Avery kept tapping her foot the car floor in anxiety as Hickory sped down the road dodging many cars along the way. The brunette was so focused looking out the window praying they would make it in the to help Deborah.
"We'll get there in time Avery, don't don't worry we will" Hickory reassured his partner while never losing focus on the road.
" I just can't stop thinking...I just stop can't stop thinking what's happening to her-
"Don't think like that!" he cut her off curtly.
" It won't be like with you and Doe Avery"Once he said that he instantly regretted it, speacily when The human grew large and snapping her gaze to him.
" Avery I'm sorry I shouldn't-
" Just shut up and drive " she told him calmly before turning to back to the front window.
The toon cat ears drooped as he did what he was told with out question and went back to trying to make it to Disney square as fast as they could.
Disney Square; where the higher class of toon and humans lived in luxe, the street was had fancy buildings, low crime rate and shops that unless you where rich you could never afford to buy anything in them.
Avery didn't bother to wait for Hickory to stop the car to take when she bolted from it scaring the toon in the process.
" Avery hold on!" Hickory hollered out to her while struggling to park and take off his seat belt before following after her.
"How can Kelly possibly afford a place like this" Avery frowned looking around as she walked into the large condo building.
"He may not live here but instead know someone does"Hickory said catching up to her.
" Or know which occupant who isn't he most of the time" Avery said under her breath as she went up to the hand doorman who was messing around on his phone.
" TVPD" Avery said curtly as she showed him her badge making the doorman look from his phone to her badge then to her.
" Have you seen this girl?" Hickory asked seriously bringing out the picture Deborah for him to see.
The man looked puzzled at the picture " Yeah she's the new cleaning lady that Kelly brought in, why did she do something wrong?"
"Where is she now?" Avery asked firmly staring down the man.
The man started to feel very intimadated by Avery as she stared him down.
" C-Condo 121 in the 4th floor why-
"Thank you" Avery cut him off as she ran off to elevator with Hickory following after her and instead of taking the elevator she ran straight up the emergency stairs, knowing they didn't have time waiting for the elevator.
They opened the door the fourth floor and rushed down down the hall to the condo. Avery got her pistol ready as did Hickory as they stood opposite on each side of the door. They knew they had to get Deborah out there but from what they heard about Kelly violence and his addiction to ink they weren't taking any chances.
" On 3" she whispered to Hickory.
He nodded and began to count down with his fingers before her got to one Avery kicked down the door and they went charging in weapons drawn into the dark apartment.
Avery walked carefully trough the apartment. It appeared that someone had been staying in there alright and was trying clean up after themselves.
They then heard a noise coming from from the kitchen"Avery" Hickory whispered to her" Yeah I know" they then slowly began to creep opposite sides to corner who ever it was.
" Noooo!" A female voice rang out.
Avery turned around to see disheveled Deborah jump onto Hickory's back and wrestle him to the ground.
" Deborah stop! We are Police! We're here to help you!" Avery yelled at her while trying to pry her off her toon partner.
" You can't help us! no one can! Kelly run!" She shouted in the kitchen and next thing they knew a toon mouse bolted out onto the patio of the condo, Avery didn't know what shocked her more that the young girl didn't want help or that she was working with her kidnapper. Kelly did look like 80s toon mouse with blue captains hat, pink turtle neck, blue coat, light brown fur, and mustache.
Deborah took advantage of this confusion and followed after Kelly on to the patio, the mouse grabbed onto her and then prepared to jump.
Avery opened her eyes wide as she rushed out there" Wait don't!" She called out for them as they over the edge.
Avery leaned over over to discover that they landed on the condo patio 2 floors down and went inside it.
"They're on the 2nd floor!" She shouted to Hickory as she ran back inside, out the room, and down the hall.
She almost lost her footing when she turned but she she didn't let it slow her down. She by the time she got to the stairwell she caught sight of Deborah holding hands with Kelly as they ran down the steps.
" Deborah!" Avery hollered out to her.
