Chapter two
"Watch out!" Razor shouted and swerved to avoid the attacking dragon that had come after him.
T-Bone took the warning and was forced to do some fancy maneuvering to evade his own attacking dragon. Felina took aim and shot at the creature, but only nicked its wing enraging it.
It came back to attack again with vengeance and T-Bone steered out of the way a little too late as the monster's large claws slashed the lieutenant's outstretched arm causing her to drop her gun.
"Crud! Are you alright?" T-Bone asked now very ticked off at the dragon for hurting her.
"Yeah I'm fine" she lied and cradled her arm against her body.
Razor wasn't doing much better than his partner. It was difficult to aim at a moving target, while moving, and in a snow storm. His last two shots were not successful in bringing the beast down, the first had missed it entirely and the second only hit its tail.
Razor, now fully frustrated, took careful aim determined not to miss again. Once the creature was in his sights Razor shot mini cement launchers at it disabling it from flying and the dragon hit the ground with a thud. He had been so preoccupied with taking down his own problem that Razor hadn't even noticed the second dragon coming straight at him. He turned a sharp left to avoid the creature coming towards him but the dragon still managed to slice the kat's exposed right leg with razor sharp claws.
Razor moaned when he took a look at his blood stained pant leg, he knew that it would hurt like hell as soon as the adrenaline wore off and he turned back around just in time to see T-Bone shoot down the remaining dragon.
"You ok buddy?" T-Bone's voice came to Razor through the communicator.
"Just a scratch" it was true in a sense that Razor had no idea what the extent of the damage really was.
"Then lets take down pastie and get ho-" T-Bone stopped when they suddenly found out why the Past Master came this far away form the city: one of his time portals had just come into view and seemed to be the source of all the snow.
"Any ideas sureshot?" T-Bone asked as they both sped up so they were directly behind the dragon.
"Just one, but your gunna have to trust me"
"Like I haven't heard that before"
"What're you going to do?" Felina asked leaning close to T-Bone to talk to the other Swat Kat.
"Shoot the Past Master into his own portal" Razor answered grinning.
"What! There's no way you can make that shot and not hit the deputy mayor!" Felina exclaimed.
This time T-Bone grinned, "That's where you're wrong lieutenant, you just don't know sureshot like I do"
"First I'm just gunna stun the dragon to bring it closer to the ground. T-Bone, as soon as the dragon recovers I need you take it down" Razor explained.
"Roger that buddy I just hope you know what you're doing"
"So do I" Razor practically whispered, "Stun missiles deployed!"
True to his nickname Razor's missiles hit their target and the momentarily stunned dragon fell several feet towards the ground just skimming the snow with its wings.
Felina watched in fascination as the two swat kats fired simultaneously with their glovatirxes. T-Bone hitting the dragon with some sort of rope that tied its self around the creature's wings causing it and it's passengers to fall; Razor firing an octopus missile at the Past Master hitting him straight on and sending him flying back into the portal with an enraged shout.
"Bingo!" Razor shouted speeding up to catch the deputy mayor and she landed on the back of the snowmobile with an "Omph"
"Thanks Razor" Callie said shaken up, but with a relieved sigh.
None of the dragons stayed grounded for very long and the group watched all three break free and follow their master into the portal before it closed.
"Don't thank me yet" Razor said staring wide eyed at the snow tornado.
Right when the portal closed all the snow fell at once to the ground, causing a sort of avalanche effect.
The Swat Kats took off in the opposite direction being closely followed by the snow.
"Razor, one of your bright ideas would be good right now" T-Bone said hurriedly, glancing behind him.
"Uhh…" Razor quickly scanned the terrain in front of him, "There go into that cave!" he yelled and pointed to a cave coming up on their right.
T-Bone, who was in the lead, made it into the cave first and thanks to his quick reflexes as a pilot managed to stop the Snowkat without running into the large rocks that came just before the cave wall. Razor wasn't so lucky, he wasn't able to stop and hit the rocks sending him and Callie flying over the front of the vehicle. He did however react in time to grab a hold of Callie shielding her from the impact of the ground and there was a sickening crack as his head hit sending his helmet rolling away from him.
