NaZooverse - Book 1: The Risen Curtain

Special Mission

Bogo had a very good deal of experience during his time as a police chief. He had to, many times already, oversee a busting into a criminal organization. From local drug dealers to one occasion when he helped the Federal Burrow of Investigation (FBI) with a mammal-trafficking ring. He had some experience with these things, and he knew how to assemble a good team.

Of course, he would love to have more time to plan these kinds of things, but time was a luxury that you can't always have.

These illegal fights were too violent to be ignore, and who knew when they would have another chance to bust them? They needed to act fast.

As soon as the day came, and after the briefing of the assignments for the day, all of the mammals who had been assigned to the job in the previous night had gathered into the bull-pen to discuss the details on the busting that they would make on that same night.

"There will be four teams." Bogo said to the gathered officers. "First team will be formed by Delgato, McHorn, myself and Fangmeyer." He said, looking at the lion, rhino, and tiger who all nodded back at him. "We will cover the front entrance, with the high-caliber tranquilizer rifles and we'll make sure to get the ones who are inside."

His eyes already turned to the other animals in the room. "Second team will be formed by Hopps, Fanghanel, Rhinowitz, and Catano. You will be covering the back exit, and be sure to apprehend anyone who tries to leave through the back, we need to make sure the ones in there will not leave, especially the mammals who organize these events."

Judy and Elliot both nodded, as well as the female cheetah and the rhino near them. Bogo continued.

"The third team will deal with intelligence and surveillance, and it will be formed by Meerkovitz, Gatz, and Felidin. You will be around the warehouse in strategical points armed with dart rifles, and you will dart those who try to sneak out, and you will also cover the two main teams as we do the busting. Think you can do that?"

"Count on us, Chief." Meerkovitz said, as he stood by the side of the other two officers, a domestic angora cat, and a tall leopard.

Bogo nodded, and he returned to the planning. "Finally, the last team will be on the inside. It will be composed by Wolfard and Wilde." He looked at the two officers, the timber wolf, and the sly fox. "You will be on the inside of the warehouse undercover and you will be monitoring the thing from inside and reporting back at us so we can coordinate the bust."

"So, I guess we can see our dear Wolfard back into his freakishly realistic sheep costume again, right?" Nick added, and there was a brief chuckling in the room before Bogo continued.

"Attention, attention! All of you!" There was a silence in the room, as everyone looked at the Cape buffalo. "This is a high-profile case, and while it might not be the first busting many of you are making, it might be the first you have to make into a very short notice. It might be dangerous, and we are not sure what we are going to be facing. We need to focus and plan this right because I'm not going to lose officers because of a failure in planning!" The buffalo said, and it was enough to stop any future jokes or snide remarks, as they continued to plan.

The briefing went for most of the morning and a part of the afternoon, as the codes to be use on radio, the precise approach to the warehouse, and everything else was plan in advance. All left to do now was prepare the equipment and to get ready for the "main event of the night", as Wilde had put it.

Speaking of Wilde, he was currently in the locker rooms, and he was dressing out of his police uniform. After all, tonight he was going to go into an undercover operation, and he needed to be a common fox, not a cop. Unlike his "dancing partner for the night", Nick would not be needing some fancy and very elaborate costume or disguise, he just needed to be out of his cop clothes.