SWAT KATS EPISODE WHAT IF ENDINGS

Metal Urgency

"Crud! I could really use a hot tub about now." Razor groaned. "There isn't a part of my body that isn't bruised."

"Yeah, those two really ran you ragged, buddy." T-Bone concurred as he shut down the Turbokat's engines.

"I shouldn't really complain. I'm not in as bad a shape as the city is. Those two really trashed it big time." Razor sighed.

"At least Feral can't blame us for that." T-Bone snorted.

Razor just grunted as he jumped down and headed toward his locker.

At ground zero, Feral growled in annoyance. The destruction caused by those two metal robots was extensive. It would take a lot of money and time to repair this part of town. As much as he wanted to blame the SWAT Kats, it was they that kept the destruction to a minimum.

Imagine those two thinking he would give up his principles just to learn the SWAT Kats identities. As much as he might want to know who they were, it wasn't worth his reputation and honor.

What really upset him was the loss of that new tank. No way would the Mayor sanction repairing it. That just burned his tail. They needed that new technology and, seriously, he was getting so very tired of their new equipment falling into the paws of the criminals before he was ever able to use it.

He was truly fed up with Pumadyne's lousy security. Even with his own enforcers bolstering the facilities security force, the criminals got in with very little effort.

As he ordered his enforcers and street cleaners to get started cleaning up the mess, his mind was fuming. Suddenly a glimmer of an idea strayed across his mind.

It was a crazy idea but he was beginning to get desperate to end this constant stealing of their new equipment. It would require making a deal with the devil but, even though his conscious said he was breaking the rules, his number one priority was protecting the city and no matter how much those two pissed him off, they cared about the city too.

Now all he had to do is find a way to contact them without anyone being aware of it. As for his damaged tank, he would have it dragged to Enforcer Headquarters. It was listed as officially totaled by its inventors so it was slated for the salvage yard. Not this time! He would have his R & D see what they could do to restore it. Though he needed a fleet of them, he would satisfy himself with having at least one working tank.

It took him some weeks before he managed to get the SWAT Kats alone for a parley. It was at an abandoned airfield that they met.

Suspicious, the two were tense and looking around carefully as they waited for Feral to approach them.

He was alone as promised.

"So what did you need to see us about, Commander?" T-Bone said bluntly.

"I need a favor!" Feral said flatly.

Both SWAT Kats gaped at him.

"Come on! Who are you kidding?" Razor finally blurted.

"Look! I'm tired of always losing so many of my enforcers due to lousy and out-of-date equipment. But every time I finally manage get some new equipment, its taken by criminals before it ever reaches my paws. Well enough! Pumadyne's security is a sieve and I want to stop up the leaks. You're the smartest inventor around besides Hackle. I want you to work with Hackle to find a way to finally make that damn facility so tight not even a mouse could slip in without an alarm being set off and a better system of keeping Hard Drive from getting in." Feral laid out his desperate plan.

Razor just stared at him in shock. 'Well I'll be damn, Feral asking me for help! Pinch me!'

"Well, I'm absolutely floored you want my help, Feral. So what do we get out of this 'favor'?" Razor asked suspiciously.

Feral grimaced. "Besides the satisfaction that you'll be saving lives, I'll throw in the promise that I'll not try to arrest you two for a year. Though I still have to pretend I'm trying to."

T-Bone raised his eyebrows at that. 'Wow! He's really serious.' He glanced at his partner. "It's your choice, buddy. I'll go along with whatever you decide."

Razor sighed and frowned. He eyed the Commander for a long moment. "Alright, you have a deal. I'll get with the Professor and see what we can do. You'll have to grease things with Pumadyne though, when we're ready to work on their security systems." Razor warned.

"No problem. When you're ready let me know and I'll be your escort. Make sure Hackle is with you and that will make things easier." Feral grunted in agreement.

"Uh.....well....you know he really doesn't like them, Commander. After all, he left them because they were using his weapons for destruction and I've since learned he designed those giant robots the Metallikats stole. He meant them for use in the space program and is really steamed that they were being altered for war." Razor said cautiously.

Feral sighed in frustration. Why did everything have to be so complicated. "Do your best! I won't hold you to it if he refuses." He finally said.

"Okay. It'll probably be a few weeks before we have a workable system. Get back to you as soon as I can." Razor promised.

"Good." Feral said then turned and made for his vehicle again. He'd done the unthinkable. He hoped it wouldn't come back and bite him in the tail.

Later at the salvage yard, Chance and Jake were finishing up their work and talking about what occurred earlier that morning.

"He must be really desperate to make a deal with us." Chance said.

"I never thought I'd see the day he'd actually ask us for help so I have to agree, buddy." Jake said shaking his head. "Hope I can deliver on my promise." He sighed.

"If anyone can it's you, Jake." Chance said confidently.

It took Razor and Professor Hackle exactly two weeks to come up with a dozy of a security system then another ten days to install it at Pumadyne.

Feral had the system tested by having a team of special forces try to sneak in. They were caught instantly. Then he had the SWAT Kats attack the facility and were rebuffed successfully. The last test was running a high power surge of energy through the power lines outside the plant and sending it into the place. It was stopped cold.

Feral sighed in relief. Success! Amazingly, no one commented about his use of the SWAT Kats since he succeeded in doing all the tests and the installation during the night time when the place was lightly manned.

Now perhaps, he would finally get the new designs that were being developed and built for his enforcers and be used by him and not some criminal. One could hope!