For the Friends She Loves
By David Noble
E-mail: dnoble49@hotmail.com

This is my very first SWAT Kat story. Katarina (Quiver) and Buster
are characters owned by Kari Gilmore, from whom I received the
permission to use. 
 
Chapter 1
 
     Kari Gilmore, a 19-year-old girl, had been a pilot in Feral's
service, but she had been demoted for her overconfidence in
criminal air pursuit.  She still had the courage to dream of
helping save someone or to stop an criminal's plan.  One day at
the salvage yard, Kari was getting her brake pads checked out on
her red Chevrolet '95.  
 
     "The discs are a bit scratched, but I'll replace em," Jake
said, unbolting  the brake cylinders.
 
     "You know Jake," suggested Chance standing next to the car,
"we could use these old discs like those weapons Xena used to
throw at bad guys."  Chance picked up a disc and positioned an
aim.
 
     "Hey, you creep!  That was supposed to be *my* idea," Kari
teased Chance.
 
     "Sorry," Chance said. He had a secret admiration for Kari. 
He was not sure if it was her short dark brown hair that was held
in a ponytail or her pretty dark brown eyes that made him crazy
for her.
 
     "You sure know about good use of weaponry.  You're quite an 
inventor," Kari said.
 
     "Actually, it's Jake who does the inventing, but I'll take
the compliment," Chance said, feeling proud.
 
     "I heard you, buster," said Jake in an annoyed tone, "trying
to take credit for my skills?"
 
     "Sorry, pal."  Chance looked at Jake with an innocent
gesture.
 
      "It's ok, Chance. That's just how Feral feels. That head
honcho took away my pilot position and made me just a rookie
because of my attitude," Kari said sadly. Chance looked her in the
eyes.
 
     "Don't be sad, Kari. Feral's the one with the attitude. Worse
has happened to both me and Jake, believe me." 
 
     Jake had finished reinstalling new cylinders and brake pads. 
He was having trouble reinstalling the tires.  
 
     "Chance, get your tail over here and help me with her tires!"

 
     "Whatsa matter buddy?  'Tired' out, ha ha!" Chance joked.
 
     "Very funny, cocky!  Tire installation first, then chatter."
 
     "Sorry, gotta go," Chance said as Jake dragged him by his
tail.  Kari didn't want the tomkats to wear themselves out, so she
offered them her help.
 
     Chance was honored, but he knew they could handle the job by
themselves so he replied, "Thanks, but we'll manage." 
 
     "Please. I want to help you," she insisted.
 
     Jake saw Kari's disappointed expression, so he told Chance,
"She's a good friend of ours and our writer, so do her a favor and
let her offer her assistance."
 
     "Oh, ok. Come on," Chance said. Kari and Chance held the
tires in place while Jake bolted them in.  Katarina had overheard
that 'good friend' while she looked outside the breakroom window. 
She was jealous of Kari because she was always giving Jake, who
was her boyfriend, sweet thanks for good repair work and
friendship.  To Katarina, these 'thank yous' sounded like love
sighs.  Her light gray fur started to stand on end.  After Chance
had released the bumperjacks, he tested the braking; it was
perfect.  He then gave Kari a discount for helping out. 
 
    "You both are the best auto mechanics Megakat City has to
offer.  Maybe being kicked out of the force and being placed here
has its advantages," Kari said. While Jake shook hands with Kari,
he gasped.  There was Katarina, whose eyebrows looked stern.
 
     Kari saw Katarina and said calmly, "Hi, Kat.  What a pleasant
surprise."  She sounded polite, but it got Katarina's goat more.
 
     "O.K., so you've finished your business here, right?  You can
go now," Katarina said.
 
     "What?  I'm just being thankful for their work.  What do you
want?" Kari asked.
 
     "I don't want you to go near Jake.  He's *my* boyfriend,"
Katarina sneered.
 
     "I'm just being pals with him.  I hope that doesn't offend
you.  It shouldn't."
 
