Top Cat: Coronavirus in New York

### Third

Starring: Top Cat, Benny the Ball,Choo-Choo, Brain, Fancy-Fancy, Spook, Officer Dibble, Amy Vandergelt, Ratsputin the dog, Trixie, Kitty Glitter

## Other attributes

### Sixth

Story set in: 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic

***Top Cat: Coronavirus in New York*** (acronym: ***TCCOVIDINNY***) is a fanmade fanfiction about COVID-19, a sequel to the *Top Cat* franchise (mostly the original cartoon series). The fanfiction is known by fans due to the appeareances of all the characters of the original series, the books, the films and the 80s TV special, all together in one story. This also includes fans' original characters (Destiny, Too Cute, etc.).

## Technical data

*Top Cat* fanfiction series
 **Story set in** | 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic.

## Chapters

1. Is This A Normal Day?
2. It's Raining Like Billy-oh!
3. Adapting
4. Quarantine Troubles
5. Those DARN CATS!
6. The Vaccine Robbery
7. Solving the Crime
8. Saving the Day
9. Ratsputin the Great Hero
10. Everything's Back to Normal
11. An Alley for the Gang
12. Going Back Home
13. Finale: The Reunion

### Plot

Top Cat and his gang's life changes when the COVID-19 pandemic arrives. Instead of the alley, they have to live together with now police-chief Officer Dibble at the New York Apartment, and take actions to avoid to be infected. The gang has to live many misadventures to return back to their alley, such as meet again Top Cat's friend Raúl Anaya (himself), and face a vaccine robbery whose guilt ones are Jazz and his henchcats.

It all starts in a peaceful day of January 30th, 2020. Top Cat has a reunion with his gang of feline friends: Benny, Choo-Choo, Brain, Spook and Fancy-Fancy. The cats decide which food to eat before a visit to a Broadway musical and then to have their other plans (such as their visit to their friend, Mexican dubber Raúl Anaya). Top Cat and Benny agree to go together to the different stores to search food for the gang, when they realize that all stores and places are closed and people is using a mask. Very confused, the two cats return back to the alley to tell the situation to the gang.

While the cats are speaking about the troubles that are coming, Fancy-Fancy is speaking with his wife, Lola, who tells him that they can't have a date due to a virus. Then, an embarrased Fancy-Fancy tells the gang that the situation they're living is the coronavirus pandemic, horrorizing his friends.

Meanwhile, in the New York Apartment, Officer Dibble's eating breakfast with his wife and children. He is watching the news on TV, when he finds out that there's many infected people in the world, and persons have to take measures to avoid to be the next sick: handwashing, desinfection, cleaning, using of masks and lockdown (quarantine). Scared, Dibble thinks that his life is gonna be upside down, when his daughter, Jennifer, tells him about the alley gang's situation. Dibble thinks on the gang and goes to visit them.

Officer Dibble arrives in Hoagy's Alley, when he sees the alley gang cats sad and depressed due to the pandemic. He tells them the bad news (that the cats will be in quarantine and he can't stay many time with them) and the good news (that they will be at his home). The cats are housed at Officer Dibble's flat, where they meet his family. At night in the dinner, Officer Dibble thinks again that he can't be always caring for the cats due to his role as Police Chief in the New York Police, and he is worried about that. But he has a good idea: he decides to call his friend and next-door neighbor, Amy Vandergelt, who came to live to the New York Apartment since Christmas. Amy and Dibble speak together and agree with take care for the cats. After speaking with Dibble, Amy tells the idea to her pet dog, Ratsputin, before both two go to sleep.

The next day, Amy has her morning routine and goes to Dibble's flat, while Ratsputin is cared by the guard, J.K. Jones, who is owner of guard dog Dobey (Henry Cavill). Amy meets again the cats, who are glad to see her back with them. After the reunion among Amy and the Dibbles, Officer Dibble leaves to go to the Policestation, and Suzie has to go to the office with Carlos and Jennifer. Amy is with the cats. Suddenly, it's a raining day and the cats can't go out to the neighborhood park, but with Amy, they have fun, cooking, cleaning up the home, playing cards and video games, reading the novel "*House of Strickland*", having film and show marathons. This meanwhile Officer Dibble is controlling the pandemic situation and is managing the measures for the police assistants.

Once Dibble returns back home, he dines with Amy and the cats, who tell him the funny situations they did to not be bored. Amy goes back to her flat with Ratsputin, while Top Cat and the gang go to sleep. While dining, Amy is calling her aunt, Gertrude Vandergelt.

