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[alley_kit]

OOC Information

NAME: Susan/Tanks

AGE: 31

OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A

IC Information

CHARACTER NAME: Wily-Kit

AGE: 8 1/2

CANON: Thundercats (2011)

CANON POINT: Just after the end of the "What Lies Above" 2-parter.

FAMILY TYPES: Jungle Troopers: Kit lost her father when she was even younger than she is now, and, along with her twin brother, struck out on their own to try and help their family. Since then, she's had to overcome a great many hardships and difficulties, but still maintains a positive attitude.
Unknown: Kit is a little girl, and thus, despite her somewhat wise beyond her years nature, sometimes make typical little-kid mistakes. Many aspects of her personality have yet to fully establish themselves, and while she has a lot of potential, she's still got a lot to learn.
Virus Busters: Despite everything that's happened to her, Kit is still very much a good person. While she is mischievous and likes to play tricks, they're always of the playful rather than malicious variety. She won't harm anybody that doesn't try to hurt her first, is generally kind, and tries to do the right thing.

APPEARANCE: Kit is a Thunderkitten, about 3.5 feet tall and a bit thin and bony due to her rather rough life. Most of her body is covered in short, two-toned tan fur, though the fur is only really obvious on her tail, where it's thicker. What seems to be her hair is really her big furry ears, though given that she nearly always wears them tied back, this isn't obvious. She has small claws on both her hands and feet that can be used for climbing, and a set of tiny fangs in her mouth. Her eyes are orange, with vertical pupils, but also with visible sclera (the white part of the eye). She can pass as human easily enough so long as she wears shoes and her tail is hidden by clothing, her more feline features only obvious when one looks closely.

PERSONALITY: Wily-Kit is young, but in many ways is wise beyond her years, displaying a level of insight and intuition beyond what most would expect. She is still a child, however, with all the faults and foibles of one. She can whine a bit when things aren't to her liking, though she knows when to be serious. And, like her brother Wily-Kat, she's well aware of how cute she is, and isn't above using this to her advantage. She's mischievous, playful, and friendly, and tends to make friends easily.

Her tricks are never malicious, though, and her furry little body houses a very kind, caring heart. Her friends and family are very dear to her, and she is sometimes prone to taking foolish risks in order to protect them. When it matters, though, Kit is as loyal as they come, and will never give up on those she cares about, even when things seem hopeless.

Though she's illiterate, lacking any kind of formal education, she's actually quite clever and a fast learner. She taught herself basic arithmetic and how to count money in order to help keep track of her and Wily-Kat's supplies while they were living on the streets of Thundara. She's also quite skilled at playing her favorite musical instrument, a ring-shaped, flute-like instrument called a flupe, which she plays entirely by ear; it's unlikely she's ever even seen sheet music. She also carries around a charcoal stick or two, and seems to dabble in drawing a bit. She's a capable pickpocket as well, and can pick most ordinary locks, though electronic locks will likely leave her stumped due to her general lack of familiarity with most technology.

She's the more cautious of the twins, as well as being somewhat calmer, and is known to try to warn her brother away from potentially dangerous things. Though she went along with it fairly easily, she questioned Wily-Kat's idea of running away from home to search for El Dara, concerned about what their mother would think. And once in Thudara proper, despite their increasingly desperate circumstances, she initially cautioned against stealing. And when the elephant village fell under attack by a giant rock creature, instead of panicking like her brother did, she went to join the elephants in meditation, trusting that it would do something. She seems to have taken the elephants' spiritualism to heart as well, and brings it up at at least one point after the cats have moved on.

Kit, and her brother Kat as well, have always valued family above all else, a fact commented on by their father. Though Kit and her brother Kat have always been especially close (being twins and all), this applied to the rest of their family as well, both their blood relations and (eventually) the surrogate family they met along their travels. In fact, one could say that helping and protecting family of one sort or another is ultimately the driving force behind most of the kittens' actions.

Before the death of her father, Kit was poor, but for the most part, happy.  Still, she didn't like seeing her mother worry or her father having to work so hard all the time. Being too little to move around the huge vegetables they grew, how much she could do to help was limited, but she and Kat did as much as they could. After their father's death, though everything changed, The kittens previously simple life would never be the same. And with their mother struggling to provide for her four children to the point of depriving herself of food, the kittens made a decision. Kit was hesitant to run away, as their vanishing would no doubt make their mother worry more, but the chance to potentially do some good for her family won out. 

Though doing so proved much harder than they'd planned, not once did the kittens consider giving up and returning home empty handed. Even alone and starving on the streets of Thundara's slums, they stuck to their plan, and to each other. They learned to steal to feed themselves, to play up their cuteness to help them out, and when to fight and when to run. And always together. Though typical brother-sister squabbles could and did happen from time to time, on the streets, the kittens learned to rely on each other, and enhanced their already close relationship as twins with trust borne out of necessity. Without each other, and the common hope and goal of providing a better life for their family, it's unlikely the kittens would have retained anywhere close to the cheerful outlook they currently have. They ate, slept, stole, lived, struggled, and (could have) died together, always, and being without her brother- for literally the first time since they were in the womb-, will no doubt be one of the more personal challenges Kit will face in Terminal Tokyo.

The fall of Thundara left the kittens somewhat (more) in the lurch, though the timely appearance of Lion-O, Tygra, and Cheetara provided them with an opportunity. While at first Kit and Kat were more interested in simple company and protection, as they had no idea if there were even any other cats left, the adult Thundercats quickly developed into a sort of surrogate family for them. Lion-O became an other brother, close enough to their age to relate to, but old enough to look up to as well. Tygra was another older brother, more aloof, but also more  sympathetic to the kitten's situation, his cleverness and skill making him a physical role model as much as Lion-O was an emotional one. Cheetara filled both an older sister and surrogate mother role to the kittens. Though she didn't baby them, as the most sensitive of the original three adult cats, she completed the trio of relationships, serving as the voice of sense when Lion-O and Tygra's competitive natures got the better of them and helping to keep them all focused on their goals, showing somewhat greater concern for the kittens than Lion-O did originally. Prior to meting the elephants, Cheetara also served as both Kit and the group at large's spiritual center.

Panthro, while not quite making father figure territory, became a grumpy but still caring uncle in Kit's eyes, and by the time they face Mumm-Ra in the Tower of Omens, it was clear that the kittens had accepted Panthro into their surrogate family, the kittens throwing themselves at Mumm-Ra in his Ever Living form to protected the briefly stunned Panthro. A very foolish decision, but very typical of Kit, who doesn't always think when those she cares for are threatened.

Pumyra, the kittens never really got a chance to get know as well as the others, which was likely just as well, considering her true alligence. Whatever friendship may have been developing, though, was cast aside when they saw what she and Mumm-Ra had cone to their surrogate family, and she was just as much a subject of their attack order as was her master. 

