Episode 21 "New Wind"
ZPD _
"Come on Nick, hurry! We don't want to anger Bogo!" Judy ranted and practically dragged Nick by his tie like he was on a leash,
as the two mammals entered inside the ZPD through the slide doors. The weird thing that Nick noticed was that there was not so many mammals around the ZPD hall at the moment.
Must be because they were about ten minutes late already. He could have sworn that he saw Julia carry some files into the evidence room area, and was glad that he didn't have to face her today, especially with Judy around.
Judy on the other paw was really nervous about being late. Their passionate morning cuddle had continued far longer than intended, but Judy didn't blame Nick for it, since it was mostly her doing. The fox just kept pulling her heartstrings day after day ever since they confessed their love for each other.
He had been over flirty for so many months sure, but now that he finally had her... There was not one day when he wouldn't say something romantic to her,
and it made her feel like happiest bunny in the world. Who knew that under all that "never let them see that they get to you" act, had someone so sweet and caring inside? Even despite the lingering fear for being late the first time since she joined the force, she still could not get Nick's words from this morning out of her head. She was going to make sure to drown him into kisses as much as she could, after this day was over. She gave a loving side smile quickly to the sleepy looking fox, as she was dragging him still by his tie.
Nick groaned as the bright lights burned his emerald eyes from all over no matter where he look'd. The headache pills started to do their magic yes,
but it wasn't enough. Not even nearly. His body still felt like it had been through the longest jogging trip ever, his joint's hurting and his ears twitching from annoyance from any sound that was louder than needed. What a great day ahead. And he was going to get choked by his rabbit's hold if she would keep pulling him forward any longer.
"Sheesh whiskers, you can let go now, I'm coming... OWw..." Nick mumbled and begged Judy to let go of his tie. She did and turned around to give a bit apologizing look and spoke to the lazily walking fox.
"Then walk faster!" Judy pleaded with loving smile and grabbed him by his paw.
"Mmhhhh, easy for you to say.." Nick gave a little chuckle and he winced from another headache wave that loved reminding its evil presence inside his head.
As they came closer to Clawhouser's desk, the cheetah was looking at them both with large grin already, ready to start teasing right away. Oh no, salt for the wounds incoming, Nick thought. I would do anything to be at home right now... That would be the best thing ever... Well only way it could be even better would be the idea of having Judy scooped up in his arms under the blanket. The idea of that made him give a little dreamy smile, but he ended up wincing from the pain in his head again.
"Well, hello there you two... Omg... You two are holding paws!" Benjamin squealed.
"Benjamin, I am forced to drag him around like this. Look what I have to deal with... We are going to be more late than I thought... Bogo is going to kill us both." Judy groaned and let go of Nick's paw, who felt a bit sad that she had let go.
"You two are lucky. Bogo is in the meeting with someone, so he will be fifteen minutes later than usual.
You guys are gonna make it in time." The cheetah assured with smile.
"Oh, thank the heavens! Hangover mammals can be quite difficult.." Judy said with relieved smile and shook her head as Nick stared at the floor,
looking like he was going to fall asleep there, even after drinking his coffee.
"I can see. I am so annoyed that I missed the party last night, but I was in the movies with Noel...
No one told me that Nick knew how to party... Rawr.." Benjamin purred as he watched the walking corpse of a fox with grin.
"Did you like the picture I sent you this morning?" Judy giggled.
The cheetah nodded and wiggled his eyebrows to Nick.
"Oh I definitely did... Nick, would you and Oliver like to come over and have double date with me and Noel sometime? We would love the company.
You two are the cutest couple ever... Oliver might just push Judy from number one place of my shipping..." Benjamin grinned.
Judy smiled and rolled her eyes. This cheetah sometimes...
Nick felt himself blush a bit and groaned from desperation as he could already assume that everyone had copy of the picture about him and Oliver by now in their phones.
Why did life have to be so cruel? He would never drink again. NEVER. No more Blue Lagoon for me... For now. He then cleared his throat and spoke in his defense.
"Spots, I was drunk. Really drunk. So was Oliver. I don't have memory of that picture." Nick muttered.
"MHhhhm. It does seem very memorable to me..." The cheetah said as he look'd the picture again from his phone, making Nick roll his eyes.
"Oh come on Benjamin, you get to tease him later today, spare the poor hangover fox." Judy giggled as she kept guiding the zombie by his tie towards the elevators.
"Oh, I definitely will wait for that the whole day... Yasss..." Benjamin grinned playfully, making Judy shook her head and Nick want to sink under earth again.
Judy opened the door leading to the bullpen with the half asleep fox on her tail.
The thing that first took all Nick's attention even despite his slow brain state, was that the room was quiet as a graveyard. Nick stopped walking and gazed around himself,
scanning the room. Every single mammal had their head and arms against their desks,
using it as a pillow as most of them were half way to sleep, or just muttering something distant.
No one had even realized they had entered the bullpen. There was no sight of Bogo, and everyone clearly took advantage of it, some mammals already in deep sleep. So he wasn't the only one with this terrible fate. Everyone was looking like they would do anything to get out of work and back to their beds, some occasionally groaning from headache.
No one really seemed to be in the mood to talk, and for the first time Nick preferred that way. Everyone would be talking about Lagoon night tomorrow, but for now, no one seemed to have energy to even stay awake.
Well.. Expect Halie and Francine. Figures. He was about to give his morning greetings on the spot to see if he would get any kind of reaction from the group of dead looking mammals, until he realized who he stood next to... Oh god.
Oliver's spot was right next to the entrance.
Nick's eyes widened as he slowly as possible turned his head to his left side. It took only three seconds for him to face the Oliver's gaze, who was staring back at him with wide brown eyes, his face blushed as hell. They just stared at each other without saying a word. They didn't seem to know how to begin. Oliver had seen the picture, clearly. Nick felt like he should say something.
Anything. He hesitated for a moment and ended up mumbling awkwardly.
"I ummmm... You uhh..."
Oliver look'd away for a moment, nervously drumming the desk with his claws and muttered back.
"Dude I umm... How about we just... Accept it happened?... Let's just roll with it. Less painful. Right?"
"Yeah. Definitely. Right. Good. Lets... Do that."
"... I uhmm.. I just wanted to say that I'm... Not um... Just to make sure that you don't think I'm... You know.."
"I know, I know... Same with me... I'm not like that I-"
Suddenly they both quickly gazed at the bunny who had arrived only feet away from them,
looking at the scenario with teasing smile, clearly enjoying the awkward show to the fullest. She spoke as she was pretending to read invisible book in her paws.
"I, Nicholas Piberius Wilde, will take Oliver Howlton as my fateful husband-"
Everyone around the room started to chuckle and snicker loudly, clearly aware of Nick's and Judy's presence by now. Hailie giggled so loudly that she had to hold her stomach, waking Rasheed and Luke from their sleep, but only for a quick second. Even Judy could not hold straight face as Delgato and Fangmeyer also muttered from the front seats.
"Good one Hopps." Fangmeyer chuckled and Deglato followed after.
"Yeah, that was golden."
Nick and Oliver look'd away from each other in even more embarrassment, both wanting to die right now.
The fox could only face the small laughs and quick gazes around the room as he quickly started walking towards his seat on front of the room,
giving Oliver time to cool down as well. This joke was not funny. At all. Judy just had to do that. This one he would revenge.
The fox lazily climbed on his chair, laying his cheek against the desk and sighed deeply.
The bullpen was quiet once again, after the last chuckles settled down and some went back to sleep.
Nick could feel Judy bounce next to him, and Nick peaked with his other eye as the bunny was looking back at him with wide grin.
"Thank you for that one..." Nick muttered with annoyance.
"Oh, the opportunity was just so good. I know you are plotting a revenge right as we speak foxy boy."
"Smart bunny. I will make it good one."
"We will see." Judy said smugly and turned her gaze to the door.
Bogo was sure taking his time. They were lucky that he had a meeting.
Gave everyone some time to reload their batteries, at least a little bit.
The bunny's tail wiggled a bit as she was excitedly waiting for Bogo to come in the room any second now.
Finally, time for some action. Every single day away from chasing Levron and his notorious crime family was torture.
Levron was about to be in trouble now. She was ready to go out there again and make sure that she would get to the bottom of his plans, and keep her promise to lock him and his associates behind bars.
But for now, she had to take small steps. Their only way of getting back onto Levron's tail was trough Roy Briggs, and he was going to be hard to find. But they always seemed to have luck on their side, so she felt really optimistic today.
"Still having a headache?" Judy ask'd from the almost sleeping fox next to her.
"Mhhhhm." Nick hummed back and Judy gave a little sympathetic look.
"I'm sure that the pills will work soon. For now all you need is peace and quiet."
BLAM!
The front door slammed open, making some jump from their sleep and stare all around with fuzzed fur, their heart beating faster from this sudden loud jump scare.
Just as grumpy looking as always, Bogo was walking towards his podium, reading some kind of note on his hands, adjusting his eyeglasses a bit.
He didn't even gaze the room as he walk'd in front of his familiar place. Judy was wiggling in her seat from excitement, as Bogo cleared his throat. He raised his gaze up and spoke.
"Alright everyone, listen up-"
And there he finished, as he finally saw what was in front of him. Whole room of dead looking officers, almost everyone sleeping against their desks,
some snoring and some just groaning from head ache. Well except for Judy Hopps, Hailie Garnett, and Francine Pennington. All of the three females sat in straight posture, ready for the new day with smile.
Bogo gave a disappointed and angry look at the mammal graveyard, his eyebrow twitching a bit from Luke's loud snoring.
"Is this what I have to send to protect the streets of our Zootopia?
