Disclaimer (aka Author's Anonymous): This is a Swat Kats fanfic gathered from the snippets of knowledge I still remember from watching the show way back when - so sure, this may take place in an alternate universe since facts differ from the truth... (Treat this fic as a story with the characters you knew =P)
Anyway, I do not own any characters from Swat Kats. I created Kitty/Hacker but I don't really care if you borrow her or stick her in another fanfic just as long as I dont find out ^_~ hehehe
Have fun reading ^_^
Prologue
On a distant planet, parallel to that of our Earth, lives an intelligent life form. Agile, curious and intelligent, they resembled their distant feline cousins and our common household pet, the cat, in many ways. Not surprisingly, they call themselves Kats.
They dominated their planet for many years; growing mainly within their cities-the most popular being Megakat City, the biggest metropolitan. Until, one day, a rift in space opened, and a tyrant by the name of Darkat secretly stepped through to challenge their domination-to end their freedom.
This evil and powerful kat came from yet another parallel world. His objective is to have at his personal disposal a city rich with natural resources and plenty of slaves. He had reined supreme on his world-a world that had been developed to its greatest, but sadly it was poor and choked with pollution. The inhabitants of that world now suffer the consequences: hunger, death, and a range of incurable diseases that had mutated from Darkat's many uncontrolled and fatal experiments. Even now, the fate of that planet balance on a fragile seesaw between life and death.
This is to be the fate of Megakat City. For many years, the kats were oblivious by their own day-to-day concerns to notice that their freedom was threatened by the arrival of a certain affluent individual. But a small resistance stood up, foreshadowing the danger that had been placed upon their city. This same group of kats fought crime years before Darkat's arrival, when metallic kat-bots from the future tried to change history and when other dangerous criminals roamed the streets of Megakat City. With these enemies now behind bars, they focus on the fight for life and freedom. They call themselves...Swat Kats: the Radical Squadron.
Chapter 1: Tragedy
"Get down!" cried Lieutenant Felina of the Enforcers as she dived behind a dead tree trunk covered by thick bunches of slimy moss.
Covering her ears with her hands, she shut her eyes tightly. A cry of hysterical laughter pierced through the air followed by a deafening explosion, knocking the dead tree into Felina's body. She struggled to hold her ground, fighting the weight of the tree against her shoulder. A flock of birds from the nearby trees shrieked with fear and flew away.
"Great job, Lieutenant," said a familiar voice above her. Felina peeked from under the tree and saw T-bone and his partner, Razor, walking towards her. T-bone, a dusty brown kat, was a heavily built kat whereas; Razor was an agile mahogany kat. Together with Hacker, who had teamed up with them a few years ago, they made up the Swat Kats. Felina was glad to see that they were unharmed and happier still that their mission was a success.
"Is it over?" Felina asked craning her neck to survey what was left of the lab.
"I don't know," replied T-bone thoughtfully, helping the Lieutenant to her feet. "But from what we've been through, I think it's far from over."
"I think it's over," exclaimed Hacker outwardly, giving a victory whoop, as she pounced towards them. "The Enforcers would normally detonate bombs simultaneous---?"
But before Hacker could finish her question much less her word, another blast was heard from the lab. This time the force of the explosion caught them off-guard as all four kats were thrown backwards into the forest.
"You were saying, Hacker?" taunted Razor. He looked miserably around him and to his dismay, found that he was covered with mud from his helmet down to his feet.
"Well, how was I supposed to know that was part of the plan?" croaked Hacker as she fluffed up her auburn tail that looked almost flattened from the impact with the tree. "By the way," she added, "you look totally gross."
"You don't look too bad yourself," Razor answered sarcastically.
T-bone came thundering through a cluster of undergrowth. "Crud! Where's Felina?" he demanded when he found his partners. "She couldn't have just disappeared."
"Beats me," Razor replied, struggling to get to his feet, as mud oozed down the sides of his pants. Once up, he sloshed his way out of the puddle and searched for drier spots to walk on.
"C'mon, you guys! Spread out and look for her," instructed T-bone in a controlled voice that masked his restlessness. And with that, he left his miserable looking partners gazing skyward wondering how their day had ended up so horribly.
Hacker twitched her tail again, not liking the extra weight of the mud coating her tail, and started walking in the opposite direction, which was east, leaving Razor shaking his head muttering under his breath. He saw that he could only pick north or south, unfortunately, both directions were just as muddy as the other was. Razor was definitely one unhappy kat - not to mention filthy.
After the trio searched the forest for more than an hour, staying in contact with each other by radio, the Swat Kats decided to call it quits. They met up again at the position where they had fallen into the forest, which was where the lab met the woodlands.
"She's probably back with her uncle, Commander Feral," concluded Razor tiredly as he examined his appearance again for the hundredth time.
