The cold wind ripped around Bridgitte as she approached the cemetry. She was going to visit Dusty's grave. As she walked up to his grave, she noticed how it started to get very quiet, tears started to form in her eyes. Jake still wasn't strong enough to go to his son's grave. He still felt guilty inside and the loss of his beloved son was hitting him pretty hard. Bridgitte stood at the grave silently. She really didn't talk aloud but deep inside her, knowing Dusty could hear her. In her hand was a single red rose which she placed on his grave. She sighed sadly, trying to be strong because she knew Dusty would want her to be. She had stopped by his grave almost every week since his death last month but every time she came, she still felt so sad deep inside. Bridgitte looked at the diamond engagement ring on her finger and thought back to the day she found that ring. It was when they were preparing Dusty for burial. He was buried in his SWAT Kat uniform but deep inside the pocket of the uniform was a black box that had the label "To Bridgitte my love" on it. Inside the black box was the diamond engagement ring. Jake knowing that it would have been Dusty's will to give Bridgitte, he gave the ring to her. Bridgitte shivered by the cold wind, and felt the sickness in her stomach again. She knew she must be getting the flu because of the cold weather recently, it was getting towards winter. She decided it would better if she went ahead and left. She looked at the grave with sad eyes and softly said outloud, "I love you, Dusty." Then with that, she turned and walked back towards her car.

At the garage, Jake and Chance were eating a pizza that they had ordered for supper. Felicia was upstairs, looking up information on the computer. Bridgitte walked in the room, Jake looked up and saw her. "Hey, Bridgitte! Want some pizza?," he asked.

Bridgitte looked at the pizza and her face almost turned green. She held her stomach. "Uh, no thanks..," she said.

Chance looked up at her. "You okay, Bridgitte? You look kind of pale."

"Yeah, I'm fine. I think I am getting that flu that has been going around. I am going upstairs to lie down," she said.

"If you get that flu, don't come around me," Chance called after her. Jake grinned.

After Bridgitte left the room, Chance looked at Jake with a serious look. "Buddy, don't you notice this?"

"Notice what?," asked Jake as he put down his pizza.

"Notice Bridgitte. I don't think she's sick," said Chance. "I think it might be something else. Remember Felicia when she thought she was sick. Maybe it is the same for Bridgitte."

Jake's eyes went wide. "No..no, Chance. You don't suggest that my son and her..uh, you know?" Chance nodded and smiled. Jake's face was even beginning to turn pale by the shock. "No, no. Chance she can't be!"

"Shh..," Chance said. "Maybe I'm wrong. It's just since its happened so many times around here you know. Eh, maybe we should ask."

Jake scoffed. "Yeah, right, Chance. You want me to go up to Bridgitte and ask her if she's expecting."

"Expecting what?," Felicia asked as she walked into the room, only hearing the last part of Jake's sentence." Both Jake and Chance blushed and returned to eating, trying to look like they weren't talking about anything.

Felicia smiled. "Now don't pretend I didn't hear you guys chatting about something. Come on, Jake. You know how I hate to be left out. Tell me." She looked at him. Jake looked up from the table and then looked at Chance, then back at the table. Chance did the same. Felicia looked over at Chance then back at Jake. "Come on, tell me," she protested as she grabbed Jake's arm.

Jake sighed and nodded. "We need you to ask Bridgitte something. But we want her to be in the same room as us."

"Sure, love," Felicia said lovingly. "What do you want me to ask her?"

"Ask her if she's you know...," Jake said, having difficulty bringing it out.

Chance saw this and finished it for Jake. "Ask her if she's expecting a kitten.

Felicia's eyes went wide and then started to laugh. "You guys are serious?," she manage to ask from her laughing.

Both Jake and Chance nodded. Felicia grinned at them and shook her head. She got up and made her way to Bridgitte's room to call her to where Jake and Chance were. "You two are so silly," she called back to them.

A few minutes later, Felicia returned to where they were followed by Bridgitte. "Yes, what do you guys want?," Bridgitte asked, her face was still pale. Both Jake and Chance had blake look on their faces so Felicia knew she would have to ask her.

Um, Bridgitte. What my husband and his friend want to ask you is that they think you are not sick and they fear that you might be expecting a kitten. Because they believe that you are showing the same signs I did when I was pregnant with Dusty. So do you think that you are?," asked Felicia.

Bridgitte response was kind of hesitant. "Um..I-I don't think so..,"she said. Jake and Chance looked at each other. Felicia looked at Bridgitte. "Now are you sure?"

"I think so..I mean I guess.," Bridgitte said, really not to sure herself.

"Well did you and him...you know?," Jake asked, looking at her.

"Um...,"she said, and then blushed. "Yes..."

"And it is has been a month since Dusty's death too," Felicia noted. She looked over at Jake and Chance, letting them know that she might think they were right. "Bridgitte, I need to take you to the doctor."

"Wait..wait. You guys are suggesting that I might be pregnant?,"Bridgitte asked.

"Eh, the signs you are showing, yes. But then you again, you could just have the flu. So we need to take you to the doctor just to be sure," Felicia said calmly.

Bridgitte nodded and stood up. "Then lets go."

While Bridgitte and Felicia were gone to the doctors, Jake and Chance decided to get some of the cars done that they needed to work on. They heard a car approaching the garage. "Aww, great. More work," Chance complained and wiped the grease from his hands. "Jake, finish this one, while I get the paperwork done on the new comer." Chance stuffed his hankerchief back into the back pocket of his coveralls. He turned his back from the front door to get a work invoice sheet from the shelf. He heard the bell ring as the door opened. Chance could hear the footsteps of someone approaching. "One sec," Chance called, not turning around. "I need to get a pen." Chance opened a drawer, retrieved a pen and then closed again. He turned around, his eyes first down at the sheet. "Okay, I need to write down your name and number." He looked up, what he saw, made his jaw almost literally drop to the ground. There in front of him stood Matthew, his son. "M-Matthew...," he said.

