This is my first fanfic, so i don't expect it to be very good, anyway maybe it turns out nice, sorry about possible writing mystakes, i don't speak english very well, ^_^ E-mail me and tell whadda ya think about my fanfic, i would be very proud to know!! oh yeah, this may have profanity dirty words and adult stuff.. Written by: Bryan Furlong furlong@gunsmithcats.com bfurlong@zipmail.com.br Editors Note: Because Bryan's first language is Portuguese, the English on this was a little difficult to understand, so this is a cleaned-up version. The cleaning up was done particularly to the spelling, grammar (verb tense, mostly) and word choice errors, not to the content. Where (sic) appears, I was unable to figure out what to do with the sentence. However, this is a great fic, and as true to the original as I could maintain. I enjoyed it; I hope you do, too. ~B Hell of a Family Introduction and First chapter Introduction: Somewhere in Russia; 5 floors underground.... "So, how's he reacting? (already translated from russian)" asked a very old scientist, standing in front of a huge glass tube with a kat inside. "Actually, very well - his metabolism is at the same rate but unstable; his regeneration capabilities have grown - and he doesn't show any problems," answered a very young scientist in front of the same tube, writing some notes. "I never thought that he would resist those 6 years, Yan is a crazy man," said the old one. "Why does he still want to keep on this project?" "He thinks its the only way to bring honor to our country, and there's also a small vengeance," the old one answered cleaning his glasses, "but I think that soon the high command will give him the order to stop all this craziness" "Then... what happens to him?" asked the young one pointing to the tube where the kat was resting, immovable in his coma, "Will he stay alive??" "Probably not, but maybe yes." "This is not fair to him." "I don't see fair things for many years, my son. They don't ' care about what is and what is not fair. Now let's get some coffee, our patient needs to rest." "Sure," the young one answered, taking a last look into the tube before leaving the laboratory. The eye of the kat opened slowly inside the tube and watched the scientists leaving the place; feeling weird, his body hurts, and the water in the tube seems colder than it was before. He can't feel very well his arms and legs; he closed his hands and wished for a miracle to happen. In a corridor... the 2 scientist keep talking: "Really? How could he do that?" "I don't know, but it was just incredible, he almost died." "What a crazy..." Suddenly, the lights of the whole place turned off, making the two scientists surprised. "Ho-how could this happen?" asked the young one. "I don't know, but we would never have a blackout in normal conditions - something is going wrong!!!" He dropped his coffee mug. "The tube systens went down! We gotta get him out of the water!!" "Holy kats, what the hell happened to this base?" said the young one, trying to turn on a flashlight. They ran trough the huge corridor arriving at the huge door with a huge lock that needs a huge key. Opening the door, they were surprised by the mess: "Oh, my god!" exclaimed the old one - there was water all over the floor, the tube was broken and no signal of the kat. Chapter One: Church and Law 3:40 pm. Megakatcity Cathedral Chance sat on a seat in front of the altar, looking sad, he didn't look at anything else other than the enormous crucifix of the place. "Son," said the bishop. "You've been sitting here for hours, tell me, what's all that affliction on your soul?" "There's a person, bishop, he's searching for his lost son, and I'm afraid of what he needs to face to find him" answered Chance. "What's his name?" "Kurt." "Take this with you son, I'll pray for him to have luck in his journey, and try not to worry, God always helps us with his glorious hands," the bishop said and gave to Chance a small necklace with a crucifix on it. "Thanks, bishop." "You are always welcome in the house of the Lord." Chance walked away from the bishop to the cathedral door, feeling strange about the words of the bishop. Something was different about him, something strange, a kind of energy. At the junkyard, some time later... "Hi, Jake." "Chance? Where have you been?" "At the church....." he said, a little confused. "Are you all right? You look pallid!" "Yeah, I'm all right.... I... just need to rest." "Well, ok... So, I'll be working on the