One thing has been made clear again and again; Kit, perhaps even more than her brother, doesn't like to see families broken up. She's seen the harm it causes, and refuses to let it happen again. And while it doesn't always lead to the best of decisions, a broken family (or friendship) something she'll always try to prevent, or, failing that, to help repair.

From wanting to help support her biological family, to weeping with her brother at the loss of their tiny friend Emerik the Petalar, to leaping to the defense of her spiritual mentor Aburn the elephant without thought, to fretting over the fate of her new friend Rober Bill,  to comforting and encouraging a desponent Lion-O after the loss of the Tech Stone and Pumyra's betrayal, Kit has always proved to be sensitive to the plights of others, especially those she cares for. And, as her and Kat's defense of Panthro shows, she won't hesitate to risk her own life and safety for those she's deemed part of her surrogate family, no matter the odds. Ultimately, they're what comes first for her, now and always.

HISTORY: Wily-Kit's pre-show backstory can be found here.

Wily-Kit and her twin brother Wily-Kat were introduced as pickpockets living in Thundara's slums. Kit would put potential marks into a trance with her flupe after posing as a harmless street musician, then her brother would rob them. They clearly dreamed of bigger and better things, though, talking of searching for the treasure-city of El Dara even as they sat down to a scrounged dinner in their hovel. During the attack on Thundara, the two of them narrowly avoided being blown to bits when one of the Lizard's missiles struck a civilian shelter.

After the siege and fall of Thundara to Mumm-Ra and the Lizard army, Kit and her brother were found scrounging in the ruins before joining Lion-O, Tygra, and Cheetara on their journey, claiming that they weren't following the other three cats, they were simply walking in front of them. Lion-O, at the time obsessed with destroying Mumm-Ra and avenging his father, initially wanted to leave the kittens behind, claiming that he didn't want to babysit, but didn't try to chase them away. Eventually they were captured by a group of fish-people called the Koi, who initially wanted to eat all the Thundercats, but changed their minds after the cats helped fight off an attack by the plant-monster they'd been hunting, the Ramlak. The kittens even helped, biting the creature's nearest vine/tentacle. They were then taken below the sand-ship's deck and fed by the ship's cook who was just trying to fatten them up before eating them himself. The kittens were well aware of this, however, and escaped by stuffing an extremely spicy snack into the cook's mouth and running off. After the final battle with the Ramlak and the restoration of the Koi's oasis, Cheetara questioned Lion-O as to what should be done with the kittens, at which point he reiterated that he had no plans to babysit, but that the kittens had proven they could take care of themselves.

Later, while camped out for the night in a forest, Kit was dared by her brother to kiss an 8-legged amphibian called a froog. After a bit of taunting, she did, only to be startled when the creature flicked its tongue out at her, much to her brother's amusement. As Kit chased him around angrily, the other cats spotted the lizard army approaching, after which Lion-O led them all into a huge mass of brambles to hide from the lizards overwhelming force. It was there that they met a race of tiny plant people called the Petalars, including one in particular known as Emerick. It was only later that they discovered that the Petalars entire lifetime was only a single day, as they watched Emerick grow from a small child into a man in the space of hours while they tried to find a way out of the briar for both the Petalars and themselves. At one point the cats were ambushed by a group of three lizard commandos that Slithe had sent into the briar to capture them, but the cats defeated them with the Petalar's help, the kittens pelting a lizard that could turn invisible with fruit to reveal his location. Slithe eventually set fire to the brambles, hoping to either burn the cats alive or smoke them out, but the fire created wind, allowing the tiny Petalars to drift away on it and escape the brambles. Their friend Emerick wasn't among them, though, his short life having passed, and he died peacefully in Lion-O's hands as both the kittens and Lion-O himself cried. Then, inspired by (if rather misinterpreting) Emerick's final words, Lion-O cast the Thundercat emblem into the sky with the Sword of Omens and led all the cats in a charge out of the brambles to face the overwhelming lizard army. As expected, they were quickly overwhelmed, and would have been killed... if not for the timely arrival of Panthro in the Thundertank.

The tank, though, proved to be low on the Thundrylium it needed for fuel, so Lion-O, Panthro, Tygra, and Cheetara went to get some from the lizard-controlled Cloud Peak Mine. The kittens remained behind with Snarf in the Thundertank.

With the Thundertank successfully refueled, the cats resumed their search for the Book of Omens, Lion-O attempting to use the Sword of Omens' 'sight beyond sight' to find it, though he was having difficulty. Cheetara tried to help him using a rather hands on approach, which only left Lion-O more flustered, not helped much by Kit implying that they were trying to get romantic. Cheetara related to the kittens the history of the Book of Omens (or so she believed at the time), but story-telling was quickly forgotten as the entrance to the Tower of Omens was discovered. The cats made their way through the temple's booby traps, the kittens saving the Thundercats from one of them by picking a lock on a door, only to accidentally trigger another one when they reached for some gold coins at the bottom of a pool of water. After making it through the temple's traps and to the Tower itself, Mumm-Ra confronted the group, having been led there by the captive spirit of Jaga. Mumm-Ra changed from his decrepit form into Mumm-Ra, The Ever Living, and attacked the Thundercats. Lion-O and Tygra raced up the tower steps to get the Book while Panthro and Cheetara held off Mumm-Ra. Panthro and Cheetara were quickly disabled, however, leaving the kittens temporarily on their own. Despite being ridiculously outmatched, the tried to defend the momentarily stunned Panthro, charging the huge demon-mummy, only to be blown backwards by the force of the wind from his wings as he took off after Lion-O and the Book. The twins were then brought to the top of the tower by a recovered Panthro, where Lion-O had claimed the Book of Omens after Jaga had sacrificed himself to drive Mumm-Ra away. It was there they all discovered that the Book was in fact blank.

While Lion-O examined the Book of Omens, attempting to figure out how to work it, Kit and Kat spent some time sparring/playing with Cheetara at the base of the Tower of Omens while Tygra watched and Panthro napped nearby. After Lion-O’s attempts to activate the Book resulted in him being shocked unconscious and his mind pulled into the depths of the Book itself, Snarf descended the Tower to retrieve the others, who were all present when Lion-O awoke, declaring that he knew what they needed to do.

While Tygra and Panthro attempted to hook the Book up to the Thundertank, Lion-O and Snarf went in search of supplies. The kittens both stayed behind with the other adult cats, awaiting Lion-O’s return.

