Top Cat reprimands Amy

Amy, Sally, Cosmo, Silver, and Charmy swam as fast as they could, hoping that they didn't miss the concert. (Although we know that they already had). Unbeknownst to them, they were being spied by a bear and a weasel, who were hiding underneath some boulders and plants.

The bear has brown fur and wears a yellow bathing cap, green swimming trunks, and a matching swimming mask. He also carried a cane with him. His name was Raffish Ralph.

The weasel has gray fur and wears a blue bathing cap, light blue swimming trunks, and a blue swimming mask. His name was Weasel McGreed.

Anyway, Raffish Ralph and Weasel McGreed had magical eyes that are connected to a magical crystal ball, which is located in a big, dark and creepy cave. In that big, dark, and creepy cave, lived three evil Sailor Scouts. One of them was a slender, beautiful woman with fair skin, long, wavy, flowing, golden-orange hair with red at the ends, red eyes, and a black octopus' lower abdomen with eight long tentacles (complete with purple suckers on the bottom), wearing a gold headdress that resembles a Russian kokoshnik. She also wears makeup that consists of orange lipstick and light purple eyeshadow, and she also wears gold bracelets and a matching choker. Her name was Sailor Galaxia.

The second evil Sailor Scout was an exceptionally lovely, youthful, slender, graceful, and beautiful woman with fair skin, pointed ears, extremely long, flowing, wavy dark blue hair. Her hair is mostly down apart from two buns and two ponytails coming from those buns. Her fringe is similar to Usagi's except it is sharper and she has slim light blue eyes with slit-shaped pupils. She also had a black octopus' lower abdomen with eight long tentacles (complete with purple suckers on the bottom). She wore gold and black bracelets and necklace, a silver headpiece and earrings consisting of three silver moons (one being golden), and a black circular gem as a crown. Her name was Queen Nehelenia, Galaxia's big sister.

The third and last evil Sailor Scout was a slender, youthful, beautiful woman with fair skin, pink hair, and red eyes. She wears her hair in odango, and they are styled to resemble a rabbit's ears, and very long, floor-length pigtails. She also had red lips, a black crescent moon on her forehead, and a black octopus' lower abdomen with eight long tentacles (complete with purple suckers on the bottom). She also wore dangling black and red earrings. Her name was Black Lady, Galaxia And Nehelenia's little sister.

"Yeeeeeees, hurry home, princesses!" said Galaxia, as she watched her crystal ball with Nehelenia and Black Lady.

"We wouldn't want to miss your uncle's celebration, now, would we?" added Nehelenia.

"Huh! Celebration indeed," scoffed Black Lady. "Oh, bah!"

"In *our* day, we had fantastical feasts when we lived in the palace." said Galaxia, as she and her sisters took three scared shrimp from their shell and ate them very loudly.

"And now, look at us!" Nehelenia said gloomily, "Wasted away to practically nothing! Banished, and exiled, and practically starving! While he and his flimsy fish-folk celebrate." She, Black Lady, and Galaxia swam a little in the room and looked at their reflection in their own mirrors, then at their crystal ball again.

"Well, we'll give 'em something to celebrate soon enough." Black Lady said darkly.

Galaxia called to Ralph and Weasel, "Ralph! Weasel!" The bear and weasel hit their heads on one of the boulders as Galaxia told them, "I want you to keep an extra close watch on these pretty little nieces of his."

She, Nehelenia, and Black Lady smiled very cruelly, as Nehelenia finishing, "They may be the key to Top Cat's undoing."

"Indeed." Black Lady chuckled wickedly.

Silver and Charmy sighed sadly and with disappointment as they anxiously listened to their friends' sentence just outside the throne room.

"I just don't know what we're going to do with you, young ladies." Top Cat said to his nieces.

Amy, Sally, and Cosmo shifted, heads down hands behind their backs, they really were sorry they had missed the concert. "We didn't mean it." Sally responded.

"Yes, honest." said Cosmo.

"Uncle Top Cat, we're sorry," Amy said, "We just forgot, we -"

Top Cat cut her off. "As a result of your careless behavior,-" he said, waving a hand. But Basil, in turn, interrupted the king from behind his hat, shouting, "Careless *and* reckless behavior!"

Top Cat was angry, but he still loved his nieces. And he didn't want to seem to harsh, and he called out, "The entire celebration was-"

"Well, it was ruined!" Basil yelled, popping up in front of Top Cat's face, "That's all. Completely destroyed!"

Then he waved his hands in front of Amy, Sally, and Cosmo as he sighed, "This concert was to be the pinnacle of my distinguished career. Now thanks to you I am the laughing stock of the entire kingdom!"

Silver and Charmy understood if it was the girls' uncle admonishing Amy, Sally, and Cosmo for their behavior but the little mouse detective was yelling at Amy, Sally, and Cosmo because his ego was hurt, and that was just wrong. So they got up in the mouse detective's face, as well as subsequently the cat's face.

"But it wasn't their fault!" Silver protested.

"Yeah!" added Charmy. He and Silver blushed as the cat glared at him and raised a questioning eyebrow.

"Um, well, first...This shark chased us." The little bee said nervously.

"Yeah, that's right! Right! A shark!" Silver said, "As a matter of fact it was a *big* shark."