jet.." "Sure." "That's weird, I never saw Chance in a church," Jake said after Chance climbed the stairs to his room. Some minutes later, Jake entered Chance's room with a letter in his hands. "You've got mail, buddy." "Thanks," he answered. "Who is Kurt?" Jake asked. "Shit," he said as he heard the name, "Ah.... it's just an old friend." "Humm... ok." Jake knew Chance for a long time, and knew he was lying. He closed the room door and headed back to the hangar. "Shit, what has he done this time," Chance tough (sic) "Last letter, he was in France.." open the letter... *************************** Hi Chance. I heard from someone very trustable that he is in Russia, inside a military base, maybe in the north of the country. This person will give me more information about his location in some days. I wish I could see ya again, we don't see each other very much. I'll visit you when I have Bryan back in my hands. I wish I could know where Dane is too, but I haven't found any sign of my ex-wife. She could be in Mexico or Japan, never know. See ya!! Kurt *************************** "Holy Kats, not again," Chance said, putting his head down. "Can't be true, not again." His thoughts were interrupted by the alarm sound, Callie was calling... Chance had just entered the hangar when he saw Jake punching the red button (as usual) and asking, "What's up miss Briggs?" "Feral just ran out of Manx's office in a big hurry, it's something about two gangs fighting, and it looks big. I would be more calm if you two could take a look," she answered. "No problem, Miss Briggs, we're moving out." "Thanks, boys," she said, sighing. The two tomcats ran to their lockers to get their costumes.... 14 kilometers away, Feral arrived at an old warehouse that looked like a war zone, ambulances on all sides taking care of 15 kats who were shot. He looked astonished and asked Steele: "What in name of God happened here, Steele?? Who is responsible for this?" he asked, holding him by his jacket collar. "T-they are all part of a drug gang, t-they said that a new group of vigilantes attacked them all at one time, we found illegal weapons and a big variety of drugs inside the war-warehouse, s-sir" he answered, almost peeing his pants. "New vigilantes?" Feral asked, enraged and shouting, lifting Steele off of the ground by his jacket. "Y-yeah sir, one of the gang menbers said they call themselves the Pistols of Law." At this moment the black jet landed beside Feral making a strong wind; the SWAT Kats jumped out of the Turbokat as astonished as Feral was. "Krud, what happened here commander?" Razor asked. "This is not on you, SWAT Kats, it's a Defensors [Enforcers] job. Get out of here now, before I arrest you two!" Feral answered, dropping Steele on the ground and gnashing his teeth. "It seems that you can't defend much of this city, Feral," said T-bone. "Enough! I'm gonna arrest you two now for disrespect to authority." "Uh... maybe later, Commander, we gotta go now," Razor said, walking away from Feral. "Stop, you two, or I'll open fire!" Feral pulled his gun and aimed at Razor. "Put your hands [paws] up!" "Your big mouth got us some serious problems, buddy," Razor whispered to his partner. "I see that..." he answered. A defensor's car suddenly came up at full velocity, skidding and stopping beside Feral. Felina jumped out of the car. "What are you doing here, Felina?" Feral asked. "The PoL is attacking another gang nearby Pumadine!" she answered. "I just need to finish what I have started..." - at this moment Feral stopped with the sound of the Turbokat - "Head back here, you two!" he yells. "Open fire on the vigilantes, Steele!" "Right away, sir!" A sequence of five shots started in the Turbokat direction, three hits under the wing by Feral, Steele missed his two shots. "Krud, he's having a bad day." "He probably didn't like that small party at the warehouse, now let's go to Pumadine, T-bone, we gotta find out what the hell is PoL and if they have any relation to this attack." "All right, buddy," T-bone answered, putting the throttle lever to the last red mark. Near the cranes of Pullmadine harbor, in an old storage building. "Kage, we have some bad company arriving, cabron," said a kat with a mexican accent, in a black mask and armed with pistols. "What's up? who is here?" the other one, also masked, asked, putting his victim on the ground. "The SWAT Kats, and the defensors will be here soon." "Damn, we're fucked!" He took a look out the window and saw the empty jet