Finally I'm done! Sorry for the long wait, but
here is a long chapter for you guys. and part 2
will be up in a few hours or tomorrow, so I hope you enjoy
this chapter, and have a lovely people
The Machine
Part 1.
*Knock Knock* Nick slowly opened his eyes and started at the ceiling, he sighed and said.
"Come in." "Hey Nick Sorry about waking you up." Nick looked to the door to see Judy, holding a tray a bag and sat it on the table in the room and said.
"Come on Nick, let's eat." "Okay, just give me a sec to wake up first." Nick rubbed his eyes and got up from the bed to sit at the coffee table, where Judy pulled out breakfast from McDonald's. Nick's smirk instantly came onto his face, and he said.
"Why do I feel Lucius as an addiction to Maccas?" "*giggles* Actually Ciel bought us breakfast today." "Oh well, let's dig in!" Nick pulled out an egg and bacon Mcmuffin, and started scoffing it down like a pig, Judy looked at him in disgust and continued eating her hashbrown. They finished off their food and Nick scratched the back of his head and asked.
"Hey what time is?" "About 6:00 in the morning." Nick who was drinking his beverage, choked a bit and yelled.
"WHAT!" "Lucius wanted us to get up early for a mission." Nick Put down his drink and rubbed his eyes, and Judy sat looking a bit uneasy and was blushing. Nick then remembered what she said last night and he said.
"So uh, I guess this is where we talk?" Judy looked shyly at Nick and said while pulling her ears down and stroking them.
"Well Nick, you are an amazing person. And I guess when we met each other, we got off on the wrong foot." "Of course." Nick said with his signature grin and a sarcastic tone, and Judy giggled a bit and continued.
"And you were a huge jerk to me, but then…. When we were on the Night Howler case. You helped me even if you wanted to see me fail, but in the end… you became my best and only friend in Zootopia..." Judy sighed and looked down at the floor, Nick saw a deep red blush on her face and she said.
"But after a year, the feelings I had for you turned romantic in the end. And… it was a little…." Judy then mumbled under breath, too low for Nick to hear and he said while cleaning out his ear.
Can you say that again, I didn't hear you~." Nick finished it off with a sly tone and his grin, just waiting for Judy to say something. Judy again, spoke under her breath and Nick sang.
"Come on, it's not hard to tell me~." "It was hard being in heat, when all I could really do was think about you in that bloody state!" Nick formed a big toothy smile on his face, while Judy avoided eye contact. Nick kept staring at Judy, making her blush deeper and red. Nick sat up straight and talked.
"Well it's my turn to talk…..Well I'll say this, when I first saw you. I thought 'wow she is super cute'." Judy looked up and stared at Nick with a mixed look of anger and embarrassment, Nick continued.
"And I would be lying if I said I didn't feel a little bad, when I destroyed your hopes of being nothing more than just a meter maid. But…." Nick's ears fell down and he sighed, and laid back a bit and stared at the ceiling. Judy smacked her cheeks and looked at Nick who said.
"See… when I realised that the world is harsh and cruel, I gave up easily on a lot of things that I regret not finishing. But you helped me realised that… That I shouldn't give up. Like look at you carrots, after everything I did to make sure just to see you fail… you never gave up and. I guessed it inspired me." Nick looked up, to see Judy looking at him with a smile and a slight blush. They both heard a voice who said.
"Aww, isn't that sweet. Do you need me to leave so you two can go down and dirty on the bed?" They both turn around to see Lucius, with a big toothy grin on his face, both Nick and Judy looked at him in embarrassment and Judy threw a pillow at him yelling.
"GET OUT!" *Laughing* Lucius ran out while a barrage of pillows were thrown at him, Judy sat down and covered her face in embarrassment. Nick's face went redder like a tomato and smacked himself. He sighed and continued.
"Well anyway, after a while working with you. I just fell for you, like sure, I thought it was crazy and just tried my best to ignore those feelings. But you made pretty fucking impossible, when you're coming to work with such a cute butt!" Judy looked at Nick with a shocked look, then looks away and shyly says.
"So… We're gonna hook up, aren't we?" Nick's blush becomes redder and he says.
"Well…. I might take you out when we have the time." "Better take me out somewhere nice then…. Okay?" Nick got hold of himself and put on signature grin and said while holding out his hand.
"Trust me carrots, I'm gonna take you out somewhere so expensive, you'd probably sleep with me on the first date." "NICK!" "Hey are you two done, I have something we need to do." Judy was about to say something but was cut off by Lucius.