A little while later, the cats were stranded in a rainy forest of giant mushrooms, due to the Thundertank having broken down. Panthro’s attempts to fix it resulting in it blowing a fuse, filling the interior with smoke and forcing the others out into the rain. The Thundercats weren’t pleased about it, but they had little choice but to sleep outside in the rain, taking what shelter they could under the giant mushrooms. When the Thundercats woke up, though, they found that someone had built a shelter for them while they were sleeping, as well as leaving them baskets of brightly colored candy fruit to eat. Kit and Kat loved the candy fruit, though all the sugar made them super-hyper. The Cats’ mysterious benefactors soon revealed themselves; a race of adorable robotic teddy bears that called themselves the Ro-Bear Berbils. The Berbils escorted the cats back to their nearby village, where their apparent leader, Rober Bill, introduced them to his family; his wife Rober Bella and their son, Rober Beebo. It was thenthat an alarm sounded; a slave trader named Conquedor attacked the village, looking to capture the defenseless Ro-Bear Berbils to sell as slaves. Though the Thundercats tried to fight him and his massive capture/combat vehicle off, in the end, he escaped with a number of captured Berbils, including Rober Bill’s wife and son, and Bill himself was badly damaged. The Cats watched worriedly as the other Berbils tried to repair Bill, Kit herself looking especially worried clearly trying not to cry, before Panthro stepped in to assist. With Panthro’s help, Bill was fixed, and Panthro found himself hugged by the group of grateful Berbils, much to his annoyance. Until they took him outside, that is, and showed him the Thundertank, which they’d used their considerable building skills to modify and fix up; causing Panthro, of all people, to weep tears of joy. While Lion-O, Tygra, Cheetara, and Rober Bill went to rescue the captured Berbils, Kit and Kat stayed behind in the village, snacking on candy fruit. The rescue was successful, but the Conquedor was coming back, this time with reinforcements. Panthro, however, had hit on a plan to help defend the village, using the Berbil’s building skills to rig it with traps. Along with the other Thundercats, Kit and Kat helped in the ensuing battle, eating candy fruit to gain a brief boost of super-speed from the sugar rush, and taunting the slow moving Giantors that the Conquedor had brought along, leading him into one of the booby traps. With the Conquedor thoroughly beaten and the village protected from future intrusion by the traps, the Thundercats prepared to move on, but not before the kittens caught Panthro sharing a hug with his new friend Rober Bill, teasing him about being a big softie. He asked rather pointedly if the kittens had a problem with that, to which they quickly declared they didn’t before scampering off.

The Thundercats, following the Book of Omens’ directions to the next power stone, raced across the desert in the Thundertank, turning it into a literal race when Lion-O and Tygra took off in the tanks’ detachable, motorcycle-like pods. The kittens urged Panthro to go faster, but he wasn’t interested in racing… until Cheetara taunted him about not caring about losing, at which point he opened up the Thundertank’s throttle, chasing after Lion-O and Tygra. Cheetara hopped out of the tank, joining the race on foot. Meanwhile, the Wily-Kat pushed a button in the tank, thinking it might make it go faster. However, what it really did was launch a bunch of missiles, which the other racers had to evade. They soon arrived at their destination, a village inhabited by the huge but gentle elephants. Though having very poor memories, the elephants were very wise, following a philosophy of harmony and balance and practicing frequent meditation. The elephant’s spiritual leader, Anet, offered to help Lion-O practice with the Sword of Omens’ ‘sight beyond sight’, with which he’d been struggling. The other cats split up through the village until a swarm of huge wasp-like creatures called the wraiths attacked the village, carrying off much of the elephants’ harvest. While Lion-O struck out alone to take care of the threat, Kit and Kat stayed behind in the village, sitting atop a wall while Kit played her flupe. Aburn, one of the elephants, came over to speak to Kit, commenting on the sadness of the song she played, wherein she revealed that it was a lullaby their mother had used to hum to them. Kit soon resumed her playing, only to have Aburn join in with his own natural trumpet. Eventually this resulted in Kit and Aburn leading an impromptu parade around the village. The parade culminated in a powerful note from Kit’s flupe and the elephants’ trunks that shattered several nearby stone statues. Aburn explained that it was because they had achieved perfect harmony, “a beautiful and powerful thing.” Kit was very impressed. Upon Lion-O’s return, it was discovered that eliminating the wraiths was a mistake, as their buzzing had kept a massive rock-monster dormant. The adult Thundercats tried to fight of the rock monster, but were quickly subdued, while the elephants went to meditate. Kat was clearly at something of a loss, starting to panic a bit, but Kit joined the elephants in meditation, trusting that it would help. As the rock monster got closer, though, starting to devour the village, Kit began to get worried, asking Aburn what she should do. Aburn said to just let the answer come to her. She considered for a moment, then began playing her flupe, the elephants soon joining in, producing another rock breaking harmony, though this time, it caused the rock monster to crumble, rather than shattering statues. Afterward, Anet suggested that Lion-O go to the Forest of Magi Oar, one of the most enchanted places on Third Earth, in order to hone his ‘sight beyond sight’.

Upon arriving in the Forest of Magi Oar, the Thundercats began to set up camp for the night. Tygra stated that one didn’t have to be a Cleric to feel the magic of the place, while Cheetara commented on the dark, brooding air the place had, as if it were inhabited by spirits. The kittens seemed excited by the possibility of there being ghosts around, briefly imitating classic bed-sheet ghosts with a tent canvas until Panthro told them to quit fooling around and go gather firewood. Somewhat reluctantly, the kittens and Snarf went off into the forest to do so. The kittens, however, sought to make a boring chore into a game by playing a trick on Snarf, who was obviously unnerved by the dark woods and the talk of ghosts, hiding in the bushes, then leaping out to scare him. They all had a good laugh about it, and soon returned to camp with some firewood. Things were quiet at the campsite, with Kit, Kat, and Snarf sleeping while Lion-O and Tygra talked around the campfire… until Lion-O threw in some of the wood that the kittens had gathered. The fire flared blue, and spirits emerged from the wood, proceeding to attack the Thundercats. It quickly became clear that none of the Thundercats’ weapons could harm the spirits, not even the Sword of Omens, which mysteriously refused to function. Things were looking bad, until a group of three martial-artists wielding magical paper weapons suddenly appeared. Gami, the woman of the trio, folded a paper dragon that came to life and grew to an enormous size, attacking the spirits. Snips, the shortest and stoutest, attacked with self-propelled, magic-infused throwing stars and fan blades. And Zigg, the leader, used calligraphy to draw a bottle in which to imprison the spirits. The Thundercats were grateful for the rescue, Kit seeming particularly impressed. The martial-artists introduced themselves as the Wood Forgers, and led the Thundercats back to their School of Paper Arts. Zigg explained that the Wood Forgers were the protectors of the forest, and were attempting to keep it safe from a huge, griffon-like beast named Viragor. He took them on a tour of the school, showing them the paper mill where they used the forest’s magical trees to make their magic infused paper. Cheetara was concerned about whether the forest could sustain the amount of clear-cutting the Wood Forgers were doing in order to feed their paper mill, but Zigg dismissed her concerns, saying that the forest was vast, and the destruction necessary in order to protect it. It wasn’t long before Viragor attacked the school, the Thundercats joining the Wood Forgers in an attempt to repel him, but in the ensuing battle, Cheetara’s staff was destroyed and the Sword of Omens once again refused to function. Taking a gamble, Lion-O used the claw gauntlet’s grapplers to lasso Viragor’s leg and was subsequently carried off. The gamble proved correct as Viragor revealed to Lion-O the real nature of the Wood Forgers, and himself; Viragor was the true protector of the forest, and the Wood Forgers, while once allowed as guests, had turned sinister under Zigg’s leadership, and were damaging the forest for selfish gain. The Sword wouldn’t work against Viragor or the spirits because it couldn’t be used against a force for good. Back at the school, the kittens were worried, as Zigg implied that Lion-O had been killed by Viragor. The adult cats assured him that this was not the case, as was proven a few moments later when both of them reappeared, Lion-O riding on Viragor’s back. Upon landing, Lion-O confronted Zigg and the Wood Forgers about what Viragor had told him, at which point the Wood Forgers turned their attacks on the Thundercats. The Thundercats and Viragor battled the Wood forgers, the kittens assisting Cheetara and eventually cutting her out of a paper cage that Snips had trapped her in. Lion-O defeated Zigg using the Sword of Omens, and Zigg was banished from the forest, Viragor taking over leadership of the School of Paper Arts in his place. Viragor gave Cheetara a new staff, made from a branch of the oldest tree in the forest, as an apology for breaking her original one, which Cheetara humble accepted. Lion-O, employing newly learned lessons about perspective and seeing the big picture, used the Sword of Omens to search for the Spirit Stone again… this time actually being able to see where it was, and confidently said that it was time to go and get it.