The brunette followed them down to first floor and watched them make their way out the emergency exit. Avery went out the same exit and followed them down a alley, Kelly used his toon abilities and stretched the fence up so Deborah could go under and then he did the same by the time Avery came over it it was back to normal, the police wan cursed knowing the fence was too tall and by the time she climbed over it they would be gone .
" Deborah why are you running away with him didn't he kidnap you?!" Avery yelled out to the younger woman.
Deborah turned to look at Avery insulted" Kidnap me? He saved me from those monsters" Deborah spat to Avery" t-they did horrible things to me and Kelly was the only one their who tried to help me" Deborah said with trauma in her eyes" he got me out the before they could hand me over to their benefactor."
Avery friend at this having heard about this benefactor from Francis before making her deeply interested and concern at this, so Francis wasn't sort of right when he said Kelly took Deborah but he was wrong it being about being for sick selfish reasons, he just wanted to save a poor girl from her horrible fate.
" If that's true you have nothing to fear, come with us to the station tell us what happen, we can help you" Avery tried persuade them.
She then heard a scoff coming from the toon mouse" You don't get it for you...the police can't protect us...this guy has power in high places" he told Avery as he glared at her.
Deborah looked at Avery depressing eyes" If you want to help...leave us alone...we can only help each other" The younger girl before running off with the toon disappearing from Avery's sight.
Avery sat at her desk typing her report but seemed to be stuck and she honestly wasn't surprised because she didn't know what to say...the human woman has had looney cases before and she was use to that it comes with Toon-ville, she could handle that, she could predict their outcome, but this case was something that kept throwing surprises at her after another so didn't know what to expect anymore. What was really hard was explaining everything to the chief and leaving out Francis's involvement that was something that would eat for a long time. It was easy to say that the chief just fustrated as them when he sent them out his office to go home, but Avery knew he struggling how he was going to tell Deborah's parents, how to do you tell a worried sick couple that that your daughter is alive but refuses to come home.
Avery went straight from the station, to her ex's place to pick up Lily surprising the man on how she didn't argue, insult, or say anything to him in general just grabbing sleeping Lily and headed home in her car.
By the morning she was on auto pilot, getting up, getting Lily and her ready, Dropping off Lily at school, and then headed straight to work. Avery could feeling her nerves acting up making her reach in her pocket for a cigarette.
" How did this case turn to shit..." she mumbled under her breath as she lit her smoke and then took a long drag.
" No one said being cop was easy" Hickory's voice popped up making her look up at him as sat his desk in front of hers" We've seen a lot crazy and looney stuff over the years"
" But that's just it Hickory" She gestured to case file" This! I know crazy, I know looney, but this! Fuck I don't know what this is" The brunette said fustrated as she leaned back in her chair.
Hickory nodded solemnly at this" Yeah...I'm a toon myself and can't tell you something doesn't feel right about this case...we think we stumbled upon something dark" he told her grimly.
Avery nodded as she took another Puff.
This case made think about the horrible thing that happen to her...and her best toon friend Doe when they where teenagers and the mad toon who hurt them.
"I'm a bastard...I should have reminded you of what happened to you and Doe" he said with deep remorse.
Avery closed her eyes" it's ok Hickory...tensions we're rising that night...a lot things happened...but I can say...Dr. Uranium reminds so much of Dr Voltaine...is frightening" she replied softly.
" Yet the only difference is that Uranium is dead and that nut job is free as a bird ..." Hickory pointed out with disgust.
Avery nodded in agreement feeling the same thing as the toon cat. Sadly the toon doctor never spend his sentence in prison, after Avery was recused from the mad toon's basement Uranium was body was found in his home, he committed suicide by drinking homemade DIP he had made... It hit low blow for Avery who felt robbed of the justice her and Doe deserved.
"Did he?..." Hickory struggled to ask her"Did he ever tell you or Doe why he took you guys...or why did those things to you?" Hickory asked carefully.
Avery held her head as her arm rested against the desk"He kept saying that we become pieces to help create a new world..." She took another drag" I don't know what he meant by that half of the stuff he spitted out seemed crazy" She told him simply.
