Episode 10
"Let the music begin"
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Nick was starting at the evening sky as he walk'd slowly on the street, whistling a catchy tune and swishing his tail from side to side. This is it. Just a one block away from ZPD. Stay roguish as ever and smile. Don't act weird.
Collect yourself. Example, right? Stay cool as ever, and take the girl you love in a dance. Don't screw this up.
Nick crossed the second last street and stared at the large familiar building coming closer. He smiled by himself a bit as he walk'd past of one vixen with some of her wolf friends with her, giggling and whispering to each other loudly about his handsome looks.
After a while of walking, he arrived to the last crossing and walk'd over the last street. The fox was already at the steps up to the ZPD, until he felt a buzzing vibration in his phone, signaling him about some text message. Nick stopped where he was and started to take out his phone, but he accidentally lost it from his grasp, as he tried to grab it too fast.
"Dammit." He muttered as the phone hit the pavement, bouncing to another step behind him. He sighed and muttered as he slowly prepared to turn around.
"If that phone just broke.. Remember to hit yourself..."
"Seems to be still working Nick. At least the screen didn't break."
Nick could hear Judy's comforting voice say from behind him. He smiled a bit and turned around.
"It seems that rabbits bring luck-" Nick froze in middle of his sentence and he felt like the time had stopped for a moment.
Nick stared as he saw the bunny stare back at him. The sparkling dress with the same color as her eye's, was probably most enchanting thing he had ever seen.
She even wore a little eyeliner. Nick had never seen her use that stuff. He could see her bare shoulders and arms.
His eye caught that her grey fur pattern changed to pure snow white, from her neck down to her upper chests.
Nick tried not to swallow hard as his eyes quickly met her cleavage. The voice in his head screamed him not to linger around that area for too long, or he would probably earn a slap to face. The dress really brought up her stunning curves as his eyes traveled lower. His heart skipped a beat,
as he saw the dress being cut from her right side, revealing her beautiful leg almost completely for him to marvel. His eyes traveled back from her toes to back up. Only now he realized that she also had a small silver necklace around her neck. He had never seen her wore that either. As his eyes finally met hers,
he realized that Judy stared at him back wide eyed, her face and ears completely blushed as she was investigated by his friend's gaze nothing but subtly.
Nick realized that his mouth had been open trough the whole thing like an idiot. He shook his head to wake himself from this stunning sight.
"I'm sorry whiskers, i just-"
Judy turned her eyes away from his in complete embarrassment.
"I know right, it looks dumb! I should have not-"
"Hey." Nick said firmly, startling her from the tension filled moment.
She turned her gaze slowly and nervously to his, and saw a warm smile on him.
"I was about to say that... You look beautiful Judy."
"..." She could not even answer as she felt her face burn under the fox's gaze, turning even more red.
If that was even possible at this point.
She felt the unsure smile come to her, and once again tried to dodge the piercing gaze from the fox.
"... N- Nick are you..?"
"Playing around? No Judy. You look beautiful. I mean it." Nick finished, still marveling her, as she stayed quiet.
After a while she look'd at him back but still said nothing. There was something odd in her look.
Something that he could not place really well. The moment was only brief until she turn'd her gaze away and Nick could hear her whisper.
"You... Don't look bad yourself Nick..."
A wide smile came on him and he straightened his tie.
Clear the tension a bit Wilde, she is clearly uncomfortable.
"I knoooooow, i look like the guy from the movie we watched."
Judy smiled now and felt her blush calming down.
"You mean Robert Wolfenton?"
"I wouldn't know. You always seem to remember every actors name. Must come as a forever teenage trait."
"Har har. I just remember name of actors that i like slick."
"Which are like... Anyone who is handsome but can't act at all?"
"Nick, that is so not true!" Judy giggled and shook her head.
"You know, i am starting to think that you hang around with me just for my looks... I should have known all this time."
Judy snorted and took a quick look at Nick's phone in her paws. Not even scratch on his screen. Talking about luck.
She handed the phone back to Nick, who took it back with a smile.
"I like your screen saver." Judy said happily as she referred to Nick's phone about the picture where they were together in the park long time ago.
"Thanks. It reminds me of something important every day." Nick said and turned around, starting to walk up the stairs to the ZPD.
Judy started to follow the fox and spoke.
"About how good you look in the camera? Am i right?" Judy giggled and rolled her eye's.
"No. I meant You. Silly bunny." Nick said quietly and chuckled as he kept walking. The bunny took a quick stop before walking again.
He could not notice how Judy smiled at him as her small tail wiggled a bit from his words.
"Nick.." Judy whispered so quietly that the fox could not hear, and bounced up the steps, entering through the doors with the fox leading her way.
Bogo was standing in front of Clawhouser's reception desk with everyone else, already in full discussion about something.
Clawhouser stood at his post, eating donuts and listening the conversation from the side. Bogo was probably giving some kind of details about the case, since he had everyone's full attention on the subject once again. Nick just chuckled as he approached the group, straightening his tie as Judy followed his swinging tail. Only now they both noticed that all of four familiar officers were dressed in clean suits, ready to play their part as waiters.
"As those two arrive i can get started on det-" Bogo was interrupted by mischievous voice from behind him.
