It's only been a few days, Nick's wound has barely healed up, but he knows Chief Bogo's manner, he couldn't have a day off especially when they are short on hand in the office. He rubbed the sweat off his face, drinking the last drop of the coffee in his cup, got up and threw it into the garbage.
"Officer Wilde?" A charming white fox entered the room, It was the new recruit standing around the office door, carrying files that she could barely maintain balance. Nick quickly got up again and grabbed half of the files off her hand.
"Just but it on the desk, anywhere."Nick went back to work, Skye scatter the files all over the desk. He felt the desk tited a bit.
"That is a lot of work, you must be new around here, welcome aboard, you can call me Nick." Skye sticked her tongue out and smiled.
"Nice to meet you Nick, I'm Skye."
Nick smiled back at her, and picked up the file that is the nearest to him. "Dead in alley, discovered by-" Nick seemed a bit shock, then he rushed out of the door and found Judy in her office."
"Hey carrots, how much do you know about this case?"
He handed her the file, her eyes swept over the whole case.
"A few days ago, the day you woke up."
"I know this person, Carl Croage, he was one of my neighbor and the apartment you went someone bought it and it was supposed to be a hotel in a few months, the construction was gonna start this week."
"You mean, it wasn't the first crime scene?"
"No, the body must've been moved."
Judy looked outside the window, "You think it's a hate crime?"
"I don't know him that well, but seems like everyone get along with him."
Judy start to spin her chair around, in a way of helping her think.
"Then, what's the motive?"
"Hard to tell, it's a cold case."
Skye popped into the room," Perhaps we can use the camera to see the killer"s face."
"The cameras! Yes! I always forgot about them!" Judy hopped out off her chair and shaked Skye's hand
"Thank you Ms.- uh sorry your name please?"
"Skye, Skye Skarrlow."
"Oh so you're the new recruit everyone is talking about, you'll do a great job with your quick thinking."
Judy lead them into the camera room, a tall alligator was sitting in front of a computer that controls all of the cameras. When they entered the room he was still focused on something.
"Neilson, what are you looking at?"He peaked at them,"Nothing really."
Judy walked near, and slowly, she sees a chameleon walking around the alley around Nick's apartment talking on his bluetooth.
"Huh, I guess it is nothing. He did anything?"
"No, he's been talking on his phone for a while though."
"A chubby little guy isn't he?"
"Yeah, pretty much." He turned the camera away from him and also turned himself to Judy.
"I know you guys aren't here just for chatting, now what can I help you with?"
Judy opened the file and he picked it up and tilted his glasses
"So I was wondering if you can show us what happened before."
"Sure thing." He quickly start searching the cameras while Skye noticed something.
"Mr. Neilson, your tail is missing some parts what happened to it."
"Um, Skye is isn't the best time to-"
"Oh it's ok Nick, my tail got shot years ago, they have to remove some of the parts so the infection won't affect my entire body." And then he told the whole story of how they get the bullet out and all those bloody scenes of shooting someone while he was in the surgery
Skye backed off a bit, seems like she is about to throw up. Nick stared at her meaning her not to do anything while she swiftly closed her eyes.
"You got into this mess, now you have to listen to this." Nick whispered into her ears, Skye slowly nodded and kept her eyes shut.
"Right, let's get into work shall we?"
She sat on the table, they looked at the same screen for four hour straight.
"Ugh! My eyes is stinging."
"You probably forgot to blink Skye." Nick shaked his head, looking outside the window while Skye is rubbing her eyes and her tears off her face. Judy was still focus on the screen, even Neilson couldn't stand four hours of looking at a computer screen, Nick went to get them a box of donut while Skye was stretching.
"Wow Judy, you're not called first place for nothing."
"Hey Neilson, I found something."
"Yes Judy?"
"The camera was off for an hour, what happened then?"
"The camera had a single block and soon it lost connection. We sent people to fix it as soon as possible."
"No dead bodies when they was fixing it?"
"No, they had a whole crowd, if they did they would've reported it to us."
"How long did it took to get back online?"
"It took 3 minutes to reconnect, they left right before the camera was back on."
Judy smacked the table," Damn! They got lucky!"
Nick came back with a box the donut and one in his mouth.
"Why so mad carrots?"
"They got away with it! Now the case is unsolvable and a killer is still out there!"
"It is pretty frustrating alright, but what can we do? We don't even know what the killer looks like."
Judy sighed and slid off the table, grabbing a donut on the way out.
