Summary: Judy and Nick get backstage passes for a Gazelle concert but are stolen by thieves.
Nick looked at the clock and laughed. Clawhauser, Fangmeyer, Screech, and Pawdinson looked at him.
"Judy Hopps is officially late for the first time ever. Alright let's do this, who has their theories?" Nick asked.
"Uh, alarm didn't go off." Fangmeyer said.
"All 3 alarms all with battery backup. Take this seriously." Nick said.
"Ooo, she was taken in her sleep." Clawhauser said.
"That's what I'm talking about. Super dark, but way more plausible than Fangmeyer idiotic alarm clock theory." Nick said.
"I bet she tuck herself into bed too tight and got stuck." Pawdinson said.
"Maybe she fell into another dimension where's she on time today." Screech said.
"It's 9 AM. Why is no one working?" Bogo asked walking into the room.
"Judy Hopps is a few minutes late and we're all trying to guess why." Nick told him.
"I like to play. I say she's in line at the bank. This is fun." Bogo said.
"It is fun but you're all wrong. She clearly slipped through a subway grid and got mutated into a dirty molerat." Nick said.
They heard the doors bust open and Judy rushed into the building. "There she is; Judy! Where have you been we've been worried sick. Do you care to explain yourself?!" Nick yelled.
"I'm just 70 seconds late, it's not a big deal don't worry about it." Judy said catching her breath.
"Hopps you will tell us and You Will Tell Us Now." Bogo said intimidatingly.
Judy sighed. "There was a problem at the bank." Judy said.
"HOT DAMN!" Bogo yelled out.
...
Judy was working at her desk today when Nick knocked at the wall. "Hey Carrots." Nick said.
"Hey Nick." She said.
"Now, I got two things behind my back; guess what they are." Nick said.
"Um, two Gazelle tickets for the concert in a few weeks along with backstage passes." Judy said not turning her eyes to Nick.
"How did you know?"
"Lucky guess." Judy said as she continued to type.
Nick walks away.
"Jackal and Vulture." Judy whispered to herself.
Nick turned back to Judy. "What?" Nick asked.
"Look, a few nights ago before Lily ran off, she mentioned someone about a Jackal and a Vulture." Judy said.
"Why?" Nick asked as he took a sip of coffee.
"I don't know. She didn't mention their names."
"Hm. Weird. I'll leave you to think about your thinking while I'll go back to work." Nick said before walking away.
Judy sighed and got back to work.
Judy then heard a strange noise.
She got up and looked around the office.
She walked around the headquarters to find whatever this noise was.
She entered the boiler room of the ZPD and heard the noise even louder.
Judy grabbed her tranquilizer and walked to the lab there.
Screech wasn't in there, but the canister of mutagen was there.
Judy walked closer to it. She didn't know why but it felt like she was forcing herself to walk closer, the noise was probably from it.
Judy reached out her hand to touch it, and as soon as she did, she felt all her surroundings fade into oblivion and she fell down and endless abyss.
Judy entered a house that seemed to be in the rainforest district.
She got up from the rug to look around.
"So that's what happened." Cameron asked someone Judy couldn't see.
"Yes." She heard a female voice said.
Before Judy could check what it was, she felt the surroundings face again and she was suddenly in a hospital with people walking around it.
Judy got up to check her surroundings and began to walk around the place.
She checked a window to see a middle aged fox lady at the door.
She ran again and she suddenly saw her father by another one.
"Dad!" Judy yelled out before the surrounding vanished again.
She then appeared in a warehouse. She saw Sophie tied up to a wall with a bunch of straps on her.
Judy looked at Sophie before she heard a loud noise.
She turned to see a rocket blasting off.
Then, she was on a rooftop on Zootopia.
She looked around her surroundings to see the Wolf Knight with a gun filled with mutagen, aiming at Nick's head, who's chained up to a bottom part of a watertower.
"NICK!" She yelled out.
Before she could see what happens, she was suddenly snapped back in reality.
