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He walked back and forth, as he waited. It was a habit that he had developed years ago, since his youth, and that had already rendered him a lot of talk from the other people, all who claimed that he looked 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 the corners 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 to be more worried about him, as they continued to look at the rhino with eyes that almost looked to be fearful.

He snorted, as he looked into 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 that 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 induce them to go faster, but it seemed that it was not working. Maybe if he threw a corpse or two things would start to go faster. After all, this whole situation was already getting on his nerves. He wanted that 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 that they could actually manage to 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 bears and a wolf...

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

The rhino's ears perked as 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 where he said that they were. 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 just one foot shorter.

The rhino looked at them for a few seconds, his left ear twitching a little, as he looked at them and he said, "You gotta be kidding me..."

They had sent a bunny after him!?

Seriously!?

He almost felt offended by this...

After a few seconds of looking, his eyes met the bunny's...

In that moment, he felt some kind of determination coming from her as she looked at him with a fierce expression. He almost recoiled when he saw the look she had in her eyes; he blinked and looked away. The BUNNY had made him look away! This thing was getting more and more messed up with each passing minute!

Talking about minutes, he looked again into his watch and he saw that there was only four minutes to the dead line that he had set. He snorted in anger, as he hated that they made him wait.

So, these cops thought that he was just messing with them? They thought that he would not have courage to kill these animals?

Oh, they were in for a surprise...

The rhino growled as he clenched his fists, and as he did, there was suddenly an increase of wind currents into the place, with a few pieces of paper flying around. All the other animals reflexively covered their heads, as if this was a sign of imminent disaster. Even the wolves flinched when they felt that wind that seemed to be coming right from the place where the rhino was. It did not helped that the rhino was looking at them with an angered expression as he was about to take a step into their direction.

"Boss! Boss!" That voice called the rhino away from his thoughts as he looked at the sheep, who was looking outside. "Another car just arrived! Someone is stepping out of it! It is a buffalo! I know that guy, he is the ZPD Precinct 1's police chief!"

This caught the rhino's attention. He looked at him, as the wind diminished in strength, and the other animals almost let out relieved sighs.

"The other cops are looking at him... now he is walking to the back of his vehicle... someone is coming out... and is handcuffed... Could it be... yes. Yes! It is the cougar!"

Once more, the sheep almost got shoved to the ground as the rhino was looking at the animal who just arrived. The cougar was clearly with his hands cuffed behind his back, and he was looking around as the others looked at him. The bulky buffalo with police uniform was holding his arm as if scouting him in direction to the place.

Narrowing his eyes as he looked at the animal who had just arrived. The animal that he wanted to see.

Alex Hunter...

The trip to the place took around fifteen minutes, apparently this "Furs National Bank" was away from the "ZPD" (Alex was somehow starting to get used to this) and once they were there, the buffalo pulled him out of the vehicle and had a strong grip into his arm as he walked with him in direction to the place. Alex looked around and he saw many animals in there, some of them were cops, but there were also many curious mammals, all looking from behind the blockers as they tried to get a glimpse of what was going on. Alex even saw a few teams of reporters in the place (what was not strange, since it was a bank robbery, of course, these hyenas would come there). Alex looked at the crews, as they were compose by some mixed species of animals; some of them were, ironically, hyenas...

"Fangmeyer! What is the status?" The buffalo demanded, calling Alex back from his examining of a news van that had the letter "ZNN" into it. He looked to see that the buffalo was talking to another office, a tiger, who talked back at him.

"We have a lot of cops out here ready to enter and teach a lesson to the guys in there. They still have hostages, though. We are not sure how many, but maybe around twenty. There is also confirmation of at least two armed wolves and a sheep helping that rhino. They seem to be violent; the animals they threw in the streets a while ago were seriously beat up. They said something about 'hurricanes' or something..." He continued to talk, and he stopped when he took a good look at Alex.

"Wait, aren't you-" He tried to say, but Bogo interrupted him.

"Do we know anything else about this rhino? His identity? His name?"

"No, nothing." The tiger said, and Bogo let out a sigh as he massaged the bridge of his nose again. Alex looked at him, and he wondered if they were actually going to have any short of information about this rhino. What Alex doubted, if his suspicions were right...

"Okay, thank you." He said, and he pulled Alex once more, making the cougar follow him as he walked around the place. He was trying to take a good sight of everything, and trying to see if he could do anything to help his subordinates. As he walked, he saw that Wilde and Hopps were already in there, and that they were both focusing into the place, looking to be planning what to do next.

Alex looked at them as they passed, and as they did, Nick took a double look to see him, and he adopted a surprised expression. Judy noticed it, she looked back, and she saw the cougar being scouted by Bogo. Needless to say, they were both surprised to see that the cougar was there. They were pretty sure that Bogo was going to have a talk with him, but bringing him to the scene?

They shared another look, and they raced to their boss. "Chief!" Judy said, making Bogo stop and look at her, as well as Alex. He locked eyes with the bunny cop for a moment, before she broke the contact and looked at Bogo.

"Chief, what... why?" She asked, and Nick soon arrived, and he said:

"Don't tell me that we are just going to give him the cougar?"

"Not a chance, Wilde." Bogo said, and he said, "Mr. Hunter here insisted to come."

