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AUTHOR: Jamie D.J. Russell
TITLE: Being a human, then kat: part 1
E-MAIL: the_shadow_003@geocities.com
SUMMARY: ...a human SWAT Kats fan get's some problems with
the TV and suddenly finds herself in the Megakat desert..
NOTE: This fanfic was modified during december 2001.
Hopefully to the better. BTW a "Tnx!" 2 the small bunch of ppl
who emailed and wanted me to continue on my fanfics =)
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Time: 01:20 a.m. Location: Somewhere in Malmö, Sweden.
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It was past midnight.
The almost everyday ordinary flat was dark and quiet.
Everywhere except for in the livingroom...
A person was sitting in the sofa in the back part of the room.
The electrical glow from the TV in the front part of the room
lightened up the room and made it a little more possible to see
what the room contained.
The TV showed a person running through a forrest, hunted by
something...
The volume was pretty loud.
The something was comming closer and closer...
Suddenly the screen turned compleately black and the credits started
to roll down. The familiar X-file theme-song started, revealing that
it was the end.
The short, young female with short brown hair wearing a darkgreen
sweatshirt and panths stared happily on the TV-screen with a huge grin.
"Heheheh. This ep was so great! Can't wait until next week!"
The female grinned even more happily and stared into the screen that
was showing a commersial to a film that that channel was going to
show on sunday, but she didn't care about what she saw there.
Her mind was somewhere else.
She just sat there and dreamed away about what amusing/frightning
things the next weeks episode could bring.
Suddenly she noticed the time on the clock on the wall above the TV.
About half two.
"Dammit, gotto do it before the SWAT Kats begins." The female lowered
the volume on the TV to almost nothing.
She stod up and walked thoughtfully to the TV. Beside it was a strange
tangle of wires and strange gadgets.
She kneeled down and rearranged some wires.
"OK, it's now or never," She plugged the strange device into the wall
and to the TV.
A strange electric humming was starting to be heard. The female
took the remote control to the TV and looked tenced on the TV as
she changed to the channel.
"What? This can't be right?" The female looked on the TV screen
surprised. It was the Playboy channel.
The female took the remote and turned off the TV. She bent down and
made a few adjustments on the strange device. She held the remote,
"OK, this should be it." She doubtfully turned on the TV...
"YES! HA, Ha, Ha Ha!" she started to jump around of joy.
On the TV screen it was a yellow cat with a purple hat. He was standing
up on his two legs and was talking to a short blueish cat with clothes,
all happening in an alley.
It said Cartoon Network on the upper right end of the screen.
"Yahoo! Jippi! HA Ha he Ha, Cable Cartoon Network! And without
really having it!" She continued to jump around of joy.
Suddenly there was a knocking/banging from down below and it was
heard clearly but a bit muffled how someone angrily and tiredly yelled
from the flat below:
"Håll klaffen din galna idiot! Klockan är nästan två på natten!"
[translation: Shut up you crazy idiot! It's almost two in the morning!]
[note: exact translation would become 'It's almost two on the night']
After that the bangings continued.
The female stopped, and as soon as she had done that, so did
the bangings.
The female shrugged.
She sat down on the sofa and looked at the TV screen.
The previous show had ended and the thing that was currently on was
a short cartoon that was about the Powerpuff girls. Three very, very
young superheros with strange superpowers.
The female looks at the screen, ‘Nah,.. ’ Shakes her head.
She look at the clock,
‘Hm, I've got a couple of minutes before it starts...
I'm kinda hungry. Wonder what there's in the fridge.’
She stands up and walks to the kitchen. Opens the fridge and lookes
thruogh it but doesn't find anything good enough to eat but finds
a bottle of mineralwater.
‘Guess that this will have to do.’
Suddenly there was music heard from the flat next door:
....'Go Johnny Go Go Go, Go Johnny Go Go Go, Go Johnny Go Go Go,
Johhny be good'.
The female sighed, "Oh no, not now again. Are they
obsessed with that tune or something?"
She was tired of almost always hearing it. In the morning, in the afternoon,
in the evening, and now - in the night.
The neighbor from the flat down below started to bang again but now at
them.
"För Guds skull! Lägg av! Det finns folk som försöker att sova här!
Jag kommer att se till att ni blir utsparkade! Galningar!"
[translation: For Gods sake! Quit it! There are people trying to
sleep here! I'm going to get you kicked out! You maniacs!]