The Thundercats headed back to the Elephant Village in the Thundertank. While the other adult cats attempted to explain to Panthro that the stone was in the astral plane, Kit talked with her brother about how she was excited to be heading back to the Elephant Village and for the chance to see Aburn again. Kat expressed doubt that the forgetful Aburn would even remember them, and asked Kit why she was so excited to be going back. Kit replied that it was because the Elephant Village felt like home. Kat then pulled out the page they had with the drawing of El Dara on it and stated that they would be home when they got to the lost city. As they approached the Elephant Village, though, the realized that they were too late; the village was surrounded by Grune and the lizard army. Lion-O opted to wait until nightfall to sneak into the village and rescue the elephant hostages, a strategy that Tygra disagreed with, his rivalry with Lion-O having been more obvious and intense lately. The cats snuck into the elephant village after dark, and all was going well… until Kit heard Grune give the order to start killing the elephant hostages, starting with Aburn. Kit jumped up on a rock and stated that no one was to hurt her friend. The cats were quickly captured after that and forced to surrender their weapons. Grune demanded that they tell him where the stone was, and Lion-O explained about the hut in the village being a gateway to the astral plane before being coerced into opening said gateway with the Sword of Omens. The way open, Grune ordered both the cats and the elephants killed, and may well have succeeded, if not for Tyrgra, who’d slipped off earlier, tearing onto the scene in the Thundertank. Grune and the lizards were temporarily driven off, and Lion-O and Tygra were free to enter the astral plane and search for the Spirit Stone, though not before Anet warned Lion-O that before the evening bell the following night, he would feel horribly betrayed by his brother. And Lion-O and Tygra were not alone in the astral plane; Mumm-Ra slipped in as well, in the form of a large crow, intending to get rid of both of them and get the stone for himself…

While Lion-O and Tygra battled Mumm-Ra and each other in the astral plane, the rest of the cats watched uneasily as Grune and what seemed to be the entire lizard army surrounded the elephant village. The kittens, observing the army with Panthro suggest that Grune is probably scared, whereupon Panthro explained to them how Grune came to lose one of his saber fangs. Panthro and Grune had been escaped prisoners of war, on the run together, when they’d stumbled into the lair of the giant spider monster Spydera. Cornered, and with no weapons, Grune had ripped out one of his own fangs to use as a dagger to slay the creature. Afterward, Panthro related, he had asked Grune why he had done so, where upon Grune had replied that ‘any price was worth the defeat of your enemy’. The kittens looked noticeably disturbed by this story. Back in the village, the cats noticed that the lizards were closing in. Kit went to meditate with the elephants on the matter, while her brother and the others took a more active role in trying to repel Grune and the lizards. Panthro and Grune ended up fighting one-on one, while the other attempted to defend the hut containing the gateway to the astral plane. They came close to failure, until suddenly… Anet stepped in, dispatching the lizard war-mech threatening Cheetara and Wily-Kat and proceeding to ben Slithes laser weapon in half with ease. Protests that elephants never fought were answered by Anet stating that while it was rare, when the elephants did fight, they fought to win. Kit appeared, riding on Aburn’s shoulder and stated that the lizards had just awakened a village of sleeping giants before cheering, “Thundercats, ho!” Working together, the elephants and the Thundercats thoroughly trashed the lizard army, even as Lion-O and Tygra escaped the collapsing astral plane with the Spirit Stone now embedded in Lion-O’s claw gauntlet. Panthro held Grune in the collapsing astral plane gateway, Grune telling Panthro to pull him out or they’d both die, but Panthro echoed Grune’s earlier words about any sacrifice being worth the defeat of one’s enemy. The astral plane collapsed taking Grune… and both Panthro’s arms with it. His reaction was short and sweet: “Worth it.” Later, the cats and the elephants celebrated their victory, Kit playing her flupe along with several other musicians. Meanwhile, Cheetara revealed her true feelings to Tygra, and they kissed… which was witnessed by Lion-O, just before the evening bell rang.

