Assassin Drones: The original saga
Sex on the beach Arc. De Arimasu!
By Alex Young
The Jusenkyo springs, 3:30 pm. September 18, 2002
A pair of young Chinese amazons by the names of Ling Ling and Lung Lung were being sent in to Jusenkyo forced to bathe in the cursed spring of their choice. This was as punishment for their failure to destroy Ranko Saotome, as per amazon law. Another amazon, about the same age as Shampoo if not older, by the name of Toner was assigned to escort them and to make sure that neither escape their punishments for the day. However, Ling ling and Lung Lung both reserve the right to privacy during bathing, even when being punished.
"Hmm, I guess this one alright." Ling Ling muttered having made her choice, which both she and her sister must live with as amazon law dictates that equally aged siblings are to be punished as one individual. Goosebumps were to be expected as an undressed Lung Lung dipped her toe into the cursed water. After a while, the both of them sank their female bodies into the cursed spring to bathe. With that, Toner went off to grab a bite to eat when she had a run in, and eventually gotten into an argument with Pink and Link.
"Wonder what Tao Nir doing over there?" Lung Lung queried of her sister. "Who knows? Maybe she has bone to pick with those two?" Ling Ling replied shaking her head. "That, or Pin ke and Lin ke has something Tao Nir want and they no give to her." Another Ling Ling added as she emerged from the spring, following another Lung Lung. Suddenly, yet another Ling Ling, as well as yet another Lung Lung emerged from the spring.
This resulted in three Ling Lings and three Lung Lungs in total. It was right then and there that they have realized that the spring of their choice was the spring of drowned triplets! As soon as the initial shock died out, they all realized that not only did four separate bodily entities emerge from the spring, but their minds were still as one! Ling Ling, Lung Lung, and their triplets all realized that the punishment induced Jusenkyo curse was actually a blessing in disguise.
Meanwhile, Pink, Link, and Toner were still having their two on one argument. Toner, as her bad luck would have it, lost her balance and fell into another spring, this time the spring of drowned quadruplets. The Toner quads, three of them bare naked, pushed Pink and Link into yet another spring; the spring of drowned twins. "You two suckers stick around! I'm off to the village." Toner declared in her native tongue knowing that the Ling Lung twins' punishment is over within an hour of stepping into the spring of their choice. "You come back here, over!" Pink and Link growled in unison taking up hot pursuit after the other Pink and Link pair join them from behind.
All that left Ling Ling and Lung Lung to bathe in peace for an hour or so before their punishment time had expired, and therefore free to exit the spring and dry off afterwards. Obviously in need of new clothes for their new friends, Ling Ling and Lung Lung got them all dressed identically to the originals. The tailor had woven the triplets' clothes trusting that they have done their time in punishment, and know better than to break the rules again. With all that said and done, along with packing some more weapons, the Ling Lings and Lung Lungs set off to finish what they have started.
The A.R.M.P.I.T. base, 7:00 am. September 22, 2002
Corporal Giroro was pacing around, angrily awaiting the results from his last fight from when Ryoga stormed in to the compound approximately 10 days ago. "Hello there, Corporal. I was just compiling the results from when those three Pekoponians clashed with us. You lost to the one who was unnaturally durable, who goes by the name of Ryoga Hibiki." Kululu reported. "That yellow jacket usurper has a name, huh? Sergeant! Requesting permission to take off and terminate Ryoga!" Giroro snarled "Permission granted." Keroro replied subtly vengeful for his failed invasion attempt. With that, and Tamama as the pilot, Giroro took to the skies in the same tiltrotor gunship used during the St. Patrick's day incident.
Furinkan high, 7:30 am
"HALLLOOOOOOO EVERYBAHDYYYYYYA!" A Hawaiian sounding voice resonated throughout the school premises. It was Principal Kuno, and Ranma was rather confused at this as the school never really had a principal, or someone even remotely close to that before. "Hold, Fiend! Ryoga! Mousse! Be mine speed!" Tatewaki Kuno screeched enraged not with Ranma, but the principal himself. This was much to the surprise of the entire student body, even Nabiki was caught off guard at this. Ranma, on the other hand was more or less uninterested in this development as he went along his way with Akane in toe.
