The next morning Vivian woke up. It was Saturday morning and the sun was streaming in to her window. 'Might as well get up and see how badly hung over Chance is.'
Meanwhile, Chance stirred when the light from the sun coming into the apartment hit the back of the couch he was sleeping on. He grumbled something incoherent, but started to wake up. It was a place he didn't recognize. The light slightly hurt his eyes. 'Ugh...I haven't drank like that in a while.' Chance thought as he sat up. He looked down at himself. Apparently he decided in the middle of the night he was hot and stripped down to just his boxers. He had a slight hangover headache. He got up to go find some water in the nearby kitchen.
He faintly heard the door open and Vivian came padding down the hallway and eventually finding Chance in her kitchen. "Oh, you're up...kats alive! You're almost naked!" She yelled as she put her hands over her eyes. "What is wrong with you?! Cover up, for the love of everything!" She said as she opened one eye to find his blanket from over the couch and throw it at him. 'Think un-sexy thoughts, Viv! Think un-sexy thoughts! Why does he have to look that good with hardly anything on?!'
Chance couldn't help but smile and chuckle a little at her deep blush and how cute she looked in her silk pink pajamas. Also the way she she refused to look at him was adorable. He picked up the sheet that had landed on the floor in front of him and made a sort of poncho out of it.
"Okay, I'm safe to look at now, I think." Chance said as she put her hands down and looked at him, now with a slightly annoyed look. "What's the big idea?! You were fully clothed when we went to bed last night!" Chance continued sipping his water. "Could you tone down the yelling a bit? I've got a slight headache right now." He said as Vivian's face went from annoyed to concerned and walked past him to the cabinet with some medicine. She pulled out a small pill bottle and handed it to him. His fingers brushed against hers and she almost jerked back, feeling that tingling sensation again. He opened the bottle, threw two pills in his mouth, and chugged a bit of water.
"To answer your question, I don't remember how I got half naked last night. Maybe you took advantage of me?" Chance said with a slight smirk. Vivian's blush deepened. "I...I most certainly did no such thing!" He shrugged, keeping the smirk. "How am I supposed to know for sure, Viv? Maybe my appeal was just too much for you to resist. The only way for you to have me without ACTUALLY having me, was for you to get me drunk and take advantage of me." He said, adding an eyebrow lift to the smirk. "I was pretty drunk last night. It would've been easy."
"Oh...just...shut up, Chance!" She said, crossing her arms over her chest as he laughed. "I'm kidding! But other than that, I do remember most of last night though." He said as Vivian vividly remembered being pushed against the door by him, nearly kissing him. 'Maybe he remembers that...' She thought to herself. "Uh...do you remember how we got in here last night?" She asked as Chance thought for a moment. "I remember the door flying open, but other than that, not really."
Vivian breathed a sigh of relief. 'So I could've kissed him and he wouldn't have remembered! But...that wouldn't have been right for either one of us.' She thought to herself. Chance looked at the clock on the wall and slightly panicked. "Crud! Jake is going to kill me! I gotta get back to the garage!" Chance said, putting down his finished glass of water and going back over to the living room area. His clothes had been strewn about everywhere. He dropped the sheet onto the couch. Vivian once again had to look away, but not before she got a good look at him for a couple of seconds. He grabbed up all of his clothes and went into the bathroom to get dressed. He came out a few moments later, patting his pants pockets and looking around. "Where are my keys? Oh, Jake's gonna be super pissed if we have to replace those!" Vivian came to him, holding them between her fingers.
"Had to confiscate these last night. You threatened to drive the tow truck home, drunk." Chance does a double take. "I did? Sorry." He gently takes them from her and smiles. "Thanks. Last night was fun. Wanna do it again sometime?" He asked as she smiled and nodded. "Yeah, now get to work." She said as he nodded and smiled, going for and unlocking the door and making a run for the tow truck across the parking lot. Vivian shook her head as she closed the door.
A while later, Chance arrived at the garage. Jake was working on a car by himself when he heard the tow truck pull up. Chance pulled it in to the empty spot and parked, getting out with his coveralls and boots in hand.
