Chapter Five: There Goes the T-rating (Action-Packed, Violent Chapter)
A/N: Face front, true believers! Never in the history of fan-fiction has a chapter been so packed with non-stop action and thrills of super-heroic daring-do! You'll see explosions! Flames! Freezing! Falling! Flying! Running! Stabbing! Electrocuting! Crying! And a naked tiger!
Thank God I thought of adding the super-power bit at the last minute. It was the story so, so much fun to write! So much so that I have to pace myself. I'm already halfway through writing the next chapter before I proofread and posted this one.
Sadly, the violence (especially the burns) pushed it into the M-Rating category. It's important to the story and the motivation of the characters that I don't hold back, but I'm disappointed that I couldn't keep it around a PG-13
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2:03 pm. At what's left of the Wilde's home.
"Where's the girl?" Firefox said.
"She ain't here!" Finnick replied. "She ran off!"
Flames arose from Firefox's paws. "You're lying!"
"He's not." said a voice from behind.
"Ah! Sniffer. You've traced the girl?"
"I know enough that her scent has faded. She's on a bus."
Firefox looked over at the scared fox couple. "Forgive me for not introducing our tracker, Sniffer."
Finnick took one look at the wolf. "That is one huge nose. Do you charge rent to live in your nostrils?!"
Vivian pinched him. "Don't antagonize the wolf!"
"It matters not," said Sniffer. "I have heard it all. While I'm good at a blade, I'll admit, my power is not very offensive, but nonetheless invaluable. I can learn everything about someone just by their smell. Even if they're gone for weeks, I can track their scent for miles."
"What's with the color-coded costumes?"
"They are our containment suits. Some of us, like Kaboom here need something to constrain our powers or else we can't control them. Others have enough mental focus that they don't need it. I, myself, don't need one. I just wear one to be uniform with my team."
Firefox was getting impatient. "Just because they see us as villains, doesn't mean we have to spout exposition! Just sniff out the place so I can burn it to the ground and we can leave!"
"Sniff! Sniff! She did leave and is currently on a bus heading to the city. She took a backpack with money and jewelry. Sniff! Sniff! Interesting! The backpack contains a six-year-old bunny boy and… Sniff! Sniff! Experiment 817! She has the missing sugar glider!"
"What do you want with Sugar?!" Finnick asked. "She's disabled!"
"She's not disabled. Her powers haven't fully awoken yet and besides...Sniff! Sniff! Firefox, eight-year-old Jackal on your right."
"What?" Firefox quickly turned his head to the right only to see Joseph lunging at him through the broken kitchen window.
The jackal boy attacked with a feral rage. "RRAAAH!" He bit deep into the neck of Firefox.
The fox panicked and screamed. "AAAH! Get him off me! GET HIM OFF!"
Joseph gave the opening Finnick and Vivian needed. "NOW!" Finnick took a swing at Kaboom's testicles, knocking him to his knees.
The capybara grunted. "EERRGHH! I BLOW YOU UP GOOD!"
"Not now, Kaboom!" Sniffer warned. "You'll kill us all!"
Firefox got rid of Joseph off his neck by setting it aflame. He severely burned Joseph's mouth. "YIPE! YIPE!" The jackal screamed in pain.
Vivian caught the boy and saw that his mouth was on fire. "Joseph!" She took a kitchen towel and patted the fire out.
Finnick kept his distance while swinging away at Firefox. He hit the fox's knee as Firefox shot flame from his paws that Finnick managed to dodge. But then, he quickly had to dodge some knives that Sniffer threw.
"I told you I was good with a blade!" the wolf said.
Finnick had a plan. "Viv! Get Joe out of here! Go through the back, grab the kids and head out the side gate! I'll catch up!"
As Vivian was running, a wall of flame appeared. "You're not going anywhere!" Shouted Firefox.
Finnick slid past Firefox. "I'm just tryin' to get away from Sniffer's big-ass nose!"
Sniffer was enraged. "Fox! Fireblades!"
Firefox chuckled. "I love this part!"
Finnick looked at his wife "Just run through the firewall! Get the kids and run!"
Vivian took the risk and carried Joseph through the wall of flame. "It's just a thin wall, Hon! I'm okay!"
