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Chapter 14: Wild Bill Arrives
It is January 29 10:35 A.M. in Zootopia. Like every other day in Zootopia, today was something, and it truly was. But today something was going to happen, and it was no exception. Because for the ZPD today was the day, that Wild Bill Garret was ordered in for prison time. But they were unaware of the dangers of handling a book that you should never judge by its cover and Wild Bill was just that, and it's something that they never suspected before. Which they will soon learn later on.
At this moment the best ZIA Agents are in the briefing room with Chief Bogo "I know that things got squeezed together a little." Bogo insured informatively as each and every ZPD officers were hoping there was a new task that will bring something entertaining for their interests.
"What is it, Chief?" Nick always asked.
"These cases," He gestured to the folder in his grip. "Is papers that were signed by the state official, or friend "Wild Bill" Garrett, who had become county property when he was first arrested, now became the ZPD's property." There were sound of cheers and howls and 'Woos' as everyone (minus Bogo) celebrated in their own way as the news of Wild Bill finally being caught intrigued them. "But!-" Bogo injected. "He is not in prison, yet." The room went silent after he said that. In the multiple seats of the conference room, mixes of Flabbergasted, Shocked, Angry and Fearful looks were shown on the faces of several officers as they tried to process what was currently going on. Bogo acknowledged his recruits expressions and continued. "The reason why, he's not behind bars yet is because, he was called in court for his sentence. His trial ran longer than any of my usually reliable sources had thought it would." The Officers thought clearly on this as well as Bogo continued. "After he had been found guilty. Well according to the script; he was taken to Zootopia General Hospital for tests. He had had a number of supposed 'seizures' during the trial, twice serious enough to send him crashing to the floor, where he laid shaking and flopping and drumming his feet on the boards. Garrett's court-appointed lawyer claimed he suffered from 'epilepsy spells' and had committed his crimes while of unsound mind; the prosecution claimed the fits were the sham acting of a coward desperate to save his own life." The room was filled with chuckles and scoffs. "He had another chance to make trouble in the back of the stagecoach, when they were shackling him. So on went the chains, one set running between his ankles and another set too long, it turned out, between his wrists." Bogo pulled out a key from the yellow folder.
"Garrett, meanwhile, got to us later than expected. For one thing," A White Tiger with black stripes named Thomas Harver inputted into the conversation. Thomas's blue suit is at peak of perfection. However, his height is about the same as Nick due to a rare genetic mutation he has. He is a lawyer for the DEA in Zootopia.
Nick and Nicole looked at each other before returning their gaze back to the feline. "After observing the so-called 'epilepsy spells' at first hand, the jury decided the fits were an act. The judge concurred but ordered a series of pre-sentencing tests after the verdict came down. God knows why; perhaps he was only curious."
"It's a blue-eyed wonder that Garrett didn't escape from the hospital but he didn't. They had him surrounded by guards, I suppose, and perhaps he still had hopes of being declared incompetent by reason of epilepsy, if there is such a thing." Bogo said.
"He wasn't." Thomas inputted. "The doctors found nothing wrong with his brain - physiologically, at least - and Billy "the Kid" Garrett was at last bound for ZPD Prison. That might have been around the sixteenth or the eighteenth; it's my recollection that Wild Bill arrived about two weeks after John Overhill walked in Prison."
"Right now, we just wanted to know more about this fellow, this wild animal as I'm sure you all know who Peter Uriah Garrett is. Liked to think of himself as Billy the Kid, to us, he's Wild Bill."
"He's what you call a problem child." Thomas pointed out.
Nick had a feeling that this guy is just a wannabe modern-day legend. "So how much did you find out about him, from his recent life files?"
"He's been rambling all over the states for the last few years, causing all kinds of trouble." Bogo continued, but then paused for moment before inhaling deeply and says. "Finally hit the big time."
Nick scoffed and replied. "What is it, that can be non-normal than a regular crime that could possibly be a big hit?"
Bogo glared at him warningly, making him shut up and letting him continue. "He recently killed three people in a holdup. One of them; was a pregnant woman." Nick winced in a shock as Judy beside him gasped in grief. No one would be cold blooded than a killer with the taste of blood for any victim, especially a mother with an unborn child.
"Oh" Nick flinched and sighed. Bogo finished his statement before assigning Thomas and a couple of officers to assist picking up Wild Bill.
