The worst that can happen
Razor opened his eye's as he heard the familiar sound of the Turbokat. Razor didn't know how long he had been hanging there since he closed his eye's. Razor looked at the ground below and it seemed as though all the Enforcers and news reporters were still just watching, not doing anything to help. He could see Callie, and Mayor Manx, it looked as though they were talking to some of the Enforcers. He couldn't help but wonder if he had been forgotten, just to be left swinging until someone realized he was still there. Sure the news chopper was still hovering around him, they probably figured he wasn't going any where by now since the only motion he made was due to the wind. After a minute Razor noticed he couldn't hear the Turbokat any more. He didn't know if it was because it had landed or if he had just imagined it. Then he felt a sudden jerk on the cable. Razor noticed someone was pulling him up, he was tempted to look up but he didn't have the strength. He closed his eye's to try and take his mind off what was happening below. After what felt like an eternity, Razor felt a hand grip his wrist and pull him back through the window. He felt someone holding him, and gently patting his cheek.
" Razor! Come on buddy, open your eye's!" Said a familiar voice, filled with concern.
Razor opened his eye's and even though his vision was blurred, he knew exactly who was holding him. He blinked a couple of times, but it didn't help much.
" T-bone, you're late, pal." Razor said weakly, his body now numb from pain and the chill of the wind.
" Come on buddy, let's get you home." T-bone said softly as he lifted the smaller, banged up kat into his arms.
Razor didn't say another word as he laid his head against his partner's shoulder, closing his eye's and letting everything fade from his mind. He just wanted this nightmare to be over. T-bone looked down at his battered friend, he couldn't even begin to imagine what Razor had gone through. Razor looked as though he had fallen asleep, or more accurately, passed out. As T-bone headed back to the Turbokat, he was cut off by Feral. T-bone was tempted to shove Feral aside, since he had obviously done nothing to help Razor.
" Hold it SWAT Kat. I'm going to have to question your partner on what happened here." Feral said.
" Move Feral, Razor can barely breath much less answer any questions." T-bone said, trying to keep calm.
" Neither less, we've got a dead kat who fell from his grasp. We have to know if he dropped the kat on purpose, or if the kat slipped. Even the reporters in the chopper can't tell how it happened." Feral said.
T-bone gritted his teeth, and growled as Feral accused Razor of letting someone fall to their death. He knew Razor better than any one, and he knew Razor would never let a kat die as long as he could help it.
" Razor would never just drop someone to their death. He's better then that, I know he is." T-bone said as he looked down at Razor, then he noticed the shirt sleeve still caught in his claws. " What's this?"
T-bone pulled the sleeve free from Razor's claws, with some difficulty. After looking at it, T-bone had an idea what had happened. If only he had gotten there sooner, Razor might not be in such bad shape, and the kat would probably still be alive. Feral took the sleeve from T-bone and looked it over. While Feral looked over the sleeve, T-bone hurried to the roof where the Turbokat was and carefully placed Razor in his seat. He then climbed into the pilot seat, and took the Turbokat down to the street to pick up the Cyclotron. As he was loading it into the Turbokat Callie ran up to him.
" T-bone! How's Razor?" Callie asked, obviously worried about him.
" He's banged up, bad. But with some rest, he should be back to his old self in no time." T-bone said.
" I hope so." Callie said as she glanced at the exhausted Razor in his seat. " Let me know when he's doing better."
" Sure thing Ms. Briggs." T-bone said just before jumping into the pilot seat and taking off.
In no time they were back in the hanger, Razor in a deep sleep. T-bone wasted no time in looking over Razors injuries. He very carefully removed Razors flight suit, discovering all kinds of wounds as he did so. First things first, the deep shoulder injury. T-bone didn't know how Jake got the injury, but he knew what it looked like. It was actually a clean cut straight through, somehow missing the lung. Just a little stitch work and it would heal over time. After bandaging that up he moved on. Next he looked over the nasty looking leg wounds. After cleaning them out, they didn't look as bad as before, but they still looked painful. It didn't take long for him to figure out where those came from, one look at the Cyclotron told him what happened. He carefully bandaged Jake's leg up and continued to his arm. There were three simple flesh wounds on his right arm that T-bone clean and bandaged, then he cleaned up the small nick on his cheek. But something else about Jake's shoulder looked off. T-bone looked over it for a few minutes and realized what was wrong. Jake had somehow dislocated his shoulder. T-bone very carefully popped Jake's shoulder back into place.
