Disclaimer: The SWAT Kats are owned by Hanna Barbera and the Tremblay Brothers. I own the OCs.

As you will read, this was meant to show the characters playful side. I think that we have achieved it.

Thank you MisaRae.

Bast saw and heard everything that happened at the apartment, and she smiled since her daughter now had a fiancé and a few good friends she could turn to. However, she was still saddened by the fact that she could not be with her daughter when she needed her mother to comfort her and tell her that everything would be alright. She crossed her arms on her desk and laid her head down.

A winged tom stood off in the corner, watching her. He was dressed in a long, white robe, and his wings were very large and powerful; full of pearl white feathers and his long, blond hair flowed down to the middle of his back. He felt Bast's distress and slowly walked over to her. When he was close enough, he softly placed his left paw on her right shoulder and asked, "Bast, my love, what is troubling you?"

Bast felt the tom's soft touch on her bare shoulder and heard him speak. She lifted her head and looked over her right shoulder to see her loving husband standing next to her. She stood and wrapped her arms around him before placing her head on his chest.

Ptah wrapped his arms around his wife and pulled her tight to his frame. He leaned forward and kissed his wife between the ears. She let out a contented purr as he held her in his arms. He softly said, "It pains me to see you hurting. What is wrong, my love?"

Bast pulled back and lifted her head so she could look into her husband's green eyes, and saw nothing but his love for her in them. She wiped a stray tear from her right eye with her right paw before she, replied, "Ptah, my ever loving husband. A group of sorcerers known as The Society are after our family, and I fear for our daughter and great-granddaughter's lives. I have sent Amelia back to the land of the living to assist them, but I fear that she will not be enough."

Ptah developed a very angry expression on his face. His eyes glowed red as he thought, 'How dare someone threaten my family! By my father, I will not let them cause my family any more pain! They must be stopped!' He looked down at his wife and saw how worried she was, so he let his anger fall away so that he could comfort her and be the husband she needed at the moment. He asked, "Shall I go to the land of the living and assist your confidant with her task? All you have to do is wish it, and I shall go. If I do, those cats will not end up awaiting your judgment. They will be sent directly to the land of the damned, and my brother will deal with them!"

As much as Bast wanted to see those cats perish and suffer for all eternity, she knew that having a god and an arc-angel in the land of the living would cause problems with the balance of power that kept the two worlds separated. She replied, "As much as I would like you to go and protect our daughter, we cannot interfere. I have already broken a sacred law by sending Amelia to the land of the living, and I will have to answer to my father for that in time. I will not have you suffer his wrath for me, my love. Our daughter will have to rely on her fiancé and friends, as well as Amelia. Not us. She is very strong, and our great-granddaughter is even stronger, even if she does not know it." Bast closed her eyes and placed her head back on Ptah's chest before she said, "It hurt me not to be able to reach out and hold Callista in my arms again when she came to get Callie. She has turned into such a beautiful she-cat, and is the spitting image of you, my love. I so want to be able to hold my daughter in my arms again, Ptah. 500 years is too long for a mother and daughter to be separated." She started to cry into her husband's fur.

Ptah could not do a thing to calm his wife down. She was right. 500 years of separation was far too long for mother and daughter to endure. He needed to figure out a way to reunite them that would not enrage Ra.

Ptah placed his right paw under Bast's chin and lifted her head so she could look into his eyes. He said, "By your father, Ra, I will find a way to let you hold our daughter in your arms again. I swear it. I miss her, too. I still question why we sent her away all those years ago, instead of raising her ourselves. However, she has lived a very full life. She was a princess, a queen, a wife, a mother, and a grandmother. Now, she has a chance to start over with this Ulysses as her fiancé. Our daughter is going to have a long and happy life with him by her side."

"I certainly hope so; I would hate to see her suffer any more than she already has. Losing a daughter and a son-in-law was very hard on her, and we witnessed the results of that loss. I don't want her to have to go through that again," Bast said.

Ptah smiled at his wife before leaning down to kiss her. After he pulled back, he wrapped his wings around her, shielding them from the world and said, "Our daughter will suffer no more. She now has a fiancé and an ever growing circle of friends to protect her. Callista will soon discover the greatest gift of all when her great-grandchildren are born." He chuckled slightly before he said, "You think her adoptive parents had it rough raising a demi-goddess? Just wait until Chance and Callie have to raise three little sorceresses. You want to see magic gone awry? Those little girls are going to make Chance age faster than he thinks."

