And here we go, Chapter 36. Hope you enjoy it a little.

STILL NO SEX, I´M SORRY! I´m working hard on that, but I´m just not quite happy with it already. It´s coming soon, I promise!

Big thanks to MrShurukan for helping me with this chapter again!

Zootopia -Springtime Circumstances

Chapter 36 – Think before you speak (POV Bogo)

As fast as the reputation of the ZPD had improved over the last few weeks, the harder it hit me in the face right now. We already had problems with the press, because it took us nearly four hours until we had a living sign of them yesterday, but this right now was just obscene. The press was in our lobby since seven in the morning, and they were asking every single one of the colleagues if they knew when Officers Wilde and Hopps would arrive. The day-shift hadn´t even begun until then, but the hype was unstoppable. The video was spreading through the whole city and beyond, and they even discussed it in the news already. I was talking to both of them on the last evening, after Officer Wolfheart had picked them up with his car and brought them back to the city center, but they either have forgotten or simply didn´t want to tell me about that.

There was a video on the media, and it clearly showed Nick picking up a vixen with one of his arms, pushing her against a wall vigorously and then throwing her onto the ground of the hallway, before the video faded out very abruptly. He was completely naked in the video, just like they had described their escape to me yesterday, and it clearly was him because of the huge scar on his back. The vixen in the video published it by herself as it was pointed out, and she claimed that she had been brutally raped by him yesterday. I couldn´t believe my ears when I heard that. There were so many things already, which didn´t apply to that story. First of all, there was one part of that video clearly pixelated, and it was moving on top of that. I was pretty sure that that must be Officer Hopps in the video because there was a lot of blue and gray color in that pixilation. Furthermore, that video came without any sound and Nick was clearly angry at that vixen. And it maybe sounded a little weird while analyzing that video, but he wasn´t aroused at all in that footage. I never thought I would say something like this once in my career, but now it seemed to be crucial. That vixen was nowhere to be found either, although some people claimed to know her. She was a reporter I found out on the web soon later, and she was the one who also wrote that article about Nick doing undercover-work in that sex-club, where the drug-dealers got arrested. The whole thing was a little fishy right from the start, but it was enough to make some people believe it, and because he had been quite often in the news lately, for twisted reasons, it got even more attention than I first was expecting. I was convinced that Nick wouldn´t have done something like that. First of all, I was pretty sure it would be her who would try to rape him, and he had no reason to do that at all. Judy sounded even proud of him yesterday for everything he did, and it didn´t sound like they had too much time to spend in that building either.

I needed to talk to them as soon as possible, but I had problems with reaching them right now. Neither of them showed up at the meeting this morning, although they were on duty, and they didn´t have their phones anymore either, which made it even more difficult. I did the morning meeting without them for once and hoped they would show up as soon as possible.

POV Nick

We got noticed immediately. We didn´t just got noticed, they were waiting for us in front of the entrance. Judy was staying with me for the night of course, and since my apartment was closer to the city center, and I had a secret key under the doormat, we choose to stay at my place for the night. The press must have been finding out where I lived somehow, because they pretty much exactly stood in front of the entrance. They shot hundreds of pictures, surrounded us with their microphones and immobilized us completely. I didn´t even know what all that was about, but the only word I clearly heard all the time was: Video.

That immediately made it clear, that it had something to do with yesterday, and that could mean anything, but surely something that clearly wasn´t good for us.

Judy agreed with my suggestion immediately and followed me inside the building once again. They nearly followed us to the entrance door of the house, but we made sure they wouldn´t follow us inside as well.

Arrived in my living room once again, I went towards my laptop and booted it up quickly. Judy joined me on the sofa and I opened the web browser.

There wasn´t even a need to search for it, even the regular news page of the start-site told us what was going on. It was way worse than what I was expecting. I was expecting to see the video from that room I was hanging in, but it wasn´t that. It showed me, lifting that stupid reporter vixen up into the air and against the wall of the hallway. It had no sound, Judy was pixelated very cheaply, and it faded out immediately after I threw her away from myself. The title of that was: "Helpless vixen brutally raped by SMA celebrity ZPD Officer Nicholas Wilde!"

Now even Judy was noticeably angry when she read that. I´ve never witnessed her like that before. She was furious. "What the hell does she want? As if somebody believes that!" she yelled in anger, "That's not funny anymore, that´s personal!"

