Shoutouts:

LunarNinja: Whoops...guess I forgot you hated swearing...sorry! I narrowed it down a bit in this chapter!

KikoKamia: No, I haven't forgotten about my other stories...I've just been having some major writer's block for them...while I've been having some major ideas for this fic. Heh...

Chapter 18

Changed Feelings

The Cyclotron's engines screamed through the night like banshees as the black motorcycle flew down the dirt road towards Puma Dyne Once reaching its destination, T-Bone parked the Cyclotron outside. Within minutes they were able to get into Puma Dyne by Feral and made their way to where the security monitor is to get into the vault, which contained the Ultra Mega Detonator. Razor plopped down in the chair in front of the terminal and looked at the screen. On the screen he saw the prompt which was for the command to obtain the password and commands from the user but something very strange was going on, he saw the asterisks where the enforcer who kept up with this vault had put in his code to get to the detonator, but then he saw an error on the screen saying it was invalid. Then under that line were lines of nothing but 0's and 1's. "Holy Kats, it's binary," Razor groaned. The pattern of 1's and 0's were all different.

"It's what?" Feral asked.

"Binary...whoever hacked in here not only changed the code but they changed the code to binary. You see each one of these lines represents one number," Razor said as he looked at the screen of digits.

"Oh, crud," Feral grumbled. "There's no way we can get through this! Do you think Hard Drive did this?"

"No, Feral. Judging by these digits, it was hacked on here...not electronically and the hacker is probably still on here," Razor murmured. T-Bone just looked at him.

"Can you figure it out, buddy?" T-Boneasked as he looked at the screen with Razor. To him this was a different foreign language, only Razor dealt with computer programming, T-Bone wasn't really into this kind of stuff.

"I could try...it shouldn't be too bad...just depends on the base and whether or not the person then changed that number into ASCII which would make a letter," Razor grumbled, in his head he was trying to figure out who would do this. He knew Dark Kat was a genius, but Dark Kat was more into bombs and explosives, this had nothing to do with that. This was very complex stuff and Hard Drive would have done this electronically.


Meanwhile, Jeddison was sitting behind the monitors at Katvenya seeing Razor typing in codes trying to bust through the binary; he chuckled a little. He tapped his flight suit at his chest where the small detonator fitted in his inside pocket.

Razor knew that someone had to be online to do this coding that was blocking him from accessing the codes, and the only person left would be Jeddison…He looked at T-Bone. "T-Bone, we have to get to Katvenya quickly, we can get the drop on him."

Feral overhead Razor's comment and his face went white. "What are you two doing?"

Razor and T-Bone got up and started to rush to the door. Razor turned around and tossed Feral one of their communicators. He had written down the binary digits on a piece of paper. "Feral, keep this. I'll talk to you in the Cyclotron, you have to trust me on this. I'll talk you through the coding." He turned to Marsha. "Marsha, you stay here with Feral."

Feral grumbled as he sat down where Razor was and looked at the screen. Marsha sighed and took a seat beside him. Feral looked at her. "So, Marsha…tell me…are you and Razor seeing each other?"

Marsha stared back at the Commander, a bit shocked. "Razor and I are just good friends, Commander!"

Feral didn't know whether to believe her or not. If they were 'just friends', then why were they cuddling like that? Marsha could see that he didn't believe her. She sighed and stared up at the ceiling.


Razor and T-Bone hopped in their vehicle and once again the Cyclotron was racing down the road. Since Katvenya was far away as it was, Razor knew using all of the engines would still take a bit too long. "T-Bone, put the gears in max speed!" Razor declared as he strapped himself in tight.

"Roger that, buddy," T-Bone smiled and did the same. He pushed the gears on max, within seconds, the Cyclotron sped up. Razor started to breathe harder, feeling the harsh wind push against him, his body pushing further against the seat.

"Don't worry, Commander. Here's your crash course on binary," Razor smirked. By doing quick division in his head he found the three numbers that the binary codes represented. "You ready?"

"Go ahead," Feral grumbled. He hated how the Swat Kats were always the ones out there in the glory while he was stuck behind."Type the numbers 90, 79, 69. I just hope the psycho used base two," Razor said as he felt the Cyclotron begin to slow down, he looked up and saw the Siberian place of Katvenya approaching, he used the x-ray scanner to see what kind of buildings were around this place.

Feral typed in the numbers and got back the message that the code was in correct. "It's not right."

Razor's eyes widened and he let out a small growl. "Geez, I hope he didn't use a different base." He looked at the numbers and tried to think of what letters the numbers would be for ASCII. He let himself smile a little when he found out that they were the letters 'J E D'. "Okay Feral type in the letters J E D."

Feral looked kind of dumbfounded. "Oh, come on, Razor. Do you really think he would do that?"

"Just try it," Razor urged as he felt T-Bone park the Cyclotron outside in the snow near the satellite tower.

