AWB2- (Hi all sorry it took so long had my GCSE Exams to contend with. Basicly if I failed them I could not get a job. Oh well back to the story and ENJOY!- Pete) AWB2 It was a cold December night on an dark Ulster Border checkpoint. The RUC officer with his normal one soldier bodyguard were waiting for the next car.The officer was thinking. "They were told to be on the lookout for a suspicious looking van which was singled out by intelligence back home. This was why the road blocks were set up. Who could imagine that with this new dimension technology people can be closer more than ever before. This put new fire into peace netogations, country link ups, etc. Eventually all the old countries merged to form one superstate. A state which had a democratic government. Where all the member states could keep their identity. Drug barons, crime syndicates, all except the most powerful criminal organizations were wiped out by the massive numbers of police that could be now afforded. This country was called the The Comonwealth of Countrys of Earth. And yet people still wanted war, still wanted to hate, still wanted to kill. Mostly for corperate gains but usually to be independant. Why though? Why break away from all this peace and prosperity? To sink into decline all for petty prestige?" he thought. Then a car came into view. The RUC officer walked out flag it down, this one looked like it was not going to slow down. Just at the last minute the RUC officer dived out of the way. The car went past spraying automatic fire into the buildings and into the soldier who was still standing there ready to help. The RUC officer picked himself up and after seeing that he was not dead headed for the coms room. All dead windows were broken, he staggered to the phone. Dialed the emergency number for local Army barracks. He had just got to operator when he heard the door open behind him. He turned round to find and man, all in black with a sawn-off shotgun pointing at his head, then he fired. The RUC's head exploded into millions of different bits and the rest of the body fell to the ground. The man walked over the corpse thinking "Why are they so easy?". He turned to the gate open switch and pulled. As the gate went up two minicabs came past both had six men in them. "So this is what an average kid eats a month huh?" asked Chance, looking at the ton of lard on a crate exibit. "Yeah" replied Steve "Hey Jake wacha doing?". "just looking at this steam engine" he replied. "Yeah it's big, oh god I've got to go to that talk they were having back in the hotel about new types of engines for planes" said Bill. "Yeah let's go, seeya later at the hotel". The minicabs were nearly at their destination now...London. They stopped and looked at the targets on the photo. It looked like a man who had high status with the upper classes. "Now cab one goes around the back of the building and cab two waits at the front, if we need help we will call for you" said the leader. They turned the corner and saw their objective... Bill and Jake were walking down the same street when they saw two minicabs, one parking and one going round the back. Seconds later the minicab that had parked backfired. Also he heard a dull thud comming from the back. "Jake I think they are trying the people in the minicabs are gonna try and take this building" said Bill. "I know" replied Jake "go in the front and wait for my signal". "Yeah" Bill ran in and saw that gunshots were comming from upstairs, then he saw Jake sprint in waving Bill to follow him. As they were running up the stairs 2 people in black from head (balaclavas) to toe (black trainers trying to dispel the men in black thing here!) ran out. They did not see Jake jump and kick them down. "Take the guns just in case" shouted Bill. "Thankfully" thought Bill "We've got gloves on". They ran up to room where all to commotion was comming from. The pair stopped and put their backs against the wall. "I'll kick down the door" whispered Jake". "And i'll cover you" replied Steve. Then Jake kicked the door down. It landed right on one of the terrorists and knocked him out cold. Bill jumped in, automatic looking for trouble. Jake floored one but got picked up and thrown against the by a muscle bound terroist. Jake looked up and gasped as he saw the terrorist whip out a Semi-automatic and aimed it at his head. Then a fist sized hole in his chest was blown through by Bill's gun. He fell on his knees, trying to gather up the guts that had spewed out of the hole in his chest. He then wiped his mouth which was dripping with blood and fell to the floor. Steve kicked the body to one side. "Bloody IRA scum" he said throwing away the gun "the police are here and somone wants to see us". The pair walked into a room with chairs and tables trown around ,blood on the walls where two bodyguards had been shot in summary excution. He then saw a man in a suit with pistol