She looked like she wanted to punch her in the face by herself in the meanwhile. But she had a good reason to, I was pissed as well. I wasn´t sure if I could have controlled myself right now, if a reporter would confront me with that again. I had to hear a lot of bullshit about myself in the last few weeks, but that was just disrespectful. We had to explain all of that, and we had nothing in our hands to prove anything. Apart from logical thinking and the obvious modifications of that video.

"One fucking day" I sighed, "Can´t we get at least one fucking day without any bullshit that is happening to us?"
"Don´t worry!" she told me with great confidence, "We´re going to make that clear. I know what happened, I was there! And I´m going to shut them up once and for all!"

"The Chief is probably going to call us pretty soon anyways" I shared my thought, "We´ll tell him to let somebody pick us up and bring us to the ZPD…"

"We don´t have our phones anymore…" Judy reminded me with a little sigh.

"Oh shit…you´re right!" I agreed, "And they could do so much shit with that!"

"No, they can´t" she corrected once again, "They had to turn them off, otherwise we could have tracked them down already. I think that the Chief has already tried that yesterday…"

"Right…" I agreed, "Little fuckers…"

"We need to get moving anyways!" she stated shortly afterwards, before she lifted herself off of the couch once again.

"We have to do a freaking raid on that house in Tundratown!" I agreed with her, "We need to get that done!"

POV Jennifer

It was a crazy morning already. I was just coming back from a short talk I had with Chief Bogo, and then I noticed Max standing at the balcony of the first floor, looking down onto the little stage in the lobby. The area for the press conferences was full of reporters. We all have heard about that topic of course, but I didn´t believe a single word of that. Neither did Max, because he had heard it from both of them personally yesterday evening, as he told me in the morning meeting. I joined him once again, leaned my head onto his shoulders and kept on watching the lobby with him for a moment.

"You think they will come today?" I asked.

"No idea…" he shared his thought lowly, "…the Chief wanted to call them I believe…"

"He didn´t reach them" I let him know, "I was just talking to him…they both lost their phones yesterday…"

Just in that very moment, the doors to the entrance were opened from outside and they simply came into the lobby. Nick and Judy, both wearing their police uniforms, and faces that would make a blizzard look like a warm summer´s day.

Immediately, they got rushed by the waiting reporters.

"STAY BACK!" Nick yelled at them loudly, "ALL OF YOU! GET OUT OF OUR WAY!"

That proved to be effective. They all shut up now and made room for them quickly.

"…we will explain everything in just a minute" Judy let them know, "Everything that happened yesterday, everything since the crash."

"Yeah!" Nick agreed, now a little lower, "Do me a favor and stop spreading made-up lie stories in the meanwhile! We had that discussion already not too long ago" he reminded them. Then he followed Judy up the stairs.

Soon afterwards they reached our level and passed us on their way to the Chief´s office.

"They really want to mess with you now, don't they?" Max asked boldly.

"I´m going to fuck them up so badly for that!" Nick commented it dryly, not stopping on his way, "Prepare for a big raid later!"

"What do you do about the press?"

"I´m going to tell them the fucking truth!" Nick let us know loudly, and Judy wasn´t even stopping him, "I was the one who got raped! That reporter maybe wishes that I had fucked her, she even went to the hospital and asked me for that!" he enraged himself, "But that´s all a giant pile of bullshit!"

I just couldn´t stop myself from grinning about his words.

"I´m getting sick of all this crap already! This has to stop now!"

And with that he went on his way again. Judy followed him after she had greeted us with a nod shortly.

"Ouch" Max commented very lowly and with a little chuckle, "This is going to be painful!"

Five minutes later (POV Jennifer):

When Nick and Judy were done talking to the Chief, they just left his office and went back down the stairs again. Max and I still hadn´t moved an inch since that, because we didn´t want to miss anything from the press conference of course. The Chief joined us up there a few minutes later and watched the spectacle with us.

Judy already went up the stage and Nick quickly turned on the lights before he joined her. The video-cameras of the press people were rolling already and the microphones where pointed at the stage.

"Alright" Judy began without further ado, "We´re going to tell you this once and for all now, so listen closely!"
Nick pointed at her quickly, "Better make sure you get that on video" he announced, "…and please make sure to activate your brains before you ask any stupid questions!"

