Museum Madness
Bucks was in the back of the Watering Hole currently taking inventory on what kind of snacks, drinks and whatever else that mammals needed. As he was going over the last of the Savannah Springs water he could feel a shadow loom over him. turning around he saw Winston squeezed through the door.
"Ah, Winston, anything ya need help with?" The old pronghorn asked the massive mountain gorilla. A bit sheepishly, Winston pulled out a brochure titled 'New Exhibit at the Burroton Museum!' and handed it to Buck. Buck glanced down at the brochure before looking back up at Winston.
"Why would ya want to go that one? Ya could probably get everything ya need on the internet." Bucks asked giving Winston a quizzical look as he did.
"Nearly everything on the internet can be edited or fabricated, museums tell the truth as it is. Well within reasonable limit, to the victors go the history." Winston answered, a small smile gracing his face as he did. Bucks fell quiet for a moment causing Winston to feel a pit of worry began to sink in his stomach. Soon though the pit began to raise up.
"Sure, but just be careful." Bucks answered Winston, but his voice tight and his eyes turned into steel. Winston just stood up straighter, gave the old pronghorn a salute and belted out.
"Sir yes sir!" Of course that got a chuckle out of Bucks, and a blush growing on the gorilla's face. Within a few minutes Winston was prepared with a proper resources ranging from a few snacks to maps and soon he was on his way to the museum. When he got there it seemed a bit worse for wear with the entrance covered in grime and lion statues with nearly all the features worn off. Though that did slightly dampen his spirits Winston still had high hopes of the exhibits inside and hoped that none of them were stolen by the various crooks of Burroton. Luckily his hopes were true as he walked into the museum and many of the exhibits seemed to be in pristine condition. Which included a large bronze statue of a wolf wearing a feathered cap and an emu leather jacket, smiling Winston walked up to the front desk.
"Could I have a visitors wristband, please?" Winston asked the front desk worker, an old rhino with a chipped horn. The worker just gave Winston a smile as he handed a bright green wristband in exchange for a good amount of Zoolars. For a good 3 hours Winston was in near heaven with the exhibits, ranging from the discovery of Zootopia, to the promise of future(old) cars, and some interesting theories on how the mammals gained the ability to speak.
As the gorilla walked to the exit he noticed an odd exhibit, above on the marble walls 'Mysteries of the Old Age'. Curious Winston walked into the exhibit and began to explore the wonders, and what he saw surprised him. Pieces of omnics, old holoscreens, and something that rocked him to his core; it was covered in rust and broken but he knew what it was. Quickly the massive gorilla began rush out of the museum before the greeter could even say goodbye, the rest of the trip back was a blur.
"Now ya sure what ya saw was from yer home?" Buck questioned the gorilla, as Winston began to armor up for his mission.
"Positive." Winston answered, his voice cold and toneless as he slipped on the last piece of his armor.
"Winston I'm sure dat the mu-"
"They won't, that is part of a weapon from my world. I don't know how it got here but I know one thing, if that particle cannon lands in the wrong hands it'll be chaos." Winston cut off the pronghorn, surprising the old buck at the current attitude of the usually kind and meek gorilla.
"Alright, so what does dis particle cannon exactly do?" The old pronghorn questioned the hero.
"Well, if handled incorrectly it could create a black hole in Burroton." Winston answered as he began to exit to the roof; leaving Bucks quieter than a mute church mouse.
The night air felt cool on the suit, helping to take Winston's mind off of what doom could face this city. As he jumped from the rooftops a thought began to enter the mind of the hero.
'Is this just my world but farther in the future? Does that mean all my friends..., my family?' Wiston wondered, feeling his heart nearly dropped into his stomach as that thought began to ruminate but he had to shake his head of that; the museum was close at hand. Once the giant gorilla landed on the roof of the building he began to plan on how exactly he would try to take the cannon.
"Owl, get into the security feed and alarms; put the cameras on a loop." Wiston ordered the AI, who chirped in agreement with the alarm sensor going green. He smiled as he carefully opened the skylight and jumped down to the floor; cracking the floor a bit. Soon Winston began to stomp through the museum, the exhibits now covered in shadows and the light of the moon. As he got closer to the Mystery of the Old Ages exhibits Winston began to hear voices echoing off the marble halls of the museum.
"Are ya sure 'bout dis boss?" A voice whined through, the gorilla immediately darted behind a pillar to hide in the shadows. As the hero sneaked closer to the voices he saw the culprits, a trio of what seemed to be woodland animals. A squirrel, a male deer and skunk; all three of them were standing in front of the display case that housed the Particle Cannon.
"Of course it is, that snake told us steal this and if we succeed we got some cash coming our way." The squirrel snapped looking at the deer, and turned back to the display with a strange circular device. Forgoing stealth Winston just charged forwards, blinded by anger he roared at the three thieves, the deer just bolted, the skunk tried to fight but Winston knocked him aside, lastly he slammed his right hand down onto the squirrel with enough force to pin him, while taking care not to flatten him.
