~The Rescue~
The next day Bella's legs were sore from the kicking practice so she was given the morning off, driving into town in the second tow truck and parked it in the parking lot next to a bowling alley and got out wearing some blue jeans with tan strapped sandals and a green hoodie with a gray shirt underneath. She was a little nervous to be on her own, but looked at her bracelet and smiled to herself. "You got this, Bella." She told herself, walking down the sidewalk. "Still can't believe their match ended in a tie."
Callie was walking down the same sidewalk, carrying a few papers inside a folder. "Okay Callie, you just gotta take these reports down to MegaKat Power." She told herself, not looking where she was going she bumped into Bella and dropped her folder on the ground.
"Sorry." They apologized to each other, Bella helped her pick up some of her papers until the wind took three of them away.
"I'll get them, ma'am." Bella ran after the papers, catching them all in the air before they were lost forever. "Here you go." She walked back over, handing over the papers.
"I don't know how I can thank you enough, miss." Callie smiled, putting the papers back in the folder. "I'm Calico Briggs, deputy mayor."
"Nice to meet you ma'am, I'm..." Bella started, then remembered she never came up with a fake name. After a bit of stress from choosing, she finally came up with one. "Bella Pawford."
"Very nice to meet you, Bella. Would you like to walk with me for a bit? I'm taking some papers to the power company, but the walk is boring if there's no one to talk to." Callie said, looking at her.
"I don't mind, I'm new to the city so I'm exploring anyways." Bella smiled, walking with her. "So how long have you been a deputy mayor, if it's alright for me to ask?"
Callie walked with her, thinking about it. "It's been a few terms, at least. I have to do a lot of different tasks that the mayor can't get to."
"I bet it's exciting to go around and see the sites, though." Bella smiled, walking with her.
"Sometimes, other times there are whackos trying to take over the city and hold me hostage." Callie said, but smiled. "But even so, I and the city are always saved by the Swat Kats."
"I've heard of the Swat Kats, though I've never officially met them myself," Bella admitted, although she does know Jake and Chance she's never seen them in disguise in person before. "I hear they're awesome."
"Very awesome." Callie smiled. "Their piloting skills and gadgets are incredible, I don't know how they do it, but they always come out on top."
"Sure sounds like it." Bella giggled, it was a little funny to hear someone else gushing about the Swat Kats as much as she did. She noticed they came upon a large building with gates around it, looking at the sign. "MegaKat Power Sub Station, is this it?"
"This is the place." Callie walked in with her and did her business, leaving with Bella. "At least that exchange wasn't too long." She checked her watch. "I'm gonna go on my lunch break, would you like to come with me?"
"I don't want to impose." Bella said politely.
"It's no imposition, I insist." Callie smiled, looking at her.
'Well, the guys don't expect me back until this afternoon. So, I guess I could take her up on her offer.' Bella thought to herself, nodding to Callie. "Okay, anywhere specific you want to go ma'am?"
"We can eat there." Callie walked over to an outdoor cafe, Bella followed and they both ordered some sandwiches. "So Bella, tell me about yourself. You said you were new to the city, right?"
Bella looked down, thinking. Then looked at her. "Yeah, I'm new. I got here a few days ago after my family passed away in a house fire, afterward I left my hometown and found the salvage yard on the outskirts of the city. The guys there took me in, and I've been staying there ever since."
"I'm so sorry for your loss, if there's anything I can do just let me know." Callie said, eating.
"I don't want you to go out of your way just for me, ma'am. It's fine." Bella smiled, eating.
"You can call me Callie, and I don't mind helping you out." She said. "At least you're staying with some good friends of mine, they tune up my car once a month."
Bella smiled. "They are a couple of sweethearts, don't tell them I said that though. I'll never hear the end of it from Chance." They both laughed.
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On the outer limits of the city, a weaponized vehicle was swerving a bit and trying to stay on the road. "You need to go to driving school." A female robotic voice said, scowling at the driver.
"And you need to shut your yap." The driver said. "At least we finally got out of Hackle's dump again, and we got a new toy." He patted something that was hiding underneath a sheet.
They drove into the city, looking around. "Let's hit the nearest jewelry store, we can test our toy out there," Molly said, then noticed an outdoor cafe with only two kats sitting on the outside of it. "Wait Mac look, there's Briggs!"
"I see her, and it looks like she's talking with someone. Change of plans, Molly." Mac slammed on the gas, heading for the cafe.
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Bella was just told the story of how Jake and Chance ended up in a salvage yard, looking down. "So that's what happened huh, that's completely unfair. They shouldn't have to take the fall for something that Feral guy did, isn't there anything you can do?"
"Unfortunately no, it's not under my jurisdiction," Callie said sadly.
Bella thought about it, then got an idea. "Is there any way I can get a job, and put half of my pay towards their debt?"
"Unfortunately, no." Callie simply said.
"Then can I get my own job working WITH them instead?" She asked.
Callie thought about it. "I don't see why not, I'm sure the salvage yard needs the workers. I'll talk to the mayor and get back to you on it."