"Heya, dad..," Matthew said, smiling a little.

"Hey, Chance I finished that car out there," Jake said as he walked in, his eyes focused on Chance. "What is to be done now?" He looked over and saw Matthew. But his reaction was totally different from Chance's. "You!!!!!!", he growled. He jumped at Matthew, pushing him hard against the wall, his elbow pressing into his neck, the other fist bawled up tight. Matthew started to cough. "I should kill you right now for working for Dark Crud who killed my son!!!!" Matthew was unable to talk because of Jake's hold on him.

Chance pulled Jake away. "Let him go, Jake!! Let my son go!! We don't need both of them dead for kat's sake!"

"Well he didn't help kill one of your loved ones!!," Jake yelled and then stood, panting. Trying to calm down. "Just what the h*ll do you want anyways?!"

"I-I w-want to be with you....after I saw you, Jake lose your son. I didn't want to put my own father through all of that misery. I want to be with him..," Matthew looked over at Chance with hurt eyes. "D-dad...can I join you? I was blind to see to the danger and the wrong doing of being with Dark Kat. I should have listened to Dusty. I am sorry...can I please be with you and Jake? I don't want to be alone."

"I want you with us too, son. I want you to join us," Chance said softly and then smiled. Jake's eyes went wide with disbelief.

"I don't believe you, Chance!," he said with anger and then stormed out of the room and down into the hangar.

Matthew watched after Jake and then looked back at Chance. "Ma-maybe I shouldn't.."

"No, son. You will become a SWAT Kat..I promise. Just let him cool down for awhile," Chance said and then grinned. He hugged Matthew tightly. "It's good to have you back son."

"It's good to have you back too, dad.", Matthew replied.

A couple of hours later, Felicia and Bridgitte returned. "We're back," Felicia called as she walked into the garage. Felicia and Bridgitte walked into the car bay where Chance was. "Hey Chance," said Felicia.

"And?," Chance said as he looked over at Bridgitte.

"You were right," Felicia said and smiled a little.

"Congratulations," he replied and looked at Bridgitte. Bridgitte smiled and nodded. "Oh, by the way, I have a surprise for you 2 as well. Hey, Matthew come over here."

Matthew was over at one of the work benches looking at the tools, when he heard Chance call for him. He walked over at the group. "Hey, everyone."

Felicia's and Bridgitte's eyes went wide. "Matthew? You mean DarkClaw?," Felicia said almost in a whisper.

"Yep," Chance smiled. "He came back. Look, Matthew has changed. He is going to join our squadron."

"Really?," Felicia said as she looked at Matthew. She also felt kind of angry but then again it was Dark Kat who killed her son not Matthew.

Matthew looked over at Bridgitte. Already kind of knowing her due to the fact that he saw her at Dark Kat's place. "Hey, " he said softly.

"Where's Jake?," Felicia asked, finally noticing that Jake wasn't in the room.

"Oh, he's downstairs in the hangar," Chance said.

"Really? What for?," she asked.

"He just needs to blow off some steam," Chance said and smiled real quickly.

"Oh, well I'll go down there to talk to him," Felicia said.

"I'm going upstairs to lie down," Bridgitte said. "I'm glad to have you met you, Matthew." She turned and walked up towards her room.

"I was glad to meet you too," Matthew called after her as he watched her leave.

When Felicia went downstairs to check on Jake, she found him at his locker, swearing under his breath. Jake turned around towards her, his uniform in his hands. "Jake, what are you doing?," she asked him.

Jake looked at her and sighed, made his way over to a table where his red duffle bag sat. He placed his uniform in it and then went over to his work station to get some stuff. "Jake, answer me, " Felicia called after him. "I know something is bothering you and I want to help you. Now tell me, what is wrong."

Jake turned around to face her, his face full of pain and sadness. "You want to know what is wrong?! I am packing my bag in order to leave and save myself. I suggest you to do the same thing. Because that killer up there isn't going to come near me! Chance can go ahead and be soo blind to all of this, but I sure am not!," he said, his fists bawled up.

"Jake, you can't leave Chance. You would be breaking up the squadron. Chance needs you!," Felicia protested as she put her hand on his arm.

"Me breaking up the squadron? Oh, no. Chance already has by allowing his traitor of a son to join our team! Felicia, his son killed our son!! Or haven't you forgotten?!," Jake said angrily.

"No, I haven't, Jake," Felicia said sadly, the pain coming in her from the remembrance of her son. "I just don't associate Matthew with his death. Dark Kat did kill Dusty not him. Please Jake, don't leave us. Just give Matthew a chance. Please, my love. For me."

Jake sighed and closed his eyes. His face had the look of anguish on it. He knew he didn't want to leave Felicia for this plus Chance. Chance was like his brother. He sighed heavily and then said, "I will stay." He opened his eyes and looked at her. He started to unpack his bag.

Felicia watched him and smiled, feeling much relieved now. "Thanks, Jake. Oh you and Chance were right. Bridgitte is pregnant with Dusty's kitten," Felicia said.

Jake couldn't help from smiling from what she said. "That's good," he said. Jake glanced at his watch and then added, "The news will be on shortly. I'll finish unpacking now, you go upstairs and tell the others I will be up shortly to watch it with them."

"Okay, sweetie," Felicia replied. "I love you, Jake."

Jake smiled over at her. "I love you too.." He walked over to her and kissed her softly. "Thanks, love."

She smiled and then went upstairs.

