As promised, Chapter 7. Little updated for the other story: I started working on it, but the motivation is not really there at the moment. Maybe next week. Anyways, have fun reading this one and tell me what you think!

Thanks to Gogofan for the great correction work again! You are awesome! Thanks to all the other pre-readers as well, your critics are helping a lot as well!


Zootopia – The Story of Nick Wilde

Chapter 7 - Sly fox, dumb sheep (pov Nick)

Barely ten minutes later, we arrived in front of the place where the video message was sent from and the adrenaline in our blood nearly drove us insane. Even though we had chief Bogo and nearly half of all police officers from Zootopia behind us Judy and I were nervous as hell, which was quite understandable because we stood in front of the blackmailer's fortress.

Chief Bogo had equipped us with the newest most high-tech gear he could find. We got tasers, semi-automatic rifles with tranquilizer darts, lots of armor for those, steel armor protection below the fabric of the uniforms, tracking devices and flashlights which confused me at first because I never used one of these since I had a pretty solid night vision and…wait!

"The flashlights!" I suddenly yelled and pulled all the attention on me. "We have a giant advantage! All the hostages are foxes, just like me!" I explained.

Everyone shrugged their shoulders except for Judy.

"He is right!" she stated as she figured out what I was trying to say. "Chief Bogo, can we turn off the electricity for this building somehow?"

"Yeah sure, but what would that do?" he asked.

"Foxes have night vision! We have to distract them for a while so Nick can go inside the Storage hall and free the other hostages!"

The other officers around us nodded in agreement and after a moment of thinking Bogo agreed as well.

"That could be really helpful indeed! Let me make a call real quick!" he excused himself and got some distance.

While Bogo was on the phone Judy came closer to me again, she hugged me tightly and whispered in my ears with noticeable fear but a sparkle of hope in her voice. "Nick, when we survive this, I need a break from all this! I have to leave Zootopia for a week, go on vacations or visit my parents or whatever. But I want to do this with you on my side! I cannot live without you so please don´t get yourself killed!" she said whipping a tear off her cheek.

"Aww, don´t worry about me carrots! I´ll be fine, I survived even your attack yesterday, didn't I? …and I will follow you wherever you lead me."

Even at times like this, when two of their colleagues were blackmailed and in front of a very risky situation, some off the officers found the guts to make "aww" and "ohh"-Sounds, as they kissed and hugged each other lovingly. But they seemed to have known how less we cared about that, because it got even worse.

"Well, this could be painful for her if they´re really getting it on sometimes…" someone of the colleagues whispered to one of the others, obviously hinting at our size difference and not wanting us to hear, but we did. Both of us. As we turned towards them, indignant for talking about us like that, they covered their mouth behind their hands and hasted for an apology.

"Because of the teeth!" the one of the rhinos added innocently to bluff it out but there was no point in denying it. "…I mean, Nick surely has sharp teeth and…"

"I´m sure you were talking about that…" Judy interrupted with an unexpected amount of self-confidence.

She must have noticed how much this comment must have hit me because usually I was the one with the glibly answers and the cool patters. But this time I had to keep quiet because I didn´t want to embarrass the both of us.

"I´m sorry" the Rhino stated silently. "It´s just…you´re such a cute couple and…"

"Shut up and quit this nonsense!" Bogo interrupted harshly unaware of saving everybody from that awkward situation.

"As you may have noticed, the lights had vanquished in the whole quarter of the city so they should have it pitch dark in there! But be careful, even bad guys know what flashlights are so… "

"It's alright, we got this!" I stated trying to sound like I knew exactly what I was doing. "We let you know if we need your help!"

The other officers nodded in agreement and wished us good luck just before everybody got in position to storm the building from different sides, just in case anything where to go wrong.

Before we went in I took a look on my smartphone and noticed that we only had four minutes left to show up at our blackmailers, so I started pulling her with me gently heading for the entrance of the giant, not illuminated storage hall.

"Come on carrots! We need to hurry! They won´t wait any longer…"

To the left and the right of the entrance there stood two sheep with flashlights in their hands immediately pointing them our way as they recognized us.

