Disclaimer: I don't own Swat Kats They belong to Hanna Barbara and whoever owns Hanna Barbara now. I am just borrowing them for my own and possibly the enjoyment of other fans.

Notes: This is a Sequel to the Visitors. It deals with the displaced pair of Swat Kats finally returning to their original world and learning how things have changed in the three years they have been away and the consequences of their return for the people they left behind.

This takes place two years after their meeting with the "real" Swat kats in The Visitors.

The Original ending I had planned for the Visitors involved the epilogue showing them finally getting home. I decided that was too happy coincidence but I still wanted to write the story of their homecoming and this is the result.

Warning for Jake/Chance pairing and Callie/(It's a surprise but you'll know by the end of the prologue). There will also be mentions of off screen character death during the time they were away. Read at your own risk.

July 4th re posted to fix some minor errors. Missing words and typos and such. Thanks Ulyferal for pointing out there were some missing words.

Swat Kats: The Homecoming

Prologue

She sat behind her desk after another long day. She was thinking about the past and how pleased she was at the progress they had made. They were making Megakat city something to be proud of again. It was hard to believe sometimes that a year had passed since she had taken over as Mayor during the emergency election following Manx's retirement. The last two years of Manx's tenure as mayor had been marred by one disaster after another. The city had been unprepared for the sudden disappearance of the Swat Kats and their jet. She still recalled the cold terror she'd felt when she called and called and they never answered or came.

It had been just two weeks later when the communicator had buzzed and to her horror it was Feral on the other end. That had been more than three years ago today. She could still hear him stating that they needed to talk when he'd heard her voice answering the communicator excitedly. The entire story had come out shortly after that and she'd lost her position as deputy mayor. Mayor Manx had granted her amnesty from any possible criminal charges that could result from her association with the Swat Kats but he hadn't been able to save her career.

She'd been convinced she'd never work in politics again and had been shocked when Commander Feral had offered her a position in the enforcers. He'd hired her as a budget consultant and made it clear to her that he expected her to use her knowledge of how Manx and the city government worked to get the Enforcers the funding they needed. Her new position at the Enforcers had caused some controversy and she'd had a rough go of it at first. Still for a few months they held the city together and the Enforcer's managed to respond to each threat that showed up.

She'd noticed it took them longer and caused a greater loss of life but with each threat that they turned away. She had begun to be convinced that perhaps Feral was right and the city didn't need the Swat Kats. Of course, their success hadn't lasted. The mayor had begun to loudly complain about what it was costing the city to keep fighting off these threats and there was the massive spike in the more small scale criminal activities. It was taking so much effort in man power and equipment to drive off the gigantic threats that seemed to pop up almost weekly that there wasn't much left over for handling the less sophisticated threats.

They had done everything they could to keep things under control but by the time Dark Kat unleashed his final attack on the city two years ago the Enforcers had been stretched to the breaking point. There was no need to think about that disaster it had left the Enforcers in shambles and while Dark Kat was gone for good it didn't undue the damage he'd done.

The next year had been filled with turmoil and angry cries for the Mayor's resignation. Manx had finally announced he was stepping down and emergency elections were held to fill the remainder of his term a month later. She hadn't planned on running but her husband and other Enforcer higher ups had insisted as none of the other potential candidates really understood what it would take to fix the city. She hadn't expected to win given her long time connection to Mayor Manx and the fact she'd been fired as deputy mayor for helping illegal vigilantes' in their activities. She had been well and truly stunned when she had been elected by a huge margin.

She had dedicated herself to making the city worth something again and for the most part succeeded. The Enforcers were well funded, crime and unemployment rates were falling steadily. Things were looking up for the first time in a long while so she knew she should be at home with her husband. She should be enjoying the fact they no longer had to work long shifts to keep things under control.

Of course instead she was sitting here brooding about the past all because an old woman kept calling the Mayor's office today insisting that she saw the Turbokat appear over her garden. She wanted the city to replace her scarecrow that had been knocked over by the jet wash. When they had first vanished, Turbokat sightings were frighteningly common mostly by folks who wanted to get on television. There hadn't been any in months and to most folks what happened to the Swat Kats was just one of those mysteries that would never be solved. She had personally given up trying to find out what happened to them nearly two years ago. However, There was something about the little old woman's story though that seemed different to her. She found herself wondering what she'd do if by some impossible chance they really did show back up.

XXXX

"Okay Jake, what did you find out at the library?" Chance asked as his lover got back form checking to see if this world could possibly be their home. They'd already seen that the garage was abandoned and closed up so they went with their usual back up plan one of them would check the library. Reading the newspaper archives to see if this could possibly be their home. He'd have gone with Jake but a few bad experiences had taught them not to leave their Turbokat unguarded.

"The time line matches we didn't show up to answer a call for help about three days after the storm that started all this and our identities are now public knowledge," Jake said tiredly. "There's no mention of the book we left behind for Callie so if this is home, then it was never made public." He looked away suddenly, "We will have to contact her and find out if this is our home."

"Is she still the deputy Mayor?" He asked his friend wondering how things had changed. "Do you think this is our Callie and that we are finally home?" He saw Razor frown and he felt disappointed. "You don't think it is our home?"

"I'm not sure everything matches how I remember it," he said. "I looked up old headlines and it's exactly how I remember it, the battles that we fought all of it but this Callie is mayor now and married." He looked away, "I can't picture our Callie married to this guy no matter how hard I try."

"Well spit it out Jake, who is it?" He asked feeling a sense of dread. Callie had been single when they'd left home. He was surprised to hear she was Mayor now. He'd thought she was happy in the deputy mayor slot. He wondered if this Manx was dead as that was usually the cause of her becoming Mayor.

"She's married to Commander Tom Steele," Jake said after a moment. He found himself staring at his friend in shock. "They married shortly before she ran for office in an emergency election." He couldn't believe it this couldn't be their world they should just get in the jet and go. Something of what he was thinking must have been visible on his face because Jake said, "We have to know for sure Chance, we have to ask her if she's got that book."

He hated to admit it but Jake was right even though the thought of this being their Callie married to a kiss up like Steele was horrifying. They had to know for sure. He also had to admit he was slightly curious how Steele was in charge of the Enforcers the few worlds they'd seen him with Feral's job he hadn't done a very good job of it. "So how do you think we should contact her?"

"I don't know," Jake said tiredly. "But this time we aren't just going to go buzz the Mayor's office." He hated that Jake brought that up it had been the last world they'd had to ask Callie if she had the book. The result hadn't been pretty that Callie had blamed them for Manx's death and called out the Enforcers on them. They had learned their other selves weren't missing just in hiding after a fight had gone very badly and Manx had bought it in the crossfire.

To be continued...