So after the assignment was done, Thomas and his men (Along with Nick and Gilligan) to meet him on the second floor of the General Hospital, Thomas was technically in charge of the expedition. Gillian is an English Pig. Normally his uniform is covered in coffee stains.
Thomas handed his paperwork over to the county sheriff who in turn handed over Mr. Wild Bill. After picking up the new arrival, they arrived at the prison. That left Nick, Thomas and Gilligan with one shackled prisoner. It should have been enough, would have been enough, if they hadn't been fooled by the ferret in chains on his wrists and ankles. They marched him to the door that opened into the prison falling into the same formation they used when escorting prisoners. Thomas was on was behind Gilligan. Nick was in front of Wild Bill, and Gilligan was behind him with his baton in his hand.
Nick stepped forward to unlock the door. He selected the right key from the bunch on his belt and slid it into the lock. All of a sudden, Wild Bill came alive just when Nick opened the door. Wild Bill socked Gilligan in the face with his elbow knocking him down. Wild Bill gave out a screaming, gibbering rebel cry. "Yeeeeaooow! Yeeeeah!"
Before Nick had a chance to react Wild Bill lifted his arms and wrapped the chains that hung between his wrists over Nick's head and pulled tightly on his neck and commenced to choke him. The Fox was slammed into the wall in the doorway and attempted to run or scream for help but couldn't. Instead, the Fox gave a strangled cry and lurched forward, and stumbled into the prison corridor. Wild Bill was happy to go with him and gave him a shove forward before riding on top of the Nick's back, yelling, and gibbering; even laughing. He had his arms up high as his paws were up an inch by Nick's ears; his elbows resting on his shoulders as he pulled and yanked the chain as tight as he could, whipsawing it back and forth. Gilligan stared wide eyed and paralyzed in fear as he witnessed the whole thing before him, while the ferret was still ranting wildly.
The ZPD had trouble with prisoners before, but never one who'd taken any of the officers by surprise the way that Garrett did.
Silver came running out of Wild Bill's cell and pulled out his baton and ran towards the chaos. Garret, while still ranting wildly, thrashed the vulpine harshly and threw him into an office desk nearby knocking off everything that was on it, when Silver grabbed Wild Bill by the shoulders and tried to go for his neck, while grabbing for the chain that was suffocating Nick. Wild Bill raised his right leg and sharply kneed Silver in the groin, the fox fell back in pain and landed on the floor, as Gilligan, quickly shakily staggered back to his feet, Thomas, roughly pushed him aside and rushed forward. Thomas landed on the mad mammal's back and tried to wrap his arm around his neck as he used his other to grip the psychopath's scruff hair on his neck.
"Aow! Aow! Aow! Aow! Aow! Aow!" Wild Bill screamed and laughed as he roughly shook off the feline. Before Thomas could grab him again, Wild Bill reeled his head back and head-butted Thomas. And the feline fell back and landed on the desk. Wild Bill tighten his grip on the other mammal when he felt him trying to escape his grasp, but Wild Bill was far from over on this task.
"Where're you going!? Where you go?" Wild Bill said. Just then Thomas got back up, but before he could grab him again, the ferret whipped Nick around and slammed him into the feline, causing him to fall over the desk, and fall over the office chair and land on the floor and knocked over the water vendor that was behind it, the vendor fell off and broke on Thomas. The feline was too weak and exhausted to move or continue another struggle with Wild Bill's again as he watched Nick sympathetically.
The ferret grew excited and happy as the prisoners in their cells were cheering for him to finish what he started.
"Whoooee! Ain't this a party, now? Is it or what?" Wild Bill laughed. Silver painfully grabbed his gun and pushed himself up with the remaining strength he had left and hastily raised the gun towards the Ferret. Wild Bill saw the gun and turned Nick toward it.
"Shoot him! Shoo…" Nick was stopped talking by the extreme pressure on his neck.
"See who you hit!" Wild Bill challenged, Nick urged pleadingly with his eyes as his face swelled redder than his fur. From over Nick's shoulder, one blazing blue eye dared me to shoot. Wild Bill's other eye was hidden by Nick's head. Behind them Silver saw Gilligan standing irresolute, with his baton half-raised.
"Hit him, Gill, hit him!" Silver screamed.
But Gilligan only stood there, hickory baton in hand, eyes as wide as soup-plates as he stared back to the crisis before him. Wild Bill was staring at him and said. "Yeah, come on, hit me!" Wild Bill dared Gilligan.
"Gill!" Silver demanded. "Goddamn it, hit him!"
