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Chapter 10

The US president had just heard about the Zootopia incident and he was furious. Lady Porcupine arrested and held captive for several hours, in addition, she was injured while at the police station. And what was even worse, she had left the country. When the president heard this, he had become afraid that she had flown straight to Moscow and was now in the Kremlin. It would be a huge loss of prestige for the United States if Lady Porcupine were to choose to move to Russia or China because the United States could not keep her safe. He had been somewhat relieved when he heard that her plane had landed in the southern part of Great Britain. And satellite images showed that one of her private planes was on the airstrip at her old family estate. But she was still in Europe and within reach of the Russian brown bear who was the Russian president who would like to persuade Ash to move to Russia. He might even offer her not to pay any taxes at all. It would be a disaster for the US city budget and military as her tax money accounted for over 10 percent of the army budget. The president had gathered his closest associates to find a solution to the problem.

"Yesterday morning, Lady Porcupine left the United States and flew to Europe. This is just four days after she suffered a concussion in police care! Why she was at the police station is still unclear to me, but the British government has been on me in recent days and demanded action. I now want you to find out everything that has happened, and that the culprits' heads are on my desk within two days. If this were to lead to Lady Porcupine renouncing her American citizenship, it would be a disaster. It is the presidential election this autumn and we would lose the election if this became known".

"But sir! She's only on her family estate in Great Britain. She probably only has a vacation or something".

"Perhaps! But as long as she is in Europe, we cannot be sure and both Russia and China will do everything they can to persuade her to move to their respective countries. It would be embarrassing enough if she decides to stay in Great Britain permanently".

A dog in military uniform spoke.

"If we were to launch Operation Black Night. We arranged that for threats to our interests. I can have a force ready in a few hours to bring the target back to our territory and in military care."

"Are you a complete idiot! An American elite force that kidnaps its own citizens in foreign territory. How could you have become a general?! I'll talk to the Secretary of Defense and others in the Pentagon. You can probably expect to be demoted, get out of my sight".

The general left the room, but he was angry that he had been scolded and threatened with being demoted, he picked up his phone and called a number.

"This is General William Shelton! Operation Black Night has been approved. I want 100 units from the USMC Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Team ready to carry out the operation in a few hours. A transport plan will be ready to take off at 1am and land 7 hours later on British soil at midnight local time. The target of the operation lives 15 miles from the landing site on a larger estate called the Porcupine Palace".

"The target is a young porcupine that is kept captive on the estate by organized criminals. She is injured so maximum care in handling her must be taken. The best thing is probably to put her to sleep and that you carry her with you to avoid her panicking. This porcupine is a high-ranking American citizen, and as we have not received permission in our rescue operation from the British government, the whole thing must be handled discreetly. In and out. Avoid killing guards. Knock them out with sleeping guns. The president wants it all done overnight. She will be back on American soil before 12 o'clock tomorrow or the president gets very angry!

"Yes, sir we understand everything should be ready within the allotted time".

The same morning in a hall on Fort Ice! Lance faced a large group of officers dressed in the uniform of a private. He had been told that the papers he had signed earlier were papers to join the army so they could have the pleasure of dishonourable discharge him. The only thing his lawyer had done was that in order to avoid a public execution, he acknowledged him guilty on all counts.

"Private Jerk of the United States Army! You have been found guilty of attempted murder of a senior officer and illegal possession of automatic weapons. This court-martial has resulted in the following punishment. You are hereby dishonourably discharged from the Army and will serve between 25 years to life imprisonment in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Since Lady Porcupine accounts for just over 10 percent of our budget, you will probably not be the most popular prisoner there. Good luck and try to survive your stay there! Take him away now and make sure to clean the cell where he was staying from dirt."

Two polar bears grabbed the shocked Lance and dragged him out of the room. They threw him into a military bus and drove him away to a painful future for at least 25 years. They drove in silence all day and in the evening came to a wall and a gate that opened. The bus drove in and stopped. Lance was forcibly pulled out of the bus and into a building. After a brutal process of body examination and an ice-cold shower, he got an orange jumpsuit to wear. After that, he was dragged to a steel door and thrown into a cell. There on a bed sat a tiger who had a dangerous smile on his face when he saw Lance. The steel door closed behind Lance and the two prisoners were alone in the cell.

"What kind of dead meat do we have here? You must be the porcupine we all learned about. You should know that I received the offer of conditional release in 10 years instead of 25 years if I make sure that your life here becomes a torture for you. You can start by brushing my shoes with your toothbrush. Or do you prefer a dip in the toilet?"

