Nick was visibly nervous.
"W-well?" He questioned. "You gonna answer that?"
Judy flustered, replying
"I don't think I have a choice..."
She picked up the buzzing phone.
"Dr. Mohr?"
"Judy!" The doctor sounded very worried.
"You haven't left yet have you?"
"No.." Judy replied. "What's wrong doctor?"
"The results are back from Mr. Wildes' blood test." Mohr said.
"Already?!" Judy exclaimed.
"Judy, I have alarming news..." Mohr said in a chilled voice. "Nicholas has 1000 milligrams of Night Howler in his body, and as of today's booster, he only has 600 milligrams of antidote in his system."
Judy gave Nick a half confident smile. "Is that a good thing doctor?" She questioned.
"No..." He started. He suddenly sounded as old as he really was.
"Judy, if predators get a certain dose of Night Howler in their system, Something happens. Something terrifying." The doctor sounded very frail, very afraid.
"I have seen it happen ONCE before, when I went traveling for my medical studies. It is not natural. It is not even primal..."
The doctor started to cough. Judy looked over at Nick, who was playing with his tie.
"Wh-what happens doctor? What do you mean?"
There was no response from Dr. Mohr. The other end of the line was silent.
"Dr. Mohr?" Judy asked. There was an alarmed cry from the other line, and Judy heard Clover calling out for Dr. Mohr. Judy hung up the phone and jumped out of the car.
"Hopps?!" Nick yelled, chasing after her.
"Doctor Mohr is in trouble!" Judy exclaimed. Nick and Judy rushed into the building and towards Dr. Mohr's office. The duo burst in to see Clover attempting CPR on an unconscious Dr. Mohr.
"Clover, move!" Judy said.
Clover ran out of the way as Judy jumped and landed lightly on the tigers chest, causing him to gasp back into liveliness, coughing violently.
"Doctor!" Clover yelled. She rushed over to him. "Doctor are you alright?!"
"I'm... I'm fine." Mohr wheezed. "Wh-where's Judith?"
Judy took Dr. Mohrs paw.
"Doctor, I'm right here, but you haven't called me Judith since.. I was a child."
"Mr. Wilde." Mohr said, calming a little. "I have... ALARMING news... for you and Judy."
Nick grabbed a chair, and helped the doctor onto it, Judy hopping off of him. "Judy. Nick has an insufficient ratio of Night Howler serum to antidote. This means that he has the chance to go savage."
Judy and Nick gasped.
"But," the doctor interrupted.
"The antidote is preventing him from going savage RIGHT NOW."
"S-so what... is the... b-bad news... d-doctor?" Clover was shaking.
"Nick has enough serum in his system... that his body... absorbed it... and NOW he has... an ABILITY."
"An ability?" Judy repeated.
"Yes..." The doctor was being careful with his words.
"Nick has gained the ability... to go SAVAGE... at will."
"At will?!" Nick exclaimed.
"Yes." The doctor sighed.
"He can CONTROL when he turns savage."
"Wh-why are we... repeating... wh-what... each other is saying?"
Clover asked.
Everyone in the room stared blankly at her.
"You act as if this comes to no surprise to you, Clover." The doctor started.
"W-well, I had a.. theory, Doctor... about such abilities... within predators." Clover handed Mohr some papers, and he reviewed them with great interest.
"Clover, this work is AMAZING..." He mumbled.
"Doctor... is there a way we can test this?" Nick asked with interest. Judy gave him a quizzical look.
"You want to try it?" She sounded afraid.
"It would be interesting."
"Yes..." Mohr said. "Yes, but I'll have to call a friend of mine."
Dr. Mohr sent Nick and Judy home without another word. He didn't tell them anything about who he was going to call, or when they would arrange to test Nick.
"Why didn't the doctor tell us anything about his 'friend'?" Judy wondered, turning onto the freeway.
"Well he IS a predator." Nick said. "He could be UNTRUSTWORTHY."
"Nick-" Judy started
"Ah, I'm joking Carrots!" Nick laughed. "If you trust Dr. Mohr, he must be a good guy."
Judy sighed, slowing at the red light. "Then again, look at how easily I trusted Bellwether..."
"Bellwether was power hungry." Nick stated. "Dr. Mohr is an aging doctor with probably everything to lose."
"And he's been my family's doctor for 3 generations." Judy added. "He wouldn't just randomly betray us."
Judy pulled into the road leading to her apartment, but the road was blocked by two large black vans.
"What's going on?.." Nick questioned.
Judy read the side of one of the vans. "Zootopia Investigational Bureaucracy..."
