Epilogue Three: ZPD Babies (Final Chapter)

AN: Alright, this is the final one. Sorry for it being so late, but to be honest, my heart's not really in it right now to continue on. The story's over and it's time to wrap it up. This is the end of this canon unless I do that Christmas story I mentioned in the last chapter.

I did have some ideas I decided to throw out. Duke as a policeman confronting Travis who's still in jail for selling drugs, Fixer's successful future as a cosmetologist, and I even had an idea for a post-apocalypse story 500 years in the future where Sugar was one of the last remaining mammals on earth and was trying to keep her siblings alive who were now in warring tribes. She's kept them young with her healing powers, but Joseph and his tribe want to die of old age in peace, and Sugar's deathly afraid of walking the earth alone.

That said, I did have an idea for another new story taking place in a new canon. I call it "The Squatter". It's a rom-com starring Duke Weaselton and Dawn Bellwether.

The story is set five years after the events from the first movie. Bellwether is out on parole for good behavior. Nick Wilde is her parole officer. She's anxious to get home and write a tell-all book called "My Side" to help try and drive up sympathy for her situation. However, when she arrives at her mother's old, abandoned home (the mother moved out but kept the house for her daughter to move back in), she finds that the inside is a mess and that it's recently been lived in. What's worse, the person living inside is none other than Duke Weaselton! When she finds out, she runs back to Nick's car, demanding Nick throw Duke out. Nick assesses the situation and finds out Duke's been living there rent-free for almost five years. Duke declares squatter's rights and Nick looks into it. Turns out, Nick can't throw him out, but Dawn also has a right to the property. Dawn has no choice but to either live with Duke or find someplace else. (I was thinking of adding a pandemic angle to it as it would be 2021 at this point, but am undecided). Reluctantly, Dawn agrees to live with Duke as long as Nick agrees to keep checking in.

Judy's in the story too, but she's a very minor character and I decided not to do a romantic angle with her and Nick as it's not needed for this story. Instead, she'd actually be comic relief, both wanting revenge on Dawn, but also paranoid that Dawn and Duke were conspiring against her in some way. Nick is enjoying watching Judy go insane over the whole thing.

There are some 'odd couple' moments between Dawn and Duke. Very "snob vs slob". Duke's okay with her, but Dawn can't stand him. Then, Dawn has a video conference call with a cheetah reporter named Sandy Spots who wants to chat with Dawn about her upcoming book and life outside of prison. During the interview, Duke can be seen walking around in his boxer shorts and scratching his butt. When Sandy asks about him, Duke tells her he's Dawn's boyfriend. This infuriates Dawn, but Sandy is excited to hear that the woman who tried to rid Zootopia of all preds is now a pred lover. Knowing this would help her image, Dawn decides to go along with the ruse. Sandy says she'll meet her in person next week.

After the interview, Duke brings up a point. Cheetah's have a strong sense of smell and she'll know their relationship is a lie as his scent is not on Dawn. A couple living together would obviously be in a physical relationship. Dawn absolutely refuses at first, but realizes she needs this to work for her career and image. She decides that before they get physical, they need to date and understand each other better. Dawn starts to realize that during her time as mayor, she puts some laws in place that ruined Duke's life. He was finally going to go legit, but the jobs available to him were blocked due to unfair, "anti-pred" laws she had put in place. He found out how bigoted her mother is and how Lionheart had mistreated her. Eventually, the two fall in love and consummate their relationship.

The second half I don't have a full grasp on yet. There'd be the big secret that breaks them up (maybe finding out that it was Duke who ratted out Doug's hideout). There'd be a time where Duke is kicked out of the house only to get in trouble with some gangs he previously owed money to. Doug would be involved in some form. The beginning, middle and ending get wrapped around her writing of the book. She first makes herself out to be innocent, then adds things that were her fault, to fully rewriting the book where she mostly blames herself and apologizes. It ends with Duke and Dawn living together happily ever after. I always have some stories going on in my head, but this one's a bit more fleshed out than others.

Writing dialogue tends to be my favorite part of writing as it tends to flow better, but sometimes, ideas can come out of it as well. I decided to give Bogo a happy ending after all of the hell he had to endure in the main story. The direction I gave Pennington and Bogo just happened as I was writing the dialogue and it ended up feeling natural and working out well.

Zootopia: Downtown, months after the incident...

