Chapter 33
A/N: Hellu all! Welcome to chapter 33! Man, chapter 33? I must really like keeping you guys entertained. Heh heh! I do! In this chapter, the officers are just getting ready to confront the suspicious looking mammal at the Zootopia Central Train Station. I hope you enjoy the newest addition to the chapter! Also, a special shout out and thank you at the end of the chapter to a very special person in my life!
The fox and bunny jumped out of the Beaver, slipping on their protective Kevlar vests, cocking their elephant tranquillisers and M5 handguns before casually walking over to the commotion. Judy was reminding Nick about the Kevlar armour non stop because she doesn't want a repeat of what happened on his first day on the force. It seems like it was getting heated pretty quickly and more commuters filed past the officers unaware that something serious was going on. They just wanted to get home and put their aching feet up.
"I would appreciate it if you didn't open the bag, sir... It has undeveloped film prints of my childhood and I want to get them printe-" said the shifty but innocent looking mammal.
"I'm sorry sir," interrupted Snarlov with a gruff tone. "But we are picking mammals to search that stands out because there is a threat to National Security of Zootopia. We must take a look."
The wolf snuffed annoyingly and crossed his arms, looking impatient to the trio. "Look guys, I really want to stay and chat and maybe nibble on a few doughnuts over a coffee, but I have work to get to."
"'Ello 'ello." chimed in Nick, tipping his shades over his eyes, grinning with the sly smile that he likes to pull out to suspecting mammals. "What seems to be the problem, sir? Why can't we take a look inside this cute wittle bag?" he added, yoinking the bag out of the wolf's grip and held it close between him and Judy.
All of a sudden, the wolf started to get defensive and agitated by the fact a fox just snuck the bag out of his grip. He then immediately started to reach for the bag which Nick just held it up in the air. "Up bup bup! This has been seized for the time being sir."
"But it's my bag! You can't just take away from me, that's just low even for you coppers!" he countered, growling lowly.
Nick scoffed and held the bag tightly and started to test the poor wolf. "What did you say that was in this bag again, sir?"
"Undeveloped film! Now don't open that up! I'm warning you!" he threatened, getting closer to the fox and got restrained by Rhinowhitz, Snarlov and Higgins.
"Now now, sir. I assure if it's film, we have a van over there and it's darker than a moonless night so it wont be affected." he said as he looked to his bunny who was keeping a close eye on the wolf. She thought there was something fishy about that predator, something she didn't like has left a pit in her stomach. She then raised her paw up with a finger in the air.
"I think you should arrest him for now. There's something I don't like about him I'm pretty sure you'll all agree." she suggested, standing straight with her ears all perky still alert for the noisy surroundings.
The other officers murmured in agreement and Higgins proceeded to tighten his cuffs around the wolf's thick wrists. "You are under arrest for the time being for suspected suspicious activity." he said and started to read his rights. "You'll be escorted to the van for a strip down search."
The wolf snarled and rolled his eyes. "You've got to be kidding! Look, I know most mammals are scared of my appearance for the scar on my face, but I swear I have nothing on me! You'll see!"
Nick nodded and held Judy's paw tightly. "We'll see." he finished as he led her to the police van and the other three heading out to the other van on the other side of the street. The red fox helped his dear bunny up into the sliding doorway of the van and shut it tight whilst they heard another cruiser pull up next to the van.
"Right, let's see what these 'photos' are shall we?" said Judy, determined to get to the bottom of this case.
"We shall." replied Nick in his slick tone and unzipped the bag, making sure there was no light creeping into the vehicle. The wolf might be a potential criminal mastermind, but he didn't want to taint innocent childhood memories, good or bad. Soon, the bag was fully unzipped and the two coppers put on their night vision goggles, switched them on and looked inside to see...
Film.
Tons and tons of film. The two coppers held it in their delicate handling paws, unravelling it gently and examining it closely. When they reached the end of the tape, they could hear the bell from the clock tower strike three o'clock. They both sighed, putting the innocent film back into place.
"Nothing." grumbled Nick, annoyed that he couldn't find anything interesting and flipped his night vision goggles back up.
"Nope." replied Judy. "But we couldn't take any chances. The city's safety is in our hands and we can't let our people down."
Nick smiled and held Judy's free paw tightly, which she looked up to him with her goggles still on her beautiful and cute face. "I couldn't agree more. I love your optimism and determination to your job Judes. It's almost... infectious. I might be catching your attitude for all I know."