"Yohoooo, uncle Bogoooooo.." Nick sang and he heard Bogo sigh and turn at their way, eyeing the fox for a while.
"Right on time it seems. Good." Bogo said bluntly and turned his gaze into Judy, lingering there for a moment in awkward silence.
"Is everything alright?" Judy asked nervously under Chief's gaze.
Awwwwww, you look beautiful Judy!" Clawhouser squealed from behind his desk."
"Thanks Ben..." Judy shot back quietly.
Bogo spoke after a while.
"Everything is alright Hopps. I am just surprised about how seriously you took the undercover part. Impressive. The question that concerns me is that umm...
Where did you plan to hide your weapon? This clothing choice seems to have left... Not much room for it."
All of the four cadets stared at her now in a bit of confusion, wondering the same thing as they stared at the bunny. Judy cleared her throat like she had expected this question to come at some point. The nervousness was gone from her tone as she started to explain everything professionally, like she had rehearsed it.
"I thought about it too first, because the holster for the tranquilizer is quite big. So is the tranquilizer in itself. The normal model that ZPD has, is Volter-300 model that has the ability to normally stun someone with twenty-second full charge. Very practical and used model around the force for good ten years. The most problems that it has, is the fact that it's size and the grip handle, is not as well suited for all the mammals as it is for others.
So i went trough a little digging through our armory files for any updates. What i found out was, ZPD has manufactured also all kinds of different models from the standard equipment. There have been made couple of other kinds of weapons, that are suitable for smaller mammals, but were never put to use since...
The ZPD never had uhh... Well..."
Judy motioned with her hands that they would catch her drift. She was the shortest mammal on the force, followed by Nick and now their new raccoon.
Everyone nodded, signaling that they understood. Judy continued.
"So, i went through a couple of clarifications and paperwork a couple of weeks back to see if they still had any of those available for order.
They did. And they told me that they were more than glad to know that i would be the one to be the first mammal to test their new model in the field. I also told that if the new untested models would get great feedback, they were always ready to send more. So, lucky as i was, i got phone call from Clawhouser early this morning, telling me that finally after three weeks of waiting, the equipment was finally here. Benjamin?"
"Yeap, here it is." The cheetah giggled excitedly as he took a clean and black suitcase from under his table and handed it over to Judy.
On the box where large logo of ZPD and under it was white small letters titled, "Stinger 2.0" and some other info. Everyone gathered around excitedly to see as Judy opened the small suitcase in her hands and revealed a small but very expensive looking dark red stunner gun with black and yellow stripes on it.
The smell of plastic and metal mixed in everyone's nose as Judy excitedly took the weapon from it's molded place and tried it in her paw with a smile.
"Look's so cool.." Officer Coonway said in awe from the side.
"Is it heavy?" Oliver asked with interest.
"Heavier than i expected but i think I'll get used to it." Judy muttered as she smiled and took out the instruction manual sheets from the case.
"Well Hopps, you just keep impressing. You've earned it." Bogo said proudly as he gave genuine smile and watched Judy let everyone try the blaster in their paws.
"Wowowowowo, hooold ooon a minute here. I am small mammal too. And i have been such a good behaving guy from day one. When do i get the cool stuff?"
Nick teased from the side,
earning laugh from Oliver as he saw Bogo's reaction.
"Officer Wilde, i am sure that if you manage to at least work through your first month in the force, WITH GOOD BEHAVIOR I MIGHT ADD,
we might consider you also having something... Cool." Bogo said with annoyance.
"Geeez thanks pop's. I'll promise to be a good boy just for you." Nick said and wiggled his eyebrows to Bogo with wide grin, making even Judy and the others laugh now.
Once again Bogo just sighed and tried to keep them in the subject again.
"Officer Hopps. They said that your new weapon has not been officially tested yet. Before we leave, you should go and give it a try on the shooting range.
Grab the new comers with you too. Show them a little of marksmanship from the finest of the ZPD." Bogo said proudly.
"You give too much credit chief."
"I doubt it Hopps."
"You guys are giving way too less credit for me. I scored twenty thousand points in mammal crisis three at the arcade hall. My high-score is still on the boards. Besides, i have already used my tranquilizer once. It's easy."
"No freaking way Nick! Are you the player named foxtrot420 at the boards?!" Oliver asked in disbelief.
"The one and only. That is why i have quite an expertise in shooting. I deserve the same kind of stuff as fluff here."
The two started to talk about some game that none of the other mammals understood nothing about.
Judy gave frustrated look at the two and cleared her throat before talking to Bogo.
"You know, i could always suggest something else." Judy said.
"What's that?" Bogo asked in confusion as mischievous smile came on her face.
"I could test it for someone willing to take a little day nap. Nick seems like willing subject.
He said he is expert when it comes to dealing with weapons. Let's see if he can take, like he can give."
A small evil grin came on Bogo as he look'd at confused fox.
"Permission granted." Bogo said.
"Wait, what?!" Nick realized what they had just said as Judy pointed the gun at him with her both paws.
"Don't worry slick, it won't hurt a lot. You will just be nice and silent through our ride to the festival.
I'll promise to wake you up. I know you can take the shock, i have faith in you."
Nick's eyes widened as he turned to Bogo who gave zero intention to come between and seemed way too happy about the situation.
