Chapter 24: Friends in need
"That's a relevant question miss Bunny." Sylvester began. "We can ask him once he wake up.""
"You really think he'll just tell us? Like that?" Lola asked.
"We know how to make people talk. Right Bugs… Bugs?"
The cat turned around to see that his rabbit friend were gone.
"Eehh Bugs? Where did he go?"
At the top of the building, Elmer activated his eyepatch-laser and looked through the scope with it. He started aiming at the young and blond girl-rabbit.
"I got you this time." He said.
Elmer was about to pull the trigger when something hit his rifle. Therefore, when it fired, the bullet just hit the ground. Lola and Sylvester reacted immediately.
"Sniper." Sylvester yelled. "Take cover."
Lola and Sylvester ran and took cover behind something solid.
Elmer turned around to see where the object that hit his weapon came from. His eyes got big when he saw the grey rabbit the shoot earlier under his first attempted assassination.
"YOU! You should be dead."
"It's gonna take more than a poisoned bullet to get rid of me doc."
Elmer hissed out frustration and started aiming at Bugs with one of his wrist-turrets. Bugs threw a boomerang-liked device on Elmer. He recognized the device immediately. It was identical to the one the cat used on him at his first encounter. He dodged the boomerang and turned around, expecting it to come back and it did. He fired at the incoming object and it blow to pieces.
"Thanks to your cat-comrade, I'm way too familiar with that trick, you have to do better than that if you wanna…" Elmer said as he turned around, but stopped talking when he saw the rabbit run against him.
The long-eared raider jumped and gave Fudd a flying kick right in the chest, which made him fell over the edge. The bold assassin fell from the building, but landed on a parasol that stopped the fall. He then rolled down from it and hit the ground.
"Ouch." He said.
Sylvester and Lola walked out of the hideouts and saw the assassin lying on the ground. Bugs landed next to them from the building with his grapnel gun to ease the fall.
"Hey guys, look what is found."
"I was wondering when he would come." Sylvester said.
Elmer soon got up, and when he did, his wrist turrets started falling apart. The impact had destroyed them.
"Raagh! This ain't gonna stop me." He said.
"Wanna fight us?" A voice said from up. It was Tweety. He just landed on Sylvester shoulder. Daffy soon followed. Landing next to his friends the same style as Bugs.
"Because that didn't worked well the last time." Daffy added.
That only gave Elmer a smirk on his face.
"You're right. I did not. "Which is why I have contingency in place."
"Whatever backup plan you have" Bugs said. "Do you really think can't we beat it, and you?"
"Not me no." Elmer said still with a smirk. "You'll be too busy saving your detective lady's friends."
Those words made Lola froze completely.
"What do you mean?" She asked.
"The yellow pussycat and the duck. I hear there your BFF's."
"What have you done to them!?" Lola said with a cold voice.
The bold assassin rolled up his sleeve, revealing a timer around his wrist like a watch.
"Two bombs. Planted on different places in the city. Your friends is tied to each one and there gonna detonate in ten minutes from… now."
By that word, he pressed a button on the timer. The countdown has begun.
10:00
09:59
09:58
"You sonuva…"
"I wouldn't waste time offending if I was you. You guys got a decision to make here. Catch me or save the girls. What's it gonna be?"
"Daffy, Tweety, Sylvester." Bugs began. "Go finds the bombs. Lola and I are gonna stay here and fight. Are you with me Lola?"
"Heck yeah."
"Are you sure it's a got idea we leave you with him Bugs?" Sylvester. "You aren't really in condition to fight after that shoo-"
"Are you still here? GO!" Bugs ordered. With that, Sylvester and Daffy took their grapnel guns, fired them and leaved the alley. Tweety went on his wings.
"So." Elmer began. "I'm left with you guys: My target, who is only guarded by an injured rabbit. This shouldn't take long."
"You're right. You'll be eating the ground at no time." Bugs said while standing in combat formation.
"You're gonna regret this little set-up. First finding you was just a job to me, but you just made it personal." Lola said as she stood in combat formation as well.
