Zootopia – Springtime Circumstances
Chapter 56 – Lots of Smoke and showing off
Normal POV
"Alright, show us the way" Jack told the wolf and the lion to motivate them a little more. He noticed that both of them didn´t have a whole lot of experience with things like this madness, but they just had to concentrate on it now.
Max was the first one who trusted his gut. He really was worried about Jennifer, and now they could tell that he would do anything to get her back into safety. He pushed open the door with his feet and pointed his rifle into the hallway. It seemed to be empty right now.
"Alright, let´s go!" Jack yelled and took the lead right away, accompanied by Agent C4, who was right next to him. This still wasn´t going fast enough in Jack´s opinion, so they upped the tempo a little. The wolf and the lion still were a little too hesitant.
"Fuck it" Daniel threw his doubts over board as well and followed them, finally, "I rather die a hero than live on like the biggest Chicken in history!"
"That´s the spirit, Dan!" Nick told him over the headset Jack had given him.
They didn´t meet anybody in the hallway. Without any further problems, the four of them went through the long corridors and into the main Lobby of the city-centre. Here it was a different story. They immediately spotted the cars that stood in the entrance hall. The armoured wolves and rams noticed them very soon and got ready for fighting as well.
But Max and Daniel didn´t hesitate anymore. They quickly ran off to the left and right of Charlie and Jack, which immediately started shooting at the wolves and rams that waited in front of the entrance. Although the clan-members had been waiting for this the whole day already, they got a little surprised by the quick attack they had to face all over sudden.
Max had never felt so alive before when he knocked out two of the other wolves with his gun and quickly took cover behind one of the cars when the remaining ones began firing at him. He had all the attention now, since he was the closest to them, and that was just what the others needed. Daniel stopped running and concentrated on his aim as well now. He landed a good shot on their heads took one more of them out before they returned fire at him. One of the darts hit his chest armour before he could hide himself behind one of the pillars, but it just bounced off the Kevlar plate and didn´t do any damage. Jack and Charlie took the most of them out with their guns, but Max and Daniels distraction just had worked out perfectly for them. The wolves in the black armoury were completely unable to cope with that sudden change of events.
Since Jack took care of the middle in the meanwhile, and skilfully knocked out the two rams with the big dart rifles, Charlie went towards the hostages behind the reception and began freeing them one by one. He had a big wire-cutter with him and cut them loose as quickly as possible.
"Wait" Delgato asked him as Charlie cut off his handcuffs as well, "Aren´t you the bloke who poisoned Nick with Night-howlers?"
"Yes" he chuckled tiredly, "But that story is too long to explain right now."
"Agent C4 I assume" the Chief asked, as the red fox was taking care of his own handcuffs.
"Yes" Charlie affirmed while offering him to shake his paw, "Nice to meet you, Chief."
"What´s their plan?" he wanted to know, "We´re sitting on a forty-pound bomb here!"
"That´s the point, Chief" Charlie told him, "Those guys are too close to the bomb for themselves right now, so they won´t blow it up before taking some distance. That´s what they should try to prevent any moment now. As far as I know them, this should be quite spectacular to watch."
"Can we help them somehow?" Jennifer asked.
Charlie pointed at Max and Daniel who slowly but surely came closer towards them as well, their guns still pointed at the entrance, "They carry an extra-rifle each" he pointed out, "Feel free to ask for one and fire away, there are a lot of guys we need to get back into prison out there."
POV Rico
"This seems to be one of the hardest days in history for the ZPD" the reporter spoke into his microphone right now. The ZPD building was seen in the background of the shot and lots of people were waiting for something to happen in the central-park. We also got to see a few helicopter shots as well. The place really was crowded, only the square right in front of the entrance to the ZPD building was empty, because nobody wanted to get too close to those prisoners or the bomb they were protecting.
Since we´ve heard of it in the news, we all kept on staring at the TV-screen as if our lives depended of it.