"Hey! Where were you all night Pal?! I could've used your help this morning!" Jake said angrily as Chance looked at him with the biggest grin on his face. "Woke up half naked at Vivian's after a night out with her." Jake's face changed quickly from mad to shock and disbelief. "You slept with Vivian?! Chance, what the heck is wrong with you?!" Chance chuckled. "No, we just went out as friends. I had a few too many and crashed on her couch. She's a real classy she-kat though. She lives in the high rent district." Jake put his wrench down on a nearby table and gave him a look. "And...nothing happened? Chance Furlong, The King of one-night stands, according to you?"
Chance shook his head. "I may be ready to hang up that title buddy." Razor's eyes almost popped out of his skull. "After one date?" Chance frowned. "It wasn't even a date, just friends hanging out."
"But you're ready to hang up the bachelor life and actually commit to someone?" Jake said, almost seeming like he was looking for an opportunity to tell Chance something.
"I don't know...would that mean hanging up my flight suite too? I'm not ready for that. I don't think I'll ever be ready for that."
"Well, Callie didn't make me hang it up. She encourages me to continue to protect the city, in fact. I'm not hanging up the flight suit anytime soon, but I am handing in my bachelor card as of last night." Jake said with a smile.
Chance's face fell into a blank stare. "You mean...?"
"Yes! I took Callie out last night and proposed, she said yes! We're getting married, Chance!" Jake said, excitedly.
"Wow! Congratulations buddy! Didn't know you had it in you. Guess you're gonna be the first deputy husband soon, huh?" He said with a small smile and grabbed him in for a hug.
Jake smiled back once Chance let go. Jake laughed slightly. "I guess. Didn't really ask her about that, but we're really excited! I can't wait for you to be my best Tom!"
At that exact moment, Chance felt sick. Not because of the news, but he was still a little bit hung over. He quickly ran over to an empty barrel and proceeded to upchuck whatever was in his system. He felt Jake come and pat him on the back. "Too much, too soon?" Jake asked as Chance recovered, wiping his mouth on his arm.
"I'm still a bit hungover from last night. I'm gonna go upstairs and try to recover a bit. You got things down here?" He asked as Jake rolled his eyes but nodded. "Yeah, I got things down here. You go and nurse that hangover." He said as Chance trudged past him and to the stairs up to his room. Jake shook his head with a slight smile. 'Chance hasn't really drank like that since our Enforcer training days. Vivian has him wrapped around her paw and neither one sees it yet.' Chance made it to his room. He flopped face down on his mattress and turned over, rubbing his head. 'Ugh...I'm not drinking again until Jake and Callie's wedding. I can't believe they're getting married. I wonder if Viv will go as my date?' He thought as he slowly started to fall asleep. 'Maybe I'll feel better after a nap.' He thought shortly before he fell asleep.
A few hours later, the familiar blaring of the Swat Kats alert seemed to scream throughout the garage. Chance turned over with a groan. 'Why now?!' He thought groggily as he started to force himself up and out of bed. He heard Jake come up the stairs. "Oh, you're up. Come on pal, I need a pilot. You feeling up to it?" Chance plastered on his usual cocky smile. "Anytime. Let's go kick some tail!" Jake smiled and nodded as he went back downstairs. Chance soon followed.
A few moments later, The Turbokat shot out of the hangar and off to save the day. T-bone put the visor down on his helmet to combat what light was left from the day, still having slight light sensitivity issues from being hungover. Razor received the notice on his console that T-bone had done so. "You okay to fly buddy? You can switch the controls to me if you have to?" T-bone gripped the controls. "I'm good Razor, just mild light sensitivity. I'll be okay. Where are we going?"
Razor put in the destination and T-bone saw it on the navigation and his eyes go from wide to slight annoyance in 2.5 seconds. "Puma-dyne?! Ugh...for the millionth time?! They should just tear that building down. Is there an invisible target that just attracts the crazies to that building or something?!"
Razor smirks. "Fond memories from being a mutated frog, eh T-bone?"
T-bone wretches a bit and sticks his tongue out. "Negative...don't remind me, buddy." They jet across the city to Puma-dyne.
Meanwhile at Puma-dyne...
Shadow Kat snuck down the halls of Puma-dyne, trying to see if this was more of the mafia bosses cronies. 'Hmm...but chemicals usually aren't their go to thing? Banks and financial institutions are usually their speed. Maybe they're trying to get them to sell to someone? Wouldn't put it past them.' She thought as she continued to sneak down the hallway.
