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Zootopia – Springtime Circumstances
Chapter 17 – High up in the sky
POV Wolfheart
"AAAAAHHH FUCK!" I screamed in total panic, "WHAT THE FUCK!"
I was like 600 feet above the streets of Zootopia. I had no idea how I got up here.
I couldn´t really move either, my paws were tied together with something and I was just held by some weird belt I had around my stomach.
"HOLY SHIT!"
I took another look down and nearly vomited. I tried to turn my head a little, and then I realized that I must be on one of the high buildings of this city. My paws just felt glass behind me. I looked up and saw the rope that I was hanging from. It must have been attached onto the roof of the building somewhere, somewhere about a hundred feet above me. Then, something else got my attention.
"Daniel!" I shouted, "Fangmeyer!"
He was still asleep as it seemed like, but I was just too scared to stand through this alone. I was scared as fuck right now.
"Dan!" I yelled once more and louder this time. That seemed to do the trick.
He woke up and was equally shocked as I was.
"AAAH SHIT! WHAT THE HELL?" he shouted, "HOW THE FUCK DID WE…?! WHAT?!"
It took him a moment too, until he got slightly used to this new situation.
"MAX, WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO?!" he yelled at me then.
"I didn´t do shit! I have no fucking idea! I just woke up here too!"
"What happened yesterday? Why the fuck are we up here?"
"I don't know! I just remember two polar bears, and that they hit us with tranquilizers…"
"Holy shit!" he tried calming down a little, still panting heavily because of the shock. "Yeah…" he agreed, a little lower now, "…we were with Jennifer in the center club…but I have no idea how that ended…"
"Can you move?" I asked after a little pause.
"No, my paws are tied together…" he told me, just as I was expecting. He took a look around and got to the same conclusion as I.
"We´re anchored to the ceiling of this fucking building, aren't we?"
"That´s what it looks like, yeah…"
"So, were taken hostage" he guessed, "Somebody is being threatened with our lives…"
I didn´t even think about that before.
"Yeah…probably! But why us, man? What the hell did we do?"
"I have no idea! But I´m already getting sick, I just cannot deal with heights, I fucking hate it!"
"Just don´t look down man, okay?" I told him, "…we´ll be alright, trust me! They´re going to help us!"
POV Nick
It wasn´t even half past seven in the morning and I got woken up by my ringing telephone quite brutally. It kept on ringing and buzzing, and it just wouldn´t stop until the caller gave up finally. I didn´t went to answer it, because I still had my fluffy little bunny in my arms and didn´t want to wake her up by moving myself. It was half past seven in the morning, what the hell did they want from us so early?
Twenty seconds later, Judy´s phone began ringing in an equally loud and annoying manner. I sighed a little. This time, Judy woke up by the noise as well. I greeted her with a little kiss, before I hugged her a little tighter.
"Nicky?" she asked sleepily, "Where is my phone?"
"Over there on the table, next to mine…"
"Shouldn´t I answer it?"
"You should, probably" I sighed, "Mine just rang too…I bet it´s Bogo."
"Let him ring" she waved it off with a little smile, "What could he want from us now? I mean… is it that important?"
Just as she said that, her phone stopped ringing as well and everything was quiet. A second later, my phone went off again.
"Okay! Whatever!" I cursed a little louder, and Judy just giggled about it. She loved it when I was a little tense with my nerves. I ignored it though, stood up and went for the table in my living room.
"Yes, Chief!" I snarled at him, "What is it?" I asked a little friendlier then.
"We´re in big trouble, turn on your TV! Fangmeyer and Wolfheart are taken as hostages!"
"THEY´RE WHAT?" I asked, instantly becoming more awake, "Give me a second!"
"What is it?" Judy asked in surprise, as I went for my TV and turned it on with the remote that laid on the table beneath it.
Just as I turned it on, the first thing I saw were literally Max and Daniel. They didn´t wear their police uniforms at the moment, but it was unmistakable them, and they were frightened to death as it looked like. They were hanging hanging besides a building by just some ropes and belts around their torsos.
"What the fuck?" I asked Bogo, "How…?"
"We don´t know how!" the Chief cut me off, "Officer Wildeheart told the nightshift, that they got kidnapped in the center club before her eyes last night, that´s all I know! They weren´t even on duty! They were kidnapped by two polar bears in that club yesterday, and we just noticed them hanging there because all the other TV channels are captured and replaced with this. You can only see this drone-footage, whatever you switch to" he explained.