A bunch of alcohol reeking, ruffle furred officers that might fall a sleep in middle of their patrol? The fine protectors and mammals of honor and order?"
All of the three female officers gave a little smile as Bogo spoke his mind so loudly that everyone was sure to hear.
"PATHETIC..."
"MMrmrmh..." Most of the officers just groaned back as apologizing answer.
"This is exactly why I said that building also known as stupid Blue Lagoon was the dumbest idea of the century.
How am I supposed to keep up the ZPD's reputation when all of you look like this?
THIS IS A SECOND TIME THIS MONTH. You drunken bastards... I swear I'll have that place locked down at some point." Bogo muttered angrily.
Judy spoke.
"Bogo, they just had a little too much fun. I'm sure they manage to patrol.
Right guys?" Judy ask'd from the crowds with enthusiasm.
"Mhhrhrmmmmyeahchief." Was about the only answer Judy got for Bogo from the crowd of zombie mammals.
Bogo sighed and was far from convinced. He was only getting angrier. Judy continued.
"It was just ZPD welcoming party for Nick and Oliver.
They suffered the worst. But since we are working with our team today,
I'll make sure that at least they get themselves together." She assured.
Bogo gave a little frustrated nod but then he realized what she had just said.
The buffalo slowly turned his gaze at the sleeping fox next to her, who seemed to have no worry in the world at the moment. Judy already knew what the small devilish peek in the buffalo's eye meant.
It was payback time. Bogo was going to take everything he could out of Nick's condition.
The buffalo slowly started making his way towards the sleeping fox with his arms behind his back,
small evil grin peeking on him as he was standing next to his table.
The buffalo leaned down and roared next to his ear.
"OFFICER WILDE! HAVING A GOOD NAP AT WORK?!"
The fox jumped up in his chair, his eyes shooting open from fear,
and his ears ringing like someone had blown a bomb next to him. His tail had puffed up like he had been electrocuted,
his gaze shooting around in panic.
He could only hold his ears from the pain, as his gaze met with the buffalo's. At that moment he knew, he was fucked.
"... I..." Nick mumbled, still struggling to get his hearing back, trying to pop his ear chambers open by clenching his jaw.
"It seems that you are awake after all! GOOD! A focused officer is what I need!" Bogo spoke loudly, making Nick almost cry as the head ache crept back into his head. Nick knew that this was a payback but he had no energy to fight back. Not now. All he could do was to suck it and beg that Bogo would not yell anymore.
"AND FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, ALL OF YOU CLEAR YOUR POSTURES!" Bogo shot in annoyance, making the last snoring officer's wake from their slumber and take at least some kind of attention to the situation as best as they could. With poor success you might add.
"Chief I beg you... Not so loud.." Nick pleaded, feeling like he was going to die. Bogo gave a little grin and leaned in again.
"LOUD?! I'M SORRY IF MY VOLUME IS NOT PLEASANT TO SOME!
IF ONLY I HAD OFFICERS THAT WOULD NOT COME IN WORK, PRACTICALLY STILL ALCOHOL IN THEIR SYSTEM!" Bogo roared on purpose, making Nick almost cry as he held his ears down,
wincing from the pain and shutting his eyes closed tightly.
"Bogo, I think you made your point. Delgato and Fangmeyer seem to agree with Nick. Right boys?" Judy ask'd from the two officers next to them,
who both had been on the front line to suffer Bogo's yelling with Nick, both begging for Bogo to stop. They nodded furiously and Bogo gave a little sigh before continuing.
"They better. Now that I have everyone's attention, FINALLY... I get to proceed with the assignments-"
"Krrooooooooooh..."
The loud snoring was heard couple rows back, next to Hailie.
Bogo raised his gaze with intimidating look in his eyes, as he ended up staring at the sleeping red furred raccoon, who was snoring on his seat, still in deep sleep despite all the racket. Hailie gave a little scared look at Bogo among Nick from the front row, knowing that Bogo was about to kill someone if the last sleeping mammal would not wake up and fast.
Hailie signaled Bogo to take it easy and took her paw in front of Rasheed's face with bored expression, like she had done with couple of times before. The snow leopard gently pushed the raccoons muzzle closed, making him wake up after a couple of seconds and cough loudly.
It took him full ten seconds of coughing and to realize that he was in the room full of mammals, and one angry chief who was looking at him with the face that was asking him, "Are you finished?". Coonway gave a little embarrassed throat clearing, fixing his fur a bit and rubbing his eyes, before clearing his posture against the small bench.
"I have your full attention now Coonway?"
"Yes sir." the raccoon assured and Hailie giggled a bit.
"I had to do the muzzle thing for you again. Sorry." Hailie smiled and ruffled the fur on top of his head.
"Whatever..." Rasheed muttered back in embarrassment and the attention from the room went back to Bogo.
"Now. To the task's at hand. Officers, Delgato, Fangmeyer-"
TEN MINUTES LATER _
Bogo was waiting for the last mammal to leave the bullpen room, leaving only his special task team sit on their seats.
You could already guess that only Judy and Hailie look'd excited at the moment, waiting eagerly for chief Bogo to start with the mission objectives, or anything at all.
The buffalo was still going through the details, as in trying to confirm that his briefing was ready to go.
Judy gave a little smile as she heard Hailie scold her two best friends to not fall asleep again.
"Come on Luke, chief will speak any moment now..."
"Yes.. Wake me up when he does.."
"Zzz..." Was heard from Hailies right side, and she shook her head after seeing that the raccoon was asleep again.
"This is why we should had left the Lagoon earlier... These poor boys have only had five hours sleep at most..."
"It was impossible to get them out of that place... It was like dealing with teenagers." Judy giggled back.
"I know... Rasheed wake up! Don't make me block your muzzle again."
"I'm up, don't.." The raccoon muttered in middle of his half sleep state.
Judy shook her head and turned to look at Nick, who was just staring forward on the chalkboard with lazy eyes and dreamy smile on his muzzle. It seemed that he at least tried his best to focus on the case at hand, since he was reading all the details they had about the case on the board with pictures and important notes. There was all the names involving the case, as well as the timetables too. His smart fox mind was probably working on some kind of important clue about all of this.
"Well at least you seem to have turned for the better slick.
What's with that smile? You already have ideas how to proceed with the case?
Any smart ideas in that fox head of yours?" Judy asked with interest.
There was no answer. He really was focused.
Judy was quiet for a while and ask'd for his attention again.
"Hello?" Judy asked again.
IN NICK'S MIND:
"Nick... say when I stop..." his loved bunny said with half lidded eyes and flirty tone as she was slowly pouring maple syrup from the bottle on the plate full of pancakes. Nick was sitting in his dining table at his living room, following Judy with wicked smile as she was serving him breakfast.
"Do keep going fluff... Can never have enough sugar.
Are those vanilla flavor?" The fox asked warmly as Judy was shaking the bottle in her paws.
"Mhhhhmm." Judy hummed with half lidded smile and kept pressing the bottle until she realized that she had suddenly given the bottle too much pressure, making it accidentally aim a splatter on her pink gazelle hoodie. Now the front of her clean pink hoodie was all covered in syrup.
Instead of being mad, she kept going like it was nothing.
"Oh, woops... How careless of me... Now I have to take it off and wash it... Will you be a sweetie and do the laundry?..." Judy ask'd with flirting tone, making Nick's eyes widen suddenly as she giggled a bit and started to slowly bring the zipper of her hoodie down, giving naughty look at him while observing his stunned reaction. It took only moment for Nick to realize that the bunny didn't have anything under her hoodie, her delicate and snow bright fur revealing itself slowly to her. Nick swallowed loudly as he tried to fight staring at her body, but he couldn't take his eyes off. Judy suddenly leaned closer to him and softly whispered in his ear with warm voice, sending shivers through his fur.
"I'm such a clumsy bunny... Now I got syrup all over my fur..."
Nick felt his ears burn as Judy pulled the zipper all the way down and slowly took the hoodie off and dropping it on the floor, making Nick's brains explode from what his eyes were witnessing at the moment. He was close to drooling a bit at this point.
Judy gave a little nibble at his ear and whispered again.
"I know you like sweet things Nick... You want to be a good fox and lick it off-"
"NICK! Hellooo?!" Judy waved her paw in front of his dreamy gaze, waking him to reality. Nick suddenly swallowed a bit and cleared his throat, quickly gazing at Judy.
"... Oh umm.. Sorry. What is it carrots?" Nick ask'd fast with a bit hesitant smile, once again praising the fact that Judy could not read minds.
"Nick, we are all kind of waiting for you here..." Judy smiled and shrugged awkwardly as she gave a little side nod at Bogo's direction, who was staring at Nick with very visible annoyance. Nick felt the horror strike him as there was about to come another roar from the buffalo and he started pleading for mercy right away.
"Oh! Sorry! Sorry chief! You have my full attention now! Promise!" The fox mumbled but was careful not to sound sarcastic, because he would die from another scolding practice by the angry buffalo.
"... Good." He grunted after a moment and turned his gaze to everyone.
Everyone in the room gave some kind of sign that they were listening,
and Bogo cleared his throat.
"Now, as we all know, the team is back into action again. The case and investigation on Levron is once again open."
"YES!" Judy said happily, making Bogo give a little approving smile and continue.
"That goes to everyone that is associated with him. We are open to any kind of suggestions.
Any free time that you can take to think through the details or come up with suggestions, is always approved and welcomed.
Since we finally have quite a lot of info about the case and incidents that came around it already, we give one of these files to all of you. That is lot of trust to give, but I say it sincerely now when I tell that I trust every single mammal in this room."