Not especially long after the Thundercats’ victory at the Elephant Village, the kittens were racing along on their new hoverboards, thoroughly enjoying themselves, only to run into a lizard patrol. The kittens fled, and the lizards gave chase, eventually winding up with the lizards cornering the kittens in a box canyon… or so it seemed. In reality, the kittens had been luring the lizards into an ambush. Lion-O, Tygra, and Cheetara attacked the lizards, quickly subduing them. When ask what they were going to do with the captive lizards, Lion-O released them, stating that there had already been mass desertions after it had become clear that Mumm-Ra viewed the lizards as expendable, and giving them the choice of returning to the battlefield or returning to their families. The freed lizards left quietly. Meanwhile Cheetara thanked Tygra for watching her back in the fight with a kiss on the cheek. Tygra’s reply that ‘Cheetara’s back was easy to watch’ elicited a rather disgusted reaction from the nearby kittens, Kat in particular. Lion-O, attempting to hide his own discomfort, told Tygra and Cheetara that he was happy for them both, though it was clear that he wasn’t entirely sincere. Back at the nearby Berbil village, the Berbils were attempting to build Panthro some prosthetic arms. Lion-O walked in just in time to see them unveil… a pair of adorable Berbil arms attached to Panthro. Lion-O was clearly amused as he reported to Panthro what had been happening, but refrained from laughing. As the other cats sent another lizard patrol on its way, Lion-O confronted Cheetara about their relationship, leading to some hurt feelings. Back at the Berbil village, Panthro’s second set of arms looked much more promising… until they started going haywire and hitting things at random, including Panthro himself. The next time the cats lay in wait for a lizard patrol, they were surprised to not that, not only was the patrol herding a group of lizards that they’d previously freed, but that there were two new, and brutal-looking faces that seemed to be in charge alongside Slithe; Addicus, a savage ape, and Kaynar, the crazed and bloodthirsty jackal. Deciding that this encounter would be too dangerous, Lion-O sent the kittens back to the Berbil village, much to their disappointment. Upset with Tygra and Cheetara Lion-O charged in recklessly, confronting the three, but was quickly backed up by his two companions when Mumm-Ra’s three generals were about to attack. Meanwhile, the kitten’s returned to the Berbil village, where Panthro’s new arms were finally in working order. They told Panthro that the others looked to be in over their heads, whereupon Panthro and the kittens headed back out to join them. Back at the battle, Lion-O, Tygra, and Cheetara had been defeated and were about to be killed… until the new, much bigger Thundertank roared onto the scene, scattering Mumm-Ra’s generals and allowing the cats the chance to escape. Panthro told the other’s not to be discouraged; they had lost a battle, not the war, but Lion-O was still obviously displeased.

The cats consulted the Book of Omens, hoping to find the location of the next power stone. The Book, however, pointed them straight up, much to their confusion. Given that the Thundertank was parked next to a mountainous cliff, Lion-O decided that it meant they should climb the cliff. The others protested, but lion-O overruled them. The cats proceeded to trudge up the path winding along the cliff face, making no secret of their dislike of the route and how exposed it was. Eventually, they came to a small grove of candyfruit trees growing along the path, and Lion-O reluctantly called for a rest break. The other Thundercats proceeded to point out the flaws in Lion-O’s leadership using the fruit gathering as an example, Kit and Kat easily snatching fruit right out of Lion-O’s hands, admonishing him that he needed to keep his eyes open. The fruit break was soon interrupted, though, by Slithe, Addicus, and Kaynar attacking. The surprised Thundercats were quickly overwhelmed and captured, Slithe seizing the Sword of Omens and Claw Gauntlet. Slithe demanded that Lion-O hand over the Book of Omens, to which Lion-O replied that he would rather die. Slithe asked Lion-O if he was willing to risk Kit’s life as easily as he would his own, at which Kit looked understandably afraid. Lion-O broke free and managed to take back the Claw Gauntlet, but was quickly overwhelmed and pushed over the side of the cliff by Kaynar, falling to his death in the river below. The cats all stared in horrified shock, while Slithe admonished Kaynar for sending the gauntlet containing the Spirit Stone over the cliff with Lion-O, demanding that his lizard troops go down and find it while they took the Thundercat prisoners and the Sword of Omens back to Mumm-Ra. Kit slipped away long enough to mark a nearby rock with a drawing of her face before being dragged off with the others. While, unbeknownst to them, Lion-O faced a series of trials in the spirit world to earn the chance to be resurrected, the other cats were forced to figure out how to go on without him. After Slithe’s lizard troops proved unsuccessful in retrieving the Gauntlet, Tygra goaded Slithe, Addicus, and Kaynar into attacking him as a distraction, giving the kittens time to pick the locks on everyone’s handcuffs, allowing the cats to escape. Slithe gave the order to let the cats go; the Sword was the real prize. Tygra fired futilely after the departing hovercraft with his laser pistol before giving it up when they became too distant. He was, however determined to get the Sword back, even if they had to go all the way to Mumm-Ra’s pyramid. And meanwhile, Kit marked another rock.

The cats lay atop a sand dune, looking down at Mumm-Ra’s pyramid, plotting how to get inside. Kit, meanwhile, marked yet another rock with her face, much to Kat’s confusion. Kit explained that they had to leave a trail or Lion-O would never be able to find them. Kat sadly told her that Lin-O was gone, but Kit refused to accept it, asking if Kat hadn’t learned anything from the elephants and saying that death was only the beginning. And that as long as Lion-O still had his soul, he, and they still had a chance. The cats overpowered the lizard guards outside the pyramid and slipped inside. Once inside, though, they accidentally tripped an alarm. The cats hid, unsure of what to do with a troop of lizard guards approaching. Kit, however, said she would handle it, and skipped out of hiding, proceeding to hypnotize the guards with her flupe music, allowing the cats to slip by unnoticed. The lizards, coming out of their trance, saw nothing, and determined it to be a false alarm, shutting off the alarm siren. The cats hid in an air shaft above Mumm-Ra’s throne room watching as he began a ceremony to extract the Eye of Thundara from the Sword of Omens. The cats leaped down, disrupting the ceremony, but were quickly subdued by Mumm-Ra’s magic blasts. As the cats were hauled away to the holding cells, a half-conscious Kit told Kat that at least they’d bought Lion-O some time, to which Kat weakly asserted again that Lion-O was gone. While in the holding cell, the others sorrowfully tried to convince Kit that Lion-O wasn’t coming to save them, but Kit was adamant, refusing to give up on Lion-O. And in turned out she was right, as a (temporarily, he thought) resurrected Lion-O had trailed them to the pyramid. After tricking Kaynar, Slithe, and Addicus into a holding cell and locking them in, Lion-O freed the cats, much to everyone’s joy and, for everyone except Kit, disbelief. Kit hugged Lion-O happily, and he told her that if it hadn’t been for her markers, he never would have found them in time. The cats broke back into the throne room, once again disrupting Mumm-Ra’s ceremony, though this time, Lion-O managed to retrieve the Sword of Omens, blasting Mumm-Ra with its magic and sending him fleeing the scene. Lion-O started to pursue him, but Panthro caught his arm, saying they had to escape while they could. Back outside, the sun was rising, and Lion-O sadly said that it was time for him to go. The bargain he had made to get his life back long enough to save his friends was only to last until sunrise, after which his soul would be trapped in Limbo forever. But the spirit of Jaga appeared, and explained that Lion-O’s self-sacrificing choice had been a test, and that he could stay, permanently resurrected. The cats naturally demanded an explanation for all this, and Lion-O began to give them one, starting at the beginning- when he’d died.

