Etcetera and Electra were hopping around in the outskirts of the Jellicle Junkyard when a small crash and a "Watch it!" was heard. Etcy and Elecrta looked at eachother. "Did you hear that?" Etcy said.
"Of course I did.." 'Lektra said.
They walked over to the sound and looked down.
Etcetera hopped back with a mew as she saw two cats struggling to get out from in between a small tire. Electra sat down and snickered.
"Tabby, mov... your paw!" the cream-colored older cat grumbled.
"Sorry!" the other one peeped popping her paw out and hanging it over the edge.
"Liza, where are we this time?" the younger one asked.
The black and white adolescent cat replied, "I don't know..you lead the way!"
"No, you did!" Tabby meowed.
Etcetera looked at Electra, confused. "Shouldn't we tell Munkustrap there are new cats...... in our junkyard?" Etcetera asked, peering down at the arguing cats.
"Sure, I guess... so," Electra replied. She glanced down once more, turned, and trotted down the.... alleyway, back towards the center of the entire junkyard where Munkustrap was talking.... with Bustopher Jones.
Munkustrap looked up at the two kittens running in the junkyard.."Etcetera, Electra..whats wrong?"
"Nothing" Electra said. "But we found these two new cats and we though we should tell you!" Etcetera said.
"Two new cats? Where, show them to me!" Munk said.
Bustopher commented on the way Munkustrap handled the situation and waddled off to find some other cats. Munkustrap followed the kittens to where they had first seen the strangers. Electra peered over the edge and gaped. "They're not there!" she mewed unhappily.
Munkustrap looked sternly at the kittens, in which he thought they were lying, but just then a loud hiss was heard above them.
"Who are you?" A cream colored cat mewed fiercly at Munk.
"And why are you here?" Another black and white cat hissed.
Munkustrap looked up at the two cats thoughtfully, "Don't worry. I won't hurt you we are friends."
The two cats looked at eachother, as if having a conversation without words, then they carefully climbed down.
The older cat stood in front of Munkustrap, being less than an inch shorter than him.
The kitten sat next to her as Munkustrap stood up. "Who are you?" he asked gently.
"Who are we?" the kitten perked, looking up at Munkustrap. "Who are you?"
Munkustrap sighed, knowing the conversation was going nowhere. "I'm Munkustrap," he said.
Etcetera and Electra looked up at him. "And these are Etcetera and Electra."
The black and white cat stepped in, "I'm Tantaliza, you can call me Liza."
She motioned towards the kitten, "And this is Tabby." Tabby bowed over dramatically,then said in an over enligh accent, "Pleasure to meet your humbleness.."
Liza gave her "a look".
"What?" Tabby asked.
Munk cut in, "Very nice to meet you two where do you come from?" Liza rolled her eyes patiently at Tabby and turned back to Munkustrap. "We just came here from Harrington. Much different than London," she said.
"I see," Munkustrap said. "How long have you stayed here?"
"Not long," Tabby mewed, interrupting Liza. "Just since this weekend."
At that moment, the Rum Tum Tugger walked in.
Liza did a little turn, "We rove...hey...who are you?" She looked at the new cat.
"Who am I? Who am I?" He asked as he looked around, "Why, I am the Rum Tum Tugger!"
Liza and Tabby did not look impressed "The Rum Tum Tugger?" Liza rolled her eyes.
He walked up to them, took both of their paws and kissed them "Nice to meet you two pretty kitties"
Munkustrap stood blocking Tugger from Tabby and Liza. He shook his head, "No."
Etcetera looked up at Tugger and sighed inwardly. She trotted over to Liza and Tabby,"Isn't he awesome?" she mewled, looking at him. "Not really," Liza and Tabby huffed. They noticed Electra giving Etcetera a smug look.
Tabby said, "Well, he's at least nice...." She gave Etcetera a grin. Liza looked at Tabby wide-eyed. "You're kidding me."