"And no Judy, I don't care. You both have already talked about what you needed to talk about. So get your fluffy asses in here!" Nick snickered and Judy giggled and stared lovingly at Nick, and Nick grabbed her hand they both walked out. They saw everyone sitting on the lounge room and Judy let out an aww as she saw Lucius and Emily cuddle on the chair, And Lucius sighed and said.
"Alright so after that exciting episode yesterday, I stayed up and looked through the files. And apparently there is a D.U.P outpost under a casino in the tropical island distract." "Tropical island, cool haven't been in there yet. Can't wait to see what it's like." Nick said while having an impish smile on his face, Judy saw this and immediately punched him in the arm and said.
"Oh no Nick, you are not going to swindle people out of their money." "Actually he kinda needs to, with this mission." "What?" "Yeah, see we need Nick to get some info from old D.U.P operatives. And since Nick has some experience swindling people out of their money. It shouldn't be hard to get info the same way. Right?" Nick looked at him in surprise and quickly nodded, Lucius smiled. While Ciel got up and stretched, and said.
"Well now that has been settled, me and Annie will get ready to go to the ZPD." "Alright, and make sure the ZPD forces clear out the casino when I say so." "You got it." Ciel and Annie walked in the rooms and were putting on their uniform and Judy looked at Lucius and asked.
"The ZPD forces are in on this?" Lucius puts Emily down, stood up and said while searching through a drawer.
"Yes, we need everyone down at the ZPD for this." "Why though?" "Cause that guy that was there in the dup base, just didn't sit right with me. And it was clear he was talking to his boss or someone, so he might be part of the first sons… Ah here we are!" Lucius threw at Zippo lighter at Nick, he got it and immediately lit it and said with a perplexing look.
"Why are you giving this to me?" "Have you refuelled your tank at all recently?" Nick stared at the flame and thought about what he said, soon it clicked and he said while he scratched the back of his head.
"Oh yeah! That's right, well thanks but I don't think it'll be enough for me to recharge." "We conduits use a little trick so we can be fully charged, you got concentrate a lot though. But I think you'll get the hang of it." Nick closed the lid of lighter, and put it on the coffee table. Lucius then said to get ready and wanted to talk to Nick once he was done getting ready. After a few seconds Judy and Nick came out in the cop uniform, and Lucius was in the kitchen tying back Aylene's hair. Judy said with concern in her voice.
"Wait she's not coming is she?" "Yep, we can use her." "How?" Nick asked while scratching his head.
"Me and Aylene use to con people, and one other thing use to do." Nick and Judy looked at each other in disbelief, then Lucius pulled out a carrot pen and clicked a button on it that said.
"It was hard being in heat, when all I could really do was think about you!" Judy's ears sprung up and her blush returned, Nick's blush returned as well and Lucius threw him the carrot pen.
"Stealing! Wow that's just… Wow." Nick quickly put the pen in his pocket, and Lucius had a smirk on his face that Judy could not help but giggle. Lucius finished tying his sister's hair and told her to get ready, so she quickly went to her room and started getting ready. Judy looked at Lucius with a smile and said.
"So why are we going to this casino?" "Well see, you know that the dup agents aren't actually prime conduits. See back when Cole was still alive he travelled to New Marais with a FBI agent named Kyo. And after a while, she was kidnapped. *sigh* apparently she was hooked up to this machine that turned her into a conduit, and some of the files say that the outpost holds this machine." Judy looked at him in surprise and Judy and Nick said at the same time.
""You'll want to destroy it."" "*Chuckles* You two read mind." Lucius walked off and put on his black jacket over his cop shirt and said.
"Well let's get going… Oh right Nick, I need to ask you. What's your dash ability like?" "I don't know, I never got around to learning it." Lucius looked at him with a dumbfounded look, Then Lucius said.
"Oh okay, uh well I guess it'll still work with your thruster ability." "Thruster?" Nick looked at him confused as hell, and Lucius's eyes widen and he quickly said.
"Didn't grandma tell you how to do that?" "No, not really. We had to leave a little early, but we were supposed to do that before we left. But never got around to it." Lucius had an annoyed look on his face, he then did a face palm and said.
"Alright then. Okay meet me down in the court yard behind the building. I'll teach ya. And Judy please take Aylene and go down to the ZPD, Ciel will tell everyone what the plan is." "Right!" Aylene then came out of the room and Judy walked over and grabbed her hand, the four of them walked out and Nick and Lucius walked down to the court yard.