While Lion-O and Tygra searched for a pass through a range of snowy mountains, the rest of the cats stayed behind with the Thundertank, which was parked near a forest at the base of said mountains. The kittens were searching in a knapsack for their hidden stash of candy fruit, only to realize that Snarf had eaten it. Their reactions to the candy fruit, the only food they’d had left, being eaten were amusingly overdramatic, predicting doom and starvation; Kit in particular freaking out and asking what would happen if Lion-O and Tygra never came back, and they had no food and had to choose who got eaten. Annoyed by their behavior, Cheetara suggested that if they were hungry, they should get food themselves, whereupon the kittens put on their best cute act, asking if that wasn’t the job of the adults. Panthro wasn’t having it, though and instead opted to teach the kittens some hard life lessons… in the form of a hunting trip. Kit went with Cheetara, while Kat went with Panthro; whichever team brought back less meat would be the ones who had to cook. While hunting with their respective partners, the kittens recalled the events that had led them to be pickpockets in Thundara’s slums, and the reason they were searching for El Dara. (Detailed in the above link.) Panthro attempted to teach Kat tracking and trap-making, while Cheetara showed Kit how to mask her scent with the foul-smelling sap of a plant (much to Kit’s disgust). In the end, though, neither kitten could bring themselves to let their potential prey be harmed. Kat yelled, scaring the male animal away from their trap, then pouncing Panthro himself into the trap when Panthro tried to chase the animal down on foot. Kit shook the branch she and Cheetara had been carefully crawling along to reach a female animal resting in a high rock crevice, causing her to fall into the plants below and get covered with the foul-smelling sap (much to Cheetara’s disgust.). During both trips, it seemed that something was lurking in the forest, hunting them, though it seemed, when the two groups met back up that it was simply Kat, who playfully tackled his sister after jumping out of the bushes. The adults lamented that while the kittens seemed to have the skills, they simply didn’t want to make the hard choices, and then decided not to give them any choice. Cheetara snapped a branch in half and tossed the two resulting sharp pieces of wood at the kittens’ feet, delivering the ultimatum that they were to either come back with food, or they were sleeping outside that night. The kittens hunted through the forest until the came upon the male animal from before. Although reluctant, they prepared themselves to go in for the kill… until the female animal and two babies appeared. The four animals were obviously a family. The kittens refused to bring harm to a family, and were preparing to head back to the Thundertank and face the consequences, when the large predator that had been lurking in the forest previously appeared, threatening the family of deer/bird animals. Immediately, the kittens leapt to their defense, attacking the predator with their sticks to distract it. Kit then hypnotized it with her flupe while Kat disabled it, tying up its legs with his flink. The family of animals reemerged, nuzzling the kittens in gratitude, before leading them to a strange glowing tree, heavy with fruit. The kittens returned to the Thundertank with a blanket load of the fruit that the animals had led them too, satisfying their part of the bargain, and the cats all sat down to eat, Kit and Kat replying to Panthro’s comment about it being “passable” that one day they might even be able to survive on their own… at which point the kittens gave each other a knowing wink.

The cats stopped at a city of dogs to procure supplies, with Panthro seeming rather uneasy about the place and eager to be gone. The kittens however, stated that dogs weren’t so bad, and mentioned that they’d used to hang out with them all the time in the slums of Thundara. They particularly liked their bone stew… and proceeded to run off in search of some, Lion-O sending Snarf after them. While the others investigated the local gladiatorial arena after seeing a poster of a cat competitor named Pumyra, Kit and Kat happily chowed down on bone stew, with Snarf nearby. As they finished, the happened to notice a raccoon pickpocket at work, Kat commenting on the fact that apparently every slum had pickpockets. The raccoon pickpocket, whose name, it turned out, was Tookit, approached the kittens, trying to pretend to be a simple beggar, but the kittens weren’t fooled, claiming that they knew everything about pickpocketing. Tookit politely excused himself… then stated that no one could know everything, just before Kit and Kat noticed that their flupe and flink were gone. They chased down the raccoon, demanding their things be returned, whereupon Tookit revealed that he was a ‘kleptovoyant’; he stole seemingly random items, with no idea why… but they always seemed to come in handy later. He challenged Kit and Kat to prove their thieving skills by retrieving a cane, a blanket, and a button for him without being caught; if they succeeded, he would return their things. The kittens did so, or seemed to, anyway. When the presented the stolen items to Tookit, the dogs they had stolen from loomed behind them, and wound up chasing Tookit, Snarf, and the kittens through the streets of the dog city, all three items coming in handy while evading their pursuers. Afterward Tookit bid the kittens a pleasant farewell, and they agreed that he wasn’t such a bad guy after all… until they realized that he still had their stuff, and they ran off after him again.

