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Groups Click here for more details http://click.egroups.com/1/11231/0/_/450811/_/981463743/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> FAQ/ Rules: http://www.swatkats.org/SKListArchives ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are 3 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. Fan Fiction. From: "Riochet" 2. Re: Fan Fiction. From: DeusExMachina326@subdimension.com 3. Re: Fan Fiction. From: "Kristen Sharpe" ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:28:49 -0500 From: "Riochet" Subject: Fan Fiction. Hey here is the newest section of my fan fiction. Tell me what you think so far :) Melinda ---------- Note: This beginning of this story takes place about 35 years before the present day of MegaKat. His brown eyes darted over to where his older brother sat. How he envied him, he just stared at him, all of his jealously pouring into him. How he longed to be so much like his older brother, Sean. Sean Feral was the age of 28. He had a beautiful Siamese wife named Mitsu, who was 23 years old and pregnant with their kitten. As for himself, Ulysses Feral, he was 24 years old, single and had the dishonor of his father that haunted him through the years during his training at the Enforcer Academy. His jealously had grown a lot the year after he entered the academy, his father was dieing of cancer and basically was on his death bed for 5 months. Their father knew he was going to die and said he would give the estate to the son who would answer the question that he would ask both of his sons and which ever one answered the way he wanted he would title the estate to that son. The estate composed of a huge mansion like house since the Feral family was pretty much wealthy. Ulysses closed his eyes and tried to relive the moment of that terrible day, the day that ignited the fire of his jealousy of his brother Sean. "My dear sons," their father said with a very weak voice. "I know my time is near and I want my family to prosper. Since both of you are following your father's footsteps into the Enforcer Academy. I decided the only fair way to distribute my estate to you would be a question to illustrate which one of you will have your father's way of thinking that would prove to be the fittest to be for survival. I want you to both answer this question: If you and your brother were on a barren wasteland of an island and you found a raft for one passenger and you knew that by the time you come back for the other it would be too late, what would you do?" Ulysses and Sean looked at each other, and then looked back down at their father, Ulysses felt his father's stare at this face and finally spoke to break the silence. "Well the best way for me was to let the oldest survive and give the raft to my brother since I know that he is much stronger than me in military and I have most of the brains." Ulysses stopped finally, swallowing his breath knowing that his answer would be very courteous and sweet which he thought his father would love in a true gentlemen. His eyes wandered over to his father, but saw no look of any response, which made him nervous. His father's eyes wandered over to Sean and waited for his response. Sean looked over at his brother and gave him the most unusual, creepiest look he had ever given to Uly. "Father, I would go myself away from the island like Uly had said, the oldest must go on since I am more prosperous than my weak brother. But instead of letting anyone survive, I would kill my brother since he is too weak to try to rescue afterwards," Sean said and then smiled at his father. Ulysses' eyes went wide with terror and disbelief. How could his brother, his own flesh in blood do such a thing to him? He glanced over at his father, hoping his father would become angry with Sean for such a treacherous remark instead his father had a huge smile on his face. "Son," his looked aimed right at Sean. "I am very proud of your decision. You are obviously fit strong for the inheritance of my estate and to carry the Feral tradition. Go strong into the Enforcer Academy and I am sure the City Council will declare the new Enforcer Commander." Ulysses' eyes became even wider as the words exit his father's lips. "But father....how could that-" "Stop! I do not want to remember you this weak!," his father shouted at him barely getting his voice high enough to make himself strong in decision. But this made Ulysses even angrier. "It's not weak to value life!," Ulysses protested. Feral shook his head trying to get the image out of his head when he heard the Enforcer Commander stand up from his chair and approached the podium. "Graduates, I have sad and good news to tell you before we dismiss. As you may well know this is my last year as your Enforcer Commander but however, we have 2 candidates for the position. We the Enforcer Academy have chosen them do to their performance of the Academy, then in 2 weeks the City Council will look over their records and decide who will take my place. Also it is a great honor to announce that the 2 candidates are from this graduating class. I have great honor in declaring that the 2 candidates are Sean Feral and Ulysses Feral. In 2 weeks one of these will be the Enforcer Commander. Now congratulations to all of you and I dismiss you," the Enforcer Commander said with smile, with those, all of the graduates threw up their hats in celebration. Sean and Ulysses Feral exchanged glances not knowing on what to think of the news. The following day, Ulysses sat in his black Chevy Suburban across the street from Sean's house. He watched Mitsu walk out in her blue silk robe to get her newspaper from the yard. How much he wanted to have her, she was so attractive to him. He knew that Sean had a better chance of getting the position of Enforcer Commander. How much Ulysses wanted Sean's life: Commander of the Enforcers, a very beautiful house, and a mansion. There was nothing else in the world that he would want more. Ulysses sat back in the front seat of his car, hoping that Mitsu wouldn't catch a glimpse of him, he didn't want to be caught spying on his brother's wife. He knew there was one thing he must do in order to get what he wanted. His brown eyes watched Mitsu walk back into the house, her tail swishing back and forth gracefully, then he started up his truck and drove off to his house. That evening around 11pm as Mitsu and Sean were watching the news from their bedroom, the telephone rang. "I'll get it baby," Mitsu said as she kissed Sean on the cheek, then reached over to get the phone. "Hello?," she said as she picked up the phone. "Hello, this is Ulysses. May I speak to Sean, please.," Ulysses said, his voice sounding urgent. Mitsu gave the phone to Sean. "It's for you, love." Sean nodded, smiling softly and picked up the phone. "Hey Sean," Ulysses said. "Well hey, Ulysses. Whatcha doing up so late? Have a she-kat over," Sean replied, smiling. He loved his younger brother a lot and felt bad at first getting married. But his comment made Ulysses frown. "No, Sean. I don't. But I do have something you will like." "What's that?," Sean asked, his ears perked some. "Well I got a hot tip that you will like. From an enforcer spy we learned that a group of thieves will be robbing MegaKat Biochemical Labs," Ulysses replied, grinning evilly to himself. "What kind of thieves?," Sean asked, he didn't know about any robberies lately. "We believe them to be the Lin Kuei," Ulysses replied, that was the first group that he could think of. "Um, are you sure? We did research on the Lin Kuei already, brother. They are from ancient Siam, it doesn't make sense that they would want chemicals. There is no way," Sean said, having a confused look on his face. "Well that's what was told. I need you to check it out, brother. I have to go to a meeting," Ulysses said quickly, then hung up so there was no way that Sean could protest. "What was it baby?," Mitsu said watching her husband hang up the phone with a look of dread on his face. "That was my brother. He said there was a hot tip about the Lin Kuei going to steal chemicals in the lab. But that doesn't sound right, the Lin Kuei don't do that. You even told me that, sweetie," Sean said looking down at the floor, trying to figure out what to do. Mitsu nodded. "That's true. But baby, look what will happen if you do stop the robbery? Another good mark, and you will get the position of the Enforcer Commander." Sean nodded and got up. "I guess you right. But I don't understand why my brother didn't take the opportunity first. He has the same chance of winning as I do. Why give it to me?" He started to put on his uniform. Mitsu watched him, what Sean was talking about started to scare her. "Well baby, please be careful. Every time you go out, I seem like I will lose you," her voice soft, as tears start to form in her eyes when the image of losing Sean appeared in her head. Sean looked over and saw her sadness. He walked over to and held her. "I will always be with you. I love you, forever." He kissed her gently and then walked out of the house to where his car sat. That night at the Biochemical Labs, Sean crept into the lab, noticing that there was no unordinary activity in sight. There was no type of transportation near the building, which was kind of dumb for a criminal because there was no type of get away, unless of course the criminal already left. He took out his flashlight and began to walk down the hallway, glancing about, to make sure there was no one hiding in the rooms of the lab. But so far, there was no trace of break in, unless the criminal was terribly good and smart. He walked quietly down the hallway, trying not to breathe too hard just in case, the criminal was trying to get a shot off of him. He approached the huge room at the back of the lab where the chemicals were made. There were huge vats all over the place filled with dangerous chemicals and the beeps of machines all around. He turned off his flashlight and put on his infrared goggles since the area was more open and he was in more danger. He crept around and then decided to go up on the catwalk to get a better look over the area below. He tiptoed up the metal stairs hoping they wouldn't make a noise from his boots. He was over one of the huge vats of chemicals, suddenly he heard someone running right to him as he turned around, felt a sharp pain as the unknown kat hit him in the face, then he felt himself flying back off of the catwalk, desperately of fear, he clutched the catwalk with his claws and hung there helplessly. He cried out, looking down at the chemicals, scared. His eyes raised up to see who his attacker was. In horror, there above him grinning evilly was his own brother, Ulysses. "What the hell is going on here?!," Sean demanded, the fear overwhelming him. "Priorities have changed, Sean," Ulysses said coldly as he looked down at his helpless brother. "Are you out of your d*mn mind?," his brother replied to him, his claws digging deeper into the railing. "Looks like I am up for a promotion," Ulysses said with a smile as he approached him, ready to finish off his older brother. "Enjoy your retirement old friend. Oh, by the way, don't worry about Mitsu. I'll take good care of her." "You touch her and you're a dead kat," Sean growled, clenching his teeth. "You're the dead kat. I win, brother," Ulysses responded as he stomped hard on his brother's paws, making him lose his grip and fall into the vat of chemicals. He could hear his brother cry out in pain, panicking for help then he watched as Sean slide down into the chemicals and disappearing. That was it, the task was completed for Ulysses. "Oh, no, my brother has fallen and drowned in the chemicals," Ulysses with an evil smile as he walked out of the lab, laughing to himself. Hours later after the incident, a large purple paw with dark black claws held onto the edge of the vat and a large purple hideous figure of kat, naked, pulled himself out of the vat. The chemicals had mutated Sean into some sort mutant. He groaned as he lifted himself out of the chemicals, his mind was clouded and he collapsed on the ground, panting hard. He had no recollection of what had just happened. He got up and started to stagger towards any place to get some clothes, he knew that he wasn't himself and needed to find something to hide himself with. He approached one of the locker rooms and found a huge roll of black cloth that they were going to use to lay down for a cover. He took it and wrapped it around himself. As he was exiting the locker room, he walked in front of the mirror and saw the hideous figure that he had became. He was shocked that he couldn't speak, he touched his face and started to cry. He knew that if he went back to where his wife was, she would not believe that he was the one that she loved and would be outcast. "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! MITSU!!!!," he shouted out loud. His ears perked when he heard sirens coming towards the lab, he knew that the enforcers would never believe his story, so he started to make a run for it from the labs, he saw a lab truck ahead of him and got in it. He started to hot wire the truck just as the enforcer cars pulled up into the lab's parking lot. "You in the truck, come out with your hands up!," shouted one of the enforcers as the enforcers started to get out of their cars, their guns ready. "Oh great," Sean grumbled as he drove off away from the enforcers. "Everybody back in your cars!," the enforcer shouted, they ran back into the cars and followed the lab truck in hot pursuit. "Come on you stupid machine, go faster!," Sean complained as he constantly kept pressing his foot down harder on the accelerator. He started to drive off towards the outskirts of the city where the volcanoes were. He looked out in the side mirrors of the truck and saw at least 8 squad cars behind him, their sirens blazing. "Ugh." "This is the Enforcers. You are under arrest for murder of Sean Feral. Stop your vehicle now or you will be fired upon," one of the enforcers shouted over the PA system. Sean groaned. "Great, they think that I killed me!" Suddenly his ears perked as he heard a voice of someone groaning from the back of the lab van. He turned around and saw one of the MegaKat Biochemical Lab guards in the back of the van, obviously he must have been trying to sneak in a nap while on duty. Sean grinned and knew what he had to do. He stopped the van suddenly, and attacked the guard, grabbing his gun. "Move!" The enforcers stopped suddenly at the car, all of them racing out of the cars, guns ready to fire at anything. The hideous form of Sean walked out of the van, holding the guard firmly with his gun pointed at his head. He knew in his head that this stunt was crazy and he knew well that he wouldn't shoot the guy if they made him. "Look, listen here, whoever or whatever you are. You are under arrest for the murder of Sean Feral," one of the enforcers shouted who appeared to be the captain. Sean noticed that his brother wasn't there. Sean just stood there, not knowing what to do. "Let me go my way and I won't shoot him," Sean growled, his fingers gripping the gun tighter. "So what? You'll kill again. You freak!," one of the enforcers replied. Then more enforcers chimed in, yelling at Sean calling him a freak or a mutant, this started to anger Sean. The captain silenced his men and looked back at Sean. "Just who the h*ll are you?" Sean's eyes narrowed down, he knew how that his life would have to remain secret. "I am Dark Kat. Now let me go or I will kill him!!!" "No don't! Please, Dark Kat, I beg you. I have a family," the guard replied, crying. This made the favor more in Dark Kat's hands. The captain and held down his gun. "Fine. Everyone put down your weapons!" He turned to his men who immediately followed his order, then he returned his look at Dark Kat. "Fine, we'll let you go. But you must drop off your hostage in 3 miles we will not follow you but you have 10 minutes to get there." "Agreed," Dark Kat said and took his hostage back in the van and drove off as fast as he could, when he reached the 3-mile marker, he slowed down a little and threw the guard out of the van. He hated doing that, but he had to get away. He had made it to freedom for now. Dark Kat drove to the volcanoes and found a cave near the tunnel, he smiled and then drove the van about a mile away from the volcanoes and then ran as fast as he could back to the cave. When he reached the cave, he noticed that the cave had