Nick and Judy arrived at the "Precious Paws" nursery in Savannah Central to drop off little John and Judy Junior while they went to a get-together with their friends from the ZPD. Nick was still confused. "Ummm… Tell me once more why we couldn't just leave our xeroxed tots with one of your five billion family members or even Stacy?"

Judy explained. "The ZPD uses this nursery to take care of the clone children during the morning shift. I thought it would be nice for our baby clones to meet the rest of the ZPD babies!"

"Alright. Just seems like a cheap excuse for a cartoon parody is all."

The two of them left and Judy junior pulled John by the paws to go visit the other toddlers. The two spoke to each other in a baby language only young toddlers could understand. "C'mon John! Don't be shy! 'Dey are 'da kids of mommy and daddy's fwiends!"

Little John had his ears down. He was scared. "I dunno, Junior. I-I don't know them!"

"It'll be fine! I won't wet 'dem buwwy you. If 'dey twy anything, I'll beat 'em up. Okay?"

"O-Okay." John said nervously.

She pulled him by the paw over to the group. "Hi!" Junior said. "I'm Judy junior and this is my brother, John."

A Wolf pup greeted them. "I'm Butch Wolford…" He gestured over to the girl, tiger kitten. "And 'Dat's my sister, Willow! People call me 'Baby Wolford' and her 'Baby Fangmeyer' because our parents go by 'dere last names at work."

"In 'dat case, I'm 'Baby Hopps' and He's 'Baby Wilde'.

"Are your mommy and daddy cops too?"

"My mommy's the sheriff of Bunnyburrow. Our daddy used to be a cop, but now he sells ice cream. I think 'dey used to work with your parents."

"Cool! I love ice cream!"

"So what do you guys do here for fun?"

"We pway powiceman! Just like our mommies and daddies. We better get to our toy desks! I think baby Bogo's coming! He's 'da boss!"

"Why?"

"'Cuz his daddy's 'da boss of our pawents."

Bogo entered the nursery and stood behind a plastic, toy podium. "Okay, everyone! First case on the docket, we need to solve the cwime… of who bwoke my toy plane!" The baby buffalo then held up a toy plane with it's wing broken off.

"'Dat plane belongs to 'da nursery!" Baby McHorn said.

"Yes, but I play wiff it 'da most! I fink I know who 'da culprit is!"

"What's a 'culprit'?" Baby Higgins asked.

"A culprit is.. Well, it's a big word. It means, umm… 'da person who did it!"

"Ooooh!"

"Speaking of, Higgins, McHorn, Pattington…"

"It's Pennington," the baby elephant replied. "I'm not a teddy bear."

"That's for sure!" Baby Wolfrd joked, which got him a mean stare from baby Pennington.

Bogo continued the conversation. "I haff weason to believe one of you broke my favorite toy! Show me your feet."

Baby McHorn picked up his big Rhino hooves one at a time. He was clean. Next was baby Higgins. Nothing on his feet. Baby Pennington, just acted shy.

Baby Bogo knew something was up. "Show us your feet, Pennington!"

She finally lifted up her foot to show a broken plane wing stuck to the bottom. "It was an accident!"

"'Dat was my favorite toy and you bwoke it! You and your big feet!"

"Nanny says you're not supposed to leave your toys on 'da floor when not pwaying wiff 'dem so it's your fault!"

"Nuh-uh!"

"Unh-hunh!"

"Well, anyway, 'dat case is solved. Onto new business." Baby Bogo pointed at John and Junior. "Who are 'dese two? New wecruits?"

Baby Wolford explained. "'Dat's officer Hopps and Wilde! 'Dere mommy and daddy used 'ta work with our mommies and daddies and 'dey're just visiting."

"We'll, 'dey're officers today. Hopps, since you're new, you haff to do parking duty."

"HA! You said 'doody'!"

"Shut up, Wolfard!"

"It's Wolford!... Or maybe it is Wolfard? It's confusing."

Junior had a question. "What's parking duty?"

"All 'da toy cars are parked iwweg-...iwwigaw-... 'Da meter is up. You gotta give 'dem tickets."

"What tickets?"

"We don't have any, so take 'dat roll 'a stickers over 'dere and put one on each car."

"Okay! Sounds wike fun!"

Judy Junior took the roll of stickers and went over to the tiny lot of toy cars. Meanwhile, as Baby Bogo was about to keep talking the girls suddenly squealed. "EEE! He's here!"

"Who?" John asked.

