Chapter 12

Author's Note: There is offensive content in this chapter. Please forgive my characters. Enjoy!

Bogo drove Gazelle and Benny in his old, mustard yellow jeep to stay in character and not look too sketchy. (The Wolf Pack was not known for keeping limos.) They ended up at the Wolf Pack's Palace, a huge meeting house that looked abandoned.

The Wolf Pack was an extremist group that believed wolves were superior over all animals and were destined to rule the world. They were not religious but they were certainly eccentric. Their meetings were always held at that meeting house, and that house was where Bellwether was.

"This is brilliant, Slayer! Absolutely brilliant! The test is almost ready!"

"How did you get this?" Benny gestured to the signals from their car radio, which indicated where Bellwether was.

"My last mission undercover." He parked the car and hopped out. "Now come on, you two!" They were all dressed in remarkable wolf disguises.

"Gazelle," Bogo whispered as they headed inside. "Come with me. Benny? Stay outside just in case if they're nearby."

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"What are they doing?" Judy wondered aloud. She and Nick were captivated by the footage by the time the trio was at the mansion.

"The question is what is the sheep doing," Nick murmured. They watched from the cameras the wolf cult howl excitably. "And what's with the howling? I just don't get it."

"Nick, that's how they greet each other."

"Yeah, but these guys take it to another level, like everything else."

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Gazelle and Bogo took a seat, and the meeting began. "My brothers and sisters!" The alpha male exclaimed from the podium. "Welcome! Welcome old members! Welcome new members! Welcome to paradise!" The members cheered in response. "Now for today's meeting I ask you... Are predator-prey relationships... acceptable?"

"NO!"

"Should we let their 'family values' poison the minds of our children?"

"NO!"

"They're already ignorant and naive! They need our guidance! Just like the females!"

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"Oh brother..." Nick rolled his eyes and laid down on his stomach.

"'Just like the females!'" Judy mocked with a lower voice.

"I'm kind of hoping something happens just so they can shut up."

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The head wolf continued babbling as Bogo and Gazelle decided to leave. Bellwether and Slayer were nowhere inside the meeting house.

"Benny?" Gazelle spoke to the cheetah from her microchip. "Found anything?"

"No. You?"

"Nothing."

Bogo lightly tapped Gazelle's "paw". "Let's go," he whispered. They stood up and tried to go, but a female wolf blocked their way.

"Where are you two going? The meeting's not over."

Bogo's gaze hardened at her, so Gazelle briskly and gently responded. "Please, ma'am. We have to go."

The wolf just sneered. "I don't think so. No one leaves during one of my handsome second cousin's speeches!" Heads turned to them, and the head wolf almost stopped speaking.

"We have to use the restroom," Bogo explained.

"Both of you?"

Bogo pursed his lips into a thin line. Then, he leaned closer to the wolf. "Actually, we're going to call my girlfriend, Sasha. She's a fox who likes to dress as a horse. Her sister is my friend's wife. This friend." He gestured to Gazelle, who just stared at him. "So let cats and dogs make out, kiss my furry ass, and goodbye."

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"Comic gold." Nick grinned amusedly.

"Wait a minute." Judy stared closer at the footage and pointed at the screen labeled "Gazelle's cam". "What are those?"

Nick peered at the screen. "Blueberries? Why are wolves gonna eat blueberries?"

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From a nearby building, Slayer tapped rapidly on his laptop and glanced at the meeting house. "You sure this is gonna work? Just because we sold those berries to them, doesn't mean they'll eat them. Right?"

Bellwether chuckled and relaxed in her seat, which was facing the window that showed her the meeting house. "Don't worry. It's just a test. When I say go, activate them."

"How do you know when they'll eat them?"

"I studied this pack for a while. Wait for the howl, Slayer. Wait for the howl."

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"Let's eat these caribou-flavored blueberries!" The speaker announced jovially. "Our lunch break and my gift to you!"

Gazelle and Bogo were inches away from the door when wolves began forcing blueberries into their mouths and gullets and eating some themselves. Outside, Benny heard chewing and grew worried.