"Thank you very much, Callie." Bella smiled, if this works out she would be able to pay for her own things and not have to worry about the guys using their money on her. She looked behind Callie, seeing a large car headed right for them. "Callie, run!" She got up and grabbed Callie's wrist, pulling her away just in time for the car to barrel over the table.
"You idiot, you missed her," Molly told him angrily, hitting him on the head with her gauntlet.
Mac growled. "Will ya stop nagging me?"
Molly got out of the car, looking at Briggs. "Hello again Briggs, time to pay what you owe."
"Is that a robot?" Bella blinked, seeing Molly.
Callie grabbed Bella's wrist, running for it. "No time to explain, Bella."
"That's cute, she wants to play hide and seek." Mac uncovered the sheet and pushed the device out of the car, it looked like a rotisserie but when he pressed a button it transformed into a giant metallic bird with sharp talons and a large wingspan.
"Okay you overgrown turkey, let's get Briggs." Molly got back in the car as the bird took off and went after the two she-kats.
Bella ran with Callie, seeing a tall building with a fire escape on the side. "We gotta get to a higher vantage point, come on." Bella helped Callie up the fire escape, they got to the top and she sighed relief seeing nothing. "Lost em." She then heard a caw, seeing a large metallic bird. "Or not." She dodged the bird's talons when it swooped down and Callie ran behind a vent and pressed a button on her communicator.
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The guys were working on another car, exchanging tools to fix different parts of the engine. "I got this side ready to go, how's your side looking Jake?" Chance looked over at him, seeing him a bit distracted. "Jake!"
Jake shook his head, snapping out of it. "Huh? Yeah, my side's ready."
"Don't worry, bud. Bella's fine, you just need to relax." Chance said, knowing his friend well enough to know what he was upset about.
"I guess you're right, but still," Jake said, closing the hood. "Ever since the van chase, I can't help but worry."
Chance patted his back. "She's got this, you are training her after all."
"You're right Chance, I'm sure she's on her way back," Jake said, the customer took his car and left after paying them. He then heard the alarm go off. "Maybe I spoke too soon." They both ran into the hangar, pressing the button. "What is it, Miss Briggs?"
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"The Metallikats are back, I'm stuck on the roof of a building and the she-kat I'm with is being attacked by a giant metal bird they brought with them." Callie explained, Bella was rolling and dodging out of the way of its' strikes.
She grabbed a pipe she found, whacking it in the head when it tried to eat her. "I'm not on the menu." Bella got pinned between its talons, using the pipe to block the full blow and moving her head to dodge its' pecks.
"You guys have to hurry." Callie said, seeing Bella pinned down.
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"We're on our way." Chance said, they got their suits and headed out.
"Up there!" Molly pointed, seeing the bird's wings as they got out of the car. "I'll go inside, you climb outside."
"Don't tell me what to do, just take care of Briggs and the she-kat. Leave no witnesses." Mac said, shooting up a grappling hook and started climbing while Molly walked inside.
"Duh, course leave no witnesses," Molly said to herself, it was an old abandoned building that hasn't been used for the longest time and she started walking up the stairs.
Bella grunted, trying to push the talons off her but the pipe was starting to bend. "I can't do it, their too heavy!"
"Over here, ugly!" Callie threw a rock at the bird, getting its' attention and Bella kicked the talons off herself running out of sight. The bird came after her and she ran for it,
Bella ran next to Callie to the edge of the roof. "That's a long drop."
"We gotta jump across, we can make the gap." Bella said, then noticed one of the metallikats coming up the side of the roof they were on. "Change of plans, we're going inside."
"Whatever we do, we have to do it quick." Callie said, they ran for the door and got inside quickly slamming and locking it. "That should buy us some time."
Bella twitched her ear, hearing something below them. "But not a lot of time, let's go." They ran onto a floor, shutting the door to the stairwell.
"This is taking too long." Molly shot off a rocket, destroying a few flights and jumped up to the floor Callie and Bella were ongoing through the stairwell. "Oh Miss Briggs, come out come out wherever you are." She said in a sing-song tone, looking around. "I just wanna talk."
Bella and Callie were hiding underneath a desk, Bella looked at Callie. "What on earth did you do to make these kats wanna kill you, who are they?"
"Mac and Molly Mange, two gangsters that used to run a mob until they were arrested. When they were alive I denied their parole, they even tried bribing me and I still denied them. I heard they drowned after they escaped, but now they're back and after me to try and get even." Callie explained.
"That explains it." Bella said, she heard Molly was close and they both stayed quiet.
Molly looked around, scanning everywhere. "Where are you, you lowlife." Bella found an old pencil next to her, picking it up and peered over the desk to see Molly turned away so she threw the pencil down a long hallway causing the hallway to echo. "There you are!"
Molly chased the sound, Bella and Callie ran the opposite way to the stairs to find them destroyed. "Crap." Bella noticed Molly still in the other hallway, looking around. "What do we do?"