While the others were off with their newly acquired ally Pumyra freeing the cat slaves at Mount Plundar and trying (and failing) to keep Mumm-Ra from retrieving the Sword of Plundar, the kittens were looking everywhere for Tookit, and weren’t having much better luck finding him than their friends were with stopping Mumm-Ra. They seemed about to give up, saying that it was unlikely they’d find Tookit unless he wanted to be found. Suddenly, however, after a chain of events touched off by one of Tookit’s heists, a piece of scaffolding fell across the opposite end of a bench the kittens were sitting on, launching them and Snarf high into the air. After bouncing off a few awnings, they landed right in front of Tookit and demanded that he return their things. Tookit tried to talk them into joining forces with him, but they were having none of it and demanded their things back. Tookit led them back to his home, a small hut set along the side of a cliff, where he was keeping their things. A cloth duffle bag sat in the middle of the room, inside which, Tookit claimed, were Kit’s flupe and Kat’s flink. Kat peered into the bag, but could see nothing. Tookit then revealed that the bag was in fact a magic bag, and with the magic words, “Rankin Bass!” he jumped into it… and vanished, much to Kit and Kat’s surprise. They were a bit hesitant to follow but having little choice, they too said the magic words and along with Snarf, leapt into the bag. They fell through a tunnel of colorful lights to land gently atop a huge pile of loot. The kittens looked around them in astonishment as they climbed down, seeing more piles of treasure and other various items scattered about, the walls of the massive space they were in lost in the darkness. Tookit appeared and returned their things, explaining that the bag was called the Forever Bag; it had been made by a wizard long ago, and since then had always changed hands through thievery. He also introduced them to three other children he’d taken under his wing; Albo, a toad boy, Jenyo, a flying-squirrel girl, and Gusto, an opossum boy. The kittens were reluctant to part from the fantastic magic bag, but Tookit sent them off, with their flupe and flink, as well as a pair of ‘gifts’. The other children were sad to see the kittens go, but Tookit doubted that they’d seen the last of each other. A little later, the kittens and Snarf were sitting on a bench, discussing Tookit, and wondering what was in the gifts he’d given them. They opened the cases to find a pair of glittering diamond rings… after which they were promptly arrested and thrown in a cell by a dog constable who’d been nearby, as the rings were stolen. The kittens didn’t stay in the cell long though, as Albo, Jenyo, and Gusto stole the constable’s keys and busted them out. After a chase through the city streets, they all wound up back at Tookit’s house and hid in the Forever Bag, much to the constable’s confusion when he opened the door to find a seemingly empty room. The kittens thanked Tookit and the other kids for the rescue, and agreed to stay with them until the other Thundercats returned. Tookit claimed a celebration was in order, and took the Bag, with the children inside it, into a candy store that was about to close. He then left along with the dog proprietor, leaving the Bag behind, and when the shop was empty, the children popped out and began to rob the store of both its candy and its money. The kittens were hesitant, not wanting to be involved in unnecessary acts of thievery, but upon seeing some hard to find sweets, they decided to join in. Tookit soon returned with the dog proprietor to retrieve his ‘forgotten’ Bag, only to find the shop cleaned out. And so it went, with the children cheerfully stealing toys and food, and always leaving the dog constable stymied when they hid in the Forever Bag. The kittens were thoroughly enjoying themselves… until they found out that they were also stealing money, all of which went to Tookit, as his ‘cut’ for letting them have all that fun. Realizing that they were being used, the kittens left, only to spot a wanted poster with their faces on it. Chased by the dog constable, they were forced to retreat to the Forever Bag again, where they confronted Tookit about how he’d tricked both them and the other children. Thanks to Tookit, they were all now wanted criminals, with no chance of returning to an honest life, and thus were forced to keep stealing for him. Tookit admitted it, but pointed out that the kittens were in the same situation now, demanding that they use their skills to help him steal a valuable jewel. Reluctantly, the kittens agreed, and Tookit wandered off to plan. The other children commiserated with the kittens, but the kittens had a plan of their own, one that involved fabric and thread… The night of the jewel heist came, and the children broke into the jewelry shop where the huge ruby was on display. At first they were confused as to why they were needed for such a seemingly easy task… until they ran into the shops vicious guard animals, things that looked like a cross between frogs and bulldogs with several rows of sharp teeth in their big mouths. The children scrambled to avoid the beasts until Kit pulled out her flupe, the music hypnotizing the creatures and putting them to sleep. At least, until Kat, who’d been trying to grab the ruby, fell on her, disrupting her playing. The beasts woke up and chased the kittens around the shop, until Kat used his flink to grapple a beam and swing to the safety of the window ledge. Another flick of the flink, and the Forever Bag was narrowly snatched from the creatures’ jaws as the kittens escaped with the other children. Kat confronted Tookit, holding both the jewel and the Forever Bag, telling him they were tired of working for toys and treats. Kat stuffed the gem into the Bag and tossed it to Snarf, who scampered off. Each of the children in turn appeared, holding what looked like the Bag, goading Tookit into admitting his manipulation… with the dog constable right behind him, thus revealing that he was the real culprit behind the crime wave. Tookit once again admitted that he’d done it, but said it didn’t matter, since the dog constable wouldn’t be able to catch him. Tookit ran back to his house with what he though was the Forever Bag… only to wind up comically stuck inside it, and be quickly taken into custody. It was one of several fakes the children had made to trick Tookit and get free of him, with the kittens keeping the real Forever Bag that Snarf had hidden.

The kittens eventually met up with the rest of the cats again, watching as Panthro worked on the tank. Tygra complained that they didn’t have time to tinker with the tank, but Pantro pointed out that until the Book of Omens decided to point somewhere but straight up, they had no idea where to go. Lion-O muttered that sometimes all the tech they had to deal with was more trouble than it was worth. It was then that Lion-O’s old friend Jorma, a junk dealer, ran into them. He and Lion-O greeted each other happily, both glad to know that the other had survived Thundara’s fall. After Thundara’s destruction it turned out, Jorma had moved back home to the dog city. He complimented Panthro on the Thundertank, and was astonished to see the Book of Omens, offering to examine it and make sure it was working properly. The kittens and Pumyra stayed behind with Cheetara while Lion-O, Tygra, Panthro, and Jorma took the Thundertank back to his shop, and then to a secret machine graveyard only he knew about. Unfortunately, this led them to an encounter with an alien-turned-robot mad scientist called the Soul Sever, during which Lion-O learned that technology was neither inherently good, nor inherently bad; what mattered was how it was used.

The cats had managed to repair an airship from the Soul Sever’s lair, and while the adult cats made some final adjustments, the kittens happily painted a huge Thundercat logo on the side. The kittens, having been allowed to name the craft, dubbed it the Feliner. Soon they were ready to go and find the third stone, above the clouds, where the Book of Omens had been pointing. The cats were uncertain if Panthro could fly the Feliner, which he assured them he could, if it was anything like driving the Thundertank. As he found out after taking off though, it was nothing like driving the Thundertank, and to top it off, he discovered that he was afraid of heights. Panthro quickly lost control of the ship Pumyra shouting that they were going to die as the ship careened wildly through the air. The kittens clung to each other, shouting that they were too cute to die. Then suddenly, the ship leveled off, and began flying steadily again… with Tygra at the controls. The other cats were surprised, Cheetara asking where Tygra had taken flying lessons. Tygra claimed that it just felt natural, and Lion-O commented that it was no wonder Tygra’s ancestors were pilots. Pumyra, Cheetara, and the kittens admired the view from the window, pointing out all the places they had visited spread out below. Lion-O wistfully commented how all the nations below looked like a unified whole, which he hoped to make a reality… someday. They then took the Feliner above the clouds, emerging into open air and seeing a massive floating city. They didn’t have much time to admire it, though, as several airships fired warning shots at them and escorted them to a landing platform. There they were greeted by a posse of armed raven guards armed with high-tech shock spears, and the cats pulled out their weapons, prepared to defend themselves. That proved unnecessary however, as the birds’ prefect, Voltaire, appeared and welcomed them (albeit rather condescendingly) to Evista City. The cats, who all seemed very impressed with the city, were invited to dinner with Voltaire and other high-ranking birds. Panthro told the kittens to mind their manners and eat whatever was put on their plate… until they saw that the birds’ cuisine consisted mainly of live insects. The kittens commented that it was a good thing they’d brought their own lunch, and proceeded to pull two candy fruit out of the Forever Bag. Panthro asked if they had any more, to which the kittens retorted that he should eat what was on his plate. Grumbling, Panthro did so, making a disgusted face after taking a bite of a large caterpillar. Pumyra then decided that it was time to get down to business, revealing that they’d come there for the power stone. The birds all laughed, refusing to hand it over. Voltaire condescendingly claimed that the birds were quite literally above it all in Evista and cared little for Mumm-Ra, or what happened to the other animals below, commenting on the cats’ own condescending ways towards other species when his attitude was challenged. Tygra, though had had enough, and wagered both the cats’ stones against the one the birds had that he could fly one of the birds’ airships better than any of them, a challenge which Voltaire personally accepted. They took their places for the contest, Voltaire in his own personal ship, and Tygra in another. Cheetara gave him a kiss for luck, and the race was one, seeing who could tag the most hovering rings. Voltaire had an early lead, but once Tygra got his malfunctioning ship under control, he quickly caught up and scored the final ring, winning the contest by scraping the underside of Voltaire’s ship. Voltaire refused to hand over the stone, though, and had the cats taken to quarters under heavy guard, planning to send them away in the morning. The cats, though, weren’t content to wait. After some debate, during which the kittens pointed out that ‘kinda’ stealing was still stealing, something they had a lot of experience with, it was agreed that they would simple take the stone. But instead of going through the hallway full of guards, they broke out of the window and climbed to the roof, a plan the acrophobic Panthro wasn’t fond of. While the others went to retrieve the stone, the kittens and Snarf were sent back to the Feliner. When they got there, however, they over heard two raven guards talking and realized their escape had been detected. Knowing that they couldn’t fight the whole city, they determined that they needed help, and lots of it. Snarf distracted the two raven guards and the kittens snuck aboard the Feliner, retrieving their hoverboards and heading back down to the surface…

