Chapter Two- A New Day in the Force
Judy woke up to a blaring klaxon, she ran out of her room and shouts "NIIIIIIIIIIIICK!!!!!" as soon as Nick heard her, he came running up the stairs; the elevators were too slow to reach the shouting Judy in time.
"What is it carrots?" He asked, trying his best to quell the shouting rabbit.
"Turn that Klaxon off!" She yelled, the klaxon still blaring in the background.
"Jeez Carrots chill down, just say 'Alarm Off' then it will be quiet." Nick cracked a grin.
"OFF!!!" then the room was silent, except for Nick's laughter which filled the house.
"Next time, if you need me, just press the intercom over there." Nick motioned to an intercom device at the wall "Get changed Carrots, we have a situation at the ZPD" and with that Nick sped off to his room while Judy went to hers, a few minutes later they were downstairs with Nick holding up the time.
"Which one which one…" Nick says frantically trying to decide which car to bring, to him deciding which car to bring was very important as it displays power and your privilege on the road, 5 minutes later he decides to use his Catrolet Colorado and sped off to the ZPD.
When they arrived, there was a SWAT anti-riot team stationed at the doors of the ZPD and there was silence in the reception desk, Clawhauser was in a very focused attitude, something both Nick and Judy never encountered, "Hey Clawhauser, what's happening?" Judy asked.
"We got a new shooter." Clawhauser replied in a rather serious tone.
"But why is there a SWAT anti-riot team outside?" Nick asked.
"Classified, Chief Bogo will fill you in once you reach the bullpen" and with that they sped off to the bullpen, and waited anxiously for the Chief to arrive.
Once Chief Bogo was in the room, the usual shouts and howls did not happen, there was dead silence in the room.
"I have two items in the docket today"
"First, you may be thinking why we have SWAT in Anti-Riot gear at the entrance, it is associated to another case"
"Assignments, Officers Grizzoli, Fangmire, Delgato, Tundratown SWAT."
"Snarlov, Higgins, Wolford, Undercover."
"Hopps, Wilde, my office now."
Once they reached the buffalo's office, they sat on the chair in front of the desk, and Chief Bogo's ever frightening stature leaning over the two officers.
"What I'm about to tell you is highly classified, so I don't want anything being said in this room leaving that door." Bogo said gesturing to the door, "We have a new Night Howler shooter, the public knows only that, but there is more to that than you think there is." Bogo went through his desk drawers and found two badges with the words 'Level 5 Clearance' embossed in the badge, together with the names of Nick and Judy. "These badges give you the same clearance as me, you can use them at your discretion but you must report to me and me only." Bogo paused and took another piece of paper and handed it out to them. It contains everything they need about the case, "I need you to go to Cliffside Asylum, I'm assigning you to this case as you cracked the Night Howler case and only you know what happened during your 'Undercover Mission' that exposed Bellweather. If anyone asks you what's happening or why you have that clearance, do not tell them anything or I will have your pelts hanging on this wall." Nick gulped as the thought of the Chief skinning them apparently made him sick.
"We got it Chief, you can count on us." Judy said in reflex.
"Splendid, Clawhauser will give you the complete case file."
They both went downstairs, got the file from Clawhauser and headed straight to the asylum.
Once they reached the gates, the were stopped by the SWAT stationed at the gates, guns pointed at them and wearing full body armor, not a patch of fur can be seen. "Sorry sir no civilians past this checkpoint" all they had to do was to flash their badges, "Sorry Ma'am, Sir, but please stand out of the car, we will do a mandatory search" after ten minutes, they were cleared to go through and parked their car beside the main entrance.
"Hey Nick, I wonder why those SWAT wore complete body armor? I did not even see their faces or a patch of fur!" she exclaimed.
"That is why we are here fluff, to find out what's happening."
Once inside, the hall that held the cells for savage animals were all green lit except a certain area, a fox greeted them, "Hello Officers, my name is Dr. Nicholas Phillips and I'm here to show you around the place" he said in a rather agitated way that seems to indicate he was bothered.
Down the hall they saw a bloodied cell with a tiger and badger inside, and a white lab coat, "The tigress, Felona Corrolenko, was shot in an alley and was sedated with no casualties, but when Dr. Reinhardt van Heim, the badger, came in to give the antidote, he miscalculated his distance and got bitten, both of them were already given their antidotes, but nothing seems to work, anyways that's not your problem…" Dr. Phillips said with a hint of sadness, "Dr. Reinhardt was my friend, he is very hard working and was the direct cause of the breakthrough of the antidote." Judy's heart sank when she heard this, apparently Nick saw her and took her in his arms.
"It's okay carrots, we will find him, oh you bunnies, so emotional."
After a few minutes trying to comfort Judy, Nick was dripping wet from her tears. After taking a folder given to them by Dr. Phillips, they left the asylum and headed straight to the ZPD in haste, they read the folder and learnt everything they needed to report to Chief Bogo, including the fact that the serum can spread through bites and are highly infectious, they pose a major threat to the city as there is no antidote for the current strain of Night Howlers and they are genetically modified to infect and only use their savage instincts to do it, but the fact that they do not act as complete savages (as they don't attack the mammals that are infected) makes it baffling for scientists to solve the genetic code for the strain, and it also proves that this is no virus, it is mammal-made.
