Planet Arcellion
Headquarters of the ZGA (Zootopain Galactic Alliance)

Had anyone in the room forgotten why they were there, a short glance at the director would be enough to remind them. Days ago they had seen the great Buffalo speak with a tone that flowed as as only a mammal with complete confidence in himself could manage. Now however, his words were weak, every now and again interrupted by some great cough. This new image of the director gave all the officers a sense of their purpose, a sense that made them sit in silence as the weakened mammal coughed in a manor that was most certainly painful.

Then after a period that for many seemed to have been eternity and a day Bogo finished and looked to the mammals facing him.

Looking at him it was clear he had seen much as of late. On his face for example a slash, still pink in color, crossed his face broken by a patch over where an eye should have been. On the right side of his great skull one horn stood cut almost flush with his flesh. Around his left hoof a cast of white held an apparently fractured wrist. All these injuries had been by one, one who had done damage not only to the Buffalo but to the amry that supported him. It was this, this thing that was the reason for the meeting, this thing that had somehow taken the mighty titanic figure of Bogo's pride and had reduced it to merely a pile of dust to be scattered by the wind. It was this thing that they had to defeat for fear of it destroying more then an army and more then a city. It was this need that brought this meeting of minds together to come up with something, anything, to if not stop it to at least slow it down.

"Sir,", Bogo turned to face the Rhino that had spoken, "might I suggest we get him."

"Him?", Bogo stopped to cough violently into his arm.

When he had finished the Rhino spoke in a form most gruff and serious, one that only a mammal who walked the path of life with death as his ally could muster, "A week ago the bounty hunter Nicholas Wilde was arrested and thrown in jail. Now, seeing that he is one of them," at the word 'them' the room became filled with the murmurings of all those under the same roof as he. Every officer in the room other then himself knew not what he meant and some, desperate to know, even shouted their questions in hope of an answer. "Quiet!", every mammal recoiled in fear of the Rhino's shout, "As I was saying, them, the AMW." AMW, now that was a word. Never before had there been anyone quite like them, there stood none who could match even the least among them in combat. Again the room filled with voices and again the Rhino had to call for silence, "Now, we can't influence the AMW, they serve none. Nick, Nick is a bounty hunter and a Fox, if we were to promise... monetary compensation, I'm sure a deal could be arranged."

Has this been any other situation Bogo would have yelled at the Rhino for suggesting an idea as bold as the one he had just heard. But today they faced a danger greater then they had ever faced, possibly greater then the universe itself had ever seen. Here they stood with a threat so great that made even the release of Nick an idea worth considering. Still, a backup plan would be helpful so Bogo asked for another, there was none.

Sighing Bogo pointed to a Tiger of white near the front of the room, "Ms. Nightengale, report to shuttle dock fourteen, I want that Fox helping whether he likes it or not." After saying this Bogo left the stand and walked to the door quietly mumbling to himself, "If that Fox won't help...", he turned to the crowd of officers behind him, all of them, every single one of them he knew.

For a second he stood there staring as his mammals rose. Slowly his gaze fell onto a wolf rising in the back, a wolf he had long known as an ally and as a friend. This wolf had been married for all of a year and had just seen the birth of his new pup, all of a month with daughter and wife, a month that may very well be the final chapter of his life. Bogo, usually a mammal of emotion so hard to see sighed in grief, "There will be a lot of orphaned kits tonight."

000

Prison Planet Morium

Cell block 1928

Six days, six days saw Nick in his cell, a time twice as long as his last visit to Morium almost two years before. Over that time little had changed, the cell he was in was much like the one he had once had having a door like that of a vault, walls devoid of windows and bars,, and a lone, dim bulb. It was in this that Nick was to spend his time in jail, it was in this that Nick would suffer for the crimes he had done, that is, if he wanted to. Everything about the cell was as it was before, still everything was scaled for mammals far larger then he, still the vent beneath his bed proved easy to bend and easy to slip into, still the camera that watched him could be shut down and could be worked to display a picture of him in some position apart from the wall. Still, even when he could easily have escaped he tried not. Why would he not wish to leave a cell as dreary as this? One would only have to listen to his murmurings.

"Not that you'd know that...", this is what troubled him, the words she said before she left, the last words he was likely to hear, words of truth that he had little chance to correct.

If the tale were to be explained form start to end this would have to be a work great and long, a length that would prove daunting to write and tiresome to read. But as we find ourselves in need of something, I will tell the end, the part in which her words were spoken.