All of the other mammals also stared in interest, like they actually wanted to see how the new taser worked.
The fox quickly stepped behind Oliver, grabbing him and using him as a live shield.
"Get off me Wilde, she is supposed to try it on you!" Oliver struggled in fear as he saw Judy turn on a small switch from the side of her gun, making a bright red line point at Oliver's chest.
"Cool, it has laser sight!" The lynx officer said as they all watched Nick and Oliver fight to avoid being the main target.
"Sweet. They really overdid themselves with this one." Judy said with smile and turned down her aim. She put the gun back to safe mode and everyone kept watching in amusement as the two had not even noticed that she was just joking around. Nick was still trying to hide behind the wolf. Oliver had his eyes shut tightly as he prepared for the taking shot any moment now.
"Carrots, don't shoot, this is not funny!"
"Hopps, aim for his tail!" Oliver screamed in fear.
"Don't!" Nick screamed in even more fear.
"Oh you big kits, i am not going to shoot either of you." Judy snorted and even Bogo laughed with others as they saw both of them settling down and realizing that it was all a joke.
To Nick the joke had not been funny at all.
He let go of Oliver and fixed his ruffled up suit back to shape, same time giving Oliver apologizing look.
Nick tried not to sink in a whole as his tail fur was still all buzzed up from the fear.
"Carrots that was mean..." He mumbled as he stared the innocent looking bunny.
"Here is example of bravery. You saw how the hero of our first week did, while under imaginary gunpoint." Judy presented to everyone.
Nick and Oliver wanted to die from embarrassment as they just now realized how they had probably looked in front of all the mammals.
"Whatever..." Nick said as he straightened his red tie and avoided eye contact with everyone.
Then Bogo spoke to the new mammals.
"And think about the fact that our action hero officer Wilde here requested to be the first cop in the force to wear two tranquilizers like in the movies...
Prove yourselves and then ask for such things. Take an unofficial lesson from this moment."
For the first time in his first week Nick had no comeback for Bogo.
Judy gave comforting smile to annoyed fox and spoke.
"Cheer up slick, now is time to prove yourself even more. Especially to officer Garnett." Judy said, earning confused look from the female snow leopard.
"What do you mean fluff?"
"You won the bet we had. Now i will let you drive like you always wanted. But try to show your best. We have ZPD's finest driver on our backseat to monitor your every move."
Nick gazed at the interested looking leopard with a bit nervous look.
"Is this his first time driving in ZPD?" Hailie ask'd.
"Yep. Just one of the other things that he claims being better at than me.
Now we shall see how it goes. You have my permission to point out every mistake he made after he is done."
"Understood." Garnett said hesitantly and smiled to the bunny.
"... Sly bunny..." Nick muttered quietly. He was supposed to show the image of famous super-cop to new recruits in his outfit but ended up being roasted by Bogo and Judy. He wondered if any of them would take him and Oliver seriously after their little show.
"So! Now without further a due, let's get this operation started. Officer Hopps, go test your gun on the range with officer Coonway, Garnett, and Fring. We have twenty minutes for departure. We will go through the minor details about the operation at the festival. Understood?"
"Yes chief!" All the three said and started to follow Judy, as she began to lead them to the shooting range.
Only one's that were left on the spot with Bogo, were Nick and Oliver.
They both stood side by side as Bogo turned around.
"Now, you two go, and get us two cars in front of the building. Time is essence. Any questions?"
"I assume that my request for the two tranquilizers is still acceptab-"
"Officer Wilde. Do not make me pull you out of the case and put you on parking duty."
"... Understood chief." Nick saluted with the dumb grin on him.
"... Good. Now off you two. I will see how our new officers are doing." Bogo finished and turned around.
He walked slowly to the door where the bunch of mammals had just went and entered in.
Only thing that was heard in the hall was quiet hymn of some Gazelles new song that Clawhouser plaid from his phone.
"... Shall we get going?" Oliver ask'd from Nick.
"Yeah..."
They both had walk'd only halfway to the elevator when the fox spoke.
"You know, i was not really scared that carrots was going to shoot."
"You were scared like a kit, you should have seen your tail dude."
"Hey, you were the one whose legs were all wobbling."
"Pffft, ya right."
After a while they stepped in the elevator and Oliver pressed the button to the garage hall.
Just as they started to move Nick spoke again.
"... You still think that chief might accept my request about the two tranquilizers?"
"... No chance in hell."
"... Wanna bet? He likes me. He just won't admit it."
"Delusional. Easy money. Twenty?"
"Forty."
"... Deal."
BLOCK AWAY FROM SAVANNAH CENTRAL AVENUE _
The sky was already taking the darker blue tone as they arrived on time. The two huge police vehicles stopped next to large project building, and they could see all the various of mammals chatter and walk on the streets like a one huge mass. The area was very crowded all over, making it impossible to travel forward with the cars. The sounds of conversations filled the air, making Judy stare it all in wonder from her seat. She had never seen so many mammals at once.
But after a while she turned to Nick with scolding look. She did not know if it this was his actual way of driving or his idea of funny revenge.
He had driven couple of times like he thought he was on race track. Bogo had even screamed to their car radio from the vehicle behind them,
asking if the fox was touched in the head. She now knew that more than couple of angry words were needed.
