We're back folks! 🎉🎉🎉
It feels good as always to resume the series with Sora and the OG Maverick again! I love writing about Orion and our newcomer Connor. But I think I'll focus mostly on Aiden for a while before I resume Orion's story. But don't worry, I'll resume Connor's story after this chapter.
"For those of you that don't know who those people are. Put down the controller and read!" Maverick quipped. "Unless you're playing Horizon Forbidden West. In that case. Read later!"🎮
Also this chapter won't feature any action sequences like a fight. That's for later. But since Zootopia was famous for being like an cop show full of crime scenes and investigations. This chapter will be like a cop show. With a famous recreation of a scene that made you all want to go see Zootopia. 😉
And the beginning of this chapter will feature some parodies for not only a funny moment from the Back At The Barnyard episode 'A Barn Day's Night'. But it will also feature a very funny skit from SNL. Can you people guess what it is when you read it? 😉
Also as a reminder. Pete is going to be the Captain Qwark of the series. Also we get to meet the surprise character from the Mickey Mouse cartoons here.
But first let's answer some comments.
olehbilenko93: Zootopia is one of my favorites too! Thanks Pal. I'm glad you enjoyed it! 👍.
SPYRO 101: Thanks Buddy! I appreciate you helping me with this chapter. And yeah. Pete is going to be good and very different from the games now that Maleficent is gone. 😁👍
RustyPete12: Thank you! Trust me. I have all three Mavericks under control. Also yes. Pete will be a good guy from here on out. But that doesn't mean he'll be a complete asset to the team. He just won't be a liability anymore. If anything, he'll be like you-know-who from Ratchet And Clank. In fact he will be doing a famous ending joke from Going Commandos.
And if anyone told me and begged me not to use this joke. Please forgive me. I couldn't resist. 😂😂😂
Rest assured. This will be the only time I use that joke.
Alright. Now that we're all here!
LET'S GET DANGEROUS!
CSI: Zootopia.
Back at the Silver Whiskers Jazz Club...
Aiden was standing behind near the bathroom doors with Judy, Blake and Nick as he was going over the plans. While Judy and Nick were dressed in the waiters uniforms of this place with a motor tray with drinks. Blake was dressed as a Janitor with a mop and cleansers
"Now remember. Babs. You go and talk with the security guard and show him the order number. Swiper. You do the talking when the time comes, and Buster. Stand out in the hall to make sure no one gets in. Tell them you're cleaning something gross, piss, puke, milk or maybe all three." Aiden told them the plan while they were alone.
"Understood." Judy nodded, accepting the plan.
"No worries my fine key-chucking friend. You're looking at one of the best undercover foxes in all of Zootopia." Nick boasted with a smirk.
"Although I think Nick and I should swap roles. He looks like he has the face for it." Blake quipped jokingly, saying that Nick had a face for cleaning toilets. Or maybe his tail.
"LOL. And gross." Aiden remarked again."Oh and don't worry about the next band coming on too soon. Because they're...Well...Don't buy a GPS from a vending machine."
"Meaning what?" Blake inquired.
"You'll see it on the screen." Aiden winked before he teleported to the roof to jack the cameras screens and the TV screens to the VIP room.
Which gave Judy and Nick a chance to roll in. Judy showed the security guard her order number and thankfully it worked as she was allowed in with Nick.
While Blake went into the hall that separated the VIP room door to the red door on the other side where the guard was standing and started cleaning.
As Judy and Nick were delivering drinks in the VIP room. Where they could see the Persian Orange Tabby Cat on a massage chair that was helping him relax while he watched the stage show from the Giant TV screen up front.
Then they see Aiden in his Maverick form. Dressed in a suit and tie, coming up on stage from the screens. posted as a host for the show. He tapped the microphones And spoke.
"Attention Ladies and Gentlemen? I'm afraid the Feline Saville Quartet will be delayed due to the band getting stuck in traffic." Maverick stated on stage.
Down in the Rainforest District...
Three cats dressed in classic Barbershop uniforms striped with red and white with hats. Were driving down the streets as the windshield wipers were on in their car.
They couldn't find the club now due to some bad directions they received from one of their cellphones.
Way to go, we're totally loooooooooooooooost~" The first cat behind the driver sang in a low tone
"Yes because of your stupid directiooooooooooooooons~" The second cat sang as the first cat sang with him in a mid tone.
"You're just a couple of~" The third one sang with them in a high tone.
"Moooooooooorooooooooooons!~" All three cats harmonized the last one together in perfect quartet tunes.
Returning to the Silver Whiskers...
Everyone was still watching the tv screens.
"I know that guy. That's Gill Lawrene. I remember him auditioning to play the role of a serial killer at the studios in Savanna Square." Nick commented as the orange cat could hear him. "Only I don't think he's acting."
"So until they arrive I will be filling in with a means to kill boredom. With a little game we're about to play. An act called 'Quiet Time'. Here's how it works. I walk up and around this club with a baseball bat. And you don't look at me. All eyes are kept forward. And if you look at me, or make a sound. I will hit you right square in the teeth." Maverick stated verbatim. "I hope you're happy with yourselves. Oh and we'll need this..."
Maverick took a ice baseball bat and went up to the camera to block the screen with a Censored screen. Blocking all images as all they could hear was Maverick clearing his throat. And the sound of him picking up a bat.
Then they heard on the TV this abruption.
"WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?!" Maverick yelled from the screens and echoed into the room.
The orange cat was startled at this as he looked around nervously. He took a few breaths as Nick walked over and placed a drink by his end table.
"I wouldn't worry too much. Gill's not so bad once you get to know him." Nick said nonchalantly with a shoulder shrug.
"Eyes forward!" Maverick warned sternly and threateningly.
"He just, cares too much." Nick said, taking a drink for himself.
"FORWARD! EYES FORWARD!" Maverick screamed at everyone.
"He likes to run a tight ship." Nick stated after taking a sip of his drink.
"I SWEAR TO GOD YOU BETTER KEEP THOSE EYES FORWARD! I'M TIRED OF SAYING THIS!" Maverick yelled.
"HE'S ONLY SIX!" Blaze echoed as a customer.
"THAT'S ONE FOR YOU!" Maverick announced.
***Bat Boink!***
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Blaze shrieked in agony from being hit. Or so the cat thinks.
The oranged cat gasped in fear gripping his seat.
"Oh, maybe he's not a people person." Nick shrugged leaning on the side of the massage chair nonchalantly with his drink in hand. "But he gets the job done."
"Eyes! FORWAAARD!" Maverick bellowed.
Making the orange cat shiver in pure dread. As his teeth chartered.
"But you gotta ask yourself. Has he ever crashed a plane?" Nick asked the scared suspect.
"EYES FORWARD YOU SMELLY WHORE!" Maverick exclaimed to some lady.
"Well, yes he has." Nick stated with a smirk. "Eight planes over a nine month period."
"You've got nice milk jugs!" Maverick teased with Kairi whimpering in the background.
"But he's a damn good egg." Nick said, taking another sip.
"And now for the VIP. I'm saving by big swings for the fragile kitty testies that are sitting inside there!" Maverick announced. "AND LOOKS AT ME THE WRONG WAY! Also, purring and shivering will double the swings."
Then the Orange Cat's eyes widened.
"No... no no no no! I gotta get out of here!" The orange cat panicked but was tripped to the ground as Judy held her foot out to make the cat fall.
"You're not going anywhere just yet." Judy said to the downed cat, flashing her ZPD badge, Nick doing the same. "We want to know where to find Brad Barker. And we know you know where he is."
"And unless you want to be in here when 'Old Slugger Nut' shows up, I'd really advise telling us what we want to know." Nick said with a smirk, as they heard stomping approaching outside the room. "I heard the club ran out of his favorite milkshake. You think he's ripe now? Just wait until he gets that little bombshell. Then I'd really be scared."
"I don't know where he went. I was paid to make him howl, by a kangaroo in a mask!" The orange cat revealed. "He left this business card on the ground!"
The orange cat quickly showed them the card out of his pocket.
"The letters are very faded." Judy said, taking the card, looking it over. "It looks like it went through a car wash. I can't read this."
"Unless you have something else to offer us, I'd get ready to get your dentist on speed dial." Nick said, leaning towards the orange cat.
"No! No that's all I know I...Oh wait. He mentioned something about an underground fight club! Premium boxers! That's it! That's all I know! I swear!" The orange cat whimpered and pleaded. "Don't let that nutcase in! Please!"