"Time to meet your maker, Briggs." Mac stood at the top of the flight of stairs seeing them, shooting at Callie and Bella pulled her back into the room in time. "Molly, get them!"
"What does it look like I'm trying to do!" Molly ran over shooting at them, Bella and Callie ran behind a corner.
Callie looked around worriedly, trying to figure out what to do. "We head to the top that bird's gonna get us, and we can't go down the stairs either."
Bella tried to stay calm and focus, seeing the fire escape. "Then we head down the same way we came up, come on." She ran over to the window, trying to turn the lever.
"Locked." She then kicked the lever, making the window pop open. "Unlocked."
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"I'm detecting Callie's signal closeby," Razor said, examining the radar then noticed a shadow above them. "Huh?"
The bird tried attacking the turbokat, the jet dodged every lunge. "That thing looks like a metallic giant chicken." TBone said, seeing it.
Razor looked out the side of the jet, seeing Callie and Bella on the fire escape climbing down with the metallikats right above them. "Keep that thing busy, I'll go after the metallikats."
"Roger that, good buddy." TBone nodded, Razor jumped out the bomb bay with his delta pak.
"Come on, Callie." Bella opened a window on a lower floor, getting her inside.
"Oh no, you don't." Mac shot at them, the fire escape blew up causing the she-kats to fly back into the room and hit the wall.
"Oww." Bella rubbed her head, getting up and helped Callie up. "We gotta hide."
"I don't think so." Mac said, he and Molly busted through the window, landing in front of them. "End of the line for you."
"I couldn't have said it better myself." A voice said, Razor came in from the window and kicked over Molly standing on her.
"Razor!" Callie said happily, seeing him.
"You wretched Swat Kat, get off my wife!" Mac aimed his gun at Razor.
"Hya!" Bella kicked Mac into the wall next to the window.
Razor smiled, looking at Bella. "Woah, nice kick."
"Thanks." She smiled, Molly grabbed Razor's ankle and threw him down the hallway.
Callie and Bella ran over to him, helping him up. "Are you alright?" Callie asked. "She threw you like a bean bag."
"Heh, nothing I can't handle Miss Briggs." Razor smiled, there were two explosions and the building shook. "TBone, what's going on up there?" He asked through his comlink.
"The giant chicken has missiles, it's trying to destroy the building," TBone explained, using what he can to try and stop it. The bird cawed, flying at the turbokat and left a large scratch on one of the wings. "And it left a scratch, perfect."
"The building's gonna fall on us if we stay in here," Bella said.
"Yeah, no kidding." Razor said, there was another explosion and a piece of the building fell in front of them. "Time to go."
"One last shot at this." TBone pressed a button, launching the cement at the bird and it started clogging the bird's systems and set it on fire crashing towards the building. "Razor, get out of there!"
They made it to the bottom floor, seeing the exit. "Keep going!" Bella ran with Callie and Razor, Callie made it out first as the building was crumbling behind them.
"Not so fast, Swat Kat. You're finished." Mac said as he and Molly shot at them and they dodged, then were surprised when a piece of the building suddenly crushed Mac and Molly.
"Well, that was interesting!" Bella said as she ran, jumping over debris and Razor picked her up. "Razor, what are you-?"
"Keep going!" Razor threw her out the door as the building collapsed, she rolled across the street.
Bella got up quickly, looking at the fallen building. "RAZOR!"
"Oh no!" Callie gasped, both of them started looking around the debris.
TBone flew down and started looking as well. "Come on buddy, where are you?"
"Razor..." Bella looked down sadly not finding him anywhere, then perked her ears hearing coughing. She noticed some debris moving and a shield popped out with Razor underneath it, she took a big sigh of relief.
"There he is!" Callie said, running over and TBone ran over helping him up.
"Don't scare me like that, sureshot." TBone patted his back, Razor smiled and winced a bit. Bella saw a news van coming and quickly left, heading back to the garage while Callie got interviewed and the enforcers started cleaning up the mess.
The Swat Kats headed back and got out, taking off their helmets. "Are you sure you're feeling alright, Razor?" TBone asked, looking at him.
"A little sore and a few cuts, but I'm fine." Razor nodded, then suddenly got hugged tightly by Bella who was crying and he hugged her back. "Easy there Bella, I'm alright."
"I know you are." Bella wiped her eyes, still holding him. "But what would I do if I lost you or TBone? It would have been the second most horrible moment in my life, if I'm being honest you guys are like a second family to me now."
"And we're glad to have you with us, Bella." TBone smiled, Bella walked over and hugged TBone and he smiled hugging her tightly and picking her up then set her down.
She scratched the back of her head, smiling. "So I guess I should get used to the narrow escapes, huh."
"Around here, yeah." TBone nodded, rubbing her head. "But we'll always be here for you."
"And I'm thankful for that." Bella smiled, they had a group hug.
A close call for Razor, but he always makes it out in the end. I think I did the Metallikats' banter justice, but I don't know. Hopefully you all are still enjoying this despite the few mistakes, that I will fix...eventually.
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