several small passageways. He knew the enforcers would be hot on his trail, so just in case, he needed to get away as far as possible. He wedged himself in the passageways, barely fitting, he had to crawl his way through on all fours. When he reached the end of the passageway he found a wide-open area, he grinned and knew this was the place to where he would hideout and plot his revenge. Later on that evening, Dark Kat laid down to get some rest before he would get up early and start to work, suddenly he heard a lot of chattering further down in the cave. Curious, he got up and started to walk down further into the cave to see what the chattering was, as he walked, he came upon a huge opening in the cave, inside were many tiny pink flying creatures that resembled bats. When the creatures saw Dark Kat, because of his enormous size, they became frightened and started to whimper and flew off away from him. "Wait, I won't hurt you!," he cried out but when he saw it made no difference, he sighed and turned to go back to his sleeping spot, he closed his eyes and fell asleep. That morning, he was awaken by the tiny chattering again but this time, it was much closer, he opened his eyes and saw the little creatures surrounding him, looking at him curiously. He smiled some and then got up and went out of the cave, to try to get some food. He walked back to where the truck was and saw it was not disturbed. "The enforcers must be more stupid than I thought," he mumbled as he got back in it and drove off towards the city. Being very cautious, he decided he would need a change of vehicles before he would head home. Since he knew he had a lot of weapons that he stored in the shed near his house, he would sneak back to his house to get his weapons. He parked the lab truck in an alley, then he found a huge delivering van located outside a restaurant, he approached it and found that the driver had left his keys in the van, he got in it and made no hesitation as he drove off towards his house, when he reached his house, he saw that his wife was not there which he thought might be a plus to him. He parked the van near her house and then crept around to the backyard, opening the shed with his claw, he took all of the ammunition he could find and put in his van, then he knew that his wife loved to sew and had tons of fabrics in the house that he could use to make him a decent outfit. He knew it was wrong to break inside his own home and it would cause a commotion when they got back, but he had to. Dark Kat thrust open the patio door of his house and got inside, quickly getting the fabric. Along the way he also picked some of the food that was inside his fridge and some of his study books on weapons. Once getting all the items he needed, he got into the van and drove off to his hideout once again. That evening, after sewing him an outfit that would be more efficient, luckily his wife had taught him some things about sewing skills. The new outfit was a huge black cape with a hood that would button up, the collar and hood was outlined with a strip of the red fabric. Once completing his task, he got out some of the food that he had stole. He started to munch on some of the meat, he was so hungry he had not eaten in a day. But as he was eating, he saw the tiny pink creatures start to approach him slowly, he could see their hunger in their eyes. He knew that it was wrong for him to eat and not them so he took out another pack of the meat and held it up to the creatures. "Want some?" The creatures stopped and just looked at him, not knowing on how to take it. Dark Kat knew that they would be scared of him, smiling, he tossed the pack of meat on the ground before them. He could actually see a smile on the creatures' faces as they started to chow down on the food. Dark Kat decided to call his new friends "Creeplings" since they were always creeping upon him. "Mrs. Feral, do you have any knowledge on who would break into your house?," the captain of the enforcers asked Mitsu as he sat down on the couch beside her. When Mitsu had returned home and saw that her guns, some of her food and some of Sean's books were missing, she immediately called the Enforcers. "I don't know," Mitsu said, crying. She still couldn't get over the fact that her husband had been killed. "If you ask me, it was the same deranged kat who murdered her husband," Ulysses said as he knelt down beside her taking her paw. "Don't worry, Mitsu. I'll take care of you." "Well then you must be talking about that huge purple freak outside the labs," one of the enforcers commented. "What purple freak?," Ulysses asked, his eyes a little wide. "Well we arrived at the labs, some huge purple kat with a hideous face was making a getaway from the labs. He had taken one of the guards, hostage. He called himself "Dark Kat", I think. We lost him, but we are sure he's going to rear his ugly head again soon," the enforcer replied. Ulysses had a horror stricken look on his face. Could Dark Kat really be Sean? Did his brother survive? He got up and looked out the window, wondering about what he had done. Mitsu approached him and placed her paw lightly on his shoulder. "Will you help me find my husband's murderer?," she asked softly, her fur matted with her tears. Ulysses nodded and smiled, then he reached out and caressed her face. "I promise, I will. I will take care of you, Mitsu even if it kills me." 4 years had passed, there wasn't no sign of Dark Kat making an attack on the city yet, which the Enforcers believed was good. They hoped that he must have run off. But unfortunately to them, Dark Kat was hiding out in his volcano home. He stolen scrap metal from the salvage yard but luckily for him, no one would have known if he did. With the scrap metal he constructed a plane since he did have a technology edge. He was now working on a bomb that he would kill his brother with. But the misery of not being with his family, was killing him and stopping him from continuing on with his work. He knew that he had to go see his wife to make sure she was okay. He walked back out to his delivery van, but he heard the creeplings whining behind him. "Don't worry, my creeplings. I'll be back, just guard our home," he said with a soothing voice, with that he got in his van and drove off towards the city once again. He parked the van across the street from his house, and then quickly ran over to his yard and hid in the bushes. He saw his wife Mitsu walking out of the house, carrying their child. Dark Kat was in awe, his little daughter who was the age of 4 now was so precious. He knew that they were going to call her "Tanehira" since his wife was Siamese. Another figure walked out of the door, Dark Kat looked at him and noticed it was Ulysses. Ulysses was wearing his commander uniform proudly. Dark Kat growled at him softly but what angered even more was that he saw Ulysses kiss Mitsu! He finally realized what happened, Ulysses had remarried Mitsu! He retracted his claws, he could feel the blood boiling in him. He watched his young daughter start to run around, chasing a butterfly playfully. He could hear her giggling and laughter of happiness, he started to cry, how he longed to hold her. Suddenly he saw her coming towards him, looking right at him. What if she saw him? What a horrible sight that would be! He froze, hoping that she didn't see him. But unfortunately she did see him. "Hello, mister," she said to him, her voice so soft. Dark Kat was so surprised! Tanehira wasn't scared of him! He could see the love in her eyes. But how she could love him? She didn't even know who he was and he was so hideous! "Wh-what is your name?" he choked, still being shocked on how she was acting. "Tanehira," she said smiling. Dark Kat smiled back, they still gave her that name. "Tanehira. That is a beautiful name," Dark Kat said, smiling. He lifted up his paw and ran his fingers down her cheek. Meanwhile, Mitsu saw that Tanehira had left her side and went out to look for her. She saw Dark Kat touching her daughter's face. "Holy Kats! Tanehira!" she ran towards her daughter. "Ulysses!!" Ulysses heard his wife's calls and ran after her; he kicked Dark Kat down on the ground. "Get away from her, you freak!" he said, and then he froze when he realized he that was had to be the same purple kat that escaped from the labs. He knew he couldn't lose Mitsu right now. He kicked Dark Kat again in the side, Dark Kat cried out in pain. He didn't want to fight his own brother. Dark Kat looked up at Mitsu with such pain and sadness. He saw her holding onto Tanehira. "M-Mitsu..,"he said softly. Mitsu looked at with a very strange look. She didn't understand how he could know her name. Ulysses heard this and feared the worst. "Mitsu, get Tanehira inside!, "he shouted out. Mitsu nodded and ran inside the house, Dark Kat saw them leave. "Nooo!!," he cried out in anger and growled out, he jumped on Ulysses, retracting his claws, scraping him. "You traitor! Give me back my family!!" Ulysses looked at him angrily. "No! They are mine!", he replied and punched Dark Kat in the face. Dark Kat growled at him, then took out a small knife that he had gotten from his cape and stabbed Feral right in the chest, almost near his heart. Feral gasped out in pain, Dark Kat could see the blood trickling out of the corner in his mouth. Feral looked at him with anger. "Fine, kill me," he said and looked at him. Dark Kat looked deep into his eyes, how much he wanted to kill his brother for all of the misery he had caused him. But if he did kill his brother, he would be just as bad. "No," he replied, his voice very soft. "I am going to let you live the life you wanted so bad and took away from me. But I'll be in the shadows, watching you. So just remember, every time you turn your back. Guess who?, "he said and smiled as he got up and left, leaving his injured on the ground. After Dark Kat left, Mitsu ran outside to Ulysses. "Ulysses!!," she cried, kneeling down beside him. "Oh kats...what happened, sweetie?" She saw the blood on his shirt from the knife wound, and the blood on his face. "I am getting the paramedics. Don't leave me, Ulysses. Don't leave me." She ran inside for the phone. 2 more years has passed, even though Dark Kat had told Ulysses that he would always be following him, he basically gave up. He didn't want to, but the heart broke feeling that he got when he saw the one that he loved with all of his heart married to the brother had destroyed his will to live. He kept himself hidden away in his volcano. He had worked so hard on his revenge, would his heart would finally heal up the emotional pain he was living through and work on getting back at the ones that gave him the pain. He had constructed 3 bombs, finally finished the plane, which he called the "Fear Ship". He had stolen some more weapons, having his creeplings do the crimes for him since he trained them well and they became his closest ally. He would strike soon but he didn't know when, he wanted his appearance to the city to become a very memorable one. The city had turned out against him, there was no justice, and he would create his city that should have been there for him when he needed it. He had gotten several other pieces of equipment too along the years, he had a computer system surveillance system to make sure no one was trying to get drop on him, he also had a television monitor to keep up with the news and a radio interceptor to keep up on the enforcers' radio transmissions. He also salvaged a radar system to be aware of any planes heading towards the volcano. He walked over to the huge mattress on the floor, which was his bed for now, he looked up at the picture of his wife that he once had that he had stolen when he was at the house. How he longed to hold her in his arms once again, he looked down at his hands and saw how huge and hideous. How would she ever touch him again looking like this? He growled out in rage and started to throw down the tables knocking off over some equipment, he started to cry into the night. The hate was consuming him. Meanwhile that night at Feral's house, Ulysses was tucking in Tanehira in her bed. At first he was worried about what his brother had threatened him about, but after he noticed how he hadn't had any contact with him since that day, his terror died down. Ulysses basically forgot about it. He walked into his bedroom and got in the bed with his wife, Mitsu. Ulysses kissed Mitsu goodnight and rolled on his side to fall asleep, he was actually quite angry with Mitsu hoping to be with Sean. He closed his eyes and trying to push his anger out of his head. A few hours later into the morning around 2am, a group of 3 ninja members from the Lin Kuei had successfully managed to get around the security system of the Feral estate and broken into the house. They moved like quietly and silently into the shadows towards Tanehira's room. Mitsu had just gotten up to get her a glass of milk to help her sleep when she ran into the ninjas. The ninjas made no sound and like lightning, one of them grabbed her head and snapped her neck before she could cry out, killing her silently. Then they moved onto their target, they crept inside Tanehira's room and found her sleeping softly. The leader of the ninja motioned for one of the ninjas to stay guard at the door, the other remained out in the hallway to make sure any other uninvited guest would arrive. The leader crept to the bed and smiled. Taking out from his outfit, was a small white cloth with ether on it, he held up her head, and placed the cloth to her nose. When Tanehira woke up, she had no time to struggle or cry out before the fumes off of the cloth made her unconscious once again. The leader nodded to his accomplices when Tanehira was out stone cold. He picked up her body and carried out of the bedroom, before they would leave, they knew they had to leave a note telling Feral of their deed. One of them took out a scroll and then held Mitsu's dead body up to the bedroom door of where Ulysses was sleeping, they placed a katana sword into Mitsu's shoulder making it go all the way through and into the door to hold the lifeless body there they had the blade go through the scroll as well so it would be attached to the body. After doing the task, they carried Tanehira out of the house and into the night just as the sun was beginning to rise. At 8am the next morning, Ulysses woke up from hearing the birds tweeting outside. Usually around this time, Tanehira was already in their bedroom shouting that she wanted breakfast. But for some strange reason, Tanehira wasn't there. Shrugging, Ulysses walked up to their bedroom to go check on her, when he opened the door he found what the ninjas left for him. No one words first exited his mouth, he was too overwhelmed with surprise and shock. "Noooo!!!!!!!!!!!." He cried seeing what happened, he quickly pulled the sword out of her body and held her in his arms, tears pouring down his face. He saw how she was killed, anger and sadness overwhelming him. "Mitsu...Mitsu, sweetie. Wake up!!," he cried. He picked up the bloody note and read it. It read "Commander, you should have great honor in having our group wanting your daughter. She will be an excellent add on to our group. Sorry about your wife, she was in the way and we couldn't let her ruin our mission. Don't try to find us or you'll join your wife. We are following you like shadows, Feral. Be warned. THE LIN KUEI." Feral put the note down, he just knew that Dark Kat had to have a hand in it. He growled and shouted out as loud as you could, "YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS SEAN!! YOU HAVE DESTROYED MY LIFE, I WILL GET YOU BACK!" That evening on the news, a news reporter was telling about the incident that had occurred that morning in Ulysses' house. Dark Kat was in his hideout working on some more devices when he heard the news come on and walked over to watch it. "This just in. Early this morning, members of the Lin Kuei had managed to break in to Ulysses Feral's house killing off his wife and katnapping his daughter. So far there are no reports where the young daughter is at.", the news reporter said. "What?!," Dark Kat said, his face almost turning white, his knees feeling so weak. How could have this happen? Why the Lin Kuei? "No......Mitsu!!" "So far, we have no suspects of the ninja. But earlier but analysis' of what have happened recently to the Feral's and by the contents of the letter, we have narrowed down to having Dark Kat as one of the suspects. Right now there is