Public Enemies: The Break Out

Story by Castro Talon on SoFurry

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#10 of Public Enemies


Hello there viewers! ^_^ I'm back and with the long awaited part where Ralphy and Johnny try to escape the Crow's Point Prison! But can they do it on their own? What other little adventures will they do as they are escaping? Will Ralph ever see Jamie again? All of these will be answer in this part! Enjoy!

(Ralph's View)

It has been 5 days since Jamie gave me the lockpick through kissing, I am surprised she would even do such a thing because I always thought of her a sweet innocent girl but I ain't complaining. We can't go around to the other inmates saying we have a lockpick and a way of escape of course, we never know if maybe someone will rat us out to lighten their sentence.

We also couldn't bust out right after we got the lockpick either, the cops were watching us closly since Jamie was here but now that a few days have past they have lowered their guard and thought nothing of it.......It was now or never.

We heard in the courtyard that me and Johnny were going to be given a trail and possibly either be sentence for life without parole or even death.....yeah...it was either now or never. We had it all planned out.

At night there were to many guards partoling the place so a night escape would be very difficult and near impossible. But during the day, most of the cops would be watching the courtyard and give little attention to the prisoners who chose to stay in the cells.....it was perfect.

At 1PM every Sunday there was a human janitor that would come in and clean the hallways. He was a old little human and never protected, I think even he knows he was unlucky to have this job I mean one little old human surrounded by a hundred pissed off furrys? Still we have no desire to hurt or kill this man...in fact he would be our key out of here even though janitors aren't given the keys.

That day Sunday at 1PM sure as hell he entered the hallway unprotected and shaking like always. His eyes dashed about the room looking for a furry trying to kill him but he would never suspect us. Thankfully most of the prisoners decided to go outside to the courtyard while only maybe a handful stayed inside.

Johnny and I decided to put our plan into motion. I took the lockpick from my mouth and slowly angled my wrists and hands to it would fit the lock and hopefully unlock it but I was having a bit of trouble.

"Whats wrong?" Johnny asked putting his hand on my shoulder looking out for trouble.

"Its been a long time since I've picked a lock...I hope I don't break it" I said feeling a single sweat drop run down my face.

It was true....if the lock breaks our plan was over before it was even started. My hand tingled and wiggled the lock pick trying to get every single one of the tumblers up and open the cell door. My mind was wreck with doubt and worry that I couldn't even think striaght or talk right.

My breathing began to grow heavy and I was sweating like crazy as if I had run a marathon. Oh god what if they see us?! Will I never see Jamie again?! Are we really going to spend the rest of our lives in here?! Or even put to death?!

Finally after what seemed like hours I heard a click. Both Johnny and I held my breath and I slowly took out the lockpick from the lock....was it broken? Did I pick the lock? I slowly looked at the lockpick in my hand and if its hook was gone that means it broke and we failed....

But it didn't I held it up straight to my eyes and it still had the hook! Does that mean-?!

I put my hands around the steel bars and slid it open completely...IT WORKED! WE PICKED THE LOCK!

But our escape had only began now to-

"Johnny Ralph?! How did you get out?" A familiar voice asked.

Johnny and I looked at the cell next to us and forgot that Eddie's cell was right next to us. His eyes were in awe and shock of our escape and his mouth began to chatter. Both Johnny and I knew what he wanted...he wanted to escape too. I looked at Johnny and he looked back.

"We can use the extra muscle" I said to him

"Fine but we can't free everyone" He said looking out for me again while I picked Eddies lock.

Its strange, after you learn how to pick a lock and forget for a few years you think you forgot everything about it but after a few trys you get right back into it. It wasn't long before we heard another click and I looked at my hook again...still intact!

Eddie pushed the cell door open and ducked down like me and Johnny were. We let Eddie in on the plan and told him the consequences if we get caught....they may not want to take us alive. Eddie froze for a second clearly weighing the options and nodded his head.....it was the 3 of us versus the whole prison guard.