The same morning at the Porcupine Palace Ash woke up early in the morning and got out of bed. She took a crutch under her right arm and limped to the bathroom to try to prepare a bath for herself before anyone else did it for her. But it was too late. three maids were in full swing to fill the large tub with warm water and different good smelling substances. When they discovered that Ash was standing at the door, it did not take long before the young porcupine was in the bathtub. And she was washed from her spikes down to her feet. After 15 minutes of meaningless protests, Ash was left alone in a towel while the three went through her closet carefully. They chose a blue skirt and white shirt. And a black suit jacket. Dark tights and brown shoes. They almost dragged Ash into the bedroom and soon she was fully clothed. She had to choose a necklace and earrings from a large collection in a drawer. She took a diamond necklace and sapphire earrings with a total value of £ 5 million, which were her favourite when she was 10 years old.

Ash was soon taken to the great hall where a large breakfast had been set for her and her entourage of bodyguards and Becky. Ash had a small table to herself with carefully selected dishes. Her chair looked more like the queen's throne than anything else, she thought. Two waiters stood in her immediate vicinity ready to follow her slightest hint. Ash saw Becky with her laptop and Elsa munching on a loaf of bread. Maya was not in sight, but she had always slept until late if she could. Ash was annoyed with Elsa for being put to sleep for the third time. She did not know that it was Maya who was joking with her that time. Well! the moment of revenge had come. Elsa picked up her coffee cup and took a deep sip and quickly spat it all out. She quickly grabbed a jug of water and brought it to her mouth and drank almost all the water in it. Ash had managed to put one of the world's strongest chili powders in her coffee when she passed Elsa on her way to her table.

Elsa glared at the laughing Ash but did not know what to do, it was she who had started. But pouring something into her morning coffee was almost a death sentence. Ash took a sip from her own coffee cup which was completely normal.

"1-3 Elsa! Sooner or later I will win".

"You can dream of that, Lady Porcupine". They continued to quarrel like a couple of small children to the confusion of the staff.

"Becky! Please make sure that a car is ready after breakfast. I want to take a trip to London today.

Becky quickly disappeared to do as Ash wanted. And after an hour, an armoured limousine with two larger SUVs stood in front of the gate. Ash limped out the gate on crutches followed by Becky and Elsa. several polar bears were already sitting in the other two cars. Ash got into the limousine and the group of cars started and drove towards London, which was about 50 miles away. After an hour's drive, they reached London and Becky asked Ash.

Lady Porcupine! What are we going to do when we get to London and is there anything special you want me to do?

"Becky! How many times do I have to ask you to call me Ash!?"

"But it is not appropriate for an employee to call the boss by a nickname".

"Oh! Not you too! Now listen carefully, when we are alone you call me Ash just as Elsa and maya do. Or I send you as a gift to a ruler in a foreign land looking for a suitable wife. Is that clear!?"

A worried Becky who was not sure if Ash was joking or not answered yes.

"Excellent! And in answer to your question I will spend a lot of money on things I do not need to empty some of my too many bank accounts".

Stop at the next street. Samer Halimeh jewellery shop is London's most well-guarded and one of the more exclusive in the country. There I can probably spend a few million pounds in an hour".

Inside the fortified store, some employees and guards saw through the door that a limousine with an escort stopped on the street outside. 10 polar bears in dark suits came out of two SUVs and stood on opposite sides of the back door of the limousine. A young female porcupine on crutches came out of the limousine followed by another porcupine as well as a white wolf and a larger polar bear. The white wolf was the first to enter the store followed by the female polar bear. Both were dressed in black. After them came the young porcupine on crutches with short thorns that reached her shoulders. The store staff could see that she was wearing a diamond necklace and sapphire earrings and assumed that she was the potential customer. Some of them thought they recognized her but could not place her. She spoke.

"Good morning! I have just been told that my annual income was much higher than I expected, I have to spend some money to not drown in them. I wonder if you could be kind enough to show me your finest jewels and we'll see if I like something".

Meanwhile, Johnny had managed to drag himself out of the soft bed. He sleepily wondered what Ash would think of it. Today he had decided to visit the neighbour, who was Ash. And see how she felt. And to try to persuade her to teach him to behave like a nobleman before the queen's party in a week. Even though she lived as a singer for four years, she was born into a rich and distinguished family. And she would therefore know how to behave. Johnny was terrified of make himself ridiculous in royal company. After having breakfast and finding a well-stocked garage. He took a Bentley Continental GT and drove the short way to the gate on Ash estate. There, to his great disappointment, he learned that he had missed her by 30 minutes and that she was on her way to London and was not expected home until tonight.

