Thanks to a recent snow forecast, I have the opportunity to write a new chapter! :D
Disclaimer: I don't own Fangface... *sniffle* (be strong, girl.. be strong)
Chapter 14
The Wolf Buggy
When the three kids and werewolf walked into the police station, they weren't expecting to be blinded by flashes of lights... especially from cameras several of the officers were holding. "See? See?? We told you we saw a werewolf!" One of the officers, who the teens were familiar with, exclaimed.
"Oh, man! Just wait until my wife hears about this!" Another officer said, gleefully.
"Hey! What the...?! Enough of the flashes, already!" Puggsy yelled, covering his eyes. "Good grief, this is worse than being squitchified with pepper spray!"
"Will you please... Biff, do something!" Kim muttered.
"Officers, calm down already!" Biff cried, but the police were too overexcited to listen.
"Hey, enough with the paparazzi party! (grr!)" Fangface snapped. "Sheesh, it's like I'm surrounded by millions of little suns! ...Suns?"
Indeed, the flashes from the cameras did seem to resemble the sun, and soon Fangface turned back into Fangs... who had no idea what was going on (like always). "Hey! What's with the photo-shoot?" Fangs cried out, blinded by the flashes. "Are we being interviewed? What's going on? What? What??"
"Ah, shut up!" Puggsy snapped.
"Whoa... he turned human!" One of the police officers said in awe, then his excitement dropped. "Well, guess that's as interesting as it gets. Let's go, boys." And the paparazzi-policemen dispersed, returning to their previous duties.
"Ooh! Ooh! What was that all about?" Fangs asked. "And why are we in a police station... *GASP!* Don't tell me we did something wrong!" he got on his hands and knees and gripped the tail of Puggsy's shirt. "Oh, tell me we aren't criminals! Tell me, Pugs! Tell me!"
"Would you knock it off?" Puggsy snapped, pushing Fangs away. "We're here to get the police's resistance!"
Fangs arched an eyebrow. "Resistance? What are they resisting?"
"I think he means assistance, Fangs." Kim said.
"Yeah, that's what I meant." Puggsy said, nodding.
"C'mon, guys, lets go see the chief of police." Biff said, walking ahead of them. "Maybe he can give us some information on this Ed person."
Puggsy froze. "Th-the chief of police? Really? I-I'm sure one of these other officers could help us out."
"They'd need the chief's consent anyway, Puggsy, so we might as well just go to him. ...Um, why is your eye twitching?"
"My eye? My eye? Oh, my eye's not twitching!" Puggsy slapped himself across the face to stop his twitching eye. "See?"
"Hey, Pugs, how come you just slapped yourself?" Fangs asked. "How come? Huh?"
"It was a mosquito."
"I didn't see any mos--"
"It was a small mosquito! Now, could we just ask a different cop for help?"
"You know, Puggsy, if I didn't know better, I'd say you were afraid to see the chief of police." Kim said, slyly.
"Me?? No! I-I just... have a bad experience with the guy. You gotta remember, Kim, I used to be part of a bunch of muggers. So, the chief won't be too happy to see me."
"Well, you don't seem so nervous around the rest of the officers." Biff said.
"The rest of the officers practically did back-flips when they saw Fangface! I have nothing to worry about with them."
"Fangface?" Fangs asked, confused. "What are you talking about? Did I miss something?"
"Look, I'll stay out here with Fangs, just in case 'anything happens'."
"Like what? What could happen?"
"Fine. Look, Pugs, you and Fangs can wait out here while we go talk to the chief." Kim scoffed. She and Biff then walked away, leaving Fangs and Puggsy to wait for them on a bench.
"So... are you really afraid of seeing the chief of police?"
Puggsy turned to Fangs and sneered. "Do you always ask so many questions?!"
Fangs slouched in his seat. "Sometimes..."
Kim and Biff met the chief of police in his office. He was a tall, well-built man with dark hair and a thick mustache.
"What can I do for you kids?" The chief asked.
"Sir, we need your help," Biff said, then told the chief everything about Kim being stalked, meeting Fangface, Snake's gang, and Ed's scheme. "Do you have any information on this Ed character?"
The chief of police stood up and walked over to a filing cabinet, pulling out a file full of reports and photographs of a man in different outfits that hid his face. One photograph happened to be him talking to Snake, though he was only shown in the corner, since the picture focused on Fangface. "We have heard a few things about this man-- whether it was illegal gambling or a hit-job-- but we've never been able to catch him, just some of his lackeys." he explained.
"Did any of his men say anything about him?"
