Chapter 23: Battle of the city
Back at the A.C.P.D., the commissioner were on his desk, making his work. Then suddenly, he got a call. He answered it.
"Yes?"
"Commissioner." A voice said. "Detective Bunny has returned. She says she has something from you."
"What is it?"
"She refuse to tell me. She says she'll only share it with you."
"Let her in."
The blond rabbit entered the office with a folder.
The commissioner had great respect resourceful detectives, even attractive ones like Lola Bunny.
"So Miss Bunny, what do own the pleasure."
Lola dropped the folder on the desk.
"I have something I think you would find interesting."
He took the folder an opened it. His calm face quickly turned into a surprised one.
"This… This is unbelievable. I would have killed for such a golden opportunity." The commissioner said stunned.
"Thought you might say something like that."
"I'm not sure I even wanna know how you got this."
"Believe me, you don't."
"With this information, we can end this gang war once and for all."
"But we are gonna need back up."
"Yes, I'm calling for SWAT."
"I ask for permission to participate in the assault."
The commissioner looked predominantly at the young detective.
"Sorry miss" He began. "But I prefer leaving this to the professionals."
"But commis…"
"I know you educated in military tactics, but I would prefer leaving it to professionals."
"But…"
"Now, leave the room. Don't you have a case to work on?"
Lola leaved the room while the commissioner contacted the SWAT.
The detective walked to her office, when she arrived, she took her phone and entered a number 'they' had given her.
"It's done." She said through the phone.
"Excellent." Bugs voice came from the phone. "Meet us at the rendezvous point."
Flashback…
"With this info." Daffy explained. "The department would have all they need to put Sam and Rocky out of business."
"You should just know how long I have waited for a chance like this." Lola said after she read the folder.
"When you have shoved this to your boss, ask to join the attack."
"Why?" Lola asked.
"If the commissioner know you as well as you said, he would probably be surprised if you didn't. We are not gonna risk any anomalies."
"Hm… makes sense, but it sounds a little paranoid to me."
"Our orders were clear." Sylvester began. "No traces."
"You can do this Lola." Bugs said, putting his hand on her shoulder. "We'll be in touch."
Flashback end…
At the line between Sam and Rocky's territories, there was an old building, high enough to call it a tower block, but it was abandon long time ago or so it seemed. The building was in fact one of Sam's outpost, the one that was closest one too Rocky's empire. Sam, who was convinced that the one behind kidnapping of his second-in-commands was Rocky, he would send his men to the outpost in order to prepare themselves for an assault. If Rocky manage to beat information out of Canasta and Smith, he would be aware of this outpost and it's strategic position. This would be his gateway to move further in to Sam's empire.
Sam decided to go to the outpost. Rocky was the only thing Sam worried about right now, the government never knew of this outpost and never had.
Unknown to Sam, a detective had just informed the police of the situation and had send the SWAT the very place.
Sam would face an assault all right, but not the one he's expecting.
At the roof of building near the tower block, Lola just arrived. She looked confused around.
"This is the rendezvous point, where are they?"
Then she felt a hand on her shoulder. Lola gripped the hand, throw whomever it belonged to on the ground, and locked the arm on the back.
"Easy doll, it's me." Sylvester said while heaving his face pushed against the ground. Lola twisted his locked arm a little to make him hurt.
"Blondie, I mean blondie!"
"Better." Lola said as she let go of the cat's arm.
"Remind me never to sneak up on you." A voice said.
Lola turned round and saw Bugs, Daffy and Tweety, all in their battle suits.
"Hey Lo, glad you could make it." Bugs said.
The grey bunny walked to the side of the roof where the tower block was visible, Lola followed. Daffy helped Sylvester up from the ground, while he send him a mockingly smile.
"Not a word." Sylvester said.
Daffy stayed quiet, but not Tweety.
"Oh poor old puttytat."
"Shut up."
"So, did your boss bite it?" Bugs asked as they walked slowly.
"He's coming. And he has called the SWAT."
"Excellent. Then we wait."
"I'm still against you going in to this. You haven't recovered your injury."
"Don't worry about me. I can rest when this is over."
"Y'know, when this is over, you gotta tell me who you guys are."
"Maybe it will happen."
"Guys do you hear that?" Sylvester said.
The others payed attention and did heard a small sound of helicopter rotors. They turned around to see a group of helicopters heading to them.
"The cavalry has arrived." Bugs said. "All right guys. You all have role in this plan. Know take on the goggles."
Sylvester, Daffy and Tweety pressed a button on their necks pairs of goggles appeared out their suits backpacks and were placed automatically on their eyes. Bugs pressed the button on his neck, same thing happened.
"Connecting." The four armored toons pressed another button in their googles, which made them make a beep sound and a flash in the lens at the same time."
"Connecting established. Now go." Bugs ordered.
Tweety flew up in the air. Daffy and Sylvester took some kind of guns from their utility belts and fired them against the tower block. But instead of bullets, the guns fired grapnel hooks. Then the toons were pulled in the direction.