We were silent as mice as we quickly snoke behind the janitor. I was right behind him as I quickly put one hand over his mouth and had the lockpick acting like a knife or sharp object pointed at his bottum back. He mumbled out a few cries and pleases of mercy and I felt his tears run down my hand......Jeez I'm going to hate myself for saying this.

"Don't struggle or else I'll stab you" I said low and menacing.

"We just want to leave...if you help us we won't hurt you...agreed?" Johnny asked while Eddie was looking around for any surpirses.

The janitor shook his head and we dragged him over to the door He hardly made a sound and I saw Eddie grab a wash rag for some reason but that wasn't important now. We were at the door were the janitor would enter and be one step closer to freedom.

I held the janitor in front of the door while Johnny and Eddie were at both ends of the door and I told the man.

"Tell them to open the door" I whispered into his ear.

The janitor doesn't have any keys incase of such an event occured so the guard on the other end of the door would only open it to the janitors voice.....their was both advantages and disadvantages with that kind of thinking on the guards part.

I released the janitors mouth and one of his arms and he knocked on the steel door three times.

"Its me...I-I'm done." He said still scared.

Once again we all held our breath and we prayed that the guard would believe us...suddenly we heard a few clicks and the door swong open! The guard was looking down at a newspaper clearly not paying any attention to the janitor.

"Yeah Yeah go-Humrph!" He said until Johnny and Eddie tackled him and overpowered him. Johnny handed me the handcuffs and I quickly handcuffed the janitor to the railing to the downstairs level. Eddie suddenly tied the wash rag around the Janitors mouth and it muffled any words he tried to form and we had a cop now as our hostage.

We first disarm the cop of his weapons which included a revolver and a nightstick. We then dragged him down the stairs and Johnny pointed his pistol at him the whole way threating him that if he spoke or screamed out he would kill him right here.

The cop was shaking and breaking out in a nervous sweat. But like the Janitor we put him in front of the door and Eddie and I were the ones who were going to pounce the next cop while Johnny held the Guard.

"Now tell them to open up." Johnny whispered loudly into the guards ear.

The guard breathed heavily and was shaking like a nervous wreck before Johnny cocked the gun and only had to pull the trigger in order to kill him.

"H-Hey Guys open up! Its the end of my shift!" The guard said stumbling his words.

We were almost certain the others behind the door weren't going to buy it but then-

"Like hell it is Derrick! Your just trying-Arrgh!" The guard said opening the door and me and Eddie tackled him to the ground.

Johnny walked into the room still having the gaurd as his hostage and pointing the pistol right at him. There were 3 other guards sitting around a table playing cards before they all stood up as we entered the room. I only caught a glimce of what the sign said but I believed it said "Armory"......Perfect....we have one hell of a chance to get some useful loot here!

"Johnny!" I said motioning to the safe room door no doubt holding all the guns.

"Give us the keys and he won't die!" Johnny demanded.

There was a standstill for awhile and for a second I was beginning to believe they would shot through their own men to get us before one said.

"H-Here!" One of the older guards said throwing me the keys.

I fit the key into the door and swong it open.....I whistled at the beauty before me....Shotguns!Machine guns!Pistols!Revolvers!Ammo and amazingly Bullet proof Vests! Only a handful of prisons were given these!

I grabbed a gun bag and started stuffing the bag full of the various guns. Eddie held up his prisoner in front of the other cops and waited for me to be finished. I can't believe I fitted every single gun and bullet into this bag but it was heavy!

"Your guns!" I said loading up one of the shotguns towards the cops

They dropped their guns, nightsticks, and the other keys onto the ground and held their hands in the air in surrender.

"Get in the room!" Eddie said also disarming his hostage.

The 3 guards and 2 hostage guards were lead to the tiny gun room which barely held all of them and all were clearly scared for their lives. I shut the door and locked it trapping them all inside.

Johnny, Eddie, and I procceded to arm ourselves and wear the 3 bulletproof vests we had and find another way to escape the prison. We found common day clothing hanging up on some racks and we quickly dressed ourselves to look like common day civilians...the clothes probably belonged to the guards.