"Good evening fellows!" I greeted them without receiving a nice reaction from them. "It´s officer Hopps and officer Wilde. We´re here because we followed you´re nice invitation to the birthday party or whatever it was you´re celebrating here. Hope we´re not too late!"

"Our boss is waiting inside for you."

"Like you´re waiting outside here?" I joked just before Judy hit the side of my chest with one of her elbows.

"Stop provoking them!" she whispered. But I wasn´t even thinking about stopping, on contrary. I was just getting warmed up.

"Why should I stop provoking them?" I asked loudly before pulling the tranquilizer machine gun out of the uniform, which I didn´t closed entirely at the top. Two silent shots later and both of the sheep collapsed in front of us, hardly making any noise because of their fluffy sheep fur.

"What are you doing?" she asked in surprise as I was putting the gun back to where it belonged.

"It's called reduction of bad guys" I explained with some irony in my voice before opening the heavy double-sided door carefully and accustoming my eyes to the darkness inside. Then I opened the door and walked in like it was a door of an ice cream shop or a bar or something.

"I know what you did but I want to know why you did it and what your plan is!" she explained whispering as I started making my way to the next unfriendly looking guards with flashlights in their hands, who stood in front of another big double-sided door.

"Thrust me Sweetheart, I know what I´m doing!" I replied silently while walking towards my next victims.

"Good evening, gentleman!" I greeted them again in a faced friendly manner. A second later we were surrounded by seven guards with unfriendly expressions on their faces and raised fists in the air.

"Go in that room!" one of them yelled as we got pushed harshly through the door. Luckily none of them noticed that Judy and I still had the tranquilizers under our uniforms.

As we entered the room we instantly recognized that it was the same room where the blackmailer video came from, because there was the same evil looking sheep sitting behind the same dark brown desk that we saw on the television. Even more, camera equipment they had used for the filming was standing right there.

The guards pushed us to the middle of the room and surrounded us from a distance of at least seven feet. Not a single one of them had anything on them except a flashlight, which they used to light the room up as best as possible since there was no electricity to power the lamps in the room. The only thing I noticed which really frightened me was the red flashing button on some sort of remote control which was laying on the desk in front of the boss sheep. I was pretty sure that that was the detonator of the bomb they showed in the video and he was able to reach that button whenever he wanted to.

But I tried to keep my cool and stay in that role I was playing, which surprisingly worked pretty well.

"Well, this is kind of a shitty preparation" I started the conversation trying to sound as relaxed as I was known for and came a bit closer to the table. "You´re trying to blackmail two of the best officers in Zootopia without even checking them for weapons, making sure the lights work as they should and preparing a Cage with solid ground at the bottom?"

For a moment the face of the boss-sheep changed from superior to confusion, but he caught himself again pretty quickly and started laughing then.

"I don´t need electricity to activate a bomb" our blackmailer stated some moments later as he was done with the laughing, not really sounding like I brought him out of his calm.

"But the only thing you can destroy with that bomb is your Storage hall" I started explaining again. "As you sure know do foxes have night vision and since the real mayor himself, Leodore Lionheart, had shut down the power for your circus operation here, your "hostages" should have started freeing themselves by now…" I bluffed with a 'faked I-think-I´m-smart' expression on my face. "Since there is no solid ground on the floor of your cage…" I added making the boss sheep noticeably unsure for a moment this time.

But then he pulled himself together again, just as I wanted it to happen and acted like he knew I was bluffing.

"Why would you think that I haven´t got my guards there as well? Stupid fox, do you really think there's a chance for you to get out of this?"

"Get ready" I whispered to Judy just hearable for her and in a way that no one else was able to notice it. Thank the lord for those cute sensitive bunny ears of hers.

"Sure I do." I replied to the sheep. "As I just mentioned, your fantastic guards didn't check us for weapons and…" I pulled the gun out of my uniform again and shot at the sheep behind the desk, which simply collapsed and fell off of the big black leather-chair.