He stated sternly as he laid six copies of brown folders on the desk.
Everyone stared at the pile and Bogo continued.
"All of these folders show the information we have for now about all of this, all the way to the details of the drug we found,
to timetables of arrests, all the names, and possible suspects that involve around this case. Everything. I can trust you find the safest place possible to hide this. It's not usual procedure to hand files over like this, especially since it's ongoing and crucial to not to be found,
but I need all of you to put your minds into it. Hopps was right. We have to get into action. There has been another incident."
Bogo finished and Judy spoke with worried tone.
"Incident?"
"We arrested two fighting mammals last night, next to Yellow state plaza, that is located in Sahara square. The place is brand new hotel,
that had its grand opening night. These two idiots were drugged up with the same substance we found from the system of the two mammals at the dance festival.
They were fighting in the middle of the street, throwing each other against cars, causing dangerous environment to the ongoing traffic and completely smashing one police vehicle to pieces in middle of their fist fight. Most of the mammals that had been on the grand entrance of the hotel,
had witnessed the whole thing, that had been going for good ten minutes before our units got to the scene. It took four officers to take them down with their tranquilizers. Needless to say, they scared lot of mammals. This has to stop. It will be only matter of time before city hall will start asking questions about our capability to do our jobs. With the new mayor in charge, it will take time, since he hasn't really stepped into the office yet... But it would be unpleasant first discussion with our new leader. We don't need any kind of unpleasant attention on our way, or angry mayors.
We have to prevent these attacks from happening. This case might be a key to all that. Just a speculation."
Everyone went quiet and suddenly Oliver spoke.
"Were any civilians hurt last night?"
"Thankfully no. They were smart enough to not intervene.
These random incidents seem to get bizarre. They don't make any sense.
But the most important detail about all of this is the one that took all of my attention.
Steve Levron was present during the scuffle. He was the one that was cutting the ribbon line in the hotels lobby. He owns the place. But it might be just random detail. We can't be sure. But needless to say, where ever he is present, something bad happens."
Judy look'd a bit angry for a moment. Levron was there too?
She thought for a while and spoke.
"It can't be coincidence. He was present at the dance festival attack too."
"He was... But are you saying that he is somehow connected to these fights?"
"He has to be." Judy added.
"You might be right Hopps, but the question why and how is much more puzzling.
What is there for him to gain by inviting mammals that randomly started to fight in middle of grand opening of his new hotel?
Only thing that kind of incident can give is unwanted attention and poor start of fame for a new business.
These two fighting mammals had no criminal record of any kind. They were part of the invited mammals to the party that was taking place at the hotel. This is all very confusing."
Judy had no answer to that one. Bogo always made good points. There had to be something they just did not see. Something that they had missed at some point. Anything.
"Just something to ponder about. This week will be fully dedicated to the case by looking at it now, so put your minds into it together.
That is what makes a good team. Now, to the tasks at paw. We have the leads that were suggested on the table last time. Roy Briggs is still wanted by the law, and owns very valuable information about Levron and his organization. He might even know something about last night's incident.
We have to find him. We have possible locations too. It's good that we can trust our citizens just as much as they trust the ZPD. And we need to keep it that way.
We had a call last night from Tundra town bar called Bernie's. The same bar Hopps and Wilde had stakeout at when the case involved Jack Garlow and Steve Levron for the first time. Someone called last night and told that the rottweiler was drunk in the bar, arguing with someone in the phone loudly. He left around the closing time, but the informant didn't know where. So I say two officers is enough to go question the bartender of Bernie's, to see if he can tell anything that would help us about Roy's whereabouts."
"I can take the place with officer Garnett. I know Bernie personally, so it might be easier for me to get something out of him. Just saying." Oliver suddenly suggested from the back.
Hailie gave a little hesitant look at the wolf and then Bogo.
"Sounds promising. Good to see that my officers are ready to go and eager.
You two take the bar with Howlton. Understood officer Garnett?" Bogo ask'd from Hailie.
The snow leopard gave a small accepting nod and Bogo continued.
"There is also one thing that was informed to us by the civilian. The same one in the bar.
It appears that Briggs arrived to this bar with a vehicle. He came around ten in the evening... But he left the bar on foot.
The owner called and said that the car is still there.
So at least he was not dumb enough to drink and drive. My best bet is that he is in one of the motels around the area, if we are lucky. But that might be just hopeful thinking. Fring and Coonway. You two seem up for the task. You two will search the vehicle that is parked near the Bernie's, to see if you find anything that might be useful. Understood?"
"Yes chief." They both said quietly.
Judy and Nick look'd a bit confused that their team already had clear missions, but what was there left for them to do?
The bunny spoke after a while.
"Umm chief-"
"Hopps, don't think I've forgotten about you. You and Wilde will take the lead that was suggested last time. Roy's sister.
Amy Briggs. I went through her files in the system, and they came out neat and clean. No criminal record of any kind, and used live in the small apartment located in Tundra town. It reads in the system that her new address is in Sahara square district,
close to Pyramid mall. She moved there about a year ago. You two go and interview her about anything she might know about her brother's whereabouts, or find out if she's been in contact with him in these near days. Anything that might be useful. Sound like task to be easily done?"
Bogo ask'd and raised eyebrow questionably to the bunny, who gave a little smile and spoke.
"Will do chief. What's the address?"
"Dynasty street ten. Apartment sixty-six. With good luck she might be at home.
Otherwise, you two have to contact her by cellphone or visit her at work.
She works in the Sahara squares kit-garden, near the Sahara square elementary."
Judy wrote everything on a small notepad with her carrot pen and nodded with smile.
"Thanks chief. I'm sure we find her."
"No need to thank me Hopps. Time is running and we need to find Briggs.
Get to work, all of you. I expect results today. Don't let me down."
"We won't." Judy said with determined look and gave a little shoulder bump to Nick.
"Right partner?"
Judy ended up staring at the lazy eyed fox who still had his dreamy smile on and swished his tail from side to side happily, clearly thinking something pleasant.
".. Are you kidding me?" Judy muttered and face pawed herself.
"Mhhhm, what?" Nick shot his eyes open and gave a confused look at the bunny.
"Did I miss something?"
Bogo was about to snap and Judy groaned from frustration.
"... Nick for the love of-"
SAHARA DISTRICT _
The warm sunlight rays and beautiful sand dunes filled the scenery as the two came out of the tunnel that led out of Savannah central. The streets were crowded with mammals, some jogging and drinking their cold water in the burning heat, enjoying this bright and nice looking day.
Nick winced a bit as the sun burned his eyes but relaxed after he put his aviators on, leaning his back against the seat and getting comfortable.
It was going to be easy day. Just interview Roy's sister, eat the largest lunch you can find at your brake, and kick back in the car. That's the plan at paw.
Just perfect. Maybe she even lets me sleep. Judy gave a little scolding look as Nick put his feet on the dashboard, sitting on his seat like a lazy king.
"Nick, seriously?" Judy scolded.
"What?"
"Feet off the dashboard mister. Mammals will see. It makes us look unprofessional."
"Wait, hold on. I got an idea." Nick mumbled and press'd the small button with his claws.
The same one Judy had pressed when she wanted to kiss on their yesterdays lunch break.
It took only couple of seconds for the windows to turn in the shade of black, making Nick's eyes relax and he gave a little satisfied hum as the car got a bit darker. He turned to look at Judy with grin who look'd nothing but amused.
"I love this thing." Nick said warmly and let go of the button.
"Nick, that doesn't... Ugh.. You know what, whatever... We are at Amy's place soon anyway... But don't even think about pulling the seat back, you will not sleep."
"Don't be like that carrots. I have really bad hangover. Let me relax a bit." Nick pleaded.
"... Nick, we are supposed to have full focus on this task, I can't have you fall asleep in our car. You are a police officer on duty, come on." Judy scolded.
"I'm not falling asleep, I have you as sleep blocker. I love hearing your voice.
Let's talk about something nice. That is how you keep me up." Nick said and wiggled his eyebrows from behind his aviators.
Judy tried to scold the fox again but could not hold her smile as the fox was acting like his dumb charming self.
"Okay, you take these." Judy said with smile and handed over her carrot pen from her belt. Nick raised his eyebrow and took it hesitantly and saw as Judy was going through the dashboard,
scooting his feet away to open it up. She took out a small notepad and handed it over to him as well. Nick held these two objects in his paws with confused look and spoke.
"Carrots, what are you-"
"You are going to be the one to take notes.
Anything important that she tells, you will write down on that paper. You also-"
"A, a, aaa. Whiskers, I said talk about something nice. By nice I mean not work related.
I swear to you, I will be on full focus tomorrow once this horrifying state is completely gone,
but for now, I want to hear something light."
Nick said and put the notepad and the carrot pen in his pocket, and turned to look at her with large smile.
"... Like what slick?" Judy giggled and rolled her eyes as the fox stared at her with that sneaky grin of his.
"MMmhhm, you tell me. Something that would soothe my state."
"You are not that badly in hangover anymore."
"You can't know that. My head still hurts as well as my joints, that I can assure." Nick said.
"Fine ummm..." Judy wondered what to talk about when Nick continued.
"Should we go and have dinner tomorrow?"
"Wh- what do you mean?" she ask'd.
"I want to take you somewhere nice." Nick said warmly.
Judy gave a little shy smile and spoke.
"You don't need to do that Nick."
"I want to. But I will make sure that this one doesn't have someone named freaking Garvia Defluff as it's owner." Nick said and rolled his eyes, spike of lingering hate against the asshole ram that had spoken with disrespect to his girlfriend.
That ram was lucky that he was an officer.
