Author's Note: Once again I'm very sorry for the wait, I'm not even going to give an excuse. Please enjoy.

Chapter 8: Getting to Know

Sparks flew in the air as Exile stood on the wing of Jake and Chance's jet, welding some of the metal back together. Only a few feet away from him Axel stood replacing the glass covering for the cockpit, taking it slowly so he wouldn't get it wrong. It had been a few days since Jake and Chance came crashing near the Rovers home and things has been pretty quiet as of late. Exile and Axel took the time to repair their new friend's jet; most of the damages were easily fixable.

Upon closer inspection of the jet they found that both wings were torn, the glass cover was shattered, the front landing gear ripped apart, and one of the engines were blown. The two spend a lot of hours repairing it and it was paying off as it was almost done. Axel sighed in relief as he finished installing the glass, then looked back at his husky friend, "Done with this, how's your end?"

Exile stopped with his heat vision as he looked up, "Great comrade, almost done on my end." Both eyes looked back down as he resumed welding.

"Wow, the jet looks great!" A voice spoke, catching both of their attention. Looking over the wing they both saw Chance, who was looking over the work the two did.

"Hey there," Axel responded, hopping off the wing and landing in front of the tom. After that day the whole team had talked with the two, they were given a guest room to stay in until their ship was repaired and they were all healed up. Chance got out of the sling but was now wearing a brace, just as precaution. Jake on the other hand had to keep the splint on and still had to use the crutches, but on the bright side he could add a little more weight to his leg as time passed. Thankfully the Rovers had some spare clothes to lend to them, so they could get out of their flight suits.

"Something wrong comrade?" Exile asked from up on the wing.

"Nothing, just looking to see how the repairs are coming along," He moved around, fascinated at how fast things were going. "How could you two have done this much work this fast?"

"Well most of parts could be salvaged from the crash site, and plus we have some replacement parts. Plus Exile here is a great engineer."

The husky blushed at the comment but then changed the subject, "What amazes me is how you and comrade made jet out of junk."

"Thank Jake for all that; he was brains behind the Turbokat." The Turbokat was the name of the jet the two toms built, they were very proud of it.

"So you two really made this to fight crime your own way?" Axel asked, leaning against the jet. Jake and Chance explained how their little vigilantly career started. It was one that surprised the Rovers big time.

Flashback

The Rovers and their new friends sat down at the large circular table in the Rec room, the two toms were amazed at what was inside. They would ask later about how they got all the stuff in the room. As they sat Hunter was the first to speak, "Ok so how were you two kicked off from the…enforcers am I correct?"

Chance nodded as he decided to respond first, "Yeah, we were both flying in the air and chasing our city's worst criminal, but our commander got in the way as we were about to take him down. He made us crash right into our HQ, so we couldn't do anything besides eject."

Jake then took over for his friend, "The criminal got away and we got blamed for it. We got kicked off the force and slapped with a multimillion dollar debt to pay off the repairs for HQ."

"Why did you two get blamed?" Colleen asked, shocked and stunned at what they said.

"Our commander has too much pride and needed to blame someone, *sigh* It ended up being us."

"That's wrong," Exile commented, leaning forwards as everyone else.

"We know," The burly tom responded, laying his head onto his folded arms. "Well in order to pay our debt off we were force to work at a salvage yard, repairing cars."

"We hardly make enough to put a dent in what we owe," The ginger tom finished. "Well then I got the idea to use some of the spare salvage to make a jet of our own, get back at the villains of Megakat city."

"We worked long and hard putting things together, it may have been just the two of us but we got the job done," Chance took over. "In time we started saving the city our own way, we soon became known as the Swat Kats."

"Swat Kats?" They all responded.

"Yes, that's what we're called," Jake clarified. "So now that we shared our side, what's your story?" For the next half hour the Rovers explained how the team formed, and all of the missions they did, Jake and Chance shared some adventures of their own they talked for many hours, like they were old friends. It was a little after midnight when they decided to call it a night.

"Where do we sleep?" Chanced asked, standing up from his sit, as did everyone else.

"You can have one of our guest rooms, since it's going to be a while before you two are good to go," Hunter responded as they all headed to the door.

"Thanks, but uh…" Jake moved with his crutches. "I don't suppose you can lend us some clothes could you?" The Rovers looked at the two and remembered that their flight suits were torn up in placed because of the crash.