"Jesus, you must be the only conduit to not be able to use the thruster ability or even use your dash ability." "Hey! I said we didn't have enough time!" Nick said it in sarcastic upset voice. Lucius chuckled and stared to explain.
"Alright see this is a skill that every conduit has, and it's really simple. All you have to do it focus your energy into your arms and jump, and all of the energy from your powers should lift you up, like so." Lucius jumped and thin neon waves surrounded his arms and he levitated in the air, and Nick stared at him in awe. Nick then noticed that he was slowly falling to the ground. Lucius hit the ground and then explained.
"You won't stay in the air forever, and it doesn't cost any energy in return." "Awesome! Okay, let's try it." Nick focused all the energy in his arms, jumped a little in the air and embers repelled him up a bit and he had a childish look on his face. He slowly fell back down and stopped releasing all of his energy within his arms, he clapped a little and Lucius yawned and said while walking to a random car.
"Well now that's been settled, let's go to ZPD, we'll move out in a few minutes." Lucius hopped in the car and Nick just stared at the car in confusion, Lucius then motioned Nick to get in the car. So Nick walked over and opened the door and sat down, Lucius turned on the ignition and put's his hand on the wheel, while Nick just looked at him and said.
"Are you going to drive?" "Of course, why?" "Do you have your licence?" "Oh I'm on my L's." Nicks face turned to worry in an instant, and Lucius was amused by it and said.
"Don't worry Nick, I'm a good driver…. When I want to be." Lucius said it with a mysterious tone, and Nick saw that Lucius had an evil grin on his face. Nick forced he grin on his face and said.
"Well let's hope you don't drive like a bunny." Lucius reversed out and drove all the way to the ZPD, but he deicide it was pretty funny to mess with Nick. He did a lot of fake outs, and nearly gave Nick a heart attack, and while laughing the whole time. Once they got to their destination, Lucius's laugh died and Nick sighed in relief that the whole thing was over. They both got out and Nick put on his glasses before he got in the build, and saw that Ciel was sitting down with Clawhauser, teaching him how to do origami.
"Can't go ten minutes without doing that huh?" "Well I have to do something that can entertain me." Ciel said while he was making a fox, once he was done he gave it Nick, who just looked at it and said aw. Bogo then yelled out to the whole building.
"Alright every officer in the ZPD! I want you all to meet me in the new D.U.P bullpen." Nicks grin returned and Lucius pushed him so he could get moving, Nick laughed a little and walked ahead. It took a while but everyone arrived and the last being Chief Bogo, everyone sat down and Bogo walked in front and said.
"Alright everyone we have a big day ahead of us, with the new D.U.P unit now working with us. The new commander of the unit, wants us to do a very important mission. We're going to the tropical island district to retrieve an important item, in an old outpost under the Tanooks Casino. Also Lucius I'm sorry to say, that those criminals in that stupid gang or whatever, have escaped. But we did get some info from that Hippo." Lucius had mixed look of shock and anger, he let out a frustrated sigh and smacked himself in the forehead. Nick cocked an eyebrow with an are you serious face, and Lucius shrugged it off and motioned Bogo to continue.
"And we will obviously have the TUSK forces with us on this mission, and someone every special is coming to help us. Now while I and Mister Himiarashi go and get him, our second in command will explain the plan. Take it away Ciel!" Bogo walked out of the room with Lucius, and Ciel walked in front and said.
"Alright, so this is how it's going to go. Hopps, Wilde, Fangmeyer, umm Francine sorry I can't pronounce that last name, and McHorn. You four will go in with Ms Keenan, Officer Hopps and Wilde, while I want you three to patrol inside the casino and look out for anyone that looks suspicious or dangerous. While Officer Wilde will go and get the info from the retired old Dup members." "Question." "Go ahead." "Why don't we just clear out the building, wouldn't that make it easier?" Ciel looked at a white and brown wolf, Ciel put a smile on his face and said with a peaceful face.
"Well Officer Wolford, Lucius and I suspect that the first sons have info on the same thing we're trying to get. And we don't want to draw attention to what our plan is, it's called the element of surprise. We are trying to confuse our enemy, and let them know that this time, we are not fucking around." Everyone looked at each other, but Ciel then continued with the plan.
