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Meanwhile in the Rainforest District
Night patrol was so boring! Especially if it was in the second wettest neighborhood in the whole city during the rainy seasons! Back in his hustling days, Nick Wilde stayed away as much as he could from the District because he knew that the other less than reputable mammals were not wanting to do business in the rain. Thank God that they were in a police cruiser and not on foot patrol, though it was still cold thanks to the car being turned off to save on gas. Zootopia's first fox officer gave his partner, the first rabbit officer Judy Hopps, an exasperated look. "Why did Buffalo Butt give us this assignment?"
Judy rolls her eyes. "Maybe it's because you released that video of the Chief dancing and getting drunk at the Gazelle concert," the grey bunny replied, a twinkle of laughter in her violet eyes as she recalled the video the fox had sent to her Furbook page.
"You've got to admit that the Chief's 'one hot dancer," Nick said, giving her his signature cocky grin.
Nick had somehow gotten his paws on the video of Chief Bogo and then sent it to every officer in Precinct 1, causing the water buffalo to shout so loud that it might have broken the sound barrier. Totally worth it, until the Nick and Judy got their current assignment. At least it wasn't parking duty like the rabbit did on her first day.
"At least I get to spend time with my favorite carrot, Carrots," the fox said as he wraps an arm around his partner and girlfriend who sat in the driver's seat of the cruiser.
"Nick!" Judy exclaimed as she was pulled closer.
The two have been dating since shortly after they had arrested Flash the sloth for his speed racing earlier that year. After Nick had graduated from the Academy, the fox soon realized that without Judy in his life outside of work he would be miserable. He knew that the city might still have prejudices, but he was still more than willing to face them if he had the cute little rabbit at his side. It took nearly all his courage to ask the bunny out on their first date and to his surprise she felt the same way that he felt about her.
Judy heart fluttered as Nick held her close to his chest to help her stay warm in the cold weather. She knew that together with her tod, they could face anything anyone threw at them. As she was about to give Nick a kiss on his muzzle though, her cellphone rang. "Ugh!" Judy said as she pulled it out of her back pocket and saw that it from her sister Jill.
"Maybe she wants an inside tip on the Rainforest District's nightlife?" Nick joked as Judy scooted away from him so she could answer.
"Hello?"
Nick could hear Jill's voice shouting through the speaker, even though he couldn't quite catch the words. Suddenly his doe says, "We're on our way, keep track of him and don't let him get away!" before starting the engine and turning on the sirens.
"What's going on?!" Nick asked as he slid across seat before he put on his seatbelt.
"Jill just said that someone broke into Mrs. Osamu's home! We need to get to the Meadowlands now!"
Back at Oba's
Eddie continued down the mansion's halls as he was running for his life. The hyena he had 'bumped' into at the springs was still chasing him and did not appear to be letting up. He could hear the stereotypical laugh getting closer as he descended into the lower floors. Thankfully he was able to put on the robe and some shorts after he had gotten out the water. The human had given up on trying to find his room since he had gotten lost in his panic. "Damn you, Oba! When I get my paws on you, I'm going to kill you cause this is all your fault!" Eddie said to himself, knowing that the tanuki had something to do with this.
His chest was still hurting from where the bunny had kicked him, making it harder to breathe as he continue to escape from his pursuer. If living on the streets had taught him one thing it was this: no matter what you had to be able to outrun anyone that was after you, whether it was the police or other homeless mammals, in whatever condition you were in. One time, Eddie managed to out maneuver, while having a sprained ankle, a cheetah officer that was trying to arrest him for loitering outside a laundromat.
After going down a flight of stairs toward a lower floor, Eddie looked around and tried to get his bearings. The walls and floor seemed to made of the same wooden materials as the upper floor so it was to tell that the two apart, except for the for the fact that it was cooler which signaled the difference in ground level, he supposed. The mammal spotted a large open wooden door that seemed to lead to another library, this one bigger than the one that Oba had taken him past earlier in the evening. He enters, closing the door as quietly as possible so as not to alert the hyena of his location.
The human takes a few deep calming breaths to try and control his heart beating out of his aching chest. A few moments later, Eddie heard the loud patter of paws and the panting of the predator as she shouts, "Where the hell did you go you pervert?!"
Eddie felt himself twitch when she called him that. Pervert? Thinking back on what had happened, he felt himself get redder as he remembered seeing the females without their clothes on and they without his. He facepalms himself as the hyena runs in the opposite direction of the room he was hiding in. Oh God, he was going to be fired before he even started working.
He sighs as he begins to take in his surroundings, letting his eyes adjust to the darkness. Shelves and shelves lined the walls, bookcases that were at least twelve feet tall and carpets that felt warm against the human's bare feet. The library felt more like a sanctuary or a church right now to Eddie as he walked slowly toward the center of the room. Eddie wasn't used to the quiet though. It was a quiet like you were the only one in the world and if you made any loud noise, you'd be punished severely for it. Though in his case, that might actually happen if he was not careful.