     "You'd better not get too friendly with him!" Katarina's
blood was starting to boil.  Jake couldn't stand anymore of his
girlfriend's harshness.  
 
     He walked over to his girlfriend assuring her, "Really, there
is nothing to..."
 
     "I'll deal with you later," Katarina interrupted and turned
back to Kari "Now, I think you should leave."
 
     Kari was getting a little tired of her bullying and said, "I
don't see a reason why you should be so jealous."
 
     "Let's just say you don't want to rub my fur the wrong way,
and *he* is my fur!"
 
     "You can't stop us from being friends," Kari said firmly, but
calmly.  Katarina's emerald green eyes were really beginning to
flash with anger.  
 
     "Watch it, little miss!" she growled, approaching Kari. 
"Don't push me into something rash, if you know what I mean!"
 
     "Listen, guys, I'd better go now," Kari said quickly as she 
rushed into her car and sped away. 

"She sure is pretty," Chance smiled, touching his heart.  Jake,
embarrassed by how Chance was acting, elbowed his ribs.

"Knock it off, stupid!" Jake retorted.  "She's just our friend."
 
     "Ow.  Ya didn't have ta pound it in, pal," Chance complained,
feeling his ribs.  Katarina was not convinced.  
 
     "Don't blame my brother, for your mistake, Jacob," she said, 
pointing her forefinger at Jake.
 
     Chance protested, "Now, sis, cut the kid some slack, would
ya?" 
 
     "Stay out of this, Chance!" snapped Katarina.
 
     "Listen, Kat, she's only our friend, nothing more," said
Jake, trembling.
 
     "That's what they all say," huffed Katarina.  "Is she the one
you *really* want?" Chance became worried.
 
     "No, you're my girlfriend, honestly," begged Jake.
 
     "Oh sure, but you go smiling as she sweetly says hi,"
scuffed Katarina in a light Scottish accent, fluffing
her long black hair and heading back for the garage.
 
     "Please, will you wait?  It's not what you think at all!" 
Katarina wouldn't listen, but Chance believed him.  
 
     "It's o.k.  Let her go. When she gets upset the first moment,
she mellows out the next. Come on, let's sit down and talk,
buddy," Chance said, taking Jake over to the hood of a paint
chipped auto, where they both sat down.
 
     "What does she have against Kari?" Jake asked.
 
     "Nothing, really.  My sister is the type who gets jealous at
girls who become friends with their boyfriends."
 
     "How come relationships have to be so hard?" Jake asked.
 
     "Probably 'cause one reacts and judges too fast. A girlfriend
just has to realize that being friends with another girl doesn't
really mean being in love." Jake's fears were slightly calmed.
 
     "Do you think Katarina would be friends with Kari?" he asked.
 
     "Let's hope so, Jake," Chance sighed and said. Then they went
back to the garage.
 
Chapter 2
 
     Later that night, Dark Kat landed his Doomsday craft in a
secretive area of the enforcer arsenal warehouse. He activated his
defense shield over the craft, so none of the spotlight's beams
could hit the ship.  
 
     "If that happens," Dark Kat said cautioning himself to be
quiet, "so much for my second chance at my dark day plan."  Dark
Kat knew that the spotlights would sound off an alarm if one of
them caught a glimpse of his ship.  
 
     "I wish I could simultaneously blast all those damned things!
They almost make me feel like I'll fail," he complained.  Dark Kat
disguised himself as a stock employee and headed for the
warehouse, but was stopped by a mustached guard.
 
     "What is your business here?"
 
     "I'm an employee for warehouse stock," Dark Kat said,
disguising his voice.
 
     "Do you have a letter of recent hire?"
 
     "Is this good?" Dark Kat submitted a false letter of
acceptance with a con-artist signature.  The guard looked at the
document, but knew that in order to grant admittance, he would
have heard from the front guards.  
 
     "I'm sorry, sonny, but I have to have permission to let you
in." Dark Kat pushed his way past the guard.  
 