"Good! I'm glad you are finally taking your work seriously, Nicholas!" she said, almost sounding like a grumpy grandmother who hasn't took their medication yet. She then giggled and nuzzled Nick's chest and his Kevlar armour. "I'm joking, babe. I'm very proud of you, really. You might slip in the ol' sarcastic attitude every once in a while, but that's what makes you unique, and a lovable fox." she claimed, holding his paws tightly.
Nick smiled and booped her tiny pink nose. "I can totally take that as a compliment." he murmured as he slid his paws down to her curvy hips. He then reached over to his radio and informed the officers of the outcome. "No suspicious objects found in the kiddie bag. All clear." he said, dropping the radio to the ground and looked back to Judy's face and stared into her mesmerising luscious purple eyes. "I love you with all my living life... nothing will ever make me sad again as long as I'm with you. Now, let's keep calm and carry on, but remain on high alert."
"I'm with you, Nicky." she said with a smile, straightening her Kevlar armour, grabbed the bag, zipped it up and opened the door of the van, the bunny hopping and with the fox strutting out proudly.
After a few more minute keeping an eye sharp eye out, they heard the noise of the van doors sliding open, Snarlov emerging from it and snapped off a rubber glove from his huge paw with the two other officers following with the suspect.
"He's clean." he reported as he approached the two mammals.
Nick tipped his shades and looked to the wolf, handing the bag to him. "Same situation with the bag. It did turn out to be film after all through the vision gear."
The scruffy wolf huffed loudly, knowing that his claims were right. "I told you ass hats that it was just film. But noooo. You wouldn't listen to me. You caused me so much stress in there."
"No need to get agitated, fuzzy." Nick replied with a small chuckle. "You're not gonna go to a cell now, so cheer up."
"We just cannot take any chances at the moment, sir." agreed Judy. "So now, you are free to go with no charges."
"Good to know." huffed the wolf, looking around quickly. He seemed to get stressed as he looked at the time. "Now can I get out of these cuffs please so I can leave?"
Judy nodded and took the keys from her belt, uncuffed the wolf and put a small paw on his broad shoulder. "You didn't do anything wrong. Now go and live your life." she stated with a small bunny smile.
The wolf didn't stay to say thank you to the bunny, instead he just walked away in a quick way. The officers then came together into a huddle to discuss their next course of action.
"Right," began Judy. "It is now gone past three o'clock and nothing has gone down. What I suggest that we do is that we stay here until the half an hour mark and then we go back to HQ going home with a weight lifted off our shoulders."
The officers murmured in agreement to the bunny. They couldn't believe they were agreeing to the bunny officer that look incompetent in the beginning but it turned out that she was the best team leader that they've ever worked with. As the cps disbanded back to their positions, Nick stayed where he was and gave her a cheeky pinch to her cotton tail which she squeaked to and blushed as he looked to the sly fox.
"Nicky... I know you like the tail but don't do it on duty, especially in a crowded scenario like this please?" she whispered with a pink haze running across her fluffy cheeks.
He tutted disappointed and retreated his paw to behind his back. "Oh okay, whatever you say Officer Hopps." he said smiling and played with her long, perky ears, softly nibbling at them to have a taste of bunny, making her giggle.
The wolf was now a few hundred meters away from the station, moping away as he looked behind. He smirked and entered an alleyway. He knelt down and dug through a concealed hole in the wall and pulled out a small basic phone. He called a number and waited for it to start ringing. "Thanks Eric..." he murmured. "You are a real pal to do the work for us."
At the station
Nick was standing by the entrance, eyeing up on a small doughnut van with narrow eyes. His stomach growled as the smell of the sugar beckoned him to come close and buy one. He then started to tease himself unaware he is. 'Mmm... blueberry muffins... sugar yum yums... oh, maybe some doughnuts on the side too...' He was also eyeing up on a fox. It looked like a vixen and the brown tint on the top of her ears looked so similar that he couldn't remember exactly where they came from. When the vixen turned around in Nick's direction and was about to take a bite of her delicious treat from the bag, her hazel eyes widened as she saw Nick and dropped her handbag.
"Nicholas Piberius Wilde?!" she called in disbelief.
Nick's ears twitched and looked closely at the vixen. Soon, he knew who it was. It came clear to him and his heart almost stopped completely.
Judy also looked in the direction of the female fox and then to Nick. "Who's that, darling?" she enquired.
Nick smiled warmly and grinned happily as he took more of her into his emerald green pools. "Katherine Anne Wilde? Mother!?"
Judy looked surprised as soon as Nick shouted the word mother. She looked over to Nick and then to her quickly several times. Smiling, she approached the vixen, took her delicate paw and looked up to her, picking up her handbag. "Hello, ma'am. I'm Officer Judy Hopps. I believe I have found your son running around all by himself." she snickered as she brought them closer together.