Presumably they agreed that it wasn't such a smart idea to be playing
music in the middle of the night, because the music suddenly became silent.
Like if it hat been turned off.
The female shaked her head and walked back into the livingroom.
The SWAT Kats had allready begun.
"Oh, I missed the beginning! Which ep is this one?"
Looked on it for a while and when a aircraf that was familiar
to her showed up, she stopped wondering and smiled a big grin.
"Turmoil! One of my favourite ep's!"
But the image started to flickering and soon started to look like
a snowstorm inside a grayblack room.
"No!", the female yelled. She got a desperate look and ran to the TV
and the device. She put down the bottle with mineralwater and started to
mix around with the device and suddenly the image of the SWAT Kats
in Turbokat became clearer.
The female smiled happily but lifted up the device to continued
to change things to get a so clear image as possible.
But suddenly something went wrong with the device and it started to
glow in a color that looked like a mix between the blue color Sam
[in the TV-show Quantum Leap(1989)] gets when he leaps and the lightgreen
glow from green kryptonite [Superman].
"Uh oh", the female got time to say before the strange bluegreen light
devoured everything in sight.
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Time: about 16:00 (4 pm)
Location: MegaKat Desert. About 0.4 miles from the salvage yard.
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The female found herself in a widestreched desertarea which
reminded her about either the prairie in the Road Runner cartoons but
without the vegetation or the MegaKat Desert. Or, the atmosphere looked
more like if it belonged in the SWAT Kat universe.
She was still holding the device. She looked around for a quite a
while before noticing what she looked like.
"Oh shit." She said quietly and looked with shock on her paws!
She moved her 'fingers' and looked astonishedly on them.
Her paws where covered with a silvergrayish fur.
She put down the device, glanced at her feet and after
standing up straightly again she felt on her face. She felt on her head
and discovered her ears.
They where thin, soft, big, pointy and furry.
She chuckled while smiling a huge and happy smile.
She took out a folded combined comb and mirror out of the right pocket
on her panths. She looked strangely on her paws one more time and started
to move them again. She toyed around with the comb. She liked
the strange feeling. It felt like if all of her muscles and bones had been
recreated and absolutely new and unused but with a strenght that rather
indicated that they where very welltrained.
When she looked in the mirror she got a strange smile.
"Wow! Heh, heh. " She grinned while looking on her silvergray fur,
hazelbrown hair, palepink nose and warmbrown eyes.
"I'm a 'kat'. Amazing." She smiled very amused.
"And I actually look cool like this." She smiled even more, satisfied
with that fact.
The heat of the sun had finally managed to annoy her as
she suddenly remebered where she was and looked up on the hot desertsun.
She put back the combined comb and mirror in her pocket.
She realized that she was out in the middle of nowhere and didn't know
what to do nor where to go. She sighed. Being out somewhere in a desert
and without any knowledge of how to get away from here pretty much takes
the fun outta it.
"OK. I'm here, so now what?"
She thought for a moment. Then she just sat down on the hot desertsand
and put the device next to her. Wherever she looked
all she could see was sand, sand, sand, and the sky.
After a couple of minutes which had been like an eternity of trying to
deciding what direction to go, she heard a jetengine from not too
far away. She looked and saw the siluett of a very familiar
black plane fly over the sky. She saw it dissapear beyond the horizon.
She picked up the device and started to walk in the direction she had
seen the Turbokat fly.
------Much pain, annoyance, heat, and time late..-------
She had walked for what seemed like a eternity 'cause she didn't
have a watch on her to know for how long time she had walked. Her feet
was sore since she hadn't been wearing any slippers or something when
she had comed to this place. She was so hot and tired so that she
almost fainted. Yet she managed to wonder about why
Suddenly she noticed the siluett of some skyscrapers and
the MegaKat Tower in the horizon.
"Finally! Almost there" She sighed hopefully. She thought of how warm she was,
like if she was going to start to boil. A thick sweatshirt
wasn't the best thing to wear in a desert and to drag along the heavy
device with her while walking so much wasn't too good either. She suddenly
thought of that she hadn't sleeped in,.. in almost two days...
She wished that she could get out of that terrible heat but
she couldn't do anything except for walking to the city where
it hopefully would be colder.
------Later when she had arrived to MegaKat City...
[Yes, it is quite handy to jump in the story when
one can't be bothered to type down the
not-so-interesting-at-least-not-from-my-p.o.v.-details
that happen while the story is taken from point X to
point Z...]-------
She was very tired but still became stunned over the amount of people in
the city. Correction, 'kats'. Or are kats not people? Whatever.
