BOOK 3

THE SECRET “TACTICAL WITHDRAWAL”

“Fluffball is not going to be happy about this,” Iridesu pointed out, he had just woken up.

“I know! But he’s in a soundproof box that is being lowered into the GE-59, he’s still sleeping!” Mike noted

“I’m not happy about this!” Muppet 86-B was angry “But I’m letting this pass because you gave me a bowl of some delicious noodles,” Muppet 86-B was happily chowing down on some noodles and tuna fish, and even though he didn’t want to, he got on the GE-59.

After everyone got onto the GE-59, Mike shut the door and set off to Universe 0, later on, Mike felt a pull towards an uncharted area of the Meowtiverse, and then he saw it, Universe 982, he only needed a pit stop here…

As Mike entered the Universe, he shouted to the rowdy soldiers, as they woke up in the dead of night,

“Who wants snacks?” a small groan came from all of the soldiers and Iridesu as if to say yes.

The void was white, and recognisable but strange; Muppet was alone here, he had been for years, after he was captured on Universe 86-A he was transported to this strange new Universe, maybe even a different Meowtiverse? In his first couple of days, Muppet was in a barren, white grassland; however by week two Muppet was in an old city, collapsing and crumbling, after about a month in the city, Muppet had gone back to the barren wasteland and had found a hideous monster, it was Muppet, but something was up with this version, it was glitching in and out of reality, it was lost, without a companion, perchance? Muppet went towards this being, watching it writhe, it was in pain too, blood coated some parts of the body, bones and muscle tissues poking out.

“What the hell are you?” Muppet whispered under his breath, why would the writer of this book, the creator of this universe (maybe), the person who gave Muppet a higher awareness, put Muppet through this! Muppet wondered if the writer had control of this place, or if they only had power over the Meowtiverse, as this place was nothing like anything Muppet had seen across anything in the Meowtiverse, this writhing, screaming, gruesome thing at his hind paws! Muppet decided to put it out of its misery, he unholstered the Salmon 905 from his belt and shot the being…

…the screaming stopped…

…Muppet began the domino chain.

UNIVERSE 982 TIME: 7:40 AM

Mike walked towards the small house, he knew someone was calling him there, Mike came to its door and knocked.

Knock Knock, Mike knocked in rapid succession.

The door screeched open…

“Sorry, the door needs oiling… wait, Mike?” said the black cat who answered the door.

“Hi, erm, how do you know my name?” Mike asked

“Oh, sorry, but I thought you died,”

“I haven’t, you are probably thinking of the Mike of this universe,”

“This universe?” The black cat questioned Mike’s sanity

“Universe 982, I’m from universe 485,” Mike answered confidently

“Ok, so, you are Mike, from another universe?”

“Yes,”

“Am I dead in that Universe?” The black cat asked,

“Who are you then?” Mike returned a question

“Mac Earnest Maxwell, best inventor in this universe,”

“Yeah, in my universe you’re dead,”

“What about Lotty?”

“Dead. died from dylemphite poisoning,”

“Oh my god,” Mac realised he had saved Lotty’s life

“Anyways, would you and Lotty like to help me?”

“With what?”

“Fighting off the Meowtiverse’s evil,”

“Sure.”

Afterwards, Mike, Mac and Lotty stocked up on supplies and took off in the GE-59.

UNIVERSE 0 2:00 PM

After a long, arduous travel, Mike and the small army in the GE-59 finally landed. They got there. The centre of existence itself. It was beautiful. As Mike hauled the last crate of supplies off of the GE-59, a small beeping sound was coming from the ship’s Universal Detection System. It formed a pattern “...---...” it was morse code.

“S…O…S?” Mike read (more rather listened to) the morse code.

BOOK 3.5

MUPPET’S RESCUE

While everyone was setting up base in Universe 0, Mike followed the distress signal in the GE-59, the journey was surprisingly quick, leading Mike to a white void.

UNKNOWN REGIONS, 2:20 PM

“HELP!” a voice echoed through the void.

It was Muppet’s.

Mike opened the console to the GE-59’s systems.

“OVERRIDE THRUSTER CONTROLS?” The computer asked

“Yes,” Mike said

“SORRY. VOICE NOT RECOGNISED.”

“You’re kidding me,”

“NO.”

“Yes.” Mike slightly pitched his voice up

“VOICE NOT RECOGNISED. WHOEVER YOU ARE, PLEASE CONSULT TECH SUPPORT.”

“I do not want to consult tech support,”

“YOU CAN CALL TECH SUPPORT ON 03141-”

“Stop!”

“FINE.”

“Yes,” Mike pitched his voice up much more

“VOICE RECOGNISED.”

“Thank tuna.”

“THAT WAS A LIE. I KNEW WHO YOU ARE ALL ALONG.”

Mike screamed and then hit the computer.

“NO NEED TO GET ANGRY.”

“Ok, Mike, you need to chill,” Mike said to himself

“THRUSTER OVERRIDE ACTIVE.” Mike increased the thrusters to 300%.

There he was, Muppet. Shouting for help. Mike slowly landed the GE-59 next to Muppet, and Muppet got on, the two discussed what was going on, but Mike, who hasn’t seen Muppet for a while, cried. He set the GE-59 to autopilot, ran over to Muppet and hugged him. Muppet accepted the hug, and the two were happy.

BOOK 4

THE FINAL BATTLE

UNIVERSE 0 3:00 PM

Mike prepped the GE-59 for an admittedly bumpy landing, it had been a long ride. Weapons had only just been shipped in, so the soldiers were unloading them. As Mike expected, everyone was shocked to know that Muppet was still alive, many gasps and head turns ensued.