After spending almost two hours in the jewellery store and Maya had carried out several jewellery boxes to the limousine's trunk. Ash was now about £ 50 million poorer. There was not much exclusive left in the store after she finished. She left the store and got into the limousine. Left in the store was a very surprised staff who had never sold so much at once before.

"Hey Becky! Sotheby's has a large auction today of many art objects, jewels and antiques. I want you to go there and buy all the items on the following list. The price does not matter but try to keep it below 1 billion pounds". Ash said jokingly, but Becky wondered if she was serious.

Becky was transferred to another limousine. Meanwhile, Ash became hungry.

"Hello, let's stop at that pizzeria in the corner there, I'm hungry".

"No pizza in your state, and by the way what would it look like if you went in there without further ado with a dozen bodyguards in tow. No! We have booked the whole Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester on your behalf now at 1 o'clock. They should have prepared a delicious soup for you".

Not soup again, Ash thought. Can I not eat anything else for the next six months? After a while of driving, they reached the restaurant, which was empty of guests when they arrived. The staff was nervous about receiving what they thought was a very demanding guest. Even then, they were accustomed to wealthy guests, it was Ash in a completely different level. A porcupine on crutches came in through the door. She was wearing a black suit jacket with a white shirt and a black skirt. Around her neck she wore a diamond necklace and sapphire earrings. The head waiter of the restaurant understand that this was their lunch guest. Ash looked around with a critical eye, she was hungry for pizza and Elsa had forced her here. Elsa and Maya came in after her followed by a large number of polar bears.

The head waiter at the restaurant had an idea who this rich guest was and was determined that she would not have reason to be disappointed. There had been a rumour that Lady Porcupine was in the country and here was a guest who fit well into the description. What decided the matter was that he saw that Ash had the Porcupine Empire's logo on the suit jacket's chest. Ash suffered the same level of service that the Queen would have received if she had visited the restaurant. After an hour and with a £ 15,000 lighter wallet, Ash was happy to get going again.

Becky was sitting in a large auction room after a light lunch. She was holding a flag in her hand with the number 201. It was the number that was linked to Ash's account. She had already bought things for over 20 million pounds.

"Here we have one of today's finest objects. A painting painted by Claude Monet. We start with a bid of 10 million!"

Becky waved her flag and after a while the bid was up to over 60 million pounds. Becky waved 70 million pounds. and hoped Ash would not murder her. The bid stayed at £ 75 million and Ash had a new painting to put up somewhere. After Becky had bought all the items on the list that Ash had given her, she had spent a total of £ 985 million. Becky sighed.

"Ash will kill me for spending so much. I should have stopped bidding on certain items. Will she fire me for my bad judgment? She said the price did not matter, but no one has spent a billion pounds on a single auction before".

Then she saw Ash limousine with her entourage coming towards her on the street outside the Auction House.

"I hope she's in a good mood or I can write my will"

"Hey Becky! Did you get me something nice?"

Becky handed over the list of prizes to Ash and expected an outburst of rage. But Ash did not even raise her eyebrows.

"A total of £ 985 million spent. With taxes and fees, it should be about £ 400 million extra. Excellent. You've spent more than ten times as much as I did today. If you continue to be this successful, I have to give you a bonus".

"Now we're just going to the Bank of England to inspect the 400 metric tonnes of gold that my father bought when Great Britain sold half of its gold reserves around 20 years ago. It cost him about $ 3.5 billion. Now the price is around 1700-1800 dollars per troy ounce which makes the gold worth about $ 22 billion today. And that's just part of all the gold he bought during those years. in total I have around 5000 tons around the world. The total value of it is $ 280 billion today and he spent only $ 45 billion when he bought all the gold. It was one of my father's many investments, which I have now inherited. No one needs as much gold or money as I have, but the governments of the world force me to keep most of it, or it would cause economic chaos".

After reaching the Bank of England, and to Ash's great pleasure, the others had to go through several security checks while she was just let through. After going down in an elevator and through a long corridor, they reached an open vault door.

"I have not been here in 10 years, but here are about 32,000 gold bars that together weigh 400 tons. Each gold bar would be enough to buy a house or an expensive car. Each gold bar is worth £ 400,000".

