Chapter 14 – Dragons Den

Back at Precinct 1.

Judy and Nick studying the case files again. They both had a shower immediately after we got here.

"There has to be something." Judy exclaimed. I hoped they wouldn't need the tip, because I didn't knew how to tell them without blowing our small lie or if the information was even valid in this universe. I needed to verify it first.

"Even the 4 guards we captured didn't tell us anything." She sounded desperate.

I approached the two who were sitting at a table inside their office. Mike and I were sitting on chairs besides that.

"Judy," I started "May I use your computer. You know for research purposes?"

Nick started to chuckle as he obviously got the joke.

"What research?" She looked up.

"You know about Zootopia and after you could do get some Information in my world and it looks like we will stay here for a while."

"Oh, yeah, sure, go ahead."

I intended to do both. Answer a few of my questions about Zootopia and then to give them a tip.

So I got first got onto Zoogle Maps and had a look around.

The City of Zootopia was roughly there were New York was in our world, which makes sense considering there sort of both on an Island. Zootopia and the surrounding area also seemed to be the most different part of the map compared to our world. There were other parts that weren't the same, but Zootopia was the most predominant one.

I head a quick look over to Europe which was mostly still the same. Some place names differed, but others didn't. I had a look at the little town I grew up in and said to myself that one day I have to go there again.

Then I fired the ZPD database program up.

I searched for that old military base, which was easy to find when I got the name from Zoogle Maps, and looked up who bought it in the land ownership database of the city.

'Focus Research Ltd.' was there Name and the address was somewhere outside the city.

Now how do I tell them? I decided to just go for it.

"Ehm … Judy?" I wanted to get her attention "I think I got something that might help us."

She came over and I pointed her to the screen.

"Oliver, we already looked that up and it looks like it is an fake address. Look, that is an old salt mine. I mean what should a research facility do with a salt mine?"

"So we should sit around here another 3 hours with no progress then? I mean I know it is unlikely that something is there, but still we should at least have a look."

"He does have a point there, carrots."

Judy looked at me with a stern look until she sighed.

"OK, I guess you're right we should have a look."

We were in front of the mine. The entrance was unguarded, probably not to raise any suspicions.

It was really just a hole in the ground with a door. A big fucking door.

"You may not have some wizardry tech to open that door in your bag, do you?" Judy asked Mike.

"Mhhh… Maybe if I look hard enough." he said "Don't worry Judy let that be my concern."

He went to the door and I followed him. I wanted to see the 'wizardry'.

We walked to a spot besides the door, where there was a little terminal.

He got to his backpack again. And before I could really ask myself how he got anything out that thing without climbing in, because all he could really reach was the entry ladder, he got something out that looked like a mobile phone and a screwdriver.

He detached the terminal from the wall and wired the USB connection of the phone to some part of the terminal.

"So what is that? Some hacking tool or something, to get around the password?" I asked him.

"No, why try and get around it when you just can try all the possible passwords?"

"But that will take … like forever."

"Not with this. It is a pocket quantum computer."

"Give up!"

"Yeah, you find all the hottest tech when you travel the universes."

Now, for the people who don't know what a quantum computer is, but would like to: Just go on Zootube. There are a few nice explanations on this.

For everybody else: It is a very, very, very, very, fast computer. One that is so fast in fact that the time it takes to guess very long passwords, like this one, comes down from beyond the end of the earth to a few minutes.

And so a few minutes later.

"And … Bingo." Mike exclaimed.

And so the door slid open.

"That is really one heck of a door." Nick said who was standing beside us.

And so in we went.

We first came to an elevator.

"Now that's odd." Nick said as we got to it.

"Yeah, that's way to new to be here." Judy said and pushed the call button.

The two doors opened with a pling.

"Well, looks like somebody had the right nose." Mike said while looking to me.

Everybody stepped in and the Down-button was pushed.

In the elevator nothing really happened until, roughly 1 minute into the ride, the lights went out and we stopped.

I was exploring my surroundings with my hands. And felt someone.

"Whoever that is, might be so friendly to let go of me." You heard Nick say.

"Somebody got a …" Mike couldn't finish the sentence as we heard the something making "Fumb" twice. Shortly followed by the sound of two mammals crashing to the ground.

"Well, now at least we know we are right." I now could see the fox as two green glowing eyes starred back at me.

Followed by two another "Fumb"'s and blackness.

I woke up in what looked like a lab. So no surprise there.

We were all strapped to some sort of hospital bed.

"Hey." It came from my left. Mike was already awake.

"Hey. Anything I missed?" I still was a bit dizzy, but it faded away quickly.

"Nah, nothing so far, but I finally would like to see who is behind all that. And I would love my backpack back, because then I would be out of here already."

There were noises now on my left side. The other two were waking up.

"Had you two a good night's rest, I sure didn't?" I asked them.

"How do you still are able to make jokes in such an situation?" Judy was looking at me annoyed.

"That's pure cynicism. You should try it, helps a lot."

