TRICKS AND TREATS: CHAPTER 6
HALLOWEEN TOWN
Later...
...Nick and Skippy arrived to the Halloween town whuch, as Madge had said back in the hospital, was in the Twon Square of Zootopia, right in the very same place where Gazelle had kept her concert with her the famous song "Try Everything" after the events of the Night Howler Incident and Nick's first day as a police officer.
But right now, the whole area had turned into the small Halloween-styled town.
It was with the cemetery fence or with a dilapidated wooden fence restricted large area, that took most of the town squar. Respectively, it was the good job for the several mammals in Zootopia, for example the wolves and the bats, and yet the air space of the forest was filled with the fake smoke to make the tone of the place more Halloween-like.
And, just like with City of Zootopia, the Halloween Town had the several of its own districts, which were...
The Gloomy Graveyard, with the cemetery fence fenced area filled with the face overgrown dead grass and with the jungle of dozens fake grave stones and crosses, stony grave-coffins the grave chambers and the horned and winged demon-like stone statues. There was also some fake dead and hollow thick wood trunks, in the brances of which was the dalls hanging in the ends of the nooses and from inside of the hollow trees was pouring out the fake skeletons. And there was also the animatronic dolls that were dressed as a skull-faced grim reapers with the black hoodies and scythes stalking behind of the trees and the whole area was filled with the holographic walking, floating or headless ghosts.
There was also the wooden podium, on where was standing as an executioner dressed grizzly bear with the huge fake execution axe, and in the next of him was the line of ten guillotine (execution vehicles), in each of which was lying only with the red candies filled piñata dolls to be executed in front of the crowd and reveal to the kids the pleasant surprise from within the dolls.
The Witch's Candy Shop, was into dilapidated wooden cottage shaped candy shop - where was in the baskets and glass jars various kinds of Halloween-styled candies - in middle of the wide pumpkin area, where to the each large and small jack-o'-lantern pumpkin had carved to resemble various kinds of boogeyman-like faces with the wide and sometimes creepy grins, and there was also some scarecrows with the creepy-faced pumpkin heads in the end of the long straight sticks and either blood-red or purple tattered capes around of their body forming wooden crosses.
Sometimes the cottage was surrounded by the dark and foggy autumn landscape-like witch forest with the fake large and hollow dead trees and some into the large shadowy monsters shaped trees with in the fake wind floating branshes like grappling hands and the greepily grinning faces and the eyes glowing the faked "blood-red hell lights."
And, either in the witch forest or pumpkin area, there was also the faked witch circle surrounded by four fake dead trees, where was into old - and ugly - witch dressed horse in the next of the huge witch's cauldron
Wolfcula's Castle, with the stone wall fenced area with the lowering grid gate, and in the middle of with the dozens and dozens of wooden grave-coffins filled hilly area was standing the small version of Transylvanian-styled stone castle Wolfcula's castle with the ominously moving lights in the window called, along with the fake fog and into the vampires dressed bats in the airspace of this district. In the gates of this district, the gate guard moose - who had the necklace made out of the garlics and the cross hanging on his neck and in his belt was hanging the wooden hammer and wooden sticks, and yet he had faked vampire bites in his neck - was distributing the similiar necklances made out of garlics for the guest an an humorous protection against in the are stalking vampires.
And as a mentioned before, the yard around of the castle was filled with the dozens of wooden grave-coffins, in the next of the several of them was the sign with the writings "Open and take, if you dare" with the fake-blood. And the coffins were filled with the candies but among of which, for the another surprise of the children, was set to lie into the vampires dressed white-furred wolves surprise the children with the Halloween-gifts.
The Mummy's Tomb, The district, which bears the resemble of the Sahara Square's sandy deserts, only with the small pyramide in middle of the district, in next of the entrance was standing the several sign with the writings...
"Welcome to the adventure in the Pharaoh's resting place!"
"Are you brave enough to step into the tomb, which will be your last?"
"Find the treasure of Pharaoh, but beware the mummy's curse!"
"Will you get out in time, before you'll be burried alive in here in the company of disturbed mummy?"
