~The Training~
Hard Drive cackled evilly as he was able to easily plow through Feral's defenses, the rockets that shot from the choppers didn't help much either as they didn't cause any damage to the tank at all. Feral growled. "He's gone through my best men, can anyone even stop this menace?"
"If you needed help Feral, all you had to do was ask," TBone smirked, zooming over to Pumadyne with his buddy Razor behind him.
"If I can't stop this techno kat, I highly doubt you can," Feral said. "And for the last time, this is a private band."
"Yeah, we know." Razor rolled his eyes, then noticed the tank. "This tank must be made of super grade steel if Feral can't even dent it, I'll just have to do something about that."
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Bella was sitting on the couch and watching a comedy show she found, laughing a little. "It's not Litterbin or Scaredy Kat, but it has its' charm."
"We interrupt this program for a special news bulletin." The news reporter Ann Gora said, Bella smiled and watched knowing what it was probably going to be about. "This is Ann Gora for Kat's Eye News on the scene at Pumadyne where Hard Drive has hijacked their powerful super tank and is now headed towards MegaKat City, the enforcers are unable to stop it, however."
Bella watched worriedly. "If they can't, I just hope Jake and Chance can."
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Razor sorted through his missile inventory, finding one and pressed a button. "Here we go, scrambler missile deploy!" It shot out of the bomb bay and made a direct hit on the tank shocking it. "Bingo!"
"You thought it was that easy?" Hard Drive laughed, the cannon aimed upwards at them. Hard Drive pulled a lever to his left and the hyper cannon charged up and then released a great amount of blue energy.
"Crud, that tank must be insulated," TBone said, quickly dodging the beam. "Got any other bright ideas?"
"Just one, cement launchers deploy!" Razor pressed a button, gumming up the cannon. "Let's hope this works."
Hard Drive pulled the lever again, smirking. "Nice try Swat Kats, you can't stop me that-." An alarm went off in the tank. "What?" He looked at the cannon to see it gummed up and the tank was starting to break apart. "No!" He found a closeby telephone pole and ARCed to it, escaping just in time for the tank to blow up.
Everyone took cover while it exploded, when the smoke cleared the enforcers moved in to see that Hard Drive was gone. "Looks like Hard Drive got away, Commander." A soldier called out to him.
Feral growled. "Those meddling Swat Kats let him get away."
"The Swat Kats saved the city from being destroyed, Feral." Callie said, walking over to him. Feral couldn't help but murmur angrily to himself.
"And there you have it, MegaKat City is saved once again by the Swat Kats. But with Hard Drive on the run, there's no telling where he'll strike next, this is Ann Gora for Kat's Eye News." Ann said, going back to her van after getting her story.
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Bella smiled, the tv was turned back to its' normal programming. "Those guys are so awesome."
A while later, Jake and Chance climbed up from the hatch to see her reading a car manual. "Hey Bella, what are you reading?" Chance smiled, walking over.
"Hey guys, I didn't hear you come back. I was reading a car manual I found in the garage," She explained, showing the cover. "It's a really good read, I can see why you guys bought it."
Jake smiled. "Hey we're gonna go out for a bit, do you need anything?"
"Actually, I do. Some hair dye, please," She said, the guys looked at her. "As nice as this place is I can't spend all day here, and I can't exactly go into the city without someone spotting me."
"Makes sense." Chance shrugged. "Alright, we'll be back."
The guys left and Bella got a little bored, she looked at the area where the hatch was and was debating whether or not to go into the hangar. "Well, they'll be gone for a while. I guess it wouldn't hurt." She opened the hatch and carefully climbed down shutting it above her, she noticed a small work table and went over to it looking at all the different tools and gadgets that were spread all over it. She avoided touching them for fear of breaking something, she noticed the two lockers to her right beside a large monitor and walked over to them to see some letters etched into them. "TB and R, huh. Must be their code names, but I don't even think I know their code names." The news reports she watched would always call them Swat Kats and not their individual names.
She opened the locker on the right, seeing a pair of helmets on the top shelf and suits hanging up on the bottom by a wire hangar. "Oh, so this is what they look like up close." She picked up the helmet, smiling. "That's so cool." Bella put it back carefully and picked up the suit, looking over it. "The detail on this is amazing, and it's so soft." She put the suit back and shut the locker, walking over to the runway to see the turbokat sitting there. "Wow, this thing is huge."
Jake and Chance had gotten back with a few bags, Jake had taken the bags upstairs. "Bella, we're back." Chance called out, not seeing her around. "Bella?"
"She's not up here," Jake called out, figuring where she would be. "I think I know where she is, come on."