"He did, huh?" Judy asked, and she looked at him, "And, why was that?"

Alex would have slapped his own face if his hands weren't cuffed behind his back. "For the love of... I came because since you are fighting someone like that rhino, I thought that maybe I could be useful."

"So, you know that rhino?"

"Oh, not that again!" Alex said exasperated, and soon, there was a commotion into the doors of the bank.

"You! Don't move!"

"No, please! I'm a hostage!"

Their eyes went back to the scene as they saw an animal being raise by the cops and brought forth. It was a goat, he seemed to be really shaken, and he was limping, as if his leg was bad. As he got closer, it was possible to notice that the goat was hurt. He had a line of blood running down his head, and he seemed to have a blackened eye.

"He said he wants the cougar!" The goat cried out as they carried him. "He said that the cougar must go inside alone, otherwise he will kill everyone inside!"

The four animals heard what he was saying, and this made them truly worried as they watched the goat being take to the paramedics. They shared a look among themselves, and after a while, Alex took a deep breath. He knew what was needed to be done, and he knew that he had to do it. Even if every single instinct of his being told him that it was probably a bad idea.

"I gotta go inside." Alex said, prompting every mammal around to look at him. But Alex barely even noticed, he was too focused into Bogo, who looked right back at him with a raised eyebrow and a serious expression as he and Alex had another staring contest.

After a few seconds, the buffalo said, "You really think that I'm going to let you go inside?"

"Why not?" Alex asked, still looking into his eyes. "You already brought me here..."

"Bringing you here with me to watch over you is one thing." Bogo said, putting a hooved-finger into Alex chest. "Another is letting you go into a building alone with some other meta mammal with unknown intents."

"Meta what?" Alex asked, and Nick chimed in:

"It is how we call you guys." This made Alex look at him, "Sounds like something from a comic book, doesn't it?"

Alex looked back at him, and he was about what he meant by "animals like him", but Bogo interrupted. "You are not going in there, and that is final!"

"So we will just sit around and wait for him to kill someone!?" Alex said, almost sounding outraged by this. "I wanted to come here because I wanted to help!"

"So you go in there and what? You and the rhino have a chat and you convince him to let the hostages all go?"

"I can think of something!" Alex said, he looked dead in the eyes of the buffalo, and he said, "I just want to prevent someone from getting seriously hurt! What I think it is the same you want, right?"

"Don't play games with me..." Bogo warned him, pressing a finger harder on his chest, almost to the point of hurting. "I have a serious situation in here, and I'm trying to make sure that everyone will get out of there alive."

"So do I!" Alex said; the volume of their conversation was increasing as it went on, and it was starting to attract looks of the other officers, and even of the nearby news crews.

"Why are you so interested into helping these animals, if I may ask?" Bogo said, sounding almost accusing as he looked at Alex, and for a moment, Alex eyes flashed in blue as small lightnings danced on his hands behind his back. He was very close at giving that buffalo a shock he would remember for the rest of his life...

"For the same reason because I saved these animals into the mall!" He said, "For the same reason that I risked myself and exposed myself instead of lowering my head and pretending it wasn't with me! Because it is the right thing to do!"

Bogo stopped a moment, and he looked into the eyes of the cougar, as if he was looking for any sign of deception. However, this did not stopped Alex from talking.

"Long ago, someone dear to me needed help, and no one was there to help." He said, and he continued to look at Bogo. "This person taught me that if a person needs help, then you can give help. This person taught me that if you have what it takes to help someone, then you have to do it for a person. This is what makes you different from other people. Because some people need help, and if you can help, then you have to help."

Alex continued to look at him, as everyone else looked at Alex, and he continued, "You don't do that because you want to appear, or because you want something in return. You do it because you feel that it is right. Because it is only natural to want to help the others when you have the chance. Because this is what makes us..." Alex stopped, he was about to say "human", but he had a second thought, and instead, he said something that he had the feeling that felt right. "That is what makes us heroes."

There was a huge moment of silence, as Bogo looked at him, and after a while, he sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose again. This seemed to be almost turning into a habit of him today. The buffalo looked around, and he saw many animals looking at both him and the cougar, all of them seemed to be expecting his next words.

Bogo looked back at the cougar, who was staring at him, and then he said, "Fine..."

Two minutes later, Alex was in position, in between the police cars, facing the bank, as a wolf was speaking on a megaphone. "We are sending him in! He is alone, just like you requested!"

Alex looked ahead; as he knew full well that he was, most likely, putting himself into some serious problem. He was about to go to an unknown place, entering into a building that had someone with powers, just like him, and who seemed to be ready to hurt people only to have Alex in front of him.

This said a lot about the situation, and still, Alex found himself ready to go straight at it, as if it was something that he would do every day. Alex sighed, as he looked forward, and he was ready to take a step forward, when he felt a hand on his shoulder.

He looked back to see chief Bogo once more, and for a moment, he thought that the buffalo had changed his mind and was not going to let him go in there. However, the buffalo surprised him by moving out of his field of vision. Next, Alex heard two clicks, as he got his wrists released from the handcuffs.