When Jake walked upstairs, he saw Chance and Matthew sitting together on the couch, watching the news. Felicia was sitting down on the floor. Jake figured that Bridgitte was probably upstairs since she wasn't feeling too good. Jake smiled over at them when they looked up at him, he walked over and sat beside Felicia. He put his arm around her, smiling at her, purring. Then refocused his attention on the news.

"Tonight, we have a special announcement to make. After years of hard work, the time machine that Puma-Dyne has finally finished. After spending billions of dollars, the finished project is well worth the money. The time machine is secured at the Temporal Security Annex building. A new building on the outskirts of the city, the building itself costed 2 million dollars in order to have the best security system ever. The time machine is continued to be tested and modified by Dr. Haako and Dr. Gunray. Though no test runs have managed to assure the machine works, the doctors assured us that the time machine does in fact work according to their equimpment. This time machine was created in order to alter time due to the even if something really critical happened. Also since the building is heavily armored and guarded 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is also used to house the mayor and other important city officials in case of an emergency. More to come later.," Ann Gora reported.

"Whoa!," Matthew said.

"A time machine?," Chance asked. "Who needs the Pastmaster then." He grinned over at Jake.

"I don't know, Chance," Jake said, contemplating about what he just heard. He was softly stroking Felicia's arm up and down while thinking. "Altering time. There's more to that then just going back and fixing something. I mean a rift could occur if they alter the time too much to the point where the present and or future could be altered."

"Plus there's a fact that it could be stolen and fall into the wrong hands," Felicia added.

"Who's hands though?," Chance said. "I mean the only smart person who would be able to pass the security would be Dark Kat and he's dead. I mean look at Viper. Viper would try to use his plants or something. But there's no way he could pass all that armor just to get there and by the time he would manage, we would already be there. Then there's the Metallikats. Their fire power probaby couldn't even pass the blast doors. Hard Drive, sure the electricity might have an effect but still, he doesn't have the brain power nor the fire power in order to do that operation. So relax, Jake."

Matthew grinned. "Nah, dad. There's a way that someone could get in if they really planned it out."

"Oh?," Chance asked and looked over at him.

"I mean, the blast doors, the security systems. They all run on a system. If someone knew how to do the wiring and cut the circuitry, they could easily have communications to Hard Drive. Then all Hard Drive had to do was to go into the control system room via power surge. Do what he was told and boom, the security would be down long enough for them to steal the time machine before any enforcers or you guys came. Plus if they rerouted the system for themselves they could use the security system against all of you," Matthew smiled.

Chance's eyes went wide. "Whoa! How are you that so smart?"

"Obviously not from you," Jake teased. "But your son does have a point."

"Yeah, well his mother could verify they did come from me, but she's out of town for the week remember?," Chance smiled.

"Oh yeah, dad. I was wondering can I go out on the Cyclotron by myself," Matthew asked. "Please!! Please!"

Jake grinned at Chance. Chance smiled proudly. "Sure, go ahead, son," he answered. "You can use my extra SWAT Kat uniform.

"Yipee!!," Matthew cheered and ran downstairs to the hangar. Felicia and Jake laughed. Chance shook his head and grinned. Jake started to realize that maybe he shouldn't have went off on Matthew.

Chance glanced back over at the clock, it was 11:55pm. Matthew had been gone for about 2 hours now and it was getting late. Felicia had already gone up to bed, Jake walked over to Chance. "Chance, don't worry. He'll be home soon. Remember, he is a young teenage boy. He's probably out showing off or found a she-kat. Come on, go to bed now," Jake said as he yawned.

"I can't, buddy. I am just worried. I mean you lost Dusty and I fear for Matthew," Chance said, he had a terrible worried look on his face. Jake sighed.

"I know, buddy. Well look, don't stay up too late and if he doesnt' come home soon. Call for me," Jake said and smiled. Chance nodded at him. Jake was only half way up the steps when both he and Chance heard the alarm blaring from the hangar. Both of their eyes went wide and ran quickly downstairs.

Chance hit the alarm button switch to make who ever was calling them to be able to talk to them. "Yes?," Chance answered.

"Hello, SWAT Kats," a familar voice said back to him.

"Hard Drive?!," Jake asked.

"Yep," Hard Drive said. "Guess who I have"

"Dad, help me!", Matthew's voice cried out from the background.

"Son!!!," Chance said, he growled. "You better let him go, you low life."

"I will if you can find me," Hard Drive taunted. "You better hurry or I might his presence here to become annoying." With that, he disconnected.

"Jake, can you trace that call?," Chance asked.

Jake ran over to the tracer. "Crud!! He scrambled it up, I couldn't!"

"Well that's terrific. Let's get our tails out there and look for him!!, Chance yelled as he ran to his locker, Jake followed. Few minutes later, the TurboKat was out of the hangar and into the dark night sky.

"Anything yet buddy on the surge tracker?," T-Bone asked hopefully as he flew over the sky of MegaKat City.

"Negative, buddy," Razor said and then growled in frustration. "He must have not be using his surge coat. That low life."

"Well keep searching. We have to find my son.," T-Bone said, already defeat entering his voice, he banked the jet a little to the right and continued the search.

Around 4am, Razor and T-Bone returned back to the hangar, utterly discouraged. T-Bone threw his helmet into his locker and then growled out loud from all of his rage that was deep inside of him. Razor just sighed and shook his head by the sight. "Look, buddy. We will find him, why don't you get some rest. So that way just in case if we do find Hard Drive we will be able to fight him," he said softly as he approached his partner.

Chance shook his head as he zipped up his coveralls. "I can't sleep, buddy. You go ahead, Jake. I'll be fine. I'll keep searching the city with some of our equimpment," Chance smiled softly.

"Okay, Chance. But if you hear anything and I do mean anything, get me first," Jake said. Chance nodded, with that Jake turned and went upstairs to get some sleep.