Munkustrap turned back to the new cats.
"Well, there is no sense us standing around here, lets go back to the junkyard." Munk said.
"The Junkyard?" Tabby and Liza asked.
"Yes, the Jellicle Junkyard, thats where we all live."
"I'm not even gonna ask what the heck a Jellicle is.." Tabby said under her breath.
Liza looked worried, but aggreed, "Ok, take us to your junkyard.." They followed Munk.
As Munkustrap entered the junkyard with five cats following, some of the Jellicles turned.
Demeter waved her paw and smiled. "Hi Munkustrap," she greeted. "We were wondering where you were."
Munkustrap smiled at her. The Rum Tum Tugger walked away to see Bombalurina and Etcetera and Electra went to see Jemima and Victoria. Liza and Tabby followed Munkustrap hearing whispers of all, asking, "Who are they?"
Liza and Tabby looked around nervously, "They're all staring at us.." Liza said.
"They sure are.." Tabby noticed a kitten looking at her, "Liza, is that cat staring at me?"
Liza looked at the white and brown boy kitten, "Oh yeah..." They turned their heads and stopped when Munkus did. He stood up in front of all the Jellicles.
"Cats! I have an announcement to make!" All the cats looked up at him. "We have two new Jellicles. This is Tabby." He pointed to the kitten, "And this is Liza."
Liza and Tabby were surprised when Munkustrap said that. They looked at each other, shocked.
Liza whispered at Munkustrap. "What's a Jellicle?" He turned to her. "Any cats in this area are Jellicles."
"All?" Tabby asked.
"No," Munkustrap whispered. He ignored it and turned to the other cats.
"Any questions?"
Liza sighed, sat down, confused, and looked out at the cats. They seem friendly enough, she thought. Then she caught the glance of an orange tabby/calico mix sitting near the back of the group.
He was staring and smiling at Liza, who was deep in thought. Liza stared at the striped cat, "He is cute!" She thought. She looked over at Tabby, "Hey Tab..." Tabby was also staring at a cat.
"Tabby? You flirting? She shoved her playfully.
"No more than you are!" Tabby shoved back.
Munkustrap knelt down in front of them,"I must intoduce you to the tribe."
Liza and Tabby got up, "All right." They sighed. And walked over to a balck and white sparkling cat.
Tabby giggled. She'd never exactly seen a sparkling cat.
Munkustrap smiled. "This is Mistoffelees, our resident magical cat."
Mistoffelees smiled. "Hello." He zipped out two small flowers out of nowhere for the cats as a display of his magic.
"Wow!" Liza laughed.
"That's amazing." The cats said thanks as Munkustrap moved on.
They started towards the rear as they came to two adult cats.
Liza didn't pay any attention as she noticed that striped cat out of the corner of her eye.
Tabby and Munkustrap started into a small conversation with the two cats, known as Bombalurina and Demeter.
But Liza, if a cat could, was blushing since the striped cat sent his five-star smile in her direction.
Liza looked at the striped cat, and then to Tabby, she whispered, "He is smiling at me!"
Tabby looked at her, "What are you talking about?" Then she saw, and smiled, "Oh, looks like somebody likes you..." Liza blushed again.
They said goodbye to Bomby and Dem and walked over to a group of kittens, Munk introduced them, "This is Victoria, Jemima, Tumblebrutus, and Pouncival."
Pouncival looked at Tabby, "Hi." He said shyly.
She said equaly as nervous, "Hi."
Victoria stepped in, "So Tabby, Liza, do you two caterwaul?"
Liza struck up a conversation with Viccy and Co. as Pounci and Tabby continued to stare.
Tabby suddenly realized what she was doing and looked at the ground, blushing. Pounci turned away and grinned nervously to himself. Tabby looked over at Liza who was laughing at something Jemi said. But Tabby looked past and saw the striped cat who had been staring at Liza. He mouthed something to Tabby and pointed a paw to Liza.