Bast pulled out of his embrace and placed her paws on her hips. She gave him a stern look and said, "You know that you are not supposed to look into their future. Father will have a fit, if he finds out, that is. You are going to have to be a 'Very Good Husband' if you don't want him to."

Ptah knew that she was playing with him, and decided to play along. He mockingly looked shocked and said, "Well then, he is not going to find out. I will have to be your humble servant, my love." Ptah brought the tips of his wings under her chin and lightly brushed them against her fur, tickling her.

Bast started to laugh as Ptah tickled her with his wings. She eventually slapped his wings away and placed her arms around his neck before she said in a sultry tone, "You are not being good, Ptah, and I am going to have to punish you." She then kissed him.

Ptah kissed her back and picked her up in his arms. He then opened his wings and flew off with her in his arms.

At the hangar, Mark could not believe his eyes as he stared at the TurboKat, even if it was missing some of its sheet metal. He ran his right paw down the belly of the jet and let out a wolf whistle in appreciation. He got to the engine's intake and looked down the throat, taking note of the angle of the blades. He asked, "Can I go up for a ride in this beautiful girl, once she is flight worthy again?"

Jake was going through several boxes he had stored. He was looking for some uniforms that he had made earlier, before he and Chance decided on the blue and red version that they currently wore, when he heard Mark's question. He replied, as he found the box that he was looking for, "I don't see why not. If you are really looking to go for a ride, why don't you ask Felina to take you up in the TurboKat 2?"

Mark turned his head to Jake and asked, "Is the TurboKat 2 built like the TurboKat?"

"Not exactly. The second generation has more efficient engines, a steeper rake on the wings, and it's slightly smaller to make it more maneuverable."

Felina interrupted him and said, "And she is all mine!"

Jake rolled his eyes at her as he held a box in his arms. He walked over to a bench by the TurboKat and placed the box down before opening it. Jake pulled out two blue and red uniforms for Tina and Katerina, plus two black uniforms for Lisa and Mark. He said, "I am glad I didn't burn these when Chance and my exes left us years ago. They were going to be our partners, but they got a little over possessive and left us. Tina, Katerina, these should fit you. They are going to be very form-fitting, but that is by design to keep wind resistance down to a minimum." Jake handed them their uniforms, and then said, "If you want to try them on, you can go over by the lockers and change."

Tina and Katerina took the uniforms from Jake and walked over towards the lockers to change.

Jake then took one of the black uniforms in his paw and said, "Mark, since you and Lisa are going to make up the Black Ops division, it only makes sense for you two to wear that color. The material is very resistant to being torn by bladed weapons, and it might even protect you from a bullet. Please go and change in the bathroom. I want to make sure that it fits properly since it was designed to fit Chance."

Mark took the uniform in his paw and threw it over his shoulder as he turned and walked towards the bathroom.

Tina had removed her clothing and started to slip into the uniform that Jake had given her. The material felt like her favorite pair of leggings, only a hair tighter. After she got the uniform on, she turned towards the mirror and looked at her reflection. She saw the outlines of her underwear through the material and decided that they had to go. She quickly removed the uniform and her underwear, then re-donned the uniform. Tina checked her reflection again and liked what she saw. She said to Katerina, "Go commando when wearing the uniform. Trust me, love."

Katerina was just about to put on her uniform when she heard Tina. She replied, "What does this mean, 'go commando'?"

Tina chuckled, and then replied, "Wear nothing under the uniform, Katerina. Trust me, it feels real good."

Katerina removed her underwear and put her uniform on as Tina recommended. The uniform fit her like a second skin. She looked at herself in the mirror and ran her paws down her body. The material was silky-smooth, and gave a very pleasant tingling sensation to her fur and skin where her paws touched the material. She wondered if Tina was having the same experience.

Katerina walked over to Tina and saw how good she looked in her uniform. The material left almost nothing to the imagination. Katerina stood behind Tina before placing her arms around Tina's mid-section. She then let her paws travel up and down Tina's body. As she did, she asked, "Do you like how that feels, love?"

Tina felt Katerina's caress, and loved the way that the uniform enhanced her light touches. She purred as Katerina's paws grazed over her breasts and abdomen. She felt like she was going to explode just from those ghostly touches. She said through her purrs, "If you don't stop. Purr. I am going to try. Purr. To rip that off of you. Purr. And. Purr. Make love to you right here. Purr. In front of everyone. Purr."

