Team Friendship

Team Friendship is the friendship between Puss in Boots, Kitty Softpaws and Perrito from the Puss in Boots fandom.

Canon
Puss was the catalyst for the formation of Team Friendship. Overhearing from Goldilocks and her bear family that Big Jack Horner stole the map to the Wishing Star, Puss comes out of retirement to steal the map for himself. Unfortunately, a nameless dog Puss "befriended" during his retirement followed him to Horner's bakery, so Puss told him to act as his getaway driver to get him out of his fur. As he tried to snatch the map, his old flame Kitty Softpaws was one step ahead of him by hiding in the box the Snake Sisters used to transport the map to Jack. They're discovered when Goldilocks' brother Baby makes a terrible attempt at sneaking in and in the kerfuffle, Puss and Kitty end up flung at Puss' getaway chariot and the dog's driving managed to get them away from their attackers, though they remain hot on their tails. As Puss and Kitty calm down, they reluctantly agree to work together to get the wish, encouraged by the dog whom Puss calls "Perrito" (Spanish for "puppy"). After Puss introduces Kitty and Perrito to each other, avoiding answering where Puss met him, the party reaches the Dark Forest that the Wishing Star created when it fell surprisingly quickly.

As they all get sucked into the forest, they discover that the environment changes depending on who's touching the inside of the map. Puss and Kitty fight over it, using puppy-dog eyes, which impresses and excites Perrito who gushed over the cuteness of it all. Puss' forest is a continuous reminder of his own mortality, Kitty's is a reminder of her reclusiveness and reluctance to open up to anyone. Perrito's forest is a dreamscape lacking any overt dangers. Since Puss wants to keep him being on his last life a secret and Kitty isn't thrilled at the idea of killing herself just for a wish, they unanimously agree to take Perrito's option. Initially going through the "Pocket Full Of Posies", Puss and Kitty try to fight any flowers blocking their way, but the flowers run on Hydra rules, the more are cut, the more they grow. Puss and Kitty are soon overwhelmed by the flowers, but Perrito instinctively sniffs the roses, leading to them leaving him alone. He ends up teaching them to just "stop and smell the roses", which both dismiss as sappy, but they've seen it work.

As they see Jack Horner approaching, they manage to escape the posies just in time for Jack and his Baker's Dozen to be slowed down by the flowers. In the second location on Perrito's map, the "River of Relxation", the three of them gently float down the river on a makeshift boat. During the ride, Perrito attempts to mimic the puppy-dog eyes and Puss asks Kitty to help him trim his beard, admitting that he lied about liking it. As Kitty notices that Puss has a stick Perrito gave him instead of his trademark sword, Puss throws the stick away. Unfortunately, Perrito jumps after it to fetch it and runs right into the clutches of Jack Horner. Jack having no qualms about shooting a puppy and the arrival of Goldilocks and her bear family leads to threeway fight for the map still strapped to Perrito's back. However, Goldi and her bears get the map and Puss is distracted by the arrival of the "bounty hunter" who forced him into retirement in the first place. Puss runs for his life, leading to Kitty and Perrito having to chase him, Perrito gets to him first and helps Puss calm down. Kitty overhears Puss confess that he's on his last life and that he genuinely regrets leaving Kitty standing at the altar. She then pretends to not have heard them talking and reminds them that Goldilocks has the map now, so they should better track her down.

As Goldi touched the map, the environment changed to "Nostalgic Pines", which is a reflection of the cottage Goldi broke into, which led to her meeting her family in the first place. Puss, Kitty and Perrito then make a plan to break into the cottage, once again asking Perrito to wait outside. Perrito getting the two of them to do a team handshake, he calls their trio "Team Friendship", which both Puss and Kitty dismiss. During the break-in, though Puss gets the map, he is discovered, leading to Kitty glitching the map while trying to wrestle it from Goldilocks, the environment is stuck between the Nostalgic Pines and Kitty's "Mountains of Misery". Though Puss and Kitty escape, they realize that Goldilocks captured Perrito. Going from bad to worse, Puss touched the map, leading to him getting separated from Kitty by a crystal forming the "Cave of Lost Souls". Through the crystal, Puss shows Kitty where Perrito is on the map and they agree to meet up once Kitty saves Perrito and Puss manages to find a way out of the cave. Perrito isn't even worried about the bears, he knows that Puss and Kitty will come to his rescue, sure enough, Kitty manages to swap him out with a pinecone right beneath the noses of Goldilocks and her bears, slowing them down in their own trap to boot.

However, Puss is cornered by the bounty hunter in the cave, who then reveals himself to be none other than Death. Realizing just how shallow it was for him to waste his past lives on nothing, Puss runs for his life, but he doesn't slow down when he sees Kitty and Perrito outside the cave. Understandably, Kitty thinks that Puss is only running because he only wants the wish for himself and tells him that she never should've trusted him when the three of them reunite on the wishing star. Puss confesses to her that he's on his last life and simply wanted the wish so he could get his nine lives back, but Kitty tells him to keep all of his lives out of hers, she wanted to wish for someone she could trust. Before Kitty could leave however, the three of them are cornered by Jack Horner, Goldilocks, her bear family and the last of the Baker's Dozen standing. As the last baker is disintegrated by falling off of the wishing star and Goldilocks ends up saving Baby Bear's life, all other participants in the fight realize that Jack Horner is the bigger threat and manage to momentarily trap him inside of his own bottomless bag. In a bit of breathing air, Perrito tells Puss that he only has one life, but Puss and Kitty helped make it truly something special. However, the victory is short-lived with the arrival of Death, with Kitty realizing that Puss wasn't kidding and being forced to watch Death challenge him to a fight while creating a firewall to keep his friends out. Once again, Puss' lives flash before his eyes, but instead of seeing major moments of his life, he sees all the small moments he shared with Kitty and Perrito. He realizes that he doesn't need nine lives, he accomplished more in the last one he had than the 8 previous ones combined. He confidently picks up his sword, takes a few blows from Death and refuses to give up. In the end, Death admits defeat as he realizes just how Puss has changed thanks to Kitty and Perrito, seeing no worth in killing him any longer.

However, as Jack Horner uses a cake inside the bag to grow to giant size for round two and effortlessly takes the map to make his wish to claim all the magic in the world for himself. Perrito runs up to him with Puss believing that he's mindlessly putting his own life at stake. However, Perrito manages to perfect the puppy-dog eyes for long enough to keep the heartless Jack Horner distracted for Perrito's friends to launch a counterattack, Puss, Kitty and Goldilocks grab the map and wordlessly agree to tear it into pieces. As everyone evacuates the crumbling wishing star, Jack gets swallowed by the debris and explodes along with it, creating more shooting stars to wish on. The trio watch the shooting stars along with Goldi and her family, but none of them bother to wish anything. Instead, Puss and Kitty try to give Perrito a name, but he admits that he prefers to be called by that name, since that's what his friends call him.

In the epilogue, Team Friendship (now officially called that, much to Puss and Kitty's chagrin) steal the governor's vacation ship. When Kitty asks him where they are going, Puss simply tells them of "new adventures" with some "old friends" of his. They are sailing to the kingdom of Far Far Away.

Fanon
Team Friendship became the most popular platonic ship in the Shrek/Puss in Boots fandom in record speed.

Fandom

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