I slipped a little giggle because of that, and Max couldn´t hide a grin either. Nick wasn´t exactly using the common language of a police officer at an interview, but he brought his point across quite well that way.

"Nick wasn't raping anybody yesterday…" Judy took the word right away, "He was the one who got violated, and that right in front of my eyes!"

Now the press was a little shocked, naturally, but Judy wasn´t stopping here.

"I´m sure you´ve all heard about that car crash yesterday… Nobody was able to find us for nearly four hours, and our car was a complete wreck as we just gotten to know for ourselves…" she kept on explaining.

"…the reason for that is, that we got abducted yesterday" Nick continued for her, "They knocked us out with chloroform, and when we woke up from that again, I was hanging from the ceiling of a weird room, in a building I never was in before. I was completely naked, like in that video, and there was a psychotic wolf-lady threatening me with a knife, to make matters even worse. Judy couldn´t help me, she was tied together on her paws and feet as well. There was a tripod with a camera mounted on top of it in that room as well, so you may understand why I was a little aggressive already…they wanted to mess up our image on purpose…"

"How did you get out of there?" someone in the audience interrupted quickly. Judy answered that straight away: "I distracted her for a second, Nick hit her head with his feet and freed himself by biting through the fabric of the strings" she told them plainly, "We knocked out two of their security guards with their own guns and made our way out into the hallway. There we met that vixen…"

"And then you raped her as a revenge?" some other reporter suddenly asked loudly, "Just to set an example? Really? How could you still be wearing that police uniform? You should be ashamed of yourself!" he added hatefully, looking at the famous red fox on the stage while saying it.

Now Nick and Judy both stopped in their tracks for a second. They just shook their heads in pure disbelief. Now I just noticed that it was another red-fox who asked him that. Somebody from his own species.

"We were just about to tell you that" Judy tried telling him, still reasonably calmly apparently.

"…tell me what?!" he enraged himself even more, "We all have seen the video!" he told them dogmatically, like there couldn´t be anything wrong with that story at all.

"You have all seen an edited video without any sound, which also was cut off pretty quickly at the end! What does that prove? Exactly: Nothing! That vixen is a reporter as well, her name is Rachel Fitch by the way, that's the only true thing online, and she was the one who wrote that article about my undercover mission in the sex bar", Nick explained to the press angrily, "…Yes, I was naked. And yes, I probably got a little mean there for a second, but isn´t that a tiny bit understandable when you´re being stalked by the press all the time, waited for in front of the hospital, and then even get fucking abducted from your own police car?" he asked rhetorically, "Wouldn´t you be at least a tiny little bit suspicious and mad at somebody like her, if you were in my situation?" he wanted to know, "Let me tell you, you have no idea what is going on, you have no clue! The end."

That was followed by a long and embarrassing silence, but the bloke who said it still wouldn´t shut his mouth after that, "What if it's all made up lies which you´re telling us?" the fox-reporter asked, "We all know you´re good at talking…"

Now that even made me a little mad, when somebody was talking about Nick like that. He could control himself a lot better than I would have, as it turned out soon afterwards.

"Alright…" Nick sighed after that bold statement of the other fox, "I´m sorry for hurting your ego like that now, that´s enough!"

He explicitly looked at that reporter right now, but that bloke wasn´t afraid of it for now. He still seemed to be serious and to still believe that stupid rape-theory.

"What if…" Nick picked up his word again, "And only if, I wanted to have sex with a lady from my kind?" he asked him dryly, "Do you really think I would have a problem with that?"

That shut them all up for dead right now. It almost was comically funny, but Nick wasn´t laughing or even grinning in superior, he still was pissed.

"…and to remind you once again, I´m sorry, it annoys the hell out of me as well, but I was voted to be the fucking SMA of this year. I have no need to rape anybody because of anything, it's the other way around almost. Every goddamn vixen of the whole city seems to be after me apparently, and I´m not making that up! I never made anything up actually. There certainly are people who would enjoy that kind of attention, but I don´t. I fucking hate it!"

"Exactly" Judy agreed, "And I was with him all the time. I can confirm every single word he said."

The other fox guy still hadn´t found his words again.

"It wasn´t my intention to humble you in front of the press right now" Nick finished him off, "But I have been warning you in advance: Think before you say something you have no prove off."

There still was complete and utter silence in the whole lobby for a few more seconds.

