I'm back for chapter 8 guys! And this chapter is kind of mind twisting, so sorry, but I hope you guys enjoy!
I don't own the characters of Zootopia or the franchise!
"I'm still so proud of you! There has been a long line of officers in our family!" The person on the other end of a phone call said cheerfully.
"Dad I got my badge literally last week and you're still congratulating me!"
"I know, but it's good you are taking after the family, and I'm sure most of your hundreds of siblings will!"
"Well that's nice to know." The other person sighed. "I have to go Dad, the chief is here in the room and I think he's gonna yell at me for talking to you."
"Oh yeah sure, sorry... officer Hopps,"
"Yeah yeah yeah, bye Dad."
"Bye Jude." The phones hung up, both on different sides of the country state. One in a bustling city and the other settled down in the country. The police chief was a straightforward buffalo, taking excuses from no one, literally. His team of officers knew that.
"Hopps! What did I tell you about phones?!" the chief yelled at our officer.
"Sorry chief, I'll keep it away."
"And so you should, anyway officers, good morning and let's get onto the agenda for today." The chief held out a bunch of papers in his hooves, always so organised.
"First on the list, we've had suspicious behaviour from the predator slums in the Savannah, even though it sounds rude, it's what my paper said, so it's not." most of them laughed a bit, the thought of domination they loved.
"So for that problem, I'd like officer Buckhorn and officer Beavus to go check out the neighbourhood around there. You guys had a tough week last week, I'm giving you something easy to knock off with."
The chief took awhile to give out the orders for the day, and the only mammal that was left waiting for her order was a rabbit officer, officer Hopps. Rabbit officers these days were not so uncommon, you normally saw one or two whenever you come across a group of them.
"Officer Hopps, I would like you to come into my office please, it's some evidence for your task that I'm setting you." Hopps looked at him strangely, wondering what that could mean.
"Sure thing." Officer Hopps said, following him into his office. Even though her species felt pretty dominated in this world, she still always felt so small, especially sitting, or standing, in her bosses office chair.
"What is it you wanted to see me for chief?" Hopps said, almost timidly but still confident.
"I wanted you to see this," the chief turns around his laptop revealing an internet article about suspicious behaviour, the title saying UNKNOWN GATHERING BETWEEN MOST OF ZOOTOPIA'S PREDATORS.
"What is this about chief, if I may ask." Hopps asked, glaring at the screen, attempting to read the writing, which she could but it wasn't that easy for her to see if from the angle she saw it.
"I will go ahead and read this article for you, I think it's hard for you to see it, sorry."
"No that's fine sir."
"Written just four days ago." The chief started to read the article.
"Most of Zootopians predator species population had disappeared from their homes and usual daytime places. To estimate the amount, about 60-75% of predators in Zootopia had disappeared from their homes and work places and has been seen walking towards similar distances. Traffic, train lines and pedestrian services grew in traffic dramatically going towards the East and South, normal citizens in Zootopia said there was an increase of predators in train lines and pedestrian paths." the story seemed quite peculiar to Hopps, but the officer wondered what it had to do with.
"Predators take up ten percent of the Zootopia population, which is on the decrease now estimated to make up only 8% percent, however this statistic means that this many preds causing traffic shouldn't even happen. Some eyewitnesses say that they saw a lot of predators walking towards the same destination however felt like not following them. The cause of this strange gathering between the preds is so far unexplained. The predator representative, Misses Lara Denikun, was also strangely away from her government office, claiming to do errands. Other government staff said they hadn't seen her much since, usually now being in her office most of the time or out of it most of the day. If this strange occurrence had anything to do with the strange gathering between preds, it may as well come with its consequences for her. Vice President, Dawn Bellweather, gave out some words on her Tweeter account." A screenshot was on the internet article saying 'If people keep acting strange around the office, I have authority to replace him/her' "said Bellweather on social media." Even though Hopps is meant to respect these high ranked office mammals, she did think Bellweather's move was quite stupid, but people do stupid things on Tweeter.
"Misses Denikun was believed to be the mammal she was referring to in this Tweeter post, who still hasn't replied to Bellweather's tweet. This situation between predators is currently being investigated." The chief paused, marking the end of the article. Hopps paused for a moment, to try and recount the current situation, trying to understand why she was being told this information, especially by her boss.
"What I want for you to do Hopps is to contribute to this strange occurrence. I've got estimated coordinates of this strange occurrence, and I would also like to mention, predators are still visiting this location." Her chief gave her a map, with a circle around the possible location, what was very strange about it was only one, tiny building was there.
"What is that structure in the circle sir?" Hopps asked, pointed to the small structure.
"I actually don't know, Zoogle Maps wasn't showing the name, so it may be something abandoned."
"So, when would you like me to check it out for you?" The rabbit officer asked her boss.
"I was thinking you could check it out maybe today? You are allowed to get something to eat in the city if you want, Zoogle says the drive to this location will take about twenty minutes, not mentioning the traffic in the city at the moment."
"I don't mind doing it today chief!" The officer exclaimed.
"Splendid, the sooner the better. Well you better go don't you?"
"Yeah I guess so." The officer walked out of the room.
"Oh and Hopps, say hi to your father to me. He was a very good officer while he worked here, I only just started out when I worked with him."
"I will sir, and he really was, he was very passionate. I'm sure he's proud his daughter, Judy Hopps is taking after him." Hopps smiled, walking out the door.
Nick sat in his new office at the new Wild Times amusement park. He didn't know it was so hard to run an amusement park at that time, it felt like he fell into a really big sinkhole. He knew he had to hire more staff and he knew he needed a decent amount of money to pay them, unless they wanted to get off work without anything given to them, but that is very unlikely in this city.