"So how did i do?" He asked innocently and turned to smile to the snow panther on the backseat. Her fur was all puffed up from the ride and her claws had been dug into the seat the whole time. She slowly turned her gaze and shook her head before talking under Nick's alluring gaze.
"With all due respect officer Wilde... May i be honest?.. Umm.. You might want to slow down a bit when you drive. I noticed about fifteen violations against the law, but at least we are alive and early.
Where did you learn to drive like that?"
"Games..."
"Well that explains way too much. You and your video games" Judy said angrily to the smiling fox who turned innocently to look at her back.
"Also from Flash and Finnick."
"... Seriously?"
"You just have to admit that i was pretty damn good."
"Yeah, if you were like a getaway car for the bank robbers in a movie. I am seriously thinking about revoking your drivers pass."
"Carrots, don't be like that. You can't drive a car like this without giving it some honor. I did what was needed."
"Yeah, and now you might have just killed yourself before the operation starts." Judy sighed.
"What do you m-?"
KNOCK KNOCK
Nick slowly turned his gaze to his window side as he heard a knock from the outside. Bogo stood on the pavement with his hands crossed, waiting for him to roll down the window. Nick did as gestured and the window slowly rolled all the way down.
"Hey, how's it going chief? I wasn't driving too fast was i? Maybe there is something that we could... Work out?"
Nick said with flirting tone and unbuttoned his upper buttons from his shirt, playing the role of stereotypical female who tried to flirt her way from law's grasp. He wiggled his eyebrows to the buffalo, making him go speechless for a while.
Needless to say, Hailie could not contain her giggle, almost making Judy laugh too to fox's clownish behavior.
Bogo spoke with ice cold voice that held back some serious anger,
making the funny mood go away in a blink.
"Officer Wilde. Out of the vehicle... NOW!"
"Yeah give me a second, i have to roll the window back up. No need to yell sir."
Nick stared the stone statue looking figure with smile as the window slowly went all the way back up.
"Good luck." Judy said in frustration as he was about to open his door.
"I got lucky rabbit with me. Nothing can harm me."
"Don't be so sure." Judy shook her head. This fox sometimes...
All the mammals now stood next to their cars as one bunch. Oliver suddenly spoke first, in complete hype.
"Nick, you have to teach me how to drive like that! You did a perfect drift at the Saint's crossing!"
Only a quick cold look from Bogo silenced the wolf and he then turned his wrath to Nick.
"Officer Wilde, do you care to explain why you were driving over the speed limit several times,
used handbrake in almost every turn, and almost knocked down a postbox?"
Nick smiled and was about to have one of his charming explanations again, all figured out. Bogo stopped him before he even started.
"You know what? Don't bother. You are driving me insane. Officer Hopps. Please have talk with your partner about how the roles of the driver are switched from now on. Or you teach him how to do it without violations. Clear?"
"Clear chief." Judy said seriously.
"He said DRIVING me insane. Get it? He made a pun and didn't even notice it. That goes to my locker!"
Nick laughed and could even see that Oliver, Hailie, Rasheed and Luke had the hardest time of keeping a straight face.
Judy and Bogo both gave scolding look to the fox, making him go quiet.
"Nick. Not the time."
"You guys are way too serious about everything..."
Bogo ignored the fox's attitude as best as he could but for a moment Judy swore that he was about to ask for his badge there and then.
Why can't he just behave when he's been told to?
"Now, i will go and inform about our operation to the events' security manager. Just to let them know that there are cops in undercover to back them up if anything bad happens. All the rest of the details will be provided by officer Hopps for now. Good luck everyone. Now excuse me but i need my head ache pills."
Bogo left and blended in with the crowd of mammals, leaving all of the officers in moment of silence.
All of them turned to rabbit in the lavender dress, waiting for instructions from her.
Judy took a quick breath and started.
"Okay. So. The plan is this. All of you four enter the place in orderly fashion. Me and Nick will follow after couple of minutes.
To avoid as much suspicion as possible. The chef's have already been noted about four extra waiters for the occasion, so there won't be any questions from the waiters about sudden newcomers. Once Nick and me have entered in the middle of the masses, we will locate the mobsters and see how it goes. Once we know where all the mobsters meet, we signal our location, so you will know to spend the rest of the operation on that area, keeping an eye on them for the rest of the evening.
Sounds simple enough?"
Everyone nodded and she continued.
"Okay. Now, i don't know how this will go, so keep your eyes open. Nothing bad might happen through the whole operation at all. I would prefer it that way, but we never know what might happen. Anything suspicious you see has to be reported to me through the radio, okay? I trust all of you to do your best.
Even if this is just peace keeping, i have high hopes on all of you. Make the ZPD proud, officers."
All four saluted her proudly and gazed at her like a leader they always dreamt about having.
Nick suddenly came between the moment with his claw up, as in suggesting something important.
"Carrots, how about we inform them about the code names?"
".. Code na-? Nooo Nick. Don't. We are not having the code names. We talked about this." Judy protested.
"Why noooooot?"
"Code names?" Oliver asked in confusion.
"Ever since Nick was informed about the operation, he's been working on to give you all code names that we would use through the radio." Judy rolled her eyes.
"... Well are they good?" The raccoon asked suddenly in interest.