"WHO PAID YOU?!" Winston roared out, yellow sparks flying across his armor as he did. The squirrel could only babble and gasp as the gorilla's palm was pressing against his body, ribs creaking but not cracking, before the squirrel could cough out an answer a sound echoed out. It was unnatural sounding like metal saw blade scratching against stone, with a sharp hissing punctuating the air.
"My, my, what a sssurprissse." A voice hissed out from the darkness, Winston released the squirrel and began to look for the voice's owner. However the gorilla didn't see a mammal, no instead he saw a snake but this was no normal snake. This creature was 20 ft with pure tar black scales, eyes crafted crafted of silver and most terrifying of all it had a bulge in its stomach which was still moving. The Snake glided towards Winston it's tongue flickering out to truly smell any fear in the ape.
"Who are you?" Winston question as he rose up and let the squirrel scamper off to some scum hole that he came from.
"Oh jusst a little girl who wantsss to do a little thhhopping." The snake answered it's voice sounding bored, like a child on an unwanted task. Rage began to build in Winston with more and more golden sparks racing across his armor.
"You call this shopping!" The gorilla roared no longer holding back his rage, soon the blue eye slots turned a furious red and burned orange fur poked out from the bottom of his helmet. At first the snake slithered back letting a hood fly from it's neck and a hiss escaped from its mouth, it soon lunged forward, its three feet long fangs leaking venom on full display. Winston just growled as he charged forwards on all fours to the snake and with a thunderous clash the two titans met, the gorilla holding the the titanic jaws apart with the fangs hovering inches away from his face. Winston grunted as he began to move the massive serpent over his shoulder and threw the titanic snake into other displays. Shaking the broken glass from her body the snake glared at the gorilla.
"If you scratched my scales I'll eat you." The cobra threatened as she slithered towards Winston, who got ready for the attack the super sized snake. The hero ape wound up a punch but as soon as he threw the punch the cobra slithered round it, and soon was wrapped up in the coils of the titanic snake. Her head hovering over his body.
"Now you'll go straight to my hips, but I think I deserve it." The cobra hummed as she opened her maw the full width, saliva and venom dripping down onto Winston. The gorilla struggled and grunted within the coils of the titanic snake until an idea came to his mind, slowly Winston began to sneak his hand towards his back.
'This is going to hurt.' He thought as his fingers squeezed the trigger of his weapon, letting an electric current stronger than a bolt of lightning flowed through not only Winston but through the cobra as well. The serpent began to dance as each of its muscles went haywire and soon it went flying off into the other exhibits, with pieces stabbing through her scales and into her muscles. Slowly the snake began to rise up her scales now scratched and loose with some missing revealing weak flesh underneath.
"You think you won? Believe me you're not even close to it." The cobra hissed out, glaring at the mammal. Soon the snake slithered off into the shadows her scales scratching the the floor at first Winston went to run towards her but his body screamed out for rest, so Winston turned back to his target. His heart fell as he turned to see that half of the particle cannon was missing, slowly he walked over to the other half and grabbed it.
She slithered down, wincing as she did. That filthy mammal did more damage than she thought the feeling of broken vertebrae ribs poked and prodded her inner skin, luckily there was also something else poking her in the gut. After slithering for what seemed to be hours she finally saw her saving grace, a large barred door but she knew that it held. Soon she slithered into the gate the bars glitching as she did after that the entire scenery changed from primitive mammal to the sleek and comfortability of her people.
"This is Agent Bisa Ular, code A113-1392." Bisa told the room, which beeped back and soon the hiss of a pressurized door opening. The massive snake slithered forwards as she saw the floor split open to a new world, her eyes shined with a happy feeling as she slithered down the hole. As she moved at first all she felt was cold and all she saw was oppressive blackness but as she traveled further down the tunnel she was soon greeted with a cozy sight. The coldness changed into a humid and hot warmth as the darkness changed into a white light tinged with purple, as she went further down her mood improved even more. Bisa soon exited the tunnel into a rather luxurious office space, furnished with fine and soft cow leather, a large tiger rug, lastly a pure ivory desk.
"Ahh, my favorite worker. Tell me was this little excursion?" A voice smooth like silk but held a venomous tinge.
"My lord I was able to steal part of the device but I ran into some trouble." The cobra answered but her eyes drifted down towards the floor.
"A late night snack that shouldn't be too hard to deal with." The voice murmured not truly interested in what the snake had to say.
"Well it wasn't a guard sir, it was some sort of armored Gorilla." Bisa added, causing the voice's owner to raise their brows at that.
"Oh really, it may cause a few problems but none to worry about." The voice informed the cobra who seemingly relaxed.
"Just stop by the labs and regurgitate the weapon." The voice ordered, Bisa just nodded as she began to slither off to the science hall; grateful to finally get rid of the chunk of metal that was lounging in her stomach. The figure turned in his seat his eyes drifting over an entire underground civilization.
"Now this truly adds an interesting piece to the game." The voice growled his claws leaving gouges in the armrests of his chair.