Chapter Fourteen: Even a Few Thousand Bunnies can go Savage

A/N: Alright! We're hitting the climax of part one with the plot! This is a good one, and the next chapter will be full of drama too. We're only a few more chapters to the end of this story before we head to the big (Cheese) finale.

4:45 pm In the skies of Zootopia...

Carl Sheddingfur was running out of options. Constantly dogged by ZPD helicopters at every maneuver he tried to get of out the city in his company helicopter, but was blocked by the police getting in front of him. He was running low on fuel and had to make and emergency landing on an airport runway. "I gotta get outta here!" He screamed. "They'll kill me!" He entered through the lobby only to see a blockade of cops including chief Swinton with their dart guns drawn.

"Freeze!" Swinton shouted. "Carl Sheddingfur, you are under arrest for being a suspect in the bombing of the Sheddingfur Technical..."

"I didn't blow up my own building!" Carl shouted. "That was the Adviser! He told me so over the phone! I barely escaped with my life!"

"Then why run from us?"

"I can't trust the police. I know too much and some of your cops may be on his side!"

"Bull!"

"Yes?" said a bull cadet.

"Sorry, I meant the situation. Short for 'bullshit'."

"Oh."

"Right. Anyway, I trust my men fully. You're coming with us straight to interroga-"

Suddenly, tiger officer Jackson drew his 9mm pistol at Carl. "For the king!"

As he fired off his shot, a quick-thinking Higgins shoved his arm up, making the bullet hit the ceiling. "Jackson's one of them!" He shouted. Two others tackled the tiger to the ground.

"Let me go!" He screamed. "We need to do what's best for predators or we'll never be treated fairly!"

"Cuff him and get him into the squad car!" Swinton shouted. She then turned her attention back on Carl. "Look Mr. Sheddingfur, I'm giving you an offer. A nice, safe cell up near the courthouse OR...I put you in the maximum security cell with the Big Cheese and the REAL nasty ones. Your choice,"

"Wh-What do you want from me?!"

"Do you know who the adviser is?"

"No...OH WAIT!" Carl handed over his smart phone. "He called me on this phone. Maybe you can retrace the call and find the owner?"

Swinton was ecstatic. "YES! This could be the big break we've been looking for! One other thing. We need to stop the blimp from gassing the city. Can you override it's camouflage?"

"Yes! I have the codes, but it won't last long. They can override it manually and change the code which will prevent me from overriding it again."

"At least we might be able to get a fix on it's location. You're still coming in for interrogation you know? You've been working with the Big Cheese and you're going to give me every little detail."

"Okay! Okay!" He said as they pulled him away.

Swinton was beaming. "HA! And Bogo thought I couldn't handle it!"

Higgins reminded her. "Uhhh sir? You did have the SWAT hogs rush into that building and it killed all of them. Not to mention one of our cadets is in a coma and our prime suspect nearly died because you gave a live ammo gun to one of our men who was a trait-"

"SHUT UP ALREADY! I'm doing fine!"

Meanwhile...

At the clothing store in the Humphrey Bear mall, moments before the gas attack, the young bunny Peter Wilde is hosting a fashion show. Showing off the combination of tuxes and dresses that he mixed and matched. He used the outer dressing room as a runway while members of both the Wildes and the Greys step out in their attire.

"Welcome MOTHERFUCKERS! I-I mean ladies and gentlemen to Peter Wilde's fashion show! Up first, is Gideon Grey!"

Gideon came out in a nice tux. "Mr. Grey is in a very stylish black tux with red pinstripes to reflect his love of cherry pie. The pinstripes also match his tie. The DAMMIT! red is also reflected in the inner-shirt which goes against traditional white shirts normally seen for these affairs. Watch out Julie! This Armoosey designed ensemble makes this fox irresistible to just about any lady rabbit."

Gideon looked at himself in the mirror. "Danged if'n Ah don't look like the bee's knees! Yer good at this Pete!"

