CHAPTER 3.
The Turbokat swerved as it approached the hanger door. The door automatically opened and Sky Surfer landed on the runway scraping the wings against the walls. When the Turbokat was safely in the hanger, she dragged the still unconscious SWAT Kats out of the back seat and onto the floor.
Sky Surfer removed her helmet and looked at the jet, it was all dinged and half demolished.
"Oh man, the boys are going to flip their shit when they see this." She groaned.
She suddenly heard a moan and saw T-Bone moving and regaining consciousness. Without warning, Kairi's arms flew around his neck catching the burly tabby by surprise.
"T-Bone, thank god you're ok. I thought you and Razor were seriously hurt." She said joyfully.
T-Bone just stared blankly into space silently.
"Um…Kairi? What are you doing?" He questioned oddly sounding like Razor.
Kairi withdrew and stared at him in confusion.
"What?"
"Kairi? Are you ok?" T-Bone asked only with Razor's voice.
The girl was so startled she dashed away backwards and bumped into the wall. The vibration knocked a shelf loose from the wall and everything on it came crashing down on Kairi's head knocking her unconscious.
"Holy kats! T-Bone, Kairi's been hurt! Wake up!"
As Razor reached to shake T-Bone, he gasped in shock to find himself next to him. He looked down at his arms and saw yellow fur with brown stripes instead of his caramel fur, then it hit him hard, he and T-Bone have somehow switched bodies. Razor heard T-Bone moan and saw his body moving.
"Ow my head. What the hell happened Razor?" T-Bone groaned.
"Uuuummmmm…T-Bone."
"What?"
T-Bone looked and saw himself right next to him. The kat jumped in shock and looked at his hands, they were brown.
"What in the?!"
"T-Bone, this may sound farfetched, but I think we've switched bodies."
"But how?"
"We'll figure that out later, right now Kairi needs our help."
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Kairi moaned groggily and slowly opened her eyes, she saw the unmasked faces of her buddies staring down at her. She was in her bed with her head bandaged and topped with an icepack.
"Ow…my head hurts real bad. What happened? Are you two ok?" Kairi groaned.
The two kats stared at each other not knowing how to explain their condition to her.
"Um…define ok." Chance said rubbing the back of 'his' head.
"Oh great, I wasn't hearing things after all." Kairi said.
"I'm afraid you weren't, Chance and I switched bodies while we were at Pumadyne." Jake said.
"Ordinarily I'd say it would be impossible, but the concussion has stalled my sense of reality." The girl replied.
"What I want to know is how it happened." Chance said.
"There must have been something in the lab that was accidentally activated due to Kairi and Hard Drive's violent fighting." Jake estimated.
"Like a machine of some sort?"
"I'm not fully sure, everything from earlier is so hazy."
"Speaking of earlier, don't you two have to fix up that guy's car?" Kairi asked.
Both kats looked at each other with horrified expressions and rushed to their lockers. Chance stopped at the locker marked TB and Jake stopped at the one marked R, they looked at each other and traded places.
"I can't believe this! First that kat comes in and acts like a jerk to us, then we switch bodies, and now we need to fix the guy's car before tomorrow!" Jake said.
"I tell you buddy, this just isn't our day." Chance replied.
"Don't worry bout me, I'll be right here taking a nighty night." Kairi said before passing out from the dizziness.
The two mechanics rushed up to the garage and quickly began working on the vandalized car. At the break of next dawn, the two toms lay in a heap on the floor exhausted. They had finally repaired the car's damages, with that out of the way, they now had to fix the body-swapping problem.
"Ok, so how do we get back to normal?" Chance questioned.
"Well we didn't actually see where the beam came from, so it's hard to tell what the machine would look like." Jake said.
"So we go back to Pumadyne and try to find it so we can switch back."
"Whoa don't jump over the line Chance. We don't want to risk Feral coming onto the scene and questioning us, it'd be too weird telling him we're looking for a machine that swapped our minds and he's never believe that."
"You're right Jake. But what can we do? We can't stay like this, it's just too bizarre."
"Kairi might have got a glimpse of the machine, she could describe what it looks like. Unfortunately the concussion might have clouded her memory of last night. We're going to have to be stuck like this until it clears away."
"How long does it take for a concussion to heal?"
"I don't really know, probably a couple days."
"Great, just great."
Suddenly they saw the kat from yesterday coming up the road.
"Oh crap! What do we do now?" Jake hissed.
"Let's act like each other and play it cool, maybe he won't notice." Chance replied.
The kat entered the garage looking tired as if he had walked for miles instead of taking the bus.
"So, is my car fixed?" He asked.
Chance nodded and pointed to the Chevy.
"Hey that looks much better, even better than when I bought it." The kat said pleased.
"It's the best we could do sir." Chance said trying to sound like Jake.
The kat turned his head towards them with a weird expression.
"What was that?"
"Um…he said it's the best we could do." Jake said trying to sound like Chance.
"I heard him the first time. What's with the weird voices?"
"Uh…the chilly weather is stuffing our sinuses." Chance fibbed.
"It's 81 degrees outside, and that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Have you two been snorting katnip?"
Chance glared at the kat almost bursting in an outrage.
"Of course not, that stuff's completely illegal and we'd never do drugs." Jake said calmly.
"You guys are weird, I'm out of here."
The kat got in his car and drove out of sight.
"The nerve of that son of a bitch! Us smoking katnip, what made him say that?!" Chance snarled.
"Maybe you set him off with that chilly weather stuffing our sinuses bit." Jake replied.
"Shut up Jake!"
