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“But mommy why can’t I have my toys back yet?” A little girl whined as she tugged at her mothers shirt.
“Because they’re all still being treated, when you got lice they all got sick too. They need a few more days to get better” she patiently tried to explain. The little girl sniffed and ran to her room. She never missed a weekend tea party with her toys, and she’d be missing it today because they got sick! She sat at her table and cried, not noticing the icky slime that slithered in and onto her food until it had nearly consumed her.
[into plays nyaaa~]
Purl was taking a stroll, but not a usual calming stroll, instead he was taking one to blow off steam. He was upset.
The memories of the argument he and the others had minutes ago still was fresh on his mind.
It was like they didn’t appreciate him at all!
After everything he did.
He grumbled as he walked, not really caring where he went.
Then something woodshed passed him.
He barely had time to turn around and realize that there was a monster in front of him before he was hit with something that let out a pink smoke. He coughed as his vision was obscured.
Moments later the smoke cleared, he coughed a bit as he looked around.
... wait, was everything always this big?
He looked down when he noticed some sort of pink invite below him, he also noticed something else.
He had paws.
Purl yowled and jumped back in surprise, quickly trying to get a look at himself, he noticed blue fur, kitty paws, and a tail.
He’s been turned into a cat!
‘What the hell!? Is this the monster’s doing? It has to be!’ He thought to himself, that monster must have also left this invite, he promptly ignored it and ran ahead. He’s got to find-
...
Gah! He’s still mad at his friends; he's going to find neon instead.
Purl dashed through the city, trying not to get lost but due to his shorter height he was getting disorientated, he’d weave through the crowd, and jump onto tables to get added height. One bonus to being a cat was the agility he supposed. But soon enough he’d get lost in an alleyway. It really didn’t help that as a cat he was picking up smells and scents that were overwhelming him immensely. He’d stepped into the ally to calm down but now he was lost.
The dejected cat sat down and sighed. This was immensely frustrating, this day was already bad enough how could it get worse!
He shouldn’t have asked because he heard what sounded like barking. Purl jumped to his paws, Back arched in some sort of attempt at intimidation. Moments later he heard something padding along.
Then he saw the familiar lopsided smile of a happy little lemon colored puppy.
“Lemon lime?” Purl mewed, then internally cursed because he didn’t think the dog would recognize him, then he’d get chased and who knows what-
“PURL-HEW!” The dog barked in joy as he dashed towards the blue kitty, jumping around in the way happy dogs do. Purl blinked.
“W-wait you recognize me?” He meowed in confusion, lemon lime nodded as he got closer to sniff the confused cat.
“You have the same smell! It’s still you! You just look different. What happened? What happened?” The doggo continued to circle him, though he looked visibly confused.
“I’m... not sure, a monster must have done this. I’m not sure why though” Purl thought out loud, he supposed some monsters just did stuff for the thrill of it, but did it target him or...
“A lot of animals have been smelling like humans today. Must be the same monster! It’s a very mean monster, the animals were scared!” Lemon lime whined, purl was now doubly concerned... but something the dog said before now got his attention.
“Wait, what did you mean about we smell the same?”
“Oh! You and my boy have the same smells when you turn into those shiny guys! I can’t follow him in the sky though” the doggo stated like it was fact. Purl blinked. Then sighed. Of course the dog would know their secret identities.
At least he can’t tell anyone. The doggo jumped to his feet then stated
“Let’s go find my boy! He can help you!” And started to trot ahead, but purl stayed still. When the dog paused and looked back the cat answered
“I’m not asking them for help, I’m still mad” the back of his mind was screaming about how petty and illogical he was being.
But dammit he’s still mad.
Lemon lime blinked once, trotted over to purl.
Then grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and picked him up.
“Let’s go find my boy!” Lemon lime repeated as purl made very upset cat noises.
“GAH! PUT ME DOWN PUT ME DOWN NYAAAAAHHHHH!”
But the dog didn’t let go. Even as other humans gave the two looks.
Purl hew eventuality accepted his fate, and he wasn’t happy about it.
Eventually lemon lime found his boy. He was with his friends. They all looked to be searching for something. Lemon lime made happy noises as he ran over, the cat still hanging from his mouth. Haym looked over.
