TRICKS AND TREATS: CHAPTER 10
FINAL STRUGGLE
An hour later...
The chase had yielded results for our fox officer.
Following the brainwashed children, Nick discovered the small house in middle of the fenced area and which was standing next to the large swimming pool.
Parking his borrowed car to somewhere in the cover of the darkness of night and at a safe distance from the house, Nick remained to sit in the car while eyeing the house, in the garden of which soon arrived the same brainwashed children who had robbed the candies from Barbara's children and from that bear cub before the whole chase.
They parked their own car in front of the houseand then came all out of the vehicle, they then unloaded the candy bags out of the car and rushed towards the house, disappearing through of the open door inside of the house.
"This might be the place where you're hiding, Nermal." Nick said as he exited from the car to find the signs of this address, so that he would be able to make the call to both chief Bogo - if he was even happy mood tonight - and another to detective Oates and wait for backup.
Lucky for him, chief was during of the phone call a bit in the good mood - but he did not undone his decicion to put Nick in the parking duty for two months - and after being informed about the candy thefts and the hideout of the brainwashed children, Bogo immediately sent the backup to this address.
But much to his surprise, when he made his another call for detective Oates, the detective-horse-butt was already on his way to the countryside... even though he demanded Nick to reveal to him his location and the street address of the place so that he could find his way to there.
Less and half an hour...
...Oates eventually arrived to the scene and parked his vehicle next to Nick's borrowed car.
Nick couldn't help but giggle after having one glance of Oates Halloween costume, which included gray heart-shaped wig and blood-red dress. In it, Oates looked exactly like Cinderella's wicked stepmother... much to Nick's amusement and to Oates' annoyance that the fox was giggling at him behind of his back.
However, Nick managed to hold his giggling back, as he laid his focus on the mission... as he and Oates entered to the fenced area through of its gates.
"The brainwashed children drove right over there. And if I guess right, Nermal must be here too with the enslaved army of children and the massive loot of candies." Nick reported as they walked straight towards the house.
"How dare they to rob anything from my daughter!" Nermal snorted in anger.
They quickly reached in front of the house and with the police-raid style they entered inside of the house.
And from the vestibule, they quickly found their way to the living room, from where they instantly found the massive piles of candies and the stolen candy bags, small group of brainwashed chidlren, who were now standing in still like the mindless statues with the stolen candy bags in their paws and hooves… and himself Nermal Midas Wolf from sitting in the green armchair, eating the candies from the pile in front of the chair.
Nermal turned to Nick and Oates and his from the sweets enjoying expression turned int othe shock after he realized that the cops had just discovered his the secred hideout!
"It's Nermal Midas Wolf, Oates. It's him! He's the one who's behind of the candy shop robbers and the children kidnappings... including exploitation of children and the framing Judy for his dirty crimes!" Nick barked, pointing with the blaming finger at Nermal.
"You're under arrest for felony robbery, kidnappings and child abuse, you whackback!" Oates exclaimed as he lifted up his red dress' skirts with his hooved hands and rushed towards Nermal with the handcuffs.
However, Nermal had another ace on his sleeve
"Dr. Nermal does not like the surprises… and more less unwanted guests!" Nermal said and took out the hypnotism watch and began to swung it from the side to another before of Oates' and Nick's eyes.
Nick, knowing too well that what will happen if falls under of the power of that watch, quickly backed off and covered his eyes.
However, Oates wasn't so lucky. With the watch's swirling content and hypnotising embrace, Nermal got Oates immediately under of hypnosis and under his control.
After that, Oates arms fell limp and his mouth dropped down as his eyes turned into the lifeless greyed and also he started to moan like the empty shell... just like the children in the room
Outraged Nermal then noticed that Nick wasn't caught by his hypnotism watch.
However, it doesn't matter to him. At least he had caught the bigger one under of his control.
This is going to be fun. Nermal though.
