughter heard as the host hopped around the stage, "and now please give a maximum welcome to the insane host: Mr. Sparkles!"
"Hello Sparkleheads!" the host exclaimed, he was a rather small man with bright pink hair, blue eyes, and a purple outfit. The audience cheered as he showed up on stage, "oh you're too much, you're too much, stop it!"
"Y'know I don't get why you dislike the host Katie cat," Ari gestured to the dozing feline, who stared at the show with genuine interest.
"You'll see, he sometimes shows some of his true colors on screen, keep listening in."
"Alright no seriously, I have a hard out at four!" Sparkles relished the applause, "now who's ready to play…"
"Maximum Insane Obstacle Challenge!" the audience exclaimed, Ari squinted to see if she could see Fred or Gogo sitting in the audience, they were seeing it live in person after all. Sparkles chuckled, "oh um, sorry, but do any of you want to host? Last I checked, I'm the one with the magnetic charisma!" The sound of a rooster cawing is heard off screen, Sparkles glances around, "you know what that means? Time to find our first contestant!"
The camera pans to a slide with a rooster on top, a large sized egg comes rolling down the slide. As it hits the bottom, Sparkles picks it up and cracks the top open, then looks inside the shell.
"Our first contestant is...seat number sixty five!" The camera pans to the audience and shows a spotlight on the lucky contestant, the subtitles on screen declare him a sucker however.
"That's me! That's me!" the contestant, an elderly man sits up, "in your face sixty four!" he rubs it in by a woman sitting next to him, and dances on stage.
"Stay out of my light you mummy," Sparkles mutters as he shoves him out of the spotlight, it was said in a low tone but both Katie and Ari picked it up.
"Oh..I get it now..I still like this show though," she hums.
Katie chuckles, "nothing wrong with enjoying a show even though the host is a jerk."
"Always stay young at heart!" Sparkles continues to host as the contestant smiles on stage, "now, let's find out today's first challenge, shall we?" He clicks a button and a wheel starts spinning until it lands on chopsticks.
"Sushi Limbo," on screen is shown an animated summary of the course, "how low can your sushi roll? Dodge the chopsticks and don't get dunked in the soy sauce."
The elder man is shoved in front of the obstacle course in a sushi costume, "hey!" He exclaimed. The obstacle course looked like a sushi platter, with moving chopsticks you had to dodge, and below was soy sauce.
"Ready ...set...Limbo!" Sparkles starts the timer, and the man begins to go through the course. It was exhilarating to watch.
"He's gonna make it!" Ari exclaims, as he was one platform away from the buzzer.
"Nuh uh," Katie twitches her whiskers, just as the man attempts to press the buzzer he gets picked up by the chopsticks, "told you.." The man is dunked into the soy sauce, the camera pans to the "Maximum Insane Gross Zone", where contestants are splashed by the soy sauce.
"Hey there's Fred and Gogo!" Ari exclaims, recognizing her friends on camera, Fred was smart enough to bring a poncho to protect himself from the soy sauce..Gogo however got soaked, and she could see her friend glaring at Fred.
"Ouch, can relate, I went to one of the shows and got drenched in the splash zone," Katie chuckled, "I've only been to one show so I don't know what it's like sitting in the regular area."
"One show?" Ari raised an eyebrow.
Katie took a breath before explaining, "Rachel won two tickets, and she used the second to take me along, we sat in the gross zone and someone recognized me. There was a lot of buzz, especially when Rachel was picked as a contestant for the "Sugar Rush" course, let's just say the host doesn't like the spotlight being taken off of him...He said some not-so-nice things when the show was over, let's just leave it at that."
She didn't reply, but gave the feline a comforting pat on the head, "there there," in a motion very similar to Baymax. Katie purred in response.
Sparkles continued to host, "here comes the loser hand!" A mechanical hand picked up the elderly man from the soy sauce, as he's brought out of the course a baby's crying could be heard. "Uh-oh, sounds like it's time to feed the baby!"
"Uhg I hate this part," Ari groaned, Katie meowed in agreement.
The announcer brought up the screen and animated summary again, "feed the baby, don your diaper and squirt the food in the baby's mouth. But be careful, he's not feeling well."
