Chapter 15

Trouble At Puma Dyne Lab

Hard Drive stared at Dark Kat, looking a tad bit shocked. "You want me to do what?" he shouted, his voice echoing throughout the sewers of Mega Kat City.

Dark Kat sneered at Hard Drive. "I need you to gain me access into Puma Dyne tonight by 10 o' clock."

"By 10! Dark Kat, come on! Even I'm not that crazy! That place is totally secure outside and inside their security systems. It's 7 pm now! It would take at least two hours to wire myself into their mainframe, then you have to by-pass entries, I mean all of the binary and ASCII codes I would have to deal with. Those people are smart, smarter than the Enforcers themselves. That 3 hour deadline is absurd!" Hard Drive declared.

"In my experience, people are at their best when facing unreasonable deadlines" Dark Kat stated, running his claw tip around Hard Drive's coat.

"What if the SWAT Kats show up? I mean as long as I take to get in there, they'll certainly catch on or something, maybe even the enforcers" Hard Drive said, laying his eyes upon his coat.

"Two of my best Ninja's will take care of them. They have been trained to have the exact same fighting style as those two meddlesome Kats. I wouldn't worry about the enforcers or the SWAT Kats. So are you with me on this, Hard Drive" Dark Kat asked, holding out his coat teasingly.

Hard Drive nodded with glee as he grabbed the coat from Dark Kat and put it on, he felt the electrical surges from the coat entering all through his body feeding him, he missed it so much. Happiness was once brought again into his life.

But Hard Drive had other plans in mind, this was his exact opportunity to show the city that he could outsmart Dark Kat and be just as fearsome and powerful as he was. Dark Kat had planned on having 2 black vans that he stole from a rental place to use for transportation. Dark Kat and his two Ninja's would be in one van then Hard Drive and two of Dark Kat's creeplings would be in the other. Later on Dark Kat explained the intent of his attack to Hard Drive: inside Puma Dyne was a detonator so small that it could fit in the palm of someone's hand, it was very high tech, but it was so powerful that it could effect the explosion of the bomb to 3 times. But since it was so powerful and was strictly for war purposes it was place in the high security level of Puma Dyne, heavily guarded by the enforcers and computers with lasers and cameras galore, but Dark Kat knew how easily Hard Drive could shut down everything electronically. Since of its great power it was named the Ultra Mega Detonator. Surely Hard Drive knew how badly Dark Kat wanted that detonator, he was obsessed on blowing up the city. But Hard Drive also knew how this was his opportunity to make Dark Kat fall, if he could get his hands on the detonator instead of Dark Kat, he would gain so much money and respect from Dark Kat and the city that he would be the city's worst criminal. With a little coaxing to the two creeplings, he was able to persuade them into helping him with his scheme, he promised them with the money that he obtained from the detonator he would give it to them for surely Hard Drive did not want money. Now the only part was getting passed Dark Kat for Dark Kat was smart and it would be very hard getting passed him. It was a full-scale operation everyone was involved. Hard Drive would go in first and shut down all security systems but make sure no one would take notice, the creeplings would take out any guards that were in the way and the two ninja's would take down the SWAT Kats or any enforcers that were coming in to help. Dark Kat would walk in once the path way was clear to obtain the detonator personally. Hard Drive knew there had to be some way to swap the detonator with something else right in front of Dark Kat's eyes but try to get away with it without him really seeing it. For Hard Drive knew if he was caught in the action, Dark Kat would just kill him.


That night around 8pm, the two dark black vans pulled up near the base of Puma Dyne, Dark Kat made sure that they would stay clear of the perimeter till Hard Drive had cleared the system to avoid any security entanglements. Hard Drive charged up into an electrical surge and zipped into the telephone wire that crossed over into Puma Dyne, moving as fast as the electrical current could move, he started to hack into the front security codes, turning off any surrounding perimeter security systems such as cameras, laser trips or alarm buttons. Hard Drive making sure the coast was clear in his room, he unsurged himself and appeared in his normal Kat form in the room, looking at the security monitors. His heart was racing fast, knowing in less than an hour he would betray Dark Kat and probably be on his hit list for a while. He spoke into the microphone earpiece. "Your clear."

"Good." Dark Kat's voice came from the other side. Dark Kat turned to his two ninja's. "Go on." Without saying a word back, the two ninja's started to run across the field cutting the fence to make a hole for them then they ran inside to the building. Up ahead they saw an enforcer who was walking around making his rounds.

