A Son of his own Chapter 18: Till we meet again and the train chase
I do not own Zootopia or Breaking Bad just so we are clear!
Abandoned Train Station, Savannah Central, 11:30AM
Casually marching through empty streets and alleyway, our trio ride on the back of a savage tiger that Nathan tamed.
Eventually coming up to a vacant Brock warehouse surrounded by yellow and orange leaves, a green subway entrance was in the vicinity.
They had reached their destination.
But what about the Tiger? They couldn't take him with them, he'd get in the way and blow their cover.
The trio then hop off the Tigers back and Nathan looks up at him with sadness.
"I guess this is where we part ways my savage friend" Nathan said as his eyes filled with tears as he rubbed the Tigers chin.
The Tiger immediately knew Nathan was sad and decided to cheer him up.
He then licked the tears off of Nathan's face which made Nathan giggle a bit.
But as Nathan was about to turn around, his nose caught a familiar scent.
It was emerging from the vacant brick warehouse.
"Dad, Judy, wait up! I have something to do!" Nathan yelled as Nick and Judy nearly walked around the corner.
"Be quick, time is of the essence" Nick said as he put his back against the brick wall and Judy took out her phone.
Nathan smiled and looked for a way into the vacant warehouse.
Spotting a rusty metal door that was still open, he opened it and coughed from the dusty air as he walked in.
Searching the room filled with broken wooden planks and plastic rubbish, Nathan eventually found what he was looking for.
A massive blue box containing a fine selection of Tundratown Iceberg fish.
This'll at least keep the savage Tiger's hunger for meat sated until he could be cured if they found a vaccine for Nighthowlers.
Opening the box, an ice cloud escaped from the box, covering Nathan's face in dry ice.
The Tiger walked in after Nathan out of curiosity and soon picked up the smell of many fish.
He immediately ran at the box on all fours and started gorging into the fish.
"Till we meet again, if you get cured, I'll visit you in the hospital" Nathan said as he rubbed behind the Tiger's ears which made him purr.
Nathan cried as he walked away and shut the iron door behind slightly but enough so that the Tiger wouldn't escape.
He left the brick warehouse and joined up with Nick and Judy.
"What were you doing?" Nick asked as he folded his arms.
"Nothing you need to know" Nathan said as he smiled and tried to look innocent.
Nick decided not to push further and move on.
"Okay, let's go guys!" Judy said as she and the 2 foxes ran up to the abandoned subway entrance.
They reached the entrance which was boarded and chained, they walked through the gate which had a hole in it and they rushed down the stairs into the darkness.
"When we get this Doug, he'll get more than a life sentence when he's put with me" Nick said as he gritted his teeth.
If mammals weren't going savage because of Nighthowlers, Nick could've lived a happy life with his son, but then he'd never meet Judy.
Unless she hussled him into a murder case or a drug trafficking case etc.
The trio paused for a moment to let a speeding subway train pass through the poorly kept tunnel filled with rocks and electrical wires as well as the train tracks themselves. They then made their way to a rusty train car covered in graffiti that was abandoned in the subway. The trio climbed in through an open window and what they saw was enough info to prove that Nathan was actually telling the truth about what was causing predators to go savage.
Inside the old train car was two rows of iron grow tables that held already grown Nighthowlers, the trio crawled in and looked at the fully grown evil flowers.
"Wow, the weasel wasn't lying" Judy said as she took out her phone to take photos.
"Yeah, old Doug has cornered the market on Nighthowlers" Nick said as he glared at the photos.
"And these are the very bane that made my old Dad nearly kill me" Nathan said grumpily as he stared down the flowers.
"Don't worry, we'll make sure these flowers are burned and" Judy said before the trio heard a door open from behind.
The trip quickly crawled underneath the iron table that held the Nighthowlers as Doug came into the lab, he wore a yellow hazard suit and was just in the process of placing a gas mask on his face.
He walked over to a large galvanised iron pot filled with Nighthowler extract and picked it up off the floor. The unsuspecting trio watched as Doug poured the contents of the pot into a metal container before throwing the pot onto the floor behind him, he closed the metal container and and turned a knob which allowed the Nighthowler juice to go through some flasks and clear stretching pipes. Doug then placed a small clear rubber ball at the end of the chemistry set and pushed the dark blue liquid into it. He then picked up the ball and looked at it before his phone rang on his desk where a chart map of Zootopia and photos of certain predators which were pinned onto it, they were all the predators Doug made go savage, including Otterton, Manchas and the Tiger Nathan made friends with.