The sound of birds chirping outside, woke up Jake. He slowly got up from the couch. He had decided to sleep on the couch, so that way, he wouldn't awaken Felicia. He looked around and guessed that Chance must still be down in the hangar. Jake went down the hangar's ladder and saw Chance sitting on the desk where the computer was, his head resting down on the keyboard. Jake shivered when he reached the hangar, it was cool outside because of winter approaching and the cement walls always made things much cooler. He silently approached Chance and saw that Chance was asleep. His head resting on the keyboard, one hand resting on the keyboard also. Jake's eyes noticed something in Chance's other hand. He looked at it closely and saw that it was a picture of Matthew when he was little. "Awww..Chance..," Jake said softly to himself. He was about to go get Chance a blanket, when the alarm started to buzz. Chance quickly sprung up, nearly knocking over the chair that he was sitting in. Jake was amazed on how fast Chance was running towards the alarm, he touched the button.

"Yes?," he asked. Suddenly they heard the beeping of the visual screen button coming on. Hard Drive appeared on the screen.

"Heya, SWAT Kats. Have you guys been losing your touch? I have given you almost 9 hours to look for T-Bone's son and still you have not been able to find me," Hard Drive said with glee.

T-Bone growled with fury. "Where's DarkClaw?" he demanded.

"Oh, the SWAT Kat. So it has a name. It had a name," Hard Drive said and smirked.

Razor's eyes went wide with fear while T-Bone's anger just bigger. "You lie!,"T-Bone shouted.

"Do I?," asked Hard Drive and grinned. With that, he held up a black bandanna which appeared to be the one that DarkClaw was wearing, covered all over it was blood.

"Holy Kats, "Razor managed to choke out. T-Bone just stood there his eyes were wide and his mouth open from the shock. It was like someone had just shot him and the pain that he felt was similar. Hard Drive laughed.

"See you around," Hard Drive. "Oh yeah! One more thing; that was for Dark Kat." He disconnected.

Razor closed his eyes, he felt so guilty for even suspecting DarkClaw's trust at the beginning. He knew T-Bone was going through the same kind of pain that Razor did when he lost ShadowKat. He sneaked a glance over at T-Bone, his partner's face the same. Razor let out a sigh and walked over to T-Bone. He gently placed his hand on his partner's shoulder. "Look, T-Bone. We have to get around this. Hard Drive could be lieing...we will find your son."

T-Bone let out a heavy sigh and then said softly "I-I know, Jake...," he walked away towards the hangar ladder. Jake watched him, very surprised on how Chance was taking this. He figured that Chance would be in soo much rage that he would beat up something or break something, he was hoping not the television again. Jake smiled a little to see how well his friend was taking this, Chance was about halfway towards the ladder when something happened. All of a sudden he dropped to his knees, and started to sob. Jake ran over to him.

"Hang in there, Chance. Please come on, buddy. Be strong, you can do it. I know you can," he said softly.

"I am going to kill that low life, Jake. I swear, "Chance said sadly as he stood up and wiped away his tears.

"We will find him, Chance..we will find him," Jake said soothingly.

Hard Drive approached the main room of the underground building that he was in. This was the room to where his new leader was located. After the death of Dark Kat, the group renamed themselves after some adjectives that described their new leader. The group was called the SITH. Which stand for: Smart, Intriguing, Terrorist, Havoc-causing. Their leader was unknown to anyone except for those who were in the group. He dressed in total black outfit, also he wore Dark Kat's cloak over him. Of course, Dark Kat's cloak was much too big for him but it was used as an advantage in order not to be seen during any other of their actions. Of course, their leader wasn't nearly as big as Dark Kat in physical form, but he had the same amount of evil in him. Basically all that remained on his mind was to get Dark Kat back. Whatever it took, of course, the idea remained to be impossible since Dark Kat was dead.

"Well, is our deed done?," the Sith leader asked.

Hard Drive approached the leader's chair, only about 5 feet away from it. He bowed down to his leader, but even though he knew who their leader was, a dark shadow covered the chair which kind of made it hard to see him. Hard Drive nodded in a response to his leader's question and then grinned. "I called the SWAT Kats and told them that T-Bone's son was killed."

"His son is dead," Sith leader added. "Now we must strike while the SWAT Kats are down for awhile. I know exactly what to get paws onto if we want our gracious leader back."

"Oh?," Hard Drive looked up at his leader, wondering what his demented mind was thinking.

"Puma-Dine has basically done the hard part for us. They have built a time machine which they claim to work. If this is true, then we will use it in order to prevent Dark Kat from ever dieing. Ooh, even better, we will also go back further in order to prevent Ricochet from ever being born. We know that Dark Kat was the one who blew up the building which killed Rico's parents which was the birth of Ricochet. So if we go back in time and stop him from blowing up the building then he will remain in here. Also this will prevent Rico and Razor ever meeting. Then once Dark Kat is able to continue his reign of terror over this city. He will be the future leader of MegaKat thanks to my help and the time machine's. A title which he far well deserves. So I need you to gather our best men up and come with me to the Temporal Security Annex Building. Tonight we will strike," the leader said and smiled.

"But...they believe I was the one who killed T-Bone's son. If I come and they see me..," Hard Drive said, his face turning white from his fear.

"Trust me, I have it all planned out. By the time they arrive to stop us, we will the building and the time machine in our control," Hard Drive's leader said soothingly which in fact made Hard Drive feel better. With that, Hard Drive got up.

"It will be done, my master," Hard Drive said loyally, he turned and left.

At the Temporal Security Annex Building, Dr. Gunray was talking to Ann Gora on the phone about his time machine project. Dr. Haako was standing outside the door, obviously annoyed.

"Yes, that sounds good, Ann. I'll call you tomorrow before I let you come over. Good-bye," Dr. Gunray said and put the phone back on the receiver. He glanced over at Dr. Haako, which he received back a mean glare. "What is the problem, Haako?"