Firefox was enraged. The firewall was too thin and did no damage. "Damn!" He lit up his paws again.
Finnick was now trapped between Kaboom on one side and both Firefox and Sniffer on the other. "You're dead! You tiny fox!" Sniffer shouted as he went to throw the knives.
Kaboom saw the blades about to be thrown. "No! Wait!"
It was too late. Sniffer threw the blades past Firefox's flames, setting the knives ablaze only for them to be dodged by Finnick and struck into Kaboom. "AAARGGH!"
The two gasped when they realized what happened. "Oh no!" Sniffer shouted. "The containment suit has been breached! We've gotta get out of here!"
"We haven't killed them yet!" Firefox shouted.
"No time! We'll go nab the Possum and Sugar Glider! I still have the scent from the bus she took off in!"
"Fine! Buyt next time, just say 'to your right', not 'eight-year-old jackal to your right'! I could have reacted much faster!"
Finnick jumped on Kaboom's back and took out the two knives. He then lunged at the two villains. "I'll kill you!"
Before he could do anything, they both ran as fast as they could for their van, leaving Finnick happy. "Ha-Ha! Yeah! You better run!"
Finnick looked over to see a bright fire coming out of the stabbed holes in Kaboom's back. The capybara was screaming in pain. "AAAHH! It hurts!" His entire body started to swell and inflate. "I-I'm gonna blow! Help! Help!"
"Oh, shit!" Finnick ran out of the house and jumped into his van. The others two were already speeding away. "I gotta pick up Viv and the kids, quick!"
He quickly backed his van out of the driveway and drove around the corner. He saw Vivian limping with the children in her arms. "Quick get in! The big guy's gonna blow up!"
Vivian got in as best she could, she was wincing in pain. "Penny! Hold onto the puppies while I hold onto UUURGGHH! Joe!"
"Babe! What happened?"
"They threw a blade at me and laughed as they sped off! The bastard hit my leg!"
"I'm gonna kill 'em!"
Finnick drove off again. "Wait! I'm not belted!" Vivian yelled.
Finnick kept driving at a speedy pace. "No time! The capybara's suit got cut and he's gonna blow up! I just don't know big of an expl-"
BOOM!
The explosion was like a mini-nuke, causing a big, red mushroom cloud behind them. The shockwave shattered their back windows and raised the back tires up a little before dropping back down. Windows were shattered all over the neighborhood and they could hear car alarms going off.
Finnick quickly stopped. "Is everyone okay?!"
"I fell on floor," Penny said. "But got puppies! 'Dey okay! Scary! Scary!"
"Good girl! I'll pull over and we can put them in their puppy seats proper." He then looked at his wife who was just holding onto Joseph tight and shaking. "Viv? Viv, honey. You okay?!"
"OF COURSE, I'M NOT OKAY!" She screamed. "We were so close to death! Poor Joseph's face is burned! His lips are almost gone! Our entire house just blew up and I've been stabbed! So excuse me if I'm freaking out! This is all Judy's fault! If she hadn't brought her damn work home with her, we would have never been in danger like this! What are we gonna do now?! What are-"
SLAP! Joseph slapped his grandmother across the face. His lack of front lips made it hard for him to talk. "Caln down wonan! Yee are okay! Wee are alize! Dat what natterth!"
Vivian calmed down. "Your right, Joseph. We're alive. That's what matters the most. Penny, do you have the puppies belted into their seats?"
"Yes, gamma." Penny replied. "This is scary!"
"I know, but the worst is behind us."
"Not for me," said Finnick.
"What are you talking about?"
"I'm gonna drive you guys to the hospital and drop you off. Then I'm gonna call Judy and warn her of what's coming. I just got the same text from Greg that Judy and Nick must have got. He left his phone on so we can track his GPS. I'm gonna try to find them before those bastards do."
"But Finn…"
"I won't let them hurt my family anymore!"
"Be very careful "
Joseph was trying to lick around his muzzle. "I can't thnell:"
Finnick wasn't sure how to tell him. "Firefox, he… he burnt your face when you attacked him. The fur on your lips is burned away and your nose and lips pretty burnt too. Don't you worry though. You'll be okay."