Lucky we all found outfits that fit all of us and made us look like common day people. I still had a shotgun in my hands while Johnny had a Tommy gun in his. Eddie claimed never to held a gun but we still armed him with a revolver....better arm everyone we could!

We walked out of the Armory into a long hallway completely deserted looking for an exit....

"Guys look!" Eddie said pointing to a sign which read "Car room"...this was turning out to be our day!

We busted open the door and looked around for any guards. There were no guards but a single furry engineer fixing up a cop car. He was a jackal and raising his hands in the air to show he meant no trouble.

"You which car is the fastest?" Johnny asked the jackal

"U-Umm the 1921 model" The jackal said pointing at the black car which was a commonplace car.

"Then we'll take that one." Johnny said reaching out for the keys.

"B-But that belongs to the CJS president Hubert H-"

"You have the keys?" Johhny asked pointing the gun at the jackal.

The jackal threw the keys at Johnny and laid down on the ground clearly in shock. I guess this must have been the greatest moment of his life so far.

Johnny and I entered the front of the car and Eddie went into the back. But suddenly we heard the garage door open and we saw a clear trail and the outside world in front of us!....We were going to escape prison!....through the windshield we saw the same Jackal we threatened before open the door for us and he gave us a thumbs up in good luck....looks like we have many friends everywhere!

We drove out to the street looking behind at the prison and the guards patroling the perimeter....one of them even waved in our direction.....I opened the window and waved back.

We drove down a few blocks and we were still in awe of what happened...We escaped! We escaped Crows Point Prison! Along the way we were all relaxed and breathing lightly compared to before.

We saw a sign that said Donuts and Coffee and Johnny pulled up to it.

"I'm kinda hungry...how about you guys?" He asked nonchalantly

"Sure." I said opening the door and waiting outside for the others.

"B-I-U-Okay." Eddie said clearly nervous about this but quickly got over it......then again we were only maybe a quarter of a mile away from the very prison we just escaped from.

We all entered the shop and Johnny took out a wallet.

"Where did you get that?" I asked

"One of the guards...'dropped' it" He said approaching the counter and ordering us all some donuts and coffee. God I hope this wouldn't be a huge mistake.

(Melvin's View)

"Hey-Hey-Hey where are we going?! I though we were going to visit Johnny and Ralph in Prison?!" Tucker said acting like a child.

I snuggled him close to me as I continued to drive the car we were in.

"We won't be able to hear them with that rumbling stomach of yours!" I said kissing his neck.

Tucker giggled and sighed in comfort.

"Fine...lets go there!" Tucker said pointing to a Coffee and Donut shop.

"Alright...and keep the bill below 10 dollars! I don't have much traveling money thanks to that bottumless pit of a stomach of yours!" I said jokingly and parking up to a car I swear I've seen before somewhere.

A 1921 model...Hmm Hubert owns one of those...oh well there are probably many of those around. I brushed aside the cop me and turned into the fatherly me as Tucker rushed into the store with the 10 dollar bill in his hand.

"All types of donuts please!" He asked giving the baking lady his sweet eyes

"Tucker." I said crossing my arms and he lowered his ears in obidience.

"I-Umm just a glazed for me-and a small coffee" Tucker said disappionted by the small order.

"Just a coffee for me Maam." He said taking the change.

The baking lady pointed us to a table near these 3 fellows in brown overcoats and enjoying their treats and morning Joe.

I sat down with with Tucker and we looked at the television looking at the game...it was baseball Twins vs the Red Socks...Twins behind by 1 point and a man on third.

(Ralph's View)

I looked at the game with undivided attention and taking sips of my coffee. Johnny suddenly got up and said he was going to the bathroom at the same time a wolf got up saying the same thing as Eddie was going up to the counter to pay for the bill.

I decided to have some small talk with the fellow behind me also watching the game.

