BOOK 3

FLUFFBALL’S SIDE

“I had found him, I had found Dwog, as I walked toward Mike, he obviously heard my footsteps coming from behind him as Dwog’s corpse rotted

“This is technically a crime scene, I don’t think you are a certified individual,” Mike had said to me. Mike turned around to face me, a handsome ginger tabby, holding my portal device

“What’s that?!” Mike asked me

“It’s my latest invention, it needs something from Dwog’s body,” I said, I needed the quantum stabiliser, something really important

“He may have been evil, but that does NOT give anyone the right to steal his stuff”

“Don’t get in my way!”

“And vice-versa”

“I know Muppet.”

“Tell me, what was the name of the teacher he drove out before he learnt his ‘R’s?”

“Miss Dayflower, I caught up with her recently. She’s doing well.”

“Ok, but I’m still not letting you touch this body!” Mike said, then the trespasser rushed over and slapped Mike with his bare hand

“WHAT!? It usually works!” I  exclaimed, Mike, a simple cat had managed to stop the golden touch with pure will

“What usually works?!” Mike was getting mad now

“You know King Midas, greek myth?”

“Yeah”

“Muppet and I worked on a project to make the Midas Touch a thing, I’m the first successful test subject. Muppet left me to rot after the AMIDS machine worked! I’m inventing this to-”

“Right, I’ve heard enough!” Mike hit me with his fist, I used a gun, don’t bring fists to a gunfight!

“Don’t do this Mike!”

“What? Wha? How? HOW DO YOU KNOW MY NAME?”

“I remember Muppet’s friend giving Muppet and me the news that you had been born with special… abilities”

“Like what? Anger issues?!”

“No! Special abilities!”

“Like what?”

“I don’t know! She never told us!”

“Is she Muppet’s guardian angel? I’m just wondering?”

“No, she’s a different friend”

“Okay, but tell me who my mother is”

“Sure! Her name is-”

“Fluffball! Buddy!” Said a voice from behind the rubble, it was Muppet

“Muppet! I haven't seen you in years!” I Rejoiced, I hadn’t seen Muppet in years!

“This ending is getting quite cheesy,” Mike said impatiently

“Oh, Yeah! My guardian angel is Lottie!” said Muppet

“Wait, Great Aunt Lottie?!” Mike was shocked

“Yeah, Great Aunt Lottie.” Muppet replied

“What were you working on then?” Mike asked me

“Just a simple portal device designed to-”

“I know what a portal device does,”

“This one also makes omelettes,”

“Give me one now!” Mike asked

“Maybe, but- OH!” the device slipped out of my fingers and fell onto the ground and it cracked open into a fluctuating quantum telportational portal or portal in layman’s terms

Mike, Muppet and I were sucked into the portal.

I fell into this world, it looked like the human new york, probably during the great depression, it even looked like a film from that era too! Anyways, I got up and walked along one of the pavements next to a road, that’s where someone yelled at me,

“Hey! You! Who are youse? I haven’t seen you around ‘ere before!”

“I’m Dr Fluffball! Who are you!?”

“Oh, we’ve got an English boy ‘ere!” the cat said in a mocking tone

“Well, yes, but do you know where-” I was interrupted mid sentence!

“Let’s get ‘im lads!” all of a sudden around a dozen cats leapt out at me and dragged me into an alleyway

“Argh! Get off me!”

“Look who’s screamin’ like a girl! We’ll show ‘im!” One of the cats punched me in the stomach.

“Ouf!”

“Stop right there!” said a cat from behind me, not part of the group

“Why should we?” The leader said

“Dr John C Fluffball P.I., Detective, if you do not put this innocent cat down I will be forced to notify the authorities.”

“Oh Salmon. SCRAM!” The Leader said, and all of the cats fled the scene

“Who are you?” John said

“Dr Charles J Fluffball PhD, Who are you?” John was stunned

“Dr John C Fluffball P.I., from dimension 78, what dimension are you from?”

“I’m from universe 485.”

“Wait, DIMENSION 485?!”

“I know, we haven’t developed portal technology yet! But I’m working on a portal device!”

“Ok, come with me,”

“Sure!”

“Call me Johnny,” Johnny said

“And call me Fluffball, also, I’ve lost my friends as they travelled through the portal too”

“Right then! What dimension do you need to go to?”

“A good calculation of how fast they were moving compared to me, we should need to go to Universe 108”

“Ok!”

Later, when Johnny and I came to his office, where John kept his Quantum Atomic Transporter (Or Q.A.T. for short) we sat down and has a quick coffee, spiked with some catnipiché, and we had a chat,

“So, Fluffball, what brings youse here?”