a APB on Dark Kat for the murder of Sean Feral, Mitsu Feral and the katnapping of Tanehira.", the news reporter continued on. "Commander Feral has put up the Feral Estate on sale and is moving to another smaller house away from everything. He is up in his office, and will not come out to speak to no one. The incident has really hit the Commander. But we have assurance that the enforcers are out at this very moment to find Dark Kat and bring him to justice. This was Kats Eye News Flash and now the Weather." "No, that wasn't me!! That wasn't me!! I wouldn't kill my own wife!!!!!," Dark Kat cried out, as if he was trying to scream out to the news reporter all the way back in the city. "No! That wasn't me!! I didn't kill her! Mitsu!!!!! For Kat's sake! No!!!" He started to cry, he collapsed to his knees and wept. The anger poured in him even more, how he hated the city, blaming all of the incidents on him! Against his whole family! He had lost everything he had! 22 years had passed since that time, Jake and Chance were just in training of the Enforcers. They were edging their way towards graduation of the academy. During the morning they would have classes then in the afternoon, they would have actual duties in the Enforcers. Jake and Chance had considerably high ranks for the training already in the Enforcers. They were hanging around the lounge room that afternoon around noon. It was in the month of July and they were lucky enough to be inside on such a hot day. "If Feral wants us to go out and do patrol routes in those enforcer cars with no air conditioning, he has another thing coming, Jakey," Chance said as he walked over to the soda machine. Jake just snickered as he plopped himself down on the couch, turning on the television. Chance grabbed the remote from him. "Hey, Chance, what are you doing?," Jake asked, looking at him meanly. "We are going to watch some "real" television," Chance said as he smirked, flipping on Scaredy Kat. "Scaredy Kat? Eh, Chance, aren't you too old for cartoons?," Jake said looking at him weirdly. "Nopes," Chance said as he grinned. "Riiight," Jake said, and settled down, trying to figure out why Chance loved this television show. Suddenly there was an announcement on the PA system. "Attention all enforcers. Dark Kat was spotted radar on a collision course with headquarters. This is a code red alert! All enforcers go to positions. Lieutenant Clawson, Captain Furlong, report to the runway immediately!," the voice boomed over, which was Feral. Jake and Chance both looked at each other with horror-stricken faces. Then without any words, they both got up and ran to get their gear on. Within minutes, they were in the sky in pursuit of Dark Kat's plane, with Commander Feral following them in his jet, and 2 more enforcer jets carrying some of their comrades. About 15 minutes later, Dark Kat had risen into a cloudbank and made them lose him on radar till he passed them, then he settled down back straight on target with Enforcer Headquarters. Their ETA to Enforcer Headquarters was 10 minutes. Dark Kat was a huge threat, Feral knew what his intentions were already. "Jake, Chance, let him go it's too dangerous," one of their comrades who was Clifford Furlan. Dark Kat had gotten so low that he was flying in between the buildings but still maintaining a high speed. "Negative. We're bringing Dark Kat in," Chance responded. "You guys get yourselves some doughnuts." Dark Kat turned his jet on its side as it flew between 2 skyscrapers. Chance followed in pursuit the same way as a reaction making no attempt, it just came naturally. But Clifford in his jet and the other enforcer jet flown by Robert broke off from pursuit. "You two are nuts, we're breaking off pursuit!," Clifford complained as he turned his jet away before making the attempt to follow Chance into the deadly dog fight. "Roger that. Leave it to us," Chance said as he leaned down to make sure there was still a blip on his radar. Jake in the back seat looked behind him seeing the 2 enforcer jets turn tail and smiled to himself. "We'll bring this psycho if it kills us." The Fear Ship edged on, only about a 30 seconds away from the target. Dark Kat's eyes narrowed down as he saw the new Enforcer Headquarters building, which was still being constructed, come closer to him. "Now I'll destroy the justice machine that protects MegaKat City," he said coldly then pressed a button on his console setting a target lock on the building. Jake looked down at his radar screen, it was showing an enemy target lock on the Enforcer building. "Chance, he's locking missiles on the new Enforcer building," Jake told his partner in a calm but urgent voice. "Then we've gotta nail him now, Jake," Chance replied, his grip tightened on the stick. His voice filled with worry. He turned his head back for a moment to look at his partner in the back. "No problemo. Missile deployed," Jake said almost with triumph as he launched a missile at the Fear Ship. The missile accurately hit Dark Kat's plane at the weapon systems. The hit made Dark Kat's plane shake, Dark Kat becoming worried hit the launch button but saw that nothing was happening. "No! My missiles won't fire!," he complained as he kept pressing the buttons hoping that something would happen. "Knocked out his weapon system!" Jake triumphantly said, his arms raised in the air. "One more shot and Dark Kat is history." Another voice came onto their radio, it was Feral. "This is Feral. Fall back you two. I'll handle Dark Kat," Feral ordered, he was going to take away their glory! "Negative, Commander Feral. We already have our missiles locked. It's our tag!," Chance protested, his hand desperately gripping the stick wanting to keep on the pursuit. Feral didn't like the challenge from Chance, his temper rising. He wanted to get Dark Kat! He wanted to give him the pay back he deserved and now these 2 lower ranking enforcers were going to take it away from him without even knowing what he had gone through! "I am ordering you to back off," he threatened. Chance's attention now remained on Feral, so did Jake's. They couldn't believe how Feral was going to take the credit on this one! After all, they went after them in a deadly heated battle, they deserved it! Dark Kat's Fear Ship was smoking badly, one more hit and it would go down! "I repeat sir: we've got a lock," Chance said again to Feral. This time this defiance made Feral go over the edge, he had no choice but to get Jake and Chance out of there by force. He aimed his plane right at theirs, making his hit their tail fin, knocking it off and making their plane go down. Chance's and Jake's plane went into a deadly corkscrew dive right towards the new Enforcer Building! "We're out of the game, Chance. We've got to eject," Jake told his partner, defeat and sadness was in his voice. With no response from Chance, they both ejected from the plane safely before it ran into the roof of the Enforcer Headquarters Building. The explosion caught Feral's eye, making him turn to see what happened. When he turned his attention back to Dark Kat's plane, it was out of sight. He had lost his chance! All of because of Jake and Chance! "Huh?! Dark Kat's gone!," he said desperately pushing some buttons to try to get the plane back on the radar, but nothing worked. He growled with anger and hit the console with his fist. "All because of those 2 young hotshots!" When Jake and Chance had landed from their parachutes and had put them away, Commander Feral was already coming out of the building, marching right towards them with a slip of paper in his hands. They both knew what was coming to them. Jake looked up at the roof, it had caught fire and was burning, and things weren't looking too good for them. "Heck of a loss, Jake," Chance said, his eyes looking down at the ground, he didn't even dare to see what damage the plane did. His main attention was set on losing Dark Kat. How badly he wanted to take down a notorious criminal. How much his pride would have boosted! His parents would have been so proud, but Feral had to step in and ruin things. However, Jake's attention was more on the building. The Enforcers just received a lot of money from taxes to build the building and now it was heavily damaged all of because Feral wanted the credit. "Monumental disaster, Chance," he said sadly, his ears drooped. He didn't want to see the look Feral had on his face. Feral stopped in front of them. "I'm glad you both agree. Because this is the last act of vandalism you'll ever perform on this city," his voice stern but not too harsh. He wasn't going to get rid of them, he was just going to give them the "Don't do it again" speech, have them pay and ask for forgiveness and keep them in the enforcers. "It was our tag, Commander. None of this would have happened if you hadn't interfered, sir!" Chance retorted, approaching the Commander sharply. It wasn't going to let Feral make them think that they were guilty ones. But again Chance's temper and defiance just made things worse for Feral. Chance's defiance triggered Feral's temper off, he growled and gripped the paper, which showed the damage in his hands tightly almost ripping it. "That's it! You're off the force! Both of you!" He decided to make the other go against Chance as well. Feral thought if he blamed the other one for Chance's defiance maybe the other would beg for forgiveness. But again things didn't seem to go as planned. "Suits us," Jake said, his anger starting to show as well. But his anger wasn't as outgoing as Chance's. He took off his helmet and tossed it at Feral's feet. Chance followed suit, they both turned their back and started to walk away. "Yeah! Who needs this crud anyway?," Chance said. Now this just did it for Feral! He wanted to make Jake and Chance pay but he just didn't know how to do it. He put his hands on his hips and looked down at the helmets. He knew just how to make them to pay, his voice got lower once again. "Just a minute. I said you're off the force. But not off the hook.", Feral said to them, pointing at them. Jake's and Chance's eyes went wide and they stopped dead in their tracks when the words left Feral's mouth. "There's still the matter of paying for this building. And that's what you 2 are going to be doing for a very long, long time." About an hour later, Jake and Chance pulled up into the salvage yard. Feral had given them the piece of paper on their transfer. They would have to stay and work in salvage yard till they could pay back for the building damages. But that was the lowest paying job! It would take them forever, and until they paid back the Enforcers, they were under Feral's control. They stepped out of the car and were greeted by 2 kats they wished they didn't cross. "Hey look, Burke! It's those 2 hotshots that wrecked the new enforcer building," a voice said behind them. Jake and Chance turned around to see a small male kat wearing a orange t-shirt, blue jeans, a black vest and a green hat and a taller, larger kat wearing blue jeans, a black t-shirt, green vest and a red toboggan. The smaller of the 2 was named Murray and the larger one was named Burke. Burke laughed by Murray's comment and then added, "Don't look so hot now do they?" Which made both of them laugh, Jake and Chance just looked at each other then back at their 2 salvage yard operators. Burke and Murray approached them; Burke reached into get the keys that would lock the gates to the salvage yard and to get into the garage. "Hey Feral says you guys gotta run this salvage yard," he said, his speech kind of slurred. He handed the set of keys to Jake. "Till you pay back every penny it costs to rebuild the enforcer building." "Yeah, and at your present salary, it should only take a thousand years," Murray added as he and Burke walked towards their garbage truck. He and Burke laughed by this comment making Jake and Chance growl with anger. They got into their truck and started it up. "Take care of the place now, boys," Burke said as he leaned his head out of the window to look at Jake and Chance. "We'll be checking up on ya's," Murray said, with that him and Burke left the salvage yard, a trail of laughter following them. Jake and Chance shook with fury, how much they wanted to hit those 2 so bad! Chance kicked a piece of scrap metal that was beside him, his anger overwhelming here. "This can't be happening. We're pilots not junkmen!" he growled. Jake looked down at another piece of scrap metal, the metal giving him an idea. "Hey, you know, Chance. There's enough military salvage here to build our own jet," Jake said picking it up. Jake's comment caught Chance's curiosity "And do what?" he asked. "Get back in the air and get back at Dark Kat," Jake said with a smile. "And all the other criminal scum who rear their ugly heads in Mega Kat City. Only this time, we do it our way." Chance smiled. "Well what are waiting for, buddy?" He and Jake gave each other a high five. It was now the present time of MegaKat City. Jake and Chance were busy getting some the order through with for that day. Jake was busy in the office filing the invoice of the metal that they had received that day. He found the old invoice reports still in the back of the file cabinet. Curious, he pulled one out to look at it and saw that it dated about 20 years ago! But then he saw that there major errors in the invoices. It was showing some major losses over the years and then stopped about 10 years. "Hey, Chance, look at this," Jake said as he walked into the waiting room to show Chance his discovery. Chance was sitting down on the couch, watching television. "What is it, buddy?" Chance asked, looking at the document that Jake had placed before him. "Well according to these invoices, there was major losses in the 10 years about 20 years ago," Jake said. "Probably just an error, Jakey. No biggie," Chance replied then gave the paper back to Jake. I don't think so. Look what was stolen? Plane parts," Jake said. "Why would anyone just steal plane parts? " "What are you trying to say, buddy? That about 20 years ago, there were other SWAT Kats?" Chance scoffed. "No...just seems weird, Chance. That's all," Jake said as he sat down on the couch, obviously engrossed on the item. "Let's see, 20 years ago would make it about the same time that Dark Kat started his attack on MegaKat, I think." "Are you suggesting, Jake, that Dark Kat got his material from the same salvage yard that we do?" Chance questioned. Jake just shrugged by what he said. "Just curious about Dark Kat's life. That's all, Chance. I mean after all he is dead but we never knew about him. I mean we know how Viper came to be but not Dark Kat. I am going down to Enforcer Headquarters and ask Felina about it. Care to come, buddy?" he replied. Chance nodded and followed Jake down to the hangar to change into their flight suits. About 10 minutes later, they had driven the cyclotron up to the front of Enforcer Headquarters. Razor and T-Bone made their way into the building, luckily for them, Feral was on break. On the second floor, they walked towards Felina's office and Razor knocked on the door. Inside the office, Felina was doing paperwork, when she heard the door knock, she looked up and said, " Come in." Razor and T-Bone walked in, smiling at her. "Hey Felina." Felina's face lit up with joy. "Well hey you 2. How are you doing?" "Good, we just came by to catch up on something. Well I was just curious on how Dark Kat came to be," Razor said as he walked around Felina's office to look at the pictures, which appeared to be family's members. "Dark Kat? I have no clue on his origin. It's actually quite mysterious. He came to be when my uncle was the Commander. By my uncle doesn't talk about him much," Felina said. "I am just glad the psychopath is dead." [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 21:56:03 -0500 From: DeusExMachina326@subdimension.com Subject: Re: Fan Fiction. Which reminds me .. what was the URL for DJ's fanfic archive? (DeusExMachina326 = BlackRazor11, i changed my email address..) ----- Original Message ----- From: Riochet To: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 11:28 AM Subject: [SWATKats_Canon] Fan Fiction. Hey here is the newest section of my fan fiction. Tell me what you think so far :) Melinda ---------- Note: This beginning of this story takes place about 35 years before the present day of MegaKat. His brown eyes darted over to where his older brother sat. How he envied him, he just stared at him, all of his jealously pouring into him. How he longed