"But anyway, alright so all the remaining officers will just be outside the building acting casual. The reason why, is cause I do believe something big will happen and if so, Lucius will give orders that every officer here will have to do. Right now as of this time, I want everyone to get ready, I know it's only 7:00 am, so we will start training when our guest arrives. But for now just get yourselves ready for today's training, oh and also all the exercises will be held inside for today, due to the cold weather. Dismissed." Ciel walked away with Annie, and Nick and Judy followed them on to the roof to see Lucius and Bogo on the roof looking up at the sky. Annie turned around and said with a happy tone.
"Nick and Judy, come over I think you'll be surprise on whose coming!" "Who is?" Judy asked while looking up at the sky with Bogo and Lucius, Then Lucius said with his eyes closed, looking like if he was sensing or something.
"The Bunny agent known as Jack Savage." "JACK SAVAGE!" Judy shouted excitedly, while Nick was confused and asked.
"Who's Jack Savage?" "Mr Savage is the first secret bunt agent in the whole world. And apparently is also looking into the first sons himself, so we were able to get in contact with him. Trust me, it was a bitch to do." "Is he gonna be the one training us for today's mission?" "Yes Wilde, trust me it was a pain to get this whole unit approved by the government." Judy looked at Lucius with a cute confused look, and said.
"You got the government on our side?" "Well only England and Australian, they have agreed to sign a treaty. So from now on the Zootopia is now in an alliance with England." "Oh cool, I guess." Judy's ears heard something and she looked behind to see a little black dot, it was getting closer, then soon everyone in the building could hear a chopper approaching the ZPD. Everyone got up on the roof to find a black helicopter hovering above the building, then the helicopter landed on the roof and then door on the copter opened. Everyone stared in awe as a bunny in black suit and wearing sunglasses got out of the helicopter, the bunny then took of his glasses and said.
"Chief Bogo! It's nice to meet you!" "Nice to meet you too Mr Jack Savage, I've heard a lot of great things about you." Bogo shook his hand and Jack looked to his left to hear.
"Well of course you have, and he is a hero to every bunny in Zootopia." Jack looked at Judy who was approaching him with a gleeful smile, and Jack stared in awe as she got closer.
"Judy Hopps! It's an honor to meet you!" "Pleasures all mine." Jack shook her hand with a small blush on his face, Nick saw this gave him a death glare. Lucius pushed him forward and he stood right in front of him, while Jack looked at him with a smug face and held out his and said.
"You must the conduit 'fox' I've heard so much about. What's your name kid?" "Nicholas Wilde, but you can just call me Nick." "Well Nick, I'm looking forward to work with you." Nick stared jack down, Ciel and Lucius just sighed and Lucius walked up and whispered in his ear.
"Calm down Nick, don't worry I'll keep an eye on him. Also I need you to go down to my Café and help Emily with something, it's in the Mall near that Feline shop. And don't worry it's easy to spot." Lucius pushed Nick off the roof and he fell hard on the ground, then Nick got up with his heart pounding and thought. (That…. Should've hurt.) He looked up to see Lucius with a smile on his face and motion him to go, Nick turned around and took his cop car.
"Is he alright!?" "Don't worry Judy, we conduits can survive falls, like up to fifty and beyond." "Okay that's good." Judy said in relief, and Lucius looked to his right and saw jack standing there with his arms crossed, and he said.
"And you must be Lucius, the person who called me up." "Well of course Mr Savage! I believed we can use your assets, although I do know you had a few bad run in's with our kind. But I hope you can get past that, and work with us to make the world a better place! Right?" Jack looked up to see Lucius's face, he saw his eyes lost their glow and a small smile. Jack scoffed and said.
"If you're trying to scare me, it won't work. You're right though, I have had a few bad experiences with conduits. I am happy to comply with you, but that doesn't mean I don't expect one of you conduits to kill us." "Well I can't blame you for being on edge, I mean if I was in a room of strong conduits I'd probably be a bit scared too!" Ciel motioned everyone on the roof to head back in the building, and commence the training.
(Okay Nick, he said it would stick out and it's near that feline shop. But that's the thing I don't know where that is, actually I've never seen a Café here before. So it means it's the only one here… Oh that must be it!) Nick ran toward the door and walked inside, he heard noises in the back and walked in the staff room and saw Emily trying to reach something on a shelf. She slipped off the counter and Nick rushed over and caught her, he let her down and he said.
"What were you trying to reach?" Emily pointed a jar, he grabbed it and said.
"Kilimanjaro! My god! I haven't had this in so long!" Nick gave the jar to Emily while he smiled at her, and Emily smiled back and ran over and puts the jar on the counter. Nick just stared at Emily as she ran over the place, making different types of Coffee and such.