"Next up ASSHOLES! is Bean being carried out by his big brother Ollie. Both are in a navy blue Osh Kosh pants and coat, with a white shirt and red tie. This outfit not only makes these two look patriotic, but gives them a presidential appearance."

Julie gushed. "Oooooh! Look at my handsome boys!"

"Next up are my sisters Christine and Cindy and...EEEE! THEY LOOK SO CUTE! AHEM! Sorry DICKWADS! Sorry again. Along with Julie's youngest daughter Cathy. They're wearing their pink flower girl outfits. Both are a lovely, white dress with pink trimming which Cindy is currently eating off of her shoulder...and now she's trying to eat Cotton's dress...and now she's wetting herself. The lesson here is not to let Cindy wear a fancy dress."

"Cindy stop!" Julie yelled as she pulled the rabbit off of her lamb sister.

"And last but certainly...SHIT!...certainly not least is my handsome boyfriend, William in a bright blue jacket and trousers with a pink shirt and blue with pink striped tie that I got from the ladies business section. This ensemble let's him proudly express that he's both gay and knows about style. Back off fellas. He's mine!"

This made Wiggly giggle. "Tee-Hee! SNORT! OINK! Hee-Hee!"

Spots was beaming with pride about how out Petey was when he noticed Michael cupping his ear. "What's up Mike?"

"It's mom! She's screaming that everyone needs to leave now!"

Moments earlier...

"Are you two done?!" said a cougar watching over Finnick and Honey's work. They were finishing the last touches putting the hoses through on the ceiling vents near the sky lights high above the food court.

"A-Almost finished!" Finnick whispered.

The cougar looked over to see the blimp suddenly come into full view. "What the hell?!"

He climbed in to talk to the technician. "What the hell's going on?! Everyone can see us!"

"It's being done remotely. It's not a glitch this time. We've been hacked!" The technician replied back.

"Well un-hack it!" The cougar shouted back. "We won't make it two feet into Zootopia like this without being shot down!"

"No problem. It'll just take a minute. This baby has manual override."

Finnick went near the cougar. "It's all set sir."

"Good. Now get in."

Finnick lied to the cougar. "Ummm sure! Let me just...find my wrench I was using." He then walked over to Honey who was coming back and whispered in her ear. "When I say 'found it!' run for the vents. We're getting away from these psychos!"

"Okay Finn." Honey whispered back.

Finnick then mocked like he was looking for the wrench and was starting to crawl into the vent. "I found it!" He started crawling deeper inside, but then turned around when he didn't see Honey following. "I said I found it!:"

"Come out Finnick!" shouted the cougar.

A shivering feeling of fear went down Finnick's spine. He reluctantly came out to see the cougar with his arm wrapped around Honey's neck and a gun to her head. "You shouldn't have betrayed us" said the cougar. "I have very good ears 'yknow?"

Finnick had tears in his eyes. He was scared to death for Honey's life. "I'm sorry! Please! Just let her go!"

Honey managed to elbow the cougar in the face and grabbed his gun. However, they had both had a tight grip on the gun. "FINNICK! RUN!" Honey shouted.

"What's going on?!" said Travis as he stepped out of the blimp with his sniper rifle.

Finnick and Travis then saw the whole thing. It was like it was in slow motion. He could hear the sound of Judy Hopps screaming for everyone to evacuate the building as the gas started pouring in. He then heard Nick's voice repeat the same thing. "Nick!" He thought. "Oh no!" But was worse was what he saw right in front of his eyes. Honey and the cougar struggled with the gun. After a few rounds of the gun firing wildly, Honey lost the struggle. The cougar shot Honey point blank in the chest and shoved her through the skylight. She fell nearly 50 feet and smashed onto a table near the back of the food court.

"HONEEEY!" Finnick shouted. The cougar aimed at him and fired, but he was out of bullets. He looked over at Travis. "Well? What are you waiting for?!"

"R-Right!" said Travis and he aimed his rifle. Finnick reacted quickly and dove into the vent. Travis fired a few shots blindly into the vents, but missed.

The cougar was upset. "Some sniper you are! You froze."