"Yeah? I mean it sounds cool! What is mine?" The lynx asked excitedly.
"... Seriously?" Judy said as he look'd at all of the four mammals in disbelief.
"SEE! I told you they would love the idea!" Nick said happily and ruffled her head, making her shoo him away.
"Ugh. Fine. Let's just get this out of the way." Judy gave up.
"What's mine?" Hailie asked happily.
"You... Are snow ball." Nick winked.
"Oh. Sounds nice!" She giggled happily, clearly liking the name.
"Annnd you, are rocket." Nick said proudly, pointing his claw at Rasheed.
"... Why am i rocket?"
"Because you are good at shooting stuff?
This ain't rocket science. HAHahahah get it? See what i just did?"
"But... Rockets are illegal in Zootopia.. I have never shot one.
Would be cool though."
"Hmmmm... What if... I did have another one... OH! I got it!... Hotshot."
"... Cooool." The raccoon muttered in smile.
Judy shook her head but couldn't hold her smile as he watched all of the grown mammals wait for their new name like kit a candy.
"Annnndd you... Areee..." Nick wondered as he stared at the lynx who was wagging his tail excitedly, waiting for the name from his idol.
"Light-feet. Since you won one of the fastest mammals in Zootopia, it's only fair that you take Saul's title. You have earned it."
"... Awesomeee!" Luke yelped happily from his name, Nick's claw now turning to Oliver.
"What you got for me dude? Something agent like? I hope it's cool as the others have."
"Howler."
"... Wait what? Why?"
"Because of reasons. What is this flood of questions, i didn't ask for this." Nick smiled.
"Dude. You named me howler because i am a wolf. That is not very creative."
"Oh come on Oliver, don't be such a stickler for details, it suits you."
"How?"
"Because when someone howls, you do as well."
"No i don't, that is stupid propaganda." Oliver shook his head.
"Yeah you do. Carrots is the one who figured it out. You have to do it well enough. Allow me to demonstrate."
"Nick if you howl in the middle of the street, i will lock you in the car for the rest of the evening." Judy warned, knowing damn well that the howling worked,
but there must have been tens of wolf's around the area. They would cause a massive scene.
"Understood. Oliver just take the name. It's badass, don't look so disappointed buddy." Nick assured.
"Yeahyeah, fine. But i get to complain about it later." Oliver mumbled and quiet moment settled between the six mammals.
"What is yours officer Wilde?" Hailie asked suddenly, making all the mammals wait for his answer.
"i am.. Foxtrot. Yep. It's sexy but dangerous at the same time."
Judy shook her head and spoke.
"Okay, let's get this started. Remember guys, ears and eyes open."
Everyone nodded and started to slowly walk into the crowd, every single one of them disappearing after a while. Nick and Judy stood there for a moment without saying anything.
After a while, Nick spoke calmly.
"They will do okay whiskers. Don't worry. You are good leader."
Judy turned her gaze to the smiling fox and smiled back.
"I know they will. I am more concerned about you."
"Me? How so?"
"Because you are about to embarrass yourself by having such a bad dance partner. I will stumble. A lot."
"Who cares if you do? All of us did that the first time. Just follow my lead."
"Follow your lead you say?" Judy grinned to the smiling fox but her smile went away when suddenly Nick gave her his paw.
"If we are going to act like one of the dancers, we have to stay in character. May i have the honor my lady?" Nick said warmly, hoping that she would take the unusual offer, as his paw waited hers.
Judy stared back with a bit of blush coming on her and slowly grabbed Nick's paw, melting under that charming smile of his as their eyes met.
"Good, let's get going partner." Nick said happily, his chest feeling warm as he felt her soft paw in his again.
"Okay..." Judy whispered quietly as they started to make their way to the festival, disappearing into the crowd of various mammals, ready to start their mission side by side.
THE FESTIVAL _
The things that mammals can do when they all come together for the certain cause, is incredible. Nick smiled as they finally reached the avenue, with the amazed looking bunny next to him. Judy could only marvel the beautiful sight ahead of her. It was really something to witness.
The whole area from the avenue and the central park was just like always, except they had built the dancing stages all over the place. There must have been about tens of these wooden platforms around the park, all already crowded with dancing mammals. All the different kind of music echoed around the area.
On some of the grass spots and under the trees were families on picnic, laughing and enjoying their time together. Judy could feel the scent of different grilled food's all around the magical looking place, making her marvel everything in smile.
"Nick... This is incredible."
"I know right?"
And the lights. They were all over the place. All different kinds of led lights and tree decorations filled the whole area. There was no cars on sight.
All the local streets were now topped with wooden platforms and stages for the dancers. The festival was way bigger than Judy had imagined. It was going to be hard to find the mobsters in this mess. They could be meeting anywhere on this large area, and they would have hell of a time to search all of it.
Nick didn't seem to be concerned on that point though. All the rabbit could see was the smug smile on his face as they walk'd on the park road,
clearly heading somewhere.
"Nick... How many times have you been on this festival?"
"Almost every year since i was eighteen."
"Oh... Is it always this crowded?"
"Indeed it is. You like it?"
"I have never seen so many mammals in one place at once. It's kind of overwhelming."
"There was the Gazelle concert, remember?"
"But this is way bigger."
"I guess... Oh, guess what i see now?"