“Complete accident! I just accidentally broke my device and it sucked me and my friends in!”

“Ooh, better fix it when you get home!”

“Yeah,”

“Do you mind if I had a photo with youse?”

“Why?”
“Well, every version of me that I meet, I take a photo with!”

“Sure! How many have you met?”

“Around 800, but only 368 wanted to do the photo,”

“Okay, and which was your favourite and least favourite?”

“Fluffball 48 Was my least favourite as he was just pure evil, he owns realities 48, 46, 58, 84, 85 and 10. And Fluffball 86-A and Fluffball 86-B are my favourites, as they both love making me some sushi, and Fluffball 86-B is trained in martial arts, he taught me some Catjitzu! And Fluffball 86-A is great at art! He made me this painting!” Johnny pointed at a painting on the wall of Johnny learning Catjitzu with Fluffball 86-B. “They are inseparable, turns out that they are cousins, as their parents split off and married the other's counterparts of dimensions 86-A and 86-B”

“Is that incest? If so, is it legal to do that?”

“Technically it’s not as both of the counterparts are from different dimensions, it’s fully legal too but it is slightly frowned upon.”

“So it’s ok?”

“Very much so!” Johnny got up from his seat and gestured for me to do the same, he then led me downstairs into his basement, where he kept all of the photos. “Let’s set this up then,” Johnny pulled out a 1930s-era camera. “It was upgraded by Mac 86-B when I visited dimension 86-A, it now takes photos instantly rather than taking a while! It really helps me with my job! I’m just setting it to ten seconds,” Johnny then twisted a dial, “Say prunes!” Johnny put his arm around me and smiled, I followed suit and put a thumbs-up as well.

“Prunes!” I said

Later, the photo was on the wall with the rest of the photos

“Let’s get you to your friends, shall we?” Johnny ran over to a desk with a device on there that looked like my design, I guess great minds think alike!

“Ooh! By the way, my friend with the black coat is REALLY ANNOYING!”

“How come?”

“His demeanour is like a human child at the age of six years”

“Oof! That’s harsh! Wait, in human years or cat years?”

“In human years. Even though he is six in human years, he is forty-four in cat years!”

“Wow. How old are you, wait! Let me guess…”

“Forty-Nine years in cat years!” We answered at the same time

“Wait a minute. Are ALL Fluffballs the same age?”

“No, it’s just around 98% are the same age,”

“Oh, ok.”

“Anyways! Better find your friends.”

“Yeah,” Johnny held my paw as he switched on the device

“Hold on tight!” Johnny shouted as we fell through universes

“How often does this sort of thing happen to you?!” I had to shout over the loud noise of the rushing wind, the only thing that was still around as we fell through universes

“Do you mean with someone losing their friends?!”

“Yeah!”

“Not often, the last time it happened was around 1922!”

“Around a hundred years ago?!”

“No! Your dimension runs on a different year than mine! It’s currently 1932!”

“Oh! How come you have technology from that era in my universe?!”

“I don’t know! But we still have portal technology!”

“Yeah!”

“Get ready to land!” Johnny pointed his paws downwards, as you would know, we always land on our feet-”

“What about me?” Mike interrupted

“Yeah, you aren’t very good at that,”

“Oh,”

“Yeah! Do you remember when you thought you could survive a fall from the tallest building in all of Cat Planet” Muppet was interrupting himself with small laughs

“Oh! The Tuna Tower?”

“Yeah!”

“I don’t remember that. I have a slight case of amnesia, remember?”

“I thought we got rid of that!”

“No! You just got me to remember who I was! I don’t really remember past events!”

“Good point, but you were in the hospital for a week before the doctors diagnosed you with Gyroscopicnewtontunafishaphobicfallingandlanding disorder?”

“I don’t remember that at all,”

“Oh,”

“What does that mean?”

“It means that you can’t point your paws down before you land,”

“Oh, so that’s why I can’t make landings like you do Muppet!”

“Yeah,”

“Anyways!” Fluffball interrupted, “Aren’t I supposed to be telling you what happened?”

“Oh yeah! Please, continue!” Mike said

“Anyways, since we always land on our feet, we landed on the hard, concrete floor of Universe 108, the Universe is filled with smoking factories.

“They’ll probably either be in the lost and found or the forced labour section” Johnny noted

“WHAT?! FORCED LABOUR?!”

“Yeah,”

“WHY WOULD THEY-”

“In this dimension, forced labour is very common,”

“WHAT ABOUT-”

“SHHH!”

“Why?!”

