~The Beginning~
It was a dark and stormy night in MegaKat City, lightning danced across the sky as the streets were empty of its' citizens. Inside the window display of an old electronics store, the news was playing on the tv.
"This is Ann Gora from Kat's Eye News with a breaking development from our close neighbor the town of Purrsia, the Chief Pilot of The police force Mr. David Postskratch has died this morning. He was attacked just outside his home at 11 pm last night by a creature that no one can describe or has seen, he has been pronounced dead from multiple wounds about two hours ago I have been told." The news reporter explained, she was inside the studio sitting at her desk with her associate Johnny manning her camera like always. "Mr. Postskratch has left behind his wife Emily and their young daughter Bella, I can't imagine the pain they're going through right now." She said, then put her hand to her ear hearing something else and nodded putting it down. "I'm getting word that the widow Emily sadly took her own life just minutes ago, this is simply heartbreaking." Ann put her hand to her ear again, hearing something surprising. "I've just heard that there was an explosion at the Postskratch residence, we'll have someone out there as soon as we can. At this current point in time, we do not know if their daughter was in the house when the explosion happened. We'll be sure to give you more news as it develops, for now, this has been Ann Gora with Kat's Eye News."
"Such a shame for that little girl, I'm sure she has family close by that can take her in." Mayor Manx of Megakat City said, turning off the tv. He was practicing golf in his office, as usual, his deputy mayor Callie Briggs was at his desk sorting through some papers and put them in a nice pile inside a folder. "Callie, I'm going to head home. I suggest you do the same before this storm gets any worse."
"But sir, we need to talk about all these expenses for repairing the city from Dr. Viper." Callie said, trying to show him the folder as he walked to the elevator and pressed a button to take him to the first floor.
"I'm sure you'll figure something out." Mayor Manx said as the doors closed, Callie grunted annoyingly beginning her own work on it.
'Why do I even work for that lazy kat?' She thought to herself, taking out a calculator and started going through the expenses herself. Callie would probably have to move a few funds around or raise taxes. Whichever came first.
Through the rain on the outskirts of the city, there was a small beacon from a flickering flashlight. The flashlight belonged to a young she-kat about 25 years old with red long hair and gray fur running through the rain in a dark blue poncho, she panted heavily running as fast as she could and kept going. She stopped when she got to a large chain link fence looking up at it, it was probably at least seven feet high and she started climbing it. Little did she know there was a line of razor wire at the top of the fence and she stopped. "Razor wire, huh." She stretched out the sleeves of her poncho to make it act like a cut guard and carefully grabbed the wire trying to vault over it. She swung her hips over the top and made it to the inside of the fence. "Yes!"
She let the wire go but it caught her right sleeve, she tugged at the wire and ripped a piece of her sleeve off up to the middle of her forearm almost losing her balance but grabbed onto the fence carefully climbing down. The she-kat noticed she was in a very large salvage yard once she touched the ground, it was like a large metal labyrinth full of old cars, barrels and lots of military parts. "Hopefully I can find some cover here." She walked around for a good ten minutes, then looked over to a large area where some metal barrels were kept to find a large broken down car just behind some of the barrels. It had a broken driver door but still looked dry enough to stay the night in, to avoid making any loud noises she pulled open the passenger door behind the driver door with some needed force and got in shutting it as quietly as she could. The girl took off her poncho and draped it over the driver's seat to try and dry it, once she was finally able to relax she started sobbing terribly leaning on the dashboard, what was she supposed to do now? Where could she even go? The she-kat eventually cried herself to sleep, despite still being cold and wet.
The following morning the sun shone brightly in the sky, she sat up in the seat yawning and rubbed her eyes as her ears cutely twitched. "Ugh, what a night." She looked outside to see it was rather quiet and could see the corner of a body shop in the distance, her stomach growled loudly. "I wonder if I'll find something to eat in there." She reached for the door handle when she heard the sound of moving metal as a sliding panel opened up next to her on the ground, she covered her ears hearing a very loud engine, she got a quick look at the jet as it headed towards the city from out of the ground. "I've seen that jet before, it's a...what did dad call it...an F something tomkat I think. But why would a jet be underneath a salvage yard?" She wanted some answers and her opportunity was closing in front of her, she quickly got out and shut the door proceeding to slide onto the runway as the panel closed over her head locking her inside. The she-kat walked down the long runway to see herself in an open area of sorts and looked up to see a hole, coming to a conclusion. "I must be standing on an elevator platform." Her stomach growled again. "Okay enough sightseeing." She walked through a door, finding some stairs to reach the second floor. "Just how large is this place?!" She looked around the large area, managing to find a ladder on top of some stairs. "This must lead to the surface." She walked over to the ladder and started climbing, she carefully opened the hatch and peeked around first to see no one. She fully opened it, unaware that near the hinge there was a sensor that when pulled apart would set off a silent alarm.
She noticed what seemed to look like a service garage, a little dirty but what garage isn't. She found some stairs leading to the second floor which looked like the living quarters, she eventually found the kitchen and opened the fridge, seeing some leftover spaghetti and ate it. She felt a bit guilty for eating someone else's food but she was desperate. She put the plate and in the sink and rinsed it off, after wiping her mouth with a paper towel and throwing it away she headed back to the hangar to try and find a way out back the way she came. She went back down to the lower floor, seeing the runway but heard it sliding open and thought the worst. "That jet's back!" She hid behind the console next to her as the engines wound down and the jet came to a complete stop as it ascended to the top floor, she took a quick glance to see the coast was clear and ran up the runway.
"According to my radar, the sensor that went off was on our hatch." A small brown tomkat said, he was donned in red and blue with a black mask and pupil-less eyes. He climbed up the ladder and saw the sensor blinking. "Bingo." He reset it and checked the garage and upstairs. "No sign of forced entry up here, you got anything down there, bud?" He said through a comlink on his helmet.
A much larger yellow tomkat was patrolling the hangar, looking around. "I'm not finding anything either, and I doubt a raccoon could lift a closed hatch."
"Let's take another look around to see if the intruder's still in here." The smaller tomkat said, they began their search.
The she-kat ran to the end of the runway, trying to open the lid. "Come on, open." She tried pulling as hard as she could, after a bit of tugging she finally pulled it open but it made a loud creaking sound that reverberated through the hangar alerting the two tomkats. She could hear their footsteps and quickly shimmied through the opening letting the panel slam shut almost on her tail and she lost a few hairs, she ran for the car hiding inside.
They stopped at the opening, seeing a few gray and white hairs. "Looks like we just missed them, but they'll no doubt be back." The small tomkat said, examining a hair.
"And once they do, they'll have us to answer to." The larger one said, the she-kat was laying on the floor to stay as low as possible and was also hyperventilating a bit. Although she didn't see the two tomkats, she had a feeling they would be trouble. What was gonna be her next move, should she stay in the salvage yard or attempt to go into the city? She was completely unsure, trying to think.