"…it´s been twenty minutes since they´ve announced to blow up the ZPD building and the hostages inside of it, if the conditions aren´t met, but we haven´t heard any news from Tundratown so far" the reporter repeated, "Speculations are, that they won´t unleash over 200 dangerous criminals into freedom just to save a few police officers. It sounds harsh, but that would not be an easy decision in any case. Truly one of the darkest days we´ve encountered this year, right after the poisoning of the beloved Officers Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps, who we still have no new information about either…"
I was so sick of watching that already, but I just couldn´t help myself. We could do nothing but sit here and wait for a miracle to happen. Nobody in the room said a word, there was not a lot to talk about right now. In ten minutes of time something would change anyway. I guessed that the whole city just stopped with whatever they were doing and waited for the climax of this nightmare.
But then, suddenly, finally, something unexpected happened. Loud screeching and engine noises were to be heard from the square right in front of the ZPD entrance all over sudden, and the Reporter immediately pointed it out. "Are you seeing this?" he asked into the camera excitedly, "A car has moved through the crowd and now it´s…drifting in circles around the square…"
We got to see the footage from the helicopter once again, and the people who were watching the square all got a few steps further back from the donut-action that was going on suddenly. Whatever powered that car, it must be quite massive, because the tires caused a lot of smoke during the process. The bad guys all got their attention on it now, being equally surprised as us of course. Whatever that was, it kind of gave me a bit of hope in that moment. Then another, even more pleasant thought spawned in my head suddenly.
"That looks a lot like an entrance Nick and Judy would do…" I commented lowly, "…wait! …"
Normal POV
Nick released the throttle for a moment. The tires had created enough smoke to distract everyone, and luckily the smoke wandered away from the car, so Judy could still pretty much see where she was going, very much to the opposite of everybody else. Judy closed the co-driver´s door behind her and rushed through the smoke as quickly as possible, Nick let the engine roar in the meanwhile, and as Judy made it through the smoke, he selected the first gear and let the back-tires spin once again. He counter-steered to keep the car in a well-balanced drift just like before and continued circling around the square.
"What the hell is that car doing here?" Senior Bellweather asked one of the wolves who stood beside the truck he was on.
"I have no idea, boss! Never seen it before!"
"We need to tell them to fuck of!" he ordered, "We can´t see anything right now, and we need to get away from the bomb in a few minutes!"
"Alright, Boss" the wolf yelled, as he searched his way through the crowd of prisoners.
"Skye!" Judy panted while all of the prisoners and clan-members still were focussed on Nicks drifting session, "Can you still see the ram with the detonator through the smoke?"
"No, but I still have my crosshair in the same place…"
"Hit him!" she ordered.
Skye trusted her and fired. The dart disappeared in the smoke a second later, but she couldn't tell if the ram had moved or not since she saw him last.
"Did it work?" Nick asked, after he finally had stopped the car and stepped out of it quickly. There was a moment of silence, then a few heavy hits where to be heard. The hare had kicked the other ram off the truck with her feet and then grabbed the detonator from the unconscious one quickly.
"I got it!" Judy panted hectically, "But they noticed me!"
"Good work!" Jack told her, "Don't let them get it back again! We´ll help you in a second!"
Judy really was running for her life right now.
"GET HER!" the Bellweather yelled loudly while getting onto his feet again, just before all of the prisoners started chasing after her, "SHE HAS THE TRIGGER!"
She ran towards one of the still intact glass panels besides the shattered one, ran up the wall, repelled herself off of it and catapulted herself high above the first wave of mammals that came running after her. Before they could turn once again, Jack and Charlie, who had carefully climbed over the field of shattered glass in the meanwhile, began firing at the prisoners. The smoke from the tires settled a little bit finally, and now Judy could see what they really were up against. There were about forty people left, a few of them equipped with dart guns and heavy armoury, and there was no way she could dodge them all with that transmitter in her paws.