to be so much like his older brother, Sean. Sean Feral was the age of 28. He had a beautiful Siamese wife named Mitsu, who was 23 years old and pregnant with their kitten. As for himself, Ulysses Feral, he was 24 years old, single and had the dishonor of his father that haunted him through the years during his training at the Enforcer Academy. His jealously had grown a lot the year after he entered the academy, his father was dieing of cancer and basically was on his death bed for 5 months. Their father knew he was going to die and said he would give the estate to the son who would answer the question that he would ask both of his sons and which ever one answered the way he wanted he would title the estate to that son. The estate composed of a huge mansion like house since the Feral family was pretty much wealthy. Ulysses closed his eyes and tried to relive the moment of that terrible day, the day that ignited the fire of his jealousy of his brother Sean. "My dear sons," their father said with a very weak voice. "I know my time is near and I want my family to prosper. Since both of you are following your father's footsteps into the Enforcer Academy. I decided the only fair way to distribute my estate to you would be a question to illustrate which one of you will have your father's way of thinking that would prove to be the fittest to be for survival. I want you to both answer this question: If you and your brother were on a barren wasteland of an island and you found a raft for one passenger and you knew that by the time you come back for the other it would be too late, what would you do?" Ulysses and Sean looked at each other, and then looked back down at their father, Ulysses felt his father's stare at this face and finally spoke to break the silence. "Well the best way for me was to let the oldest survive and give the raft to my brother since I know that he is much stronger than me in military and I have most of the brains." Ulysses stopped finally, swallowing his breath knowing that his answer would be very courteous and sweet which he thought his father would love in a true gentlemen. His eyes wandered over to his father, but saw no look of any response, which made him nervous. His father's eyes wandered over to Sean and waited for his response. Sean looked over at his brother and gave him the most unusual, creepiest look he had ever given to Uly. "Father, I would go myself away from the island like Uly had said, the oldest must go on since I am more prosperous than my weak brother. But instead of letting anyone survive, I would kill my brother since he is too weak to try to rescue afterwards," Sean said and then smiled at his father. Ulysses' eyes went wide with terror and disbelief. How could his brother, his own flesh in blood do such a thing to him? He glanced over at his father, hoping his father would become angry with Sean for such a treacherous remark instead his father had a huge smile on his face. "Son," his looked aimed right at Sean. "I am very proud of your decision. You are obviously fit strong for the inheritance of my estate and to carry the Feral tradition. Go strong into the Enforcer Academy and I am sure the City Council will declare the new Enforcer Commander." Ulysses' eyes became even wider as the words exit his father's lips. "But father....how could that-" "Stop! I do not want to remember you this weak!," his father shouted at him barely getting his voice high enough to make himself strong in decision. But this made Ulysses even angrier. "It's not weak to value life!," Ulysses protested. Feral shook his head trying to get the image out of his head when he heard the Enforcer Commander stand up from his chair and approached the podium. "Graduates, I have sad and good news to tell you before we dismiss. As you may well know this is my last year as your Enforcer Commander but however, we have 2 candidates for the position. We the Enforcer Academy have chosen them do to their performance of the Academy, then in 2 weeks the City Council will look over their records and decide who will take my place. Also it is a great honor to announce that the 2 candidates are from this graduating class. I have great honor in declaring that the 2 candidates are Sean Feral and Ulysses Feral. In 2 weeks one of these will be the Enforcer Commander. Now congratulations to all of you and I dismiss you," the Enforcer Commander said with smile, with those, all of the graduates threw up their hats in celebration. Sean and Ulysses Feral exchanged glances not knowing on what to think of the news. The following day, Ulysses sat in his black Chevy Suburban across the street from Sean's house. He watched Mitsu walk out in her blue silk robe to get her newspaper from the yard. How much he wanted to have her, she was so attractive to him. He knew that Sean had a better chance of getting the position of Enforcer Commander. How much Ulysses wanted Sean's life: Commander of the Enforcers, a very beautiful house, and a mansion. There was nothing else in the world that he would want more. Ulysses sat back in the front seat of his car, hoping that Mitsu wouldn't catch a glimpse of him, he didn't want to be caught spying on his brother's wife. He knew there was one thing he must do in order to get what he wanted. His brown eyes watched Mitsu walk back into the house, her tail swishing back and forth gracefully, then he started up his truck and drove off to his house. That evening around 11pm as Mitsu and Sean were watching the news from their bedroom, the telephone rang. "I'll get it baby," Mitsu said as she kissed Sean on the cheek, then reached over to get the phone. "Hello?," she said as she picked up the phone. "Hello, this is Ulysses. May I speak to Sean, please.," Ulysses said, his voice sounding urgent. Mitsu gave the phone to Sean. "It's for you, love." Sean nodded, smiling softly and picked up the phone. "Hey Sean," Ulysses said. "Well hey, Ulysses. Whatcha doing up so late? Have a she-kat over," Sean replied, smiling. He loved his younger brother a lot and felt bad at first getting married. But his comment made Ulysses frown. "No, Sean. I don't. But I do have something you will like." "What's that?," Sean asked, his ears perked some. "Well I got a hot tip that you will like. From an enforcer spy we learned that a group of thieves will be robbing MegaKat Biochemical Labs," Ulysses replied, grinning evilly to himself. "What kind of thieves?," Sean asked, he didn't know about any robberies lately. "We believe them to be the Lin Kuei," Ulysses replied, that was the first group that he could think of. "Um, are you sure? We did research on the Lin Kuei already, brother. They are from ancient Siam, it doesn't make sense that they would want chemicals. There is no way," Sean said, having a confused look on his face. "Well that's what was told. I need you to check it out, brother. I have to go to a meeting," Ulysses said quickly, then hung up so there was no way that Sean could protest. "What was it baby?," Mitsu said watching her husband hang up the phone with a look of dread on his face. "That was my brother. He said there was a hot tip about the Lin Kuei going to steal chemicals in the lab. But that doesn't sound right, the Lin Kuei don't do that. You even told me that, sweetie," Sean said looking down at the floor, trying to figure out what to do. Mitsu nodded. "That's true. But baby, look what will happen if you do stop the robbery? Another good mark, and you will get the position of the Enforcer Commander." Sean nodded and got up. "I guess you right. But I don't understand why my brother didn't take the opportunity first. He has the same chance of winning as I do. Why give it to me?" He started to put on his uniform. Mitsu watched him, what Sean was talking about started to scare her. "Well baby, please be careful. Every time you go out, I seem like I will lose you," her voice soft, as tears start to form in her eyes when the image of losing Sean appeared in her head. Sean looked over and saw her sadness. He walked over to and held her. "I will always be with you. I love you, forever." He kissed her gently and then walked out of the house to where his car sat. That night at the Biochemical Labs, Sean crept into the lab, noticing that there was no unordinary activity in sight. There was no type of transportation near the building, which was kind of dumb for a criminal because there was no type of get away, unless of course the criminal already left. He took out his flashlight and began to walk down the hallway, glancing about, to make sure there was no one hiding in the rooms of the lab. But so far, there was no trace of break in, unless the criminal was terribly good and smart. He walked quietly down the hallway, trying not to breathe too hard just in case, the criminal was trying to get a shot off of him. He approached the huge room at the back of the lab where the chemicals were made. There were huge vats all over the place filled with dangerous chemicals and the beeps of machines all around. He turned off his flashlight and put on his infrared goggles since the area was more open and he was in more danger. He crept around and then decided to go up on the catwalk to get a better look over the area below. He tiptoed up the metal stairs hoping they wouldn't make a noise from his boots. He was over one of the huge vats of chemicals, suddenly he heard someone running right to him as he turned around, felt a sharp pain as the unknown kat hit him in the face, then he felt himself flying back off of the catwalk, desperately of fear, he clutched the catwalk with his claws and hung there helplessly. He cried out, looking down at the chemicals, scared. His eyes raised up to see who his attacker was. In horror, there above him grinning evilly was his own brother, Ulysses. "What the hell is going on here?!," Sean demanded, the fear overwhelming him. "Priorities have changed, Sean," Ulysses said coldly as he looked down at his helpless brother. "Are you out of your d*mn mind?," his brother replied to him, his claws digging deeper into the railing. "Looks like I am up for a promotion," Ulysses said with a smile as he approached him, ready to finish off his older brother. "Enjoy your retirement old friend. Oh, by the way, don't worry about Mitsu. I'll take good care of her." "You touch her and you're a dead kat," Sean growled, clenching his teeth. "You're the dead kat. I win, brother," Ulysses responded as he stomped hard on his brother's paws, making him lose his grip and fall into the vat of chemicals. He could hear his brother cry out in pain, panicking for help then he watched as Sean slide down into the chemicals and disappearing. That was it, the task was completed for Ulysses. "Oh, no, my brother has fallen and drowned in the chemicals," Ulysses with an evil smile as he walked out of the lab, laughing to himself. Hours later after the incident, a large purple paw with dark black claws held onto the edge of the vat and a large purple hideous figure of kat, naked, pulled himself out of the vat. The chemicals had mutated Sean into some sort mutant. He groaned as he lifted himself out of the chemicals, his mind was clouded and he collapsed on the ground, panting hard. He had no recollection of what had just happened. He got up and started to stagger towards any place to get some clothes, he knew that he wasn't himself and needed to find something to hide himself with. He approached one of the locker rooms and found a huge roll of black cloth that they were going to use to lay down for a cover. He took it and wrapped it around himself. As he was exiting the locker room, he walked in front of the mirror and saw the hideous figure that he had became. He was shocked that he couldn't speak, he touched his face and started to cry. He knew that if he went back to where his wife was, she would not believe that he was the one that she loved and would be outcast. "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! MITSU!!!!," he shouted out loud. His ears perked when he heard sirens coming towards the lab, he knew that the enforcers would never believe his story, so he started to make a run for it from the labs, he saw a lab truck ahead of him and got in it. He started to hot wire the truck just as the enforcer cars pulled up into the lab's parking lot. "You in the truck, come out with your hands up!," shouted one of the enforcers as the enforcers started to get out of their cars, their guns ready. "Oh great," Sean grumbled as he drove off away from the enforcers. "Everybody back in your cars!," the enforcer shouted, they ran back into the cars and followed the lab truck in hot pursuit. "Come on you stupid machine, go faster!," Sean complained as he constantly kept pressing his foot down harder on the accelerator. He started to drive off towards the outskirts of the city where the volcanoes were. He looked out in the side mirrors of the truck and saw at least 8 squad cars behind him, their sirens blazing. "Ugh." "This is the Enforcers. You are under arrest for murder of Sean Feral. Stop your vehicle now or you will be fired upon," one of the enforcers shouted over the PA system. Sean groaned. "Great, they think that I killed me!" Suddenly his ears perked as he heard a voice of someone groaning from the back of the lab van. He turned around and saw one of the MegaKat Biochemical Lab guards in the back of the van, obviously he must have been trying to sneak in a nap while on duty. Sean grinned and knew what he had to do. He stopped the van suddenly, and attacked the guard, grabbing his gun. "Move!" The enforcers stopped suddenly at the car, all of them racing out of the cars, guns ready to fire at anything. The hideous form of Sean walked out of the van, holding the guard firmly with his gun pointed at his head. He knew in his head that this stunt was crazy and he knew well that he wouldn't shoot the guy if they made him. "Look, listen here, whoever or whatever you are. You are under arrest for the murder of Sean Feral," one of the enforcers shouted who appeared to be the captain. Sean noticed that his brother wasn't there. Sean just stood there, not knowing what to do. "Let me go my way and I won't shoot him," Sean growled, his fingers gripping the gun tighter. "So what? You'll kill again. You freak!," one of the enforcers replied. Then more enforcers chimed in, yelling at Sean calling him a freak or a mutant, this started to anger Sean. The captain silenced his men and looked back at Sean. "Just who the h*ll are you?" Sean's eyes narrowed down, he knew how that his life would have to remain secret. "I am Dark Kat. Now let me go or I will kill him!!!" "No don't! Please, Dark Kat, I beg you. I have a family," the guard replied, crying. This made the favor more in Dark Kat's hands. The captain and held down his gun. "Fine. Everyone put down your weapons!" He turned to his men who immediately followed his order, then he returned his look at Dark Kat. "Fine, we'll let you go. But you must drop off your hostage in 3 miles we will not follow you but you have 10 minutes to get there." "Agreed," Dark Kat said and took his hostage back in the van and drove off as fast as he could, when he reached the 3-mile marker, he slowed down a little and threw the guard out of the van. He hated doing that, but he had to get away. He had made it to freedom for now. Dark Kat drove to the volcanoes and found a cave near the tunnel, he smiled and then drove the van about a mile away from the volcanoes and then ran as fast as he could back to the cave. When he reached the cave, he noticed that the cave had several small passageways. He knew the enforcers would be hot on his trail, so just in case, he needed to get away as far as possible. He wedged himself in the passageways, barely fitting, he had to crawl his way through on all fours. When he reached the end of the passageway he found a wide-open area, he grinned and knew this was the place to where he would hideout and plot his revenge. Later on that evening, Dark Kat laid down to get some rest before he would get up early and start to work, suddenly he heard a lot of chattering further down in the cave. Curious, he got up and started to walk down further into the cave to see what the chattering was, as he walked, he came upon a huge opening in the cave, inside were many tiny pink flying creatures that resembled bats. When the creatures saw Dark Kat, because of his enormous size, they became frightened and started to whimper and flew off away from him. "Wait, I won't hurt you!," he cried