"Target sighted." Giroro hissed in preparation for his supposedly turnabout assault on Ryoga. The red demon frog was still very obsessed over what Ryoga was doing with Natsumi, and therefore more than a little determined to see the lost boy dead at his amphibian feet. With a press of a firing button on top of the left joystick, the fixed laser Gatling gun opened up a tidal wave of superheated plasma bullets in Ryoga's trajectory. Ryoga of course, did well to dodge the incoming barrage. "SHISHI HOKORANDAN!" Ryoga boomed counterattacking with what is essentially a rapid fire version of the lion's roar wave shot.
"Bakusai Tenketsu! Trigger delayed rapid fire." Ryoga then screeched upon catching a glimpse of a volley of unguided rockets fired from the keronian gunship as it dodged the lion's roar wave blasts, immediately peppering the landscape with explosions and creating enough of a battle aura smokescreen to confuse the gunship's on board radar system. this would also give Ryoga some wiggle room to escape into the premises and plot his next strategy just in case the gunship doesn't call it quits and head home to refuel.
Giroro decided not to call it quits, and in so making it he watched the engine control system automatically switch to stand off mode. Stand off mode is a lean burning electronic configuration in which the heat energy recovered from the twin turboprop engines goes directly into an electric motor, each powering one of two, tail wing mounted, six axis, swiveling rotor fans. This meant that the engines did not have to burn as much fuel just to keep the aircraft hovering over the school grounds. It also added a stealth element as far as its heat signature is concerned, thereby reducing any threat posed by heat seeking missiles, made on planet Earth or otherwise.
However, thanks to Ryoga's battle aura enhanced sensory perception, he made himself well aware of the alien aircraft's exact position on campus. In addition to Ryoga, Mousse, and to a lesser extent, Kuno, could all see right through the antibarrier surrounding the keronian owned and piloted aircraft. Ryoga then burst from the roof of the school building and leapt forward to engage the nano-composite airframed predator head on, with Mousse firing his hidden weapons from below. A direct hit to the fuselage from the latter attack was all the distraction Ryoga needed to close in for the kill!
Alas, Royga would have no such satisfaction when Giroro and Tamama simply decided to up and bug out of Furinkan due to an unacceptably low amount of fuel left. Giroro was just fine with this seeing as how he'd much rather live to fight Ryoga at another time because it was also getting to be a little squirrely for his liking back at Furinkan High. When all the initial shock from Giroro's surprise attack died down, classes would continue in Furinkan High as they always did before. On a side note, Ranma could tell with only so much as a glance that the near entirety of the student body were martial artists in one way or another.
All the while Gial was just hanging around on a tree branch having just watched the entire battle unfold before his eyes! Coupled with his peculiarly weak presence, Gial was equipped with a different sort of antibarrier that somehow the martial artists were not able to see through very easily, even with their battle senses. In fact, you could say that it isn't even an antibarrier at all, but rather a true active stealth system. "Eeh, hostahl reacshuns, check." Naozi droned having accompanied Gial on what is essentially a strict anecdotal mission to jot down any possible interactions between the keronians and the Earth's human inhabitants. In this case, as Naozi indicated, the interaction between the keronian invaders and the martial artists was rather hostile to say the least.
A vacant lot somewhere near Kissho Junior High, 11:35 am. September 24, 2002
The Kuno siblings and company were conversing about the recent transpiring with regards to the keronian attack on Furinkan High. It was a day off from school, therefore they all had the free time necessary to discuss the matter in private. "I know right? Those jackasses don't know when to quit." Ukyo spat citing how she just barely escaped the initial onslaught of plasma bullets. "You no only ones, over!" Pink and Link declared in unison as their Jusenkyo twins joined the discussion, along with the Toners, Ling Lings, and Lung Lungs. "We've had too many run-ins with this Zyururu character and his damned assassin commando crew not to know what you're all talking about." Toner snapped.
"Tis settled, then. Ladies and gentlemen, LET US TAKE THE FIGHT TO THESE FROG DEMONS' DOORSTEP ONCE MORE!" Tatewaki Kuno decreed as Natsumi joined in to remind them that she was the one who suggested the idea that the martial artists kick the keronians' asses in the first place. "TO WAR!" The martial artists all chanted as they rushed towards the Hinata basement. "Keerokerokerokerorincho! Fine, then! If it's a war you Pekoponians want, then it's a war you'll get!" Keroro sneered confident in his newly overhauled auto defense system.