This district was designed to be the survival-adventure for the visitors who enters into the pyramide, along with the map given by them by into the explorer (with Indiana Jones-style) dressed lion, who gave to the visiting families the maps to get through of the labyrinthine egypt-styled corridors and beware the false death traps - such like the fake trap doors in the floor that leads to the chambers full of animatronic cobras or to the close sealing tunnels with the sand traps or the fake-arrows firing cobra-statues. And in the end of the corridors was the pharaoh's tomb with the candy-prize for the children visitors. And after having their candy prize, they have to find the way out during of the district's design's final challenge... the mummy's curse in the form of the zombie-like mummies awakening, meaning that into the mummies dressed assistants starts to fill the labyrinth's chambers and corridors while chasing the visitors until they reach out of the pyramide.
And in the middle of the whole Halloween Town was the building of four buildings linked together, such of...
Haunted Ride in the Hounted Hotel, like in the theme parks, the large building shaped into the highly dilapidated wooden hotel in middle of the fenced yard full of the fake grave stones, thick hollow dead trees with the dolls hanging in the ends of the nooses, and in the wooden crossed dressed into the punpkin-headed ghosts. And in the air in front of the Hotel was hanging in the ends of the nearly invisible ropes the white into the ghosts shaped sheets, which skirts were floating in the light night wind as they floated in the from the side to another and some of them even close of the ground. And not to mention about the boogeymen, grim reapers and the witches peeking from the Hotel's windows. And to make the atmosphere even more real and more spooky, there has been added the ghostly, witch-like and a mad Scientist-like laughing and giggling, the wolf's howling, women's screaming out of horror and the deep and gloomy music.
And inside of the Hotel was the ride to through of the entire Hotel through of the Hotel corridors, rooms and big halls. And along with them was rooms like the torture chambers with the dolls in the torture racks, a mad scientist laboratories with the preserved body parts, mad scientist laboratory supplies, fake electrict machines and the table, on which was standing into a mad scientist creating his fake abomination, the gloomy dungeons with into the jails locked, in the bars of the jail doors hanging, into the execute coffins sealed the to the chains chained fake skeletons, the rooms filled with the spider webs and resitented by the giant animatronic spiders, the bedrooms with the boogeymen hiding beneath of the beds or coming out of the rooms wardrobes, the blood-covered kitchens with the zombified predator chefs chopping off the limbs from the prey-animals playing dolls with the cleavers, having even the bathtub in the kitchen, around of which had been gathered the prey-animal dolls from which had been the throats slit open to dry the blood out of them and yet they had in the kitchen hanging the faked bloody and chopped body parts of the prey-animals from the chains in the air and the dinning room with more holographic dancing ghosts. And with the dark gloomy corridors and libraries with the atmosphere of the violent thunderstorm in the rooms fake windows, the fake living paintings and moving walls, revealing their surprises behind of them and so on.
Treehouse of Horror Theater, was the gigantic wooden treehouse hanging in middle of the gigantic tree top's brances, to which had been placed the spider webs and the giant spiders, pumpkins with the spooky grins, giant animatronic manbats, giant animatronic vultures, owls and crows, in the end of the nooses hanging skeletons and so on. From inside, the Treehouse was actually the film theater, where was about to perform the different old and new horror films and other films in the day of Halloween.
Halloween Circus, A great stone altar next to the Haunted Hotel, where the magican - dressed either into the vampire or the wizard - does the Halloween-styled tricks to amuse the children, such like conjuring the ghosts emerge from the stone grave box behind of him, to wake the ancient mummy and make it walk out from its sarcophagi, making the animals in the paintings in the wall to come to life and walk out of the paintings, as well as the hypnosis stuff, metamorphosis tricks and even to make some magic... even though everything of that is created with the hologram-program, with into the costumes dressed assisstant and with to the children harmeless smoke bombs and so on.
Savage Wolf's Full Moon Rock, was the altar that was shaped to look like the top of the rock against the full moon. And in there, judging from the posters in which the very familiar gaselle herself appeared dressed into the wolf costume, Gaselle was about to perform her new song for the visitors in the honor of Halloween eve.
