BOOK 2

MIKE’S SIDE

“Well, it was around the time you told me about your guardian angel…

“Wait, Great Aunt Lottie?!” I was shocked, it was just wow!

“Yeah, Great Aunt Lottie.” You had replied

“What were you working on then?” I asked Fluffball

“Just a simple portal device designed to-”

“I know what a portal device does,”

“This one also makes omelettes,”

“Give me one now!” I asked, it was something I REALLY WANTED!

“Maybe, but- OH!” Fluffball dropped the device and it cracked open into a portal, then I was sucked into the portal. I had then landed next to this cat.

“Who are you?” I said

“I'm Mike Iridesu, the Canine Blade guardian, who are you?”

“I’m Mike! Have you seen my friends anywhere?”

“No, Mike. I have not seen any cat except for you for a good ten years.”

“Where am I?”

“You are in the Lion fields, in universe 86-A,”

“So are you Mike 86-A?”

“No! No no no nooo! I am Mike 86-B”

“Then who’s Mike 86-A?”

“The old guardian of the Canine Blade,”

“What happened to him?”

“I killed him,” Iridesu said, the way he said it so casually just sent a chill down my spine

“Ok, can I touch it?” I asked him, I wondered how it felt, and nothing else

“NO!” The fact that he towers over me just made it all the more terrifying

“I’m just going to tag along, where are you going?”

“To get the Feline blade,”

“Why?”

“Can’t say,”
“Why?”

“Because I can’t,”

“Why?”
“Because I cannot tell you,”

“Why?”

“ONE MORE WHY AND YOU’LL WISH THAT WORD WASN’T INVENTED!!”

“Why- Ouph!” Iridesu picked me up by the neck and squeezed.

“Ack! Hack! Guck! Ack!”

“STOP. ASKING. WHY!”

“Ok!” Iridesu dropped me, so I collapsed, breathing heavily, he nearly strangled me!

“Come on, we’ll rest at sundown,”

“O…k!” I gasped”

“You don’t have to tell it like a book Mike.” Muppet interrupted

“Ok,”

“Well, what happened next?” Muppet asked Mike to continue

“Ok! So later that day, after I counted about eight hundred and eighty-three unique species of birds, one sushi restaurant, and ten different species of flower, we set up camp outside an old ghost town.

“So where are you from?” Iridesu asked as we sat down, roasting some Lesser-Striped Mouse meat

“Catville,” I said

“WHAT?!”

“Yeah.”

“UNIVERSE 485!?” Iridesu’s mouth was wide open

“I guess, why is that so important?”

“485 Inhabitants can’t reality jump!”

“What?” 

“Yeah! Portal technology hasn’t been developed there yet!”

“Well we’re not far off,”

“Ow come?”

“Our top scientist is currently developing a teleportation device, and guess what it does!”

“I know what they do…”

“But this one makes omelettes too!”

“I need that.” Iridesu was licking his lips now

“I know!” so we chatted for hours and hours before going to sleep.

At least Iridesu went to sleep…

I laid there, watching the stars, before hearing someone shout my name…

“Mike!” it said “Mike! Help me!” I ran toward the source

“Where are you?!”

“Trapped in the dark orb! Touch the dark orb to free me!”

“Okay…”

“STOP!” Iridesu interrupted

“Why?! Someone’s trapped in there!”

“No, they aren’t!”

“I’m touching it!”

“NO!!” Iridesu warned me, but I touched it anyway; I felt an immense pain! The pain was as bad as-”

“No! Watch your language!” Muppet warned

“Das wollte ich nicht sagen!” Mike said

“Ok, continue from where you left off then” Muppet sighed

“The pain was as bad as when you step on some LEGO!”

“Ohh!”

“STOP INTERRUPTING!”

“Ok.”

“Right, then I saw this black cloud oozing out of the orb, it had a purple glow, and it spread up my arm and around my body until it had covered me, it then seeped into my bones. Apparently, my eyes turned a shade of deep purple.

“You fell for my trap, Mike!”

“Who are you?! How do you know my name?!”

“Remember that old story Muppet told you about there was that beast that controlled and could hear everything?”

“Him?!”

“Who?”

“That’s how Muppet referred to him,”

“Yeah, that’s me,”

“Muppet?”

“No, idiot, Him!”

“Ohhh,”

“You know I have control over your body!”

“Why do you think I knocked myself out?”

“You are very clever Mike…”

“Ha!”

“Veeerrry clever…”

“Where is this going?”

“I maaaay take your soul,”
“WHAT?! NO!”