out but when he saw it made no difference, he sighed and turned to go back to his sleeping spot, he closed his eyes and fell asleep. That morning, he was awaken by the tiny chattering again but this time, it was much closer, he opened his eyes and saw the little creatures surrounding him, looking at him curiously. He smiled some and then got up and went out of the cave, to try to get some food. He walked back to where the truck was and saw it was not disturbed. "The enforcers must be more stupid than I thought," he mumbled as he got back in it and drove off towards the city. Being very cautious, he decided he would need a change of vehicles before he would head home. Since he knew he had a lot of weapons that he stored in the shed near his house, he would sneak back to his house to get his weapons. He parked the lab truck in an alley, then he found a huge delivering van located outside a restaurant, he approached it and found that the driver had left his keys in the van, he got in it and made no hesitation as he drove off towards his house, when he reached his house, he saw that his wife was not there which he thought might be a plus to him. He parked the van near her house and then crept around to the backyard, opening the shed with his claw, he took all of the ammunition he could find and put in his van, then he knew that his wife loved to sew and had tons of fabrics in the house that he could use to make him a decent outfit. He knew it was wrong to break inside his own home and it would cause a commotion when they got back, but he had to. Dark Kat thrust open the patio door of his house and got inside, quickly getting the fabric. Along the way he also picked some of the food that was inside his fridge and some of his study books on weapons. Once getting all the items he needed, he got into the van and drove off to his hideout once again. That evening, after sewing him an outfit that would be more efficient, luckily his wife had taught him some things about sewing skills. The new outfit was a huge black cape with a hood that would button up, the collar and hood was outlined with a strip of the red fabric. Once completing his task, he got out some of the food that he had stole. He started to munch on some of the meat, he was so hungry he had not eaten in a day. But as he was eating, he saw the tiny pink creatures start to approach him slowly, he could see their hunger in their eyes. He knew that it was wrong for him to eat and not them so he took out another pack of the meat and held it up to the creatures. "Want some?" The creatures stopped and just looked at him, not knowing on how to take it. Dark Kat knew that they would be scared of him, smiling, he tossed the pack of meat on the ground before them. He could actually see a smile on the creatures' faces as they started to chow down on the food. Dark Kat decided to call his new friends "Creeplings" since they were always creeping upon him. "Mrs. Feral, do you have any knowledge on who would break into your house?," the captain of the enforcers asked Mitsu as he sat down on the couch beside her. When Mitsu had returned home and saw that her guns, some of her food and some of Sean's books were missing, she immediately called the Enforcers. "I don't know," Mitsu said, crying. She still couldn't get over the fact that her husband had been killed. "If you ask me, it was the same deranged kat who murdered her husband," Ulysses said as he knelt down beside her taking her paw. "Don't worry, Mitsu. I'll take care of you." "Well then you must be talking about that huge purple freak outside the labs," one of the enforcers commented. "What purple freak?," Ulysses asked, his eyes a little wide. "Well we arrived at the labs, some huge purple kat with a hideous face was making a getaway from the labs. He had taken one of the guards, hostage. He called himself "Dark Kat", I think. We lost him, but we are sure he's going to rear his ugly head again soon," the enforcer replied. Ulysses had a horror stricken look on his face. Could Dark Kat really be Sean? Did his brother survive? He got up and looked out the window, wondering about what he had done. Mitsu approached him and placed her paw lightly on his shoulder. "Will you help me find my husband's murderer?," she asked softly, her fur matted with her tears. Ulysses nodded and smiled, then he reached out and caressed her face. "I promise, I will. I will take care of you, Mitsu even if it kills me." 4 years had passed, there wasn't no sign of Dark Kat making an attack on the city yet, which the Enforcers believed was good. They hoped that he must have run off. But unfortunately to them, Dark Kat was hiding out in his volcano home. He stolen scrap metal from the salvage yard but luckily for him, no one would have known if he did. With the scrap metal he constructed a plane since he did have a technology edge. He was now working on a bomb that he would kill his brother with. But the misery of not being with his family, was killing him and stopping him from continuing on with his work. He knew that he had to go see his wife to make sure she was okay. He walked back out to his delivery van, but he heard the creeplings whining behind him. "Don't worry, my creeplings. I'll be back, just guard our home," he said with a soothing voice, with that he got in his van and drove off towards the city once again. He parked the van across the street from his house, and then quickly ran over to his yard and hid in the bushes. He saw his wife Mitsu walking out of the house, carrying their child. Dark Kat was in awe, his little daughter who was the age of 4 now was so precious. He knew that they were going to call her "Tanehira" since his wife was Siamese. Another figure walked out of the door, Dark Kat looked at him and noticed it was Ulysses. Ulysses was wearing his commander uniform proudly. Dark Kat growled at him softly but what angered even more was that he saw Ulysses kiss Mitsu! He finally realized what happened, Ulysses had remarried Mitsu! He retracted his claws, he could feel the blood boiling in him. He watched his young daughter start to run around, chasing a butterfly playfully. He could hear her giggling and laughter of happiness, he started to cry, how he longed to hold her. Suddenly he saw her coming towards him, looking right at him. What if she saw him? What a horrible sight that would be! He froze, hoping that she didn't see him. But unfortunately she did see him. "Hello, mister," she said to him, her voice so soft. Dark Kat was so surprised! Tanehira wasn't scared of him! He could see the love in her eyes. But how she could love him? She didn't even know who he was and he was so hideous! "Wh-what is your name?" he choked, still being shocked on how she was acting. "Tanehira," she said smiling. Dark Kat smiled back, they still gave her that name. "Tanehira. That is a beautiful name," Dark Kat said, smiling. He lifted up his paw and ran his fingers down her cheek. Meanwhile, Mitsu saw that Tanehira had left her side and went out to look for her. She saw Dark Kat touching her daughter's face. "Holy Kats! Tanehira!" she ran towards her daughter. "Ulysses!!" Ulysses heard his wife's calls and ran after her; he kicked Dark Kat down on the ground. "Get away from her, you freak!" he said, and then he froze when he realized he that was had to be the same purple kat that escaped from the labs. He knew he couldn't lose Mitsu right now. He kicked Dark Kat again in the side, Dark Kat cried out in pain. He didn't want to fight his own brother. Dark Kat looked up at Mitsu with such pain and sadness. He saw her holding onto Tanehira. "M-Mitsu..,"he said softly. Mitsu looked at with a very strange look. She didn't understand how he could know her name. Ulysses heard this and feared the worst. "Mitsu, get Tanehira inside!, "he shouted out. Mitsu nodded and ran inside the house, Dark Kat saw them leave. "Nooo!!," he cried out in anger and growled out, he jumped on Ulysses, retracting his claws, scraping him. "You traitor! Give me back my family!!" Ulysses looked at him angrily. "No! They are mine!", he replied and punched Dark Kat in the face. Dark Kat growled at him, then took out a small knife that he had gotten from his cape and stabbed Feral right in the chest, almost near his heart. Feral gasped out in pain, Dark Kat could see the blood trickling out of the corner in his mouth. Feral looked at him with anger. "Fine, kill me," he said and looked at him. Dark Kat looked deep into his eyes, how much he wanted to kill his brother for all of the misery he had caused him. But if he did kill his brother, he would be just as bad. "No," he replied, his voice very soft. "I am going to let you live the life you wanted so bad and took away from me. But I'll be in the shadows, watching you. So just remember, every time you turn your back. Guess who?, "he said and smiled as he got up and left, leaving his injured on the ground. After Dark Kat left, Mitsu ran outside to Ulysses. "Ulysses!!," she cried, kneeling down beside him. "Oh kats...what happened, sweetie?" She saw the blood on his shirt from the knife wound, and the blood on his face. "I am getting the paramedics. Don't leave me, Ulysses. Don't leave me." She ran inside for the phone. 2 more years has passed, even though Dark Kat had told Ulysses that he would always be following him, he basically gave up. He didn't want to, but the heart broke feeling that he got when he saw the one that he loved with all of his heart married to the brother had destroyed his will to live. He kept himself hidden away in his volcano. He had worked so hard on his revenge, would his heart would finally heal up the emotional pain he was living through and work on getting back at the ones that gave him the pain. He had constructed 3 bombs, finally finished the plane, which he called the "Fear Ship". He had stolen some more weapons, having his creeplings do the crimes for him since he trained them well and they became his closest ally. He would strike soon but he didn't know when, he wanted his appearance to the city to become a very memorable one. The city had turned out against him, there was no justice, and he would create his city that should have been there for him when he needed it. He had gotten several other pieces of equipment too along the years, he had a computer system surveillance system to make sure no one was trying to get drop on him, he also had a television monitor to keep up with the news and a radio interceptor to keep up on the enforcers' radio transmissions. He also salvaged a radar system to be aware of any planes heading towards the volcano. He walked over to the huge mattress on the floor, which was his bed for now, he looked up at the picture of his wife that he once had that he had stolen when he was at the house. How he longed to hold her in his arms once again, he looked down at his hands and saw how huge and hideous. How would she ever touch him again looking like this? He growled out in rage and started to throw down the tables knocking off over some equipment, he started to cry into the night. The hate was consuming him. Meanwhile that night at Feral's house, Ulysses was tucking in Tanehira in her bed. At first he was worried about what his brother had threatened him about, but after he noticed how he hadn't had any contact with him since that day, his terror died down. Ulysses basically forgot about it. He walked into his bedroom and got in the bed with his wife, Mitsu. Ulysses kissed Mitsu goodnight and rolled on his side to fall asleep, he was actually quite angry with Mitsu hoping to be with Sean. He closed his eyes and trying to push his anger out of his head. A few hours later into the morning around 2am, a group of 3 ninja members from the Lin Kuei had successfully managed to get around the security system of the Feral estate and broken into the house. They moved like quietly and silently into the shadows towards Tanehira's room. Mitsu had just gotten up to get her a glass of milk to help her sleep when she ran into the ninjas. The ninjas made no sound and like lightning, one of them grabbed her head and snapped her neck before she could cry out, killing her silently. Then they moved onto their target, they crept inside Tanehira's room and found her sleeping softly. The leader of the ninja motioned for one of the ninjas to stay guard at the door, the other remained out in the hallway to make sure any other uninvited guest would arrive. The leader crept to the bed and smiled. Taking out from his outfit, was a small white cloth with ether on it, he held up her head, and placed the cloth to her nose. When Tanehira woke up, she had no time to struggle or cry out before the fumes off of the cloth made her unconscious once again. The leader nodded to his accomplices when Tanehira was out stone cold. He picked up her body and carried out of the bedroom, before they would leave, they knew they had to leave a note telling Feral of their deed. One of them took out a scroll and then held Mitsu's dead body up to the bedroom door of where Ulysses was sleeping, they placed a katana sword into Mitsu's shoulder making it go all the way through and into the door to hold the lifeless body there they had the blade go through the scroll as well so it would be attached to the body. After doing the task, they carried Tanehira out of the house and into the night just as the sun was beginning to rise. At 8am the next morning, Ulysses woke up from hearing the birds tweeting outside. Usually around this time, Tanehira was already in their bedroom shouting that she wanted breakfast. But for some strange reason, Tanehira wasn't there. Shrugging, Ulysses walked up to their bedroom to go check on her, when he opened the door he found what the ninjas left for him. No one words first exited his mouth, he was too overwhelmed with surprise and shock. "Noooo!!!!!!!!!!!." He cried seeing what happened, he quickly pulled the sword out of her body and held her in his arms, tears pouring down his face. He saw how she was killed, anger and sadness overwhelming him. "Mitsu...Mitsu, sweetie. Wake up!!," he cried. He picked up the bloody note and read it. It read "Commander, you should have great honor in having our group wanting your daughter. She will be an excellent add on to our group. Sorry about your wife, she was in the way and we couldn't let her ruin our mission. Don't try to find us or you'll join your wife. We are following you like shadows, Feral. Be warned. THE LIN KUEI." Feral put the note down, he just knew that Dark Kat had to have a hand in it. He growled and shouted out as loud as you could, "YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS SEAN!! YOU HAVE DESTROYED MY LIFE, I WILL GET YOU BACK!" That evening on the news, a news reporter was telling about the incident that had occurred that morning in Ulysses' house. Dark Kat was in his hideout working on some more devices when he heard the news come on and walked over to watch it. "This just in. Early this morning, members of the Lin Kuei had managed to break in to Ulysses Feral's house killing off his wife and katnapping his daughter. So far there are no reports where the young daughter is at.", the news reporter said. "What?!," Dark Kat said, his face almost turning white, his knees feeling so weak. How could have this happen? Why the Lin Kuei? "No......Mitsu!!" "So far, we have no suspects of the ninja. But earlier but analysis' of what have happened recently to the Feral's and by the contents of the letter, we have narrowed down to having Dark Kat as one of the suspects. Right now there is a APB on Dark Kat for the murder of Sean Feral, Mitsu Feral and the katnapping of Tanehira.", the news reporter continued on. "Commander Feral has put up the Feral Estate on sale and is moving to another smaller house away from everything. He is up in his office, and will not come out to speak to no one. The incident has really hit the Commander. But we have assurance that the enforcers are out at this very moment to find Dark Kat and bring him to justice. This was Kats Eye News Flash and now the Weather." "No, that wasn't me!! That wasn't me!! I wouldn't kill my own wife!!!!!," Dark Kat cried out, as if he was trying to scream out to the news reporter all the way back in the city. "No! That wasn't me!! I didn't kill her! Mitsu!!!!! For Kat's sake! No!!!" He started to cry, he collapsed to his knees and wept. The anger poured in him even more, how he hated the city, blaming all of the incidents on him! Against his whole family! He had lost