"What do you think?" Nick asked Judy with a smirk, who pretended to think it over.
"I think he's telling us the truth." Judy said with a nod.
"Gotcha." Nick said before turning to the closed door. "You can come in now!"
Then Aiden and Victoria came in while Aiden was holding a fake Maverick helmet and wearing the same suit and tie as the crazy host Maverick. And a baseball bat on his other hand.
Kairi came in as she and Victoria were stifling giggles.
"Jesus. This guy looked like he watched the end of Carrie. What did you do to him?" Aiden inquired humorously seeing how the orange cat was scared stiff and sweating.
"Oh, just had a nice chat with him. Poor guy had his own tongue for the most part." Nick quipped, pulling him to his feet.
"Which is just fine, because he now has a right to remain silent." Judy smirked, cuffing the cat's paws behind his back.
"Gotta admit though, you were starting to worry me a bit towards the end." Nick joked. "For a moment, I thought you finally earned a private suite at the Zootopia Insane Asylum."
"Technically everything around me is Insane Asylum, but I digress." Aiden quipped.
"What did you get on him?" Victoria asked.
"Wait...That was a kid who was screaming? But he sounded so deep and...What happened to the lady you bashed?" The orange cat looked confused as he was cuffed.
"The less you know the better." Nick suggested.
"He gave us this business card." Judy said, handing the card over to Aiden. "Unfortunately, the card got wet, and the letters faded. I'm afraid I can't read anything off of this."
"I…think I know someone who can help with that, and further the plot for free." Aiden stated as he looked at the card.
"We'll just take him outside in the meantime." Judy mused as she and Nick pulled the orange cat away and out of the VIP room.
The orange cat saw that everyone was still on their tables and drinking milk. Looking just find as he was shocked.
"Wait! Are you all...What about the Quiet Time act?!" The Orange Cat gawked at everyone.
"What Quiet Time act?" One of the customers asked raising an eyebrow.
It turns out Aiden wasn't on stage the whole time. He was on the roof filming the whole thing using a blue ice blue screen for effects. And broadcasting it on the TV screens in the VIP room.
"Like I said, you have the right to remain silent. If you give up that right, anything you say can and will be held against you in a court of law." Judy stated as she led the orange cat to the car. "You have a right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided to you at no cost to yourself."
With that said, Judy put the orange cat in the back of their police car and shut the door.
Then Aiden and Victoria came out with Kairi as Sora. Donald and Goofy came over to them. While Blake, who was back in his ZPD uniform came out to join Judy and Nick.
"Well?" Donald asked.
"The plan worked. The wittle puddy tat gave us this card but it's faded." Aiden stated as he handed Sora the card.
"But Aiden thinks he knows someone here that might help us get the info on it." Kairi said the good news.
"Great" Sora said, looking at the card. "But who do you know who can help us with this?"
"I recently received word from Chip and Dale. That Professor Ludwig Von Drake is out here. He rented an Observatory in Sahara Square. If anyone can trace some of the most untraceable parts of Zootopia. It's him. That and he might give us a clear copy of whatever the hell this card was." Aiden stated and revealed. "If I try to make IRIS do it without the original copy. She'll just guess what it is. Probably print out a business card for house of whatever this world calls their Jahovah's Witnesses."
"Professor Ludwig Von Drake?!" Donald and Goofy exclaimed in surprise.
"I thought he died years ago." Donald exclaimed.
"Gee, I guess the news of his death has been greatly exaggerated" Goofy said scratching his chin, unintentionally quoting Mark Twain.
"Who's Professor Ludwig Von Drake?" Sora asked.
"Yeah, the way you guys are acting, he sounds very important." Kairi said.
"I've seen some of the cartoon skits Scrooge directed with him. The House Of Genius series. But I think Donald will explain." Aiden stated as he gestured to the Duck Wizard to tell Sora and Kairi who he is.
"Professor Ludwig Von Drake, besides being my uncle, was the Royal Scientist back in Disney Town. Any science degree you can imagine, he had it all, making all of us go to duck when anything science related came up." Donald explained to his friends. "In fact, he was the lead scientist in the development of the gummi ships."
"Including mine. That's why Nissan and Chevrolet would die at the sight of my- I mean our sweet ride." Aiden quipped.
"If Von Drake was brilliant and good with everyone. What happened to him?" Kairi asked out of concern.
"And why did you all think he was dead?" Sora asked.
"Last time we saw him, He was working on teleportation technology when there was a bright flash and explosion. When they looked around, they couldn't find a trace of him anywhere, in the castle or on the planet." Donald explained with a downtrodden look.
"When no one could find him, we all assumed he was dead." Goofy said, scratching his chin. "Guess he ended up here."
"Wait. So you guys tried tracking him across the multiverse but couldn't find him? Didn't you try a DNA tracker?" Victoria asked.
"We did. But he found a way to block people from tracking him using his DNA." Donald explained with a sheepish look. "Back home, Uncle Ludwig had a problem with jury duty and union disputes. So he'd often hide out in his laboratory."
"Damn. I've watched enough cop shows to know how diabolical those s-holes can be." Aiden stated.
"I am Groot?" Baby Groot asked from inside his jacket pocket.
"The I.R.S.? Those guys are Satan." Aiden shivered in response.
"I guess you both are relieved to hear he's okay huh?" Kairi smiled at Donald and Goofy. "I bet the king and Queen Minnie will be too."
"Yep, they sure will be." Goofy said smiling. "The King and Queen always thought of him as a friend."
"Even after the many explosions he caused." Donald said.
"Still. If he was here the whole time then...You don't think he's stuck here do you?" Sora wondered.
"Either that or he got sidetracked by another project he came up with." Donald explained. "For all his brilliance, he can be easily distracted and forgetful."
"How forgetful?" Kairi asked curiously.
"He forgot his own birthday party one time when we discovered a way to invent shoes that can dance." Goofy answered and snickered at how that sounds."Ahyuck!"
"Hey guys. Anything new about the card?" Blake came over and asked as he didn't catch what they were talking about.
"Unfortunately, the card is unreadable as is. But Aiden says there's a scientist here in Zootopia that can help." Kairi explained to Blake.
"Yeah, apparently he's some high end quacker from their world" Sora quipped pointing to Donald and Goofy. "What was his name again?"
"Ludwig Von Drake" Donald answered.
"Wait. You guys know about Professor Von Drake?" Blake inquired as he looked familiar with the name.
"Yep. He was an important scientist back in our world, and Donald's uncle." Goofy said.
"Wait, how do you know him?" Donald asked.
"He's one of the most brilliant minds of our century. He even helped modify my keyblades and tech." Blake revealed. "If anyone can help reveal what's on the card. It's Professor Ludwig Von Drake."
"So, he ended up with a reputation, even in this world." Sora figured.
"Looks that way." Kairi commented.
"Only one way to find out." Aiden stated as he and the others went towards the car.
Down in Sahara Square...
The car was driving through the hot desert parts of Zootopia in Savannah Square. Driving through Mediterranean themed buildings and shops that were selling products and food items. Like Ice cream.
The car even passed by a group of camels dressed for the gym as they were running a marathon. More like galloping a marathon.
The large district entry walls that separated Sahara Square from the other districts also set up giant furnaces to power the hot climax temperature for the animal citizens that are indigenous to these parts.
Soon the police car drove up to an Observatory building that came into view.
The Observatory was large with a dome roof to the right that opens up for a large telescope to be used, with a slanted bridge connected from one end of the complex to another, where a small tower with a dome roof is connected to a warehouse. And the warehouse and the other end of the Observatory are connected by another building.
Judy's police car was parked under the shade near the building entrance as everyone stepped out.
"Man." Sora sighed as he wiped his forehead. "How do some animals prefer this over a moderate tropical climate?"
"Heee. Heee. Heee." Donald panted as he got out of the car, sweating with his feathers slightly red. "This heat is unbearable."
"Hey look. dinner's almost done. Need me to prepare the garnish?" Aiden quipped asking everyone while gesturing Donald
Due to his ice powers. Aiden can keep himself cool from the heat. While Victoria due to her fire powers can't be bothered by heat.
"Oh phooey. It's too hot to yell at you." Donald panted.
"You know. It's not fair that heat isn't bothering you two at all." Sora said, looking at Aiden and Victoria.
"Yeah. No fair." Kairi pouted, wiping sweat from her forehead.
