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Cat is in a small speedboat zipping across Lake Michigan, pursued by a large
cabin cruiser. She tries to escape by zipping through a marina but crashes into
some rocks and is hurled into the water. The ship’s crew throws a new overboard
and brings her aboard. Here the comic pauses to show us the aftermath of the
last issue: the Cat had gone back into the building, changed back into her
street clothes and locked herself back in the closet to let the police “rescue”
her. After Dr. Joanne Tumolo was released from the hospital, the doctors still
unsure as to why she lost her faculties, Greer put her in a country home where
she would receive round-the clock-care. Dr. Tumolo’s lawyer Ben Richards
visited her and he and Greer went out scuba diving in Lake Michigan; while
underwater, Greer heard some suspicious noises and decided to investigate them.
So she went home early, having swiped Richards’ boat keys and returned to the
lake where she ended up in the boat chase….
So
now the Cat wakes up in an underwater dome where uniformed people are working
intently at unrecognizable tasks. She is brought before Intelligence Officer
Belag who questions her as to what she knows about them and why she dresses
like a cat. Greer refuses to answer him, demanding to know who he is and what
his people are doing. An alarm sounds, Belag dashes off, leaving a soldier to
guard Cat, who promptly knocks him out and escapes. She ducks into a side room
to avoid detection and discovers racks of US Navy uniforms and concludes this
is some sort of undercover Naval mission. She looks down into the main room of
the dome and sees that the place has been captured by pirates, led by Commander Kraken.
Kraken explains that their domed city beneath Lake Michigan would be
the perfect pirate lair and he will not take no for an answer. When the pirate
king seizes Belag by the throat with his hook hand, the Cat leaps down on him
and Belag orders his crew to fight even though their arms are tied. Cat frees
Belag who unties the others and the battle goes to the good guys. Kraken uses
his electrified hook to shock the Cat so he can make his getaway in a
squid-ship. Cat tells Belag that she knows he works for the US Government; he
is evasive so she reveals her secret identity, part of a full explanation as to
why she’s there. And she offers to keep their secret if they keep hers. Belag
agrees, Cat departs in Ben Richards’ boat, and Belag decides that they have
exceeded their basic research for the project. So they resume their original
wolf-like forms and the aliens take off in their ship for the stars. And Greer is
now mad at herself for her pride in thinking she knew everything that was going
on….