A/N : Ok, there is a good chance I will not be updating in a while, I've been typing this for a while and it's just been sitting there for nobody but me to appreciat it so...
I have always been bad at English and I have not recently proof read this soo... Helpful comments will be appreciated :)
I do not own Top Cat, however, I do own Star and Penny. If you wish to see what Star looks like, comment and I'll give you the link onto my DA account :)
An English Star
By Charlie
Chapter One: Back To 1962, I go!
Star is a dark pinkish coloured cat with a white, fluffy belly, black ears, paws and tail end. Her eyes are blue and she has a black birthmark on her fore-head. Luckily for her, It's in the exact shape of a star. And she wears her trademark black jacket pattened with white stars.
Star had not long ago turned 18, she attends collage and is now currently BOARD out of her FRIGGIN MIND!
Star sat mindlessly flicking through the TV channels. She tutted and rolled her eyes. It was her day off. All of her friends were still in college and there is bugger all on TV! "Ugg!" Star groaned dramatically before switching the TV off and tossing the remote back onto the table. "100 channels of complete and utter shi-"
"Ring, ring." Came the unmistakeable sound of her house phone, cutting Star off in mid-sentence. She groaned again, "I bet it's one of those bloody gas adverts or whatever they are..." Star muttered under her breath.
She lazily got up off her couch and walked grumpily towards her phone. "Hello?" She said in a voice that was the exact opposite of her current mood.
"Star?" Came the familiar voice at the other end of the line. Star's mood instantly lightened.
"Penny! Hi. I thought you were in collage."
"I was. Our tutor went into labour. It was scary. We got the rest of the day off, though. You wanna go Christmas shopping with me?"
"Sure, I'd love to."
"Grate! I'll meet you half way. C'ya."
"Ok, bye." Star hung up and went straight for her moneybox. She grabbed her purse, her phone, her iPod and wasted no time heading straight out of the door.
Like usual, she was met by her purple furred friend exactly half way from Penny's and her own home. They waved as soon as they spotted each other, then their pace quickened until they were face to face with each other then quickly said 'Hiya' whilst sharing a short hug.
"I am so glad you called," Star said as they separated. "I thought I was gonna die of boredom!"
Penny grinned. "Well I am-"
Suddenly there was a loud bang, cutting Penny of, making her hair stand on end. Star and Penny made a grab for one another out of fear. The bang was then followed by an equally loud crash. Everybody in the street had whizzed around towards the disaster. There were flaming rocks falling out of the sky, houses were crushed, bits of glass were flying everywhere. Everybody was in a panic. They all ran in all directions except Star and Penny who stood, glued to the spot, both with wide eyes.
Star suddenly got hit on the head. With what she'll never know, but it was hard. Star fell to the ground and Penny dropped with her to cousin the blow. Before she blacked out, everything suddenly returned to normal. No loud crashes, no fire, no shouting and screaming. It was as if it never happened. Star groaned in pain and confusion.
Penny sat cradling her fallen friend and people had gaverd round them in a small circle. "Star! Star!" She shouted, tears welling up in her eyes.
A phone conversation could be heard in the background. "Yes, hello? Can we have an Ambulance here please...yes...a girl has suddenly collapsed..."
"Ok now gang" Started a yellow cat with a very strong New York accent. "I'm gonna put all the numbers in here." The yellow cat taken off his purple top hat and held it in front of him. "Then were going to do a lucky dip." He dropped some small bits of white paper into his hat and ruffled them a bit. "Ok, Choo-Choo, you go first..." He said holding his hat in front of a pink cat with a white turtle neck. Choo-Choo happily obliged. He dipped his hand into the hat, ruffled the papers a bit and withdrew with a crisp, white piece of paper. Choo-Choo looked at his numbers carefully and his eyes almost popped out of their sockets. "100 to 1..." He repeated slowly. "TC, I think you made a mistake with my paper."
"I never make a mistake, Chooch...You never know..." The yellow cat replied with a grin. "Ok, everybody grab your lucky paper." Top Cat said holding his hat out towards the rest of the gang. One by one the cats dipped their hands in and withdrew a piece each. "Ok, Spook what did you get?" Top Cat asked a muddy green cat with a ripped black tie.
Spook looked at his paper. "Like, err... 1000 to 1." Spooks eyes almost dropped out. "Like err...I've got a three legged horse here." He said to himself.
"Fancy?" Top Cat motioned towards a light brownish, reddish cat with a white scarf.
Fancy seemed relieved when he looked at his paper. "30 to 1"
"Brain, how about you?" TC asked a small, ginger cat in a purple t-shirt.
"Err..." The ginger cat thought for a long ten seconds. "What was the question...?" He asked.
Top Cat rolled his eyes and frowned at him. "The paper, what's written on the paper?"
"Oh," The small ginger cat looked down at his paper. "Err...I don't know TC, It's written in Japanese." he said looking at it intensely. Spook looked over Brain's shoulder at the paper then turned it the right way up for him. "Oh, err...50 to 1"
"Great, Now Benny...?" Top Cat said looking at the short, blue cat.