"Nick, catch!" she yelled, hoping he made it out of the car by now, and then she threw it over the prisoner´s heads into his direction as high and far as she was able to. Then she hit a hook and quickly moved to the right in order to dodge the darts they were shooting at her.
"Nice throw, Cottontail" Nick chuckled loudly, "Those matches of volleyball at least were good for something…"
Now they all noticed him, finally, and they all stopped in their tracks for a second, unsure of who to chase now. Their guns were all pointed at Nick again all over sudden, because he held the transmitter in his paws.
"Look who joined the Party" Nick told them loudly and with a smug little grin. He had his gun magnetically attached to his back right now though, so returning fire was not his first priority right now. He presented the transmitter to everybody and then ripped the lid of the battery-casing off of the unit as quickly as possible. He shook it vigorously and the batteries dropped into his paws.
Nothing happened. The bomb didn´t do anything. It really just was a simple wireless controlled trigger. The red fox threw the transmitter onto the floor with all the force he could bring up and they all stared in disbelief as the plastic casing of the device shattered into many different pieces on the floor.
The whole world seemed to have paused for a moment. They didn´t even shoot at him because they were so staggered.
Then a giant wave of applause and excited cheering was to be heard from the whole central-park.
They all shook their heads in disbelief, while Skye, Jack, Charlie and now also Max and Daniel kept on firing at the prisoners who panically tried to run away.
"Thank you for trying to poison us by the way" Nick told them with a deep irony in his voice, "I feel very honoured!"
"KILL THAT GODDAMN FOX!" Bellweather yelled at his men, "AND IF IT`S THE LAST THING WE`RE GOING TO DO!"
It took them half a second to realize how he meant that, then they all began rushing towards him.
POV Nick
"Now I had to deploy all the skills Judy had taught me in our countless hours of combat training. Roughly a dozen of heavily armoured wolves and rams, tigers and even a bear ran towards me now, and I wouldn´t have the time to take my rifle off my back and start firing at them. So just before they arrived me, I did a backflip to get onto the roof of our car in order to gain some more height advantage, then I lunged forwards with another flip and smashed my feet into one of the wolves faces. That worked out surprisingly well, because I swiped him right of his feet and smoothly landed on the ground behind them afterwards. Then I started running towards Jack and the others. They had gotten most of the prisoners' unconscious in the meanwhile, but then it appeared that they ran out of darts and didn´t have the time change magazines. The only one who was still firing was Skye from on top of the roof I just noticed, and her accuracy was quite impressive, considering the distance those darts had to cover. Slowly, but precisely and utterly relentless she kept on shooting the bad guys with her powerful dart rifle.
Jack did it just like Judy and used his agility to fight the animals bigger than him. Charlie got himself into a fight with a raccoon in orange prison outfit I just noticed, but he got so distracted that he didn´t notice the tiger that sneaked up behind him, grabbed him by his shoulders and threw him highly into the air very aggressively. I jumped forwards and caught him, just before he hit the ground.
"You okay?" I asked him quickly.
"Yeah, thank you!" he panted, "Watch out!"
I nodded, concentrated and prepared myself to launch myself into the air once again.
POV Skye
I just had taken down another one of those prisoners, but now I had to stop shooting for a moment because my own colleagues were too close to my firing line once again. Nick jumped into the air once again, turned around his own axis and kicked the next prisoner in the face. It wasn´t enough to get him unconscious or off his feet, but it was a good start already. He stumbled a little bit, and a second later I noticed how Judy was jumping onto Charlie´s right shoulder and used the height advantage to launch herself into the tiger´s direction at full speed.
Officers Wolfheart and Fangmeyer had begun fist-fighting as well in the meanwhile, and then I noticed Chief Bogo and the other hostages leaving the building as well. The people and reporters who were watching the whole scene still hadn´t moved an inch since then, but they obviously were quite excited about it.
I wasn´t quite sure how he was doing it, but Nick was flying through the air yet once again. He wasn´t just showing off with that body of his, he also really knew how to used it effectively.