"Not my fault I was born." Victoria shrugged with a grin.
"And there's 'snow' one like me. So...Hang in there Spike." Orion stated humorously as he twirled his finger out causing a fresh cold breeze about sixty-nine degrees to cool Sora, Kairi and Donald down.
"ahh, much better." Donald sighed.
"Thank goodness." Kairi said.
"I know we live on a tropical island. But really." Sora sighed, embracing the cool air.
"Gee, is it hot." Goofy panted, sweating. Then the cool air hit him, and now he was shivering. "G-g-g-gee, now it's c-c-c-cold."
"Hanging in there Kids?" Nick scoffed with a smirk. "You know when I was your age Sora, I've been through every climate imaginable. Who knew you and half of the Guardians nearly fell in the hands of a little heat."
"To be fair, they've only been here for a short time." Blake commented. "I remember when I first started working with you guys. I took quite a bit to adjust to the sudden climate changes.
"Sorry about that, guys." Judy said meekly to the guardians affected by the heat. "Guess I should have told you to pack sunscreen before coming here.
"Don't worry, Judy. I already have sunscreen." Sora said, holding up a tube of sunscreen.
"Me too." Kairi said, holding up her own sunscreen.
"Same here. Ahyuck!" Goofy replied, showing his own sunscreen.
"I don't." Donald groaned as he was suddenly turning red from a nasty sunburn.
"Wow, not even out here for five minutes and you're as red as a lobster." Victoria commented.
"Guess Ballotine couldn't take the heat." Aiden quipped.
"I am Groot." Baby Groot hummed. Translated: "Hmm, roasted duck."
"Shut. Up." Donald grit his teeth before he casted a healing spell on himself to stop the sunburn.
"Well. We're here." Blake gestured to the building.
And everyone focused back on meeting Ludwig Von Drake as they walked up to the building.
"I'm almost scared to ask but mostly curious. What kind of inventions does Doctor Quaker make exactly?" Nick asked Blake.
"It would be easier to list off the inventions he doesn't make. He does a bit of everything. Even though I will admit some of the things he creates makes me wonder what he's thinking." Blake replied back, thinking back to some of the more outlandish inventions.
"Be glad you never saw the episode with the acupuncture chamber." Aiden said to Sora.
"Don't remind me." Donald shivered remembering when Von Drake had an episode about giving Donald a spa day.
Once they made it to the front door. Blake rang the doorbell.
***Windows PC Start up ring!***
"Weird choice for a doorbell, but it makes sense." Victoria whispered to herself.
Then suddenly the door opened as a Von Drake Droid came out and hovered in front making robotic duck noises. It almost was like the mix between the sounds of a duck and a motorboat.
These Von Drake Droids were about two and a half feet tall. Their heads were duck shaped with red glowing robot eyes. The necks were flexible, allowing them to turn their heads in any direction.
Their arms were thin with three red rings wrapped and hovering around them. Their hands had three fingers. On their chests were glowing green triangles, indicating a power source. Below the chests were round waists with rings.
And underneath each robot, was a claw holding a green orb which allowed them to roll about. But they also could float off the ground.
"Quack quack?" The droid inquired.
"What the duck sauce?" Aiden muttered looking at that thing.
"that would be a Von Drake Droid. The professor actually built these things back on my world. Sort of like little helpers." Blake explained before looking at the droid. "We're here to see the professor, is he in?"
"Quack quack." The droid nodded and opened the door and gestured for them to come in. "Quack quack."
"You know how to speak Mallarese and Duck Latin right? What did he say?" Aiden asked Donald.
"Hey! That's stereotyping!" Donald snapped at Aiden.
"Easy Donald. Let's just go inside." Kairi eased the duck and suggested.
Then everyone went inside to see a hallway. They followed the Von Drake Droid down the hall as the droid typed in the entry codes.
Blake stepped up to slip in an access entry card. Given to him by the good professor, he was granted access.
Once the double doors slid open. Everyone came in and was blown away by how big the lab was on the inside.
"Woooah." Sora exhaled as they looked around.
Metallic white walls that made the room look so huge, with the ceiling so high, even higher then the roof of a supermarket. Inventions and technology all over every wing. Chemical racks and study tables. With a large computer screen and chair in the middle of the room. It was like Dexter's Lab and Batcave had a baby.
Which Aiden and Victoria were already used to since they were impressed but not blown away. After all they have this kind of environment back home in the Mav Club.
But they also saw a bunch of Von Drake Droids everywhere building and cleaning all over the lab like tech crew. With tools and welding equipment.
Then as Donald was walking and looking around. He was standing behind a lab table full of test tubes and books. When suddenly a pair of bird hands pushed them off making crashing noises.
"HELLO THERE!" Ludwig Von Drake exclaimed joyfully as he popped out of nowhere against the table.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK!" Donald shrieked as he jumped in the air, having been frightened like a jumpscare. Before he landed face first on the ground.
"And welcome to Von Drake's Observatory Of Genius. This is the Observatory. And I'm the Genius." Ludwig Von Drake gestured everywhere and himself amusingly with an Austrian accent.
"I guess some things don't change. Ahyuck!" Goofy chuckled seeing that Von Drake still gives the same introduction whenever they come over.
And Donald crashes to the floor being jumpscared as always. Which made the duck grumble on the ground.
Von Drake then doubled checked and rubbed his glasses on his lab coat before he looked surprised
"Well! I'll be a Heartless' ex wife! Donald?! Goofy?!" Von Drake recognized them.
"A Heartless can get married?" Aiden inquired quietly.
"I am Groot." Baby Groot shrugged confusingly.
"Hiya, Professor!" Goofy said happily while Donald got himself off the floor.
"Yeah, hi, Uncle Ludwig." Donald groaned before quacking as Ludwig Von Drake grabbed Donald and Goofy into a group hug.
"My, it is wonderful to see you both again. It's been years." Von Drake said before letting them go. "Well, look at you both. You both are looking quite healthy and strong."
"Ah shucks. We're glad to see you too Professor. How've you been?" Goofy asked with a smile.
"Yeah. That's what I wanna know." Donald added with his arms crossed looking skeptical.
"Awkward..." Sora muttered seeing the moment and the tension from Donald
Though Von Drake didn't notice the tension as he seemed optimistic.
"Oh, well after that explosion back in Disney Town, I found myself on this world. And ever since, I have built a new Laboratory and continued my research while also trying to find a way back home. Then almost a year ago, I met young Blake here." Von Drake explained, gesturing to Blake. "He gave me an idea of how to return home, and in return, I added upgrades to his keyblade and gear."
Donald gulped as he looked a little guilty. "Awe..." He crooned.
"Gawrsh Professor. If we had known you were here, stranded. We woulda come to get ya early." Goofy admitted sadly as he rubbed his hat.
"Oh, don't worry about it boys. No hard feelings at all." Von Drake said with a forget it gesture with his hand while smiling before turning to the others. "Now, it seems you boys have made some new friends as of late. I'm Professor Ludwig Von Drake. And you all are?"
"Hi there. I'm Sora." Sora greeted.
"And I'm Kairi. His girlfriend." Kairi beamed.
"And I'm Aiden. AKA the current Maverick." Aiden greeted as he showed the Mav ring on his finger and gestured to his girlfriend. "And this is Victoria. My partner, secretary and future baby mama. But you can call her my girlfriend."
"Oh, it's a pleasure to meet you all, especially the one known as the Maverick!" Von Drake exclaimed excitedly. "I've heard quite a bit of your exploits from news coverage and articles from all across the Multiverse."
"You gotta multi-dish too huh?" Aiden noticed the satellite fish inside the lair.
A device that accesses all networks across the Multiverse. Aiden has one too.
"It's how he was able to watch all of the reruns of your show. The House Of Genius." Victoria remarked.
"I am Groot." Baby Groot piped up as he hopped on Victoria's shoulder.
"He said his favorite was the Money Increaser episode." Victoria translated.
"Oh, I'm glad you enjoyed my show." Von Drake exclaimed before whispering to them. "A little secret, the Money Increaser episode was my favorite too because it was one of the only times I made Scrooge's jaw drop."
"I am Groot?" Baby Groot asked, looking intrigued.
Much to the surprise of everyone in the room. Von Drake can understand the talking tree.
"Counterfeit arrest? Oh hahaha! That was just a gag I pulled for the ending. Those weren't real cops anyway." Von Drake chuckled and waved it off before he sat down. "Now then. Blake, nice to see you too. Bring me something interesting to hack?"
