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Chapter nine
“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!
When Feral returned to Hackle’s home, she quickly went out for a jog on the beach, needing to burn off her anger. Once she had finished, she went looking for the Professor. Maybe he would have some advice on how she could help Felina. She found him in his lab working on some sort of disk.
“Professor, I need your advice.” Feral said abruptly.
“Of course, Commander. What is it?” The Professor asked setting the disk aside for the moment. She quickly explained Felina’s difficulties with the new Commander.
“His constant threats to demote her are going to break her spirit or cause her to be ousted from the Enforcers. She is too good an officer to have this happen to and probably the only sane hope for my enforcers to survive Steel’s incompetency.” She said urgently.
Hackle nodded his understanding his mind already coming up with an idea to help Feral. “I think I may have an answer for your niece’s problem but it will require the SWAT Kats assistance. After all, they are just as affected by Steel as Felina is.” Hackle said firmly.
“Crud, is it really necessary to include them?” Feral growled in annoyance.
“Oh, yes. If the plan is to work.” Hackle assured her.
“Alright. When and where should we do this?” Feral asked, sighing resignedly.
“Well, tomorrow night I should think. I’ll contact the SWAT Kats and you contact your niece. As for a meeting place, where you spoke to her today sounds good enough.” He said thoughtfully.
“You can contact the SWAT Kats?” She asked in surprise.
“Yes, but I don’t know who they really are.” Hackle said simply, smiling a little at Feral’s surprised look.
“Huh! Well okay. Why don’t you explain this plan of yours.” She said.
For the next twenty minutes he did so. After asking a few question of her own, she felt satisfied that she understood his idea. “That’s a great idea and it should work. I’ll work on fleshing it out in my mind for a while. Thanks! Now I guess I’ll go get some rest before dinner. See you later Professor.” She said yawning and leaving the room.
“Very well, Commander.” He nodded.
He waited till Feral had left his building then went to his ham radio set. After sending out a call for the SWAT Kats, he returned to his work. The next evening, T-Bone and Razor were waiting impatiently by the Megakat Mine entrance for Professor Hackle to show. Only minutes later a car drove up and Felina got out. They were surprised to see her as she was them.
“T-Bone, Razor? What are you two doing here?” Felina asked before they could.
“A friend of ours asked us to meet him here.” Razor told her.
“What about you, Lt. Feral?” T-Bone asked, but before Felina could answer another voice rang out from the dark.
“Actually, SWAT Kats it was me that had you called.” Feral said coolly, stepping out of the shadows dressed in her battle armor.
“Valkyrie? But how…?!” Razor blurted in surprise.
“That’s not important. I needed to speak to you about the serious problems; Lt. Feral is having with that nitwit, Steel.” She said bluntly, keeping the SWAT Kats from asking how she knew the Professor.
“Please hear me out.” She said. They nodded and waited. Feral told them the same thing she had explained to the Professor.
“Crud! Is it really that bad, Lieutenant?” T-Bone asked getting angry for her sake.
“I’m afraid so. Steel is threatening to put me out action if I don’t stop being friendly to you guys and Valkyrie.” Felina said bitterly.
“That bastard. He’d be just the type to do it too!” Razor said angrily.
Feral was a surprised to see just how upset the SWAT Kats were about Felina’s situation. ‘Apparently, they have a soft spot for her and respect her as well.’ Feral thought, remembering past events where her niece and the SWAT Kats had worked together so well.
“You’re right about that!” Felina grumbled.
“Okay, what can we do to help stop him from harassing you?” T-Bone asked.
“You need to stage a falling out between you and Lt. Feral.” Feral interrupted. “It has to be good enough to convince Steel that you guys can’t stand each other. Only then can we be sure that that idiot will leave her alone. After that you will have to be very careful to behave as enemies while you’re secretly helping each other.” She explained.
“That’s a great idea!” T-Bone crowed happily.
Felina smiled for the first time that evening as well.Relieved that everyone was pleased with the solution, Feral had them discussing ways to pull this off. Finally, they settled on a plan then worked out the details till everyone felt comfortable with it and were reasonably certain they’d succeed.They would put the plan in action when the next big criminal showed up. Pleased with their preparations, they split up for home.
To their good fortune, if it could be thought that way, Dr. Viper decided to show his face.As he had tried before, Viper used Megakat Tower for his grand scheme. This time the plants were armed not only with acids but with poison making it much harder to get into the building. Dr. Viper’s plantimals were located in the lobby and in the penthouse of the tower. This made entry by the enforcers practically impossible. For some strange reason, Viper didn’t have any of his plantimals in the center of the building.
The enforcer’s discovered to their horror that the lobby plants use poison and the penthouse ones spit acid. Felina was on scene and knew this was the perfect opportunity for their plan. She made sure that no one was observing her before she called Valkyrie. She didn’t know how to call the SWAT Kats but fortunately, Ms. Briggs, who was watching this mess unfold, did.Deciding against taking the jet or use the armor to run, Feral took the repaired motorcycle. Of course, Hackle just had to add a few more toys to it when he was fixing it.