Just in the corner of my eye I noticed that one of the rams didn´t join the fight anymore, after Nick had dodged their first attack on him, but rather picked up the shattered wireless trigger unit from the ground. It seemed that the wires and the main-board of it were still intact, so he hectically started his search for the batteries that Nick had tossed onto the ground earlier.
"Nice try, asshole" I chuckled lowly, before I pointed my crosshair at him and pulled the trigger once more.
"Shit!" I yelled loudly a second later, so the others would recognize me. The dart somehow had gotten stuck in the magazine and jammed the barrel completely therefore.
"One of them has the trigger again! He´s searching for the batteries!" I warned them.
"Can´t you just shoot him?" Nick asked beneath his heavy breathing. He just had slammed the bottom of his rifle against the head of the bear in prison clothing that attacked him.
"My barrel has jammed, and my pistol can´t cover the distance" I informed them, "Quick! I think he found the batteries!"
"Nick!" Judy yelled at him just in that moment. He just noticed her jumping towards him with a lot of momentum.
POV Rico
We sat in front of the TV with every muscle in our bodies flexed to the maximum because it was so exciting. Nobody was able to say a word, we just watched the show they pulled off yet once again. Now the Camera filmed one of the rams who seemed to have found the trigger of the bomb again and searched on the ground for the batteries Nick had tossed away earlier. But nobody around them was doing anything. They rather kept watching fearfully instead of trying to secure the bomb. I almost wanted to yell at the TV screen so somebody would notice, but then Nick and Judy seemed to have found out about it by themselves. They looked at it for a moment, then Judy jumped towards Nick quickly, he caught her by her paws, used her momentum to spin her around himself quickly and then he sent her off flying towards the ram with a huge amount of velocity. She covered a distance of nearly 20 feet in the air, and then she precisely smashed her feet into the rams face, before he managed to connect the loose wires to the AA batteries and activate the trigger of the bomb. Judy transferred her whole momentum into the sheep´s head with her kick and sent him right into unconsciousness. Then she immediately picked up the rest of the trigger-unit, which the ram had dropped during her attack, and ripped it apart completely, so nobody could try anything funny with it anymore.
The whole square began applauding and cheering once again, and the five of us just began laughing in pure relief and joy.
"Those two are really going to pay for scaring us like that!" I chuckled, "Goddamn that´s an intense situation!"
"You´re saying it" Sarah agreed with me, "I was just about to piss myself! They won´t be getting away with that so easily, I can tell you that!" she added with an ironic chuckle.
"Damn, and I thought we were totally doomed!" I chuckled, "Just how do they do it all the time?"
"They never let us down so far" Anita agreed.
"But I bet they´re up for some vacation after that" Sarah chuckled.
"Damn, even I am up for some vacation right now" I told her, "What a freaking day!"
"I think that really looks like some time off at the springs if you ask me" Ivonne agreed, "Don´t you think?"
Normal POV
"You better destroy it properly the first time you get it in your hands" Judy chuckled into her microphone while everybody kept on cheering for her.
"Yeah, yeah, Carrots" Nick grinned back, just before he took another jump to dodge one of the tiger´s swings.
"And I thought Nick was showing off all the time" Skye chuckled in amusement.
Jack, who was running circles around the other prisoners as well this whole time, now jumped onto Nick´s shoulder and catapulted himself towards the tiger that just had attacked him. He slammed his rifle against his head and swiped him of his feet quite brutally.
"I´ve had a good teacher" Judy explained with an ironic chuckle.
Skye got her barrel unjammed in the meantime, tossed away the bent dart that caused all the problems, reloaded properly and took out the rather tough tiger, just before he was about to get onto his feet again.
"Not bad, Stripes" Nick commented his move.
"You´re welcome, hot dog."
Now the prisoners didn´t have the superior number anymore, finally.