"I never freeze!" Travis shouted back. "I was just caught off guard by the entire situation and didn't have the ability to react in a timely fashion."

The cougar rolled his eyes. "Always with the long speeches. You could have just said. 'It happened too fast.' Get in the blimp. Once we're done filling the mall with the gas, we're outta here."

The cougar and Travis got back inside the blimp as it turned invisible again.

Meanwhile inside, Nick and Judy were assessing the situation. "We have to get to cover!" Nick shouted. "C'mon Carr-OW!"

He felt a sharp pain and looked over to see Judy gnawing on arm. The gas was inside the mall and working fast. She was growling and hissing. "Oh no!" He managed to pull Judy off of him and carry her under his arm. She was still struggling and getting some bites in. "Am I not scarred enough?!" He then heard a familiar voice coming from the vents.

"Nick! If you can hear me, run! RUN! The rabbits are going savage! I'm sorry man!"

Nick then noticed his situation. Dozens of bunnies were heading his way. Growling, snapping;. He saw one poor sheep with two bunnies on him tearing away at his wool. He was screaming for his life.

Nick had only one option. Run as fast as he could. Near the food court, he saw a place called "Pretzel Palace. The two running the stand were a zebra and a beaver. But what made him excited is the place was fully enclosed. "LET ME IN!"

"Are you nuts?!" said the Zebra. "It's a madhouse out there!"

"Too bad! Police business!" Before the zebra could close the sliding glass door. Nick grabbed it and pulled himself in with a savage Judy in tow.

"You brought one of the savage bunnies in here?!" The beaver screamed.

"I couldn't leave her!" Nick exclaimed. "She's my wi-WOOOAH!"

Judy got Nick pinned to the ground and was trying to bite his face. She started foaming at the mouth and growling. "GRRRAH! RRROOOWWWR!"

The zebra was scared. "I've never heard a bunny make those noises before! This is insane! I just saw someone fall through the skylight!" Meanwhile, he looked around to see dozens of bunnies surrounding the Pretzel Palace wanting to get in and tear them apart. "Ooooh man! I knew I should've faked sick today!"

As Judy was trying to bite Nick, he kept her at bay with one arm while looking for her tranquilizer gun on her hip with the other. "Sorry darling! Gotta put you down for a little bit." He pulled out the gun and shot the dart into her neck. Judy yiped and fell to the ground.

Nick sat up and panted heavily. "WHEW! That was close! Oh God! I hope that tranq dart was for a bunny!" He looked at the dart and saw the letters "S/M" which stands for "small mammal". "Oh thank G-...WHAAA?!"

Nick was at a loss for words.. Not even a minute after being hit with the tranquilizer, Judy had sat up. "OOOOooooooAAH my head! Where am I?!"

Nick didn't know what to say. "SWEET BISCUITS! Carrots?! I...wha?!...How?! I JUST HIT YOU WITH A TRANQ DART!"

Judy couldn't believe it. "What?!"

"It's true!" said the zebra. "You had gone savage like all the bunnies out there. He knocked out out with the tranquilizer, but you got almost immediately back up!"

"That's impossible!" Judy replied. "I should have been out for at least a full hour! Did you hit me with a full dose?"

Nick showed her the empty dart. She then looked around and saw all the bunnies snarling and trying to claw their way in. "Those poor people!"

"Don't worry about them." The beaver said. "It's only affecting the bunnies. Everyone else is getting mauled by them!"

Nick was sniffling around. "Wait a minute...I can still smell the gas strongly, but nothings happening to you! You got some kind of immune super-powers Fluff?"

Judy looked at the empty dart. "It's the dart! Nick! The tranquilizer! It's the cure for the gas!"

"That doesn't make sense." Nick replied. "It didn't work for the ZPD when they found the savage predators."

"But they've been messing around with the formula! You said yourself that you smelled a bonding agent and a third chemical that controls who goes savage. Nick this is huge! We found it's weakness!"

"Fat load of good it does us right now. I know you took a lot of darts when you left work for tonight, but it's not nearly enough for all of these people."