"Yeah, there's usually some in the guest rooms," Colleen responded as they headed out of the room.

"Thank you…for helping us," Chance responded.

"Anything for friends," Hunter responded as he lead the two to the guest room. The day had ended and things should pick up the next day.

End Flashback

Chanced moved as he patted the jet, "This jet is our pride and joy; it's the only thing that keeps us in the air." He looked at it some more as he continued. "I don't know what we would have done without this."

"So how's Jake doing by the way?" Axel asked as he followed the tom.

"He's good, although he keeps complaining that he can't do much because of his leg," he laughed at bit.

"Well comrade Colleen said it should be fully healed in day or two," Exile stopped his welding to respond.

"Not soon enough for him, he's been trying to find ways to entertain himself since he can't walk without support."

"Must be hard to wait around like that," The Akita responded, leaning against the jet.

"I know, heck I'm worried myself. I mean it's been days since you guys saw Hard Drive and that can't be good."

Exile took the time to take a break as the topic took interest, "I know, being in new place would cause major fright."

"And that means things to come can't be good, since it's been that quiet," The two made room as the husky hopped off the window.

"We can worry about when time comes, we be ready for it," Exile confirmed with a smile.

"I guess so," Chance responded as he looked back at the Turbokat. "So how much more work does this need?"

"Not much, just need to fix wings, and maybe repaint it. Also may need to test engines for safety reasons."

"That's good to hear, the sooner we're up in the air the better." Chance thought the two must have been finished for the day since both Rovers were wiping the grease off of their hands.

"Man all this work sure has made me hungry," Alex commented as he through his rag on the tool case.
"Me too comrade, let's go get food," With a smile Exile wrapped his arms around his two friends as the three of them left the hanger.

Rec Room

Little Christian crawled on the carpet, his mother in his sight. Hunter, Sierra, Shadow, Ariel and Jake sat around as they saw the young one get closer. After a couple of minutes of trying he finally reached the collie as she picked her son up and hugged him. "So he's almost a year old?" Jake asked as he watched the mother and son moment.

"Yes," Hunter responded as he sat down and moved closer to his wife and son. "Our first child, and soon he's going to have a cousin to play with."

Ariel blushed at the comment as she sat on the couch, next to Shadow. Jake just chuckled at that, "You must be proud."

"Yes…Axel and I are," She rubbed her grown stomach.

"So is Sierra and I," Shadow commented with a smile. Jake and Chance met the two parents and child the next day, they had got along good and thankfully Christian didn't seem to be afraid of them, which was good.

"Yes, we're both joyed to have another grandchild," Sierra responded as she was next to her husband.

"Boy or Girl?" Jake asked out of curiosity.

"We wanted it to be a surprise, so we don't know," Ariel answered as she leaned back.

"That's nice," He smiled. Just then they all looked at the door to see that Blitz, and Jenna walked in. "Hey there."

"Hey," Blitz responded as he walked and leaned forward on the couch.

"Where's Krystal?" Sierra asked.

"Shag is making lunch and she decided to help," Jenna responded.

"So Jake how's the leg of yours?" Blitz asked as he looked at the ginger tom.

A sigh could be heard as he sat back, leg resting on the floor, "I just want to walk again; I'm tired of using these crutches."

"But I need to make sure they heal properly," Colleen spoke up as she cradled Christian. "Take it off too soon and it could break."

"I know, but….two more days?" He complained; getting frustrated some more.

"Just want to be on the safe side."

Jake just shook his head, "Man once I'm don't I'm so doing some katas to-"

"You know martial arts?" Colleen rose and eye, starting to get interested.

"Yes, I'm very good at it. I beat Chance a lot in spars, you got to have something to fight with when it comes to getting up close and personal."

"So true."

"What other things can you do?" Hunter asked, everyone getting interested in what his hobbies were.

"Well I can build all sorts of missiles for our jet," He moved around on the couch, getting comfortable, since he knew it was going to be long.

"Oh yeah, Exile made a comment about that when he had to empty your missile compartment."

"Yeah I have all sorts of designs that I came up with," He smiled as he started to explain more of their equipment, the Rovers were all ears as they listened to the story. Soon they were called for lunch and soon joined their friends, things seemed to be going good so for, but for how long?

A/N: Hope you like, writing two stories is really getting to me. So I know not to do this for a while. Just stick to one at a time. Still hope it was good, I thank you all for sticking with me.