Chief Bogo had picked up one of the ram´s dart-rifles in the meanwhile and began shooting at the prisoners as well. The unconscious bodies laid around on the whole square before the ZPD building. A few of the prisoners had risen their paws in surrender already and kneeled on the ground fearfully. Most of them were animals who were a lot smaller than a wolf, a tiger or a bear, knowing that they had no chance against the forces they were up against.
Jack, Charlie, Max, Daniel and Skye secured the surrenders now and the Chief came walking up towards Nick and Judy slowly, which had finished of the last of their enemies near their new high-speed police car.
One of the prisoners wasn´t raising their hands though. She wasn´t fighting either, but she came walking right towards Nick right now.
"Don´t shoot her" Nick told everybody with a little smile, "I want to know what she´s up to!"
Rachel, who had been cowering on the floor during the whole fight, now had thrown all her fears overboard and went towards her worst enemy straight away. She was totally infuriated and she didn't care that everybody was watching.
When she arrived right before him, Nick just crossed his arms and sighed with a little smirk, "What´s up, Rachel?" he asked her, "Still mad at me?"
"YOU!" she yelled aggressively, "CAN´T YOU JUST FREAKING DIE ALREADY?" she asked. Then she slapped him in the face with her right paw quite vigorously.
Everybody just stared at Nick and his reaction right now.
"Haven´t you had enough of it yet?" Nick asked her with an ironic little chuckle, apparently not too bothered about her violent approach.
"Fuck you, Wilde! You son of a bitch! You ruined every-"
She didn´t come any further, because he suddenly grabbed her by her sides and threw her very high into the air and therefore made her scream in fear. Everybody on the square, including the TV cameras, watched her flying through the air while waving her arms and legs in total panic. Chief Bogo, who nearly had arrived them in the meanwhile, stood just in the right place and caught her with both of his arms in total surprise. Nick had thrown her into that direction on purpose, and Chief Bogo didn´t really know what else to do but put her back down on the floor carefully. Nick just took his dart rifle from his back for the first time and then fired one single dart at her.
"I´m sorry, sweetheart" he chuckled, "But I doubt that we´re gonna get along in the near future."
Then he put his rifle onto his back once again and just left her laying there.
Judy just smiled a little about this. The whole city cheered for Nick´s move though.
"Wilde, Hopps!" the Chief yelled at them now, after the square finally had calmed down from what they just watched, and they all heard him of course.
"What are all those black circles doing here? That´s not what I gave you that car for!"
POV Nick
They all were a little surprised by hearing that from Chief Bogo right now, but Judy and I were quite used to that joke in the meanwhile.
"It drives just beautiful, Chief" I told him with a little chuckle, "I just thought it had too much rubber on the back-tires…"
"I´m gonna give you two some toothbrushes later so you can clean this mess up!" he tried to stay in his role, but then he couldn't help but crack a little smile.
"I´m fine with that, as long as you´re gonna get rid of the bomb in the meanwhile" Judy smiled back at him.
"I was not being serious" he finally confessed, changing his expression into a much more friendly one as well, "I could not prouder of the two of you!" he announced, "Just how are you doing this all the time?"
In that moment, another cheerful applause broke loose once again. Nick reached out for Judy´s paw carefully and pulled her into a long and passionate kiss. The most popular kiss ever on live television, probably.
POV Rico
We were so happy right now. Nick and Judy haven't been poisoned, nobody has been blown to pieces by that bomb and everything else just was awesome as well.
The Camera still was pointed at the bunny-fox duo and they still kissed each other passionately. All the trouble, fear and sadness were forgotten all over sudden.
The cameras moved a little closer towards them soon later. A few more police officers had arrived on the square in the meanwhile and cuffed the rest of the escaped prisoners, but Judy, Nick and Chief Bogo stayed besides the black sports car for a few interviews. They had the situation under total control by now.
"What about the poisoning?" one of the reporters asked first of all, because that was the most important question everyone wanted an answer to.
"We´ve never been poisoned" Nick answered that with a little smile, "We knew about their attempt of poisoning us and just wanted them to believe it."
