After of almost a year of you guys waiting here's a sneak of the Two Worlds remake/reboot, I'll like to thank Poynton90 for helping me in this, I think i just found my new co-author for the reboot/remake of the story.
Sitting on the bench across the Chief's office, Ben sat holding a cooling cup of coffee, his focus was fixed on the contents of the styrofoam cup as he listened to the Chief having it out with Judy. At the moment there was very little he could do. He knew that Judy had crossed the line a few times during the pursuit of the outlaw weasel through the streets of Savanna Central and eventually leading towards Little Rodentia, her enthusiasm to catch the bad guys having put innocent lives in the line of fire.
Still, even after all of what she did, she only did what she thought was right. He knew that being a police officer had been Judy's dream ever since she had been a young bundle of fluff wearing her stitched together police uniform with the tin star on her chest at the Carrot's Day festival all those years ago.
"What did you think you were doing Hopps?! Running around through the city like a lunatic! Chasing a weasel over some bloody flower bulbs?!"
'Jesus, that guy can yell. And these are supposed to be sound-proofed doors and walls' Ben thought as he sipped the coffee and grimaced at the horrible taste the cold drink left in his mouth.
He could hear Judy respond but her voice was too muffled by the door but it didn't take long before he heard the Chief talking back down to her. He'd had conversation's very similar to the one's that his friend was receiving right now but he knew that unfortunately that this was going to have to be something she had to face.
Still, he had to agree with one thing that the chief said and that was over the bag of bulbs…
'What can be so important about a bag of bulbs a weasel would steal them for?' he thought as he stood from the bench and walked towards the trash receptacle and dropped the cup inside before walking back towards the bench but instead leaned on the railings and looked down into the atrium below and watched as several officers were walking into the station as another group were just heading out. Clawhauser was at the front desk speaking with somebody, an otter he guessed from the size of the animal and the distinctive tail shape as well, for a few seconds before the animal started to move past the desk and started up towards the ramp that would lead them to the upper floors of the building.
"…but we can't have everything we want in life Hopps, so let-it-go." He could hear Bogo speaking, his voice a little elevated than it was before.
He watched the otter make her way up each level until she finally emerged onto the floor and watched her scurry up towards the Chief's door and without even so much as knocking, she managed to open the door and pushed her way into the room as the buffalo was still giving Judy a roasting from her actions earlier that morning.
"Chief Bogo!" she began as she scurried towards the Chief's desk just as he watched Officer Clawhauser reach the door a few moments later. Ben couldn't help but try and stifle his chuckle and the smirk it came with as he watched the cheetah puff and pant.
"Sorry Chief," he began while breathing heavily, "She just…whoa, she slipped right past me."
Through the open door he watched the chief stand from his seat behind his large desk and moved around it to talk directly with the small otter, "Missus Otterton, I promise you that we are trying our best to search for your husband along with the other fourteen missing mammals," he began but stopped when she pulled a small picture from her purse.
"Please Chief Bogo, he's been missing for three days now and our pups are really worried for his safety," she started weeping, "They just want their daddy back."
The chief sighed heavily now and Ben watched as the buffalo was starting to become slightly irritated. He couldn't help but wonder how this guy hadn't blown a blood vessel yet.
"Missus Otterton, I assure you that we are doing the best that we can but we simply don't have enough officers…"
"I'll search for him."
Bogo, Clawhauser and Mrs. Otterton turned their heads towards the only other animal in the room who had spoken and their eyes all landed on Judy, the rabbit now standing on the ground and approached the otter.
"I will search for your husband ma'am."
"Uhh…Missus Otterton, she's only just…" but before the buffalo could finish the otter had shot right past him and was already embracing the bunny rabbit and Ben couldn't help but smile at the scene. Having known Judy for as long as he had he knew that she had a heart of gold and a positive attitude towards every situation she had every faced. Hopefully though he hoped that she would have what it would take for her to carry out her promise.
"Oh, thank you so much dear, thank you ever so much!" the otter smiled and then peered up towards the buffalo, "Chief, thank you," she said again before she turned around and headed out the door with Clawhauser following behind her as the door slowly closed with the chief standing at the door and Ben just happened to catch a look of pure anger in his eyes aimed towards him.
'Oh fuck' he thought and what followed seconds later didn't surprise him.
"Your fired."
"Sir?" he heard Judy ask as ben now leaned against the door to the chief's office.
"You heard me! Your fired! Gather your belongings and get out!" he thundered, "To think that a stupid rabbit could ever be a-"
The chief never got a chance to finish his sentence as the door to his office was flung open and for a brief second the chief was stood shock still in surprise as the door slammed against the filing cabinets and the pane of glass was nearly smashed on impact.