"Sounds good." Judy chuckled and suddenly she realized something. Dinner. Oh no. She had completely forgotten to ask him about it. He was not going to like this.
"I umm... There is this one thing that we should talk about... It's more like a request."
"You know that you can ask anything from me fluff. Tell me." Nick said warmly.
"I uhh..."
"Carrooooots, what is iiit?" Nick teased and Judy was quiet for a moment.
"... Well... Would you like to join me and Mister Big at the dinner next weekend?"
Nick went quiet right away, his expression changing a bit from smile to serious.
"... Why?" He asked calmly.
"I ... Well, Gerald asked if I would bring you with me, just for.. You know.. Clean start?.. I think he want's to be more close with you,
now that everything's good between you two." She assured with pleading smile. Nick didn't look happy at all. She should had known...
Nick was quiet for a moment and spoke.
"... Stop the car."
"Huh?" Judy asked in confusion.
"I said stop the car. I want to talk about this."
"Nick we are supposed to get to Roy's sister as soon as possib-"
"Judy. Please." Nick said with serious look, making Judy give a little worried look at him.
"It's okay, miss Briggs can wait for now, I just want to talk about this. Park over there." Nick said sternly,
making Judy feel a bit scared about his sudden mood change.
She should had not brought this one up.
Judy did as was told and slowly put her side light on, parking at the side of the sandy road, next to some palm tree garden on their right side.
There was a silent moment between them as Nick took his aviators off and put them into his pocket.
Judy just followed his movement quietly and after a while he spoke with a bit frustrated tone.
"What if I don't want to be in contact with him any more than necessary?"
"Nick-"
"Did he seriously ask my presence personally?"
"He did." Judy assured, earning doubting look from the fox.
"Judy-"
"He did Nick, I'm not lying." Judy assured, sounding accidentally a bit angry.
"What does he want?"
"Nick, he wants to have dinner. He want's to talk. That's all. Is it really so hard to believe?"
Nick was quiet for a moment and spoke.
"... I don't like this. You know how I feel about Corleone."
"I know Nick, but didn't you two agree that there was no more bad blood between you two? He told that he trusts you now. It did seem to me that you two were in good terms when we were at the dance festival." Judy assured.
"... And didn't I tell you to never trust a mobster-"
"Nick, come on, he is not like that!" Judy groaned.
"..." The fox was quiet for a while,
clearly not liking the fact that Judy was going either.
Judy then suddenly laid her paw on top of his,
earning questioning look from the fox.
"Please Nick..."
"I don't know carrots.." Nick muttered with sad expression.
"Nick, you wouldn't be there as my partner.
You would be there as my... You know.." She went quiet before finishing her sentence and blushed a bit as she look'd away for a moment.
"... As your what?"
"... Boyfriend." Judy said quietly and gave a little side smile to him.
Nick look'd a bit confused first, and Judy spoke again.
"I mean, we are coming out to the public this upcoming week? That was the plan right?
Like we agreed?" Judy asked with a bit careful tone, wondering if Nick had really been on board with their plan from the start.
Nick gave a surprised smile and spoke.
"Wait, this upcoming week?"
"... Isn't that what we agreed in the first place?
I mean.. You remember what we talked about on that couch?
I said a week then. It has almost been a week, but the time right now just doesn't seem okay, since there is too much hassle already. But I want to do it this next upcoming week.
That is far as I will wait. I don't want to kiss in the back alleys in secret anymore...
I mean.. It's romantic in its own way... But.."
"Carrots... I thought that when you said a week last time... I thought you wanted to just impress me. I'm sorry, but that's what I honestly thought... So you seriously want to-"
"Yes. I want to make it public next week. My parents keep pestering me about you,
and it's driving me crazy. I'm not even kidding... But I respect your opinion too...
Only for you, I can wait more... If you want to-"
"No." Nick said sternly.
Judy turned her gaze at the fox who was looking at her back with serious look and brushed her cheek gently with his paw.
"I want to do it too. Next week it is. It is decided."
Judy gave a little unsure smile and spoke.
"You sure-"
"Yes, one hundred percent. Week it is. I'm looking forward to it...
Wait, is this just a hustle? Maybe... maybe you are just trying to prove to your parents that you are a big city girl now?" Nick teased.
"Har har, really funny!" Judy laughed and rolled her eyes, clearly happy that Nick wasn't angry anymore.
"Or to those buck's that keep chasing your tail?" Nick teased again.
Judy was quiet for a moment and felt her blush grow as she wanted to say it. She took a little courage as she spoke quietly.
"Maybe... I do want to prove them one thing. To all these stalking bucks and my bothering parents..." She said quietly, her laugh turning into a shy smile.
"What's thaaat? What is there left for the most famous bunny in the city to prove?" Nick ask'd with teasing tone.
Judy look'd at the teasing fox with large blush just growing to her as she suddenly leaned next to his ear and whispered.
"... That I am yours."
There was quiet moment in the car as Nick's grin turned into blank and a bit surprised expression. Judy leaned away from him and took her gaze away from his for a moment. Nick suddenly took off his seat-belt slowly, his eyes determined towards the bunny next to him.
Judy could feel her heart beat faster as she gazed back at him, seeing that the fox was slowly crawling towards his bunny like an excited predator, loving smile coming to his muzzle as he licked his lips a bit. Judy's felt her ears burn as Nick came closer, making her back up against the door and feel embarrassed under his loving gaze.
"N-Nick, what are you-"
"Judith... You can't expect for a male to hear something like that from someone like you and just leave it at that..." He said warmly.
He had called her Judith... She could feel her chest run hot like it was on flames. Nick pressed a small button next to them to lock all the doors with loud click, without taking his gaze off from her.
The bunny felt her tail drum furiously against the seat as Nick crawled on top of her,
overshadowing her small body and making her feel like pinned pray under the smiling fox.
"N- Nick.. W- we promised that we won't do t- this at work anymore." Judy mumbled back but the fox was not hearing it,
only getting more excited from her attitude and leaning closer with his muzzle.
"Shhhh... I don't remember signing a deal on the paper.. Besides... You are mine... Right? I want to hear it again.
Whisper it to my ear again." Nick commanded with almost predatory hunger in his voice,
even surprising himself. Judy's face was red as volcano now, and she felt the devilish tingle in her panties strike like a lighting at that moment, when Nick spoke those words next to her like that.
She closed her eyes and mentally prepared herself for the incoming kiss by her loved fox but that was cut before it even started.
TAP TAP TAP!
Nick and Judy both almost jump'd against the roof of the car,
the fox's tail fuzzing up from the jump scare. He quickly leaned off from top of the bunny, straightening his tie and turning his panicked gaze next to his window.
Someone had tapped on it with a claw. Judy straightened her posture and felt her heart beat like a war drum, as she was trying to get a hold of herself and escape her turned on state by breathing very fast and trying to think of something unpleasant.
Nick rolled down the window slowly, revealing an old looking bear lady from behind the glass,
with wide smile on her face. Nick cleared his throat a bit and spoke like she didn't interrupt anything at all.
"Hello there mam. How may I be of help today?"
"Excuse me officer... Where might the local library be? I live in Tundra town and I don't visit this district often..."
Nick put on his charming smile right away and spoke in warm tone.
"Just across the street from Pyramid street and one turn to the left. You will see the great white building right away, with the long golden flagpole on top. Can't miss it. You have good day mam."
Nick said and gave a little charming grin of his to the old bear lady.
"Thank you sweetie." The bear lady said chuckled with smile and continued her walk towards her destination.
"What a handsome young male..." The bear muttered by herself and was gone in an instant.
There was an awkward quietness in the car for a moment and Nick rolled up the window with one button, turning his still a bit spooked gaze at Judy, who was looking at him back with a shy smile. After a moment she spoke.
"... So.. Does that mean that you accept the invitation to Mister Big's home after all?"
Nick's expression turned into snarky and defeated look, clearly bummed that bunny had no intention to continue from where they left off.
"Ughhr... Fiiiiiine." He groaned and earned loving smile from the bunny.
"Thank you."
"... Can we at least finish where we left off-"
"Nope. We almost got caught just now.
That's a wake up call for both of us.
No more making out at work. You are starting to make it as a bad habit,
and if she would have not come by, we would have spent about fifteen minutes of our crucial investigation time to kiss in the car."
"... I just wanted to hear you say it one more time like that..." Nick muttered with sad tone.
"What?" Judy asked with smile, since he spoke so quietly that she didn't hear.
"Nothing." Nick said back and Judy observed him for a while.
She continued talking.
"Amy's apartment is just around the corner. Let's not waste any more time slick."
Nick gave sad expression and muttered by himself as the bunny started the car again.
"... Want's a kiss-" Nick pleaded like a kit.
"Na-a. Bad fox." Judy giggled.
"... Hey carrots..."
"Yeah slick?"
"... Can we buy syrup and pancakes?"
"... Where does this come from?" Judy laughed at this random question.
"Nothing... Just an idea... Forget I said it." Nick muttered back and look'd out of the window, the dreamy smile coming back to his muzzle again.
"Mysterious foxes..." Judy giggled.
DYNASTY STREET 10 _
The fox and the bunny were walking up the stairs, towards the apartment where Amy was supposed to live.
They had already climbed all the way up to sixth floor when Nick started to mutter something to the bunny.
"Why did we not take the elevator fluff?" He huffed as they reached the right floor.
"I thought that you could use some exercise. Keeps you more focused."
"... Wow." Nick mumbled.
"Don't be such a kit, it's just stairs."
"... Stairs that took forever to climb up."
"Come on slick, the door is just around the corner. Most of the work done." Judy chuckled as they started making their way through the hall.