Doug then took off his mask and answered his phone while Nick, Judy and Nathan snuck up underneath the desk to listen to the phone call.
"You got Doug here, what's the mark?" Doug said as he loaded the Nighthowler pellet he made into a gun "Cheetah in Sahara Square, got it"
He cocked the pistol to make sure the pellet was loaded.
"Are you serious? Yeah I know they're fast, I can hit them, listen, I hit a tiny little Otter through the open window of a moving car" Doug said, highlighting his achievements.
Judy started to have an epiphany, she imagined Otterton being shot from afar by Doug who waited for the limo to appear on the road and him getting hit by the blue pellet.
Next, she imagined Manchas unlocking his door, before he too would be shot through an open window by an unsuspecting ram spying on him.
It was all coming together now, Doug was using careful and smart tactics to outsmart his targets.
"Yeah I'll let you know when it's done, or you'll see it on the news, whichever comes first" Doug said as he disassembled his pistol and placed the parts into a briefcase.
Hard knocking was then heard from the back, getting the attention of everyone in the train.
"Hey Doug! Open up! We have your latte!" a rather angry voice shouted from outside.
"Alright, Woolter and Jesse are here now so we're leaving now" Doug said as he hung up and made him way to the door.
Judy then started to crawl from her hiding spot which made Nick and Nathan panic.
"What are you doing?! Get back here! What are you doing?! He's going to see you!" Nick whispered fiercely.
Judy ignored him and looked at Doug down the hallway before looking at the control panel at the engine of the train.
"What are you looking at?! Whatever you're thinking stop thinking it! Carrots! Carrots!" Nick whispered in frustration.
Doug opened the back door and two other rams holding polystyrene cups from Snarlbucks stood outside.
"It better have the extra foam this time-" Doug said before he was kicked out by Judy who kicked him into the other rams and made them spill their lattes.
Not the lattes!
Judy then quickly closed and locked the door with Nick and Nathan crawling out of their hiding spots and Nick was angry.
"What are you doing?! You just trapped us in here!" Nick shouted.
"We need to get this evidence to the ZPD!" Judy stated with determination.
"What? Okay here got it!" Nick said as he closed the briefcase and held it in his paws.
"No! All of it!" Judy exclaimed as she ran to the engine of the train.
"Wait what?!" Nick asked angrily as he and Nathan rushed to Judy who was fiddling with the train controls.
"Oh great, you're a conductor now huh? Hey listen, it would take a miracle to get this rust bucket going!" Nick stated.
At the end of his sentence, the train car started moving.
"You were saying?" Nathan said as he laughed.
"Well hallelujah, call me doubtful" Nick said in defeat and surprise.
He then jumped on the engineers seat with Judy and said "Mission accomplished" and then noticed the string hanging which was the horn and said "Hey, mind if I do a victory toot toot?"
"Okay, one toot toot" Judy said as Nick placed his paw on the string and pulled it down twice, letting out a loud horn.
"Well, I can cross that off the bucket list" Nick said happily.
The group then jumped when they heard a loud thud in the back of the train, Nathan looked through and with no warning, Woolter dropped in and started charging to the front.
Nathan, thinking quick, quickly closed the door and locked it and waited for Woolter to smash into it, slightly cracking the glass.
Nick looked through and smirked while Nathan stuck his tongue out but they quickly ducked down when Woolter started headbutting the door.
"I may want to rescind that victory toot toot" Nick said as he looked at Judy.
"No kidding" Nathan said.
Then the group heard a loud thudding sound from the roof and grew nervous.
"Maybe that's just hail?" Nick predicted as he smiled.
"Underground?" Nathan asked confusingly before
Suddenly, the window of the train was broken by a ram with an eye patch as he vigorously tried to grab Judy.
Nathan wasn't having anymore of this and yelled "Back off" as he jumped and claw the ram in the face.
The ram retaliated by slamming his fist into the little fox and sent him flying into the door behind him, knocking the wind out of him and breaking his arm and leg as he slammed into the wall with his limbs first.