"Yeah. Why don't we drop in on Feral to check if his niece is around," T-bone suggested sardonically.
"And if she's not, guess who's going to be in deep shit?" Hacker retorted.
"Us?" Razor guessed innocently as he fingered his pants, which was now covered with patches of dried mud.
T-bone glared angrily at his old friend. "Don't waste your breath, Razor!"
"Chill out, buddy," was all Razor could say before the Swat Kats headed glumly back to their jet.
As this was the first time the Swat Kats and the Enforcers were working together - to take back the lab, Pumadime, from their enemy, whom they did not know yet - Commander Feral had entrusted his Lieutenant to the Swat Kats. The Swat Kats, with the help of Lieutenant Felina, had convinced the Commander that demolishing Pumadime was the only way to restrain their enemy from using the equipment and inventions. The Swat Kats knew that if these inventions fell into the wrong hands, it would put Megakat City in peril, leaving the Swat Kats helpless and unprepared. Since the Commander was confident that his niece could take care of herself, he had allowed her to assist the Swat Kats in destroying the lab.
"I don't get it!" Hacker said in frustration. "It isn't like Felina to go running off somewhere without telling anyone and..."
"And we're the only ones closest to her," finished T-bone.
"Right! Especially since the Commander and his Enforcers are on the other side of Pumadime," Razor added.
"Crud!" T-bone swore again. "You sure you guys checked every nook and cranny of this damned forest?"
"Yes, T-bone," chorused Razor and Hacker as they reached their concealed jet, the Turbokat. While Razor was disabling the auto-defence system to the Turbokat thus opening the canopy, T-bone hung behind as he turned regrettably away from the forest.
"Something tells me T-bone is not worried about having the Commander arresting us at first sight." Hacker whispered to Razor when she leapt into her seat, which was beside Razor's. "I think he's more worried about Felina."
"And you aren't? Yeah, but I know what you mean," Razor whispered back as he climbed in behind his controls, his thoughts shifting from his appearance to T-bone. "He hasn't been so moody since he sent Turmoil to prison."
"Turmoil?" inquired Hacker.
"You know, the Russian feline who tried to rule the skies," prompted Razor.
"I must have been working with the Enforcers. They never gave me any news update especially if it had something to do with the heroic performance of the swat kats. Anyway, what happened?"
Razor looked behind and seeing that T-bone was out of earshot, he told Hacker about Turmoil. Lady Turmoil, which was her title, and her band of elite female pilots had been a threat to Megakat City when she had took down most of the Enforcer's choppers and staked her claim on the skies over the city. Fortunately, with the help of T-bone's charms accompanied by his fantastic piloting abilities, the Swat Kats had managed to infiltrate the skybase and rigged it with explosives. The skybase was taken down and Turmoil escaped only to be captured when Razor shot down her plane. Feeling guilty, for T-bone had piloted the Turbokat in position to take Turmoil's plane down, he sent a letter in which he confessed his true feelings about Turmoil being his first true love.
"Oh man, it must have been hard for T-bone. Imagine a successful relationship between a good guy and a bad girl. It's almost impossible!" sympathised Hacker when Razor finished telling the story. Although Hacker thought it was weird that Razor knew what was in the letter, she decided not to probe further.
"And then, of course, you came along, " continued Razor, "You were ditched by the Enforcers, weren't you?"
"Yeah, it seems as if it were yesterday when I hacked into the Commander's private files and found a list of those who were sacked. I don't understand why the Commander made a big fuss about it. Maybe he was looking for an excuse to sack me. I guess now my name has been added to that list," Hacker said with a forced laugh. "Did I ever tell you I found your name and T-bone's name, I mean your real names as in Jake and Chance, on the list, making you ex-Enforcers?"
"Plenty of times," replied Razor. "We were accused for stealing equipment."
"Did you?" asked Hacker curiously.
"Yup, how did you think we got the stuff for the Turbokat?" said Razor matter-of-factly.
"I always thought that you took them out of the salvage yard."
"Well, you thought wrong...again," Razor answered with a grin. "Anyway, the yard would not have the high tech equipment that is needed for the Turbokat."
"How did you guys get to be in charge of the salvage yard?" Hacker asked with wonder as two jobless kats could not have afforded to buy it.
"We managed to convince the last owner that we were a couple of poor mechanics who'd give anything for a place to live in and then, he gave us the salvage yard for free."
"Just like that?" questioned Hacker with amazement.
"Yeah, we're a couple of lucky kats, aren't we? My guess is that the guy had always wanted to be rid of the dump. But found no one willing to pay a single penny for it."
"Then why didn't he just abandon it?"
Razor spread his hands in front of him and shrugged his shoulders. "Search me. You're asking the wrong guy."
Just then, T-bone appeared beside the Turbokat and leapt up into his seat. The conversation between Hacker and Razor ended abruptly.
