AN: Disclaimer, please be advised I'm sorry, really sorry don't hate me.
This chapter has been on the cards from day one so getting it on paper wasn't too hard so hope you enjoy it, see you on the other side.
Judy awoke from her dreams abruptly as the alarm sounded bringing her back to the real world, looking at the clock her eyes widened '7.48'.
"Oh carrot sticks, I'm late and Nick will be waiting for me, if he hasn't already gone" looking down she saw she was still in her dress from last night.
As she showered and changed as quickly as she could, she tried to think back to last night. She couldn't remember going to bed but she had the strangest feeling when she had gone to sleep. She had been unusually happy considering her date had gone so badly.
Wait! Did nick come round? If I'm late getting up he hasn't got a chance of making it to work on time.
Her thoughts were interrupted by a knock on the door, as she opened it she heard a voice she hadn't heard in a rather long time.
"Yo bunny, Nick said chued be up late, so to give you this and get you to the station ASAP, oh and somit bout him being called in early for a big job".
"Umm thanks Finnick" Judy's head was spinning but she followed the small fox to his van and they took a very quick and quiet trip to precinct one.
"Tell Nick he owns me big for this." Finnick said as he walked away muttering something about getting him up this early in the morning for a god damn bunny.
Nick had been called in to the station early by Chief Bogo and he was worried about it as he and Bogo had not exactly been on good terms.
Nick knocked on the office door and a now familiar "come" was shouted from inside.
"Wilde, I have a situation, and I am conflicted as whether I should dump you into the middle of it at this early stage but I'm not sure I have a choice"
"Sir, I have done the training, and have proved myself at the academy at least, let me prove to you that I am a good cop."
"It's not about trust Wilde, not this time anyway it's about restraint and control, two attributes you have not exactly shown you have in abundance."
As nick was about to try and defend himself but was cut off by the words his boss spoke next.
"It's Bellwether, she's being transferred and we are in charge, or more to the point you and Hopps will be."
At this Nicks looked at the buffalo sat at the large desk, "but I...we... Sir, we cant plan a route, organise a team and run an operation like this with an hours notice."
"That is all taken care of Wilde I am running the full operation along side you, everything is ready but I need quick thinkers on the ground, I trust Hopps and I hope I can trust you, but I know you can think quickly and react fast, that is why I need you."
Nick just looked up at Bogo, I cant say no to this, and he's right I have one of the quickest minds on the force, even if I have just joined.
"Wilde, I am not ordering you to do this, I'm asking you, I know its a lot to take in and if you are not up to it then you can leave now."
"I'll do it sir, but who are the other officers going to be?" _
"Judy!" She walked over to Clawhauser who had called her over
"Now where did you go you pesky little thing you, I know you were around here somewhere"
"Left side" Judy said as she walked up to Clawhauser giggling
"What?" he said reaching up to the left side of his face finding the doughnut in his neck folds.
"Thanks Judy I have been looking for that for about ten minutes, I thought I had lost it"
"No problem, now why did you call me over? I'm already late" although knowing Clawhauser she wouldn't have been surprised if it was a new Gazelle song he wanted so tell her about
"Umm oh yeah, Chief Bogo says he wants to see you immediately in his office"
As Judy ran off she gave the cheetah a wave good bye thinking why does it always take so long to get important information out of him, now I'm going to be in even more trouble.
Before she could even knock on the door she heard a loud voice, "Hopps, get in here, you're late"
Walking in she looked up at the selection of officers around her, "sorry Sir I..."
"Don't care, just sit down" he said with a grunt
"So I have picked you six because you are the most capable and trustworthy officers for the job at hand," as he said trustworthy he looked directly at Nick making it quite clear he still had a ways to go to be fully trusted by his boss.
"Its Bellwether, she's being transferred, and we are responsible for the move."
All the animals around the table looked at each other, before all eyes fell on the smallest mammals at the table"
Bogo gave a snort of amusement, "Hopps has been picked for this because she is the fastest and most skilled pursuit driver we have, hopefully we wont be needing her skills but I will not take any risks with this"
All eyes were still suck to the fox sitting on his chair quite nonplussed as he and Bogo had spoken before this meeting had begun, and he and he alone knew why he was there.
"Hopps, Trunkaby, Fangmeyer, prisoner transfer, you are in charge of getting Bellwether from sahara state to polar penn in tundra town."
