Chapter Two
-Narrator's POV-
After having Nick read out the report, as Judy was driving, they felt decidedly more worried. The animals they were taking on have set up a major drug ring that operates all over the city, and they were being dropped right in the middle of it. The officers in intel have traced hundreds of phone calls from known drug dealers all over the city reporting back to here, and found many more encoded emails, all traced back to here. The address put them right in the middle of the rainforest district, where only vehicles like their FWD cruiser could even attempt the tracks. The dense canopy blocking out any type of satellite surveillance, and whenever they got any surveillance modules close, they were fried by a controlled EMP blast. They had no idea how big the complex was, how it was laid out, or what kind of resistance they were to expect. All they knew was that the entrance was somewhere at the end of this road.
"You still think we got a chance?" Nick said, with a small falter in his grin.
They reached the other police officers.
"Only one way to find out!" Judy said as she hopped out of the vehicle. But in truth she was internally shaking. And started to feel sick.
"Hey, what's up carrots?" Asked nick, sensing that something was wrong.
"Nothing, It's just, nothing. Let's just go catch up with the others." Judy said. Trying to skirt the question.
"Hey" Nick said, grabbing her arm. We're in this together. Personally I'm scared out of my mind. But if we do this, we're doing it as a team, as we always have. That's why we keep winning, that's how we got here, and it ain't gonna stop here. So, are we in, or are we out?" Nick said, dropping his usual quick talking act for a much less seen caring one.
"Hell. Lets do it. After all" Judy said with a small smile "if we don't, we'll never hear the end of it back home." She said trying to change the mood. Worry still slightly staining her voice.
"Well then let's get going! Or we'll get there and see it's already over." Nick's smart talking act back in place.
"Alright men. And ladies," Officer Rhys announced, glancing at the small rabbit in front of her."quite frankly, we have no time to waste. Due to the nature of our relatively small crew, we still have the element of surprise." He put an emphasis on "small". Judy swallowed, officer Rhys was a lion, and as per stereotype, thought of himself as above all prey. Nick silently growled to himself, he saw how this was affecting Judy. "Why am I thinking like this." He thought.
"But we need to act now" Rhys continued. "We found the entrance about five minutes ago. Oh yes, as per Chief Bogo's orders, officers Wilde and Hopps will be leading this raid." He said with obvious discontent filling his voice. "Alright, over to you" he addressed Nick primarily.
Nick addressed the group "Alright. We all have the same brief, so if anyone has any real information please speak up now, we'd all like to hear it." This produced chuckles all round. "In all seriousness, with the limited information we have we can't really create a game plan. All we can do is breach each door like there is an army waiting for us on the other side, and hope there isn't. Other than that, don't get shot. As much as I'd like to try, i doubt i could carry ANY of you out afterwards." Nick finished, still grinning. Eyes followed him as he returned to his partner.
"Alright! Men! Positions!" Officer Rhys roared. Judy and Nick took up positions on both sides of a cleverly concealed metal door set into a small rock face. As she stood and looked back over the officers, she could've sworn that she saw a silhouette moving between trees behind them. But she had no time to wonder, because the shaped charge was being moulded to the door.
"Three! Two! One!" The bomb operator yelled.
BOOOOM! The sound echoed throughout the chamber within, and they were on the move.
-Judy's POV-
I jumped through and rolled to the opposite wall, a split second Nick did the same. We looked down the dimly lit hallway. All was quiet, not a living thing in sight. Just as we were about to say clear, a grenade rolled down the hall.
"GRENADE" We yelled in unison. Nick jumped out the door and I jumped behind a steel table the breaching explosive knocked over. The grenade exploded with a blinding flash and an ear splitting sound. it was a flash bang, designed to disorientate and confuse the opponents. A few seconds later the gunshots started. It was a hailstorm of bullets, defining in the Confines of the wide but short hallway. I was trapped, bullets ricocheting of the upturned table. I pulled out my miniature pistol, while it may have held a smaller round than usual, it was also a high velocity hollow point. Suddenly the shooting stopped, and a dull thump could be heard at the other end of the hall.
