As the morning sun arose over Megakat city, Jake awoke to find himself in a hospital bed. There were fresh cut flowers in a vase next him with a card addressed to him, but from who? There was no name for him to know who left them. That really bothered him. As Jake reached up to feel his face, he quickly realized that his mask was gone.
"About time you woke up Jake," Commander Feral smiled pridefully. "Or should I call you... Razor?" he said almost mocking him.
Jake was freaked out. Feral knew who he was, but what the commander said next only angered him. "I can have you locked up for the rest of your nine lives on the charges of being vigilantes, reckless endangerment of-"
"Drop dead Feral!" Jake shouted. Feral seemed to let the SWAT Kat's threat float by and just smiled.
"Star Fox had much more respect than you."
"What happened to Star Fox and Falco?" Jake gasped remembering that Chance had been with him when they fought those two pilots. "And what about Chance?"
"He's fine," Feral smirked, "just a few bruises, broken arm and a busted leg, but Star Fox and Falco escaped with Krystal."
Jake breath a sigh of relief. "That's a good thing. I never-"
"How can that be a good thing?!" Feral shouted. "If you had done your job and took out those two-Why, if you and Chance were still on the force I'd have you two locked up for the rest of your nine lives!"
"Commander Feral! That is enough," the Deputy Mayor Callie Briggs said as she stormed into the room. "I will take it from here," she said smiling at Jake. He got the idea that she wasn't only here to plead his case, but was also here to see him because she wanted to.
Feral looked at her with an angry frown. "Miss Briggs, I refuse to leave you alone with him," he said. Her brow took a steep dive, and her hand clamped tighter around her briefcase handle. Feral seemed to show signs of fear toward her. Callie had always been intimidating to him in the way that a drill sergeant was intimidating to a new recruit, but that only happened on rare occasions.
"I can handle Jake, Commander," she soothed. But Feral wouldn't listen. He was much to stubborn. "Handle him? You don't know who you are dealing with-"
"-so the answer is no!" Callie snorted indignantly. Jake stared at her. She was smiling somewhat, eyes slightly uplifted. She pointed to him, "Do you see him as the kind of kat that would try and harm me? He and Chance almost died two nights ago while trying to stop Star Fox and Falco," her voice was compassionate, "Commander Feral, if there was someone I would trust my life with, it would be Jake."
Feral was finished with this debate, because he had lost. "Ok, I'll leave you two alone," he groaned, but pointed and gave Jake a threatening glare. "Don't try anything or I'll make you wish you were dead!" Then he stormed out of the room and slammed the door behind him.
Callie walked over to Jake and took a seat next to the bed. She gently ran her fingers over his scared arm, wanting nothing more then to feel the warmness of his strong arm. "Jake will you please tell me about the battle?" she asked, almost pleading for the truth.
"Sure Callie," Jake nodded and began to tell her everything.
Forty eight hours ago...
The Gratefox floated through space, quietly creeping through the asteroid belt, heading for the one planet called: Earth two. But inside the massive cruiser, the leader of the Star Fox team was worried sick. Two days ago he had lost contact with his wife, Krystal. She had been tailing the evil Mutilor after he had stolen an Aquian spaceship. And now he had tracked her signal to Earth two.
"Fox, I have her location!" Slippy Toad shouted, and Fox rushed over to him. "Where is she?" he asked.
"In a place called Pumadyne, in Megakat City."
"Then that's where I'm going," Fox said as he hurried off to the hanger. As he reached the hanger, his friend and best wing man, Falco Lombardi stood in front of him. He was blocking Fox's path to his R-wing fighter. Both men locked onto one another.
"Falco, move!" Fox commanded, but Falco shook his head. "No, I can't let you go alone on this one, Fox," he replied ruffling his feathers.
"I can't risk your life for Krystal's," Fox said impatiently waiting for Falco to move, but the Avian pilot didn't budge. Instead he smiled. "You're not risking my life, Fox," Falco replied giving his commander a sly smile. "I'm risking my own life for you."