Baby Fangmeyer gushed. "Only the coolest, most handsome and skinniest kid in the nursery! It's my Benji! Baby Clawhauser!"

Baby Clawhauser came in with shades on and was using the bottom of a skate with the shoe removed as a skateboard. "Hey ladies!" Benji said while winking at the girls. He then waved away the boys. "Yo, dudes."

Baby Higgins pointed at him. "That's my brother! He's so cool and slim. He's… not much like his daddy."

Benji sat down next to Baby Fangmeyer who immediately hugged him and held on tight. "Hey babe," he said.

Bogo finally continued. "Before was so WUDEWY intawupted,... it's time for us 'ta get 'ta work pwaying cops and wobbers!"

Baby Wolford and some of the other predator toddlers groaned which confused John. "What's wrong?" the tod asked.

Baby Wolford looked over at John and explained. " 'Dey need wobbers for 'da game to work and it's always us pwedators! It's not fair!"

Bogo ignored him and told off the list. "Okay, Wolford, Wilde, Fangmeyer, Johnson, and Delgato, you'll be 'da wobbers. You go and hide and 'da west of us will find and awwest you."

"How come Baby Clawhauser is never on 'da list?!" Baby Delgato asked.

"Because he's way cooler 'dan 'da west of you. Okay, Go off and hide. 'Dat's an order!"

As some of the preds, including John ran off to hide, Baby Bogo looked over at Judy Junior and was furious. "What are you doing?!"

He saw Junior covering a toy car with stickers. "I was done putting a sticker on each car, but I had a wot of stickers left."

"You covered 'da whole car in stickers!"

"Yeah! He was a bad dwiver, so I gave him awot of tickets."

"Oh brudder."

Meanwhile, at the Zootopia police station…

Judy, Nick, chief Bogo and officers, Clawhauser, Higgins, Wolford, Fangmeyer, Delgato and Pennington were all sitting around in the briefing room having a chat. Everyone but Nick and Judy were in their uniforms. They were eating their lunch, chatting about life and their clone kids.

"So how did you guys manage this little get-together?" Nick asked.

Bogo explained. "We managed to schedule our lunches all on the same hour. We have enough men out on the beat right now, so it works out."

"Well, we really miss you guys," Judy replied.

Bogo smiled. "The same. How is being a sheriff treating you?"

"Kinda dull for the most part. Turns out when you don't have cops waging war on preds, there's not a lot of crime happening in Bunnyburrow."

Nick agreed. "Yeah. Once I was done training the new recruits, I was able to go back to running my ice cream parlor."

Wolford looked over at Nick. "Do you miss bein' a cop?"

"Sometimes, yeah. I became close friends with the new recruits, but my wife is the boss and that brings up issues of possible favoritism, so I left when my job was done. That said, business has been good at the parlor and I love seeing the smiles on the kids faces. It's one of the few places in Bunnyburrow where prey and pred are comfortable mingling together."

Judy agreed. "Yeah. I never realized how much bigotry was in Bunnyburrow. I was really sheltered from it growing up. When I was a kid, Dad had me almost believing it was the other way around. Having Gideon as a bully didn't help things."

"Now, he's one of our best friends. Fixer and Sugar helped heal their mixed-breed children. Now, those fobbits look beautiful and are very healthy."

Fangmeyer had a question. "Say, since those two can help with mixed breeding, maybe me and Wolford could have kids!"

Wolford looked worried. "Wait! Hold up! We already do, remember? 'Dats partly why we got hitched!"

"I mean, outside of our clones. Cross-breeding is happening more and more. Mammals seem to still be changing. Evolving."

Nick continued. "Well, Judy's in no risk of getting pregnant. She got herself fixed and luckily, Stacy's sterile, so we don't have to worry about that. Right, hon-bun?"

Judy looked away. "Umm…. right."

"Hey, speaking of kids, how's parenthood been like for you guys?"

"Exhausting." Wolford and Fangmeyer said together.

Bogo chuckled. "I think we can all attest to that."

Fangmeyer continued. "We get off work, we go pick them up from the nursery. They fall asleep in the car, and then…."

"'Dere up all night," Wolford continued. "Cryin' and babblin' and poopin'. We hardly get any sleep as-is."

"And little Butch hardly gives me any attention," Fangmeyer added. "He loves his daddy."

"And little Willow Wolford favors her momma."

