Hu, guess it's going to take me more than a few chapters to get what I have already in my head out in print. Because this aint all of it. Imagine that. One more twist down before things start going crazy and the Alpha shows up again….but need a break so I can figure out some...stuff.
Inspiration: Hozier; Like Real People Do
Disclaimer; I do not own Zootopia or its characters
Under Earth 7
Snarlov and Wolford were sitting in a chopper, with a bob cat and a rabbit in the other seat, both having looks of sheer contempt on their faces as they glared at the pair. "It. Is. Forbidden." Wolford said with a growl as he tilted forward in the seat.
Jack kept a dead face on him before grabbing a folder from the seat next to him as the cat in the next seat tucked his ears back. He shoved it to the larger wolf as Snarlov tried to contain a snarl. Wolford opened the folder. Looking over the photos before his eyes went wide and snapped back to Jack. "Yes, now you know why. I'm NOT happy about you being here ether." The buck ground his teeth as he looked at Milo.
The cat shrugging as he folded his arms over his chest. "Wasn't like I could help it, he was unavailable. They were the closest thing I could get."
"Explain unavailable Milo," Jack hissed as he set a flat face on the cat while Wolford and Snarlov blinked looking at the photos.
"Ask them." Milo said as he curled his lip. "They are the next in line."
Jack looked back to them with a raised brow. "What happened to Tyler, your Alpha?"
Wolford and Snarlov glanced at each other before turning back to him with crinkled brows and curled lips. "Does the ZIA pay attention to anything?" Snarlov almost barked as his lips peeled over his teeth. "Predators have been going savage in Zootopia for months! He was one of the last."
Jacks blue eyes set as his ears went rigid and his head turned slowly to the cat sitting in the seat next to his. Milo was biting his lip and shrugged as he shook his head. "News to me Sir." The buck let his ears half down as he rubbed his temple, both wolves watching as he tapped his claws on the pressed leg of the suit he was wearing.
"Contact Agnes Milo, find out what is going on in Zootopia and why we haven't heard anything about it. And tell her I need chatter reports. Anything odd in this area or there." Jack turned back to the wolves who both still had an angry glare on him after looking at the photos. "Will you help or am I going to have to find someone else? One of you two were next in line as the Alpha of Zootopia's wolf pack."
Snarlov and Wolford looked at each other with a scowl shaking their heads. "Like we really have a choice," Snarlov said as Wolford rolled his eyes.
Jack chuckled as he shrugged, pulling out a plastic bag and removing a chunk of red fur passing it to both of them. "How good are you?"
Wolford raised both brows in a sour face as if he were looking at an idiot and Jack smirked when he found a nearly identical expression on the smaller wolf. "We are the best in Zootopia. We were both trained by Tyler before we joined the police academy and both part of the crime scene, tracking and recovery task force. Does that answer your question? Why didn't you just have one of your agents doing this Savage?" Jack raised both brows dipping his head as his ears set, looking at both of them with a tilt that screamed 'really' as he glanced at the folder and back to them again. "Right," Wolford said as he looked out the window and cupped a paw over his eyes. Snarlov curled one side of his lip in disgust as he shook his head before snatching the fur from Jacks extended paw. His nose crinkled at the scent, huffing as he handed it to the larger wolf. Wolford curled his muzzle. "Is this what we are tracking?"
"No," Jack said as he looked out the window. "It's the closest we could get. Same species if that helps."
"It is a male," Milo cut in and Jack curled a lip at the cat as he leaned away from the rabbit on the next seat.
"I already knew that before you stated it the first time Milo. Obviously it is a male. Remember the company you are in. This is classified and on a need to know basis. As in they don't need to know all the details. No tranq guns either, they're useless." Jack ground out through grit teeth as he glared at the bob cat and glanced back at the wolves.
Wolford groaned as he ran a paw down his face and Snarlov shook his head. "Great."
After getting to a site where they picked up a similar scent, both wolves stopped when the trial went dead, sniffing around and shaking their heads. Jack stood at the side of the road with his paws stuck in his pockets when Snarlov tipped his head. "No scent on it anymore, but I've got an oil leak, recent- where it stops with the blood trail. And there's ugh, like someone dipped or drowned themselves in scent neutralizer lingering around here too." Wolford agreed, and Jack made arrangements for a car. After waiting an hour for the car to arrive Jack let the chopper go and him and Milo drove watching the wolves out to a large field in a slow moving vehicle that followed. They both had their noses in the air again sniffing as they started tracking through a small wooded area with a bob cat and rabbit behind them. Dawn was starting to break when they came to a large field.