All the clamoring eventually ceased when Silver cocked his gun and seethed darkly towards Wild Bill. "I'm warning you..."
Wild Bill saw the gun pointed directly at him again and returned to using Nick as a shield, so that Silver would have to hit one to hit the other.
And then, filling the open doorway: Officer Wolford, had come by to assist in the arrival and was suffering where all the nose was coming from. He acted without hesitation and snatched Wild Bill's baton out of his paw and brought it crashing down on the back of Wild Bill's head hard. Wild Bill went down like a sack of potatoes and landed half sprawled over Nick as he tried to crawl away, hacking harshly and holding one paw to his throat as he felt the chain loosen, Wolford strolled over to finish where he left off, Garrett hid behind Nick for a minute before raising his head up to face his adversary, before saying. "You're a big fella. Where you come from?" He asked skeptically. Those were his last words before he was knocked out from the powerful blow that was given to him again.
Everyone sighed in relief as everything was back to normal. The prisoners however, were silent when the encounter ended. Nick then took a look at Officer Wolford. He is a Gray Wolf, muscular, his uniform is pitch perfect clean, and he is as tall as a Lion.
"Thanks for the help pup." Nick said before coughing.
"You're welcome Wilde." Wolford responded in his English voice. Wolford then helped Nick up. Silver and Thomas got up. Bogo then came in with a SWAT team. They placed Wild Bill in a Ferret sized cage. Within 15 minutes the Wild Bill is now in maximum county prison cell. With the best doctors monitoring him. However in Bogo's office Bogo is yelling with the loudest voice at Gilligan. Everybody in the ZPD is either standing, or sitting down listening to Bogo. When the whole department went silent Gilligan came out without his badge. At Clawhauser's desk Nick, Silver, Nicole, and Judy watch Gilligan go to the locker room to put away his uniform permanently.
"Good riddance to bad rubbish." Judy said with her ears looked at Judy with shocked because it's not normal for Judy to sound that angry.
"Wow Judy never knew you hated Gilligan." Nick said with a smirk on his face.
"He almost let my partner/boyfriend get killed." Judy responded with a "really" face.
"I still think we should be partners Judy. Plus Silver wears too much colon." Nicole said with a "yikes" face
"Tempting but, I have to keep an eye on Nick. He tends to get into too much trouble." Judy said before taping Nick's left arm.
"Plus it's a benefit for us. Because now that we are assigned our regular schedules we don't have to do parking duty. Enjoy the vest, and the short car you two." Silver said before him and Nicole laughing on the top of their lungs. Nick and Judy's have irritated faces.
The whole day our favorite couple/team have been writing tickets. Every ticket they wrote was followed with complaints from the owners of the cars. It's now 8:45 P.M. Nick is currently in the guy's locker room changing to his ugly green Hawaiian shirt, and brown jeans. Judy is in the Women's locker changing into her pink country shirt with blue jeans. They met up in Judy's car in the ZPD garage. Judy noticed the little white box in Nick's paw.
"What's that Nick? Don't tell me it's a bomb." Judy said with a huge smile.
"No it's this." Nick said before pulling out a cupcake. The cupcake is brown with orange spots, topped with orange frosting, and with a little metal carrot sticking out the top. "It carrot flavored cupcake, and frosting. Your favorite carrots." Nick said with a smile.
"What's this Nick?" Judy said before pulling out the metal carrot. After licking off the frosting it was revealed that it is a key. Judy turned to Nick with a shocked expression.
"Judy Hopps will you move in with me?" Nick asked Judy.
Judy then gave Nick a huge kiss on the lips. "Yes I will. Dibs on the right side of the bed." The moment got back home all night they watched Netflix.
In county prison within Wild Bill's cell he sits down eating steak and potatoes drinking red wine. On his left a touch phone is ringing. Wild Bill picked up, and answered the phone. "Thanks for the White Gas Harris. How did you convince John Overhill to give you the formula?" Wild Bill asked Harris.
"I had to make him part of the plan. Which he will prove useful in the future?" Harris answered.
"He's already being useful. Now I'm living like a king in county. Plus the drug for fake seizures works. Now they think I'm delicate. With the docs under my control breaking out of here will be easy." Wild Bill said.
"It's only a matter of time before the plan is executed." Harris said.
"You got a new plan to kill off the four trouble makers." Wild Bill asked Harris.
"I have a plan for Nick Wilde now that I know he has a son." Harris answered.