Nick opened his sleepy eyes to reveal his love. She slept a little ways from him with PJ's on holding her stuffed animal close to her chest. The sight and smell she carried were not like any other. This was one sight he would never get used to. Judy happened to open her eyes around the same time he did. Her eyes opened sweetly and she let out a little smile. Nick gave his casual slick smile, "Morning Carrots." "Hey Nick," She responded with a cute yawn. "Ready for a new case?" He shrugged as he rose from the bed, "If we have any information or has a case yes." She also rose from the comfort of the bed. "We should have plenty of information. Easy!"

Judy grabbed her police clothes from the side of the bed. "I'll go change, be right back." Nick nodded and she left the room, when she was gone he grabbed his clothes from the top drawer and as he finished putting on his clothes, he smiled at the bottom drawer knowing his ring was in there. Afterwards he proceeded to walk out of the room, Judy hadn't changed just yet, but she would be out soon. He sleepily blinked his eyes, waking up this early was not his favorite. But whatever, he was getting a little more used to it as time went on. When he did cons, he would wake up early many days to head out, so he was semi used to it.

As he thought Judy came out of the bathroom dressed in her little police uniform. Nick put on a slick smile, "Beautiful as always." Judy chuckled, "Thank you Nick, but we should be off a long day today." Nick nodded in reply, "Yup, and you get to meet, my friends, it should be fun, I haven't seen them in a while." And with that they walked out the door and into the rising sun. While waking up early was annoying at least the early morning looked very beautiful. That was one thing he did love.

Judy and Nick were now at the ZPD building and were entering. They would be heading over to Clawhauser to get the case file; Nick remembered that Judy had already booked the case. As they approached the desk, Clawhauser was drinking some milk. "Hey Clawhauser, we need the case file for the dead leopard." Clawhauser stopped his drinking and looked down, "Oh, hey Nick and Judy, how are my favorite police workers today?" Nick stayed silent as Judy carried on the conversation, "Fine, last night was awesome, and things are going well, we even got a new case! Now could we have the file, we have a lot to look up and need to get a move on." Clawhauser smiled and bent down to pick up the case files under the desk, his voice only mumbled from behind the desk, "So cool, a case file! How was it last night at your apartment Judy?" Nick turned his eyes to Judy and she turned hers to his, Clawhauser isn't bad, trying to get information. Nick laughed on the inside, but let Judy take care of it. He only kept on his cool sly look. "Fine, but we weren't at my apartment I was at Nick house, and we talked and did some stuff late at night." Judy revealed. Clawhauser let out a little yip of exitment which only made Nick's smile turn larger, he turned his eyes back to Judy to see her letting out a little grin. I don't know why Clawhauser cares so much about our personal life but it's pretty funny.

He looked at Judy who beckoned Nick over with a wave of her hand, snickering, Nick bent down to her mouth while she whispered quietly to him. "Should we make Clawhauser even happier? He doesn't know I stayed over there for the past couple of days." Nick nodded, and never stopped smiling with his half eyes closed like he normally did. Nick stood back up and Judy continued. "Ya, it was awesome, but it was so late, I decided to stay at Nick's place and man was it awesome!"

Clawhauser stood back up and his talk moved back and forth, he then smiled and put his hands to his fat cheeks and let out an, "Aww…" Nick laughed to himself again, Clawhauser is crazy. Judy was snickering, "Alright, case file please." Finally after Clawhauser was done groveling he handed the case file down to Nick, who gave it to Judy. "Good, bye Clawhauser!" Judy waved politely while he and Judy walked towards their cubicle which was located on the top floor. Clawhauser was left to wiggle his fingers in the air with a goodbye motion.

When they reached the cubicle, they both sat down and Judy plopped the casefile on the desk. Judy shook her head as she opened the file, "Man, Clawhauser is obsessed with couples, I have no idea why." Nick smirked again, "Ya, but it is pretty funny though." Judy giggled and together they stared at the case file. It was an average size, but didn't include much information.

"Alright," Judy said, intently focusing on the file in front of them, "We don't really have any leads…nor do we have too much information. So we have no connections…and let me see, last known siting…" Judy scowled, "Damn, this doesn't give us much. It says here the driver's license he had was a fake, a fake alias by the name of John Watters." Judy snapped her fingers, "Ooo, I hate that." Nick raised an eyebrow, "His phone data was also erased, wow, whoever this guy was working for…they did not want to be found." Judy nodded, "Yes but there are some things we can do to find him…look, the case file already had his real name, they must have already done a DNA sample check, a fake alias can only get you so far." Nick blinked, he was damn glad that they wouldn't have to go through the trouble of doing it themselves.