Clawhauser interrupted. "It's the same with Benji and Harry. Benji runs right up to me and Harry prefers his 'mommy'. I guess it's a natural species thing."

Judy and Nick looked at each other. "Well, it's not the same with us." Judy replied. "Little John runs straight to me every morning and Junior loves her daddy."

"Junior?" Pennington asked with confusion.

"Judy Junior. I named her after myself. Why should all the men get to do that and not the women?!"

"Progressive! I like that!"

Bogo chuckled. "I have to admit, my son is a junior as well. I just thought it made sense as he was a clone of me."

Nick looked up at Bogo. "So how's being a single dad been treating ya, Buffalo-Butt?"

The officers stifled a chuckle as Bogo leered at Nick. "It's been difficult. It's hard to find time for Billy when my job takes up so much of it. I want to be there for him, but it's tough."

Pennington agreed. "I know exactly what you mean. I want nothing more than to be there for my little Frita, but finding the time has been so hard. And the dating scene has been a disaster! It's also difficult to find another man interested in you when you already have a child."

Delgato was kicking back in his chair and listening in when he finally gave his opinion. "Not for me! You'd be surprised how many women are attracted to a single dad. When I take little Miguel for a stroll, so many women will come up and talk to me. I got three phone numbers right now!"

Pennington was frustrated. "It's so misogynistic! If a woman is single with a child, no man wants to come near her because they fear commitment. They know she's looking for a husband and not a one night stand. If a man is a single dad, he's considered responsible and good husband material. It's just unfair!"

Delgato had a suggestion. "Well… Wolford and Fangmeyer hooked up because of their clone kids. So did Clawhauser and Higgins. You told me that if you could find the right man, you'd settle down and retire to take care of your child. That said.. why don't you ask Bogo out?"

Everyone's eyes popped out a bit in surprise as they looked over at a blushing, beet-red Pennington. "DEL!" She screamed.

"You're always telling me what a nice butt he has!"

"We're partners! I tell you that stuff in private!"

Clawhauser nodded in agreement. "The chief does have a nice ass."

Bogo glared at Clawhauser. "Dammit Ben!"

"It's a compliment! Higgins thinks so too!"

Delgato continued. "It's not just that. You've made some other remarks. You said you wanted to, and I quote. 'Taste some of that beef.'"

Some of the men howled, which caused Wolford to do a full howl. Pennington just buried her face in her hooves. "Oh, God! Del! That's just… guy talk! He's over ten years older than me! He's my superior for God's sake! I follow his orders. I'm under him!"

"Not yet, you aint!" Wolford joked which caused the room to break out in laughter.

Bogo could see how emotionally upset Pennington was at all of the laughter. "That's enough!" he yelled. The room went silent. He turned his attention to the elephant. "Francine?"

"Chief, I am so sorry!"

"I have our schedules here. Seems we're both off Friday evening and all day Saturday. If you'd like, I'll arrange child care and we can go to a nice restaurant. Get to know each other"

Pennington's ears shot up. "S-Seriously?!1 I-I mean you don't have to…"

"I want to. I find you attractive as well. Do… Do you want to?"

" #$% yeah! I-I mean… that would be wonderful." The elephant then looked over at an emotional Delgato. "Del? What's wrong?"

The lion was weeping. "Nothing, it's just….SNIFF! So beautiful! I'll watch the kids, okay?"

"Really?All three? A lion, an elephant and a buffalo?"

Clawhauser and Higgins raised their arms. "We'll help too."

"Thanks guys. Chief, I was thinking… Remmy's?"

Bogo was a bit concerned. "That's the most expensive restaurant in town!"

"I put out on the first date."

"Remmy's it is."

It was then that Judy's phone went off. "Judy Wilde…. What?! Oh brother. We'll be right down." She put her phone away. "Well we'll have to cut this a bit short. That was the nursery. They're about to give you a call too, Bogo."

"What happened?"

"My baby beat your baby up."

Nick was surprised. "Little John beat up baby Bogo?! But he's so timid!"

"It wasn't John."

"... Oooooh! What the heck happened?!"

"I don't know, but we gotta go."

Bogo's phone then rang. "Hello? Yes. Yes, I just heard what happened from the bunny's mother. We're visiting. Aww! He's crying?! I'm sorry. I can't pick him up at the moment, hold on." Bogo then talked to Pennington. "Francine, if I gave you the rest of the day off, could you pick up my son from daycare? He's very upset."

Francine smiled. "Is that an order?"