Alex massaged his wrists as he looked back at the buffalo, who said, "You are walking into trouble, so I guess that you might need your hands." And quickly he added, "If you cross me, I'll put you and that rhino together into a cell that is so small that when you feel an itch in your head and try to scratch it, you won't know if you are scratching your head or his'."

That sounded somewhere between a threat and a promise, and Alex decided that it was better not to push his luck with that buffalo. So, he simply nodded, after all, it was not like he was simply going to team up with this guy, whoever he was. Bogo walked away, and Alex saw himself alone facing the bank.

He took another deep breath, remembering himself that he why he was doing it.

It was the right thing.

Alex knew it, and that was the thought that gave him strength to summon up some courage and look forward, as he started to take the first steps in direction to the doors of the bank.

All the eyes were on him as he walked in direction to the bank with all the confidence that he could muster. Many of them were recognizing him as the "lightning cougar" who was all over the internet this morning. Some didn't knew him, and simply looked at the brave cougar that was walking in direction to the bank, ready to do... God-knows-what. Some of them really knew him, like Nick, Judy, and Bogo, and they looked at him as he walked in direction to the bank, all of them unsure of what was going to happen, but hoping for the best.

As Alex walked, he felt a million questions and doubts coming onto his head, all at the same time. However, he didn't had time for them now, as he knew that he had to focus on what was happening now. So he pushed them all aside as he finally reached the revolving door, and he entered.

He saw that the place was big in the inside, and it was imposing. Surely, it was one important bank, as it was seem by the decoration in the inside, and it was surely an old building, if you were to assume that the architecture of things was the same as the Human World. Alex looked over, and he soon saw the hostages.

They were sitting in the floor, and they were clearly distressed, as many of them still had impressions of fear in their faces as they were there, sitting in the corners of the place. They were different species, but none bigger than a bull. Watching over them, were two wolves in black with AK47s, both of them were looking at the cougar as he walked inside. As he saw their clothes and weapons, Alex clicked into a memory of earlier.

Could it be...

"Alex Hunter!" The deep and strong voice suddenly called Alex back, and he turned around to see another two animals. One of them was a sheep who was holding a gun into his direction. He had black wool and was wearing white colored clothes, and his eyes were horizontal lines like the ones in sheep from the Human World, and they were green colored. He had an expression of fear as he looked at the cougar, as it was possible to notice by the way that the gun he was holding was trembling.

By the other side, was a much more imposing animal.

He was a rhino, big and bulky, taller than Alex was, and more muscled too. He had strong arms, and he had a thick skin that was light gray in color. He was wearing a blue-colored polo t-shirt and black jeans pants. On his face was one imposing horn that looked to be very sharp and that could make a good damage if he actually charged. Past the horn, Alex could take a good look into the eyes of the rhino, which were hazelnut-colored and were looking at Alex with an expression that was almost of anger.

So, this is the rhino... Alex thought as he looked at the big animal. He wasn't sure if he should recognize him or not, considering all that had happened, but Alex knew that, looking at the rhino, he doesn't looked familiar to him at all. Alex was pretty sure that this was the first time he ever saw his face...

"I heard a lot about you..." The rhino said as he take a step forward, and as he did, Alex instinctively took a step back. The rhino continued to walk on his direction as Alex walked backwards, as if to keep a certain distance between him and that rhino. As he did, the other animals all were looking at them now.

"Well, I suppose you did..." Alex said.

"You look a little different from what I expected." The rhino said, as they both now were far from the door, and had the eyes of all the other mammals in there.

"Yeah, I guess you can say that..." Alex said, "I have been changing a bit lately... And you are?"

The rhino snorted at him, and Alex immediately said, "What? You know who I am and I just want to know who you are! It is only fair, right?"

The rhino narrowed his eyes at him, and he clenched his fists, as if he was ready to charge at Alex. The cougar instinctively unsheathed his claws, as if ready to fight. After a few moments, the rhino seemed to calm down, and he seemed to be thinking about it. After a while, he let out what sounded like a defeated sigh, and he said, "My name is Finn."

"Finn what?"

The rhino snorted, and after a few seconds he said, "Rhinehart."

Alex looked at him. Finn Rhinehart. The name sounded familiar to him, but Alex could not point out exactly from where, but he remembered that was not good...

"Now, I think it is time for we to go to the point here, don't you think?" He said as he started to walk, almost as if he was circling the cougar. Alex instinctively started to mimic his movements, keeping that rhino into his line of sight all the time. Alex felt the need to, since there was really something about him that made Alex feel very worried, as if there was something serious about him that gave him creeps...

"Yeah, I guess so... You wanted me to come here. Well, I'm here. What is it that you want from me?"

The rhino continued to look at him, almost evaluating him, as he said, "Well, you were actually the only one that I could think about." He said, almost as if he was resigning. "After all, you were the only one that I was sure that was in there, and the only one that I heard about since I woke up here."

This surely caught Alex attention, and he looked at him as he stopped.

The rhino stopped too, seeing that he had called Alex's attention, and he was actually able to smirk. "I didn't knew very much how to call your attention. But luckily, I remembered that Stoats had mentioned how much you loved playing hero..."

That was it.

The confirmation of Alex's suspicious.

"You..." He said, as he looked at the rhino. "You were there."