     "Hey, wait!" shouted the guard running to stop him.  "You
can't go in there by yourself."
 
     "Try and stop me!" Dark Kat shouted giving the Kat a fist in
the face and calling over his creeplings.  
 
     "Hurry up, my creeplings," Dark Kat urged, "I don't want my
plans to fail!" The creeplings flew out of the trapdoor and
gathered as much merchandise as they could muster.  
 
     When the hourly security round was almost at hand, the
creeplings carried the last remains of weaponry to the ship.  But
when the trapdoor was about to close, two security guards saw Dark
Kat, one was about to fire while the other sounded an alarm.
 
     "Caught stealing with your hand in the cookie jar, huh?  You
can't fool us!" shouted the guard.  He pointed his gun up at Dark
Kat. The villain deceitfully raised his arms while the creeplings
flew out to fight.  The other guard noticed the empty warehouse
and fired at the creeplings.  
 
     "Stop, thieves!"
 
     "Play nice with my pets!" yelled Dark Kat as he shot the
weapon out of his hand.  More guards came to the aid, but the
doomsday was already flying away.  
 
     "Stop, Dark Kat!" the guards shouted.  "You're under arrest!"
 
     "You may find that difficult without your weapons," laughed
Dark Kat.
 
     "We'd better call Commander Feral," said the kat, who
bandaged the other's wounded hand.
 

Chapter 3
 
     Early in the morning the following day, the enforcer
helicopters went circling around with searchlights programmed to
instantly sound off for any sight of an intruding aircraft.  Ann
Gora and Buster Whitetail reported the theft.
 
     "This is Ann Gora, Kat's Eye News, reporting that last night
Dark Kat stealthily snuck his way into the enforcer artillery
warehouse and stole every piece of equipment.  This is
unbelievable, but the enforcers are on the lookout for his ship,
known as the Doomsday Express.  If anyone catches a glimpse of the
Doomsday Express, please report it to either Feral or Kat's Eye
News.  Tonight, the enforcers will plan an ambush attack to see if
Dark Kat returns to Megakat City.  This is Ann Gora, Kat's Eye
News."  During her report, scenes of the event were being shown on
TV.  Ann and Buster may have been there safely concealed from
sight, recording the scenes.  Dark Kat, furious at being scouted,
planned to kidnap her.  
 
     "So she thinks she can fool me?  I can play better at her
game!" he growled as he headed for the city.  The enforcers tried
to shoot him down, but he set off his beams shorting out their
machine guns.  His weapon system carried 100 megawatts against 75
megawatts belonging to the enforcers.  One of the pilots reported
the scene.  
 
     "Commander Feral here," sounded a sharp splitting voice. 
"The issue?"
 
     "Sir, Dark Kat has returned and has knocked out our gunning
systems."
 
     "I'll be right down! Just keep him in your sight until I
arrive. Out!"  Dark Kat confronted Ann.  
 
     "So it was you and your cameraman who spied on me!  I've got
another story for you to see, but you will not be able to tell
it."  
 
     Then he called to his creeplings, "Get them both!"  Ann and
Buster tried to fight back by fisting and kicking them, but some
of the creeplings sneaked behind them and knocked them both out
with some of the stolen rifles.
 
     "Nobody move, or you can get new news reporters! I expect no
one, but the SWAT Kats to surrender to me, at once!" " Dark Kat
threatened dragging them away as the enforcers stood still. 

     "Come on, men!" shouted Feral, not at all afraid.  "We've got
to get that stolen property back."
 
     "But, sir, Dark Kat's commands were..." 
 
     "Is he or am I in command here?" Feral barked.
 
     "Ann and Buster could be killed," said the enforcer.  Feral
then gave into Dark Kat's will as much as he hated to.  He felt he
could act against Dark Kat's orders by giving a signal for the
crew behind him to charge a sneak attack.  But with two lives at
stake, it would be impossible. With that, Dark Kat had left. 
Kari, who had still been feeling sad, was attentive, and
fortunately with the microphone and the camcorder left behind, she
put herself on the air.  
 