T-bone left Jake lying there while he went and changed back into his work clothes. When he was dressed he lifted Jake into his arms and carried him to his room. Just looking over Jake told Chance he was going to take a long time to recover, both physically and mentally. After Chance put him to bed he went out to the garage to get some work done. He knew he would have to think of something to tell Callie why Jake was so beat up. He just knew she would come by and get suspicious. The bigger problem was that Feral had gotten a look at his wounds. Chance had to come up with something, but what?
As he tried to think of something, he heard the familiar sound of Murry and Burruke's truck. He went outside and watched as they dumped their load, then left. Chance sighed to himself as he began sorting through the junk, looking for anything he could use. He just threw junk that was useless into a pile near by. As he did so, a strange sound made him look off towards the pile. Chance looked up in time to see the pile beginning to fall. Chance jumped out of the way just in time as the pile of junk fell where he was just standing. He was glad that pile didn't fall on him, then both he and Jake would be banged up. That's when it hit him, if any one asked about Jake he would say that one of the junk piles fell over on him. But he couldn't let Feral get a look at Jake, no matter how dumb Feral can be, he still might figure it out. Chance just left the pile there, deciding to work on some of the cars they had backed up.
Chance spent the rest of the day working on cars, and checking on Jake every five minutes. Jake was out like a light for the rest of the day. Chance got a couple of the cars finished before calling it a day. He sat down on the couch and turned on the tv. He was just in time to catch Kats eye news. And the hot subject for that night was none other then the incident that happened at the mayors office. Chance watched, hoping to get an idea of what happened.
" It was chaos earlier today at the office of Mayor Manx as a crazed kat, who has yet to be identified, threatened Mayor Manx's life. And why you may ask, we asked Mayor Manx that very question earlier today. Here is what he had to say." The reporter said, then Manx appeared on the screen.
" Mayor Manx, why do you think that kat threatened to take your life?" The field reporter, Ann Gora asked.
" How should I know? He was obviously out of his mind." Manx said.
" So, are you saying you don't know why the kat was threatening to kill you?" Ann asked.
" I have no idea. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have work to do." Mayor Manx said.
" Yeah, work on your golf swing." Chance said as Mayor Manx was replaced with Callie.
" Deputy Mayor, what do you think about the incident?" Ann asked.
" I believe the kat was distraught and didn't really know what he was doing." Callie said.
" Why would you say that?" Ann asked.
" The kat said something about losing his family yesterday in the attack by Dark Kat. He blamed the SWAT Kats because they were unable to protect his family, but there wasn't any reason to blame them." Callie said.
" If the SWAT Kats were his real targets, why attack the Mayor?" Ann asked.
" He used the Mayor as bait to lure the SWAT Kats here so he could try to kill them." Callie said.
" How did you and the Mayor escape?" Ann asked.
" Razor distracted the kat and I got out then he convinced the kat to let Mayor Manx out." Callie said.
" What is your opinion on the issue of whether the kat slipped, or if Razor of the SWAT Kats dropped him on purpose?" Ann asked.
" I'm sure the kat slipped, after all Razor held onto the kat for so long, he wouldn't drop the kat on purpose. Any one who says other wise doesn't know what they are talking about." Callie said crossing her arms.
" I'm not so sure Deputy Mayor. We can't be sure of any thing until we get the facts straight. After all, you say the kat was trying to kill the SWAT Kat, correct? He may have dropped the kat to save himself." Feral said suddenly walking into view. " The only way we'd know would be to talk to the SWAT Kat, but his partner dragged him out of here before I could question him."
" From the look of Razor, he was pretty banged up. I doubt Razor would be able to answer any questions." Callie said.
" When would you like me to ask him then? It's not like they'd agree to come down to headquarters to talk, and no one knows how to contact them." Feral said.
" Well, if you were to treat them with a little respect they might cooperate with you better." Callie said.
" I highly doubt that Deputy Mayor." Feral said.
" But she's right Uncle, respect can go a long way with any one." Lt. Felina said.
" I've got other things to attend to." Feral said, walking away, Felina following.
Chance would have laughed if it wasn't such a serious issue. They ran the footage from the chopper camera. Chance was surprised to see that the kat was aiming a gun at Razor, even though he was holding onto him. Chance watched as the kat fired the shot that hit Razors shoulder, then the kat slipping. Chance was shocked as the rest of the footage played. Now he had a slightly better idea of what Jake had gone through. Chance sighed as he turned off the tv, not wanting to listen to any thing else about the incident that day. Chance sat there for a minute then got up, to check on Jake again.
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Ok, not as much action as previous chapters but so what. I hope you enjoyed this chapter, there's plenty more coming up.