Chapter 10
Meanwhile, the elevator, which was carrying Bart and the antelope, stopped and opened up in the Hotel's Underground Parking Lot with a ding. Bart looked around and saw a ton of cars, some tall and some small, meant for all sorts of animals filling the lot but saw no other animals around aside from him and the surprisingly calm antelope who he turned to.
"Thank you." Bart said to the antelope, respectfully.
"No problem." The antelope nodded before handing him a bag. "Here, you might need these."
Bart took the bad, befuddled. "Uh… thanks. But…?" he started to ask.
"Don't mention it." The antelope told him calmly before he walked off, leaving the human very confused. But he before commented on it he looked inside the bag and found a pair of yellow and red rollerblades inside which made his eyes light up with glee.
"Oh ya! Now we're talking!" Bart smiled as he bent down and began to put the rollerblades before strap them up tightly. He then saw the two thugs just arriving and smirked. "Catch me if you can, posers!"
Before the two could react Bart started to zoom ahead on his skates. "Hey!" They both cried out.
"Get 'em!" Anton yelled as they both started to stomp after him.
Bart quickly moved through the underground parking lot as fast as he could, passing by multiple cars while the two goons behind him continued to give chase. His legs moved back and forth and back and forth constantly as he tried to lengthen the gap between them, though it was still quite hard.
As he ran Mr. Pierce made a loud noise with his trunk as he grabbed and flipped multiple cars over using just one of his hands. He also smacked them away with his trunk as well and sent them crashing as he continued to try and catch up to Bart. It was like a day at a demolition derby match or a monster truck show.
"Give it up, kid!" Rocky called out. "You can't outrun us!"
"Heard that before!" Bart stated as he swerved to the right while Rocky accidentally slammed into a column, causing it to crack and the whole parking lot to shake.
"Hey! Watch it ya stupid, elephant! Or you'll bring this whole place down on our heads!" Anton yelled at him.
"It's not my fault the kid is slippery!"
Pigg got close to Pierce with his eyes narrowed. "We're supposed to bring him back alive, remember!?"
"Yeah, but not in one piece!"
"That may be true but…"
"But nothing! I hate you always telling me what to do!"
"And I hate you always messing things up!"
They then heard someone clearing his throat and turned to see Bart sitting cross-legged on one of the cars watching them fight like he was watching some kind of show.
"I'll tell you what; let me go and you guys can try and kill each other, how's that sound?" he offered.
"Hey, butt out!" Rocky snapped.
"Boy, and I thought Hopps and Wilde argued like two busybody's but you guys take it!" Bart commented. "Say, how did you two meet? Computer dating?"
Pigg quickly got angered. "Do. You. Ever. SHUT UP?!" he roared as he raised his fists and brought them down on the car Bart was sitting on, but the human quickly jumped off while Pigg's fists crushed the front of the car, setting off the alarm.
The spiky haired kid landed nearby and turned to them. "Ooh, temper, temper and to answer that question; no, I don't." Bart answered. "Got a problem with it? Send me an email, I'll take it under advisement… not!"
The human quickly took off again, swerving around every car in his path.
"After him!" Anton yelled.
"Don't tell me what to do!" Rocky snapped as they both started to run after the kid, resuming their little monster truck show, with them as the trucks.
Bart quickly spotted a car in front of him and used both his legs to jump up high and land on the hood of the car, denting it a bit with his rollerblades.
"Whoo-hoo!" Bart cheered as he rolled down the car and jumped before landing and skating around the many cars once again.
Eventually Rocky jumped forward and tried to pounce on him but Bart was slightly ahead of him, causing to slam down on the ground, but the shockwave from it did manage to knock Bart off balance and send him flying and skidding across the concrete floor.
Anton chuckled as he stepped forward while Pierce started to pick himself up. "Nowhere to run now, little man."
"You think I'm scared of you, pork belly?" Bart questioned, glaring at the thugs. "You and your better half are just wannabee versions of Bebop and Rocksteady!"
"Uh… don't know who they are… but I am so looking forward to the moment when the boss shuts you up for good!" Pigg told him, angered.
"Yeah. But still… I kinda like that name; Rocksteady. It's cool." Pierce admitted. Pigg face palmed in response.
"Whatever! Let's just grab him!" Anton declared as they began to close in on Bart, who started to back away from them slowly before he heard a familiar voice call out to him. It was Judy's.
"Bart!"
Said human turned and noticed his two protectors were just arriving. "Hey, where were you guys? Taking a nap?" he remarked.
"Oh, sorry, next time I get clobbered by a three-hundred pound pig and elephant I'll make sure I'm moving as fast as my sore legs can carry me." Nick said, both bitterly and sarcastically.
"Guys, now's the time…" Judy tried to warn them.
"Got that right." Pigg added as he and Rocky stomped as they stood in front of them again. "And for your information, I'm only two hundred and ninety-six pounds! Rocko here is two ninety, tops."
"Whoop-dee-doo…" Bart remarked, deadpan. He glanced at the two cops. "So… anyone have a plan?"
"Hmm, well we can't out muscle them, so we're gonna have to out smart them." Judy whispered.
"Ok, how?" Nick inquired.
