EPISODE TWO

(Redfang and Shinyheart are still frozen when Willowheart pads in.)

Willowheart: (to camera) Hello! Welcome to Episode Two of the Warriors Truth or Dare Show!

(Redfang and Shinyheart suddenly shake themselves and blink a few times.)

Willowheart: Good morning! You two were frozen all night! I took the liberty of making the truth-or-dare plan for you. (pads across the room)

Redfang: (murmurs to Shinyheart) Oh no. What do you think she did?

Shinyheart: (murmurs back) Knowing her, it could be anything.

Redfang: Explosives?

Shinyheart: Possible.

Redfang: Volcanic eruption?

Shinyheart: Possible.

Redfang: Atom bomb?

Shinyheart: If she could get one.

Willowheart: (from the other side of the room) Come on! Are you going to stand there mewing for the whole episode?

(Redfang and Shinyheart nervously approach Willowheart.)

Redfang: (with forced cheerfulness) So, Willowheart, who will be here today?
(Willowheart claps twice.)

Longtail: Hello! Wait…where am I? This doesn't smell like ThunderClan.

Willowheart: Welcome to the Warriors Truth or Dare Show!

Shinyheart: (murmurs to Redfang again) Isn't Longtail dead?

Redfang: (murmurs back) She must have taken him from a book before Fading Echoes. Now please shut up. I'm trying to see what she does.

Shinyheart: Okay, okay. You don't need to be so rude about it.

Redfang: Shh!

Shinyheart: (whispers) Sorry.

Willowheart: You can pick, Longtail. Truth or dare?

Longtail: Truth!

Willowheart: How do you really feel about Mousefur?

Longtail: She's a good friend and denmate. A little cranky, but nice once you get to know her. You know… (checks to see—I mean smell—if any Clan cats are around.) …I used to love her. I still do, but she doesn't know that. Besides, I don't know if elders can be mates.

Willowheart: (disappointed with Longtail's answer and incredulous at how boring the truth-telling was.) That's it? (glares at Longtail even though he can't see her.) Unsatisfactory answer! As punishment you must do…the Dare. Mwahahahahha! (Lightning flashes and thunder rumbles, and an organ starts playing a creepy tune.)

Shinyheart: Whoa.

(Willowheart claps twice. Longtail disappears.)

Shinyheart: Where'd he go?

Redfang: (standing by system of electronics across the room with Willowheart) Hey, Shinyheart? Over here. (Shinyheart pads across the room to join her fellow hosts. As she joins them, Redfang whispers in her ear.) Shinyheart, you are having some shutting-up problems in this episode.

Shinyheart: Sorry.

(Willowheart reaches out and pushes a few buttons on the console. The occasional thunder and lightning flashes stop, and a flick of a switch turns off the organ music. Shinyheart opens her mouth to comment, but a glare from Redfang shuts it. They both turn their gazes to the small screen on the console. It shows Longtail in a dark room.)

Longtail: H-hello? Where am I now?

Willowheart: (speaking into one of those intercom thingies on airplanes into which the pilot goes, 'this is your captain speaking') You are in Dare Room 17.

Longtail: (feeling a little braver now that he recognizes someone's mew) What do you want?

Willowheart: (gets a crazed look in her eyes) EXPLOSIVES! (Longtail looks alarmed) S-sorry, just kidding! (The look in her eyes disagrees with that) Y-you said, 'what do you want' so I answered.

Longtail: What do you want me to do?

Willowheart: (flips a switch on the console. Lights turn on in Longtail's room. A maze is seen.) You must get through the maze.

Longtail: (alarmed again) A maze? But I'm blind!

Willowheart: (darkly) I know. (cheerfully) Might as well get started!

Longtail: (pads forward and bonks into a wall) Oof!

Redfang: While we wait for Longtail to finish, I have a dare. Who's coming with me?

(Shinyheart leaves the console.)

Willowheart: I'm staying here! (focuses on the screen)

(Redfang and Shinyheart leave Willowheart at the machine and go to the other side of the room. Shinyheart turns to Redfang.)

Shinyheart: Can I talk now?

Redfang: Yes.

Shinyheart: Good. What's your dare?

Redfang: Er, I don't have one. I just didn't want to watch Longtail bump into walls forever.

(From the other side of the room an explosion and Willowheart's maniacal laughter are heard.)

Redfang: Let's hope she doesn't kill Longtail before he completes the maze.

Shinyheart: (snorts) Well, I have a dare. (claps twice; Tigerheart appears) Aaa he is so hot!

Tigerheart: (slaps Shinyheart) Get on with it!

Shinyheart: (rubs her slapped cheek and mutters) You don't need to be so mean. Don't you know that we have a no-violence policy?

Redfang: We also have a no-flirting policy. (nudges Shinyheart)

Shinyheart: I wasn't flirting!

Tigerheart: Where am I? Is this the Warriors Truth or Dare Show?

Shinyheart and Redfang: How did you know?

Tigerheart: Crowfeather told me that he went to some crazy place called the Warriors Truth or Dare Show. It had a flirty gold she-cat, a red tom, and a crazy light brown tabby. Where is she?

(Another explosion and another round of maniacal laughter are heard from across the room.)

Shinyheart: Tigerheart, I dare you to interrupt a Gathering to go onto the Great Tree or whatever it's called to announce all the bad things you've done. Now go! (claps twice before Tigerheart can object, then leads Redfang to Willowheart's console.)

Shinyheart: Willowheart, I need the thingy.

Willowheart: Shh! He's almost out! (her paw starts moving toward a large button with the radioactive sign on it.)

Redfang: No! (drags Willowheart away from the console and the dangerous button.)

Willowheart: (flailing paws) Let me go!

(Shinyheart goes over to the console and looks on the screen. Longtail is covered in bruises and has a broken paw. The maze exit is very close to him, and he knows it. He is walking quicker. Right above the exit is an atom bomb. The switch that Willowheart had almost pressed would have probably released it and killed Longtail. Longtail exits, and Shinyheart speaks into the intercom thingy.)

Shinyheart: Good job, Longtail! Your reward is a cookie! (giant cookie drops beside Longtail.) Take it!

(Longtail picks up the cookie. Shinyheart claps twice, and Longtail and his cookie disappear. Redfang sternly turns to Willowheart.)
Redfang: The point of dares is to have the cat do it and we watch, not make it harder!

Willowheart: (scuffs ground with a paw) It was fun though.

Redfang: You must be punished. Next episode, we will truth or dare you!

Willowheart: NO!

(While Redfang and Willowheart argue, Shinyheart goes over to the console. She presses a few buttons, and an image of a Gathering comes on the screen. She waits impatiently until the last leader gives news. Tigerheart jumps up and yowls.)

Blackstar: What in StarClan's name are you doing?

Mistystar: Warriors aren't allowed up here!

Tigerheart: Hey everykitty! I just wanted to say that I am a bad kitty! I made the sign in ShadowClan territory to make Blackstar believe in StarClan again! Other cats helped me! I also have been visited by Tigerstar in my dreams! The Dark Forest is training me, and I've been visiting Dovepaw at night!

(Astonished yowls come from the crowd. Someone throws soil at Tigerheart, and soon clumps of grass stain his pelt.)

Tigerheart: Thank you! Thank you!

Random cat in crowd: Get him!

(Shinyheart turns off the console and turns to the camera.)

Shinyheart: Thanks for watching! Keep watch for Episode Three, when Willowheart is dared by Redfang and I!

How'd you like it? I don't know what Willowheart should be dared to do. If you get any ideas please say what they are!