Keroro then ordered that Karara and Chiroro move in piloting their Vambrace Brigandine strike fighter. The aircraft in question was essentially the same lightweight mobile armor unit with some added speed, agility, and most importantly, firepower. It was equipped with laser missiles and laser salvo rockets in the over-sized weapons bays, twin 30 mm cyclical plasma cannons on the left, and a 120 mm railgun blade on the right. Giroro and Tamama provided fire support from their gunship, with Dororo in his ninja flight armor to vindicate the failure from two days ago.
A particularly young (about 24 years of age) pilot by the name of Zane Murray O'Donnell, with the call sign "Stinger," along with the rest of his YF-41 Mantis squadron, launched from a loitering Boeing/Airbus UC-77 Storm Ripper Subsonic Aircraft Carrier. A few minutes later, he was the first to have caught the incoming craft with his A.E.S.A. radar, and a pair of Northrop Grumman B-2B Super Spirit stealth bombers close behind. The flying wing aircrafts themselves were equipped as stealthy missile trucks. Zane and his squadron did not open fire right away, but rather tailed the Vambrace Brigandine and company from a good 20-40 miles away.
On board the Storm Ripper, we could see that Brigadier General Zyururu, along with the rest of his assassin commando unit: Venono, Khumimi, Nubaba, and Vorara, have already infiltrated the craft from the air. The plan was basically to capture one of the A.E.S.A. radar modules for study. Things were going pretty smoothly when suddenly *Boaa* *Boaa* "SHIT! We've been found out!" Venono screeched as he readied his venom blade for action. Marauder Vorara deployed his wrist mounted shield tripod, mounted his sniper cannon on it, and fired short-but-intense bursts of Hawking radiation at the incoming mecahdrone swarm.
Staff Captain Nubaba and Colonel Khumimi escorted Zyururu out of dodge, while Venono joined after having slashed a crew member's back open with Vorara dismantling his defense setup and following suit. Of course, Gial in his twin fuselage mobile armor gunship caught wind of the retreat. Gial, along with Raikoume and Kamikase in Vic Viper type mobile armors engaged both the EX.W.A.T.I. carrier and the retreating keronians simultaneously. That was when the rest of the keronians joined the aerial fray with Zane and squadron in hot pursuit. The Brigandine craft opened fire on the assassin drones slashing at Gial with the railgun blade.
The guttural roar of the Mantis' twin Vulcan cannons marked the beginning of what was only his very first dogfight. He had been rather hard in training ever since 2000 for this moment, and it was also an opportunity to put the Mantis through its paces in live combat, especially given that it was only a prototype! That, and a potential production version wasn't due to begin assembly for about a year and a half! That's plenty of time to iron out whatever kinks crop up within the prototype during development. Ultimately, Giroro, Tamama, and Dororo would be forced to pull out in defense of their invasion headquarters leaving Karara and Chiroro to engage Zane and squadron, including the two B-2B missile trucks.
Ultimately, the martial artists would be defeated again, leaving Natsumi to deal the latest round of punishment on Keroro. "You can't just invade our planet and expect like entire military forces from all around the world not to get on our cases for it! I mean, they're not just gonna loaf around and do nothing about it at all! This isn't just for your sake, frogtard, but for my sake, and that of my family as well." Natsumi reprimanded much more gently out of very legitimate concern for the sarge's safety.
"Hear me out, what would you do if suddenly you were caught and detained for questioning? Would they ever let you buy up gundam models ever again?" She then finished proving the last few words to be the shit-kicker for the sarge as he ordered Karara and Chiroro to retreat from the planet not to re-join him until further notice. In the mean time, back in Furinkan, Ranma was strolling about when he found Ryoga in the midst of a newly formed crater. "Wind direction okay, over!" the Pinks and Links called out as they unleashed their mandragoria attack on the two from the front and the back. With that, Ranma jumped his way out of dodge taking the yet unconscious Ryoga along with him.
"Hey, Ryoga! Wake up, will ya." Ranma snapped slapping Ryoga into waking up. "Alright already, I'm awake! I'm awake!" Ryoga snapped back somewhat unappreciative of this. "Haah, I dunno about you, Ryoga, but I as sure as hell don't remember being under the control of some stupid frog aliens." Ranma raved on knowing within himself that he did not take Akane and company as one of his "concubines." "Well, I know that much." Ryoga replied also knowing within himself that Ranma did not commit any such crime, and even if he did, he would find it all very pointless.