His real name is Paul Anthony. Judy's ears stuck up again and she smiled, she had something on her mind. "Easy! Now we can pull up his record and it will give us most of the info we need!" Nick doubted it would be that easy, whoever this guy was didn't want to be tracked.

Judy, at this point, was in the system along with Nick. So they had no trouble of running a name on the records. They typed in Paul Anthony and up pulled the file. Judy licked her lips, "Alright, we have a start Nick…ready to make the world a better place?" Judy rose up her hand for a fist bump, he laughed and gave her knuckles, I just hope this case won't lead into anything bad.

The name pulled up some good information, "Wow…just call me doubting Thomas…he didn't cover his tracks as well as he thought he did." Nick spoke to Judy; she was concentrated on the screen. "Don't get your hopes up yet Thomas…there might not be too much we can get out of this. He worked for a moving company…he hadn't been there that long though, he only worked there for about a couple weeks until he died. Most of his past records are just junk: In fact he doesn't even have that many records in the first place." Judy pursed her eyebrows, "Well, that doesn't give us too much…but we should be able to take this somewhere…I guess we should check out the moving company. Umm…actually he did do some other jobs, he was arrested at one point for smuggling stolen items, and he also did a lot of street jobs…but didn't have any real jobs." Nick only nodded, he was focused, but he couldn't help but look into Judy's purple eyes which moved back and forth across the screen, so pretty.

His mind was snapped back to attention when Judy turned to him again. "Nick lets head over there, that could give us a clue on what he was doing." "Okay, but what about Michael and crap, we should get over to their place and see if they would be willing to help, they might know something. I know most people in the city…but not him, which means that he wasn't around super long, either that or he lived in another district. Besides I have been dying to see them again." Judy only rolled her eyes in return, "But Nick we just got a lead, I want to figure this case out!" "And we will Carrots, but if this dangerous at any point; I want some other people I can trust on our team, besides they are plenty smart." "Yes I know Nick, but if we leave now then we will have to drive all the way to the bird district and then all the way back here..." "Yes I know Judy, but we would have to do that anyway. If we found out any information at the moving site we would have to drive back anyway, it really doesn't make a difference either way." "But Nick…" "Hey, you agreed that we would get help…come on." Nick said wiggling his eyebrows. Judy snickered and pushed his smiling face away, she wasn't really mad, more of just a little peeved that they would delay the mission, "Alright you handsome fox, I accept. But I need a small kiss first." Nick shrugged, "You don't have to ask me twice, hell you don't have to ask me once! I'll do that any day!" She jumped forward and gave him a small kiss on the lips before pulling away, "Can't have anyone see us while on duty, now let's move! I want to find out what happened to that leopard."

Nick and Judy took out a police car, since it was technically for a case they were allowed to take it out. The day was bright and Nick slipped on his sunglasses, Judy drove like she normally did; which Nick had no problems with, the drive would be about 45 minutes or so…they had to drive out of Zootopia and a little ways away to the bird dome. "Hey Nick do you even know where they live?" Judy asked, "Ya, they left the general area on this card," he spoke pulling it out of his pocket. Judy gave a quick glance, "Nick it's been years, I doubt that thing is updated." "Oh, I don't know about that," Nick replied, "They were pretty sure that they wanted to move there for good, I remember them talking about the place they were going to get." Judy shrugged as they drove out of the city, "Alright Nick, let's hope they haven't moved." Nick sat back in his chair and closed his eyes, "I don't think they would have…besides, I bet I could find them somehow by asking around." He opened his eyes to see Judy smirking at him before turning back to the road.

Nick smiled, "Oh, a couple more things," Nick stated with his eyes still closed. "They might seem a little weird, but you should get used to it, nothing crazy, but all of their personalities conflict…yet they don't. They are all best friends and know each other like they do themselves; it's pretty cool to see. That's all." He saw Judy turn her amazing purple eyes over to him and saw the corner of her mouth raise in a smile, "Sounds good Nick…I'm not too worried, I just wanted to do the case with you is all." Nick nodded, "I think that would be awesome Judy, I want to spend all the time with you I can…but seriously, this is most likely going to be dangerous, and if you don't want any other officers on this case for whatever reason, I thought it would be best to hook up with some of my buddies. You'll like them…I hope."