"Now horsie, make you master, DR. NERMAL, the bick favor. Go in the primitive state AND KICK THAT FOX OUT FROM HIS MISERY!"
Suddenly, after hearing Nermal's command...
...Oates quickly turned to Nick's direction.
...Oates started to snort quite aggressively and yet his mouth started to foam, as he turned to Nick's direction.
Nick looked at the horse detective, and saw, much to his shock, that he too had the lifelessly greyed eyes like with the rest of Nermal's slaves.
"Uh, oh!" Nick mumbled, as he remembered what kind of command Nermal had just given to the brainwashed detective horse, as he stared at Nick, baring his horse-teeth out of uncontrollable rage, as he started to snort quite aggressive and yet his mouth started to foam out of newfound fury.
Oates then let out the loud horse-like bellow out of his mouth like the primitive horse that has been stung by the bee, and Oates proceed by taking off and tossing aside his wig and ripping his red dress into the shreds, making him (animalistic) naked in front of Nick... with the exception of his heart boxers.
"Oh my gosh! Good that Judy is not right here right now to see this. She would have not liked this." Nick said to himself...
...although the sight of Oates animalistically naked somehow did not bother him like it bothered Judy.
Because in fact, long before meeting Judy and becoming cop, Nick had sometimes paid the visits in Yax the yak's The Mystic Spring Oasis to claim one flat rock to relax and enjoy from the stone's warmth of the stone's surface warmned by the sun's beams. And because of that enjoyment, which is the major reason for Nick to visit in the Mystic Spring Oasis, Nick didn't care about the rest pof the animals who romp all over the place animastically naked and do what they want...
...but Nick's eyes nearly intantly caught the glance of Oates' heart boxers, which nearly made him to giggle once again.
However, Nick quickly remembered that he was in the very serious situation and focused on his and Oates - well, currently just his - Mission.
And then, Oates then charged towards Nick, squeezed his hoof-fingered hand into the firm fist and swung it towards Nick, totally taking the fox out of surprise.
Albeit shocked and surprised of this sudden attack, Nick managed only out of pure luck to dodge couple swing of fists by bowing down out of the way of the first one and then leaning backwards to avoid the next one...
...until the third one and really fiery one, which was coming from down to upwards beneath of Nick as he leaned to forward to maintain his balance on his feet, struck him to his stomach with the brutal strength and sent him to fly through the room's air space and fly roughly against the wall in the another side of the room...
...and after landing roughly against the wall, Nick fell down and landed onto the large pile of candies, making his landing even a bit softer.
And as Nick slowly climbed back on his feet, though he remained in his bowing position and hold from his stomach, panting and groaning in pain from Oates' painful punch against his stomach, Nick lifted his head up and looked at Oates, only to see that the brainwashed and into the rampage fallen detective rushed towards him with the full horse pace...
...in the attempt to ram with his muscular shoulder to Nick and crush him between of his massive mass of horse muscles and the wall.
Nick had no time to leap out of the way before Oates stumbled into him with the brutal strength and the horse's heavy mass, which caused the small portion of the wall around of Nick to sink inside the wall.
The impact and getting nearly squeezed in between of the horse's muscles mass and the wall, Nick fell physically complete limp and fell onto the very same candy pile onto which he had landed earlier...
...and Nick's current nearly crushed physical state allowed brainwashed Oates to grab from his limp body and toss it against the another side of the room, causing Nick to fly roughly against the wall and land on his head to the floor.
And then, Oates charged once again towards Nick's limp, out of pain groaning and heavily panting form... and this time, Oates leaped on his arms to the floor and turned around, in an attempt to deliver the good old one horse-kick, aiming his legs hooves ahead in attempt to crush Nick between of them and the wall.
He almost managed to kill Nick by this, if Nick had not recovered from the previous beatings and in nick of time dodged Oates legs hooves and rolled out of his kick's way. And because of this, Oates' stone-hard kick against the wall surprisingly created the large hole in the wall.
Nick knew that he has not physically match against the larger and stronger horse.