Katerina, however, did not stop. Instead, she leaned forward and kissed Tina's neck. She then pulled back so she could whisper into Tina's left ear, "When we get back to Felina's tonight, I am going to make love to you hard and long. You thought that you were spent after last night? Just you wait." She then kissed her.

Mark was having similar problems with his uniform. The boxers he wore bunched up as he dressed. He decided that he was going to have to start wearing briefs. He removed his underwear also, and pulled the uniform back on. It fit like a glove. He gave himself a look over as best as he could without a mirror. He opened the door to the bathroom and walked back to Jake. As he passed by the lockers, he heard Tina's purrs. He looked over a short wall that separated the lockers from the rest of the hangar and saw Katerina holding and kissing Tina. He mockingly said, "I should get a bucket of popcorn or something. Watching you two is way better than any of the stag films I watched in college."

Both Katerina and Tina stopped kissing long enough to turn their heads and stare at Mark, who was looking at them intensely, waiting to see if they were going to continue making out in front of him or not.

Katerina leaned forward and whispered to Tina, "Care to put on a show, just for him?" She then placed her right paw on Tina's backside.

Tina understood that Katerina wasn't really serious about having sex in front of Mark, but the way Katerina's paw rested on her tail told her that Katerina wanted to continue just to get a rise out of him. Tina closed her eyes and leaned in to passionately kiss Katerina.

Katerina closed her eyes also, and gave in to the kiss that Tina was giving her. She squeezed Tina's backside, causing the smaller female to groan through the kiss.

Mark could not believe that Katerina and Tina would be so bold as to do that in front in front of him, although he was definitely enjoying what he was seeing.

Tina wrapped her arms around Katerina's neck and deepened the kiss, causing Katerina to moan.

Callie arrived outside the dress shop and managed to find a parking space relatively easily. She quickly parked her car and shut off the motor. Callie turned to Callista and asked, "Shall we go? I can't wait to see if Sarah is here with her mother."

Callista took of off her seatbelt, turned to Callie, and replied, "Sure, little Sarah is really looking forward to spending the day with you and Persival tomorrow. She is such a cute little girl. She actually reminds me of you, my granddaughter."

Lisa had no idea who Sarah or Persival were. She would probably find out, given time. She got out of the car and waited on the side walk for Callie and Callista to join her.

Callie held the door open for all of them. As the door closed, Sarah poked her head out from behind the door that led to the back room. She took in a quick breath, and then ran out from the back room. She screamed, "Callie!" as she ran into Callie, and placed her arms around Callie's legs.

Callie bent down and picked up Sarah. Once Sarah was at eye level with her, she asked, "Have you been a good girl, as you said you would?"

"Yes, Callie, I have been good. I cleaned my room, helped here, and did everything my Mommy asked me to, just so I can come and play with you tomorrow. Please don't tell me that I can't come over tomorrow? I have been so looking forward to seeing you all week since my Mommy told me I was going to see you tomorrow."

"Heavens no, I would never do that, especially to you, Sarah. I will by to pick you up late in the morning, Sarah. I promise," Callie said, and crossed her heart with her left paw. She put Sarah down as Sally emerged from the back room.

Sally said, "Sarah has been talking about going to see you non-stop ever since I told her that she was going to spend the day with you. I don't know what you did to get her out of her shell, but I am grateful. Sarah has started making friends at school, and is acting like a normal kitten, instead of staying inside all the time." Sally got down on one knee and opened up her arms. She smiled and said, "C'mere you little scamp."

Sarah ran into her mother's arms and placed her arms around Sally's neck, while Sally encircled Sarah with her arms before she picked her up. She then said, "Callista, I have your dress ready, so if you would not mind trying it on, I want to see how gorgeous you are going to look in it." She then turned to Lisa and asked, "Can I help you find something?"

Lisa was perusing the racks of dresses just to pass time. She turned to Sally and replied, "I am supposed to get the standard uniform? Raul sent me here."

"Ah, Raul's standard uniform. At least you have the body for it. The last two she-cats he sent over didn't have the curves to wear it, so I had to make major modifications to their uniforms. Please follow me to the back of the store. I'll get your uniform and Callista's dress. I'm guessing you wear a size 5?" She carried Sarah in her arms to the back of the store, tickling her along the way. She and Sarah disappeared into the back room. Sally came back a few minutes later with two garment bags in her paws. She handed one to Callista, and the other to Lisa. She then said, "Please try this on, Callista. I think I have the alterations done to your liking, but I want to make sure." She then turned to Lisa and said, "I don't think that I will have to do a thing to the uniform to get it to fit. There is so much spandex in the dress that it should fit you like a glove."