"I know, but there's got to be...OH NO! THE KIDS!"

Nick realized why she was panicking. "They're in the clothing store near the end of the mall!"

"Oh God! Please be okay!" Judy hurried and got out her phone.

Nick was worried "Julie, Mike, Petey and Cindy will go savage and attack the others!"

Frantically, she dialed the numbers. "Please be there. Please be okay!"

She started pacing back and fourth inside of the Pretzel Palace. "C'mon. C'mon!"

Nick was watching her and the other rabbits outside and noticed something interesting."...Hunh."

Finally the phone picked up. "Judy! Is that you?"

"GIDEON! Thank God! Are you okay?! How're the kids?!"

"We're all okay thanks to Michael. He heard ya yellin' and we high-tailed it to the back of the store in the receiving room where they get their stock delivered. It's like a closet back here and we're all cramped inside! It's stuffy as hell because there's no ventilation. We can see what's going on with the monitors back here it's a mad house Judy! Ah think Ah saw yer dad bite a goat! Thar's an exit here, but we don't dare go out!"

"You better not with those clothes!" said a strange voice.

"Oh hush!"

"God bless Michael's sensitive ears! Who's that?"

"It's the dumb store owner. He's worried we're gonna steal the clothes we're sampling. Ah'm gonna buy them ya jerk! We're already sweating the heck outta them and are gonna have ta have them dry cleaned. Hey! How come you didn't go savage like the rest?"

"It's a crazy story, but actually, I did! We found the cure to the gas by accident."

"That's great news!...Oh no!"

"What?! WHAT?!"

"Cindy's gone savage! She's biting into Cotton's wool and is trying to tear it out!"

"Oh. Actually that's normal for her. Tell the kids I'm gonna figure a way out of this!"

"Uhhh Judy?" Nick said.

"What?" Judy asked.

"Pace back and fourth like you've been doing and watch the bunnies."

"Hunh?" Judy walked back and fourth. Both to and away from Nick. The bunnies were focused straight on Nick and the two workers and treated her like she didn't exist. "Hunh! I gotta go Gideon. I think I may have an idea to get us out of this mess. Tell the kids we love them!"

"You get 'em girl! Judy, yer mah hero!"

"AWWW thanks Gid!"

Judy hung up the phone and opened the window in the back. "Hey you bunnies! Here's a free lunch!"

The zebra freaked out. "Are you crazy?!"

"No. Look! They're completely ignoring me!"

"I guess it's because you're a fellow bunny." Nick replied. "Maybe the gas only makes them wanna kill other species."

"Which means I can get out freely without being attacked!"

"Right. Try to find your mom, dad and siblings."

"Not enough time Nick. In an hour, these bunnies will have killed dozens of other shoppers. I have a plan, but it might not work. I have to call ZPD's science division to see if they can find a way for me to make a huge batch of the tranquilizer or if I can dilute it just a little with water, I may be able to put t in the sprinkler system."

"Alright! You work on that, I'll call the police and the army and try to get them here as fast as possible. We...kinda should have done that first. Oh well. Be careful Fluff."

"I will. Distract the zombie bunnies for me will you?"

"Sure. And they're not 'zombie bunnies'!...Although it does feel like a zombie movie, I'll agree."

She then opened the back window. "Here goes nothing!"

Nick slightly opened one of the windows the crazed bunnies were near. "Hey you stupid hoppers! Over here! Fresh meat!"

Judy got out of the window and shut it behind her. Nick shut his window quickly as soon as she was out. Judy was about to head out of the food court when she heard a voice scream "Get away from her!"

Nick heard it too. He ran over to where Judy got out and looked out the window. They saw Finnick at the back of the food court batting off rabid bunnies with a long, broken broom handle. "Back off! I won't let you hurt her!"

Judy couldn't believe her eyes. "Finnick?"

Finnick looked back to see Judy. He was shocked out of his skull. "You're not savage?! Judy help me! It's Honey! She's barely breathing!"

Meanwhile...

Cotton shoved Cindy off of her and gave her a little slap. "NO! Bad Cindy!"