So, using his fox insticts, Nick tried use his sly fox-mind, his cunningness and his speed against the brutal strength of large horse... by running down with all his fours and dodging Oates stone-hard kicks and his fists swings.
Nick even lunged onto Oates and started to climb around of his upper body like somekind of squirrel climbing around of the tree's trunk, to send the horse into the confusion as he tried to follow the fox going with his eyes and even attempted to hit him with his fists.
Nick even outsmarted him once by climbing past of his faces, to which Oates reacted by pulling his both fists backwards and then he swung them in the archs/hooks forwards and then from down to upwards and towards Nick hanging on his faces.
And once Nick saw them coming with the arms full speed, Nick dodged the double-stike in time, that as an result Oates own fists to en up to double-punch his own faces, knocking him backwards that it caused him to lose his balance and his feet from beneath of his weight, that caused him to fall on his back to the floor.
"Stop punching yourself, horse-butt!" Nick humorously said, after witnessing this whole thing from aside.
However, Nick turned into the dead-serious again when Oates glimbed back up from the floor and attacked again.
And even though he was physically weaker than Oates, Nick tried to fight back quickly moving between of his feet to make him tripple himself or beat him with the kicks what Judy usually and almost always sucessefully used against the big criminals, targeting them to Oates' head to make him briefly confused.
However, his kicks had not as much effect as Judy's kicks.
But despite this, Nick desperatelly used one by one all his skills he had learned about the combat fight trainings during of his time of training in the Zootopia Police Academy the following half an hour against brainwashed horse.
However, his attempts had a less than enough effect for the larger animal, whose stone-hard fists and hooves were powerful enough to smash the walls of the room like the sledge hammers.
"Woah! Is it just about the house or where he has learned to smash down the walls?! In the Chinese Jade Palace's Kung Fu school?!" Nick asked from himself as he kept avoiding and barely dodging Oates' every stone-hard strike.
It was all what he was now on able to do against Oates.
"Right now, I don't know which one is much worse! Being chased by the savage jaguar or being pummeled by the brainwashed horse!" Nick said to himself, comparing the moment of being chased by the savage jaguar to this moment.
Nick kept avoiding Oates attacks for the next following fifteen minutes, in the end of which Oates managed to corner Nick in one of the room's corners.
As a smaller and faster animal than Oates, Nick tried to escape from through of the large gaps in the Oates each side and between of his legs.
However, when Nick tried to once again run out from Oates' reach, Oates, better prepared for this move this time, reached out towards Nick and managed to grab from his tail and started to smash him from his tail against the room's walls and roughly against the floors.
And finally, Oates tossed Nick roughly against the floor like the limp rag doll, leaving Nick to roll weakly and heavily panting in the ground and groan out of pain, as he felt the pain everywhere, from the tip of his ears to his toes after being whacked against the floor and walls... whilke brainwashed Oates walked in next to him.
Nick was now at the mercy of Oates.
Then, Oates kneeled down over Nick and started to mercilessly constantly beat up Nick's faces with his massive and stone-hard fists, leaving Nick's faces covered by the bruises and blood from his nose and lips... along with one of his eyes blackened from one of the hard punches.
Nermal watched this from aside, sitting in his green armchaior while smirking as the fox officer got beaten up by the brainwashed horse.
And, while everybody's attentions (except the brainwashed kids) were locked to the brainwashed detective horse and for his life struggling fox officer...
...a small white-furred bunny in the police officer costume appeared from behind the living room's doorway's corner.
It was Skippy!
When Nick had left after a candy thieves after they stole the candies from Barbara's children, Skippy - feeling the very same sense of duty (even though he wasn't the police officer) and motivated by his dream of being the cop and willing to help Nick yet again - had sneaked away from rest of his family and ran after Nick.
And, when Nick was in his talking situation with the mother bear, Nick had secretly loaded himself in the mother bear's car as a stowaway before Nick had managed to borrow it from the mother bear and drove off... managing to ravel secretly in the car's 'til here.