"You telling too much to the press," Dr. Haako replied sharply as he walked into Gunray's office. "Don't you realize the danger you putting the city, including us in by revealing this to the press. Who knows what criminals will come and try to get this machine!"

His friend stood up and shook his head. "You worry too much. No one will take this machine. There isn't a criminal alive anymore who is smart enough to surpass our security. I have assurance from Commander Feral himself."

15 minutes later, the SITH had arrived at the building and were waiting outside to attack. The leader turned towards Hard Drive. "Okay, Hard Drive. I want you to use a power surge and get into control room. I will talk to you by these ear walkie talkies. While my men try to distract the guards and people inside from your presence. Hard Drive grinned and nodded. He transformed into a power surge and went into one of the wires that led into the building. The leader grinned and turned towards his men. "Okay, troops. Attack!," he ordered. His men took out their guns and began to shoot at the doors. A camera near the front door were catching them.

Inside the building a guard saw what was going on out front by the camera. "Holy Kats!!," he shouted and got up running towards Gunray's and Haako's office.

When he reached their, he told the doctors of what he saw. "What?! What did you say?," Dr. Gunray asked the guard in fear.

"I told you. I believe they are Dark Kat's old forces ," the guard said as he panted to catch his breath.

Dr. Haako turned towards his collegue. A "I told you so" look on his face but fear was overwhelming him also before he could blame his friend from being so foolish. "I knew it. They are here for the time machine," he said bluntly, trying not to act like he was scared.

"Distract them, I will contact the enforcers," Gunray said calmly.

"Are you brain dead? I am not going out there against Dark Kat's forces. Send this guard," Dr. Haako replied. Both of them turned towards the guard, whose face was full of dread.

Finally the SITH was able to break from the front door and now were casually walking down the hall. The guard ran up to them followed by more of them. The SITH and the guards started to fight. The leader saw a camera filming them and then aimed his gun at it and killed it.

After Gunray contacted the enforcers. He and Dr. Haako ran to the security room. "What is going on down there?", Gunray asked.

"We lost the transmission, sir," the guard replied. Gunray let out a growl in frustration and started to run towards the time machine room. He knew there were several blast doors that would be able to hold off the attackers until the enforcers arrived. Dr. Haako was following him. "Have you ever encountered Dark Kat's troops before, sir?," he asked.

"Well, no but I don't...seal off the time machine room!," Gunray shouted to another guard who was in the room.

"Yes, sir!, the guard replied and closed the time machine room off with a heavy armored door.

"That won't be enough, sir," Haako commented. "We will not survive this."

A few minutes later, the Sith had reached the time machine room. The Sith leader touched his ear walkie talkie to turn it back on. "Any progress?," he asked Hard Drive.

"Yes, I got the security system for the outside perimeter in my favor. I now control it. It is impossible for the enforcers or the SWAT Kats to get into this place!," Hard Drive shouted in glory.

The Sith leader grinned. "Good." He turned towards his men. "Attack those doors. I want that time machine!" His troops began to fire at the door. Trying their lasers to penetrate through the door. Dr. Gunray and Dr. Haako watched the monitor in the room which showed what was happening outside. Both of their faces pale with fear.

Suddenly the Sith leader took out a very powerful flame thrower began to burn at the door. Having some success with it. The door side in the room began to turn red by the heat from the flame thrower, almost starting to melt. "Close the blast doors!," Gunray shouted to his guard inside. The guard pushed a button which closed 3 more heavy doors which prevented the flame thrower to go any further, thus protecting them. "That will hold them," Gunray said with pride, a smile creeping onto his face.

The Sith leader grinned and flipped a switch on the flame thrower device which gave it more power, he used it again at the doors. This time being able to get through to some of them. The blast door near the doctors started to burn again which terrified them. "They are still getting through," Haako said with fright.

"This is impossible!," Gunray shouted out, his lip quivering.

As if the Sith leader knew what was going to happen next, he turned off the flame thrower. "I got the inside security system as well", Hard Drive said to him.

Suddenly the blasst doors open. There at the door, stood the Sith leader facing the terrified doctors and guard. His hood lover his face, he looked up at them with a mean look. One of his men without an order shot the guard instantly. Then the remainder of his men ran and took the doctors captive. The Sith leader grinned. "Ah, victory," he said as he looked at the time machine with great pleasure. A grin coming onto his face.

When the SWAT Kats arrived at the Temporal Security Annex Building, they saw the enforcers trying to break in through the front and the back but were having no luck. "It is impossible for anyone to get in," Razor commented as he watched. "According to what Ann Gora reported the building is impossible to break into especially if the bad guy was smart enough to reroute the security system."

"Well I guess there is someone in this city who as smart as Dark Kat. The only question is who," T-Bone noted. "There are probably some innocent people inside as well. So what's the call, Razor?"

Razor's eyes narrow down as he began to think of a way to get inside. "Well I would say the TurboMole but the whole building is made out of alloy so we couldn't penetrate through. Not even lasers are strong enough. There's a invisible shield probably protecting the perimeter of the buillding from an air strike," Razor growled in frustration. "There has to be a way inside this place!"

Suddenly there was a buzzer in the jet which indicated that someone was trying to contact them. T-Bone pushed the button which enabled him and Razor to talk to the person. "Yes?," T-Bone asked.

"T-Bone, this is Jenson. I need you and Razor to come down to headquarters fast, before Feral gets back here!," Jenson said back to them, his voice sounding very urgent.

"What's wrong, Jenson?," Razor asked as he saw T-Bone already setting his course to the Enforcer Headquarters.

"Well the security system alarm cameras not only show what is going to the monitor inside the building but a monitor also in the headquarters. I think we have a somewhat image of what the intruder looks like but I am started to become frightened on who it looks like," Jenson replied, his voice trailing off towards the end.