"Yeah, we got this business card off a suspect. But the writing is very faded" Blake said, handing the card over to Von Drake. "Do you think you can get anything off of this?"
"Hmmm... Well. I would need to run this through my link to the national corporate database and the corporate CPU. But finding the original copy should be no problem." Von Drake assured as he received the card and went over to his computer to copy it. "In the meantime. Make yourselves at home in the break room. Some of my other assistants and newly recruited tester should be in there as well."
"Newly recruited tester?" Sora tilted his head.
Inside the break room...
Three Von Drake Droids were there with coffee cups in their hands listening to the new recruit. Who of course happened to be Pete leaning up against the fridge.
"Sooooo. You Fellas new here?" Pete asked with a smile as he was friendly for a change.
Maybe too friendly.
"Quack Quack quack." One of the Droids responded while Pete was nodding as he understood.
Or at least pretended to be understanding, as pity.
"Interesting. Well you boys should sign up for the new Von Drake Probomatic. That little baby cleans you something fierce." Pete beamed as the Droids looked at each other.
One of the Von Drake Droids face palmed himself.
"I just got done testing the Von Drake Full Body Waxinator. And I am personally sportin' a new chassis! And there are no tags on my luggage!" Pete bragged as he swung his hips and flexed his chest.
Then the Droids began to hover away while one of them awkwardly waved.
"Alrighty then. Catch you later." Pete waved at them.
"Quack quack." The second Von Drake Droid crossed his heart hoping that wasn't so.
Then Sora, Aiden and the Guardians entered with Blake, Judy and Nick. Who was surprised to see Pete there.
"Oh hi ya Fellas!" Pete beamed seeing them."Did ya solve that puzzlin-what-not?"
"Pete? You're the new recruit Professor Von Drake mentioned?" Sora asked, surprised.
"Yes siree bob!" Pete beamed. "I figured the first step in my redemption journey is to start out small and safe. And what better way than to help a brilliant white sleeve doctor make the Multiverse a better place even if it kills me!"
"You sure you don't want to play it safe and pass out Cruise Brochures instead?" Aiden asked, looking uncomfortable for this job.
"Well. At least you're now working for someone that cares now." Kairi admitted with an encouraging smile.
"Oh ain't that right. The good Doctor pays well, decent hours, three square meals, a nice place to sleep, and best of all. I get to try out some of his cool inventions. I should have tried to work for him a long time ago." Pete boasted about his new position. "Who knows, maybe he'll let me try the new project he's been tirelessly working on."
"You mean the portal?" Blake asked.
"Gotta be." Nick shrugged.
"What portal?" Sora asked him.
"Well, when I met Professor Ludwig Von Drake, I mentioned to him how I once built that teleporter that brought Judy to and from my old world." Blake brought up, looking at Judy briefly. "One of the best moments of my life."
"Awe, Blake." Judy cooed, giving Blake a kiss on the cheek.
"Can you two stop playing love sick bunnies for a moment." Nick scoffed with a smirk, making the two blush.
"Right. Anyway." Judy said with a cough. "Professor Von Drake also found footage of the heartless attack on Zootopia twelve years ago and the one by the fake Maleficent."
"And through that, he saw how they used doorways made of darkness to travel." Nick continued.
"So he thought. What if he could do something similar?" Blake continued. "What if he could create a device that would create doorways made of light energy and allow the user to use those doorways to travel to any world in the Multiverse, even if that world is on the other side of the Multiverse from where you are?"
"Woah! That sounds awesome!" Sora said with excitement.
"Yeah. That would be very cool." Kairi agreed.
"It is. The only catch is Professor Ludwig Von Drake says that he believes that it will only take you to worlds you already went to." Blake explained downtrodden by this detail.
"Have you tried a multiversal Tachyon Relay Navigator to run an increase rate algorithm? My gummi ships and space bridge back home uses one to navigate the stars." Aiden suggested which gained everyone's attention.
"A Union-take-a-real wha?" Pete inquired."Is that gonna hurt?"
"Actually…... No I haven't." Blake responded while in thought. "In fact, I don't think Von Drake came to that idea either. But... That could work."
"When did you become an expert in Hot Tub Time Machine Ideology?" Victoria inquired amusingly at her boyfriend.
"Last night." Aiden quipped.
"Is there a reason you need the portal now though? I mean if it's to bring the Professor home, then we can do that with our ship." Kairi wondered and offered.
Nick, Judy, and Blake shared a glance before Blake explained.
"My world was destroyed, but... I sense within my heart that my family somehow survived its destruction, and is somewhere out there among the stars." Blake explained to the guardians. "If Von Drake can get the portal working, it could help me find them."
Everyone understood. Sora went to great lengths to find Riku and Aiden went to great lengths to find his birth mother. They both wanted Blake's chance to be easier. So Aiden was the first to act.
"Alright now you got me, and my magic's attention. And by magic I mean wallet. And by wallet I mean unlicensed toys and by that I mean...Oh ***k it." Aiden decided to let the quip die on arrival before he pulled out a file from his Mav ring and placed it on the table. "Here. These are the schematics, specs and doodles on everything I have on how to build a Tachyon Relay Navigator. Or TRN."
With that file. Blake and Von Drake cam finish making the portal and get it working.
"This is incredible. With this, we're even closer to getting the portal working." Blake exclaimed with excitement. "Kid, you are awesome."
"Wow. I'm insulted. They told me I would get paid. Is this how you'll give allowances? I feel sorry for my future god kids- I'm just messing with you Blake." Aiden snickered and patted his shoulder. "Once we're done freeing those victims from whatever Real Steel Dog Fight they're in. You get that thing working, find your parents and tell them…...Donald says 'Wak'."
"Wak?!" Donald snapped looking insulted.
"See what I mean?" Aiden quipped, getting the others to laugh.
"Yeah. You're right. First we have to stop the criminals responsible for These recent crimes." Blake said with determination in his eyes.
"Then we nail them to the wall. Ans have a donut party afterwards. Or a fish party, whichever we're hungry for first...Wait do fish talk in this world? Cause I don't wanna feast on something that will scream 'MY LEG!' " Aiden asked while making a SpongeBob reference.
Which got Blake in the mood to do one of the things that makes Judy giggle
"Oh, SpongeBob... Whyyyy?" Blake said in a deep voice, imitating Mrs. Puff. Which made giggle chuckle.
"Mrs Puff? I think I have cheated." Sora imitated SpongeBob before he asked in a normal tone as the same question came to him. "Wait, seriously. Do fish walk and talk in this world?"
They haven't seen any walking or talking fish around the entire time they've been in Zootopia. But he wanted to be sure.
"No, the fish of this world aren't sentient. So we definitely have a few fish places to eat at." Blake reassured them.
"Although we did see a talking fish plack hanging on a wall during a McCodfish commercial. Poor Judy jumped out of her fur when she saw it." Nick said with a chuckle.
"It wasn't funny, Nick." Judy groaned in embarrassment.
Aiden made a mental note to something on that humorous mischievous subject later.
"Attention. New recruit subject P. Please report for the Von Drake Crotchitizer field test." Von Drake called on the intercom.
"Whoopie! That's my que! Hot dog I love my job!" Pete beamed as he jumped for joy to be part of another test.
Then he dashed out of the room before anyone said goodbye. As they stood blankly.
"Crotchitizer?" Sora inquired, feeling weird about that name.
"Ask not less thee loseth thy dignity." Aiden suggested in a Shakespeare tone.
"And could Sora, the Maverick, cops and Guardians, please report in my office. The card you asked for is there. Wait...This is your card right? Oh wait, that is a coupon for my feather trimming. Ho ho! I'll save that for next week if I'm still here. Anyway. Please come into my office like I said!" Von Drake called them.
"yep. He hasn't changed one bit." Donald sighed.
Later down in the Rainforest District...
After receiving the business card from Von Drake. They saw that the business had an advertisement for a sports store called 'Sports-4-Less' in the Rainforest District. With the address on the card.
Once they got the info they needed. Everyone exchanged some 'see you laters' to Von Drake and made haste to the car as Judy drove them down to the district.
As they all saw in the car. Kairi looked out the window at the back and saw the sprinkles that were causing it to rain everyday in this beautiful rain forest.
"Wow." Kairi said in awe before saying to Sora. "I wouldn't mind having it rain like this on our island."
