WAVES OF SCAMS PART 8

AT BOGO'S HOME PART 2.


Well, Judy and Nick what they were told for the next passing fifteen minutes: watching over sleeping Bogo.

The duo was starting to get tired of watching over their sleeping chief of police while waiting for the return of a strange cheetah cop and a strange wolf doctor, who were still seeking the clues of incident and the bottle of drugs from Bogo's house.

Suddenly, they heard sleepy grunting from Bogo's mouth.

"Did you heard that?" Nick asked eagerly.

"Yeah, I did." Judy answered and jumped onto the table.

"The drug maybe wasn't quite strong." she said and began to shake Bogo to wake.

"Bogo? Sir? Wake up!" Judy urged.

Nick decided to give his helping hand and climbed onto the table himself.

"Woo-hoo… chief buffalo butt?! House is on fire! Everybody up and out and quick!" Nick exclaimed loudly in order to wake Bogo.

However, Bogog didn't wake up.

"Didn't you heart me?! House is on fire! WOO-HOO! HALLOOOO?! Time to wake up you lazy buffalo butt or do I have to go pick up the horn?"

When Bogo didn't wake up on that, Nick reached to the horn he was carrying with him and prepared to make a loud sound right next of Bogo's left ear, only to be stopped by Judy before he could press the trigger.

"If I were you I wouldn't do that, Nick." Judy said and took the horn away from Nick's paw like the mother taking a dangerous stuff away from the child.

"Well, have you a better idea then, Carrots?" Nick asked, frustrated.

By looking in Nick's eyes, Judy could see Nick's boredom and frustration all too well, until suddenly, the rabbit pointed with her finger at the door leading to another room where those two strangers had just went.

"If you want some action, Slick, go there and check what those two creeps are doing there and why it's taking so long from them to come back." Judy ordered.

The wide grin then appeared to Nick's lips after hearing and realizing that what Judy had just asked him to do.

"No need to tell me twice, Fluff." Nick said, as he immediately jumped off the table and headed towards the door.

However, before he could even enter to the room, Nick suddenly halted and started to sniff the air.

"Nick, what's wrong?" Judy questioned.

Nick kept sniffing the air, till the fox officer wrinkled his nose and shivered in disgust.

Nick then turned to Judy while covering his nose with his left paw.

"Do you smell that?" he asked with the muffled voice.

Judy lifted her nose up to the air and sniffed, until the rabbit officers eyes shot wide open as she picked something from the air with her nose. Judy instantly grimaced in disgust and lifted her arm over her face to protect her nose from so bad smell.

"Ugh! Yes, I do! Did you let out the fart again, dumb fox?" Judy asked, disgusted.

That was a quite offensive question in Nick's opinion.

"No, I didn't!" Nick exclaimed, offended of being accused for farting what he didn't even do.

"But I think that I did pick up that kind of smell in my snout somewhere earlier... like then when that newszebra, whatever her name was again, was nearby back in the headquarters." Nick explained. "The scent is weak but but not unrecognizable."

Judy let out the sigh and rolled her eyes.

"Who cares about the scent, Nick? Zelda probably had a poor hygiene... for the woman. Now go after those two!" Judy demanded.

"Alright, alright! As you command, my sensitive-nosed mistress." Nick said, giving a teasingly bow at Judy before turning back to the door and going after those two.

It did not take long from Nick than a five minutes to search through the rest of the house for those two, until Nick found both of them from Bogo's bedroom.

However, instead of carefully searching for clues or the bottle of drugs as they had said, both of them were hurriedly and carelessly rummaging Bogo's bedroom's closets and drawers, without caring about the mess they had already caused in the bedroom.

"Hey! What do you think you guys are doing?!" Nick exclaimed after having them caught in the act.

Both the cheetah cop and the wolf doctor were startled by Nick's suddenly loud voice, like they hadn't expected him to arrive to the scene, before they turned to look at him.

"Two facts about your so-called "search" for the clues of drugging the chief of police: One, the work's process is noticeably poor, slow and needlessly messy. And two, that looks more like ransacking the house rather than searching." Nick pointed out.

"Blasted! That fox is too curious!" Duma stated while she was ransacking Bogo's green closets.

"You're right! A too cunning mammal like his kind is difficult to fool. " Lupus said while the wolf was ransacking Bogo's drawers.

Suddenly, both of them quit the ransacking and turned to Nick, with the offensive looks in their eyes.

"He and his bunny-friend do not know much yet, but let's make sure that they don't know any more than this!" Duma said as she jumped off the green set she was standing on.

"Agree! Let's get him! Together!" Lupus shouted.

And all the sudden, both of them charged at Nick with their hands stretched forward to grab on Nick.

"Whoa, sweet berries and pawpsicles!" Nick exclaimed, mimicking Judy's "Oh, sweet cheese and crackers.".

Out of instincts, and remembering her training in close combat back in ZPD Academy, Nick quickly leapt from the door inside of the bedroom and out of apparently and certainly false cop's and false doctor's reach as they leapt on him. And with that, the pair failed to grab on Nick and ended up right after to knock their heads together.