And there was also various kind of stuff, such like with the hologram-program made ghost wagons, ghost trains, Flying Dutchman and in the air floating ghosts, into the ghost wagons dressed candy kiosks, fake-trees behind of which into the movie monsters - usually savage wolves, zombies, ghosts, vampires, the masked murderers with the chainsaws and axes and boogeymen - dressed assisstants used as a hiding spot before suddenly jumping out in front of the visitors, candy machines, forecasters tents, Halloween costume- and horror film shops, the maniac laughing, screaming in horror and the gloomy music in the air and so on.
"Woah." Skippy said as he wathced all of this stuff. All of these grave stones, wooden coffins with the vampires inside, the fake bats and skeletons, hanged dolls, the cauldrons, pumpkins with the spooky faces and the staff of this place dressed into the various kind of movie monsters.
And as Nick and Skippy were about to pass the Treehouse of Horror Theater, Skippy paid the eager attention at the posters
"Wow! I can't believe that they are going to present all these movies in one night. Look at this list!"
The Treehouse of Horror crew were at the very moment erecting everywhere some posters of the Halloween Eve's evening's shows of the some old horror movies and some other movies, such as...
1970's film, Count Wolfcula!
1933's film, King Konkey!
1998's film, Crocodzilla!
1975's film, The Great Pike!
2008's film, Night of Pikes
1999's film, Headless Horse!
1984's film, Nightmares of Elk Street!
1994's film, The Predator Cafeteria!
1997's film, Savage Wolf in Zooris!
Another 1999's film, The Curse of the Lion Mummy!
2002's film, 48 Days, 48 hours, 48 minutes and 48 seconds!
1932's film, The Survival Game!
Another 1932's film, the Night of the Living Costumes!
2002's film. The Island of Mr. Biology
1993's film, Jurassic Tropolis!
1983's film, Mammaliens!
Another 1997's film, The HΩmega Mammal!
2008's film, Dark Apartments!
2004's film, Fixen's Grudge!
1968's film, Night of the Savage Bunnies!
2004's film, Dawn of the Savages!
2003's film, Heir of the Grim Wolf!
2004's film, In the Belly of the Mayor!
Another 2003's science fiction horror film, Some things mammal was never meant to tamper with.
And newly arrived 2017's horror film, The Clown and I!
"This is so awesome…" Skippy said as he watched the signs. He really wanted to go to Halloween circus because there was some of his favorite movies.
The rest of the crew of the Halloween Town, who were about to perform in the shows tomorrow night, were preparing for the Halloween Eve tommorrow night.
And, it was then, when Nick and Skippy arrived to the Hallowene Town's crew's trailers.
And there, Nick halted the first rhinoceros guards in sight to ask from him some advices.
"Excuse me? Officer Nicholas Wilde. ZPD. I would like to have a word with the Halloween Circus ringmaster for a moment, if you please." Nick said to the larger rhino guard, showing him his officer badge.
After seeing the badge, the guard nodded, until he turned his eyes at the bunny with Nick.
"And what about this little guy?" Rhino guard asked sternly.
And after the rhino's question, Nick realized that he had once again found himself in a tough situation when being asked about the companion animal with him.
Normally getting through of such of situations like this were much easier when Judy was around to make some excuse to get through ot the tough situations with the guards permission - something what Judy had learned from Nick. But right now, Nick knew that the guard will never let the civilian child inside the behind the scenes.
"Well?" The guard, sounding a bit impatient, asked again.
After thinking quickly, Nick was finally about to say something, until he was interrupted by Skippy, who said something for him.
"Assistant officer Skippy Speedleg, ZPD." Skippy suddenly said, much to Nick's and the guard's surprise.
Skippy even showed the fake badge to the rhino, which was the very similiar to the one which Judy had given to Finnick on their first met and which Finnick then had gave to Nick when Judy hustled him to confess his own crime in fellony tax evasion during the Night Howlers incident.
"I assist officer Nick Wilde with his case. Sorry my appearance, but this white-furred bunny costume is in order to make me look like the bunny rather than detective." Skippy added.