“Come here!” He said violently. Now I’ll have to tell it from Iridesu’s perspective”

“I guess it would be called BOOK 2.5: IRIDESU’S SIDE Don’t you agree?”

“What do mean by book?”

“Uhh! Nothing! Nothing!” Muppet was sweating, he didn’t want to interrupt the continuity of the timeline, of the book

“Anyways, Iridesu says that he carried me for days and nights on end, until he came to Mount Catatoa and laid me on the floor, and he chanted something along the lines of “漢堡 芝士漢堡 巨無霸 巨無霸” or “ハンバーガーチーズバーガービッグマックワッパー” I don’t know. Anyways, he was chanting as I woke up, and there was a physical version of Him above me, a dark version of me! Something evil, an opposite of everything I stand for, He was a Dark Mike!

“Mwa ha ha ha! Your chanting is futile! It will take four of you to beat me! Kneel Mike 86-B! Your efforts are futile! I know everything that has happened, is happening and will happen! You will not beat me. This form is more powerful than you!”

“Oh yeah?! I could beat you in a fight easily!”

“I wouldn’t think so…” and with that, Dark Mike picked up a nearby boulder with telekinesis and threw it at Iridesu

“Ahhhhhh!” Iridesu screamed as he fell down the cliff of Mount Catatoa. I then got up and ran in a random direction just so I could get away from Dark Mike! Then I was running, crying about the fact I had just lost a friend before I heard someone shout

“Mike! I’m still alive!” It was Iridesu! Now my running had a purpose, I was going to get help! So I found this big cat, he was a British Shorthair! So then he was like

“Oh I’m going to fight you”

And I was like “No way!” and we fought and-”

“No, just no,” Muppet said

“What?! And didn’t I say to NOT interrupt me?”  Mike Replied

“Oh yeah! But don’t be like: “And he was like, and I was like”, Ok?”

“Okay!”

“And we were fighting, and he knocked me out and carried me over his shoulder, and then he brought me to you, then when I was unconscious I had a fever dream of Iridesu exploding! There, done! Happy now?” Mike finished the story

“Very much so,” Muppet said

“Right! Let’s go save Iridesu!”

“Hey! Muppet! We’re going to save Mike 86-B!”

Muppet 86-B came out of the restaurant, shocked

“Mike… 86-B?”

“Yeah,” Muppet replied

“Mike Iridesu?”

“Yeah!” Mike Replied

“He’s my long-lost brother!”

“What the heck?!” Mike exclaimed

“Ehwhaaaaaat?!” Muppet was shocked!

“Yeahwhaaaaaat!” Muppet 86-B was shocked 

“Does that mean we’re…” Mike wondered

“No! No nooo!” Muppet stopped him “No way at all!!”

“Ok!” Muppet 86-B clapped his paws together “Let’s go!”

As Muppet, Mike and Muppet 86-B set off towards Mount Catatoa to save Mike Iridesu, they met Dr. Fluffball and someone he called “Johnny”

“Hi!” Fluffball greeted the group

“Hi!” Mike was ecstatic. “Who’s the new guy?”

“I’m Dr Johnny C Fluffball P.I., from dimension 78” Johnny had a thick Brooklyn accent. “No funny business, got it?”

“Okay… I’m Mike by the way!” Mike introduced himself “And this is Muppet and Muppet 86-B!” Mike pointed at the corresponding cat

“Call me Muppet Iridesu, I hail from Reality 86-B” Muppet 86-B introduced himself properly

“Just call me Muppet, I’m from Universe 485,” Muppet followed suit

“I’m from Universe 485 too!” Mike reintroduced himself

“Wait, Dimension 485! Fluffball’s from there!” Johnny realised

“We know! He’s our friend!”

“Oh! You must be Mike that Fluffball was always talking about! He said you were really annoying!”

“WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT ME?!” Mike was livid, so he ran towards Fluffball in an extremely menacing manner, “I’m going to make you wish that you could speak!” Mike yelled

“Woah! Stop it right there Mike!” Muppet outstretched his arm to hold Mike back from hurting Fluffball

“Lemme at him!” Mike struggled

“Nope.”

“Please!”

“Learn to get along!”

“Fine!” and with that, Muppet put his arm back and Mike ran at Fluffball

“Get away from me!” Fluffball screeched

“Mike! Nooooo!” Muppet tried to leap in order to stop Mike.

“Oh!” Mike was hugging Fluffball

“Sorry!” Mike said, “Could you tell us what happened before you found us!”

“Ok,”