And now after he peeked from behind of the corner to see what was in the living room, he saw the living room being flooding with candies along with the massive mountains of the cadies... definitely the candy-loving mammals place of dream.
But, much to his horror, Skippy saw Uncle Nick being pinned and brutally beaten by somebody with the heart boxers, who then grabbed from Nick's shirt and forcefully lifted Nick's bruised, limp and beaten body up from the floor into the air like the limp rag doll.
And that "somebody" was none else than Detective-Horse-Butt Oates.
"Pathetic show, fox! You're beaten before you even managed to catch Dr. Nermal again and you cannot even fight back!" Nermal laughed viciously and triumphantly from aside of this.
Skippy wasn't able to do anything else than watch how Uncle Nick was going to be beaten to death by brainwashed horse, who was much more bigger and brutally stronger than what he himself was.
Until Skippy's attention was suddenly caught by something in the living room, and eyeing those things - which happened to be the hole in the living room's ceiling and the ceiling lamp hanging a small distance away from it - for a moment and quickly thinking for a moment, he then quickly disappeared from the door's corner and ran up the stairs to the upstair.
Oates took the firm look at Nermal, waiting for orders from him for the beaten fox.
"Finish him!" Nermal said.
Snorting loudly, Oates pinned Nick against the wall and was about to deliver the final and possibly skull-breaking punch at Nick's faces, that his skull would break between the horse's brutal fist and the wall, until…
"COWABUNGA!" Skippy let out the loud cry as he surprisingly to Nermal, Oates and Nick swung himself from the hole in the living room's ceiling hanging from the ceiling map towards Oates.
After Skippy had sneaked into the upstairs and reached to the large hole in the ceiling of the living room, Skippy had peeked down to the living room to see that where Nick and brainwashed Oates were at the moment struggling with each others.
And after Skippy had noticed from there Oates pinning Nick against the wall and preparing to punch him again, Skippy had quickly searched the room where he was at the moment to find something useful and... after fifteen seconds he actually found one.
Walking stick with the curved handle!
Skippy then took the stick and carefully and silently lowered its hook-like handle towards the ceiling lamp to grap to it and pull it to him, while trying to maintain his balance as he was quite close of the edge and at the risk of to fall through of the hole and land quite painully against the living room's floor... and not mention about that the walking stick happened to be disigned for the larger animals and not the bunny-sized animals, which length and weight caused a bit more troubles for Skippy in his attempt to reach to the ceiling lamp.
However, after several failed attempt due to the problems with the walking stick's weight, the distance between opf him and the lamp and the troubles with the balance, Skippy eventually managed to reach to the lamp and pulled it with the walking stick to him...
...and thanked his luck that none of those children enslaved by Nermal weren't yet back in their normal self to spot what he was doing and warn Nermal about it. Even Nermal did not seem to be interested of through of the hole in the ceiling disappeared ceiling lamp due to his attention being locked into the unbalanced fight between of Nick and brainwashed Oates.
And when Oates was about to make his final fatal strike against Nick, Skippy had aimed his flying route towards them and had then made his surprise move.
After swinging himself thrugh the air space of the living room, Skippy then let go off the lamp and flew the rest of the distance towards Oates, landing sucessefully onto Oates head and grabbed from both of his ears and leaned himself backwards.
Brainwashed Oates let out the another horse-like bellow out of pain whuch he felt in his ears and released Nick from his grip, as the weight above of his head that pulled him backwards, was nearly causing him to fall over on his back to the ground.
"NOBODY MESSES WITH UNCLE NICK, DETECTIVE HORSE-BUTT" Skippy shouted, as he got the humorous idea to beat Oatis.
Skippy started to pull Oates left ear to forwards and his right ear to backwards, until he turned the left ear's course to the right and the right ear's course to the left, causing Oates to turn to the right. And after that, Skippy pulled both Oates ears brieafly backwards before he then pulled them to forward and leaned himself to forward too to give extra weight on Oates head to make him to lean, and run, forward.