"Wanna talk about it?" Ranma offered up of Ryoga. "Sure, why not." Ryoga answered. If this acceptance of Ranma's offer meant anything, it was this; throughout all the years that Ranma had known Ryoga, he bore no ill-will of him for anything that he had ever done. In fact, Ranma had always considered Ryoga to be a friend as well as a rival. Akane had only really considered Ryoga to be a good friend because as far as fiances were concerned, she has Ranma for that.
"I'd love ta know the name of the kid who made out on some private beach with that rich girl named 'Monozawa' or sumpin." Ranma stated citing that he, too had picked up on the rumor and decided that he'd watch that video to decide for himself. In this case, Ranma sort of saluted Fuyuki for going all out, yet at the same time felt rather concerned knowing the sheer brute force that her father, Baio would dish out on him, if he found out. "Yeah, I remember getting dragged into a house belonging to a girl by the name of Natsumi, and she was talking with him as though they were brother and sister." Ryoga broached not too knowledgeable of the Hinatas' family history.
"Wait a sec, you mean to tell me that you actually know where the guy lives at all!?" Ranma shot out taken aback by Ryoga's statement. "Well, I think so, yeah. I could show you, but I can't because-" "Don't tell me, you'd just keep on gettin lost again?" Ranma interrupted with his hand in a "stop" position, to which Royga could only nod rather sadly. After looking around, however, Ranma had this to say; "Hey, just a goddamn minute, there! I think we were sitting right on top of the house you were talking about!" Ranma cried in his revelation that he and Ryoga were conversing right on the roof of the Hinata family home. With that, the both of them ended their conversation and went their separate ways once more.
Natsumi's room, 11:00 pm. September 28, 2002
Natsumi was showing Fuyuki her collection of various martial arts weapons from all around the world. These consisted of swords, balls and chains, switchblades, nunchuks, staffs, spears, whips, wrist claws, throwing discs, compound bows, battle axes, tomahawks, war clubs, and hooks to name a few. "First thing's first, You're gonna hafta learn to throw a few jabs and hooks around, as well as the other fundamentals." Natsumi reminded as she escorted Fuyuki outside for some further training.
Fuyuki's personal martial arts apparel consisted of: A navy blue hooded sweater with a yin-yang logo on the back, some silver pants, a pair of fingerless biker gloves, a pair of black and white track sneakers, and a navy blue bandana to top it all off. "Wow! You look like a street fighter with a huge chip on their shoulder." "Heh, thanks." Fuyuki chided back smiling with his left hand behind his head. With that, Natsumi gave Fuyuki the cue to attack, and he dutifully obliged with a left hand jab to the shoulder blade, followed by a right hand hook to the lower jaw line.
Natsumi blocked the latter, with the former hitting its intended mark. "Dayum! You're getting pretty good, but can you dodge this!?" She barked as she pulled out two balisong knives in her right hand from her sleeve, and took a swing. Fuyuki dodged the counterattack, and immediately disarmed Natsumi by flicking his wrist after having grabbed hold of hers. Fuyuyki then pulled out a tactical tomahawk and flicked it at her. Natsumi dodged it to land an uppercut to Fuyuki's gut. A tactical kusarigama was procured from Fuyuki's sleeve, prying his sister's fist from his gut and kicking her in the solar plexus before pulling out a compound bow.
With an iron grip on its riser and a comparably taut draw string, Fuyuki opened fire with a single arrow. Natsumi deflected the arrow with her back hand giving Fuyuki a window of opportunity to strike as he swapped his tactical kusarigama for a pair of nunchuks. Natsumi pulled out a pair of sai forked swords to deflect Fuyuki's nunchuk strike. This led to Fuyuki kcking her again this time in the gut ready to launch another arrow. Fuyuki let go of the draw string holder, and Natsumi deflected the arrow with her sai, swapping one of them out for a katana.
The bayonet on Fuyuki's compound bow clashed with the katana as the timer expired at 11:25 pm. "Ahh, yeah! That felt good." Fuyuki breezed in relief. "Wow! You're getting better and better at this! Incrementally at that." Natsumi chided as they turned in for the night. That while citing that her brother's fighting spirit was a significant far cry from the weak aura that it was before, and that it had yet to attain roughly 15% power. This latest sparring session among countless many may just be what Fuyuki needed in preparation for his apprenticeship under Ranma.
