Chance and Jake were both quite surprised at how much stamina the two she-kats had, though it was mutual as well since Star and Elena weren't as used to ordinary males being able to keep up with them for so long. Eventually all four were laying together on the bed, all of them quite exhausted, panting lightly with their fur damp with sweat. They just relaxed, Elena resting against Chance's side with the tabby's arm around her, Star against her back while leaning against Jake on the other side.
Jake's ears suddenly went back at hearing a soft beeping sound coming from his discarded clothing. He and Chance both groaned softly, knowing what it was. The two toms reluctantly got up and started to quickly put their clothed back in, leaving Elena and Star watching them in confusion. "You're leaving already?"
Chance just nodded. "Have to. That's one of the problems with being on call 24/7."
Elena put her ears back at the tabby's response. She knew that their own time in the city was short and she wanted to stay with him longer. "You can't just put it off this one time?"
"Wish we could. Sorry, darlin'."
Star then got up with a sigh and retrieved her own clothing as well while the guys redressed. "Well, we'd better get going then as well. "Our time for enjoying ourselves is over and we have to begin what we came here to do soon."
Elena sighed and looked down sadly. "Right. Almost forgot about that." Reluctantly, she got up and began to redress as well.
Chance turned back toward him as he and Jake started to leave. "Any possibility of meeting back up with you girls at a later date?"
Elena looked to Star, who shook her head sadly. "Much as I'd like to, I don't know if that will be possible."
Chance and Jake quickly made their way back out of the club and back into the car. They moment they got in and closed the doors, Jake pulled out the beeping communicator from his pocket and hit the button. "Yes Miss Briggs?"
"Swat Kats! Where have you been?"
They glanced at each other, Jake blushing slightly. "Slight situation. What's wrong?"
"We've got big problems downtown. There's these... 'things', and they're wreaking some serious havoc!"
"We're on our way!"
By then, Chance was already speeding back toward the salvage yard. He floored it even more, though the car didn't have the powerful engine and jet thrusters that they had installed in the modified tow truck. The instant that they returned, they both jumped out of the car and headed straight down into the hanger to change before taking off in the jet.
Sure enough, once they got downtown, they could see several dozen strange flying creatures swirling around causing all sorts of trouble. They were attacking kats, smashing out windows, destroying cars, and basically wrecking everything they got their claws into. The beasts were bat like, though much larger than normal bats, with long barbed tails and curved talons on their legs and wings.
T-Bone narrowed his eyes at the creatures. "Think Viper is behind this, buddy?"
Razor shook his head, looking at the instruments on his control panel. "I don't know. They don't seem to radiate any form of mutagenic properties, But their heat signatures are through the roof!"
They could already see several downed Enforcer choppers and multiple destroyed cruisers on the streets below. As they rapidly approached, several of the creatures turned and headed toward them, making ear-splitting screeching sounds. Due to the sheer number of the beasts, Razor knew that they were definitely going to have their paws full unless they could shift the odds a bit more.
"Lower your anti-glare visor, T-Bone! Let's see how many of these critters we can knock out of the sky!"
The pilot did as directed, both Swat Kats lowering their visors as Razor released a pair of flash bulb missiles at the horde of creatures. When the missiles went off, the blinding flash caused a large number of them to shriek loudly in obvious pain. Blinded and disoriented, the beasts started crashing into and attacking each other as the jet shot through the flock, smashing several of them and catching many more in the thrusters' backwash.
The remaining creatures began to scatter, but Razor picked off several more with shrieker and octopus missiles. After almost ten minutes, most of them were either dead, or had fled. Doing an infrared scan to look for any more, Razor does find several dozen of beasts below them clustered around one of the rooftops, and they appeared to be fighting against two very large creatures.
T-Bone angled the jet and swooped low toward the roof, Razor taking aim with a spider missile. As he fired, the two large creatures jumped out of the way with lightning speed, but several of the smaller ones were caught in the steel mesh netting. Almost immediately, the two large beasts leapt back over and slashed through the netting, killing the trapped creatures inside of it, then turned and bolted inside the maintenance door and into the building itself.
T-Bone gasped at how fast and strong the two larger beasts were. "What the heck were those things?!"
"Beats me. But whatever they are, they just sliced right through the steel net!"
"Should we go after them?"
"Would not be a good idea to let whatever those things are get away if there's any chance we can stop them. We don't need any more innocent kats to get hurt."
"Copy that."