Judy was counting the numbers of the doors one by one, until they finally did reach the right place at the end of the hallway.
On the door it read, "Briggs". This was the one.
Judy gave a little smile to her sleepy looking partner and adjusted her uniform a bit to look official and neat as possible.
"What, are you going to make her jealous with your outfit?" Nick snickered.
"Har har... Just take out the pen and your notepad.
I think this is going to take a while." Judy shot back with grin and pressed the doorbell.
The fox did what was ask'd and took out the small notepad,
taking the carrot pen out too and spoke to her with grin.
"Does this one still have the recording in it?"
"What recording?"
"The one that says... I am just a dumb bunny." Nick teased.
Judy laughed a little and gave a little punch at his ribs from this joke. Okay that hurt.
"I take that as no..." Nick muttered.
There was a brief moment before a sound was heard from behind the door. A female voice spoke like she was in the middle of doing something.
"Just a minute!"
Another five seconds went and the door opened up.
"Look, I'm not buying anyth-"
The pretty looking female rottweiler ended up staring at the two friendly smiling officers on her doorstep.
She was dressed in the sky blue t-shirt and brown jeans. The first thing Nick realized was that she had exactly same eye color as Judy's lavender eyes. Almost identical. She did look really pretty overall.
There just didn't seem to be lots of facial similarities with Roy, but she was the same breed, that was sure.
The dog look'd a bit startled at first and sounded a bit confused about the situation.
"Oh... Hello officers... I- is there something I could help you with?"
"Yes there might. Nick Wilde, ZPD. Pleasure to meet you miss Briggs." Nick said with flirting smile,
handing over his paw to the rottie who hesitantly shaked it back, her confused expression turning into a bit shy smile under his charming introduction. Judy almost rolled eyes from this, clearly amused that Nick really knew how to pull strings when it came to talking to females. Sly fox.
"A- Amy Briggs. Pleasure to meet you mister Wilde. I have seen you in the news. Congratulations for being the first fox cop in Zootopia." Amy said with genuine smile,
earning a small wink from the fox who spoke back.
"Thank you kindly miss Briggs. I wish we didn't need to meet under the visit like this."
Amy gave a little shy smile as Nick let go of her paw,
feeling a bit bothered at the moment that Nick look'd way more handsome up close than in tv. After seeing Amy's reaction, Judy could not help but to roll her eyes.
She knew that Nick was like this to every female without deeper meaning,
but it annoyed her a bit since it made her feel the childish jealousy spike her a little bit every time.
Was there anything he didn't flirt at? He would probably flirt with a rock, if he hoped to find some answers from it.
"And with you is... Judy Hopps." Amy said with stunned look, almost like not believing this was happening.
"Nice to meet you Amy." Judy said with friendly tone and Amy spoke right away.
"T- this is incredible... I am really shaking superstar's paw right now." She said excitedly.
Judy gave a happy smile as she was shaking her paw, until Nick spoke.
"You really should have your own fan club whiskers. The one where you could tell every female how to dress and-"
"Shut it." Judy shot with embarrassed tone.
Amy gave a little surprised smile and didn't know what to say. There was a quiet moment of them just smiling, until Amy's expression turned into a sad look as she spoke quietly.
"This is about my brother isn't it?" She sighed.
"How did you-" Judy was about to ask.
"It's always about my brother. I'm kinda used to it.." She said and they were all quiet for a moment.
Judy collected herself and spoke with careful tone.
"We are here to ask some questions involving him, yes. Is it okay for us to come inside?
We can do this in the hallway too." Judy assured, trying to make the situation as comfortable for Amy as possible.
The female dog sighed and spoke after a while.
"No, it's okay. Do come in. I want to hear what's this about."
"Thank you miss Briggs.
We won't take much of your time." Judy said with warm smile, as she entered inside the apartment with Nick.
"... Do you have any coffee Amy?" The fox suddenly asked with flirting tone.
"NICK!"
Amy gave a little giggle and spoke to the fox with warm voice.
"You two arrived in good time. I just bought some."
"You seem like a girl that can make really good coffee." Nick purred, knowing that he made Amy blush as she taking out the ingredients from the kitchen cabinets.
Judy gave a little scolding side look at him and whispered.
"Can't you stop the flirting for one second around females?"
"It eases up female's mood.
Just a little sly fox moves and they turn into a putty." Nick teased.
"No they don't!" Judy hissed back with annoyed look.
"Mhhhm." Nick purred back.
Suddenly Judy's eyes widened and she felt her fur spark up and her ears run hot, as she felt Nick's paw gently fondle her tail with one long touch, making her mind tingle with euphoric feeling. He stopped only after three seconds and started to walk towards the kitchen table, like he had done nothing. Amy had been so focused on making the coffee with the machine, that she had not heard their little banter.
Judy could feel her mind ease after couple of seconds, her tail still wiggling from the lingering feel of touch in it.
Wait till we get out of here fox...
Just wait..
TEN MINUTES LATER _
Amy was looking dumbfounded as she was sitting on the living room couch, as Nick had finished explaining the situation to her. He had been writing all the details on the notepad for a long while now, but there was not much that she had told.
She was mainly just listening.
Nick kept going...
"... Look, I won't go into details, but he broke into my apartment. That is all I can tell among all this, but the thing is... We think that he is involved into organized crime family."
"I..." Amy didn't know what to answer as it was Judy's turn to speak.
"Look, miss Briggs... Is it okay that I call you Amy?" She ask'd with friendly tone.
"... Yeah." She answered hesitantly, clearly very overwhelmed about what was going on right now.
She knew that the only reason there was cops on her doorstep, was because of her brother. It had always been that way.
This was not the first time. But to hear all this... Of course Nick and Judy had not revealed too much about the events or Roy's involvement. All they had told was that he had assaulted Nick, and worked as bodyguard to dangerous mammals.
They had not mentioned Levron, but they had told that Roy is involved with Big player in the crime family that controlled part of Zootopia. It seemed like something Amy would have not believed from her brother, but she knew how his nature was.
He always kept secrets, wishing that she wouldn't bother herself with his troubles. There was no way that these two officer would have just accuse Roy for doing all these things for no reason. But to be tied into organized crime families... It was just lot to process for her at the moment.
She woke up from her nervous and thoughtful state of mind when Nick spoke again.
"Amy, we really need to find your brother. Have you been in any contact with him in these nearby days?
Has he called? Visited? Anything at all?"
Amy was quiet for a moment and spoke.
"N- No... He hasn't."
Judy spoke after a moment.
"There was call last night to our chief that civilian saw him drinking at bar in Tundra town.
He went there with a car but never left the scene with it."
".. Let me guess... Bernie's?" She asked after a while.
"Yeah. How did you know?" Judy ask'd.
"It's his favorite place. Used to spend lot of time there all by himself."
There was a quiet moment between the three and Nick spoke after a moment.
"Look Amy, we have to find him. He might even hurt mammals.
You know that he has ummm... A bit... Wild nature."
"Violent you mean." Amy said, seeing that Nick was trying to be careful as possible with his words.
"... Yeah. But I have actually met your brother more than once."
"Y- You have?"
"Yes. When he broke into my apartment, we did speak briefly,
instead of letting it escalate into a brawl... Well it kinda did but before that we spoke about things. He is not a bad mammal,
and one thing is sure. He cares lot about you. He told about ummm... Things... About his earlier arrests that involved your ..."
"... My ex?" She asked quietly.
"... Yeah." He answered carefully.
Amy was quiet for a moment after giving a sad look at the fox,
not knowing how to feel about that. Roy had told him about that day? Why would he tell thing like that to a police officer? She felt really confused.
It was weird for her to hear that Roy had told Nick how he had almost killed another mammal just to protect his sister. Judy didn't know what was going on but knew that this subject was sore. Nick just gave a comforting smile to Amy,
knowing that he should had probably not mentioned the incident that involved her ex and Roy swinging with knife.
Judy gave a sympathetic smile to the rottweiler as she spoke.
"Just give us a call if you hear anything from him.
Okay?"
The rottweiler gave a little sad smile and spoke.
"I..." For a moment she went quiet, almost like wondering something.
She look'd almost nervous for a moment but spoke again.
"I will... I promise."
Nick drank last of his coffee and laid the cup on the table.
Nick and Judy knew that this was probably good time to leave, since Amy didn't really have much information to offer. She was just as clueless as them.
The rottweiler sighed after a while and gave a little smile despite the sour mood in the room.
"Was the coffee good?" She asked with interest.
"It was wonderful, thank you." Nick said with warm tone,
earning a small blush from the dog.
"It was really good, thank you Amy."
"You are both very welcome. I'm sorry that I couldn't be anymore help than this." She apologized with sad tone.
"It's quite alright, you did help some. I'm sure we find your brother." Judy assured.
Amy gave a small smile and nodded.
"By the way, you have really nice apartment." Nick suddenly said as he gazed around.
"Oh, thank you." She said happily as she was escorting the two mammals to the front door.
She opened the door for them and the two mammals entered the hallway, turning around to thank her for the hospitality once more.
"Thank you Amy."
"Pleasure was all mine officer Hopps." She smiled back and shake'd her paw once more.
She then turned to grinning fox, her expression turning way more giddy as she met those half lidded eyes.
"Officer Wilde." She said and shake'd his paw, earning a wink from the fox.
"My pleasure Amy."
She let go of him and the two gave a little wave with their paws as Amy smiled and closed the door.
The silence filled the hallway and Judy spoke right away.
"Dumb fox!"
"What? Did I do something wrong?" Nick ask'd with grin.
"Whatever you rascal. Wait till we get to the car." She muttered back.
Nick chuckled and spoke as they started to make their way down the stairs.