"Whoaw." Lola said.
"Grapnel guns. Handy to travel across long distances." Bugs said. Then he placed his one hand on Lola's waist and pulled her closer to him.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
"We wouldn't want you to fall to your death. Would we" Bugs said as he took a grapnel gun from his own belt and fired it at the building, but in another place. Then he and Lola were pulled in the direction.
At the tower block
Sam took his keys and opened the outpost's weapon store. While his men plundered the cabinets for guns and rifles, Sam went to his own personal locker. It contains a special delivery from CT. He unlocked and opened it, but before he took them, he wanted to admire these beauties. A pair of custom designed machine pistols, one of a kind. One hand weapons with the same devastating power as a fully automatic high powered riffles.
He took his new signature weapons and loaded them.
"You can come Rocky. I'll be ready for you."
Sam walked down the stairs in the buildings great hall followed by his minions.
"Get to your positions, if you see anyone incoming kill them."
His men scattered around the building making a defense line against the direction where Rocky's men would come from.
The suddenly they heard a sound of helicopter rotors. Also, weak sound of cars getting louder.
"What's that?" Sam, who was still inside the building, asked. He looked out of the window and saw blue helicopters arriving, when they came closer he could see four way too familiar letters writing at the side.
"The SWAT is here!?"
Tear gas grenades were then threw in the hall from the windows, Sam and his men coughed and he could barely see because of the tears coming from his eyes. A big explosion came from the wall to the left of him and left a big hole. From that hole came armored as well as armed SWAT units coming out of trucks heading towards them.
"Don't just stand there you idiots. Kill them!" Sam said as he opened fire at the attackers.
His men followed his lead. The entire hall became a field of battle. Sam ran up to the stair again went into a room upstairs he took a walkie-talkie from his jacket and turned it on.
"The SWAT is here!" Sam yelled through the device. "Regroup to the main hall and the highest floors!"
The mobs ran as wild animals. The men in the buildings mid-floors ran up at the stars to guard the roof. The men outside the building, who had taking defend-positions in the direction they were expecting Rocky's men, where now running inside to help their boss. The ones at the back were the last to react to the message. As they were about to turn around, they heard something hit the ground. One looked down and saw a device making beeping sound, and then it released a huge cloud of smoke. The ones captured in the smoke fired in all directions like crazy.
A mob in one of the buildings highest floors, close to the power grid, witnessed what happened in the ground. He looked through scope of the sniper riffle he was holding. As the mobs in the cloud panicked, the shooter could see a figure inside the smoke knocking them down one by one.
"What the hell." The rifleman said.
Then he heard a sound of something coming against him. He looked up and saw yellow flown in high speed in his direction. The bird hit him in the stomach, which made drop his riffle, kicked him in the head and gripped his nose, twisted it threw in on the ground and knocked him out.
"I found it." Tweety said through his comm.
He took a device from his back (with his bird feet since he is using his wings to fly) and placed it on the power grid.
"Remote Uplink Device installed. You're in porky."
"U-u-understood. I'm accessing the m… accessing the main… I'm tempering with the light know."
"Start at the stairs." Sylvester said.
Inside the building, mobs were on their way upstairs to protect the roof. Suddenly, the light were out.
"Oh great. That's just what we needed." One of the mobs said sarcastic.
Then they heard a scream on the lower floors
"What was that?"
The sound of gunshot came, the light started to flash, and the mobs started panicked and opened fire everywhere. Unknown to most of them, someone knocked the men down one after another while he moved up at the stairs.
Down the basement of the building, a wall, that separated the underground room with the sewers, just blow up and from the hole it made came Bugs and Lola.
"Tweety give me a status." Bugs said as he pressed the comm in his ear.
"We're in positions." Tweety said to both Bugs and Lola (They let her borrow one). "We're connected to the power grid and the others are cutting off reinforcements. Daffy outside and Sylvester at the stairs."
"Yes, I see them." Bugs said looking upside with his gloving goggles.
Lola knew what he mean when he said he could see it. She was pretty impressed when they explained to her back at their hideout what these goggles can do.
Devices that gives a vision similar to x-ray and more. It allows the user to see through solid objects like walls and scan the people it detects. Their skeletons become visible for the user. When the user has direct a vision of a person, a more detailed scan is possible. It can detect weapons and tools the enemy are equipped with. Also, if more users are connected, the information the single goggle detect is send to the others. So everything the single user see the others see too and the other way around.
"I detect someone who is low of height. It must be Sam." Bugs said. "With the men around him overwhelmed and his reinforcements, he will eventually be force to flee. And when he does, we will be ready."
"Wait. What's that?" Tweety said.
"What? What is it?" Bugs asked.
At the top of the building, Tweety could see patrols of cars coming from Rocky's territory. He took his binocular and looked closer on the passengers. What got his attention was the man sitting on the … of a motorcycle. He immediately recognized that face from the criminal database.
