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Chapter Fourteen

“Talking”

‘Thoughts’

I want to thank Ulyferal for being my beta-reader and giving me Feral’s female name. Also I will be adding a few characters of my own so if you want to borrow them you will have to ask first! Disclaimer: I don’t own the SWAT Kats they belong to Hanna-Barbera!

The next morning was gray and overcast befitting Feral’s current mindset upon rising. She felt tired and wrung out. Her soul searching had gotten her nowhere. If she was forever female she would be forced to reinvent herself. The prospect didn’t set well and she had finally given up toward dawn which was why she was so irritable this morning.

She decided to go for a run to burn off her distress. An hour later, she returned, ate a light breakfast, took a shower and lay down for a short nap.

The night before...

Outside the fence near the M.A.S.A space center, resided an abandoned military base. One of the old buildings had its windows boarded up so no one could see inside. In one small section of it, a large room had been sealed off and inside a modern lab had been set up.

Inside were two dark figures moving about while the lights cast shadows over the room. One figure was very tall and broad with dark purple fur and wearing a red hooded cloak while the other figure was shorter and looked like a cross between a kat and a lizard wearing a lab coat. They were Megakat City’s two worst criminals known as Dark Kat and Dr. Viper. Viper was carrying a petri dish over to another work area while Dark Kat hovered impatiently behind him.

“Is the virus ready yet, Viper?” Dark Kat asked growling.

“Not yet! I just need a few more hours.” Viper muttered distractedly studying what he was working on through a microscope.

“Hurry up, Viper. We’re behind as it is thanks to the SWAT Kats earlier interference.”

“At least it got rid of Feral for us.” Viper reminded him.

“True, but I want the virus ready by midnight tonight.” Dark Kat insisted.

“Don’t rush me, Dark Kat! A beauty such as this takes time.” Viper snapped.

Dark Kat growled again but went silent and watched Viper work. It was a brilliant idea. Viper was creating a virus that would appear as an apparent flu at first, behaving just as swift as that virus usually was making kats very ill and bedridden but after a week, instead of getting better, kats would be dying by the thousands bringing the city to its knees in less than a week.

The application was simple, it would be added to the city’s water supply. Within hours, the virus would contaminate every available water source in the city except bottled and those with viral purifying systems. Very quickly after that, kats would be sneezing, coughing, and running temps before the sun went down.

It was the perfect plan. As the katizens of Megakat City lay sick and dying, Dark Kat and Viper would walk into city hall and force the Mayor and Deputy Mayor to hand over control of the city in exchange for the anti-virus serum. Before two weeks were over Megakat City would be Dark Kat City.

The original plan had called for experimenting on a guinea pig and who better than the Chief Enforcer and/or the SWAT Kats but unfortunately, that plan had been ruined. Feral had been caught and infected but died during the SWAT Kats bungled rescue so there was no way to know if the virus was the cause.

Fortunately, despite the mess the SWAT Kats had made of Viper’s lab, the criminals had managed to save part of the virus and restart the work. They decided not to bother experimenting and just put the virus in the aquifer. ‘They wouldn’t fail this time!’ Dark Kat’s thoughts were interrupted by Viper’s triumphant cry.

“It’s ready, Dark Kat.” He said holding up the vial containing the virus.

“Good, now let’s move on to our part of your plan.” Dark Kat said grinning evilly.

Midnight came dark and cloudy. It was silent at the Megakat Water Plant, the workers having left hours before and the guards, having already made their rounds, were sitting in their monitor room watching TV.

Unseen, Dark Kat’s ninjas slipped into the lightly guarded facility and made for the main water main. Their orders were simple, open the main, drop the vial with the virus, close it and leave. The mission was flawless. The pair of ninjas met no interference as they completed their orders and left as silently as they’d arrived. By morning the city’s water system would be teaming with the virus.

In the early hours of the morning, Mayor Manx rose to a new day. Yawning, he climbed out of bed and got ready for a day of work and, of course, a round of golf. He turned on his shower and grabbed his glass on the sink, filled it with tap water and downed it before stepping into the shower. All around the city, kats were doing the same thing, water for their coffee or tea or water straight from the faucet to start their day.

It was a little later in the morning when the Mayor felt a little feverish and began sneezing.

“Are you alright, Mayor?” Callie asked in concern, holding a bottle of water.

“I’m fine, Callie. Just the sniffles, it’ll be gone by the end of the week.” Mayor Manx said unconcerned.

Callie eyed him a moment then nodded and returned to her office. She began to get more and more concerned, as the morning progressed, at the increased sounds of sneezing with a fairly loud cough added coming from the Mayor’s office. She had a suspicion that it was more than a cold but since she couldn’t do anything about it she went back to her work while the Mayor played golf in his office.

