The Judas Part 1 By: JimakaTaz  
 The sun is just rising over Castle Plundarr.  Vultureman is in his lab, as he has been for hours.  He is working on a new device that he is sure will destroy the Thundercats once and for all.  Vultureman gazes intently at the device infront of him on the cold stone workbench.
 “Vultureman!  What are you up to Buzzard?” hisses the reptilian sssSlithe.
 Vultureman turns in surprise to see the Fat ugly lizard glaring at him.  “sssSlithe! How daaaahre you enter my work shop without my consent! hawwwk.”
 “I am leader of the Mutants bird.  I will enter anywhere I choossse.  Now you will
tell me what you are working on yessss?”
 “Very well.  I haaaahve devised a plan, hawwwk, to rid us of the Thundercaaahts.”
 “You’ve said that before Vultureman and failed yesss, what makesss this time ssso different?  You had better make it good, or I will have your hide as a mantle piece.”
 “Think about it sssSlithe.  The sword of Omens is the source of their power.
sqwwwak, with out it they will be weak, easy prey. W...”
 “We have tried countlessss times to retrieve the sssword, and failed everytime!
You’re quickly loosssing my interest buzzard.”
 “Why get the sword?”
 “What?  You just said...”
 “What good would that be?  It can’t be used for evil.”
 “Then what do you proposssse we do with it?
 “Destroy it!  If you destroy it,sqwwwak, you destroy them.  Get it?”
 “We can’t dessstroy it. We’ve tried that too!”
 “Yes, but we won’t be the ones, Bengali is going to do it hawwwwk”
 “WHAT?!  Vultureman, that isss the most ab...”
 “He is the only one who caaaahn.  He is a Thunderian Blacksmith, haawwwk, He
can forge it; and he can destroy it!”
 “Oh?  And jussst how do you suppose we get him to do that?  Say ‘Bengali, would you be a nice little Thundercat and go and destroy the sword of Omens for usss?’ I don’t think ssso.”
 “No.  That’s where my, haawwwak, device will come in.  What this baby does is it instaaaahntly takes over a being’s mind, aaaaahfter the being is taken it will only follow instructions spoken into this headset.”
 “And doesss it work?  Wait, we can test it, yesss.  JACKLEMAN!  Get in here!”
 “Excellent Choice, haawwwk, sssSlithe.”
 “Nya ha ha ha What do you want sssSlithe?” asks Jackleman.
 “Stand infront of Vultureman yesss, we are running a test on one of his new
inventionsss.”
 “Nya ha ha ha, are you mad?  I’m no test subject.”
 Jackleman turns to run out the door, but before he can take another step Vultureman pushes the green button on the right side of the device. A lightblue beam shoots out of a nozzle at the end of it and envelops Jacklman., who is stopped dead in his tracks.
 Vultureman puts the headset on.  “Turn around!”
 Jackleman slowly turns to face Vultureman.   He just stands there motionless and in a trance-like state.
 “Come forward!” orders Vultureman.  Jackleman steps forward.
 “Stand on your hands.”  Jackleman steps back a step and does a perfect handstand.  He holds the position flawlessly.
 “Amazing! That clumbsssy idiot can manage to do that?”
 “It’s the power of the device,haahwwwk, he has to do exaaaahctly as I say.  And if we can make him do that, Bengali will be a simple maaaahtter.”
      The mutants laugh as they think about the destruction of the Thundercats by one of their own.  They laugh even harder when they look at Jackleman, who’s arms have just given out, causing him to fall on his head.
 
 Elsewhere, the Thundercats are setting out to go on their monthly thundrillium
gathering.  They are all assembled in front of the massive cat shaped fortress they call home, Cat’s lair.
 “Ok.  Cheetarah, Panthro, Lion-O, and the Kittens take the East and West points. Bengali, Pumyra, Lynx-O, and I will take North and South.  We’ll meet back here in two hours.”  Says Tygra as he hands Lion-O’s team a map of the East and West Points with all of the Thundrillium spots marked.
 “Ok, Tygra.  Be careful. Stay away from the Cave of Time.” says Cheetarah giving
him a warm smile.
 “Don’t worry, Once in this lifetime is enough for me.” replies Tygra, returning the
smile.