The two rabbits ran to the bold hitman, ready to attack.
Sylvester and Daffy ran from building to building in each their direction. Tweety scouted from the sky.
"This is gonna be like finding a needle in a heist arc." Daffy said through the comm.
"You're right. This is beyond our expertise." Sylvester said. "We're gonna need help from someone who have experience with explosives." pig said on the screen
With that, the cat activated the holographic screen on his glove, and made a connecting with Daffy and Tweety's goggles, revealing Porky to all three.
"Y-y-you're calling." The pig said on the screen. "G-g-great. I take it t-t-that the mission is complete."
"Not quite." Daffy said. "We've ran into an obstacle."
"Wh-wh-what kind of obstacle?"
"A mercenary have planted two huge bombs in the city and have hostages tied to them." Sylvester said. "We need Wile. E. now."
"I-I-I'll get him. Stanb… Stanby… Wait a sec."
After waiting for ten seconds (with a little … melody to pass the time), the screen and goggles revealed the face of a coyote.
"So. I heard you require assistance." The coyote said a British accent.
"Two bombs have just been planted in the city we need locations and instructions to disarming." Sylvester said.
"Have they been activated remotely?"
"Yes. He has a watch-like trigger."
"Excellent. If you can give me the trigger-frequency, we can track it to the receiver."
"Understood." Daffy said. "I'm calling Bugs, standby."
Daffy tried to open a channel with Bugs.
"Bugs. Bugs. Do you hear me?"
At the alley
Elmer fought the two rabbit. Even though it was two against one, the mercenary put quite a challenge. A second later, Bugs gauntlet started to make a sound. When Bugs noticed, he got punched in the face by Fudd and hit the ground. He got up and pushed the button, revealing the face of Daffy.
"Bad timing Daf. I'm a little preoccupied right now." Bugs said.
"This couldn't wait. We know how to track down the bombs, but we need the trigger-frequency from the detonator."
"Understood." Bugs said and turned off the holographic screen.
Lola got a kick from the mercenary and were pushed back. Bugs caught her.
"You holding up?" Bugs asked.
"I'm still standing." Lola answered while getting on her feet.
"Listen, my friends have found a way to track down the bombs, but we need the timer Elmer have."
"And how are we gonna get that?"
"I have an idea. You draw his attention and…" Bugs started whispering in Lola's ponytail-ear.
"Hah. It doesn't matter what plans you cock up. You can't beat me." Elmer said.
"Anyone ever told you you're pretty quick to judge."
Lola took her gun and started opening fire at Fudd. Fudd took a gun of his own and returned the fire.
Under the shootout, Bugs used his grapnel gun and pulled himself away in a corner at the side of the alley covered from Elmer's gunfire. Lola followed, running to the corner while continued firing at Fudd. Then she jumped into the corner.
That made Elmer laugh.
"Sheltering in a corner. Either they are the bravest couple I've ever meet or a bunch of fools."
Elmer ran to the corner. Ready to open fire. He knew they would have way to flee. The corner had a 'roof' meaning they couldn't go up. There was only one way in, one way out. No loopholes.
When the bold assassin arrived, he opened fire like a maniac at every place in the corner. He kept firing until he ran out of ammo. Then he took a look at the corner and expected to see a pair of dead rabbits, but no. There was no one.
"What! Where did they go?"
Elmer reloaded his gun. While he did that, he scouted the corner for possible getaways. Then he spotted a manhole cover. Looks like there was a loophole after all.
"Of course. I should have seen that coming." he said to himself and walked carefully to the cover. Suddenly the grey rabbit jumped up from there to the bald assassin. Elmer fired like maniac once again, but before he got a chance to aim, Bugs managed to tackle Fudd as he landed on him and hold to the ground.