     "Ladies and gentlemen, don't be alarmed.  The enforcers will
reclaim the..." Feral was angered at her intervention.  
 
     "Get away from there, young lady. What do you think you are
doing?"
 
     "Hey, I may want to help in capturing this mad kat."  Feral
could not believe his ears and burst out in laughter.  
 
     "You're too inexperienced to fight criminal scum.  No, let me
and my enforcers handle him."
 
     Kari would not take 'no' for an answer and replied, "I can do
it.  The young can defeat evil like David did Goliath."  Feral
didn't believe her and she was getting fed up with his grey
attitude. 
 
     "Then maybe the Swat Kats will have a say in this!" Feral
groaned heavily.
 
Chapter 4
 
     Chance and Jake had overheard what Kari was saying to Feral
on tv.  
 
     "Holy kats!" Chance cried, "Kari is going to fight Dark Kat!"
 
     "Not without the Swat Kats, she isn't!" Jake sternly
responded.  "This is a foolhardy step she's taking!"
 
     "What about me?  Are you going to let my rival have all the
pleasure in capturing criminals?" she asked selfishly.  Jake was
tired of her arrogance and spoke firmly.  
 
     "Katarina, she's *not* your rival, do you hear me?!" Jake
said crossly.  "She's a friend.  Be jealous if you wish, but it
won't help us in keeping her safe!" Chance decided to put a halt
to this war between his sister and his buddy.  
 
     "Haven't we got enough trouble on our hands?" groaned Chance,
getting a headache from the stress. "We've got a friend playing
with fire and all you can worry about is your broken heart. Your
love and kindness for a kat should not be something to keep just
for him. Friendship can be shared with anyone. Trust me. Jake
doesn't get jealous when I give you a hug, does he?"  Katarina
felt sorry and softened up.  
 
     "Well, I'm sorry I got jealous, Jake?" 
 
     "I still love you, Kat."  The two Kats were about to join in
a nice reconciliation scene, but Chance cut the flow.  
 
     "Hey, hey!" Chance said.  "Save that for later, Clora and
Damon. We've got a friend to help out." They headed down to the
hangar, suited, and flew off. 
 
    
Chapter 5
 
     Feral was ready to begin his pursuit for Dark Kat. He was
determined to do it himself even though his weapon systems were
not as good as the Turbokat's. This truth made him feel jealous. 
Suddenly the Turbokat and Quiver's jet appeared from the outskirts
of the city.  
 
     "Just as I thought!" Feral mumbled, "The SWAT Kats have to
come and get in my way."  Kari, who was sitting in one of the
enforcer choppers as an enforcer trainee, gave a look of
disapproval of Feral's comment. "SWAT Kats, stay back!" Feral
commanded, "We're taking him personally."
 
     "I believe we're making fine memories of our earlier enforcer
days," mused T-Bone, "when we had our own little battles of who
caught who.  Well, it looks like the SWAT Kats are in for another
winning score and this time, you may be outvoted by three against
one!"  Both the SWAT Kats laughed and put a thumbs up gesture.
Quiver, smiled.  
 
     "That's my big brother.  Boastful and sassy as always."  Kari
seized this moment as a good opportunity to fight crime before the
SWAT Kats could pick it out of the rock of Feral's cockiness.  
 
     "Hey, I will go in both Feral's and your places, guys." She
was worried about her buddies getting hurt or killed.  Even if
Quiver was jealous, they still meant a lot to her.
 
     "No, Kari, it's too dangerous for you!" Feral shouted.
 
     "For a brave gal who's written stories for you guys?  Come
on, I'll take care of this. Please, I want to help you out."
 
     T-Bone, forgetting their known identities began, "Listen,
Kari, I said only..."
 