As he continues to explore, he notices a warm glow coming from the far side. Eddie moves toward it thinking that maybe it was the tanuki and perhaps she would be able to keep the crazed hyena at bay.
At the library's far end
Aziza Simba laid curled up in one of her favorite chairs as she was reading a novel by the light of an electric fireplace built into the wall of the library she was in. The lioness was happy to finally have some down time after a long day in the research department of her company. She sighs as she closes the book, takes off her glasses to place in her emerald robe and leans back into her chair. Aziza's business was having trouble with the development of a new product that could take it to the next level. The company specialized in customizing medical equipment to be used for and by the various species of world. For example, they had just created a robotic surgeon that was designed for an elephant vet so he or she could operate on patients a quarter their size. The same concept could be used in reverse for a mouse surgeon to operate on someone a hundred times larger than them. The problem they faced wasn't with the size difference but with the number of digital paws on different species. Some had three and others had five, so it made it harder to create a program that can translate the different placements of different user's controllers and paws.
But as much as she loved working for her company (troubles and all), she really wished that she had someone close to share it with. Simba females were an independent short, but that didn't mean that she didn't feel lonely from time to time. Aziza always seem to intimidate lion males with her intelligence and fascination with veterinary science.
The lioness lets out a small moan as she hears pawsteps moving closer to where she was laying. It was probably either Lina, the damned hyena, or that annoying arctic fox Skye. Both of them loved to annoy the hell out of her with stupid pranks, especially Lina. Hyenas and lions have never gotten along, no matter how much advancements mammals have made over the millennia, some prejudices refused to die. "Lina, I swear by the Creator if you are…." Aziza said as she turns her head, a growl forming on her muzzle, but stopped when saw who it was.
There, standing between two bookcases, was a strange but familiar looking mammal wearing a white robe. The lioness gasped and gets up from her seat as she realises what the creature was: a human. Aziza had only seen one living human in her life and that was at a university seminar on Ancient Mammalian History. The lecture had given her a deep fascination for humans, especially in how they seem to be able to adapt to any environment. In fact, the visiting professor had been an elderly, dark skinned female human named Thelma Mandela, who had given the speech on how other mammals had influenced her species' development and survival. The human before her now was much younger with pale white skin and a male.
Aziza noticed that human was about to run. "Wait," she said, making him stop.
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The human walked toward the light he had seen and finally arrived in a small reading area with chairs of various sizes and a small electric heater that gave a soft glow. On one of the larger chairs, a lioness wearing a green robe stared at him with a snarl on her face before . "Oh shit," he said as he started to run again before being stopped by a soft voice.
Eddie turned in surprise, seeing the lioness get up and walk toward him. Just a head shorter than the tigress from earlier, but just as beautiful and seemingly graceful. The robe was opened in the front, revealing a C sized chest, but she didn't look as if she noticed. Her yellow fur glowed golden in the light of the heater, making her look as if her body was made of the precious metal. Her brown eyes were focussed on him as if he were a specimen to be examined under a piece of glass. "Or like prey," he thought as he backed into one of the shelves whilst she moved closer.
"Aziza," the lioness spoke, her face now close to his.
"What?" Eddie said, scared at what the feline would do next.
"My name is Aziza Simba, what is yours?" she asked, placing a paw under his chin.
"Ed..Edward Jackson," he stutter, his skin blushing as he felt the lioness's paw brush against it.
"Hmmm," she replied. "Age?"
"Huh?"
"There you are!"
Both mammals turned to see a naked hyena standing at the end of the aisle. "You've caught him, Azi? Good, cause I'm going to rip his throat out for sneaking into this house!"
"Here we go again," Eddie mumbled before being pulled into the lioness's embrace.
"You will not lay a paw on this beautiful human, Lina!"
"Beautiful?" Eddie said, though his voice was muffled with the fur covering his mouth.
The hyena let out a moan, "I know you need a boyfriend, but that doesn't mean that you go after the first male you see! Besides he's…gone?"
Aziza looked down and saw that the human had slipped through her arms. Both females heard the library door open and slam shut. "He's very fast isn't he?" the lioness placed a paw on her cheek, smiling as she looked at the frustrated hyena.
"When I get him!" Lina growled.
"Not before I do," Aziza said, running toward the door leaving behind a confused looking canid.
Outside the library
Eddie was getting tired of all this running. So far he'd been kicked, hunted, and he thought hit on by several female mammals, all in the space of an hour! God, he was going to kill Oba.