Bella walked around the jet and found the panel for the engine near the front, opening it above her head and looked inside at all the different parts. "Wow, this thing has three engines?! It must be fast enough to achieve Mach three at this rate."
"Mach five, actually." Chance said, Bella yelped hitting her head on the panel and saw Chance and Jake quickly putting the panel down and closing it. "What are you doing down here, Bella."
She rubbed her head, walking over to them. "Jake Chance, I didn't realize you guys were back already." She laughed nervously, Chance folded his arms across his chest while Jake put his hands on his hips. She looked down sighing, feeling she was in trouble. "I'm sorry for coming into the hangar without you, I guess I just got kind of excited and wanted to see everything up close and personal. I'll be in the office, watching tv." She walked past them, avoiding their gaze. 'Great, now they probably think I can't be trusted down here. I guess it's understandable, I am a stranger after all.'
She walked towards the ladder, about to walk up the stairs when someone grabbed her hand, she turned around to see it was Chance. "We're not mad at you for coming down here if that's what you're thinking."
"You're not?" Bella said, confused.
"We get that you're curious, we just have so many dangerous weapons down here that we didn't want you to get hurt." He explained, giving her hand to Jake.
Jake took her hand, she walked over to him. "So please don't come down here without one of us until you know what's what, alright?" Bella nodded, feeling a big weight got lifted off of her. "Okay then, while we were out I got to thinking about how you said you don't know that much karate. So I'm going to train you so you can defend yourself whenever you decide to go out."
"Training? Me? By a Swat Kat?" Bella stammered a little, following him to a workout room. "This is probably the most exciting thing that has hap-." She noticed Jake looking at her strangely, she cleared her throat. "Sorry."
Jake let her hand go, standing by her. "Stand like me and do what I do, okay?"
"Alright." Bella took her stance, he corrected her feet a bit and she started doing the movements he was doing. He would have to correct her a few times, but she was doing well for the most part. It continued on for the rest of the day until night came around.
"We're done for the day you can rest," Jake said, Bella collapsed to her knees exhausted. She was sore all over, Jake smiled and took her hand helping her up. "You did pretty well for your first day, let's get something to eat."
Bella smiled walking with him to the ladder, but couldn't help but feel bad about something. "Thanks again for not yelling at me earlier, I didn't mean to impede on your privacy like that."
"Well, you did already break into our lot you know." Jake pointed out, she sighed.
"I know." She groaned as hey climbed up the ladder, going all the way to the top floor and into the kitchen where some lasagna was already made and being served by Chance. "This looks really good, another Furlong recipe?" She smiled, sitting down.
"Not this time, just plain lasagna." Chance smiled, everyone dug in. After dinner, Bella helped clean the dishes. "Thanks for the help, Bella."
"It's the least I can do." She smiled, soon the dishes were done and they sat on a drying rack next to the sink to dry.
Jake and Chance looked at each other, smiling and Chance covered her eyes. "We gotta show you something, but you gotta keep your eyes closed alright?"
"Umm, okay?" Bella said as Jake took her hand to lead her down the hall and into a room, she was confused and worried at the same time.
Soon enough Chance stopped which made her stop, she wanted to look around but couldn't. "Bella, we welcome you to your new room," Jake said as Chance removed his hands from her eyes and she looked around, she had a queen size air mattress in the corner with light blue sheets on it. The comforter had a white background with butterflies on it and two matching pillow shams, it was in the room they used as the arcade room. "We know it's not much and we weren't exactly sure what you liked, but we hope you-."
"I love it," Bella said, tearing happily and wiped her eyes. "Thank you, both of you." She couldn't help it and gave them a hug, they smiled hugging back.
"Let us know if you need anything," Jake said as he and Chance left the room, Bella smiled and walked over to the bed pulling back the covers and carefully laid down in it covering up.
It was extremely comfortable, she smiled to herself laying her head on the pillow. "I'll dye my hair in the morning, but for now I'm ready to sleep. Goodnight mom, goodnight dad. Goodnight Jake and Chance." She closed her eyes, falling asleep.
It looks like I'm starting to gain a few fans of my story, that's pretty cool. And thanks Youkai for the advice, I will try to be more descriptive and no costume just yet. I'm no James Enge, but I do like to write and plan on getting better.
I mean heck, there's some good Swat Kats fanfics on here too. My favorite is Swat Kats: Endgame and MegaKat Shield by Kanto the Slayer but the only problem is his last update was in 2010 so I'm like 'noooooo, I must find out what happens!" Seriously though, go read his stories.
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