"So….What are you doing exactly?" Nick asked as he looked outside, and Emily was done and she started to write down on a piece of paper. Nick then stopped her and he said.
"Why do you just talk to me? Look I can understand why you won't talk anymore. But it's clear that you talk to Lucius when nobody else is around, so please I won't bite, just talk to me." Emily blushed and avoided making eye contact, and grabbed the paper and finally spoke.
"*sigh* Fine, just to let you know, the only reason I'm speaking to you is cause you're nice." Nick looked at her in surprise, she had such a lovely, innocent voice. Emily sighed heavy and said.
"Well see Lucius was able to contact Mr big, and I'm just making Coffee for everyone in the Mafia." "Why?" "Cause Mr big didn't just want money." "Why?" "I don't know… I'm just joking. I'm just checking stock and making Coffee for everyone down at the ZPD." Nick's grin appeared on his face, and Emily smiled while getting Styrofoam cups and started pouring the coffee in them, then the door opened and Nick saw seven people walk in. Nick looked at them and asked.
"And who would you be?" "Oh you must be Nick Wilde! Hello the name is Douglas, Douglas Ackerman!" "…..Your last name is-" "Yeah I know, but my family had the last name first. But that doesn't matter, see I'm Lucius's cousin." "Oh really! Well it's nice to meet you! And they are?" "Oh these are my friends. Mike, Jack, Leon, Rick, Jason and Link." All of six of them politely waved at him and Emily, and he returned the gesturer. Douglas sat down and pulled down his hood, to reveal his big curly hair. Nick grinned at the sighed and laughed a little, while Douglas smiled and said.
"Well anyway I'll get to the point. I'm here to help you in your mission and also, my friends would like a job down at the ZPD in the D.U.P unit." "Oh conduits huh, well glade you guys took this route than the other one eh!" "Well it's not like we had much of a choice. We were pretty much homeless till Douglas found us last week, after sixteen years mind you!" Link yelled as he looked in the direction of Douglas, and Nick asked Douglas.
"So why aren't you applying to work with us?" Douglas reached down his shirt and pulled dog tags, Nick realised and said.
"Oh, so how long have you been in the Military?" "Five years, and went into war cause get this. They believed they needed someone with my unique skills. Even thought I was training to be part of the MP, but I can't complain, I signed up to be part of the Military." "That must've been hard, I'm sorry if you lost anyone close to you." "Thanks, it nice to hear that." "What are you doing now?" "Part of the Military police, I control my own units and all that stuff." "Wait! How can you be here? Wouldn't have to be on home base or something." "Oh I got permission to go to Zootopia on the count of the new D.U.P here, and Lucius can be pretty persuasive." Douglas finished his sentence off with a nervous chuckle, and Nick's grin faded and said.
"Emily are you done in there?" Emily walked out with three bags with cups of sealed coffee cups, while everyone else in the Café walked out to their car and drove off. Nick and Emily walked outside as well and Nick helped Emily get in the car, and Nick got in and drives to the ZPD. Once they got there and they entered the building, and got to the training area, but when they go in the door they find Officer Wolford getting through thrown to the floor. Ciel place his foot on him and said, after he wiped the sweat off his forehead.
"Okay, so here is how this is going to go down, everyone will be trained by me, Annie and Mr Savage. You'll be trained on how to spot and exploit your enemies' weaknesses, and learn to know what your strong points are and know how to take advantage of them. And you will be train on how to stun and knockout an enemy effectively, and how to hold your own against a conduit. And Lucius will be training the new conduits volunteers, and you'll learn how to fight offensively and defensively with your powers and without them." "Question!" "Yes?" one of the twenty conduits stood up and asked.
"After this, do we conduits have to go through the police academy? Or will this practice ensure us as qualified to be a cop?" "As of the time being, yes, you will be qualified as a cop. However, until we can find a Conduit that is willing to teach down there, all of you conduits are pretty much considered as cops now. Anyway enough talk, let's getting to business! First up! We'll test your speed and stamina, now go warm up on the track!" Everyone got up and went to the indoor track, while the Conduit volunteers followed Lucius in the middle of the track, and he told them to get ready. After everyone who was running the track done their stretches, Ciel fired a blank and everyone ran. As expected the lightweight animals were faster than the heavyweight, Judy being the fastest out of all of them. Her best time was a scary twenty-one minutes under her belt, but everyone wasn't too bad, it seemed that the all had good stamina but only a moderate speed. While Lucius trained the conduits hand to hand combat, they we're coming along great, but he noticed Nick seemed to rely on his powers. When it was his time to have a little spar with him, in the end Nick ended up just using his power to win the fight. That was bad, a conduit heavily relying on his powers never ends well in a fight. Nick had a good build, he was muscular for sure, but he obviously doesn't know how to fight. Well at least not the way a conduit should fight for hand to hand.