He made it down another flight of spiral stairs before he remembered that this would have been the final floor of the underground home. He could hear two sets of paws running toward him, as well as two voices arguing about what to do when they caught him. The human was trapped, trapped like a rat in maze if you'll pardon the expression. At the end of the hallway, there was a metal door that looked like it might be an elevator. Perfect, he thought. He could take the elevator back to the first floor and avoid his two pursuers.
The mammal tries find a button to open the door, but to no avail. He bangs on the metal in frustration. Could this night get any worse? Suddenly, a panel on the right hand side of the door opens to reveal a camera pointed right him.
Other side of the camera
An arctic vixen stares at her screen in disbelief. She was just finishing cleaning her gun that was issued her at the ZBI (Zootopia Bureau of Investigation), when she heard the banging on her steel door. Without taking her black eyes off her work, Skye Savage presses a button and a computer next to her showed what was outside her room. "What do you want?" she asked in an annoyed tone.
"Um, hello?" a male voice answered.
Skye looked at the screen and was surprised to see a pale human with no fur on the image. "Who the.." she started to say.
"Please," the human said, "It's a huge misunderstanding. I'm Oba's, I mean Mrs. Osamu's new driver. Now, I've got two females chasing me all over the house and need to contact that old tanuki before they get their paws on me!"
"Why did he call Osamu his aunt?" Skye thought as she examined the male through the camera lens.
She saw that he unarmed and was only dressed in a white bathrobe and shorts. Skye had spent years learning to read other mammals and whether or not they were telling the truth, so she was able to see that he was being honest on this being a misunderstanding. However, the male's eyes reminded her of something, or rather someone she knew long ago, but couldn't quite place it. The fox heard some shouts that were coming from behind the human and saw his reaction to them before making a decision. "Alright," she said, "Just don't touch anything."
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Eddie let out a huge sigh of relief as he stepped through the sliding metal door. "Thank you, God," he gasped before hearing the click of a gun hammer to his right.
"God? Nope, afraid that I'm the one you should be thankin' sweetie," said a flat-chested arctic vixen wearing a black shirt with the letters ZBI printed on the front and matching pajamas.
The human looked up at the ceiling in disbelief. "Why me?" he started to cry.
Back on the first floor
Abby 'Oba' Osamu opened the front door to greet the both Officers Wilde and Hopps. The two must have broken several speed limits in order to make it to the elderly mammal's home, at least that's what Nick thought. The fox has never seen Judy get so worried in his life, not even when Bellwether had sicked her goon rams after them in the museum. "Hey there Abby," Nick gave his friend a soft smile before continuing, "Afraid this isn't a social visit. We just got a call from Jill saying that there was an intruder in the house."
The tanuki looked confused at the fox's statement, "Intruder? There isn't an intruder in my home. Wilde, you know that I am much better at making sure I have top notched security protecting my home, especially since I have seven girls living with me," Oba huffed.
"Could someone had snuck in while you or the girls were out?" Judy said concerned and anxious about Jill's safety.
Before Oba could answer, Jill and Nika walked up behind, still wet from their bath. "Thank goodness you're here! There is a creature running throughout the house!" the tall tigress said still trembling from both the cold and the encounter.
"What did it look like?" Judy asked as she gently moved Oba aside to console her sister and the feline.
"Furless, about twice my height, with grey eyes," Jill answered after giving her sister a hug.
"You mean like him?" Nick said with a laughing grin on his muzzle as he pointed behind the females.
Everyone turned and saw strange sight. Behind them stood Aziza the lioness, Lina the hyena (who had finally put on a towel around her body) and Skye the arctic fox, all of whom had a proud look on their faces. On the ground before was a sad looking mammal who was handcuffed behind its back and wearing a white robe. "We've caught him, thank you very much!" Lina said, laughing at the dumbfounded look of the other mammals.
"You didn't do anything but run around chasing your own rear," Aziza said condescendingly, "Skye was the one who put him in cuffs, all you did after that was help carry and terrify this handsome human."
The lioness knelt down toward the mammal and whispered something in his ear, making him blush bright red.
"Quit flirting with him!" Lina shouted as she pulled the male away.
"Jealous much?" Aziza retorted.
"No, I'm going to hand him over to Nick and Judy so they can send him to jail," Lina said, giving the lioness a 'I dare you' look.
"If you arrest him, Officer Wilde, I'm afraid we won't have a new driver," Oba finally said.
"Wait, Nick Wilde?" the handcuffed mammal asked as he looked toward the fox policeman.
Nick looked back at the familiar human. "Scratches? Is that you?"
All the residents of Mrs. Osamu's home shouted at once, "Driver!?"
Uh-oh what's in store for our human now? Who will be the last two residents to reveal themselves to their new chauffeur? Find out soon in my future chapters. Also thank you Tamuril2 for your suggestions and you wonderful review of my last chapter. Thank you my felllow writers and goodnight!
