Chapter 4: A New Teacher Part 1

All was quiet in Megakat City. Kittens where laughing and playing on the jungle gym in the park. Toms hustled to and from in morning commutes and business meetings, and mothers sent their children off to school on the buses. Yes. All was peaceful. Until...

In a dark alley, a time portal opened up. Its swirling mystique quite the shock for the homeless tom living in a cardboard box nearby. He ran off terrified as a cloaked red figure came forth from the portal.

"I'm baaack." The Pastmaster sneered evilly.

The next day, 8 year old Harry James Furlong (His adopted name) was being checked over by his overprotective parents.

"Got everything? Your lunch money? Your comics?" Chance asked as they pulled into the school parking lot. Today Harry's class was going on a trip to the Museum of History.

"Yes dad." Harry said. He knew Chance wasn't his birth dad, but his uncle, though he called him dad anyway cause he was a father to him. Jake, though he was his dad's husband, was more like an uncle. He had everything he needed for his trip. His Jak and Daxter comics, his walkman with plenty of CD's to choose from, its amazing what people throw away that's still good. Not that everything he had was from the junkyard where they lived of course.

"Have a good time son, try to learn something." Chance said as his nephew/son got out of the car and ran to the waiting school bus.

Seven years. Chance thought as Harry waved bye from the bus as it left the parking lot of the elementary school. Seven years since Jake and I found our nephew, now son on our doorstep. Eight years...since my sister died...Chance had few regrets in his life. His crush on Callie was one of them. Another, was never getting to know the real Lily in the only way a big brother can. He never got to do all the things a big brother is supposed to do. Like intimidate her boyfriends with their father. Though he knew Jame's didn't scare easily and would have probably not been intimidated by a father/son protective duo.

The large tabby sighed as he pulled into the Junkyard. He saw Jake working on an Enforcer car.

"Harry on the bus?" Jake asked. He was protective of their nephew too.

"Yep. On his way to the Museum of History." Chance said as he grabbed a toolbox. "Back to the grease pit." He slid under another Enforcer car.

Meanwhile, at the Museum.

"This ancient tome was discovered only a last week." The guide explained to the kittens and few human children (There weren't that many humans in Megakat City) "It is unknown what lies within its pages. Perhaps there are secrets about the evolution of the Kat species, maybe its just an accountants book. But our resident expert on ancient history has been ill for the past week and so she hasn't had the chance to translate it."

Harry felt a pulse from the book. It was weird. Like...something inside him was calling to it.

Suddenly a roar was heard. Screams where heard as one of the sabretooth tigers came to life. Harry hid behind a statue. His classmates and teacher where cowering nearby as the tiger snarled and growled preparing to strike.

"Hey!" Harry shouted. "Over here!" He picked up a piece of rubble from where the tiger had crashed through the wall and threw it. It hit its mark on the back of its head and his classmates gasped as it turned toward him.

Ms. Briggs had been at the Museum overseeing construction of a new wing dedicated to Ceasar's era when the PastMaster attacked. She saw him in the crowd and hid as he held up his watch and brought the tiger skeleton to life. Immediately, she went inside her purse and pressed the Emergency button that the SwatKats had given her after their first victory over Hard Drive.

Two hours had passed since Chance had come home when they heard it. BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP The alarm for the Swatkats.

"SwatKats, the PastMaster is attacking the Museum of History." Callie told them. "There's an elementary school class here and I don't know what happened to them."

Chance and Jake immediately dropped their tools and "Pressed the talk button. "We're on our way Ms. Briggs. Try to stay safe." Chance said in his T-Bone voice. Son, we're on our way. He thought about Harry who was probably scared to death. Though he was very brave, during attacks by supervillains, which he somehow ended up involved in most of the time, he was very terrified. Especially of Dark Kat. Which was because he was kidnapped when he was an infant by Dark Kat when he felt something odd about him. Most likely his magic they assumed.

They immediately left for the Hangar and swapped uniforms. Hiding their true identities under their alter egos T-Bone and Razor. Jumped into the Turbokat, and took off as soon as the hatch that hid the hangar was clear enough for the super jet to fly out of.

Harry in the meantime, was hiding from the tiger. He knew he couldn't outrun it forever. He just had to stall enough before the Swatkats arrived. And everytime they saved him, he couldn't help but wonder why they seemed so familiar. He saw a real samurai katana from one of the shattered display cases. He grabbed it and unsheathed it quickly. He saw the tiger at the end of the hallway where he was and brought it up in a guard position. The tiger growled and snarled at the boy before charging at him. Quickly and reflexively, Harry sliced at its neck. Cutting its head off. But instead of spraying blood, it collapsed into the pile of bones it was before. The magic giving it life again left it.

Suddenly he was surrounded by sabretoothed tigers. He held up the katana and prepared to go down fighting.

"Enough!" Said a voice. The tigers backed down and Harry saw a small, zombie like person wearing a cloak. "Your coming with me, my apprentice." He felt something from this boy. This, mortal child. A power unlike anything he's ever felt before. And he will have it!

To Be Continued...

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