After feeding the information to Chief Bogo, they were granted two days forced leave as they have no evidence to connect this to anyone and are given these two days to revisit the old Night Howler case as it could potentially hold a list of suspicious mammals and help them get a badly needed breakthrough on the case.
"Hey Carrots, can you do all the file searching for me?" Nick asked, much to Judy's dismay, "I have to go do something important at the house." Nick said, only for Judy to smirk and say.
"I will do it if you let me drive the Furrari tomorrow going to work." Nick's jaw dropped but found it fair, after all the case report was over 200 pages' long.
"Okay Carrots, you got yourself a Furrari in your inventory the whole day starting tomorrow." Nick only said at a flat tone, "Okay Carrots, gotta go, see ya!"
Once at the house, Nick readied his combat gear, and even bought two for Judy, including a spare set, for two long hours he was arming the whole house into a fortress, a strong point of humanity in case of an outbreak of a deadly plague or nuclear war, it is even complete with an airlock, and an oxygen filtering system that supplies air to the whole house with a similar water filtration device with a pipeline to the nearest water well and a fuel pipeline to a gas depot, which with a lifetime free fuel card from the Company CEO granted him near infinite resources to make his fortress fully independent in such extreme cases.
Cases like this.
Meanwhile at the ZPD records room.
"Hello there I'm Officer Hopps, I need full access to the Night Howler case files please." The in-charge of the records room – a giraffe – stopped her.
"Sorry officer, but you need level five clearance to access these files." A flip of a badge was all it took for the giraffe to hand over the files and as soon as Judy got them, she ran off to the review tables to read the whole case all over again.
She looked for names that may be associated to the current case, names of mammals that were not behind bars during the case.
One and a half hour later, Judy came across three names that were never arrested for their involvement; Doug, Woolter, and Jesse, they slipped through the case because this part was where the 'Undercover Mission' was, Bellweather was only arrested because of the carrot pen recording.
She gave the files to the giraffe and got a Zuber going to Nick's house and when she arrived, she opened the gate and laser pointers were aiming for her head, she immediately froze and the environment surrounding her slows down.
'So this is how I'm gonna die huh?'
"Stand down!" a familiar voice said out of nowhere, but the mammal saying them was someone else, or was it? "Sorry Carrots, I forgot to put you in the system, don't worry next time this won't happen again." Judy was speechless, what she thought was a military contractor was actually Nick, wearing complete trauma plates in a similar fashion like that of the SWAT team guarding Cliffside.
"Now, I know you are confused but this is really important, I need you to go to your room and meet me downstairs in 20 minutes." Judy was full of rage as a second ago she nearly died.
"WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING NICK!?!?" she yelled with all the air that existed in her lungs.
"I know, I'm sorry Judy but you need to listen to me please, I'm only doing this so that you will be safe." he tried to reassure the bunny.
"FINE! BUT YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO EXPLAIN EVERYTHING ONCE I'M DONE!!!" and with that, Judy left for her room.
After an hour trying to cool down, Judy still found herself pissed off by the events that previously transpired, she did not know what was happening, so she was silent and did not ask any questions until Nick explains everything at the living room.
Once the elevator reached the second floor, Nick was sitting in a sofa in a rather relaxed manner, "Come here Carrots, let's talk shall we?" Judy did not say a word, she grumpily sat down as Nick started explaining to her.
"So, I know what happened out there, I am really sorry, I did not know you would be going out so quickly, but anyways, there is something I need you to do so that you won't die accidentally the next time you come home without me okay?" he bluntly said.
"Fine, what is it?" she asked, unaware of the next question.
"I need you take your clothes off –including your underwear– and step inside the device in there." Nick gestured to a full body scanner for the security system inside a dark room, "Don't worry, I won't be here I will be at the second floor when you get naked." And with that, Nick went to the elevator and went the control room, he watched Judy through a live feed of a CCTV camera, he pressed a button marked 'Record as…' and typed the words, 'Judy Hopps- (N)' and felt a growing bulge between his legs, 'Only if she knew how much I love her…'
When the machine started up Judy's biometrics and her physical appearance shows up in the monitor, after the final scan, Nick sent one more instruction to the monitor inside the device telling her to spread her legs and freeze until the last scan was done, and Judy just followed it with no suspicion, not knowing that Nick was using the final scan for his own lustful desires.
When the whole scanning business was done, he went downstairs to continue explaining things to her, "So Judy, you found something important in the case folders?" Nick asked.
"Yeah, I got three names…" She started, only to be cut off by Nick.
"Doug, Woolter and Jesse am I right?" He inserted, taking Judy by surprise.
"Nick how did you know?" She asked him.
"I told you I know everybody, and I know they are working for a criminal named Max Michaels" Judy was silent, now she understood why Nick was acting like this, Max Michaels was someone you don't want to play with, and he can order a hit out on anyone, even he murdered members of his own crew if they do not get things right.
"So how do we tell Bogo?"- 'We tell him tomorrow, even though we are off duty he needs to, starting tomorrow we will be using the H2 as our transport, sorry fluff but your Furrari has to wait." he apologetically said.
"That's okay Nick, I'm sorry by the way." she said.
"What for?" Nick asked innocently
"For shouting at you earlier." she explained, with tears formin up her ears.
"Hey, I saw that one coming, don't beat yourself out for it okay, you were just shocked that's all."
"Thank you Nick, Good Night." Judy said in a sleepy manner.
"Good night Fluff." Nick said, and they all went to sleep.
