"Great…" Lucy was prepared for a sneak attack from her, "it's never a good thing to see her laugh."
Kanpera faked an attack, Lucy tried to block it but soon realized it was a trick, she got kicked meters away.
With that happened Kanpera took out her gun and aimed for Judy
"Die little bunny."
With that said, Judy though she was dead, her ears went deaf of a second. She closed her eyes and then opened it again. That she saw wasn't death, it was lots of blood spraying on her face and a bullet covered with dropped in front of her, she looked was Nick, and he was smiling.
"N-Nick?" Even Judy noticed her voice was trembling, Nick fell to the ground, slowly closed his eyes.
"Wait! No!" She shook Nick while her tears dropped near his wound on his stomach. Kanpera was a bit surprised.
"And I thought I saw everything…"
The gun was pointing at Judy once again.
"I won't miss this time."
Lucy dashed towards Kanpera and elbowed her neck, a feeling of cold metal and a huge force almost made her faint. She blacked out for a second and kneeled down in front of her, her head was bleeding.
Kanpera crushes her throat with one paw, lifting her up to see her suffer face to face.
"You're strong Lucy, but you're no predictor."
Lucy grabbed her own neck tries to catch a breath for herself, Kanpera holds her hand strong and puts the pistol from her to against Lucy's head. Kanpera smirked at her, she was in military school with her, Lucy was dominating her in everything back then. She was noticed as a humiliation of her family. Not long after graduation, she got kicked out of her family. Finally, many years gone past she can have her sweet bloody revenge. Judy couldn't help, she is too tall for a takedown and will put too much risk on Lucy.
"You'll always be a pray...Ah!"
A bullet flew past Lucy by an inch, knocking Kanpera's gun to the ground, that strength also forced her to drop Lucy.
Lucy didn't hesitate a bit, she swiped Kanpera off the ground, Judy found a chance and grabbed the gun away from them. She soon turned back to Nick and looked at the sunset. There was a Fox, Judy thought she was dreaming, he looked just like Nick.
"Look who's in trouble?"
"Shut up and help us Wormont!"
Lucy took cover behind the rock again, Kanpera was trying to get up again, a bullet went through the wall that she was in front of.
"Stay down kitty, the next one is going straight in your head."
The wind brought up sand while a black helicopter was closing in, Wormont's sight was limited. Lucy can't do anything but take cover behind the rock that is nearly broken, Kanpera knew it was her call, she grabbed onto a rope that was handed down from a white fox wearing a dark dress from the helicopter, she had no emotions on her face, she just watched Kanpera slowly climb the rope she handed. Only Judy could barely see what's happening, but the wind was starting to push her away, she had to grab onto Nick and try not to get blown away.
"I'm glad you came to pick me up…"Kanpera dusted the sand of her suit
"Well, that was the plan isn't it?"The white fox turned to the pilot, "Let's go."
"What about our minions?" Kanpera closed the door as they rose
"Oh don't even care about them Kanpera, they're going to be useless ashes in seconds."The white fox had a controller on her hand, only a few seconds later the buildings went up in flames, the explosion started small, Judy tried her best to drag Nick to a safe area but he was too heavy for a bunny to drag. She started crying, she can't believe she can't do anything to save him. Suddenly a paw grabbed Judy and Nick was also carried out of there, she quickly dried her tears and saw a gray fur forest wolf dropped them near a police car.
"Judy, stay here, an ambulance is on the way." He quickly rubbed some liquid antibody on Nick's wound so it won't get infected any further.
"He'll be ok right Simon?"
"I-"Simon looked at Chief Bogo, Bogo shook his head.
"I don't know Judy, I'm sorry."
Lucy wanted to go in and see if she can save anyone out of this, Wormont grabbed her and tossed her back, a huge explosion came right after that, pieces of metal was raining to the ground.
"Lucy, what were you thinking? You could've blown your face off!"
"Well, at least I tried to save someone." Wormont sighed "You haven't changed a bit, from military school till now, not a bit."
He grabbed his sniper gun and started walking back so the fire department can clear up this mess.
"Come on Lucy, you need this ambulance."
Lucy was mumbling something, probably trash talking about Wormont but she still goes with him, he's right she needed this ambulance, her head is still buzzing after those deadly hits from Kanpera.
Simon helped Judy to get Nick into the ambulance, Lucy sat beside Judy while she was shaking and crying.
"You guys coming?"Lucy looked at Wormont
"No, we have to see what's leftover at this place."
She put an ice bag on her head and punched the wall.
"Good luck with that, tell me how it ends will you?"
