Title: Enters Murdock
By: Ravorslove & Murdock
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Chapter 11
"Enforcer Headquarters"
After the four had informed the Commander of what happened, the Swat Kats, along with Mayor Manx stood in stiff silence in the gruff Commander's office.
Kat stared down at the carpeted floor quietly, upset that her Werewolf abilities couldn't pick up either of Blackout or Callie's scents.
Razor folded his arms over his chest as he broke the silence that had desended upon them.
"What else do we know about him, besides the fact that he just disappeared into thin air?" The slim tom asked.
Feral looked up from the report on the incident he was writing to look down at the cinnamon kat with a raised eybrow.
Razor returned the look and silently waited as the Commander stepped down from his pedestal desk.
Kat suddenly hissed in warning, causing the giant, brown tom to pause mid-step and look over at her.
T-Bone grabbed Kat's arm and pulled her to his side.
"What's your problem?" He whispered into her ear.
"Nothing, I'm just being defensive, I don't want anything to happen." The female shot back, pulling herself out of the tabby's strong grip.
The female Swat Kat huffed and crossed her arms over her chest, as Razor and the Commander resumed their talk.
The two talked for hours about Blackout, where he could have taken the Deputy Mayor, and why.
It was midnight and a storm was rolling in before the Swat Kat's finally left Enforcer Headquarters. As the three left, a loud crack of thunder and a flash of lightning pierced the night sky.
The smell of wet pavement wafted into Kat's nose as she walked down the steps of the Enforcer building toward her bike.
Looking up at another roar, the she-kat watched as the Turbokat took off from the rooftop landing strip, and flew off toward the yard.
Quickly mounting her Cyclotron, Kat fired up it's engines and raced off down the streets after the jet.
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"Salvage Yard"
Murdock waited for the three to return from the city, but he was beginning to get worried, as they had been gone for several hours.
Twenty minutes later, Chance, Jake and Aliee stormed into the living room looking disappointed.
"Why are you guys disappointed?" Murdock questioned, putting an arm over Aliee's shoulders when she sat down next to him.
The two tom Kats looked at each other while Aliee simply remained silent on the couch.
Chance rubbed the back of his neck roughly while Jake heaved out a sigh, Aliee just looked down at the floor and refused to look up.
"Kinda disappointed that we couldn't stop him from taking the Deputy Mayor, or pick up their scent afterwards." Chance finally answered.
Aliee's ears flattened to her head and she abruptly stood before stalking off toward the hallway.
The three males watched as the she-kat disappeared down the hall, then winced when the sound of a door slaming closed echoed through the air.
"Nice buddy, you just made Aliee feel even worse." Jake hissed softly.
Murdock huffed out a sigh and got up off the couch, then went down the hall to his and Aliee's room.
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Aliee's ears perked up when Murdock entered the room, she sighed softly and pressed her head into his pillow she had taken from his side of the bed.
Sitting down on the edge of the bed, the Husky suddenly rolled on top of his mate and grabbed her wrists, pinning her down under him. He growled playfully before lowering his head to her's and kissing her on the lips.
"You guys will find her." Murdock whispered after pulling back from the kiss.
"You make it sound so simple." Aliee replied as the canine let go of her wrists and rolled off of her to lay next to her.
Propping himself up on one elbow, Murdock leaned over his love and stroked down her sides lightly with his free hand. Looking down at her, he saw that her eyes were still filled with disappointment at herself.
The canine smiled down at Aliee softly as she yawned tiredly and stretched her arms out, wrapping them around his neck.
"You need to sleep." Murdock whispered softly.
"So do you." The female purred back.
The male chuckled lightly as his mate was still in her grease stained coveralls.
Releasing her arms from around the husky's neck, Aliee wriggled out from under him and got up.
"Where are you going." Murdock asked as he propped himself up and watched Aliee head for the door.
"To take a shower, I'm dirty." The black furred kat replied before stepping from the room.
The brown and white husky smiled at Aliee's better mood and layed back down, he stared up at the ceiling for a few moments before letting his eyes drift closed.
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"Blackout's Lair, The Next Morning"
Callie sat uncomfortably in the chair she was tied down to, with her hands bound behind her back, and her mouth gagged.
The petite she-kat huffed silently before she shifted her gaze from the dark room around her, to the masked figure standing over her.
The tom calling himself Blackout glared down at Callie for a few moments before turning his back to her, and walking over to a computer and video camera.