Once the crooks were flying on the floor after accidentally knocking themselves out, Nick grabbed to the opportunity and rushed out of the bedroom to the other room, where was the door that led out of the house to the backyard of Bogo's house.

"I knew it! They're both con artists!" Nick let out as he hurriedly headed back to the living room to get back to Judy, and possibly awaken Bogo too, to have reinforcements to contain the situation of two-on-one.

This also got Nick to go through the situation in his mind.

"Two con artists and both predators. But none of them are not the same predators from the earlier ones! How many con artists actually are there yet?!"

Though Nick was naturally a swift from his legs, Duma, if it was even her real name, was even faster due to her species: the cheetah. And so, right after recovering from accidental head-butt with Lupus and getting back on her feet, Duma moved fast like a lightning to block Nick's way into the living room with her body.

"Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-haa! Slow like the slug!" Duma laughed boastfully.

"Whoa!" Nick yelped in surprise as he quickly halted his pace.

Suddenly, Nick winced and let out the loud yelp in pain as Lupus came from behind and grabbed from his tail and painfully pulled the fox officer back to him.

"Gotcha, copy!" the wolf doctor taunted as he was about to pull Nick off the ground by his tail.

"Ow! OW! OW! Trust me, fake-doctor! If you were me, you'll know how much that hurts!" Nick snapped to the wolf.

Suddenly, Nick turned around and leapt between of Lupus' legs to his backside. This unexpected act caught Lupus totally out of surprise. And because the wolf was still holding tight from his tail, Nick's sudden move pulled him hard down and eventually flipped him over, sending him to fall onto his back to the ground.

So called Dr. Lupus groaned in pain after landing on his own tail.

"Now you know how I felt!" Nick shouted at the wolf, who slowly and groaning crawled back on his feet.

With the claws extended from her fingers and with her feline fangs bared, Duma lunged at Nick at once from the entrance to the living room, but the fox officer dodged her attack swiftly by turning around and jumping out of the way onto the wall.

Duma attempted right after lunge at him again, but the fake cheetah officer ended up to ram her own head to the same spot on the wall from where Nick bounced off to dodge the cheetah's attack. After the bounce, Nick flew upward and towards the ceiling fan hanging from the ceiling of the room.

The fan's rotation pace was not fast, so Nick managed to grab on one wing, which spun Nick around of the room's airspace several times.

Duma, ignoring the pain in her forehead, attempted to lunge at Nick once more, with her claws targeted towards the fox officer hanging from the ceiling fan.

However, Nick used something what HE had learned from Judy. For example, her "kick as powerful as kangaroo's or donkey's" to defend himself from incoming feline predator. So, when the ceiling fan swung Nick towards the lunging cheetah, Nick kicked her in the face and sent her flying onto of her wolf accomplice.

"Delicate like the rag doll!" Nick said to Duma.

And right after that, Nick let go of the ceiling fan and flew onto Bogo's kitchen's table.

The crooks quickly recovered and jumped back on their feet to continue their hot pursuit of Nick, now even angrier than ever.

The wolf doctor attacked Nick by his turn, growling and barging in a savage-like rage, even though he wasn't under of Bellwether's Night Howler sickness.

However, even a single glance of the wolf doctor in the savage-like attitude prompted Nick to run for a dear life. So the fox officer, spotting the escape route out of the kitchen to other room, jumped off the table onto the big chair's back and leapt into the next room.

After leaping there, Nick got a good view of the room. The room next to Bogo's kitchen was the dinning room, where was a quite big and long dinning table on which Nick had just landed, around of which was standing the row of chairs for a dozen... more likely for a two dozen... mammals. Big mammals, because the chair's maximum design is for the buffalo-sized animals.

"Hmm... the chief has either a lot of friends among the big mammals or else a big buffalo-butt family." Nick commented.

However, the canine-like bark from the kitchen got the fox officer to turn around, only to see Dr. Lupus lunging at him from the kitchen's table.

"WHOA!" Nick exclaimed in surprise, before the fox officer turned around and started to hurriedly run towards the other side of the dinning room and the table to get away from Dr. Lupus, managing to avoid Lupus's attack with the extended claws when the wolf landed onto the table, though just narrowly.

However, there was no another way out of the dinning room and the only escape route was out of here was now blocked by so-called Dr. Duma. And the doorway out of the kitchen was most likely blocked by the cheetah. He was trapped and cornered like the hunted prey animal.

"C'mon, brain cells! Think! Think! Think!" Nick said, banging his temples with his fists, as the fox tried to come up with some sort of plan to escape from this dead-end situation while running towards the other end of the table... with Dr. Lupus right behind on his heels, as the wolf ran faster by all fours than what he did with on two legs.

Suddenly...

"Surprise!" Duma suddenly exclaimed as the cheetah cop appeared from under of the table in the other side to where Nick was running.

She must have sneaked ahead of him from underneath the table.

Nick knew that he was now in a trouble, when two larger predators were surrounding him from front and behind.