"Nick, may I have a word?" "Sure!" Nick followed Lucius and asked.
"What do you need?" "It's about your hand to hand combat, I've noticed you haven't been…. Using the techniques I taught you, you've been using your powers a bit too much." "Is that a problem?" Lucius sighed in a talked in an annoyed and frustrated voice.
"Yes It is, Nick look a conduit relying too much on his or hers power is a bad idea. Remember, you have a tank you need to refuel and such. And when that tank runs out you'll be a sitting duck, right now it seems you are not as good as hand to hand combat fighter." "Wow that stings, I am trying ya know." "I know Nick, well I'll give ya a few more lessons. We're going to start the mission at five pm sharp, and it's only eight thirty. So for now just take in all of the techniques and keep going till you're able to do it." Lucius walked away and Nick got back to practice. Five hours passed and everyone was exhausted, only one more bit of training and that was in the shooting range. Everyone got to the shooting range and took turns in shooting, Nick got up and he put on the ear protection and Bogo turned off the lights. Since Nick was a fox, he could see in the dark clear as day. He grabbed the glock and looked down the sight of the gun, he breathed in and fired three arounds with moving targets. Ciel and Lucius sped up the movement of the targets, Nick aimed down the site again and closed his left eye. He held his breath and shot another three rounds, Lucius stopped the targets moving and saw three head shots and three shots in the torso. Nick put the gun down and walked away, and the lights turned back on.
"Okay next up, Hopps, Wolford and…..Francine, sorry can't pronounce that last name." "Come on its easy!" "Not to me, just get up there." "Fine!" The three of them walked to the stand grabbed the gun and waited for the buzzer. It buzzed and they started shooting the non-moving targets, Jack saw Hopps having trouble, he walked up to her and said.
"Having trouble there Officer Hopps?" "Yes, I'm not really good at shooting. I've never used a gun before." "Really... I see the problem the way you hold the gun is wrong, you need to have your left hand under the handle of the gun. And don't lock your elbows, you need to relax them a bit. When you aim down the site you need to hold your breath for a bit to…. Stop… The swaying…." Jack realised he was closer and hand his arms around her, he back away and said with a stutter.
"T-This should en-ensure a c-clean shot." Judy's eyes widen and has he backed away, Nick sat with a smile on his face. But on the inside he was furious, he sat and gave off a dark aura on everyone. Soon his eyes turned red and Lucius walked up to jack and said.
"Mr Savage, I'm sorry but you are not allowed to be flirting with female officers here." "I-I wasn't flirting!" Jack stared at him with a blush on his face, and Lucius smile and said.
"Sure you weren't, listen we know that a lot of agents like you, are nothing but a bunch of womanizers." "Wha- Okay Mr Himiarashi, do you have a problem with me!" "No, I'm just saying that a secret agent such as yourself, are meant to be professional." "Fine, I'll leave her alone for the rest of the day!" Jack walked away with sour look on his face, Judy punched Lucius in the arm in annoyance and went back to shooting. After everyone did the last minutes of training, they were told they could have an hour of rest before they go on the mission. While everyone went to the hit the showers, Nick stayed behind and learned a bit more form Lucius. Lucius noticed his improvement, Nick got better and Lucius said that improvement was enough.
"Alright, we're done! So you can do whatever you want now." "Hey Lucius, can I ask you something?" "Sure, what do ya need?" "What's your opinion on Interspecies relationships?" "I think it's alright, wait, why are you asking me this? I know you like Judy so there's no reason to-" "No, it's that I was thinking about the time you, called me dad." "Oh!" "Yeah, I was going to say that did your mother wish I was your father?" Lucius looked at him, then he closed his eyes and said.
"Well... yes and no, see mother did love my father but I guess her heart was always with you. She kept talk about how she wanted to find you, so you can see me. Actually, she told me a story that you came back one time when you were sixteen. And she said you two got down to some funny business!" Nick's face turned a bright red and he said.
"What! You're lying! She didn't." "Ya know she got preggers before she met my father, which could makes you my biological father!" Nick looked at him in shock while Lucius looked at him with gleeful smile, then Lucius broke the silence with laugh and said.
