Final Space Oneshots

The Adventures Of Gary The Ventrexian: 1

In case you missed it, this mini series takes place between whiskers 1 and 2, that's why they didn't really join up.
People seemed to really want this idea so -

Huh. The air smells like mint. Sorta.

Gary sniffed again, parting his jaws slightly. Now that his sense of smell had changed (along with other senses), he found himself tasting the air whenever he could, even if places were familiar to him.

"Cat Powers" is what Gary liked to call them. When saying this out loud to Avocato, his boyfriend responded with quick swat over the ear (apparently that was like a punch on the shoulder for Ventrexians, who knew?) and warned him to never say it again.

"If these are cat powers, what are human powers?" Little Cato had asked him immediately after this incident. Gary had thought, only coming up with one thing.

"Whistling." He had answered. Ever since he had became a Ventrexian, his whistling powers had went away. He had been, and still was devastated by this fact.

But apparently that was the worse answer he could've said, because now Little Cato was on a mission to prove Gary wrong because there was no way he couldn't do something as easy as that -

And he was doing it now, Gary noted as his ear twitched in the direction of the ginger. The younger was making pathetic noises with his lips, none of them coming close to whistling.

Space mint probably, Gary thought as he took another sniff of the air. They had crash landed - of course they had, it was just their luck – on an island which just seemed like a great big jungle. Gary had been overwhelmed by all the new scents, and didn't notice he had been wandering off until Nightfall shouted at him.

"Gary! I thought I told you to stay close!" She tugged him back towards the group, sandwiching him between Avocato and Fox.

"Little Cato is wandering off! Why am I getting told off?!" Gary argued with a pout. Avocato rolled his eyes, gesturing to the wire that was connecting him and his son together.

"Because I put him on a leash." Avocato gave a tug and yanked Little Cato away from some dangerous looking berries. "But now I'm thinking I should've brought two!"

"It's not my fault!" Gary argued back. Before he could continue, a butterfly-looking creature fluttered past him, and he had a great urge to follow it. He began to run after it, only to be stopped by a hand on his collar.

"Ga-rry!" Avocato growled. Gary shrugged sheepishly with a small laugh.

"Sorry!" He apologised. "Everything's so new!"

"Err, maybe it was a bad idea to bring him with us..." Fox said, pointing to Gary who had began to wander off again.

"We need all the help we can get. Gary is a useful fighter." Nightfall said from the front. She looked back at the new Ventrexian with a sigh. "Most of the time."

They had been walking for a while, leaving HUE and Mooncake (mainly for protecting HUE) at the ship's remains. The map had said there was civilisation nearby, but it had lost signal an hour ago.

"I think we took a wrong turn somewhere..." Fox said as the trees only grew thicker. Gary hummed in agreement, weaving his hand in Avocato's.

"Hey dads! Look at this!" Little Cato shouted happily, tugging the rope around his waist. The younger was standing next to a large bush with silver flowers. They were opening and closing on their own, looking like something out of a fairy tale.

Gary grinned, ready to run to look at the strange plant. But then stopped, eyes widening with alarm.

The strange mint scent was back, rushing through his nostrils and into his brain. It didn't smell right.