"You're right Nick, let's call it a day."
Nick knew she was disappointed, so he ran after her.
"You want some of these?"
"You can take it Skye, I'm gonna take a shift." Skye packed the box of donut in her bag, hearing Nick and Judy outside the locker room.
"Nick we lead a killer outside and he or she could be out there killing people! We have to do something! We could collect fingerprints! Or maybe-"
"Carrots!" Nick was frustrated and start pulling his fur on his head, turning his head around.
"We can't do that, chief won't approve us! We already have too much to do, I can barely finish my job without your help."
"But there's a killer! This is more important!"
"The rain probably washed all of them off!"
"He's right, the rain have a possibility to wash it away, besides if the killer is a professional he or she might of worn gloves it's pointless to search anymore."Skye went out of room
"So we just let him get away and go out there to kill more? " Judy stand straight in her face yelling, "Is this what you think?"
"I'm sorry Judy, but if the killer goes out killing again, we could catch him this time."
"I can't believe you animals!"
She ran out of the ZPD, crying. Nick ran after her leaving Skye behind again.
"Well, I guess I'm alone again." Skye slowly walked out of the building, the opposite way of the sunset.
"Hey! Judy! Wait up!" He caught up with Judy soon, "I can make it up for you!"
Judy turned around into his chest still crying."H-how?"
"I'll take you out for a fancy dinner."
"Oh really? In this outfit?"
"What's wrong in this outfit? You look at cute as ever."
"Stop~" Judy laughed and face flashed red
"Come on cutie, let's go, it's right across my apartment."
Nick walked her to the restaurant, looking at his apartment, feeling something different about it."
"Did you forgot to close your window this morning?"
"I don't remember, go get a seat, I'll be right back."
The chameleon who was on the phone hours ago, was on the roof top on that apartment, hidden behind a A/C system.
"He's in, bomb detonation is in 30 seconds."
"Willard, don't kill him, we just want to test his beast deep inside."
"Don't worry Kally, you'll get what you want."He jumps to another building roof just to climb down safely and went across the street to see the so called 'fun'.
Nick entered his room, look around seeing nothing weird, he went straight to the window and soon heard a beeping sound. He saw Judy was still standing at the same place looking at him, he knew he has to save as many as he can.
"Judy where's a bomb here! Evacuate the citizens now!" Of course that animals still don't believe something that come out of a fox's mouth, but Judy trusted him that this isn't a joke, he'll never joke something about this, right?
Either way Judy shouted at the citizens to get out the building and get to a safe distance. Nick jumped out of the building window, the explosion was only big enough for that floor to gone on fire, gladly, there wasn't anyone who got hurt, except Nick.
Nick was blow to the other side of the street, leaving a huge blood mark on his back while he was sliding on the ground by the force of the explosion. He was struggling to get up by himself, but Judy soon pulled him up.
"You ok Nick? That was quite a hit."
"I'm fine, no one got hurt right?"
"Not that anyone I can see."
Nick shivered, someone was sneaking behind them, he quickly took out his gun and pointed behind him. Judy was surprised that he was still armed she left her gun in her locker. Willard was still blended in the environment Nick can't see him but he can somehow sense him.
"Very good." Willard though in his head, closing in on him and a dagger soon went though Nick's right arm, which is holding a gun.
"Ah!" Nick dropped his gun, the dagger was pulled out of his arm to his neck,"A tiny movement and you're dead."
Willard showed himself, the crowd that was watching seconds ago scattered everywhere.
"Ryan I'm not even hungry, and why do I have to go with you and your girlfriend to dinner?"
"Because last time I left you at home you nearly got alcohol poisoning."
"Yeah but Lance was there too, he can-"
"Listen he can't take care of you, besides aren't you supposed to take care of him? You are one and a half years older than him."
"He is a pain in the neck, and where is Lareaca?"
"I heard she is working on some explosive in the SWAT lab with Lance."
"I see fire." Lucy cut into Ryan's sentence, "Something is going on, let's go take a look."
Ryan nodded and flipped over the fence taking a shortcut between the streets. Lucy followed after him, seeing someone familiar.
"Wait! There's someone with a hostage."
"It's Nick and his right hand is bleeding."
"You think you can take him down by behind?" Lucy grabbed her short spear that she was hiding it under her shirt.
"When did you start carrying that this around?"
"Let's worry about that later, You think you can do it?"