"Come on hopps!" Rhys yelled, smoking rifle to his shoulder and advancing quickly. I fell in behind him, Nick behind me.
"You ok?" Nick asked.
I didn't reply, too focused to the advance. We breached the next door, where they found a cowering otter in a lab coat. The room was filled with beakers containing unnamable liquids.
"DON'T MOVE OR ILL SHOOT!" One of the other officers yelled, pointing the rifle at the small mammal. It was clear he wasn't going anywhere.
-Nick's POV-
This continued for half a dozen more rooms. They encountered resistance in quite a few of them, but were able to subdue them with no real casualties.
"If we keep going at this rate we just might be finished by Christmas!" I yelled.
"What do you suppose we do?" Officer Rhys replied angrily.
"We split! We have three teams of two tight now. One team per room sounds like plenty, and we might be able to stop them before they destroy any REAL evidence." I said.
"fine! Just don't get shot! Take the room at the end. NOW!" Rhys barked.
"Yessir!" Nick and Judy replied in unison, and ran out the room.
Once they reached the last door, we stopped and listened. Nothing could be heard.
"Could be good, or could be bad" Judy said.
"Why not both?" I smiled as I talked, then smashed the door in.
The room was empty, save for some broken vials and money surrounding a table. Like all the rest in the complex, it was made of steel. We instantly ran in and flipped the table to provide cover if a fight was going to break out. We waited, nothing happened. After awhile, we decided to move through to the next room. The door was inset to the wall, a hallway about one meter lead towards it. We entered the hallway, and were grabbed though the walls.
They were made from plasterboard, and must have been made to be smashed through for a trap. A trap we had just fallen for. The arms were followed by the rest of the animals. Big, brown, grizzly bears.
"Bears, why does it have to bears?" I thought to myself.
A black panther opened the door. "Well well. If it isn't the token police. I'm honestly a little hurt, I thought they would at least send real cops to come get me." He spat as he spoke. "I mean heck, doesn't your intel say I run the biggest drug ring in the city? Oh well, no matter. I guess your death will bring the same media coverage. Just think of it, Police officers Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps killed in police drug raid" he laughed.
-Judy's POV-
I was feeling sick, but defeated. "So this is how it's going to end." I look at Nick who was looking back at me. A new emotion on his face that was new but instantly recognisable. "Wait, does he, no that can't be right. He'd never feel the same way." But that expression was Mistakable. "Maybe he does. At least i'll die believing that" I thought to myself. It was enough for me.
"Would you look at that. Love at long last. To bad you won't be able to experience the joys of it."
-Nick's POV-
I silently began to cry. "So that's it. Love. Yes, I think he's right." after all this time, I finally knew how I felt. And it was all going to end. "Just my luck. After finally finding someone I can trust, who I actually care for, love, it ends. Well I'll be damned if we die without her knowing it." So I threw her a look, a look she would only understand if she felt the same way. It was the only thing I could do.
-narrator's POV-
As they looked into each other's eyes, they smiled. And the panther pulled the trigger.
They heard the shot, but neither fell. They looked up. Before them knelt an animal, his distinct shark tail shielding them from the shot. He grabbed a handful of plasterboard dust and threw it at the panther while kicking the bears legs out from under them. As they fell the strange animal jumped at the panther knocking him to the ground, but not before the panther got one more shot off. They wrestled about for a few seconds before the new assailant got his claws across the panthers throat. When the animal rose from the panther, there was blood all over his stomach and hands. The bears started to get up, only to be knocked back down by his powerful elbow strikes, his eyes shining like the fires of hell.
Once he noticed there was no more attackers, his mood changed instantly. He smiled and said "You guys are welcome." Then looked down. He saw blood coming from his limp tail and stomach. He looked back at them and fell to the ground.
Hello again. I've never tried to do mixed POV before so if anyone has any tips for future chapters i'd really appreciate it. Anyway i hope you liked the chapter, i'll be trying to do longer ones like this for future chapters (around 1,500 to 2,000 words). Also tell me if you want me to do flashback type things to show their relationship before this story begins or simply continue with it without them. Thanks for the support.