"Yeah, yeah" Ivonne complained with an ironic chuckle, "And they wouldn´t even tell us about it…"
"Yeah" I agreed, "I really was worried about them. They´re going to hear that, trust me!"
"Let´s call him right now" Sarah suggested with a little smile, maybe they´ll pick up in the interview…"
"That really is a funny idea, actually" I grinned, "Let´s do that! Where is my phone?"
"Did you know about the hostage taking with the bomb as well?" one of the other reporters asked them.
"No" Judy answered, "But we expected something big to happen…"
Now Daniel, Max and Jennifer joined them as well for the interview.
"Hey guys" Nick greeted them with a friendly smile.
"Judy, Nick" Max told them, who lovingly was holding paws with Jennifer, "I freaking love you! You saved the whole ZPD and my whole world once again! Thank you so much!"
Nick and Judy just smiled about it happily, just before they got asked something by one of the reporters again: "What about the bomb? What are you going to do with it?"
"We already have some specialists working on it" Chief Bogo answered that question for them, "We also just called for support from the other departments for now, but the regular routine of the ZPD city-centre should be intact again very soon…" the buffalo began explaining to the camera.
I figured it was the perfect opportunity to try what Sarah suggested earlier. I had my phone in my paws already and I searched for Nick´s contact in the list.
"Do it, Rico" Ivonne giggled, and a second later I touched the call-icon. I was pretty sure he would just ignore it in a situation like this and ask me about it later, but he really noticed his phone vibrating in his pocked. He checked out who was calling him quickly, then he started laughing in amusement. He showed it to Judy quickly while the Chief was still talking about the damage on the ZPD entrance and stuff like that. It was so funny to watch that all on live TV. But then it got even better, because Nick just shrugged his shoulders once more, put me on speaker and accepted the call.
"Ricooo…" he sang into the microphone, "…what´s up, Rock-Star?"
"You freaking dick-head" I chuckled without any shame, and now the cameras where focussed on him and his phone, "You could at least have called us! We were worried sick about you two this whole time!"
He grinned even more and Judy started giggling even more because of it.
"Yeah, I know. Sorry about that, Mr. Capaldi" Nick chuckled, "We´re going to make it up to you for that, I promise!"
"Oh yes you are" Sarah giggled.
"It will be our highest priority, sweetheart" Nick told her with a little smile, then he winked into the camera for us, "Alright now, he told us then, have a good day you guys! See you soon!"
"See you, Guys! Great job by the way."
"Thanks! Bye, Rico" Judy giggled while waving us.
"Bye!" Ivonne and Sarah both yelled into my phone as well.
"Bye!" Nick smiled, and then he ended the call quickly.
He just waved us at the camera once more, and from the corner of my eye I just noticed how staggered Christian looked because of what he just witnessed. I had such a great time right now. This whole day was just such an emotional roller-coaster for all of us.
"Well" Daniel chuckled after a short moment of silence on TV, "They were not the only ones who were relieved to hear it, I can tell you that…"
"Not a bad prank this one, wasn´t it?" Nick asked him with a little smile.
"The biggest one I´ve ever heard about" Daniel chuckled.
The reporters continued with their questions to Nick and Judy now and the interview went on for quite a while.
"…wow" Christian chuckled, "You really just called Nick Wilde in a live interview…"
"Oh, but that´s something Nick would have done as well" Anita told him with a little grin, "No wonder he´s cool about something like that."
"Yeah, that´s a typical Nick-thing to do" Rico agreed, "But I´m getting used to it slowly but surely…"
"Oh, I´d really like to meet them one day" Christian told us with gleaming eyes.
"Oh, that´ll be sooner than you think" I chuckled at him with a little wink, "I met somebody from one of your classes in the bakery this morning, and I promised something quite special to her…I mean…as long as you´re fine with it…"
POV Nick
It took us forever until we finally were done with the interviews. Skye has been coming off the roof in the meanwhile and joined Jack and Charlie, who kept patiently waiting for us. The colleagues from the other departments had arrived in the meanwhile and carried the unconscious prisoners back into their cells. Jennifer and Delgato as the prison-watch dayshift today helped them on that matter, joined by Max and Daniel later. The bomb had been taken care of within twenty minutes, the shattered glass had been swept aside and the building was declared safe enough to be entered once again.