After talking the ride drew on. It was mostly quiet except for a few conversational key points here and there. But eventually they reached the giant bird dome. Nick was up and took off his sunglasses letting out a whistle, while Judy had her mouth open and she let out a breath of air. "Wow, look how big it is!" She leaned forward still trying to look at the road but also up at the large dome. The dome was extremely large and stretched out for miles. Nick had never been this close…neither of them have, not many cars were going in and out, except for a few. Not many birds left, only came and stayed mostly. The dome was very large, the door of the dome was near the end of the road, and into the dome was a registration fee booth. There were only a couple of booths, since it wasn't the most popular place for other animals.

They were approaching the end of the road and were getting ready to enter. Judy and Nick were still just gaping at the size of the dome. How many birds were in here? They were now reaching the booth, no cars were in front of them and they were able to pull up. Judy rolled down her window and pulled up, because of the size of their car the bird inside looked up with is beak in the air. He sat on a little stool which rolled up and down depending on the costumer and he rolled himself up to their level. The bird was small and blue. The bird let out a little tweet as he saw them.

Judy smiled, and opened her mouth in a wide gasp; the bird just raised a brow. "Hi welcome to the bird district." Judy shook her head clearing it of whatever was in it, Nick leaned over and listened. The bird sang again, "A bunny and a fox cool! We don't have very many other guests here, some animals aren't allowed without a permit, but you guys are fine, police are always good." Judy snickered, "Haha, good, we are just here to see a couple friends." The bird motioned with his arm to the inside of the dome, "Go ahead," Then he held up his wing to his mouth, "I should charge you, but I don't really care, have fun." Judy nodded and pulled the car forward and into the dome. As they rolled up the window they heard tweets from behind them. Judy was still smiling.

Nick looked over to her and saw her eyes bright. They were going through a small lighted tunnel before entering the dome fully. "Hey Judy." She turned her head sharply and then back to the road, "Ya Nick?" He had on the casual smile, "You seem exited!" This time Judy couldn't handle herself, she let out a little shiver of excitement and a little squeak. Nick laughed, "Did you just squeak? I haven't heard you do that in a while." She laughed, "No Nick! This is awesome! That was a bluebird; I have never seen a bird in real life! I read about them, did you hear his pretty song! WOW! I can't wait to see the inside." Nick leaned back in his chair again, still smirking, he was actually pretty exited on the inside, he wanted to see his friends and he had never seen birds either, but he definitely wasn't as excited as Judy.

Eventually the tunnel was running out, and they both prepared themselves for the inside…The road ran out and they drove in. Instantly their eyes were opened wide, Judy and Nick both let out a breath. Judy dropped her ears and Nick his. Birds were flying above them, there were almost no cars, and birds didn't need them. Besides he could guess flying was much cooler. It was bright with thousands of lights; Trees were lined around, green grass. It look a lot like the rainforest district just not so rainy, and not so many vines. But it was very similar. They saw houses around them, most were much smaller than the ones in Zootopia. Only a few of them were actually a bigger size. Trees had holes in them were he could guess some birds lived. It was a bird paradise. He looked up again and saw birds all over the sky, tweeting to others flying close by.

Nick looked over to see Judy still gaping at what was going on. "Nick! It's amazing! The pictures don't do it justice at all!" Nick wasn't to amazed with most things…but he definitely was now. "Judy…It is about as half as beautiful as you." Judy looked over, "You turn everything into something flirty." He smiled back, "And you love it." She laughed, "Do I love it? Yes, yes I do." Nick nodded, "Oh, very good." "I only learn from the best." Nick shook his head chuckling. "But seriously though," Nick continued, "This is actually very cool." "Ya, I didn't know so many different birds and so many things existed. I can't believe I haven't seen this before." "No," Nick stated, "I can't believe I haven't seen it before, I actually lived in Zootopia my whole life, I should have saw this." "Whatever," She retorted, "It's still amazing." They drove down the road. Some birds looked down from their flying, and some waved. They obviously didn't get very many cars. In fact this road would be pointless if no other animals actually came in here.

"Okay Nick, this is awesome, but we are still on a mission. Where do we head now?" Nick licked his lips and looked on the card. "Umm…head to South of Wingston…it should be a circle on Pheasant road. I have no idea where that is though." "Its fine Nick, the GPS is awesome, plug in the numbers and get us there." Nick looked to the touch screen in the middle of the car, the found the GPS and put in the relative location. It would only take about 20 minutes to get there.

The continued the long drive, Nick hoped that they would find his friends, this drive was so long and there was no way he would be able to find them in this huge city. But eventually they reached the circle which they needed to go. "Okay Nick…here we are." She spoke looking around at the many little houses and birds which walked and talked. It was a very cool neighborhood. Nick raised his eyebrows and folded his arms. "Umm…head up the circle more…I should know when I see it." Judy also raised an eyebrow to him, "What do you mean? How would you kno…" "Just drive up the circle, you'll see." Judy turned back to the road and continued on, it was a small road that headed up to the circle. Within seconds they reached the top.

