An adventure Chapter 8
Tiffany's room was lit up by the computer screen and the hip-hop tracks were drowning out the shouting parents. Bottles of water were in a plastic trash bag, and the garbage can was filled to the brim with snacks. A contemptible aura surrounded the disturbed bear cub wearing her out. Unbeknownst to her parents, she was looking into any source that could be the answer to her assailant's identities. Unfortunately the biases of the law enforcement were already present and now their earned respect was slowly disappearing thanks to the imposters.
The sudden appearance of Kyle in the threshold made her jump, she sighed and gave him enough room to share the bed.
"Did you find anything Tiff?"
"Possibly, except most of these sources are mediocre shlock."
"What's mediocre mean?"
"Not very good."
"Papa said we can't leave the house for a while. Not until he pays back whoever's harassing us."
"I know, damn it. If he had let me work overtime this wouldn't have happened, why he doesn't trust me like he should is beyond me!''
The teenager finally gave up and stomped her way down the steps and placed herself in between her mother and father, fuming. "Look, if you don't shut the hell up me and Kyle are staying at Jennifer's house!'' Appalled by her forceful gesture her father gave her a piercing glare that only appeared in bumper-to-bumper traffic. "YOU HAVE SOME NERVE GETTING IN BETWEEN US! I'M PAYING FOR YOUR COLLEGE EDUCATION AND YOU SHOULD BE GRATEF-.'' ''Oh because the end justifies the means with you! Doesn't matter that our lives are in danger we got ourselves a brand spanking new couch!'' Tiffany growled as she ran up the stairs slamming her door so hard that it knocked pictures off the wall. Kyle watched from the slits in his fingers as she tossed clothes, toiletries, school supplies into luggage bags.
"You're for real?'' His pleas muffled as she avoided a response, placing her and Kyle's necessities in a lightweight suitcase. "Will you please stop and think about this? Tiffany!" In an instant his sibling towered over him and explained that there was only two choices for him. He placed his earbuds in and used his hat to block his peripherals from the family room. Neither sibling spoke to each other over the ten minutes it took to reach the llama's house. After her friend who had cleared off her older brother's bedroom the bears unpacked their things still not speaking to each other.
Jennifer kindly made them herbal tea and let them sit on the back patio under the evening sky. "My parents won't be back until Monday. Till then I have to take care of this place to the best of my ability. It's nice though I get to sit out here and enjoy the outdoor sounds, and watch all the TV I want.'' A car horn blasted on the front driveway, and Jennifer came back with a box of pizza. Kyle accepted graciously and munched slowly on fish sticks. "I'm sorry I threatened you bro, I was panicking back there. The police can only do so much.'' She said while dipping her breadstick in some honey mustard.
"Glad to see that I've graduated from obnoxious imp to bro.''
"You haven't earned anything.''
"Let me guess, you want a foot rub?''
"Ew! Not from you!''
The sun set as a warning gust of wind blew palm trees to and fro. Autumn leaves covered the back yard and a silver cloud rolled over from the north and before anyone knew it, it started to rain buckets. On the pull-out couch in the family room, Kyle was slowly lulled to sleep by pattering raindrops. In the back of the house on a queen sized bed, Tiffany wore a gel sleeping mask and snored the whole night through. And a Zen Jennifer laid on her side glad that her best friend was safe and sound in the comfort of her home.
"Frenzied Serenity are the two best words I can use right now. Nick and I've been trying to get tickets for the first show of the Backstreet Cubs tour.'' Her mother spoke softly as she had just put the youngest to sleep. "Well good for you Judy, your brother Freddie just got into the Honor roll at St. Whiskers. And the Grey's are expecting their first born in a few months.''
The doe lit up in astonishment that he had finally given in and accepted the gift of fatherhood. "I'll send them my best! Anyway how are Grandpa Sam and Grandma Lucy?'' "Just fine in fact Sam is using her cane now!'' this pleased her and before she ended the Muzzletime call she gave her a quick kiss goodbye. Francine was back in her civilian clothes and waiting in the threshold arms folded across her large chest hoof tapping impatiently. "Our shifts are over let's get to the spa before rush hour.'' Judy hopped her way out of the precinct chatting away with her robust friend. A polar bear held the front door open for the females and gave a friendly nod as they thanked him. Nick sat at his desk flipping through the manila envelope feet on the metal desk. "That Bunny a yours is pretty good, guess that's why ya use that expensive cologne you get at Hollistork!'' pestered the artic mammal.
Nick smirked and refused to tell his pal the juicy details on account of his girlfriend going savage on his ass. A familiar aroma entered the room as Benjamin darted in paws on his knees, "huhuhuh, Cat terrorist, heeehoo just spotted at Oasis springs. Whoah Nelly!'' Grizzoli pulled up a chair for the secretary then prepared to go catch the most wanted animal in Zootopia.
At around 4:26 p.m. they pulled up at the entrance and made their way inside. Yax was shocked and alerted his customers to exit in a calm and discreet manner. Once they were gone the ZWAT team entered scoping out every corner of the colony. The fox held his tranquilizer at his hip tail swaying nervously, and gasped as he opened up a bedroom to see the Unsub with his back turned to them. "Let me see your paws! Get on your knees!'' to everyone's surprise he complied with out even a word of protest.
And in the two seconds it took for the officer to cuff him he twisted their arm around and did a head scissor knocking them to the ground. Their safeties were off and their fingers were on the trigger. The cat pointed his gun at the subdued law enforcer's temple, "Let me go or there is going to be a lot of unnecessary bloodshed!'' Nick manger to speak up; "Think about this you're only making things worse for yourself here, we're not going to let you go you know that. Just surrender and will give you a fair trial okay?'' The masked criminal scoffed the shot the tranquilizer dart out of his paw and picked the officer up then drop kicked him towards his friends. In the commotion no one saw him run up the wall, bounce off the bed, then use the broad shoulders of the team to hop his way out of the bedroom and run down the hall on all fours. Bullets pierced the carpet around him as he zigzagged his way to the courtyard and found himself surrounded.
Nick gave him one more chance to give up, "Well I knew that this day would come. I'm just glad that you're here Nicholas." Distracted by the cat's words a group of masked criminals had made their way to the rooftops, queued up like a murder of crows. It was by far the most terrifying and iconic thing that Officer Wilde had seen. "I apologize for this officers, I really do.'' The tranquilizer dart hit him square in the neck and before it finished entering his entire blood stream he pulled it out. Watching Zootopia's best get eviscerated by these ninja like terrorists, he finally went numb before he realized that he was being carried away.
Well looks like Judy's going to have to cut her night of fun short. As always please leave an honest and fair review and I'll get back to you ASAP