While Bugs had Elmer locked, he tried to take the timer on the assassins wrist, but Elmer managed to get his one hand free. He punched Bugs' should (the may not have killed Bugs, but Elmer knew it must have left a wound). Bugs groaned in pain and lost his grip on Elmer's other hand. With both hands free, Elmer gripped his attackers arm and punched it multiple times, then pushed Bugs away and locked him to this ground. The roles have been switched. Elmer gripped the rabbit's throat with one hand and the other hand (the one with the timer) on his face. Bugs gripped the hand on his face, but Elmer quickly got free if the grip and were ready to punch the rabbit in the face, but then stopped when he noticed his timer was missing.
"What?"
He looked back Bugs and saw that the rabbit had it.
"Lights out." Bugs said and gave him a punch in the face using the timer as a brass knuckle.
The impact knocked Elmer back and made him unconscious.
Lola ran to Bugs and helped him up.
"Are you all right." She asked.
"I'll be fine." Bugs said and put a little device on the timer. "Remote Uplink Device Installed. Sending frequency now." He said through his comm link.
"Copy that." Daffy answered.
"And hurry. Half the time has passed." Bugs said and looked at the numbers.
05:00
04:59
04:58
At Daffy
The black duck closed the channel to Bugs and opened the one to Porky and Wile. E.
"Frequency coming up now." Daffy said and pressed a button.
"Got it." Porky said.
"All right." Wile. E. said. "I gave you the instruction. You know what to do."
"Transferring receiver coordinates now." Porky said.
They became visible on goggles of Tweety, who were flying across town.
"I have them. Daffy, Sylvester, I'm sending you to each one."
"On it." They said in unison.
At one of the locations
Melissa were tied to a chair dozed off, but were then woken up by the sound of a familiar voice.
"Hello? Can anybody hear me? HELLO!"
It was Sylvia's voice.
"uhh what?" Melissa said as she became conscious. She looked around to see where the voice came from and spotted an open phone linked to a timer and the timer were linked to barrels full of explosives.
"Sylvia? Is that you?"
At Sylvia's location
"Melissa?"
The yellow cat were tied to a chair as well.
"Oh thank goodness. Are you okay?" She said through her own opened, timed and explosive phone.
"Yeah I'm all right. I'm… I'm in a warehouse and wired to oil drums."
"Yeah me too. Melissa we gotta do something. It doesn't seem we have a lot of time." Sylvia said and looked at the timer.
04:30
04:29
04:28
Melissa saw the same from her warehouse.
"No we don't." The duck said. "I'll try to find something sharp."
Melissa began to struggle and move.
"Oh come on… crap" She said while doing so.
"Melissa?" Sylvia said at her own warehouse.
"Ragh. Whoever did this really know how make knots." Melissa said over the phone.
Suddenly at Sylva, the window above her shattered and a black cat landed in front of her. She screamed in terror.
Melissa heard it over the phone.
"Sylvia! What is happening? Talk to me?" Melissa said.
Not long after, a window at the wall shattered and a black duck entered and landed in a roll. He looked right at Melissa.
"St-stay back." Melissa stuttered.
"Relax. I'm here to save you." Daffy said.
Sylvester said the same to Sylvia.
"Wait." Sylvia began. "My friend is in danger too. You must…"
"Don't worry my friend is taking care of it." The black cat said.
Sylvester and Daffy turned the mini cameras in their goggles
"Wile E. do you have visual." They said in unison.
"I see them." Wile. E. said over their comm.
"We have to disable them now." Daffy said and took a little pair of scissors from his belt. Syævester followed.
"Wait." Wile. E. said.
"A bad choice of words. Time of the effort." Sylvester said.
"I believe the bombs is linked. Do you see the secondary trigger?"
"Yes." They as when they spotted them.
"It's not just a receiver. It's a transmitter."
"Meaning?" Daffy asked.
"If we defuse one of the bombs, the other is gonna explode."
"Were running out of time here." Daffy said and looked at the timer
02:15
02:14
02:13
"All right, you have to cut the right lead the exact same time"
"That doesn't sound so hard." Sylvester said.
"Well first we have to figure out which one is the right lead."
Daffy and Sylvester looked at all lead with different colors.
