This will hurt, Derek thought as he plunged to the ground. Doing his best to slow down, he flattened his body out and twisted to be parallel with the ground. His mask gave a beep that he was close enough to the ground to start forming a landing. Derek did just that and almost felt the ground grow close. Click. Click. Click. Bing! His mask counted altitude until he hit the ground, rolling and rolling.
"Ooh... Ah! That was..." Derek flipped onto his front, "Intense as all hell." He pushed himself slowly to his feet and brushed himself off while checking for bruising.
"Paws up!" Someone's voice demanded from behind him.
Keeping his hands in front of him, Derek cursed. Then he laughed like he absolutely lost his mind, "They didn't know it when they turned me loose... I shot the sheriff and slipped the noose... The law ain't never been a friend o' mine, I would kill again to keep from doing time... You should never ever trust my kind... I'm a wanted man."
"We said: paws up!"
"Don't have any."
"Don't kid with us. I'll say it one more time, paws. Up."
Derek drew his knife from the backpack's strap and flicked the blade to show. Turning his head to show the mask, he laughed again, "Dart guns? I'll give you a hint right now: they don't work on me." Poff! Derek took one straight to the neck. He made a show of pulling it out and dropping it on the cement with his free hand, "Told you." The rest of his body turned to face the same way as his head just as his left hand flicked the blade at the wall.
"Aah!" The bunny from before took the knife in one of her big ears.
"Get that... thing! Whatever it is I want it put out." A fox next to the bunny pointed at Derek angrily.
Derek ran like the devil through the alleys, aware that he would run out of alleys soon. The dart had already put colors he couldn't name into his vision, so finding a door through the wall would be hard. Or not. They showed as neon. He was about to start ramming one down, but he slipped up and fell on his right side. This allowed a cheetah to trip on his feet and send themselves sprawling on pavement.
Derek righted his posture and ran at the door shoulder first. He made contact and found himself back near the decaying body of the lioness, still undiscovered. He ran to a tree and started shimmying up the rough bark. The rain soaked his clothes and (hopefully) hid his scent. He used a hand to hold his binocs to his face mask. He saw the tigress officer stand and pull out her walkie-talkie. Then, they just left.
He sighed, "Another day, another enemy."
"Time to fix that?" The voice almost startled Derek off the tree.
"I wish you wouldn't do that," Derek heaved, "You've almost killed me that way a lot. What do you want?"
"To remind you that you're doing alright."
Derek stared at her white mask with a black spot in the middle, "I'm doing good?"
"You're usually gone by this time, you've lasted pretty long here." Her super blonde hair almost blended into the white in her mask.
"What are you going to do to me?" Derek was skeptical of her since the get go.
She chuckled, "You'll see."
"No, you'll tell me."
Too late, she had disappeared.
"Great, now I'm freakin' paranoid," Derek pulled off his pack and pulled out the chips, but since he grabbed them they had become dust. He tipped his mask to the top of his head and shoveled the dust into his mouth. When he finished, Derek cupped his hands to catch rain water and drank it. "Don't know how they keep each of these biomes separate, but it works. Maybe those are the walls."
It was now somewhere around noon, so daylight was still present. Of course, that meant the "ZPD" was still around. Derek suspected that it didn't matter what time of day it was, they'd be on his back the entire time. Sitting in this tree helped him plan what he was going to do about the problems he brought up for himself; he was now responsible for manslaughter, body looting, running from the authorities... Derek sure made a mess of this, but he planned on righting it. He flicked his mask back down.
Derek was about do climb down the tree when the branch he sat upon snapped unexpectedly and he plummeted quickly to cold pavement. He landed on his back and his last thought before passing out was, So that's what she said she'd do.