In Boris' underground bunker base Sierra Gamma 210, 3:00 am. October 1, 2002
"Hmm, the energy levels are still pretty high considering that the current hostilities have all died down significantly over the course of a few weeks." Boris declared in his monthly report for EX.W.A.T.I. high command. \In other words, my daughter could still be in mortal danger from those things that are out there./ Oka resigned still very much in the dark about Momoka's activities, especially since the European information nexus disaster. With that, Boris had unveiled another black project to the audience reading this story, and it's in the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona.
Antarctic spaceport Oscar Phi 922, 4:00 pm. October 2, 2002
As soon as the super tanker ship had finished transporting all of the individual components for the enigmatic aircraft, the final assembly and testing had begun. The launch platform was Gauss propelled, and sharply curved up pointing at the sky at the end of a long straightaway. The aircraft had a name: the N.A.S.A./Lockheed Martin X-100. The X-100 was equipped with not one, not two, not even four, but rather twelve belly mounted and twelve tail mounted engine modules, each containing three turbofan-scramjet hybrid engines of a special Z400X1 engine variant custom built for the job.
Rumor has it that the X-100 is actually an optionally manned successor to the storied SR-71 Blackbird as a spy plane. Another rumor suggested that it's actually a high altitude bomber, and another suggested it to be a super A.W.A.C.S. aircraft. Anyways, the true purpose of this aircraft's development is top secret to the general public, and shall remain so unless specified otherwise. What the reader should be informed of is this; The X-100 was designed to serve all three purposes, and then some. The pentagonal bump on the back of the aircraft is actually the housing for an experimental stealth A.W.A.C.S. system.
When the final inspections registered positive, the X-100 was given the go ahead to launch as indicated by the craft loading up onto the rails. The Gauss propulsion cannon was fired up, and launched the X-100 into the stratosphere. It was then that all 72 Z400X1 turbofan-scramjet hybrid engines roared to life as the craft ascended into near earth sub orbit. Incredibly enough, the entire aircraft needed just one crew member to operate it because of the built in arcology center underneath the A.W.A.C.S. radar. The engines themselves are powered by hydrogen collected from the atmosphere.
Part of the hydrogen goes into the arcology center, with the rest being burned off as fuel. These factors combine to increase the mission duration by at least three to five days. The X-100 is about the size of two jumbo jets, meaning plenty of room and oxygen for the lone pilot. Even the plumbing is included as part of a waste recycling system utilizing bacteria specially designed to break down human urine and feces into the nutrients needed for plants to survive in a hydroponic environment. Artificial pollination is also used to great effect choosing the plant genes that are the most productive and at the lowest risk for disease.
All this, along with its abnormally high speed and absurdly high altitude make the X-100 extremely survivable for at least a week before needing to touch down again. Aoryuzen couldn't help but marvel at this human engineering feat from the hiding-in-plain-sight Rapier. This was possible due to a dragon's curve fractal camouflage that allows something very big to hide so well in plain sight. A small wonder that EX.W.A.T.I. were having a hard time finding them figuring that they just turned tail and ran off again.
Somewhere in the Tomobiki area, 8:00 pm. October 4, 2002
It was dark, cold, wet, and dismal out, and a mysteriously familiar figure was prowling the night, with his falcon in toe. It was the eighth generation grandmaster of martial arts falconry Scirocco Malachai, and he had been attracted by the recent goings on in Nerima, especially ever since the assassin drones of Alpha 134 have made landfall on planet Earth. "A change is in the wind, but for who or what is uncertain." Scirocco prophesied as Algol, his trusty falcon, landed on his side.
Radon was accompanying him as well, scanning the landscape for anything unusual. "Well, ya know what they say, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, right?" Radon cropped up continuing his reconnaissance mission with the Daikage cell not too far behind. "Well, now. What have we here?" Another figure oozed out with all the toxicity of box jellyfish venom mixed with poison dart frog skin flecks.