"Oh." They said in unison.
At the alley
Lola walked in circles for minutes, worried for her friends. Bugs finally got tired of it.
"Lola, you're making me dizzy."
"I'm just so worried about my friends." Lola said
"I trust my team if they can save your friends, I don't know who can."
While Bug tried to calm Lola down. Elmer began to wake up. He got an ugly looking bruise on his check, but he could still get up. When spotted the two rabbits, he tiptoed at the tied up crime lords. Elmer found one of the onehanded-machineguns Sam used earlier. Sam woke up not so long after.
"Och. Who… who the bloody hell are you?" Sam asked.
Elmer took his finger in front of his mouth, signaled him to stop talking.
"Shhhh. Be very very quiet him hunting rabbits ah-ah-ah-ah."
Looked at the two rabbits who were looking the other way. He made a devilish smile noted to the bald man, signaling he was going to keep his mouth shut.
Elmer tiptoed to the rabbits who hadn't spotted him yet.
When he was just behind the girl rabbit, his target, he started aiming at the grey one first.
Bugs managed to spot him and quickly turned around only to be fired in the chest multiple times. He fell on the ground and didn't move.
"Bugs!" Lola yelled, but before they could do something, Elmer to a grip on her and aimed the gun at her head.
"He's gone." Elmer began. "And you'll join him soon, but first, I want you to hear the end of your friends. We should be able hear at least one explosion from here."
Lola gritted her teeth in anger by hearing those words.
At both of the warehouses
"Okay." Wile. E. said over the comms. "This must be the right leads."
"Well there's no time for second thoughts." Sylvester said and looked at the timer.
00:15
00:14
00:13
"All right. You need to cut the leads exactly on three. got it?"
Sylvester and Daffy stood ready to defusing. Melissa and Sylvia were still tied to the chairs, shacking like Chihuahua's.
"Got it." they said in unison
"One."
00:05
"Two."
00:04
"Three."
00:03
The girls closed their eyes and the boys cut the wires. The timers showed the same number repeatedly.
00:02
00:02
00:02
"Phew. Relax it's done now." Sylvester said to Sylvia.
"You can open your eyes now." Daffy said to Melissa.
Both opened eyes and made a made a breath of relief. The guys started untie the two hostages.
At the alley
"Hmm. Looks like they were reach in time. Ah well I can still end you doll."
Fudd clicked the safety on the gun off.
"Think again."
Lola took the gun with fast reflexes (she's a rabbit remember) and hit Elmer at the bruise.
He groaned in pain.
"This is for trying to kill me." She said and gave one more punch. "This is for kidnapping my friends." A second punch. "And this is for shooting Bugs." Third punch. "And finally, this is for calling me doll, don't ever call me doll!" The last punch were the most powerful.
Elmer were on the ground, moaning in pain. Lola took the machine-gun and aimed it at his head.
"Lola don't."
She turned around to see Bugs standing up, holding his hand on his chest. Apparently, his blue armor took most of the shoots.
"He's not worth it." The grey and injured rabbit said. Walking slowly to her.
"He tried to kill me, he tried to kill my friends and hell, he tried to kill you!" She said with anger in her voice.
"And if you try to kill him, there won't the slightest difference between you two."
The angry rabbit stayed quiet for some time.
"Lola, you're woman of the law. You're better than this."
Lola gritted her teeth again. Then she decided to beat Fudd in the head, using the gun as a cudgel. She kept going until the tiny man stopped moving. Lola got up.
"He'll live." She said.
"A little brutal. Don't ya think?" Bugs said.
"Well I did seemed one punch wasn't good enough."
They both giggled a little.
"Woav, remind me never to get on her bad side." Sam, who witnessed it all, said.
Bugs noticed the crime lord was awake and gave him some knockout-gas. Sam dozed off immediately.
Then the gray rabbit turned on the holographic screen, revealing the face of their pig-friend.
"Porky. Mission accomplished."
"F-F-Finally. T-T-Took you long enough."