"Sure, but you need rest now."Wormont looked at Lucy with a worried smile
"You know me Wormont, I don't do 'rest.'"Lucy closed the door and then closed her eyes
"Let's not waste any more time, let go."
The red light started to flash, Zootopia was as busy as usual, in the ambulance was silence. Lucy is still upset with herself. She could've save someone, anyone. She let everyone down, and she can't forgive herself for that. Judy is upset simple as she couldn't save Nick, if it wasn't for Simon, he'll be dead. After helping her with the Nighthowler case, she couldn't repay him. Just out there he took a shot for her, on the helicopter he said he had someone he likes… could it be… me? Judy looked outside, holding her tears while they stop in front of the hospital. Lucy threw the ice bag away and helped the doctors with bringing Nick to the surgery. They went as far as they can, the doors closed shut right in her eyes, she kneeled to the ground, she couldn't hold it any longer the tears went straight to the floor, didn't take long the floor was wet.
Lucy took Judy to the closest seat,"Don't worry these animals are professionals they'll take care of Nick."
Judy nodded but didn't stop crying.
"Oh, you bunnies are so emotional."
Judy laughed a bit,"Yeah... I guess we are."
"Nick will be fine, I promise you."Judy looked at Lucy in the eyes and slowly nodded once.
"Thank you Lucy, hope for the best."
On the other side, they were cleaning up dead bodies of the minions,"So many innocent souls lost…"
"The terrorist group didn't care a single bit about them."Something shiny sparked into Simon's eyes, he slowly closed in.
"Hey, Wormont!" Wormont crouched near him."It's a 9mm bullet and it seems like it has something on it."
"You mean Nick's blood?"
"No, something else, that part is oddly green."
"Maybe rust?"Simon handed it to Wormont, he raised it towards the sunset so he can take a better look at it
"No, it's poison. I've been shot by this poison before it made it black out immediately, I never knew how to cure it but I'm pretty sure there is medicine for this."
"Can you identify it?"
"We call it the 'forgotten soul' No one have seen one of these poison in years."
"So there's no medicine for this?"
"I'll afraid it's been gone for a while."
"I got someone who can help."
"Then let's go, I'll call Lucy on the way."
Lucy's phone rang, "looks like we have a result from the cleanup crew." She put Wormont on the speakers, "Tell me what's up."
"Lucy, this whole thing was a trick."Lucy looked confused.
"Wait, what do you mean?"
"The hostages, they weren't real. Still you feeling better yet? I feel like you should..."
"Cut to the chase Wormont."
"Ok, the point of everything they wanted to spread our force so they can take down us in small groups they meant to hurt Nick, or maybe even kill him. Our other groups also got attacked but not as strong as the group you guys encountered." Judy made a hole in the wall,"Those bloody monsters!"
"Clam down Judy", Lucy lifted her away from the wall,"Anything else?"
"Yes, the bullet that stroke Nick, it might have poison on it."
Judy took her phone,"What kind of poison?"
"We don't know yet, we need to bring it back so Vera can identify it. I'm deeply sorry Judy."
Judy hung up and smacked the phone to the ground.
"Why! This isn't fair!"
Lucy picked up her phone, only a few cracks on the screen protector, then she looked at Judy, she had nothing on her mind, she just looked at her. They forgot time until the doctors came outside with Nick in the bed.
"Doctor, how is he?"
Judy came straight into his face since the doctor is just a raccoon.
"He's in a coma but he'll likely recover don't worry it's just the matter of time."
"Why is he in a coma?"
"We found poison in his blood but we couldn't identify it, that might be the problem, we put a lot of fresh blood into him, he nearly died of blood loss."
Judy followed the doctors to his cell.
"Come here at 6:00 P.M. tomorrow, now he needs to rest."
Judy nodded and walked to the staircase.
"You need me to escort you home?"
Judy shook her head,"I'm fine, thanks for everything Lucy."
Lucy stared at her walking slowly out of her sight. She though, she could've done something there, but she knows Judy need some time to clear her head.
She soon got to her apartment and lay down on her bed, thinking only about that soft, fluffy orange tail.
Meanwhile in ZPD
"Vera, it's another late night work?"
"Yeah Mark, don't wait up."
Vera hung up her phone while Wormont handed her the bullet.
"Extracting poison you say, I can do that."
"How fast can you make an antidote for it?"
"When do you want it?"
"Fast as possible."
Vera stretched a bit,"See me at noon tomorrow."
Wormont stepped out of the lab and looked at Simon
"Tomorrow at noon." Wormont knew what he's going to ask
Simon nodded,"Let's just hope Nick will live till then."
The moon was shining bright, while it filled Nick's cell with white mystical light.