The guard snorted a little of this, but turned around to allow the free pass for Nick and Skippy to inside of the behind the scenes of the Halloween Town.
"The ringmaster's trailer is in the middle of the others out there. You'll recognize it when you see it." The guard adviced, pointing with his finger at the direction to where they should to go, before he departed to continue his guarding duty.
Nick was briefly totally speechless. He could not believe that Skippy had fooled the rhino guard just like that...
...and for that, Nick gave a sly grin at Skippy.
"Sly bunny." Nick said with the grin.
"Spend some time with the fox, you pick up a thing or two." Skippy said, which made Nick smile even more.
And then, after going to the direction the Rhino Guard adviced them to go, it did not took long from them to find a right trailer, much more colorful and sleeker than the others. In the Halloween or any day, everyday and holiday. There was even a profile picture described in the side of the trailer.
And what attracted Nick's suspects greatly, was the ringmaster's profile picture in the side of the trailer, because the pic presented the wolf's head with the black vampire cape, fake bat on his shoulder, pale face paint and artificial vampire teeth.
"Do you think he is the wolf we're seeking?" Skippy asked, as he watched the wolf's picture in the wall of the trailer.
"I don't know. Let's find out." Nick said, half sure and half unsure, because in the Halloween Town was working many wolves... and not to mention about the fact that there was also plenty of wolves all around in Zootopia and there was one black sheep among them to be find.
The task is as easy as trying to find a needle in a haystack.
Nick climbed the front of the trailer's door and knocked couple times in it.
"Haloo? Anyone home? Officer Nick Wilde, ZPD. I would like to have a word with you, Mr. Ringmaster." Nick shouted, hoping that somebody would hear him.
"Yeah, it's the Big Bad Fox out here. And if you don't open the door to him right now and let him in, he'll huff, and he'll puff, and he'll blow your trailer's door down like the wind of storm if he have to!" Skippy shouted humorously.
Nick felt himself a bit embarrassed for what Skippy had just said about him.
"The wolves may do that "huff and puff" stuff, but not foxes, Skippy." Nick said to him over his left shoulder, before turning back to the trailer's door.
Suddenly, the hatch in the door opened and the male grey timber wolf's muzzle and then head appeared out from the hatch and the wolf's eyes the guests.
"He's right bunny. He's the fox, not Big Bad Wolf. Which means that he does not huff, puff, nor blow no one's doors down like the wind of storm" The ringmaster scolded through of the hatch, which made Skippy a bit chuckle to this.
The ringmaster then turned his attention to Nick.
"And what do you want, fox? I was right now finishing my face paint." the ringmaster said with the rude voice.
Nick cleared him throat and repeated himself again.
"Officer Nick Wilde, ZPD. I would like to have a word with you, Mr. Ringmaster. This does not take long, with the fox officer's word of honor." Nick said, shoving his badge at the ringmaster.
The ringmaster groaned in annoyance, he totally did not want to get himself in the trouble with the police officer when he was preparing himself for dress rehearsals for the tomorrow's Halloween Night's Eve show.
But, with the deep willing to get rid of the police officer, who happened to be the fox, as soon as possible so that he would be able to continue her preparations, he disappeared inside of his trailer and opened the door to Nick and Skippy.
"Make your business quickly, I'm right now a quite bussy. And call me with the name Zeke Midas Wolf, if you please." The ringmaster, who's name was Zeke, said as he let Nick and Skippy in, before he closed the door, walked to the armchair of his trailer he sat down on it, and gestured Nick and Skippy to do the same.
"Let's get started." Nick said as he sat down to the another armchair with Skippy.
Zeke leaned towards them from his chair.
"Now, officer Wilde. If may I ask at first before the questions from you, what are the charges against me?"
Nick immediately took the appropriate as a topic of discussion.
"That's the thing what I have come to talk about with you, with my little buddy partner." Nick said referring Skippy, who waved his paw at Zeke as an "hello".