Aiming the camera at the bound female, the tom then hit a sequence of buttons. Making a red light on the camera go on, and a picture of the Deputy Mayor to show up on the computer's screen.
Turning away from his computer, Blackout then walked into the shot with the blonde kat and crossed his arms over his chest.
"Give me what I want and nothing will happen to the Deputy Mayor... Is that understood? I want Murdock Dawgson, that mutt Enforcer that put me in jail to rot for the rest of my nine lives! I want him in seventy-two hours, or the Deputy Mayor here won't have a single chance on the face of this planet." Blackout growled darkly, puting one hand one the back of Callie's neck and squeezing it in warning.
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"Salvage Yard"
Chance, Jake, and Aliee turned from the T.V. to look at Murdock questioningly. The image of Blackout and Callie having been replaced by the shocked face of Ann Gora, and the morning's Kat's Eye News Report.
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"Blackout's Lair"
Callie stared at Blackout angrily as he stepped away and turned off the camera. She tried shouting at him through her gag as he turned and left without a word, but her retorts only came out as muffled grunts.
After the tom had left Callie begain to struggle against the ropes, but that only succeeded in causing her chair to fall over, and her head to knock against the hard floor.
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"Salvage Yard"
Murdock looked at the kats around him, his tail tucked between his legs, and ears flattened against his head.
Chance and Jake looked at Murdock expectantly from where they stood, while Aliee just sat on the couch silently, the husky sighed uncomfortably and gazed down at the floor.
"Murdock." Chance prodded.
"If you're asking me who he is or why he got arrested. I don't recognize him at all, and I don't remember why." The canine replied, looking up from the floor.
"Obviously he knows you, he asked for you by name." The muscular tabby hissed back.
Murdock crossed his arms over his chest and glared up at the blonde male.
Jake silently watched the staring match for a moment before looking over to Aliee.
The slim tom was about to say something to break the two up, when the sounds of several cars pulling up outside with sirens wailing did it for him.
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A few seconds later, the sound of slaming doors and running boots heralded the arrival of a group of Enforcers.
Not even bothering to knock, or ask permission, Commander Feral, his neice, Lt. Commader Steele, and two other Enforcers stormed into the garage, making Aliee and Murdock jump to their feet.
"Dawgson, you're coming with us!" The gruff Commander ordered.
"Why? To put me in protective custody, or hand me over to Blackout to save the Deputy Mayor?" The husky questioned, pulling Aliee to him and holding her tightly.
Chance and Jake came up to stand on the canine's other side, making the Commander scowl and cross his thick arms over his huge chest.
"Protective custody...Ha!" The Lt. Commander scoffed.
Murdock snarled then barked loudly at the skinny, orange furred tom, making the Lt. Commader jump back from the large dog and hide behing the other Enforcers.
Chance crossed his muscular arms over his chest while Jake huffed out a loud sigh as Commander Feral signaled for the two officers to take Murdock out to a patrol car.
Going up to the canine, the two forced him to let go of Aliee before pulling him from the group.
Murdock growled lowly at the unnecessary tactics as he reluctantly let go of his mate and walked out the door with the officers flanking him. The Commander, Lt. Commander, and Felina following behind.
As they walked out, Chance, Jake, and Aliee followed to watch Murdock get put into the back seat of one of the patrol cars.
As the Enforcer climbed back into their cars and started up the engines, Murdock turned to look out the back window at his mate and friends.
He was just in time to see Aliee rase one hand to wave good-bye before the cars drove off out of the yard.
As soon as they could get the garage closed, the three kats went down to the hidden hanger, determend to give Murdock a Swat Kat escort.
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"Megakat City"
A few blocks from Fnforcer HQ, a lone, black clad figure crouched on a roof top looking through the scope of his silenced rifle.
"The Enforcers are so predictable." The tom hissed as he watched a line of patrol cars drive down the street toward the Enforcer building.
The Swat Kats too! Well this is interesting." The sniper gasped as he watched a Cyclotron roar past the patrol cars and take up a lead position.
A split second later, his ears informed him that the Swat Kat's jet was there too. Quickly taking aim at the feminine form on the bike, the figure pulled the trigger before disappering in a flash of light.
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"In one of the patrol cars"
Murdock sat quietly with his ears flattened down against his head, they were almost to Enforcer headquarters, when Kat suddenly sped past them and took up a guard position at the front.
