So, after many months of sitting and collecting dust, I pulled this story out of my documents and decided that I should finish it. Here's chapter 6! Enjoy! And sorry for the shortness, hopefully the next chapter won't be as short.
Mayor Manx pulled a tissue from his pocket and wiped his brow where beads of sweat had collected. These aliens made him nervous and so far what he had been told helped that matter very little.
"My brother is coming," Acherra tilted her head a little to the side, her silver crest falling the same way.
"The tyrant overlord?" Manx asked as he furrowed his brows. A mix between a groan and a sigh escaped his lips as the Achiderran nodded. This was not going to be a fun week. "Is he after you and your crew?"
Acherra looked up sharply and her voice matched her icy cold look, "If you think I'd deliberately put your planet or any other planet in danger of my brother then you're wrong. He was planning on coming whether we were here or not. He's after a mineral that crash landed on Felinus about a hundred years ago. Back on Achiderra we call it Mineral of Energy."
"We just discovered something like that," Callie spoke up as she approached the mayor's desk. "Except we call it Eve but the Greek name for it translates into Mineral of Energy."
"You've just made his job easier," Acherra sighed as she rubbed her giant paw down her face. "He had a general idea of where it is but now since you've probably built tunnels down to the main caverns he can access it without much effort."
"Oh that's just great," Feral growled from where he stood. "Why does this only ever happen in MegaKat City?"
"Wouldn't have mattered whether or not it fell here or on the other side of the world, he would've still destroyed your planet," Acherra sat and wrapped her tail neatly around her paws. "It's actually a good thing we came. My forces can at least keep him at bay until…"
"Until what?" T-Bone asked as he crossed his arms over his thick chest and lashed his tail.
"Until we evacuate as many kats as we can or I kill him," Acherra's pine green eyes dimmed at the thought of slaying her only sibling. "Hopefully either option leaves out the loss of innocent lives."
"Whatever the outcome is, we'll try to help in any way we can," Razor said reassuringly.
"Thank you for your support," Acherra bowed her head to the ginger tom. "But I have to warn you that my brother is a force like no other. Not only has he got size and strength on his side, but he has a particularly mean streak."
"We've dealt with some pretty nasty omegas," T-Bone said. "The ones from outer space aren't the friendliest things around."
One of the male creatures growled, though no one could tell which one it was. Both looked intimidating enough at first glance. Acherra looked back at them over her shoulder, baring rather large fangs. The kats in the room felt a shiver of fear go through their spines at the sight of such massive power.
"You'll have to excuse Ajax," she said as she returned her attention back to the mayor. "He has a bit of a hot temper."
"Yes," Manx gulped slightly as he glanced behind the empress. "So, you want to evacuate the city before your brother gets here?"
"And we want to secure the mining site of our mineral," Acherra added. "Like I've mentioned before, Epifanio calculates that we have roughly about twelve hours before he arrives."
"Actually," the smaller of the two male beasts spoke up. "I've been recalculating. Given the distance he was at, it would normally take him twelve hours to get here, but…."
"….there's a storm being produced from the nitrogen surrounding the planet of Solstice because it's mixing with the heat waves coming off its moon, Gobi. That storm will provide a current that could usher his ship closer to us at a much faster rate," Razor filled in for the now very stunned Achiderran.
"I thought that there wasn't any wind in space, bud," T-Bone crossed his arms, looking over at his partner.
"There's not," he answered. "But all he would have to do would go close enough to either of them and he would get a boost from the pulsating waves coming off either Solstice or Gobi."
"Uh…he's exactly right," Epifanio said slowly, still surprised at such intelligence from a creature not from his home planet. "I calculate he'll be here in five hours."
"Crud, that means we have to get moving," Acherra hissed and pinned her ears back. "Commander Feral, can you get your forces to start evacuating the city and get protection around the Eve?"
"MegaKat City is so huge, we won't get all of the citizens out in time," Feral said with a disbelieving look.
"Evacuate the ones close to the Eve site," Acherra ordered, standing and turning to her own forces. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Feral and his niece leave, presumably to follow up on her instructions. "Get the others to the dig site and set up a perimeter. I don't want my brother getting through our forces."
Epifanio lifted up one of his front legs, bringing a silver bracelet looking object closer to his muzzle. He gently pressed one of the buttons with his nose and a blue light flared from the intricate carvings.
"S.S. Hourglass, do you read me?" he asked and waited for a reply as static filtered over the line for a few moments.
"Loud and clear," a female voice answered.
"Emergency Waigwa, set up barriers around the Eve site. Maximum security is top priority. The Empress, Ajax, a few locals, and I will be heading over. Approximate arrival time will be ten minutes," Epifanio finished, hearing a whole lot of racket at the other end.
"Understood," the other line cut out.
"SWAT Kats, if you'd be kind enough to escort us to the Eve site I'd appreciate it," Acherra said as she turned to the two toms. "You don't have to stay if you don't wish to. This fight could get very bloody."
"We've dedicated our lives to protecting this city, Empress," Razor said.
"And if we're gonna go down, we're gonna down in a blaze of glory," T-Bone finished and lead the trio of aliens out of the mayor's office.
"Very well, a few warriors are always good to have around," she followed after the tabby tom, leaving the ginger one to close the door quietly behind them.
"Callie, do you have trust in those beasts?" Manx asked quietly after everyone had left the two alone. He turned to the skyline as the sun bled through the ashen clouds, creating a smoky appearance.
"I have trust in their Empress," the she-kat said after a moment. She took a deep breath and sat on the edge of the mayor's table. "I trust them enough to keep this city as safe as possible from her brother. I have trust in the SWAT Kats to do whatever they can to protect everyone." She let those words seep in for a while before continuing. "I also have trust in the fact that she said that several kats could lose their lives."
After a few moments of sobering silence, the mayor looked at his assistant, "I have trust in you, Callie." Manx sighed deeply and stood up from his large chair. "And since you have trust in them, I'll have trust in them."
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