She was racing along when she heard the Turbokat scream by overhead. She smiled, the plan was coming together.The Sergeant nearly jumped out of his fur when Feral drove passed him very closely as she headed for Felina’s location. Pulling up beside her, she shut off her bike and climbed off.
“What happening, Lt.Feral?” Feral asked.
“Same oh, same oh, with a small twist. Viper snuck into that cursed tower with his plantimals again but the twist is the lobby plants are poisonous and the penthouse ones are the acid spitters. So, effectively, we can’t get in from the bottom or top but the odd thing is there seem to be no plants in the center of the building.” She briefed Valkyrie.
Feral nodded her understanding and glanced up to the sky to see Viper’s mutant plants attacking the Turbokat along with some enforcer choppers.
“Well the center it is then.” She said plainly.
“Wha!...You’re kidding, right? How do you plan to get there? Oh and I should tell you that both Manx and Steel want the building intact...no damage...stupid right?” Felina said in disgust for the idiots responsible for the city and confused as to how Valkyrie planned to carry out such an insane plan.
Feral snorted in derision, “Oh yeah! Definitely stupid! As for getting up there well...I have a plan.” She said signaling Felina to follow her.
In the air above, the SWAT Kats dodged Viper’s flying cabbages that spit acid. As T-Bone turned to circle the tower, Razor spotted Valkyrie and Felina heading for the side of the tower away from the entrance.
“Looks, like the plan is in motion. Ready, T-Bone?” Razor warned his partner.
“As I’ll ever be.” T-Bone grunted.
“Alright, Lieutenant, my armor will allow me to leap up with a jet assist. You hold onto the front of me and I’ll lift you up with me.” Feral ordered her niece.
“Right!” Felina said excitedly.
She wrapped her arms and legs around Feral’s body and held on tight. Feral engaged her thrusters then leaped up. The power boost allowed her to reach their destination on the first try. She curled her body around Felina and turned enough to fly through the glass of a window. She rolled, protecting Felina as they hit the carpeted floor inside.They recovered their feet quickly and looked around both having drawn their guns. They were in one of the many rooms of the tower.Moving quickly they went for the door to the hallway. The she-kats looked both ways and found the corridor clear of Viper’s creatures.
Relieved, Feral flicked her communicator on, “SWAT Kats, can you hear me?” She called.
“Loud and clear, Valkyrie.” Razor responded.
“Felina and I are in position. Ready when you are!” She said quickly.
“Roger that. T-Bone and I will take it from here.” Razor acknowledged.
“Understood.” Feral answered then clicked off her comm.
“I hope this works.” Felina said, gun ready.
“It should. But if anything should go wrong, I’ll get us out of here. Come on, we need to move a bit.” Feral said.
They moved down the hallway; what mutants plants they came across were dealt with quickly with one of Valkyrie’s immobilizing needles which, fortunately worked on them, but how long they would work, she didn’t know. She realized she should have asked the Professor and that’s when she realized she really hadn’t had much time to test everything out on the armor something she would definitely have to do when she got time.
“I guess it’s lucky we haven’t run into any of the really big ones.” Felina muttered, moving along carefully.
“Yeah, well don’t jinx us by saying that again.” Feral muttered back then stopped, “We’re here.”
Felina moved over to the window at the end of the hall and looked down. They were now where her enforcers could see when things began to happen.
“Great, now all we have to do is wait.” Felina sighed beginning to turn around when a low rumbling sound echoed down the hall.Felina and Feral froze, alert for danger. So far there was nothing to see.
“Please, tell me that was your stomach.” Felina breathed tensely.
“I wish.” Feral whispered moving forward a little more to try and determine where the sound was coming from.
Felina followed a small distance behind her.Feral kept moving slowly down the corridor. The rumbling sounds grew louder. As she reached the elevator, she realized this was where the sound was coming from. Both of them held their guns at the ready, pointing at the doors to the elevator. The doors squeaked a little but the growling had stopped. Suddenly the doors burst open and a yellow-purple flower plantimal with black lips and teeth covered in acid spit appeared. It reached its vine-like arms out to them.Felina shot first then Feral destroying the vines sending the creature shrieking back down the elevator shaft.
“Felina, we need to get out of here!” Feral said sharply.
“But the SWAT Kats, aren’t here yet.” Felina protested.
“I know but that thing will be bringing company with it shortly.” She snapped as she shoved Felina ahead of her toward the window they had come in.
Surprisingly, Felina didn’t protest. Feral was almost to the window when Razor called her.“Valkyrie, you two need to vacate now! We’re dropping the rocket fuel in five!” He warned her.
“Roger! Understood” She responded quickly.
She swept up Felina in a bear hug and leaped out the window. Engaging her rocket pack they slowly glided to the ground. Behind them the rocket fuel exploded and raced through the building causing some of it to begin to crumble and fall toward the escaping pair. Feral glanced up and saw a large beam heading for them.
“Felina, use your grappling hook now!” Feral barked at her niece.