Becky could not believe her eyes, what wealth. Shelf after shelf with gold bars. It would take her years to earn enough to buy such a gold bar. And Ash had 32,000 in this vault alone. Maya and Elsa seemed unconcerned, but they had seen everything before. After going through 400 shelves full of gold, the group left the vault and went up in the elevator again.

"It is getting late and it takes at least an hour to get to the Porcupine Palace. We should go now, and I hope the dinner is ready when we arrive. Tomorrow we'll see if the neighbour is home. The new Lord Greenwood. They reached the Porcupine Palace, and everyone had dinner with many dishes except Ash who was still on a light diet. Johnny, who had been watching, saw Ash coming back but unfortunately it was late in the day again. He decided to be up very early and be there before Ash could leave the palace the next day. Ash was soon in her room surrounded by maids who insisted on taking care of her needs for the night. Ash was not entirely happy about it. But was soon in bed after everyone had left the room. This time she had not been drinking any tea, but she soon fell asleep anyway.

At three o'clock at night outside the estate. An American elite force had gathered for an unusual mission. Several teams had sneaked around the area to prepare for Operation Black Night. Alarm systems and power stations were to be sabotaged and everyone had been given night-vision goggles.

"Listen up everyone! Our objective is somewhere in that building but we do not know where, all teams search a part of the building until we find her. Guards and other threats must be eliminated quietly but without a fatal outcome. All teams have received their instructions we go in in five minutes. The first target is the power station and alarm systems. Then into the building from different directions. Recollection here 15 minutes after start for return to base".

Becky was on her way to the bathroom for a glass of water when she stumbled on a body. She tried to take a closer look and discovered that it was a polar bear lying on the floor and seemed unconscious. She was about to scream for help when she felt someone press a hand in front of her mouth and someone stuck a syringe in her arm. She fell asleep immediately.

"Team 1 here. We have found the target. We return to the gathering place. The team will get there in three minutes! Prepare to receive the package."

Roger! The jeeps are ready, and the plane will take off as soon as we reach the base. The package will be across the Atlantic and in safety within a few hours".

Five American elite soldiers carried away with Becky in the belief that this was the goal they had been given. Meanwhile, Ash slept peacefully a few rooms away. She was completely unaware of the drama that happened during the night and that over 20 bodyguards had been drugged. Elsa and Maya also slept and had not noticed anything or the whole building had become a war zone. Early in the morning, all the guards woke up in different places and thought they had fallen asleep at their post. No one wanted to be murdered by Elsa or Maya. Everyone pretended that nothing had happened. The military had restored all alarm systems and the power station, so everything worked normally. No one knew what happened during the night.

Ash woke up and went through her usual routine. She did not manage to escape the maids in the bathroom that day either. At breakfast she had arranged for Elsa to get salt water for the tea. And since none of the staff would dare put anything in her tea, she was quite confident. She was rewarded with Elsa spitting out her drink for the second time and glaring at a laughing ash. What Ash wondered was why she could not find Becky anywhere. Usually she was up far ahead of her. Ash suspected that she had found an office somewhere and set up her laptop there and sat and worked her ass off as usual.

Ash sipped a glass of apple juice while she sat on her balcony and looked out over the garden. The advantage of being rich was that there were others who took care of the gardening that she never liked to do. When she was in prison for six months, she had worked in the prison garden. She never wanted to do that again. She thought she would send Judy a big bag of carrots as a thank you for everything during Ash's last visit to Zootopia. She looked towards the driveway to the mansion and saw a familiar gorilla in a suit walking towards the entrance. She recognized him immediately.

"Johnny! are you coming to visit?"

Johnny heard a familiar voice above him and looked up. Ash stood by the railing and looked down at him from her balcony. He got the idea that maybe he should court her by singing under her balcony like in an old movie. But he did not want her to start laughing, he had second thoughts.

Becky woke up lying in a strange bed. Next to her stood a number of American officers and an otter in a suit. She recognized him as President of the United States. He looked embarrassed and glared very angrily at a dog in officer's uniform who was handcuffed.

"Miss Hill! I apologize for your discomfort and for bringing you here against your will. I promise you'll get a first-class plane ticket back to London and $ 100,000 in compensation for everything, if you promise to keep quiet about this embarrassing event in the media".

Becky did not understand a word of what the President of the United States was talking about. When she received a more detailed explanation, she started laughing. They had made a mistake and thought she was Ash in an illegal military raid.