WAVES OF SCAMS PART 2
DAY OFF RUINED
Before Judy and Nick could reach to the scene and source of the alarm, there was the action going on already.
At the Mr. Wildebeest's jewelry shop, the police chief Bogo, and several ZPD officers: Mchorn, Fangmeyer, Francine, Higgins, Rhinowitz and Vincent the grizzly bear had already made it to the crime scene before the rabbit and fox cops did.
ZPD officers had caught the criminals in the act and Francine and Higgins had managed to pin down to the ground one of the criminals, the black-backed jackal, in front of the shop's broken showcase. Francine was holding the criminal in the ground while Vincent was about to handcuff the jackal.
However, another criminal, coyote, escaping towards the nearby bike with the sack full of stolen gems.
"That coyote is escaping with the loot! Stop him!" Bogo yelled at his officers.
Fangmeyer and Rhinowitz pulled out their taser guns, lifted them up and aimed their darts to the coyote's back and demanded at first the coyote to halt and surrender. And when the coyote refused to cooperate, the officers fired the darts, but the criminal quickly dodged the gun's darts by jumping behind of the bike for cover.
"Your aim sucks, coppers! Even elephant is able to dodge those shots!" the coyote mocked the officers while he jumped on the back of the bike and and started its engine.
Before he could get away, he spotted Judy and Nick, whom had just arrived to the scene from the nearby alley ... and right to the way of with the bike escaping coyote.
"Out of my way, brat!" The canine snarled and kicked Judy down with his leg, sending the rabbit to fall onto her back to the ground, before he started to leave the scene.
Judy, however, quickly recovered from the hard kick to her stomach and grabbed with both of her paws from the coyote's leg… and the rabbit officer ended up to be dragged along with the escaping coyote.
The rabbit officer hanging on his leg disrupted the coyote's concentration on rising the speed of the bike into the full speed - and it even disturbed the coyote's concentration on driving the bike - and prevented him to get away from the area completely.
However, the coyote still managed to reach close of the mid-speed with the bike as he turned from the junction to the left and escaped behind of the other side of the corner, Judy remained to hold on for her dear life in the coyote's leg, even though her legs were rather painfully rubbing against the tarmac along the way.
"ZPD! Stop in the name of law!" Judy cried at the coyote, ignoring the pain in her legs.
"No gonna happen, weakling!" The coyote snarled at the rabbit officer and moved the bike closer to the lane of incoming cars, right at the moment when there was incoming car with the paint of zebra's black-white stripes.
Judy's eyes widened as she noticed the car.
"OH, SWEET CHEESE AND CRACKERS!" Judy cried as she realized that the coyote was gonna smash her against the car in the high speed. The collision against the car, and yet her head ahead, would only mean the certain death.
However, while the escaping coyote criminal was attempting to get rid of Judy from his leg, Nick had hurriedly hurried after them by using the shortcut from the nearby alleys that led behind of the corner after junction - somehow suspecting/sensing/successfully guessing that the coyote would turn from the junction to the left.
And on his way, knowing how to stop the criminal from getting away, Nick grabbed from the alley the metal pipe into his paw and took it with him.
This was confirmed true once after he exited from the alley and saw the coyote - and Judy still hanging on the coyote's left leg with her own legs rubbing against the tarmac - on the back of the bike and incoming to this direction from the junction.
And once seeing them, Nick immediately climbed onto next to the alley's entrance standing tax car's bonnet and fell onto all his fours, waiting for the good opportunity for the surprise the coyote, when the criminal is about to pass him this car and him as well.
And when the coyote and Judy on the back of the bike were in the right spot...
"Hang on, Carrots! I'm coming!" Nick's voice was suddenly heard, attracting Judy's attention.
And with that, Nick, unexpectedly to the coyote who attempted to turn the bike to the right and away from Nick's reach pull the full speed though too late, leaped off from the bonnet of the car and flew across the air towards the coyote's left leg and Judy. And once he reached to her, Nick wrapped his free arm around of Judy's waist and pushed the pipe to the criminal's bike's rear tire.
After feeling Nick's firm grip protectively around of herself, Judy left go from the coyote's leg and both ended up to roll along the street's tarmac, with Nick protecting Judy with his own body.
Fortunately for both of them, Judy had let go from the coyote's leg right after the coyote had turned the bike to the right as a failed attempt to evade Nick, thus dragging both the rabbit and fox with him away from the incoming car's way and thus inadvertently saving the duo.
The metal pipe in the bike's rear tire blocked the tire's going like to the wall and it launched the criminal off the bike's back. And the coyote flew screaming across the air until he landed against the dustbin, knocking it over and causing the garbage to spread across the street, while knocking himself at the same time out cold, while Nick's and Judy's ball-like form's "not so smooth" landing to the streets eventually halted.
"Ouch! That gotta hurt." Nick said after witnessing the criminal's fly.
Then the officers rushed to the scene. Fangmeyer and Vincent immediately rushed to the half-conscious coyote and handcuffed him quickly. After which the officers lifted him up and loaded him into the police car to be taken to ZPD HQ in custody, along with the criminal's loot.
And while Fangmeyer and Vincent dealt with the criminal, Francine and Bogo hurried to check Judy and Nick's condition.
"Wilde, Hopps. Well done from both of you, though I didn't expect your arrival to the scene for today." Bogo said with the tone of proud of his finest officers.
Nick stood up and helped Judy up on her feet from the ground.
"It is the pleasure to thwart the criminal's plans in the act, sir." Judy said while saluting to our boss.