"Guys. Rocky is here. And he's brought a lot of armed friends with him."
"What." Daffy yelled in the comms.
"He was never supposed to be here. How did he find us?" Sylvester yelled afterwards.
"We'll have to worry about that later." Bugs began. "Change of plans. This will definitely make Sam retreat. Lola and I will go after him. Daffy, Sylvester, go thin out Rocky's men. Let the SWAT deal with the remaining mobs on the building."
"Understood." They said unison.
In the great hall of the building, the SWAT have overwhelmed Sam and what's left of his troops.
"Argh. This is pointless." Yelled Sam. "I'm out of here."
With these words, he ran an exit close to him, but a mob stood in his way.
"Boss, where are you going?" The mob asked.
"Get out of my way."
Sam pushed the mob aside and ran through the exit. He left the building through a window he could easily get through, thanks to his height. He ran through an alley as fast as he could but was stopped by a little rocket hitting the way not far from him.
"What the hell."
Sam turned around to see a motorbike with a sidecar.
The driver was a tall and tubby man with a brown mob suit and tiny matching hat. The passenger in the sidecar was a tiny man, about the same height as Sam. The hat hided most of his but enough visible to se he had black hair and he had stubble as well. The man was wearing a mob suit like the driver, but his was gray. In addition, he had a very tall hat, almost the same height as himself. He was holding some kind of grenade launcher.
Sam were all too familiar with these guys. The driver was Mugsy, Rocky's second-in-command and partner-in-crime and the tiny man on the sidecar was none other than Rocky himself. The mob boss equal to Sam and his greatest rival.
"So Sam, we meet again." Rocky said with a broklyn accent.
"Rocky! I should have known you would come."
Bugs and Lola ran after Sam, but stopped up and hide in a corner when they saw who confronted him.
"It IS Rocky. How the heck did he find us?" Lola whispered.
"We can ask him once were captured him." Bugs whispered calmly.
"Bugs, taking Sam down is one thing, but Rocky and Mugsy as well?"
"Yeah were gonna need backup." Bugs said as he pressed his comm link. "Sylvester, move to my location. Rocky is with Sam. I'm gonna need help."
"On my way." Sylvester said through the comm.
"Daffy, continue thin out his men."
"I'll take down as many as I can."
Suddenly the heard gunfire and turned around to see Sam shooting after his two adversaries.
"We're ending this right here and now!" Sam yelled as he fired like a maniac. Rocky and Mugsy took cover behind their transport vehicle. Rocky fired another grenade, but Sam jumped to the so it failed to hit its target.
"Bugs." Sylvester said through the comm link "I'm here. And I can see the party is already started."
"And we're going to shut it down. Take out the lights."
Sam and Rocky turned the alley into a battlefield they were both taking cover something solid. Then they both jumped out of hiding and aimed for each other, the final blow it seemed to be. However, it was interrupted when a lamppost went out.
"Huh?" Rocky said.
The other lampposts in the alley started going out as well.
"Great. What now!" Sam said annoyed.
Suddenly, a cloud of smoke appeared in front of Sam and a figure jumped out from the cloud. Sam spotted the figure with time enough to react. He aimed with one of his machine pistols, but the figure gripped his wrist so he didn't hit the attacker. Sam tried again with the other machine pistol, but with same result. Sam did now have his arm crossed locked by the figure standing in from of him. The figure gave Sam a head-butt, which made him drop his weapons and fell to the ground. The figure then knocked Sam with a punch at his now aching head.
Rocky and Mugsy tried their hardest to see who were attacking Sam.
"Hey Rocky, I tawt I taw a puddy tat."
When Rocky's eyes got used to the dark, he could see what the attacker was.
"You did, you did te a puddy tat." Rocky said as he aimed at Sam and the cat.
As Rocky where about to fire a grenade, hook gripped his launcher pulled it away. Rocky gave in for the pull and was about to fell, but suddenly felt a powerful kick flew up in the air. Then he felt another kick and flew back on the ground. The impact made him unconscious.
"Hey. Hold still." Mugsy said as he aimed the other attacker with a gun.
The figure hold still as he ordered. Mugsy were about to fire when felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned around to see where it came from spotted an incoming fist hitting his throat. Mugsy dropped his gun and coughed for air. Then the figure hitting him made a roundhouse kick. He hit the ground and blacked out.
"Nice kick Lola." Bugs said.
"Thanks."
"Well whadaya know. The two most infamous crime lords in Acme City captured at one night." Sylvester said impressed as he and Bugs stated to tie the three goons.
"Yes." Lola began. "Bu tone think I still don't understand. Rocky was never supposed to be here. How did he find us?"
Unknown to Lola, Sylvester and Bugs, Elmer Fudd were standing on one of buildings in the alley and watched the entire fight. He was able to spot Lola in the dark and now that it was over, he took his rifle and started aiming at her.
"I got you now."