“Lemon lime! Hi boy!... uh, who's your friend buddy?” Haym asked while gently taking the cat out of the dog's hold.
Purl was not very happy about this whole situation, so he was a grumpy kitty. Soon enough the other boys noticed the commotion and walked over.
“Whatcha got there Haym?” Rin asked
“A cat! Lemon lime must have found him. I bet his owner is really worried” Haym gently held the cat in his arms. Purl shifted a bit to get comfortable, he’s not sure how he feels about being held so much today. Zim crossed his arms.
“Man, maybe we can find the owner while we look for Purl?” He offered, the cat suddenly looked over at him.
‘They were looking for me?... I guess I did run off...’ purl thought to himself. Eloni spoke next.
“Can we keep moving though? Purl couldn’t have gotten too far!”
“Right! Let’s keep going” Haym nodded and jogged ahead, lemon lime loyally following at his heels.
The boys would chat idly as they searched, usually about various things, Haym would idly pet him as he was held. Sometimes the boys would excitedly pet him or call him cute nicknames. Obviously that was annoying but he was a cat. And the positive attention wasn’t all bad…
Purl hew supposed it could be worse
At some point the topic of names came up.
Purl immediately didn’t like it
“Think I should call him fluffy? Or blueberry? No, no wait! Cotton candy!”
“Hayym , don’t name someone else’s cat, you’ll get attached and then you won’t want to return him” eloni whined, though zim looked to be thinking while looking at the grumpy kitty. He then snickered and said.
“If anything we should call him Cat-Hew, the guy looks grumpy enough to pass as the guy” purl knew this was a joke, the red teen was laughing of course it was a joke.
But he’s not ashamed to admit that he got angry.
And jumped out of hayms arms with a yowl
And tried to scratch at zim’s face.
Eloni And Haym managed to pull the two apart, the blue kitty still hissing and scratching at the air. ‘How dare you make fun of me while I’m right here!!’
“Gah! gods alive- that thing wanted blood!”
“Maybe he just doesn’t like you, Zim” Rin mumbles as he pulled out some bandages from his bag.
Thankfully zim didn’t make any more jokes like that the rest of the way.
Some time passed, it was noon now. Haym was once again holding the cat. Purl took to resting on the teen’s shoulder, it was surprisingly comfortable and also he could see things at a decent angle, both of which he enjoyed.
Haym had fallen a bit behind the group, and started looking worried, by the time purl turned to look at him he spoke out loud.
“I hope Purl is okay.” ...ah
“He, he’s never usually gone this long. I’m getting worried... maybe this is my fault” Lemon lime whined as he nuzzled his head into the teens free hand, Haym continued to ramble.
“We had a fight, we all said some things we didn’t mean, but, but I said something really nasty and- and I want to apologize” hayms eyes started to water
“I d-didn’t mean it. I don’t think enough and- and now one of my friends is hurt because of it. I’ve g-got to find him and tell him I’m- I’m really sorry” and tears started to roll down his cheeks as Haym tried and failed to fight back a silent sob.
Purl hew couldn’t say anything, even though he wanted to. Enough time had passed that he wasn’t mad at them anymore, not majorly anyway. And seeing his friend so genuinely upset...
Purl knew he had to do something. He’s a cat right? Time to do what he knows cats do.
So purl nuzzled his forehead into the teen’s damp cheek and started purring. The teen let out a soft noise of surprise, then hugged the blue cat. Both stayed still as the boy sniffled and the cat purred. Lemon lime helped as well by leaning into the teen for comfort.
A few moments later, Haym let go and rubbed his eyes.
“Th-thanks mister kitty. You’re a nice cat” he smiled softly, patting the blue cat on his fuzzy back. Purl felt relieved to see Haym doing a bit better
But there wasn’t much time to appreciate it as haym’s watch suddenly went off. He gasped and carefully put down the cat.
“Oh no! I’ve gotta go, lemon lime watch mister kitty I’ve gotta go!” And with that Haym ran off. Purl knew exactly what this meant.
The monster was found and the boys were going to fight, he looked at lemon lime, who nodded in understanding.
“I can carry you! Let’s go help!” The dog laid down a bit and purl-cat jumped onto his back.
“Onwards!” Purl meowed And with a boof Of excitement lemon lime dashed forward, towards where he knew hayms scent was.