"First and foremost, are you aware about the robbery, which happened the last night in the Shopping Paradise and that the prime charges from the crime are targeted to my soon-to-be ex-partner and first bunny officer of Zootopia, officer Judy Hopps?" Nick started.
Zeke mused for a moment the answer to the question, until he pointed with his finger at the wall, where he was attached the page from the newspapers. It was that one page where the crime in the Shopping Paradise was published.
"I heard about it this morning. Pity for the little rabbit cop. What about it?"
"Well, I suspect that this is all about of framing." Nick answered.
Zeke's eyes widened. He probably believed that this fox officer in front of his faces was about to accuse him for the crime what he didn't commit nor wasn't in any way involved of it.
"If you're came here to accuse me for the crime, after I already did tell you that I have nothing to do with it, you have come in the wrong place." Zeke said in the anger and with the frustrated and angered expression on his face, Zeke crossed his arms and stared at the duo angrily.
"Actually not, Mr. Midas Wolf. We have come to the right place and we have the evidence which led us here." Nick said with the sly fox grin.
Zeke's eyes widened in shock and his arms slowly dropped. Then his expression turned back to frustrated expression.
"Well, what are you then waiting for, officer Wilde. Tell me what the heck is going on here and how this crime all related to my Halloween circus which even happens to be legal circus." Zeke said, demanding to know.
For the following hour, Nick explained to Zeke what happened the yesterday night, when he had found his partner, officer Judy Hopps, from lying on the street near the Shopping Paradise two hours after when she had originally exited from there and over hour after when the crime happened. Nick explained that he had found her in the belief that she was under attack from behind (Nick intentionally left that C-Word part from mention) and was probably knocked out after exiting from the Shopping Paradise and was lying on the street unconsciously for two hours, but nothing had been stolen from her during of that time, nor anybody had came to her aid. And after hearing the morning's news from TV about the robbery, she had strongly, but honestly denied herself being in any way involved to the crime... the crime of what she oddly does not even remember to commit. Which is why she's now the prime suspect, the victim of possible frame-up and in danger of being thrown into the jail like the dangerous criminal who is convicted of a serious offense to the jail, and the Detective Oates has her footprints and out of nowhere appeared hacker device with her fingerprints as evidence against her. And after that, later on the same day, she had been found from the guest room acting strangely with the lifelessly grayed eyes and moaning like the empty shell of zombie. Nick also told Zeke what Dr. Madge had told him in the doctor's office about the hypnosis, which was not new to her on the same day because there was the very same incident with the young elephant skater, who was as well found in the same state just like Judy.
"And that's not all about my case… there's been various warrants about the mammal children, bith prey and predator alike, who're all gone missing on the same night without trace… with the exception of Judy Hopps and that elephant skater." Nick said, ending the listing all details of this whole case.
Skippy sat on his chair quietly, without letting out any interrupting sound of voice nor question but instead listebed everything of this intently and carefully.
Zeke had also himself listened Nick's story intently and carefully, but it had drove him into the confusion.
"But how does all of this relates to me and my Halloween Circus?"
Nick took out the carrot pen he had in his pocket, unauthorized, borrowed from Judy when she fell on her current state and pressed the button.
Luckily, Nick had secretly recorded with Judy's carrot pen the whole conversation between of him and Dr. Madge, just in case.
And after Nick had recorded the recorde one time, he repeated the recording one more time.
"...I'll say that this is about a some kind of hypnosis... hypnosis... hypnosis... hypnosis." Madge's voice repeated her lines through the carrot pen, as Nick pressed the button to repeat one single word for several times, before he allowed the record to continue.
"Hypnosis is only a circus stuff what the animals working in the circus use to amuse and make the mammals to laugh in circus. Luckily to you, there's a Halloween event, with Halloween circus, that just arrived to the city the last night." Madge's voice said in the record.
And then, Nick pressed the button again.
"See... even though I don't know how, it's gotta be all about the hypnosis." Nick said.
And then, Skippy joined to the conversation.
"That's the evidence one which led us to here. And here's the second." Nick said as he pulled out the paper, to which he had taken the copies of footprints Skippy found recovered.