The Enforcer spotted them and went for his gun. "Hey, hold it right there." The first ninja took out his pair of Sais and threw one at the enforcer knocking the gun out of his hand with one quick movement. The other ninja threw a pointed piranha ninja star which embedded into the enforcer's neck causing to slit his throat, the enforcer fell on the ground a pool of blood near his body. Dark Kat walked behind the ninjas passing the bloody corpse, a smile slid across his purple face. One by one Dark Kat walked past the dead enforcers who were lying around his path like they were actually moving away from where he was walking. Then up ahead he saw the huge steel door that led into the room, which supposedly held the Ultra Mega Detonator.

Hard Drive went to the control panel located on the right side of the door; it had a number pad on it going from 1-10 indicating that it required some kind of code to get into it. Hard Drive chuckled at it and pointed his finger straight at the panel, at that very instant a small electrical charge shot from his finger down into the panel making it short circuit. With a loud clanging noise, the door opened exposing the room inside like an undiscovered tomb. Hard Drive walked right in and looked around "No cameras" he said to Dark Kat, Dark Kat walked in after him. The room contained about a hundred small steel mailbox like compartments each one numbered. Hard Drive's eyes looked wide and he turned back to Dark Kat knowing if they went through each one it would take a lot more time, more time than he really wanted to take, how he dreaded to be arrested again. "What's the number"

Dark Kat looked at him, without one worried look on his face. "1993" Dark Kat said. "According to my insider." Hard Drive looked at him puzzled, who the heck was Dark Kat's insider?

"That was a bad year" he commented on the number that Dark Kat gave him, he started to look through the compartment trying to find the number. Then he saw it, Dark Kat walked over and moved him aside a little and took his hand and pulled the steel metal drawer out with his bare hand and placed it on the ground.

"Find it" he declared. Hard Drive was amazed on how cool Dark Kat was acting as he knelt down beside the compartment and started to sift through the stuff inside, he found papers and documents about the Ultra Mega but yet still nothing.

"I-It's not here" Hard Drive stumbled as he started to panic as he quickly moved his hand through the stuff.

"It's there." Dark Kat murmured, coolly as he watched Hard Drive.

"It's not here" Hard Drive declared again, his tension rising.

"It's there" Dark Kat replied back more sternly.


Hard Drive suddenly found a small vial glass tube inside was the detonator, he knew that the detonator was absolutely harmless without being connected to an explosive properly and knew Dark Kat knew how to do that best. He looked up and saw Dark Kat's eyes glistening like a young Kat's on Christmas Day. Hard Drive opened up the vial tube and held the detonator in his hand, he glanced up and saw Dark Kat looking up away from him and out of the door for any intruders that's when Hard Drive made the switch, he placed the detonator quickly into his pocket and handed Dark Kat a small black cloth bag which supposedly held the detonator but really held a small red marble. Dark Kat snatched the bag from Hard Drive's hands completely unaware of the swap. Suddenly they heard the alarm blaring. Hard Drive's heart began to race and he looked up at Dark Kat as he stood back up. Dark Kat's face changed from happy to sad. "Their best response time is 10 minutes, they'll be late." He walked out of the door and he and Hard Drive ran out of Puma Dyne as fast as they could towards their getaway vans. "Let's go." Dark Kat ordered to one of the ninja's as they hopped into the black van. Hard Drive got into the side of the van, which held him and the two creeplings. Both black vans squealed off and got onto the main road from Puma Dyne heading away, at the fork in the road, the van that held Dark Kat went left and the one that held Hard Drive went right as planned. Dark Kat's van passed the enforcers; since their van's windows were darkly tinted they had no clue that they were the perpetrators.

Dark Kat smiled back as he took the small black cloth bag from his cloak, he untied it quickly and held it above his other hand face down, he shook it gently but a small red marble fell onto his hand instead. Dark Kat's heart almost stopped, his eyes wide with fear. Did Hard Drive actually have the courage to betray him "Wait. Go-go back…" Dark Kat said, his voice actually shaking, he gripped the red marble tightly in his hand.

The Ninja looked at Dark Kat as though he thought Dark Kat was losing his mind. Going back would be crazy, what if they got caught or something? What exactly was Dark Kat thinking"Is there a problem" he asked.

"Fucking go back" Dark Kat screamed loudly, pain and hurt engulfing him. The dark black van turned sharply making a loud squealing noise as it got into the other lane and started to head back. When they reached the fork of the road, Dark Kat saw a small glimpse of the other van's taillights moving down the road, they were gone, vanished. Dark Kat breathed harder, rage inside him deeply, he knew Hard Drive would pay dearly for his betrayal.