"Judy stop here." She stopped the car; Nick looked around and to the right saw a large brown house. "That one," He said pointing, "Pull into the drive way." Judy shrugged and did as she was told. Nick looked around the house, a tree sat in the front, a pretty large tree. He looked at the windows to see all the shudders down. "This is it." He confirmed unbuckling his seatbelt. "Nick are you sure?" Nick nodded, "It is the only house on the block that is a regular size house. Besides that, all the shudders are drawn which means they don't really want people to see them. Also by the looks of things…it is just them." The house had a two car garage door, to the right of the garage door was a patio with pillars. They had a couple of plants out front, but mostly grass, it was cut nicely so at least they took care of it. It was, from the looks of it, a three story house. He turned to Judy who was sitting looking at the house. Her ears were back, and he could tell she was a little bothered.

"Hey Carrots," He spoke softly to her. She turned her head and looked into his green eyes. "I can tell you are nervous. Nothing is going to happen, they aren't violent or mean, there is nothing to be afraid of." She smiled, "Haha, ya I guess I do look a bit worried, It's just so weird. This is just happening pretty fast." He put on his sly look, "Well you are used to that, I mean you became a police officer and were put directly into the heart of it, besides that you are mated to a fox, I would say your life moves pretty fast." She chuckled, "Ya, I know, I guess so." Nick leaned forward, "Here, good luck kiss." "You just take any chance you get to kiss me." Nick wiggled his eyebrows, "Madam please I would never do such a thing, It's not like I enjoy kissing the most beautiful bunny in the entire world. It's not like I enjoy the soft tender lips she has, why that is just impossible." She pushed him, "Oh shut up and kiss me already." He was sick of waiting. He moved forward and grabbed her head pulling her in for a big kiss. He made it good, and again enjoyed the soft tenderness which followed no lips like these lips.

They broke apart and Nick wiggled his eyebrows, "Seconds," He asked. Judy shook her head with a smile, "Nope, we are on a case, but afterword's…you can have as many as you want, I don't get tired of them." Judy promised. Nick fist pumped, "I'll be taking you up on that." He promised back jumping out of the car.

Together they approached the front door. Judy motioned with her right hand, "Officer Wilde will you do the honors?" Nick smiled and moved forward to the security door which covered the large wooden door behind it. He rang the doorbell. Judy felt some butterlies enter her stomach, she enjoyed meeting new people, but was nervous about how they would turn out. The door unlocked and opened. Inside stood a fox, Nicks size, red ears except for the tips which were black, black on the end of his muzzle, and black tips fingers which bore a silver ring on his right hand. It was Michael. He had a on a white tee shirt, and a button up over shirt which was a grey color, it was unbuttoned, and he also had on some matching pants. They all sported many pockets and looked really cool.

Michael coolly unlocked the front security door. Nick didn't think he was too exited until Michael jumped forward and wrapped his arms around Nick. "Hey Nick! What's good my boy! Man it is good you see your crusty self, how you been." Nick returned the hug, "Hi Michael, I haven't seen you in a while, I'm doing great." Michael stepped back from Nick and looked at him. Judy let out a little smile seeing the friends reconnect. "Well officer Wilde, It looks like it's going well. The first officer fox," He then motioned to Judy with his hand, "And the first rabbit." Judy nodded and perked her ears back up. "I read it online. But my bad, Hi I am Michael, I am sure Nick has already told you about me." He held out his hand and Judy took it giving it a shake, "Hi, I'm offficer…" Nick gave her a little look, Judy quickly corrected herself, "I mean, Judy Hopps." Michael nodded, "Man, what brings yall lovebirds here."

Nick and Judy exchanged glances; Judy spoke up, "What do you mean? We are just friends… partners." She stumbled out. Nick smiled; Judy saw that he looked like he wasn't going to deny it, and actually she didn't know why she was either, she was proud to be with such a great fox. Michael snickered, "I see you, and you aren't even trying to hide it. Good! Don't be ashamed that you love each other, it's good. And if you are wondering how I knew you guys were in love. It's because I saw you guys kiss." Judy's ears flopped and Nick laughed. Judy spoke again, "Alright so in point you were watching us all along." Michael let out a wheeze before he laughed, which made Judy raise her eyebrow. "What!" Michael continued, "Of course, we all watch the house, if anyone is within just a little ways, we will know about it." Michael finished with a friendly slap to Judy's arm.