Feral type in the letters and heard the click of the vault opening. "Holy Kats! It worked!" he declared as he rushed over to the door waiting for the door to open, the door was pressurized and steam was blowing through the holes of the door on the top. Once the door was open he walked in but to his horror he saw the detonator was gone. "It's gone!" Marsha stared at Feral, in silence.

"What? Crud!" T-Bone declared andjumped out of the Cyclotron.

"Let's go, T-Bone," Razor said as he jumped out to join his partner. "Swat Kats, out." He turned off the communicator for a while.

T-Bone shivered. "Geez it's cold!"

"Yeah, let's not stick around here for awhile. The x-ray scanner picked up the satellite tower here and a bunker over there, go check out the bunker, I'll check out this tower."

"Roger. Be careful, buddy,"T-Bone said.

"You too," Razor smiled as he slipped his Glovatrix on and ran towards the tower.


Jeddison looked at his watch and knew he had to leave now before Dark Kat came back. He got up and started to walk towards the door. Suddenly a beeping noise came from the monitor, Jeddison raced over and saw by his security camera that the Swat Kat, Razor was in the satellite communications tower heading his way. Jeddison felt his blood boil, even though he totally hated the Swat Kat, Razor. He already could tell who they were. The attack that Razor made on him earlier was the attack that a lot of times during enforcer training that Jake Clawson would pull on him. He closed his eyes and remembered those days. During the enforcer times, he and Jake were best buds; they grew up together and knew everything about each other. They shared everything. But Jeddison started to let life get him down, he became more daredevil and crazier than T-Bone was or Chance was. Jeddison's parents were killed many years before he joined the enforcers, they were killed in an airplane crash when he was only 10 but the effects of their deaths started on him when he was 18 and in the enforcers. He started to swear a lot, smoke, and he didn't really care about anything. He became very hateful and violent towards people and his temper began to quicken. Jake started to stay away from him and soon became the friend of Chance Furlong. Chance Furlong treated Jake better and he and Jake became crewmembers for their plane. Chance was another hotshot pilot, which angered Jeddison even more. One evening while the enforcers were doing a raid, Commander Feral had sent Jeddison in as a spy, later on he wasn't discovered and Dark Kat told them that he killed Jeddison. Soon the enforcers were after Dark Kat then Dark Kat took off to drop his bomb on Enforcer Headquarters, the same day that Chance and Jake were kicked off of the squadron. Jeddison had actually joined sides with Dark Kat, but pretended to be dead and missing for several years, later on during the rest of the years, he helped construct Dark Kat's devices but stayed in the shadows to remain hidden, a lot of times whenever Dark Kat got in trouble and was captured, Jeddison had remained free but his loyalty to Dark Kat never faltered for he knew he could get the money and power he needed and the technological skills from Dark Kat. He decided to surprise and get the drop on Razor. He walked into the next room from the control room.
Minutes later, Razor walked into the control room. He raised his Glovatrix and looked around, his tail twitching, he was on the alert, his breathing quickened. "Hello, Jake," a voice said as it walked towards him from the other room. Razor turned and saw Jeddison walking out of the room.

This time when Jeddison walked out, he had his bandanna off. Jeddison decided to show Razor who he was and to show Razor he knew who he was but he knew he wasn't going to say anything. It wouldn't matter, he wasn't going to be that low and tell everyone, it wasn't him.

Razor's eyes widen and he looked at Jeddison. "Jeddison…"

"Back from the dead. No longer just a name at Enforcer Headquarters," he replied to Razor. Razor stood in awe at Jeddison. He couldn't believe it! After all of these years, he was still alive and probably helping Dark Kat construct all the materials that they went against. "What's the matter, Razor? No glib remark? No wity comeback?"

"Why?" Razor finally managed to ask.

Jeddison chuckled a little. "Hilarious question, especially when it's coming from you. Did you ever ask why? Why we toppled all of those criminals, only to come home to hear 'Well done. Good job, but sorry, everything you risked your life and limb for has changed'?"

"It was the job we chose," Razor said plainly, bawling his hands up into fists.

"Of course you'd say that," Jeddison spat. "The Swat Kats, loyal to the city, defenders of this so called faith." Razor growled and aimed his Glovatrix at Jeddison. "Aw, please, Razor. Put it away. It's insulting to think that I haven't anticipated your every move. You know since we DID work together before you picked up that low life, Chance."

"I trusted you, Jeddison," Razor said sadly, it hurt him to know that his long time ago life friend was now his enemy.

"Trust? What a quaint idea?" replied Jeddison. "Turning your backs on me, leaving me in the building to spy on my own, you enforcers left me to die there and you know it."

"Am I supposed to feel sorry for you?" Razor retorted.

"No. You were suppose to die for me," Jeddison replied, he chuckled again. "Oh by the way, I did think of asking you to join my little scheme. But somehow I knew Jake Clawson's loyalty was always to the city and never to his friend."