"We found… or, more likely, my little buddy partner found a few of footprints from the crime scene, or at least near of it. They're not bunnies footprints, they're the footprints of the timber wolves so the real bad guy is wolf by his species like you too."
"Plus…" Nick said as he took out the torn piece of cloth in a plastic bag and showed it to Zeke. "This piece of cloth, which is made from the silk, which quality is quite good one. If I remember, the silk from what this cloth is made of, belongs to the people of the circus… AND… this torn cloth doesn't smell only by the timber wolf but also the scent of the cuddly fur, which is usually in the children's fur - except with those mammals who do not apparently have a fur at all - and there's third scene yet, which smells like… chocolate… cotton candy… and sugar."
Nick saw clearly that these evidences really got Zeke's already confused expression on his face slowly turn into the state of shock.
He had got him. Nick had got to the wolf.
"No… no… it, it just… it can't be." Zeke started to whimper, in the pure shock and almost panic, which was on seen from his expression and shaking paws.
Nick victorious and sly grin turned suddenly into the concern for the wolf.
Of course Nick's intention was to break apparently stubborn wolf to get him to share some of his information about the true baddie, but he did not mean to cause this wolf the ultimate and suddenly appeared breakdown!
"Hey, buddy, is everything okay?"
Zeke, however, did not paid any attention at him again nor bothered to answer to his question.
He only turned around and acted like he was about to stood up on his feet.
"He said he only… it-it can't be… he… he. It can't be his actions. It can't, it can't!" Zeke whimpered.
Suddenly, when he was about to stood up, his legs suddenly failed beneath of him and he nearly fell over to the trailer's floor if Nick hadn't react to this by quickly bouncing off the armchair to his aid before he could hurt himself.
"He… he… it… it can't be… can't be him. Can't be… him."
Suddenly and unepextedly to Nick, Zeke bounced back on his feet, knocking Nick over on his back to the floor, and started to rampage all around of his own trailer, starting to from whacking with his fists and claw with his claws the walls of his trail, he turned the table violently over that everything what was standing on his table, fell over to the floor and went broken. He stuck with several times to his own round mirror, breaking it, he nearly tore the doors off from his cabinets and throw out his deputy clothing and some of his wine bottles... including crabbing from the necks of some of them and threw them against the walls and the windows of his trailer, breaking them into the shatters and one of the window's glass in the process.
Zeke's still shocked expression, his costume's vampire cape, his vampire's face-paint, the fangs and the candlelight all together created almost the threatening shadow over them, which a bit started to freak Skippy out. Nick saw this very well.
"Hey, buddy. Easy, easy. Calm down." Nick said, trying to get panicking Zeke to calm down.
However...
"IT CAN'T BE HIM! IT CAN'T BE HIM!" He cried as he kept his rampaging, even throing his own portable TV next to the armchair on which freaked Skippy was sitting, and the impact from the smashed TV against the chair was enough to knock him out from his chair... as well as turn the while chair over to the ground.
Nick had to do something before someone of them hurts themselves.
"I SAID, CALM DOWN!" Nick shouted.
"CAN'T BE HIM! CAN'T BE HIM!" Zeke continued crying-
"UNCLE NICK! DO SOMETHING! HE'S FREAKING ME OUT!" Skippy yelled from the corner, to where he had crawled after being knocked off from the chair.
With no another choice, Nick decided to use hard extracts to calm the wolf down.
And so, Nick jumped on the wolf with his full force, that it caused the wolf to lose his balance and fall backwards, landing on his back to the floor.
And after landing, Nick started to swung his right arm from side to another, aiming his paw to Zeke's faces, slapping his to the face to snap him out of his shocked and rampaging state and get him to calm down. And when the first time didn't work, Nick had to slap him even harder and over again and over, over, over, over, over, over, over, over, over again until he finally calmed down...
...and fell limb to his armchair.
However, after the situation finally calmed down, suddenly, two rhino officers from ZPD, the new ones as from their sudden arrival surprised Nick did not recognize them in the first sight - probably because Chief Bogo rarely introduces newcomers to the experienced ones officers - appeared to the door of the trailer...