Both Lisa and Callista went into their individual dressing rooms to change into their dresses, while Callie and Sally played with Sarah.

Lisa disrobed and pulled the uniform onto her body with a little bit of difficulty. The dress was so tight, it didn't have much give as she pulled it up over her hips and tried to thread her tail through the slit in the rear of the dress, since there was no zipper. She finally managed to get the dress all the way on and turned to look at her reflection in the mirror located in the dressing room. Lisa took one look and said, "No way am I wearing this in public." The dress was made from a silver-pleated spandex that reflected the light off of the pleats as she moved. It was also strapless and low cut across the chest, so it showed off a decent amount of the wearer's cleavage and back. It was also very short, so most of her long legs were revealed, and if she tried to bend over, her underwear would show from under the dress. She took a second look at herself and saw that she actually looked good, despite it not being something she would normally wear. Lisa walked out of the dressing room to get Callie and Sally's opinions.

Callie heard the curtain to one of the dressing rooms open. She turned her head to see if it was Callista or Lisa. The first thing she saw was a very long set of legs, followed by their owner. She said to Lisa, once she was out of the dressing room, "Wow, Mark is going to have a very hard time keeping his paws off of you when he sees you in that. You look absolutely gorgeous!"

Lisa still could not get over how short the dress was, and kept trying to pull down the hem, only to have it spring back to its previous position, if not ride higher on her hips.

Sally took one look at Lisa and said, "That is how Raul wants to have his waitresses look, and Callie is right. You look stunning in that dress."

"You both really think so? It is way too short for my tastes," Lisa replied.

"Nonsense, Lisa. That dress fits you like a glove, and it makes you look really hot, if you don't mind me saying so," Callie retorted.

Callista had finished dressing, and heard both Callie and Sally talking to Lisa about her dress. She was curious, herself, to see how Lisa looked in that dress. She left the dressing room and instantly saw Lisa standing there, playing with the hem of her dress. She walked towards the group, and when she was close enough to Lisa, she said, "Callie is right, Lisa. If I were Mark, I would be completely tongue tied. That dress accentuates every one of your curves to perfection. You had better keep that engagement ring on your finger, or some tom is going to try and ask you to go home with him."

They all turned to Callista and gave her a once over with their eyes. Between the color of the dress matching her eyes, and the way the dress flowed over her legs, she looked like a queen. All three she-cats just stared in awe at how good Callista looked in her dress.

Sarah pulled at her mother's sweater and asked, "Mommy, will I look like that when I get older? She is beautiful."

Callista smiled at Sarah's compliment and crouched down so she was at Sarah's level. Callista looked Sarah in the eye and said, "Thank you, Sarah. You have nothing to worry about. I have a very good feeling that you are going to turn every tom's head when you are older. Not that you aren't cute as a button right now." She kissed Sarah on the nose.

Sarah giggled, placed her arms around Callista, and said, "I like you."

"I like you, too, Sarah. You remind me of Callie when she was your age. It's too bad I will not be there tomorrow. I would love to play with you and my sister, but I have a date with my fiancée tomorrow that I have been looking forward to all week. You will meet him soon. He is strong, handsome, and very caring. You will like him."

Upon hearing that Callista was now engaged, Sally ran off to the back room. She quickly searched the racks of dresses to find what she was looking for. Eventually, she pulled a long garment bag from one of the racks that was towards the rear of the room and quickly walked back to the store front.

Callie, Lisa, and Callista were very confused as to why Sally ran off into the back room all of a sudden after Callista announced that she had a date with her fiancé but then Sally reappeared, holding something in her paws.

Sally handed the bag to Callista and said, "This was special ordered, then cancelled at the last minute. Apparently, the she-cat's fiancé got caught cheating on her, from what I heard. I can't sell this, and I have a feeling that you will like it."

Callista stood up, opened the bag, and saw a slightly off-white-colored wedding dress. She closed the bag, turned to Sally, and said, "I can't take this. This dress must have cost a small fortune."

"I insist, Callista. I can't sell it because of the color, and I am sure you will look stunning in it. Just wait until your fiancée sees you in that dress. His eyes are going to fall out of their sockets," Sally said and smiled.

Callista held the bag in her paws, debating on what she should do. She reached out and took Sally into an embrace before she said, "Thank you."

Sally returned her embrace and said, "No, thank you. Both you and your sister coaxed Sarah out of her shell. That is something I can never repay you for."