"Judy? You okay?" Screech asked worried.
Judy sat up. "What happened?"
"Well I was using the toilet when I saw you convulsing on the floor."
"Convulsing? No I was..." Judy went to say, but then realize something. "Screech, I heard a weird sound. It led me to here but then I saw all these Weird things, like people I knew and it was strange." Judy said.
"Hm. Might be something to do with the radiation that the mutagen gives off. Maybe it doesn't just mutate people, maybe it does more things." Screech said.
"Well, can you check?"
"Of course I can. I just recommended you stay away from this stuff, don't want this to get worse. Or you know don't get mutated yourself."
"On it."
Judy walked out of the place.
That night, Judy sat her house, thinking about what happened that day. She couldn't have what she saw leave her head. Were they parts of the future? Just a bad dream? Why now of all nows? Did the Wolf Knight and whoever he worked with also had these? Although she was assigned to keep an eye on it for a couple of days, she never touched it, as told by Bogo.
Then, her phone rang. She grabbed it. It was Nick.
Judy answered. "Hello?" Judy asked.
"Hey Carrots, you want to hear a knock knock joke? Good. Knock knock." Nick said.
"Who's there?" Judy asked confused.
"Passes."
"Passes who?"
"I got my backstage passes robbed!" Nick yelled out.
"What! How?"
"Funny story actually; you see I was walking down the street, just going for a normal night walk. But then, I felt someone grab my arm and the man jumped into an alleyway like a kangaroo, even though it was some teenage fox. He took my tickets, and my phone, I'm calling on a payphone by the way, and then the sheep ran off as fast as an ostrich." Nick said.
"I'm standing right here." Judy heard someone else say.
"Sorry. Talking with a friend, she's a bunny." Nick said.
"Nick focus! Stand where you are I'm on my way there." Judy said before grabbing her coat and walking out.
Judy exited her house as she zipped her coat up and she began to find Nick. "Where are you?" She asked.
"I'm near the station." Nick said.
A few minutes later, Judy appeared at the station, with Nick eating cotton candy. "Found a candy shop nearby, you should get one of these." Nick said.
"Not now Nick. Anyway, I have a plan." Judy said.
"And what's that?" Nick asked.
"Simple: we'll track your phone with my phone." Judy said.
Nick laughed. "You actually think that app's going to work?" Nick asked her just in case if she was being serious.
"Yeah. Just like they say, don't knock it till you try it." Judy said as she began to type it in.
"Sure, good luck with that carrots." Nick said.
"What's the title of your phone?"
"Nick's Phone." Nick said.
"Okay then." Judy said leading to a moment of silence.
Nick continued to eat the cotton candy as Judy began to see if she could track her phone.
Then, Nick heard a dinging sound on Judy's phone. "I got something. Come along. We got a fox to find." Judy said walking over to a bike.
Nick sighed and got up.
Judy grabbed some helmets in the station and passed one to Nick, they hopped on their own cycles, Judy typed in some coordinates, and sped off.
Nick drove behind Judy because that just made sense, she knew where they were suppose to go, so he just followed.
Judy stopped her cycle by a parkour arena, and Nick seemed to do the same. "This is the place." Nick asked the bunny.
"Apparently." Judy replied before walking in.
Unbeknownst to them, The Jackal and Vulture were watching them, with Wolf Knight watching from behind.
"Are we sure this is a good idea?" The Wolf Knight asked the two.
"Of course it is. We should see better on how these animals act with the additional serum." The jackal said.
"Wait, additional serum? What are you talking about?" Wolf Knight asked.
The vulture chuckled. "You'll see."
Judy and Nick entered the room and went up to the elephant at the desk. "Can I help you two?" She asked kindly.
"Yes you can ma'am. You see, we suspect that someone we're looking for is in here. So if you don't mind, we would like to check your indoor park to find this guy." Nick said.
"Sure. Just don't make a mess, and also, I recommend you grab some of our gloves, in case you need them." The elephant said.
"Will do." Nick said again.