...and after seeing the messy sight in inside and fox on the wolf magician, the rhinos immediately rushed inside to the trailer and pointed their taser guns at Nick.
"Freeze! Get away from him, fox, Now!" One of the officers harshly shouted with the hard tone.
"Keep you paws up! Get over here nice and easily, and do not try anything stupid or we'll shoot!" Another guard shouted.
Nick did as he was told to, but he had to explain to the rhinos, who misunderstood the situation, that what they saw was not what it looked like in their eyes.
"Woah! Wowowowowowowowohohohohoo! Wait, my fellow comrades! This isn't what it looks like! I can explain!" Nick said and was about to explain but he was interrupted by the rhino officers, wwho ignored him.
"You have right to remain silent, fox! Now, get over here nice and easily and keep your paws up!" The rhino officers shouted.
Annoyed of how the fellow officers reacted to his attempts to explain himself, and to from aside the situation witnessing Skippy's horror, one of the rhino officers remained still, holding Nick at gunpoint with his taser while the another one placed his own taser to the holster in his belt and started to walk towards Nick with the handcuffs… fortunately and in the big relief to Nick, that not with the muzzle.
Suddenly…
"Wait, wait, wait, wait! It's alright, officers. He's a cop just like two of you." Zeke suddenly said, as he quickly rushed between of Nick and the rhino officers to Nick's defence.
The rhino officers were quite confused and yet suspicious after hearing what the little white-furred rabbit standing in between of them and the fox they were about to arrest, firmly said, more likely claimed, about the fox in front of their eyes.
"This fox... as... as a cop?!" Both rhinos whispered in disbelief.
"Long story fellow officers." Nick said, clearly sensing their disbelief of him being part of ZPD forces, despite being the fox, which species is in the most lower level in the social system in Zootopia.
"Then why was all of that shouting in panic over here? And what about the sounds as if there was a fingting going on?" One of the cops asked, after he had recovered from the confusion.
"It was me all alone." Zeke suddenly said, earning everybody's attentions.
"I went into the panic and started the rampage, but not because of the fox officer. He only tried to snap me out from the shock and panic and was forced to use hard extracts, that's all. In fact, I deserved it." Zeke said simply.
After hearing that, both rhinos slowly placed their taser guns back to their holsters.
But, however, they remained still quite suspicious in the presence of Nick.
They had of course heard about the first rabbit officer Judy Hopps, who solved the Missing Mammals case and the Night Howler incident with the help of the ex-con artist tah became eventually Zootopia's first fox officer...
...but because there was a plenty of foxes in Zootopia, both Rhinos highly doubted that was Nick exactly that what he, his rabbit companion and the wolf magician claimed him to be.
And, to make sure that the allegations about Nick's identity are correct, they demanded Nick to identify himself as an officer by showing them his office badge as an proof that he indeed was a cop and part of ZPD.
And Nick, even though the frowing fox let out the deep sigh out of annoyance to the rhinos stubbornness, took out his officer badge and showed it to the officers.
"Let the badge to talk for me if you don't believe the word of the fox that is an officer and part of the ZPD." Nick said.
The rhinos took the look at Nick's badge and eyed it for a while...
...and after seeing a star symbol in the center with the words "Trust, Integrity, Bravery" around it in a circle and yet the words "Officer" on the top arch and "Police" on the bottom arch., they both nodded satisfied.
"Alright then. Everything is fine. Our apologies, Mr. Wilde, for our interruption and unnecessary haste in the wrong alarm." One of the officers said as the rhino officer departed with his partner from the trailer and closed the door behind of them.
Nick let out the another deep sigh out of his mouth.
"Newcomers. Now I know that hoe exactly chief Bogo thinks about the newcomers... except that he happens to be buffalo and not the fox." Nick said after the rhinos were gone.
And then, Nick and recovered Skippy then helped Zeke up from the floor back on his feet and put him to sit down to his armchair. And, by Zeke's request, Skippy offered to go to bring some hot tea for him to relax and fully recover from the shock.
After Skippy returned with the hot tea and the cup of sugar Zeke slowly sip his tea cup empty in all peace, until he turned back to Nick.
