"Ha!" T-bone shouted as he climbed out from underneath the control panel of the subway.
"But will it work?" Callie asked.
"That, my friend, is the million dollar question," T-bone said as he pushed the acceleration lever forward. The subway began humming softly and moved forward.
"What did I tell you? Am I a genius or what?"
"Shh," Callie put her hand over his mouth, "Don't jinx it."
"Get down!" Chris yelled as she pulled her gun and shot at the dragons charging down the hallway. Glancing around she saw some large, heavy benches sitting against the wall.
"Get the benches on there side!" she shouted at the white kat, "Make something to hide behind!"
Chris leapt behind a trash can and shot at the pair of dragons charging down the long hall. They slowed slightly but the bullets did little to penetrate their thick skin.
"Get down!" she shouted again, "Get down behind the benches!"
"Razor! I need this door open!" she shouted into the radio as she knelt down to load another clip.
"I've got a list of possible codes, but I don't know which one will open the door. You're gonna have to type them in yourself."
Chris fired at the dragons, "I've kind of got my hands full here!"
"It's the best I can do."
Suddenly the door to the stairwell flew open and small band of kats charged out armed with table legs and other makeshift weapons. Mikes fighters.
"To your right! Watch out!" Chris shouted. As a group they turned and saw the dragons only steps away. Immediately they turned and started defending themselves as best they could. One kat had a fire extinguisher. He pulled the pin and shot a foamy stream of retardant at the nearest dragons eyes.
"Chris get to the door," Razors voice cracked in her ears.
She leapt over the upturned benches behind her and reached the door, "Gimme the first code."
"4, 6, 7, 1, 3."
She punched it in but got a red light.
"No, next one..." she looked up and saw a kat go flying as a dragon hit him. She had to help.
Spying the white kat crouching near her she grabbed him and said, "Can you help me?"
He nodded weakly.
She pulled off the helmet and shoved it on his head, "Razors going to give you some codes. One of them will open the door. You need to punch them in."
Chris pulled her gun and ran towards the fight. If she could close enough with the gun she could...
She didn't get a chance to finish her thought. She found herself being held over a dragons head. It swung and threw her into the wall. He gun went clattering away. The glovatrix Jake had given her cracked against the wall, leaving a long crack in the white plaster.
That's it! The glovatrix! There had to be something in it that could deal with these things. That's what it was made for, right?
"Get back!" she shouted over the din of the small battle, which had split into two parts, "Stand back so I can get it with this!" The fighters jumped back. The dragon turned to her and cocked its head, then roared.
Chris pressed a button and a net came flying out of the glovatrix, trapping the dragon against the wall.
"Yes!"
She turned to the other one. "Get away!" she shouted again, "I can get it with this." She pressed a button. Nothing happened. She jammed it again but it was obvious that hitting the wall had not been good for the glovatrix. It was a stroke of luck that it had worked before.
The dragon began charging towards her. Instinctively she reached for her gun to find the holster empty. Glancing quickly around she saw it lying a few feet away by the wall. She dove for it then turned quickly to where the dragon should be to find him being pushed back by a stream of water. She grinned when she saw Mike holding a fire hose to keep him at bay.
"It's open!" the white kat called, "The door is open!"
"Everybody out! Come on, move!"
The kats pushed forward and moved through the door and down the stairs.
"Mike!" Chris shouted as she pulled one of the double doors closed once everybody was through "Come on! Hurry!"
Mike started backing up, then dropped the hose and made a mad run towards the door. He dove through and Chris slammed it shut just before the dragon slammed into it, leaving a large dent.
They moved quickly down the stairs, taking them two at a time.
"There will be a subway waiting for us down there?" Mike asked breathlessly.
"Yeah."
They pushed though the last set of double doors and looked over the ears of the crowd to see that there was no subway waiting for them.
"Your sure about that?" Mike said sarcastically.
"Positive," Chris said through her teeth. Where was that white kat with her helmet? There. She pushed through the crowd to get to him. "Good work," she said as she pulled the helmet of his head.
She slammed the helmet on and said, "Razor? Razor come in."
"Chris. Ar....what ha...omin...bad."
"Razor? You're breaking up. I can't hear you."
"....way?...."
"You're no help," she gave up on trying to talk to him and stomped over to Mike.
"I sent out a few kats to secure the area. We could be here for a while."
"Lets hope not."
A kat came running breathlessly up to Mike, "There are two other entrances besides the stairwell. We closed them up as best we could."
Suddenly a loud banging sound came from a door on their right. They ran towards it, looking through a small window they could see a dragon.
Another banging sound came from behind them. Spinning they ran to the other door where they saw the same thing.
Chris looked around for something to secure the door further with but Mike was a step a head of her. He pushed a large vending machine over and together they pushed it against the door. Running back to the first door they found a long, heavy bench to push against the door.
More banging from the doors made Chris realize the urgency of the situation. Turning, she saw the vending machine move slightly.
Crouching she saw a corner of the door being lifted up by a scaly claw. The vending machine jerked again.
Glancing behind her he saw the bench against the other door begin to shift as well.
Where the hell was T-bone?
She heard a long, loud screeching sound as the vending machine was pushed aside. She pulled her gun and waited until she could get a clean shot.
The dragon threw the door aside and Chris opened fire, but the bullets did little to hit its skin. She dropped the clip and slammed another in.
She squeezed the trigger a few more times when suddenly she heard the click of a train on its tracks.
Glancing to her left she saw the subway pull to a stop. T-bone gave her a little wave through the window. Chris shouted her displeasure at his tardiness at him.
The dragon was now struggling to climb over the vending machine. She fired a few more shots but most missed the dragon and hit the vending machine instead. She shot one more and suddenly the vending machine exploded.
Chris was thrown back and lay staring at the ceiling for a few moments before the sprinkler system came on, soaking her and everybody else.
She stood up shakily and glanced over at the charred hunk of metal that was a coke machine. What made it explode? That didn't make any sense at all.
She shook her head, no time to worry about that. She turned to the subway and saw that she was one of the few left on the platform. She ran towards it and jumped through just as the doors closed.
Chris sat in a small puddle on the floor. She lurched slightly as the train began to move forward. She looked up to see T-bone jogging down the car towards her.
"You're late," Chris gasped.
"I'm here. I wish I had a camera. You look awful," T-bone grinned.
"Shut up," she waived her gun in his general direction, "What took you so long?"
He shrugged, "The train was broken."
"Broken?" She said a little too loudly, "Broken? Your supposed to be able to fix these things," she nudged him slightly with the barrel of the gun.
"That's enough," he said, yanking the gun out of her hand, "It isn't nice to poke people with loaded guns."
She stuck her tongue out at him and started to say something when a scream broke out from the back of the train. The SWAT Kat and the bounty hunter turned and saw a dragon chasing them down the tracks.
"Good god, do these things never quit?" Chris said running to the back window, "Shoot it out," she told T-bone.
He took aim and cracked the window with two shots, one more and it should go.
He began squeezing the trigger.
"T-bone!" Callie cried out.
T-bone jumped with surprise and before he could stop himself pulled the trigger. The shot went wide, missing the window and hitting Chris. She immediately wilted to the ground.
"T-bone!" Callie called again, "The Pastmaster is on the tracks in front of us! There's a portal too!"
T-bone looked from Chris' body to Callie and back to Chris.
"She's dying!" a nearby she-kat yelled.
He had to make a decision.
T-bone left Chris and ran to the front of the train.