Over at the Megakat Salvage Yard, Chance and Jake prepared to start a training exercise.

“Don’t forget to get properly hydrated, buddy!” Jake called out to Chance as they were leaving their upper level apartment. Jake was already getting a glass of water when Chance came into the room.

“Right, pour me a glass will ya, Jake?” Chance said as he finished tying his shoes.

Jake filled another glass and handed to his partner. The tabby chugged it down and left the glass on the table. They both headed down to the hangar where their Reflex Room was situated. They went through four sessions before feeling it was enough and calling it a day. They changed into their coveralls and made for the garage. Jake went to the kitchen and got a couple of cans of milk tossing one to his partner when he went back into the living room. Chance caught and downed half of it in one gulp. Jake sipped his more sedately. They relaxed for a bit. There was no work to be done today so they were able to take it easy after such a busy morning.

“Radical work out there, buddy.” Jake said pleased with their performance.

“Yeah it was great! With all this extra training, I’ll show Valkyrie who’s the better hero.” Chance said bragging.

“Chaaance,” Jake said in exasperation.

“What? I’m just saying…” Chance began, looking at his friend in confusion.

“Chance, I think it’s great that another hero is on the scene. Especially, now that Steele is the Chief Enforcer. It’s going to take all of us to keep the city safe. He is so incompetent, his enforcers are all but useless, except for Felina, of course. Valkyrie’s appearance couldn’t have been better timed.”

Chance sighed. “Okay, I guess you’re right.” he admitted. “She also gives me more free time to be with Ursula,” he grinned happily.

“Have you seen her lately?” Jake asked as he sipped from his glass.

“No, but I plan to ask her out again,” Chance said, refilling his glass.

“Good luck, buddy,” Jake smiled warmly.

“Hey, how are things going between you and Callie?” Chance asked drinking the rest of his milk.

“Great! Callie and I have a date tomorrow.” Jake said shyly.

“Guess you’ll be heading to bed early then?” Chance asked grinning wickedly at him.

“Yeah. I probably should.” Jake agreed then suddenly sneezed.

“Sounds like you might be getting a cold, Jake. Better take some medicine before you go to bed.” Chance said in concern then surprised himself by sneezing too.

“Sounds like you should too, buddy,” Jake said frowning. He went to the kitchen and opened their medicine cabinet. Taking out a bottle of pills, he returned to the living room and shook out a couple of pills for Chance. Chance tossed them back with his milk as Jake shook out a couple more for himself and took them with the last of his milk.

“Think we should order some dinner and make it an early night, Jake,” Chance said reaching for the phone and ordering Chinese for them. Jake just nodded in agreement.

By the time they had finished dinner and cleaned up, they were now coughing as well as sneezing. By mutual consent, they decided to close the garage an hour early. When they had secured the yard and garage, they both seemed to be running a fever.

“Chance, I’m heading to bed early. Oh, can you record Litterbin for me?” Jake asked as he headed for the stairs to their bedrooms.

“Sure thing.” Chance agreed, going to the living room and flipping on the TV to watch his Scaredy Cat cartoon.

Less than a few minutes into his show, Chance was so miserable from the coughing and sneezing he gave up trying to watch and shut off the TV. He set the VCR to record Jake’s show then made his way heavily to his room.

As he passed his partner’s room, he could hear sneezing and coughing coming from it. Shaking his head in commiseration, Chance entered his room and stripped down to his boxers and laid down on his bed not bothering to cover himself because he felt too warm.

Around midnight Jake woke up feeling worse. His throat was dry and scratchy and his nose was stuffed up. Groggily Jake got out of bed to get a glass of water. As he stepped in the hall he could hear coughing from Chance’s room.

Jake walk down the stairs a bit unsteadily. Entering the kitchen, he took more medicine.

‘This is not good. We won’t be able to work tomorrow feeling like this. Hope there’s no SWAT Kat emergency.’ Jake thought worriedly as he made his way back to bed.

By morning, Chance and Jake felt much worse. Jake made a sign for the gate that said, ‘Sorry, Closed due to illness’. Both toms grabbed blankets and made themselves as comfortable as they could in the living room. As they watched TV, sneezing and coughing now and then, Jake drank a warm cup of herbal tea while Chance was checking his temperature with a thermometer. They sat far away from each other as they could. Chance had just flicked on the set when a news flash came on.

