Chapter 16
A New Strategy
"Marsha, where are you going?" Donatello asked as he followed after her into the city.
"I'm going to find Jake and set things straight," she replied.
Don shook his head. "I knew it! You ARE in love with that Swat Kat!" He muttered.
"Donny, I don't love him. I love you. I just want to get it through to him." Marsha started. She stopped dead in her tracks, upon seeing two Enforcer cars pass them by. "What the…" she murmured and ran off, following the two cars.
"Gah...Marsha! Not again!" Don growled and stalked after her.
Dark Kat frowned upon seeing Marsha still alive. And who was this other mutant with her? Was he one of Dr. Viper's experiments? He shook his head and jumped out in front of them. "Hold it right there!" he grabbed Donatello and held a gun to his head.
Don glared at Dark Kat. "Just who are you, anyway?" He spat out.
"I don't know who you are, you mutant lab failure, but that She-Kat over there is coming with me, and if you try to stop me, I will kill you," he sneered.
"No, don't hurt him" Marsha protested. Dark Kat looked at her.
"So, you're coming with me, then, I presume" he smirked. Marsha nodded, her gaze on the ground.
Dark Kat threw Don on the ground and motioned for Marsha to follow him. "Marsha..." Don started. She just shook her head and followed Dark Kat. "Damn it..." he hissed.
Fifteen minutes after his encounter with the new Kat, Razor finally reached the hangar, he parked the cyclotron and got off. He started to walk towards his locker when he saw Chance coming down the ladder with a huge grin on his face. "Hey buddy I saw the news! Great job, Razor"
"Eh, not so great. I mean something about that look that guy gave me. Kind of spooky" Razor replied as he threw his helmet into his locker.
"But buddy, you found the detonator! I mean I heard it got into Dark Kat's hands, but we got it back just in time. No telling what he could have done with it" Chance said as he looked at Jake, still smiling.
Jake sighed again and shook his head untying his bandanna as he put it in his locker. He looked back at Chance with his brown eyes. "Chance, this whole mess doesn't look right. I mean the pieces do not really make sense. First Dark Kat somehow manages to get Hard Drive out of prison again. Then Hard Drive is able to go straight into Puma Dyne's security systems, gets around them and gets their new dangerous Ultra Mega Detonator. Which we all know is for Dark Crud. Then two unknown Ninja Tomkats shoot up Hard Drive's van killing two of Dark Crud's creeplings."
"One unknown Kat, buddy. Remember you killed one," Chance smirked.
Jake gave Chance a mean look. "Like I really WANTED to. Still, who the heck are these two unknown Kats? Are they suppose to be us or what?" Jake sighed as he leaned against his locker door, then looked around. "Hey...where are Marsha and Donatello?"
"Marsha said something about going to look for you, and she just walked out...Don followed her" Chance replied.
"Ah, crud!" Jake declared and hopped back on the cyclotron.
"Jake, come on, it's late! Can't we look for them in the morning?" Chance moaned.
"No! They could be in danger with the Enforcers or even with Dark Kat! Come on," Jake urged.
"Shit!" Feral cursed under his breath.
Felina looked over at her Uncle. "What is it? We have Hard Drive...the Detonator is safe...Uncle...what's wrong?" she asked.
Feral shook his head. "It's that damn Dark Kat. He's got another Kat working with him, now...and it's that She-Kat we ran into the other day."
Felina blinked. "What? That can't be true, Uncle..."
"Shit..." Razor growled as he heard the comlink beeping. He opened it and gasped upon seeing Dark Kat's face. "Dark Kat..." he hissed.
"What's your worst fear, Razor?" Dark Kat asked, smiling as he looked down at Marsha who was sitting next to him, tied and gagged. He held his gun at her head, the barrel of the gun running through her black hair.
"Let her go! If you even THINK about hurting her, I'll..." Razor growled, his free hand bawling up into a fist. T-Bone quickly took control of the wheel as Razor had his little chat with Dark Kat.
"You'll do what? You were about to say something personal, weren't you?" he smirked and walked over to where Jeddison was sitting near a monitor screen.
"LET HER GO, YOU MEGA SCUM" Razor screamed, anger flaring inside of him.
T-Bone jumped, a bit startled. It was very rare to see Razor this pissed off.
"You don't make demands, you listen to me" Dark Kat screamed back. "I don't wanna have to hurt her."
Razor calmed down a bit. "Look...if you don't want the Feral to catch you, we'll take them blame for it...just let Marsha go."
