Chapter 9 – Explanations

"Where's the Prof.?" I asked Nick as we entered the flat. We decided it was the best place to get some answerers out of my other self right now.

After I told Nick that that Wolf was another visitor from a different world he agreed that it would be better to keep that secret for now.

We put Judy on the couch (with Nick sitting besides her) and had a seat on two armchairs facing the couch. She was still sleeping, but it seems it was a very rough sleep she had, as she was moving back and forth on the couch in her sleep.

"What was that thing?" Nick asked.

"That thing", I answered, "was a Deathclaw."

"And why do you know that?"

"That's something I might be able to answer." My other self intervened.

"OK. Imagine every story to be true. And with every story I mean every Book, Movie, TV show, Game, down to every Fanfiction, you name it. It's all true. They're all different universes. I don't know why or how, but there all out there."

Nick stared at him in disbelief for a few seconds before snapping out of his awe.

"Yeah and I am the Queen of England."

Now my other self just grabbed that medallion and got it of himself. Moments later the human was sitting in his spot.

"Nice to meet you, your majesty."

Nick just sat there with an open mouth.

"How … you are … a … human?" Nick stuttered and pointed at me.

"He knows?" My other self asked.

"Yeah, but it is only Nick and Judy, Bogo, the Prof and that Badger from the Hospital from what I know." I said to him.

Nick shook his head and snapped out of his gaze.

"So to get that straight you are another version of him? I am fine with that, but how do you know all that shit about universes?"

"Well, I didn't grow up in my home universe. There was a war and my family made it to another universe and long story short I now have to find my 'home' by myself without knowing which one is the right one."

"So you pretty much go by trial and error?" Nick asked.

He nodded.

"Isn't there to many universes to do that?" I asked him.

"Trust me, I've got time." He smiled.

"And why do you want to get to your home universe why not stay in one you like?"

"Reasons." He answered and started to stare in some sort of void with a sad face.

Nick and I both looked at each other and mutually agreed not to ask again.

"But again because I don't know which Universe I have to go to … . It's like searching the needle in a haystack the size of the earth. By the way how did the bunny thing happen?"

"Huh?" I wasn't really expecting an answer in my direction.

"How do you change species?" He asked as my brain finally got into gears.

"She (I pointed at Judy) got infected with an experimental drug based on the night howlers and bit me. Next thing I know is, I wake up in the hospital like this."

He just nodded.

"You don't happen to know how to fix this?"

"I wouldn't want to try. That can end up really ugly. I mean you're the first I've met who survived something like this. There probably is something out there in some universe, but I haven't really had an Interest into changing my species permanently. So I didn't really look into that sort of stuff."

"What about this Medallion?" Nick then asked.

"That's really just a disguise. In my case it makes me just look like a Wolf, it's more like an advanced costume. And in my case it is only adding features, in his case we would need to hide the ears, the muzzle and the tail. And even if we could hide these, there is still the problem of the height difference. Which means he'd need a new identity anyway, or how do you want to explain he shrunk 60cm? And …"

"And in that case it would be easier for him to stay here were he doesn't need to hide. Understood." Nick interrupted him.

"Exactly."

Nick scratched his thin as he thought of his next question.

"You said stories are real. Care for some examples?" Nick asked.

"All of them. I really mean every story, from the big Hollywood blockbuster to fanfiction. Everything is there even the Rule 34-stuff."

"Wait even Rule 34? Now that's ridiculous."

"Considering how that bunny cuddles into your lap and you not making her stop, I say it isn't ridiculous."

Nick looked like a 3 year old when you catch him stealing cookies from the cookie jar. In sleep Judy had managed to get her head onto Nick's lap and he covered her with his tail.

I and myself again looked at each other. Nice thing about meeting yourself is the fact that you two are likely to have the same ideas and reactions to things. So we both exactly knew what that meant.

"And conseidering how she stopped moving around when she got to your lap and how you wrapped your tail around her, I'll say you two are already beyonfd the home plate."

"OK, yes." he snapped, "We are a couple. But we don't want to go public with it yet, because … well, you know, love within the force and so on."

"We won't say a word." We again said in unison. "So inter-species relations are a thing here?" I then asked.

"It isn't the norm, but it isn't unheard of and most people tollerate it, save for some speciesist nutters."

He was obviously a little bit annoyed that we found out they are a couple, so I decided to change subject.

"So … ", I looked at my other self, "Shit how do we call you?"

"Oh, ahhm, as an alias I normally use Mike."

"Mike?" Nick asked.

"Just don't ask it is complicated."