“Too much noise will lead to being in forced labour,”

“Oh, thanks for letting me know,”

“You’re welcome,” then, a voice boomed over a microphone

“WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF YOUR VISIT?” it bellowed

“We’re looking for some friends who may have come to this dimension,” Johnny said in the way that a government official would

“WHAT ARE THEIR NAMES?”

“Uhh, Mike and Muppet!” I piped up

“VERY WELL, WE HAVE FOUND THEM” Then, two claw arms holding a cat each came round to Johnny and me.

“HERE THEY ARE, WORKERS 5285 AND 5286” These were not my Muppet and Mike”

Everyone gasped

“WHAT?!” Mike exclaimed

“NO!” Muppet was shocked

“OH!” Muppet 86-B was frozen solid with shock

“Wait! We know that, as we’re here and not there!” Mike reminded Muppet

“Oh yeah!” Muppet agreed

“Anyways, these cats were Muppet 108 and Mike 108, Muppet 108 was an obvious alcoholic, as at that moment he was wasted, way past drunkness.

“Aryrouagh! Eewaruwae!” Muppet 108 was spewing out gibberish

Meanwhile, Mike 108 was also drunk,

“Uh Whoo are you! Myy name isssssss Mike! Ha! Ha! Haaa!” He shouted

“These aren’t ours!” Johnny noted

“WE SHALL TAKE THEM BACK!” then, the claw hand took back the two cats

“Ayyyawhereedoyathinkawereagouneaaaaa!” Muppet 108 cried out

“Ay! I’ve been working 24/7 for 10 years! Lemme go!” Mike 108 struggled as the claw hand put them back inside the hulking factory.

“Wrong dimension I guess,” Johnny said

“Eh, no worries!” I said

“So, what dimension’s next?”

“Maybe try 86-B”

“Ok!” Then, Johnny opened a portal beneath us and we fell through.

Later, after checking universes 86-B, 12-C, 489-A, 3 and 675, we came to universe 86-A, where we found you two, so then we told you what happened, and then here we are, right now,”

“We’re at Mount Catatoa!” Muppet noted

“About time!” Mike said, punching his fists together

“Let’s get ready,” Fluffball was nervous, but still showed great courage

“This place reeks of evil” Johnny had his hand on his holster

“We can do this!” Muppet 86-B could hear Iridesu shouting for help

BOOK 4

THE BEGINNING OF THE END…

The climb was rough, the shouts for help grew louder with each step, and it began to rain heavily, and the wind picked up, it was a storm.

“Urgh! Water!” Mike complained

“Yeah! Yuck!” Muppet agreed

“I hate this!” Dr Fluffball seconded Muppet’s agreement

“Why do youse three hate water?” Johnny said “Nobody hates water!”

“That’s your Universe! In mine, barely anyone likes water except when they drink it!” Dr Fluffball shouted to Johnny

“Oh yeah! Sorry! I forgot!” Johnny shouted back

“Muppet! Just to ask, who is my mother?” Mike asked Muppet

“Her name is-” The wind got too loud for anyone to hear anyone speak

“What?!” Mike shouted, Muppet couldn’t hear him, then they reached the top of the mountain

“So, you come here to rescue your friend? Oh, look at you with your compassion!” said Dark Mike

“You! Stay away from Mike Iridesu!” Muppet shouted

“You, hmmmm, I’d rather go for your form!”

“I’m not giving up my body without a fight!”

“Oh what a shame! Little Muppet doesn’t want to give in to an the most powerful being in all of space! I’m shaking in my boots!”

“So you have sarcasm, I like it. We could’ve been friends, but, you are an interdimensional being with zero compassion and empathy who is the second most powerful being in all of space, you would be brilliant at a party! Too bad you’re a terrible being, if you are a being at all”

“Enough! I challenge you to a fight! Just us, if you win, you get your puny friend back, and I’ll go back to a dormant state, if I win, you’ll still have your friend back, but I’ll get your body! Deal?”

“Deal.” Muppet agreed

The fight was brutal, fur flying, blood pouring, dark matter leaking, meowing, hissing.

Then Muppet fell…

Epilouge

“Hello reader! Muppet here!” Muppet greeted you to the start of change

“The real Muppet, honest! I would like to tell you that I’m fine, you’ll see me next book, the final book in my saga, The Muppet Saga. Now I know you’re saying: but that is a rip-off of Star Wars, it’s not intentional. Now, the last chapter was short, the reason is, we don’t need a long fight,  violence doesn’t solve anything, reader! Don’t you worry, book four is a long way away, so keep this series in the back of your mind, but always remember, I’ll be here, waiting for you in the next book,” - Muppet