Ben stood in the door, his hands balled up into fists and the look on his face would scare many it not most animals that would cross the mans path. His fury was focused on Bogo until he looked down to Judy, "Hopps, would you please wait outside for a few minutes while I speak with Chief Bogo please."
"I don't have time for…"
"SHUT YOUR MOUTH!" Ben roared angrily at the buffalo, effectively quieting down the Chief who stood shock still at the outburst. Looking back to Judy he could see his outburst had frightened the bunny a little by how her ears were drooping and holding herself.
"Judy, please wait outside and don't go anywhere."
For a few seconds the rabbit stood still, looking back and forth between them, before doing as her friend said and left the office before closing the door behind her.
"I don't know who you think you are," Bogo began as he approached Ben, "And I don't care, but you do not talk to me that way in front of my officers…, well, ex-officer," he growled.
"How about you shut up…, and sit down," Ben growled and pointed towards the chair behind the desk. After a few seconds the buffalo did so, the chair creaking under the strain of his bulk before relaxing.
"I don't know what your problem is Bogo," Ben began as he sat down opposite the buffalo, "But what I just saw I would call a miscarriage of justice."
"That being?" Bogo chewed out.
"An officer of the law, while she may still be a rookie, has just offered to help find one of…I'm going to guess fifteen now, judging by that map," he pointed towards the large map of the city of Zootopia and the pictures all pinned to the map in different area's where he assumed they had gone missing.
"Judy just offered to help look for her husband, who has been missing for days, and you just said that you had no officers spare to search for them right now, yeah, I did hear you say that," Ben interrupted the chief as he tried to speak over him but huffed when he was called out on it, "And all because Hopps offered her assistance, you're firing her?" he questioned and chuckled darkly at the same time.
"What of it?" Bogo demanded.
"I don't think Lionheart's going to be very happy with you."
"What?"
"Oh yeah, you forgot about that didn't you?" Ben now chuckled and could tell he was annoying him, good.
"Right now, Judy is the poster child for the 'Mammal Inclusion Initiative' for animals that weren't eligible for the Z-P-D before until last year and is one of the very first to not only pass the training for a new species entry into the program, but also the first of her 'species' to come valedictorian of her class. An inspiration for all small sized prey animals as well as her own species."
"When the press outlets hear that you removed his star from service just because she was doing her duty," Ben paused as he looked around the room for a few seconds to let it sink in before looking back at Bogo, "Not only will you have lost a valuable officer of the law, but you'll lose your own credibility not only with the mayor's office but also the prey species of this city. And what's the prey to predator count in this city? Ten to one I think."
"You think of all the animals in this city that are already looking up to Judy, after everything she's been through with her training and all the ridicule and prejudice she's had to face during that time and never let it get her down, put allowed it to motivate her…you're going to throw that all away because your acting like a petty little prick who doesn't like to be outshined."
The chief's nostrils flared at that statement but kept himself from barking at the human.
"And then there's the CFM you'll have to deal with," he said and this time didn't bother to keep a shit-eating grin from spreading across his face, "Not only will inform the Mayor about what happened, but I'll also be informing my commanding officers, who no doubt will be in touch in the next few hours to discuss the reason as to why they weren't informed about this case because with our manpower we could have helped find these animals before the numbers of those going missing kept increasing on a bi-daily basis."
The chief remained silent, staring daggers into the human across the desk from him and felt the need to reach over and grab him by his jacket and punch him repeatedly in the face until it was pulp. Nobody had ever dared to down to him like that before and nobody would have ever dared threaten him either.
"Look at it this way though chief," Ben began again without the smirk this time, "I think we can come to an arrangement of sorts."
"What type of an arrangement?"
"First off; you let Hopps keep her job. Like I said, if animals and humans catch on to why she was fired, it'll look bad on you and the Z-P-D and neither of us want that to happen."
To this, Bogo had to think over but he knew that if the integrity of the police in the city was threatened then he had to play ball and agree, he nodded.
However, just as Ben was about to continue the door to the office opened and neither Ben or the chief were expecting to see who trotted into the office. Assistant Mayor Bellwether walked in with both Mrs. Otterton and Officer Hopps in tow and walked right over to the chief with a wide smile on her face.
"Oh, Chief Bogo, I just heard the news about Officer Hopps being assigned to the case of finding Missus Otterton's missing husband. Mayor Lionheart is going to be so happy to hear that the newest officer has been assigned the case!" she bleated happily as she pulled out her iCarrot-7 cell phone and started messaging the mayor. For a brief second, the Chief tried to stop her from sending the message, a look of panic on his face but was too late, "And all done!"