"Oh, please. You Swat Kats, taking the blame for little old me? You know what I want, Razor. I want that 6 digit code to get into Puma Dyne. I want that Detonator back."
Razor's eyes widened. He knew that if Dark Kat got his claws on that Detonator, the city was in grave danger. "Shit...Dark Kat, don't do this…" he mumbled.
"Look, I know it's dangerous, but your friend's life is hanging on the line. You have one hour. I don't want anyone else looking for her. It's hopeless to find her. Don't tell anyone what you two are about to do. Don't even go on the level of calling the Enforcers. You two must obey me, because those are the rules. There's no percentage on breaking those rules. Tell me you two understand," Dark Kat said through the other end of the comlink as he walked back over to Marsha.
Razor looked over at T-Bone who nodded grimly. "Yes..." he mumbled.
"Good. I can see you two and hear you. Wherever the two of you go, you will be followed. I will call you in one hour," Dark Kat replied and hung up.
Jeddison glowered at Dark Kat, his whole appearance was different now since his brother Jack was gone. "What made you a criminal?" he growled.
"Nothing made me a criminal. I AM a criminal," Dark Kat replied with a smile as he looked down at Marsha, tracing his long black claw down the side of her face.
Marsha let out a muffled growl from her gag and started to squirm a little which made Dark Kat chuckle. "Almost too pretty to be in a relationship with Razor, don't you think so, Jeddison?"
Jeddison said nothing and stared blankly at the wall. "Be patient, Jeddison. Soon, I will have my code to get my Detonator and the city will crumble before us."
Jeddison got up and walked away from the monitor. "I don't feel like resting around here like some tourist. This is just a waste of time."
"There's laying about and there's laying low. They have two different meanings, you know," Dark Kat replied, looking at him, his patience starting to falter. He knew if Jeddison went out for awhile, trying to find the Swat Kat before he gave Dark Kat the code, Razor and any Enforcer that was in the area with them would spot him and go after him again and he needed Jeddison to help him take down the Enforcers if they tried to stop him.
Jeddison glowered at Dark Kat again. "Is there?" he asked, sarcastically.
"It's the Enforcers who should be worrying right now about laying low. With you at my side, no one can stop me from getting my revenge. I'm rebuilding my army of creeplings to cause chaos among the city, but we can't just go out there and cause havoc right now."
"That's not what I'm thinking of," Jeddison replied. Dark Kat could see the anger and sadness in the Kat's blue eyes.
"I know that, Jeddison, but what that Swat Kat did can't be undone. So, you should stop thinking about it," Dark Kat said, soothingly, placing a hand on Jeddison's shoulder.
"I can't," Jeddison replied and shrugged it off.
Marsha was overhearing the conversation the whole time. Who was this Jeddison? She watched Dark Kat walk over to where he was putting the last touches on his bomb. The thing looked so huge but it couldn't possibly take out the whole city but then again that Detonator could make the impact about 3 times greater too. She looked around to where she was at, they used chloroform on her while taking her here so she had no clue where she was, and it looked like small compound, maybe a bunker. But the one thing that confused her even more was that when the mysterious Kat Jeddison walked over to the counter to get his gun, he had placed a small black device under the counter with his hand totally invisible to Dark Kat. Since of Dark Kat's height, she knew that he wasn't aware of the device yet. Was it this some type of explosive device? Was he going to blow up Dark Kat too for some reason? She prayed she was wrong, she narrowed her eyes and strained to look at the black device, it looked very familiar to her. Then she figured out what it was; it was some sort of microphone, obviously Jeddison was one smart tomkat and he was going to listen in on what was being said in here. Marsha shivered a little; it was awfully cold in here, just exactly where was she? She just prayed that Dark Kat didn't get his paws on that Detonator as she turned her attention back to the bomb that Dark Kat was working on.
About 15 minutes later, Commander Feral made a quick stop at Enforcer Headquarters he had gotten a call on the way to Puma Dyne from the Enforcer technician who was doing an autopsy on the Kat that was shot by Razor. He walked into the morgue section of Enforcer Headquarters, it was only 40 degrees in there, he could feel death all around him, he hated going into this place. He walked into the lab and saw the enforcer technician wearing surgical clothing from his head down. "Good job, lieutenant. Report" Feral said sternly as always, he looked over and noticed that Deputy Mayor Briggs and Lt. Steele were also there but he didn't have the time to question Callie on why she was there, he had to find out why Dark Kat had that New She-Kat working for him...and just who this new She-Kat was.
To be continued...
A/N: I'm leaving this here for now...next chapter will be up tomorrow, though! Enjoy!