I had put the Chief on speaker in the meanwhile, so Judy could listen too.
"That is serious!" Judy agreed, "Are there any demands so far?"
"Not until now…" Bogo said, but literally just in that moment there appeared a voice on the television: "Hello Zootopia!" it greeted us, "You might be wondering why there are a lion and a wolf hanging from this building, seen on this drone-camera footage you´re watching, and the answer to that is simple: It is live! Those two brave mammals hanging around there, are actually two Police Officers of Zootopia, and it would take us less than three seconds to cut the ropes and end their lives with that…"
"They will have debts" I now whispered confidently.
"…the only way to save them?" the voice from the TV asked rhetorically, "You´ll have time until noon to release these five mammals from the prison in the ZPD city center!" the voice explained, before their pictures with their names flashed on the screen.
One by one, all of the suspects we had arrested in the sex club a few days ago appeared on the screen, and of course, Cammy was among them as well.
"Shit!" I cursed, because my worst thought literally became reality.
"If we see them before noon" the voice continued, "…and they ensure us to not have any kind of GPS-gear on them, and aren't followed by anybody, your colleagues will live!" the voice repeated, "That is all you need to know. It depends on you!"
Shortly after that, the picture of Max and Daniel disappeared from the TV screen and the regular program was live again. That was all we got to know.
"I need you two here ASAP!" the Chief told us plainly, and now we could totally understand him, "Don´t lose any more time!"
"We´re on it, Chief!" I told him, after I had exchanged a short eye contact with Judy, "See you in a bit!"
With that, I hung up the call and put my phone back down onto the table.
I took a short look down my chest and shook my head doubtfully. I was totally stained once again.
"Shower?" I asked her innocently, and she gladly nodded to that suggestion, she even spared a little grin in that situation. I stretched myself shortly and then I followed her into the bathroom quickly. We had no time to lose.
POV Bogo
It wasn´t even eight o´clock yet, and the press stood in the whole ZPD entrance hall already. They tried talking to every single officer who passed them and we just couldn´t tell them anything. We didn´t even bother to give them any info, because we didn´t have any. At least nothing the needed to know just yet in my opinion. Then, finally, Wilde and Hopps arrived.
"Officer Wilde, Officer Hopps, do you know any details about your colleagues?" they were asked repeatedly, as they made their way up the stairs towards my office where the press wasn´t allowed to follow us. They also shook their heads and ignored them completely. I really could count on them whenever I needed.
"Chief!" Nick greeted me, as they were out of earshot for the press, "What do we do? What do we know about the circumstances?"
"We had a helicopter above that roof a few minutes ago. They have an automatic system running up there which can cut the ropes whenever they need to, and they also have cameras everywhere. Whoever that was, he is a professional! We also have no idea how they were controlling that camera drone and or how they managed to overwrite every TV channel with that…"
"Do we have a chance to rescue them through the windows of the building?" Judy asked, and I could only shake my head, sadly, "They could simply cut the ropes if we attempted that. That is a risk we cannot take!"
"So, you're suggesting to just obey and release those five prisoners?" Nick concluded.
"This might be our last option…" I sighed with a shrug of my shoulders.
"Dammit!" Nick banged against the wall with his fist. He stopped in his tracks for a few seconds in this pose. "Something is definitely wrong here! …I mean…They've set up this whole thing with tracking and kidnapping two police officers, carrying them on top of this building, setting up this rope system, overwriting live footage from all, or almost all, channels without being detected… and all that just to get those five drug-dealers out of prison? They maybe are more than just simple drug dealers! Like…there must have been a reason why all of them refused to talk during the interrogations…" he explained his thought, but officer Hopps calmed him down a little.
"But right now, they are nothing more than simple drug dealers…" she pointed out, and she was right on that, "And we can´t risk their lives because of that, no matter what they really did!"
"I have to agree with her!" I nodded supportively.
"There was the thing with the power-cut as well" Nick reminded us, but waved it off by himself soon afterwards. He knew we were right, but he was still curious about it.
"We have no clear evidence of them being part of the power-cuts" I told him, not too bothered about it right now either.
"We do" Nick sighed.
"We do?" I asked, a little surprised of hearing it.