The tabby carefully landed the jet on the building's roof, then the two put on their glovatrix's and jumped out, looking around for any sign of the beasts. Going over to examine the net and dead flyers, the things looked even stranger close up. They were solid black with a hard insect-like shell instead of skin, and covered in sharp quill spines, including a thick ball of spiked at the end of their long tails. despite this, the massive claws of the two larger beasts apparently had ripped them apart with one swipe.
As they then made their way inside the building, the pair were very cautious as they kept a close eye out for the two massive beasts. Razor noted that their body shapes had looked vaguely kat-like, but they were huge and heavily muscled with very dense coats and short but thick tails. The word 'werewolf' came to his mind, but he decided not to mention it to T-Bone until they managed to get a better look at the things.
At first their searching revealed nothing as they went down the hallways and searched the various rooms of the large office building. When they entered one of the larger rooms, filled with a maze of small cubicles, the fur stood up on the nape of their necks and they both had the strong feeling they were being watched. With there being plenty of places among the cubicles for something to hide, they were both completely on their toes as they made their way through.
A very soft sound, almost a growling, caught their attention and they both turned quickly to look to the right, their glovatrix's aimed. They didn't see anything, but unfortunately fell for the trick. It was from the left, now behind him, that the attack came. The massive beast lunged out of the shadows, slamming into both kats and throwing them forward through the thin walls of the nearest cubicle.
The second beast, which had made the initial growl, leapt out of it's hidding place and lunged at them. Razor rolled out of the way as T-Bone jumped to his feet and took aim at the massive beast. unfortunately he didn't have enough time to fire before it slammed full force into him.
Razor gasped as he could now see that the creatures were indeed werewolves. The one now grappling with T-Bone was a medium brown color with a black mane and glowing green eyes, while the one now stalking toward him was black with white markings and red eyes that glowed like Hellfire. Razor aimed his glovatrix, then fired, but the red-eyed beast jumped out of the way just in time as the mini octopus missiles whistled past it to slam into a file cabinet, knocking it over and throwing papers everywhere.
As T-Bone fought with the brown wolf, the massive creature proved to be stronger than him and managed to get the upper hand, or paw, as it were. It grabbed him by one leg and jerked him off his feet, then grabbed his left arm with it's other hand-like forepaw and lifted him up over it's head. The beast then threw him a fair distance over the cubicles, sending him crashing hard into the actual wall of the room. T-Bone groaned, now somewhat dazed as he leaned against the base of the wall, a hole having been knocked into it from the impact, as the beast stalked toward him, it's long fangs bared.
The second wolf lunged again toward Razor, who tried to leap out of the way. The massive beast was faster though and spun in mid-leap, kicking him with a strongly muscled leg. The blow threw him through another cubicle wall and into another file cabinet. Before he could get up, it pounced, landing hard ontop of him with both of of it's forepaws pressing down on his shoulders. The smaller tom could feel the beast's weight threatening to crush him. It leaned down, it's powerful jaws full of sharp fangs only inches from his face, ready to bite down. Razor's heart was pounding in his chest and he feared that he was about to die in the beast's jaws, but it suddenly pricked it's ears, it's jaws snapping shut at it began sniffing over him instead.
The werewolf tilted it's head and looked down at him curiously for a moment, then slowly back up, releasing him. Razor didn't dare to even try to sit up yet as he watched the red-eyed werewolf. The beast then stood up tall onto it's hind legs to look over the cubicles at the brown wolf, which was crouched only a few feet from the still dazed tabby and ready to lunge, it's jaws wide. The first creature made some sort of growling sound, which to Razor almost sounded like some form of 'talking'. The brown one looked up sharply, it's ears pricked, then turned back toward T-Bone, now with a more curious look. It then stalked the rest of the short distance to him, leaning down to sniff over him for a moment before suddenly stumbling several steps backward with a look of shock and confusion.
The brown wolf turned back to the other one and made the same strange growling noises, then the two suddenly turn and bolt swiftly out of the room. By the time Razor got back to his feet, the werewolves were gone. Confused, he walked over to T-Bone, who was slowly trying to sit up, rubbing his head.
"Ow... that hurt..."
"Good thing you were still wearing your helmet."
"Yeah... Where'd they go?"
"I don't know. They could have easily killed us, but they didn't. They just... left."
The smaller tom helped his partner back to his feet, then looked around. He couldn't help feeling that there was something strange, and oddly familiar about those two werewolves. T-Bone had noticed it too.
"Think we'll see those things again?"
"Somehow, I'm certain of it."