"Mobsters?" Judy ask'd quickly, in full cop mode again.
Nick chuckled and signaled one of the local waiters to come their way.
"Food!"
"... Seriously?" Judy rolled her eyes as the otter waiter walk'd over to him and Nick picked some kind of piece of feta and fish from the tray.
"That... Was delicious. I do think we are going to have a blast carrots."
"We did not come here to eat slick. Focus now."
"Mmmmmm i am very.. Focused.." Nick muttered as he munched his food and stared at the smiling bunny.
"You better be."
"Focused on the salmon rolls. I need to find another waiter."
"We are never going to find any mobsters if you drag as to eat at every place possible."
"Better that way. You know how i think about mister Big."
"Nick, he does not have a grudge for you anymore. Why are you so bothered by him?" Judy asked in concern.
"In your eye's he forgave me. But i know that we can never be cool. We go way back. I did dirty on him. He is never going to forgive me that. Mobsters never do."
"How can you be so sure? He helped us in the night howlers case."
"Because they were your requests and you ask'd for his help. I just came along. If you would have not been present, things would be different.
He likes you. I was in his favors too at one time. I even dined with his family. And i screwed it up by doing something disrespectful. I seem to have habit of doing that. I disappoint."
"No you don't. You are not a bad mammal Nick.
You are a cop now. You saved this city with me. You always seem to forget that."
"You always want to see the good in everyone whiskers." Nick chuckled.
"Because there is good in everyone. Stop being so skeptical.
You are great partner and a great cop. And no matter what mammals think about you,
i know that you have a good heart."
She said it almost angrily, trying to make her point to him.
Nick smiled and stopped walking. He turned to look at the beautiful mammal who was holding his paw.
Judy just stared in confusion as Nick just stared at her with those emerald eyes again, clearly trying to say something.
She just stood there and waited as Nick started to speak.
"You know... You never answered Bogo's question back at the station fluff." Nick wanted to slap himself for once again bailing out on opening his heart to her.
But maybe it was for the best. Just stop acting weird and change subject.
"Huh? What question?"
"About your gun. You never did answer where you were going to conceal it, in that dress of yours."
"Oh... Ummm, with the suitcase there came all different kinds of holsters for the weapon. I'll show you. The one that i use now is concealed around my left leg. It's more comfortable than i imagined. Must be the leather they use. See?"
Nick stared at Judy raised her leg a bit in the air and he saw the gun holstered around her left inner thigh. But the gun was not the one that got his attention as Judy was excitedly talking about the holster. Nick saw that her fur pattern changed to snow white close to her thighs. He could see a peak of her black panties as she went on with the description about the gun. Nick had not listened anything she had said and his inner male felt butterflies as he kept staring the rabbit, trying to contain his nosebleed.
"- And they even said that the leather used to make the holster is one of a kind.. It's flexible and.." Judy turned to look at Nick for the first time and saw the fox look away quickly with innocent smile on him, like he was just caught stealing something.
"YES. LEATHER. GREAT. VERY NICE." Nick mumbled in panic and started whistling fast, making his steps forward the park road.
Judy was confused for a while and then took a look down. Was something wrong in her weapon? Then it hit her. She only now realized that her panties had been showing the whole time because of her revealing dress. Her face turned completely red and she quickly gained her posture back. Judy turned to fox who was only three steps ahead of her.
"NICK WILDE!"
"I saw nothing! I swear!" Nick laughed half scared, half in panic as he ran into the crowd of mammals with the bunny pursuing him.
Liar! I bet you planned all that!"
THE GRAND STAGE OF THE FESTIVAL _
(To get the full atmosphere, i suggest you always follow the track from Youtube as i say it, to get the full experience.)
"Aaaaaaand ladies and gentle mammals! Let us put some of our mood started with something groovy and smooth! I, Gregor Pawerton, will be your humble Dj of the evening at the Grand stage of our beloved music and dance festival! Now let's get this party started!"
Every mammal under the gigantic white tent raised their glasses and cheered as the cheetah bowed in his booth.
"Now let us get into the mood with Norman Brown, the grooviest bear of all time!" Gregor yelled from his booth, earning applause of paws as the song started to play around the large stage, making Nick smile as the song started. (Youtube: Norman Brown - West coast coolin)
"He is the best Dj every year. I love this guy." Nick said happily.
"Nick this place is huge..." Judy muttered as her eyes traveled above them. The large white tent took at least hundreds of meters of space. It was going to be really hard to find anyone among this crowd. And the stars were already making their way to the sky.
"Carrots, you have to try one of these." Nick said as he munched an olive and cheese mix with crackers.
"Do you do anything else than bother the waiters?
And seriously, we are not going to find anyone from this place."
Nick chuckled as he gazed the stressed out bunny.
"Relax carrots. Enjoy the music."
"Nick, we have job to do here. How can you be so relaxed?
We have zero idea where the mobsters meet and the clock is ticking."
"You bunnies.. Fluff, we will find them."
"How can you be so sure?" Judy asked in desperation.
"We have four mammals around the place looking for them. They will radio us when they see them.
Besides, the Levron guy told that he would like to talk to us. So he will probably try to look for us.
We have long night ahead. Many hours. So get that super bunny cop mode of yours on ice and enjoy the party." Nick smiled and snapped his claws to the rhythm of the music.