“This is Marin Clawless at Kats Eye News filling in for Ann Gora who is ill. Megakat City is suffering from an apparent flu epidemic. Doctors are advising kats with active symptoms to remain at home, drink plenty of fluids and get lots of rest. The symptoms noted were, sneezing, coughing, aches and pains, and fever. We here at Kats Eye News want to urge the katizens of Megakat City to take every precaution they can to prevent the spread of the virus. Doctors say it should last only about ten days. We’ll keep you informed of any new developments.”

After the news flash, Jake frowned and said, “That’s strange.”

“What is?” Chance asked taking the thermometer out of his mouth.

“That nearly all the kats in the city are getting sick at the same time.”

“You think too much, buddy. Relax and rest, it’s probably a coincidence,” Chance said shrugging and settling into his blanket a bit more.

Jake shook his head and continued to frown. Despite what his partner had said, this didn’t sound right. ‘If it was something else, how would he and Chance be able to handle it when they were as sick as the city.’ Jake thought worriedly.

Elsewhere, another kat was listening to the same broadcast. Frowning, Feral turned off the TV. The cases of flu were rising rapidly, she wondered if Felina was one of the victims. Maybe she should check on her later, right now it was about dinner time. She went to the kitchen to prepare a meal for herself and Hackle.

She ate hers in the kitchen then took the Professor’s out to him in his lab.

“Here you are Professor, I brought you some dinner.” Feral said coming up behind the old kat and setting his meal down near him..

“Ah, thank you, Commander. I really do enjoy your cooking.” Hackle said with a pleased grin.

Feral blushed at the comment, “Uh, you’re welcome, Professor.”

As Hackle ate his dinner, he reviewed the news reports from the day. Feral’s brows pulled down in puzzlement, he couldn’t understand why Hackle was keeping track of the news on the flu cases.

“Uh, Professor why are you monitoring this?” Feral asked looking at the computer scan.

“This flu has reached epidemic proportions, something about it is not right!” Hackle said frowning at the data.

“What’s not right about it? It happens in cycles, lots of kats get sick then it’s gone just as quick., at least that’s been my experience,” Feral said puzzled.

“That’s true, Commander, but this flu is making kats sick to fast and far too many are being affected. During a normal flu season, we’d see about a quarter of the population be affected but what’s happening now is unprecedented hence the reason for my uneasiness,” Hackle said worriedly.

“You mean, this might be not be natural?” Feral said anxiously.

“I truly don’t know. I’ll have to monitor this closely before I can make any assumptions,” Hackle said cautiously.

“I can understand that. This is a little worrying. I think I’ll go check on someone. Be back later, Professor,” she said taking her leave. Hackle just nodded.

He knew where Feral was going. She wanted to see if her niece and Chance were affected. He could hardly blame her, this situation was very worrisome.

Feral wasted no time in heading for the city on the motorcycle. She thought she’d check Felina at Enforcer Headquarters first. When she arrived she looked around for Felina’s car. She spotted it just as Felina was leaving the building and heading for it.

As Feral watched, Felina walked across the parking lot and halted just short of her car to sneeze and cough. Feral’s chest squeezed in fear. She parked her bike and made her way carefully toward Felina. As she approached, Felina continued to sneeze and cough helplessly.

“Excess me, miss.” Feral said softly

“Huh! Uh...yes?” Felina said sounding very stuffy.

“Are you alright, you sound terrible.” Feral asked solicitously.

“Oh, yeah! I’m just a bit tired. Some of the enforcers called in sick today so I have to pull a double shift.” Felina said trying to reassure the concerned stranger.

Feral didn’t believe a word Felina was saying. She stood indecisively, she didn’t think it a good idea to leave Felina alone. As she continued to stand there, Felina had reached into her pocket for her car keys, swayed a bit on her feet then suddenly collapsed backwards.

Feral reached out and caught her before she could hit the ground.

“Felina! Felina, can you hear me?” She called out to her while holding Felina close to her chest.

“How…do you…know…my name?” Felina asked blearily before blacking out.

Feral cursed under her breath. She fished the car keys out of the pocket Felina had tried to do in the first place, then she slipped an arm under Felina’s legs and hugged her close to her chest. She carried her niece to the passenger side of the car and opened the door. Placing Felina carefully in the seat she then buckled her up.

Feral made her way to the driver’s side but halted and signaled her security system on the motorcycle so no one would mess with it then climbed into the driver’s seat and drove Felina home. It was a quiet ride with Feral glancing at her niece from time to time to be sure she was okay. Once at the apartment Feral gently tried to wake Felina up.

“Uh, what?” Felina muttered thickly.

“I’ve brought you home, do you think you can make it to your apartment?” Feral asked.

“Uhm, I’m not sure.”

“I’ll help you then.”