"I'm joking… Maybe." "Damnit Lucius, that doesn't help!" "Clam down, I'm just joking! But still I was quite surprised when she told me you too had sex, like were you both drunk or did start reminiscing about the past." "Yeah we did, I arrived out of the blue on Valentine's Day. And we just spent the whole day together, it was very relaxing, just being with her… You know what I'll tell ya this another time." "No you can tell me now!" "Not in the mood." "No I need to know, I want to hear all of the juicy stuff!" "Bye!" Nick walked to the showers with smirk on his face, once he got to the showers he had a nice hot one for three minutes. Once he was done he got dressed and went to the break room and heated up his coffee, he took the coffee and walked around trying to find Judy. He found her talking to Annie and he walked over to see her, only to find Jack walking up to them, so he got behind a wall and listen in on them.
"Excuse me Ms Keenan, can you leave me and Ms Hopps alone? I need to talk to her you see." Annie shot him a glare and walked while warning him not to try anything strange.
"Now that we're alone, I need to ask you something." "What would that be?" "Do you feel safe with these bio-terrorists?" "Of course I do! Look I'm sorry for Lucius's behaviour towards you, but I trust them. They are good people, even if I haven't known them for long." "Well what about that fox?" "Nick? He's good! I know it, he wouldn't just abandoned us!" "Are you sure?" "….Of course, Mr Savage, I can tell you're one of those mammals that don't like foxes and you deal with 'Conduits' on some missions. But you know what? I don't care, Nick is someone I care about deeply, and I won't let the fact of him being a Conduit get in the away of our relationship!" "Relationship?" Judy froze and Jack looked at her with a confused and suspicious face, while Judy tried to find a way to recover.
"I thought Lucius told you not to interact with Judy." Jack turned around to find Ciel looking at him with a cocked eyebrow.
"I just wanted to make sure she's alright." "From what? Oh wait I already heard everything, listen Jack, not every Conduit you meet wants to kill you on the spot. I get it if you feel uncomfortable, but we hired you to work with us. You better do your job or you won't get paid." "! I'm sorry, you're right. I'll act a little more mature, Judy I'm sorry for what I said. I hope I can make it up to you." Jack pulled out a card and gave it to Judy, she looked at it and saw that his phone number was on the back.
"Call me if you can think of anything, again I'm sorry." Jack finished off his sentence with a salute and walked off, Ciel then turned to Judy and ask.
"Was he giving you trouble?" "No….*sigh* Man I feel so bad." "Because you are still afraid of Nick." "…You heard that?" "I got good hearing, I heard ya both halfway through hall from around the corner." Judy looked at him in surprise, then Nick came out of the corner he was hiding and said a big grin.
"So what type of relationship were you talking about?" "J-Jesus Nick! H-how lo-long were you th-there for?" "When the whole convo began, but you still haven't answered my question~." Judy smacked her cheeks and said.
"Not now Nick, come on we have to get ready!" "Aww~." Nick got dragged by Judy, and they sat down for a few minutes, and just talking, until Bogo on the intercom said.
"Alright everyone! I hope every single one of you is ready for today, now let's make sure everyone makes it back alive and uninjured!" Everyone got into their cars and drove all the way to the Tropical Island distract, after everyone arrived Ciel did a quick rundown of the plan again. Once he was done everyone was dismissed and Nick and his squad unit was sent in.
"Okay I'll hang around near the entrance, Wolford you keep drifting around to cover the main floor. Francine you'll be posted near the staffroom and keep and try to see if you can gather any extra info from the staff members, And Annie…. You do you!" "What the hell does that mean?" "Okay let's move out." Judy ended it off with a fist pump from Nick, he walked around for a while and saw a man in a black trench coat. The man looked miserable, dark rings under his eyes, his short blonde hair was a shaggy mess. Although he didn't look wasted at all, in fact he looked pretty sober or just tipsy at best. He walked over and sat across from him, the man looked up and Nick could see his blue eyes, it was like they were piercing through his body. His face went to a displeased look and he said with a rough voice.
"Whatever there fuck you're trying to sell me fox, I'm not buying." "Woah calm down there buddy, just can't help but noticing you look down." "*Chuckles* Yeah whatever, hey?" "Yeah." "What's your name?" "Nick Wilde." "Man what the hell is with you animals and your pun names. Man that last name was worst as Jack Savage's." "You know him!" "Yep and he is the worst let me tell you that!" "Oh know believe me I know, I swear, just one look at the cunt and I wanted to kick his teeth in." "I know right! Man he always has this little smug look on his face, and I always just wanted to beat him half to death." Nick looked at the man with a smile, and the man drank the rest of his drink and yelled out.