"Bet you the Twins win it by a home run" I said looking at the panther will a friendly and kind face.

(Melvin's view)

I heard the man say something behind me and I chuckled without looking at him.

"Please don't, I'm alreadly losing enough money thanks to that funny wolf in the bathroom!" I said chuckling at the events before.

"Bit of a trouble maker huh?" He asked

"Yeah"

I turned to face him and I swear there was something about his face I can't quite put it on. I swear its like I've seen it before but my time with Tucker made me forgetful at times...Wait...Ralph! Yeah this guy kinda looks like Ralph! Still that was impossible it was him! Ralph was in jail with Johnny and I could have seen plenty of people who look similar to the gang.

"You know you kinda look like Butcher Knife Ralphy" I said looking at the game again.

"I can't tell you how many times I've heard that! Its got me into trouble before!" The man said rolling his eyes and raising his hands a bit...he must have heard this many times before.

"Hey don't worry I ain't accusing you or anything....by the way I think the Twins will win" I said pointing at the TV

"Yeah same here." The man said.

The baseball was suddenly hit up in the air and the announcer was taunting it on

"And its going and going and it-Oh! The Red Socks make an amazing diving catch and put the Twins down with a 3-2 win!"

"Guess we both lose" The man said standing up and going outside with his other human friend and horse friend

Tucker was heading towards me before something caught his eye-

(Ralph's view)

We were all in the car before a wolf suddenly rushed out of the door and banged on our door gently. I opened the window and he handed me a wallet.

"Here you forgot this!" he said with a kind smile.

I took it and smiled back

"Thanks I owe you!" I said rolling up the window and waving goodbye to the friendly wolf.

"Anytime!" I heard the wolf say through the window and heading back into the store.

Johnny looked at me with wide eyes wondering if we really got off that easy....I opened the wallet and laughed.

"What? Did they find us out?" Eddie asked.

"Not likely...thank goodness he didn't actually open the wallet" I said showing them a picture of a human cop with a huge beard and cop badge...it looked nothing like any of us.

We drove out of the city and reached as we called No Man's land as it was literally plains of crops and vegetable planted without a single home or farm in miles of the place. Eddie tapped Johnny's shoulder and looked down.

"You guys can let me off here" He said sounding a bit sad.

Johnny and I looked at each other both concerned for him but we quickly put the feelings aside....this was clearly a personal problem with him...his face and eyes said it all.

"You want anything for the road?" I asked

"I want to keep the revolver if thats okay....and if I can have the rest of the money in the wallet that would be good too." He asked nearly crying.

"Is there anything-?" Johnny asked before

"No...I just.....want to walk again...as a free man....I want to find my wife and child the old fashion way.....using my heart and feelings" He said with a distant smile.

We both stopped at the edge of the road and shoke his hand.

"If you ever want to join us Eddie you have to ask" Johnny said hugging him.

"Thanks...and maybe...one day....we'll meet again"

"Goodbye Eddie" I said hugging him

"Goodbye friends....my only friends" He said softly.

Johnny and I entered the car again and we drove off slowly leaving Eddie behind in the dust of the dirt road...and I saw him start to take a few steps forward.....Eddie....you sure are a strange man.

We finally arrived back into St.Paul after another day of driving...we robbed a bank along the way and stole hardly a thousand dollars...nothing to major...just enough for the road. We were on the outskirts of St.Paul and we looked at the distant lights and noises of the city.

Both Johnny and I were outside of the car and leaning against it looking at the city and listening to the radio from inside the car.

"You think there still here? They would have moved on after so long." I said looking at the city still.

"Yeah don't worry....hey change the station if you can I hate this moody country stuff" Johnny said

"Sure thing task master" I said changing the radio until.

"If your just joining us we have some unbelievable news!" The radio newsman said

"Hey Johnny! Listen to this!" I said to him turning up the volume

Johnny turned his head towards me and listened to the broadcast.

