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The Fire Triangle—A Zootopia Fanfiction
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Part One:
Fuel
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Chapter 3 – Day of Carrots and Blueberries
(Continued...Pt. 19)
"Dad, can you hear me? Judy got stung by a wasp...I said a WASP!"
Stuart Hopps Jr. was holding his cell-phone tightly against his right ear while keeping his left ear plastered to the side of his head with his paw. "Can you hear me?" he said again, his voice becoming high with frustration. "Judy got stung by a yellowjacket, she can't use her right paw. No, I don't want to talk to mom, hello? HELLO?"
A pair of curt 'boops' informed the bunny that his call had just been dropped. He could have thrown that blankety-blank phone into the woods...except that he needed it; whoa, did he need it right now. Somehow he had to get word of what happened to the next hydration station; Judy couldn't miss getting fluid again; he had seen how dried out she already was.
Of course, the obvious thing to do would be to call ahead directly to the next pit stop...except that he didn't know who was stationed there, or even which station was next. Neither did Ben or Joanie; dangit, why hadn't he checked before they'd left to come up here?
Junior looked at his cell again; a single bar was stuttering on and off.
He turned and beckoned with a paw.
"Ben? Joanie? Come here, quick!"
The two young bunnies hopped hurriedly over.
"I can't through to dad," he told them, holding up the cell-phone, "there's barely any reception up here. We need to split up and find a place where we can get ahold of him. Joanie, you go up the road to right, Ben, you go left and I'll head back down the trail we used to get up here. Soon as you see more than two bars on your screen, stop and make the call; tell Dad what happened to Judy and have him warn the other watering holes. And hurry, your sister needs to get some fluid in her, ASAP."
"How about sending him a text message?" Ben Hopps offered, trying to be helpful, "Text works sometimes, even when you can't make a call."
The suggestion earned him an odd look from Joanie.
"A text message...DAD?"
Ben shook his head as if awakening from a deep slumber.
"Right, right right...never mind, let's go!"
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A kilometer up the road, Judy was approaching another obstacle, a rail fence...easily cleared, except this one was placed at the edge of a mud-bog; anyone trying to leap it in a single bound would end up with a face-full of goo. The only way to pull it off would be to jump upwards, balance yourself on the top rail of the fence, crouch down, and then perform a broad jump from there; tough but not impossible.
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The Fire Triangle, A Zootopia Fanfiction -- Part One
Mistério / SuspenseIt's been two years since Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps broke the Savage Predator conspiracy. Now a brilliant and effective team, they're only a few steps away from making the detective bureau and growing closer with every passing day. But even as thei...