"Nah, I'm fine." was her answer.

"Could you two please focus on getting us out?" Nick interrupted us. And in turn was interrupted by the door opening.

A sheep stepped through the door.

"That can't be!" both Judy and Nick exclaimed.

"Who is that?" I whispered to Judy.

"That's Bellweather." it came back.

"Well, look who's awake?" The sheep started "The three cops and their otherworldly protégé."

Three cops? She must have bought Mikes cover as an UMIB-Agent.

"How did you got out of prison, Dawn? And what sick plan do you have now?" Judy asked.

She chuckled.

"Oh, Dawn is still in prison. My little sisters plan sadly didn't so I will have to use Plan B, but I will spare you with the details. This isn't some 'Jack Savage'-Movie after all, where I tell you lot my plan, only so you can prevent it. After all I don't know how you got past that door and you will see it soon enough."

She was getting to one of the desks and fumbled around at her wrist.

"Get me the new prototypes." She spoke.

"Oi, Smellwaether." Mike was shouting to her "It's because of your mother, is it?"

She was looking at him and going red in anger.

"Shut up, you fucking pred scum, you have no right to talk of my mother! Not after what your kind did to her. That fucking otter murdered my mother. After all she did for him he ordered to put her into that damn machine and his mindless clerks of scientist just did it even after his death." She was near tears now. "She begged and pleaded them not to do it, but they just didn't care. In turn she killed them all after using them as test subjects, though one girl managed to destroy her. I and my sister took control of the company and rebuild it under new name with money that we got from selling the plans to that gun. The day they but her in that 'thing' we both swore to revenge her to revenge out mother. Caroline Bellweather."

'Shit! I know this story.' was all I could think.

The door opened and a Wolf came in. He help a plate in one hand. But the more interessting thing was on his neck. On his neck was a collar with a little white box on it. On that white box was a little green light, like with the guards on the base.

"They're taming collars. I knew it." I said in surprise.

"What, how do you know that? How?" she exclaimed.

"Taming collars?" Nick was asking me.

"That was a first version of the movie that got scrapped. I played in a more distopian Zootopia where the predators have to wear these collars to keep them in check with electric shocks. They thought that this was a not so fitting setting for a childrens movie."

"Yeah, but these aren't just taming collars. Look at them." Mike was speaking and pointing at the wolf and jaguar "They're like fucking zombies. Was that your plan? Make some of the predators go savage so all of them have to wear these and make them your slaves?" He shouted to Bellweather.

She was slowly and sarcastically clapping their hands. "Wow, you surly would make Sherlock Otter competition. But no that was the plan of my sister. And I don't even care how you nerd" , she pointed to me "know about the collars."

"And the portals to the other world? What about them?" I sked.

"Well, when you are asking so nice, I might as well tell you. And may it just to see the expression on your cute little face."

She was starting to go up and down in front of us.

"You see I want to find prey that could turn the tables and make the preds their prey. One that the predators would fear and help me to collar them all. But I couldn't figure out what you were supposed to be, let alone that savage rabbit thing."

"Well, you certainly got what you searched for without realising it." Mike mumbled to no one in particular.

"But enough of the shit chat!" she screamed. "Let us begin with with the wolf, as he has such a big mouth."

She got the other wolf to kneel down so she could reach the plate.

"These are my new prototypes. Sadly, the plan of my sister didn't work and you can't infiltrate a government with these large bulky collars. Far to obvious. No you need something more subtle. You four will be my first test candidates. I also have to make sure they work on prey as well afer all."

She was now standing besides Mike.

"Now because you were so naughty earlier we are doing it without the anesthesia."

"Oh, fuck off." was all he answered as he got one off his arms free.

'How did he do that now?' shot through my brain.

The other wolf immediately responded by attacking him, but he knocked him out with a straight right.

"Well, I guess you already meat One-punch-men then?" I threw in while he undid his other restraints.

"No, not yet, but that one is on my bucket list." was his response as he made me loose.

When he got me loose, three new guards came in. Another wolf and two jaguars.

"Get rid of them." said Bellweather while running past them outside the room.

"Make Judy and Nick loose and follow her. I'll deal with them." He said and went to the guards.

I freed the others of the restrictions and we went to the big double doors leading out of the lab.

Only to find a giant polar bear waiting on the other side and it immediately noticed us. We were slowly backed away searching for a way to keep him off us.

When I noticed a shadow over us. It was Mike, as a human, jumping, feet in front, onto the face of the polar bear. He then pushed himself of the face of the bear and made a backwards somersault, only to land behind us and the polar bear fallen onto his back. He then shot the bear with the gun he also had at the airport. And that is supposed to be a version of me?

"Uhm… " Was all I got out "Mike you lost the medallion."

"No, that's on purpose. It is a bit distracting in a fight."


Hey, I'm not dead. Just had little time to work on the story with my new job.

Anways hope you like it and I hope I get the other chapters out in in January now.