Judy grabbed the gloves and passed them to Nick, the ones that fit his hands.
She put on the ones that fitted her, and she began to walk down.
Once they followed the map that was on the wall, as most places do, they made it to the main room.
They both pulled out tranquilizers. "Listen kid, I don't know what you want. But we just want you to kindly turn yourself in. Deal?" Judy asked.
At first, there was silence. Then, all the lights turned off.
Nick and Judy looked at each other before Nick was grabbed all of a sudden by the other fox.
Judy looked in horror as the fox jumped into the air, moving by several blocks serving as steps, and threw Nick into a ball pit.
Judy ran as fast as she could up there, jumped up the blocks to see nothing but Nick.
"Hey Carrots." Nick said.
"Come on!" Judy said running past the ball pit.
Nick got up and followed her.
They made it to a hallway of the place that illuminated green, orange, purple, and red, the only spot with light.
Judy saw the fox and the fox dropped kick her in the face and she fell down, then he ran off.
Nick fired at him, but missed.
Nick began to run but the fox ran up a pack of ropes.
Nick sighed and quickly climbed up.
Nick got his arm on the guy, but the fox threw him into a defective light, shattering it.
The fox ran again just as Judy caught up.
The fox ran to a part where you're suppose to wall run and he did so.
Judy took a breath and hopped on the pieces with her two legs, since that she was small and couldn't use one leg to hop on the things.
It then lead to a trampoline, which she hopped on, and she grabbed onto a bar for swinging, she swung for a second, she landed back on the ground, and tripped the fox.
The fox tripped into a pack of tires and he fell down.
Judy pulled out her handcuffs. "You are under arrest for robbery." Judy told the fox.
The jackal smirked through the camera. "Or is he? Now!" The jackal said.
The vulture stomped on a button with his foot.
Then, the mannerism of the fox Judy was arresting changed.
Nick showed up to the scene.
Judy saw the eyes of the fox go bloodshot, but the eyes turned green.
Judy was confused, but then the fox began to scratch at Judy, in which she barely avoided.
The fox got up on all fours.
Judy looked off in horror. Did the fox go savage?
The fox was about to charge at her, but Nick wrestled it away.
Judy began to climb up the tires.
Nick got wrangled away by the fox, who's going insane.
Judy got a clear shot of the fox, who at this point turned to her.
She shot a dart, and it did merely nothing.
Judy felt her guts reach all the down to the deepest depths of herself and began to run off.
The fox got up and chased after her.
"You added the Night Howler serum to it. Have you lost it!" The wolf knight yelled out.
"Well if Plan A doesn't work, you should always have a Plan B." The vulture said.
Judy slid to hide behind a wall and she did.
She covered her mouth so the fox couldn't hear her breathing.
She could hear the fox creeping up by the wall.
She began to think about her options.
A. She could run out and request back up; but that's going to leave Nick alone, and she didn't want to risk him dying.
B. She could run up a hill and remain up there; definitely not the best.
C. She could use the Fox Away she still had with her. While it might be her best option, it was definitely too risky.
She went for B.
Judy got up and ran toward the hill.
She ran up the wall and grabbed onto the ledge.
As she was getting up, the fox grabbed onto her legs.
Judy screamed as she felt the claws nearly stab her in her legs, but they did scratch them.
Judy swung around for a bit as she attempted to get the fox off her, but it wasn't working.
Then, she saw the Fox Away in her pocket starting to fall down.
Judy had less than a second to make this decision, but she was too focused on the fox that at this point she needed to stop him.
She grabbed the spray, uncapped it, and sprayed the fox in it's eyes.
The fox fell down the ledge, same with Judy.
Once they were both on the ground, Judy pulled out her tranquilizer.
She shot the fox three times, making sure he was knocked out.
Judy lay down on the ground and took a second to sigh.
She went to get the spray, but she saw a hand grab it.
It was revealed to be Nick.
Judy froze in place at the second she noticed. Why now! Why now! Why now!, she kept asking herself in her head.
