If you want something done right, Rattrap said, confine Cheetor to quarters.
Cheetor’d gone off the grid and hadn’t come back on. Which meant he’d gone deeper into Thundera. Which meant extraction, and that was already a bad prospect: the reason they’d sent Cheetor in the first place was that they only had two cats, and tigers were the only thing even less welcome in Thundera than non-cats.
Which meant doing this himself, and hoping that one or two old friends weren’t quite old enough that they didn’t remember him.
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I wonder how things would’ve turned out if I’d tried remastering everything else when I redid this piece… meh. Probably not worth dwelling on.
I hated the original so much. It wore on me until I couldn’t stand it anymore. Lynx-O looked horrendous. (To a much lesser degree, I regretted Optimus’ color pallette.)
I think it was in writing the new dialogue for this that I first decided Thundera was luddite? The new series had come out by then (obviously) and I liked the idea that magic was run-of-the-mill and technology was the maligned impossibility. I wish they’d gotten another season… I’ve read that it would’ve included Slithe killing Lynx-O as revenge for Lynx-O murdering lizard children. So.... ...that would’ve been a thing.