Cindy was surprised that Cotton shoved her. "Cindy?"

"You don't bite my wool! I'm not cotton candy!"

Cindy's ears drooped. "Cindy."

Petey explained. "Cindy...SHIT! Cindy said she's sorry. She liked how soft you are and biting is her way of showing affection."

"Cindy."

"Except Bean. He has nothing left to bite and she wants his ears in top shape."

"You got all that from her saying 'Cindy'?" Gideon asked.

"We're twins. We understand how each of us feel, so I get most of what she says. Not always."

"We gotta get out of this room!" Julie said. "I'm panting bullets!"

Cindy got on her knees and kissed Cotton's hooved feet. She gave a pouty face with her ears drooped. "Ciiindy!"

Cotton gave up. "Oh okay! You're forgiven. C'mere." Cotton let Cindy hug her.

Spots gave the lamb a little nudge. "'Bout time you started acting like a big sister."

"Hee!-Hee! Thanks."

Cindy rubbed her face on Cotton's wool. "Cindy...Ssss-soff. Soff Ca-Ca!" It ws her way of saying "soft Cotton."

Everyone started to laugh. Cotton was embarrassed. "No! My name's Cotton!"

"Ca-Ca!"

"Cotton!"

Michael could help but laugh. He pointed at Petey and Cotton. "You're Pee-Pee and you're Ca-Ca! HA-HA!"

"Oh shut up!"

Gideon was growing impatient. "We're gonna suffocate in here! Spots! Open the back door and checked fer any savage bunnies okay?!"

"Got it!"

"You're not leaving without paying!" The sheep store owner insisted. Then he looked at the monitors. He saw bunnies going crazy around the merchandise. One of them tore apart a mannequin on display. "They're tearing my store apart! I have top stop them this instant!"

Julie grabbed him before he could open the door. "Oh no you don't! You open that doorand the gas will come in. Then us bunnies will breathe in that stuff and probably eat you alive! Don't worry about the clothes. I'll leave you a credit card."

Spots stuck her head out the door and a rush of cool air came in. "All clear! Let's head down the stairs and we'll be in the parking lot. I'll bash any bunnies that try to attack us."

"Hit them below the base of the head." Gideon replied. "That'll knock them out instantly."

Julie was upset. "Gideon!"

"What?! Ah used 'ta be a big, bad, bunny bully. Ah ain't no more though. At least the experience could come in handy-like."

Meanwhile, the blimp was taking off. "The gas has been emptied. We have to hurry back to Zootopia and refill for tonight."

The technician was watching on the monitors. "Man! It's like a zombie movie in there! HA! That fennec fox's is trying to save his girlfriend's corpse. Hold on...one of the bunnies isn't reacting to the gas! It's that cop, Judy Hopps! How'd she manage that?!"

"Who knows?" said the cougar who was now piloting. "Not our problem. We did the test, it worked. Let's scram."

Travis was looking around with his sniper rifle when he saw Gideon in the far distance of the parking lot. The fat fox was quickly making his way to his company van with the kids. The walker he was using kept him behind.

"Gideon!" Travis sneered. "At last, this ferret shall have his vengeance upon you!"

Travis leaped out of the blimp and onto the roof of the mall. The cougar was upset. "Where the hell are you going?!"

"Leave me! I have personal business to attend to. I shall rendezvous back in Zootopia post haste!"

"Whatever! I hope ya get caught, ya walking encyclopedia!"

Meanwhile Gideon got the kids to the van. A few savage bunnies were around and running loose, but Spots easily took care of them. "Alright you young'uns! Ya'll stay in th' back and we'll wait this out unti-"

Suddenly, a shot grazed Gideon cheek. "GIDEOOOON!" Travis shouted.

Gideon looked over in surprise. The ferret had climbed down the side of the building and was in the parking lot. He had his sniper gun aimed squarely at the fat fox. A bright, red dot was on Gideon's forehead.

"Gideon Grey! Today is the day you perish!"

Next Chapter: Honey's final words hit Finnick hard.