It was only a moment later after sending the text did she stop when she noticed Ben looking down towards her with a smile, "Oh! I wasn't aware that you had company," she began and turned to the human as he stood from the chair.
"No need to apologize ma'am. I was just discussing the details of the missing animal case with the Chief here."
She looked at him for a moment before she figured out who he was with, "Ah! You're with the CFM, aren't you? Oh, Lionheart will be happy to hear that the police and the military are working together to help find those poor missing animals," she beamed up at Ben as she shook his hand with her hoof.
"Well Miss Bellwether, you see, the human here-"
"Captain Ben Richardson," he introduced himself, "Yes ma'am! I've already been talking with Chief Bogo about the situation but as of right now I have yet to talk to my superior officers about this case," he paused to peek at Bogo for a brief moment, "However, rest assured that I will be joining the investigation with their permission after they've spoken with you in the next twenty-four hours. Won't I Chief?"
Looking towards the buffalo, with all eyes in the room now of the chief he couldn't help but seize up but managed to nod his head and say "Yes."
"Excellent! I'll be sure to let the Mayor know to expect the call!"
…
As soon as the sheep left with the otter, and hesitant bunny in tow, Ben sat back down across from the buffalo who was now looking more upset than he was angry. He allowed the chief a few minutes to get his head straight before he looked towards the human and sighed.
"And what else?"
"Pardon me, Chief?" Ben asked.
"There was something else you wanted to say," the buffalo said.
"Ah yes," he said remembering, "If you allow us to work the case together I can speak with my commanding officers once I return to base and I can make it so that the Z-P-D gets all the credit for when we find the missing animals."
"You sound pretty confident," the buffalo said after a few moments of mulling over the proposition.
"I've hunted down and brought multiple enemies of both the Commonwealth and Animalia to justice on counts of war crimes and many other nasty crimes you wouldn't want to think about," Ben said quietly as he leaned forward in his chair.
The images of the dead, skinned animals hanging in the freezers on hooks through their paws in the H.R death camps came to mind and even the smells from the 'roasting ovens' also brought back memories that no amount of alcohol or legal substances could ever wash away. He had hunted down and had either dragged back to the Commonwealth to stand trial or had executed the bastards responsible right there on the spot without remorse or pity even as they begged for mercy.
"So, trust me Chief," Ben whispered as he leaned forward in his chair, "I will help Officer Hopps find the missing animals. We will bring them back to their loved ones, the ones who have been waiting for days, weeks even, for news of their loved ones and if they have been kidnapped, we will bring in those responsible."
"I have one condition."
"What is that Chief?"
"Hopps, forty-eight hours."
"Forty-Eight hours what?"
"Forty-Eight hours to find the missing mammals, and then I don't care how you threaten me. She's gone and we'll take back charge of the investigation."
'Does this dumb fuck seriously have a two-second memory?' Ben thought. As he looked at the buffalo for a few seconds he flashed the same smirk of confidence he had a few minutes earlier with Bellwether and stood from his chair and straightened out his jacket.
"From tomorrow. Forty-Eight hours from tomorrow morning," Ben said as he held his hand out to the Chief to take.
For a moment the buffalo regarded the human, having expected him to blow up into a flurry of anger and fury but instead he seemed calm, too calm for his liking but he dared not try his luck any further than what he already had.
"Agreed."
Shaking the humans hand, he let go after one pump and sat back down at his desk and watched Ben turn and head for the door.
"You aren't like the others," he said to his retreating form, making Ben pause.
"Chief?"
"The other soldiers," he began speaking calmly, allowing himself to try and relax, "There's something different about you. After the war ended and the CFM were posted here across the city I've seen soldiers on a daily basis. But you," he paused, "You're something different, something that I can't quite put my hoof on."
"You keep up to date on all of own military forces that we have stationed here in Zootopia, correct?"
"That we do. Our records are always kept up to date on a regular basis."
"Captain Richardson, commanding officer of the 'Death Dealers', Alpha Force Group, CFM's Special Operations Division."
The chief had heard of the Alpha Force Group before on numerous occasions, and the 'Death Dealers', while also known to a select few of the Animalian government, they were treated like they were phantoms. Never before had he ever met one of their operator's in person and today he couldn't help but think after the deal he had made with the Captain that he'd gotten off easy and was able to walk away with both his horns and balls intact.
"I'll be seeing you Chief," the human said with a smile and a wave before leaving the animal behind in stunned silence and this time, calmly closed the door.
That's it, In a month or less then a month I me and my co-author should have the first chapter ready.