"About 12 hours ago we announced that Johnny and Ralphy escaped from Crows Point Prison in Illnoise! If your just joining us it has been confirmed that they were both killed in the attempt and their bodies were transported to St. Paul Minnesota and placed into the St.Paul cemetery!"

"WHAT?!" Both me and Johnny shouted at the top of our lungs

"Both Ralph and Johnny managed to escape their cells through a lockpick and using a defenseless old man who is still in shock from the event.

"T-They weren't criminals! Sure they threatened me but they never meant any harm!" The janitors voice appeared on the radio.

"And even a Furry engineer said they actually escaped the prison with a fellow inmate...the jackal was fired for releasing false information. Hubert ,president of the CJS, claims his vechile was sold to neighbors next door and never in the prison in the first place!"

"Furries will do anything to gain public attention and make us look incapable to do our jobs! Johnny Makarov Dillinger and Butcher Knife Ralphy were both kill in the escape and transported to the St.Paul cemetery! And any rumors of a 3rd escapee should be put aside!" Huberts voice came over the radio.

I turned off the radio pissed off as hell over the broadcast....KILLED?! THOSE LIARS! THOSE FUCKING LIARS!....J-Jamie.....did Jamie hear this?.....of course she would......she would want every single update about my imprisonment.....d-does she think I'm dead?......But where would she be in this-?....No....I know where she would be.

"Johnny...can you drop me off at the cemetery?" I asked

"Sure thing Ralph." He said driving into the city.

We didn't say a word to each other the whole way to the cemetery...I was to busy thinking of ways on how to approach Jamie...should I just go up to her?...should I make it a secret to her?.....She thinks I'm dead probably! What do you say to a person who thinks your dead?!

Finally at 7 PM we arrived at the cemetery and I exited the car and said.

"Thanks Johnny"

"Anytime Ralph....you want some back up?" He asked refering to Jamie

"No....just give us awhile."

I entered the cemetery looking around for my gravesite....it was close to sunset and would be difficult without a source of light.....

It didn't take long before I knew where my gravesite was. On a small hill and a couple of trees on it, I saw a single person hanging their head down and seemed to be crying...Jamie.

I went up the hill behind the trees before I heard her angel like voice again...my god...I'll escape from all the prisons on earth to hear that voice again! But I wish they were on a happier occasion.

"Ralph....I'm sorry......I should have done more.....I should have tried harder....I-I failed you....P-Please......Please don't be gone Ralph! Please!" I heard Jamie say to the gravestone and sniffling her tears.

I noticed her tail and fur both down in complete sadness and depression. I felt a light breeze take over me and I walked out of the trees and leaned up against one and said.

"Is that what you say to a guy who just escaped prison just to see your beautiful face again?" I asked with a weak smile.

She turned around and stared back at me face to face.....I'm pretty sure that she think she was seeing a ghost.

"Hey Jamie...its really me" I said with a calm smile.

"Ralph!" She screamed running at me and threw herself upon me.

I ran at her for second and pulled her into a tight embrace and passionate kiss, the wind gave one strong blow and all the leaves around us floated up and twirled around us as our lips first made contact. I felt her tears run down both her and my face.

She was still muffling some sobs but forcing her lips upon mine. Her tail and hair was standing straight up and I felt my whole body tense up from the passionate and tender moment.

I think an hour passed before we broke the kiss and she laid on my chest missing my scent and warmth.

"I missed you so much Ralph." She said softly wanting to sleep forever in my arms.

"I missed you more then anything in the universe Jamie...I will go through hell and back to be with you" I said into her ears.

Everything else in the world didn't seem to matter.....the prison break....my criminal status......nothing in the world seemed important....only just that Jamie was in my arms and safe again......I was safe in her arms....and she was safe in mine....

"I love you so much Ralph" She said falling asleep in my arms

"I love you more Jamie" I said with a small chuckle.

So Ralph and Johnny escaped from prison and Ralph is back with Jamie! Yay happy ending! :D...No...wrong....were far from over...we still have many parts left in the next part of Public Enemies! Thank you all! You Rock!