everything he had! 22 years had passed since that time, Jake and Chance were just in training of the Enforcers. They were edging their way towards graduation of the academy. During the morning they would have classes then in the afternoon, they would have actual duties in the Enforcers. Jake and Chance had considerably high ranks for the training already in the Enforcers. They were hanging around the lounge room that afternoon around noon. It was in the month of July and they were lucky enough to be inside on such a hot day. "If Feral wants us to go out and do patrol routes in those enforcer cars with no air conditioning, he has another thing coming, Jakey," Chance said as he walked over to the soda machine. Jake just snickered as he plopped himself down on the couch, turning on the television. Chance grabbed the remote from him. "Hey, Chance, what are you doing?," Jake asked, looking at him meanly. "We are going to watch some "real" television," Chance said as he smirked, flipping on Scaredy Kat. "Scaredy Kat? Eh, Chance, aren't you too old for cartoons?," Jake said looking at him weirdly. "Nopes," Chance said as he grinned. "Riiight," Jake said, and settled down, trying to figure out why Chance loved this television show. Suddenly there was an announcement on the PA system. "Attention all enforcers. Dark Kat was spotted radar on a collision course with headquarters. This is a code red alert! All enforcers go to positions. Lieutenant Clawson, Captain Furlong, report to the runway immediately!," the voice boomed over, which was Feral. Jake and Chance both looked at each other with horror-stricken faces. Then without any words, they both got up and ran to get their gear on. Within minutes, they were in the sky in pursuit of Dark Kat's plane, with Commander Feral following them in his jet, and 2 more enforcer jets carrying some of their comrades. About 15 minutes later, Dark Kat had risen into a cloudbank and made them lose him on radar till he passed them, then he settled down back straight on target with Enforcer Headquarters. Their ETA to Enforcer Headquarters was 10 minutes. Dark Kat was a huge threat, Feral knew what his intentions were already. "Jake, Chance, let him go it's too dangerous," one of their comrades who was Clifford Furlan. Dark Kat had gotten so low that he was flying in between the buildings but still maintaining a high speed. "Negative. We're bringing Dark Kat in," Chance responded. "You guys get yourselves some doughnuts." Dark Kat turned his jet on its side as it flew between 2 skyscrapers. Chance followed in pursuit the same way as a reaction making no attempt, it just came naturally. But Clifford in his jet and the other enforcer jet flown by Robert broke off from pursuit. "You two are nuts, we're breaking off pursuit!," Clifford complained as he turned his jet away before making the attempt to follow Chance into the deadly dog fight. "Roger that. Leave it to us," Chance said as he leaned down to make sure there was still a blip on his radar. Jake in the back seat looked behind him seeing the 2 enforcer jets turn tail and smiled to himself. "We'll bring this psycho if it kills us." The Fear Ship edged on, only about a 30 seconds away from the target. Dark Kat's eyes narrowed down as he saw the new Enforcer Headquarters building, which was still being constructed, come closer to him. "Now I'll destroy the justice machine that protects MegaKat City," he said coldly then pressed a button on his console setting a target lock on the building. Jake looked down at his radar screen, it was showing an enemy target lock on the Enforcer building. "Chance, he's locking missiles on the new Enforcer building," Jake told his partner in a calm but urgent voice. "Then we've gotta nail him now, Jake," Chance replied, his grip tightened on the stick. His voice filled with worry. He turned his head back for a moment to look at his partner in the back. "No problemo. Missile deployed," Jake said almost with triumph as he launched a missile at the Fear Ship. The missile accurately hit Dark Kat's plane at the weapon systems. The hit made Dark Kat's plane shake, Dark Kat becoming worried hit the launch button but saw that nothing was happening. "No! My missiles won't fire!," he complained as he kept pressing the buttons hoping that something would happen. "Knocked out his weapon system!" Jake triumphantly said, his arms raised in the air. "One more shot and Dark Kat is history." Another voice came onto their radio, it was Feral. "This is Feral. Fall back you two. I'll handle Dark Kat," Feral ordered, he was going to take away their glory! "Negative, Commander Feral. We already have our missiles locked. It's our tag!," Chance protested, his hand desperately gripping the stick wanting to keep on the pursuit. Feral didn't like the challenge from Chance, his temper rising. He wanted to get Dark Kat! He wanted to give him the pay back he deserved and now these 2 lower ranking enforcers were going to take it away from him without even knowing what he had gone through! "I am ordering you to back off," he threatened. Chance's attention now remained on Feral, so did Jake's. They couldn't believe how Feral was going to take the credit on this one! After all, they went after them in a deadly heated battle, they deserved it! Dark Kat's Fear Ship was smoking badly, one more hit and it would go down! "I repeat sir: we've got a lock," Chance said again to Feral. This time this defiance made Feral go over the edge, he had no choice but to get Jake and Chance out of there by force. He aimed his plane right at theirs, making his hit their tail fin, knocking it off and making their plane go down. Chance's and Jake's plane went into a deadly corkscrew dive right towards the new Enforcer Building! "We're out of the game, Chance. We've got to eject," Jake told his partner, defeat and sadness was in his voice. With no response from Chance, they both ejected from the plane safely before it ran into the roof of the Enforcer Headquarters Building. The explosion caught Feral's eye, making him turn to see what happened. When he turned his attention back to Dark Kat's plane, it was out of sight. He had lost his chance! All of because of Jake and Chance! "Huh?! Dark Kat's gone!," he said desperately pushing some buttons to try to get the plane back on the radar, but nothing worked. He growled with anger and hit the console with his fist. "All because of those 2 young hotshots!" When Jake and Chance had landed from their parachutes and had put them away, Commander Feral was already coming out of the building, marching right towards them with a slip of paper in his hands. They both knew what was coming to them. Jake looked up at the roof, it had caught fire and was burning, and things weren't looking too good for them. "Heck of a loss, Jake," Chance said, his eyes looking down at the ground, he didn't even dare to see what damage the plane did. His main attention was set on losing Dark Kat. How badly he wanted to take down a notorious criminal. How much his pride would have boosted! His parents would have been so proud, but Feral had to step in and ruin things. However, Jake's attention was more on the building. The Enforcers just received a lot of money from taxes to build the building and now it was heavily damaged all of because Feral wanted the credit. "Monumental disaster, Chance," he said sadly, his ears drooped. He didn't want to see the look Feral had on his face. Feral stopped in front of them. "I'm glad you both agree. Because this is the last act of vandalism you'll ever perform on this city," his voice stern but not too harsh. He wasn't going to get rid of them, he was just going to give them the "Don't do it again" speech, have them pay and ask for forgiveness and keep them in the enforcers. "It was our tag, Commander. None of this would have happened if you hadn't interfered, sir!" Chance retorted, approaching the Commander sharply. It wasn't going to let Feral make them think that they were guilty ones. But again Chance's temper and defiance just made things worse for Feral. Chance's defiance triggered Feral's temper off, he growled and gripped the paper, which showed the damage in his hands tightly almost ripping it. "That's it! You're off the force! Both of you!" He decided to make the other go against Chance as well. Feral thought if he blamed the other one for Chance's defiance maybe the other would beg for forgiveness. But again things didn't seem to go as planned. "Suits us," Jake said, his anger starting to show as well. But his anger wasn't as outgoing as Chance's. He took off his helmet and tossed it at Feral's feet. Chance followed suit, they both turned their back and started to walk away. "Yeah! Who needs this crud anyway?," Chance said. Now this just did it for Feral! He wanted to make Jake and Chance pay but he just didn't know how to do it. He put his hands on his hips and looked down at the helmets. He knew just how to make them to pay, his voice got lower once again. "Just a minute. I said you're off the force. But not off the hook.", Feral said to them, pointing at them. Jake's and Chance's eyes went wide and they stopped dead in their tracks when the words left Feral's mouth. "There's still the matter of paying for this building. And that's what you 2 are going to be doing for a very long, long time." About an hour later, Jake and Chance pulled up into the salvage yard. Feral had given them the piece of paper on their transfer. They would have to stay and work in salvage yard till they could pay back for the building damages. But that was the lowest paying job! It would take them forever, and until they paid back the Enforcers, they were under Feral's control. They stepped out of the car and were greeted by 2 kats they wished they didn't cross. "Hey look, Burke! It's those 2 hotshots that wrecked the new enforcer building," a voice said behind them. Jake and Chance turned around to see a small male kat wearing a orange t-shirt, blue jeans, a black vest and a green hat and a taller, larger kat wearing blue jeans, a black t-shirt, green vest and a red toboggan. The smaller of the 2 was named Murray and the larger one was named Burke. Burke laughed by Murray's comment and then added, "Don't look so hot now do they?" Which made both of them laugh, Jake and Chance just looked at each other then back at their 2 salvage yard operators. Burke and Murray approached them; Burke reached into get the keys that would lock the gates to the salvage yard and to get into the garage. "Hey Feral says you guys gotta run this salvage yard," he said, his speech kind of slurred. He handed the set of keys to Jake. "Till you pay back every penny it costs to rebuild the enforcer building." "Yeah, and at your present salary, it should only take a thousand years," Murray added as he and Burke walked towards their garbage truck. He and Burke laughed by this comment making Jake and Chance growl with anger. They got into their truck and started it up. "Take care of the place now, boys," Burke said as he leaned his head out of the window to look at Jake and Chance. "We'll be checking up on ya's," Murray said, with that him and Burke left the salvage yard, a trail of laughter following them. Jake and Chance shook with fury, how much they wanted to hit those 2 so bad! Chance kicked a piece of scrap metal that was beside him, his anger overwhelming here. "This can't be happening. We're pilots not junkmen!" he growled. Jake looked down at another piece of scrap metal, the metal giving him an idea. "Hey, you know, Chance. There's enough military salvage here to build our own jet," Jake said picking it up. Jake's comment caught Chance's curiosity "And do what?" he asked. "Get back in the air and get back at Dark Kat," Jake said with a smile. "And all the other criminal scum who rear their ugly heads in Mega Kat City. Only this time, we do it our way." Chance smiled. "Well what are waiting for, buddy?" He and Jake gave each other a high five. It was now the present time of MegaKat City. Jake and Chance were busy getting some the order through with for that day. Jake was busy in the office filing the invoice of the metal that they had received that day. He found the old invoice reports still in the back of the file cabinet. Curious, he pulled one out to look at it and saw that it dated about 20 years ago! But then he saw that there major errors in the invoices. It was showing some major losses over the years and then stopped about 10 years. "Hey, Chance, look at this," Jake said as he walked into the waiting room to show Chance his discovery. Chance was sitting down on the couch, watching television. "What is it, buddy?" Chance asked, looking at the document that Jake had placed before him. "Well according to these invoices, there was major losses in the 10 years about 20 years ago," Jake said. "Probably just an error, Jakey. No biggie," Chance replied then gave the paper back to Jake. I don't think so. Look what was stolen? Plane parts," Jake said. "Why would anyone just steal plane parts? " "What are you trying to say, buddy? That about 20 years ago, there were other SWAT Kats?" Chance scoffed. "No...just seems weird, Chance. That's all," Jake said as he sat down on the couch, obviously engrossed on the item. "Let's see, 20 years ago would make it about the same time that Dark Kat started his attack on MegaKat, I think." "Are you suggesting, Jake, that Dark Kat got his material from the same salvage yard that we do?" Chance questioned. Jake just shrugged by what he said. "Just curious about Dark Kat's life. That's all, Chance. I mean after all he is dead but we never knew about him. I mean we know how Viper came to be but not Dark Kat. I am going down to Enforcer Headquarters and ask Felina about it. Care to come, buddy?" he replied. Chance nodded and followed Jake down to the hangar to change into their flight suits. About 10 minutes later, they had driven the cyclotron up to the front of Enforcer Headquarters. Razor and T-Bone made their way into the building, luckily for them, Feral was on break. On the second floor, they walked towards Felina's office and Razor knocked on the door. Inside the office, Felina was doing paperwork, when she heard the door knock, she looked up and said, " Come in." Razor and T-Bone walked in, smiling at her. "Hey Felina." Felina's face lit up with joy. "Well hey you 2. How are you doing?" "Good, we just came by to catch up on something. Well I was just curious on how Dark Kat came to be," Razor said as he walked around Felina's office to look at the pictures, which appeared to be family's members. "Dark Kat? I have no clue on his origin. It's actually quite mysterious. He came to be when my uncle was the Commander. By my uncle doesn't talk about him much," Felina said. "I am just glad the psychopath is dead." [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor www. FAQ/ Rules: http://www.swatkats.org/SKListArchives [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 06:30:24 From: "Kristen Sharpe" Subject: Re: Fan Fiction. Responding to BlackRazor's post: The URL for the DJs Fanfic Archive is: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/8850/fanfic.htm Kris _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ From - Thu Mar 01 20:51:37 2001 X-Apparently-To: skdigests@yahoo.com via web6401 Received: from mv.egroups.com (208.50.144.81) by mta539.