     "T-Bone, shut up," said Razor worriedly as he noticed Feral's
grabbed attention. 
 
     "Sorry," T-Bone said, trying to hide his embarrassment.
 
     "Please, tell me what you did for them," Feral asked Kari.
 
     "Nothing at all," said Kari. "I just helped them repair their
jet."  Feral didn't buy that, but he let it go.  The SWAT Kats
sighed in relief.  Quiver, a bit fearful for Kari and ever loyal
to the SWAT Kats, decided to accompany her. 
 
     "Kari, I'm coming with you."  Kari was surprised that Quiver
who was mad as hell at her before would go with her. 
 
     "Are you..."  
 
     Quiver gave her a sign to be quiet and repeated, "I'm coming
with you.  
You need a ally."
 
     "But I know how to fight bad guys and I'm ready for this."
 
     Quiver became stern and said firmly, "The SWAT Kats are my
best friends, too, you know.  It is my call to help them fight
evil and no SWAT Kat or any friend of theirs fights for them
without me.  Do I make myself clear?" 
 
     Kari gave in and said, "O.K.  Let's go, but don't take all
the credit."  Feral looked at Kari as she boarded Quiver's plane
and wished her luck.  He then turned to the SWAT Kats.  
 
     "You two had better follow secretly behind them.  I don't
want her hurt."
 
     "Sounds like you care for her," observed Razor.
 
     Feral was not fond of mushy comments and replied, "Let's just
say I'm giving you clowns the second honor of doing my job in
catching Dark Kat."  He and his enforcers then flew off.
 
     T-Bone commented, "Still the same ol crusty commander, eh,
buddy?"
 
     "Let's go, T-Bone," said Razor, "Time's awastin."
 

Chapter 6
 
     Ann and Buster were tied, gagged, and guarded by the
creeplings in Dark Kat's mountain hideaway.  Dark Kat was
preparing his dark day attack. 
 
     "Seems like I've already made a conquest of Megakat City. 
The citizens, starting with these two, will be at my mercy.  That
is if any are still alive.  And this time, no sign of the SWAT
Kats," Dark Kat said, looking at his screen.  He then went to
another nuclear bomb he had built and applied some of the nuclear
fuel rods he picked up during a second robbery at Megakat power
plant.  Ann and Buster's eyes opened with fear.  
 
     "I wish the SWAT Kats were here," Ann thought.  Outside the
mountain, Quiver and Kari traveled and founded the doomsday craft
parked outside at an entrance.
 
     "That's what I call a hideout!" Kari exclaimed.  "There's no
way anyone could find Dark Kat in there."
 
     Quiver looked at her detector screen.  "The mountain is
tunneled with secret passage ways to mislead any investigator in a
trap."

"You SWAT Kats are more impressive than I thought," Kari
said.

"Thanks," Quiver said, stopping her jet next to the
doomsday. Then both of the girls quietly boarded the craft.
 
     "How do we get in?" Kari asked.
 
     "Don't you know?  You've written stories about me doing it
before."  Quiver ejected her razor sharp nails and slowly cut a
square entrance at the top. It was big enough for both of them to
enter at the same time.
 
     "Wow, you've really got a scratchy attitude in crime!" Kari
was amazed at witnessing for herself Quiver's special ability.
 
     "It's all in the genes, lass," said Quiver as Mayor Manx
would say. "Though I can't say T-Bone shares this little gift."
Getting in the craft, they walked into a storage room crammed with
lasers, machine guns, and radioactivity equipment piled high. 
They all had the enforcer symbol on them. 
 
     "He really had his packing cut out for him.  Now let's help
him unpack," Kari said

     "Let's cut the witty phrases and get to work," Quiver said in
an annoyed tone. 

     "Sorry," Kari answered, taking out a portable phone.  
 
     Quiver's attention was grabbed by it. "I've gotta have one of
those things." She tried to snatch it from Kari.  
 