The rhino looked back at him and nodded. "Yeah, I was there. I was one of the guys that Stoats brought in case that you went there and brought some friends with you." He said, as now he was walking in Alex direction again, and Alex once more was walking behind, to keep the distance.

All the alarms in Alex's head were ringing, telling him to be ready to fight. His heart rate accelerated and his muscles tensed. Without realizing it, there were already a few sparks of lightning jumping in between his fingers.

"He said it would be simple. Keeping you and your friends at bay, while he finished what he was doing, and then I would get some money." The rhino said as he continued to walk in Alex's direction, and Alex could swear that there suddenly were drafts into the room, ruffing his fur. "It really seemed simple, even though some of your friends had some neat tricks..."

The rhino seemed to be becoming angrier as he continued to talk. "That was when all went south... The building whole shook, and the next thing I knew as that I was spinning into some strange place. Then there was that burning feeling all over my body..." He clenched his fists, and the drafts become stronger.

"I black out for a while, and when I wake up, I'm in some kind of forest, and I discover that this forest is actually part of some kind of 'jungle-like city'." He said as his voice was becoming louder with each phrase, as if he was getting ready to burst. "And as if this is not strange enough... I suddenly realize that now I HAVE A HORN IN MY FACE!"

Alex immediately raised his paw, covered in electricity, but the rhino was faster than him. He made a movement with his arm, and Alex felt himself blown away by a powerful gust of wind.

Alex tumbled into the ground as the wind proved to be just as strong as a hurricane, and Alex was dazed for a moment.

All the other animals backed away and recoiled in fear, as the rhino was once again looking at the cougar and he walked in his direction, his expression showed that he was pissed...

Alex was able to recover enough to see the great form of the rhino walking in his direction, a strong wind coming from him as he walked in Alex's direction. The cougar had to think fast, and he raised his paw and a lightning jumped from it. However, since Alex was still dazed, it missed the rhino by two feet, but it was still enough to make him jump, as if made the little fur he had on his body stand to end.

The rhino snorted angrily at him, and made a movement with his arms, and Alex suddenly felt himself blown to the side. He felt like he was spinning, almost like if he was into a true hurricane, as he was now dizzy and becoming more and more disoriented. Alex landed heavily into the ground, and rolled in it as his head was still spinning from that.

As Alex tried to put his head in order again, the rhino once more was walking on his direction. His face a mask of anger as he walked to the cougar, wind coming from him and ruffing the fur of most of the mammals in the room, who all were cornering in fear as they looked at that strange rhino.

Alex took a few seconds to be able to put his head back in place, and he looked back, to see that the rhino was standing at just a few feet of him.

His first reaction was to try to shock the rhino, so he raised his paw. But once more, the rhino was faster than him. The bulky mammal only thrust both his arms forward, and once more Alex was blow again, this time, he actually was being raise from the ground. This time, however, Alex was able to hold on to something.

He was blow in direction to the cashiers, and Alex was able to hold into the glass of one of them. While this prevented Alex from being flung away, it failed to give him stability, as he was twisting in the air, as the wind seemed to be trying to make him spin again. Alex could only hear the howling of the wind on his ears as he tried to keep track of what was happening.

Alex was able to catch the voice of the rhino again.

"Usually I would go looking for stoats!" He said, and Alex was barely able to hear him past the wind, but he continued, "But since I don't know where he is now, I had to resort to the first one that I could find! And that was you!" He continued to say, as Alex was finally able to focus enough to look at him. The rhino had a hand outstretched and opened in his direction, as if he was sending the wind on his direction.

"So, since you are here, I guess that I can have my answers from you! Starting by what the hell is this place!?" He cried out. Alex snarled, and he outstretched his own hand, and a lightning flew from it. However, due to the wind, Alex was unable to aim, and his lightning missed him by almost ten feet, landing in the ground.

Alex tried again, but the constantly spinning wind made it hard for him to keep his arm straight to have a clear aim of that rhino.

The rhino snorted as the cougar continued to try to hit him with his lightnings, while the other animals all cornered, as now they were afraid of becoming victim of a stray lightning.

"You still trying to do this?" The rhino demanded, and he snorted, "You are just like Stoats' said!" he said as he walked in direction to the cougar, and stopped at what he considered to be a safe distance from his lightnings.

Alex looked at him, and as he looked, he noticed that the rhino now was placing his other hand, the one that wasn't stretched in his direction, into a metal handrail. Alex looked at this handrail, and saw that it made the way all up to the cashier he was in...

"Now if you are done acting like this, I think I would really like those answers now..." The rhino said, but Alex barely paid attention to him, because in that moment, he was focused into that handrail. After a few seconds, Alex was finally able to lay his whole paw into it.

Immediately, sparks flew from the corners of the handrail, as if small bombs were exploding into them, and the next thing that the rhino know was that he felt an electric shock on his arm and traveling all through his body.

Alex had just used the metal handrail as a conduit to send his electricity straight at the rhino.

Said rhino was immediately shocked as small lightnings connected his hand to the handrail as he let go of it. He was propelled to the side by around ten feet, and he laid in the ground, shaking slightly as he seemed to be trying to get up again.