"Who's is this? Don't remember this being here." Nick asked Judy jokingly.
"Nick, please listen, I only did it for safety reasons." Judy said trying to explain herself.
"What type of reasons exactly?" Nick asked.
"I have reasons. The mutagen, what if you get infected? What am I suppose to do?"
"Tranquilizer. Taser. I can go on." Nick said.
Judy tried to find the right words, but she couldn't find anything.
"Judy. You promised not to use that again." Nick said.
"I know I did, but what did you expect me to do with our current situation?" Judy said.
"Not do it!" He suddenly yelled.
"Oh come on, god forbid I have fears of losing someone!" Judy yelled out.
"What about you? What if you get mutated? Anyone can get mutated this time. Not just predator, just prey!"
"Well then you'll have to get me knocked out!"
"Okay then, Deal! Congratul-Goddamn-ations! You're becoming your father!" Nick yelled out.
"Well if you're just going to act like a chicken shit over me carrying a tiny spray then why don't you just not work with me!" Judy blurted out.
A silence took over the entire room, the last sentence echoing across.
Nick sighed. "Okay then. Why don't I?" Nick said before beginning to walk out.
"Keep the passes if you want to!" Nick yelled out.
"Nick. Nick wait." Judy yelled out. She didn't mean to yell out that last part, it just sorta came out.
Judy sighed and looked at the criminal.
She grabbed out her walkie talkie. "ZPD. I have a mutated fox here, not Wilde. I'll meet you guys back at the station." She said before placing it back and beginning to drag the fox back to the station.
Once she got to the station, she immediately headed straight for the nearest bar, to just drink all of her sadness away.
She entered the bar and sat at the front table in front of the bartender. "Vodka." She asked passing on $10.
The bartender nodded and walked off.
She sighed as she felt someone sitting next to her and she turned to see Cameron, who seemed to be exhausted.
"You okay?" Judy asked the bunny.
"Could ask the same to you." Cameron said back.
Judy rubbed her temples as she had a small glass of vodka. "Okay, me and Nick went off to get this fox, remember that, this fox at a parkour place. During that, the fox latched onto my legs. So, I used this." Judy said before slamming the fox away on the table and taking a sip of vodka.
"Why do you have this stuff? Isn't Nick a fox?" Cameron asked as he got his drink.
"He is! I had it from my parents, because they were worried about me in the city. And now I just have it because I'm scared of Nick getting mutated. Then Nick got mad at for being scared at that, so I yelled at him, and he yelled at me for being scared! So he just left and I had to drag the criminal's ass all the way to the precinct and patch my legs up By Myself! And now I'm here. How was your day?" She said.
"Oh just a tough day. My job was extra hard today, and I had to watch over someone." Cameron said.
"You babysit?" Judy said.
"Yes." Cameron said.
Judy barely chuckled. "Maybe you can watch over my siblings one day."
"Alright, how many are there?"
"Almost 300."
"I'll think about it." Cameron said sarcastically.
Judy smiled. "I just don't know what to do." Judy said.
"Well, what I recommend is that you wait it out for a while, and then after you cool out, you'll be able to Maybe talk it out. In the meantime, figure someone else to work with." Cameron said.
"Alright. Say, who do you babysit?" Judy asked.
"Uh, a baby panther." Cameron said.
"Hm." Judy said.
Cameron raised his glass. "Cheers." He said as he connected glass with Judy's.
Meanwhile, the trio of Villains were sitting in their lair.
"Well done Wolf Knight, we've completed Phase One: Experimental Phase. Now we can finally enter Phase Two." The jackal said.
"You're welcome. I'll still mutate animals however, never know when they'll make a cure." Wolf Knight said.
"He's right." The vulture said.
"Correct. Now, this is where Project Resurgence can truly begin." The jackal said.
Here was this chapter! Now, this time I'm going to make an intentional break for this series. I don't want to get burned out with this series, then begin to hate to write it, and I'll focus on other projects on mine.
Review the story and have a great day!