Felina didn’t hesitant as she fired her grappling gun at the tower wall that was going past. She prayed it would find a solid purchase. When it snagged firmly, Feral wasted no time shoving Felina off her just as the beam struck her armor. White hot pain shot through her right arm, shoulder and chest as the beam shoved her to the ground at a faster pace than she’d been going.Despite the terrible pain, Feral managed to lift her arm and shove the beam off her. Freeing her just in time to see she was very close to crashing into the ground, hard. As she tried to adjust her speed, Feral she discovered to her horror, that the beam had damaged the jet pack and she couldn’t guide it right, she cut the power quickly and leaned her weight to try to roll. She ended up landing on top of one of the enforcer sedans that happened to belong to Commander Steel.
Steel barely had time to leap out of the car before Valkyrie’s body slammed into it. When all was quiet again, Steel realized the armored she-kat was laying sprawled on his smashed cruiser, groaning in pain. He moved closer to her and noticed her armor had many large cracks in it. Stepping back with a snarl, he turned to his enforcers that had run up.
“What are you waiting for? Arrest her!” Steel snapped furiously.
“But sir, shouldn’t we call for the paramedics? She seems to be badly injured.” A rookie enforcer protested.
“Listen, here rookie. I give the orders around here! If I say arrest her then you arrest her!” He snapped at the reluctant officer.
Still the rookie hesitated. The order flew in the face of his training that said render aid no matter who it was. He looked helplessly at the other enforcers who were also torn about following the orders of their not well liked Commander. Before a mutiny could occur, an officer approached the she-kat only to jump back when she pushed herself up and got to her feet.
Before Steel could shout at them again, the Sergeant came up and interrupted, “Commander Steel, we found Lt.Feral.”
“Good, I want to talk to her.” He growled ignoring the problem with Valkyrie for a moment.
“Sorry sir, Lt Feral was injured and is on her way to the hospital.” The Sergeant said bluntly.
“Wonderful!” Steel said sarcastically.
“What about the SWAT Kats?” He asked.
“Gone, sir. When the SWAT Kats came in to check on her, Lt.Feral got into a heated argument with them. She then threatened to arrest them the next time she saw them.” The Sergeant reported.
“Well, I’m glad to hear that. It’s about time Lt.Feral saw them for what they really are.” Steel said in a better mood then he noticed the news crews arriving, turning to Valkyrie who was just reaching her bike.
“I guess this ends your friendship with the Lieutenant before it could even get started.” Steel said nastily with a smirk on his face.
Feral growled and tried to step forward but when she put pressure on her right leg pain shot up it. She hissed in pain and decided to ignore the asshole, he just wasn’t worth it.
“Are you alright, ma’am?” The Sergeant asked solicitously.
“I’m fine,” Feral said tightly, turning away.She climbed slowly onto her motorcycle, the pain almost unbearable. She quickly started the engine and tore off for home.
The vibrations sent ripples of pain throughout her body. She gritted her teeth and raced as fast as she could so that the enforcers couldn’t catch her. Once out of the city proper, she was forced to stop more than once when the pain became unbearable.Finally, she reached Hackle’s place. As soon as the motorcycle cleared the door, she halted it and shut off the engine. The Professor and James were at her side at once. They had seen the news clip of what had happened. Quickly the two of them stripped the armor from her and then her body suit. James wrapped her in a blanket and lifted her in his robot arms.He carried Feral to Hackle’s well equipped medical room. James gently laid her on the examination bed.
Hackle had programmed James with enough medical lore to be able to aid the Professor should he need it. The Professor also had modest medical skills. It would come in handy now to help Feral once more as they had when she had first arrived on his doorstep.
“Commander, where does it hurt?” Hackle asked gently.
“Right side. Arm, shoulder, and chest.” Feral panted tightly, face grimacing with her pain.
“How long do you think I’ll be out?” She asked, moaning.
“I need to have a look at your injures before determining that. James give her some pain meds. Please try to relax as much as you can my dear while we check you over.” Hackle said quietly.
Using a scanner, he could find no broken bones, thankfully, but there was a lot of severe bruising and wrenched muscles. Tsking to himself, Hackle let James apply some analgesic cream to Feral’s worst sores to help ease the pain and inject her with a potent pain killer.
“There, you should start feeling the pain ease a bit here shortly.” Hackle said patting her gently on her good arm.
“Felina...heard she was injured...how is she!” Feral asked, slurring a little as the pain meds began to take effect.
“She is fine, only minor injuries. I’m more concerned about you. If it weren’t for the armor, you would be seriously injured and would have taken months to recover as it is it will take about four weeks, if you follow my orders strictly.” Hackle admonished her knowing how much she hated to be an invalid.
Hackle watched as Feral seemed to have an inner battle with herself. A part of her wanted to continue even if she was injured but another part told her to stay put and follow Hackle’s orders if she wanted to be well in a short time and not longer because she pushed herself before she was properly healed.
Sighing she said, “Alright, I’ll follow orders. What about the suit?”
“Don’t worry about it. Fixing it won’t be a problem. I’ll just have James help me while you rest and recover.” Hackle reassured her.
Feral nodded and relaxed letting Hackle and James do what they needed to do to help her. Finally letting go, she allowed the pain killers to drag her under into a deep sleep that would allow her body to heal.
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