I don't own the SWAT Kats...yet. Just wait and see my little minion, just wait and see.

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Chapter4. Undercover


"I'll tell you the short version." Alex offered. "Basically it was like this..." She cleared her voice severely and made a dramatic pause. "Two brainless jerks wanted to kill me and Jake saved my tail form a hard whopping."

Both guys gawked at her, their mouths hanging open and their tails twitching. The way she had pronounced the last two words, it seemed so... naughty.

"What?" She asked with a bewildered innocence mask "Did I say anything wrong?"

"Err.. Umm..." Jake struggled for words trying to gain back his tranquility, and his paw too. "Mind if she crashes for the night?"

Taking a swift look at Alex pleading eyes, he responded quickly that she could "crash all that she wanted."

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For more that Alex asked for the couch, not wanting to be a burden, they settled that she would sleep in Jake's bed, 'cause Chance alleged that he didn't fit comfortably in the couch. Feeling that she was giving trouble, she vanished into Jake's room.

Jake took his opportunity to narrate his large version of the history.

(When I put these [...] in a dialogue it indicates the other's comments and reactions)

"I was driving around, testing the new engine that I installed in my baby [chuckles] when I saw a kat running recklessly like if his life depended on it [Most of the times, it is]. As I drew closer I realized that the kat running was actually a she-kat and that two big kats were chasing after her [those bullies]. I knew that something was wrong so I offered her a ride home [inspired by your heroic needs]. I don't know what was she into when she asked for me to stop, dropped on the floor and vomited [Eww...]" Jake frowned at the light blond furred kat "Will you just shut up and leave me tell the story?!"

Still grinning for annoying him, Chance mumbled a sorry.

Taking a deep breath he continued "She rejected my help [the pride! The pride!]" Jake glared at Chance "but asked me to leave her at her place, that was near by. The building in question was infested with police kats that were arresting her roommate for drug dealing..."

"Crud, buddy!" Chance almost shouted astonished. "You think she's in it too?" Jake seemed to get in deep thought.

"I don't know... But everybody's innocent until their guiltiness is proved..." then his eyes widened remembering something. "Her fur! The kat's fur was just like hers! Black with red stripes..."

"By what you tell me... She's trouble..." Chance pointed out.

"I know." Jake's mouth froze open 'cause it wasn't him that replied, the both turned around to face a sleepy Alex resting in the door's frame. She was wearing a way big blue t-shirt and a pair of red boxers with black squares. With all her calm she gave one of those cute yawns, the ones where the point of the tongue curls a bit and all her body stretched...?

They ogled at her before turning around and leaning to each other (A/N like the team people when they're going to tell a move...?)

"She's wearing my boxers" Jake whispered to his friend astonished.

"Pal, she's wearing my favorite T-shirt!" Chance whispered back in the same 'I can't believe it tone'.

"Chance..." Jake started looking at him with the 'I can't believe you' tone and replied slowly, like if talking with a small kitten "They are my boxers. My underwear!"

"I still have my own [O.o] underneath." She whispered at his side making them jump in shock. She smiled with a sweet innocent touch seeing them clasp their paws at their chests "But I can take the boxers off if you wanna..."

"Err.." Jake mumbled blushing (And yes, kats blush... At least in my fic they do...) "N-no... It's f-fine..."

"Okay!" she chirped happily and placed a quick peck on their cheeks. "Goodnight!" and disappeared once again behind the door.

Jake and Chance stood there, looking at the door for a time before the first accommodated himself in the couch mumbling incoherent stuff about 'Making wrong choices and helping crazy she-kats that wear your underwear', while the second made his way to his own room rambling about 'friends that can't handle their heroic needs'.

-few minutes back-

She closed the door and leaned on it, she let out a breath she didn't know she was holding and sighed walking to the bed. All that she needed was to keep up the innocent act and she would be gone in the morning, ready to never see those guys again, even if she found the place quite interesting she couldn't afford to let them know her or she might end back in prison, with no options of escaping this time...

She stood in the middle of the room, looking around her she noticed how many books this Clawson kat had, two book shelves that couldn't handle any other book/ magazine/ notebooks/ model sheets in it. 'Model sheets...?' she wondered and picked one. It was a really cool sketch of some kind of missile that looked a lot like a shark, stapled to the sheet was another sketch of the same missile. This time, the mouth was open, revealing some kind of grabbing thingy. 'It seems familiar... What ever...' she shrugged and allowed herself to fall into the bed.

She still hadn't touched the mattress when she was already asleep.

.. ZzZzZzZzZz sleep sequence zZzZzZzZzZ ..

She stood in the middle of a long hall. There were many doors, the ones at the right were blue, the ones at the left were red and even if she couldn't see them, she knew that the ones in both ends of the hall were of pure gold.

'Damn.' She cursed remembering why the corridor was so familiar. 'I've had this dream many times, way many times before...' She knew that to get out of this place she needed to find a golden key and guess which was the golden door that it belonged. In case she missed, like if had happened many time before, they key would disappear leaving her to search for it, again.

Sighing she opened the blue door at her right.

It was an old library, full of dust and ancient bookshelves. She entered and walked around reading the book's covers until she found one that screamed 'Read me! Read me!' literally, it was screaming.

"Why should I read a book that says 'Alex's reality' in the cover?" she asked picking up the book.

"Because it was written especially to you!" The book answered in the same little annoying voice of her conscience (A/N it's my voice!). Then the volume started giving her a lecture about morals and sins, all that she heard was "yadda, yadda, yadda."

"Okay!" she snapped at the book. "I'll read as long as you shut the hell up!" Slowly she opened the tome and the moment she saw what was inside, the book slipped from her paws.

And she screamed.

.. ZzZzZzZzZz sleep sequence zZzZzZzZzZ ..

Alex jolted in her bed with her eyes wide open, the image burnt in her mind. Silently, tears streamed down her face as she sat in the edge of the mattress. Wiping her tears away she stood up and walked to the door, tripping with the sheets and a pillow in the way.

After kicking the pillow away (that by the way hit a lamp), she exited the room and walked to the bathroom. In the path, she found Jake purring in the couch with the sheet and cushions resting in the floor, he was sleeping like a kitten. A smile formed in her lips, for a split second and then it was gone.

Embarrassed of her cute moment she opened the closest door. To her surprise the door leaded to some stairs. And since it was so dark, she was seeing in black and white. Before she could get used and get a good look, everything went black.

As the gray faded around her, the last thing she remembered was that her mind was playing tricks on her, 'cause she could swear that there was a jet down there.

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OMG!! Do you think she's gonna figure out the guys secret?