"Hey! Quiet your muttering and prepare for a bruising!" Anton yelled as he cracked his knuckles and began to approach, along with Rocky.
"Ok, I'll draw their attention while you two prepare to knock 'em out." Judy instructed.
"Sweet, does that mean I get to use that tranq thingy?" Bart inquired.
"No!" They both said, firmly once more.
"Aw, come on, why not?" Bart complained.
"Because! They're too dangerous for you!" Judy stated.
"Then how am I supposed to knock 'em out then?" Bart pointed out.
Nick then began to look through the compartments in his belt. "Uh… let's see…" he said, before he pulled out a little slingshot. "Aha! Bingo!"
Bart took the slingshot, mildly surprised. "You carry a slingshot with you?"
Nick shrugged. "Never know, right?"
"Touché." Bart admitted.
"Ok, get ready." Judy told them before she began to run till she was right in front of the thugs. "Hey! You two!"
As Bart and Nick both snuck away in opposite directions so that they were each right near the duo, Judy pulled down her lower eyelid and snuck her tongue out at the two mockingly, and sure enough the two were aggravated and distracted.
"Why you little…! No one disrespects us like that! No one!" Pigg yelled.
"Yeah! No one!" Pierce repeated.
"Uh, yeah, I just said that, Rock."
"Oh."
"Whatever! Let's just squish her and get the kid!"
"Right!"
As the two began to approach her, Judy didn't look worried and smiled when she saw Bart and Nick each aiming right at the pig and elephant. "Yeah… I don't think so. Now!" she yelled.
Nick quickly fired a dart at the elephant but before it could make contact with him the elephant's trunk suddenly wrapped around it before it could, surprising the fox.
"Ha!" Rocky said, triumphantly.
In response Bart pulled the elastic band back and fired a rock at Pigg but instead of hitting him it whizzed right by him and bounced around a little bit. Everyone's heads turned every time it went in another direction before finally it hit a car and smashed a window, setting off an alarm.
"Kid!" Nick exclaimed, exasperated.
"Oops…" Bart muttered, meekly.
Pigg just smirked. "You're a rotten shot."
"I'm not!" Pierce boasted as he began to charge straight towards Bart at top speed.
"Bart, move!" Judy cried
Bart tried to move, but for the first time in his life he found that he couldn't move his legs, as the walking and talking elephant began to close in on him his eyes widened with fear.
"What are you doing!? Get out of there!" Nick told him.
Just then, Judy began to run over as well before Nick could react or protest against it, using her rabbit speed to get ahead of the elephant and close in on Bart..
"No!" she yelled as she pushed Bart out of the way before Pierce sent her flying with a whack of his trunk, knocking away her tranq gun.
"CARROTS!" Nick yelled in alarm as she smacked into a stone column and collapsed.
The human also saw this happen as he laid on the stone floor. "Judy!" he exclaimed, shocked. He tried to move his sore body but he could only do so much
The pig stomped over to her while she began to come to, groaning while doing so. But before she could get up fully, Pigg managed to grab her and hold her up, prompting Nick to begin rushing over as he laughed evilly.
"Let her go!" he yelled.
"Back off, Fox! Or your girlfriend here gets it!" The Pigg threatened as his grip started to become tighter, causing Judy to begin choking and Nick to stop.
"Great, now the pig's got that thought in his head…" Nick sighed. "Anyways… let her go!"
"Fine, give us the human and we will." Rocky told him.
"N-no! Nick, don't you give him to them! Forget about me!" Judy tried to tell him.
"No! Carrots, I can't! I won't!" Nick stated, firmly.
"Listen! Our job is protect and serve! In this case, that means protecting Bart! It doesn't matter what happens to me, just as long as we do our job, understand!?" Judy told him, firmly.
"But… Judy I…" Nick started to say, conflicted.
"Can you two have this sappy discussion later? We're in the middle of a hostage situation here!" Pigg pointed out. "And to recap; you try anything and we make this bunny's head pop off like a champagne cork!"
Nick growled, baring his teeth at the thugs and unable to doing anything while Judy watched worriedly.
As the tense situation continued on, Bart continued to try and pick himself up, he noticed Judy's air powered tranquilizer and got a bad idea.
"Want her that badly? Then come find us in the old park with the human with ya, without backup." Anton told him. "If we see any other cops show up to help, we'll end her, fox. But if you give us the human, then she's all yours. You got till the end of the day. Don't keep us waiting, got it?"
"Yeah, got it!?" Pierce added.
"I just said that, dummy." The pig said, annoyed. "Now come on!"
The two of them quickly turn and ran before spotting a pair of motorcycles, snapping the chains and getting on them. They revved up the engine and road off, with Judy still being tightly held by the pig.
"Judy!" Nick cried out, but before he could go after him a tranquilizer dart suddenly hit him in the butt. "Gah! I feel like I just got tranqed in the butt by a dart…"
Bart, who was the one holding the tranq gun and therefore the one who fired the dart, lowered it, looking guilty. "Ooh… sorry! That was me… I was aiming for them and I… missed… I'm starting to think I shouldn't handle stuff like this, you know?"
Nick just gave him an epic death glare as he tilted over and hit the ground, unconscious.
Song played during rollerblade chase: All Right Now - Free