After we finally managed to apologize from the reporters and waved them goodbye, we straight-on went towards the three agents who helped us with all this once again.
"Not bad, Wilde" Jack told me with a little smirk, but actually really rather serious about it, "That worked out without any losses for us…not a bad tactic I have to admit…"
"Thank you, Stripes" I chuckled, "Thanks a lot for your help! You guys were not bad either!"
"You´ll get the bill in a few days" Skye told us with an ironic chuckle.
"Oh, you may better talk to the Chief about that" I said with a little smile, "The financial stuff is none of our business…"
"Furthermore, we will be on vacation for at least a few days" Judy added tiredly, "There is a better time for this if you ask me…"
I totally agreed with her on that. I´ve had enough of it as well once again.
"You hear that, Jacky?" Skye asked him plainly, "Doesn´t that sound just lovely? A few days of vacation?"
"You mean two weeks of vacation?" he asked, understanding her very well actually, "…yeah…sounds good."
Even Skye seemed to be a little surprised about hearing it from him, but she was happy about it nevertheless.
"It has been a while since the last time, hasn´t it?" he asked.
"God, I can´t even remember that…" Skye giggled while gently resting her arms on his head from above.
"Alright, agreed" he told her with a little smile, before he took her by her paws and pulled her with him gently, "Okay, see you later, guys…" he told us for the farewell, "…we´ll probably meet you at the springs sooner or later…"
"See ya, Jacky!" I yelled after him in amusement.
"You too, Nicky" he replied in the same, ironic up-beat spirit, "Oh, and nice car by the way! I might want to borrow it someday for…certain activities…"
"Yeah, yeah" I chuckled with a big grin, "I think we have to talk about that once again…"
But they were on their way already. They didn´t even turn around anymore. There seemed to be more important things than my usual bullshit.
"Well…" Charlie now commented in amusement, "…that was a lot more fun than the last mission I had…"
"Oh, I do believe you on that" I chuckled chummily, "But you were a great help to us today! Thank you for everything, buddy!"
"Was a pleasure working with you."
"Have a nice evening" Judy told him for the farewell with a warm little smile, then she already went off towards the driver´s door of our new car.
"Oh, I will" he grinned with a happy little wink towards me, "This is going to be a great evening…"
"Yeah?" I asked, already having a slight foreboding of what he could be talking about "Can I take a guess?"
His little grin just went a little wider. He took another quick look at his phone, then he nodded. He already knew that I guessed it correctly already.
"Best of luck, mate" I told him with another chummy smile, while offering him a quick fist-bump, "Have a good evening!"
"Have a good evening too, guys!" he told us with a little wink, before I slowly went off to our new ride as well. Judy was already waiting for me.
"Get in, fluff-butt" she grinned at me, "That´s enough crazy stuff for a day."
"Can you repeat that, please?" I asked with an ironic chuckle.
"…outside our flat…" she corrected herself.
"That´s more I like it!" I chuckled, as she started the engine of the car and smoothly tested the throttle for the first time. It roared away in its beautiful soundtrack for a moment, she released the pedal until it was at its idle-speed once again, then she selected the drive-gear and we rolled off the square slowly but surely. The crowd loudly started cheering for us again as we passed them, but they gave way to us slowly but surely. I rolled down the window on my side and gave high-fives to everyone who passed by.
"You know…" Judy grinned all over sudden, as we finally made it onto the road, "We make ourselves a nice and relaxing evening today…but first of all…I need something to calm down a little more" she announced, before she turned left on a crossing I expected her to turn right, "…and I want to take this thing for a spin on the highway."
There we go. Hope the wait was worth it for you ;)
See you all later!