"Is the bunny mad about something?"
"YOU TOUCHED MY TAIL." She shot with angry look.
"I was just proving my case."
"And I'm going to prove my fury on you..." She shot back.
"You mean cuteness?" He snickered.
"I will take us to salad paradise, no burgers for you." She shot with grin.
Nick's teasing attitude was away in an instant.
"You wouldn't..." He said back with horror in his tone.
Salad was the last thing he wanted to eat in his hangover.
"Ohohoo, I forgot that you must really want that burger...
Poor fox." She teased.
"Carrots, I beg you."
"Oh you will..."
"Mean bunny..." He muttered.
They had gone almost all the stairs down until Nick spoke again, trying to take her mind away from the plans of beating the fox in the car.
"Well... That could had gone better... We didn't make lot of progress today." He said with genuine tone.
"We didn't. But maybe rest of our team was luckier.
I have my fingers crossed." She said with optimistic tone.
"Hmmmm, I doubt it. Briggs isn't stupid.
He really knows how to stay hidden."
"I doubt that. Criminals make mistakes. That's why they always end up getting caught. I always catch them sooner or later." She said smugly.
They finally came out of the front doors, out of the large building. The broad and warm daylight greeted their fur and Nick continued their conversation and chuckled a bit.
"What do you mean? You didn't catch me.
You ended up making the criminal fox as your boyfriend."
"That doesn't count Nick!" She laughed.
"It does."
"No it doesn't!" She argued back to the snickering fox.
"Cheateerrr.." He teased.
"Oh, you sir, are getting in the car.
This time the window tints are on my side."
Nick swallowed a bit as he was about to open his side of the door slowly, when he suddenly realized something.
Judy was already on her driver's seat, looking at the puzzled fox who was going through his pockets and opened the door.
"Carrots... I ummm.. Forgot my notepad."
"Nick, I'm not going to use a fox in hangover as my actual training dummy... Much.." She teased with evil grin.
The fox grinned back and spoke.
"No, I seriously did forget it. On her table."
Judy's grin went away in a moment and she rolled her eyes.
"Seriously?"
"Yeaaah... I think I'll have to... OH NO." He said.
"What?" Judy ask'd.
"I have to walk all the stairs back up..." He groaned and felt like crying.
"Poor fox... You better get going... Your salad is waiting."
she said and winked.
"Mhrhmph.." Nick muttered with sad tone and closed the door.
I hate stairs. Especially today. How could I have been so dumb and forgot my damn notebook. What a cop I am...
"Please... Someone... Kill me..." Nick huffed once he was finally back at the sixth floor, holding from the rail and stopped to huff for air and leaning down for a moment.
"Stupid cardio..." The fox muttered and started walking towards the apartment.
After couple of seconds of walking, Nick finally arrived to the door.
This was quite embarrassing. He had given such a professional picture about himself,
and now he ended up looking like a ZPD trainee in practice. Just blame your clumsiness on hangover. Everything can be blamed on that. The fox was fixing his tie for a moment and put on his charming look and was going to press ring-bell, until he heard shout from the apartment.
"Roy, you start explaining to me what you've gotten into, right now!"
"For fuck's sake sis, keep it down. Do we have any coffee left?" The familiar voice was heard from behind the door.
Nick felt his eyes shot open. ROY WAS INSIDE THE APARTMENT. But how!? ... Had his sister been hiding him in the closet during their visit or something? That was the only explanation he could think of.
The fox felt his heart beat faster, as the banter was going on inside the apartment, and he could hear everything pretty clearly through the door,
since the apartment was quite small. He was sure about that voice. It was Roy. Nick felt himself breath a bit faster, once he understood what was happening.
He should contact Judy and the team right away with the radio. But instead he kept listening. He had to focus. They didn't know about his presence yet.
"Everything is okay, stop yelling. Do we have fish? You know I love those fish stakes you make." Roy talked like everything was fine.
"NO! For heaven's sake Roy, Zootopia's two most famous officer's were just in my apartment,
so everything fucking far from okay! They said that you are part of organized crime!" She yelled like Roy was crazy.
"Yeah it's true. Won't deny it. But I make more money now than I've ever made in my life.
You want a new car sis? I've seen your old rust bucket. You want Ramillac or-"
"What would mom and dad think-"
"DON'T-"
"ROY! Our parents didn't raise you to become a mammal that-"
"OUR PARENTS ARE FUCKING DEAD AMY!"
There became complete silence in the apartment.
Even Nick winced from what he was hearing, feeling like an asshole for listening this kind of conversation,
that was not meant to be heard for his ears. But he was doing his job.
There was a quiet moment in the apartment when Nick suddenly heard Amy started crying a bit.
Roy's voice sounded suddenly much more gentle than moments ago.
"I- I'm sorry ... Hey... Look I..."
There was a moment of silence when Nick heard her crying turn into small sobbing.
Nick knew that Roy was probably hugging her at the moment.
"Look sis, It just came... I.. I have been under a lot of fucking stress lately.
With these cops on my tail all the time-"
"Then stop doing the things you do and get a real job." She muttered after calming down a bit.
"You know that no one is going to hire me. Besides, I love doing what I do.
That's the harsh truth. Now, do you have those fish stakes? I drank lots last night and it took me two hours to wobble from Bernie's to here.
I was lucky that it was night. I could really use some breakfast. Aight? Can you make some?"
The female dog sniffed a bit and wiped away last of her tears after speaking quietly.
"Yeah..."
"Thanks. We still have coffee left?"
"... We do... But you have to explain-"
"Wait, wait... Levron is calling."
"Who?"
"UUuh, my boss... Don't worry about, look don't talk anything, I'm gonna have to take this."
The rottweiler explained and took out his ringing phone.
Nick took a moment to lean out of the door and then remembered something.
He had Judy's carrot pen with him. HE COULD RECORD THIS. It was too risky to contact Judy right now, because he had to hear everything he could,
just in case if pen didn't record.
The fox took out the small object and pressed record, slowly putting it down on the edge of the door, making it record through the small gab.
The conversation with Levron started.
"Hello?... Yeah... Tomorrow? Wait, let me write it down... South harbor...
Warehouse twelve?... Okay got it... What time? That late huh? Okay, I'll be there.
How much?... Holy shit, that's... How much money is that?... I... Yeah.
The boss want's to meet me? TODAY? Well hell, of course I'll be there.
I'm going to need someone to pick me up. It's daylight. Too much heat mister Levron...
Guy named Doug? Okay got it. Green van? Yeah, all good. I know the place. Yeah.
It's going to be quite a walk but I can make it... I'm at my sisters, near the pyramid mall..
NONONonon mister Levron, I assure you, no one knows I'm here... Yeah there was cops in here,
I was hiding the whole time... They don't know I was at the apartment, didn't even suspect it...
Was Wilde and Hopps actually... Yeah... Yeah heard everything... They were just questioning some stuff from my sister..
There was quiet moment and Roy spoke again.
"No she didn't tell anything and she won't... Yes, I guarantee it. Trust me boss...
Yeah.. I'll be there quickly. Don't worry, just tell this Doug and Simon guy to be there. Okay... I'll keep in touch."
The call ended and suddenly when-
CRASH!
There was loud sound of something thrown against the wall was heard.
"WHAT ON EARTH ROY?! WHY DID YOU DO THAT TO YOUR PHONE?!"
"So it would not be traced and shit... Sorry, it's a standard procedure... Cool right?"
"Nonnono, Roy, not cool at all. What was all that stuff you just spoke on the phone?
For heaven's sake, what have you gotten into?!"
"Shhhhh, don't worry yourself with that. Can I just eat the stakes cold? I gotta go sis.
My ride is waiting."
Nick knew that it was time to act. He closed the recording of the carrot pen and slowly put it in his pocket.
The fox brought his other paw on the handle of his tranquilizer, and with his other paw he took out his radio from his belt.
He pressed the button and whispered.
"Carrots..."
There was no answer.
Nick pressed the button again.
"Carrots! Can you hear me?" He hissed.
It took about two seconds for the radio to answer.
The giggling bunny answered.
"Nick, what on earth is taking so long with you?
And why are you contacting me with a radio?
It's not a toy-"
"Roy." He hissed.
"What? I didn't hear that clearly. Why are you whispering?" Judy asked in confusion.
"Roy Briggs. He is in the apartment."
"... Nick, stop playing games, what are you-"
"Judy. Roy Briggs is in the apartment. Right now.
He is going to leave. I will tranquilize him. Signal all of the team to get here.
Now. This is not one of my jokes." He hissed with nervous tone.
"Nick, are you one hundred percent sure that it's Roy-"
"It is. I'm going to arrest him. He doesn't have place to escape. But we need backup.
I might have to dodge some knifes if I miss my shot... Wish me luck.." He exhaled.
"... NICK, WAIT! I'M COMING UP THE STAIRS NOW!" Judy suddenly yelled in panic and stormed towards the building like a lightning with tranquilizer in her paw.
"COONWAY, FRING, HOWLTON, GARNETT! DRIVE TO THE SAHARA SQUARE RIGHT NOW!" Judy yelled in her radio as she started making her way up the stairs as fast as she could.
"WE WILL BE THERE IN FIFTEEN MINUTES!" Oliver yelled back in the radio.
Five floors up Nick's ears perked up, when he heard a voice speak from the apartment.
"Wait... Can you hear that?"
"Hear what?" Amy asked in confusion.
"Something is not right... Wait.. Is someone behind your door...?" Roy suddenly asked.
Nick's eyes shut open and the adrenaline spiked him in that instant.
He backed away from the door just for second, and kicked it with his foot, using as much power as he could.