Judy saw those two and she backed off a bit, Lucy swiped him off the ground, Willard soon lost his balance, She swing Willard over dropping his dagger.
"Not you again." Willard elbowed Lucy in the leg making her back off. Ryan bounce off the wall and kicked him in the face. Willard rolled on the ground and saw Judy pointing a gun at him.
"Oh nuts." Willard sat there looking at Judy, "Well go ahead, shoot me."
Of course Judy won't kill him, but she had a few questions.
"Did you kill Carl a few days ago?"
"Sorry I don't remember anyones name, I only do my job." While Judy was off guard he grabbed her hand and throw her to Lucy as a distraction, and he rushed through the traffic nearly got hit by a bus, Ryan can't cross the traffic like him, besides he blended in really fast, leaving nothing to track him.
"You should've take the shot Judy."
Nick left a huge puddle of his blood, the restaurant offered him some bandages to cover the wound.
"I guess I should've but there's nothing to do now, come on Nick, you can crash at my apartment."
"Sounds good, thanks Judy."
Firefighters soon arrived putting out the fire.
"Hey brother, you gonna pick up Lareaca or what?"
"Good point, see you two later then."
Judy didn't want the dinner anymore, he just wanted some alone time with Nick at her apartment at this point.
"Hey sweetie!" Lareaca hugged him and nearly made him fell. "Ok calm down there."
He gave her a kiss on the lips, while Lucy and Lance was just standing a side, watching them.
Lucy still wasn't hungry, but kind of worried about what Willard will do next.
"Hey, worried about something?" Lance knew she was think about something, after all theses years he can easily tell.
"Y-yeah, it's just Willard, Kanparea, they seems like working together."
"Willard? You saw him?"
"Mhm, he blow up a building and wanted Nick for something."
Lucy and Lance decided that Ryan and Larnaca needed some private time, so they went off to a ice-cream store to talk about this.
"What made you think someone is behind all this?"
"I don't know, but they're kind of targeting Nick."
"Because he's the first fox officer?"
"They aren't a fox, it's not out of jealousy."
"If they do have this so called master mind, we have nothing to know that they are up to."
Lucy sighed and looked at the moon start rising, Lance bought a strawberry ice-cream for her and then they got out the store since it was closing.
"How do you afford a three scoop with your money left?"
"That was all I had left in my wallet."
Lucy's phone rang, she looked at the text and rolled her eyes.
"You have your key to your house?"
"Not this time why?"
"Ryan told me to go home around 3 am, he said he has some 'work' to do."
"Wanna hang out till then?"
"Well I got nothing better to do, let's go."
Lance and Lucy set off to the mall that opens 24/7, with the moon shades upon them.
"Hey Willard, you seemed a bit bruised."
"You don't have to tell me that Kally."
The white fox was reading a magazine the Zootopia times.
"Why does Jack want him alive? I don't get it."
"You gotta ask him yourself."
"I'm too lazy to do that, but whatever it is he has a reason."
Willard stretched and lay down on a matt and soon into his dreams.
In another room, two bunnies have their eyes met over a light meal that Jack made.
"You want me to kidnap my sister?"
"You, have a problem with it Aura?"Jack looked deeply into her gray eyes.
"No, I'm actually every pleased that you offered this to me Savage."
"Oh please, call me Jack." Jack gave a handshake but she didn't accept it
"I don't do handshake, when do you want this to happen?"
Jack took out a ticket for the train into the city center, gave it to her while smirking. "Anytime you feel like, after you're done give us a call, and I'll prepare the money."
"You have a deal."
Aura grabbed the ticket and put it in her right pocket, Jack watched her for a long time, she was the perfect assassin, she didn't had any professional training, but just looking at her walk, she made absolutely no sound, cold blooded. "She's a natural." Jack mumbled to himself, poured a glass of red wine and enjoying the moonlight.
Aura boarded the train to the city center, thinking of her sisters. "Judith Laverne Hopps, you're a disgrace to our whole family."
She ripped the photo of her and Nick together. "You left me in that useless farm, just to let me get bullied by my brothers and sisters, one day I'll kill them all, but now, this payback will do."
Aura knew it was a long ride by herself, she looked at the sky and a hot tear dropped on her hand.
"This shouldn't happen to me."
She hit her lips until it start to bleed."I shouldn't have any feelings for that family. They're nothing but a target to me."
She hopped off the bench, clearing her mind until all she can think of is this mission she has to complete. As Jack said, she's a natural at this, and this will prove her, once and for all.