Disclaimer: I do not... you know the drill... own Zootopia or yadyadyad... it belongs to Dismey.
This is our home now.
Chapter 7.
"We do not belong here, Karla. We are strangers, out of place. We knew this from the start. But this is our new home now."
- Said by Ten to Karla Hopps.
Music: Antti Martikainen - Titanium Sky. watch?v=sKQqIxMEOJ4
"Okay… Bolard, six weeks have passed, and YOU tell me that you still haven't made contact with Dr. Ladkin or everyone else inside that bunker?" There was a hint of anger, in the otherwise sugary voice. "I´m not angry with you, Bolard… I´m disappointed… VERY disappointed with your inability to get results." There was a click that showed that the conversation was over.
Bolard Swinton sat and looked at the phone, very pale and very worried. He had to get some results very soon otherwise he would most likely disappear without a trace and someone else would take over his seat, in the inner circle of the organization.
He would try one last time to get in touch with either Dr. Ladkin or Sander by phone or mail didn´t matter. If that failed, he had to mobilize a new group of mercenaries and that would be expensive.
With a deep sigh, he reached for the phone.
Ten sat on the bike with his feet firmly planted on the ground on either side of it, wearing his full body armor while talking with Lily as Karla came up to them in the large underground carpark there was part of the bunker.
"I think that about 200 miles, should be enough to test if everything works on this bike, Lily." Karla overheard, Ten say to Lily.
"Yeah, I think so to." Nodded Lily with her paws on her hips. "I will monitor the feedback from the build-in computer, in the security room."
Karla´s eyes went wide, when she heard this and looked frantic back and forth between them. "Are they both insane." She thought almost panicking.
But before she could say anything, Ten´s helmet had materialized around his head and the machine had started with a roar. Alarms and orange lights went on, down the main tunnel indicating that the blast doors were opening for the first time in six weeks. With a last thumbs up, Ten put the bike in motion and speeded down through the tunnel.
"What. What. What." Karla looked after him with her mouth open, not believing what she just witnessed. She looked back to where Lily had stood only to discover that she was heading towards the tunnel that led to the security room. First, then she remembered how to speak again. "ARE YOU BOTH OUT OF YOUR MIND." She shouted confused and in a slightly quieter but still upset voice she continued. "There are several feet of ice and snow out there. He would kill himself, before he gets to the main road."
Lily stopped and half turned towards her. "No… that man is a magician, on two wheels." She said with a half-smile as she pointed in the direction that Ten had driven. With a paw movement there told Karla, to follow her. Lily turned around and began to walk again as she continued to speak.
On Iceberg boulevard in Tundra Town stood a police cruiser in front of a Snarlbucks. Inside it sat Officer Judy Hopps, in deep thoughts while she looked on how a storm was slowly crawling towards Zootopia from the polar mountains.
Out of the radio, the weather mammal told about the incoming storm. "The worst storm in known memory has just passed the Polar mountains and are now heading towards Zootopia, it has been raging for several weeks and had made it almost impossible to get through the mountains."
Judy turned down the radio and looked out towards the mountains and the storm again. This was how she sat when the passenger door on the cruiser was yanked open and her colleague scrambled to get inside the warm cruiser and out of the cold tundra town weather. The smell of coffee and chai latte, brought Judy back to the present.
"Hi, Judy, what were you thinking of? You looked like you were fare away just now."
Judy pointed to the horizon. "A storm is coming. Grizzoli."
Authors note: There you have it the first seven teaser chapters of Book One.