This made think back when The Doctor locked them in his dark cold damp basement with only light coming from a bared window and had old dirty mattress on the floor. The mad toon doctor left the locked in that room only in their underwear and even though he did this he never once touched them sexually which confused both Avery and Doe but that didn't mean they didn't face horror and abuse, Uranium would often give them injections to both them at least 3 times a day that riddle their bodies in pain while going into seizures into hard basement floor and for some sick reason the mad toon doctor was always close by taking notes in that horrid not book of his... like pain fascinated him greatly.
They tried to scream out for help many times but but no one could here them not even when the where screaming on tool there lungs in excruciating pain, later she found it the reason no one outside could hear them was because Uranium soundproofed the basement. The doctor did the routine over and over again to them for at least 2 weeks until one day he took Doe out the basement when they where in their weak state and she never saw her best friend again much to her sorrow. She soon had to deal with the nightmare alone and but only was much worse after that, he gave her more dosages of what ever he was giving them that caused her pain going down right her DNA...if she hadn't gained opportunity to escape Avery wouldn't know if she would still be alive today, the brunette found out later on that the mad doctor had kidnapped, experimented, and murdered 6 humans and 5 toons before her and Doe...their bodies and ink residue they found ethier buried in the back yard or filled in jars in his lab.
" The police archives still have his notebook from what I heard it all looks like ramblings" Avery continued to explain" in the end he was just mad toon trying to achieve something unknown...the required to torturing innocents and ended up the costing lives"
Hickory looked at Avery with great sorrow at this, the human got up from her desk" I'm going to go patrol for a little bit...Bone said couple of toons and humans have been making complaints about the dark toons... probably just disturbance and lettering again" She said with her cigarette in mouth as she put her jacket on.
" Can you finish the rest of the paperwork?..." Avery asked.
He nodded knowing the his partner not wanting to be couped up in the office" Are you sure you don't want me to come along" he asked turning around his chair.
" I'll call if there's trouble" was the only thing she said before heading out the station.
Little did the 2 know a certain shadow on the ground had been listening to there conversation with great interest" hmmmm think find something interesting in the police archives" He hummed as a evil smirk grew on the Shadow's face.
Mox sat on his fine red sofa chair in the middle of his condo while puffing on his cigar and staring intensely at his coworker Francis Voltaine who was not in his usual flashy cross dresser clothes but instead brown slack with a button up shirt that had a green sweater vest over and was wearing glasses looking almost like a physics professor, most wouldn't regonized him as the same toon.
The toon croc sat opposite side quiet and laid back not bothered by his benefactor's stare at all but Knives the toon biker bunny watching how this would play out. Knives was a toon rabbit with brown fur, pink mullet, sunglasses, a old style navel blue french general's jacket that had mops on the shoulders, and brown leather gloves with long nails.
" Do you realize what you almost cost us Francis?... You basically blurted out what we've doing to Detective Rose and her partner, all our hard work could go down the drain" the lion lectured the croc.
Francis brushed off with his hand" Don't worry so much Mox you'll get more wrinkles and besides I only told see truth" he said with a smirk" they're too busy right now to figure out what's really going on."
It been 3 days since the lion found out from his coworker that the detective that had slept with along with her partner had stable in on one part of their "business" and Mox couldn't help be deeply concerned about how this will ruin their future plans. But before he could respond again a voice popped up out of nowhere.
" Good evening boss" A shadow on the ground said making the rabbit toon hop in surprise.
" Good...Dex your here" Mox greeted the shadow who was chuckling and rising out of the ground to form a weasel toon.
Dex Floyd was a green toon weasel with purple hat and trench coat that matched and Simi long green hair.
The rabbit biker glared at the weasel" Floyd you fucking parasite!" he spat at him.
" I looked into an old employee of yours hehe" The weasel snickered" a Doctor Uranium" he said in the former toons voice perfectly that the toon biker found creepy" found something interesting " he purred before handing a old note book to Francis.
Francis eyed the old thing before cautiously grabbing it, flipping it open searching through the papers hungrily.
" Found a very interesting picture inside as well " The weasel added as he lazily sat down on a chair" of what looks like to be a young Avery Rose" He snickers as licked his teeth, Francis in scientist mode intensely read the notes with interest, as he read is eyes grew wide.