There were so many people everywhere. Like ants.
She was fascinated by this and tired but still wanted to go to
the salvage yard. That would make the whole trip not worthless. It
was something her subconscience used to distract her from getting
panic over that she was in another world, a place that shouldn't exist.
A thing that some creative humans had invented.
The eveningsky glowed redly and followed by a cold, dark, starless
sky.
A pretty young tom-kat with orange hair and fur stood as if waiting
beside a phonebooth.
She looked on him and decided to ask him.
But what would she say if he asked anything about her. Nevermind,
she would come up with something if she had to. She thought of how to begin
to ask. She thought that it might be good to pretend that she was a tourist.
Maybe even add a fake accent to the whole thing.
"Excuse me, but I am a touirst here and is wondering if you by
any chance whould know where a salvage yard is. The salvageyard where Chance Furlong and Jake Clawson work. I know that it is
somwhere outside of the city but where it is and how to get there, I do
not know.
The tom-kat smiled amused. She looked kinda different, in a fun way,
from what he usually say people look like. And the way she spoke, strange
too. He liked it. It was interesting in a different way. And she looked
like if she had been through hell. Wondered why but decided to joke about it.
"So sweatshirts and no shoes are the latest fashion among tourists nowadays."
He grinned.
She didn't like that it could take any longer time to get to the hangar
because of som smalltalk. She was very tired and felt like if she wouldn't
be able to stand up again if she would fall.
She answered annoyed, "I do not like to dress as a tourist."
He thought. "But what's that weird thing you're carrying?"
She got even more annoyed, " My toaster! OK! Do you or do you not
know where the salvage yard is!" she almost screamed out. She was so tired
so that she became upset so easily.
He looked strangely shocked on her. "I do know..."
She looked relifed and smiled tiredly.
"Where is it? Is it far away?" she asked curiously.
He looked thoughtfully on her. "Yeah it's far away, but I can
show you where it is."
She looked worried on him but decided that it could be her only
chance to get there as soon as possible, "OK, you can do that."
But she added, "and do not try with any tricks. This 'toaster' is
very heavy an lethal if used on the propher way." But she suddenly
thought of something, "But where you not waiting for someone?"
He smiled at the thought, "Yeah, have been for over a hour. But what
can I say, it's his own fault that I won't be around if he decides
to show up now."
He nodded smiling towards the dark, shadowy left end of the street,
"That's a good way to starting to go to the salvage yard."
She only stood and looked cluelessly on him. He smiled inside,
'She must really be a tourist. She looks like if she'd get lost
walking to the other side of the street.' He looked to the left
again and said "Are you coming or not." He began to walk.
"Wait for me." She walked fast to him and then walked silently with him.
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"So, where are you from?" He asked curiously while walking.
"Sweden, small country." she said quietly.
He thought. "Never heard of it. What's the population and where's it located?"
"Eh, 9 million, north." she answered becoming nervous.
"Not little but not much either." he said smiling. He was about to
say something when he thought of something. He realized that he didn't know
what her name was.
"Excuse me but what did you say your name was again?"
She grinned, "We never introduced ourselves."
"Oh,. My name's Zed but my friends call me Zed." He smiled expecting
her to say her name.
"My name's,.. it is..." she looked on him worried. " My friends
call me D.J."
Zed grinned "Is your nickname DJ?" He thought that it seemed to be
a strange nickname to someone who seemed so... so not like that nickname.
D.J. said seriously. "Kind of. It is spelled Dee dot Jay dot."
Aha, initials Zed though, "D.J. . Are those your initials?"
"Yeah." She looked even more seriously and almost a bit sad.
Zed stopped walking. "Whydya wanna go to the salvageyard?" he
asked curiously.
D.J. smiled nervously but continued to walk, "Eh, mm... Long story."
Zed looked on her while starting to walk again. "Why don't you tell me?"
D.J. got a tired, defensive look on her face. "Don't want to."
"OK." Zed noticed where they where and stopped. "If we'll follow
this road straight ahead, we'll arrive directly at the salvageyard"
"Straight ahead you said?" D.J. thought. "I can... will go by myself
to there."
Zed started to say, "But.."
"No, buts!" She go a very determined look on her face, "I will go alone!"
But then her face softened and she smiled kindly and thankfully,
"But thank you for your kindness to show me the way when you probably
have much better things to do."