"That pixilation in the video covers up me by the way" Judy added, "And Nick didn´t touch her anymore at all, after he had thrown her onto the ground. We had to run away from their security, get out of the building, missing our private possessions and he his uniform also, and we ended up running two miles through a snow-storm in Tundratown, before somebody opened their doors for us and saved us from the freezing cold luckily" she told the now silent press, "As his girlfriend, as his friend, and as his colleague: all I can say is, that I´m nothing but proud of everything he did yesterday, this could have ended a lot worse for us. And please add that to your news reports as well: Better prepare yourselves over there in Tundratown, lovely people from the Nox-Clan! We´re coming for you, and we´re personally going to get our badges back!"

Nick pointed at Judy while she said that, "Exactly! And just for your information: Making up a fake rape-story to get attention, or to get revenge on somebody, because he has no interest in you, is not only disrespectful and wrong to the real victims, it´s also illegal."

That was followed by another long and thoughtful silence.

"And more clever questions?" Nick wanted to know, "Wanna know how our morning was for example, when we walked out of the door and had twenty people screaming at us? Great experience, let me tell you!" he added cynically.

"Yeah…" Judy agreed, "We know there is a lot of stuff going on right now, but we need to concentrate on our work and our problems too! Do us a favor and leave us alone if you haven´t got an emergency" she clarified, "…that´s all you got to know for now."

And with that they both left the stage once again. They made their way through the gazing crowd and headed for the stairs up to the first level right away.

Nick stopped on his way at the other red-fox with the microphone shortly.

"You were asking why I´m still wearing my police uniform?"

"I…I mean" he stuttered, "I…"

"It´s because I´m tired of running around nude, and I believe you can imagine why. And you need a uniform when you´re a police officer, those are the rules."

That guy looked at the ground in shame right now, rather than into his face. "Yeah…whatever…"

"Oh! And be the way: there is no need to be jealous on me. If it´s that what has been driving you to believe that made-up bullshit, because you felt a little better about yourself that way, you´re forgiven for that."

The other fox guy still kept his mouth shut, he looked like he was embarrassed to the core. Everybody was staring at him now, and Nick just raised one eyebrow after a little while. Wordlessly, he patted his shoulders twice and just left him standing there with a dumbfounded expression. Then he followed Judy up the stairs. I couldn´t stop myself from grinning stupidly about that. I´ve never seen somebody as ashamed as that guy was right now.

"Not a clever idea to provoke him like that" Max commented that with a little chuckle, "Don't want to be that guy right now…"

/

"Nick was talking about a raid in Tundratown earlier" I told the Chief quickly, while the couple was still making their way up the stairs, "What do you think about that?"

"If they are sure where that place is, we are going to gear up a team and we will follow their lead! They are right on that, we got to fix this and we got to get our respect back!"

"Can I volunteer for that, please?" Max asked him right away.

The Chief was equally surprised as I about hearing it, but he wasn´t denying him that wish of course, "I would have let him decide that, but yeah, why would he not want your help?"

"I want to see them in action finally!" he explained himself, "This will be so awesome!"

"What will be awesome?" asked the fox we were just talking about. He and Judy joined us right away when they reached our level from coming up the stairs.

"Max was talking about the raid in Tundratown you had announced" I explained to him, "He wanted to volunteer for helping you!"

"Your wish is granted" Nick let him know with a little smile and a confident nod, "But we need a little more support for that…"
"You two are leading the operation" the Chief told them right away, already picking his phone out of his pocket, "I´m gathering up your support in the meanwhile…"

POV Max Wolfheart

It didn´t even took us half an hour, and we all were equipped with the most-heavy anti-riot armor available, we all had tranquilizer guns, tasers, flashlights and even smoke-grenades. That stuff was heavy, especially the clothing we wore, but for Nick and Judy it looked like they didn´t even notice the extra weight. We had set up a fleet of four cars, each packing four officers, and I was in a group with Nick, Judy and Daniel Fangmeyer, who got chosen for this mission as well, although he wasn´t that happy about hearing it at first.

"How did you do that?" the lion asked Nick suddenly, after we have had a few minutes of silence in the car already, "…I mean, how did you lift up somebody from your own species with just one arm?"
"I had the gun in my other one" Nick answered dryly.

"That looked just immense!"