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 07 Feb 2001 03:02:01 -0800 (PST) X-eGroups-Return: sentto-160503-251-981543694-SKDigests=Yahoo.com@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.56] by mv.egroups.com with NNFMP; 07 Feb 2001 11:01:35 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <981543694.117.34991.l10@yahoogroups.com> Mailing-List: list SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com; contact SWATKats_Canon-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: 7 Feb 2001 11:01:34 -0000 From: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Reply-To: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com To: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SWATKats_Canon] Digest Number 251 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status: 8000 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-~> eGroups is now Yahoo! Groups Click here for more details http://click.egroups.com/1/11231/0/_/450811/_/981543695/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> FAQ/ Rules: http://www.swatkats.org/SKListArchives ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are 2 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. Re: Fan Fiction. From: "Riochet" 2. Attention SK Fans with Boomerang! From: "Katarina Furlong" ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:46:09 -0500 From: "Riochet" Subject: Re: Fan Fiction. This is fan fiction is not finished. Need help on some parts :( Anyone have any ideas please email them to me at HeavenBound914@hotmail.com Melinda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kristen Sharpe" To: Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 6:30 AM Subject: Re: [SWATKats_Canon] Fan Fiction. > Responding to BlackRazor's post: > > The URL for the DJs Fanfic Archive is: > http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/8850/fanfic.htm > > Kris > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > > FAQ/ Rules: > http://www.swatkats.org/SKListArchives > ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 17:33:58 -0600 From: "Katarina Furlong" Subject: Attention SK Fans with Boomerang! Everyone with Boomerang (those who don't, my sincerest apologies), Boomerang will show(Cartoon Network never showed this episode) the Kats Eye News Special Report!! Currently, looking at the Boomerang schedule, it's suppose to be on Sunday, Feb 25. Of course it might change. There's 2 March dates before that. So keep your eyes open and get your VCRs ready, too! Katney Furlong _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ From - Thu Mar 01 20:51:37 2001 X-Apparently-To: skdigests@yahoo.com via web6405 Received: from mw.egroups.com (208.50.144.94) by mta432.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Feb 2001 02:22:26 -0800 (PST) X-eGroups-Return: sentto-160503-252-982232409-SKDigests=Yahoo.com@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.56] by mw.egroups.com with NNFMP; 15 Feb 2001 10:20:09 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <982232409.104.8571.l10@yahoogroups.com> Mailing-List: list SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com; contact SWATKats_Canon-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: 15 Feb 2001 10:20:09 -0000 From: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Reply-To: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com To: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SWATKats_Canon] Digest Number 252 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status: 8000 ------------------------ Yahoo! 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SK Game From: "Riochet" ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:23:43 -0500 From: "Riochet" Subject: SK Game Hey i was just wondering who has the SK game and has gotten pretty far in it, because I need major help :( If you have it email me at HeavenBound914@hotmail.com To help me out thanks :) Melinda Ricochet [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ From - Thu Mar 01 20:51:37 2001 X-Apparently-To: skdigests@yahoo.com via web6403 Received: from ei.egroups.com (64.211.240.237) by mta121.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Feb 2001 02:22:32 -0800 (PST) X-eGroups-Return: sentto-160503-253-982318832-SKDigests=Yahoo.com@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.56] by ei.egroups.com with NNFMP; 16 Feb 2001 10:20:32 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <982318832.113.87469.l10@yahoogroups.com> Mailing-List: list SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com; contact SWATKats_Canon-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: 16 Feb 2001 10:20:32 -0000 From: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Reply-To: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com To: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SWATKats_Canon] Digest Number 253 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status: 8000 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-~> eGroups is now Yahoo! Groups Click here for more details http://click.egroups.com/1/11231/0/_/450811/_/982318832/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> FAQ/ Rules: http://www.swatkats.org/SKListArchives ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There is 1 message in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. Something completely different From: Christian Berger ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 22:05:52 +0100 From: Christian Berger Subject: Something completely different Servus I've gotten some new eps on http://casandro.dyndns.org/swatkats/epps I hope you'll enjoy. Servus Casandro ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ From - Thu Mar 01 20:51:37 2001 X-Apparently-To: skdigests@yahoo.com via web6403 Received: from fl.egroups.com (64.211.240.233) by mta108.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 Feb 2001 01:59:38 -0800 (PST) X-eGroups-Return: sentto-160503-254-982403920-SKDigests=Yahoo.com@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.56] by fl.egroups.com with NNFMP; 17 Feb 2001 09:58:40 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <982403920.124.25125.l10@yahoogroups.com> Mailing-List: list SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com; contact SWATKats_Canon-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: 17 Feb 2001 09:58:40 -0000 From: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Reply-To: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com To: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SWATKats_Canon] Digest Number 254 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status: 8000 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-~> eGroups is now Yahoo! Groups Click here for more details http://click.egroups.com/1/11231/0/_/450811/_/982403920/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> FAQ/ Rules: http://www.swatkats.org/SKListArchives ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are 2 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. Nifty little site- Stuff that ballot box! From: Paul Kemner 2. New eps From: Christian Berger ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 13:18:03 -0500 From: Paul Kemner Subject: Nifty little site- Stuff that ballot box! I surfed into a site called "Animated Lust (Rated PG)" Check it out- http://www.dragonfare.net/AL/index.html Like the title says, it IS rated PG, so it should be suitable for anyone on the Canon list. Sadly, none of the SK characters are set up yet, but we can influence that. You can vote for your favorite characters, and/or supply material and fanfic. You can also set up your own harem. Felina and some of the other characters should be added to the list for SK, too. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 21:07:49 +0100 From: Christian Berger Subject: New eps Servus well I've put up new eps on http://casandro.dyndns.org/swatkats/epps/ Servus Casandro ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ From - Thu Mar 01 20:51:37 2001 X-Apparently-To: skdigests@yahoo.com via web6402 Received: from cj.egroups.com (208.50.144.68) by mta447.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Feb 2001 07:27:33 -0800 (PST) X-eGroups-Return: sentto-160503-255-982510052-SKDigests=Yahoo.com@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.56] by cj.egroups.com with NNFMP; 18 Feb 2001 15:27:33 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <982510052.109.19113.l10@yahoogroups.com> Mailing-List: list SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com; contact SWATKats_Canon-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: 18 Feb 2001 15:27:32 -0000 From: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Reply-To: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com To: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SWATKats_Canon] Digest Number 255 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status: 8000 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-~> eGroups is now Yahoo! Groups Click here for more details http://click.egroups.com/1/11231/0/_/450811/_/982510053/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> FAQ/ Rules: http://www.swatkats.org/SKListArchives ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are 2 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. Did anybody of you ever check CNs site? From: Christian Berger 2. Re: Did anybody of you ever check CNs site? From: DeusExMachina326@subdimension.com ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:17:50 +0100 From: Christian Berger Subject: Did anybody of you ever check CNs site? Servus there seem to be some SWAT-Kats fans at Cartoon Network. When you look at their site, you'll see lots of material which seems to be relatively hard to get. For example check out the storyboard of the giant bacteria. Especially look at the SWAT-Kats Logo. http://www.cartoonnetwork.co.uk/bts/swatkats/index.html Servus Casandro ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 20:05:39 -0500 From: DeusExMachina326@subdimension.com Subject: Re: Did anybody of you ever check CNs site? "Quickly developed a cult.." I don't quite like the term 'cult' but, hey we got recognized for something!... I've been to their site before, but it seems to have more material than it used to... before it was model sheets, a description and 10 ads, taht was about it... I'm kinda glad that SOMEONE in the AOL-TimeWarner empire is putting effort in the SWAT Kats area on CartoonNetwork.com.. :D ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Berger" To: "swatneu" Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 1:17 PM Subject: [SWATKats_Canon] Did anybody of you ever check CNs site? > Servus > > there seem to be some SWAT-Kats fans at Cartoon Network. When you look > at their site, you'll see lots of material which seems to be relatively > hard to get. For example check out the storyboard of the giant bacteria. > Especially look at the SWAT-Kats Logo. > > http://www.cartoonnetwork.co.uk/bts/swatkats/index.html > > Servus > Casandro > > > FAQ/ Rules: > http://www.swatkats.org/SKListArchives ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ From - Thu Mar 01 20:51:37 2001 X-Apparently-To: skdigests@yahoo.com via web6402 Received: from hk.egroups.com (208.50.99.220) by mta133.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Feb 2001 02:30:37 -0800 (PST) X-eGroups-Return: sentto-160503-256-982664987-SKDigests=Yahoo.com@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.56] by hk.egroups.com with NNFMP; 20 Feb 2001 10:29:47 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <982664987.146.85606.l10@yahoogroups.com> Mailing-List: list SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com; contact SWATKats_Canon-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: 20 Feb 2001 10:29:47 -0000 From: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Reply-To: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com To: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SWATKats_Canon] Digest Number 256 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status: 8000 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-~> eGroups is now Yahoo! Groups Click here for more details http://click.egroups.com/1/11231/0/_/450811/_/982664987/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> FAQ/ Rules: http://www.swatkats.org/SKListArchives ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are 2 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. Plaigerism? From: DeusExMachina326@subdimension.com 2. Re: Plaigerism? From: Danny Palic ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 22:23:17 -0500 From: DeusExMachina326@subdimension.com Subject: Plaigerism? I got bored one night i went to Google (www.google.com) and searched for 'SWAT Kats'. There was the usual sites like DJ's archive and Strike's site.. but this site, I smell a fish. The pics on it seem eerily familiar.. http://rire.freeservers.com/ Click on the 'SWAT Kats -bad guys' on the side, the stuff ni the 'Good guys' section, well -- I can't be sure, i know the pic of Razor is definatly by Hyenaboy. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:09:41 +0100 (CET) From: Danny Palic Subject: Re: Plaigerism? On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 DeusExMachina326@subdimension.com wrote: > I got bored one night i went to Google (www.google.com) and searched for > 'SWAT Kats'. There was the usual sites like DJ's archive and Strike's > site.. but this site, I smell a fish. The pics on it seem eerily familiar.. > > http://rire.freeservers.com/ > > Click on the 'SWAT Kats -bad guys' on the side, the stuff ni the 'Good > guys' section, well -- I can't be sure, i know the pic of Razor is definatly > by Hyenaboy. > > Greetings, Well looking trough this site, it is clearly that this guy basicly grabbed some pictures laying around on the internet. I dont have any experience with copyrighted pictures where the copyright on the character lays not with the artist (so far I know Razor is not copyrighted by Hyenaboy) but basicly it is not much of trouble to get those sites offline. But at the other paw, this site is not harmfull, and most likely of a kid who just found out the internet. Hyenaboys artwork here could be mistaken for official artwork by the kid (wich I would think is a compliment). I personally would not take action in this case. The author of this site does not state he drew the picture, so technically there is no case of plaigerism, at worst just a violation of copyright. Adios, o---+Danny Palic+------------------------------o | 2D/3D Artist - http://palic.www.cistron.nl | o----------------------------------------------o | Fax: ++31(0)20-8690292 ICQ: 3193629 | o----------------------------------------------o | I don't care what you got, it's what you do | | that counts, use your resources wisely. | o------------------------+palic@cistron.nl+----o ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ From - Thu Mar 01 20:51:37 2001 X-Apparently-To: skdigests@yahoo.com via web6404 Received: from hn.egroups.com (208.50.99.199) by mta404.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 21 Feb 2001 02:47:25 -0800 (PST) X-eGroups-Return: sentto-160503-257-982752436-SKDigests=Yahoo.com@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.56] by hn.egroups.com with NNFMP; 21 Feb 2001 10:47:16 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <982752436.164.41633.l10@yahoogroups.com> Mailing-List: list SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com; contact SWATKats_Canon-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: 21 Feb 2001 10:47:16 -0000 From: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Reply-To: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com To: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SWATKats_Canon] Digest Number 257 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status: 8000 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-~> eGroups is now Yahoo! Groups Click here for more details http://us.click.yahoo.com/kWP7PD/pYNCAA/4ihDAA/xiDVlB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> FAQ/ Rules: http://www.swatkats.org/SKListArchives ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are 7 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. Re: Plaigerism? From: deusexmachina326 2. SWAT KATS BACK :) From: "Riochet" 3. SWAT KATS BACK :) From: "Riochet" 4. Re: Plaigerism? From: "Jessie Clawson" 5. Re: Plaigerism? From: "Kristen Sharpe" 6. Re: SWAT KATS BACK :) From: DeusExMachina326@subdimension.com 7. Re: Plaigerism? From: DeusExMachina326@subdimension.com ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:06:04 -0500 From: deusexmachina326 Subject: Re: Plaigerism? I never said to take legal action, did I? It's just that I think Strike said specificcally not to copy her images. :P Quoting Danny Palic : > On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 DeusExMachina326@subdimension.com wrote: > > > I got bored one night i went to Google (www.google.com) and searched for > > 'SWAT Kats'. There was the usual sites like DJ's archive and Strike's > > site.. but this site, I smell a fish. The pics on it seem eerily > familiar.. > > > > http://rire.freeservers.com/ > > > > Click on the 'SWAT Kats -bad guys' on the side, the stuff ni the 'Good > > guys' section, well -- I can't be sure, i know the pic of Razor is > definatly > > by Hyenaboy. > > > > > > Greetings, > > Well looking trough this site, it is clearly that this guy basicly grabbed > some pictures laying around on the internet. I dont have any experience > with copyrighted pictures where the copyright on the character lays not > with the