landed in the truck loading area. "This is Kage, evacuate everybody, abort operation - the SK is here, go home now" he says on the small comunicator atashed to his head. "Let's go, hombre." "I stay, I must cover your and the other guys' escape." "HIRO DE LA PUTANA, are you crazy?" "What did you call me, Pablo?" "No, nothing I'm going away, you are crazy, if they catch you, you are fucked till you neck" Kage stayed at the window, observing the Swat Kats aproaching, while Pablo ran away, outside the storage.... "Use the front door T-bone, I'll..." "HEY YOU TWO, COME AND GET ME YA BUNCH OF ASSHOLES" a kat screamed from a window on the second floor (Kage). "I DARE YA!!" He gave a shot in their direction just as a warning. "... Nevermind," Razor finished his sentence. "Let's use an alternative way." Two hooks entered the window; Kage jumped back scared as a rabbit. "Shit, I was just kidding..." He ran to the door but someone grabbed his leg and he fell, hitting his nose on the gound. "You messed big, I'm gonna waste ya" said the victim on the ground. "Ya alive? (being sarcastic) Go to hell, I have bigger problems" pulls the trigger and hit his shoulder. "Hey you, stop!" said T-bone as he entered the window aiming with his glovatrix. "Hey, the heroes,(getting up from the floor) thanks for dropping by but i'm in a hurry." Kage jumped from the platform to the first floor, T-bone walked to the edge of the platform and looked down, he saw Kage hiting a pile of empty boxes. "Stop watching me, man!" He shot beside T-bone's head that jumped back while Kage just ran away. "You all right T-bone??" "Yes, I think.." The siren sounded like a warning, it was time to leave... "Come on, buddy, we gotta go, the Defensors are already here." "Y-yes, sure, Razor, let's go..." The two vigilantes ran out of the window at full speed to reach their jet in time to escape. "STOP RIGHT NOW SWAT KATS, OR I WILL OPEN FIRE!" "GO TO HELL, FERAL!" T-bone screamed angrily. "What?! All units! Open fire against those two!!!" The Turbokat had some pretty bad damage by the bullets on that escapade, but it was still flying. Near the area of Matcho Pitchu, the cyclotron rested in the sunset, stopped close to a small cliff. Seated on it, T-bone watched a car coming up the cliff. Felina stopped the car close to T-bone. "So, could you get me the information?" "Yeah, it wasn't very hard" gives to T-Bone some papers. "Thanks, Felina." He started looking at the pages of the document with attention. "I, checked on the computer, and... ...it says that he is dead." T-Bone's eye made quick movements from the document to Felina, she stood with her head down, moving her boots around the sand on the ground. "it looks like they found him somewere near Russia, three days ago...." "Sight..." "I'm sorry, T-Bone, i'll check if it's true... they don't have much for certain..." T-Bone cleans a tear from his eyes.... "How about the PoL, what is it??" "They are the same as you, vigilantes, but they act violently: they cleaned three whole gangs from the streets, but they didn't kill anybody. My uncle is going totally crazy." "I see." "T-Bone, what is your relationship with Kurt?? He's one of the best professional killers here and in Europe..." "In a kind of way let's say he was my friend." Felina thought about his answer as T-Bone entered the cyclotrom and started the engine. Some time later... the hangar door opened and the cyclotrom stopped near the turbokat. "So, she had it?" Jake asks standing near the ladder. "Yeah, they're vigilantes just like us, but they use guns and shoot everybody." He threw the helmet in his locker. "And what is wrong with you?" T-Bone stopped for a moment and then took out his jacket, "Nothing, i'm all right!" "Physically." He stops again. "But since you received the letter from that Kurt guy, on that day when you arrived from the church, you've been acting strange. By the way, I never saw you in a church... You are much more agrressive, and you keep your head flying, you don't even pay atention to your favorite cartoon." "SHIT, I already told you that I'm all right... ahh, sorry, I'm gonna take a bath..." "You're gonna tell me the truth," Jake says putting his arm on the ladder, inviting Chance to climb up. In a moment of silence the look in their eyes showed that one was worried, and the other suffering... To be Continued... "AAAAAAAHHHH damm!! why they always stop when the truth is about to be revealed!!! @$^%&$!!! you bastards!!" ~Words from a fanfic reader