Chapter 12
"Are you gonna let me go?" "No." "Are you gonna let me go?" "No." "Are you gonna..." Bogo or chief Bogo as I had found out turned around to face me which interrupted my sentence. "Listen hear fox." Bogo said angrily as he lifted me up by my white shirt before bringing his muzzle close to mine and glaring directly into my eyes. "I swear to all that I've done for this city fox. If you say that sentence again then ill sit you down next to the most irritating officer I know. And believe me fox when I say this. I couldn't even cope with him for more than five minutes before I had to send him out of my sight." I looked at Bogo with a hint of confusion on my face before a sly smile began to form on my auburn furred face whilst Bogo on the other hand just raised his right eyebrow up confusion and warning as he continued to hold me up by my shirt. 'I really hope this plan of mine works.' I thought before I readied myself to speak to Bogo who was still glaring at me. "Oh dear." I said in a disappointing tone of voice as I began to shake my head from side to side whilst Bogo grunted in frustration as he held me up of the ground a little higher. "That's not good Bogo my boy. That's not good at all." I said as the big hulking buffalo that was Bogo looked at me questioningly before I continued. "Its not good to say things about your colleagues out in the open. Especially to a fox. You never know who might be listening." Bogo gave me an angry glare before he scanned around the area that we were in suspiciously as he turned his head in a number of directions. After a few minutes of looking around for someone he knew from the police station(which there wasn't) Bogo placed me back down on the floor before glaring at me once again with his hazel eyes. "Lying to me are we fox?" Bogo said in his deep commanding voice as I straitened up my shirt in a casual manner. "My patience does have a limit and its quickly running out. And one more word about how your innocent or trick from you fox and Ill drag you by your tail all the way back to the police station."
As I was now on the concrete pavement instead of being hung up in the air by Bogo I began to look for ways that I could escape from the buffalo as said buffalo grunted in anger. "What are you looking for fox? Haven't you heard what I just said?" Bogo questioned aggressively as he crossed his huge blue grey arms whilst I mentally face pawed myself for being so obvious in front of someone who could just continue to drag me to the police station without a second thought. "Im looking for a friend of mine." I said bluntly in an attempt to try and hide my true intentions of escaping whilst Bogo chuckled in his deep and authoritative voice before he crouched down so he was at eye level with me again. "And who is this friend of yours fox?" Bogo questioned in an aggressive manner before he stood back up with a slight smirk on his face as he noticed my now timid stance. "Oh well me and him go way back and Im sure you know him as well." I said crossing my fingers in my mind as Bogo let out a deep chuckle as he put one of his huge bolder like hooves behind his back before taking out a muzzle with his right hoof as well as a pair of handcuffs with his other hoof. "OK fox." Bogo said as he took a step forward towards me. "Enough playing around. Now I do not want to use this muzzle but I will if you don't co operate alright." Bogo said as he took another step forward. For some reason I wasn't at all scared by the handcuffs but the muzzle was an entirely different matter. For some reason as soon as my leaf green eyes laid their sight upon the muzzle my mind erupted into pain as I cried out in agony. This must have taken Bogo by surprise as he immediately took a step back as I continued to cry out in pain whilst pulling on my orange furred and black tipped ears. "What the hell is wrong with you fox?" Bogo yelled out in both anger and fear at how the situation had suddenly changed as I collapsed to my knees, not having the energy to stand up anymore due to the pain that was continuously assaulting my head. As Bogo was quickly reaching for his radio whilst trying to asses the new situation I was instead having another weird memory dream and this one was much worse than the others.
And when I say worse I mean at least four times as worse as the previous memories where as the pain this time was excruciating. As I was trying to focus on my real family (or what I hoped where actually my real family) to try and ease the pain that was still continuously assaulting my head I began to forget certain members faces. But that wasn't the worst thing that was happening to my mind as instead of my human family they where slowly being replaced with anthropomorphic foxes until I could only vaguely remember what some of my human family looked like and even then It was hard to remember their faces. Before I could even try to remember what my mother and farther looked like I was once again in the apartment building that I had seen in my previous memory but this memory wasn't a good one of myself running around with a tie in my paw. This memory was the complete opposite. I was on a carpeted floor in a small room of sorts which had a small window to the right of said room as well as a bed next to the window. The room also had a plain white cupboard to the left of the small bed. The room in all was void of any bright color as the carpet that I was on or laying on for that matter was an inky black whilst the walls of the room where a brilliant white. I let out a small groan as I picked my small form of the carpet floor before I began to examine myself. I was dressed in a pair of white and black checkered pajama bottoms as well as a plain white top that clung slightly to my auburn fur. After checking out what I was wearing I realized I was once again a young fox cub. A sense of dread began to creep into my mind as I remembered how young I was for the other memories as well as how fearful those memories made me feel. The memories made me feel like all I could do was curl up into a ball and try to ignore everything that was going on as these memories only brought me pain, sadness and confusion.