artist (so far I know Razor is not copyrighted by Hyenaboy) > but basicly it is not much of trouble to get those sites offline. > > But at the other paw, this site is not harmfull, and most likely of a kid > who just found out the internet. Hyenaboys artwork here could be mistaken > for official artwork by the kid (wich I would think is a compliment). > > I personally would not take action in this case. The author of this > site does not state he drew the picture, so technically there is no > case of plaigerism, at worst just a violation of copyright. > > Adios, > > > o---+Danny Palic+------------------------------o > | 2D/3D Artist - http://palic.www.cistron.nl | > o----------------------------------------------o > | Fax: ++31(0)20-8690292 ICQ: 3193629 | > o----------------------------------------------o > | I don't care what you got, it's what you do | > | that counts, use your resources wisely. | > o------------------------+palic@cistron.nl+----o > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~- ~> > eGroups is now Yahoo! Groups > Click here for more details > http://click.egroups.com/1/11231/0/_/450811/_/982663786/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------_- > > > FAQ/ Rules: > http://www.swatkats.org/SKListArchives > -------------------------------------- FREE ANONYMOUS EMAIL! Sign up now. http://www.subdimension.com/freemail ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:08:56 -0500 From: "Riochet" Subject: SWAT KATS BACK :) According To CN Schedule, SWAT Kats will be back on the air March 5, 20001 which is a monday starting off with Giant Bacteria. They will be on at 3pm :) Melinda [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:08:56 -0500 From: "Riochet" Subject: SWAT KATS BACK :) According To CN Schedule, SWAT Kats will be back on the air March 5, 20001 which is a monday starting off with Giant Bacteria. They will be on at 3pm :) Melinda [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:15:48 +0400 From: "Jessie Clawson" Subject: Re: Plaigerism? ::DIES!!!:: you guys are talking about this plaigarism thing and legal action and etcetera... ((I get enough of this "plagiarism" thing here in college everyday!!!)) so long as he/she/((dare I say)) it ain't making any money off of this everything is okay...and no need to sue eachother..otherwise I'd be in court everyday of my nine lives!! Lt Jessie Clawson ----Original Message Follows---- From: deusexmachina326 Reply-To: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com To: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [SWATKats_Canon] Plaigerism? Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:06:04 -0500 I never said to take legal action, did I? It's just that I think Strike said specificcally not to copy her images. :P Quoting Danny Palic : > On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 DeusExMachina326@subdimension.com wrote: > > > I got bored one night i went to Google (www.google.com) and searched for > > 'SWAT Kats'. There was the usual sites like DJ's archive and Strike's > > site.. but this site, I smell a fish. The pics on it seem eerily > familiar.. > > > > http://rire.freeservers.com/ > > > > Click on the 'SWAT Kats -bad guys' on the side, the stuff ni the 'Good > > guys' section, well -- I can't be sure, i know the pic of Razor is > definatly > > by Hyenaboy. > > > > > > Greetings, > > Well looking trough this site, it is clearly that this guy basicly grabbed > some pictures laying around on the internet. I dont have any experience > with copyrighted pictures where the copyright on the character lays not > with the artist (so far I know Razor is not copyrighted by Hyenaboy) > but basicly it is not much of trouble to get those sites offline. > > But at the other paw, this site is not harmfull, and most likely of a kid > who just found out the internet. Hyenaboys artwork here could be mistaken > for official artwork by the kid (wich I would think is a compliment). > > I personally would not take action in this case. The author of this > site does not state he drew the picture, so technically there is no > case of plaigerism, at worst just a violation of copyright. > > Adios, > > > o---+Danny Palic+------------------------------o > | 2D/3D Artist - http://palic.www.cistron.nl | > o----------------------------------------------o > | Fax: ++31(0)20-8690292 ICQ: 3193629 | > o----------------------------------------------o > | I don't care what you got, it's what you do | > | that counts, use your resources wisely. | > o------------------------+palic@cistron.nl+----o > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~- ~> > eGroups is now Yahoo! Groups > Click here for more details > http://click.egroups.com/1/11231/0/_/450811/_/982663786/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------_- > > > FAQ/ Rules: > http://www.swatkats.org/SKListArchives > -------------------------------------- FREE ANONYMOUS EMAIL! Sign up now. http://www.subdimension.com/freemail FAQ/ Rules: http://www.swatkats.org/SKListArchives _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 19:52:21 From: "Kristen Sharpe" Subject: Re: Plaigerism? I don't think it's so much a matter of taking anyone to court as a matter of courtesy. Strike specifically asks on her page that her images not be used without permission (and, to my knowledge, they are not images that just anyone could have - ie: they are unique to her site). Now, I can't say that this person doesn't have her permission or Hyenaboy's as I know nothing about it. They might. I wouldn't know. But, if they don't, the polite thing would have been to have asked before re-using someone else's graphics on their own site. Especially when one of those sites has a note about asking permission. Personally, I don't jump down anyone's throat until they clear my name off one of my handdrawn/computer drawn images and claim to be the one who drew/created it or go claiming one of my original characters (and then, I'm not up to much beyond verbal wrist-slapping). But, it's true that if the practice of swiping site graphics (here I'm talking about the title graphics and other images that actually load as part of the "decoration" of a website) isn't frowned upon, there would be a dozen sites that all look like some of the more popular ones. Then, those webmasters who have been copied so heavily no longer have an original look... At a glance, theirs is just one more nearly identical SWAT Kat site among 40, all with the same graphics. Kris _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:17:43 -0500 From: DeusExMachina326@subdimension.com Subject: Re: SWAT KATS BACK :) 20001? None of us will be alive to see it :P, unless some scientist makes a breaking discovery that vastly extends human life expectancy, or you just made a typo for 2001 ... :D ----- Original Message ----- From: "Riochet" To: ; Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 10:08 AM Subject: [SWATKats_Canon] SWAT KATS BACK :) > According To CN Schedule, SWAT Kats will be back on the air March 5, 20001 which is a monday starting off with Giant Bacteria. They will be on at 3pm :) > > Melinda > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > FAQ/ Rules: > http://www.swatkats.org/SKListArchives ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 7 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:19:38 -0500 From: DeusExMachina326@subdimension.com Subject: Re: Plaigerism? you know, the '?' part of 'Plaigerism?' is there for a reason... I never really made any conclusions, I just left it up for grabs on the mailing list... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kristen Sharpe" To: Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 7:52 PM Subject: Re: [SWATKats_Canon] Plaigerism? > I don't think it's so much a matter of taking anyone to court as a matter of > courtesy. Strike specifically asks on her page that her images not be used > without permission (and, to my knowledge, they are not images that just > anyone could have - ie: they are unique to her site). Now, I can't say that > this person doesn't have her permission or Hyenaboy's as I know nothing > about it. They might. I wouldn't know. But, if they don't, the polite > thing would have been to have asked before re-using someone else's graphics > on their own site. Especially when one of those sites has a note about > asking permission. > > Personally, I don't jump down anyone's throat until they clear my name off > one of my handdrawn/computer drawn images and claim to be the one who > drew/created it or go claiming one of my original characters (and then, I'm > not up to much beyond verbal wrist-slapping). But, it's true that if the > practice of swiping site graphics (here I'm talking about the title graphics > and other images that actually load as part of the "decoration" of a > website) isn't frowned upon, there would be a dozen sites that all look like > some of the more popular ones. Then, those webmasters who have been copied > so heavily no longer have an original look... At a glance, theirs is just > one more nearly identical SWAT Kat site among 40, all with the same > graphics. > > Kris > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > > FAQ/ Rules: > http://www.swatkats.org/SKListArchives ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ From - Thu Mar 01 20:51:37 2001 X-Apparently-To: skdigests@yahoo.com via web6403 Received: from ck.egroups.com (208.50.144.69) by mta325.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Feb 2001 03:08:19 -0800 (PST) X-eGroups-Return: sentto-160503-258-982840099-SKDigests=Yahoo.com@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.56] by ck.egroups.com with NNFMP; 22 Feb 2001 11:08:19 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <982840099.267.62647.l10@yahoogroups.com> Mailing-List: list SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com; contact SWATKats_Canon-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: 22 Feb 2001 11:08:19 -0000 From: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Reply-To: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com To: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SWATKats_Canon] Digest Number 258 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status: 8000 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-~> eGroups is now Yahoo! Groups Click here for more details http://us.click.yahoo.com/kWP7PD/pYNCAA/4ihDAA/xiDVlB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> FAQ/ Rules: http://www.swatkats.org/SKListArchives ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are 4 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. Re: Plaigerism? From: Danny Palic 2. Re: SWAT KATS BACK :) From: "Riochet" 3. RE: Digest Number 257 From: "whitestorm (E-mail)" 4. Re: SWAT KATS BACK :) From: "Jessie Clawson" ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:35:22 +0100 (CET) From: Danny Palic Subject: Re: Plaigerism? On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Jessie Clawson wrote: > ::DIES!!!:: you guys are talking about this plaigarism thing and legal > action and etcetera... ((I get enough of this "plagiarism" thing here in > college everyday!!!)) so long as he/she/((dare I say)) it ain't making any > money off of this everything is okay...and no need to sue > eachother..otherwise I'd be in court everyday of my nine lives!! > > > Lt Jessie Clawson > Greetings, It seems that my last post was misunderstood, I said I wouldnt take action, and that it was not plaigerism, since the author of the site in question was not claiming that he/she drew that picture. o---+Danny Palic+------------------------------o | 2D/3D Artist - http://palic.www.cistron.nl | o----------------------------------------------o | Fax: ++31(0)20-8690292 ICQ: 3193629 | o----------------------------------------------o | I don't care what you got, it's what you do | | that counts, use your resources wisely. | o------------------------+palic@cistron.nl+----o ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:40:04 -0500 From: "Riochet" Subject: Re: SWAT KATS BACK :) yeah that is what you get trying to type early in the morning for me hehe :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Riochet" To: ; Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 10:08 AM Subject: [SWATKats_Canon] SWAT KATS BACK :) > According To CN Schedule, SWAT Kats will be back on the air March 5, 20001 which is a monday starting off with Giant Bacteria. They will be on at 3pm :) > > Melinda > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > FAQ/ Rules: > http://www.swatkats.org/SKListArchives > ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 12:23:19 -0700 From: "whitestorm (E-mail)" Subject: RE: Digest Number 257 > It's just that I think Strike > said specificcally not to copy her images. :P Yes, I frown upon people using my site's graphics on their own sites, since most of them could be considered original. (ie, I took a raw image, colored it, cleaned it up, made it usable for a website, etc.) Everyone likes to have their site look unique, and so I'm fairly protective of my graphics. However, I'm far, FAR, *FAR* more protective of my HTML- that's the meat of the website, after all, and that actually does constitute legal plagiarism, since designing it, writing it, and implementing it is a wholly creational effort on my part. If there were a way to hide my HTML code entirely, I'd do it today. I take it much more personally when someone rips off my SK Links page than if they take my glowy pictures of Dark Kat. (But that irks me too.) Someone usually copies one or more of my HTML pages once every few months or so- grr. One of the reasons I broke the SK Links page up into individual pages for each subsection was because many people (at least three that I can think of right now) just ripped off that page entirely, because it was comprehensive and it was right there. But, the graphics I can live with. My site is so large and pops up so much in search engines that it gets a lot of hits - so when people want graphics, on many occasions they're from my site. That's one of the consequences of having a much-frequented site, unless I wanted to put a java code on every page that would disable right-clicking or something, and then if you're smart you can still get the image without much difficulty. It isn't really worth it- it's not like I drew them. (Hyenaboy's pic is a little different matter, though- but I don't think this guy realized that it was an original pic and not just a web graphic.) Yeah, this guy does have my pics of Dark Kat, Madkat, Dr. Viper, etc on his page. No, he didn't ask. But he does have a mini-disclaimer that reads something like "this pic was done by striker" ...I emailed him and hopefully that will say "Strike" soon. And I actually appreciate that, because that's more than most people do. I also told him that the Razor pic was drawn by Hyenaboy, so hopefuly there'll be a citation there soon, too. m.... yep, I'll shut up now. ~Strike www.whitestorm.com "We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world." -- Dan Quayle ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:49:25 +0400 From: "Jessie Clawson" Subject: Re: SWAT KATS BACK :) 20001???? I won't live that long!!!! ::knows it's a typo!!:: Lt Jessie Clawson ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Riochet" Reply-To: SWATKats_Canon@yahoogroups.com To: , Subject: [SWATKats_Canon] SWAT KATS BACK :) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:08:56 -0500 According To CN Schedule, SWAT Kats will be back on the air March 5, 20001 which is a monday starting off with Giant Bacteria. They will be on at 3pm :) Melinda [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] FAQ/ Rules: http://www.swatkats.org/SKListArchives _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Your use of Yahoo! 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Topics in this digest: 1. Help :( From: "Riochet" 2. Help :( From: "Riochet" ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:47:02 -0500 From: "Riochet" Subject: Help :( I need major help with my fan fic, I have some ideas but don't know how to put them into writing. If anyone has seen the movie Arlington Road and can help me please email me at HeavenBound914@hotmail.com Thanks Rico [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:47:02 -0500 From: "Riochet" Subject: Help :( I need major help with my fan fic, I have some ideas but don't know how to put them into writing. 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