     "You want it?  Come and get it," Kari said.  Just then Quiver
realized they had a mission and so Kari tried to call Feral. 
Suddenly the creeplings crept in saw the two ladies.  They charged
at Kari and Quiver who shot some of them with their guns.  Quiver
used her claws to tear apart some of those prehistoric pests. 
More of them sneaked up behind them and tied their hands in front
of them along with the feet.  Finally, Dark Kat showed up.  
 
     "So what do we have here, visitors?"  Dark Kat took the
portable phone from Kari.  
 
     "Seems this fancy instrument might come in handy."
 
     "There are still the SWAT Kats!" Kari said. Dark Kat laughed. 

 
     "Do you think those hotshots can stop me when I have all this
weaponry?"  Then he commanded his creeplings, "Take them to join
my other captives."  The creeplings hoisted their new captives in
the air and carried them away.
 
 
Chapter 7
 
      The Turbokat, which had been secretly following behind out
of sight, had finally reached the mountain. "Remember this place,
Razor?" asked T-Bone smiling.
 
     "This is where we first sighted him, buddy," Razor replied.
"This brings back that moment when we stopped him from the same
plan."
 
     "We're gonna make this a holiday and build another great
memory. Meanwhile, have you spotted Dark Kat?"
 
     "So far, so good.  It's on my scanner screen, but this is no
pretty picture.  He's got both of the girls."
 
     T-Bone growled, "Crud, I knew Kari would be in danger."
 
     "Then it might have to be two against Dark Kat."
 
     "I'm so worried about Kari."  T-Bone moaned getting ready to
cry.  "I have some feelings I want to share with her."
 
     "Better save the sentimental talk for later, pal.  We've got
a mission to do."
 
     "Affirmative, Razor.  Let's go!"  They parked the Turbokat
where Razor had sawed an entrance with his buzz-saw missile. 
 
     "Cyclotron away!"  Driving out the trapdoor, the SWAT Kats
pursued the first crime-fighting mission they had undergone
before.  But this time, it felt easier for them and they enjoyed
it.
 
    
Chapter 8
 
     Dark Kat now had his four captives tied and guarded.  He was
about to release his flammable rocket.  It had a sensor to detect
and drop itself in the first city it would reach, which would be
Megakat City.  Its airshaft running at 120 m.p.h. would keep it
air bound until it had reached its appointed destination.  
 
     "Come and watch the spectacle," Dark Kat humored, "You
wouldn't want to miss it because you'll be the only Kats and human
surviving!" he then laughed haughtily.
 
     "We'd rather see some fighting, Dark Crud!  Remember us?"
shouted T-Bone and jumped, landing his foot in Dark Kat's face.
The four captives smiled in relief.
 
     "What took you guys so long?" asked Quiver as Razor untied
her and Kari.
 
     "We'll talk later. Let's fight now," Razor said, preparing
his glovatrix.
 
     "Creeplings!" yelled Dark Kat, "Get them!"  Quiver and Razor
blocked the creeplings with nets that had been shot from their
glovatrix.  
 
     "Bingo!"  However the creeplings chewed their way out of the
nets.  "Crud, I'm gonna have to sew new nets!" Razor complained. 
 
     "Don't worry, Razor," Quiver said, "this mustard gas should
do the trick."  She pulled the pin out with her teeth and shot a
grenade that poisoned the creeplings.  The creeplings put on
gasmasks and charged at them from all sides.  Quiver quickly
wrapped her arm around Razor and ejected a grappling hook that
hoisted them both up.  The creeplings ended up crashing into each
other.
 
     "Now, that's a real bingo to shout for," Razor cheered. "By
the way, how the heck did you get that toxic grenade?  They're
illegal in Megakat City."
 
     "Normandy is famous for it's little Mega War II weapons.  The
hand grenade was one of their special escape weapons."
 
     "Just what the enforcers might need, but now the fun's not
over yet.  Come on!" 
 