Felina was confused. How did she get in her vehicle and who was this kat helping her. Her head was throbbing and it made thinking hard. She remembered not feeling so hot this morning but with so many enforcers out, she felt she had to go in but as the day passed she began to feel much worse. She vaguely remembered the world getting a bit fuzzy then nothing.

Before she could untangle her thoughts, she felt the stranger unbuckle her seatbelt and help her out of her own vehicle. She thought she should object but the world wouldn’t stay stable enough.

As Feral carefully pulled Felina out of her car, she could feel how hot her niece was. She put one of Felina’s arms across her shoulders while she put her own around her niece’s waist. She practically carried her up to her apartment. Feral unlocked the apartment and carried Felina in, closing the door with her foot.

She took her niece to the bedroom and stripped her down to her underwear and placed a light blanket over her. She went to the kitchen and rummaged around a bit until she found a can of soup. She heated it up and made some tea.

Meanwhile, Felina woke up muddle headed. It took her several minutes to realize she was in her own bed and that she could smell something cooking. ‘Who was in her apartment?’ she wondered. ‘How the heck did I wind up in my apartment anyway?’

Her questions were answered when the strange she-kat stepped into her bedroom carrying a tray with something steaming on it. Felina gaped at her.

“How are you feeling?” Feral asked gently, placing the tray on the bed.

“Um, not so great. You brought me home?” Felina asked sitting up enough to allow the she-kat to put the tray in front of her. She could see it was soup and tea.

“Yes. You collapsed. I couldn’t just leave you there.” Feral said reassuringly.

“Um, thank you. That was really nice of you, but who are you?” Felina asked frowning up at the kat.

“It doesn’t matter.” Feral said uncomfortably.

“Yes, it does. I want to know the name of my rescuer.” Felina insisted picking up the spoon.

Feral shifted uneasily, she needed to get out of here. “Look, I just wanted to make sure you would be okay. Now that you’re safe in bed. You need to rest so I’ll be leaving now.” She said moving toward the door quickly.

“Wha...oh please, I would really like to know who you are?” Felina insisted upset that the she-kat refused to tell her. “Please, at least tell me your first name?”

Feral sighed. She didn’t want to upset Felina anymore than she’d already had so relented, “It’s Ursula. Now I really must be off. I have someone else I need to check on.”

“Thank you, I’m really grateful to you.” Felina said softly.

“You’re welcome. Get well soon!” Feral said and left quickly before Felina could ask her anything else.

Feral carefully locked Felina’s door and made her way downstairs quickly. Out on the curb, she flagged down a taxi to take her back to Enforcer Headquarters. Once there, she got on her motorcycle and headed for the salvage yard.

On the way there she noted the traffic was exceptionally light. This was not a good sign, it meant more kats were ill. She drove up to the gate and saw the sign, it was locked as well. It made her heart sink. At least one of the guys was ill possibly both of them. As Chief Enforcer she had the keys so she unlocked the gate, closing it firmly behind her then drove to the garage door. .

Inside Jake and Chance groaned in unison at the ringing bell. Even with the sign on the gate, customers had rung the bell, though admittedly there hadn’t been that many. They had one customer who kept ringing the bell angrily until he could see for himself that both mechanics were indeed ill. Going all the way to the gate was exhausting. This time it was the doorbell that was ringing. They looked at each other in surprise.

“Now how did whoever it is get inside the gate?” Chance asked hoarsely.

“Don’t know.” Jake just muttered.

“It’s your turn, buddy,” the tabby reminded him.

Jake groaned but got up hugging his blanket to him and trudged down the stairs to the main door. Standing there was a dark she-kat.

“Ursula, what brings you here?” Jake asked in surprise.

“I was worried about you two. The flu is spreading and I wanted to see if you guys were affected. I’m so sorry to see you are.” She said feeling a little self-conscious as well as worried..

“Yeah, but I’m weathering it okay,” Jake said smiling tiredly.

“Is Chance sick too?” She asked afraid of the answer.

“Um, afraid so,” Jake admitted reluctantly.

“Jake, who is it?” Chance called from inside, wondering what was taking his friend so long.

“It’s Ursula!” Jake called back then turned to Feral, “Come on in, Chance most likely will want to see you,” Jake said, stepping aside.

Feral stepped inside and waited as Jake shut the door. She followed him up the stairs. She looked around and was pleased to see the two had made the place clean and homey unlike the condition those idiots, Burke and Murray had left it. Her eyes settled on the blanket wrapped tabby sitting huddled on one end of the couch.

“Ursula, hey…” Chance said getting up a bit too quickly causing him to stumble.

“Chance, sit down.” Feral said sharply rushing forward to the tom’s side.