"My apologize for my quite childish behavior, officer Wilde. I may have an idea from whom this is all about… But… I just can't believe that. I had no any idea for what purpose he even took it. He only said he took it for the street magic tricks." Zeke said, stroking a bit embarrassed - or maybe even ashamed - his forehead with his paw.
"So you know exactly who's the bad guy behind of this mess?" Skippy asked excited.
Zeke, wit hthe sad and disappointed expression on his face, nodded positively at the quest.
"But what do you meant about, "it?" What this bad guy took from you and why? What are you even talking about?" Skippy said impatiently.
Zeke, however, did not answer. He only laid his arms to rest over his knees and lowered his head down.
The silence fell upon the trailer.
Then Nick stepped next to him.
"Mr. Midas Wolf, I can sense that this is probably personal and hard to you but we're just trying to help you. This whole case relates to you and your precious circus really much, but if you help us to proceed in our case, we'll not press charges against you nor your circus, unless it turns out that you were involved in this in any way. All what we want to know is this moment ago mentioned person's personal identity, his name, his past, his motives to do this, his current home number and maybe even his profile pic. Tell us who is he, what he had done before this and what he has took from you. Please, just tell us. Tell us what we want to know and then we'll leave you to recover and we get back to continue our investigation from disturbing you anymore. Okay?" Nick said.
"With the fox officer's word of honor." The fox officer added.
"And with the rabbit Junior-Detective's word of honor." Skippy added.
Zeke slowly lifted his head up to look at Nick's eyes.
Zeke may be one of the many mammals in Zootopia, who do not trust to the word that comes from the fox… but when it was about the honest police officer, even though the one happened to be the fox, but at least such of fox who had the extracts of the police officer like him...
"Fine." Zeke finally said.
Trivia
My own Zootopian parodies of the films, the Simpsons. Treehouse of Horror-episodes and books names.
Count Wolfcula - (Dracula, film from 1970)
King Konkey - (King Kong, film from 1933)
Crocodzilla - (Godzilla, film from 1998)
The Great Pike - (Jaws, film from 1975)
Night of Pikes - (Shark Night, film from 2008)
Headless Horse (Headless Horseman, film from 1999)
Nightmares of Elk Street - (A Nightmare on Elm Street, film from 1984)
The Predator Cafeteria - (Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror V. Nightmare Cafeteria)
Savage Wolf in Zooris - (Werewolf in Paris, film from 1997)
The Curse of the Lion Mummy - (Goosebumps The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb book + Mummy, film from 1999)
48 Days, 48 hours, 48 minutes and 48 seconds - (28 Days Later, film from 2008)
The Survival Game - (The Most Dangerous Game, film from 1932 + The Simpsons. Treehouse of Horror XVI: Survival of the Fattest)
The Night of the Living Costumes - (Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge, film from 2001 + The Simpsons. Treehouse of Horror XVI: I've Grown a Costume on Your Face)
The Island of Mr. Biology - (The Simpsons. Treehouse of Horror XIII: The Island of Dr. Hibbert)
Jurassic Tropolis - (Jurassic Park, film from 1993)
Mammaliens - (Aliens, film from 1983)
The HΩmega Mammal - (The Simpsons. Treehouse of Horror VIII: The HΩmega Man)
Dark Apartments - (Dark Floors, film from 2008)
Fixen's Grudge - (Grudge, film from 2004)
Night of the Savage Bunnies - (Night of the Living Dead, film from 1968)
Dawn of the Savages - (Dawn of the Dead, film from 2004)
Heir of the Grim Wolf - (The Simpsons. Treehouse of Horror XIV: Reaper Madness.)
In the Belly of the Mayor - (The Simpsons. Treehouse of Horror XV: In the Belly of the Boss)
Some things mammal was never meant to tamper with - (This is actually quote from TMNT 2003 TV-series episodes; Notes from the Underground)
And newly arrived 2017's horror film The Clown and I - (IT, film from 2017 + The Simpsons. Treehouse of Horror VII: The Thing and I.)