"And our lucky baby is…" Sparkles opened up another chicken egg, "two-hundred and three!" the camera panned to show the spotlight was on Gogo!
"Oh my god," Katie gasped, "sucker."
Fred nudged his friend on screen, "go on Gogo feed the baby!"
"Wait, it's 'Feed the Baby' but I have to wear the diaper?" Gogo looked rather uncomfortable in the spotlight.
"That's the maximum insane part!"
"I'm not looking like an idiot in front of millions of people."
"Don't worry about what other people think Gogo, I mean look at me! I came prepared to be humiliated, it's fun!" Fred stood up and lifted his poncho to reveal he was wearing a diaper already, the subtitles on screen called him a weirdo. Fred oh my god no, Ari chuckled.
Gogo popped her bubblegum, "maximum hard pass!"
"And that's enough TV for me," Katie yawned, stretching her legs, "I need some fresh air, do you mind accompanying me for a walk? I'd like to know about my bestie's new… bestie."
"Sure, and I'd like to know more about what it's like being a cat!" Ari smiled, picking up the feline.
"I make it look easier than it is, the cat life is not for everyone."
In another part of the city, Baymax, Hiro, Honey Lemon, and Wasabi were in a field.
"Hiro, why are we in the middle of a field?" Honey Lemon questioned her friend, he had brought them there but wouldn't explain until they arrived.
Wasabi sneezed, "yeah..the pollen levels are killing my sinuses."
"This is the best place to demo the long range capability of our new..suit delivery system! So we don't have to run around the city just to get our suits on like last time." Hiro holds out his phone, which Wasabi sneezes on.
"Sorry.." he apologizes as Hiro wipes his phone clean.
"Nasal spray can help relieve your congestion," Baymax turns one of his fingers into a nasal spray and sticks it in Wasabi's nose.
"Uh..thanks Baymax but I think I'm good," Wasabi turns down the offer.
Hiro started to activate the system, "right now the suits are at Fred's, on the other side of the city." He clicks a button, "now we just wait.."
After a while, they all looked up to see their respective suits flying towards them, but when the suits landed it equipped the wrong people.
"There appears to be an error," Baymax was wearing Hiro's armor, which was very tight on the robot's vinyl.
Hiro was in Wasabi's armor, he checked his phone, "sorry guys, uh the code checks out, I don't know why that didn't work."
Honey Lemon walks up to him, covered head to toe in Baymax's armor, "it's just a fluke Hiro, right Wasabi?"
"Totally, ah-choo!" There was a ripping sound, "oh, I think I felt something pop," Honey Lemon's armor was just too tight for him.
"Don't worry Wasabi," Honey Lemon started to remove Baymax's armor, "let me help you get out of that before something else rips, I can just sew it back anyway!"
"That would be great…"
The next morning at Honey Lemon and Gogo's shared apartment is the aftermath of the-
"Uhhg, sticker party," Gogo groans as she sees a glasses sticker and a mustache sticker in her mirror, at least she wasn't around during it.
"Gogo come quick!" Honey Lemon's voice brought her attention, "you know how I posted that video of Mochi and Katie slow clapping? It's gone viral!" She shows her the computer screen and the video has almost two million views.
"Wow," Gogo yawned, "I wonder how the talking cat herself feels about this."
"I regret this," Katie groaned, "so much.." It had only been a few days since that slow clap video had been posted but it brought so many fans to the Lucky Cat! It was killing her with all the buzz!
"I like the attention," her feline friend Mochi replied, meowing in delight at the customers staring at him, "it feels nice."
"I thought that too when Rachel posted the first talking cat video," Katie twitched her whiskers, "the popularity was nice at first but it's gotten old."
"Say Katie," Mochi turned to look at her, "Why did you become an internet celebrity anyways?"
Katie thought back to the memory, "It was to spread awareness about this charity event, people do like to listen to animals. Then some news site caught more information about me and next thing I know I was doing some interviews, though there have been some weirdos who try to 'rescue' me." Katie did finger quotes at the word rescue, "who think they can take better care of me than Rachel," the feline's mood dropped, and Mochi noticed.
"You don't have to tell me the whole story, I've seen some things," Mochi placed his tail over her in a comforting manner, "this'll be over before you know it! But at least we have each other's back!"