Judy laughed a little and decided just to take it. Nick was just chuckling to her side. Judy perked bac k up her ears. She actually liked Michael, he seemed nice and was good looking, not like Nick, but still seemed like a cool fox. "Yo, come inside my boys" Michael spoke as he waved his hand towards the door. Nick and Judy followed, but just before they entered the house, Michael stopped and turned around. "Hey Judy," Michael said, "I know this is weird to ask after we just met, but…can I feel your ears? I know that's weird but I haven't seen many rabbits and none that have a cool ears as you do. Besides if I did it in the house Aaron and Briton will be talking, I have to feel them, I just can't help myself." Nick looked at Judy; Judy smirked a little, but at the same time was a little skeptical. But in reality, she wasn't too bugged, she would just let him. That being said though she still let out a sigh, only Nick really played with her ears, she wasn't a person that liked to be touched a ton, except for Nick that is.

Judy raised her ears and pointed them towards Michael. Michael put up his hands and touched her soft ears, his pads felt rough, but at the same time it was soft and his fur was soft. Foxes fur was soft; she knew that well from Nick. Michael went up and down on her ears for a second feeling the pink fur. It was weird having someone else touch her except for Nick. But it was only for a few moments until he stopped. "Thanks," Michael said as he finished, "Very soft, anyways inside we go." He swung towards the door and entered, Nick let Judy go in first and together they walked in the door.

As Judy walked inside she was surprised to see how big and how well the house was kept. Again her mind was changed from the stereotypical animal. She just imagined that 3 con men would have a little less nice house. To her right was a living room which housed many nice looking chairs. In front she could see a door that led to the basement it seemed, and in a door that led to a kitchen it appeared. To her left was a stair case, it went up to another level. And to her very left was another room that held computers from what she could see. The house was well lit and she felt the carpet under her feet. Michael held up his hands, "This is the house, 3 stories, kitchen over there," Michael motioned again towards the door she saw in front of her. Judy saw Nick gaping at the house himself. Nick's house was big, but it wasn't as big as this. Michael led them though the door that led to the kitchen. Judy looked around, a chandelier was hung above a pretty large brown table, and to the right of the kitchen was a family room, it had a couch, 2 lazy chairs and a t.v. She also saw in the corner a recliner chair, is that a massage chair? The kitchen also had fridge, oven and a marble counter that looked very nice. Nick was only continuing to look around the room. Judy blinked and let out a little breath of air.

Michael's ear flicked, "Good, you guys like it look like." Michael stopped and called out, "Aaron, Briton! Get down here yo!" Judy's ear flicked as she heard the flutter of powerful wings. She also heard stomps down the stairs. From the door that led into the kitchen. A large German Shepard dog walked in. That was Aaron, he looked nice, his fur looked groomed, he was pretty large, he was wearing a red shirt and some blue jeans. To her right again she heard the battering of wings. Looking over her eyes were widened as a pretty large horned owl flew in the room. He had some nice designs, he was a darker color with darker brown patters, and this was Briton. He was wearing a green shirt, besides that he had on some greyish pants. He fluttered over to Michael and landed on his shoulder with his large talons clamped around Michael's shoulder, it looked like it would hurt but to her surprise Michael didn't even flinch.

Briton raised his wing and let a little wave, "Hiya." Aaron walked in the room and intently smiled, "Hey! Nick my boy! How are you?" And also gave Nick a little hug, Judy noticed that they all seemed very touchy. Nick again returned the hug, "Hey Aaron what's up?" Aaron smiled, "Oh, the ceiling, sky, your IQ so nothing new." Judy could also tell that he would be a very puny type of person just as Michael had said.

After they had said hi, Aaron walked back over to Michael and Briton. They all stood in a group and looked at Nick and Judy. Aaron opened his mouth and whispered something to Michael, Judy was able to hear it though with her great ears, "Michael, look at that bunny she is sooo cute!" Michael smirked a little, "That bunny is Judy…and she can hear you, you know." Aaron raised an eyebrow, "What, how?" Briton spoke up from Michael's shoulder, "Obvious, her ear twitched and you could see her eyes move when you said it, and also she made a facial expression, which also means that she doesn't like being called cute from the looks of it." Judy stopped being annoyed and opened her eyes wide, they are smart and very observant. Judy looked over to Nick to see him with his sly smirk and his hands in his pockets, "Carrots, they aren't dumb, they will notice it all. Welcome to the con. Now anyway lets explain our mission." Judy nodded to Nick. "Right," She turned to the group, "Look, Nick and I need your help."