Zootopia Goes Ape
Ch 2 Big Trouble in Little Borrton
It's been a week since Winston landed in Zootopia and he learned many interesting facts that he kept on quizzing himself on, which he did as worked at the Watering Hole.
'Okay Zootopia, founded and built by Byron Howlward as well as Rich Roar. One of the first multi-species cities in the world and arguably one the largest with a population of 2.5 million, not counting the rodents in which case it hovers around 5 million. The current mayor is , which is ironic considering ' As Winston quizzed himself and stacked bamboo bites he didn't notice a small figure sneaking behind him. The figure got closer, and closer with Winston not even sensing a presence behind him until it was too late.
"Screeeeeeeee!" A loud, high pitched scream pierced the air causing Winston to jump and to hit the ceiling, which left a dent in the ceiling. When he was back onto the floor he first rubbed his head and then began to look for the culprit responsible, which turned out to be something unlikely. The culprit was a female Prairie Dog with a cornrow hairstyle wearing a pair of dark brown khakis and a light gray shirt, said Prairie Dog was laughing her head off.
"Oh mam, that was hilarious!" The Prairie Dog gasped out with slight tears in her eyes, while Winston just had a deadpanned look on his face.
"Really Arizona?" Winston asked the now named Arizona, this is Arizona Prairie the second Zootopian he made friends with and unfortunately she loved to prank the genius gorilla.
"Dangnabit Arizona, how many times do I have to tell not do that?" However Jason didn't share Arizona's amusement when it came to the jokes she played on Winston.
"Come on , it's funny!" Arizona tried to defend herself but wasn't having it.
"It was funny until I realized that he could jump higher than a hare!" Jason argued as he gestured to the other dents that was made by Winston's incredible jumping ability, Arizona sheepishly rubbed the back of her head.
"Ok and I said that I would pay for the damages, in fact I'll go to the bank right now!" Arizona told him as she stomped out of the store through the rodent sized exit, through that entire ordeal Winston only had one question for old buck.
"Mr. Buck may I ask you a question?" Winston asked while the pronghorn just joked about it.
"Ya just did but go ahead." The gorilla just rolled his eyes but asked his question anyway.
"Why are you hard on Arizona, I could easily fix the damage that I caused." What Winston said was true since working at the Watering Hole he not only fixed most of the machines but also improved them, going so far to add another setting to the coffee machine. Jason let out a small huff of air and began to explain his reasoning.
"It's because I'm worried about her, she's a good and funny girl but this town ain't exactly for the good. Sometimes I worry that this world will chew her up and I do mean that literally." When Jason was done he leaned onto the counter and let out a heavy sigh, Winston said nothing instead he just walked to the old buck and gave a comforting pat on the back. Jason gave the giant gorilla a small smile, after that event nothing really happened until Winston gazed upon the bodegas TV.
"Ummm, what bank does Arizona go to?" Winston asked his voice filled with worry and an undertone of anger.
"I think it's Huntington BansBears bank in Burroton, why?" Jason commented, Winston said nothing instead he pointed to the TV and saw something that he didn't want to see again. It was a bank robbery and the news informed that there were hostages involved, to tell the truth it wasn't going well. There were two different reactions between the two, Jason was terrified and worried for Arizona while Winston began to walk to the back of the bodega.
"Winston, no matter how tough that armor is those bullets will cut through like it like butter." Jason told the ape his tone serious and voice stern, like one would use for a child.
"Someone has to stop them, besides I've fought people like that before." Winston argued his voice sounded determined and unwavering, when he reached back of the store he opened the storage room door.
"Those varmits ain't like simple robbers, they're a serious threat!" Yelled out in anger, which actually surprised Winston.
" , I've have faced much worse back at my home. I'll be okay." Winston told the old buck, with the gorilla's voice sounding confident and at the same time calm. Jason just grew a tired smile as he knew when Winston had his mind on something it was near impossible to change his mind.
