Swat Kats--the Radical Squadron
Megawar III

Written By Razaar Kaadle AKA Kishi Kat!

This story is really long. If you don't know who the SWAT Kat's characters are I suggest you read some other fics/watch the show until you are familiar as I'm not going into details on the canon characters. If you think some of the first bits are a little odd, you're not alone, it was originally written in first person format and I decided I didn't like it.

Icess, Drazca, the Lizard Legion, Novara, Siege, Surge, Domingo and Mage are MY chars. Please don't use 'em without asking me first! (I reserve the right to tell you "no" :D) This story was written circa 1997.

Chapter 1--The Dawning

A tawny colored tabby striped she-kat and a reddish fox in a trenchcoat walked down streets which in their time are long gone. The she-kat is named Siege and the Fox is called Mage. They have vowed to stop a war in just a short amount of time. As they walk along they remember what they were told when they were sent back...

*Future*

"Siege, you are the lucky one who is being sent back. You have a task of grave importance to perform. You must stop Megawar III." Commander Felina Feral said looking at the scruffy she-kat before her.

"I know what I need to do. Just be sure to send along my backup when he's free." Siege answered. Commander F. Feral gritted her teeth.

"Fine fine. I'll send Surge along as soon as his sentance is up." She said. Siege looked at the Fox next to her.
"You set Mage?"

"Set Siege. Lets rock and roll!" Mage pulled his leather glove on and nodded to the Pastmaster. The Pastmaster pointed his watch at them and chanted a verse and they were suddenly pulled back in time.

Somewhere across the far reaches of the sprawling metropolis called Megakat City, Enforcer cars' shrill siren went off, foretelling the story of this city's life. A story of crime, a story of greed, a story of heroes and villains. Siege is listening to the silence of the night, a calm before a storm. Suddenly she can hear the sound of a jet, is it? Siege looks up. Yes, it is. It's the Turbokat. Siege and Mage know the Swat Kats as Chance Furlong and Jake Clawson. They know why they are here, they are here to help, whom they do not know. Megakat City is in grave danger and no one will know if they can't find someone who will believe them. They tried to tell the Enforcers, that was a big mistake...

Siege and Mage walked into Enforcer Headquarters and they immediately regretted ever doing so.

"What are you doing in here?" Commander Feral yelled as she walked into his office.

Siege decided that she had better get on with this so, she blurted out, "Megakat City is in great danger. The Enforcers will not be able to stop the people responsible without help from the Swat Kats. The Army, Navy and Air Force wouldn't hurt much either." Siege told Feral. From the look on his face, she didn't suppose he enjoyed that little statement.

"Who are you and what do you think you are doing in my office insulting me and my Enforcers?!!" Feral demanded of her, rudely, Siege thought.

"My name is Siege, I am trying to warn you!" she screamed as they were hauled out of Enforcer headquarters and dumped in a dejected little heap on the sidewalk.

Siege grabbed the Enforcer, who was nearest to her and screamed in his face, "WHY WON'T YOU KATS LISTEN TO ME??"
"I don't know why the Commander didn't just throw you into the asylum with Lenny Ringtail and all the other lunatics." said the Enforcer.

"I am not crazy! I'm from the future and I'm trying to warn you about the beginning of Megawar III. Dark Kat and the other bad Kats are not responsible for this. Icess wants to make it look like it is them, it's not!" Siege said, glad that at least someone would hear her out.

"What are you talking about? You lunatic." the Enforcer asked her and walked away not expecting an answer.
Siege and Mage walked into another building.

"What are you doing in here? You don't have security clearance here. Get out or I'll call the Enforcers." The voice belonged to a security guard. Siege looked around and took stock of her surroundings. It all looked so strange to her... yet so familiar. Siege knows where she is now, she remembered that the City Hall used to look like this, but that was before Icess. Siege knew the place only from history and the few surviving photographs she had seen.

"I said get out!" the guard again. They only wish that they could tell the Deputy Mayor. Ms. Briggs would believe them... at least the future Ms. Briggs would.

"Try to get him to let us in." Siege whispered to Mage.

Mage decided to try his luck, "Would you believe me if I told you I was from the future?"

"Get out of here, the Mayor has important work to do." the guard told her. More than likely the Mayor was playing golf and Ms. Briggs was doing all the work.

They were yet again hauled forcibly from a place that in the future they would have been a welcome sight.
Siege and Mage have wandered far from Megakat City, though they can still see its lights. The sun is rising and they decide to take shelter in the Megakat City Salvage Yard.

****some time later****

The sun was shining down on Siege and she squinted in its brightness. Mage was sleeping still in the backseat of an old car. Siege looked around and saw a rusty dump truck loaded with every sort of mechanical, metal, or electronic appliance, and scrap you could ever name. She decided that she had better check this out.

"Hey ya' losers come out an' get yer surprises!" the voice belongs to a short, hefty looking tomkat.

*INSIDE THE GARAGE*

"Aww, crud," Chance said as he crawled out from beneath the car he was working on, "Do they have to show up every time we have something to do?"

"I'll answer that, yes." said Jake.

The two kats got up and walked out the door to confront two of the stupidest, nastiest, and all around ugliest kats in Megakat City.

"HaHaHa. It's about time youse two. Me an' Burke have got a whole load of surprises for ya' !!" the short kat laughed as he pulled the lever to release the load. Then without warning he shot out a fist and hit the smaller of the two kats from the garage. That made her MAD!

Before Siege knew what she was doing she was yelling at the top of her lungs. "Hey you short, fat, hairless excuse for a kat! Why don't you do the citizens a favor and pull your lip over your head and swallow! I just couldn't help myself, I had to say SOMETHING before I was scared to death."

"Are ya' callin' me ugly or sumtin'?" he yelled back at her.

Siege decided to have a little fun with him.
"I don't have to you already did."

"Dat's it. Come out here and I'll tear you apart." he yelled at her. Siege walked out from behind a mangled mass of cars.

"Go get her, Murray!" the taller fat one yelled at his friend.

"So your name is Murray, I think your mama shoulda called you Ugly!"

Why you dirty she-kat. I'll wring your scrawny little neck." Murray yelled.

Siege pointed at herself and told him to take his best shot. He charged forward and was almost to her when she sidestepped him and he ran into the side of an old car, head first.

"You are even uglier now than you were before." Siege said to him. He shook his head as if to clear it and rolled over to look up at her.

Siege looked at the crumpled form lying there, he just looked back at her. She thought about how she had just kicked his butt all over the place without even trying.

"My name is Siege and I earned it well." She told him.

For the first time, one of the kats from the garage spoke to her.

"I think he's *snerk* better looking than he was before!" the tall, muscular, blond tabby said to her. The smaller, brown kat looked at Murray then he looked up at her. The brown kat walked back to the garage ineffectively stiffling a laugh. Then Murray pulled himself to his feet. Staggering, he walked over to his friend, Burke. The slightly taller kat was helping his friend into the passenger side of the truck. Then he walked over and climbed into the driver side and started the engine and drove away. Siege was left standing in the early morning light with the blond tabby kat.