Chapter 10

Otter's note: The election was the otter day! I voted for Nick Wilde and his running mate John Goblikon. Nick Wilde will be the first fox president while John Goblikon will be the first GOBLIN vice president. In otter news, THE BREAKDOWN GOES BOOM!1

It was later in the day, Piper and Corey were watching TV, Ashkii was trying to learn the Hurdy-Gurdy (something she started during the time of chaos), and I was sitting next to my cousins on the couch eating salt and vinegar chips while listening to "Bottom Feeder" by Barkway Drive and looking at metal news on my phone. Suddenly, I heard a loud noise.

"What happened to the show?" asked Corey.

I sat up and paused my music, I then saw that it was a breaking news story from ZNN.

"OMG ASHKII GET IN HERE RIGHT FUCKING NOW!" I said. We were all now looking at the TV

"Mayor Bellwether is behind bars today," said Fabienne Growley, one of the newscasters, "guilty of masterminding the savage attacks that have plagued Zootopia as of late."

Everyone looked at me as my jaw dropped right to the floor.

"HOLY SHIT!" I said, "I KNEW IT ALL ALONG! I KNEW SOMETHING WAS SUSPICIOUS!"

"And it was Bellwether," Ashkii said, "She seemed nice at first but def a bit suspicious."

The TV cut to Bellwether being arrested.

"SHE'S THE WIZARD!" Piper shouted as she pointed at the screen.

"VOLSEMORT!" Corey squeaked loudly.

The other newscaster, Peter Moosebridge, described how Leodore Lionheart (the mayor of the city when I moved in) claimed to have no idea that this was going on.

"It was a classic 'doing the right wrong thing for the right reason' kind of deal," Lionheart said, as he got interviewed by a porcupine.

"In other news," said Fabienne Growley, "the night howler antidote is proving effective at curing the afflicted predators."

Just then, Ashkii's phone started to ring.

"Hello?" she said excitedly as she immediately picked it up, "Oh hi there Officer Hopps! I just saw the news, was it you who found out?"

A short pause followed.

"Oh you really did it!" Ashkii said into the phone, "You've finally brought justice to that motherfucker, I am SO proud of you. Oh it was you AND Nick doing it together!"
My phone buzzed as well. I then noticed that I received a text from Nick Wilde.

"We did it," he texted me.

"Yes you did," I texted back.

"No," he texted me again, "you were part of this too. If it weren't for your aunt, we wouldn't have done this together. Also you knew all along that something was happening with this."

The texts brought a smile to my face, something that I hadn't done so much in the past few months.

"OH HE'S GOT THE TREATMENT!" Ashkii shouted excitedly into the phone, "HE'LL BE READY TOMORROW! AT 11 AM! OH THANK YOU SO MUCH! I'LL SEE YOU THERE!"
Ashkii then hung up the phone.

"Emmitt will be ready tomorrow!" Ashkii shouted excitedly, "At 11 am, Officer Hopps will be there."

"OH YAS!" Corey shouted, "WE'LL FINALLY BE BACK TOGETHER!"

We all ran to hug Mrs. Otterton.

"Oh I can't wait," I said, "Now he'll have me around in the house for the foreseeable future."

"He'll be so delighted," Ashkii said, "You will bring joy to his life."

Piper then got out her iPaw and started playing "The River" by Weasel War.

"THIS SONG FUCKING RIPS!" she said, "Aliter taught me how to say dat." (She was getting better at pronouncing my name).

"It really does," I replied, "I taught you right."

I immediately started headbanging.

"Fucking party!" Corey shouted, as he and Piper ran around. Ashkii looked in delight.

When the song finished, We all went into the living room.

"Oh," I said, "we need to decorate the house for Emmitt's return!"

"Oh yes Alister!" Ashkii said, I'd hadn't seen her this happy in such a long time.

"I can start," said Corey. He was now approaching his 8th birthday pretty soon.

"Thank you all so much," Ashkii said, "Such a pleasure, and we finally get to see him!"

We hadn't felt this happy in such a long time.