His smiled wide intensely drinking in the contents with excitement"Very interesting, very very interesting" he chuckled darkly classic toon style.
Mox raised a eyebrow at this"Mind sharing with the group Francis" The lion said while taking a drag of his cigar" Some of us here are more" Mox brought his gaze to the toon rabbit" academically declined" he put carefully.
"My dear man it appears Miss Avery Right is far more interesting than a case study" he explained handing the note book to Mox "Careful it's old" Francis winked.
Mox put on his reading glasses, while his " medicine" helped with his color and his youth is didn't help with his eye sight, the lion read the notes carefully but emotionless at first but as he read them more and more shock began to fill his core and another emotion excitement he quickly took of his glasses to stare at Francis serious" am I reading this right? Uranium was successful? And Avery Rose was the that success" The lion asked needed confirmation that what he was reading was right, the rabbit biker looked dumbfound while playing around with his metal chain at was going on.
"Yes it was dear man, and she's a perfect copy of this DNA bond" Francis chuckled adjusting his glasses.
Mox could not believe his ears...for so long they had been trying to make their plan successful but everytime the key thing they needed to create ended in failure but now after all these years of planning and hard work their vision will come true, a grin grew on the lion face at this as he brought his gaze to the old Polaroid of a teenage Avery" I always new you where interesting my dear Avery but I never thought you would be this speacil my dear" He said admiring the picture.
The biker rabbit scoffed" Rose is a crazy bitch, what's her DNA got to do with this" The toon asked while lightening a cigeratte.
The weasel snickered" Awww what's the matter Knives you still sore that she managed to beat you and put you on your ass" he cooed cruelly.
"Settle down children, or else the money won't be given to you" Francis clapped his hands "Or would you like to hear my Siiiinnnngggiiiinnnggg"~ Francis sung on a high note breaking a vase.
Knives put a finger in his ear to calm his burst ear drum" Not Really.." The biker grumbled.
"If we are should just grab her now" Weasel added as he played a switch blade.
"Something tells me you want to grab the bitch Floyd" Knives glared at him, the weasel just shrugged " Well I would if I knew where she was" he said like it was no big deal everyone froze at this.
Mox turned to frown at Floyd" What do you mean you don't know where she is?" he asked firmly.
" Like I said sir she's been missing for couple days" Floyd said acting like it's no big deal still" no one knows, apparently she was looking into reports of the dark toons "harassing others."
Knives literally face palmed himself at this" Why didn't you say in the first place and you fucking dumb ass!" The rabbit yelled angrily him.
Floyd rolled his eyes" oh don't be so dramatic Knives she's not dead."
" Yeah only missing the one thing to get the bosses plan up and running is no where to be found" the rabbit growled through his teeth.
The weasel snickered" oh Knives i said I don't know where she is...but doesn't mean I don't know some who does" he pointed out to him.
Mox already annoyed rubber his brow" Get to the point Dex."
The weasel jumped out of his chair" " there's a certain dark toon that owes me a favor, words gets spread around fast down there speacily if someone "new" shows up" he chuckled at little.
Knives frowned not believing him.
The weasel sighed" you want the woman back faster right" he pointed out.
They nodded.
" Then we need more hands on deck looking for her is the easy part" Floyd said messing aroundwith his blade" but bringing her in that's whole different story story" he said with a smirk.
"Alright boy's you know what you need to do now go" Mox brushed Knives and other the bikers away.
Knives grinned at this " don't need to tell me twice boss COM'ON BOYS WE'RE RIDING OUT!" He hollowed to his bike hang and they did in return as they headed towards their bikes and road off.
"Hmmm do you think they will be successful boss? Detective Rose did beat up Knives last time" the weasel asked Mox.
Mox sighed rubbing his temples "I grow tired of this already."
"Any way I can help sir?" Francis offered his assistance calmly.
"Just let me fuel my energy and Dex" he pointed at the weasel "find out more about Avery, spy on her do anything, find out something we can control her with, just don't let her see you" he said seriously.