"Nope. In fact, once we caught up to them, they were so shaken up that some of them couldn't even speak! Those who could weren't able to speak in complete sentences, all babble about monsters and glowing red eyes and stuff like that." He took a look at the photograph of Fangface, arching an eyebrow. "That wouldn't happen to be your wolf-friend, would it?"
"I doubt it," Kim said. "Fangs-- that is, Fangface's human half-- told us these men broke into his house and tried to kidnap him. And Ed even talked about capturing him, too!"
The chief of police rubbed his chin. "Well, I guess Ed must think capturing a werewolf would mean a lot of profit for him."
"Any idea where he could be?" Biff asked.
"Not exactly. All these reports related to Ed always seem to be in a different place every time, and none of his men that we've captured were sane enough to tell us where his hideout is."
"Then I guess we'll have to find it ourselves." Biff and Kim stood up to leave. "Thank you for your time, sir."
"Hey, you kids aren't going after him yourselves, are you? This guy is dangerous!"
"Don't worry, sir. After all the things we've been through the past couple of days, no threat is too dangerous enough."
"Besides, we've got a 'secret weapon' on our side." Kim added.
The chief of police followed them out to the station's lounge, where Puggsy was sitting up, reading a magazine, while Fangs was lying on the bench, staring up at the ceiling, twiddling his fingers and whistling. Puggsy looked up from his magazine, and as soon as he saw the chief of police, he jumped a mile.
"Yikes!" Puggsy yelled, jumping out of his seat (tossing the magazine as he did so, which landed on Fangs' head) and ducked behind Fangs as he sat up.
"Hey! Hey! What's going on?!" Fangs exclaimed, removing the magazine from his face and looked behind his shoulder at his startled friend. "Ooh, Pugs! What're you doing, hiding behind me? Huh? What?"
"Keep quiet, pinhead!" Puggsy hissed.
"Russel?" The chief of police asked, staring in disbelief at the teenage boy hiding behind the other teenage boy. "What... what are you doing here?"
Puggsy blushed. "Ah, did you have to call me by my first name?!"
"Your name's Russel??" Fangs asked.
"Must be on his record," Biff guessed, addressing Fangs.
"Record?" The chief of police asked.
"Yeah, you know, from all those times you caught him? His arrest record?"
"He's never been arrested."
"But he said something about always getting in trouble with you..." Kim said.
"Well, he has been in trouble with me, but not police business-wise. Only at home." He looked at Puggsy, who shrugged his shoulders and rubbed the back of his neck, turning red.
"Wait... Are you saying that Puggsy is---" Fangs said, shocked.
"My son, yes." He gave Puggsy a stern look. "And right now, he's got some explaining to do."
"Look, Dad, I'll explainify later. Right now, we've got to find these guys..." Puggsy began.
"You mean, you're in on all this?!"
"Um, guys? I think we should go wait... Outside." Kim said to Biff and Fangs.
"Yeah, good idea." Biff agreed.
"How come we-- Whoa!" Fangs began to ask, but Biff was already pushing him out the door.
"Alright, son, start explaining." The chief of police-- aka Puggsy's dad-- said firmly, crossing his arms.
Puggsy took a deep breath, then told his dad everything, from the boxing match to Ed's plot, ending with how the gang members decided to let them go. "...But Snake is still after us, along with that Ed creepo." he finished. "If we don't catch them, they'll murdify Biff and me and kidnap Fangs and Kim!"
"Why didn't you say anything about this before?"
Puggsy sighed. "I didn't want to get you and Mom involved... or hurt,"
"I'm afraid... you've already hurt your mom already. Not physically, but emotionally. She's worried about you... and so am I." he put a hand on his son's shoulders. "Russ, you can't just go out looking for trouble."
"I'm not looking for trouble, Dad! I'm trying to prevent it! And, I hate to admit this, but I'm already involved in this criminal's activity, and I won't get out until we catch him and Snake." He turned away. "Now, if you excusify me, I gotta help out those kids."
"Hold it." His dad kept a firm grip on his shoulders. "I can't just let you run off head-first into danger! I can't... I can't lose you, Puggsy."
Puggsy lifted his dad's hand off his shoulder and held it. "Dad... you won't. I'll be careful. Just trust me on this, okay?"
His dad winced. It had seemed like ages since his son had asked for his trust. He sighed. "Fine, but if I hear anything on the scanner about you, I'm coming after you guys and taking down Ed and Snake myself."
Puggsy grinned. "Thanks dad." he let go of his hand and turned to go outside, but paused and turned back to him. "Be sure to have a few officers stand by... And, tell mom... I'm sorry. For everything."
"I will."