As he went to the ground, the wind stopped, and Alex landed (a bit painfully, by the way) into the cashier, and he finally had a time to breathe. He looked at the rhino, still shaking into the ground, but he seemed that he was going to get back up, as he was still trying. Alex looked at the sides, at all the hostages who were in there. They all looked back at him with amazed expressions.

They were all in danger. That guy was going to get back up, and Alex knew it. They had to get out of there now!

"Get out of the building!" Alex said as he looked to all of them. "Get out of here! Go outside! Now!"

The animals took a second or two to be able to understand what the cougar said, and less than that to start obey, especially as they saw that the rhino was already starting to get back on his feet, despite he was still shaking as he struggled to get back on his feet.

Even the wolves, who were armed, shared a look among themselves, before removing their weapons, dropping them to the ground, and rushing as fast as they could to the exit. The sheep had already beat them to it, as he was the first to get out by the nearest revolving door.

Outside, the cops were all there, and soon, the S.W.A.T had just arrived, with their armed guys taking place right next to the cops.

Razorback went to Bogo.

"You are late." The buffalo said, and the boar shrugged.

"Some problems with the bosses. They wanted to know what all the fuss was about, and I wasn't sure of what to say to them. I came up with an excuse."

Bogo nodded, and Razorback asked. "So, what is the situation?"

"Hunter went in there."

The boar looked at the buffalo surprised. He was about to say something, when suddenly the revolving doors of the bank started to spin, and many mammals were going outside.

"Don't move!"

"On the ground!"

"Hold your fire! Everyone!"

"Please, we are the hostages!" A wolf in black said as he rushed to the officers with raised hands. Followed by many other mammals who were all saying similar things about being a hostage.

The animals all looked as the animals came out and were attended by the officers and taken away from the scene. Bogo looked as he saw all of the hostages walking away from danger.

Well, it seemed that Alex Hunter was a friend after all. Maybe he owned him some apologizes...

"You..." the rhino snarled as he looked at the cougar with murder on his eyes. Alex looked back at him, and the rhino said.

"You brat! You'll pay for this!" As he spoke, the wind started to get stronger. "I'm going to kill you!"

"If you do you will still have to deal with all the guards out there!" Alex said, and the rhino snorted.

"You think I care? I put twenty cops into the hospital the last time I took hostages!"

Alex looked at him, and suddenly, it clicked into his mind. He remembered where he knew the name Finn Rhinehart from...

It was the name of an wanted evo, some that was searched for several crimes in which he took hostages, and in all the occasions someone end up hurt. Alex had heard about him and he had also heard that he was very inclined to violence. He also had heard that he had powers of wind manipulation.

Alex had not put two and two together before when Bogo talked about the wind powers, but now, he knew exactly who this guy was. He turned particularly more wanted recently, because during his last "work" he had hurt a lot of civilians and police officers; seven of them had not survived.

That guy was violent, he was strong, and he didn't cared very much for who got hurt as long as he was able to get what he wanted, and he had been hired by Stoats.

Why Alex was not surprised?

The rhino snorted as he growled loud, raising both of his fists into the air as the wind got stronger. Alex looked at him as the papers and small objects started to fly around the room, and he electrified both of his arms as he looked at that rhino.

"Well, it looks like all the hostages are safe." Razorback said, after a few moments of silence, and he added, "Does this means that we are clear to enter?"

Bogo turned to him, and he was about to say something, when they noticed that people around were focused on the bank again. Looking over, the two animals could see that now the revolving doors were spinning on their own, and at increasing speed. They also noticed what seemed to be flashes of light coming from inside the building, and the windows started to move as if there was a huge gust of wind making them fight to stay in their ridges...

It continued, with the doors spinning faster as a wind came from them, and the windows were trembling harder, starting to crack.

Many animals looked at it scare, some of them even taking a few steps back, as suddenly, the doors were rip out form the ridges, and the glass panels and windows all exploded, making glass fly as if a powerful wind current was blowing them. Said wind current knocked some of the bigger animals in there from their feet, came out of the place, just like some objects like a few objects and even one or two pieces of the decoration, and a familiar cougar that soon was rolling into the ground.

Alex panted as he stopped into the ground. His head was still spinning, and he tried to get back on his feet as the wind continued to blow. It was weaker now, but this was changing as soon as another figure walked out of the bank. The rhino had a very pissed look on his face as he looked at the cougar, and as he walked, papers, dust, and small objects were flying around him, almost forming what seemed to be a miniature hurricane focused into the location of the rhino, with him being right on its center.

Everyone, after recovering from the scare, was now looking at the rhino. Some of them tried to aim their weapons at him, but they were pushed back as the rhino made a swiping gesture with his arm, making the hurricane around himself strengthen for a moment as a gust of wind blew in all directions.

Police officers were send to the ground, with smaller animals being almost blow away. Nick and Judy themselves would have been blown away if they hadn't immediately dove for protection behind their cruiser. Alex had to find a good footing to avoid being blow away again, which was very hard, because he was the one that was the closest to the rhino in the moment he generated that current of wind.

Alex was able to raise his eyes to look at the rhino, who looked back at him. The rhino made another movement, and a strong gust of wind was focused specifically into Alex, causing him to be blown back a few feet. Alex now was closer to the cruisers, and the rhino seemed to be focused now only on him, as he walked in his direction.