Bogo returned the smile. "That's an order, Pennington!"

"I love it when you're forceful!" She winked at him. "I'm a more traditional gal and like a man that takes charge. Anyway, you'll have to stop at my place to pick him up."

"A-Umm...Agreed. Dismissed!"

As Pennington and Nick and Judy were leaving, Nick turned around to say goodbye to Bogo. "See ya later, Buffalo Sexy-Butt!"

"Get lost, Wilde!" the buffalo growled. "Is there anything else we need to talk about?" Ben raised his paw. "Yes, Clawhauser?"

"Can you twerk for us?!"

"... No."

Earlier, at the nursery…

John noticed all of the kids except some of the prey were hiding their eyes and counting. They just counted up to ten repeatedly because it's as high as they could count. Bogo would eventually get tired and tell them when they're ready.

"What's going on?" John asked nervously.

"I told ya! Cops and wobbers!" Baby Wolford replied. "It's wike hide and seek. We 'woobers' go hide and 'da cops have to find us and awwest us with toy handcuffs. We're 'da bad guys!"

"B-But I don't wanna be a bad guy!"

"Too bad! We're preds. Bogo says preds are all bad guys. We gotta hurry and hide!"

Baby Wolford ran off, leaving a scared John to look for a hiding spot. Panicking, he moved some books from the cubbies and hid behind them, then re-arranged the books in front of him so he could not be seen.

"Ready!" Bogo shouted. John listened in.

Baby McHorn found Willow. "Got you Fangmeyer! You're under awwest!"

Baby Fangmeyer was disappointed, "Aww! I was hoping Benji was gonna find me!"

Bogo was snooping around the cubby area. He saw one of the books on the floor and knew something was wrong. Looking around, he saw two pointy ears hiding behind the books. "There you are! You're under awwest, bad guy!"

He pulled the book off and pulled John by the arm. "Stop it!" John cried. "I'm not a bad guy! I'm a fox!"

"All pweds are bad guys. That's just how it is. Put your arms behind your back so I can put 'dese cuffs on!"

Bogo was being too rough with John. "OW!" John cried. "You're hurting my arm!"

"Don't be such a baby!"

"But I am a baby! OW! STOP!"

As Bogo was trying to put on the cuffs, he looked up to see Judy junior standing on top of the cubbies. "Don't you hurt my bwudder!" She jumped off the cubbies and kicked Bogo in the head. Bogo fell onto the ground and Junior started punching him over and over.

Baby Bogo started to cry "Stop! Stop! Daddy! Daddy! I want my daddy! NANNY HELP!"

John tried to pull Junior off of Bogo. "Calm down, sis! We were just playing a game!"

But Junior was persistent. "He hurt you, I hurt him!"

Finally, the nanny came and pulled Junior off of Baby Bogo. The little buffalo was crying and ran from the bunny.

"Now, now." The nanny said. "You little ones need to behave. No fighting!"

"He attacked my bwudder!" Junior shouted as she strugged in the nanny's arms. "I will have bwood for bwood!"

But all the nanny could hear was "Ah-bah-bah! Wah-na-mah-bah!"

"I better call your parents."

Baby Bogo went over to the playpen, sniffling. The others were surprised. Still in his toy cuffs, Baby Wolford went over to Baby Bogo. "Wow! She did a number on you. Hunh chief?"

"Shut up, Wolford!"

Woldford sniffed and noticed something. "Hey chief! I got a new case we can solve!"

"What's that?"

"The case of who made a stinky in their diaper."

"Shut up, Wolford!"

"I can solve it! It's you! Boy, she really scared 'da doo-doo outta you!"

"WOLFORRRRD!"

A while later...

Nick and Judy walked inside the nursery and talked to the nanny. Judy apologized. "I am so sorry about Junior. She's very protective of her brother."

"It's quite alright," the nanny replied. "Y'know, some of these clone babies are siblings by marriage, but they don't get along that well. Benji doesn't really play with his brother, Harry much. But John and Judy here seem inseparable."

"We have a tight-knit family at home," Judy explained.

Nick had a different theory. "Or, maybe they see the love we have for each other and it inspires them." Nick then saw Junior running up to him. "Speaking of. There's my little girl!"

"Da-da!" Junior yelled as Nick picked her up.

"I hear someone's been a bad girl!"

"Da-da! Aaaah ba-ba-nah!"

