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This chapter is told completely from Chance's POV, enjoy!

I sign in aggravation and defeat as I walk out of the auto shop. I don't know what made me decide to come all the way to Breston. I didn't have any leads. There were no clues that led me here, just my raw determination to find my best friend.

Jake has been missing for almost a year and his absence is eating away at me. It's hard not seeing my best friend and partner every morning when I walk downstairs. The shop isn't the same anymore without him teasing me about something or other and the job we did on the side… Well I'm still doing that. I have to. I would never be able to quit because, in a way, quitting would be like giving up on Jake.

I can't give up on my best friend. I guess that's why I've spent almost every moment I can spare looking for him. I want to find him and get him to come home so everything can be like it was before he left. I get the feeling though, that even if he does come back that things won't be the same as before.

Something happened to Jake, he wouldn't have left on his own. I know that whatever happened to him is keeping him away. I don't know what happened to him the night he disappeared and I don't know what has happened to him since that night either.

I just hope that Jake is okay, and that one day I see him again so that I'll know that he's okay. That's all I really care about, that my buddy, my best friend, is happy and safe. I've been worried sick about him since the day he didn't come home. I did everything in my power, as Chance Furlong and T-Bone, to find him but everything I have tried has come up empty.

This trip to Breston is the most recent in a search of the cities surrounding Megakat City. It is a few hours away but it's a city I think Jake would have liked. It's not as large as Megakat City but it is by no means small either. There is a low crime rate and the kats I have met have been friendly and helpful.

I take a list and a pencil out of my coat pocket and look it over. The name "Whitford Automotives" is one of the last auto shops on my list and I scratch a line through the name with the pencil. After tucking both items back in my pocket I look up and down the street before crossing to the other side. My stomach is demanding food and I continue down the street till I reach a small shopping district with a couple cafes and restaurants. A quick decision on my part and I'm heading for a small deli that looks inviting. After eating I head back outside and head off down the street again.

A few more minutes of walking and I decide to hail a taxi. I find one quickly and tell the driver the address of the next shop on my list. The kat informs me that it will take him about twenty minutes to get there so I relax to enjoy the scenery and let my thoughts wonder a bit.

As usual my thoughts wonder back to Jake, what can I, say I just can't get the guy off my mind. This time my thoughts focus not so much on Jake but Feral's reaction when he found out that Jake was missing. I had expected him to yell and scream about Jake skipping town but he didn't. In fact he was actually worried. I think the expression on my face when I told him that Jake was missing was enough for the man to get the hint that I was seriously worried about my best friend and that he should be too.

The commander didn't like our dare devil style of piloting but he did respect our friendship to some extent. He knew that we would die for each other if necessary. He also knew that Jake wasn't someone to just pick up and leave without a good reason. Not only that but he knew Jake's long list of accomplishments better then I did.

I admit it, when it came to our friendship Jake was always the brains. He kept my tail from failing high school and he got me through the academy. At the same time he was taking classes I will never pretend to understand. He was the golden kat of his graduating class. They must have called his name over a dozen times to accept different rewards the year he graduated.

He could have done anything he wanted with his future but he decided to fly with me instead and look where it got him. It got him kicked out of the Enforcers and forced into a managing a scrap yard. When he suggested we build our own jet I thought he was crazy but he made it work. He designed all he plans; built all the gadgets, built our jet from scratch… the list goes on. I never really appreciated everything he did until he wasn't there anymore. Good thing he left detailed plans that I can even follow or there wouldn't be a Swat Kats anymore.

I find myself smiling slightly as I think of everything my partner accomplished while we were together. How he put up with me all those years I'll never know. Feral didn't understand how our friendship worked either and that was why he respected it. He knew that Jake wouldn't just leave me behind and that was why Feral launched his own investigation into Jake's disappearance.

I didn't even know that the commander had done so until he arrived at the scrap yard a couple of weeks after finding out that Jake had gone missing with a thick file folder of information and possible leads. He said that I could follow them in any manner I wished because I could pursue avenues that he as head of the Enforcers could not.

It took me a second to figure out what he was trying to tell me but the answer came to me rather quickly. It had become evident that there was currently only one Swat Kat and the commander had put two and two together.

I had been overjoyed with the information and had pursued every lead and pushed every angle until fate had decided to smile on me. I found a contact who informed me that Dark Kat was trying to get some kats in the scientific community to work for him, willingly or not. The guy didn't know where the base was though.

I had never been more terrified for Jake's safety then I had been when I found that out. I knew from my experience as an Enforcer and a Swat Kat that Dark Kat was crazy and dangerous. If he had Jake then I knew Jake was in more danger then I had ever imagined.

I went to Feral with the information then started my own search for the base. By that time Jake had been gone nearly four months. It took me another month to finally find the place and arrange a raid with the Enforcers.

We came up empty handed. Dark Kat escaped and we didn't find Jake. I was devastated when Feral told me about the cells they found in the facility. Feral told me to give up and move on with my life. I went home that night and cried for the first time since Jake disappeared. I almost gave up then, I truly did. I got up the next morning and watched from a distance as the day passed almost mechanically as I tried not to break down again.

Then Callie showed up. She had been having less and less trouble with her car, most likely because we had replace pretty much everything in it at one point or another. She looked miserable and her mood momentarily pulled me out of mine. I asked what was bothering her and she lost it. Apparently Feral had been keeping her informed about Jake. I was shocked that she hadn't come to me even though I shouldn't have been. Feral had information she could access because of her job.

To be truthful I had always known that she had a thing for Jake but I had flirted with her just to tease Jake about it. I would always get a blush out of him when I did it too. Seeing her standing there in tears ended any façade I had been trying to piece together and I had pulled her to me. She had begged me not to give up on him and I didn't have the heart to say no to her.

The cab driver interrupts my reverie as he pulls up to the next shop. I pay him and head inside. The place doesn't turn up any new leads so I continue with my search until the list I have is finished before heading back to the hotel to get some rest. I most of the day tomorrow to search and there is no one I will be able to do it if I don't get some sleep.