Cherry's Adventures of Cats Don't Dance

chapter 6

The bus had already stopped before Atticus could do anything. 

Danny was coming out from the doors and ran into the human boy. "Atticus, what're you doing out here?"

"Stopping you from leaving." Atticus said.

"I just got an idea, but I'll need your and Cherry's help, you two believed in me, also Pudge." Danny then said.

You got it." Atticus said.

Cherry had caught up. "What's going on?"

"Hang on, first let's get Pudge." Danny said to them.

The three of them went by the L'il Ark Angel billboard as Pudge had packed an ice cube in a hobo sack and seemed to had been walking off, looking lost and hopeless.

"Hey, Pudge." Atticus said.

"Hey, guys..." Pudge said lowly.

"You're not gonna quit, are you?" Danny asked.

"What other choice do I have?" Pudge asked. "All animals have been thrown out of Hollywood cuz of that Dimple kid." 

"Darla made that mess?" Cherry asked.

"Yeah, she and that big guy Max flooded the stage!" Pudge explained.

"We can use this information somewhere in the plan." Atticus said.

"We have to make sure the gang's all together, but we have to get to the publicity department." Danny suggested.

"Come on, but we'll have to be quiet, hopefully no one will notice any difference when the invitations are sent to the movie's premiere." Cherry added.

"Yeah." Atticus said.

The four gathered together to get to the publicity department and kept quiet so that the guard that was asleep wouldn't hear them and arrest them. Once they got in, Danny got to the typewriter and included TW's, Sawyer's, Frances', Woolie's, and Cranston's names to the invitation list.  Cherry and Pudge stood by the door in case anyone would happen to walk by. The invitation's were sent out.

In the morning of the day of the big movie premiere for Li'l Ark Angel, everyone was getting ready. Darla as usual was being spoiled by everyone who worked for her and pampered her to look her best. Everyone else in Hollywood was getting their best clothes ready and a lot of fans in the audience had their autograph books and cameras ready to see the stars shining in the night. 

Darla was wondering where Atticus and Cherry were since they were her assistants. She then decided that she didn't care and just finished getting herself ready for the big show tonight. Won't be long now as she would remain the biggest star and those animals would have crushed dreams. Unknown to her, Atticus and Cherry were with Danny and Pudge.

Finally, Darla was ready to go as she wore a nice fur coat over a red dress with pink puffed sleeves with a matching skirt and tiny heart in the center with an adorable red bow on her little curly head. She was waiting impatiently for the older stars to have their shots in the spotlight before LB Mammoth, finally she could be seen. There came a little boy in the crowd who wanted Darla's autograph and rushed to her to get it after she had signed her name and put her tiny hand and foot prints into the wet cement like the older celebrities. 

Her time had come. While this was going on, Atticus and the others were getting ready. Cherry was wearing a bright green dress which seemed to compliment her skin tone and she had a big black rose-like flower in her hair as she was backstage with the others while the movie would start and the others would get in with Darla, LB Mammoth, Flanigan and Max in the balcony with a bunch of treats and stuffed animals for the little brat herself. Danny wore a green suit with a bow tie, Pudge wore an orange vest with a red bow tie and Atticus wore a dark blue suit.

And where they were getting ready for the rest of their plan. The movie was getting to its very cute and cuddly part where Darla promises to help and protect every 'eensy-weensy' one of the animals and cuddles with them, making the audience gush. Cherry hid a chuckle as she could've sworn she heard Cranston mutter; "Shoot me." Danny was moving the piano with the candlelight, getting Pudge's saxophone, and a drum set ready, but they had accidentally let the cymbal go flying, but they caught it in time before hitting the floor. 

Pudge looked in the cymbal and rearranged and snapped his bow tie, no one could've heard that, right? But Max did. Max vanished behind the balcony's curtain and made his way backstage. The ones backstage were almost all set, they just had to wait for the movie to end.

"It's almost time, I'll go hit the lights." Danny told his friends.

"Check!" Pudge nodded.

"Nothing could possibly go wrong now." Atticus said.

Max was now right behind them and staring them down. Pudge was being lifted up and was rubbed against Max's bald head and placed on the ceiling, sticking due to static electricity. 

"Danny, watch out!" Cherry whispered loudly.

Danny slowly turned around and saw Max, making him panic and fear for his life.

"Run for your life!" Atticus whispered loudly.

Danny tried to hold off Max with the candlelight on the piano for Woolie. Max snorted over the candle, making Danny fly back against the wall, but he went up the rope to the roof door to escape from Darla's master servant. Max growled at the kids, he would deal with them later and he was going to get Danny.

"Hold on, Pudge!" Cherry whispered loudly up to the penguin in distress.

Danny and Max were going to fight on the roof while Cherry and Atticus would get Pudge down. 

Cherry found a ladder and stood by, not climbing up it. "What're you waiting for?" she asked Atticus.

"I'm coming." Atticus said.

Cherry watched him go and held the ladder.

"Thanks, guys..." Pudge said to them as the boy helped him down.

"No problem, buddy." Atticus said.

"I think the movie's getting close to ending." Cherry looked over her shoulder.

"Yeah." Atticus said.

"Where's Danny?" Pudge asked.

"Up on the roof," Cherry's eyes widened. "He had a run-in with Max."

They then went up to the roof.

"Danny, the movie's over, everybody's leaving!" Pudge called as Danny seemed a little beat up as he watched the Darla balloon fly away. "Whoa... You're a mess..."

Danny looked back to them. 

"Come on, we're wasting time!" Cherry sounded impatient.

"Yeah." Atticus said.