"That was just a little taste" he commented on that, still noticeably angry, "…and today they´re getting the whole meal."

"We really have to be careful though" Judy reminded him calmly, "You have seen their gear yesterday, it´s not like we´re fighting a bunch of ranger scouts…"

"I´m not going for half things today" he clarified, "That other bullshit didn´t bother me very much, but that yesterday, that was personal. And now they twist things up and I am declared a rapist?" he asked cynically, "I don't think so."

Just in that very moment, Daniel was getting a phone call, and since he wasn't driving, he picked it up immediately. It was the Chief, and he put him on speaker for us pretty soon: "…I just received some info that could be pretty important for you…" we got to hear from Bogo.

"That is?" Nick wanted to know.

"We´ve located your phone" he told us, "It has been activated again some minutes ago…"
"Still in Tundratown?" Nick continued with his questions.

"It is, and it´s exactly in the location you were describing earlier…" he shared concentratedly.

"I´m going to get that back right now…"

"Wait a minute!" Judy interrupted suddenly, "Why are they turning it on right now, just after we announced our raid in the press conference?"

"You think it's a trap?" I asked.

"Whatever is it, stay careful" the Chief advised us, "We can´t use any more trouble…"

POV Delilah Nox

I wasn´t happy with how that turned out. I wanted to stick to the plan all along and ruin their image forever. I was proud of what I did to him, and somehow, I was proud of getting knocked out like that from them as well. But then Rachel came up with that stupid idea of a rape story, and the boss agreed on that immediately. I wasn´t quite sure if he wanted to punish me for what I messed up earlier, or if he really was that dumb and believed that this would work. Nick had ripped the press apart when they were asking their questions about that, and that cheap editing to the video was not helpful on our side either. Right now, Rachel and I were in the office of the boss, and we were watching the latest news that went through the media.

"…now we really have a problem" he sighed deeply, "If they find out where we are, we really have a big problem! A third of our security is out of order because of your giant fuck-up yesterday…" he kept on complaining.

"I told you they were dangerous…"

"This would not have happened if some professionals would have taken care of your job yesterday!"

"If those stupid polar bears don't even know how to work a gun…" I sighed, "…and… they probably know where we are, they were here and running away from us yesterday" I reminded him.

"They ran through a snow-storm" he corrected, "And he hasn't even had some fucking cloth on his body! Do you really think he didn´t have any bigger issues than that? That's probably the only good thing you did yesterday!"

Since quite a little while, I noticed that Rachel was playing around with something she was holding in her paws. It was a phone as it turned out, and she had activated it just a few minutes ago. What wondered me a little was, that she apparently didn´t know the password for the login screen, and that got me curious all over sudden.

"Why do you have a picture of that bunny cop on your login screen?" I wanted to know, and that got the boss´s attention as well, who was still searching the web for news on his laptop.

"That´s not my phone" she told us concentratedly, "It´s Nick´s, I wanted to search for some interesting info we might find on there…"

"You dumb bitch" the other wolf yelled at her loudly, before he ripped the device out of her paws a second later and tried turning it off as quickly as possible, "They can track that fucking thing, did you never hear of that?" he asked in disbelief, "Goddamn!" he complained at me loudly, "Where did you even find her?! Am I just surrounded by incompetent idiots right now?"

I just shook my head in disbelief about this whole situation. We really messed it up big this time. That sexy fox could still be our toy right now if we weren´t that careless yesterday.

"Tell everybody to leave this place!" he decided a few moments later, "We cannot take that risk, we have to wait until all that hype calms down a little!"

"What do I do?" Rachel asked shyly, nearly in tears because of her stupid action.

"You stay the fuck with us for now!" he retorted, "You have a major problem if they find you! And much more importantly: When they find you, they will probably find us too. You have messed this up enough already."

POV Daniel Fangmeyer

"Damn, its cold out here" I whispered, after we had parked the fleet of cars in front of the complex of buildings, where Nicks phone was located at, "Couldn´t they have built their mansion in a desert?"

"Bearable, compared to yesterday" Nick commented, before he unlocked his dart riffle and pointed it at the building.

"How do we do this?" Max asked, being in the second row with me, after Nick and Judy who took the lead.

"We take everyone out who has a weapon and mow them down like a lawn" Nick told us his strategy, and neither him nor Judy were stopping for a single second.