And with that trick, Skippy managed to successfully make Oates to run with his head ahead towards the wall of the room. And once they were close to impact, Skippy quickly moved away from Oates head and slidded back behind on his neck, slightly pulling Oates ears upwards so that he would run into the wall his face ahead.
This was soon followed by the impact of of Oates faces/forehead against the wall, causing Oates to let out the loud whinny out of pain.
Yeah, that was what Skippy did with Oates for following twenty minutes.
Skippy kept hammering Oates stone-hard faces and forehead agains tthe living room's wall by pulling both of his ears to backwards, giving to this some extra weight by leaning himself backwards to make Oates to lean backwards and step several steps backwards to maintain his balance and then pulled both of his ears to forward, leaning himself forward as well on Oates head to make him once again to run his forehead and faces ahead against the wall.
And Skippy kept pulling Oates ears, and leaning on, to forward and then backwards, then again forward and backwards, again, forward and backwards, then yet again forward and backwards, forward and backwards, forward and backwards, forward and backwards and so on... directing him to walk backwards to gain space and speed and then run with his forehead and faces ahead into against the wall over again, again, again, again, again, again, again, again, again, again and again.
"Stop hitting yourself to the wall! Stop hitting yourself to the wall! Stop hitting yourself to the wall! Stop hitting yourself to the wall!" Skippy said humorously after each round.
During of Skippy directing Oates to hit his head against the walls, Oates tried to reach to him with his hooves to remove the rabbit from him, but Skippy quickly avoided this by pulling his ears to one direction onto which he also leaned with all his weight, making the brainwashed Oates to struggle to maintain his balance, which Skippy used as his advantage to make him to get closer of the wall...
...and once in next to the wall, Skippy pulled alternately and quickly Oates ears three times forward and backwards, making Oates to hit his head against the wall for three times, leaving a quite dent in the wall.
"And now, to the baddie himself!" Skippy said, as he pulled Oates away from the wall, turned him around and made to rush his head ahead towards Nermal himself.
But in middle of the whole charge, brainwashed Oates finally fought back the pain he felt in his ears and suddenly halted his charge in middle of the living room, surprising Skippy so unexpectedly that he lost his balance on Oates head, slipped and fell over the brainwashed hoprse's left shoulder.
However, Oates spotted him and cut Skippy's fall by grabbing him from his ears, but almost instantly he lifted Skippy above of his head from the white-furred bunny's ears and then roughly threw him against the floor. Skippy landed in the process on his sore shoulder as he roughly landed in the floor that he cried in pain from the impact.
This left Skippy to roll in the ground while holding from his sore and burning shoulder with his paw.
It was then when brainwashed Oates then lifted his right hooved leg up and above of Skippy, before he landed it onto Skippy's stomach.
Nermal kept watching this, with the sadistic smirk on his faces.
"Finish off the rabbit, my puppet." He whispered, loud enough for brainwashed Oates to hear it.
And with that, Oates started to press his hooved leg down, to kill Skippy in between of the living room's floor and his hooved leg and his full weight.
Skippy tried to fight back, but tiny little bunny had no changes against the horse's brutal strength and his all weight above of the hooved leg on his stomach.
Being brutally pinned and then pressed with all the brainwashed horse's weight against the ground caused Skippy slowly to cough heavily, loudly groaning out of pein as brainwashed horse added more weight onto his leg on the skippy's stomach.
Oates even pushed his leg down with all his weight for a couple times, forcefully pushing nearly all air out of Skippy, as he let out the throaty gasps out of his mouth.
Killing the bunny like this seemed to be so easy for the bigger and stronger detective mammal.
And during of his desperate and apparently useless struggle, Skippy turned to Nick, who was partially dizzy from brainwashed Oates' brutal beating on him and was at the moment lying on his stomach in the feet of the wall, and he even tried to reach to Nick with his paw.
