A Son of his own Chapter 19: Museum chase
As the trio ran up the stairs that led to the Natural History Museum, Nathan was starting to feel weaker as his body was getting more and more weak as he broke his right arm and leg after being ruthlessly boxed by Jesse back on the train which sent him flying.
Nick saw how Nathan was acting and said "Hang in there, we're almost out of here!"
Nathan only let out a little squeal sound.
The trio ran past some historical monuments along with blasts from the past and soon Precinct 1 was in sight from inside the Museum.
"C'mon! It's right there!" Judy shouted as the trio ran by a pit and a voice shouted behind them.
"Judy! Judy!"
It was Dawn Bellwether, along with 2 Ram guards escorting her.
"Mayor Bellwether! We found out what's making the predators go savage! Someone's targeting them with a flower called Nighthowlers!" Judy said as she and Nick with Nathan tucked in his arms tagged along.
"I'm so proud of you Judy! You just did a super job!" Bellwether said as she left her hooves out to take the case.
Judy said about to give Dawn the case but immediately realised something.
"How did you know where to find us?" Judy asked as her tone slowly grew serious.
"I'll be taking that case now-" Dawn said as she went to grab but Judy pulled it back.
"Maybe, Nick, Nathan and I will take this case to the ZPD" Judy said as she and Nick backed up while nodding.
As they turned around, they noticed that the entrance was blocked by another Ram who started cracking his neck.
"Run!" Nick and Judy said in unison.
Nathan slowly opened his eyes as he felt Nick's heart beating faster as he and Judy started running.
"Get them!" Bellwether said and the Ram guards quickly took chase after the trio who ran into a closed enclosure.
Judy looked back to see if they were being chased but she didn't watch where she was going and scraped her leg off an elephant tusk that sat on the floor, causing her to drop the case holding the Nighthowler gun.
Nick immediately stopped in his tracks when he heard Judy cry in pain and saw her clutching her leg.
"Carrots!" Nick exclaimed as he ran over to Judy.
Judy slowly lifted her paws off of her wound and saw how deep it was while letting out a slight hiss, Nick repositioned Nathan and knelt to pick up Judy from around her waist.
"Don't worry, I got you" Nick said as he glanced at the entrance for a second and started running again while holding onto Nathan and Judy, 2 injured victims.
Judy grabbed the handle of the case as Nick ran around a corner behind a pillar and gently set Nathan and Judy onto the floor, Judy leaned against the case while Nathan just cowered on the floor since he was immobile, Nick digged through his pockets to see if he could find anything to cover Judy's wound with.
"Okay, now just relax" Nick said as he unwrapped a red hankerchief which contained some blueberries.
Nick forgot he had stored some blueberries when he bought them a while back, they were still fresh thankfully for him.
"Blueberry?" Nick offered as he held a blueberry with an embarrassed smile.
"Pass" Judy said weakly.
He wrapper the hankerchief around Judy's leg and then turned his attention to Nathan who was curled up in a ball on the floor while quietly crying.
"Nathan? You still with me?" Nick asked as he shook Nathan.
Nathan gently nodded and Dawn soon spoke up.
"Come on out Judy!" Dawn said as she walked into the enclosure.
Judy quickly grabbed the case and shoved it to Nick while he shook Nathan.
"Take the case! Get it to Bogo!" Judy whispered.
Nick pushed the case away and said "I'm not gonna leave you behind, that's not happening"
Judy along with Nathan meant very much to Nick, he wasn't just going to leave Judy for dead.
"But I can't walk" Judy whispered painfully.
"Well think of something" Nick said as he looked at the floor littered with blueberries.
An idea hatched inside his head.
"I hope this works" Nick thought.
Nick quickly turned to look at a prehistoric stuffed bunny holding a spear.
"I have a plan that could put Dawn behind bars" Nick whispered to Judy.
He whispered his plan into Judy's ear before Dawn spoke up again.
"We're on the same team Judy, underestimated, underappreciated, aren't you sick of it?!" Dawn said as she and her guards searched the closed enclosure for the trio.
"Predators, they may be strong and loud, but prey outnumber predators ten to one" Dawn said, making a maths mistake.
"Doesn't she mean 9 to 1?" Nathan weakly whispered.
Nick had to hold in his snickering and placed the stuffed rabbit to a position where you would see it's shadow.
Dawn then noticed the bunny shadow and mistakes it for Judy's, that was when Nick made his move with Nathan and Judy in his arms.
Dawn snapped her fingers which caught the attention of one of her guards who looked and saw the bunny shadow and slowly made his way to it as Dawn continued talking.
"Think about it! 90 percent of the population united against a common enemy! We'll be unstoppable!" Dawn said as the Ram prepared to walk around the corner.
The Ram then jumped around the corner to grab Judy, but instead of seeing a live rabbit, he saw a stuffed prehistoric rabbit holding a spear at him, the guard grunted in confusion before the sound of a metal pipe falling over caught the attention of the guards and Bellwether. They turned around to the source of the sound and saw Nick running with Nathan in his arms and Judy leaning against him to support as they made their way to the exit.
"Over there!" Bellwether shouted.
The ram guard quickly chased against the trio as Nick slided underneath a barricade and started rushing to the exit along with Judy as fast as their legs could take them. Nick quickly looked around and saw that the ram chasing them was quickly gaining ground on his left side. He braced himself as the Ram prepared to charge right into him. Taking the full force of the ram that charged into him, Nick, Nathan and Judy were sent flying into a pit filled with fake plants and fauna. Landing on their sides hard, they looked up and saw that they were indeed trapped in the pit with no means of escaping and Nick immediately realised the case was up on ground level with Dawn Bellwether.
Nick turned his attention to Nathan and Judy, who lay in the ground wrapped up in a ball while holding onto their legs.
"Are you two okay?" Nick asked as he rushed over to the 2 injured animals.
Judy nodded which made Nick with with relief, Nathan on the other paw was not.
Nathan shook his head and Nick placed his paw on Nathan's head and turned his head around to face his.
"Nathan, everything is going to be okay" Nick said.
Nathan didn't respond, he just bluntly stared at his father but gave a slight nod.
"You should have just stuck to being a carrot farmer huh? It is too bad, I did like you" Dawn said in a mocking as she stared at the helpless trio.
"What are you going to do? Kill me?!" Judy shouted in defence as she held onto her leg.
"Oh no, of course not" Dawn said as she stared at Nick deviously "He is"
And with that, Dawn took out the gun from the case and shot Nick.
She shot a pellet at Nick's neck which made him shout in pain as he fell to the ground.
"No!" Judy shouted as she rushed to Nick and placed her paws on his back and said "Oh Nick!"
"And did you thinkI was going to fall to your trick? I don't think so!" Dawn said as she held out a blueberry which made Judy freeze.
She had actually shot Nick with a Nighthowler pellet.
Nick started lightly growling as the serum affected his bloodstream while Dawn took out her phone to call the ZPD.
"Yes, police, there's a savage fox in the Natural History Museum! Officer Hopps is down! Please hurry!" Dawn said as she called 911 as a damsel in distress.
Judy gripped Nick's back and said "No, don't do this Nick fight it!"
"Do you think that I going to work? There is no reversing the effects of Nighthowlers, he won't listen to your commands" Dawn said as she placed her phone in her pocket.
Nick then let out an angry snarl as he scrunched his back up which made Judy back up in terror, she looked into his eyes.
He had gone savage.
But Nick wasn't showing any interest in Judy even though she was his prey, he turned his head to face someone weaker and helpless.
Nathan.