In the next instant, the canine heard the Turbokat fly over head, and saw twin red mists erupt from Kat's body. One from the top of her right shoulder, and the other out of the left side of her body.
Murdock watched on in silent horror as his mate huddled over her bikes handle bars and clutched her shoulder tightly while driving with the other hand.
He regonized a sniper shot when he saw one, and he desperatly wanted to go to her, but knew he couldn't without giving her, Chance, and Jake away.
Looking around at the three cars full of Enforcers, the white and brown dog came to the conclusion that the Enforcers were blind, as they apparently hadn't seen the blood spurting out of Kat's body.
Either that, or they had seen it, but just didn't care about the Swat Kats to bother doing anything.
Once the patrol cars and Cyclotron had pulled up at the front steps to Enforcer HQ, the officers quickly disgorged from their cars and forced Murdock up the steps and inside, leaving Kat to fend for herself.
Grunting from the pain, Kat climbed off her bike, set it's security system, then followed after her mate holding her injured side with her right hand.
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"Enforcer Headquarters"
As the group moved into the lobby, Felina, Steele, and most of the officers broke off to return to their regular duties, while Feral went ahead and borded an elevator. Leaving Murdock, two remaining officers, and Kat to wait for another one.
When the car returned, the four quickly stepped in without saying a word to each other and begain the ride up to Feral's office.
As they rode, Murdock looked Kat over by using the reflective elevator doors like a mirror. He sighed internally as she was hunched over silightly, and still holding her side.
The two Enforcers finally saw fit to spare the Swat Kat a very brief glance, but didn't say anything and once the door's opened, they quickly ushered the canine out.
As Murdock was escorted down the hall toward Feral's office, Kat limped close behind the three males as her wounded side continued to bleed.
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Entering Feral's office, the group found the huge Commander pacing in front of his desk, T-Bone and Razor lazily leaning back against one wall with their arms crossed over their chests, and Felina standing somewhere in between the three Toms.
Kat had barely stepped into the room and the door closed behind her when Steele suddenly barged in through the door, making the door knob hit her in her wounded side.
The female Swat Kat yelped in pain as Steele pushed his way past her without sparing her a glance. Growling and trembling in anger from being ignored, the she-kat clented her fists and stormed up behind Steele.
Seeing what was about to happen, Razor quickly rushed over and intercepted Kat before she did something they would regret later.
Murdock's ears flattened as Razor pulled his love over to where T-Bone was standing and placed her between them.
"Are you alright Kat?" The musculat tabby asked softly when he saw the blood stains on Kat's flight suit.
Kat didn't give the tabby a reply as she hunched over against him for a moment, then turned her attention to the Commander.
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"What's your plan Commander, to put him into protective custody? I saw that jacket Blackout was wearing. That's the failed project from when you tried to duplicate Hard Drive's Surge Coat. It looks like Blackout managed to fix your mistakes on it." Kat scoffed loudly.
"What!? That project was top secret! How did you no good Swat Kats find out about it?" The big Commander growled in surprise.
"That's for us to know, and you to keep guessing about." T-Bone chuckled lightly.
"No, we're going to give that no good mutt to Blackout, so we can det the Deputy Mayor back." Steele growled cutting everyone off.
"Oh yeah, that's real heroic Steele. Letting that crazy Kat kill a citizen just to save the Deputy Mayor!" The biggest Swat Kat snarled in anger.
Kat hissed and lunged forward to rip Steele's throat out, but was caught by her two partners who kept her held between them.
"He's just a dog, a mongrel, what's it to the world if he's gone?" The Lt. Commander sneered.
"You just keep thinking that Steele, and one day you're going to owe your life to a dog." Kat hissed back.
Murdock kept his head down as he listened to the yelling. Letting a small smile grace his lips when the Lt. Commander spun around and left the room, scoffing loudly at the thought of being saved by a worthless dog.
Kat chuckled loudly as she watched the greenhorn storm out Feral's office in a huff of anger.
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"What do you have in mind Commander? Because personally I...." Kat started, looking back toward the Commander, when she was suddenly interrupted by a bright flash of light and everyone's fur rose on end.
They didn't have time to react when the far wall of Commander Feral's office suddenly flew inward, and a loud explosion echoed around the surrounding area.
The force of the blast being strong enough to throw the Commander, Felina, Kat, Razor, T-Bone and Murdock in different directions.
