SWAT Kats
Dues Katron
Chapter 2
Bad New Look
The Turbo Kat flew over what they saw was Megakat City, but it was nothing like they remembered it. The city was in utter ruin. Barely any buildings were left standing, and those that were left were devastated. T-Bone looked at the city as they went over it. "Man. Someone took a bat to this place. Any idea what happened here buddy?" Razor looked ahead, shocked at what he saw. "No idea. But it may have something to do with those." T-Bone looked ahead to see a squadron of fighters heading their way. "Geez. Enforcers?"
"I don't think so. That doesn't look like something the Enforcers would use." As a period on Razors sentence, 3 of the jets broke off and headed right for them guns blazing. "I guess I was right. Not Enforcers. What should we do?"
"Same thing we always do. As you know I like the phrase shoot first, ask questions later." With that, he pulled back the stick, and flew higher into the sky. Soon the other jets followed suite. Razor armed a couple missiles and let them fly. Each one hit their target dead on. Razor looked back to see the rest of jets followed after them. Razor finally spoke up from his silence. "Maybe we should run away instead. At least until the heat cools down."
"Good idea." T-Bone pushed the throttle to full and flew back to the junk yard. What he hoped was the junk yard. He then pulled out a small remote and hit a button. He then hit it again. "Thats weird, the door won't open."
"Let me try." Razor hit a number of buttons and the ground opened up to revile a runway. The Turbo Kat then landed on the runway as the doors closed. It sped down the runway, and before they knew it, they were coming up on a wall that wasn't supposed to be there. "Holy Kats!" T-Bone hit the reverse thrusters and it stopped just barely missing the wall. "That was close. Shouldn't the lift be down here?"
"Yeah. But luckily we built that entrance to the runway."
"Yeah. Good thinking. But still, how could anyone gain access to the hanger?" They both climbed up the emergency ladder. As they entered the hanger, they noticed something different about it. New computers, more weapons, and another jet? Razor looked at it. "Look at this Chance. It looks a lot like the Turbo Kat." Chance looked at it also. He went so far as to put his hand on it. "Yeah, Jake. But, these angles. Its weird." Suddenly a voice came out of the darkness. "Hey Dark bag. Get away from my plane." Another voice soon joined him. "And scram from my weapons." The bodiless voices then appeared from the shadows. Two other kats in flight suits. One was slightly muscular and the other had a more skinny look to him. The skinny one spoke up first. "What do you say, Crash, toast 'em?" The other one spoke up after. "I say,we toast 'em Blackout." The one called 'Blackout' then spoke up. "Wait Crash, I don't think their Dark bags."
"What makes you say that?"
"Look at the way their dressed. Almost like us. Why would they work with him?" Chance then spoke up. "Whoa, whats going on here?" Jake followed suite. "Yeah. Who are you talking about? And what do you mean by Dark bags?" Crash then spoke up. "Yeah. They have no idea whats going on." Blackout then stepped forward. "I'm Blackout, and this is Crash. Sorry about before. We thought you worked for Him. Dark Kat." Chance and Jake both yelled at the same time. "DARK KAT!!?!?!"
"Yeah. Megakat City was taken over by him and his generals 15 years ago." Blackout stepped forward to the computers and displayed four images. Each one displayed one Dark Kat's generals. The Past Master. Mad Kat. Mac and Molly Mange. And finally, Dr. Viper. Jake spoke first. "Man, and I thought things couldn't get any worse. What happened to us?" Blackout continued. "Once Dark Kat took over, his Generals soon followed. Once the take over was complete, they split the city five ways. Each one controls a section." Blackout pointed to certain areas of a colored map. "Dark Kat controls this central area, where the city hall used to be.
"Well, what happened to us?"
"The citizens of the city are now either slaves, refugees, or rebels like us. Each general tortures the civilians in their area. Killing them, and having them work themselves to death for the generals. The rebels are barely strong. They are lucky we are..." Before Blackout could finish, he was grabbed by Chance and lifted into the air. "Answer the question. What happened to the SWAT Kats??" A voice soon appeared from the darkness. "I'll answer your question T-Bone." He looked over to see a woman, roughly age 25. She wore ragged clothes and glasses that looked familiar to them. Crash spoke first. "Miss Briggs, you shouldn't be here." Jake followed suite. "Miss Briggs?? Callie??"
"No. You are referring to my mother, Calico Briggs. My name is Alicia Briggs. Leader of the resistance against Dark Kat. And to answer your question. Razor,T-Bone." She took a deep breath and said, "The SWAT Kats, are dead."