Tabby ticked her head, confused. Then realized what he mouthed. "Can I talk to you afterwards?" She continued looking confused but nodded.
"Why? she mouthed back.
He smiled nervously and pointed a paw at Liza.
"Ohh...." Tabby grinned.
Liza, Tabby, and Munkustrap said goodbye to the kittens and began walking away.
Tabby brought up the strength to wave a paw to Pounci. Pounci was not going to let her go, he caught up with them, "Do you mind if I tag along?" He asked Munk.
"I don't mind. Do you girls?"
Tabby nodded her head.
Liza said, "Not at all! Come along!"
She winked at Tabby.
"This is Alonzo, Cassandra and Plato..." Munk intorduced them.
"Hey Munk.." Liza asked, "Do you mind if we finish this later? Tabby and I are kinda tired.
Munk shrugged, "Ok, we can pick it up later."
Tabby, Pounci and Liza sat on the magic tire.
Tabby regretted doing it, but she turned to Liza and Pounci. "I'll be right back."
"Okay," Liza said, a little confused. She shrugged as Tabby walked off.
The kitten looked around for the striped cat. She weaved in between groups of cats looking around. Then she noticed him with a calico cat. The orange tom glanced up and saw Tabby coming towards him. He said something to the calico and walked a way.
Liza watched from the tire, her jaw dropped a little.
Tabby came up to him cautiously. "You wanted to see me?"
"Yeah," he said. "I... uh... was just wondering... um...." He glanced up to Liza.
"If you could introduce me to your friend. Sister. Um. Cousin?"
"Friend," Tabby corrected. "And Munkustrap is taking us around."
"No," he meowed, looking down at the ground. "I mean, like--"
Tabby grinned. "Oh. I see. Sure. Right now? Or what?"
"Anytime," he said. "Tell her my name's Mungojerrie."
Tabby nodded and turned to walk away. " All right." She trotted back to Pounci and Liza.
Liza looked at Tabby walk back over, "Tabby, what were you doing?"
"Well, Mungojerrie wants to meet you?" Tabby relpied.
"Who the heavyside is Mungojerrie?"
"Mungojerrie is that cat that you glued your eyeballs to earlier." Tabby laughed.
Liza gasped, "Him?! Oh my! He wants to meet me?!"
Tabby rolled her eyes, "Oh stop. Yes, he wants to meet you, so follow me!" Tabby walked, Liza and Pounci followed.
Tabby looked around for the striped cat, "Mungojerrie? Where did you go?"
Mungo jumped down from above landing right in front of them, he gave Tabby a look of gratitude, then said, "Hi Liza."
Pounci covered his mouth as if to keep from lauging.
Tabby motioned for Pounci to come with her. She mockingly waved a paw to Liza, who was talking with Mungo. They both looked like they were in a dream.
Pounci snickered at them and followed Tabby. He caught up. "We better leave them alone,"
Tabby laughed grinning.
Meanwhile, Mungo and Liza were having the conversation of a lifetime.
"Did you just move here?" Mungo asked, gulping silently-but-nervously.
"Yes. From Harrington. About fourty miles north of here," Liza replied, sighing quietly.
There was an akward silence as Liza and Mungo just sort of stared at each other.
Suddenly, a large crash was heard, the lights flickered, and loud cackling was heard!
Somewhere in the Junkyard Demeter screamed, "Macavity!"
Liza looked around, not knowing what was gonig on, "My cavity?"
Mungo hissed, "No, Macavity. He's a criminal. He is bad."
Liza instinctively looked for Tabby, "Tabby? Where are you?"
Meanwhile...Pounci and Tabby were sitting together on an oven. "Whats a Macavity?" Tabby asked.
Pounci put his arm around her an scooped her off of the oven, "We must hide."
"Liza, where are you?" She screamed out.
Tabby stopped Pouncival. "We've got to find Liza!" she yowled worriedly. She tried to run back, but Pounci grabbed her paw. "She's with Mungojerrie, remember?"