"Yanna?"
"Yeah…"
Joseph tried to smile through his burnt face. "I yan eight yearth old!"
Finnick chuckled. "That's what that big-nose guy said! And he seems to know everything with just a whiff. Looks like Nick was wrong in his guess."
"Yi will drake ut with Thindy."
"You'll break up with Cindy? Why?"
"Thee's thix! I yan eight! I yan no cradle rodder!"
Finnick laughed. "Ha-HA! Yeah! You're no cradle robber. You need outta Kindergarten. I think you got the basics now for first grade. Here's the hospital. I'm calling the fire department and the police to tell them what happened."
Vivian was concerned. "Does our insurance cover exploding capybara?!"
"It should. We're covered by Farters. They know a thing or two because they've seen a thing or two."
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Finnick parked in front of the hospital and helped get everyone out. He got them inside Emergency, kissed his wife goodbye, and ran back to the van. He quickly got on the phone to Judy.
"Finnick, What's up?!"
"Wherever you are, get outta there! NOW! I just left the hospital! They're coming for Bandit and Sugar! They can track you! They're coming!"
"Finnick, calm down! Who's coming?! What happened?!"
"What happened?! I'll tell you what happened! A trio of supervillains came to our house and blew it up, that's what happened!"
"Oh my gosh! Do you know what this means?!"
"What?"
"The fourth wall joke at the end of the last chapter is no longer canon!"
"Will you concentrate?! Where are you?!"
"At Duke Weaselton's hideout. Bandit, Greg, and Sugar are with me."
"You're all in serious danger! Get outta there now! I'm heading your way! They're coming after Bandit and Sugar! Judy. The house is gone. They blew it up. They injured Viv and… and they severely burned Joseph's face."
"They burned his face?!"
"His nose and lips are almost gone. Despite that, he's in good spirits. That kid is tough. Real tough."
Judy was sobbing on the other end. "My baby! They hurt my baby boy! Who are these scum?!"
"One's called Firefox. He's the one that burned Joseph. He has fire powers. The other is a wolf with a really big nose called Sniffer."
"Firefox and Sniffer. I'm gonna kill them!"
Meanwhile, on the other side of the phone call at Duke's hideout...
Duke overheard Judy. "Wait! Sniffer's comin' here?! That's bad! REAL bad! He can track yer scent fer miles! I could barely get away from him last time No where's safe from him! M-Maybe we can go down in 'da sewers?!"
Judy was already hatching a plan. "If nowhere is safe, then they'll just follow us wherever we go, right?"
"Yeah."
"Then we make our stand here. I'm gonna fight them!"
"You're gonna fight a guy with flame powers?!"
Judy pointed up at the pipes. "Look around you, Duke! This is the perfect place to ambush someone with flame powers!"
"Yeah…. Yeah! 'Da water pipes!"
"Let's formulate a plan." She got back on the phone with Finnick. "Finn! Hurry down here and get the kids to safety! Duke and I are going to try and fight them."
"No! Get outta there!"
"If this 'Sniffer' guy can track us anywhere, then there's nowhere to run. We're gonna set up an ambush instead. Get here as fast as you can. We're on the same family plan, so follow my phone."
"I'm already speedin'. If any cops flash their lights, I'll just have them follow me."
"Sounds like a plan. Be safe Finn."
"You too." Finnick then hung up.
Duke put his arm around Judy. "Look at us, hunh?! We're a team now!"
Judy smacked his arm away. "This is only temporary!"
Meanwhile…
Firefox was driving as Sniffer, got on the phone with his superior. "Ice Queen. Come in, please."
"Not now, Frank!"
"Firefox looked puzzled. "Frank?!"
Sniffer explained. "It's her codename when it might not be 100% safe to talk. It means she's in public somewhere. I'm sorry to interrupt, we have good news and bad news."
"I just looked around. Coast is clear. What's the good news?"
"We found the location of both experiments 821 and 817 and are on our way to collect them."
"Wait. Experiment 821 was not at the house?"
"The possum snuck out and took a bus."
"Is that the bad news?"
"No. I'm afraid Kaboom has passed on. Errr.. one of the witnesses was fortunate enough to get a hit in and sliced Kaboom along with his containment suit."
