Scribosaurus Recs! - SWAT Kats fic.
One Tiny Miracle is All I Ask by Kristen Sharpe
An expanded version of my short Rendezvous. In an alternate universe, The CiKatA ended a bit more bleakly for the SWAT Kats... and nearly a year later one of them is about to give up... when his miracle finally comes.
Rec!view: Possibly the first and last word that needs to be said on CiKatA-based fics. I’ve read a few, and none of them ever seemed to get the balance right between what the show gave us and what could have come after. Since I read this when I first got into fandom about … seven or eight years ago? I guess I was spoiled from the beginning, as no other fic has hit the same heights as this one does. It’s a deliciously enticing concept: T-Bone was just that little bit too late to stop his buddy from being infected, and now they’re dealing with the consequences in their own inimitable style. Even though he gets most of the screentime, I don’t think this is the fic to make you fall in love with T-Bone (though he is a complete and utter woobie throughout). Personally, I think it's the story that will make you fall (ever deeper) in love with his connection to Razor and their friendship. It’s a brilliantly written ride that carries on what canon started and doesn’t make you wonder why the author has made the choices she has. Even the stuff with no basis in canon feels like it could and should exist there. Everything feels so right and logical, but at the same time so emotionally charged that it sizzles. T-Bone’s devotion is achingly tender without getting into slash territory (not a place I like to go with the SWAT Kats, as I consider it much more a demonstration of skill if an author can execute a believable friendship fic for two such very-easily-slashed characters). Such close attention is paid to making these characters so consistent with their canon selves (even Razor, who’s blatantly not the Razor of canon for really, really obvious reasons), and the author works the kat world so seamlessly with her own version of events that it’s … damn near breathtaking. And the ending! Yeah, upon rereading with 6/7 years of fandom clichés under my belt, it’s a little convenient, but the overall effect more than makes up for it. This fic is definitely more than just the sum of its parts, even though some of those parts are fantastic in their own right.