I do not own SWAT Kats or any of the characters. They are the property of Hanna-Barbera.
Kairi Vinnyel is the only character I own.
If you don't know who Kairi Vinnyel is, look back at the first three stories with my name next to them.
DARKNESS OF FEAR.
CHAPTER 1. CHANCE'S FEARS.
T-Bone ran down the long hallway as he blocked the flying arrows with his Glovatrix shield. Fire shot out of the walls and ceiling traps tried to do him in, but T-Bone was too cleaver to get cut down by them. He finally reached the door at the end of the hallway and opened it to revile a wasteland of crumbled buildings and dead trees behind it.
"This place again? This is too weird." T-Bone said to himself.
Suddenly something pink, blue, and yellow whizzed past him and stopped hovering in mid-air, it was the Sky Surfer.
"Kairi?"
"T-Bone come on! Dark Kat and the others are straight ahead!" Sky Surfer called to him and took off.
T-Bone ran after her making sure he didn't lose sight of her, suddenly he was caught by mutant vines and was pulled from the ground. Sky Surfer stopped and looked around as if she had lost something.
"T-Bone? T-Bone where are you?!" She called out.
"I'm over here! Help me!" T-Bone shouted.
Sky Surfer didn't look in his direction; she kept looking around the building ruins and was becoming frantic. Her eye expressions couldn't be seen through the thick blackness of her eye shields, but T-Bone knew she was scared as hell.
"Kairi! I'm over here!"
He kept shouting as loud as he could, but his voice couldn't reach her.
"T-Bone stop playing around! This isn't funny!" Sky Surfer yelled out getting really scared.
Suddenly a missile blasted the unsuspecting heroine off her board and she dropped to the cold gravel. Dark figures with blood red eyes approached her, T-Bone began slashing the vines to get free, but more vines appeared and started wrapping him in a cocoon. Sky Surfer slowly backed away from the figures scared out of her mind.
"T-Bone where are you?! HELP ME!!!"
T-Bone tried all he could to claw his way out of the vines, but the more he slashed, more vines kept coming, soon there were too many to handle.
"Kairi get out of here now!" He shouted, but she couldn't hear him.
Suddenly lasers and bolts of lightning shot from the figures and hit Sky Surfer with full force.
"No!!!" T-Bone screamed.
The cocoon was almost complete and he couldn't break free, even if he did, it was too late. He saw the gut wrenching sight of Sky Surfer lying lifeless in a pool of blood.
He saw the figures emerge from the dark and were reviled to be Dr. Viper, the Metallikats, Pastmaster, Harddrive, and Dark Kat with his creepling horde, all with smirks of evil on their faces. The last horrible thing T-Bone saw was the villains grabbing Sky Surfer and tossing her into a spike pit.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" He screamed his final breath as the vines covered his head and mouth, silencing him forever.
Chance bolted straight up in his bed breathing heavily and sweating like crazy, his heart rattling like a gatling gun and his body shivering rapidly. He relaxed a bit when he saw that he was in his own room.
"Fuck. Not again." Chance muttered quietly.
He had been having these nightmares for almost a week since Kairi's close call with the Pastmaster last Wednesday; she almost got crushed to death by the dinosaur he summoned. Remembering that scene made something ping in Chance's head.
"Oh god, Kairi!" He franticly thought.
Chance got out of bed and rushed to the hanger as quietly as he could so he wouldn't disturb Jake, he climbed down the ladder and stopped at Kairi's bedroom door. He slowly turned the knob and quietly opened the door to find Kairi sleeping soundly facing the wall and her back towards the door.
Chance sighed and walked quietly up to her bedside so as not to wake her. He stared at her sleeping figure while pondering the nightmare he had and looked back on the time she first saved him and Razor from being killed by the Metallikats.
Ever since Kairi became the Sky Surfer, the SWAT Kats were tougher than ever for the super villains to beat now that she was their ally. When they had their paws full with shooting down the missiles they could see, Kairi would bring down the missiles in the blind spots.
Bringing down enemy aircrafts were smoother when she covered the windshields with balloons filled with tar and they took care of the rest, and no lowlife would dare go head to head with her with the way she fights.
At first Chance was happy that Kairi became a hero, but after her close call with the Pastmaster, he began to fear for her safety with each villain they fought. Chance sighed and creased her chestnut waist-length hair as he looked upon her beautiful face.
He turned around and walked out of the room, however he did not notice Kairi sitting up in her bed half awake.
"Chance?" She mumbled as she noticed him in the doorway.
Upon hearing his name so sudden, Chance got startled and bumped into a rack of hubcaps that came crashing down on him. Kairi cringed as the metal hit the floor; she rushed out of bed and to Chance's aid now fully awake.
"Oh my god! Are you ok Chance?" Kairi said with concern.
"Kairi don't do that! Geeze, I almost had a heart attack!" Chance snapped.
Kairi withdrew herself and looked at him with big sad eyes. Chance felt his chest tighten when he saw her reaction.
"Oh, aw geeze. I'm sorry Kairi. I'm just a little tired from yesterday after that fight with that nut job who was stealing power wires." He apologized.
Kairi helped him up and they stood face to face silently for a few seconds.
"Uh…did you want something?" The young human asked.
"No, not really." The tabby replied.
"Oh ok, well…good night."
"Yeah…you too."
Kairi went back to bed as Chance climbed the ladder to the garage and headed back to his room. Jake unexpectedly appeared out of the darkness of the hallway, causing the yellow tom to jump.
"Ack!" Chance choked and clutched his chest.
"Chance what gives? I heard a crash in the hanger. What were you doing down there?" Jake questioned.
"For the love of Christ Jake! As if Kairi trying to give me a heart attack wasn't enough!" Chance snapped and pushed the chocolate kat aside.
Jake stood staring at the burly tabby with an odd look on his face as Chance headed into his room.