"What… happened?!"
"He blew up like a mini-nuke, taking the entire house with him. We managed to get out in time."
"I imagine the witnesses died with him?!"
"Ummm…. Well. We did see the van pull away as we were leaving steadfast."
"...WHAT?!"
"We had no time to kill them as Kaboom was about to blow. We did injure a boy and his grandmother though. I stabbed her in the leg as we were driving off."
"So let me get this straight. You left Kaboom to die and let the witnesses live?! We're not supposed to leave any trace of evidence! The firemammals and some police are probably on their way there right now! If bit and pieces of Kaboom's containment suit are still around, that could lead them to my sweet… to our boss!"
"W-We're sorry! We'll nab the two experiments. We promise!"
"You better, or else you're dead! You hear me?! You're dead!" She then hung up on them.
"Whatever you old hag!" Sniffer replied.
"She hung up, didn't she?" Firefox asked.
"Oh, yeah. I'm not stupid enough to cross her."
Meanwhile…
Fangmeyer had entered the ladies' locker room where she saw Friedkin undressed about to take a shower. She got undressed as well and got over near the showerhead next to her.
The tiger stretched as the hot water showered her body. "AH! Nothing like a nice, hot shower to relax away stress!"
"I prefer mine cold," said Friedkin. "So… could you, know? Go over one?"
"Hunh? Oh, sure!" She turned the shower head off. "I imagine as a polar bear, you like it cold."
"The colder the better."
"Is that so?" Fangmeyer reared her fist back and punched Friedkin right in the jaw. "Eh, Ice Queen?!"
Friedkin hit the ground hard. She was down, but not out. "So, you were listening in?!"
"Only after I got some fur fibers on Wolford's keyboard to the lab and found out they were from several species including a polar bear! Who else but you had access to everything going on at the ZPD?! You were retired, but still training the new coach which allowed you to traverse anywhere at the HQ! But worse, you slept with Bogo just to get information from him!"
Friedkin started to get up. "That part was easy. He was having such a hard time on the job, he'd bare his soul to me! Every, little, detail. The hardest part was finally getting him to leave his wife."
"You ruined his life! You framed Wolford! You no-good traitor!"
As she went to leap-kick at Friedkin, he was surprised with a blast of ice from the polar bear's paw, that encased her legs in a block of ice. As Friedkin got up, Fangmeyer fell.
"Did you think I'm called 'Ice-Queen' because I'm cold-hearted?! My REAL lover gave me these powers! The same ones he has! He's going to take over this city!"
Fangmeyer was confused. "Wait! You and Mr. Big?!"
"No! Mr. Big is nothing! He's a little pawn! My Ice King is patient. He's only serving him until the time is right. But for now, you're dead!"
Friedkin went to lunge at her, but Fangmeyer used her upper-body strength to flip over, putting force on her lower half to shatter the ice surrounding it. She ran over by the lockers only for Friedkin to smash a giant icicle right through the lockers and barely missing the tiger. "Oh, jeez! I am in over my head!"
"You got that right!" Friedkin said. "Dead cops tell no tales!"
Meanwhile…
Nick arrived at Bogo's office with Snarlov and Grolwer. Nick threw his badge back onto Bogo's desk, leaving the buffalo confused. "You're leaving again?! Why so soon?"
"Because I stink at this job! Let's face it. I couldn't even do undercover right. Snarlov here is not a traitor at all! In fact, he got really upset when he thought I was a Big supporter. He was just running late and took his shower after the meeting instead of before."
Bogo shook his head. "I'm very sorry Snarlov. This is a shame."
Nick walked around, Snarlov, and Growlson. "Yeah, it's a shame. Except…" He put his tranq gun up to the lion's temple. "Why did you shower after the meeting, Growlson?!"
The young lion put his paws up. "Wh-What are you talking about?! Snarlov and I both came in together!"
"No, we didn't," Snarlov said. "Come to think of it, I do find it odd that you took a shower at the same time as me. Fangmeyer caught my scent first and you left the locker room after she was gone."
Nick smirked. "A fox has a keen sense of smell. No matter what shampoo you use, it's gonna take a while to get the scent of that cheap, dollar-store cologne you have on you."
