ForewardAbout This Work of Fan Fiction

Disclaimer: “SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron” is copyright to Hanna-Barbera Cartoons Inc. All Rights Reserved. © 1995. All other characters and material within this document are the property of Walter Heil or their respective creators.

Since this work of fan fiction assumes that you are familiar with the SWAT Kats series, you should have seen at least a couple of episodes in order to know the characters and locations appearing regularly which are also appearing in this story. In detail:

• Characters: Chance Furlong aka T-Bone, Jake Clawson aka Razor, Commander Ulysses Feral, Lieutenant Felina Feral (Season 2 only), Deputy Mayor Callie Briggs, Mayor Manx, Ann Gora and Jonny K. (Ann's cameraman).
• Locations: Megakat City Salvage Yard including Chance's and Jake's garage and the Swat Kats' hangar.

In order to get a better imagination about additional characters and locations appearing in this story you should be aware of the following episodes in particular:

Destructive Nature (Season 1 – Episode 4)

• Characters: Mr.Young
• Locations: Megakat Tower and Megakat City Golf Course

Night of the Dark Kat (Season 1 – Episode 7)

• Characters: Dark Kat, Hard Drive and the creeplings

The Ghost Pilot (Season 1 – Episode 9)

• Locations: City Hall and Megakat City Docks

Metal Urgency (Season 1 – Episode 10)

• Characters: Professor Hackle, Burke, Murray and Hard Drive
• Locations: Puma-Dyne and Professor Hackle's laboratory

The Deadly Pyramid (Season 2 – Episode 6)

• Characters: Professor Hackle, Cybertron-1 and Cybertron-2
• Locations: Professor Hackle's laboratory

The Origin of Doctor Viper (Season 2 – Episode 10)

• Locations: The SwatKats' underground training course

The Dark Side of the Swat Kats (Season 2 – Episode 11)

• Characters: Dark Kat and the creeplings
• Locations: Puma-Dyne

In order to improve the readability of the text I'm using the term “Swat Kats” instead of “SWAT Kats”.

When the main characters are addressed by their call-signs they are wearing their Swat Kats outfit. When they are addressed by their real names they are wearing their civil clothing.

When I wrote this story I hadn't read any other Swat Kats fan fiction. So, if you find any similarities to other stories they are just coincidental.

I'd like to thank the following people:

• Christian & Yvon Tremblay for creating one of my favorite cartoon series and all the other people which were involved in the production of it.
• The Swat Kats fans who collected and maintain all the information at swatkats.info. The encyclopedia turned out to be a goldmine whenever I needed to research something.
• The operators of leo.org for providing a very helpful German-English dictionary.
• Jan Rathje for proofreading.
• Blue Stahli and Celldweller for their songs I've listened to between my writing sessions. I'm sure that some of my ideas were also inspired by their music.
• And of course, you for reading this story.

Lastly I'd like to note that English isn't my native language and this is the first fan fiction story I've ever written. Therefore the text might include some odd phrases although I did my best to write everything properly.

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