It's May 2020, when the alley gang are sleeping peacefully. Top Cat dreams about what happened if Raúl Anaya could visit New York, with a crowd of fans saluting him. Top Cat thinks that he and his friends could meet again Grace, Raúl's biggest fan, and her older brother Alex. But Top Cat's dream gets interrupted when he heards a crowd of people yelling. The yelling people are Dibble, Amy and a group of neighbors, who are complaining to a group of crime cats composed of Jazz and his group of henchcats: Beau, Honeydew Mellon, Stefan, Trevor and Thelma. The crime cats were making a "clandestine party" with a cockfight as activity, and they were making a horrible lot of noise, to the neighbors' denial. After being kicked out by the neighbors (who go to sleep again), Jazz and his henchcats later go to another place to make their "clandestine party" without being discovered, specially by the Police Department. But the Police Department knows that those "darn cats" are doing bad things. The crime cats are "sniffing and drinking" catnip when they are catched by the Police Department, but they couldn't catch them at all because the crime cats went to sleep to a ceiling of another neighborhood.

The next day, Amy, Ratsputin and Dibble team up with the Mayor of New York to work together, as in the previous months. They send the alley gang to help their neighbors. Top Cat meets again his girlfriend, Trixie, who is working for the news. The other people who are helped by the gang (and goes to help them too) are Dawn and Drake, Kitty and Keith Glitter, an old couple, Griswald Sr. and his son Griswald Jr., among many others, including needy. This while Amy, Ratsputin and Dibble register the amount of helped people. Once the plan ends, the whole group congrats one each other before returning back to the New York Apartment.

July 2020. It's been 2 months after the cockfight. The Health Department announces that for August and September, doctors and nurses of the United States will vaccine people against the coronavirus. Jazz and his henchcats decide to profiteer the situation, and the next day, they go to a public hospital. Jazz impersonates a health inspector named Robert Meowney, and with the henchcats, take a cooler with many vaccines. Jazz wants to throw all the vaccines to the river, but the police department sees them stealing the vaccines. The first ones who realize this are Officer Dibble, Amy Vandergelt, Ratsputin and obviously Top Cat and the gang, who are inspecting a street near the hospital.

The group goes to tell the Health Department's president about the robbery, and everybody takes actions to save the vaccines. They are leaded by Dobey and Ratsputin. Together, with Trixie, the whole group sees where are Jazz and the henchcats, and after a long search, they finally take the vaccines and return them back to the hospital where the robbery happened, while Jazz and his henchcats are bit by Ratsputin and Dobey. Officer Dibble arrests Jazz and his henchcats at the Dog Jail, before the gang celebrates another crime solved.

The day after the crime, the group realizes that the things are calming down and decide to celebrate at the New York Apartment's park. The group celebrates themselves and to Ratsputin and Dobey, when Top Cat calls Raúl to tell him that everything's going to be fine.

August, 2020. Things are going to be calmed and the Mayor of New York congratulates Top Cat and the group for saving the day from the clutches of Jazz and the henchcats. But Officer Dibble worries about the horrible conditions in Hoagy's Alley, and tells it to the Mayor of New York. All New Yorkers rebuild the alley to make it more safe for the day the cats return back home. And once the alley is rebuild (like a home), Officer Dibble returns to the New York Apartment and tells the news to the cats. At beggining, the cats think that they are going to be kicked out from the flat, but once they go to their renovated Hoagy's Alley, they are happy again for being back home. And a good news more: Raúl Anaya finally agrees to visit them at New York.

September 23rd, 2020. The cats' return to Hoagy's Alley is celebrated by the New Yorkers. Officer Dibble, Amy Vandergelt, Gertrude Vandergelt, Trixie, Kitty Glitter, Dawn and Drake, Grace, Alex, and many more are glad with the cats now safe and sound. At the exact moment when the Mayor of New York is reading a speech for the cats, Raúl Anaya arrives to visit the gang, who welcome him back. Once the New Yorkers are having a party, Raúl is telling Grace that today he is birthday, and Grace gives him a birthday present: her favorite song, "Guess What I Have Done". The whole gang celebrates them, and at the end, Top Cat and the gang, happy, thank their partners and friends for help them to survive in the pandemic. Raúl gives Top Cat a hug, making Top Cat giggle and the others to laugh, as they are celebrating the next months that are coming and the hope they have to still being together forever and ever.