Weasel grinned big at this showing his sharp teeth" Will be my pleasure sir" as he twisted around darted like a bullet into the wall merging with it and sliding like snake in into the air duct and out of the room.
Charlie then came waddling in with more drinks " Sir, Dr Voltaine need more refreshments?" The peguin asked.
"I'll send for them soon Charlie, just let me refuel my youth" Mox explained.
The peguin nodded at this" Of course sir, you usaul dose is in the other room " the peguin gestured.
"Ah thank you Charlie" Mox sighed in relief rubbing his mane back.
Francis meanwhile was still preoccupied with the notebook looked up at Mox as he watched get up to leave the room. Mox brought himself back to the cold metal room with the familar metal slab that this time had a toon beaver who a gag in his mouth, Mox strapped the tube into his arm and Charlie turned on the machine, the poor toon let out muffled cries of pain, Mox was so use to it by now he didn't bother to remember the toons or let their cries effect him anymore.
"Francis I want an application of Bugs new Drag show sent to me my old friend wants me to celebrate this anniversary with him" he said feeling his youth restored as he walked back into the room.
This made Francis turn away from the notebook with a smile excitement at this" That sound fabulous~" he said high pitched.
Francis then went over to the computer to look up the information
" Oh you find this interesting Mox he's having his show at Red hood and Big bad's burlesque club~" he said sing song.
"All the way to the Moonlit night~" he sung handing the paper over to the old toon swirling away humming.
Mox took a look at the piece of paper and read it over carefully'" It's been awhile since I heard about these two"
"I wonder if Mickey will show up at this event despite being a mouse of power" Mox formed a smile across his lips eyeing each word thoroughly.
" How far until the machine is finished Francis?" He asked the toon croc seriously.
Mox read the acts on the list some names he regonized personally some he didn't but he then paused when he caught a familiar name he didn't suspect to see on there in general the very last act which said Avery Rose.
Mox shook it off for now promising himself he would get back to it later" How far until the machine is finished Francis?" He asked the toon croc seriously.
"Thy will be done!" Francis laughed.
Mox nodded at this as he took a drink" We've worked so hard and long to get were we are now, we can't afford to lose the last piece of our creation, we need Avery Rose" He before taking another drink.
"And now coming to live on the Toon talk show Bugs Bunny!" The announcer called out through the radio in Avery's car, the sound of clapping and hoots can be heard.
Avery turned up the volume looked into the back in the seat of the car to look at the sleeping dark toon curled up in jacket" God how did I get mixed up with this" She grumbled as she popped a cigarette in her mouth.
"Now Mr. Bugs I want to say it's an honor to have you here and your wife who you have been married to for 32 years by the way congratulations on your anniversary" the show host Peter green spoke adding more applause to the already established toon to be as much popular as Mickey Mouse.
Avery smiled at little at the mention of the popular toon and had a drag as she looked out her front window while the wiper washed the rain away repeatedly.
" Oh shucks it's no problem Dock me and Lola are always happy to entertain fans" He said fondly.
"Now Mr. Bugs I'm sure the Audience and the entire population of human's and toons that you'll be hosting a Drag show soon in honor of your old friend Red is their alot of people coming to this show?" The show host questioned curiously
The brunette remembered meeting the two bunnies when she was very little do too both her parents along with legendary toon working together at Warner Brothers for many years.
" Yeah it's going to be a big hit" he said with excitement in his voice" It's been awhile since We've seen Red and Big bad and when I told them about this show I wanted to do they where more then happily offered to host it, excited to see them again Speacily their little girl so tiny since I last saw her."
Avery chuckled a little as she shook her head at this" I'm not so little anymore Bugs" Avery commented as she searched for a certain contact in her phone.
"Thank you Mr. Bugs now I know you must *Chuckles nervously* get a lot of questions about you becoming a Drag Queen, Are you going to get on stage, in high heels to have fun and look elegant in dresses I know you haven't done drag in a very long time but I'm curious as well as the audience how did Lola react to all of this?" Peter explained excitedly.
" Well we're toons nothing we do surprises us anymore but what where you actually thinking when I told you doll?" He asked his wife.