"Urm...60 to 1, TC." Benny replied.
Top Cat Smiled "Good." He said before picking out his own bit of paper and sitting his hat back on his head. "Now for mine..." Top Cat said as he started to open his paper.
"Aaaaaaggggggghhhhhh!" Came a loud, high pitched scream, startling the six alley cats. They all looked towards the direction of the screaming and saw a pink, female cat heading their way at a very fast pace.
The girl had a face of pure terror and kept on turning her head backwards and sideways at everything, but what was in front of her. Before they both knew it. The girl had crashed into Top Cat. The two fell backwards onto the ground and were holding their heads out of pain.
The pink cat groaned and looked up. Her eyes widened. "Aggghh!" Still sat on the ground, she screamed and backed away towards the side of a trash can.
Top Cat lifted his hat off of his face and cringed when she screamed again. "Now what is going on here?" Top Cat demanded as he got up, still rubbing his head.
"I-I-I" The pink cat tried to speak, eyes still wide with shock. She then closed them and shook her head. "I don't know." She said, barely a whisper. The pink cat brought her knees up to her chest and started to cry.
Top Cat's face instantly softened. He looked around at his gang who looked equally as concerned, but confused as he was. "Look, err...kid..." Top Cat kneeled and put a paw on her shoulder. "What's wrong?" He asked. Top Cat waited a few seconds, but all he got were sobs. "Could you at least tell us your name?"
Still crying, the pink cat lifted up her head and wiped a few tears from her face. "S-Star..."
"Ok, Star...what seems to be the problem?"
"I'm lost..." She said through sobs as she leaned back onto the white fence, in attempt to subside her crying.
"Hey, we'll help you find your way." Choo-Choo said grabbing the attention of Top Cat and Star.
"Yea, we'll help, right TC?" Benny said.
"Err...sure." Top Cat looked back towards Star. "Where is it you need to get to?"
"Manchester..."
"Where's Manchester?"
"Urm...I dunno..." Star wiped the rest of her tears away. "Where are we?"
"Why, were in New York." Top Cat said smiling.
Star just stared. If she wasn't already sat down, she would have collapsed. "New York?" Top Cat and his gang nodded. "NEW York?" They nodded again. "New York, AMERICA!" Top Cat and his gang exchanged glances.
"Like, err, why? Where are you from?" Asked Spook.
"M-Manchester...England..."
The Gang's eyes widened. "England? You're a long way from home." Top Cat said.
"How'd you get here?" Asked Benny.
"I-I-I..." Star was still stunned. She stared off into the distance for a few minutes. Top Cat and his gang was starting to worry.
Suddenly music began plying, startling Top Cat and his gang and making Star's fur stand on end.
"Hey, Hey
You, You
I don't like your girlfriend
No way, no way
I think you need a new one..."
Star blinked for the first time for what felt like hours and struggled to get her phone out of her pocket as soon as possible. Star sighed in disappointment when she found out that it was only an alarm. She pressed a button and the song stopped playing. Star then noticed something at the side of her screen 'No signal...?' Star frowned in confusion 'I thought New york would have a really good signal...'
When Star looked up, she saw the six male cats clutching their ears.
"It sings..." Choo-Choo said in amazement, removing one of his paws from covering his ears and pointing at Star's phone. The other cats dropped their paws back to their sides.
Spook scrunched up his nose. "Like yea, but what WAS it singing...?"
Star raised an eyebrow. "Um...Avril Lavinge...?" She said in a matter-of-factory tone.
The six male cats looked at each other.
"Who...?" Top Cat asked.
Star opened her mouth to speak, but decided against it and just looked at them with a weird expression.
"What is that thing?" Benny asked pointing to Star's mobile.
"My mobile...?" Star asked in another weird expression. Top Cat and his gang just looked at her blankly. "Ya, know...a cell phone...?" Star tried again.
"A phone...?" Top Cat asked.
"Nar...it's too small to be a phone." Fancy said getting a better look at it.
"Where's the chord...?" Asked Choo-Choo.
Star's weird expression grew. "Where's the...? Where have you guys been the last..." Star paused to think a minute. 'Mobiles came out in the 80's, right? "30 odd years?"
The gang of alley cats just looked at each other again. Star could see that she was going to get nowhere. "I cannot believe I've met a bunch of cats that has missed the 80's phenomenon thingy mabobby with mobiles..." She muttered to herself as she started a text to send to Penny, once she gets a signal that is.
"Like, err...the 80's?" Spook asked.
"Yea, ya know 1980's...New wave, punk, electronic music, Space Invaders...Bla bla bla" She muttered nonochantly. As she typed away.
"Um...kid, I think you need to see a doctor..." Top Cat said.