What Nick said made sense but Judy was way too stressed out to listen. Nick chuckled as she clicked her earplug and spoke. Same time Nick's earplug activated making him wince a little from the sound.
"Officer Hopps to the field, any signs of the vip targets?"
After a while of silence came buzz and they both could hear Officer Garnett speaking.
"Snowball reporting. N-no sight of the targets yet. Where are you located officer Hopps?"
"I am at the entrance of the grand tent with officer Wilde. We are going to keep looking.
Anyone else seen anything?"
After a while they could hear the lynx speak from the radio.
"This is Light-feet reporting. No sign of the vip's yet officer Hopps. I am located at the fountain area, about a hundred feet from your location. Will keep eyes out. Over."
"This sounds so cool. Hotshot, you got something?" Nick ask'd with his agent voice, like he was in a movie.
He even got Judy to smile even with her nervousness.
"This is Hotshot. Negative. Can't seem to locate any of the targets. Lots of area to cover. Over and out."
"Copy that Hotshot, we will proceed to find our Vip's. Foxtrot out." Nick said and his tail swished from excitement.
"You are enjoying this way too much Nick." She giggled as he straightened his tie and spoke to the earplug once again.
"Howler, you got anything?"
After a moment of silence they could hear odd munching noises from the other end.
"Officer Howlton, is everything alright?" Judy asked in concern.
After a while came an answer.
"Mfmffhmfh... Nope, Uhm, excuse me. I was just eating the tuna bread sticks..." Oliver explained in embarrassment.
"Dude, you have to try the salmon rolls. I swear, they are the best from the seafood." Nick told excitedly.
"Really? Sweet, where are they served?"
"Near the picnic area. They also have melted-"
"Nick!" Judy gave scolding look and interrupted drooling fox, making him laugh.
Oliver spoke again.
"Sorry officer Hopps! No sign of the targets yet. Will proceed with the locating."
"Picnic area." Nick whispered, making sure that Oliver would find the food. Judy rolled her eyes as she clearly heard him.
"Thanks bro... Oh crap.. I think i just saw my ex." Oliver whispered back like an idiot. Every single mammal on their line would hear what they said when the plug was on.
Lynx spoke suddenly on the line.
"Wait, that pretty wolf was your ex?"
"Yeah Light-feet. But don't talk about her. She is a complete-"
"KRHM." Judy cleared her throat, signaling them to stop talking about such things.
"Oh. Sorry Hopps. Nick i think i see the salmon waiter."
"Foxtrot." Nick corrected professionally.
"Right, foxtrot. Over and out."
"Males..." Judy muttered as he stared the smiling fox.
The silence came into the hall for a while as the song stopped playing and Nick ended up staring the silent bunny.
Judy turned off the frequency by a small click from her earplug and stared at the fox.
"So... No sign of mobsters. We have time carrots." Nick assured.
"I know... I am just a bit stressed out Nick... I'm sorry. This is my first big operation that i've led. I just want to do good job."
"You always do fluff. But right now all we can do is wait and blend in."
"... I guess.."
Suddenly they could hear the cheetah once again speak from his booth to the crowd.
"Let us get some speed up for this party with a bit of old classics! Next up we have us the soulful and our loved dog! Redbone!"
(Youtube: Redbone - Come and get your love)
All the mammals cheered and started to pick their partners for dancing. The widest grin came on Nick's face as recognized the song and turned his flirting gaze to the bunny, wiggling his eyebrows at her. Judy knew instantly what was going on his fox mind.
"Nick. I am not sure that i can... I would just emb-!" Nick grabbed the nervous bunny from her paw and took her in the middle of the crowd.
Judy tried to protest in panic as the smiling fox dragged her through the crowd for a while, making his way somewhere. Judy was not sure about the area but she was pretty sure they were probably at the middle area. This was not her idea of discreet undercover work.
After a while Nick stopped and they arrived to the small spot among the crowd of some bigger mammals. The violet spotlight pointed straight at the spot where Nick and Judy stood. This spot was craving for attention. The song went on as Judy stared nervously at the smiling fox next to her.
"Allow me, beautiful." Nick said warmly and smoothly made their paw as one. He then gently slid his other paw to her waist, making her blush and her eyes widen as he started to move. She felt like she was going in panic. Only thing that kept her from that was that damn warming and affectionate smile that Nick was giving her,
telling her to just relax.
"Nick i... What are you-YIP!" Judy yelped in surprise as Nick gave her a spin and the song started to play louder.
Judy felt like she was Nick's instrument in his paws, leading her all the time. He was way too good at this. Even with their small size difference,
Nick made it completely work. She could only stare in awe as Nick gave her another spin, and suddenly leaned her down almost all the way to the floor,
supporting her back with his strong arm. She gasped as Nick leaned in with that smug smile of his and winked to her, before raising her back to standing.
Where on earth had the fox learned to dance like this?! Judy could not to help but smile in wonder as Nick let go of her back and let go of her paw,
sliding a couple of steps away from her. Judy was confused at first but then the fox started to step closer to her again slowly, motioning her to come to him with his both claws while giving a playful smile. Judy started to move her hips and giggled as she stepped closer to the flirting fox.