Fox could now tell that Falco wasn't going to let him fly solo on this one. So, with a sigh, both pilots jumped into their R-wings and took off. If all went well then nothing could stop them from getting to Krystal, but they would soon find out that not all things play out right.
At Pumadyne Commander Feral, Lt. Steele and Dr. Konway were busy trying to find out who the blue furred vixen was. It had been a tiring job to get her to what so even; and all they got was the name of her race: Cerinia.
Feral paced back and forth, never taking his iron gaze off of Krystal who was sitting in her holding cell. She watched him closely, trying to see if he had any weaknesses, but then a female voice drew her attention away from Feral.
There standing behind Commander Feral was the Deputy Mayor, Callie Briggs. She and Krystal locked eye contact with one another, as if they had an understanding for each other. "May I suggest Commander that you let us girls talk," Callie said as she walked up to the holding cell. The Deputy Mayor turned to Commander Feral. "Because us girls know how to get what we want," she added.
Commander Feral felt insulted by Callie's sudden arrival, but she had been sent by Mayor Manx to investigate the new comer. Callie took a seat in front of Krystal, but as she did, something... something was trying to get inside her head.
"Are you all right, Miss Briggs?" Dr. Konway asked, noticing that Callie started to look a little dazed for some reason. "I'm fine. It's just-"
"I have read some of your thoughts Callie Briggs," Krystal confessed in a sympathetic tone. "I had to see who I was dealing with. But you seem like a trustworthy girl."
Callie didn't like how Krystal just popped into her head and started to dig around in it. "Look sister, I don't mind you reading my mind, but I would feel better if you would ask permission first," she growled.
Krystal nodded. "I will ask next time." Callie smiled hearing that. "I'm Krystal, soul survivor of Cerinia."
"I'm sorry to hear that," Callie said feeling sympathetic for Krystal.
So as Callie talked with Krystal, Falco and Fox landed on the roof. Climbing out of their cockpits, both pilots looked around. There was no body on the roof but them. That was good. Now the tricky part was to come: getting to Krystal.
"Lets move out," Fox said as he and Falco ran toward the nearest door. Fox reached for the door knob and stopped, he sniffed the air-something was off.
"No way that we haven't triggered an alarm yet," he observed looking around again.
"Must be that the alarms are inside, or they know we're here," Falco hypothesized.
Just then the door opened and two Enforcers ran right by them, not even noticing them. They were too busy checking out the R-wings. Falco and Fox started to sneak up behind them.
Inside the security room, two Enforcers sat slumped over a desk looking at the security feed on some TV monitors. One was the Feral's top Sargent and the other was a rookie just out of training. The Sargent felt a little tired, so he got up, and gave his busy aide a smile as he made for the door. "Take over here. I need to tell Commander Feral that none of our men have reported any hostile activities." He activated the door, took a step forward as it slid aside-and stumbled backward in a stat of shock.
There standing in front of him was Falco who knock the Sargent out with a powerful kick to the face.
The rookie was already on his feet and reaching for his sidearm when a narrow energy beam cut completely through his bullet proof vest, throwing him against the wall. Falco scoffed. "I would have had him Fox."
"No, you wouldn't have had him," Fox replied giving Falco a sly smile.
"I would agree with your Foxy friend Birdbrain, plus it took you two six minutes to reach this room," a voice said coming from the shadows. Fox and Falco turned to see two masked kats in G-suits. "Who are you two?" Fox asked.
"I'm T-bone," the big tom said proudly.
"And I'm Razor," the shorter one said.
"And we are the SWAT Kats!" Razor and T-bone said in unison.
"Now surrender!" Razor ordered.
"Blast them?" Falco asked with a shrug.
"Or don't blast them?" Fox said, then he and Falco looked at one another. "Blast them." they said unison.
To Justin Wolf from dax0042.
The battle is on the next chapter, so tell me what you think so far. But just to tell you, the SWAT Kats and Falco or Fox will not be killed in this story.