Arriving in the Rainforest District per Mr. Big's instructions, Nick and Judy came to the limo driver Manchas' home. As Judy was about to knock on the door, however, her phone rang. Judy took her phone out and saw that the call was from her brother.
"Nick, talk to the witness for me, okay? I gotta take this." Judy said.
Nick nodded as Judy walked down to the bridge to get a better reception and picked up the phone.
"Judy, are you okay?" asked her brother in a concerned tone.
"I'm fine, Ned. I've been on a case the whole day. Did I worry you guys?" Judy said.
"I was worried, but Michelle said you could take care of yourself."
I the background of this conversation between siblings, Nick was conversing with Manchas to get details on where Mr. Otterton had gone.
"Is there anything you need, Ned," asked Judy.
"I just wanted to tell you that I added a tracker to your arsenal. If you ever need to track someone, just shoot one of these at them to track them from your GPS." Said Ned.
"Thanks for the heads up, bro," Judy said. She paused as she heard a commotion behind herself. "I gotta go. See you after this case!"
Judy hung up as she turned around to see Nick barricading himself against the door, growls and clawing coming from the other side.
"What's going on?" Judy asked, running up to the fox.
"I don't know. Manchas said something about "Night Howlers" and then went crazy on me," Nick said, starting to panic.
The pounding continued, forcing Nick to back away from the door.
"Run!" Nick yelled as the door burst open, revealing a Jaguar with bulging muscles and a savage look in his eyes, walking on all fours.
"MANCHAS SMASH!"
Back at the ZPD precinct building, Clawhauser was playing his Gazelle App when he noticed a call on the ZPD hotline. The cheetah put down his phone and picked up the desk phone.
"Hello, ZPD, what's your- "
"CLAWHAUSER!" yelled Judy from the other side. "Listen to me! We have a 10-91! Jaguar gone Savage! Vine and Tu-junja!"
"It's Tunjuga!" came Nick's voice in the background.
"Alright, Hopps, I'll send help as soon as I can!" Clawhauser promptly hung up and was about to call in some officers when he heard a voice behind him.
"What is Hopps calling about to the ZPD when she is supposed to be on probation?" came the voice of Chief Bogo. The cheetah froze as he was caught red-handed by his own boss.
Back in the canopy of the Rainforest District, Nick and Judy were flying and swinging, respectively, to get away from the savage Manchas. Whatever had made him this way had also given him unnatural abilities, as he was leaping from tree to tree to keep up the pace with the fleeing Heroes.
"Alright, enough of this!" Judy said, as she turned around and fired a shot of web at the jaguar's face, blinding the savage mammal and giving them enough time to make a landing at the sky tram platform. Manchas, however, quickly ripped off the webbing and roared at the duo.
"MANCHAS SMASH PUNY BUNNY!" yelled the savage.
Judy froze as the Jaguar lunged at her, but a shot from behind her caused Manchas to stumble. Nick continued to walk towards the jaguar, firing blots of electricity and ice in an effort to slow their adversary down.
"Carrots, if you have a plan, I'd love to hear it!" Star-Lord said, Manchas slowing continuing to advance forward.
Thinking fast, Spider-Woman leaped over Manchas and shot a line on cement webbing at him, attaching the other end to a post.
"Nick. We need to get out of here," said Judy, "If Manchas could break out of my normal webbing, I'm not sure how long this concrete webbing will hold."
Hopps promptly grabbed Nick and Jumped off the platform, with the afterthought of planting a tracker on Manchas before they left. Nick screamed as they plummeted toward to the ground, with Judy letting out a web line to slow their decent. Nick also snapped out of it and activated his rocket anklets, allowing the both of them to land on the jungle floor.
"Carrots. You saved my life," Nick said, amazed and relieved.
"Well, that's my job as a hero and an officer," said Judy.
The duo took a moment to catch their breath, before slowly starting to laugh as they had just survived a tense encounter. But as soon as they started to calm down, a translucent green ring of energy appeared around the two of them, binding them together. As they were lifted up to a higher elevation, the duo noticed to figures: A cheetah in a glowing green uniform with a lantern symbol, and cape buffalo in golden armor with a huge sword.
"Spider-Woman. Star-Lord," said the buffalo.
"Green Lantern. Heimdall," breathed Judy. She had only heard rumors about these two, being other superheroes like herself. Never did she think that she would ever get to meet them.
"I would say we have a lot to talk about," said Heimdall, a grim look on his face.
Author's Note
Just like a comic book, I leave you on a cliffhanger!
Before anyone asks, no, Manchas is Not the Hulk in this universe. The Night Howler formula here has been modified to augment strength, making its victims Hulk-like. Well meet the real Hulk character later (or maybe we've already met them…)
This scene helped to establish more of the powers Nick and Judy have (Star-Lord's element gun and Spider-Woman's various webbing specifically) and well as establish Judy's siblings (you can hear more about them in Judy's Origins chapter).
If you don't know who Green Lantern and Heimdall are out of costume here, then you need to watch the movie again.
Next Time: Our duo will have to get out of their situation, and maybe learn a bit more about each other along the way…
The Movie arc is maybe almost halfway done or more, I will start accepting your heroes/villains soon.
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