Swat Kats The New Squadron (Patreon)

Tagline They learned to fly together. Then they learned they could not land apart.

This is a fan-made opening for SWAT Kats: The New Squadron. The unit is official this time. Stay for the jet. Come back for Jake and Chance — the quiet dance from strangers to partners to the tom who finally stops calling his little buddy only that. Written stories and new animation live in this world. The city is still standing. So is the bunk.

Mega Kat City has a legal S.W.A.T. Kat program. Razor and T-Bone wear the colors. That is the job.

The series is about the job, and about what the job will not put on a roster.

Jake Clawson walked in already knowing who he was. Chance Furlong walked in knowing how to take orders and not knowing how to want a tom. They flew. They roomed. Jake pressed. Chance held the line until the line was Jake on a hangar floor and a tiger that had been waiting years to say mate. Jake took both of them without a flinch. That is the dance: strangers, partners, friends, best friends, then the door shutting and the tail wrapping and the hangar clocking the limp.

They look after Marcus the way older brothers look after a cub who can fly and still thinks he is ordinary. They look after the city the same way — pride, not glory.

If you came for the trailer, the stories and animations that follow are the nights after the credits.

Mature. Ongoing. Come back.