'I hate this building. This is where...he...died.' She thought sadly to herself and shook her head of these thoughts. 'Stay focused, Shadow Kat.' She saw the shadow of a Kat from one of the rooms...or...a lizard? 'What the hell is that?!' She thought to herself as she got closer to the room. She could hear glass breaking and things being strewn about.
"What'sss thisss? Sssome research never finished? Hmm..." Dr. Viper said to himself as he tore through some papers that were locked in a cabinet. "It'ss a toxin that codess to a kat's DNA and killsss only them. Hmmm...if I could get the Swat Katss DNA, I could kill them inssstantly and Megakat City would be left unprotected and I could finally have my sswamp city!" Shadow Kat caught sight of Dr. Viper as she peeked over the corner of the doorway. "It was being developed by a...deceased Doctor Maxwell Ssharpclaw." Shadow Kat's breath hitched and her heart stopped at the mention of her dead fiancé's name. 'Max...' She instantly had memories of him flood back into her mind.
Dr. Viper heard her and turned towards the door. Shadow Kat ducked and went flat against the wall. "Who'sss there?" She heard Dr. Viper ask as he looked at a plant with tentacles moving slowly. He gave it a look and it slithered to the doorway, unbeknownst to Shadow Kat. It slowly wrapped around her ankle. She thought she felt slight pressure on her ankle as she took out her gun and cocked it. "Huh? Oh shi-" She didn't get to finish her sentence as the plant tentacle gripped her lower leg fully, picking her up, making her drop her gun, and slamming her down to the ground. She was stunned for a few seconds before it started dragging her into the room. She clawed at the tile floor as it dragged her in. She grabbed the doorway, desperately trying to get out of its grasp. She kicked at it with her free leg, pulling at the doorway. 'Crud, this plant is strong!' She thought as she tried to rip herself away from it. A second tentacle grabbed her free leg and wrenched her violently away from the doorway. She screamed as it picked her up, wrapping her up all the way to hang upside down, looking at Dr. Viper. His eyes glowed a creepy yellow. "You're not a SSSwat Kat."
Shadow Kat struggled against her plant restraints. 'Crud, Shadow Kat, you might be in over your head with this one! I thought they were just more of his lackies, not this...thing!'
"Shadow Kat, and you're who? Lizard brain?" She asked, trying to exude confidence. Dr. Viper smirked evilly at her. "Formally Dr. Purvis, but mossst in Megakat City know me as Dr. Viper." She reached behind her for her escrima stick. She could feel it as one of her hands got wrapped around behind her. 'If I can hit the button, maybe I can shock this thing, but I might shock myself as well.'
"Well, now that I have a tessst subject, I can tessst out thiss insstant death formula." He came towards her with a scalpel to get a DNA sample. Shadow Kat grit her teeth as she struggled more, reaching for the button. 'Shock the hell out of myself it is.' A few seconds went by as she finally reached it. She screamed in pain, being shocked, but the plant instantly let her go, dropping her to the floor.
T-bone and Razor heard the screaming and the flash of electricity from the room as they got there. T-bone noticed Shadow Kat's gun on the floor just outside of the room. "Shadow Kat's in trouble." T-bone said as they both armed their gloveatrixs. T-bone and Razor rounded the corner to see Dr. Viper holding Shadow Kat up by her throat. She was partially awake.
"Put the lady down, lizard butt!" T-bone said, taking aim at Dr. Viper. He smirked evilly at T-bone. "You're the bosss." He said as he threw her out the nearby window, breaking it as he did so. "No!" T-bone ran towards Dr. Viper, hitting him in the face with a mini-stun rocket on his way past him. T-bone jumped out the window, following Shadow Kat. She was coming to fully when she realized she was falling from the building.
She started freaking out, but a strong arm came around her waist. "Don't worry, I gotcha!" T-bone said as he pulled her to him. He deployed a grappling hook from his glovatrix. It caught on the side of the building just about 50 feet from the ground. "Holy kats!" She said as it started pulling them both up and back in towards the building. "Yeah, you could've been street pizza right now if we hadn't got here in time." She glared at him a little. "I appreciate the save, but I could've handled it myself." T-bone rolled his eyes. "Yeah, that's obvious." His baritone voice dripping with sarcasm. She stared at him as he repelled them back in. 'He reminds me a lot of Chance. He even has the same stripes on his arms.' She got that tingly sensation again, like when she brushed against Chance earlier that day.