Razor laughed; he had just about enough of this, he was deeply wounded by the fact his best friend was now his enemy and would have to probably kill him. "You know, you lowlifes are all the same, you're no different from Hard Drive, Dark Kat, or any other scum in this city."

Jeddison growled and bawled his hands into fists. "What was that?"

"I said you're messed up in the head, Jeddison!" Razor screamed, his rage burning.

"Awfully proud of yourself aren't you, Razor? You stuck your nose in to where it didn't belong and now you killed my baby brother!" Jeddison screamed as he cocked his gun and fired at Razor. Razor dove out of the way behind some desks. Jeddison kept firing into his magazine ended and then took off running.

Razor looked up seeing Jeddison gone. "I must have pissed him off," he muttered, sarcastically.


Meanwhile, T-Bone had reached the bunker door, he looked at the panel and decided to press his luck and he pushed the door open button, suddenly an alarm started to blare. "Whoa, that's not good," he commented as he took off running. When he reached the Cyclotron, he jumped in and started the vehicle; Razor was just then getting out of the tower. "Get your tail in here now, Razor!"

Razor jumped in and the cockpit slid over them. "What's going on, T-Bone?"

"I pushed the wrong button," T-Bone mumbled as he revved the engines.

Razor looked out and saw about 5 artic clothed Kats running their way from each side of them. "Hurry up, buddy. We've got company." His ears perked when he heard a jet taking off and looked behind him and saw a red and black Mig-31 Foxhound looking jet taking off.

T-Bone noticed it too as the jet passed heading high into sky, he lifted the Cyclotron a little off the ground and sped off. "Hey, Razor, there's our psycho," he smiled. "Shall we follow him?"

"Eh, T-Bone? That's Jeddison Clawston," Razor murmured.

"Jeddison? You sure? I thought he was dead, I mean I heard them say something about him before over the comlink, but I mean it's him…" T-Bone said. "Want me to chase after him, buddy?"

Suddenly the Fear Ship came out of cloudbank, speeding past them. "Holy Kats, it's Dark Kat!" Razor declared.

Dark Kat looked surprised to see them. "What are they doing here?" He fired a missile at them but T-Bone easily side-stepped the missile.

"Let's get out of here, buddy. We'll deal with them another time!" Razordeclared as he looked over at the fuel supply and knew an air fight with only a quarter left of fuel left would be very unlikely. T-Bone banked hard to the left and headed away towards the hangar.


Darkness filled the night as a storm approach, thunder already being heard throughout the city, Jake and Chance were back in the garage getting ready for bed. Marsha and Donatello had reunited with the two Kats earlier that night. They decided a good night's rest would help them better tomorrow. Jake was walking around still wearing his mechanic coveralls.

Marsha paused, slightly, looking back to Donatello, before heading for Jake's room. "Marsha…please, don't do this," Don pleaded.

She shook her head. "I need to talk to him, Donny. I'll be back down later, okay?"

Don sighed and sat down on the couch as she hurried up to Jake's room. Chance saw this and sat beside Don. "Hey, buddy…you can bunk with me if you'd like…it might be better instead of sleeping on the couch."

"Heh. Thanks, Chance. I suddenly have the feeling I won't see Marsha again until morning, anyway…" he murmured.

Marsha paused outside of Jake's door. "Jake?" she asked, softly.

He stopped pacing and looked up, his ears drooping a little when he saw her. "Oh…hey," he mumbled sadly.

Marsha stepped into the room and closed the door. "I heard about what happened today…and I'm really sorry, Jake."

"It's okay…you don't have to apologize." He paused and stared at her. "Why aren't you with Donny?"

She frowned at the question. "I thought you might want some company tonight. I mean, after what happened and all…" She murmured.

Jake stepped closer towards her. "Aren't you afraid I might try to pull a fast one on you?" he asked in a teasing voice.

She just stared at him. "No…you're not like your darker half…you're sweet…kind…caring…" her voice trailed off as she got lost in his eyes.

He leaned in a bit closer…his lips almost touching hers, now. He paused, wondering if he should continue or stop right there. His thoughts were interrupted when she pressed her lips against his in a heated kiss.

Jake blinked a few times, a bit surprised by her actions. I thought she wanted to be with Donatello… He gave into the kiss, holding her in his arms.

"This is just great! What if they don't come back?" Usa groaned as she paced back and forth in the living room of the Turtle's Lair.

"Usa…they will come back! They have to!" Brittany declared.

"Your friend is right, Usa," Usagi murmured, resting his back against the wall. "Donatello-san and Marsha-san will have to return sooner or later."

Usa sighed and took a seat on the couch. Casey looked over at her, his arm wrapped around April's shoulder. "Don't worry, Usa...Don's a Ninja. He can take care of himself...and Marsha...you can count on it," he smiled at her.

April kept her gaze on the floor, looking a bit worried. I just hope they ARE okay... she thought, closing her eyes.

2 be continued...