     While the other two had dealt with the creeplings, Dark Kat
was fighting with T-Bone. He seized T-Bone's right hand and
hoisted him in the air.  Taking him to a cliff, he prepared to
drop him.  Kari seized the toxic rocket and pointed it at Dark
Kat's back.  
 
     "Drop him, or I'll set it off in your back!" Kari ordered.
 
     "No, Kari, don't!" T-Bone cried as he kicked Dark Kat in
face.  Dark 
Kat grabbed T-Bone by the throat.  Kari took out her pair of
scissors and cut the wires, thus deactivating the rocket's
explosion systems.
 
     "No!" Dark Kat panicked as he let go of T-Bone and turned to
Kari.  "You little idiot!  You'll pay for this!"
 
     "Come and catch me!" Kari did a karate kick in Dark Kat's
stomach.  He squirmed in pain and Kari clapped her hands.  But
Dark Kat, recovering, set off a net pinning Kari to the ground.
Dark Kat blocked Kari who was trying to cut her way out.  
 
     "Game's over, young enforcer," Dark Kat said knocking Kari
out with a fist in her mouth.
 
     "Hey, you dirty Hell Kat!" shouted Razor, firing a bazooka
missile in Dark Kat's stomach, which knocked him out.  Quiver went
and untied Buster and Ann when she found them.  
 
     "We both owe you SWAT Kats a lot of thanks," Ann said.
 
     "The credit really goes to a young enforcer named Kari.  She
personally put the snip on Dark Kat's plan," said T-Bone.
 
     "You two hold Dark Crud and we'll see if Kari is O.K.,"
Quiver said as she tied Dark Kat's hands behind him along with his
feet together.  T-Bone and Razor both put their right foot on Dark
Kat to restrain him. 

Kari was awakening by Quiver.  She found blood on her uniform and
a tooth in Quiver's paw.  She moaned in agony.
 
     Buster said, "This should make quite a story, Ann."  Then he
turned to Kari.  "You certainly took a great risk, but you've got
courage in you."  He took a handkerchief to apply to Kari's mouth. 
She squirmed as it touched the socket.
 
     "Easy, honey.  We're going to call for the enforcer medicate
squadron," Ann said.  Quiver called for Feral on Kari's portable
phone she took out from Dark Kat's pocket.
 
     "Feral here."
 
     "Commander, this is Quiver.  We've got Dark Kat in his
hideaway at Caved Mountain.  You'll see his aircraft at the
entrance where we are now."
 
     "I'll bring over my enforcers."
 
     "I suggest you bring over an oral medical chopper as well,
Commander."
 
     Feral groaned, "Oh great!"
 

Chapter 9
 
     At the Megakat oral surgeons, the dentists were able to
replace Kari's lost tooth.  She was told not to talk for a while
so she used her sign language skills.  Jake, Chance, and Katarina
came in the room to see her. Katarina had a look of remorse on her
face.  
 
     "This has been all my fault. Can you ever forgive me?"  Kari
nodded. Chance then walked over to Kari.
 
     "You know, Kari, I really like you and I was wondering if
you'd like to be my girlfriend?" Kari nodded. They were about to
kiss, but she knew she had to wait until the tooth rooted itself
back in and pointed to her mouth.  
 
     "Oh yeah, I remember," Chance said, taking her hand in his.
Kat did the same to Jake.
 
     "Friendship is something to share. You were right, Chance.
I'm glad Kari and me are buddies," Kat said to Chance and Jake.
They both agreed. Suddenly Kat's Eye News sounded on the radio.

     "This is Ann Gora, Kat's Eye News, reporting live that the
stolen property has been restored to its entirety.  Thanks to the
three SWAT Kats, Dark Kat has been brought to justice.  But they
couldn't have stopped the outlaw's evil plan without the help of a
very special friend, Kari Gilmore.  Yes, folks, Kari has acted
beyond her training stage.  Commander Feral has restored her to
her pilot position and can begin anytime she has recovered. This
is Ann Gora, Kat's Eye News." 

THE END