Alright, so I finished my game, I started to replay another, and I swear, I have to keep at my school work. *sigh* Why do I have so many things going on in my life?!

Anyway, I brought you guys another chapter! Yay! I hope you're all excited for it this time! It took me some time to make it because of some writers block. But, I was able to get this all out to you within a reasonable time. I'm going to be working on the next as soon as I can. Which means hours of my time spent slaving away for you guys's entertainment.

Anywho, I hope you enjoy, favorite, follow, and maybe leave a review. Now, jam along to that inspirational song. Mine for today is Immortals by Fall Out Boy. *insert Big Hero 6 meme here*

NIck let out frustrated groan, having missed the target in front of him. He hadn't been able to focus all day. Saturday had been hectic for him and Judy both. Nick had gotten up, ready, and was over at Judy's an hour earlier than they had agreed they would meet. Unbeknownst to him, she had woken up an hour early anyway, so apparently it was all good.

Only it wasn't. When they got to his mother's, she had been both surprised and what seemed to be confused that Nick had brought Judy along with him. Though she had eventually accepted her as his friend. Inevitably, she had asked if they were mates, or something of the sort.

Even now, Nick began to blush at the thought of her being his mate. Of course he had considered it before, but the concept was just stupid. He knew she wasn't interested in him. She never would. He sighed and ejected the magazine out of the tranquilizer gun he was holding. He set it down and took off the goggles and earmuffs. He hung them back up, his eyebrows drawn.

"I know you could have done better, Wilde." The special agent told him as he passed. He looked up to a board that they had installed for scoring. Currently, Nick was still in third, with Bogo above him and Arden in first. The wolf had gotten a perfect score of one thousand. Every shot he had taken was a kill shot. Bogo had missed one shot by an inch.

"Yeah, sure…." Nick trailed off as he walked up the stairs that led to the ground level floor. Most everyone was out today, so there was barely anyone in the lobby. Even Clawhauser wasn't there.

'Must be on his lunch break or something like that.' He sighed a little bit. No one to talk to, and Judy was elsewhere. He felt as if he was being ignored. It wasn't like he was lonely, he had plenty of friends to talk to. Yet those he held dear to him he couldn't talk to right at the moment. He wanted to tell someone what he was feeling. Anyone except for Judy. He loved her with all his heart, but if she knew, his relationship would be ruined with her.

He shook his head vigorously, not letting that get him down. He had other things to worry about. His mother was still in good health despite her age. He still didn't know the whereabouts of his father. The current case didn't interest him in the least. He had nothing better to do, so he headed towards the showers.

He heard a shower running before he reached for the door. When he walked in, he could only see the special agent's duffle out and open. His clothes were laying out, folded and neat. Nick sighed and walked to his locker. He pulled out his clothes and laid a few towels next to them. He pulled his clothes off and walked into the showering area, stepping up to his shower. Conveniently, it was right next to the one the special agent used. And he was still there.

"What happened in the range today?" The wolf said, making the fox's eyebrows raise slightly in surprise. "I know you could have done better than that."

"I have a lot on my mind." NIck told his instructor. It was true, he had several things going through his mind.

"You need to calm your mind so you can focus. If you can't focus, your performance will drop. And so will your score." The wolf told him, rubbing at the fur on his arm. Nick nodded and turned the water on. It ran down his fur, already warm. He relished in the feeling before he grabbed his shampoo and starting to wash himself.

Next to him, the water stopped and Arden walked out of the showering area. After a little bit of shuffling, he heard the door open and close, leaving him alone to shower.

Arden stepped out of the locker room with a sigh. He had not been able to really relax in a while now. It was starting to make his neck hurt with how much looking up and down at mammals. He needed a massage of all things.

He wasn't very old by canine standards nor universal standards. Some thought he was older than he was. Yet they were wrong about his age every time. They thought this because he never acted his age.

'Enough about other mammal's opinions. I need to focus on who this mammal behind the attack yesterday is." He thought as his eyebrows drew in. Nick had already knocked off several mammals he had grown suspicious of. Surprisingly, the fox knew a lot about the ins and outs of criminal activity. He was still suspicious about that, but Judy said that he had changed.

He shook his head and started counting heads in his mind, ticking off the mammals he had already accounted for. He knew his family wasn't in this. They were far from Zootopia. This reminded him he needed to call them soon. He sighed and walked out of the precinct. As he did, he nearly ran into another wolf. Without thinking, he stepped back, grabbing the wolf and pinning him to the ground under him.

"Hey! What are you doing?" The grey wolf yelled from below Arden. He blinked several times before letting the wolf get up. He brushed himself off before holding onto his wrists, which Arden had been gripping rather tightly.