"Nick what are you-" She giggled as Nick quickly stepped closer and took her another paw again. With smooth motion Nick pulled her tightly against his chest and raised their both paws up in the air, his handsome face staring at her only an inch away from hers. Her eyes widened and the blush hit her as he stared those emerald pools. But the moment was gone just as quickly as Nick gave her a quick spin, making her yelp in surprise. Nick made all kinds of moves, almost like playing with her. But she started to like it. For a moment in middle of all this, she forgot for a while that they were there for a work.
Finally, as the song was making it's way to an end, Nick gave challenging look to giggling Judy, throwing her in the air, making her heart skip a beat.
Just as Judy thought that fox had lost his mind and she was about to hit the floor, Nick cached her just in time with his both paws around her waist,
and gave them both a final spin before separating them both with one smooth step but still held her paw gently, smiling mischievously as the music stopped playing in the background.
"Thank you for the dance Judy. Ready for another one?" Nick said and bowed while still holding her paw, staring at the amazed bunny with a smile.
"Nick i... How did you.. What was.. I-" Judy was in complete loss of words as she stared the chuckling fox.
Suddenly her ears shot up as the roar of clapping was heard all around them, echoing all over their spot.
It took a moment for Judy to realize, that all the nearby mammals had clapped for her and Nick's little show,
whistling and shouting their amazement. Nick bowed respectfully to all the mammals.
"Thank you, thank you, what a great audience!"
"..." Judy stood next to him completely embarrassed from this sudden attention, trying to force a smile on her face as the mammals still clapped for them.
Nick just chuckled as he grabbed Judy by her waist, smiling as some mammals took pictures of them with their phones.
This was far from discreet operation now.
"Wait aren't those two Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde?!"
"They are! Oh my god!"
"Did you see how the fox danced?!"
"She look's so much more cute out of uniform!"
"Are they together?!"
"No way!"
"What is the police doing here?"
"Can i dance with him next?!"
"He is so hot in that vest suit!"
"Mom won't believe this!"
All this talk surrounded them as Judy tried to pull Nick out of the spotlight from his sleeve.
Nick gave confused look to Judy and followed her, escaping the spot and disappearing into the crowd.
"Carrot's, what's wrong?" Nick asked innocently after they had walk'd over to the nearest buffet table.
Judy turned around, giving a scolding look to the fox.
"Nick, we are drawing too much attention! This was supposed to be undercover job!"
"Eeeeh don't worry. Everything is fine. We aren't drawing too much atteeeeenntiooon.." Nick's voice went quiet and his smug smile was off in an instant as he saw a large shadow behind Judy. The bunny turned around slowly to see what had caught Nick's attention. She ended up staring a large polar bear front of her.
It was Raymond. Mister Big's known bodyguard. The intimidating looking polar bear gave a neutral look at the fox.
"Wilde."
"Heyyy w-wadap Reymond?" Nick answered nervously, trying to hide his fear.
The polar bear did not answer and turned his gaze to Judy, his expression was gentler now.
"Miss Judy."
"Hi Ray." Judy said happily.
The polar bear smiled for a moment before talking.
"Boss requests your presence. Both of you."
Judy gave questioning look to the fox and turned back to the polar bear.
"Lead the way." Judy said with determination and grabbed the scared looking fox by his tie,
following the polar bear through the crowds.
"Carrots, i have bad feeling about this."
"I don't. Trust me. Nothing bad is going to happen." Judy said casually.
"... I do hope you are right fluff..."
"And Nick..."
"Yeah?"
"Don't worry. I promise to dance with you again, if we have time. It was fun."
"..." Nick only gave warm smile as he followed the bunny who wiggled her tail a bit.
"Best night ever..." Nick muttered excitedly.
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WHOOooosh. Time for the..
AUTHORS NOTE !
The feels when you finally finished the newest chapter after coming from gym and you log in. "Heyyy, time for my upload, i wonder if there is anyWHAT THE F-"
I see 100 followers on my story with over 60 favs. I am officially done. You guys are awesome. I literally did spit my water to the screen. Took forever to clean.
I love you people. There is no way to express how awesome this is. Seriously.
Now for everyone i want to clear that...
I know i know, i told that this chapter was going to be longer. But after a moment of thinking, i knew that the whole dance festival was going to be way too big if it was all in one chapter. So expect the next one coming in couple of days. That's all. I hope i didn't disappoint :( ... Lol jk i don't give a-"
Aaaannd let's get to the reviews. These are always my favorites.
-Fox in the hen house- ... Horizontal mambo? What is that? (goes to google) Oh... Nice... Very nice. And hey don't be like that, i just like to tease as long as i can!
The fluff is... On the way... Maybe...;)
-oteran98- Yes i did! XD i make quite a lot of references to other movies in my chapters. It's fun!
.2015- Shady mammals all around, up to no good :(
-bsmith1138- nownownow NOW. Patience young padawan! XD
-Mathew5641- I love making the conversations between Judy and Nick. The cuteness in unstoppable! And thank you so much for your kind words! In Valhalla we shall meet!
-Balla-Rosa- Don't even start with this subject girl! i will drag you to war! No pineapple!
-Joe Walsh- Thank you! I try to do my best to you all :D
That's it for now! Next chapter coming within a week. Stay awesome people!
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