"We're on our way, Jenson," Razor answered. "Step on it, T-Bone." T-Bone nodded and hit the thrusters.

T-Bone and Razor were able to get to the room where Jenson was at, thanks to his help. Jenson led them over to a monitor, the monitor's screen was shaking as if the video wasn't played yet. "Here you guys, take a look at this," Jenson told them as he pressed the play button on the control panel. The monitor began to display the intruders breaking into the front door. Razor was already taking notice on the kat who appeared to be the person in control. "Holy Kats....," he said almost in a whisper. "Jenson, can you pause this image and try to focus on the kat right there in the middle." He touched the monitor where the kat was with his finger.

"Sure thing," Jenson said as he started to press buttons on the keyboard. Once the image was where Razor wanted it to be, they were still very unable to see the true form of the kat since the video was in black and white. T-Bone also began to see this kat as Razor did.

"It can't be..," his voice trailed.

"Jenson, tell me that *isn't* Dark Kat," Razor said.

"No, it isn't him. Look the kat isn't nearly as huge. But he is wearing Dark Kat's cloak. But we can't really see his face because of the hood," Jenson added.

"A Dark Kat wannabe?," T-Bone pondered and looked up at Razor.

Razor nodded. "Maybe it's Hard Drive. Those kats do look like Dark Kat's troops. Maybe Hard Drive is trying to take over Dark Kat's place."

Jenson shook his head. "That was something else I wanted to show you two." He turned on another monitor and played another video. "Now this was taken from the camera in the main control room." The video showed Hard Drive trying to scramble the computers.

"Wait. Wait. If that's Hard Drive..," T-Bone began as he pointed to Hard Drive on the video then he moved his finger over to the image of the other kat on the other monitor. "Then who's that?"

"I dunno, buddy," Razor replied as he sighed and tried to think of possible people.

Suddenly the phone rang, Jenson ran over to get it. T-Bone and Razor continued their discussion on the mysterious attacker. Jenson ran back in a few minutes later. "Um..guys. That is Hard Drive on the phone. He wants to talk to T-Bone."

T-Bone and Razor both had blank looks on their faces. "But how did he know we were here?," Razor asked.

"Well, that building does have a radar system. They probably traced you to here," Jenson replied. T-Bone gave one last look to Razor as he walked over to the phone.

"Hello?," he asked.

"Hello, SWAT Kat!," Hard Drive said with glee.

"What do you want, you low life?," T-Bone asked.

"Well it is not what I want, it is what he wants. My master, the Sith leader. He wants to have a meeting with you and you alone. But first here the intention of our plans. We have the time machine in our clutches and pretty soon we will be able to use it to transport us anywhere we wish. But we will wait awhile for you to think about this. We are going to use the time machine to stop Dark Kat from blowing up the building. Yes, that building that Ricochet's parents worked at. If this is done then her parents will live on. The only thing will be that everything else that took after that will never happen and Dark Kat will probably still be alive. But then again, her parents will live! Which means it will make Ricochet very happy. So we will let you guys decide on that. We will depart in 24 hours. But first my master wishes to speak with you tonight at midnight at the MegaKat Park. You alone. If anyone else appears, then my master will detonate a bomb which he placed in a building but I won't tell which building. It could be a hospital and I know you don't want that. Well I'll leave you now and please think about our idea and do make plans to attend the meeting tonight," Hard Drive said and then disconnected.

"Holy crud..," T-Bone said as he put the receiver back. Razor walked up to him.

"What is it, buddy?," Razor asked.

"Come on, I'll explain it along the way back to the hangar. We need to tell Rico something," T-Bone said and ran out towards their jet ; Razor close behind.

After Hard Drive told this to the SWAT Kats, he grinned and ran back to his leader. "It is done, my lord," he grinned. Sith Leader had the same grin on his face.

"Very good, Hard Drive," Sith Leader stood up and walked over to the two doctors. "Now, gentlemen. I wish to have the time machine key and then your use for us will no longer be needed.

Dr. Haako growled. "We will not give you the time machine key!," he shouted. He began to keep telling the Sith leader about the dangers of using the machine and so forth to the point where the Sith Leader was getting annoyed. He took out his gun that he had in his uniform and shot Dr. Haako. Dr. Haako fell to the ground, dead. Then he turned to Haako's counterpart; Dr. Gunray.

"Now, Doctor. The time machine's access key if you will please," he said. Out of fear, Dr. Gunray nodded his head and scurried away. He went over to a panel and took out his admissions key card. He slid it through a slot and presses his hand on an ID pad. A metal wall behind him opened, which revealed a square disk. Dr. Gunray took the square key disk over to the Sith leader.

The Sith Leader smiled at Dr. Gunray, seeing the fear in him. "Good. Thank you, Doctor Gunray." With that he aimed his gun at the doctor's forehead and shot him also.

Hard Drive watched the Sith's pure evil attacks on the doctor and grinned. "I thought you would never be able to get the key from those doctors," he said amazed.

Sith leader turned and grinned at Hard Drive. "Fear. Fear attracts the fearful, the innocent, the corrupt. Fear. Fear is my ally," he said.

Hard Drive smiled. "Now once we have Dark Kat back here, I will regain my position at his side. Then together him and I will take over the city."

"I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Hard Drive," the Sith leader said to Hard Drive coldly.

"And why not?," Hard Drive asked, a little taken back by this.

Sith Leader raised up his gun and shot Hard Drive in the head also, killing him also. He smiled down at Hard Drive's dead body. "Sweet dreams."

That night at the garage, Jake was trying to convince Chance into not going to meet up with the Sith leader. While Felicia was in her room, pondering what to do also. "I dunno, I want my parents back. But I can't afford to lose Jake...but I love my parents. I want them back, there has to be a way to do both," she sighed and walked towards Chance's room to where he and Jake were.

