"Ugh my head...where am I?" Callie wondered as she woke up. Her head hurt horribly and she vaguely remembered being whacked by something before everything went dark.

Cautiously, she pushed herself to a seated position and looked around her. Beside her, just waking up as well was Lt. Feral. Shocked Callie, tried to reach for her but realized they were both chained to a cement wall behind them.

Odd noises drew her eyes to some large cages a short distance from her and the lieutenant. Weird and creepy things howled, hooted and moaned. Terror filled her breast as she realized something really bad was probably going to happen to her and Felina.

"Ohhh...crud...my head hurts...," Felina groaned, sitting up and rubbing her head.

"Don't look now but sore heads is the least of our worries," Callie told her.

"Ms. Briggs? What are you doing here and where are we?" Felina asked, shocked to see the deputy mayor with her, wherever here was.

"Obviously, I was kidnapped along with you and this is some old warehouse and those aren't your normal animals caged near us," Callie said.

Felina looked over where Callie pointed and shuddered at the sight of so many creepy mutant things. The things had once been Kats should could tell but now each one was horribly disfigured. One had grown an extra eye, and its left one had grown three times its size. Another had no fur at all, and had two extra arms.

"Aw crud! You don't think..." she started to say when a way too familiar voice spoke then appeared before them.

"Ah you two are awake," Dr. Viper hissed.

"Viper, why have you kidnapped us and what are those things?" Felina demanded.

"He and I are partners in a little venture to take over your world," Parvo cut in, Groomer close behind him.

Callie blinked incredulously at the two strangers. "Who and what the heck are you two?" She asked, shocked.

"You're not Kats!" Felina said with certainty.

"No, you're right. I'm not from your world...we're called humans," Parvo said, smirking.

"And with hisss device you'll ssssoon joint our new petsss," Viper said in delight. "Then we will unleasssh our mutant army on the city."

"And then, the world," Parvo added, grinning wickedly.

'Hell, what a mess and me without my purse,' Callie thought, dismayed. It was laying behind the three before her on a table. She desperately needed to contact the SWAT Kats but didn't know how to get her purse without them being suspicious.

While she wracked her brain for a solution and Felina distracted the three with insults, one of the mutants not caged, was sniffing around her purse. It began pawing at the things inside and finally managed to withdraw the special communicator and press the button.

Groomer spotted the mutant and saw it had something. "General look!"

Parvo turned to see what had her attention. "Bring that here!" He demanded of the creature. It ambled over to him and handed it over.

As he held the odd device it suddenly spoke.

"Yes, Ms. Briggs!" Came Razor's voice through the speaker.

"A SWAT Kat!" Viper yelled angrily.

"Viper?" Razor's voice yelled in dismay.

"SWAT Kats...Help!" Callie screamed from her spot on the floor.

"We're in a ware..." Felina yelled, trying to tell them where they were.

Groomer quickly snatched the device from Parvo, threw it on the floor and stepped on it, destroying it.

"So the little kitty thought to summon help, huh?" Parvo purred, evilly. "Well, too bad. They won't find you in time."

Terrified, Callie and Felina fought hard but couldn't get free of the mutants Parvo had take them from their chains and put them into Parvo's machine.

When the whine and smoke cleared, the two she-kats were nearly unrecognizable and had joined Viper's new army.


At the other end of the disconnected call, Razor stared at the phone in horror.

"OMG! Viper has Callie and Felina," he told his partner.

"Yeah, I heard. Felina tried to tell us it was in a ware...something...probably the warehouse district but that's a large area to search," Chance said unhappily. He got up to move to their lockers when his injury from Blitz pulled. "Ow...crud that hurts!"

"Easy, Chance. You're too hurt to go haring off on a wild goose chase. Let me see if I can track the signal just before it was lost," Jake said, going to his work bench.


At that same moment, in a high class hotel room, Manx with a reluctant Feral in tow had gone to see the Rovers.

"Rovers!" Manx cried. "Callie has disappeared. She didn't show for work, her car is still at city hall and I can't reach her at home. We fear something has happened to her. The enforcers can find no clues!"

"My nice, Felina is also missing without a trace. She apparently disappeared after she arrived at Enforcer Headquarters as her car was still there," Feral admitted, unhappily.

"I'm assuming you think this two incidents are related," Colleen said more than asked.

Before Feral could respond, the TV in the corner, that was on, began spouting a news flash.

"This is Ann Gora, Kats Eye News, on site near city hall where a large number of mutant Kats are wreaking havoc on the Katizens and property," she said excitedly, the camera moving from her to the carnage going on below their news chopper.

"It is suspected this is the work of Dr. Viper...Look out!" Ann's voice shouted from off camera as the camera's eye caught a winged mutant attacking their chopper. The camera went off line.

"Her suspicions are right, this is the work of Dr. Viper," Feral said, grimly.

"Hey, don't those things kinda look like a cat version of those caino-mutants of Parvo's and those lame attempts at cat mutants of Groomer's?" Hunter asked his team.

"Wha...you don't think Parvo ended up here too?" Blitz asked in disbelief.

"Oh yeah, I think that's exactly what's happened," Hunter said.

"Oh...soo not good...," Exile said the obvious.


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