Seconds after they entered the cave the entrance was blocked off by the avalanche of snow, causing the automatic headlights of the snowkats to come on illuminating the cave.
"Razor!" T-Bone yelled running over to his partner.
Callie slowly sat up and saw the unconscious Swat Kat sprawled a few feet away from her. She rushed up to him on her paws and knees but T-Bone beat her to him.
"Razor, come on buddy" T-Bone kneeled down and carefully moved Razor from his side so that he was lying on his back.
The first thing he noticed was the rip in Razor's bandana above his right eye and the blood seeping out of it.
"Razor… don't do this to me buddy wake up" T-Bone was panicking, this had never happened to them before, sure they had their minor injuries but never anything more serious than the basic first aid skills they were taught at the enforcer academy couldn't handle.
By this time Felina had joined Callie and T-Bone on the floor next to the unconscious kat.
"Lemme see" she said placing her paws on Razor's head moving it towards her "He's probably got a concussion" Felina told them examining the wound in concentration, but when her fingers moved towards Razor's mask T-Bone grabbed her wrist.
"I don't think so lieutenant" T-Bone said staring her straight in the eye.
"Look" Felina said sternly jerking her arm away from T-Bone "Your partner has a head wound, that's serious. He could just have a concussion, or he could be bleeding internally. Now, do you have a first aid kit?"
T-Bone nodded and got up to retrieve said kit from one of the snow kats then sat back down and handed it to Felina.
Once she had what she needed Felina went to remove Razor's bandana and when T-Bone didn't object this time she carefully untied the black fabric and lifted it off the Swat kat's face.
There was a shocked gasp that came from Callie and Felina glanced at the deputy mayor with her hands over her mouth then down to the now unmasked Swat kat and realization hit her. This was Jake Clawson the tom that Callie had told her about, the one she'd been dating for over two months, but if Razor was Jake then that meant that T-Bone had to be…But there wasn't anytime to think about that now.
Felina took the small flash light from the first aid kit and shined it in each of Razor's eyes and breathed a sigh of relief, "Looks like he's just got a pretty bad concussion, lets just hope that he doesn't slip into a coma."
The Lieutenant put back the light and was about to bandage the cut on Razor's forehead when T-Bone stopped her.
"Here let me do that, you're hurt too remember?" he said pointing at her bleeding arm.
Felina gave up without a fight and moved to give T-Bone access to his partner. After cleaning and bandaging his head T-Bone moved on to Razor's leg and unintentionally whistled though his teeth.
"Whoa, Buddy, just a scratch my tail it's a good thing you're not awake to feel this" T-Bone said starting to clean the wound.
Felina just watched as her friend's feelings were displayed on her sleeve for all to see. Callie gently reached out and touched Razor's forehead but at that moment her brain was asking a thousand questions at once; she just couldn't comprehend what as in front of her.
"Kats alive, Jake…" Callie whispered quietly as she brushed his fur, "why didn't you ever tell me?"
"Callie…" T-Bone started looking up at the shekat having finished bandaging his partner's leg.
Felina put her hand on T-Bone's shoulder, "Give some time to get over the shock, she'll be ok"
T-Bone nodded and got to work on bandaging Felina's arm, which was in the same shape as Razor's leg
"But I on the other paw am always up for an explanation" Felina said looking directly at T-Bone, trying to keep her mind off the pain.
"Well, I, uhh…." T-Bone had this distinct feeling that Felina could see right through his mask and at a loss for words decided to play dumb, "What are you talking about?"
"Don't play dumb Chance, you never were any good at it" Felina said sternly.
T-Bone took a moment to think about what he would say next. Nothing came to mind, "Well…I…uh… Look I know there are some things that need to be explained but now is not the time" he said finishing off the bandage.
Felina silently agreed but she wanted answers now and opened her mouth to say so when the unconscious Swat Kat chose that moment to awake.