Puggsy gave him a nod and ran outside, meeting Biff, Kim, and Fangs. "Alright, lets go pummel some crooks."
"Wait, how are we going to find Ed's place?" Kim asked. "I mean, we don't even have a car to search!"
"Ooh, ooh! My uncle Tyler is a car dealer! He might help us out!" Fangs suggested, eagerly. "His shop is on 32nd Street."
"That's just three blocks from here." Puggsy said.
"Well, that solves that problem." Biff said. "Lets go."
They ran down the street, heading to Fangs' uncle's shop. "So... Russel, huh?" Fangs said to Puggsy, trying to start a conversation.
"Shut up, Sherman!" Puggsy snapped.
"Oh, brother," Kim muttered, shaking her head.
Snake waited impatiently in the old gym. Only eight of his guys, who had been searching the neighborhood (while the other ten were in the park), had come back from their search, with no reports. The others were still out...
...and they had been out way too long. "I'd give them another ten minutes, Snake," one of the gang members said. "I mean, they could be searching downtown---"
"They're not." Snake said, coldly. "I gave them all specific instructions to wait in the park, in case Puggsy and those other doofuses passed by. That's where you said you saw them last... right, Benny?" he glared at another gang member, who flinched.
"Uh- uh, y-yeah!" Benny stammered. "They were heading toward the park, that werewolf was running like mad---"
"Toward the park? As in, toward but not completely in the park?!" Benny, hesitantly, nodded in fear. Snake through a pop can at him. "Idiot! They could be miles away by now---"
"Hey, Snake, take a look at this!" Another gang member called, sitting by a broken window, looking out at the street. "Ain't that them?"
Snake and the other gang members ran over, crowding around the window and peeking out, seeing Puggsy, Kim, Biff, and Fangs run by, toward a car dealership. "That's them alright," A different gang member said with a grin. "But, who's that tall, lanky kid with them?"
"I don't know," Snake said. "I'm trying to figure out where that wacky wolf of theirs is."
"What if that tall kid is the werewolf??" Benny gasped.
Snake rolled his eyes. "If he were the werewolf, he'd still be a werewolf until the sun came out, dipstick! ...Now, c'mon. Let's follow 'em."
They ran down the stairs of the gym and out the door, taking a shortcut through the alley to cut their targets off.
Biff, Kim, Puggsy, and Fangs arrived at the car dealership minutes later (unaware that they were being followed). Unfortunately, the shop was closed. "Aw, man! I forgot he closed at five!" Fangs said, slapping his forehead. "Sorry, guys."
"Don't worry, Fangs, we can come back tomorrow." Kim assured him. "Besides, it'll be easier to search during the day, anyway."
"Yeah, lets just head back to your house." Biff said. "We can spend the night there again and---" he paused, spotting a large blue tarp over a vehicle, sitting right outside of the shop, with a sign that read 'Free'. "Hey, Fangs, what's this?"
"I don't know." Fangs said with a shrug. "Probably just another car my uncle wants to get rid of. He always gives away the worst ones for free... or to his daughter, Clarisse. She normally ends up wrecking them anyway."
Biff pulled back the tarp, revealing a yellow-orange, automatic convertible buggy with brown connecting front seats with matching back seats. The front of it almost resembled a wolf, with headlights that looked like animal glares. The tires were full, it had a good engine, and the gas gage was on 'Full', and judging from the miles on it, it had never been driven.
"Whoa, why would your uncle want to get rid of this?!" Biff asked in awe. "It's in great shape and everything!"
"I don't know. Maybe because it's an ugly car?" Fangs guessed.
"Doesn't seem so ugly to me." Biff threw the tarp aside and hopped into the vehicle. He opened up the glove compartment, finding the keys. "He even left the keys in the car!"
"He must've been desperate to get rid of it," Puggsy scoffed.
"You're not really going to drive it, are you?" Fangs asked, nervously. "I don't think my uncle would like that..."
"Then he shouldn't have left it out here for someone to take." Biff said. "Now, c'mon! We're only going to borrow it until we can catch Ed."
Fangs sighed. "Fine... But I call shotgun!" he ran to climb into the passenger seat, but Puggsy held him back.
"Oh, no you don't!" Puggsy snapped. "I got dibs on shotgun!"
"You're both wrong!" Kim said. Puggsy and Fangs turned to see that she had already beaten them to the passenger seat. "I've got shotgun."
Puggsy muttered angrily under his breath and Fangs groaned. They both climbed into the backseat and they drove off.
A/N: Not really my longest chapter, but at least it's got some suspense, right? Don't worry, there'll be some action in later chapters, but until then, REVIEW!!!