with a silencer around a pile of bodies. "Scum sent in another batch, two got away though" the man said. "Who are you?" asked a confused Jake. "I am the head of the ECID: Exploration and Counter Infiltration Department" the man replied. "Your name?" asked Bill. "Due to the high amount of danger I am in I can can only give you a false name: Nick." "Oh so what do you want?" asked Jake. "In the last couple of months we were given ten rusty old T10's, special forces trainers from around the world and other stuff with the job of exploring other dimensions and as the boffs in area 51 say different galaxys. The problem was that any world we found that was in civil disorder we had to sort out, get statements of what has been happening from the towns folk and sorting the whole thing out." Nick explained. "In other words a police force." butted in Jake. "Well to make a long story short yeah. Now when we diagnose the proble we have a problem of sorting things out we have found that we lack the staff to carry out the contaiments. Now we just can't go about town pasting up posters advertising a place in a top secret program, we have to look around for former good guy resistance fighters, vigelates, etc you get the idea don't you. Now the reason why you found me was because you see this was a set-up." "A set up???" said Bill and Jake. "Yes you see we have been having a fact finding mission to find out you four and your alter egos. In fact I have explained too much meet me at these cordinates in 24 hours, pick-up will be at CAF (Comonwealth Air Force) Honnington at the entrance show them these cards and they will let you in, under armed escort of course. do you agree?" Nick continued. "Well yes but we will be able to leave if we disagree to the deal?" asked Bill. "yep it's a deal. Bye and don't forget to bring the other two." "I don't belive it" said Jake "He has knows everything about us!". "I know" replied Bill "But if we want to go, we'll just have to prepare for the unknown." "Hey Jake, Bill?" shouted Chance behind them "What took you so long?" "It's a long story..." replied Jake. Jake then went on to explain what went on while they were gone. "So we have to go to this airbase, waltz into what maybe an joint effort to put us in enforcer hands..." started Chance. "No" interrupted Bill "This would be handled by a service much higher than the normal law enforcment services, though I think this dept has high expertise in survelance, etc.". "Well do we want to do it or don't we?" demanded Steve. "Okay" said a disgruntled Chance. "Hmm oh what the hell!" said Jake. "Yeah" said Bill. "Okay then we will meet back in five hours then" said Steve cheerfully. They four met back as said after five hours. They then took a train, then a taxi to the base. Then entered through the main gate and were told to get in a car going to hanger 12. When they got there the hanger opened. Inside was nothing. The four walked inside. Then the floor moved. It moved down until it stopped. Facing the four was a door. The door opened. A voice bekoned the four through it. They were walking down a corridor now. Doors opened and guards came out and walked beside them. "Security escorts" the sergeant explained. They reached a door with the writing "Commissar in charge of ops" on it. They walked through and the Guards stood out side the door. Inside the door was what looked like a normal office, with a desk, a Notice board, etc. Sitting behind the chair was Nick. "So" said Chance "this is Nick". "Commissar Nickohlas to be correct" replied Nick. "Commisar though?" asked Steve "I've never heard of that rank in any force in both worlds." "Looks like I'll have to come clean." said Nick "To tell the truth I am not from this dimension. At all." The four looked at each other in amazment. "I thought the Dimension project was shut down after our first flight due to engine problems." said Bill. "Wrong." replied Nick "The Pentagon took over from the independant consortium. With help from Brittish and American aviation companies they started firing more experimental planes into different dimensions. Like my one." "So where did you come from?" Asked Jake. "I am getting to that." replied Nick "I come from a dimension where Mankind has been spread across the Galaxy in a great emprire called the Imperium. It is fighting a million wars on a thousand fronts. The war with many other races started two millenia ago (thousands of years). I was in the 73rd Earthian test regiment with the rank of Commisar, the equivilant of a Major-General. When the plane came through I was asked to talk to the people inside. Eventualy a treaty was hammered out between the two sides. One day though I was aproached by the Inquisition." "Who are they?" asked Jake. "They are a secretive orginization that are always on the lookout for new threats to the Imperium. They don't waste their time watching individual people, they alreadly