"Thank you," Katie purred, now she felt better that Rachel dropped her off at the Lucky Cat to be looked after. Nothing could go wrong, not with a new furry friend at her side.
Elsewhere a certain sparkly host was not happy that the spotlight was taken off of him. The slow clap cat video had made the cats look good, but made Sparkles online show low in popularity.
"Hang in there! You're still a star!" Sparkles was wearing a taco costume and talking to himself in the mirror, "no matter how many fair weather fans unfollow you, keep sparkling!"
There was a knock on his door, "uh, Mr. Sparkles?" A crew member opened the door.
"What is it?" Sparkles snapped at him, "can't you see I'm giving myself a creepy pep talk?!"
The crew member was frightened, "sorry sir, I just thought you'd want to know that Yaki Taco is no longer presenting us," he flinched and hid behind his phone.
"They have to present us," Sparkles frowned, "who else would they present?"
"Slow-Clap-Cat," the crew member showed him the video with Mochi and Katie, "he claps slowly, and he teaches Katie the Talking Cat how to slow clap too."
Sparkles growled with rage, "no one can take away Mr. Sparkles' sparkle," he removed the leaf on his costume that fell on his head, "no one!"
Ferns and Nerds group chat:
Rachel Rosemary: Why is my cat on top of MeowTube again?
TheLittleMermaid: Honey Lemon did it!
Honey Lemon: I didn't expect the slow clap video to viral
Rachel Rosemary: Well it did, very nice btw
Hiro Hamada: Oooh I didn't know Mochi became a cat celeb! Then again Aunt Cass mentioned about an interview later this week
TheLittleMermaid: I showed this to Katie and she said "not again -_-"
Rachel Rosemary: Ah poor Katie, is she doing well?
TheLittleMermaid: idk why you said she's a pain to look after tbh
Rachel Rosemary: You'll see : )
"I give you suit delivery system 2.0," it was late at night and Hiro was showing Wasabi and Baymax his next idea for delivering their superhero suits. He clicked a button on his phone, and a large metal ball parachuted down towards them.
"Woah, very cool," Wasabi stared at it, finding it impressive.
Hiro kept clicking the button on his phone, "huh that's weird, the suits were supposed to pop out." Wasabi walks over and knocks on the ball, "something's not-" Hiro groans in annoyance, "why won't you work?!" Hiro banged on the metal ball with anger.
"Okay, well I'll leave you to it," Wasabi starts walking down the hill back home, Hiro sighed, why wasn't it working? But he pressed too hard on the ball because it started rolling down the hill toward Wasabi.
"Look out!" Hiro shouted out a warning.
Wasabi turned around to see the metal ball rolling after him, "aah!" he began sprinting and screaming.
"Oh no,"
"Oh no," Hiro and Baymax start to follow after him.
As Wasabi speeds down the hill with the ball chasing him, Hiro runs behind to try and help, with Baymax waddling at a slower pace. "This could be a medical emergency."
Wasabi screams and ducks under two trees, which stops the ball in its tracks and causes it to fire out the suits. Hiro walks over to his friend who's gasping for air.
"You have a minor abrasion on your left elbow," Baymax pointed out.
"Sorry Wasabi," Hiro apologized with his head down, "I-I don't know what's going on. Normally my brain comes up with solutions, and uh-well I guess it's just not working lately."
There was a look of concern on Wasabi's face, "I didn't want to alarm you earlier Hiro, but I think you're experiencing what all scientists fear.." he glances left and right, "...inventor's block!"
Silence was Hiro's response, a look of horror on his face. Then a piece of Baymax's armor slaps him in the face, knocking him over.
"Ow!"
"On a scale of one to-"
"Seven!"
Two cat celebs and a crazy games host? Talk about a recipe for disaster!
Rachel and Katie are back!.. Well mostly Katie, I love Katie. (even tho she kinda breaks universe logic I SWEAR I'LL EXPLAIN BEAR WITH ME HERE)
This is just me having fun, as you can tell with Mochi having a speaking role (kind of.)
And Sparkles.. uch. Sparkles.
Me no like Sparkles ;-;
Question of the Week: Favorite Mochi moment in the show (don't judge me)