"So, Mike," I now looked excited at him, "You have been to some… more known universes?"

"Mhh, yeah a few."

"Like?" Nick asked him.

He grabbed his backpack. And got what looked like a metal tube.

He pushed a button and a green beam came out at one end.

"You got to be fucking kidding me." Nick sat there with his mouth open, again. Mike was clearly enjoying baffeling people.

"Nope, and that sure isn't the only example."

He turned it off and but it back.

Judy suddenly made noises. She was waking up.

"Where am I?"

"Everything is all right, Carrots. Were in the safe house." Nick said in a caring voice.

She got her head of Nick's lap and looked at Mike.

"Hi!" He waved at her.

"Fuck, you're real." She said and let her head slump back down into Nicks lap again.

Mike just chuckled. "Nice to see you, too."

"Can this story get even more ridiculous?"

"Yes, yes it can." Mike answered her.

Judy was looking at Mike. He essentially retold Judy everything he told us and was now sitting there as the wolf again. He said he didn't want to take the risk of a neighbor seeing him through the window or if some officer came looking for them.

"How?" she asked.

"Oh, there multiple ways at this stage. Anything could happen really. And from what I understand you are lucky you just go me and him."

"Depends on what those assholes, that got you two here in the first place, do next." Nick added.

"Yeah, what's up with them?" Mike asked.

"That's top secret." Judy looked at him with crossed arms.

"Carrots … come on; he off all people is the most likely one to help us find them."

They both looked at each other.

"OK." She finally exclaimed reluctantly.

"And what about me?" I asked.

"You are still in our custody, so you'll have to follow us." Judy said.

"So as you finally have woken up, where do we start?" Mike asked.

We were sitting in the Police Station researching.

"Not much has gotten out. They work extremely clean. Finding that Warehouse where I was captured was pure luck." Judy was sitting at the computer searching for the case files.

"We only found the Warehouse because the Energy Company called us to investigate the extreme amount of power was consumed by an 'abandoned' warehouse." Nick explained.

"When we got there Judy was captured by them, but I could escape and get backup."

The door swung open.

"Hops, Wilde … ", Chief Bogo stood in the door and was staring at Mike, "Who the hell are you?"

Mike just grabbed into his pocket and pulled out what looked like one of these IDs which are put in a leather booklet. He showed it to Bogo.

"UMIB? Agent Carter? Why are you here?"

"Well, there was a massive communications breakdown in the city and we thought we should investigate it. "

The Buffalo made grumpy huff. "So I guess you will be taking the case now?"

"No. No. We will only play an 'advisory role'. We are also in search of the Mammals who did this, but at the moment they don't know we know of them and we would like to keep it that way."

"OK. But you go when everything is done."

"As you wish." Mike said.

"Hops, Wilde, the reason why I came here is to ask why his WPP-Application isn't yet finished." He pointed at me.

"Sorry, chief, we couldn't do it because of the com breakdown." Nick answered. "We had to fix that first."

He made a disapproving noise. "OK, but as the breakdown is gone now you will do it ASAP."

"Yes, sir." Judy chimed and Bogo left with the door slamming.

I turned to mike.

"Psychic Paper?" I asked.

"Well, yes."

"Dang, you have already been to the fun ones I see."

Judy and Nick looked at him speechless.

"I have no idea what that was about,", Judy looked at us, "but I won't gonna ask."

"Don't worry about it. Did you find anything so far?" Mike asked.

Judy was sitting in front of a Computer, which was busy searching the ZPD database.

"No. The database is quite big. And this were professionals. Cleaned up everything after them in the warehouse as soon as they noticed we were onto them. I have a list of things you need for the machine from the Prof and I'm looking if there a cases matching these. But that might take some time." She turned to me. "Why don't you and Nick do your WPP-Aplication in the meantime?"

"Ugh, Carrots why me?"

"You heard the chief, Nick. ASAP. And I've got to do the research over here with Mike."

Nick let out a sigh. "OK, Carrots. But you owe me one."

The WPP-Application did indeed take ages, but so did the research.

When Nick and I were finished they still had no clues what so ever.

The mood was on an all-time low, when suddenly Calwhauser stormed into the room

"Judy! Nick! It happened again." He looked somewhat hesitantly to Judy.

"It's in Bunny Burrow."


UMIB is short for United Mammals Investigations Bureau BTW.

So I'll decided that if there are references to other Stories/Universes I clue you guys in in these Author's Notes at the end of the following chapter. Not all chapters will contain references though.

The Deathclaw is obviously from the Fallout Series and that bomb Mike killed it with was a 'Bottlecap Mine' also from Fallout.