When the two arrived the fight had already begun. The monster looked like a little girl, she had on a fluffy dress and accessories that made it look like she had cat ears and a tail, as well as bells, so many bells. Surrounding her was a table with several animals sitting at it, they all had collars with that invitation attached to it.
Purl was glad he ignored it, they all looked to be under some sort of trance.
The girl was giggling as she fought the boys, purl realized with rising horror that a few of the animals were fighting at her command.
He doubted he could assist with the battle itself, but if he could cut down her numbers...
“Lemon lime! The collars, they’re controlling those animals. We’ve got to get them off of them.” Purl hopped off the dogs back as he nodded.
“Roger! I’ll help! I’ll help!” And the two got to work. Purl jumped onto one of the animals backs, a pink deer it looked like, and with a slash of his claws cut the collar off of them. The deer let out a gasp and stumbled back.
“Goodness! Where am I? What’s going on?”
“Monster attack. Find somewhere safe, we’ll help the others” Cat-hew instructed, the deer nodded and trotted off, out of the corner of his eye he noticed lemon lime had pulled the collar off of a green ferret. He likely related similar information since the little guy scampered off.
And so the two continued their work.
Unfortunately about halfway through freeing the unwilling guests the monster noticed their work.
“What! No! Stop that! Those are my guests! You rude doggy! You rude kitty!” And she tossed her wand in the air and it sent out a blast of glitter at cat-hew. He managed to dodge out of the way but the explosion sent him flying.
Purl scrambles in the air, unfortunately he’s not in hero mode, or some cat equivalent, so if he landed he’d probably get hurt. Thankfully someone managed to catch him. The cat looked up to see 1010 Yellow looking back at him.
“Mister kitty! You shouldn’t be here it’s dangerous.” He started then quietly noticed what he and lemon lime had been doing. “Oh! You’re helping? Well then I guess I can’t stop you. Be careful okay!” And yellow carefully set the cat down and flew off to rejoin the fight, likely informing the others to cover the animals.
So as the androids fought and talked down the monster, the cat and dog duo freed the remaining tea party animals. Purl’s ear twitched when he heard the sounds of Green using Purify.
He looked over, and just as the light hit the monster and the slime melted, the area was covered in a wave of pink smoke.
Purl coughed as the smoke cleared, rubbing his face. It didn’t take him long to realize his hands were no longer paws.
He let out a relieved sigh as he stood up, back in his human form. Looking around he noticed the other animals returning to their true human forms. He also noted 1010 White carefully handing the unconscious little girl to one of the civilians, instructing them to make sure she gets seen by a medic.
Lemon lime boofed and trotted over to purl, looking very happy. The teen didn’t need to understand the dog anymore to recognize that he was happy, so he gave him some scritches behind the ear.
“Good dog”
“Wait- PURL?!” Yellow exclaimed, looking right at the blue teen that suddenly appeared, the other team members joined in, confusion clear on their faces.
Until Red seemed to realize something and looked mortified
“Oh shit- you were that cat!?!”
“Yes, I was. And I’d appreciate if we didn’t talk about it”
“Ohhhshit I’m so sorry” Red and the others looked embarrassed, they hadn’t realized that cat was their friend and totally coddled him. Now they just felt silly. Yellow was looking to the side though, feeling bad about something else.
Purl didn’t know if anyone else was noticing them, there wasn’t. But even if there was, he wouldn’t care. He walked right up to yellow and pulled him into a hug. The android made a startled noise.
“P-purl I-“
“It’s okay. I forgive you” he pulled back, still holding the others arms.
“And I’m sorry too, I shouldn’t have stormed out like that... I’m.. still not used to hanging around others. I should have been more patient.”
“Wha- Hey! This is my apology too! I shouldn’t have said any of those things to you!” Yellow tried to argue back, but was caught off by a siren
The group looked over when they heard the sounds of the clean up crew approaching. Purl looked back.
“I’ll meet you all back at base. I likely need to get checked over since that monster did affect me.”
“Right, see you back home Hew’s. And uh, I’m uh.. glad we’re friends” Red waved and after a quick goodbye from the androids they flew off.
Purl-Hew watched them leave, then turned as lemon lime trotted up to his heels again. Purl smiles as he pet the doggo on the head.
He was glad to have them all as friends.
[Fade to black. Roll credits]