"Wilde, McHorn, Wolford, your with me on escort duty, I want this to be perfect. Only those mammals in this office and a select few at the prisons even know this is happening, so I want this to go smoothly understood. Gear up we leave in ten"
Nick hung up his phone just as he was leaving the precinct "Chief, we need to talk" he called over
"Wilde, I'm not in the mood, Hopps is coming, end of, and if you make us late you are going to realise exactly how bull headed I can be."
"Sir its not about Officer Hopps, I know she is more than capable of looking after herself, Chief there has been an extra advantage to you putting me on the team"
Bogo raised his eye brow as Nick continued "would I be right in saying we will not be taking a direct route to the ice box? That we will be going via the heat highway and then off at the back of the market?"
How on earth does he know the route I haven't even told Hopps how we are getting from one place to another yet. "That information is classified Wilde, how did you find out about it."
"Well Sir, as you know my past is umm... complicated" he said with a smirk "but there is one benefit to this, I just got a call from an old associate in tundra town saying that there is an attack on police as they enter the market".
"Wilde, this operation has been in the works for nearly a month, and if you think I am going to change the plan because a fox has doubts about my ability to keep my team safe you are very much mistaken."
"Chief, with all due respect if you don't change the plan we will end up with a big problem and you may even have officers deaths on your hand, I'm telling you if this goes wrong its on your head."
"That's it, from tomorrow you will be on unpaid leave if not suspended, but I cant afford for our rout or our mission today to be jeopardized, so your spending the day in the cells. Mc HORN take this fox into custody,"
"Sir, Wait, from tomorrow do what you have to, but today you need all hands on deck, especially if I'm right, and you don't have time to get another rider up to speed in time. Don't waste a good rider for the sake of proving a point."
"Fine Wilde, but I stand by my word from tomorrow you are on unpaid leave, now lets move."
As Judy's team pulled up outside the precinct in the PTV (prisoner transfer vehicle) she wondered why the other four officers hadn't joined them in the parking lot.
"God even I have to say, those boys look good in those jackets" Francine exclaimed
"What do you... oh wow I uh wow" was all Judy could say as she saw the four officers round the corner on the police issue motorcycles.
Nick lowered his shades and winked at the two female officers in the front of the PTV, making both of them blush.
"MOVE OUT" Bogo shouted and they started down towards the prison.
As they arrived the four motorcycles closed in behind the PTV and entered the outer walls.
Dismounting from his bike Nick headed over to talk to Judy but was stopped by his boss. "Wilde, a word"
Nick gave a quick wave to Judy before turning on his heel and walking to Bogo.
"Wilde, as a rule I don't listen to the concerns of new recruits, especially when I feel they are trying to undermine a plan that has taken nearly a month to organise... but that said I don't think what you said earlier was meant personally, and God I hope I'm right about that."
"Sir, I meant no offence then and I mean no offence now when I say I stick by what I said"
Nick lowered his ears ready for the chewing out he was sure he was about to reserve, but the buffalo just snorted.
"if there is one thing I hate more than a cop with no spine is a rooky cop thinking he knows better than his superiors and being right," Bogo said with a smirk.
I have a Decoy going down the planned route and we will be taking the direct road, so you had better be right about this, or unpaid leave will be the least of your worries."
"Chief, what is the call sign for the decoy team just in case something happens?"
The insinuation that 'something happens' would mean Bogo was unable to call himself meaning incapacitated or worse, hung in the air but Chief Bogo could see where nick was going with this and agreed, someone other than him had to be able to contact the other team.
"It's whisky, but we are radio silent with them unless the information given is of the utmost importance, is that understood Wilde"
"Yes sir, I just hope there will be no need to contact them at all"
Judy noticed Nick seemed worried as he walked over to her. "everything ok Nick? you look a little distracted"
"what? oh yeah, I'm fine just something Bogo said"
"Well if it makes you feel any better, you look really hot on that bike... I mean.."
"Carrots, I never knew you felt that way, you should have said sooner" he replied with a wink causing the flush that had already turned her a rather vivid pink to turn her as red as his fur.
"I meant it suits you that's all" she said with her ears in front of her face trying to hide the blush from view
"Sure thing fluff" he said tussling her ears, which earned him a punch.
As he walked back to his bike, Judy felt a nudge at her arm followed by Francine saying simply "smooth Hopps, smooth" before she laughed.
With bellwether safely in hand they headed out of the prison.