"Hold still," Snalov said. He pulled down Growlson's arm and examined it. There it is, under all that fur, a snowflake tattoo!"
Growlson was getting upset. "I have to ask. Why did you wait until we got to Bogo's office to expose me?!"
Nick smirked. "Just to show off."
"There's more cops involved than me! If you really think you've won, you're blind! Let me show you the light!"
Without warning, the lion flashed a brilliant, white light, blinding the other three officers. He took off running as Snarlov, Nick and Bogo were getting their sight back.
"Don't just stand there!" Bogo huffed. "Go after him!"
Nick snatched his badge off the desk and took off with Snarlov.
"Where did he get a flash grenade?!" Snarlov asked.
"He didn't. It was him."
"What?!"
"I'll explain later!"
Meanwhile…
Fangmeyer was no match for Friedkin in her ice form. She dodged a bunch of tiny icicles that hit the wall. She would have escaped, but Friedkin blocked the doorways with ice as well. Fangmeyer had no chance of touching Friedkin and Friedkin could freeze Fangmeyer or anything she could throw at her. After smashing through another row of lockers, she saw it. A police walkie had fallen out. She quickly grabbed it and pressed the button. "All units to the girls' locker room! This is Fangmeyer! I have the traitor!" She knew the guys might not get there fast enough to rescue her. She needed an incentive. "And we're both naked! Hurry!"
"That's enough out of you!" Friedkin growled. She started to freeze Fangmeyer in a block of ice.
While Nick and Snarlov were running away from the precinct to chase Growler. A swarm of male cops was running as fast as they could to the women's locker room. Nick had to grab Snarlov as he started running the other direction. "Hey! We're already chasing someone!"
"Hey! Just because you're married, doesn't mean I gotta miss out!"
"Fangmeyer has plenty of help! We gotta get Growler, remember?!"
"Spoilsport."
Clawhauser stood on his desk in fear of getting trampled as the stampede of cops roared through. "This is like the stampede from the Lion King!"
Bogo stepped out of his office above. "Everyone calm down! McHorn?! Weren't you on patrol three blocks over?!"
All McHorn could say was "Nekkid tiger booty!"
Friedkin had Fangmeyer completely frozen. She was rearing up her fist to smash the tiger. "Time to get shattered!"
When suddenly, the doors started knocking. Boom! Boom! Boom! The wall of ice started to shatter apart. Rhinos McHorn and Krumpanski smashed through the door and charged at Friedkin. The polar bear went on the defensive and put up a large wall of ice. "You'll never get me!" She shouted.
Other officers flanked her other side and started firing their tranq darts, but Friedkin put up a frost shield that froze the darts and made them fall at her feet.
Officer Trumpet saw what she was doing and had an idea. He turned the shower heads on cold full blast, pulled the head down, and aimed it at Friedkin. With the frost shield up the water went through and started freezing her in place. "No! NOOOOO!" She was frozen up to her head. "Curse you! You used my own power against me!"
"Yeah. I know. We just watched it. Why do you gotta state the obvious?"
Several of the ZPD officers carefully carried Fangmeyer over to the showers. "Hurry boys! We don't know how much longer she has!" They then turned on the hot water and the ice started to melt. Fangmeyer gasped for air and everyone cheered.
"Thanks g-guys!" Fangmeyer said, shivering. "Wh-What happened to Friedkin?"
"I got her to freeze herself!" Trumpet said. "Johnson! Go warm up some towels so Fangs doesn't freeze to death!"
Bogo came in and saw Fangmeyer naked under the hot shower. The gentleman in him covered his eyes. "Fangmeyer! I'm so sorry."
"Don't be so uptight, chief! They saved my life, so I don't mind if they get a peek!"
"Well, I do! And I'm sure Wolford does! I need most of you who are just standing around to leave!"
A bunch of the men left. Fangmeyer looked at Bogo. "Umm…. I think you should prepare yourself on who the traitor is."
"Another one?! Not just Growlson?"
Trumpet helped cover up Fangmeyer with a towel. The tiger pointed at the other side of the showers. "Look over in the corner. I'm so sorry chief."
"Why?!" He then saw her. "No… No! This can't be!"