Nick had docked onto the ship of his latest employer, a large, gruff, intimidating polar bear by the name of Kozlov. Just before he had left her, or tried to anyway, in the hands of a great wolf often known as the Dealer. While he had been there she was disarmed and led bound to await a fate most horrid. Her weapons and gear he took in his bag, it proved not hard as she was a bunny half as large as he. But then she escaped, somehow she broke free from the wolf that held her, somehow he not only broke free but had beaten him and nine others down with her paws still bound behind her. Nick had tried to restrain her but anything he threw at her she dodged with ease until he had no option other then to run. He was fast but she soon proved faster, not only could she simply run longer and harder then he but nay turn he made she could match with a quick jump against the wall. Desperate Nick had taken to locking door behind him, a tactic that only added seconds to his time. Fortunately this proved to be enough, reaching his ship he turned to lock the door to see her just feet away from him, grinning he shut the door and set the ship on its way, in his mind he could imagine her looking through a porthole in anger, in truth, she looked with something more.

Not to lang after that he reached Kozlov's ship orbiting the gas giant Quarto, there he sold her weapons and gear to the great, intimidating bear and readied to leave. But then she came, somehow she managed to track him, somehow she had found a way to reach him without his ship. However she had done it it didn't matter, she was there and that was all he needed to know. At first no one else took much notice of her, she was a Bunny, unarmed, surrounded by bears many times her size and who possessed a whole manor of weapons, surely what could she do? As it turned out, a lot. First she took down the guards beside her, then in the few short seconds of shock she ran to Kozlov and grabbed her gear. Then she jumped off his face, knocking him out in the process, to a platform above where she dropped her thrusters and put back on her belt. Now armed she lept from the platform and with a combination of stun blasts from her blasters and quick kicks with her feet, knocked the remaining guards out.

Now here is where Nick's focus is centered. Here she was left with none but he, here he had risen his blaster only to be reminded of her's second function, here his weapons barrel was melted through with a well aimed blast, here he dropped its useless husk to remove a second he held. But this second did not see action, instead it was blasted and lay broken on the ground. Then Nick looked at her with terror, surely she would want some form of vengeance for what he had done. In an action that seemed slowed only to further scare him she put her weapons away to hang by her side. Then much to his surprise she turned and left with her fists noticeably clenched. Then Nick asked why she did not attack him, a question she answered with a tone most annoyed and tense.

"I'm a part of the SMW and I am not to kill, not that you'd know that.", then she left locking the great door behind her. A short while later Bogo' forces had him surrounded and had him arrested. By the next day he was sitting in prison to think over what she had said. It was this thought that drove a weakened part of him, a part that through al the years of his work had bled for everything he had done and had called him to stop. Up until now this part had been small, drowned out by the part that sought only profit. but now it was powered by the thought of her, the thought of her mercy and how she cared for even the likes of him, the likes that had sent her to a fate indescribable in its level of suffering, a fate she was lucky to escape.

It was in this that Stripengale entered, it was in this strange point where both sides spoke with equal strength. What she asked could potentialy satisfy both parts though it would have to be one or the other. But which one? On one paw this small part had become the most vocal and had bothered him greatly, on the other the larger part had served him well by making him the hunter he now was though it had become almost silent as of late. Still, Nick was one who planned ahead, if the smaller died down as it had when he was a kit then he'd better satisfy the larger, if the smaller stayed as vocal then he could not afford the wrong of payment.

When he had finally made his mind he rose his snout to look the Tiger in the eye, "I'll help. As for the payment,", he sighed, "I'll need to think about that."

Stripengale looked at the Fox with surprise, "I-is there anything you need?"

"Well, I need my weapons fixed and I would like my ship back."

"That we can arrange."

"Good, when am I going?"

"Now."

Nick sighed, had he known what it was he was to face he might not ever have left. But for now at least he was ignorant, ignorant of what it was he rose to face. Watching him rise as one who knows all I could only think of the sorrow and pain he'd come to feel when this ignorance gave way to knowledge, then again I felt elation at the thought of what was to come.

OK, that was ch.1 of this brand new story, hope you like it. Sorry if it was a little hard to follow, I'll work on that. If you enjoyed it please give me a review as well as a planet or moon name(s) with a short description of their climate and terrain, I'm bad at naming things so I would really appreciate it if you were to give em a planet or moon to use