"Yeah. That would be awesome." Sora said, blushing a bit at playing and dancing with Kairi in the rain. A blush Kairi saw, making her smirk.
"What are you thinking about there, Lazy bum?" Kairi asked teasingly, already knowing what he was thinking. She could read him like a book.
"Nothing...Well...I just Imagined us doing some of those games we talked about in the rainforest." Sora said as he and Kairi were the only two at the very back of the car while everyone else was up at the middle seats of the large car.
So no one could hear them chat.
"Oh?" Kairi inquired with a smirk.
"Yeah. Remember when we used to talk about...If ever we found a rainforest? We would start playing as Tarzan and Jane." Sora remarked thinking back at how cute Kairi sounded back when she was six.
Kairi goggled, remembering that.
"Maybe when we have the time, we could visit Tarzan's world, just the two of us, and have fun together. We could even dress like them." Kairi said with a blush, making Sora blush more.
"Well, I'd say you'd make a hot jungle girl." Sora muttered.
"Awe, and you'd make a very hot jungle boy." Kairi purred before she hugged him and began to kiss him on the lips.
Sora smiled and kissed her back. While they both purred like kittens.
Aiden looked back and smirked. But he decided not to ruin the moment between them and left them alone as his arm was around Victoria, who was snuggled up against him and asleep. Enjoying the soothing ride.
"What do you think the boxer traffickers are doing at a local sports shop?" Aiden asked Blake but was quiet enough to not wake Victoria up.
"Hard to say. For all we know, the store could just be a front for whatever crimes being committed by these traffickers." Blake answered, not liking any of the possibilities.
"Or maybe it's where the kidnappers goes to buy equipment?" Goofy guessed.
"Maybe." Donald shrugged.
"Who knows? Maybe they're doing this all for a photoshoot. The best dog boxers to advertise their products." Nick quipped, intending for it to be a joke.
"Not a bad idea. But they could just convince them with black mail and Sony like endorsement deals to do that. Who needs to do it the hard way by kidnapping them?" Aiden wondered. "I mean, how many are missing again?"
"Nine dog boxers." Judy answered while driving.
"Yeah whoever is doing this, they work fast." Nick stated.
"It once took two dozen police officers to subdue one of these dog boxers when he got wasted and was trashing a restaurant. To kidnap nine boxers with almost no witnesses and very little time, we're dealing with pros." Blake stated.
"Which definitely makes things more complicated. Even with your help, we may need to call in reinforcements." Judy said driving.
"If you got us. You won't need em." Aiden assured. "Me and the team just took down Maleficent in the last world we visited. I think we can handle a couple of glorified puppy snatchers."
"Yeah, but you also said you had help from Doctor Strange with him delivering the final blow. Will he be making an appearance too?" Blake asked with a smirk, messing with the young Maverick.
"Nah. This is way below his pay grade." Maverick remarked back.
"Wait, does Doctor Strange actually get paid?" Goofy asked Donald.
"How would I know you big palooka?" Donald scoffed at Goofy.
"We're here." Judy stated as she parked the car.
"Alright. Vic, wake up we're." Aiden gently said to his girlfriend before he looked back at Sora and Kairi making out. "Spike and Juliette. You can resume your honeymoon later. We're here."
Indicating that Aiden could hear Sora and Kairi kissing the whole time.
Sora and Kairi blushed and separated.
"To be continued." Kairi smirked and winked.
"Yeah." Sora smirked before getting out of the car to join the others who had already disembarked.
Judy then got out of the car with the others as they watched under the shades and Aiden summoned ice umbrellas for the team as they followed the three cops up to the sports store.
However, what should be a sports outlet the size of Walgreens store for all sportsmen needs. Is now much to their shock. Burned to the ground.
The fire department of elephants in red firemen uniforms, were there blowing water from their trunks, on the scorched store that's been burnt down.
"Holy..." Blake widened his eyes.
"Crap." Nick finished.
"What happened here?!" Judy asked as she went over to the captain of the fire crew who was also an elephant.
He and his crew were just as surprised as he is.
"Officer Hopps." The Captain greeted her with a nod. "We got a call about a fire and rushed here as fast as we could. The store was on the verge of collapse by the time we got here. We still have yet to find a cause for this fire."
"Was there anyone around when you and your crew arrived Captain?" Blake came over and asked.
"Not sure Officer Ryo. The only ones around were locals that live around here checking on the disturbance. We told them to stay back while we handled the problem." The Captain answered.
"Of course. You never can get a witness when you need one, can ya?" Nick quipped as he walked over to his partners.
"Hmmm. Maybe they burnt the place down to keep us from tracking them down." Goofy pondered.
"No." Donald gasped dramatically and inquired sarcastically. "Really Goofy?"
"Maybe it's not really a dead end." Aiden bent down and touched the ground near the burnt entrance of the store.
"Is he allowed to do that?" The Captain asked Judy, Blake and Nick about Aiden searching the burnt down premises like a detective.
"Don't worry, he's our intern. He needs practical experience." Nick said with a smirk.
"IRIS. Run a scan of the premises and set up a crime scene." Aiden told his computer as he displayed a hologram beam around the burnt down store.
'Yes Maverick.' IRIS responded from Aiden's ear.
As the entire area displayed an augmented reality holo-display of the area. Showing images of what the store looked like hours earlier. Over the entire burnt store as if to capture of fully accurate depiction of the crime. Much to everyone's amazement.
"He's also from a tech university. He's so close to earning his scholarship." Nick explained to the firemen and Captain who were all fascinated by his technology.
"Damn, why do the cops as always get the cool toys?" One of the firemen complained, impressed with the display.
As Aiden was looking around. He noticed an image in the corner near the boiler on the left side in the image. As a short blank character. About at the hide of a cat. Tossed a bottle that caused an explosion.
"See that? Someone tossed a molotov cocktail bottle at the boiler. About an hour and a half ago. That's what caused the fire." Aiden pointed at the angle and images displayed as he stood with the others.
"Cral. From that angle it could be a raccoon or a possum that did it." One of the elephant firemen wondered.
"Or a cat?" Judy wondered since they dealt with one.
"The height could suggest that. But take a look there." Aiden pointed at the ground a the trajectory of where the bottle was tossed. "The groves and tracks on the ground were from moderate size tires. And the rain indicates that this was done by someone in a wheelchair. Given the wear and tear of the tire material." He picked up a pieces of a loose end of the tire of a wheelchair. "This guy's been sitting and rolling for years. More than a decade maybe."
Meaning some large animal in a wheelchair tossed the molotov cocktail and rolled off before someone could catch the suspect .
The fact that the AR display was showing this highlighted evidence erased all doubts.
"So our suspect is a disabled cat in a wheelchair. That might just help narrow the list down." Blake muttered in thought.
"Anything that can tell us who the feline on the wheeline is or where he rolled off to?" Nick asked with humor.
"Not really. Because it wasn't a cat. The average cat weighs 7.9 – 9.9 lbs. The suspect's weight was 110 – 150 lbs. About the same number for what the wheelchair supports." Aiden stated as the holograms displayed the pressure prints and geoanalysis records that were formed from scanning the crime scenes. Aiden also added. "He ages between thirty and forty five. Male."
"Ok. So cats are off the list." Judy said. "Any traces of fur that you could find. That would definitely give us a push in the right direction."
"No. Whoever was here checked the ground and made sure to keep his twenty dollar after shave on. But here's what I found that's weird." Aiden stated as he read some details in the crime scene reports.
"What?" Sora asked curiously.
"The store had a staff of at least one night guard working the graveyard shift to watch the door for the night. Given that they have...Or had some priceless batting equipment that dated back to several championship play offs. Folks could've come in and stole them. But I digress. Here's what's weird. In spite of the fact that they had scheduled for the store to close early and the night guard to work until 6 PM, tonight. He came in on time. And was there for the first six hours. But the night guard left ten minutes before the fire started." Aiden stated as he displayed the saved data recovered from the store's security server.
Especially showing the video tapes of a night guard. But they couldn't make out what animal it was because it was mostly blurry.
"So, the guard was either shirking his duties." Sora started.
"Or he's somehow involved." Kairi finished.
"Maybe. I mean, a guy in a wheelchair would need protection and someone to drive. Cause he can't roll that fast, unless he's from a Suckerpunch game." Aiden commented while making a Sly Cooper reference, and he turned to his team and everyone else, including the elephant fire crew. "Check around the parking lot and alleyway. See if there are any recent tire tracks. But do not leave any fingerprints or paw prints on them."