"Alright, but come back in one piece. Can't have my best employee turn into Swiss Cheese." Winston just gave the pronghorn a thankful nod and walked into the storage room, inside was his usual armor and something new. Next to his armor was a futuristic, metallic silver mask with two glass holes acting as eye holes. Winston made this mask not only for protection from headshots but it also served as an AI housing unit though it wasn't as advance as Athena but it'll get the job done. After changing into his into his armor Winston exited the back of the Watering Hall, and then climbed up the building. When he was do he pressed the side of his helmet, which caused the eyes to glow blue, and a bird like chirp could be heard.
"Owl could you find me a route to Huntington BancsBear and make it a quick one?" Winston told the AI in his helmet, which gave him a chirp in response. Within a few seconds a hologram was displayed in his helmet with building as squares and rectangles, then a yellow line then zig zagged through the rectangles and squares.
"Thanks Owl." Winston began to jump from building and building with ease, using his rockets to clear some of the wider building gaps. Within a few minutes Winston arrived at the bank, but there was one problem with the situation. There was a huge nearly 50 ft. wide gap between the building that Winston was on and the bank, not to mention that the entire Borroton version of the ZPD in between the gap. So taking a deep breath Winston walked to the back of the building roof and dropped down to his arms, he then took off in a gallop and when he was met with the end of the roof he did something Tracer would approve of. He jumped off the building and used his rockets at full blast, not only clearing the gap but leaving some very surprised police officers in his wake. As he landed on the roof with some tumbles and nearly falling off the building, Winston stood up and brushed himself off.
"Uggh, I got to work on landings. Note to self when I get home ask Pharah tips on rocket use in flying." Winston groaned out but he couldn't waste time he began to climb down the building, he stopped halfway when he noticed a camera.
"Owl, I need you to access the security cameras please." Again, Owl just let out a hoot as he began to hack into the feed within a few seconds five squares of videos showed up in the helmet. From what Winston could see it was currently a mess in the bank.
"You idiots how could mess this up!?" A mountain lion wearing a black mask, sweatpants and sweatshirt yowled at his acquaintances who were a bison and a painted dog wearing the same attire but sized for them.
"Sorry boss, but he spooked me." The bison apologized while pointing towards a racoon banker who currently had a bullet hole in one of his legs.
"The point of these was to scare them, shooting them adds more to our sentence!" The mountain lion hissed, as Owl zoomed in Winston could see that the guns they possessed looked similar to an early 21st century smg.
"At least we got hostages." The painted dog whimpered out gesturing to the large group of cowering mammals.
"True but if any of them try to do something idiotic, fill them with lead." The mountain lion growled out to the two, his voice low and threatening. Both of the mammals nodded as they took position on opposite sides of the hostages with their guns trained on the defenseless mams, Winston growled out in anger at the robbers. He had to calm himself down, going in angry would never solve anything, so after a few calming breathes Winston came up with an idea.
"Owl put the cameras on a loop and then turn off the back hallways lights." Winston ordered which Owl quickly complied, as Winston dropped down to the ground he began to look for a back exit to the bank. He found the door but unfortunately it was locked, luckily Winston had a way to get around that and that was just using his strength he just yanked up on the knob. As he entered the now darkened hallways, Winston's brain just gave him an idea.
-Character Change-
As the painted dog thug was watching the hostages he noticed that the back-hallway light were off and he could hear a rhythmic clacking sound could be heard coming from the hallways too.
"Hey Klein, should I check that out?" The mountain lion now known as Klein turned to the painted dog, he too could hear the clacking.
"Go ahead Ragni, if you see the source kill it." Klein ordered, Ragni just nodded as he lifted his gun up and walk towards the back. As he traversed the halls Ragni used his super-sized ears to locate the source, the clacking was becoming stronger and stronger. He stopped as the source of the noise, a simple door knob tied to the ceiling with a string at a dead-end hallway. Smirking confidently Ragni walked up to string and cut with his claws, unaware that a large figure was behind him. When Ragni turned around he saw something straight out of a comic book, a huge robo-gorilla with robotic blue eyes looking down at him. Ragni shakenly rose his gun to shoot but the robo-gorilla just grabbed his paw and ripped the gun away, it then crushed the deadly weapon like it was nothing. The gun fell to the floor completely destroyed as Ragni whimpered in fear the robo-gorilla gave him an order with voice that could shake mountains.