When they got back inside, Razor was fighting with Dr. Viper, avoiding the scalpel he had in hand. Shadow Kat took out her escrima stick and activated the electricity. She hit Dr. Viper from behind in the head with it, shocking him. He was stunned for about 30 seconds before he turned around and stabbed at her. T-bone grabbed her and turned his back to Dr. Viper, and he slashed at T-bone's back, cutting into him through the flight suit and his t-shirt, drawing blood.
"Fuck!" He said, gritting his teeth. Razor tried to deploy a mini-net rocket, but Dr. Viper saw it coming in time to dodge, and jumped out the window he broke with Shadow Kat's body earlier. Razor ran to the window. "Crud, he's gone." He said, shaking his head. He turned to T-bone, seeing him trying to reach back there and assess the damage. "You okay, pal?" Razor asked and T-bone shook his head. "It sucks, but I'll be okay."
"Let me take a look at it." Shadow Kat said as T-bone stepped away from her as she reached into one of her pouches on her belt. T-bone growled. "I said I was fine." She shook her head at him. "You don't know what was on that scalpel. You could get badly infected and be out of the game for good. Now let me take a look. I'm experienced in field dressings and first aid." She said, approaching him again. Razor shook his head. "She's right pal, we don't know what was on that scalpel or why Dr. Viper was so desperate to stab either one of us with it. We also don't have our first aid kit with us. It's back at base." T-bone sighed and shook his head. "Fine, since you two won't leave me alone about it." They walked into the next room together and Shadow Kat closed the door.
T-bone started unbuckling the flight suit and unzipping it. He took it off his shoulders and stuffed/tucked the top of it into the pants part of the flight suit. "How bad is it?" He asked Shadow Kat as she approached him. She noticed the gash and the blood that had stained the white shirt and bled all the way from about the middle left of his back and further down. "I won't know until you take the shirt off." She said as he turned and looked at her. "Are you serious right now?! Screw that! This is getting ridiculous..."
"T-bone...come on." She said as he calmed down a little.
"Ugh, fine. Just get it over with!" He said as he took off his shirt, revealing his well defined chest muscles, as he was facing her. The rest of him wasn't bad to look at either. He turned away from her, leaning over a table. He also had well defined back muscles. 'Both T-bone and Chance have similar stripes and body structure. Maybe his brother or cousin is T-bone? There can't be that many tabbies in this city that look that similar.'
"You gonna fix me or what?!" T-bone asked, slightly annoyed now. "Y-yeah. Keep your pants on!" She snapped back at him. She started looking over his wound. It looked a lot worse than what it was from what she could tell. Just a lot of blood. She took out some alcohol pads and started cleaning him. He hissed in pain the closer she got to the cut.
"Oh, don't be a kitten, it's much smaller than I thought, there was just a lot of blood." Shadow Kat said as she pulls out a small bottle of antiseptic. "You're not the one who took the cut!" T-bone says as he notices she put the bottle on the table next to him.
"Thank you, for the double save by the way." Shadow Kat says as she grabs the antiseptic bottle and pulls a couple of paper towels that were mounted to the lab table that T-bone was currently leaned over. "No problem. You owe me two, by the way." He says with a smirk and holding up two fingers. She put the paper towels over the top, tipping it over enough to wet the paper towels. "Okay, now this is gonna sting a bit." Shadow Kat says as she gets ready to disinfect his wound. "Really now? Like I wasn't expecting...OH fucking crud...ack!" T-bone curses as she presses into his wound with the antiseptic.
He bites his lip a bit and hisses. "What the hell were you doing here anyway? Dr. Viper isn't exactly one of Megakat City's easier villains to take on." T-bone asks, trying to take his mind off the pain. "I don't need easy and I didn't know he'd be here. I thought it was that Mafia Kat I'm after's henchkats again. I was wrong." She said, using stitch tape to force the small cut closed. She used some sticky tape to cover the wound so it wouldn't get infected. "There, all done." She said as he pushed himself off the table. He turned in time to see her close the pouches on her belt. He looked as his blood covered t-shirt laying on the table. He took it off the table, shook his head, and tossed it into the nearby garbage. He got the top of his flight suit out and put it back on his shoulders, zipping it up and buckling everything back.