While on Evista, Voltaire was about to have the cats executed for their attempted theft of the stone, below, on Third Earth’s surface, the kittens visited all of the races Lion-O had helped; the Fish-men, the Berbils, the Elephants, and the Dogs, asking them to return the favor Lion-O and the Thundercats had once done them. And it would be needed too, as Mumm-Ra’s forces attacked Evista, Voltaire sparing the cats, stating that ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend. The birds and cats fought together to try and repel Mumm-Ra’s forces… until they realized that Mumm-Ra himself was there. After blasting a number of bird airships out of the sky with a massive burst of magic, Mumm-Ra delivered an ultimatum to the birds: surrender and join him, or be destroyed. Tygra, who was piloting Voltaire’s personal ship in the fight, was prepared to give him his answer in the form of a missile… when Voltaire did the same, blasting Tygra’s ship out of the air, and sending it crashing into the city, once again citing the ‘enemy of my enemy’ as he took Mumm-Ra’s side. Lion-O and Pumyra fell back to secure the stone chamber, while the other cats tried to hold off Mumm-Ra’s forces on the landing decks. In the stone chamber, Lion-O still refused to take the stone, not wanting to doom thousands, but Mumm-Ra appeared in the doorway, stating the he had no such compunctions and blasted Pumyra with magic, knocking her unconscious. There followed a furious one on one battle, Lion-O vs. Mumm-Ra, Sword of Omens vs. Sword of Plundar. During the battle, the Tech Stone was knocked from its place in the anti-gravity reactor, causing the city to begin to fall. Meanwhile, back on the surface, the kittens had talked to everyone they could think of, and, determining they’d done their best, flew off on their hoverboards to return to Evista, seemingly alone. Back on Evista, the battle in the stone chamber had reached something of a stalemate, until the Tech Stone was knocked toward a recovering Pumyra. She picked it up, and Lion-O urged her to throw it to him. But Pumyra said that while Lion-O was her king… Mumm-Ra was her Master. She threw the stone to Mumm-Ra, who placed it on his own gauntlet, transforming into his massive armored form, unseen since the flashbacks in the Book of Omens. Pumyra knealt and kissed his hand, whereupon Mumm-Ra explained that Pumyra had been on his side the whole time. She had died during the fall of Thundera, , waiting for a king that never came to save her. Calling upon the Ancient Spirits of Evil,, Mumm-Ra had used her soul’s rage to help bring her back to life, to take revenge on Lion-O. Pumyra sized one of the birds’ electrified spears and charged in for the kill, wanting Lion-O to die as she had, helpless and alone… only for Panthro, Cheetara, and Tygra to come charging onto the scene stating that Lion-O would never be alone, as long as they lived. Mumm-Ra saw no problem with that, and simply blasted all the Cats with magic, stunning them all. Then, just as he was about to finish them off, Kit and Kat appeared, asking Mumm-Ra if he’d forgotten about them. Mumm-Ra stated that he had no compunctions about killing two kittens, and Lion-O shouted for Kit and Kat to run. But Kit and Kat assured him that they had it covered, explaining that they’d brought back up, and that they’d visited all those he’d helped previously. And there appeared out of the light behind them… a single fish man. Lion-O, somewhat underwhelmed, asked if that was it, but the kittens assured them that it wasn’t and pulled out the Forever Bag. With a shout of “Rankin Bass!” reinforcements poured out of the bag. Dogs, Fish-men, Elephants, and Berbils, who stated they’d come to stand by Lion-O as he’d once stood by them. Then the kittens shouted in unison for them to take Mumm-Ra and Pumyra down, and pandemonium broke out. The Elephants shook the floor with huge stomps. The Dogs and Fish-Men attacked en masse. Even the Berbils pummeled Pumyra, bouncing into her in their morph-ball forms. Together they succeeded in driving Mumm-Ra and Pumyra off, but the city was still falling. Panthro, though rerouted power from ever machine in the city to get enough to power the thrusters to bring the city in for a mostly safe (if still very rough) landing. On the ground, Cheetara assured the birds that the Berbils would get their city flying again eventually, and that meanwhile, some time on the ground would do them good. Lion-O sat alone to one side, despondent, until Kit approached, softly asking if he was alright. Lion-O despaired over his failure to see Pumyra for who she was and what it had cost them. Kit, however, told him that while they had lost a lot, Lion-O shouldn’t forget what they’d gained, and gestured to the gathered animals, all of them working together for the first time. Because of Lion-O. Because he’d given them something to believe in. Kit then picked up the Sword of Omens and handed it back to Lion-O, stating that there was still one power stone out there, and asking if they were going after it or not. Silently, Lion-O held the Sword aloft in answer. They were.


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FIRST PERSON: Test Drive Meme threads

THIRD PERSON: Kit sat atop the ruined wall, quietly playing her flupe while her brother searched through the wreckage for anything useful. They would have to move on soon; she knew that. There was nothing here for them now.
The previous night had been terrifying, nothing but fire and earth-shaking noise and run run RUN. But now, in the morning light, with Thundara smoldering behind her, an eerie sort of calm had settled over the world. The phrase ‘silent as a tomb’ came to mind. Where there was once life and bustle, laughing and shouting, buying and selling, arguing and fighting, now there was only silence, and the wind blowing through ruined buildings. Rubble and dust. Thundara was no more.
And so she played, filling the silence with a lullaby, and paying tribute to Thundara in the only way she knew how. Giving it a bit of life, one last time before they had to leave. The city hadn’t always been good to them, and it wasn’t exactly home, but… they were still cats. Possibly the last ones left. And Thundara deserved to have someone mourn her. She sort of doubted the rest of Third Earth would.
Eventually, though, she stopped playing, tucking her flupe into her pouch and standing up. There was a bit more scrounging to do before they eventually set out, and she couldn’t make Kat do all the work. Hopefully, they’d find something they could use. And if not… well, they’d manage. They always had.