"Let's head for home," T-bone said reluctantly to his partners when he took up his place at the pilot's seat.
Anyway, I do not own any characters from Swat Kats. I created Kitty/Hacker but I don't really care if you borrow her or stick her in another fanfic just as long as I dont find out ^_~ hehehe
Have fun reading ^_^
Prologue
On a distant planet, parallel to that of our Earth, lives an intelligent life form. Agile, curious and intelligent, they resembled their distant feline cousins and our common household pet, the cat, in many ways. Not surprisingly, they call themselves Kats.
They dominated their planet for many years; growing mainly within their cities-the most popular being Megakat City, the biggest metropolitan. Until, one day, a rift in space opened, and a tyrant by the name of Darkat secretly stepped through to challenge their domination-to end their freedom.
This evil and powerful kat came from yet another parallel world. His objective is to have at his personal disposal a city rich with natural resources and plenty of slaves. He had reined supreme on his world-a world that had been developed to its greatest, but sadly it was poor and choked with pollution. The inhabitants of that world now suffer the consequences: hunger, death, and a range of incurable diseases that had mutated from Darkat's many uncontrolled and fatal experiments. Even now, the fate of that planet balance on a fragile seesaw between life and death.
This is to be the fate of Megakat City. For many years, the kats were oblivious by their own day-to-day concerns to notice that their freedom was threatened by the arrival of a certain affluent individual. But a small resistance stood up, foreshadowing the danger that had been placed upon their city. This same group of kats fought crime years before Darkat's arrival, when metallic kat-bots from the future tried to change history and when other dangerous criminals roamed the streets of Megakat City. With these enemies now behind bars, they focus on the fight for life and freedom. They call themselves...Swat Kats: the Radical Squadron.
Chapter 1: Tragedy
"Get down!" cried Lieutenant Felina of the Enforcers as she dived behind a dead tree trunk covered by thick bunches of slimy moss.
Covering her ears with her hands, she shut her eyes tightly. A cry of hysterical laughter pierced through the air followed by a deafening explosion, knocking the dead tree into Felina's body. She struggled to hold her ground, fighting the weight of the tree against her shoulder. A flock of birds from the nearby trees shrieked with fear and flew away.
"Great job, Lieutenant," said a familiar voice above her. Felina peeked from under the tree and saw T-bone and his partner, Razor, walking towards her. T-bone, a dusty brown kat, was a heavily built kat whereas; Razor was an agile mahogany kat. Together with Hacker, who had teamed up with them a few years ago, they made up the Swat Kats. Felina was glad to see that they were unharmed and happier still that their mission was a success.
"Is it over?" Felina asked craning her neck to survey what was left of the lab.
"I don't know," replied T-bone thoughtfully, helping the Lieutenant to her feet. "But from what we've been through, I think it's far from over."
"I think it's over," exclaimed Hacker outwardly, giving a victory whoop, as she pounced towards them. "The Enforcers would normally detonate bombs simultaneous---?"
But before Hacker could finish her question much less her word, another blast was heard from the lab. This time the force of the explosion caught them off-guard as all four kats were thrown backwards into the forest.
"You were saying, Hacker?" taunted Razor. He looked miserably around him and to his dismay, found that he was covered with mud from his helmet down to his feet.
"Well, how was I supposed to know that was part of the plan?" croaked Hacker as she fluffed up her auburn tail that looked almost flattened from the impact with the tree. "By the way," she added, "you look totally gross."
"You don't look too bad yourself," Razor answered sarcastically.
T-bone came thundering through a cluster of undergrowth. "Crud! Where's Felina?" he demanded when he found his partners. "She couldn't have just disappeared."
"Beats me," Razor replied, struggling to get to his feet, as mud oozed down the sides of his pants. Once up, he sloshed his way out of the puddle and searched for drier spots to walk on.
"C'mon, you guys! Spread out and look for her," instructed T-bone in a controlled voice that masked his restlessness. And with that, he left his miserable looking partners gazing skyward wondering how their day had ended up so horribly.
Hacker twitched her tail again, not liking the extra weight of the mud coating her tail, and started walking in the opposite direction, which was east, leaving Razor shaking his head muttering under his breath. He saw that he could only pick north or south, unfortunately, both directions were just as muddy as the other was. Razor was definitely one unhappy kat - not to mention filthy.
After the trio searched the forest for more than an hour, staying in contact with each other by radio, the Swat Kats decided to call it quits. They met up again at the position where they had fallen into the forest, which was where the lab met the woodlands.
"She's probably back with her uncle, Commander Feral," concluded Razor tiredly as he examined his appearance again for the hundredth time.
"Yeah. Why don't we drop in on Feral to check if his niece is around," T-bone suggested sardonically.
"And if she's not, guess who's going to be in deep shit?" Hacker retorted.