"Right!" Everyone said and got to work. Donald and Goofy along with Nick and some of the fire crew checked out the parking lot while Sora, Kairi, Judy, and Blake checked out the alleyway with help from the fire crew. Aiden and Victoria stayed by the store, working with the Captain in searching through the remains of the building to find anything that IRIS might have missed.
The search continued for a short time, with no luck, until...
"Hey, Aiden! We found something!" Goofy called from the parking lot.
"Same here!" Sora and Kairi called out at the same time from the alleyway.
Aiden went over to Goofy first as two of the fire men were with him.
He came over to them and looked down at what Goofy was pointing at.
"Is this it?" Goofy asked.
Aiden bent on the ground and scanned the tire tracks. They looked like the moderate size of a standard vehicle for customers.
"Close. But these tracks are for a common set of snow tires for race cars and tow trucks. These tracks have the same prints as several around the parking lot for the past five years." Aiden stated.
"I told Ron never to use snow tires again." One of the elephant fire crew said.
"That's how his ex wife found him." Another fire crew member shrugged.
Then Aiden went over to see the tracks Sora and Kairi found. These tire tracks on the ground in the alleyway looked much fresher.
"Could this be another clue?" Sora asked
"Let's find out." Aiden scanned the details of what type of tires these were, before his ring displayed a holo-description in front of them.
'C-Type Tire Size: 225/75R16C 121R'
"These types of C range of nylon and silica are manufactured for a comment SUV and MiniVan. Or in this case a white van. If so, God save the candy." Aiden commented and remarked.
"Yeah but take a look. The same tracks for the wheelchair somehow rolled closer to these tracks." Kairi pointed out as she pointed on the ground with her lion finger.
"I'm going to ask the audience for this answer. What do you think, Spike?" Aiden asked for his friend's opinion.
"Well, if I had to guess, the tracks indicate that they were from the getaway vehicle the suspect used." Sora surmised before looking closer at the way the wheelchair tracks came close to the tire tracks. "And the wheelchair tracks being so close to the tire indicate that the van was designed to let the wheelchair get inside it with the suspect still sitting in it."
"You hear that folks? He can be taught." Aiden quipped.
"Could we maybe follow the tracks to an undisclosed location maybe?" Kairi asked.
"Not quite that simple Rosebud. The rain in this Seattle PetsMart District would've caused the tire tracks to fade by now. Plus people driving by all the time would lessen my chances of tracking them down." Aiden gestured towards the road where several cars were passing back. "Still it could work maybe. But we would need a second source of evidence for the trail to stick."
Sora decided to look at the boiler, looking at the damage it caused. Then he looked down and saw an old cigar.
"Hey. I think I might have found our second source of evidence." Sora called Aiden and Kairi over as Sora pointed down at the cigar, not wanting to risk contaminating the evidence by picking it up. "A lit cigar and a boiler don't mix well, do they?"
Aiden came over looking curious as he scanned the cigar on the ground and found some pointed prints and fingerprints on it. But he couldn't read who the prints belonged to.
"No. There's no way they could be that slobby." Aiden shook his head finding it impossible for thr driver and suspect to be this stupid.
"Hey, Aiden. Come look at this!" Victoria called her boyfriend over and showed him what she and the captain found on the cashier terminal after hacking into their cloud storage. "Take a look. It's a receipt for nine pairs of boxing gloves."
Aiden, Sora and Kairi came over to see. Since the terminal was one of the few things that wasn't burnt down in the store. Victoria was able to get this info.
Nine pairs of boxing gloves. which could, without a doubt, connect to the nine missing dog boxers. Which is what they were thinking.
"Nine pairs for nine missing dog boxers maybe?" Victoria figured with a grin.
"See? This is proof that coincidences are a myth." Aiden quipped.
"Does it say who the customer was?" Sora asked.
"Nope. Whoever bought these bought em with cash." The captain answered.
"Darn. Guess they knew how risky it is to use credit cards." Kairi sighed in disappointment.
"Hey Intern, you might want to come see this!" Nick called out to him. Aiden walked towards the burnt down security room, and found Nick and Judy inside.
"I just found an ID tag. It's been burnt. But it looks like it survived enough to give us a first name." Judy said, handing the tag to Aiden.
Aiden read the first name on the security ID tag.
"Denzel." Aiden read from the tag. "So we're either dealing with the Equalizer, or a crazy elementary school teacher obsessed with fairies."
"There's more here. take a look." Nick chuckled and opened a desk drawer pulling out a box of cigars. "Look at these things. This is so Old School. I mean what year is this? The fifties?"
Sora and Kairi came over to see as well.
"Well you'd be surprised how much they're worth on my wo-" Aiden almost shrugged before he squinted his eyes and saw something about that box of cigars. And he picked it up. "Wait a sec? Burning Primate tobacco?"
"That's another thing, there's no such thing as monkeys. Someone got stoked during the development phase." Nick joked.
Aiden ignored the fox and wondered.
"IRIS? What type of cigar was on the ground near the boiler?" Aiden asked.
'The brand was Burning Primate tobacco.' IRIS answered.
Sora smirked smugly as he was the one who figured the suspect or night guard was the one smoking earlier.
Aiden cleared his throat. "Like I said earlier. It's very possible they could be that sloppy." He muttered
"Oh yeah, of course you did." Sora said sarcastically with a smirk.
"Congratulations, you solved it again." Kairi said to Aiden with sarcasm as she leaned into Sora giving him a kiss on the cheek. "Good work, my lazy Bum."
"With that said. IRIS? Cross reference the two important pieces of evidence and see if they match a potential trail." Aiden requested his A.I.
'They do indeed.' IRIS displayed an AR trail down the road.
"And...Yahtzee. With a trail of Burning Primate vapor in the atmosphere and the c-type van tracks on the ground below the vapor to make it easy. They left a trail of leftover crumbs without knowing it." Aiden stated to them.
Meaning this trail can lead them to where the suspect went.
"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's follow their trail." Sora said.
"Right, let's go." Kairi said as they made their way to the car.
Everyone agreed as they went back to the car. Donald. Goofy and Blake came over to check on the others.
"Did you find anything?" Donald asked while hebwas holding his umbrella to not get his feathers wet.
"Pretty much. Aiden found a trail that could lead us to our box napper suspect." Judy pointed to the AR trailer on the road.
"Alright, then. Let's hit the road." Blake said, grabbing the keys from Judy with a smirk looking at his partners. "I'll drive this time."
"Shotgun!" Judy quickly said before laughing.
"Oh come on, again?" Nick said with exasperation as Judy jokingly stuck her tongue out at him.
As everyone got into the car. And Nick got to sit in the back next to Donald and Goofy much to his annoyance.
The police car came out of the parking lot and drove down the road, following the AR trail of Aiden's personal artificial intelligence. They looked to the left and went into the freeway. Then they drove two miles and went towards an intersection. But once they got to a Rhinoceros themed gas station. The trail stopped near some traffic lights.
"Wait, is that it?" Judy asked, looking surprised.
"No, it can't be." Blake responded as he didn't think that's all and asked Aiden. "Anything on your end."
"I can't tell. Let's park under those horns." Aiden pointed at the gas station.
"Well, looks like we might have to hire a new intern." Nick joked as Blake parked the car.
"Sorry Vic. But they're will be other positions out there." Aiden mused looking at his girlfriend.
"I'm sure he's talking about you, wise ass." Victoria smirked as she got out of the car first.
"Damn it." Aiden hissed.
Then as everyone got out of the car. Aiden walked over to the sidewalk and stood near the cross end and looked up at the traffic lights.
"The dude smoking must've rolled up his window, the trail ends here." Aiden stated.
"Well that's just great." Judy huffed in annoyance.
"Looks like we're back to square one." Blake muttered.
"Not yet we're not." Nick called out, getting everyone's attention. They turned to him and saw him smirking and pointing at one of the traffic poles, which had a camera. "Always pay attention to your surroundings. Remember that, intern."
"Already on it." Aiden stated as he was typing on his holo keyboard on his ring as he was working his 'magic'. "But before I do, we'll I get arrested for crack jacking the camera?"
By that he means hacking the traffic cam.
"Don't worry, we won't mind." Judy said reassuringly to Aiden.
"Yeah. Lives are at stake. Go for it." Blake gave Aiden the green light.
"Ok then." Aiden nodded and started typing again.