T-Bone and Razor were sent crashing though a nearby window, the shards of glass slicing into their skin and flight suits. Before they could plummet to their doom, the duo quickly grabbed the window ledge, grimacing in pain as the glass cut into their palms.
On the other side of the room, Kat slammed into the wall with a grunt. Before she could recover, the big Commander slammed into her, knocking the air out of her and sending both slumping to the floor in a heap.
Felina was sent sailing into the office's door, only to rebound of it with a loud thump, and Murdock was left sprawled out on the floor in the middle of the room.
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As the smoke cleared, a tall, black clad figure, wearing a trench coat that randomly gave off arcs of electricity stepped into the room from the gapping hole were one wall used to be.
Blackout smiled as he stepped through the flaming debris that lit the office, and moved over to where the large, brown and white husky was struggling dazedly to his hands and knees.
The masked male let out a loud snarl as he brought one botted foot up, then drove it back down, stomping on the nearest of the canine's ankles hard.
Murdock howled loudly, drowning out the loud crunching sound as the sickening pain of his now broken ankle surged up his leg.
Laughing as the canine writhed in pain, Blackout curled one fist up, then brought it crashing down onto the back of Murdock's head. The dog immediateley slumped back down to the floor limply as the pain from his ankle, and the blow to the head caused him to pass out.
The villian grunted as he hefted the unconscious husky over his shoulder then quickly retreated back his "door".
After regaining her breath, Kat pulled herself out from under the Commander in time to see the masked Kat standing at the hole with Murdock slumped over his shoulder. But she was too late to do anything, as Blackout quickly vanished in a flash of light, leaving the female Swat Kat to stand there gazing out at the sky helplessly.
"This is beginning to get difficult." Razor grunted as he helped his partner back inside through the shattered window.
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Kat glaned over at the two Ferals to see them slowly getting back to their feet, as the male Swat Kats picked their way through the debris, and glass shards littering the floor toward her.
"Razor, how long do you think it will take to finish it." Kat asked almost in a whisper.
Razor looked at Kat confused for a few seconds until he figured out what she meant. Kat raised an eyebrow at him questioningly under her mask witing for him to answer.
The slim tom gazed out of the hole at the cars, Kats, and Dogs that filled the streets as he thought. "Twenty-four hours if we work fast and don't make any mistakes.." Razor finally replied as he turned away from the gaping hole and made his way toward the office's door.
T-Bone and Kat gave each other a brief look then quickly followed after their partner.
"Uncle, it might be a good idea to let the Swat Kats handle this one on their own." Felina quickly spoke up after the Swat Kats had left, rubbing her shoulder where she had left a dent on the office door.
The Commander didn't say anything in reply as his ears twitched at the sound of the Turbokat powering up and taking off. Looking out of his destroyed wall, the huge tom watched as the sleek, black jet shot off out of sight, back to wherever it was they went.
Turning away from where a wall had once been, the gruff Commander huffed out a heavy sigh then moved toward his door.
Felina quickly followed after her uncle as he left his destroyed office. "Uncle?" The brown furred she-kat asked.
"Very well Felina." The Commander finally replied softly.
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"Blackout's Lair"
Murdock let out a soft groan when he awoke, his eye lids felt like lead weights had been attached to them as he slowly opened his eyes. He still felt a bit dazed, and was confused on where he was as he looked around the dimly lit room.
When he tried to move, his broken ankle quickly reminded him against such things, as it sent another bolt of pain lancing up his leg.
The husky whimpered and whined in pain as he managed to turn his head enough to see the Deputy Mayor tied up in one corner of the dark room.
"Mis. Briggs?" The canine asked, his voice raspy from the pain throbing up his leg.
"That's me, I'm guessing you must be Murdock?" The blonde she-kat returned.
Murdock grunted in reply as he realized he was sitting in a chair, with his hands tied behind his back, and that his legs where also bound together.
The big, brown and white dog was about to give a verbal reply, when the sudden sound of the door opening echoed around the almost empty room.
The two prisoners looked over in time to see Blackout stride into the room carrying a lead pipe in one hand, and a vido camera in the other.
Murdock's ears flattened to his head as the villian took long, powerful strides toward him, the pipe ringing as the masked tom dragged it along the floor. The canine gulped loudly and gripped the back of the chair tightly when Blackout stopped right in front of him.
"Dear God help me." Murdock whispered as Blackout lashed out, and stuck the side of his face with the lead pole.