"Damn" I whispered, even lower now, "That´s a spirit."

What we witnessed after that was just beyond my imagination. We nearly weren´t fast enough to keep up with them when they rushed the building. Nick had a grenade attached to his gear, if they had no other way to open the front door, but it wasn´t even locked as it turned out.

We were a team of six officers at the moment, the others had split up to secure the exits on the other parts of the building, but Nick and Judy probably could have done this all on their own, as it first looked like. They stormed the building like a freaking hurricane. There were a lot of wolves and polar bears walking around in the whole building, and they had no chance of defending themselves against the salves of tranquilizer darts that hailed down on them. Snarlov and Higgins, who were behind Max and I, took care of the rooms to our left and right while Nick and Judy cleared the hallway, and in a matter of two minutes they had knocked out about ten geared up and armored security guards. But the Wildehopps-duo didn´t stop there.

"Holy shit" Max panted, all out of breath because of their speed, "I´m getting out of shape…"

My situation wasn't any better, I could need a little break as well in the meanwhile, although I haven´t really done anything. This kind of police armory was really heavy and running in that was exhausting as hell. It didn´t seem to slow down the fox and the bunny before us though.

"I believe this was the hallway where that room was" Nick though out loudly, as we just came to a halt at the first junction.

"Is that your Uniform over there on the table?" Judy asked him a second later, pointing at it with the barrel of her gun. Nick just had finished reloading his own riffle and tugged the empty magazine back onto his belt.

"Oh, yeah…" he confirmed, as we already made our way down that hallway.

When we arrived there, they also found their keychains, their wallets and Judy her phone on that table.

"Ok, that was nearly a little too easy" Nick wondered, "…where is everyone?"

"Uhm…" Max chuckled, pointing at the unconscious wolves and polar bears everywhere behind us.

"You think that crazy slut is still here?" Nick asked Judy then, but she also just shrugged her shoulders.

Just in that moment, another door at the end of that corridor was opened and a gray vixen stepped out of it. She was quite in a hurry, but then when she noticed us, she froze immediately.

POV Rachel Fitch

"Oh crap!" I yelled, after I ran back into the boss's office right away, which I was just about to leave, "They´re here! The security is down!"

"Who is here?"

"Hopps and Wilde!" I panted.

"How could this happen?!" the big wolf asked, standing up from his chair immediately. "We had the whole crew on duty!"

"I don´t know! We have to get out of the windows!" I suggested in pure panic, "They´re coming down the hallway already!"

Delilah and the other Wolf had a much different approach on that, apparently. He picked up a dart riffle from under his desk and she grabbed the huge knife she was always playing around with. I wanted to warn them in that moment, because I had noticed that they had tranquilizer guns and armory with them as well, but I just couldn´t speak up quickly enough. I was scared to death right now. I feared Nick from every possible perspective right now. And all that mafia-business was way too much for me right now.

"Alpha-team!" the boss yelled into the radio on his table, "We´re under attack! My office, main hallway!"

"On our way" it came back nearly immediately, "Half a minute!"

He threw the radio back down onto the table carelessly and slammed his fist onto the desk afterwards.

"Goddammit!" he yelled, "This is a fucking catastrophe! Such a bunch of stupid and incompetent morons! Do I really have to do this by myself right now?"`

"Do you even know how that thing works?" Delilah asked him, pointing at his riffle with a little chuckle.

"Shut up you slut! Prepare to fuck up some police officers or go to hell, where you belong anyways…"

"Oh, I´ll get my revenge on him, don´t worry!" Delilah grinned with her psychotic smile, "I still have an invoice open with him…"

It really was not going well for us. I didn´t believe in a happy end for us anymore at all. I saw the prison bars before me already.

Originally, we had planned to move out of this building as soon as we heard about it in the news, but we didn´t think they would find us this fast here again. Now we had to face it, there were no alternatives.

POV Max Wolfheart

I got exactly what I wanted from this mission. I wanted to see them in action, and I got lots of that. When Nick noticed the vixen on the other end of that hallway, before she went back into the door again after spotting us, nothing was stopping him anymore. He put his wallet and his keychain back to where it belonged and left his uniform laying where it was for now. Then he went on his way again.