"Now you're going to stay here like a good dog, or I'm going to come back." The terrified painted dog just gave the giant a numb nod.
"Good." As the giant disappeared back into the shadows Ragni just fainted.
-Character Change-
Winston jumped to the third floor not really worried about the thug, he knew that given enough fear living creatures wouldn't do anything. After he landed on the third floor Winston race to the opening that oversaw the floor, as he looked he could see that the remaining two were arguing.
"Boss, Ragni hasn't come back yet!" The bison let out a nervous bellow which got on Klein's nerves.
"Shut up Montan, he's only been gone for minute!" Klein yelled out getting more and more wired.
"Yeah but what if he's been taken!" Montan exclaimed his voice sounding more nervous.
"Who and what could do that?!" As soon as that question was let loose Winston knew that was his que, he jumped off the overlook and landed in front of the hostages.
"That would be me, now answer me this isn't there an easier way to make a withdrawal?" Winston bantered with the robbers which was met with odd looks.
"Ok, and what kind of freak are you?!" Klein again yowled out as he gave the armored gorilla a glare with extreme anger and annoyance in it.
"I'm….. Mecorilla!" The new hero named Mecorilla yelled out, which brought out fits of laughter to roll out through bank and caused Winston to blush in embarrassment.
"Really wished we didn't have to do this, but you got me annoyed." Klein said as he motioned Montan to shoot the hostages and Mecorilla, seeing this in a sort of slow motion Winston moved quickly and pulled out a small hexagonal black device from one of his armor compartments. He threw the device onto the ground and not a second too late, as Montan hoof pressed down on the trigger letting out a spray of bullets. However, the two thugs didn't hear screams of pain instead they heard bullets pinging off something and saw something weird. It was a light blue half dome surrounding the hostages as well as Winston.
"Is that all you got?" Winston taunted, frightened and surprised Klein again signaled Montan to attack the gorilla. Montan stamped his hoof and charged the dome which caused him to just bounce off the shield but he saw cracks, so he backed up again as he delivered another head charge which caused the dome to crack.
"So, got anything to say about that?" Montan taunted the gorilla, but Winston just smirked as he was prepared for this.
"I guess that your too thin headed, that dome could've been flattened by a stronger bison but I guess that's too much for a balding rat." Those two insults caused Montan to bellow in anger as he thundered towards Mecorilla, who doged but was surprised to see the bison turn on a dime.
'Well that was surprising.' Winston thought as the bison ran him through two-cylinder tables and into the bank wall.
"Guaggh!" Winston exclaimed in pain bringing a slight smile to the rampaging bison, Montan the began to back up ready to gouge the hero with his horns. Winston began to grimaced as he planned to use his back up plan, as Montan was just a few feet away Winston reeled back his arm and straight out punched the bison. That punch caused Montan to fly to the opposite side of the bank nearly sinking into the wall, the bison got out of his hole and looked ready to fight again but he just fell down to the floor. Winston then turned his sights to Klein who decided to do something stupid which was grabbing on of the hostages, said hostage turned out to be Arizona. The prairie dog girl was currently out of her wits at the events that played by her and the gun to her body wasn't helping, Winston saying nothing began to stomp towards the mountain lion. Even though Klein was trying to seem threatening but he was actually close to passing out due to fear, and even though no one could really see Winston's face they could feel the anger radiating off of him some say that his fur had a red tinge. When he was just inches away from the two Winston leaned closed to Klein and lifted up his mask a little, Winston took a deep breath and then roared in the mountain lion's face that was louder than thunder. However, Arizona actually wasn't scared as she smelled a familiar scent and that caused a mixed feeling of safety and anger. Klein just fell down with his dark pants now even darker, Winston lowered his mask and turned to the other hostages giving them one last banter.
"I'm terribly sorry about this, but I do hope that this doesn't discourage you from making future banking trips." Winston then rushed back the way he came, what Winston didn't know is that he just gave the citizens of Zootopia a brand new hero.