As Nick rode past he held up a small orange object before kissing it and placing it back into his jacket
He couldn't have there is no way, reaching down to find her carrot pen was missing, but why, why would he...have...no he couldn't have recorded me, then again this is Nick Wilde, of cause he has, that sly fox
Nick was on edge the moment they left Even if Bogo had listened to him, he still had a very bad feeling about this.
As they hit the main drag of savannah square, a van seemed to lose control and came to a halt across the road, but that wasn't what caught Nicks eye, No that was the small splash of blue that hit Officer Mc Horn before he came off his bike.
"HOPPS GET OUT OF HERE NOW" Nick shouted before anyone else had even registered the van, but Nicks brain had been working ten to the dozen ever since he had seen the car that had followed them from the prison.
Nick levelled his tranquilliser gun at Mc Horn before his actions had even registered to himself, he could see the PTV hadn't moved.
Judy was in shock, did nick just call me Hopps? And he shot Mc Horn, what is happening with him this isn't the nick I know.
"Wilde what the hell are you doing?" called Bogo who was still trying to get a hold of what was happening including the fact that one of his officers had just shot another, but Nick just ignored him, he had bigger things to worry about.
All Nick could think to do as he saw Bogo reaching for his gun, whiles looking at him was to shout the two words that might both be his saviour or his downfall.
At the very moment Bogo was levelling his weapon at the fox, he heard the words he had hoped to never see again 'night howler'.
Seeing the PTV still sat there it was Bogo's turn to shout at the occupants, "YOU HEARD WILDE GET OUT OF HERE NOW, WE CAN HANDLE THIS, GO"
Judy still had no idea what was going on but the command from her CO snapped her out of her trance and she sped off,
"Where are we supposed to go?" Judy called over her shoulder to the two other officers sitting stock still behind here.
"D...did Wilde just kill Mc Horn?" Officer Trunkaby asked
"I don't know, but what I do know is that we need somewhere safe to go, so where?"
"Precinct 3 is near by, and yeah he shot Mc Horn" Fangmeyer said finally waking up to the situation.
"good, call it in as soon as we get through the gate the whole precinct needs to be put on lock down"
"Look we don't know what happened, but I don't think Nick would turn against us like that." The rabbit said but even she didn't sound totally convinced.
Fangmeyer then turned to both female officers and exclaimed "Mc Horn had already come off his bike before Wilde fired at him, you don't think..."
Suddenly the radio came to life with Nicks voice "Whisky team, it's night howler, I repeat, Whisky team, it's night howler, get out of there"
Meanwhile back at the attack the three officers left fighting had found some cover, "Wilde, how did you know about Officer Mc Horn?"
"There is something in their eyes, like something is missing, I saw it in Mr Manchas eyes and all the missing mammals at cliff side."
Bogo grabbed his radio to call for backup as they were in dire need of it, I hope Hopps got out of this ok, the last thing we need is bellwether getting loose on the city again.
"Clawhauser... Clawhauser...CLAWHOUSER IF YOU DON'T ANSWER THIS RADIO, YOU WILL BE EATING THOSE DOUGHNUTS OUT OF A STREW"
"Sorry Sir how can I..."
"Get all units to savannah square now, we have several savage animals and I really don't want to have to use lethal force here."
The next moment Bogo was what can only be described as a drop kicked in the head by Nick but before Nick could land he was taken out of the air right where Chief Bogo's head had been only a moment ago, Bogo could see the blue mark on Wolfords head.
"WILDE" Bogo called as he saw the small mammal thrown to the ground like and old rag-doll.
Bogo took one swipe at Officer Wolford trying his best to incapacitate the wolf without killing him.
As he reached Nick he lifted his dead weight, as he heard the sirens of the backup arriving, looking down he saw nick smirk as he lent down he heard nick say "did carrots get away, is she safe?"
"Yeah nick, she's gone, she's safe"
"good, good, and sorry for kicking you in the head, but I didn't think pushing your would do much." at this nick have a slight chuckle "look after fluff she's a good cop, better than you give her credit for."
AN: Will Nick survive?, Will Judy get to precinct 3?, Will Bogo blame himself? And will Bellwether escape?
The choice is yours comment, pm and just generally keep being amazing love you all and let me know what you think will happen next.
This is the Jersey Mammal signing off for another chapter and as always keep those ears pointy and tails wagging.