"U-uncle… N-N-Nick!" Skippy groaned in pain under of Oates leg ansd weight.
Slowly snapping out of his dizziness from the brutal beating he received from brainwashed Oates, Nick slowly climbed from the ground up on his knees and rubbed with his paw some of the still sore places on his body...
...but, while waking up from his dizziness, he overheard Nermal saying darkly and quite sadistically behind of his back the words...
...which he had, much to his shock, heard once before back in the Natural History Museum!
"Bye bye, bunny."
This caused Nick to turn around to look into the direction, where he saw Oates leaning with all his weight on his right leg while aiming his menacing yet sadistic (due to him being brainwashed, look downwards...
...and following his look down, Nick found out that Oates was pressing his hooved right leg on Skippy!
The sight of Skippy being mercilessly crushed against the floor and under of Oates hooved leg and brutal weight... caused Nick to completely snap out of his dizziness!
"NOOOO!" Nick let out the loud bark out of rage and quickly jumped on his feet and started quickly to form the plan to rescue Skippy, even though he had no idea that how Skippy had ended here in the first place.
Thinking quickly, Nick backed off from the wall to gain room and speed.
And once he started to ran towards the wall, Nick took so much speed as possible into his legs and jumped on his feet to the wall.
And briefly fighting against the laws of gravity, Nick ran along the wall upwards like the ninjas in the ninja turtles films he had watched with Skippy, until he was up enough to bocunce from the wall and flew through the air towards Skippy and the brainwashed horse.
Nick made the somersault in the air to turn himself to fly towards Oates with his legs ahead!
"YO! HORSE-BUTT!" Nick called, managing to drag brainwashed Oates' attention from Skippy to him.
However, despite Oates attention was fully locked at Nick, Nick managed to take Oates out of surprise by the hard double kick straight to his faces, causing Oates to lean from the power of the kick's impact against his faces to backwards, that Oates bounced on his feet from the ground and spreaded his hands around to maintain his balance...
...including removing his hooved leg off from Skippy, leaving the poor white-furred bunny to lie in the ground, slightly rolling and moaning in great pain, and started pant heavily for the air after the heavy weight was removed from him.
Nick landed on his feet to the floor, in the defensive stance in front of Skippy, faster than what Oates managed to maintain his balance.
Nick's kick had also managed to make Oates to turn around to maintain his balance much better.
Now when his back was turned to Nick and Skippy and before the brainwashed horse managed to turn around to face Nick again...
...Nick rushed towards Oates and lunged towards him, delivering the very similiar hard double-kick onto his back, which caused oates to lean too sharply forward that he completely losing his balance once again and fell his head ahead towards the large cabinet without the doors, which shelves were full-loaded with from the children on this night stolen bags of sweets.
However, Oates only fell on his knees right in the front of the cabinet, rather than rammed himself against of it.
Having got an idea from this, motivated by Skippy's earlier trick on brainwashed horse, Nick rushed again towards Oates as he was climbing back on his feet in front of the cabinet.
And after the the brainwashed horse had gotten up on his feet and before he managed to turn around to face Nick, Nick had already reached to him and climbed on the top of his head, standing on his shoulders.
And then, Nick grabbed from both of Oates ears and pulling them painfully upwards and leaning himself backwards, making Oates to let out another horse-like bellow as he leaned against backwards and started once again to struggle to maintain his balance.
And then, after reaching to the end of the perfect distance between of Oates and the shelf, Nick pulled Oates ears and leaned to forward to make Oates to run to forwards, with his head ahead, and towards the cabinet once again.
And this time, Nick managed to get Oates to fall forward and fly towards the cabinet, hitting his forehead into one of the shelves, that roughly knocked him on his back to the ground, leaving the nasty black bruise into his forehead.
And with that, having jumped off Oates head to upwards before he knocked himself partially out, Nick jumped on the top of the cabinet and placed his paws against the wall while taking the firm supportive grip with the claws of his feet from the top of the cabinet...