He just nodded, but then he waved it once again. "It's not the most important thing right now. I guess you are right, releasing those five is probably the only right thing to do right now. We don't know the real enemy yet. Plus, we can't just let our friends die!" he agreed with us.
"Yeah, Chief! Don't worry, we´ll find them pretty soon again anyways!" Judy agreed, as optimistically as always.
"Alright!" I ended that discussion, "…You should go to the prison area and help the others! Everybody takes care of one prisoner and we will tell them in front of the press what is going on. We need the people of the city to know about it! I´ll tell the fire department in the meanwhile!"
"We´re on it!" Officer Wilde told me with great determination. Judy followed him a directly, and a few moments later they were out of sight already. I began to hurry as well, there was a lot to do.
POV Max
When that drone-thing suddenly had appeared in front of us, a little spark of hope came to our minds. But since we couldn´t do very much in our situation, we just stared at it in hope it would give us a clue of how we ended up here. Daniel was pretty sure we were being filmed by that thing, and that also made a lot of sense. His brain was working a lot faster up here than mine as it seemed, but it didn´t help him very much either.
It must be pretty early in the morning still, I guessed about 9AM, and the big glass panels behind us weren´t exactly chilling us, they made it even worse. I felt like I was in a sauna.
"It´s getting freaking hot up here!" I complained, as the sun continued to rise and heat up our fur quite badly.
"I´m good on that…but I´m still sick because of the height…"
"But you´re a freaking lion! No wonder you´re good on that!"
"It´s still not pleasant for me either! We´re like six billion miles above the ground!"
"You need to calm down a little, kitten" I told him low and calmly, "They´ll come and rescue us, they must know where we are meanwhile! And when we get down from this fucking building, we´ll get ourselves some hookers tonight, shall we?"
"Yeah…" he said, a little more-relaxed now, "I wouldn´t say no to a blowjob after all this!" he agreed with my suggestion, but I wasn´t sure if he was serious. At least the distraction worked a little.
"There we go!" I told him, "You see, not that bad after all…"
"Just shut up, okay?" he sighed, "We´re not down yet, stop talking bullshit!"
"Calm down, okay? No need to get aggressive, everything is cool! Just be yourself and…"
"Shut up, Wolfheart! …or I´ll come over and make you shut up!"
"Oh yeah, really? I want to see that!"
…
POV Cammy
I just woke up in my prison cell, and there already was quite a lot of action in the hallway outside my cell. Hasty steps and loud yelling were happening a lot around me right now.
I felt fantastic though, that was by far the most power-regaining night I´ve ever had in my whole life, I never slept that well before. For a few moments, I didn´t care about what happened yesterday. I didn´t care about my failure of keeping my mouth shut, I didn´t care about what the others would think of me, I just was happy that my fur wasn´t itching anymore.
Then I began listening to the voices and the trouble outside my cell, and all the bad things from yesterday reappeared in a matter of seconds again. They guided Chester through the hallway, and just seeing him made me feel very stupid again. He was one of the last people I ever wanted to talk to again.
There were many more officers in the hallway too, and they were all very excited about something, but certainly not in a good way. I had expected them to be a lot more peaceful now, since I wasn´t making trouble anymore. There seemed to be a lot of confusion also.
Soon later, I spotted Officer Hopps coming down the hallway as well, and that alone sent a shiver down my spine. I was hoping she would go right past and ignore me, but no, she stopped exactly in front of my cell and began unlocking my door. She also looked a little mad right now, and that was literally the least thing I wanted to see right now. I knew exactly what this probably was about.
"Come on, follow me please!" she just told me surprisingly, and waved me into the hallway without any further word.
"What is this all about?" I carefully asked her while we made our way out of the prison hallway, "I thought you were fine with…"
She just raised her hands to make me shut up, and then she shook her head a little, "Don't worry, I was fine with that, and I still am. It was my idea" she told me plainly, and that was all I got from her.
"Where are we going then?" I kept on asking, because I didn´t find the right words to say thank you at that moment.