"I am sorry, dear sir, but I do not have time for Xiu Wong's petty little games." Scirocco reprimanded ignoring the would be challenger as he and Radon went along their way. "HEY! THAT'S JIRAIGA KOBAYAKAWA TO YOU!" The figure, apparently known as Jiraiga screeched angered and insulted by Scirocco's cold shoulder treatment. Scirocco launched Algol at Jiraiga, who got his chest ripped up by the raptor's specially sharpened combat talons.
That was the cue for Kill Toro to come screaming in to intercept Radon as he took dead aim at the still pinned Jiraiga. Jiraiga catapulted Algol towards a wall after having pried the aggressive bird of prey away from his chest. Radon was joined by the Daikage cell in dealing with Kill Toro, leaving Scirocco Malachai to deal with Jiraiga Kobayakawa. "You who are so lowly in your ways that you do not even deserve a civilian's death." Scirocco further reprimanded insulting Jiraiga even more. "SHADDAAAAP!" Jiraiga screeched as he opened fire with a pair of sawed off shotguns, using both barrels on each at the same time.
Scirocco dodged this attack, having Algol disarm his opponent immediately afterward. " I get it now, YOU'RE THE RATBASTARD WHO DISRUPTED OUR PLAN TO FIND THAT JUSENKYO WATER!" Jiraiga growled having called Scirocco out on his rescue attempt back in Chinese New Year's day. "So, you've figured it out. It took you long enough, you idiot." Scirocco lectured as he took his leave. "HEY, GET BACK HERE YOU MOTHERFUCKER!" Jiraiga screeched giving chase because stupid and fat as he was, he was very determined and agile as he caught up in some areas, only to get left behind in others.
Meanwhile, Radon on his V-twin chopper was being pursued by Kill Toro with the Daikage cell riding shotgun on a potential new member of the Cat pack; Hog Rod, a defector from the Rat pack. Hog Rod did not trust Rip Rat one bit when it came to his own personal safety after having learned a few secrets about his former leader that he really shouldn't have, for instance his dealings with Xiu Wong, the corrupt money grubbing businessman.
That, along with something even more shocking; Plans by Xiu Wong to have the entire Rat pack scrapped and killed off so that more savage and more obedient "mass production" versions could take their place. There was one piece of information that may very well be the most shocking of them all; a plan to hijack the entire Chinese government, along side a Russian counterpart that would hijack their local government, start world war 3 together, and take over the world!
At the moment, Hog Rod would remain tight lipped about it all until he goes into the Cat pack, and he would imagine that EX.W.A.T.I. would also remain tight lipped about the situation, too. If, and only if Xiu Wong and his associates move forward with their plan would EX.W.A.T.I.'s Z2 anti-corruption and ZB-1 counterintelligence units spring into action. That mess of info was for another story, for now, let's focus on Hog Rod as he caught up with Kill Toro. Hog Rod slammed into Kill Toro, causing the latter to careen off of the road, as the former advanced towards the Cat pack's headquarters.
A forest clearing somewhere near Sapporo, 3:00 pm. October 5, 2002
It was still very dark out as Hog Rod trundled his way towards the agreed meeting point, with the Daikage cell a few klicks away in case the deal between them goes sour. Slash Cat was the next to arrive before Hog Rod, followed by Sand Stinger, and Taran-Chewa. "What do you want?" Taran-Chewa growled as he raised his wheeled fore arms up and bared his pincers. "This had better not be another trap that that damned rat has set for us all." Sand Stinger growled, too as he joined Taran-Chewa in the threat display/ "N-N-No! Please, don't kill me! I've got a really freaking good reason why!" "Stand down, both of you!" Slash Cat reprimanded calmly allowing Hog Rod to be heard out as he spilled the beans. The beans in question were on the Rat pack's recent goings on as far as their collaboration with Xiu Wong Enterprises is concerned.
"You see, this Xiu Wong guy and the Rat pack were in cahoots with one another, with the earliest files going as far back as mid-to-late 2000. This is all part of his plan to buy off the entire world after having gone to World War 3 with it." Hog Rod elucidated with Boris Jotting down everything that the wild boar/hot rod hybrid had to say about it all. "Hmm, I see. So the rat has an outside collaborator. Interesting! Very interesting indeed! All with cloning on top of that!" Slash Cat declared. "I shall have the reports documented, and sent over to EX.W.A.T.I. high command for a four years review." Boris declared as well as he and the main Cat pack returned to headquarters with Hog Rod as the newest member of the Cat pack.