There was also another problem, which Nick found out when he was trying to halt himself that he wouldn't ran straight into so-called officer Duma's claws.

Bogo must have polished the table shortly, because it was a quite slippery and Nick couldn't stop myself from "skating" along it towards Duma.

"Now we caught you!" Lupus shouted, grinning widely and stretching out his paws to grab him.

Nick quickly checked his surroundings for anything he could use as his advantage: from behind incoming Lupus, who wasn't aware of the table's slipperiness, to Duma waiting for him in the other end of the table. From the slippery table's surface to the dinning room's ceiling.

Nick then spotted the ceiling lamb hanging above of the table, and thinking quickly, the fox officer quickly came up with a sly plan to escape of the situation.

And so, Nick just kept "skating" along the table's surface while trying to maintain his balance and keep his current pace to escape from Lupus, who was still right on his heels.

"That's what you think, Lupus." Nick taunted before he jumped off the table and as high into the air as he could.

And a moment before Nick's sudden jump off the table, Lupus reached his paws forwards to grab to on the table skating fox officer and Duma lunged forward and was about to tackle Nick from behind... only to miss with the inch when Nick eventually jumped off the table into the air.

"Butterfinger!" Nick taunted Lupus as the fox officer grabbed to the ceiling lamp and remained to hang there above of the kitchen's table and the crooks.

Nick's sudden act to avoid being captured surprised both Duma and particularly Lupus so badly that it caused both the predators to ignore their surroundings and keep their eyes and focus on Nick.

However, as a result of that as Lupus was about to land on his front paws to the polished table, one of his paws slipped off from beneath of him and the false wolf doctor fell on his side to the table.

And as a result, Duma slid along and eventually off the table and flew into Duma, knocking the false cheetah cop off her feet and causing both Lupus and Duma fly into the wall shelf filled with dishes behind of their backs.

There was heard a loud "SMASH!", which hinted to that that the wall shelf got smashed when the predators flew onto it. That was instantly followed by as loud "CRASH!" sound when dozens of dishes inside of the shelf decomposed into pieces along with the shelf.

Aside of small cuts from the sharp-edged or -pointed pieces of wood and fragments of dishes, Lupus and Duma were in one piece, though tangled with each other.

"You Cabbage-brain!" Lupus yelled in anger to the wolf.

"Your fault, you travesty of the skater!" Duma shot back.

Such of sobriquets got Nick to chuckle, before the fox totally burst into laughter.

"Ha haa! Sly fox, one! Slippery wolf and dumb cheetah, zero!" Nick declared out of triumph, before the fox officer let go of the ceiling lamp and landed back onto the table and hurried to the kitchen and then to the doorway out of the kitchen.

Nick knew that Bogo was certainly gonna kill him after he finds out what had happened in his kitchen, but Nick had no time to worry about it right now.

Now he just needed to get back to Judy and Bogo in the living room.

"Judy! Judy! We're under scam attack! These two are…!"

Nick couldn't finish what he was saying until he spotted Duma in the living room, with her officer uniform partially in shreds and her officer cap missing.

And to Nick's shock, the cheetah got Judy into her claws.

The false cheetah cop had seized her by the ears and she had lifted her off the ground, hanging the rabbit in the air. Judy gritted her teeth from pain in her ears and tried to struggle to free herself from the painful grip, though it was a futile.

"OW!…Con artist! OUH! I... OUCH! I know already. OW!" Judy groaned between of her teeth and.

Nick targeted his angered eyes to Duma, who was grinning back at him.

"What? Did you forget that my species is faster than your own, fox?" Duma tauntingly asked, hinting that the cheetah had probably sneaked out of the dinning room's window and circled the house back to the front door and breaking back in from there.

"LET HER GO, YOU UGLY TRAVESTY OF THE COP!" Nick demanded, referring Judy in Duma's grip.

"Use a prettier language around women, Fox!" Duma snapped back and kicked Nick hard to his guts, sending him on his back over to the ground.

Judy, after seeing her partner getting assaulted like that by Duma, turned angrily at the cheetah. "Hey! You're gonna get a charge for assaulting the police officer! You're gonna be in a big troub... OW! OW! OW! OWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!" Judy groaned in pain as Duma tightened her grip around of Judy's ears.

"SHUT UP!" Duma snarled.

Moaning in pain, gasping for the breath and holding his sore stomach with his paw, Nick attempted to stand up from the ground, only to be roughly pinned on his stomach to the ground by Lupus, who had just recently arrived to the living room and sneaked upon of Nick from behind.

Alike Duma, Lupus was also in a poor condition after Nick's recent trick. His own doctor jacket was more than partially in shreds and he had lost his glasses and doctor's hat.

While keeping weakly against his grip struggling Nick pinned in the ground, Lupus turned to Duma.

"What are we gonna do with these two?" Lupus questioned.

"They haven't seen our faces so there's no worry. Let's bind them first and then back to work. We've already wasted our time with these two killjoys." Duma said before throwing Judy next to Nick.

Duma then started to pull out a rope and gags.

TO BE CONTINUED...