She just kept on going and ignored it completely. It actually drove me a little mad for the moment. I realized pretty quickly, that were actually following Chester and the other officers, and when I took another look behind me, I noticed Victoria and her boyfriend, each with another officer on their side. One of those two officers has been nobody else than the red fox who saved me from insanity yesterday. I couldn´t, and didn´t even want to look into his eyes, that was how ashamed I was about it right now. He didn´t have a superior look on his face or anything, like I was expecting it, he actually looked equally mad and pissed as the Judy, who guided me out of the building. The next thing that shocked me was the entrance area of the ZPD building. Dozens of press people with microphones and cameras were there, and they all stared at us like we were the ones everyone has been waiting for. It just felt wrong. Especially wrong in that dreadful, badly damaged, orange prison clothing I wore.
The officers ignored the press altogether though, they just went for the exit and left the building with us. In front of the entrance we came to a halt.
"Listen up, Assholes!" a very significant and memorable voice suddenly yelled behind us, and I was pretty sure that it was Nick who said it, "…We´re going to release you now, as weird as it sounds! Whoever you might work for, he threatened us to let you go in exchange of the lives of two of our colleagues, and we´re not taking that risk because of a few harmless drug dealers! You have a 24-hour lead on us, that is all you get!"
"What the… fuck?" the quick thought ran through my mind "I'm sorry, the ZPD just sets us free? What the hell is going…"
"BUT!" he continued a little louder, "Whatever you do when all of this is over, hide well! Leave the city, or do whatever you want! We will be searching for you and we will find you! I´ll personally make sure to get you back into this prison!" he warned us, "…and we´ll get everybody who was part of that! But for now: run away and don't look back!" he yelled, "GO ALREADY!"
The cameras of the reporters where filming and recording every single word he said, they were filming us, and everything went so much faster than I could have ever expected it. Judy had also left me alone, just like the other officers had. They weren´t near us and they weren´t following us. We were free, just like that. A few moments later, everyone except me started running away as fast as they could, but I stopped in my tracks for a second. I wasn´t sure if I really wanted this. Not exactly the right decision as I learned a second later.
"GO!" Nick yelled at me, in a really infuriated manner right now, "They will kill them if you don't move already!"
They really were serious. I was free to go, and I had to go. That was fine for now, and I couldn´t really believe my luck at the moment, but on second thought I still wasn´t sure if that was what I really wanted. Nevertheless, I began running too, and intentionally I did the first thing that came into my mind: I followed the others. I had no better alternative for now.
POV Daniel Fangmeyer
"Do you feel that?" I asked him, as something in our situation changed finally.
"Yeah!" he agreed in excitement, "We´re moving!"
The ropes we were hanging on really had started moving us up the building slowly. I never believed it was possible.
"I swear" I told him with a slight spark of hope in my voice, "If we make this out here alive, I´m not doing anything for the rest of the week! Bogo can really kiss my ass if tells me otherwise!"
"Me neither, you can count on that!" he agreed with a chuckle, "But this is taking forever!"
"I don't care, as long as it keeps going!"
Max was right actually, it took that rope forever to lift us up the building, but it was relentless, and that gave me a lot of confidence. We could already see the iron arms which anchored the guide rollers of our ropes to the top of the building, and our excitement grew bigger and bigger. So big in fact, that I risked to take another look down onto the streets of Zootopia. The excitement got me curious, but that was not a good idea.
"Holy shit!" I yelled, as my head began spinning again, "That´s high!"
"Why did you look down you idiot?"
"Shut up" I replied, "We´re nearly there!"
The slight summer wind whistled over the roof of the building and became louder and louder as we were reaching the top finally. That didn´t really help against the stress either, but it meant we were getting closer to safety. Then, we finally heard voices. Familiar voices.
"Max! Daniel!" we were greeted happily by no one else than Nick and Judy, who have been waiting for us up here with Jennifer Wildeheart and Chief Bogo.
"Goddamned I´m so glad to see you guys!" Max greeted them back in relief as the ropes came to a halt, "…but what the hell was that?" he wanted to know.
Chief Bogo and Nick were already trying to figure out how they could get the iron arms to swing around, while the girls began explaining things to us.
"They simply tranquilized you in the club last night and I couldn´t do anything to stop them! I´m so sorry!" Jennifer began, having tears of joy in her eyes.
"But why?" I repeated Max question, "Why did they tie us to that building?"
"We had to release the five drug dealers we captured in the sex bar four days ago…" Judy explained, "You were held hostage basically…"
"Little fuckers!" I yelled out, "I knew it!"