"I'm telling you, Chance, don't go," Jake said persistently. "We need to discuss on how to stop Hard Drive. I am pretty sure that you and I can distract them long enough while Ricochet can pull the switch on them." He saw Felicia and looked up at her. "Right, Licia?"

"I-I don't know, Jake..I don't think I can help out on this one. I mean this would get my parents back to me...but I could endanger a lot of people if Dark Kat should come back alive," she said softly still contemplating her decision.

Chance sighed. "You see, Jake. We need to find a way to stop them now or something. Maybe there is a way to save her parents but not endanger something else. That is why I must meet with their leader now. That's all that is to it right now." He turned and left the room, heading off to their hangar. Jake sighed and watched him leave, then he turned and looked at Felicia.

That night at the MegaKat City Park around midnight, T-Bone was stealthy walking through the park. The night wind blowing through his fur, he shivered. He didn't know that if he was cold or he was frightened. But no, he couldn't be frightened. After all, he was T-Bone, a SWAT Kat. Razor was at the hangar monitoring his signal, if anything happened to T-Bone, Razor would be on alert, along with Ricochet. T-Bone looked around from side to side very fast, making sure that he wasn't falling into an ambush. Suddenly a voice almost so familiar to him called out to him. "Hello, T-Bone," the voice said.

T-Bone whipped around at the voice. The voice sounded so familiar to him but he couldn't quite place it. A dark shadow walked out towards him. He stepped closer to T-Bone so he would be able to see him. It was the Sith leader but this time he wasn't wearing his mask so T-Bone could see his face. T-Bone who it was, he stood there, frozen in place.

"DarkClaw?," he said softly.

"Back from the dead," the Sith Leader replied. T-Bone was still frozen, his green eyes wide. "What's the matter, T-Bone? No glib remark? No pithy comeback?"

"Why..?," T-Bone asked softly.

The Sith Leader laughed. "Hilarious question. Particularly from you. Would you ever ask why? Why we toppled all those criminals and lowlives. Only to come home 'Well done! Good job, SWAT Kats! But sorry, enforcers don't give a d*mn. Everything that you have risked your life and limb for has changed!"

"It was the job we chose," T-Bone replied

"Of course you would say that. T-Bone, Callie's loyal tomkat. Your probably secret lover. 'Defender of Megakat'," Sith replied. T-Bone had enough, he raised his glov-a-trix at the Sith, growling with fury. "Oh, please, T-Bone. Put it away. It's insulting to think I haven't anticapted your every move."

T-Bone relaxed his arm. "Yes..I trusted you, DarkClaw."

"Trust. What a quaint idea. To be katnapped by the Linquei and made into a freak. Only to fight against you and pity everything against me. I am loyal to Dark Kat. You know why? Because he loves me! Even more than my own father! Who wishes to kill me now. I helped kill Jake's son because he was blind to see this too," Sith said, a little hurt.

"Am I suppose to feel sorry for you?," T-Bone asked him, showing no mercy to his son now. Because he knew that his son has changed and was pure evil and had to be his enemy.

"No. You were suppose to die for me," Sith replied and grinned evilly. "Closing time, T-Bone. Last call!" T-Bone raised his glov-a-trix, but a quick shot was fired. A tranquilizer hits his back and he collapsed to the ground. A sniper who was working with the Sith revealed his position. Sith stood over T-Bone.

"For Dark Kat, T-Bone," he said coldly.

Jake was watching T-Bone's signal down into the hangar. As soon as he saw that T-Bone was now in serious trouble, he growled with rage. "D*mnit! I knew something bad would happen like this!," he ran up the stairs to get Felicia. "Felicia!,"he called out for her.

"Yes, Jake? What is it?," she asked as she ran up to him.

"T-Bone's in trouble. We have to go get him or do something," Jake said, the fear was obvious on his face.

Felicia lowered her head down. She didn't really want to go. Felicia did want to help T-Bone but she wanted to let them make her parents be alive even if it did mean to help the bad guys win. "I-I can't go, just yet," she said sadly.

Jake sighed and looked at her. "Look, my love. We'll wait till tomorrow for you to make up your mind. We still have time before the Sith will activate the time machine,"he smiled and hugged her.

Bridgitte was upstairs near the top, listening to the conversation. "I have to get T-Bone for them. If they wait, it might be too late," she said to herself. She ran off to Chance's room and scurried through his drawer to find his gun. She was lucky enough that Chance showed her where the gun was just in case there was an emergency and this was an emergency. Bridgitte took out the gun and checked it to make sure that it was loaded. Then she thought about whether or not to sneak down to the hangar to get an extra flight suit but her sneeking out alone was a risk as it was so she decided against it. She carefully held the gun in her hand as she scurried off to her room to hide it. Bridgitte would leave when the time was right but right now she would go off to bed since it was still around 1 am.

A hour later, Bridgitte was still leaving but she was having a nightmare. She was dreaming that her and Dusty was in her room watching television. For some strange reason she knew that he would die and she started to cry and weep. Dusty looked over at her. "Why are you crying? Please don't be upset...I'll be gone for a little while. But I will be with you, I promise," he said softly to her as he stroked her face.

She looked at him, her eyes filled with tears. "You promise?," she asked.

"I promise, "Dusty replied. "I love you, Bridgitte. More than the world. I will never ever leave you."

Suddenly her radio alarm clock came on, awaken her from the dream. She glanced tiredly at the clock and saw that it was 2am. She quickly got up, she still had her clothes on and opened the door silently and slowly. She heard Felicia and Jake asleep and she tip toed down the stairs. Then she moved stealthy in the dark shadows of the waiting room to the door. She knew the door had a bell on it, she held the bell in her hands as she opened it and then closed it so slowly that it wouldn't trigger the bell again. She glanced over at her car but knew it might wake up Jake or Felicia if she started it up so she decided to use Chance's Kawasaki Ninja Bike. She rolled it down the salvage yard to the very end and then took off on it, heading to where T-Bone went.

