Zootopia - Brave New World

Chapter 8: The Lightning Meets the Tornado

He walked back and forth, as he waited. It was a habit that he had developed years ago, since his youth, and that many of his "friends" commented about, saying it made him look like a caged animal...

Well, he could almost laugh at the irony now...

He looked over to the other animals at the bank, all gathered into a corner as they continued to sit into the ground, and these two wolves were still looking at them as they had their weapons pointed at them. However, the wolves seemed more worried about him, as they continued to look at the rhino with almost as much fear as the hostages

He snorted as he looked on his watch.

Almost twenty minutes has already passed.

"Is he out there yet?" The rhino asked into a grumpy voice to the sheep who was watching the door. He was holding a gun, given to him by one of the wolves, but it was obvious by the way he was holding it that he was not used to have a gun on his hands... or... paws (?) at all! He was holding it wrong and he had his finger on the trigger even though he was not pointing it at anything!

"N-no boss!" Said the sheep as he continued to look outside, "Only the cops!"

The rhino snorted as he went back to walking back and forth. Why were they taking it so long?

He really thought that if he threw these wounded animals at the street it would make them go faster, but it seemed it was not working. Maybe if he threw a corpse or two things would start to really go faster. After all, this whole situation was already getting on his nerves. He wanted Alex Hunter right in front of him so he could have a talk to him, man-to-man!

The rhino snorted again, as he was starting to consider that maybe what he heard about Alex Hunter could be wrong, and that he was not coming to play hero like they said he liked to do. Or maybe the cops outside were not intending to give Alex Hunter to him, and they actually thought they could actually arrest him.

Bah! Let them come; he already dealt with police before! He put a lot of them in the hospital last time they tried to mess with him! Of course, in that time things were a lot different. Still, they felt strangely the same...

"How many cops are out there?" The rhino asked, "What are they?"

"W-well, sir..." The sheep said, looking outside and paying close attention to the cops out there, trying to make out their species and how many. "I see three tigers, two lions, an elephant, two rhinos, one polar bear, four wolves..."

The rhino grunted to himself as he heard that. For some reason, hearing the kinds of animals that were out there didn't actually scared him at all, not more than their numbers. He felt confident that he could take on them if there was the need, after all, he already proved to be good against two wolves and a bear...

"... And look who just arrived! The bunny and fox cops!" The sheep said.

The rhino's ears perked when he heard that.

Bunny...

"What!?" He said as he rushed to the door. He had to see it with his own eyes.

He almost pushed the sheep to the ground as he took a place by his side, looking at the place he was looking. He could see all the animals he described, a huge elephant, a few wolves, some tigers, lions, polar bears, all of them big and bulky. And then, in the middle of the bigger animals, he saw two small figures clad in blue. A grey bunny and a red fox.

They were both thin and very small in comparison to the others. The fox was around four feet tall, and the bunny girl was one foot shorter!

The rhino looked at them for a few seconds, his left ear twitching a little, as he looked at them.