"Watch your language, Fangmeyer" the Chief warned me with an ironic little chuckle, as he moved the iron arm back over the roof and me into safety with it. I didn´t care about my language in that moment. I was just happy to be save.
"I´m freaking scared of heights!" I told him plainly, and he seemed to understand it. He was not that heartless.
"Yeah, that probably was not the best morning we ever had…" Max agreed with me, while Nick untangled the rope that tied his paws together.
As soon as we both were free, we simply ran towards each other and hugged in pure relief and happiness.
"Thanks guys! Thank you so much!" I told them, after we had released each other again.
"Glad you´re alive!" the chief let us know with a friendly and serious expression.
Max and I went to the totally tired and unnerved looking Jennifer and hugged her as well carefully. It probably meant a lot to her too, and she really was happy to see us alive.
"We have to repeat our evening from yesterday when all of this is over, don´t we?" Max asked her with a welcoming smile.
"Of course!" she agreed, noticeably glad that we were this cool about it.
"Can we get down from this bloody building now please?" I asked with a little chuckle, when all of us met up in the middle.
POV Judy
"Yeah!" Nick agreed with Daniel jokingly, "It´s time to get down already, paperwork doesn´t do itself, you know?"
"Yeah alright Mr. Casanova!" Max chuckled, "I want to see you hanging around at that height for a couple of hours!"
"I´m just kidding" Nick waved it off with a chuckle, "I´m glad you guys are ok! I got the shock of my live when I turned on the TV this morning!"
"Wilde?" Bogo asked him in some kind of an unsure voice, referring to the Casanova-joke from Wolfheart, "What did you do again?"
"I? I did nothing, chief!" Nick tried avoiding it, "They´re just…"
"He was running around naked in the ZPD building last night!" Daniel grinned shamelessly, "I wouldn´t call that ´nothing´ if you ask me…"
I couldn´t help myself but giggle happily about this.
"He did what?!" the Chief asked a little louder.
"How only did I know that I would be hearing that again?" Nick sighed, as he opened the iron door on the roof of the building and held it open for everybody.
"You can´t just run around nude just when you feel like it, Wilde!" the Chief complained, but the others still laughed about it.
"I had no alternative, Chief! My uniform got torn apart completely! I think Jennifer can affirm that, there is nothing left in one piece from my clothing yesterday!" Nick tried defending himself again.
Bogo still shook his head a little, but he was less angry about it now., "How did that happen?" he asked.
"Cammy."
Now that seemed to make more sense for the chief, because he couldn´t hide a tiny little grin anymore as well, "Is that how you found about the power-cut? That she was part of it I mean…" he wanted to know, obviously understanding it now.
Nick simply nodded with a little smirk, and the others still couldn´t calm down from that. It was way funnier, when Nick confessed it himself, and Max and Daniel were excited right now anyways, so he let them have it.
"Yeah, Chief" Nick explained with a little chuckle, "I´ve probably invented a new method of interrogating yesterday…"
"Seems to be very effective though!" he remarked, "Although you have to run around nude afterwards…"
"Only problem is, that she is on free foot again right now…" I reminded them with a little smirk, "So, that won´t help us too much if we don´t even have them in prison anymore!"
"Don't worry" Nick waved it off confidently, "I bet she is handing herself in quite soon anyways!"
"You think?" the chief asked, "Why would she do that?"
"She even hesitated when she was told to leave…I doubt that she can live with that for the rest of her life…I don´t think she wanted that to happen today either, she looked quite confused."
"Well…we´ll see about that" the Chief concluded as we entered the big elevator, "But for now we have to take care about the press and all this stuff!"
"We have been on TV?" Daniel asked us, when we got back to that topic once again. We had just entered the elevator and pushed the button for the lobby on the ground floor.
"You two have been on every Channel on TV this morning!" I chuckled, "Prepare to give interviews for the rest of the day! You were taken hostage in front of the whole city!"
"You´re joking, aren´t you?" Max asked, "You made that up!"
"She´s not!" the Chief supported her, "The whole Lobby is full of reporters and cameraman…you´re really going to be stuck here for a while"
"So much about doing nothing for the whole week…" Daniel sighed, but he wasn´t too mad about it actually.
"Still better than paperwork!" Max chuckled, just before the doors of the elevator opened and about twenty mammals came running towards us with microphones and cameras.
"Yeah…still better than paperwork."
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