have files on nearly every live person in the whole of the Imperium. They said that these people might be a danger the Imperium and asked me to go and work as one of them in one of their millitary departments. I talked with the newly formed comonwealth and they put me here on Project ECID. So here I am." "Why do you want us then?" asked Chance. "We need as many pilots and co-pilots with expirance as posible to get new aircraft. As still being attached to the Imperial military I have access to Inquistion surveilance operations. We were watching you for two years plus we know your secrets as being the Swat Kats. This Project was set up to check out any dangers to both the Comonwealth and the Imperium. We currently have 50 teams working in differnt dimensions right now. Most aircarft in our arsenal are old but we are getting newly built PECID-4 Archers spcificaly built for the task. So we built robots to make a fake raid on a minor ministry that we had a disagrement with. It cost some 100 police and a few military deaths but they were expendable. We knew by placing the raid just when at least two of you were walking past would grab your attention.". "But what about us two defending our world?" asked Chance. "That is why we want to recruit you. said Nick "This way you will have access to other teams plus access to resorces much bigger than the miniture stuff that the CAF and the Enforcers have ever had, heck you needed to mine underground and your mining machine was broken we could get twenty machines which are 500% more efficient than your one at speed, drilling power, etc. And that is just one example!" replied Nick. "But how are Chance and Jake gonna move to this world?" asked Steve. "We'll pay for that don't worry." replied Nick. Suddenly the phone rang. Nick pricked it up and talked into it. A minute later he put it down. "Looks like Team Alfa Bravo completed their mission." said Nick with a smile on his face. "Whats that?" asked Jake. "I'll show you come.". They went out of the room and progressed through a series of lifts and security points. Soon they came to a high security Under ground control center. In it were people monitering Tv screens showing News channels, Men searching through newspapers and people listening to radio news channels. "This is our News room, we get our picture of what the public knows by looking at every news channel, Paper, And radio station of every state in the comonwealth, every country in world two and the news channels in the Hive worlds of the Imperium. This infomation gives us a big picture of the decisions that we make." explained Nick. They continued until they walked into a room where people were at radio comunication devices, Weird people where doing things that looked like contacting the supernatural forces. "They are called Astropaths" explained Nick "They are living radio devices they send messages at fifty times the speed of light.". Other People were putting pins on maps of the earth, earth-two, and the galactic map of the Imperium. "Ah here we are" said Nick as they walked up to a conference table. The conference table had LCD displays embeded into the table. the five sat down. A Sergeant walked up and wisperd somthing into Nick's ear. "Great start the transmistion." said Nick "Gentlemen you are about to see one of our surveilance op's paying off". The Tv's came into life. The tv's showed a man in a flight suit with a picture of what looked like a French Imperial Eagle sewn on. This is Commander Antenor, he is also a person chosen in the Imperium to work with me. He came from the Imperial Fleet, had experiance in fighter-bombers hence the Imperial Eagle on his suit. Now. He has some intresting news for you, Antenor?". "Thank you Nick" Antenor said "In our operation "Kat in the bag" we were monitering a potential disaster to the planet and danger to dimesion space in which a black hloe could have been made. This doomsday device was destroyed in a raid on a warehouse but the target got away. After traking him we found him and captured him. His name is Dark Kat.". Jake and Chance gasped in astonisment. "An Inquisitor is being sent to question him.". "Ok that's great Antenor" said Nick "Now evac the whole site and bring him back here just in case the criminal underworld try to free him". "Will do Antenor Out.". "So boys that shows how we deal with things that the Authorities bungle. What is your verdict?" asked Nick. "Yeah it'll get us away from Commander Feral and we won't have to pay off a big debt." said Jake. "Yeah same here" said Chance. "I'm for it!" said Steve. "So am I!" said Bill. "Well" said Nick "we'll fix everything and fill you in on your first operation next month".... TO BE CONTINUED!!! (Well then what do you think of that then, The Swat Kats joining with a force devoted to keep people safe. Don't forget to read my next installment where they get their firt mission SEEYA!-Pete)