Freak Crash

Nick floored the gas pedal in desperation as the criminal, a cheetah, bolted away from him. His fingers fumbled for the radio button. "Judy! I need you to come around and cut him off!"

"On my way!" said the diminutive officer as she sprinted around the block with all she was worth. This criminal was smarter than most lawbreakers she and Nick had come across in their short time together as partners on the force. "I'm running! Standby!"

The cheetah twisted and used his assault rifle to blow several metal slugs at Nick. The fox ducked down as the ammunition screamed through his windscreen, shattering it with deafening cracks. He shook his muzzle furiously to force the shards of glass away off his face.

Nick snarled in grim fury and desperation when he rounded his car around a corner and glimpsed the cheetah pull away in a Jaguar XJ. "Judy! He's gotten a vehicle!" he roared into his radio.

"Copy that! I'm moving to intercept!" the young bunny said as she leaped from side to side off two parallel buildings. Once she got to the rooftops, she ran hard and slid down a sloping building balcony and leaped off, bouncing off some low-hanging power lines to land on the streets below. Just one more block to go! She readied her assault pistols.

"Judy, where are you?" Nick thought in desperation as the cheetah perpetrator unloaded another salvo at him. Two lucky bullets burst the cruiser's tires. "Bollocks!" Nick cursed as the police car violently screeched to a halt. Luckily, he saw that Judy had just burst out from a nearby alley, preparing her guns to offload shots at the vehicle of the thief.

Unfortunately though, Judy was too busy loading her firearms to watch where she was going, and before she knew it she had sprinted to the middle of the streets.

A gunshot to the stomach made her scream in agony.

"JUDY!" Nick yelled, dismounting the cruiser and running on all fours to the horrific scene that was unfolding in front of him.

But he was too late as the cheetah rammed his vehicle into a doubled over Judy, sending the bunny flying off the side of the curb.

"NO!"

Onlookers gasped in petrified shock as Nick reached Judy's side, turning her over as gently as he could.

There was nothing he could do.

Her bones were all shattered. Bloody entrails leaked out of her punctured flank. And her amethyst eyes were unblinking and half-lidded, staring lifelessly at the blue sky and beyond.

"Oh Judy," sobbed Nick as he cradled the body of his beloved close to his chest, never wanting to let her go.