"I mean, Chief Bogo will probably have an issue. But we won't." Nick muttered with a mischievous smirk.
"Kay...One moment...I might have to change my last name to Pierce after this..." Aiden muttered, making a reference to Watch Dogs. Then he finished. "And done. Here's the van."
He expanded the display of the video to the size of a computer screen so everyone could see. They saw a cigar being tossed out of black van stopping for a red light. And then the window rolled up the window of the van, before the vehicle went on a green light.
Then Aiden accesses the traffic cam network and access the others. But then as he was following the van. It took a turn on the one road that doesn't have a camera.
"I can't access any cameras on that road." Aiden furrowed his eyebrows.
"That's because they're aren't any on that road...Damn it. They took the inner state." Blake exhaled in disappointment.
"Hold on. Maybe we're not sunk yet." Aiden assured. "IRIS zoom in on camera eleven."
Then the traffic cam-11 zoomed in on a faded image of the license plate. The image cleared up for them to see the license plate tag and number. Then IRIS displayed them.
'CRK-A-10E'
"We got a license plate!" Blake exclaimed.
"Great! Now we can run a search with the DMV." Judy said with a smile.
"Shall I put out a bolo as well?" Nick asked, pulling out his cellphone.
"I would." Blake agreed with the fox. "But let them know to be discreet."
"Yeah we don't want them burning a kindergarten this time." Nick remarked about how desperate this suspect seems to not be followed.
Baby Groot was sitting on Kairi's shoulder when he tilted his head and looked at the license plate tag. And thought of something by how it's spelled.
"I am Groot?" Baby Groot pointed at the tag.
Victoria and Aiden understood as they curiously looked at the license plate.
"Huh. What a twist." Aiden mimicked Shyamalan.
"Good eye Sweetie." Victoria complimented and stroked Baby Groot's chin making him smile and giggle.
"Folks take a look at the tag lines. 'CRK-A-10E' As in 'crack a tinny'?" Aiden showed them and illustrated what Baby Groot found.
"That's an Australian slang for opening a can of beer." Blake noticed.
"So the suspect could be Australian?" Sora wondered.
"Or the driver?" Kairi guessed.
"Couldn't we just go to one of the DMVs and ask?" Goofy asked.
"Well there might be a problem." Nick said looking at his phone after messaging headquarters about the bolo. "Today's Sunday, and the DMVs don't usually operate on Sunday."
"So you're saying all the DMVs are closed?" Donald groaned in frustration.
"Well, not all of them." Nick said with a sheepish smirk, looking towards Judy. "There is one still open today."
Judy looked at him before her eyes widened in realization.
"Oh no. No. No. No. No. No!" Judy snapped, her eyes wide and slightly buggy. "We are not going there again! No way!"
"What? What's going on?" Blake asked, confused as the guardians.
"Don't ask!" Judy held her paw up to her boyfriend urging him not to before glare at the fox. "Nick. The answer is no. I would rather drown in carrot juice and beet juice than to go to that place again. So my answer is no. No way. Never. Nuh uh...No." She paused and exhaled...And snapped. "No!"
Nick was smirking the entire time with his arms crossed while everyone else was confused. Because he knew the one DMV place Judy would've taken a blood oath to never go back to. If it meant never going back...
To the one slowest DMV on the planet.
Later at the Sloth's DMV...
Aiden. Sora. Blake. Judy and the guardians walked into the DMV as there was a long line for people to get or renew their driver's licenses. Or for other reasons people go to lose time at the DMV. But in this case it's worse or rather just as worse. Because everyone working there are sloths. Moving slower than a cup of cold molasses. Even one was having a slow time stapling some files. The sounds were slow as well.
Nick optimistically and smugly walked up to the only register counter available as a male sloth with a green shirt and tie was standing up there. Judy was grumbling looking annoyed as she was walking with the others looking concerned.
"Flash, Flash, hundred-yard dash! How's business going today Bud?" Nick greeted the sloth up at the counter named Flash.
"Business... Is... Going... Fast... Today.." Flash said very slowly with a smile. "How... Are... You... Doing... Nick?"
Je...sus...Christ...Al...mighty." Aiden muttered in horror at how slow they were.
"Great Pal. These are some new friends of ours and this is Jude's date, Blake. He's been in the force going on two years now." Nick introduced everyone.
"Uh...Hi?" Blake said with an awkward smile and hissed quietly to Nick. "What the hell did you drag us into?"
"Come on. Like I said. This was the only DMV open today." Nick reasoned with a smile. "Besides, my man here works fast. We'll be out of here in no time."
"Out of here in no time?!" Blake hissed back incredulously. "By the time we have what we need, our suspect might just be on the other side of the planet with every boxer in Zootopia held hostage!"
"And... What... About... The... Rest... Of... You?" Flash asked slowly, his eyes ever so slowly turning towards Sora, not having heard Blake's whispers. "What's... Your... Name... Young... Man?"
"Oh, well, my name's Sora." Sora introduced himself awkwardly before gesturing to Kairi. "And this is my Girlfriend, Kairi."
"Hi, nice to meet you Mr. Flash." Kairi greeted with an awkward smile.
"Hi, I'm Goofy." Goofy said with gusto, not even the least bit put off by how slow the sloth was. "And this here is Donald."
"Yeah, hi." Donald gritted out, already getting slightly frustrated by all of this.
"Nice... To... Meet... You... Sora... Kairi... Donald... And... Goofy." Flash said slowly before slowly turning his gaze to Aiden and Victoria. "And... You... Two... Are?"
"The name's Aiden." Aiden grit his teeth.
"And I'm Victoria. How are you?" Victoria forced a friendly greeting while grinding her teeth in frustration.
"I... Am... Doing... Just..." Flash started slowly and paused for a moment.
"Fine?" Blake tried answering for him.
"As... Well... As... I... Can... Be..." Flash continued slowly, making Blake's eye twitch along with Judy.
Judy at this point was banging her head on the counter while everyone else looked anxious or annoyed. Or both.
"How...Can...I...Help..." Flash smiled while saying slowly
"Okay? We found a-" Blake tried to say.
"You all..." Flash added to his slow question which cut Blake off.
"We found a license pl-" Blake almost tried again.
"Today?" Flash finally finished.
There was a short pause. Before Blake resumed.
"We found a license plate that probably belongs to someone we're looking for. We need you to run the plate for us." Blake finally explained.
"Sure... What's... The... Plate..." Flash asked slowly.
"Oh the plate." Blake pulled out the number. "It's CRK-"
"Number?" Flash finished his question, making Blake's eye twitch.
"Lord, give me strength." Blake murmured quietly.
"Steady partner." Nick said with a smirk.
Blake took a breath to calm himself before looking at Flash again.
"The plate number is CRK-A10E." Blake read off the license plate.
Then Flash looked down slowly after a blink. Then he raised gis finger and started to slowly type in the letters. "C...R...K..." He repeated slowly as he typed them in.
Donald was fuming quietly as he and his feathers were turning a deep red with his head boiling with his temper and patience on edge. As he groaned.
Kairi nearly dozed off as she shook herself awake. Baby Groot was already asleep in Aiden's pocket.
Goofy's intention span made him zone out and look up at the ceiling in a bored expression. Like a child veering off while adults were talking.
Aiden was aiming a ice gun to his head, twitching but exhaled as he dropped it. While Victoria was face palming herself deeply.
Then Goofy snickered. "Hm hmhmhm..."
"What's so funny?" Sora asked.
"I just thought of an old joke." Goofy stifled his laughter.
Unfortunately Flash heard him say that too. Given that he likes jokes.
"What...Was...It?" Flash asked Goofy.
"NO!" Everyone exclaimed. Judy screamed louder while pulling on her own ears.
"Why couldn't the pony sing a lullaby?" Goofy smiled.
"I... Don't... Know... Why... Couldn't... The... Pony... Sing... A... Luluby?" Flash asked very slowly.
"You're enjoying this too much aren't you?" Judy seethed quietly at Nick who just smirked.
"Hmmm... Maybe just a little." Nick said nonchalantly.
"I swear, I don't know who I want to strangle more right now. You, or Goofy." Blake gritted out quietly to the fox.
"Because she was a little horse. Ahyuck! Hoo hoo hoo HOO!" Goofy finished the joke with a laugh.
Flash just stared at first, but then his eyes began to slowly widen, and his mouth opened slowly with a big smile. That felt like an eternity before he gave the first laugh.