"Callie and I really didn't do a thing, except want to be her friends. She is such a nice girl that it is very easy to befriend her," Callista said as she pulled back out of the embrace.

Callie took a quick glance at her watch and saw that it was getting late in the morning. They still had to get prepared for the meeting that evening. Plus, Lisa had to be at the restaurant by 3 so she could familiarize herself with the layout. Callie said, "As much as I don't want to leave, we need to get the rest of our errands done before this afternoon. Lisa and Callista, please change so we can get on with our day."

Both Callista and Lisa returned to their dressing rooms and changed back into the clothes that they were wearing earlier, while Callie sat with Sarah at the front of the store.

Sarah held one of her dolls in her paws and asked, "Can I see a picture of your boyfriend?"

"Sure, Sarah," Callie replied. She opened up her purse and dug out her wallet. Callie opened her wallet to the section that held the pictures, thumbed through her driver's license and credit cards, and found the only picture she had of Chance. It was a picture of T-Bone standing next to the TurboKat with his arms crossed over his chest. She showed the picture to Sarah.

Sarah looked at the picture and said, "He is not your boyfriend. That is T-Bone of the SWAT Kats."

Callie replied, "T-Bone is my boyfriend, Sarah. Actually, he is my fiancé. I am marrying him."

"No way! Everyone knows he is in love with Empress. T-Bone would never date another she-cat while he is dating her," Sarah said.

"You are right, Sarah. T-Bone would never do that," Callie replied, and thought about what she was going to do in the next thirty seconds. She then said, "What if I told you that Empress and I are one and the same?"

Sarah looked at her and studied Callie's face for a second as she pictured Callie wearing Empress' mask. Sarah took a deep breath and replied, "I get to spend the day with my favorite super heroine tomorrow! Just wait until I tell my friends; they are going to scream!"

Callie smiled as she listened to Sarah tell her that she was her favorite super heroine. Callie said, "I am glad that I am your favorite heroine, Sarah, but you need to keep who I am to yourself. It's a secret just between us girls, ok?"

"Ok, Callie, I won't tell our secret. Is Persival going to be there tomorrow? I can't wait to meet a flying cat," Sarah asked.

"Yes, he will be there, along with a surprise guest. You will have to wait and see. But I promise that you will like it," Callie replied.

"Ok, Callie, I'll wait," Sarah said and placed her arms around Callie before she said, "I wish you were my sister. I like you a lot."

"I like you, too, Sarah. Even though we are not sisters, that doesn't mean we can't be real good friends." She returned Sarah's embrace.

Lisa and Callista finished changing back into their clothes and left the dressing rooms. As they walked towards the front of the store, they saw Callie holding Sarah.

Callista got down on one knee and asked, "Is everything alright?"

"Yes, everything is fine, Callista. I was just telling Sarah what I have planned for her tomorrow," Callie replied.

"Oh, and what do you have planned for her?" Callista asked.

Callie turned to Sarah and giggled.

Sarah giggled at the same time as Callie. She then said, "It's a secret."

Callista smiled and said, "A secret?" She reached out with her arms, started to lightly tickle Sarah, and said, "You will have to tell me later then, if it is such a big secret."

Sarah started laughing as Callista tickled her.

Lisa smiled as she watched her new friends play with Sarah. She thought, 'Callista and Callie can't be evil. If they were, they wouldn't be playing with Sarah. I guess I have those two figured wrong.' She got down on her knees and hugged them all.

Sally walked to the front of the store after boxing up the three dresses and saw her daughter in an embrace with the other three she-cats. She said, "Come here, Sarah. Your friends said they have to go."

Sarah broke free from the embrace she was in, ran to her mother, and gave her a hug. She said, "I love you, Mommy!"

Sally placed the dresses on the counter and returned Sarah's hug. She then said, "I love you, too."

Callie saw how much Sarah and Sally loved each other, and thought, 'I hope to have that type of relationship with my kittens." She then placed one arm around Callista and the other around Lisa.

Lisa asked, "Shall we get that latte I promised you two?"

Callista replied, "Yes, we all should." She then turned to Sally and said, "Thank you for everything." She then got down on her knees again and said to Sarah, "It was great to finally meet you, Sarah. I have a feeling we are going to be great friends."

"I can't wait to see my all my new friends again tomorrow. Bye," Sarah said, before she ran off to the store room.

Lisa, Callie, and Callista linked arms and left the shop, smiling the whole time.

End of Chapter