After everyone was back at base, they took arms and waited, pointing their rifles and other various weaponry at the one portal, the one portal across the barren landscape. Then HE walked through, and everyone saw HIM, the one who had been orchestrating the meowtiverse for his deeds. Muppet got the waterarm, Mac loaded the rail gun, Lotty had a harpoon gun, Dr Fluffball primed the ray gun, Johnny held the safety in the off position on his revolver, Iridesu and Muppet 86-B got their Cat-Katanas out,  and Mike had himself, he knew of his powers, he knew how to use them, and he knew what he had to do.

THE VOID LORD rose, he’d taken on the form of Muppet, his hand morphed into a sharp spear, and The Void Lord flew towards Mike, and they fought.

Through the portal came duplicates of The Void Lord, just less powerful, they were void clones.

“すべての猫種に！私たちは一緒に立ち、一緒に倒れます!” Iridesu shouted at the top of his voice, filled with pure rage.

“What he said,” Mac agreed

All of the Cats yelled as they charged into battle.

“Y’know Void Guy, you aren’t as powerful as you look!” Mac remarked.

“Oh yeah?” the Void Clone sounded just like Muppet, only his voice was corrupted. “Because it seems like the only thing I’m up against is a weak little W̴̛̞̮̜͉͛̊̀͝Ő̶͙̮̠̘̼̗͔͖̌́̾̉̑͘R̸̺̠̤̻̻̤̻̺͍̔̈̋͒̄̄M̸̦͈̥̙̹͖̯̙̌̾̒͒̓̆̈͂!”

“How’s this for a weak little worm?” Mac charged his rail gun fully,

“Wait what are you doi-” Mac blasted the Void Clone in the chest using the rail gun, and the clone was blasted to bits.

“I thought my rail gun was powerful but not THAT powerful!”

“Urgh! You really are like me!” Muppet grunted, it had been a while since he’d fought.

“Yeah, but we don’t make the same mistakes as you do,” the clone laughed, Muppet scowled.

“But you still make mistakes,” Muppet calmly said as he noticed Mac’s rail gun firing “At least your Creator does,”

“What do you mean?” the Clone was angry at this revelation.

“Quite obviously, you are weak in the chest!” Muppet kicked as hard as he could. And the clone couldn’t see it coming, it fell to the floor and was trampled by Iridesu fighting another Clone.

“うわー、あなたはこれで吸う!” Iridesu remarked

“I was about to say that,” the Clone was getting tired of fighting Iridesu, the Clone may be powerful, but it was rubbish at fighting with a Katana, “Oh wait, I have something better than a Katana!”

“私の信頼できるカタナよりも優れたものはありますか?”

BANG!

Iridesu looked at his body, the bullet had gone through his left shoulder, completely destroying half of it.

“腰抜け” With that, Iridesu swung his blade into the clone’s neck, killing it. He then collapsed.

Lotty ran over to Iridesu, pulling out some bandages in an attempt to help Iridesu’s recovery.

“You can’t save him,” another clone declared

“Did I say I could?” Lotty pulled her harpoon gun out and shot the clone in the chest

“T-t-t-t-thanks,” Iridesu said

“I didn’t know you spoke Cat!”

“This is all of Cat that I can speak,”

“Ok, but let’s get you patched up!”

“Ah, You’re a wise guy, eh? Tryin’ to replicate my style of fighting.” Johnny was dodging the many hits of a clone

“No, I invented it! You simply copied it!” the clone lied

BANG!

A gun was fired, not between Johnny and the clone he was fighting, but somewhere else

“Now if you excuse me, I’ll be going” Johnny wanted to find the source of the gunfire

BANG! BANG! BANG!

The clone fell

“Oh, Mike. You’re cute; But unfortunately, I have to kill you,” The Void Lord laughed

“Uno reverse,” Mike said

"What?" The Void Lord was confused

"It means that what you said that will happen to me, happens to you," Mike explained

"Ohh I see, well then, Uno Reverse!" The Void Lord Shouted

"No! This can't be happening!" Mike felt himself getting weaker

"Oh no you don't," a voice came from behind Mike, suddenly, Muppet tackled The Void Lord and Muppet pulled The Void Lord upwards, Muppet was flying!

"I didn't know you could fly!" Mike exclaimed

"I always could! I just couldn't do it properly until I trained in the Void!" Muppet explained

"Where are you taking me?!" The Void Lord was furious

"To the Sun," Muppet said

"Idiot! You'll kill us both!" The Void Lord started to struggle

"I know. I'm Old! I'll be gone within the next few months anyways," Muppet started to cry.

"MUPPET!" Mike was crying too, he could hear what was happening.

Muppet kept on flying, and the space around him and The Void Lord kept getting hotter and hotter.

"NOOOOOOO!" The Void Lord shouted

The sun was right in front of them, The Void Lord and Muppet both died in the pure heat of the sun.

"MUPPET!" Mike was crying.

Muppet was Dead…

Epilogue

Mike sat on Muppet's bed, the world outside carried on. Mike sighed, it had been ten years since Muppet sacrificed himself.

Iridesu was holding his Morning coffee when he noticed Mike sitting on Muppet’s old bed.

“Sitting on Muppet’s bed again?” after Muppet’s passing, Iridesu tried to learn Cat, now he’s relatively fluent.

“Yeah, I miss him,”

“Same here, but Muppet wouldn’t want you lying about! He would want you to get up and help the citizens of Catville!” Iridesu comforted Mike, his left shoulder ached every now and then.

“Ok, I’ll get up, and by the way, where’s Mac?”

“Inventing something again”

“I should’ve known,”

Mike left the room and went to find Mac, Iridesu stayed in Muppet’s old room.

“I’ll miss you Muppet, but you died with honour, I shall see you when I’m older,”

THE END.