CRACASHH!
The door's frames smashed into pieces, and the door slammed against the wall.
Amy jumped like her tail had caught on fire, dropping her coffee cup on the floor and smashing it into pieces from the jump scare.
"NO WAY!" Roy stood up from his seat and ended up staring at Nick Wilde in the eyes, as he raised his tranquilizer to his direction.
"My door!" Amy yelled with panic and Nick gave a little apologizing look at the female dog.
"Sorry. ZPD will cover the bill of that one."
Nick then turned his gaze from stunned Amy to the male rottweiler, who was standing behind the table,
with only his jeans on. Roy took a quick side look at the chair next to the front door. Nick gave a side look at the chair and saw what was on it. His black leather jacket. All his knives were in it. Nick look'd back at the panicking rottie with a little grin and spoke.
"Hi Roy. Long time no see. Be a good guy and raise those paws up for me buddy.
We are going to have long talk. Again." He commanded.
Roy had no intention to do what was told, not moving a muscle.
Nick didn't want to take any chances and prepared to shoot.
The shock loading sound was heard from the gun, readying itself for full blast towards the dog.
Roy's eyes widened from horror as he yelled.
"FUCK MY LIFE!"
The dog grabbed the table quickly and flipped it over, just as the blue lighting was unleashed from the gun.
ZHRACK!
The bright shock struck the table, ending its journey and leaving smoking black spot in the middle.
There was moment of quietness in the room as Amy followed the situation with horror on her face.
Roy carefully peeked from behind the table, realizing that he had blocked the shot with pure luck.
Nick look'd just as stunned as the confused dog after realizing that he had screwed up the shot.
The dog look'd quickly away from Nick and at the window next to him, and then back at Nick. The fox spoke carefully.
What was he going to-
"Roy what are you-"
"I'll pay for the window sis! Gotta go fast!" He yelped and charged towards the window.
They were on the sixth floor. Nick's eyes shot up in panic as he yelled after the dog.
"ROY! NO!"
The dog jumped through the glass without fear, shattering it to hundreds of pieces. But he didn't fell.
It took Nick a moment to understand what had happened in middle of his crazy thought that Roy had jumped into suicide,
rather than getting arrested. Roy gave a wicked smile to the fox who realized that there was metallic fire escape stairway, leading down at the side of the building. Roy spoke with amused tone.
"Dude, I'm not THAT crazy. Amy, I'll send the check in the mail!" He laughed and without a second, and he started running down the stairs and yelled again after him.
"See you around Nicky boy! Better luck next time! I'm out!"
Nick shook his head and stormed after the dog with challenging grin on his muzzle, while he was loading his gun to full charge again.
He muttered loudly in frustration as he jumped out of the broken window after the rottweiler.
"This is exactly why I need two guns! Stupid loading time!"
THE CHASE _
Nick was running down the metallic stairway down as fast as he could,
knowing that Roy didn't have lot of head start. He was only two floors ahead of him,
running for his life as Nick was determined to catch him. Roy knew that Nick had full charged blast soon. He didn't even have his knifes. He was in the worst possible situation now, and it was only matter of time before Hopps was in the scene too. It was a race against time now. He had to reach the van.
"For heaven's sake Roy just surrender!" Nick huffed as he was halfway down the stairs.
"The hell with that!" The dog yelled back.
The dog reached the last floor, ending up staring at the ladder that led down the last two meters.
Would take too much time. Now was the great time to put those parkour skills in use... Well the ones he had seen from tv.
Roy embraced himself as he jumped over the rail, trying to make best landing possible. He jump'd in the pile of trash bags with a spinning flip, but ended up landing on his butt on top of a bag full of something hard. The dog yelled in pain.
"OW FUCK MY TAIL!" The dog whimpered and stood up fast, limping for a moment and holding his tail in pain as he started running again.
"Freaking ninja dog..." Nick mumbled as he reached the ladders too. Just as he started to climb them down fast, he heard a yell from the sixth floor. It was Judy's voice.
"NICK, WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING!?"
Nick turned his gaze back at the upper levels, seeing the small bunny on the corner of the rail.
"Trying to catch Briggs, as you can see!" He yelled back with sarcastic tone and hopped off from the ladder.
Judy gaze at the alley and saw as the shirtless mammal was running towards the main streets.
Her eyes glued to the target and she took a quick look at the rain gutter pipe that was leading all the way down.
"Right behind you!" Judy yelled but Nick couldn't hear her anymore.
Time to put her acrobatics to use. She took a boost of speed from the rail and tied her arms around the pipe,
sliding down two times faster than Nick and Roy had. Being Sometimes lightweight bunny had its own perks.
Nick arrived in bright daylight from the dim lighted and dirty alley, gazing around the streets to see where the dog had possibly went.
The streets were crowded with mammals, making it very hard for Nick to locate the runaway dog.
Suddenly he saw someone put on full breaks on the main road. The yellow car had stopped just in time before the impact.
Roy peeked through his paws and saw that he had been lucky twice this day. Nick loaded his gun with the full charge and pointed it at the dog.
He had to get perfect aim when Roy was still gathering his bearings. Just a little to the right...
"ARE YOU FREAKING MENTAL DOG?! I COULD Have KILLED YOU JUST NOW!" The otter yelled in anger from his yellow car after rolling down the window.
"THIS IS A FREAKING PEDESTRIAN CROSSING! ARE YOU BLIND?!" Roy yelled back with anger and pointed his claw at the ground.
Everyone from the sidewalk's were following this sudden episode in confusion. Nick could have laughed in any other situation,
because even as Roy was running from the police, he was still picking a fight with some mammal in between, completely forgetting him.
"I'M BLIND?! YOU WERE RUNNING OUT OF NOWHERE WITHOUT WARNING YOU DAMN IDIOT! AND WHERE THE HELL IS YOUR SHIRT?!"
Roy grabbed the front of his pants with his paw and gave a middle finger to the otter with his other paw.
"DUDE YOU CAN SUCK MY BIG-" Roy was about to finish but his side eye then caught the fox, who was aiming at him directly, the blue shock leaving the gun any second now.
"OH SH-"
The dog ducked down on the hot asphalt just in time.
The electric shock missed the top of his head just with couple of inches and hitting the palm tree on the other side of the street.
Nick gazed at his smoking gun with annoyed look and groaned.
"This day just keeps messing with my head..."
The dog jumped up from the asphalt and stormed on the other side of the street, continuing his getaway as fast as he could. That was way too close. The otter yelled after him how he was going to beat him up if he ever saw him again.
"Everyone, move! ZPD!" Nick yelled and signaled the confused and amazed looking mammals to get out of his way, as he stormed after the dog and crossed the road, leaving everyone talk loudly right as he was gone.
"THAT WAS OFFICER WILDE MOM!" Some kit yelled excitedly from the crowd.
"He look'd way more handsome up close." Some female jaguar's muttered as their gaze still followed the running fox, who disappeared in the palm tree park through the large bush gate, that Roy had went through just a second ago.
"You think he's going to catch him?" Some giraffe ask'd from his girlfriend, when suddenly a bunny stormed through the street, also yelling to everyone as she was crossing the road after the two mammals before her.
"ZPD! COMING THROUGH! SORRY!"
The incredibly fast bunny was gone just as fast as she arrived, making everyone look after her in amazement.
"WAS THAT JUDY FREAKING HOPPS?!" Some hippo yelled.
"This is the coolest day ever!" Some small bunny kit yelled with his friends.
Nick was running after the panting rottweiler through the gardens with the tranquilizer on his paw, still loading the new shot. Roy was not giving up easily.
This was the most frustrating chase of his short career, and the hangover just made it worse. He was reaching for him sure,
but not fast enough. Besides, Roy would have his getaway car ready at some point, ready to pick him up. But he didn't have the slightest clue where.
Roy huffed as he jumped over some bush fence with a perfect roll, spitting the soft sand out his muzzle as it was all over his fur now.
Nick leaped over the fence as well, yelling after the dog in frustration.
"Roy, I have the worst hangover ever, please just stop running!"
"You too?!" Roy shot in amusement and kept running towards the center of the park.
The dog hopped over another bush fence smoothly, but ended up landing right on top of someone's decorated bush, stomping it into pile of grass. Some hippo that was cutting other figures from the bushes nearby with large scissors yelled to the dog in anger.
"WHAT THE HELL?!"
"Oh sod off, it's just a bush dude!" Roy yelled back as he kept running forward towards the water fountain area, that was located in the middle of the park. It was crowded with mammals. Perfect place to try to lose the fox from his tail. Only little longer, and he would reach the van. They better be ready to leave the scene fast.
Nick knew what Roy was trying to do and picked up his speed as much as he could, jumping over the fence smoothly as well.
He ended up stomping the same statue that Roy had jumped on. The hippo roared from anger.
"OH YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING-"
"Sorry!" Nick winced with embarrassed voice after him, as he heard the hippo yell about cursing their families forever.
The dog reached the fountain area and ran into the vast crowd of mammals, becoming one with the mass.
Nick huffed as he reached the area and put his tranquilizer back to his pocket. There was no way that he could shoot with his gun without possibly missing again and stunning some other mammal by accident.
The fox collected his breathing for a moment and stormed in the middle of the mammals. It was going to be very hard to find Roy in middle of all this. Maybe impossible.
"Put your shirt on!" He heard some panther lady yell from the crowd.
Or not. Roy made it quite easy actually. Nick ran towards the place and it took him only moment to see the dog shove mammals out of his way,
earning angry shouts after him as he knocked down couple of other dogs. Suddenly Nick heard someone contact him with the radio. He didn't answer. There was not time.