"Son. Where are you?" I turned my head quickly in the direction of the voice as I heard the strong and malicious male voice call from outside the door to the room that I was in. The voice caused my small form to shiver and shake in fear as I realized who the voice belonged to. It was the same voice from my previous memories. The same voice that brought utter fear to me each time I heard it. It was the voice of my farther. "I know your in there Ben. Open this door right now. Or you will be sorry." The voice said again in rising anger as I heard loud knocks on the door before the knocks soon turned into violent smashes. "LET ME IN BEN. RIGHT NOW." The voice exploded in anger as I began to whimper in fear before I slowly began to lie my small auburn furred body down on the black carpeted floor as I heard the door finally give way. I curled up into a ball on said carpet as tears began to streak down my auburn furred face whilst I clutched onto my tail in what my childlike mind believed was a way of protection from the outside world. "I WARNED YOU NOT TO KEEP THIS DOOR CLOSED BEN."The malicious and furious voice of my farther boomed out in anger as I felt two furry arms pick my small form up off of the ground before carrying me away. "Your going to have to be punished Ben." My farther said as I felt his claws dig into my fur as he continued to carry me away as I tried to fruitlessly escape from his tight grip. After a few more seconds of useless struggling and yelling whilst tears continued to flow from my leaf green eyes I was forcefully dropped onto the ground. "This is what you get for disobeying me Ben." I heard the voice of my farther evilly say as I shut my eyes tightly in fear before I felt my fathers paws forcefully fasten something onto my muzzle before he let go of my head and muzzle. I immediately struggled against my fathers grip as I felt the device lock onto my muzzle before I broke free as soon as my farther let go of my body.
I immediately opened my eyes before quickly bringing my small black paws up to my muzzle to see what was now clamped over it. The object that was fastened onto my muzzle was a muzzle restrainer. For a minute I couldn't believe what had just happened as my mind tried to understand why my farther had done this to me. His own son. I slowly began to claw at the restraint as if to see if the object was actually real before I realized that it was. Fresh tears began to flow down from my leaf green eyes as I began to desperately try to pry the restrainer off of my muzzle as I collapsed to my knees. "This is what happens Ben." I heard my farther say as I continued to desperately try and get rid of the muzzle restrainer that was fastened tightly to my muzzle. "This is what happens when you don't listen Ben." My farther said with malice in his voice as I finally gave up on trying to get the muzzle off and instead collapsed to the floor crying. "You'll never be anything better than what you are." My farther said as I continued to cry on the floor. "You'll never be better than me and you'll never be my son." Before I had the chance to even ask why he was doing this to me my head erupted into pain once again as I cried out for the pain to stop before my vision began to become blurry as the memory ended and everything went black. "Ugh...m..my head..." I groaned as I slowly began to open my leaf green eyes before quickly closing them and turning my head as the light of the sun blinded me briefly. "Ow...stupid sun..." I said as I began to re open my eyes slowly to avoid the suns rays from striking my eyes once again. What greeted my eyes was a giant hill covered in lush green grass that was just ahead of where I was laying down. "Ugh...OK Now." I said as I slowly began to stand up to my full height, my body feeling a bit different then it was before my nightmarish memory. As soon as I was standing up straight I immediately began to straighten my top and trousers before I noticed something that made my heart stop in shock. Instead of the black paws that I had now just become slightly accustomed to where instead a pair of human hands. My human hands. "W..what where the hell am...I." I said stuttering slightly due to the shock of the reappearance of my human hands as well as the grass hill that was in front of me.