Star gave a stiff laugh and got up from the floor. "I'll say! The bump on mi noggin has messed with my brain. I have gone from England to America within a matter of seconds, met four cats who have no idea what a mobile is or who Avril Lavinge is...Next thing you'll be telling me is that I've time travelled! If so then all we need to do is find our way to Hill Valley, locate Doc Brown and his time travelling car, steal some plutonium and we'll wiz bang our way back into the year 2007." She said sarcastically with a slight grin on her face before her face hardened and she started jabbing her phone and lifting it up as far as she can reach. "Arg! Why is there no signal?" She shouted, bringing it down and started to prod it again.
"Kid, this is 1962." Top Cat informed her.
Star snickered. "Yea, yea." She said sarcastically. "And I'm the 'Queen of England'." She finished in a really posh voice.
"Hey TC," Benny said as he tugged on Top Cat's waistcoat to get his attention. "Maybe she is from the future."
Top Cat frowned and put his hands on his hips. "What are you, Benny? An ideot? There's no such thing as time travel." Star looked up from her phone and raised an eyebrow.
"I mean it, TC. She has that phone thing and the weird music." Benny explained.
"Hey, I think Benny might be right, TC." Choo-Choo said.
"Like, err, yea, TC. I mean 2007. Time travel might be possible." Spook said.
"Yea, nobody ever thought telly vision could be possible, photographs, radio or cars." Fancy agreed.
Top Cat slapped his fore head with his paw. "I'm surrounded by ideots!" He said to himself.
"Hang on!" Star interrupted. "Seriously what's the date today?"
"July 7th 1962." Choo-Choo replied.
"No, SERIOUSLY."
"Like, err, we are serious." Spook said.
The seven cats were disturbed when a slightly chubby police officer came towards them. "Ok, what's going on now, Top Cat?" The police officer asked scanning the area.
"Why officer Dribble, nice to see you again." Top Cat greeted with a cocky smile. The officer was about to say something when Star cut in.
"Excuse me Mr Dribble, but what's the date today?"
"It's the 7th of July." He said sweetly. "Oh and my name is actually Dibble."
The police officer turned back to Top Cat with a frown. "Conning money out of tourists again, I see?" He asked noticing her accent.
"Now Why would you think that, Dribble. We were merely helping her find her way." Top Cat told him with a grin.
Dibble crossed his arms. "For how much!" He demanded.
Top Cat's smile never faltered. "Why we would never even dream of charging this lovely girl for our services." He said whilst tacking his hat off and bowing slightly at Star.
Dibble looked from the grin on Top Cat's face to Star's perfectly straight, but confused face and back to Top Cat again. "Don't let me catch you cheating this poor girl out of anything." He stuck his finger in Top Cat's face then his expression suddenly changed as he turned back to Star. "If they give you ANY trouble, and they will, you come straight to us, ok?"
"Ok," Star agreed. "But what is the year...?" Star asked before he walked off. Hoping she didn't sound too silly.
Dibble did give her a slightly weird look, but answered anyway. "It's 1962, why?"
"Oh, no reason. I...forget things easily..." Star lied.
Officer Dibble smiled politely and nodded. "Well, ok, miss. But remember, if they give you any trouble..."
"I go straight to the police." Star finished with a nod and a smile.
Star waited until the officer was out of sight before turning back to Top Cat. "You con people?" She asked in a clearly unimpressed voice.
"Well, when you live on the streets like we do, you need a way of staying alive." Top Cat explained.
Star's face softened slightly. "You live on the streets?"
Top Cat taken his hat off and held it to his heart. Putting on the most sorriest face he could muster. "Yes, unable to find jobs, we are forced to con people out of money for food and drink and clothes to keep warm during those cold, cold nights." Top Cat said dramatically. "Without it, we'd simply die. I'm sorry if we make a few little white lies every now and again, but I'm afraid we just have no other way to get by in this sad, cruel world." Top Cat finished by placing his hat back on top of his head.
Star smirked, crossed her arms and raised her eyebrow.
"What? Don't you believe me?" Top Cat asked slightly surprised.
Star simply tutted and rolled her eyes whilst putting her mobile back in her pocket. "Listen, I'm apparently a million miles and 50 years away from home! Now shush, I need too..." She looked around for an idea for a couple of minutes before sighing in defeat. "...Find my way to Hill Valley..." She finished whilst rubbing her temples.
Dear Diary,
2nd December 2007 or should I say 7th of July 1962! I'll explain...I can't really remember that well, but I got a call from Penny. She asked me to go Christmas shopping with her. I was board so I said yes. While I was out there was this massive bang. There was fire, glass, rocks and screaming. It was terrible. Then I got hit on the head. I can't remember anything after that, but when I woke up I was somewhere else. I was really scared. I thought somebody had kidnapped me! I was in a place I had never seen before. I was really scared. I ran and ran and ran. I bumped into this alley cat. He was really cute. What was is name. TC? Anyway, I told him and his friends (yes, there was more. I think five or six of them?) I was lost. They told me I was in New York. As in New York, America! I then found out that the year was 1962. I didn't believe them at first, but then I asked a police man and he said 1962 also. I'm really scared. Really, really scared.
A/N I have created a second chapter to this story, I will update this story if somebody asks for it. This is just a test to see if ANYBODY likes it at all….. hehe…