Jeddison, one of the Ninja's, was basically an ex Enforcer and was a gifted pilot at that, he was around the age of 26. He knew exactly all of the enforcer techniques and basically outsmarted all of them on all of his hits that he did for people, he was good in the air, on the land and in the sea. A computer genius, an excellent weapons maker and a sharp shooter. He had a brownish tan colored fur and was around the height of 5'11'' with blue eyes. He wore a black mask that covered just his eyes, and an all black ninja uniform. He claimed to be the best pilot out of the enforcers. His partner was Jack, a rookie. Jack never went into the enforcers but he was Jeddison's little brother. He was just 17, around the size of 5'6'', he resembled his brother a lot, his fur was slightly lighter and he had green eyes instead. His suit was the same as his brother's. His brother's jet was a 2-kat fighter so he mostly stayed in the back because he was kind of rusty on flying still but he could shoot pretty well, but he still had so much to learn.

Fortunately for them, Dark Kat had a homing device placed on the van that carried Hard Drive and with a little tracking they were able to locate it moving towards the south part of the city. That following day, Dark Kat sent Jeddison and Jack after the missing van and after his detonator. Jeddison anticipated where the van was going by the tracking device and parked on the side of the street waiting for the van to come over to them, he knew their ETA was in 5 minutes. He and his brother started to load up their MP-5K's, which were automatic machine guns. Jeddison looked over at his brother. "Watch your tail, Jack. Move sure and fast" he said looking at his brother.

"You told me that already" Jack looked at him, looking kind of annoyed, he didn't understand why his brother kept acting like his father to him.

"Well I am telling you again. This won't be like anything you have done before, little brother" Jeddison replied as he smiled a little causing Jack to smile back at him. He looked back up out of his front window and saw the other dark van coming their way down the street. "Target is coming." Jack cocked his gun. With one quick movement Jeddison steered the van sharply in front of Hard Drive's van causing the van to stop. Jack and Jeddison got out quickly ignoring the fact that people were watching them. They shot the two creeplings in the front of the van killing them, breaking the windshield, their round of bullets going straight into the creeplings bodies, blood going everywhere. Hard Drive let out a scream of fear as he leaped behind the front seats in the back of the van, locking the doors, he started to panic.


On his way back to the hangar, Razor looked up ahead and saw an intersection filled with cars, he could hear people screaming in fear, he drove up as far as he could and saw two unknown masked Kats that appeared to be wearing some kind of flight suits shooting at a black van with submachine guns. Razor saw the one Kat that was wearing red and black go to the side of the van shouting and yelling as he tried to open the door, Razor started to push his way through crowds of people trying to get there.

Jeddison started to yank on the door handle of the van trying to get inside to get to Hard Drive, he knew that this was taking too long; he thought this mission would be quick but this time spent was becoming very dangerous to him and his brother. "Open the fucking door" he yelled at Hard Drive as he hit his fist on the door. Razor pounced on him slamming Jeddison's body into the side of the van. Jeddison taken by complete surprise hit the van metal door hard...groaning as he felt unconsciousness creeping in on him. Razor let Jeddison fall to the ground, then he heard a shot fired near him and looked up and saw the other masked Kat shooting at him. With one quick movement, Razor retrieved Jeddison's gun and when Jack rose up to take a shot at Razor, Razor gave him a surprise and shot him first. Jack's body fell near Jeddison. Jeddison looked up and saw his brother lying on the ground, oblivious to what just happen, his head pounding, he could barely keep his eyes open. Razor held his gun at Jeddison; he could hear the sound of enforcer cars approaching. Jeddison looked over and saw his little brother laying there facing him, he lifted his head up to look up, as much as it hurt, his heart was aching more fearing the worst. "Jack" He moved up on his side to face his attacker, his whole body aching from the impact, he looked up and saw the SWAT Kat, Razor staring back at him the gun aimed at him. The sound of Enforcer sirens getting closer to him now as Lt. Steele's car pulled up along with another. Two enforcers ran up to Razor and held their guns at him. "Drop your weapon, SWAT Kat" one said to him. Razor put down the gun knowing that his prisoner wasn't going anywhere. One enforcer walked over to where Jeddison was and started to handcuff his hands. Jeddison looked desperately upon his brother now. He started to breathe hard as he saw the other enforcer grab Hemisphere's limping hands. "Help him" he murmured. To his horror as the enforcer lifted up his brother a little to handcuff his hands, there was a pool of blood under him.

The enforcer checked his pulse on his neck and found no sign. "Nah, he's had it." With those words, Jeddison looked back at Razor, hatred building inside him now, consuming his sadness. Razor looked back at Jeddison as he watched the Enforcers place him in an Enforcer prison van. Razor sighed and walked back to the Cyclotron and got back on it, he revved the engine a little then sped out and continued on his way to the hangar.

to be continued...