Chance just smiled as she wrapped an arm around his waist to steady him and pushed him back down on the couch allowing herself to sit beside him. Jake sat back down at his end of the couch putting Feral between them. What little energy he’d had completely drained from him.

“How long have you guys been sick?” She asked seriously.

“Since yesterday. I had to cancel my date with Callie early today,” Jake said, having a little difficulty pulling his blanket on. Feral quickly reached out and helped him put it more securely around himself

“That long?” She said worriedly, checking Jake’s forehead with her fingers.

Chance felt a wave of jealousy at Feral’s attention to Jake rather then himself. He selfishly wanted all her attention on him alone.

“Ursula, what brings you here?” Chance asked not having heard her answer to Jake a few minutes ago. His question got him what he wanted...her attention.

“I was a bit concerned about the two of you. I heard the flu cases were spreading around the city and was afraid you might have gotten it. I’m not happy to know you are both so ill.” She said, now putting her fingers on his forehead instead.

Chance closed his eyes enjoying her touch once again, “Really? Thanks, that was nice of you. If you had been here earlier, you could have seen Callie.” Chance said casually.

“I’ll see her some other time. Have you two eaten anything?” She asked standing up.

“No, been too sick to eat.” Jake said heavily, watching the interaction between the two.

‘They definitely have something going on between them,’ Jake thought. He hoped Ursula would regain her memory soon. He couldn’t bear it if the truth ended up hurting both of them.

“I’ll just go whip something up for you,” She said firmly and made her way to the kitchen.

“You don’t have to do that, we’ll be okay!” Jake objected not wanting Ursula to feel she had to do something for them.

“I owe you, remember. You did fix my bike,” Feral reminded him warmly.

“If you’re sure.”

“I am.” She said firmly and went into the kitchen. She poked around the cupboards and fridge a bit until she found enough ingredients to make them chicken soup. She wasn’t sure either of the tom’s could handle solid food right now. The broth she was making should help them.

Very soon the delicious scent wafted toward the living room. Chance’s stuffed nose twitched at the smell of food being cooked.

“Hm, that smells good.” Chance murmured, getting hungry.

“You’re right, Chance. It smells like soup.” Jake sighed, also getting hungry.

Moments later, Feral came out with two bowls of soup. She gave the first one to Chance and then the other to Jake.

“Careful it’s still hot.” She warned them.

“Smells heavenly, thanks.” Chance said and ignored the warning, sipping some of the soup without cooling it and immediately gasped when he burned his tongue.

Shaking her head, Feral said with a small smile of amusement, “I told you so.”

Jake on the other hand blew on the soup before taking a sip himself. Jake eyes widened at the marvelous taste of the soup.

“Wow, that’s good!” He moaned taking another careful sip.

“Thank you.” She said smiling at him.

Chance took a more cautious sip this time as he blew on it before drinking. Jake was right, the soup Ursula had made was one of the best he’d ever tasted.

“Jake’s right. This soup is good.” Chance said in a hurry to eat it.

“You’re welcome, there’s still some left over for tomorrow.” Feral said blushing at Chance’s compliment.

“Thanks, Ursula.” Jake said showing his pleasure by quickly slurping the soup as fast as he dared.

“No problem. Now I better be off. I want to check on the Professor. You guys get a lot of rest. You’ll be okay for now?” She asked watching the two tom’s eat.

“You have nothing to worry about, Ursula. Jake and I can take of yourselves.” Chance assured her.

“Fine! But I will be back to check on you guys,” She told them going to the stairs to leave.

“Let me walk you out.” Chance said, putting his bowl on the coffee table.

“No you don’t. Stay put, you need to rest,” Feral said moving back to stop him.

“She’s right, Chance. You need to rest in case we get a call to help someone.” Jake said hoping Chance would catch the hint.

Chance understood what Jake was saying and he hated that his friend was right. Feral glanced at them sensing something private being passed between them with those words. She wondered what Jake had been alluding to, it obviously had nothing to do with cars.

“Ursula, come by later okay,” asked Chance

“I said I would, Chance, now rest,” She said reminding him.

Just as she started to leave again, Chance stood up and grabbed her paw stopping her. She only turned halfway when she felt Chance kiss her on the check. Her golden eyes widened a bit and she felt hot. Chance gave her a smile but was shocked and pleased in the next instant when she returned the kiss.

“I hope you feel better soon.” Feral said, smiling gently.

“Me too.” Chance whispered watching her leave.

They had completely forgotten the gate was locked and that she would be leaving through it again. Fortunately for Feral, they were too ill to realize it and wonder how she had gotten in in the first place.
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