John came crying to Judy as she picked up the little tod. "I'm sorry that Billy scared you, honey! I'm sure he just wanted to play."

Just then, Francine entered the nursery. "I'm here to pick up my daughter and little Billy Bogo."

"Ah, Francine!" the nanny replied. "Bogo gave me a heads-up that you'd be picking up both Billy and Frita."

"Yeah. I just hope Billy is okay with me." She passed by Nick and Judy who were heading out with their children. "Hey guys! Everything okay?"

"Yeah," Judy replied. "Junior's just a little worked up. I hope she didn't hurt Billy too bad."

"I'm sure he's fine. Let's get together again soon, okay?"

"Sure! We'll try to make it a monthly thing. Bye!"

"Bye!"

Francine went and picked up Frita who was more than happy to see her. "Momma!" the baby elephant shouted with glee.

"Have you been a good girl, sweetie?"

"Mamama-ba-ba-ba!"

"That's wonderful. Now where's Baby Billy?" She looked around and found Baby bogo crying in a corner. "There you are!"

Baby Bogo saw the large elephant woman reaching out to pick him up. "No!" he shouted. "You're not my daddy! I want my daddy!"

Of course, all Francine could hear was. "No! No, dada! Dada!"

She cradled him in her free arm and rocked the calf. "Shhh! It's okay. I'm gonna take you to my home and your daddy is gonna pick you up when he's done from work, okay?" She gently brushed her trunk around his face and spoke very gently to him. "It's alright. Everything's gonna be fine."

Billy calmed down. He felt safe in Francine's arms. "... Momma?"

"If your dad plays his cards right."

Meanwhile…

Nick and Judy were on the train, heading home with their two clone children in their lap. "Now, Junior, I'm proud of you for sticking up for your brother…" Nick said. "But he's gotta fight his own fights too."

Nick looked over at Judy who wasn't paying attention to John, but instead, looking out the window. "Something bothering you, Carrots?"

"It's… It's nothing," she sighed.

"Don't tell me that. I can see that your ears are drooping."

"Do you really see cross-breeding as a problem to worry about?"

"For some, yeah. I mean… look at what Gideon and your sister went through. At the same time, it's evolution. What's really on your mind, Fluff?"

"Nick, I… Nick. You know how both me and Stacy have been very loving with the children?"

"Yeah?"

"And both of us have changed and diapered Sugar, put her to sleep and such?"

"Right."

"And she has these amazing healing powers among others."

"You don't need to sell me on Sugar. I already bought the whole package. What's going on?"

"... Nick, we're pregnant."

"Woah, hey! What do you mean, 'we'? I'm not pregnant! The readers will have to scroll a little further down this fanfic site for one of those stories!"

Judy was in tears. "I mean, Stacy and I! We're both pregnant!"

Nick was in shock. "Wha?... But… But how?"

"Well, when a daddy fox loves a bunny…"

"You know what I mean! Stacy's not fertile! You were spayed and even then, a fox impregnating a bunny is highly improbab-... Oh no! Sugar!"

"That's what I was trying to explain to you! Sometimes, her golden spores would randomly come out and touch Stacy and I and we couldn't figure out why she was doing it! She heals everything! She reversed my spaying and made Stacy fertile!"

"And somehow made me fertile enough to impregnate the two of you. Hoo-boy!"

Judy's ears drooped as tears fell down her cheeks. "I'm so sorry."

Nick rubbed her back. "Hey now. Don't be sorry. You did nothing wrong. Besides, this is exciting! For the first time, we'll have kids the old fashioned way! Not by adoption or cloning, but by being horny and reckless. The way God intended."

"Heh! Yeah."

"It's Stacy that worries me. She's not in love with me like she is with you and we're not married to her. I never intended…"

"I know! I...I know. We'll work things out. I just worry about what the other children are going to think. They'll think we don't love them as much because they're not blood!"

"We'll just have to love them that much more to prove them wrong. Besides…" Nick plugged John's ears. "To be honest, even with 'Mini-Me' here, Greg's still my favorite."

"Nick!"

"I'm just kidding, honey. Everything's going to be fine. You're the sheriff. I got a successful business. We can have as many kids as you have siblings and we'll be okay."

"SNIFF! Are you sure?"

"Sure I'm sure! I'm not sure how Stacy wants to handle this, but I know we'll be just fine. I promise."

Nick poked his head out the window to look out towards Bunnyburrow. "As long as we're a family, our future is brighter than the sun."

The End