"Aww! Surprised sweetheart?!" Friedkin replied sarcastically. Her head was the only thing not encased in ice. "What a sucker you are!"
"She calls herself 'Ice-Queen' and well, obviously has ice powers." Fangmeyer said. " I found traces of her fur on Wolford's computer. She's been sleeping with you to get information for her Ice-King. She says Mr. Big is just small fry compared to whoever he is."
Bogo was on his knees in tears. "You wench! You...You horrid monster! You ruined my marriage! I loved you! I divorced Margaret for you!"
Friedkin laughed. "You two were already on the rocks! I just gave your breakup a little push."
Bogo reared his arm back to slap her face but thought better of it in her defenseless position. "Who do you work for?!"
"The Ice King. And you should be more afraid of him than Mr. Big! He'll soon control this city and you'll be powerless to stop it! Literally!"
"I'm going to bring you up for questioning. For now… boys! Put her in the walk-in freezer and stand guard! The rest of you, go release Wolford."
Fangmeyer was overjoyed. She ran over and hugged Bogo. Her towel fell off halfway. "Oh, thank you, chief! Thank you!"
"Fangmeyer, please!"
"Sorry, chief." She looked down and noticed that Bogo was a little excited. "Well, SOMEBODY'S happy to see me!"
"I am SO sorry!"
Meanwhile…
"We're here," said Sniffer as Firefox stopped the van. "Be on your guard. Chances are they know we're coming."
"So what?!" said Firefox. "They don't stand a chance against me!"
"Sniff!-Sniff!" Judy Hopps is among them and… she's in several places? The others too. Why are my senses off?!"
They went down into Duke's hideout and looked around. Sniffer was confused. "They're everywhere! What the?!"
Multiple Bandits came out of hiding. "Wait! It's just me!"
Firefox flamed his fist. (Ooh! Nice sentence!) "Which one of you is the original?"
"I'll never tell! You can't risk killing one of me, but only one of me needs to live!"
"I'll take that gamble!"
Firefox went to attack and Sniffer stopped him. "Fox, wait!"
"I'm in charge! Not you!"
"Sniff!-Sniff! They're coming out of the trash bin in the alley! Oh, clever. They hid in the smelly garbage to mask their scent!"
All but Greg and Sugar came crashing through the tiny windows. Judy attacked Firefox first while Several Bandit's possum-piled onto Sniffer.
Duke tossed a wrench to another Bandit. "Flood this place, kid!"
"Got it!"
Meanwhile, Greg, with Sugar in his pouch, was stuck in the garbage bin. "This stinks! Literally! I wanna be in on the action too! Mom will kill me if I leave here though. I can still sneak a peek! That's fair!" He lifted up the lid of the bin and watched the action across the short alley.
Judy jumped off Firefox when he started to burn, but Bandit aimed some of the pouring water at him. The small room started to steam up.
"It's like a sauna in here!" Duke complained.
He was cut by Sniffer. "AAH!"
The wolf laughed. "I may not be able to see through this steam, but my nose can still smell your every location!"
Duke hit him with a wrench. "Smell this!"
"Enough!" Firefox yelled. He turned up the heat and the water steamed even more. The room was getting too hot.
Bandit grabbed the wrench from Duke and opened another pipe. Then another. Duke was getting upset. "Enough, kid! We're gonna drown in here!"
"This is not going well," Sniffer thought. He then caught a whiff. He turned around to see Greg peeking out from the bin. "Experiment 817! At least one of us will succeed today!" He climbed out the broken window and back into the alley.
Greg saw him coming. "Uh-oh! We gotta go, Sugar!" He jumped out of the trash bin and started climbing up the fire escape just above the trash bin.
The wolf leaped onto the fire escape and was quickly behind them. "You'll never escape me!"
Bandit saw what was happening. "Judy! He's going after Greg and Sugar!"
The room was now completely flooded. Duke used his metal leg to kick Firefox to the other side of the room. "Bandit! Absorb up! We're outta here!"
Bandit was first out the window, followed by Judy, Duke was the last one climbing out, but Firefox grabbed his metal leg. "You're not going anywhere!"
"Judy! 'Da extension cord!"