"Us?" Razor guessed innocently as he fingered his pants, which was now covered with patches of dried mud.
T-bone glared angrily at his old friend. "Don't waste your breath, Razor!"
"Chill out, buddy," was all Razor could say before the Swat Kats headed glumly back to their jet.
As this was the first time the Swat Kats and the Enforcers were working together - to take back the lab, Pumadime, from their enemy, whom they did not know yet - Commander Feral had entrusted his Lieutenant to the Swat Kats. The Swat Kats, with the help of Lieutenant Felina, had convinced the Commander that demolishing Pumadime was the only way to restrain their enemy from using the equipment and inventions. The Swat Kats knew that if these inventions fell into the wrong hands, it would put Megakat City in peril, leaving the Swat Kats helpless and unprepared. Since the Commander was confident that his niece could take care of herself, he had allowed her to assist the Swat Kats in destroying the lab.
"I don't get it!" Hacker said in frustration. "It isn't like Felina to go running off somewhere without telling anyone and..."
"And we're the only ones closest to her," finished T-bone.
"Right! Especially since the Commander and his Enforcers are on the other side of Pumadime," Razor added.
"Crud!" T-bone swore again. "You sure you guys checked every nook and cranny of this damned forest?"
"Yes, T-bone," chorused Razor and Hacker as they reached their concealed jet, the Turbokat. While Razor was disabling the auto-defence system to the Turbokat thus opening the canopy, T-bone hung behind as he turned regrettably away from the forest.
"Something tells me T-bone is not worried about having the Commander arresting us at first sight." Hacker whispered to Razor when she leapt into her seat, which was beside Razor's. "I think he's more worried about Felina."
"And you aren't? Yeah, but I know what you mean," Razor whispered back as he climbed in behind his controls, his thoughts shifting from his appearance to T-bone. "He hasn't been so moody since he sent Turmoil to prison."
"Turmoil?" inquired Hacker.
"You know, the Russian feline who tried to rule the skies," prompted Razor.
"I must have been working with the Enforcers. They never gave me any news update especially if it had something to do with the heroic performance of the swat kats. Anyway, what happened?"
Razor looked behind and seeing that T-bone was out of earshot, he told Hacker about Turmoil. Lady Turmoil, which was her title, and her band of elite female pilots had been a threat to Megakat City when she had took down most of the Enforcer's choppers and staked her claim on the skies over the city. Fortunately, with the help of T-bone's charms accompanied by his fantastic piloting abilities, the Swat Kats had managed to infiltrate the skybase and rigged it with explosives. The skybase was taken down and Turmoil escaped only to be captured when Razor shot down her plane. Feeling guilty, for T-bone had piloted the Turbokat in position to take Turmoil's plane down, he sent a letter in which he confessed his true feelings about Turmoil being his first true love.
"Oh man, it must have been hard for T-bone. Imagine a successful relationship between a good guy and a bad girl. It's almost impossible!" sympathised Hacker when Razor finished telling the story. Although Hacker thought it was weird that Razor knew what was in the letter, she decided not to probe further.
"And then, of course, you came along, " continued Razor, "You were ditched by the Enforcers, weren't you?"
"Yeah, it seems as if it were yesterday when I hacked into the Commander's private files and found a list of those who were sacked. I don't understand why the Commander made a big fuss about it. Maybe he was looking for an excuse to sack me. I guess now my name has been added to that list," Hacker said with a forced laugh. "Did I ever tell you I found your name and T-bone's name, I mean your real names as in Jake and Chance, on the list, making you ex-Enforcers?"
"Plenty of times," replied Razor. "We were accused for stealing equipment."
"Did you?" asked Hacker curiously.
"Yup, how did you think we got the stuff for the Turbokat?" said Razor matter-of-factly.
"I always thought that you took them out of the salvage yard."
"Well, you thought wrong...again," Razor answered with a grin. "Anyway, the yard would not have the high tech equipment that is needed for the Turbokat."
"How did you guys get to be in charge of the salvage yard?" Hacker asked with wonder as two jobless kats could not have afforded to buy it.
"We managed to convince the last owner that we were a couple of poor mechanics who'd give anything for a place to live in and then, he gave us the salvage yard for free."
"Just like that?" questioned Hacker with amazement.
"Yeah, we're a couple of lucky kats, aren't we? My guess is that the guy had always wanted to be rid of the dump. But found no one willing to pay a single penny for it."
"Then why didn't he just abandon it?"
Razor spread his hands in front of him and shrugged his shoulders. "Search me. You're asking the wrong guy."
Just then, T-bone appeared beside the Turbokat and leapt up into his seat. The conversation between Hacker and Razor ended abruptly.
"Let's head for home," T-bone said reluctantly to his partners when he took up his place at the pilot's seat.