Unbeknownst to Judy and the fox who were traipsing around through the woods a pair of rams had been nosing around the farm and Doug curled his lip as Dillon showed him where he had buried the fox. "You idiot, you put it in a hole that was in a field that someone else had dug out." The ram said as he looked around seeing the drag and tractor marks from the day before. Dillon cringed as his brother turned back to him glaring. After looking around the two had spotted a farm house in the distance and were sneaking their way to the residence and staying downwind while they moved.
Both spotted a rabbit and red furred mammal exiting the woods and after watching them running around a field they disappeared into a barn. "It's alive, you left it alive."
"I didn't know! What did you expect me to do? I had to chase it for a day and half before I caught it and you both said the place was abandoned anyway!"
Doug turned to him scowling as they ducked behind a few silos and watched as a grey and white bunny came from inside the barn. The ram lifting a brow as a red furred mammal came out shortly behind her. "I thought you said you shot it!"
"I did! I'm telling you the thing isn't normal!" Dillon pleaded. Doug sighed as he shook his head. After seeing another tan bunny running out to the field with a smaller black buck in her arm who was dressed in a pair of blue bibs, the ram smacked a paw over his face groaning. "Did you bring the long rifle?" he asked scowling at his brother. Dillon nodded as he held the case out, showing the box that held two guns.
"You gonna shoot the thing?" Dillon asked and Doug shook his head.
"No, right now I just need to watch and see what I'm dealing with." Doug looked up grinning as he found a ladder, taking the case before he started climbing up the silo with his brother following behind them.
Amber had rushed out the door when Addie had thrown a fit when he couldn't find the fox after breakfast. She knew Judy well enough. The crazy doe had gone exploring or looking for answers and after she saw her through the window as Addie was screaming at her feet she bolted. Not only for getting him calmed, but she also needed to check on something before she got engulfed in the day and maybe wouldn't have time for it later. Bonnie was getting all the other kits cleaned and away from the table with help from her brothers and sisters as they all got ready for the day. As Amber approached Judy and the fox she almost halted in her steps seeing him walking along a fence that wasn't even wide enough for bunny's foot to balance on.
He may as well have been on a high wire as he walked across the thing no wider than an inch in width. Addie had squirmed from Ambers arms as she blinked, Judy and Nick turning when he let out an ecstaticsqueal just before he jumped at a wide eyed fox. Judy was laughing the first time she heard him actually yelp when the small buck had hit him in the chest. He landed on the ground in a huff holding the smaller male up with narrowed eyes. He had an annoyed look on his face that melted as soon as the little rabbit grabbed his nose and was nudging around his muzzle. Judy laughing had his eyes darting to her just before they narrowed in a playful tease and he scrunched his muzzle into a mock frown as he stuck his tongue out at her. Something he had seen her do earlier. It only made her laugh harder as he stood from the ground grinning as he stuck Addie under his arm.
Amber stepped closer to Judy as she wiped the tears off her face, smiling softly seeing her laughing. The purple eyed doe looked back at her sister letting her ears rise and tipping her head when Amber set a cocky grin in her cheek. "What?"
"Nothing," Amber replied as she scrunched her lips to one side of her muzzle.
Jack crested the top of a field right after Snarlov and Wolford and stopped as he narrowed his eyes. Both wolves were still sniffing around but the buck had spotted a flash of red and narrowed his eyes. "Found him. Follow me and keep the civilians out of the way. Stay out of mine." Jack took his suit jacket off and tossed it to Milo before he rolled his sleeves up.
Addie let out a squeal and Amber and Judy turned to see the foxes ears lifted straight, flicking as his eyes narrowed several times. He jumped back over the fence, Judy and Amber both shocked at how he sprang over it without even bending his knees to jump before he handed off the little buck to Judy making several ticking and chucks as his ears flipped while his nose was in the air inhaling several times. "Nick?" The fox glanced back at Judy briefly before his hackles rose, the shirt he was wearing straining as his muscles tensed and fur bristled when he turned narrowing his eyes over the hill. Over the ridge, not far from where they were standing in front of the barn at the side of the house a gray rabbit with black pin stripes stood stone faced as two wolves stood beside him, with a bob cat flitting his ears behind them. Amber and Judy glanced at each other and missed the rabbit on the hill bolting forward, both of them jarring as the fox let out a snarl more like a charging bull with a growl at the end as he shot from where he was standing.