"Sorry about that. I'm a little jumpy today." Arden said, looking down the road. He was watching a lion walk into a gas station. He was looking around from under a hoodie. The wolf's eyes narrowed suspiciously. The gas station wasn't too far away for him to walk to, and it was the one he normally stopped at to fill his car up after leaving the precinct. He knew the moose that worked there, and they were good friends.

"Jumpy my tail." The other wolf grumbled. He walked off and Arden took a moment to look at the back of his hoodie. It looked like he was part of a band of some kind. Under the band name, which he didn't care to read, was a name. Rebel.

He snapped out of his trance as a loud alarm was set off in the precinct. His head snapped back to the gas station that lion had walked into. He started to run, knowing exactly what was happening. That lion that had walked into the gas station had attempted a robbery. A muffled gunshot rang out from the gas station, and Arden ran faster. In mere moments he was there, kicking in the bullet proof glass. The lion was startled at his sudden entrance as he tried to find a way out. This left just enough time for the wolf to jump at him from an all fours position.

His weight knocked the lion over, and the gun clattered away from them. The lion reacted quickly, scratching Arden's face and leaving three gashes in cheek. The wolf growled, pinning the lion's arms to the floor.

"Listen to me! I don't care what you just did to me, but I despise the fact that you killed an innocent mammal!" He was furious. He had never reacted to anything like this before. And he knew it. Nothing was able to get to him this easily. It wasn't normal.

Using his knowledge of pressure points, the wolf lifted a paw and struck a place in the neck. The lion's eyes widened before they rolled back and he passed out. Arden let out a sigh and picked him up as he stood up. He heard shouts from outside, and he began walking out. His arm was burning from the wound, but it didn't feel as if it had torn. He tossed the lion over to one of the officers that he knew could carry him and then some and touched his face. It was bleeding, but nothing excessive. He sighed. He would have to patch it up somehow.

"Arden." Bogo's voice pierced through his train of thought. "Thanks for preventing anything else from happening."

Arden blinked a few times. "There was one casualty. The store clerk was shot. Don't think he was able to make it." His voice was calm and cold. He had done these things before, and this was no different. This was just another thing in life. Mammals were desperate for things and they would go to these extents to get what they wanted. Sometimes it was money, sometimes it was power. But no matter what it was, they needed to be stopped from taking rash measures to get it.

"We'll take care of it. You go get some rest. You look like you need it." Bogo told him as he walked into the store to investigate how bad it was. Arden mumbled a thanks and walked back to his car. He needed to get home, have a shower, maybe a drink or two. Maybe go to the bar for those drinks. He had nothing better to do.

Not too long later, he was sitting at a bar with a bloody mary in his paw. He hadn't taken but a sip of it, and he already felt sick. Not because of the alcohol, but of the recent events that had transpired. He sighed for the third time since he sat down.

"Long day?" The barkeeper, a cheetah, asked. He was cleaning a shot glass with a rag. He inspected it, and set it under the counter.

"Something like that." He took another sip from the glass. "Crazy things go on in my life. Not that I mind. It's just that I'd like to have a break every now and then from everything."

"Oh, you poor thing." A voice said from beside him. Looking from the corner of his eye, he saw a vixen sitting there. She was snow white, her eyes a very pretty blue. "Well, being a cop must be hard, huh?" Her smile unnerved him.

"And how do you know that?" He asked skeptically. He stared back down at his drink, the blush that had started to form in his cheeks growing darker the longer he looked at her.

"I saw you at the precinct today." She set the soda she had on a coaster that was nearby. "Hey barkeep? How about a rum for my friend here?" She asked sweetly. Instantly he grabbed a bottle and poured some of the amber liquid into a glass, then set it in front of Arden. "My name is Ashlynn. Nice to meet you."

Okay! Now that that's done, I hope some of you realized that Rebel is the wolf that bumped into Judy. Wait...you didn't? Crapbaskets….

Anyway, I want to thank RebelMetalWolf for the fantastic help and support as my beta that isn't a beta. Go check out what he has to offer! And before any of you ask, yes, Rebel is his character. He asked very nicely for me to put him in.

Besides that, REVIEWS!

RebelMetalWolf: Good. They better be lol. Thank you thank you for the compliment.

TheGreatWaff: No. I know I'm going to get hate for this, but the Destiny games never really caught my fancy. I was playing Monster Hunter Stories. I really liked it, too!

Alright, that over with! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go get some coffee and sit here listening to random songs while writing the next chapter!

May inspiration light your paths,

Leon