Nick's eyes began to be tearful and opened his arms out wide as the fragile vixen shuffled over nervously over to her son. When she got the closest they can be, she giggled nervously.
"Hello son." she whispered and tears began to well up in her eyes, smiling wider than ever.
Nick didn't reply and pulled his mother close to his body in a tight hug. Sniffling and sobbing happily, he knew his life was now complete. A future wife that was the most beautiful creature that he knows he doesn't deserve, a cute child on the way that he felt nervous of having in the first place and now, his mother, Katherine Wilde reunited with him.
"M- mommy..." he whimpered happily between gasping breaths and looked to her beautiful as ever face. "Wh- what are you doing here?!"
She smiled giggling, fiddling with her ears shyly. "I came to find happiness, Nicholas... and I did. I found you again..."
They were now a fair distance away from the entrance as they walked to a bench inside the station, Nick sitting next to his mother, Judy on his lap.
"What are you doing now Nicholas?" she asked interested. "Protecting the law, I see?"
Nick immediately replied giddily, bouncing Judy up and down on his laps excitedly, the bunny giggling. "Yush! Indeed I am mommy! I am being a good fox!"
Katherine giggled from the childish charm her son still possessed inside of him. "Well I am very happy for you and I bet you are succeeding in any way possible." she said with a smile and put a paw on his own, which Nick held it tightly whilst looking into her beautiful hazel eyes deeply. She then turned her attention to the bunny on Nick's lap. "So, you must be Judy Hopps, am I wrong?"
"No! Not at all ma'am!" she chimed in, hopping off Nick's lap energetically and held her paw. "Your son is doing a fantastic job to make the world a better place!"
"Well I'm glad to hear that, Miss. Hopps."
"Please, call me Judy, Katherine." she said smiling, rubbing her paw assuringly.
She blushed slightly and giggled. "Okay... Judy." she said smiling.
"Hey, mommy! I want to tell you, she's my fiancée!" he blurted out without relent.
She gasped and looked to the two, who held their paws together and exchanged kisses. "Oh, Nicholas! That's so sweet!" she squealed, holding her fragile heart thinking it was going to stop in surprise... and love.
A second from that, a loud banging noise was heard. Screams of terror was now being filled into the building. The fox, bunny and vixen gasped as they saw a cloud of thick black smoke emerge from the ground outside of the station. Nick grabbed his radio and radioed for help. "All officers report, this is Officer Wilde. A 10-80 (explosion) outside Zootopia Central Train Station. All officers report immediately and send paramedics!" he held his mother's paw tightly and kissed her forehead as he hugged her tightly. "Come on mother, Judy, let's get out of here!" he shouted as he carried his mother and Judy over his shoulders and ran to the safe exit where everyone was heading out in terror.
Security and officers in the area ran out and quickly escorted the mammals out of the danger zone. "Everyone get out! Quickly, quickly!"
"Out of the way everyone! Now!" Nick shouted in seriousness as they filed through the crowd and out to the safe area where everyone was gathering around, shouting and crying in absolute terror. The thick black cloud of smoke was emerging from under the ground. He set his two darlings down and put an arm over their shoulders as he looked on.
"Mother, stay here. We'll be back in a minute. Judy, let's go. We have work to do." he murmured as Judy took his paw and went out to the scene where the sound of sirens were starting to get louder.
"Wait, Nicholas!" Katherine shouted. "Where are you going?"
Nick looked behind and nodded subtly. "I have a duty... to protect this city... and you." he stated as he turned back and headed to Snarlov, Higgins and Rhinowhitz who were taping off the scene as firemen got to work to putting out the fire in the crater.
"How could this have happened?" Higgins shouted at Nick's face.
"I don't know! We have to wait until the scene is clear and we'll investigate further!" he shouted back as he looked on and then to Judy. He hugged her tightly and placed a paw on her belly and rubbed it. "Don't worry baby. We are going to get to the bottom of this. For the city. For you."
Just as Nick said those words, Katherine was now at the front of the police tape, clinging onto it tightly and never let her eyes off her two darlings.
A/N: Wow... this is just emotional. Nick's found his long lost mother and now a big investigation faces the two mammals. Next chapter will be out soon! I hope you have a great rest of your day! OH! Also, I would like to give a special and big thank you to November The Bunny, a great friend and an amazing person that has created the new and updated cover! I nearly cried in happiness when I first saw it! See you all later! Stay fluffy! ~RetractedEmotions