"NO!" Judy screamed as Amber stood frozen, both of them watching as the fox and rabbit collided. As Judy handed Addie off to Amber and rushed forward she was caught in the arms of a wolf and struggling in his grasp before she looked up grinding her teeth and went wide eyed "Wolford?"
The grey timber wolf blinked in shock before he shook it off and took a professional stance. "Hopps, official business."
"What official business is THAT!" she asked as she turned to see the fox and rabbit circling each other.
"Savage's business, it's classified." Snarlov said as he stepped next to Amber.
"The Jack Savage?"Amber asked as she stared while Snarlov and Wolford nodded. "I thought he was just an urban legend."
"Apparently not," Snarlov snorted as he rolled his eyes and Judy grit her teeth.
Nick snapped his jaws with a cut off half roar as he bore his teeth with trembling lips. The buck took each step around his own feet as he curled his fingers and narrowed his eyes as the fox dropped to all fours. Both had rigid ears and deep frowns. When Nick dropped his head and narrowed his eyes the buck squinted as he leaped forward, catching the fox in the chest with his feet as he rolled under him and kicked him with enough force to throw him farther than he had intended to jump. Nick landed on his front paws rolling over his back and bound back snarling as he snapped his teeth again. The fox's tail was slashing back and forth like a whip as they started circling each other again. As jack leaped forward on the attack the fox rolled to the side, whipping his tail out and landing a solid hit to the bucks chest as he rolled over and turned narrowing his eyes before he stood again.
"MAKE THEM STOP!" Judy's heart was racing as Nick dropped again, a hiss from his teeth and a deep hollow clicking resonating in the odd threatening growl as his back arched and claws curled into the earth each time he moved one of his paws as he stayed on his pads. His ears were back flat as jack kept his up and stiff, the rabbit not having so much as a twinge of a twitch in his whispers as he narrowed his eyes. Both males sprang at each other again and Jack curled an arm around the fox's neck as he dipped under his chin after he lunged. Nicks eyes went wide as the buck grabbed one of his front paws with his back feet as he flipped over his neck, carrying the paw and arm with him as he went.
As soon as the foxes chin had slammed into the ground and the rabbit had his arm pinned behind his back everyone heard a solid rattling noise as Nicks eyes twitched. A hiss was running through his grit teeth as he glared after tilting his head looking to the side as if trying to see over his shoulder. His brows curved to a solid V before his eyes turned a darker shade of green. His shoulders arched in rage as his eyes narrowed and a red flash almost didn't register as his tail flipped up behind him and hit the buck in the back like a tightly wound whip. Jack rolled forward hissing before he turned, the shirt he was wearing looked like a razor had ripped it clean down at on odd angle over his back. A red whelp rested over his cheek on the right side of his face where the end of the fox's tail had curled around and barely smacked him on the cheek. The only thing left intact was the thick strap holding his holster with a small tranq gun in it under the back side of his arm as he stood again twitching the right side of his whispers like he was annoyed at the sensation.
"AHHH!" Wolford screamed as he jerked and Judy shot forward "She bit me!"
Snarlov was chuckling as the larger wolf narrowed his eyes. "What'd you expect? It's Judy Hopps."
"STOP!" Judy screamed as she ran between the two males who were both in another stance ready to pounce.
Jack narrowed his eyes as he pulled his gun out and pointed at her shaking his head. "Move, you're in my way."
Doug was grinding his teeth as he glared at Dillon. "We can't leave with all the rabbits coming out now, and there are too many predators to do anything with yet. We'll have to wait this out and see if an opportunity presents itself."
One green eyed red furred -may as well have been a demon - jumped in front of the doe, curling his tail around her and shoving her back as his pupils narrowed to slits and teeth clamped together with vibrating black lips landed in front of the buck- with every threatening noise they had ever heard him make rolling through his teeth and chest hissing through the air. Standing on his pads towering in front of the buck, Jack didn't flinch or move except to look up higher over his lowered brow. His fur had puffed out around and under his clothes, snapping the next button off the shirt he was wearing as muscles locked and hackles rose with his ears pinned back.
