Hey there! Another chapter finally done. I'm pleased to say that we're near the end my friends (heaven opens up and sings) I hope ya enjoy this chap...there is more on the way. Etherweil
A monitor exploded into jagged shards of glass and plastic as it was tossed onto the cavern floor. The sudden eruption of shattering glass echoed throughout the cavern, making everyone cringe as they glanced over at the tunnel entrance fearfully.
"Steele! You bumbling buffoon, do you want to ruin everything!" Felina shrieked, paws on hips as she glowered at David seethingly.
"I'm sorry, it just slipped!" he hissed back, annoyed that the whole world seemed to be against him.
Callie rolled her eyes irritably. She was sitting at one of the computer stations erasing all of the data that the computer contained.
"Harper, go stand guard by the entrance." Feral snapped, attempting to achieve the same feat that Callie was accomplishing with the computer.
Dusty Harper, one of Feral's best officers, marched off to do the commander's bidding.
"This is gonna take forever." T-Bone muttered while he helped Callie and Feral with the computers.
"How 'bout I spare you the trouble?" Razor's voice drifted from the opposite side of the cavern. In a flurried bustle of typed keys, all of the monitors except for the main console's, sizzled out in vibrant flashes of color. "Those computers will never turn on again." Razor announced triumphantly as he continued typing.
"Commander, something's coming!" Harper called urgently as he ran back over to Feral.
Undistinguishable cries and the sound of many hurried footsteps signaled that the foe was drawing closer.
"Get ready to kick some tail." T-Bone growled, glovatrix raised towards the tunnel entrance. The Enforcers followed suit with their blasters.
T-Bone looked over at Callie, prepared to tell the pretty blonde to get behind him, but was shocked to see that Callie had a blaster of her own clenched in her paw.
She looked over at the gawking Swat Kat with an impeccable smile. "Oh don't look so startled T-Bone, I'm not that helpless."
T-Bone grinned in admiration, "I never doubted it for a minute."
A horde of creeplings led an even bigger horde of the black, kat-sized creeplings. And over the unearthly screeches of Dark Kats minions, the Metalikats could be heard goading the creeplings along.
T-Bone scowled menacingly "Figures."
The distance between them grew smaller and smaller, and just seconds before the charging horde would inevitably enter the cavern, a heavy slab of stone suddenly slammed down over the entrance, blocking it completely. Distant, outraged snarls from the creeplings managed to emit through the several ton stone slab.
"Where the…?" Feral stammered. "Where did that come from?"
"Ah come on guys! This is Dark Kat's hide out for crying out loud, and he's housing fellow, backstabbing villains. It would be very disappointing if old DK didn't have doors to separate his main control room. As ya know, I hacked into the system and I kinda tweaked the system." Razor notified his comrades, who had now gathered around him.
"Did you find anything else?" Feral demanded, anxious to know how much power Dark Kat had on the outside world.
"Yes I did. He undoubtly had Hard Drive hack into all of the massive government systems such as the Pentagon and Parliament. He even hacked into NASA. He could control the satellites, missiles, the internet, you name it. To put it simply, he literally had the whole world in his paws." Razor informed, dead serious.
"That's a scary thought." T-Bone commented after a moment's silence.
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"Yes it is." Felina sighed wearily. She was going to need a vacation after this whole ordeal was over.
"Razor, could you define 'tweaked the system?" Callie smiled as she looked at Razor expectantly.
Razor once again had that sly, mischievous smirk on his face. "First of all, I shut down his whole network, permanently I might add. Then I destroyed the connections he had with the government sources. Then, I saved all of his data into the jump drive that's in my glovatrix." Then, pulling out a small disk from a opened slot in his glovatrix, he inserted it into the main computers hard drive.
After the computer had downloaded the single file from the disk, Razor grinned wickedly. "And now, I've just loaded my new and improved, computer kicking, gigabyte annihilating virus!" Chuckling with malevolent glee, Razor pushed 'Enter' and simultaneously, the monitor and the plasma screens exploded in vibrant color. The computer seemed to moan with agony as distorted images ruptured its screen. And suddenly, as quickly as it had begun, the computer abruptly turned off, leaving the hard drive sizzling and smoking in bitter defeat.
Razor rubbed his gloved paws together. "Another mission thoroughly executed."
"Now that was awesome." T-Bone mused as he patted his partners back.
"Now hold up! How do you suspect we get out of here NOW? Our only way out was through the tunnel but now its covered by a several ton slab of stone!" Feral hissed, as the cruel facts of life dawned upon him.
"You forgot about the bad guys on the other side." T-Bone informed him impatiently.
"There is another way out of here Feral. Don't get your tail in a knot. Gee Wiz." Razor mumbled as he pressed a small blue button on his glovatrix. A hologram appeared immediately as a small keypad slid out.
Everyone's eyes grew wide in amazement as they watched Razor access Dark Kat's files.
A few moments, dull explosions could be heard from the other side of the slab, and the cavern walls seemed to shiver as minute pebbles cascaded onto the floor into dusty piles.
"I don't think that's room service." T-Bone acknowledged as he looked back at the shaking stone slab.
"This way." Razor instructed as he grabbed Callie's hand and led the group hurriedly to the opposite side of the cavern. Far in the corner, it seemed as if there had been a cave in.
"Help me get rid of these rocks." Razor called urgently to the group. Everyone scrambled to heave the rocks from their firmly lodged positions.
The exploding and shaking from the tunnel entrance became more insistent and violent, which urged the group to clear away rocks faster.
When the last immense rock had been removed. The Razor and T-Bone ushered everyone inside quickly.
Without even a final glance towards the now cracking stone slab, the Swat Kats dashed into the crevice. Razor then pulled down a lever on the side of the small tunnel wall.
As another immense stone slab slowly slid into place, everyone could faintly hear a loud explosion signaling that the villains had indeed broke through the slab.
"Find them NOW?" they heard Dark Kat scream fiercely, and then an abrupt silence fell over them as darkness settled around them as a thick, dark, velvet blanket.
Both Swat Kats turned on their lights on their helmets and glovatrixes. The faint light cast eerie shadows across the cold stone walls of the hidden tunnel. Out of the darkness, crude stone steps emerged, leading up into what seemed an internal oblivion.
"What do we do now?" David squeaked, his eyes wide with fright.
"We see where the stairs lead." Razor whispered. He looked over at Callie and gave her a reassuring smile. Wordlessly, she returned his smile and slipped her paw into his.