Bogo nodded proudly smiling at us, until his expression turned slightly contemplative as he watched at us.
"By Mother Nature, Hopps! If I were you I would the chance the pants before I totally lose them in the public." The chief said.
Judy quickly checked her jeans, and she let out the loud sigh of frustration.
Her jeans were not just dirty, but they were from her left leg torn nearly to the point that they were almost falling off from her legs, due of her being pulled along with the escaping crook's bike with the great speed against the tarmac of the street, which also revealed her black female bunnies' underpants from under of the tatters of her jeans. And the very same thing had happened to the left sides of her autumn jacket and her shirt from both behind and front of her left shoulder, revealing partially her bare body with her black bikinis.
This embarrassed Judy totally.
"Oh sweet cheese 'n crackers! This is awkward even for to the famous cop of this city! I'm glad that the reporters haven't arrived yet! " Judy said with embarrassed tone and quite rudely grabbed from Nick his own jacket and put it to hang from her left shoulder in attempt to cover her bare body parts peeking from beneath of her torn clothes.
"Well, at least your scarf survived." Nick said with the grin.
"Seriously, Nick!" Judy said loudly.
"No, calm down, Hopps. You were lucky that you didn't got the bad injuries... not counting those few bruises and asphalt rash." Bodo said, pointing out to the surface scratches, few bruises and asphalt rash in Judy's left foot, left shoulder and side.
Nick saw them too and let out the light snarl at the jackal as he was pushed in the police cruiser.
Before anyone around could say anything more, Bogo was the first one to speak.
"Come with me, Hopps and Wilde. I'll take you two back to your apartment, where you can clean yourself and tied up Hopps' scratches and bruises and chance into your officer uniforms." Bogo said as he turned for the police cruiser.
Nick couldn't believe his ears, neither Judy. "What? But sir... with all due respect, today was supposed to be our well-deserved day off and…" Nick attempted to say, but was then interrupted by Bogo.
"No buts, Wilde. And I know that all too well. The truth is... I just don't care right now. Besides, I would like to have a word with you two." Bogo said firmly.
Nick sighed out of frustration and started to help Judy to walk to the police cruiser.
Judy's wounds had of course made her left leg a bit sore, but because they were just slightly stinging superficial injuries, they didn't bother Judy's walking with her left leg that much... despite her slightly limping walking style after being dragged along the tarmac by with the bike escaping jackal.
And then, Judy's senses, which was more likely her sharp sense of hearing, suddenly sensed something from the very same area... the presence!
That prompted her to turn her head slightly to the left to peek over her left shoulder at the corner, from where Nick just had come from.
And, she then noticed the dark figure with the brown coat and green hat watching them from behind of the corner.
This immediately prompted Judy to turn to Nick.
"Don't look back, Nick. But I think that that guy out there is following us." Judy whispered to Nick, who turned his head slightly to the left to peek over his shoulder and saw from the corner of his eye corner the same guy whom Judy had just noticed.
Nick and Judy added more speed as they rushed to inform this to Bogo, until they eventually reached to him next of his police cruiser.
"Uh… sir. I don't know do you care neither this one, but I think that we three are followed by that guy out there." I said to chief with the suspicious look at this guy, which suspiciously made it clear to them that he had been spotted and emerged from the alley and started to walk towards them with the charismatic walking style.
The stranger appeared to be a female zebra, whose brown jacket and hat resembled the reporter's clothes from 1940s or something, but he was holding the modern day's reporter's camera that was hanging around of her neck. And the stranger was also holding in her hoof-fingered hands the pen and bundle of note pads.
Bogo turned around to see, but he remained calm unlike I did.
There's nothing to worry about, Wilde and Hopps. She's Zelda Zebra. Pretty harmless lady newszebra. Because of those crooks we caught in here, we agreed to meet right here so I can take her with me back to the headquarters. She's just going to write me to the magazine for the next few days." Bogo explained.
"Indeed, chief Bogo. Maybe I can make even a book of you. As you are the most reputed chief of police of Zootopia, and the city itself is a very glad to have you as the chief of police." Zelda said.
Nick turned to Bogo to see if usually grumpy and strict chief of police would blush with such of flatters that newszebra said to him. But, however, to the fox's big disappointment he didn't.
However, Judy frowned at the presence of the newszebra... even if there was just a single one.
"Oh, great. Now we got newsmammals around of us just when I messed and got my clothes to shreds." Judy complained both annoyed and embarrassed. It would be the perfect humiliation for her if in the headlines would read anything about her an embarrassing accident.
Bogo then cleared his throat to speak.
"Mrs. Zebra, allow me to introduce you my two finest cops, Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde. They're the ones, who…" Bogo said, trying to introduce them to Zelda.
"…Who solved the Night Howler scam created by treacherous, evil and nasty wolf in the sheep's clothes… and rescued the entire Zootopia from the chaos she caused." Zelda said like she already knew Judy and Nick's heroic service to the city.
However, Zelda turned to Bogo like me and Judy were just air to him.
"Are we ready for interview, chief Bogo?" Zelda asked.
"Later at my home, Mrs. Zebra." Bogo answered before turning to us.
"Now, you two, get in the car." Bogo said.
Nick helped Judy to get into Bogo's cruiser's back seats before the red fox jumped after her, while Zelda sat to the front seat next to the driver's seat.
And when everybody else was onboard, Bogo climbed inside of his cruiser to the driver's seat and took us away from the crime scene, heading towards Judy and Nick's apartments in the midtown.
TO BE CONTINUE...