"Hey, you! Freeze!" Some cops and members of the swat cried, and the rhino, without even turning to look at them, made a movement with his arm in their direction, liberating a powerful wind current that made many of them lose their balance and fall to the ground. Meanwhile, Alex was recovering his footing, and he was looking at the rhino who approached him. As he did, Alex's eyes glowed in a bluish-white color, while white streaks of lightning jumping across his arms. Alex snarled at him, while the rhino visibly snorted at him, they seemed ready to resume their battle from inside the bank.

As they did this, Nick and Judy peeked their heads from behind their cruiser, and Nick said, "Well, that escalated quickly..." He could sincerely think of nothing better to say. Judy, however, forgot the words and jumped into action. She pointed her dart-gun at the rhino and fired a few darts on his direction.

However, these darts never got to make contact with the rhino, for as they approached, the wind that was spinning and howling around the rhino reduced their speed and deflected them, making them join the other small debris that were flying around him. The rhino, in turn, noticed it when he saw the darts spinning, and he quickly looked over, in time to see that bunny officer with a gun pointed in his direction.

He looked at her with a surprised expression for a few moments, which was quickly replaced by one of anger when he realized that the small creature had tried to dart him. He snorted loudly, and he was about to send a gust of wind in her direction, when he felt something shock him in the side of his body.

Alex saw that the rhino was about to attack Hopps, and immediately, he focused a small lightning in the palm of his hand, and shot it into the body of the rhino, aiming to disable him.

However, it seemed that the charge was too low, for the rhino simply cried out as he clutched his side, and he looked at Alex, and quickly realized what the cougar had done, and this only caused him to become angrier. He let out a bellowing-like sound as the wind around him became stronger, and it was howling, as it was now harder for Alex to keep his footing, as he was starting to be forced back as he struggled to keep in place, but the wind as just too strong. It howled into his ears and it made even hard for Alex to keep his eyes open, as he was forced to cover his face with one arm to protect himself from the winds.

The animals around also felt the increase into the force of the wind, as many of them now were shielding their faces as dust and small debris, like pebbles and some objects from the inside of the bank, were coming in their direction. Some of them had trouble keeping their ground, and some of them were forced to the ground and were actually being pushed away. With the strong wind, it was very hard, almost impossible, for them to have a clear aim of the rhino so they could shot him.

Judy and Nick were both still hiding behind their cruiser, and they nearly had to shout so their voices would be above the howling of the wind. "I bet the guy from weather at the news didn't predicted this!"

"Nick, what do we do now?"

"I don't know!" Nick said back at Judy, "The wind is too strong to hit him with darts, and also his skin is too thick, and with that wind the others can't have a good aim!" Nick peered his head from behind the cruiser, and so did Judy. They could see Alex hunter being forced backwards, almost hurled, as the rhino continued to walk on his direction. As he did, a few cruisers were forced out of the way by the barrier of swirling wind that surrounded the rhino, and it indeed looked very much like a hurricane.

Judy looked very intently at it, and then, he raised her eyes to look up, and she saw that the thing looked like a miniature hurricane, including from above... Suddenly, a form of inspiration hit her. It was probably a crazy idea, so crazy that it was possible that it could actually work!

"Nick, I have a plan!" Judy said to her partner, who listened to her.

Meanwhile, Alex was currently being used as a plaything for the rhino, who was now using the wind to make the cougar float back and forth, throwing him like he was a ragdoll. Alex even tried to focus his lightnings at him, however, the constant motion made it impossible for him to aim correctly, with many of his lightnings not getting even close to the location that the rhino was in, and some of them actually came closer to hitting the other animals around than the rhino.

Alex felt dizzy and completely disoriented at that rhino who was playing some kind of twisted game with him. He didn't knew how he didn't threw up. All the while, the rest of the animals was still unable to help, for the winds that the rhino was letting on didn't let them approach or aim properly, and if they threatened to get too close, he would give a good gust of wind in their direction with a simple wave of his arm.

"Do you like it, Hunter?" The rhino asked him, showing to have some clear pleasure into knowing that he was making the cougar suffer, "Do you like the power of the wind? Maybe next time you will think twice before attacking a hurricane with a thunder!"

"What!? Carrots, I think the wind is howling way too much! Because there is no way that you have really said that your plan is what I heard you say!" Nick said, completely baffled by Judy's idea, and he was hoping, actually praying, for it was not what he thought he understood. But a quickly look at Judy's face was enough for him to know that it was truly what he had understood, and that he didn't mistook it.

"Nope! No! Hu-uh! This is a bad idea! Maybe the worst in the story of bad ideas!" Nick said.

"We have to do it, it might be the only way!"

"This is insanity!"

"It might be our only chance of stopping him before he hurts anybody!"

Nick looked at her, and he looked at the rhino, who was still playing with the cougar, before dropping him into the ground. The cougar tried to stand, but soon he was forced backwards. He rolled into the ground, and he was still trying to get up, but the rhino seemed that he wasn't done playing with the cougar, as soon he was making the cougar be dragged by the ground by strong currents of wind.

The cougar was unable to properly react to him, and the wind still didn't let the other officers help, and the small hurricane was still around him, protecting form smaller objects. At this rate, it was clear that the cougar was not going to last very longer, and as soon as he was done with the cougar, what would the rhino do next? Turn to them? To the civilians?