"Guys? Are they forcing you to eat? Hello?!"

A lone wolf stepped outside and hugged Benny. "Hey, bro! What're you doing away from the pack? Here!" He stuffed some fruit in Benny's mouth. "Try this fruit. Ain't it the best?"

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Bellwether smiled wickedly and cried, "GO!"

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Nick furrowed his brow. "Carrots? Why are they all standing up?"

"I don't know..." Her violet eyes widened as the two agents turned around and tore off their disguises. "Nick... They've got guns! They've got - "

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

The couple watched in horror as Bogo, Benny, and the wolves fought each other to the death. Knives formed gashes. Gunshots popped ears. Some wolves even began to break down furniture and bang each other's heads. Some bit. Some scratched. Some gouged eyes out. It was clear, however, that the two agents were gradually winning the savage fight.

Meanwhile, a few wolves went after Gazelle, who remained unaffected and watched her fellow agents with horror and shock. She managed to keep them away with minor use of her weaponry.

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"Turn on the camera in the house," Bellwether instructed. Slayer did so, and both gawked at the amount of violence onscreen.

"It's working even better than we predicted," Bellwether whispered in awe. Slayer nodded slowly.

"Even those who didn't eat the berries are turning savage. Contact with the berries can even do it!"

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Judy could not take her eyes off the screen. The agents had were now attacking each other. "Nick, what do we do?"

The fox looked at her incredulously. "What can we do, Carrots?"

"I don't know but... We have to do something!"

They saw their former comrades pick themselves up and suddenly examine each other with evident terror in their eyes. It had stopped.

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Benny felt something like iron on his tongue and trailed a paw across his wet lips and chin. Red. The paw was blood red, stained, oozing with warm blood.

"Oh my..." Benny scanned the area. Bodies laid everywhere. He did this. He killed them all, mercilessly, mindlessly, like a savage beast.

He felt his legs begin to buckle as he wobbled. Bogo stood up tentatively and watched the cheetah.

"Benjamin... What happened?"

"Benny?" Gazelle called out weakly. Her side was hideously wounded, but it did not look too dangerous to Bogo. Both helped her up.

"Benny..." Gazelle stared at him with pity. "You're in a worse condition. Your sides... Your head..." She was right. There were three nasty wounds on both of the cheetah's sides and head.

They saw Bellwether and Slayer approach and stiffened. Slayer sniffed at the corpses scattered around them as Bellwether walked closer to the trio with her hooves behind her back.

"So unfortunate that we had to meet under such circumstances," Bellwether told Bogo mockingly. "Mr. Smith, is it?"

He could see in her eyes that she knew his real identity. Still, he tried to act as cool as possible, even when emotions overwhelmed him.

"You did this..." Gazelle whispered in shock. "You made us kill."

Bellwether just smiled cutely at her as if the gazelle complimented her. "Actually, my dear, the blueberries did all that dirty work. Fascinating idea, yes?"

"We should just kill them all now," Slayer growled, caressing his gray pistol. "Agent scum."

Bellwether shook her head, her eyes still trained on Gazelle. "They may prove to be useful, my pet."

"So you're going to make predator animals act like this?"

Slayer grinned predatorily at Benny, who shivered a little under his glare. "Of course, kitty. Now why don't we do a demonstration?"

Bellwether nodded and aimed her blue gun, which had been hidden behind her back, at Bogo. "Let's."

The blue bullet stained Benny's golden fur. As Benny convulsed and hissed in pain, Bogo had to grab Gazelle to prevent her from coming to his aid and risking getting shot as well.

"BENNY! NO!"

Bellwether sneered in disgust at Gazelle's concern. "You honestly care about him?! He whose brothers once devoured your kind? Traitorous! Insanity!"

Bogo suddenly threw a smoke bomb at Bellwether and, carrying Gazelle bridal style, ran for dear life.

"Wait! What about - "

They heard a single growl and then a single shot. They saw the pool of blood among the smoke and the familiar form in the center of it.

The tiger had shot and killed his brother, the cheetah.

Sorry I killed Benny, ladies and gents. But don't worry! He'll be remembered and recognized.