It was then the brunette got a hold of Hickory" Hey it's me im heading over to my ex place to pick up Lily then heading over to my parents" she said casaully like she hadn't been off the grid for 3 days.
"One last question before you and Ms. Lola leave will Mickey Mouse arrive? I know alot has changed even for him but is it possible that Mickey will ever arrive at your show for Red and Big bad's Honor?" Peter asked curiously.
" WHERE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?!" Shouted the toon cat over the phone making her pull it far away from her ear as she winced.
" Mick and I have been good pals for years even though we worked for separate companies just talked him couple days ago and said he would be more them thrilled to come" Bugs confirmed to Peter.
"Thank you Mr. Bugs you heard it right here folks Mickey Mouse is coming back to town after a long hiatus!" The audience cheered happily.
Avery became interested at this" Huh Mickey's coming huh should be fun" She said to her self before looking back seat to make sure the toon didn't wake up, she had never met Mickey but her daughter loved him would overjoyed to meet him.
" Where the hell have you been Avery?" Hickey hissed over the phone, Hickory wasn't the one to lose his temper often mostly only in very serious situations and she knew being gone for 3 days with out him knowing was definitely was one them.
" You didn't show up to work 3 days ago after going to see about dark toon harassment complaints, I call your parents and they tell me where working on another case susposly with ME! which was not true I looked for you all over even at the quads what the hell happened Avery?!" He said, Avery could tell he sounded emotionally exhausted making her feel guilty having him worry about her.
She sighed deeply" Ok here's the thing I kind of got kidnapped" she said carefully.
She could here on the other line that Hickory almost dropped his phone at this.
" Listen I'm driving in the rain now and add talking to you on the phone to the equation I breaking a few laws and endangering my life just come over to my parents place so I can explain " she said before hanging and cutting him off.
Before she could react she saw a large shadow in the rain" Holy fuck!" She said in great shock as she tried to swerve out the way only for the wet road to make spin out control but it eventually stopped with no damage luckily.
She sturned around to check on the poor toon in back finding that he violently was thrown to the floor and was shaking from shock and fear of the sudden spin and stop while peaking out his head from the jacket to look at Avery with big scared eyes.
" You ok..." She asked, the toon still shaking nodded.
She opened the car door then pulled her self out and looked around wobbly to make sure no outside was hurt as rain drenched her. Avery looked to see that it was Sleazy laying in the opposite side of the side seemingly barely missed getting hit , Avery groaned loudly.
" Sleazy you idiot! What are doing in the middle of road in the rain!?" She yelled at him.
He grunted clutching his ribs "Why are you driving out here?... he rasped trying to regain his breathing.
Avery rubbed her eyes" long story" she replied as she pulled away her hand to look at him with concern" You ok?"
" Why are you out in the middle of the rain?" she asked softly.
"I was getting Rgh! Home to tell the I found a place that can hire me for a official job, now I just need to get home before my ribs break" he huffed.
Avery looked behind at her car sighing in relief that damage wasn't done to her car at least she then turned back to face Sleazy and began to help him up" Com'on I'll drive you home" she grunted as she helped him.
" But just...don't freak out I don't have a... normal toon in back seat" She said carefully.
Sleazy was speechless for what she was doing for him.
Avery rolled her eyes at this" Hey I may be a bitch but I'm not heartless" She pointed out to him as she opened her back door, his eyes widened in shock when he saw the small dark toon shying on the other side of the car trying to hid in Avery's jacket" Sleazy meet Shiloh" She said as she sat him down.
10 minutes later they arrived at the building making her get out the car to help him out. Sleazy groaned a little bit as he walked around the car by the time they got to the door of the building he lightly shrugged off Avery to go by himself. He limped inside the building but not before turning around to look at Avery.
Avery sighed deeply" Take care yourself ok" she said softly before turning to head back to car, the human understood that the male toon wanted the rest on his own and not wanting to rely on others to fix his problems for once.
I hoped that you enjoyed the chapter I would like to thank my good friend Marianofcintra for helping me out she's awesome ^^