"No prob'." he said. "OK, bye. Maybe, we'll see each other later..."
She grinned. "Yes, maybe later."
Zed started dissapointedly to walk back. He had wanted to find out
more about that strange kat. But she would probably be there tomorrow
since it was so late... Yeah, he'd go there tomorrow.
D.J. looked on him walking away but then started walking
towards the salvage yard.
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By now it was dark and probably soon midnight and D.J. was very tired.
She knocked on the door four times.
After a while the door opened. The one who had opened it, was a average-heighted, medium built,
tired, caramel colored kat, standing there with a surprised look on his face.
"What can I do for you?" Jake asked watching the female while trying
to determin why she was here. she looked very odd.
"Don't really know. Please let me sleep here tonight though?"
D.J. asked tiredly. "I don't have any other place to go."
He looked very stunned. "Um.. I don't think that.."
"Hey! C'mon! Please..." She begged half a sleep in a whiny tone.
"I havn't eaten since yesterday! Or actually less but maybe still more!
And I've walked through a piece of the desert and the Megakat City to get
here! I know that you've got much bigger problems and that you deserve
your rest but I didn't exactly feel like going here!
I just ended up here! ...I'm so tired..."
D.J. almost fell asleep standing up and almost dropping the device
which she had been carrying all day in the proccess.
The caramelcolored kat tried to think of something to say.
This was getting weirder and weirder. First that villan helped them
against his friend and now this? "Eh.."
"Nevermind. You don't have to care." D.J. said almost in trance.
She sat down on the ground leaning to the wall. She fell asleep
right away...
The caramelcolored kat was very stunned. He turned inwards to the house
and stod there for a while surprised because of what had just happened. He
yelled "Chance, you gotto come and see this."
"What? Wait." Chance's voice was heard weakly because of the distance.
After a couple of secs, Chance walked to the door looking on Jake
as if to ask what it was that he should see.
Then he spotted D.J. hevyly asleep, sitting on the ground, leaning back
to the wall. "That's scairy. It almost looks as if she's dead." He looked
worried at his partner who only keept watching her. "Who is she Jake?"
he asked surprized.
"I dunno. She came here and said something about that she had walked
through the dersert or something. And she asked if she could sleep here..."
Jake wrinkled his forehead.
"Who'd wanna sleep out here?" Chance asked, not believing him.
Jake became startled ," No, not out here, inside. But I think that we'd
better take her in."
"Agree with you on that one buddy. But where should we put here?
On the couch?" Chance said remembering that he had been watching a
Scairdy Kat marathon and hoped that he soon could return to watching it.
"Yeah right, with those chips all over it." Jake said acusingly.
Chance had eaten chips while watching Scairdy Kat earlier and when
he laughed at that Scairdy Kat had been blown up of a bomb given to him
by a beautiful she-kat, he accidently dropped everything.
"Hey! I cleaned most of it up!" Chance said angrily.
Jake suddenly thought of someting. "For how long will this Scairdy Kat
marathon last?"
"Well, 38 hours since it's a all episodes marathon but there's only 18 hours
left." Chance said with a gleem in his eyes.
"38 hours! How the hell can you stand it!" Jake said shocked.
He suddenly realized something "So that's why you've left the most of the
work today to me and mysterously disappeared."
"Yeah, that's it." Chance simply said.
Jake looked at the snoozing female at the ground while talking to Chance
"Then I don't think that you'd mind her sleeping in your bed tonight."
"Eh, are there any other options?" Chance said. He looked towards
the living-room, hoping that he'd be able go back to watching before he
missed too much of the marathon.
Jake knew what Chance would rather do "Not if you want to watch as much
as you could of that Scairdy Kat marathon."
"OK." Chance said turning around starting to walk towards the tv.
"Chance! Where do you think that you're going. You gotto help me with her."
Jake said before Chance had gone in.
"Eh. Sure." Chance said
They put her in Chances room and didn't notice the device outside.
Jake went to bed. Chance continued to watch on the Scairdy Kat marathon.
..............TO BE CONTINUED...............................
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> Authors comments:
> Wow, so we've gotten this far aye =)
> Okay, I really hope you'll keep on
> reading the other stories in this
> series :-)
>
> If you have any comments, suggestions,
> questions or even flames, or want to
> be a beta-reader, then you're most
> welcome to drop me a note at
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>
> And if you also wanna visit my
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> www.geocities.com/the_shadow_003/
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> then you're welcome to do so! =)
> Especially if you're not on the
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>
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