"Hey waiter! A around for me and this fellow!" (Well let's hope that's the D.U.P agent... to think, a generation of D.U.P agents. Just protecting this whole spot from people who want to get in the outpost… Must be some important info there, and not to mention this machine that can transfer powers.) Judy leaned against the wall, and kept an eye on Nick while occasionally looked back at the entrance of the Casino.
"*yawns* Man the sunset is beautiful, twilight is truly my favourite time of the day." "Until it was made into to a movie." "Don't remind me Ciel!" Ciel grew a smile on his face and chuckled, Lucius and Ciel were both on a roof, armed with sniper rifles and watching the outside of the Casino.
"Are you sure miss Judy will be alright?" "I'm sure she's fine Mr Savage, she is with people she knows, that ensures better teamwork. And she he has a conduit on her side, she'll be fine." "I just don't trust him." "It's twenty sixteen, get over the, foxes are nothing more than just mammals that swindle you out of your money. And will stab you in the back whenever they want." Ciel said with yawn, Jack just stared at the entrance of the Casino. Aylene who was looking through the binoculars, said while pointing.
"Big brother, there's a Café down there. Can I go down and get Latte`." "No." "Oh~ you're unfair big brother." Aylene slumped down in her chair and kept looking for any sign of suspicious activity, while Ciel scanned the higher floors of the casino. Bogo radioed in.
"Officer Himiarashi, It seem Officer Wilde found one of the refined D.U.P Family." "Is anything going on?" Lucius asked while looking around the ground.
"No nothing, it seems that they're just talking. But it looks like Nick is trying to lower his defences." "That's good, and remember if it looks like there is anything suspicious going on, contact me immediately." "Will do." Lucius put away the radio, and went back to scouting. Two hours passed and Nick was able to get to know the man while discussing random topics.
"Hey I haven't asked for your name yet." "Oh, the name is Eros, Eros Oira." "Well Eros it's been fun talking to you but right now, may I ask you something." "What is it?" Eros said with puzzled look, Nick leaned in close and said.
"Do you know anything about the Dup outpost that's under this place?" "Wha-What? How the hell do you know?!" "Calm down, listen. The ZPD establish a new D.U.P force, and our leader found out though some old documents from another outpost. Look we're here to get in and get some info, and to destroy this machine." Eros stared down Nick, and Nick could feel his blue eyes pierce his body. Nick finally spoke and spoke with confidence.
"Look buddy, this old group called the first son are back and they made a Ray sphere. They didn't complete it yet by what the general of the D.U.P told us. But we're just here to keep any old info out of their hands. Please we just need access to the outpost." Eros sighed heavily and looked away, but he didn't know what to do. His family had been protecting this place for many generations, and the ZPD did come to the right place, they are keeping important info here and apparently have part of the documents on how to make one of the legendary ray sphere. And they swore to protect this casino, his family owned the whole casino, and it was his home. He looked at him and said.
"Okay, but you have to do something for me." "What?" "Can you give me and my nineteen siblings a job in the Dup unit?" "Nine-NINETEEN! Wha- how, how can your mother have that many!?" "Oh, first time she got pregnant was when she was sixteen and she had quadruplets-" "I get it, but I'm sorry. We just can't at the moment, but I hope you and your family will help us take down the first sons." Eros nodded happily and ran off to find his parents, Nick gave Judy the all clear signal and Judy radioed in to Lucius.
"Lucius, Nick was able to convince the man into giving us access. We'll wait on your command!" "Copy that, over and out." "Two hours sitting in the freezing winter cold, without heat, a cuppa tea, or a blanket. *groans* This better be worth the wait." Ciel said with a slight stutter in his voice, Lucius got up and was going to jump down to the sidewalk. Only to be stopped by his sister who said with a sleepy voice.
"Big brother I see seven people, they're huddled together and one has an AK-47." "What?!" Lucius quickly took the Binoculars from her and looked though them to see them. He recognized one of them, it was the hooded figure from the desert dup base. Lucius signalled Ciel and Ciel radioed to everyone in the ZPD.
"Everyone the first sons are here, and they're entering the Casino, I repeat they're entering the Casino!" Nick got up quickly and ran towards Judy, they both hid behind a wall and peaked around the corner. They find a group of people walk in, and one of them pulls out AK-47 and starts shooting civilians. He stopped shooting after he killed a few and yelled out….
..To be continued..