Addie was jumping around in Ambers arms and squealing as Wolford and Snarlov both gaped unsure of what to do as they watched Judy struggling to get out of his tail. The pin striped rabbit let his wrist curl, the gun twirling in his finger as it flipped before he tossed it to the side and the fox in front of him lowered slightly just before his paws curled and claws arched. One swift move of his tail had Judy stumbling back and quickly wrapped around the bucks ankle, knocking him on his back and a lunge had the foxes jaw wrapped around his throat as a vicious rumbling roar echoed through his teeth and ruffled the rabbit's fur. Judy jumped up screaming as Amber tried to turn from the sight when his teeth looked like they might slice clean through the buck's throat as he narrowed his eyes and clenched his jaw tighter. "NICK STOP!"
Amber was wrestling with Addie trying to turn from the scene as the buck went limp, his arms falling out to the sides just before his tongue lolled out of the side of his mouth and his eyes rolled back as they closed. Milo was standing there rubbing his forehead as Wolford and Snarlov looked between everything mortified, while Judy had dropped to her knees covering her mouth as Nick kept a growl that was matched with a hollow clicking echoing through his muzzle and throat.
Judy was sobbing and turned her head, only for it to snap back when she heard a heavy sigh. The buck whose throat was in Nicks mouth cracked one eye open, followed by the other as Nick narrowed his eyes and growled again. "OK-Alright! I'm dead already, get off!" Nick growled again as Judy's jaw dropped open, Addie was still giggling and the wolves were staring without the ability to blink as Milo shook his head. "YOU WIN." Nick stood up cackling like a hyena as Jack jumped from the ground grumbling "This time."
"YOU KNOW EACH OTHER?" Judy fumed as she stood from the ground.
Nick leaned over closer to the buck and Jack narrowed his eyes just before the fox lunged and licked him from chin to cheek. "UGH! You know I hate it when you do that you PRIMATIVE PUTZ!" Jack complained as he wiped his cheek over the fabric of his shoulder.
"YOU TWO THINK THIS IS FUNNY?!" Judy screamed as she stormed between them. Nick was still hissing in some kind of laughter as Jack looked her over and tipped a brow when she balled her fists. The buck didn't have time to move as she cold cocked him and Wolford let out a howling laugh as Jack flew to the ground.
Snarlov was smirking as he chuckled "I been wanting to do that since I met that guy."
Amber was still wrestling with Addie who as struggling in her arms as Nick threw his paws up and started making clicking and chucking noises in what was an obvious complaint towards the purple eyed doe. Judy's ears fell and she took a step back, both Snarlov and Wolford glancing at each other before the smaller wolf leaned in "Did she just flinch? Do you think she's afraid of…" Wolford raised a brow.
"DON'T YOU 'YELL' AT ME!" Judy air quoted as she screamed. Her ears flew up straight as she curled her lips into a deep frown. Addie was clicking and grinding his teeth as Nick looked back at her shocked when she poked him in the chest, shifting his eyes between her, the buck who was raising himself off the ground with his elbows, and the little rabbit in Ambers arms.
"Nope." Wolford said as the red furred mammal took a step away from her when she stomped forward.
"I spent four days trying to keep you alive! I spent f-four days trying to make sure you stayed safe!" All the mammals in the surrounding area were in awe as the mammal in front of her kept looking between the smallest bunny and the pin striped buck as his ears tipped back, his tail curled between his legs and a look of regret stuck to his face like flypaper as he cringed his shoulders every time she spoke/screamed. "You could have killed him! He could have k-killed you!" Nick was 'listening' to Addie and cinched his cheeks into his eyes as she pounded on his chest with watery eyes. "YOU STUPID- STUPID- DUMB FOX!"
"FOX?!" Wolford and Snarlov screamed as they looked at Jack who had sat up and was wiping the blood off his mouth . The buck tilted his ears forward as he watched the fox stumble, catching the doe who fell with him while she kept thumping on his chest screaming. Jacks brow tipped when the tail that had curled between his legs unwound from his thigh and wrapped around her as he curled his arms around her when she buried herself into his chest sobbing. Milo came and tried to help him up, the buck shooing him off as he stood dusting himself before he turned and shook his head.
The fox had pulled the sobbing doe into his chest, and she had curled under his chin as he made several cooing and hollowing clicking sounds just before he ran his muzzle over the top of her head. "Sir," Milo said as he watched the exchange and was glancing back and forth between all the mammals ticking their eyes between everyone.
Jack sighed as he retrieved his gun and shook his head "Milo, I don't need a neon sign that says -Hey Jack, this just got real complicated….."