Judy and Nick looked at each other gravely.
"Dr. Mohr wouldn't betray you, huh?" Nick asked
Judy looked out at the plethora of ZIB vans surrounding the apartment. With a grimace, she put the truck in reverse and pulled away from the scene.
"Carrots?!" Nick questioned her.
"I'm not giving you up to them, who knows what they'll do to you!" She worried.
A cheetah casually looked out his car window, sipping a cup of coffee, and saw Judy's truck backing away.
"Hey, Hey, there they are!" He yelled, grabbing for the radio.
Nick and Judy saw the vans lights start to flash as the officers rushed to get into them.
"Methinks we've been seen!" Nick said nervously.
"Hold on!" Judy yelled. She put the truck into drive, making a U-Turn and speeding down the driveway.
"Sweet cheese and crackers..." Nick whispered.
Judy almost replied, but a blaring voice interrupted.
"Ms. Hopps!"
Judy looked out the window to see a Grizzly leaning out of the lead van, megaphone in paw.
"Pull over immediately!" He exclaimed. "Mr. Wilde is too dangerous to remain out of the ZIB custody!"
"Dr. Mohr actually betrayed us..." Judy thought, turning and jumping the curb, staying off road to avoid traffic.
"But WHY? I trusted him!"
"Carrots!" Judy could here someone calling for her.
"Carrots, LOOK OUT!"
Nick grabbed the wheel from Judy and swerved past a tree grove.
"Judy, daydream less! Drive more!" He gasped. She shivered and grabbed the wheel.
"Got it! Uh... where should we go?"
Nick was silent. His eyes glanced back and forth, his tail twitched and shivered. He was so concentrated on and escape plan, a string of drool escaped from his mouth. Judy knew not to interrupt him while he was like this, and as she turned into an open field, still evading the vans, a burst of gunshots, and a hail of bullets smacking the truck jolted Judy and Nick.
"T-Tundra Town!" He yelled, not noticing Judy's shriek.
Tund- ACHOO! Tundra Town, and hide at Mr. Big!"
Judy nodded fearfully. Nick pulled out his phone.
"I'll call ahead!"
Judy looked for any signs on the nearby road saying where they were.
"Yes!" She exclaimed. A sign above a highway said;
Tundra Town: 10 miles ahead
She sped up to jump the curb, and Nick yelled as his head hit the roof.
"Easy, Carrots!" He winced.
"Sorry!" She replied.
Judy zoomed down the highway, the vans tailing close behind.
"They're catching up!" Nick exclaimed, wincing as another barrage of bullets hit the truck.
"I know!" Judy cried, swerving onto an empty four lane highway. As they raced down the highway, Nick saw two wolves on motorcycles, closing in on both sides.
"Judy, we have company!" Nick gasped. "Judy turned, but before she could react a familiar van crashed into the motorcycle on the left, sending both it and the driver flying.
"Finnick!" Nick gasped.
The window of the van slid down revealing Finnick and Weaselton.
"Duck!" Finnick yelled.
Nick grabbed Judy and pulled her head down, ducking as he heard a bullet whizz over his head. He pulled Judy up and saw in the rearview mirror the other driver laying dead on the highway.
"Keep goin!" Finnick yelled.
"We'll distract em!"
As he said this, Weaselton climbed through the window and onto the roof, toting a machine gun. He turned, yelling, and started shooting at the vans. It almost worked. Judy turned onto the freeway, and most of the ZIB vans followed Finnick and Weaselton. Only 3 of them followed Nick and Judy.
"We can't lose them!" Judy cried.
Nick sighed. "I think I can help with that..."
Judy looked at him, confused.
He reached into his pack, and pulled out a shining grenade.
"Nicholas!" Judy gasped.
"It's not mine!" He exclaimed. "It's-"
Judy glared at him.
"That'll kill them." She said quietly.
"Carrots, trust me! I won't kill them!"
"You swear?!"
"I swear on my grandmothers grave." Nick promised her.
Judy sighed. "Do it..."
Nick pulled the pin on the grenade, and waited.
"What are you DOING?!" Judy screeched, swerving a bit as she had let go of the wheel for a few seconds before grabbing it.
"Timing, Carrots..." Nick replied calmly. Then he casually dropped the grenade out the window. Seconds later there was an explosion. Judy saw it, but kept driving. When the dust settled, she saw the vans were stopped, and one turned on its side, leaning on the divider.
"It worked!" Judy gasped.
"I told ya Carrots..." Nick said.
"Now let's get to Tundra Town."