By the way, what were all of them still doing in there? Everyone was just looking at that scene as if it was the latest episode of Game of Bones, many of them taking pictures, filming it with their carrot phones...

Nick let out a sigh, as he turned back to Judy, and saw the expression in her eyes, and he knew that there was no way that he was going to talk her out of doing that.

"You know that if you make one mistake, then you are going to get hurt, don't you!?"

"We have to try!"

Nick knew that she was right, and they had to try it now, otherwise Alex Hunter wouldn't be alive for long.

Alex just stopped being dragged by the ground by the wind, and he was sure that he had lost more than just a few tuffs of fur in the process. He was shaken, and his stomach and head both felt as if they were still spinning. He looked over, and he saw that the rhino was still walking in hi direction, and he seemed to be laughing, saying something about "blowing him to the next city", or something of the like.

Alex was having difficulty to understand for his head was way too messed up, he barely had enough balance at the moment to raise his arms to shot a lightning at him. Alex was only able to look at him, and as he did, he noticed some short of movement in a corner of his eyes, behind the rhino, at a police cruiser that was particularly smaller than the rest. He saw the familiar form of a fox and a bunny.

Nick and Judy fought to keep their footing with so much wind, but they were able to keep it. Nick looked back at Judy, and they both nodded. Nick put his hands together and lowered in front of his body, while Judy looked at him, and breathed deeply. She ran to him, and jumped, and she landed with both feet into his hands.

Right into that moment, Nick pushed her up with all the strength his arms could muster, while Judy jumped as hard as she could.

The result, she was propelled high into the air, what soon made many of the animals look at her as she went up.

She had a little trouble to keep herself steady, but it was easy as soon as she reached a bigger altitude, and soon she saw herself right where she wanted: right above the rhino.

The wall of wind that was around him truly looked like a hurricane, what meant that it had one weak spot: up above, the eye of the hurricane, where the wind was the weakest. Judy was about to take advantage of that.

All the eyes were on her as she was just above the rhino, with Bogo and Razorback both looking baffled and even Alex was looking at her with wide-eyes and a slightly slacked jaw. The rhino noticed the strange look into the cougar's face, and he went to look, in time to see that bunny cop diving into him coming from above. She had passed through his wind barrier! And now she was coming to him with a baton ready to strike into his face!

His immediate reaction was to get ready to deliver a blast of wind at her, and so, he pulled his arm back, ready to blow her out of that city and into the stratosphere! However, as he did so, he lowered his guard, and that was the opening that Alex needed.

He focused a very small lightning, and shot it right into the rhino's back. It was all he could do in his state of dizziness, but it was enough, for it made the rhino tremble and cry out as his arms reflexively went to his back, trying to reach that point, leaving his face completely unprotected.

That was just the opening that Judy needed, as she landed into the rhino's chest, swinging her baton with all the strength that she could, and landing it right into the rhino's temple.

The bigger animal let out a pained groan as he was hit, and soon after, he was falling to the ground, while Judy jumped off him.

After the rhino dropped to the ground, there was a long moment of silence, as Judy panted heavily, and everyone else recovered and tried to make a sense of what had just happened. The officers and members of the SWAT all were recovering from the gusts of wind, Bogo and Razorback both looked stunned, and Alex was starting to recover enough to be able to get back on his feet. All of that while they were being watched by a few dozens of mammals who all looked at them with several different expression, but the most common was one of shock and wonder.

The cougar panted, as he tried his best to keep standing. That had been very taxing, for it was the first time that he ever faced someone with these kinds of abilities in his life. Still, Alex was sure that he did well, considering all of the conditions, after all, he was still alive, wasn't him? But... he had not survived on his own.

He looked over at the bunny officer, and he walked in her direction. By picking his movement, she turned to him, and she seemed ready to fight, as she raised the baton, but Alex quickly raised his hands.

"Oh! Calm down." He said, and waited a few more seconds before approaching her, and he said, "Are you okay?"

"Y-yeah, I'm fine." Judy said, lowering the baton, and Alex nodded.

"Good to know. That was quite a clever move. Well played."

"Thanks." Judy said, and she took a look at him, "And you? Are you hurt?"

Alex took a moment to answer, as he tried to stretch his body, and found out that maybe one or two of his muscles were sprained. "I'll live." He said, as he massaged his body, and Judy nodded at him.

"Who is him?" she said as she looked at the unconscious rhino, and Alex said:

"Someone very dangerous." Alex said nothing more, and he looked around, at all the people that were looking at him. Not at them, at him. Alex knew that well enough, and he knew that they were going to make a lot of questions. Even though some of them could be answered by these guys of tv crews pointing their cameras at him...

Bogo sighed as he looked at them. At least it seemed that the situation was under control, with the dangerous meta mammal being now under control. Of course, there was still the problem of how to actually imprison someone with such abilities. Well, he was sure that Savage could take care of that, after all, he was the one that he should call if these situations arrived.

But, of course, there was a much more serious issue at the matter.

There were a lot of mammals in there, all of them with recording devices, and not the mention the tv crews. They all were with their cameras pointed at Hunter, and they all had, most likely, filmed at least a part of the battle that had ensued. This meant that they had a lot of work ahead of them...

