Subject: !SKFF! Obskat: Secrets.PG Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 02:38:57 -0700 From: Rauhnee Ranshanka Title: Secrets Author: Rauhnee Ranshanka Email: GateKat@SWATKats.Net Rating: PG Status: NEW; Complete Date: Aug 25, 1998 Archive: No Category: Penitence Series/Sequel: The Katmins Rants #4 #1: Cyber Bloodlust #2: Where's The Fic? #3: What's With You? Disclaimers: The SWAT Kats belong to Hanna-Barbara, no infringement intended and no physical profit gained. Notes: My muse is obsessing on this one tonight. At this rate, I'll actually have caught up soon. Summary: Lt. Jagan lives up to her reputation as a gossip and what she pieces together in a letter home has her scared. Just for your information, she's writing in code and I've translated it for ease of reading, not her lack of paranoia. Warnings: None ----------------------------------------------------------- Hi mom, I'm writing this down and sending the files to you in case something happens to me. If you are told I committed suicide or died in an accident, do not believe it. Someone here had me killed. I doubt there is anything you can do to help me, but I want you to know. You would not believe what I've put together. This place has nothing on the Joint Chiefs Office for infighting and politicking. Here we've got family feuds and more outside forces than I can name playing into it as well. Never mind our resident vigilante heroes, the SWAT Kats. We have a major underground fight going for the Commander's position, even though he shows no signs of weakening or leaving. The obvious contender, a Lt. Cdr. Steele is hopeless. Even if he gets the post, he won't survive to enjoy it. I've been told this outright and I've only been here two months. Is there any other post where assassinations within your own ranks is spoke of so openly? All of the real contenders are not so open about their intentions, at least not when he's around. I'll get to them later. Anyway, who I really fear is my roommate, Felina Feral. Her name is enough to get kats moving, even though she is only a Lt. her wishes carry more weight than Commander Feral's if he is not in earshot. She has spoken often of her willingness to kill, sometimes over very minor things. She always says them in jest, or it seems so, but when I say something to that effect she asks me how I know. But what is there to think of a pilot who carries a loaded bazooka in her jet and thinks nothing of flying an alien ship to it's mothership without backup or any possibility of it? To say she is crazy is likely underestimating her ability. But it is the dangerous kind of crazy. The kind that gets things done. Some of the others have commented on how she changed just as I arrived. I don't know what to make of it, but I know she didn't have a roommate before. On top of everything else, it's unsettling. But could that be the point? To unsettle me? To test me? At this point I'm convinced that she either plans to have me killed or bring me into her fold, and I am unsure if I want the later. She's gathered loyal kats around her, mostly females. I know she's making a bid for her uncle's position despite her low rank. Somehow the SWAT Kats factor into it, I think on both sides. She is really as obsessed about them as he is, and apparently in the same way. I've even seen her shoot at the Turbokat once when it got in her way. I don't know if they are her allies and she is protecting them with a very impressive cover-up or if she really has decided to being them down. I am beginning to think she is capable of it given enough time. But what confuses me is many in her circle of friends openly claim to be SWAT Kat supporters and tease her about her change in attitude and her plan and it does not seen to anger her. Any other kat would leave such folk behind as a liability. Felina would do well at the capital. Eight years of experience there and I can't even begin to figure her out. She has a plan and a goal, but I'll be damned if I can sort it out. Somehow a set of e-mail lists also play a part in this mess, at least as far as she is concerned. They take up much of her free time and she is convinced Razor is on one of them. I'm seriously considering trying to get a transfer out of here ASAP. I wouldn't mind some help from your end. The criminals are the least of the dangers in the place. At least at the GCO I don't have to worry about being shot at by my own people. Gotta go, with Love and Hopes to See You Soon Sam ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Do not meddle in the affairs of certain dark furred gunner, . for he is a smart-ass and well armed. Do not meddle in the affairs of a certain Lieutenant Feral, . for she carries a bazooka and knows how to use it.