A second later Judy and I started running away from the guards behind and besides us and managed to leave the room through a small hallway which started from a little passage on the left side of the room. It took them a moment to realize what was happening right now and therefore we were able to build up a little lead on them.

As our pursuers entered the hallway as well we turned around and started shooting at them, knocking them out one by one and reloading our guns in well-timed position changes. Just like Lemmings they ran towards us one after another, stumbled over their unconscious colleagues and got knocked out by our tranquilizers as well. Luckily, none of these idiots was smart enough to threaten us with the detonator of the bomb, which was still laying on the desk completely untouched with its red light blinking active. Since the light in the hallway got less and less with every step we took into it backwards, I was the only one, who´s shots where hitting anything, so Judy took care of the reloading and I kept on shooting down the nearly blind sheep, which didn´t learn from it and kept on running towards us. Luckily there floor we were in had no other open doors and ended in a dead end, so our enemies where only able to attack us from the front, which was no good position for them. Half a minute later Judy and I where the only conscious mammals left in the building.

We stared at each other in awe as the last sheep collapsed before our feet and stopped moving.

"We did it!", she whispered in disbelieve as I reloaded my gun once more on reflex and put it back to the belt of my uniform, where it normally belonged.

"We did!" I replied trying to act as cool as ever and failing miserably again.

"Wooohooo!" she yelled in pure elation before jumping into my arms and hugging me tightly. "Thanks Nick, you´re a genius!" she stated while I carried her on my shoulders back to the room, where the detonator was still laying in.

"This is Officer Wilde, the bomb is secured and the blackmailers are all unconscious. Come in and help us!" I told our colleagues as Judy and I had found and deactivated the remote controlled detonator for the plastic explosives in the cage where the foxes were still trapped inside.

Seconds later, the whole police crew rushed the storage hall and helped with freeing the hostages and deactivating the bomb inside the cage.

Judy and I were waiting outside for our colleagues who were carrying the unconscious sheep out of the building and putting them in handcuffs for the transport to the prison.

Like I was known for it, I wore my black sunglasses and smiled at everyone who stared in awe at the uncommon police officers couple who just had shattered a hostage-taking and parts of a giant mafia-complex.

"Great work, you two!" Bogo stated as he finally got out of the building leading all the foxes to the safety zone, which was marked by a red and white police line.

"Thanks!" Judy replied this time even before I was able to. "But the credit goes mostly to him…" she began explaining. "…and he is pretty proud of himself! …I mean, I would be too if I haven't been such a giant coward only standing beside him and staring at his genuine performance…"

"Nick, is that you?" suddenly a voice I knew well interrupted us.

It was my mother, which I hadn´t met in more than two years, and she wasn´t quite able to believe what she was seeing.

"Miss Wilde, let me introduce you the two officers who managed to save you from this nightmare." chief Bogo began explaining for her and I wasn´t able to hide a proud little grin as she starred at me in total disbelieve and confusion. "Police officer Judy Hopps and her partner Police officer Nicholas Wilde." he added as I took off my sunglasses and handed them over to Judy for a second.

"Hey mom long time no see!" I greeted her before hugging the stunned elderly fox Lady carefully.

"Nicky?" she asked with tears of joy in her eyes. "You´re an Officer now?"

"Well, looks like it, doesn´t it?" I asked back with a bemused grin on my face. "Didn´t I always promise you to make something out of my life..?"


So there you have it, Chapter 7. Hope this makes up for the long waiting times a little.

Some answers to your reviews:

-Robincall22 and Karen: I know, too many commas, there will be less in the future

-Jason: that is my intention, thanks for the nice words

-Chiefthousand: which link?

-Heydude: Why do so many people asking me about the Lego movie? Are there parallels to this in my stories? I haven´t even seen this one yet…

-Springyat: its called Zootropolis in Great Britain, Zootopia in the US and Zoomania in Germany, I don´t know about the rest

-Karen: I´m sorry for the slightly dirty humor and the kissing and stuff, but this is my story, and I´m not going to change that. There will be more of this stuff.

-Rick Milde: funny name btw :D, hope you liked this chapter…