 
 The Thundercats take off in the different directions.  Tygra’s team was on the
course that headed through the treetop kingdom, Home of Willa and her warrior maidens.
 “It must have taken weeks for you to map out all these sites Tygra.” commented
Pumyra who was taking in the breathtaking beauty of the forrest.
 “It did.  It wasn’t an easy task, but well worth the effort.  Now we know where all
the thundrillium deposits are and don’t have to worry when we get low.”
 “Woah!  Is that creepy looking cave the one you were talking about Tygra?”
 “Yes Bengali, don’t even go near it! The last time I was in that cave I aged until I
was way over Lynx-O’s age.”
 “Wow!” exclaimed Pumyra.
 “How were you...” Lynx-O started to say, but was cut short by the appearance of
the mutants.
 “Well, well, what do we have here?  Thundercatsss out for a walk?”  said sssSlithe stepping out from a bush with Monkian, Jackleman, and Vultureman.
 “Grrowwwll, stand aside mutants!” Growled Bengali, removing the Hammer of
Thundera from it’s holster.
 “And what will you do if we don’t Thundercat, hoo hoo?” said Monkian leaping
high into the air and landing about 40 feet from Tygra.  Tygra instantly produced his bolo whip and snapped it at the ground in front of Monkian, surounding the mutant with flames, Tygra then jumped high in the air twirling the whip around his body and dissappeared in a flash of blue light.  Monkian looked around for Tygra, his magic shield ready on his arm. Suddenly out of nowhere Tygra’s whip flew threw the air and wrapped around the sheild, pulling it off Monkian’s arm.
 “No fair Tygra hoo hoo!” stormed Monkian furiously.
 “Oh?  And since when did mutants know the meaning of the word fair?” Tygra shot back, rematerializing behind Monkian.  As soon as the Mutant turned Tygra landed a punch to his jaw, sending the mutant monkey crashing to the ground unconcious.
  Meanwhile, Jackleman and Pumyra were fighting to the left of Monkian and Tygra.
 “You don’t stand a chance against me, you cowardly Jackle.”  said Pumyra doing a cartwheel going into a front handspring then leaping into the air and throwing out three marbles she caught them with her sling and flung them in Jackman’s direction.
 “Nya ha ha ha, It’s going to take more then your puny marbles to defeat me girl!”
exclaimed Jackleman as he dodged the first two marbles.  He didn’t, however, see the final marble speeding in his direction.  When Jackleman took a step toward Pumyra, she smiled as the marble hit him in the nose, exploding with sneeze dust she had gotten from the thunderkittens.  Jackleman ran off whining and sneezing uncontrollably.
 “You won’t beat me so easily Pumyra, yessss.” said sssSlythe getting ready to fire a shot from the tip of his ax.  Pumyra was surprised by sssSlythe, and hadn’t had the chance to react, just as Pumyra was dreading the worst; sssSlythe fell to the ground unconcious.
 “And she won’t have to, mutant.  Not when my touch can put you down and out.
Are you ok Pumyra?” said Lynx-O, stepping over the body of sssSlythe to Pumyra.
 “Yes Lynx-O, thanks.  He caught me off gaurd, I had no time to react.”
 “You two alright?” asked Tygra.
 “Yes we’re fine Tygra, but, where is Bengali?” asked Pumyra looking around.
 “I don’t know, I was so busy fighting Monkian I didn’t even notice he was gone.”
 “The last I saw of him, before Jacklman attacked, was him going after Vultureman.” said Pumyra, a worried tone in her voice.
 “Vultureman must have won the battle and taken Bengali.  But where, and more
importantly why?” asked Lynx-O.
 “I don’t know, but it’s beginning to look like this fight was just a distraction so they could capture Bengali.”
 “What are we going to do Tygra?  What ever the mutants are planning can’t be good for Bengali.”
 “I know Pumyra, I know.  We still have Monkian and sssSlithe, we...”
 “No we don’t.  Monkian is still tied to the tree, but sssSlithe must have awoken and escaped while we were talking.”  Said Pumyra pointing to the spot where sssSlithe had been.
 “Fine.  We still have Monkian, we will go to Castle Plundarr and make a trade,
Monkian for Bengali.”
 With that, the three Thundercats untied Monkian from the tree, then retied his hands and were on there way to Castle Plundarr. CONTINUED... Return to Fanfic Archive