Nick heard the door knock while he was setting up his work laptop, which was basically just an old pc from his closet at home, it still worked fine for him. Nick walked to the door and opened it slightly, but enough for him and the other person to see each other clearly.
"Hello there." Nick said, looking up at a tiger in a cheap, sloppy suit, probably older than Nick. "How can I help you sir?"
"Hello, Nick Wilde is it?"
"Yes sir," Nick replied, trying to be somewhat formal.
"Oh good! I'm Roger Boggs, and please just call me Roger." He said, whole shaking Nick's paw, which was considerably smaller than his.
"So… Roger, what are you seeing me for?"
"Well, I'm just some poor tiger, looking for a job so I can earn a decent amount of money. Ya know how it is,"
Nick sighed at what Roger just stated, the truth. "Completely, I understand how it is."
"So, will you give me some kind of job and for what wage or salary?" Roger seemed greedy to Nick. He did look like a lower class citizen, even with that cheep suit that he had on.
"I'll tell ya what. Why don't you just leave your email or phone number..."
"I don't have an email."
"Well, do you have a phone or an address even?"
"I have a very old Zokia phone, still works fine, I'll write down its number," Roger took a small piece of paper he found on the floor. Nick thought why this guy had a phone yet not something simple like an email address. But he just rolled his eyes and realised how things are, strange and not something to admire.
Knocking dame from the door just after Roger finished writing his phone number.
"Who is it?" Nick exclaimed.
"It's Ben, and it's urgent!" Before Clawhauser could say another word, the door was immediately opened not by Nick, but by Roger.
"Sorry Wilde, its reflexes," he said, still holding the door handle.
"I was gonna let him in anyway. What is it Ben?"
"Well first, I'll need you to look at this." Clawhauser brings up his phone with outside security camera footage.
"Ok umm.." Nick started whispering. "I had no memory of security cameras here and neither did I remember you buying a phone."
"I installed it yesterday, its very cheep though and this phone is second hand. Slower than the latest version they just released."
"But they literally all look the same!" Nick snapped at him, still whispering.
"Well no kidding, but it's faster."
"Fine, just tell me what's happening here." Nick snapped again.
"Alright, so if you can see right at the top of this camera, bottom right, you can slightly see a mysterious car sitting there." Nick viewed in closer to the screen and saw something he didn't want to.
"Shit!" he snapped immediately.
"What is it?" Roger asked.
"Do you see that mammal that just closed the door and is walking towards that tricked entrance." Nick pointed to the figure for Roger to see. "That's a police officer, you can tell by that reflection vest."
"Oh my goodness, are they that stupid to wear those while trying to be sneaky about this!" Ben yelled.
"Talk about stupidness," Nick sighed. "But we can't joke around, I need to look like a patient of a small crappy medical clinic."
"And how are you going to do that, I swear none of us have some sort of doctor clothing." Clawhauser replied back.
"I don't think we really need doctor clothing. I just need to walk out there, pretend to be some strange man and try to get him to get out of here."
"Well you better hurry Nick, and I think it's a she." Clawhauser points out as the police officer gets closer, but Nick still had time to casually walk out there normally.
"Ok, and how can you tell from that far?"
"Just look at that body, curved ass, skinny torso and you can literally see those lashes from a mile away."
"Alright! You're such a perv by the way. I never knew you were into small mammals like rabbit officers." Nick laughed.
"Just go! She's getting closer!"
Nick ran to the exit, trying to squeeze past everyone as fast as he could. He didn't realise how much of a crowd this place rocked up until he walked out of his office every day.
After a few squeezing past large mammals and catching his breath, he got to the top where the theme park entrance was, where there was a much shorter line due to mammals having school and work on that day, however still quite a few customers coming through.
"Hey, aren't you the guy that run this place, great work by the way." A grey cat said while waiting in the line.
"Thanks ma'am, but I'm gonna ask you people here to do something." Everyone stared at him, even Finnick who was running the ticket booth, which looked more like a clinic reception. "See that outside," Nick pointed towards the police officer in the distance, standing there looking at the place before continuing to walk. The people in the room gasped.
"I need all of you to act like your actually in a medical clinic. It's god damn stupid I know, but do you guys really wanna be caught by her?" the customers shook their heads. Nick didn't say anything after that and just sat on a chair in the corner, picking up some newspaper he found. He did take precautions and made sure it looked like a real medical clinic.
The customers and Nick waited for another 45 seconds until the rabbit officer came through the door. She was very confused from what she saw. The officer expected something strange, since the building wasn't specified anywhere in Zootopia records or updated maps. However with no fear, she walked towards the reception, where Finnick was acting as one. Finnick knew how to lie and deceive, it was one of his strengths. Nick couldn't even say how many times he fell into his traps.
"Ma'am," Finnick started talking to the officer below him. "You are going to have to wait in line like everyone else." He said, keeping his head down, scribbling on a piece of paper with his head down.
"Sir, I do hope you know who know that I am a member of the ZPD."
"I do, and I don't care. As far as I'm concerned, I'm not meant to be serving people like you."
"Well then, that's not how you treat someone-"
"Well what are you then. Tell me what you're here for or leave."
There was a pause between the two. The rabbit officer angrily sighed with her eyes rolling.
"Can I just see your manager then! This is serious business."
"My manager is-"
"He is right here." Nick stood up from the corner of the room, putting down the newspaper that was in front of him.
"Your the manager?" The officer said, in an unpleasant voice.
"I sure am officer." Nick said, smirking at her. Her ears were trembling, high above her head.
"Huh, I wonder how all of these patients trust you with their health."
"Well excuse me officer, but people's health is vital for everyone. Now, what would you like from me?"
"I wanna speak to you. Privately." She said, boldly.
"Sure, to my office. Shall we?" Nick led the way and the officer followed, examining her surroundings, unsure what the fox was up to.