"Ouch" Judy commented that with a little chuckle, "This could get pretty ugly for her now…"

I was so excited about hearing that already, Nick looked like a volcano that was about to explode pretty soon. We followed him quickly, but then we suddenly stopped again. Another little group of security guards had gathered up in front of that very door now, and they all were armored a little better than the other ones had been. Nick wasn´t too bothered about that though. He angled his riffle a little higher immediately, to make up for the long distance he needed to shoot at, and then he fired a couple of darts into their direction before they could even react. Not only had that the effect of distracting them a little, because they apparently had some big guns as well, but he also hit one of the wolves right on his head and knocked him right out with that. Judy began firing a couple of darts as well now, and Nick already had covered quite some distance before the other guys even knew what they were up against. They were protecting themselves from the darts by holding their guns in front of their faces, a few of the darts just bounced of their armory anyways, but they weren't able to return a single shot on us, until Nicks gun was finally out of ammo. Because Nick was this close to them already, Judy was careful on her trigger now, in order not to hit him, and then she tried to catch up with him as quickly as possible. When Nick arrived them, he did a really high jump into the air to make up for the height difference to his opponents, turned around his own axis during that and used the momentum to smash his riffle right into the face of his first enemy. That hurt just from watching. That wolf hit the wall to his right like a sack of wet rice and he also lost a tooth because of that impact. The others watched that scene in shock as well, but Nick wasn´t finished there. Since they couldn´t get their guns pointed at him quickly enough, they also tried to use the frame of the weapon to hit him with that, but the fox was way too fast for them. Judy´s training with him really had paid off, as I just witnessed. He blocked their attacks with a strength and agility I never believed to be possible. Just when one of them finally realized that it actually wouldn't be that dumb to use his riffle on Nick, who really was busy with fighting and knocking them out now, Judy was in mid-air at maximum speed already and knocked the gun right out of his paws with that impact. She was moving around them like a grey dash of energy. We had tried to catch up with them of course, but we didn´t really knew how we could help them, so we just kept on watching stupidly.

Eventually, Judy managed to distract a few of them so much with running circles around them, that Nick wasn´t in any danger of getting hit by our darts anymore, so we opened up the fire on them as well. That proved to be very effective. Soon, we arrived at a point where there was just one of them left standing, and he looked like he shat his pants completely when he realized it.

"Holy fuck" he panted, "What the hell are you?" he asked Nick in disbelief, who was coming closer and closer towards him slowly. He didn´t even try to shoot at him, although he still had his loaded riffle in his paws. His respect for the fox just stunned him completely.

Nick on the other hand looked like he had all the time in the world, while he slowly reloaded his own riffle in front of his eyes.

"The Name is Nick" he clarified, "…and I´m just one slightly pissed police officer."

With that he shot a single dart at the last remaining wolf and watched him collapse right before his feet.

"Any questions" he asked us, panting a little for himself right now, then he joined Judy, Daniel and I again.

"Ahhh fuck" we heard one of the other beat-up wolves groaning in pain, who was lying against the wall right next to us. I believed it was the poor guy who lost his tooth when he hit the wall because of Nicks attack, and he really looked bad right now.

The red fox went up to him and chummily patted his shoulders a little, "An ambulance is on its way…you´ll be fine in the end" he chuckled.

"You little bastard" the wolf complained, still some more blood dripping out of his maw.

"Not my problem when you work for the wrong people…" Nick commented dryly.

"They´re paying the best…" he winced back lowly.

"Not anymore" Nick chuckled once again. "Want a tranquilizer for now?" he asked him then.

"Do I fucking look like I want to get tranquil…"

Without another warning, Nick triggered his riffle once again and pinned the dart right into the wolf´s neck, "Here you go" he told him lowly, "Sleep well, buddy!"

It didn´t took long anymore until that guy passed out as well and just kept on laying there on the floor like his colleagues. Daniel and I still were staring dumbfoundedly.

"Goddamn you guys are good!" I grinned stupidly, "That was awesome!"

Judy grinned a little about that compliment, Nick on the other hand still wasn´t really bothered. He headed right for the door we all had gathered in front of.

"Ever wondered what a scared vixen looked like?" he then asked us, reaching out for the door handle, "…because you´re about to witness one right now!"

Muhahaha, bad cliffhanger lvl. 9000 once again!

…anyways, what do you think of this one? I´d be glad to get some feedback, as always ;)

Hope you´re having a great time, see you soon!

~wurrfolf