Nathan screeched in pain and Nick quickly ran to Nathan's aid before he noticed Woolter was backed up all the way and started charging at the door, Nick quickly unlocked the door and opened it and yelled "In coming!" before Woolter charged straight through and knocked Jesse straight out of the train along with Judy who was now holding onto the horns of an unconscious Woolter.
"Judy!" Nick yelled as he grabbed Nathan carefully and jumped onto the engineers seat.
"Don't stop keep going!" Judy yelled as Nick was now the master of the controls.
"No no! Please stop!" Jesse yelled as he ran along the train tracks to avoid being run over.
"Do not stop this car!" Judy yelled.
Nick did ad he told and continued manning the controls while tending to his house injured son who valiantly stood up to a fully grown ram.
"Nathan, are you okay?" Nick asked as he fiddled with Nathan's body.
"No, my right arm and leg feel so sore" Nathan said in a crying tone as his eyes filled up.
Nick then heard something grind against the side of the train, he looked out and saw that Jesse's entire stomach wool was gone and attached to the side of the train.
Nick couldn't help but snicker and quickly noticed that Woolter regained consciousness and threw Judy up into the air and onto the roof of the train car. Woolter then smashed the window where Nick was and tried reaching for the controls but couldn't. The shattering glass shocked Nathan who quickly covered himself to protect him from the shrapnel. Suddenly another horn was heard and Nick looked down to see another train charging down the railway line straight towards them, if they didn't switch to another track, they would be derailed along with the other freight train carrying multiple carriages. Judy then popped her head down a small hatch from the back of the train.
"Speed up Nick! Speed up!" Judy ordered.
"But there's another train coming!" Nick protested.
"Trust me! Speed up!" Judy said as she left the hatch.
Nick did as she ordered and sped up the grain even though he didn't know her plan. Nathan braced himself if the trains were to collide. Woolter quickly noticed the other train and begged Nick to stop the train while screaming but Nick ignored him and went with plan. Woolter let out another scream and Judy appeared above him.
"Hey! Need some help?" Judy said as she slid down a little railing and slammed her feet into Woolter before he could answer and sent him flying into the switch that operated the Wig Wags on the train tracks and the single train cart turned onto the other set of tracks just before the freight train could hit them and send them flying. But the train car turned too fast around the corner snd started leaning over on its side as Judy held on outside for dear life while Nick grabbed Nathan and protected him as the train started sliding down the tracks on its side. Sparks were flying in the back which was starting to ignite the fuel tanks and the flowers. The trio quickly turned their attention ahead and saw a red end wall.
"I think that this is our stop!" Nick yelled.
Holding onto Nathan tightly, Nick crawled out of train car and jumped onto the train platform along with Judy. Nathan felt the wind being knocked out of him as he landed onto the cold hard platform with his father and Judy, he felt so defenceless now that he couldn't stand or operate his right arm. The trio watched as the train car slided and eventually crashed into the brick dead end wall with a very audible crash. The trio was silent before Judy spoke up.
"Well...Maybe, maybe some of the evidence survived" Judy said hoping for the best.
That hope was crushed when the train car exploded, destroying the evidence the trio needed to prove the ZPD what was causing the predators to go savage. A metal fuel container flew by the trio and exploded behind them. Nick quickly turned his attention to Nathan who lay on the ground defenceless and slightly crying.
"You alright?" Nick asked as he placed his paw on Nathan's head.
"No, neither is the evidence" Nathan said as he gently cried and pointed to the blown up train car.
"Everything is gone" Judy said in a soft and sad tone "We lost it all"
"Yeah" Nick said as he watched the flames die out and eventually brought the briefcase out which held the gun and serum and said "Oh except for this"
Nick let out a proud laugh while Judy and Nathan look with surprise.
"Oh Nick yes!" Judy shouted as she punched Nick's shoulder hardly.
"Ow" Nick said before he felt Nathan cuddle up to him.
"You're the best Dad!" Nathan said happily while sniffling and Nick have him a light kiss on the head.
"C'mon! We have to get this to the ZPD!" Judy ordered as she took the case from Nick.
Nick grabbed Nathan by around his stomach and scooped him up his arms like he was a baby and started running after Judy.
"Cut through the Natural History Museum!" Judy yelled as she and Nick ran up the stairs.
The trio continued running up the stairs and eventually into the Natural History Museum, thinking that they have already won, but little do they know what threats they will encounter in the museum...