...and started to push the cabinet off the wall and towards/downwards his bruised forehead rubbing and on his back in the ground lying Oates.
"Sorry about this… "sir."" Nick said with the sly grin on his lips as the cabinet bent too sharply to forward, until it finally fell freely down over Oates!
When the brainwashed horse realized this, he found it to be too late to escape from beneath of the falling cabined, before the cabinet completely landed with all its weight over him, knocking him unconscious and burying him under the mountain of candies and the weight of the cabinet, making the brainwashed horse to harmless from now on.
And after Oates was beaten, Nick turned with his concerned expression to Skippy.
"Skippy!" Nick shouted as he jumped off from the cabinet and rushed to Skippy's side.
Skippy was still lying on his back in the ground panting and coughing heavily to catch some breath and holding from his stomach with his paws.
As Nick reached to him, he carefully placed his paws beneath of Skippy's body and varefully lifted him up from the ground to sit.
"Easy, easy! Breath easy." Nick said comfortingly and encouragingly to Skippy, staying in the side of the white-furred rabbit and determined to stay so long in his side so long until he's able to cathc his breath.
However...
"NOOOOOOOO!" Nick heard Nermal howling in anger from aside.
He had witnessed from the very beginning of Nick's successful act to defeat his newfound slave, which had left the mad wolf into speechless, unbelief, distraughted and outrage!
Hiw loud howling also caught Nick's attention as he turned around and angrily growling he stared at Nermal, as he at the same time helped Skippy off the ground and back on his feets.
"You'll both pay for this!" Distraughted Nermal barked at the duo and lunged at them the watch in his paws.
"Uncle Nermal is now very, very, very ANGRY!" He kept barking.
"Oh yeah?!" Nick barked back at the wolf as he started to walk towards Nermal.
And when Nermal was hanging the hypnotize watch in his paw and in its hypnotism position in order to hypnotize Nick as his newfound slave...
"I'll show you how angry Uncle Nick can be towards those maniacs, who dare to treat my friend… MY FAMILY… LIKE THIS!" Nick barked angrily as he lunged towards Nermal, at first dodging his watch and its hypnotizing power by leaping and making the somersault forward and landing on his back to the front of Nermal's feet and beneath of his watch.
During of his landing on his back to the ground in front of Nermal's feet, Nick coiled his legs before he straightened them as he delivered his hard double-kick to the wolf's stomach, sending him to fall backwards, before Nick quickly rolled on his feet and lunged upwards, punching in the process under of Nermal's chin with his fist.
"That was for framing Judy Hopps for the robbery... and the kick was for calling her with the C-word!" Nick barked.
Nick the nheard the rushing stepts coming towards him and Nermal behind of him, to which he reacted by leaning backwards and landing on his back to the ground.
And then, this was followed by Skippy's, who had now even partially recovered, appeared out of nowhere and leaped on the bottom of Nick's upwards lifted legs.
And as Skippy prepared to bounce from them, Nick straightened his legs by force to forward, sending Skippy to fly straight towards Nermal, who was panting heavily in the end of the distance between of him and them and still recovering from Nick's strikes to his stomach and under of his chin.
Skippy made the somersault in the air, turning his legs ahead as he was about to smash into his faces, delivering with his legs two kicks straight to Nermal's sight!
"And that's for stealing our candies!" Skippy shouted as he bounced from Nermal's faces and landed next of Nick.
Skippy's kick had caused Nermal to turn around that while trying to maintain his balance, and now he had completely turned his back to Nick and Skippy.
And now when Nermal was rubbing his faces with his paws, with his back turned to the hero duo, Nick decided to fulfil his last threat towards Nermal when he and Skippy were chasing him the last night and took out his taser gun, turning it on and aiming it's electric darts towards his butt.
"And this is for all of your crimes against the law and justice before and during of Halloween eve!" Nick declared and fired.