"ZPD, MAKE WAY!" Nick kept shouting at the mammals as he made his way through the masses, earning surprised looks and gazes.
"Nick!" He heard Judy's voice yell from the radio.
The fox took his radio off his belt and yelled to it.
"Carrots, I'm kinda in the middle of something!"
"Nick, I can see you from here! Briggs is heading towards the exit gate!
I know you can reach him Nick! There is a gap with no mammals around after ten meters!
He will reach the main gate soon! You have clear shot after six seconds!" The bunny yelled in the radio and stormed into the mass of mammals,
only twenty meters away from Nick's location.
Nick's eyes shot open with determined look as he was reaching for his tranquilizer. Six seconds. You got this.
Don't miss this time.
Roy saw the green van wait at the entrance of the park,
with driver sitting casually on his front seat with his window rolled open and some other mammal, a tiger smoking a cigar, leaning against the van's side door.
They both were chatting casually about something, not knowing about the storm that was heading their way.
"So I tell this guy to knock it off with the sales,
since he was clearly making stuff up... You always have to be honest when it comes to business." The tiger said to the ram that was sitting on the front seat with bored expression.
"Well Simon, it can't be that bad if-"
"GOGOGOGOGO!"
They both gazed in confusion at the dog that was running towards them through the park,
like the devil himself was chasing at him. The tiger raised an eyebrow to the rottie, who was almost at the car by now.
"ZPD! ZPD AFTER ME!"
The Tiger and the ram look'd at each other with quick look,
wondering if they had heard right.
"OPEN THE DOOR NOW-"
ZPPPPTT!
The shock hit the back of the rottie,
and his fur puffed up as the large electric shot hit him from behind,
making him fall down to the ground, a couple of feet away from the tiger.
He was out of the game now and was moving nowhere.
The tiger raised his puzzled gaze at the source of the blast and saw the fox officer point at their direction with his steaming gun.
The ram and the fox met their gaze and Nick could not believe his eyes.
It was Doug. The same ram that had work'd with Bellwether. The panic hit the ram and he shouted in fear to the tiger.
"SIMON, GRAB HIM FAST! WE HAVE TO GO BEFORE THE BUNNY GET'S HERE!"
The tiger acted right away and opened the slide door quickly, running to the rottie.
Nick acted quickly too and ran towards the green van, readying himself for the brawl.
"ZPD, DON'T MOVE!" He shouted.
The tiger grabbed the unconscious dog from the ground,
lifting him up and taking him towards the van, like the quickly approaching fox possessed no danger at all. The tiger threw the rottie in the van and turned around to look at the fox who was only couple of feet away from him now.
"COME ON SIMON, LET'S GO!" The ram yelled to the tiger who was looking at the fox with amused look.
"Wait Doug. I want to see what this guy can do." He gave a challenging grin and snapped his neck a bit to the side,
adjusting his fingers with loud pops and grinning at the fox who was ready to jump on him.
"Come on Wilde, let's see what you got." He chuckled as the fox was preparing to hit him.
The fox took as much power as he could and hit the tiger straight into his stomach.
It took him only a second to realize that his stomach was so muscled up that it felt like a stone wall.
Nick felt his paw crunch loudly and he winced from pain as the tiger gave no reaction at all. Well he did huff a bit but only thing that his punch was going to leave was a bruise.
Nick took a step back and look'd at his paw. He might had broken one of his fingers.
The fox slowly gazed at the huge tiger with painful expression and spoke.
"... OW." He said and felt a small tear of pain peek in the corner of his eye.
"Tsk, tsk. I expected more... Allow me to demonstrate." The tiger grinned and with only one second he gave a strong punch straight in the middle of his nose, every possible breaking it. Nick took a step back and held his nose, that started to bleed furiously. It took only one second for him to peek with his eye, until he saw the other, much stronger punch come straight to his eye, making him fall down on the ground like he had been hit with the hammer.
The fox felt his gaze go a bit black and his head ring, as he tried to process what had just happened.
Was he hit by a truck? Or over-sized bodybuilder tiger? No idea but one thing was sure, he was seeing stars at the moment.
"Now we can go Doug." He sighed with disappointed tone and was about to enter the van.
Nick mumbled as he somewhat gained his bearings back, speaking to the tiger quietly.
"You hit like a female." he chuckled as he was trying to rise from the ground, but couldn't.
The tiger turned around to look at the corpse of the fox and spoke with grin.
"Come again?"
"You are about to get hurt." He grinned and winced from the pain in his head.
The tiger roared from laugh and held his stomach as he felt like he had heard the funniest thing ever.
"Does the tiny fox want a rematch?" He ask'd with mocking grin, preparing for another punch, and this one was going to put Nick to sleep for sure. Nick just grinned and spoke.
"Nope. But she does."
"What?" The tiger asked in confusion and got his answer only second after, as the electric shock hit his chest, blasting him with so much force that his numb body flew inside the van, on top of the already unconscious dog.
Judy was standing at the same spot where Nick had moments ago, running towards the green van after successful shot.
"ZPD!" She yelled and the ram acted quickly. He pressed the button from the panel that shut the side door closed,
and pressed the gas pedal as much as he could. Judy had no chance to catch him now. They were far gone, and she didn't even catch the license number.
"OH SWEET CHEESE AND CRACKERS!" Judy yelled in annoyance as she could only follow with defeated gaze as the van disappeared behind the corner. That van was really fast.
Briggs got away. Again. Judy felt the anger take over her, feeling like she failed once again.
"Bogo is going to kill us!" She yelled in annoyance.
"... He won't." Nick chuckled as he was trying to get up from the ground with poor success.
"Nick!" Judy suddenly gasped, and ran to her wounded boyfriend, whose eye was already taking a black color around it. His nose was also bleeding furiously.
He had taken one hell of a beating. Judy spoke to the fox who was laying on the ground with concerned voice.
"Oh my god Nick, you dumb brave fox, you might have concussion!" She yelled in panic.
"IIii don't have concussion fluff... But I have something you might like..." He chuckled.
"Stop talking Nick, you might even have to go to the hospital! You are bleeding so much!" Judy mumbled in panic as she was brushing his cheek and trying to block the bleeding from his nose with her paw. What was he thinking going against tiger that was three times his size?!
She took the radio off from her belt, ready to call for Oliver and others if they would be here any moment now. Nick was going to need the first aid kit. But at least he was able to talk so that was a good sign.
"Nothing that kiss can't fix..." He smiled.
Judy shook her head and suddenly Nick handed over a small object to her. Judy took her carrot pen in confusion and spoke.
"Nick?"
"In that pen, we have the reason why Bogo will not be angry.
I recorded a full phone call between Levron and Briggs with it..."
"W- what? Really!?" Judy ask''d with stunned voice.
Nick nodded with warm smile and spoke.
"I think our case just had the biggest lead so far. You are welcome beautiful..."
Judy look'd at the pen and then at the fox with amazed look.
"I- I think I've earned my burger instead of salad now?... I'm really hungry." Nick muttered and felt the stars still dance around his gaze as he kept looking at the bunny with goofy smile.
If there would have not been all these civilians looking at them right now,
Judy would have kissed him right there and then. If what he said was true, all of this was worth it after all.
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AUTHORS NOTE _
FINALLY! I DID IT! LONGEST CHAPTER SO FAR! WOHOOO!
Sorry that it took so long to write! XD
without further a due, I will answer to the reviews.
-Fox in the hen house- I know, they are dirty as hell!
-Tr2085xo- Yeah, I love that one too! Should use it in real life sometime :D And about Julia... Well you might be right..
Thank you for enjoying the chapter!
-jamdea- There are many protagonists in my story. LOT OF THEM. And about Julia and the photographer being connected? Maybe... You might be onto something here.
I love that people are actually following the plot, since it's one of my strongest points. And about the photos, don't worry... You guys will love it.
-Soildier- Thanks, I'm glad I got the emotions and the atmosphere just right! And about him being stuck well... He want's to be stuck with her.
I mean it's Judy after all XD.. But who knows, everyone who falls in love, might always just say the sweetest things in the heat of the moment.
Anything can happen. Love is rarely perfect.
-KevinStoner- Thanks :d
-Dagonn- Lmao XD and about the Blue Lagoon, I didn't even know that. That's cool! I just figured it sounded like awesome name for a night club.
And thank you!
-Wildhops- I hope this was long enough! :D And thank you for saying you love my story, it means much to me.
-Blues- I... I don't know what to say... I was close to getting emotional here... That was.. Wow... I mean... you just drove me speechless.
That was one of the most incredible reviews Iv'e gotten. Thank you from the bottom of my heart dude! I mostly want to thank about how you said that It's like a continuation to the orginal Zootopia but with adult themes, because that is just what I wanted to create! I mean... The movie in itself alaready felt a bit adult driven with it's humor and the message, and I loved it! ( Most of the Zootopia fandom are actually from 16 to 30 years old!) I mean, and the thing is,
I didn't want to chage too much things. I didn't want to make it too dark either! There is concept of death of course, but murders in Zootopia are very rare, and there is no such things as actual lethal firearms and such... That is what I aimed at. But anyway, I'm just rambling now. Thank you once again for you review! You are awesome!
-Mathew5641- I know, and I can actually picture Nick being very loyal to Judy in relationship. He was a big softie from the inside in the movie anyway! :D
-brazilianguy14- No problem!
Phew! Thank you all for once again for following my story and enjoying it so far! ( Seriously I think I had a heart attack when I saw that I had freaking 220 followers and 150 favs! That is so freaking much! O_o I love you guys!
See you all soon! I hope you all enjoyed this one!
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RANDOM DON'T READ _
What do you call a fake noodle?
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