## The character cast

### **Main characters:**

**Top Cat**: The indisputable leader of the Alley Gang and the central protagonist.

**Raúl Anaya**: A Mexican dubber who is Top Cat's friend. He has a terrible crowd of fans.

**Benny the Ball**: A 15-year-old cat who is Top Cat's right-hand man. He has an older brother, Catwalader.

**Choo-Choo**: a pink cat who is a skilled poker player. He is Latino (from Mexico).

**Brain**: A stuttering cat who is often called as "dim-witted", but he's not like that. He is now father to Athena.

**Fancy-Fancy**: the common helper of the gang who commonly chats with girls. He is now married to Lola Glamour.

**Spook**: the streetwise member of the gang.

**Officer Dibble**: a New York City police chief who keeps an eye on the alley and is the cats' owner.

**Amy Vandergelt**: a 20-year-old young woman who is Officer Dibble's best friend and next-door neighbor. She is Ratsputin's owner.

**Ratsputin**: Amy's sympathetic and funny pet dog.

**Jay Kay "J.K." Jones the Guard**: the guard of the New York Apartment.

**Dobey**: J.K. Jones' pet dog who is the guard dog.

**Kitty Glitter**: A rich female cat who lives in Plum Center and is fiancée to Keith Glitter.

**Copper**: Brain's wife and Athena's mother.

**Athena**: Brain and Copper's baby daughter.

**Trixie**: Top Cat's love interest. She is now a news reporter.

**Lola Glamour**: Fancy-Fancy's wife.

**Gertrude Vandergelt**: Amy's aunt who lives in the Vandergelt Mansion, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.

**Grace**: a teenage cat who is Raúl Anaya's most biggest fan. She is Alex's younger sister.

**Alex**: a teenage cat who is geek and a rock singer. He is Grace's older brother.

**Adrian**: Alex's college mate who is friends with him and Grace.

### **New York Police Department:**

**Officer Mahoney**: Officer Dibble's workpartner.

**Sargeant Eugene Prowler**: former police chief. He's now retired and lives in Plum Center.

**Ernest Prowler**: Officer Dibble's workpartner.

**Katy**: a female police cat who is Ernest Prowler's pet cat.

### **Supporting roles:**

**Keith Glitter**: Kitty Glitter's fianceer.

**Dawn**: a young girl cat who is neighbor in the New York Apartment. She is Drake's twin sister.

**Drake**: a young boy cat who is neighbor in the New York Apartment. He is Dawn's twin brother.

**Mrs. Ball**: the overprotective mother of Benny and Catwalader.

**Catwalader**: a 25-year-old cat who is Benny's older brother.

**Mrs. Dibble**: Officer Dibble's wife.

**Carlos Dibble**: Officer Dibble's 16-year-old son.

**Jennifer Dibble**: Officer Dibble's 15-year-old daughter.

**Homer Suggs**: the New York mayor, who always has good ideas to help the whole city.

**Goldie**: Choo-Choo's wife.

**Imogene and Edward Clinger**: Dawn and Drake's adoptive human parents.

**Fifi**: Lola's maid.

**Griswald Sr.**: a neighbor dog in Plum Center.

**Griswald Jr.**: a puppy who is Griswald Sr.'s son.

The **female felines** of the original series and comics reappear here in different roles.

**Sheldon**: Top Cat's 10-year-old nephew. He appears in the fifth chapter, when Top Cat calls him via videocall.

**The Maharajah of Pokajee**: a Middle Eastern Gentleman who is known for using his rubies as tips.

### **Original characters (OCs):**

**Destiny**: an human-fox teenage girl who is Benny's new girlfriend.

**Too Cute**: A young girl cat who is a neighbor in Plum Center.

### **Villains:**

**Jazz**: the main villain of the story (in the style of Vito Corleone). A crime boss who breaks the Law with a group of crime cats.

**Beau**: Jazz's right-hand man and the secondary antagonist

**Honeydew Mellon**: femme fatale of Jazz's crime group.

**Trevor**: an inept newbie crime cat who causes trouble to the others. His siblings are Stefan and Thelma, also terrible crime cats.

**Stefan**: an inept newbie crime cat who causes trouble to the others. His siblings are Trevor and Thelma, also terrible crime cats.

**Thelma**: an inept newbie crime cat who causes trouble to the others. Her brothers are Stefan and Trevor, also terrible crime cats.

## Trivia

* The first COVID-19 pandemic fanfiction.
* The fanfiction returns back many characters of the franchise in different roles, making it the "most epic fanfiction ever in history".