Razor walked in just as they were about to walk out. "All patched up, T-bone?" He asked as T-bone looked up. "Copy that, Razor. Shadow Kat did a great job, I think." Shadow Kat blushed slightly. Razor crossed his arms over his chest. "Aside from your whining? I could hear you all the way out here." T-bone shot him a slight glare. "You try getting cut with a possible dirty knife and see how good you feel."
At that moment, the Enforcers and Feral show up to find all three of them in the room. "What happened?" Feral asked as Razor spoke up. "Dr. Viper, again."
Feral glared. "Did he take anything?" He asked as Razor shrugged. "I don't think so. He jumped out the window after we got here." He said as Feral looked over a T-bone, not wearing his usual white undershirt. He raised an eyebrow at T-bone and the moved his sights to Shadow Kat. "Ah, so you're the vigilante I've heard about. At least you cause less damage than these two. Shadow Kat, was it?" He extends his hand to her. "Yes, and Commander Feral, if I'm not mistaken?" She asks, smiling taking his hand and shaking it.
Both T-bone and Razor look at each other and look a little jealous.
"Welcome to Megakat City, Ms. Shadow Kat. Keep these two in line, if you would please."
Shadow Kat smirks and looks over her shoulder at the two. "Oh, I will." She says as he walks away and the investigators flood the room. "We should go. Everything seems to be wrapped up here." Razor says as he motions for T-bone to leave too. "Mostly everything." He says, giving her a look as he passes. Shadow Kat follows them up to the roof where the TurboKat was waiting.
"Feral seems to like you more than us, though he never has liked us." Razor says. "That's only because I don't have a high powered jet that can destroy the city. Don't worry, I'll piss him off eventually." Shadow Kat replies. Razor smiles and jumps into his place in the TurboKat.
"By the way..." Razor says as he tosses down Shadow Kat's dropped gun. She catches it and puts it back into its holster. "Thanks." She winks and gives him a small salute. She was now left on the roof with T-bone. "So, thanks for the patch up, again." He says as she smirks at him.
'If I can't have Chance, maybe T-bone will wanna mess around a little. They're almost the same guy.' She reaches out and pulls at T-bone's lapel/collar and forces him down to her level and kisses him, hard and passionately. Her eyes were closed. T-bone's eyes go wide. 'Woah! What the heck is with this crazy she-Kat?! She acts like she hates me at first, but now she's kissing me?!' He eventually reacts, letting his eyes close and his hands wrapped around her lower back, bringing her closer to him. Razor looks surprised and just nods, not sure what else to do but let T-bone get the she-Kat for once. Eventually she pulls back from kissing him.
"Have any way I could contact you for some after mission fun? No strings attached thing?" She whispers in his ear. He considers for a moment 'I guess while I'm chasing Vivian, I can mess around with Shadow Kat too.'
"Sure. Hang on." He says as he parts from her, and going into his side of the cockpit. "What are you doing?" Razor asks with his eyebrow raised. T-bone looks up at him. "Giving her a communicator, in case she needs us." Razor shakes his head. "You mean in case SHE needs your..." He gives Razor the "zip it" signal as he climbs back down, and meets up with her again, giving her a communicator similar to Callie's, but this one has a blue button. "Anytime you need me...us...give me a call." She considers it for a moment and puts it in her pocket. "I will. See you around, T-bone." Shadow Kat says as she gives him a seductive look over her shoulder and uses the ladder access over the side of the building to leave.
"Get in, lover tom, we need to get home before I miss David Litterbin again!" Razor calls to T-bone as he shakes his head and smiles, "Roger that, partner." He said. Jumping in, getting the TurboKat in the air to bring them both home.
Meanwhile, from the bushes below the window that was taken out at Puma-dyne a pair of glowing yellow eyes appeared. "I have one of those pesssky Swat Katsss blood, now all I need is the scientist who thisss research originated from, but I'll need sssome help bringing him back from the dead." Dr. Viper said with an evil grin.