The electric darts hit Nermal straight into his butt, from which the mad wolf let out the loud yelp in pain as the electric darts stinged his butt and the electric spread through of his entire body, paralyzing him temporarily.
It took a bit less fifteen seconds before the darts had done their task and Nermal was left completely paralyzed.
And once parallyzed by the darts that were still hanging on his butt, Nermal's limp body shook slightly to the left and right, before he eventually fell on his back over the mountain of candies, shocked with the darts into unconscious...
...and finally captured.
"There! Maybe your insanely overgrown lust for the sweets hell out from that." Nick said.
Nick then turned to Skippy standing next to him, and before they both could say anything, they both lunged at each others into a friendly hug.
"Uncle Nick… my hero, my friend." Skippy whispered into Nick's ear and he hugged him firmly, not wanting to let go of his hero... not just yet.
"Oh, Skippy…" Nick whispered into Skippy's own ears as he hugged back as well.
And then, when they finally broke up from the hug, Nick's from Skippy's well-being and good contidion deeply relieved expression turned out of nowhere in front of Skippy faces into berating look.
"Skippy, what in earth you are doing here? I ordered you to go back to your home with your brothers and sisters!" Nick said with the scolding tone.
"Uncle Nikc, I…" Skippy tried to explain until he was interrupted by Nick.
"Do you understand that you almost got yourself killed?" Nick said sternly.
"I know, but you as well nearly got yourself to killed, may I remind you of that?!" Skippy said sharply.
Skippy's sharp tone caught Nick off guard.
"I knew the risks all too well... as I knew the risks and the dangers I may face in the last time when I went with you solve this case, against the rules of that stupid agreement you made with that Detective-Horse-Butt about of aunt Judy. I knew what could happen if I secretly sneak away to hunt down Nermal with you. I knew the risks, but I came nonetheless, you wanted it or not, uncle Nick. I know that you may not wanted me with you wen you came after Nermal's brainwashed minions, but only because you wanted me to be in safe from harm, I get it, but I came after you because all what I wanted was to help you with your case and end this mess for good to help at the same time aunt Judy in her troubles… as your little buddy partner for now when aunt Judy is temporarily forbidden from this stuff. To help you in your problems that are also my problems. That's what are friends for, or what, uncle Nick?" Skippy said.
Nick went quite speechless after Skippy's emotional speech.
The fox officer felt a little ashamed and guilt for being a seconds ago a bit harsh to the bunny like Skippy.
Mostly, his a long ago since the incident with the junior scouts formed life moto, "Never let them see they get to you," is sometimes effective against the racism and the prejudice from the bigger prey mammals that reacts to the foxes with suspicion and hatred and to get his way in everything... but maybe his life moto had also some weak spots for the little prey mammals, such like bunnies, to break through of his mental defensive walls and see his true self.
This little white-furred buddy was just like his adorable rabbit partner, by her personality, for his age.
"Alright, you got to me. Junior Officer Skippy Speedleg. Well done, officer, and thanks." Nick said with the gentle smile.
Nick and Skippy lunged at each other to lock themselves into another emotional and deep hug like the real uncle and nephew, despite not being the blood relatives and despite the differences between of their species.
"Happy Halloween, Skippy." Nick whispered to Skippy's ear.
"Happy Halloween, Uncle Nick." Skippy whispered back.
Then they broke up from the hug and stared both at the mindlessly standing group of children.
"But what to do with these "zombie-children," after we captured the baddie and found the massive evidences to finally prove Judy's innocence?" Skippy asked.
Nick then stood up on his feet and walked to the watch, that was lying in the ground after Nermal had dropped it from his paws during the fight with him.
Nick picked it up into his paw and then looked at Skippy.
"At first, we must tie Nermal up. And then, Now we have to find out, how to wake up these poor kids from Nermal's hypnotize. There must be the some kind of cancellation program of hypnotism in this watch. At least I hope that there is such of thing." Nick said.
TO BE CONTINUED...