Sighing, Bogo walked to the nearest tv crew, the one that seemed to be of the ZNN. "Hey, you two!" He said with a booming voice, and they both turned to him. Both the tigress and the camel who held the camera. The buffalo walked to them and he said:

"Turn off the camera and hand over the footage, we are going to need it as evidence." He said, using pretty much the same excuse that he used to confiscate the electronic equipment at the mall. Bogo just hoped that they would not make many questions or complain about the "infringement of the press liberty", since Bogo knew that taking footage from a tv crew was different than taking the carrot phone form a civilian.

"W-we are not using footage, sir..." The tigress said as she looked at the buffalo. "We are live..."

Bogo groaned, as his worst fears had just confirmed. Of course that the news of a bank robbery would be transmitted on live. That was why Bogo wanted to keep all of the tv crews away from that place, as well as any civilians. Bogo didn't even bothered to go to the other tv crews, it was obvious that they all were on live too, what meant that the events that had just unfolded in there had been transmitted in a live feed for God-knows-how-many mammals.

If the silence cone had not fallen before, than now it most definitely had. He could now only wait for the call that he was going to receive from Savage after this all was done...

Everyone was now looking at Bogo as he was talking to the tv crews, including Judy and Alex. So, none of them noticed when the rhino started to move again.

He groaned very slightly as his head throbbed and he tried to raise on his arms and knees. His mind could barely process what had just happened.

A bunny had knocked him out...

He looked at the cougar and bunny, and saw that they both had their backs turned at him. He felt an urge to attack them, but his good sense told him that he already had gotten into enough trouble for now. The throbbing pain in his head was telling him that it was better to take a retreat now and come back later. After all, he didn't wanted to test his luck anymore, not with some many against him.

He used the fact that they were with their backs turned to him, so he got back on his feet, despite his throbbing pain on his head, as he walked a few steps, and controlled the winds. However, it seemed to have no effect.

He grunted and tried gain, this time with more strength, and this time, he even jumped a little, and he was raised from the ground by a few moments, but eventually he fall back to the ground. This caused a sound that both Judy and Alex caught, as they turned around, and saw that the rhino was now getting up. And they weren't the only ones to notice it.

"Of course I'm heavier now..." The rhino said in an angry snarl as he got back on his feet.

"Hey, you!" Judy cried, but the rhino snorted as he made a gesture with his arm in their direction. BY seeing this, Alex, drove by instinct, immediately jumped at Judy and hugged her against his body, as they were both propelled backwards.

As they went on, the rhino tried again, this time with much more strength, then a powerful wind started to blow around him, and soon, he was raise from the ground. Instead of falling right back, like one would expect, instead he continued to go up, spinning slightly into the air as he went.

Everyone soon was looking in shock at the rhino who was actually flying!

Everyone looked stunned at it for a few moments, and Bogo looked back at his men, who were all looking at him as if he was the most interesting thing in the world.

"What are you waiting for!?" Bogo cried out, making some of his men snap out of it, and they all looked at him. "The suspect is escaping!" He said as he pointed to the rhino into the air. The officers only took a moment to register it, as soon they were all pointing their guns at the rhino, and trying to take aim.

"You too, ladies!" Razorback said to his own men, after he too snapped out of this, and his men did the same, and soon, they all were trying to get a good aim at the rhino. However, it was hard, for he was spinning in circles as he flew, and soon, he was getting out of reach.

He floated in direction to the crowd, which parted and started to disband once they saw him approaching, but didn't disbanded fast enough as he approached, and landed right in the middle of the crowd, making many animals back away several steps when they saw him. He snarled, angry that he was only able to go for a short distance, and he looked around, searching for another way out.

He soon saw another animal, another rhino, around his own size, right next to a car.

"Hey, you!" He said, walking to him, the rhino yelped, and tried to the car, fitting the key in and trying to open it. But he was not fast enough, for the other rhino reached him and pushed him out of the way.

Quickly, he entered the car and started it. It took him less than ten seconds to get everything ready and to start to drive the car away from that place.

He adjusted the rearview mirror, looking at the scene behind him, and saying, between clenched teeth.

"Some other day, Hunter... Some other day..."

"Go after him!" Bogo commanded, and soon the police officers were going in direction to the crowd, aiming attention specifically at the area that seemed that the rhino had landed.

As they went, Bogo took deep breaths, and he heard a voice near him.

"This... this is... I don't even know what just happened but... I can assure it, it did happened!" The tigress said as the camera once more was turned to her, and Bogo sighed.

Well, it seemed that now there was definitely no going back. He looked over at the cougar, who was holding Hopps in his arms, and they both seemed slightly dazed.

"Judy!" Nick said as he ran to them, and the rabbit looked at him, still a bit dizzy.

"I'm fine!" She said as her fox partner helped her off the arms of Alex, who was sighing as he was sitting on the ground, and he was still trying to relax, now that it seemed that it all was finally over.

But Alex knew better.

He knew that he had a fight with another evo (who had been turned from a human into an anthropomorphic animal, just like him) in front of several people, and in front of tv cameras.

Things were far from over, and Alex knew it.

They were barely even starting...