As soon as I snapped out of my shock I proceeded to check out the rest of my body before I soon realized that I was back to the way I was before arriving in Zootopia. I was human. "T..this cant be real." I said as I poked my face with my human hands expecting said hands to just disappear at a moments notice before being replaced by a pair of black fox paws. After prodding at my body for a few more minutes and taking a few breathes to calm myself down from the shock and surprise I began to look around and take in my new surroundings. "Well." I said to myself as I scratched the top of my head in thought as I noticed the seemingly endless field that surrounded me with the only difference in land being the grass hill. ' I might as well see if I can get a better view from up on the hill.' I thought as I began to make my way towards and up the vibrantly green grass hill. As I was gradually making my way up the hill I began to notice two things. The first thing I noticed was that the higher I climbed up the hill, the higher the hill itself became as if the hill was endless. The second thing I noticed whilst climbing up the hill was that I could hear voices that seemed to be coming from the top of the now endless hill. The voices sounded distant and far away and before I knew it I couldn't hear them anymore as If the voices never existed in the first place. After what seemed like forever climbing up the hill I began to notice that I was gradually getting closer and closer to the top of the seemingly endless hill. As I got closer to the top of said hill I began to hear the same voices from before but this time they sounded more clear and loud. Said voices also began to sound somewhat familiar to me as I began to reach the grassy hills crest. Then it clicked in my head like a light switch being flicked on. The voices that where emitting from the top of the hill sounded familiar to me because I knew those voices. They where the voices of my human family. Upon realizing who the voices belonged to I immediately began to run as fast a I could up the final stretch of the hill as the thought of seeing my human family again took over my whole mind and drove me on wards.
"Hello." I yelled in desperation and anticipation as the voices where now as clear as day as I reached the hills top. "Is there anyone there...please." I said fearfully as I was finally able to look upon the top of the hill only for my leaf green eyes to come across nothing except for a lone figure standing in the center of the hill top. A figure that I had come to fear from my new memories. A figure that wasn't human."No...you cant..be here...this was real...this...this isn't...a dream." I yelled in anger as I began to hear dark and evil chuckles emitting from the adult anthro male fox. A fox that I had seen many a time in my new memories. "They where never real Ben." My farther said as he turned around to face me as I only glared at him in anger. "And what does it matter anyway." He said as he began to approach me whilst his tail swished to and throw behind him. "This is just a dream. A dream you'll soon wake up from." He continued on as I noticed that my vision was starting to become blurry as I tried to stay focused on my fathers advancing form. "You are never going back to see them again." He said as I began to wobble on my feet as If I was drunk whilst I looked at my hands as they began to resemble black fox paws once again. "What you are now is what you have always been Ben." My farther said as I collapsed to the ground as my surroundings began to turn black. "You have always been a good for nothing fox." And with that said everything faded away into nothingness.
Chief Bogo was at a loss for words as he stared at the unconscious red fox that lay motionless on the concrete ground in front of him. Just a few minutes ago said fox was arguing and complaining to him about how he hadn't committed any crime even though he was just about to walk away from an unconscious wolf who just so happened to have a bag of items that where reportedly stolen from civilians in the vicinity. What surprised Bogo even more was how the fox reacted to the muzzle restrainer that Bogo himself had taken out for precaution. The fox literally began to yell out in pain and clutch his head before collapsing to the ground out-cold as soon as he laid his green eyes upon the restrainer. Bogo knew that predators where strongly against the use of muzzle restrainers and to be honest Bogo agreed with them. The only reason he had taken it off of his police belt was because he had noticed that the wolf was one of the night howler victims from the bellwether incident a year ago and even Bogo knew that it was dangerous to try and restrain a night howler victim. After realizing that the wolf was out cold Bogo still didn't want to take the risk with Ben as Bogo had found out was the foxes name. But after the fox noticed the restrainer he lost it and passed out onto the concrete pavement. "Well." Bogo said in his deep commanding voice as he lifted the unconscious wolf onto his left shoulder with ease before doing the same thing with the unconscious form of Ben but instead lifting Ben onto his right shoulder. "This will be an interesting report to write up." Bogo said as he began to walk back towards the police station as if the unconscious bodies on his shoulders weren't even there. As Bogo made his way down the street a few pedestrians began to film the strange scene on there numerous phones and devices as Bogo muttered two words. "Bloody media."