Minutes later, she arrived at the Park, she arrived early due to the fact that the traffic was so light. She quietly walked around the Park hoping to find something that would trace to T-Bone's whereabouts. Suddenly she saw a figure approach her, she gripped her gun at her side just in case it was an attacker. But to her relief it was Steele. Bridgitte let out a sigh of relief. Steele approached and smiled at her. "I'm alone," Bridgitte told him as she relaxed off her gun and smiled at him.

"Aren't we all?," he replied back to her and held up a gun to her. "Hands up!" Bridgitte couldn't believe it. Steele was working with the Sith!

Steele took Bridgitte to where the Sith headquarters was located. Inside the main room, the Sith leader was eating some food at a table. He looked up, his eyes immediately settling on Bridgitte. Already taking notice on her gorgeous body and beautiful eyes; not even paying attention to Steele. "You brought me the perfect gift, Steele. Or you've made me a very unhappy man."

"Razor wasn't there with her," Steele said, laughed a little.

"Good for Razor. Bad for you," Sith said, not even changing his cold expression. He eyed Bridgitte again and decided to attempt to be a gentleman. "Take a seat, my dear." Bridgitte gave him a mean look and sat down in a chair near his table. Sith leader walked behind her and knelt down. "You know, ShadowKat shared everything. Absolutely everything.." He pulled back her from her face to softly stroke her face. Loving the softness of it, how much he wished to have her. "To the victor go the spoils," he smiled and thought about how soon he would have her.

At Enforcer Headquarters, Jenson was at his desk. He was suppose to be doing paper work but has been happening lately had been distracting him from work. He had a bunch of paper out on his desk with notes he had scribbled down about the incident that has been going on with the Sith. He was alerted by Razor that morning that Bridgitte seemed to be missing so they had figured the Sith had taken her as well, plus what had been hurting Razor the most was that T-Bone was captured. Jenson had watched the video tape footage from the break in the TSA but he wasn't able to trace the Sith leader. Suddenly Steele walked into his office, he had a look of dread on his face. "What is it, Steele?," Jenson asked.

"Bridgitte was taken by the Sith. I saw it," Steele said fast, panting hard.

"Do you know where they took her?," Jenson asked.

"Yes. At the Temporal Security Annex Building. But what I saw was some hidden place where entrance was very easy to get in," Steele said and grinned. " A hidden door near the back of the building. Beside it was a panel with colored buttons. I believed the leader pushed green , blue, red, red."

"Very good, Steele. Jeez, any smarter and you'll take Commander Feral's job," Jenson smiled at him and stood up.

" I hope so," Steele smirked. "So you going?"

"Yep. As soon as possible," Jenson replied.

"Well I better head home," Steele said. "Been a long night." He turned and left. Jenson took off towards the hangar. He figured that he might need some help on this one.

After Jenson arrived at the garage and told Jake about what was going on, they were discussing on what to do to get T-Bone and Bridgitte back. "Well I figured, Jake, would be that you and I break into the building distract everyone then Ricochet would be the second wave and she would free everyone," Jenson told Jake.

Jake looked over at Felicia who was looking right back at him. "Eh, no can do, Jenson. She's still little confused on this, because of your mom and dad," Jake replied as he saw Felicia get up from the table. Jenson looked up at Felicia and stood up.

"Sis, you can't let us down now ," He persisted as he followed her. "I know you want mom and dad back as much as I do but they are gone now and even if this time machine did work, it would alternate what we have right now."

"What do I have now?! Tell me that! A dead son! Okay?! Plus a dead friend! What more do I have?!," Felicia shouted at him angrily as she spun around to face him.

"Well what about Jake? Huh? You are going to lose your husband for kat's sake. Don't you see? If we save mom and dad then you would never have met Jake and everything you have now with him would be nothing. Don't you love him?!," Jenson replied back to her, obviously very frustrated with this. Felicia looked over at Jake with a confused look. Jake knew she obviously couldn't choose. He sighed heavily and got up to walk away from this conversation. Jenson took note of this. "Now look what you have done, Licia?! You upsetted Jake! I can't believe you are so selfish! You are going to abandon Jake just like this? He loves you!" Felicia started to sob by this, getting very upset. Jake walked over to Jenson and laid his hand on his shoulder.

"Just let it go, Jenson. We can work out something..," he said, a tone of sadness in his voice.

Felicia turned around and walked towards her room. Jenson growling with anger. "This is the city d*mnit! You don't belong as a vigilante anymore. You hear that, Felicia?! You are not Ricochet! You don't deserve that title anymore!," he shouted at her.

"Then so be it!," Felicia replied angrily back to him as she walked into her room and slammed the door.

Jake sighed by this and turned towards Jenson. "Let's figure this out, Jenson. We have to get the others back before it's too late."

Title:	Fatal Weakness
Authors:	Felicia McFurry
Rating:	PG-13
Status:	Closed-Unfinished
Timing:	Unknown
Fandoms:	SWAT Kats
Pairings:	Jake/Other Female, Other, Dusty/Brigitte Jake/Ricochet
Category:	Drama, HetFic
Codes:	Unknown, Violence
Historical:	Unknown Death
Summary:	No Summary Supplied
Notes:
Disclaimer:	As everyone should know, none of us claim any rights or ownership of the characters and worlds belonging to others, including the SWAT Kats and any others we throw in the mix. We're doing this because we love them too much to see them be forgotten, or not have just one more adventure, and just possibly the reward they deserve.