Charmy stuttered at a loss for the right words, but he quickly got caught up in his improvement story telling, saying, "And we tried to, but we couldn't, and he went, "Grrrrrrrrr!" And, and we were like, "Whoooaaaaaa!" Ah! And then we were safe. But then this crow came, and it was this is this, and that is that, and -"

Top Cat was bewildered. "Crow?"

"Charmy!" Silver scolded, putting his hands on his hips and glaring at the bee. Charmy gasped and covered his mouth. Then Charmy hid in Sally's hair while Charmy hid behind Amy and Cosmo a bit.

Top Cat stood up. His amused face at the male white hedgehog and bee's stuttering story quickly changed to one of anger. "What? Oh! You three went up to the surface again, didn't you? DIDN'T YOU?"

Amy, Sally, and Cosmo grimaced and shrugged trying to calm down their uncle while Silver and Charmy were still hiding behind them. "Nothing - happened." Amy stammered.

"It didn't seem so bad." said Sally.

"We just thought we could explore." said Cosmo.

Top Cat threw his hands up in exasperation rolling his eyes, saying, "Oh, girls. How many times must we go through this? You could've been seen by three of those barbarians."

"What are you talking about?" Cosmo asked indignantly.

"By...by three of those *normal animals*!"

"Uncle Top Cat, they're *not* barbarians!" Sally frowned at her, Cosmo, and Amy's uncle's choice of words towards the creatures they loved.

"They're dangerous!" said Top Cat, glaring right back at his nieces. They hadn't seen the things Top Cat had. They hadn't seen the nets or the fishing grounds that killed hundreds of innocent fish every day. Top Cat was king of the sea. And everything in it was his to watch and care for didn't they understand that?

Then Top Cat tilted up Sally's chin so maybe she and her sisters might see the sad truth in his eyes, saying, "Do you think I want to see *my* three youngest nieces snared by some Crash-eaters' hooks?"

But Sally turned her head away at her uncle's gesture. He was treating her, Cosmo, and Amy like children! They knew the dangerous of normal animals and their hooks. They went to explore shipwrecks, not fishing grounds. And did he think they were fools?

"What are you thinking?!" Amy retorted angrily, "I'm 12 years old!"

"I'm 8 years old!" remarked Cosmo angrily.

"And I'm 16 years old;" said Sally angrily. "We're not children anymore!"

"Don't you take that tone of voice with me, young ladies." Top Cat shouted, pointing his finger at his nieces.

Unable to put her word in edge-wise, Cosmo spoke rapidly as her uncle paused, for she and her big sisters desperate to get him to understand, explaining, "Well,-"

"As long as you live under my ocean,-"

"Well,-"

"You'll obey my rules!"

"But we're old enough to make our own choices!" Sally protested.

"Do you not understand?!" Cosmo protested.

"If you would just listen to us!" Amy protested.

"Not another word!" Top Cat yelled, as he turned away from them, "And I am *never*, *NEVER* to hear of you going to the surface again. Is that clear?"

"You're so unfair!" Amy shouted back.

She, Sally, and Cosmo swam off, crying a bit with Silver and Charmy following them.

Top Cat slumped back on his throne, the anger he had felt early quickly disappeared as he watched his nieces flee the throne room crying.

"Hmph! Teenagers!" Basil said, trying to console the alley cat, "They think they know everything. You give them an inch, they swim all over you."

Top Cat lifted his head off his hand and looked hesitantly over at the mouse detective. "Do you...think I...I was too hard on them?" he asked.

Basil shook his head. "Oh no, Your Majesty." Then, with determined conviction, he said, "Why, if Sally, Cosmo, and Amy were *my* nieces, I'd show them who was boss. None of this "flitting to the surface" and other such nonsense. No, sir! I'd keep them under tight control.'

Top Cat straightened up, and you could practically see the light bulb over his head. "You're absolutely right, Basil!" he exclaimed.

"Of course." Basil smirked, giving him a wink of approval.

"The girls need constant supervision." said Top Cat.

"Constant supervision." Basil repeated, nodding in consent.

"Someone to watch over them." Top Cat said, "To keep them out of trouble."

Basil kept on nodding his head. "All the time." he said.

"And *YOU* are just the mouse to do it." Top Cat said, poking Basil in the chest, and the mouse detective's face fell. He gasped then swam away.

He grudgingly accepted his charge and the king dismissed him.

"How do I get myself into these situations?" Basil said to himself, "I should be writing symphonies, not tagging along after some headstrong teenagers."

He rolled his eyes in despair and shook his head. He rounded the corner, and his self-pity quickly changed into curiosity as he saw Amy, Sally, Cosmo, Silver, and Charmy looking around suspiciously before quickly swimming off.

"Hmm? What are those girls up to?" asked the little mouse detective, as he struggled to follow the five of them, collapsing on a rock and panting heavily when they finally reached their destination that was far away from the busy city.

The five looked around again before Sally pulled a large stone back revealing a small cave dug into the rock.

Basil hopped up and scurried quickly to follow them, barely making it through the door as the rock slid back into place over his tail.

He gasped, trying to free himself as quietly as possible. Pulling on a small plant growing in the sand he managed to pull himself out from under the rock, his momentum sending him flying where he came to a stop, hitting a strange object.

It was an hourglass. Basil groaned and rubbed his head. Before he gasped, the pain was quickly forgotten as he gazed at the cave that lay before him. "Huh?" gasped the mouse detective in wonder.