Judy kicked the cord into the water just as Firefox leaped and grabbed onto Duke's metal leg. His feet were on the wall, mere inches from the electrified water as he was pulling Duke back in. "If I go, you're going with me!"
Judy and Bandit pulled on Duke as Firefox pulled back in a tug of war for Duke's life. Firefox turned up the heat and Duke was feeling the burn to the stub of his leg. "AAAAHH!"
"Ha-Ha! I got you! I…" He turned up the heat too much and the metal leg melted and broke off. "NO! AAAH!"
Firefox fell into the water and was immediately shocked. Sparks flew from the wire as his fur stood on end. "Yayayayayiyiyiyiii!"
Being one of mercy, Judy pulled the cord out and Firefox was floating. "You two pull him out and see if he's still alive. I gotta rescue Greg!"
"Are you nuts?!" Duke asked.
"I'm not a killer, Duke!" She chased after Greg. Looking up at the building, she realized, she'd never make it. "Greg! Be careful!"
Greg was up on the roof. The top of the building was twenty stories high. Sniffer was close behind. "I can already smell that my comrade has failed, but I shall not! Give me the sugar glider!"
Greg looked over the side of the building he was up real high, but he had one advantage. "My costume!"
Ah, the sugar glider costume! The same costume made way too well by his grandmother that allowed him to jump off the roof of his home and glide for almost a quarter-mile before getting caught by his father, Nick Wilde.
A smile came to the bunny boy's face. "Come get me, Big-Nose!"
"GRRRRAAH!" The enraged sniffer chased right after Greg right as he was running to the edge of the building. "HA! You have nowhere to go!"
He leaped for Greg, but the bunny boy leaped off the building and spread his gliders out. Greg was flying like a kite. "Whoo-Hoo! This is awesome!"
Sniffer missed and tripped off the roof. "WoooOOAAAH!" He fell and grabbed a fire escape that snapped halfway off from his weight. "Dammit! I'll show you!"
Judy was scared to death to see Greg jump but then was relieved when the gliders came out.
Bandit looked up. "Woah! The glider suit really works! Mrs. Wilde, your kids are awesome!"
"Thanks. But he's in big trouble for hiding that suit from me. Even if it did save his life."
However, Sniffer wasn't finished. "I won't let you get away!" He dug into his jacket and produced three blades. "I never miss!"
He threw them at Greg and they struck. Two tore through his gliders and one hit his back.
"AHH!" Greg shouted as he started to fall.
Sniffer pumped his fist. "YESS!" Only the fire escaped was giving away. "Oh no! NO!" He started to fall. Smacking into other fire escapes, tree branches, and poles on the way down.
"GREG! SUGAR!" Judy screamed.
The pain in Greg's back started to make him blackout. As his body turned, Sugar fell out of his pouch. "No! We were so close! So…" His eyes rolled to the back of his head and he blacked out.
What happened next was a miracle. Sugar started falling towards Greg on purpose. "Gag!" She yelled. The fur on her back started to split and four large, colorful, translucent wings started to emerge.
Sugar had awoken.
For Judy, she was distant enough that it looked like two blurs that were her children were about to hit the ground. She fell to her knees, sobbing. She then looked up to see Sugar flying! She was not only flying, but she had also grabbed onto Greg and was carrying him. She looked like a large butterfly. Judy's tears of sorrow turned into tears of joy. "Sugar can fly?! SUGAR CAN FLY!"
Meanwhile, after knocking into everything on the way down, Sniffer hit the pavement. "...Ouch. Ow… I give up."
Sugar carried Greg down into Judy's waiting arms. She hugged them both. "Oh, my sweet babies! Thank you, Sugar! You're so strong to carry Greg like that!"
"Mama Babababaa!" the joey replied.
Sniffer slowly and painfully got up. "So… OW!... Experiment 817 has…. Ooch!... Finally awoken her powers…. Great. Every bone in my body hurts. This…. Ow! …. day could not get any wor..."
POW!
Finnick hit him with his van. "That's for stabbing my wife, asshole! So.. what'd I miss?"
Judy was upset. "I should be angry you ran over someone. But that bastard stabbed Greg in the back! He needs medical attention."
Sugar pushed away from Judy. "What's wrong, sweetie?"