Tabby stopped and followed Pounci, looking down at the ground, to a place deep in the piles of junk. She realized that Mistoffelees, Munkustrap, Alonzo, Demeter, and a lot of the other cats were around the area. Then she saw a familiar cream face.
"LIZA!" Tabby yelled, running from Pouncival towards Liza and Mungojerrie.
"What is going on?!" Liza asked, not exactly calm. She looked around. Mungojerrie sighed. "Everytime Macavity comes around, we have to come back 'ere for safety. 'E's captured a numerous amount of times."
"Captured?" Tabby asked just as Pounci trotted up. "Captured who?" "Us," Pouncival said. "He's captured Demeter, Tumblebrutus, and Old Deuteronomy."
Liza was about to ask who Old Deuteronomy was, but was interrupted by a loud hiss of fury from inside the junkyard, where the cackling and crash was first heard.
Liza looked to Tabby and whispered, "I'm so happy you lead us here..."
Tabby was just about to argue when a shadow covered them. They looked up...a tall, thin, dusty, dome-headed scary beast like cat stood in front of them...they nearly fainted.
"BWAHAHAHAHAHA.." Macavity laughed.
Tabby screamed, Pounci grabbed and held her, Mungo grabbed for Liza, but was a bit too late.
Macavity reached down pulled the screaming Liza to him..."You are coming with me."
Macavity ran away, signaling to his hench cats to follow him, Tabby, Mungo and Pounci heard Liza screaming in terror, "Tabby!!" Most of the cats in the junkyard never noticed, but Tabby, Pounci, and Mungo rushed up to Munkustrap.
"He took Liza!" Tabby shrieked, full of panic.
Mungo nodded frantically already trying to think up a plan. Munkustrap growled. "Macavity's GOT to go!"
Tabby walked away slowly and sat down on the far side. Mungo began conversing with Munkustrap, telling his plan.
Pounci sat down with Tabby. In a burst of worry, Tabby began crying on Pouncival's shoulder. He tried to comfort her as Munkustrap went to see if it was safe in the junkyard. He gave the signal that Macavity is was gone as the cats, one-by-one, walked out.
Munkustrap and Mungojerrie stood on the tire. "That fiend in feline's shape has taken another Jellicle!" Munkustrap yelled.
The Jellicles whispered frantically. "Tantaliza has been captured!"
The Jellicles gasped and sniffling was heard from Tabby. Mungojerrie told the Jellicles their plan, "All right. Here is how we are going to save Liza." Mungo took a deep breath, "We all know where Macavity's lair is...even though no one admits it and no one knows how to get there quicker than me." He looked at the ground.
Tabby was suprised, "Pounci, what does he mean?"
Pouncival turned to her, "Mungo has worked for Mavavity." Tabby gasped, "He has?" Pounci nodded, and motioned for her to listen to Mungo.
"I don't want to go back there.." He looked down at his scared leg, "But I will..to save her."
Tabby stood up. "Mungojerrie, you're not going alone!" she shouted, walking up towards him and Munkustrap.
Pouncival ran up as Mungojerrie stopped Tabby. "No way. You all 'ave to make sure she and Macavity don't come back here."
Tabby protested. "But--"
Pouncival stopped her. "It's too dangerous."
Tabby ran up angrily. "I don't care! We're GOING to et my best friend BACK!"
The calico cat that Mungojerrie was with earlier walked up. "I'm coming, too."
Alonzo stood up. "Me, too."
Mistoffelees walked up.
"Same here."
Munkustrap nodded as Rum Tum Tugger stood up, "Don't think I don't want to go!"
"Fine. He said.
Pouncival walked up next to Tabby nervously, "I'm going."
Munkustrap was surprised but agreed. "The rest stay here and keep watch for Macavity. Look out for each other and keep alert." Mungojerrie began walking out, "Let's go!"