"Ha... Ha... Ha... Ha... Ha..." Flash slowly laughed.
"Hilarious. Now could we just resume where we left-" Victoria was about to insist.
"Hey!... Priscilla?!" Flash called over to a female sloth working there.
"No! Why?!" Judy exclaimed and she groaned hard as she pulled her own ears.
"Yes...Flash?" Priscilla answered from the copier.
"Why...Couldn't...The..." Flash slowly repeated the joke to share with his co-worker.
Donald, at this point, red faced with anger, finally snapped.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAK!" Donald screamed, pulling his feathers off his head. After that, he grabbed Goofy by his vest and shook him hard and fast. "YOU BIG PALOOKA! YOU JUST HAD TO START TELLING JOKES, DIDN'T YOU?! NOW WE'RE GONNA BE HERE FOREVER!"
"Gawrsh, Sorry Donald! I didn't know my joke would be so popular!" Goofy said, confused as he was being shook.
"I hope you're happy with yourself!" Judy snapped at the smirking Nick.
"Eh, I can't complain." Nick said nonchalantly.
"That's it! Forget sitting in the back!" Blake snapped as well. "I swear for the next month, you'll be riding with us in the trunk!"
"Totally worth it." Nick still could not be shaken.
"GIVE US THE NUMBER BEFORE I LICK THE DIRT AND CHEW OFF MY OWN LEGS!" Aiden exclaimed throughout the DMV making several people look over at him while Flash ignored and kept telling the joke slowly.
"Oh he'll do it too." Victoria said to everyone.
Some time later...
Flash managed to run the plate tag and got it printed on paper. He slowly pulled the paper out of the printer and slowly held it up.
Aiden took it before Flash could slowly say 'here you go'. Then Aiden read the paper in his hands. Then he scanned it with his ring and he ate the paper and swallowed it to somehow relieve his anxiety.
"Alright! Thank God the deed is done...The van is down at this address, for an old warehouse just forty miles outside the city." Aiden informed the team and cops. Before sending the info to Blake's phone.
"Thank goodness." Sora said, relieved to finally get what they came for.
"Yeah, that took a lot longer than I thought it would." Kairi muttered as well.
"Gee, I wonder who's fault that is." Donald gritted out while glaring at Goofy.
"Sorry Donald." Goofy apologized again.
"I was this close to committing arson." Victoria muttered.
"I am Groot." Baby Groot woke up asking if they were done here.
"Is no one going to comment about how the kid just ate that piece of paper like he hasn't eaten in weeks?" Nick asked, looking at Aiden.
"It's your fault. you drove him to it. You and your stupid idea to come here." Judy snapped, grabbing Nick's shirt, ready to throttle him until Blake gently pulled her away.
"Come on Baby, strangling him here will only make things more complicated." Blake said trying to calm her down, even though he was close to throttling the fox himself. "Let's just go before we get stuck in here for much longer."
"Right." Judy sighed, getting her bearings before addressing the guardians. "Come on guys, let's get outta here."
The others nodded and started walking towards the exit. Nick looked back with a smirk.
"Goodbye Flash! Catch ya later!" Nick called back as he followed the others.
"Goodbye... Nick... See... You...Later." Flash called back slowly.
Once everyone made it outside. Aiden, Sora and the team were surprised to see that it was night fall already. Even Blake was shocked.
"Wait. It's-" Blake almost said.
"Don't say it! Just get in the car!" Judy snapped as she stomped to the vehicle.
"Yes Ma'am." Blake bit his lip as they all hurried to the car.
Once Judy took the wheel. She took a deep breath. And felt much better. As everyone else got in the car and they drove out of that slow burn of hell everyone called the DMV.
"If I'm honest. It's no different than the DMV from a human world." Blake stated.
"And it's better than seeing Pete dance earlier." Sora sighed.
"Spike. Getting rectal surgery by a doctor with Parkinson's using rusty butter knives, is a lot better than seeing Pete do that drag act." Aiden responded in a deadpan tone.
"Ok. First off, you are very graphic for a kid your age." Nick commented. "And second, I think we can all agree on that."
"So, what's the plan now?" Kairi asked from her seat next to Sora.
"We won't know until we get to this warehouse. But I'm confident we got them this time." Judy said with an optimistic smile.
As she was fully recovered from being at that place.
"Do we have anything on that place?" Sora asked.
"I've pulled up some records about that place. They used to belong to someone by the name of Joey Jackson. A Kangaroo who used to manufacture boxing equipment and tobacco gum for the DBC league." Aiden read the details on the info IRIS picked up.
DFC as in 'Dog Boxing Championship'.
"And it's where the kidnapped boxers might be held up? That definitely is not a coincidence." Blake stated.
"Could Jackson be the one that kidnapped all those boxers?" Judy asked.
"Not quite. Because Jackson passed away twenty years ago from lung cancer. But here's something interesting." Aiden got their attention. "Joey's son. Russell D Jackson. Or Rusty Jack as his ring name. Took on the championship for nine seasons after his father's passing. But one of the boxers he was up against was cheated by A Labrador named Alex Rufus. He was arrested for hiding brass knuckles in his gloves and beating the crap out of Rusty Jack with them."
"Gawrsh. That sounds awful. I wonder what happened to him after that." Goofy said in thought and sympathy.
"It took six months for Rusty's face and jaw line to recover. Once he was fixed he went back to his manager expecting to be let back into another season. But they brushed him off. And went to the next newcomer standing in line. No one's heard from him ever since." Aiden revealed while reading.
Kairi was deep in thought before her eyes widened with an idea.
"Or maybe not." Kairi muttered, getting everyone's attention.
"What Kairi? You have an idea?" Sora asked his girlfriend.
"Possibly. Aiden, Victoria. What was the name on the ID tag we found earlier?" Kairi asked.
"It was Denzel. But that wouldn't fit. Rusty's first name was Russell, not Denzel." Victoria said, not yet seeing Kairi's train of thought.
"I know, but what if the name on the tag wasn't a first name, but a middle name?" Kairi stated her idea, making everyone's eyes widened.
"Russell D. Jack." Sora muttered, getting Kairi's point. "D as in..."
"Denzel." Kairi finished with a smirk.
"Light...Bulb." Aiden sang amusingly.
"Then who was the guy in the wheelchair?" Donald asked.
"Maybe Russell is letting his second hand assistant use his name. Just to spread his ID and confuse other folks from recognizing him. As for why he would be in a wheelchair. Hell if I know." Victoria shrugged.
"Well, whatever the case, we'll hopefully have our answers once we find the missing boxers" Judy said as she drove.
"I just hope we don't hit another dead end." Nick stated.
"Please don't jinx us, man." Blake groaned. "We've already gone through enough trouble with this case."
"Speaking of trouble, I wonder what Pete's been up to since we saw him back at Von Drake's Laboratory." Victoria wondered in thought.
"Hopefully, he's not causing any more trouble." Sora said.
"Or getting himself into trouble." Aiden remarked.
Technically. Pete is in the kind that's legal but shouldn't be. But it pays well. But probably not enough.
Back over at Von Drake's Observatory...
Pete was in the testing room which looked like a futuristic place to test explosions. He had just been strapped to an x shaped structure off the ground by the Von Drake Droids, in front of an approaching machine with a large claw. The Crotchitizer.
"Alright fellas. Nice and tight now." Pete said to the Droids as they strapped him in as the machine continued its approach. "So, you tested this, right?"
The droids moved out of the way and didn't respond as the Crotchitizer was getting closer.
"Oh wait. That's why I'm here!" Pete said with a chuckle as the machine stopped in front of him, preparing its claw. "Oh, one more thing."
Pete didn't get the chance to ask as the claw extended forward and grabbed something very important with its claw.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" Pete screamed real painfully out.
Pete was not having a good time this time around.
"I STILL LOVE MY JOB!" Pete exclaimed joyfully with a chipmunk sounding voice.
THAT'S ALL FOR NOW FOLKS! 🎉🎉 🎉
Sorry for the aches and cringes at the end folks. I hope all of my fellow men will forgive me for that. 😅
The Genius of the House is in my series! And making references to some cartoons about him from thr House Of Mouse and Mickey's Mouse Works. I bet you all were happy to see Von Drake in the series now. He will be showing up more often. I promise you. 😁👍
As for what Judy. Blake. Nick. Sora. Aiden and the Guardians will find in this factory. And whether or not they'll possibly find an underground fight club.
Find out in the next chapter! 👍😁
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