Sugar's wings came out again and she flew up and around everyone. From the wings of her back, came shiny, golden spores, gently falling.
Finnick couldn't believe it. "Holy crap! She's like a butterfly! And she's raining some kind of pollen on us! It looks like pixie dust!"
"Gag!" she said. She flew around Judy and Greg and the golden pollen started to fall onto Greg. The golden flakes absorbed into his body. .Judy was amazed as the wounds on his back began to heal over.
Sugar then poured her pollen onto Duke, Sniffer, and Firefox. Sniffer didn't care for the feeling. "Ow! OW! Bones… knitting back together! Very painful, but…. Healing?!"
Duke was also in pain. "AAHH! My stump! What 'da hell, Sugar?!" Then, he saw it. "Woah!" First, the metal bolts and rivets that once were attached to his stump popped out. Then, new leg bone started to jut out. It was incredibly painful. This was followed by muscle growing around the bone, followed by fur. "My leg's growing back! Cottontail! She's a healer!"
Judy was mesmerized, but then remembered something. "Cuffs!" She quickly cuffed Firefox, but was surprised when Sniffer presented his paws.
"Go ahead! I'm turning myself in. Oh, and miss Bandit? Stay away from the pollen!"
Bandit was confused. "Why?!"
"Why?! Look at my nose!" the wolf said with delight. "My wonderful, small, normal nose is back! The sugar glider not only heals with her spores, but it also takes away powers! I'm free!"
Judy was confused. "Annnd you're happy about this?!" she asked while cuffing him.
"Happy?! I'm elated! Do you know what it's like having a nose that can smell everything for miles?! It's a nightmare! Sure, it allows me to know everything about a person, but I have to smell literally everything in a five-mile radius! Trash, rotten fruit, farts, excrement, bodily fluids. It's a collage of stench! I have to turn that all off in order to track someone, just to help a company where my only incentive is not to be killed by them!. Now, all I can smell is that garbage bin over there. I have to ask, how did you confuse my nose when I first went into your hideout?"
"We hugged Bandit and rubbed our scent all over her before we hid in the trash."
"Very clever."
Finnick was getting upset. "Don't get friendly with this asshole! He's still the one who stabbed my wife and Greg!"
Sugar flew back into Judy's arms. "Well, Sugar still healed him with her… sugar. Hey! The name's not so unoriginal now!"
"Yes it is," said Sniffer.
"Oh, shut up! She healed them despite them being bad, so I guess it's up to God and the courts to judge them. C'mon! Let's get in the van. We have another stop to make. I'll call the police to come and pick them up. Bandit, be sure to stay away from Sugar's pollen or pixie dust or whatever."
Greg had a question. "Does this mean she can fix Joseph's face?"
Judy smiled. "Probably! My baby joey is a Deus Ex marsupial!"
Duke was confused. "Joey?! I thought her name was Sugar?!"
"Get in the van, idiot. I gotta call the ZPD to pick those two up, then we're going to see Mr. Big and pray that your dumb plan works!"
They drove off. Leaving the two henchmen behind. Firefox started to wake up. "Unnhh. Woah! I'm alive! I don't know why, but I feel great! Like, real healthy! Where'd they go?!"
"They left."
"WHAT?! We gotta go after them!"
"WE are now powerless. Try to use your flames."
Firefox tried. "Nothing! My powers are gone! What happened?!"
Sniffer was fidgeting with his paws. Getting something out of his coat pocket. "The sugar glider's powers have awakened. She can fly and heal with golden spores that come out of her back. They also robbed us of our powers." Sniffers cuffs were off. "There! She was foolish not to check my coat for blades. I had lockpicks as well."
"Great! Uncuff me!"
"No."
"What do you mean, 'no"?!"
"I'm done with this. This miraculous experience has given me a new outlook on life. You, my friend, are heading to jail, whereas I… am on the road to redemption!" He walked over and took Firefox's smartphone.
"Hey!"
"You won't be needing this where you're going. I'm going to call the ZPD and confess everything. Then, I'm going to see what I can do to assist that bunny and her family. I have a strong feeling our paths will cross again. Farewell!"
"Fine! Get lost ya drama queen!"
