-City of Zootopia-
-Nick & Judy's Apartment-
"Project Tanzanite!" The pup smiled in glee as, he remembered his "name".
Judy's smile slowly shattered into a million pieces after hearing what the pup had just said. Judy glanced over to Nick to see his reaction, but he only shrugged in response.
The pup however was smiling in absolute content. He, after so long, had finally remembered his own name.
Judy shook her head, and cleared her throat. "Are you sure that's your name?" She questioned, hopping to get a different answer.
The pup nodded his head. "I'm sure." He replied, still smiling.
Judy lowered her head and sighed, but shortly after looked back up at the pup smiling. "You look like someone I used to go to school with when I was younger." Judy said, getting a confused expression from the pup.
"Someone you know?" The pup asked.
"Yes, and if I remember correctly, his name was... M-Max." Judy replied keeping her fake smile.
"Max?" The pup said, unsure about the nickname.
"Yes, you remind me of him, so we'll call you Max. Okay?" Judy replied, hopping to get a positive response from him.
The pup though for a second before putting on a wide smile. "I like Max." The pup said, causing Judy to sigh in relief.
"That's good. Now are you feeling better?" Judy asked, which prompted a quick nod from the pup.
"Yeah, I feel a little better, I just have a small headache that's all." The pup replied, rubbing the top of his head.
"I think we might have some painkillers laying around here somewhere." Judy said, looking around, before she remembered something. "Oh how could I forget," Judy bumped her forehead with her tiny paw. "We bought you some new clothes."
Max's smile grew even brighter, his tail wagged underneath him despite him sitting on it. "Really!?" He said, overjoyed with the news.
"Yup, we checked your measurements while you were asleep." Judy said, walking over to bag laying on the ground next to her and Nick's bed. "They're not the best, but I don't think you'd mind." Judy said, walking back over to Max.
Max eyed the bag, but before he could actually go through it himself, he was handed a stack of neatly folded clothes.
"First, you need to get rid of that horrible smell," Judy said, getting an annoyed groan from Max. "You can use our shower." Judy said, motioning over to their bathroom.
Max sighed, and threw the sheets off his body, finding that he was still wearing his old horrid smelling clothes.
"You can leave your old clothes on the bathroom floor." Judy said.
Max left the two police officers alone, so he could go take a quick shower, and go through his newly bought clothes.
Once Judy heard the door to their bathroom close shut, she glanced over to Nick, who had just knelt up holding Max's empty cup in his paws.
"Seriously Judy? Max? Was that the best name you could've come up with?" Nick smirked, walking over to the kitchen so he could put the cup into the kitchen sink.
"I know, I'm sorry, but it was the first name that popped into my head." Judy sheepishly admitted, placing the bag next to the couch.
"Well, he didn't seem to mind it that much." Nick chuckled. "How long are you planning on letting this pup stay with us?" Nick asked, getting a long sigh from Judy.
"Just until we find a better way." Judy replied, walking over to Nick, who was now leaning against the kitchen sink.
"Well, let's just hope our friends over at the federal bureau don't come crashing through our front door." Nick said, eyeing Judy until she stopped next to him.
Judy leaned herself against Nick and began chuckling softly. "You know, it'll be like taking care of our very own kit." Judy said, looking up at Nick with a mischievous grin plastered on her face.
After hearing that comment, Nick felt his whole world suddenly begin to crumble inside his head. "Uhh..." Nick immediately blushed after Judy's comment, and gently shoved her aside. "Don't go making me have second thoughts about this whole thing."
"I'm only joking." Judy laughed. "It's just, you look SO adorable when you blush."
Nick rolled his eyes, and grabbed a TV remote laying on a wooden coffee table just in front of the couch the pup was laying in, and just next to the wooden table was a flat screen TV.
Nick jumped onto the couch, landing on his back, with his head and feet landing on the arm rests. "Whatever." Nick sighed switching the TV on via remote. Switching through various channels.
Judy chuckled slightly to herself, when her ears perked to the sound of a door opening and closing.
As Judy had predicted, the pup slowly entered the living room wearing nothing but a white undershirt, and a fresh pair of blue checkered boxers.
"I'm done." Max said, his fur still a little soggy from the shower.
"Did you have any trouble?" Judy asked.
"No." The pup replied.
"Do you still need those painkillers?" Judy asked.
The pup shook his head. "Nah, I'm feeling much better now."
"That's good to hear. Now about those new clothes." Judy said, walking over to where she last set down the bag containing the pup's new clothing.
Max waited impatiently, as Judy carried the bag over to him, gently placing it down in front of him.
Max dropped to his knees, and quickly opened up the bag; it was like staring into a pot of gold, or at least for him anyway.
Before he could actually rummage through the bag, he couldn't feel but a tad bit guilty. "You didn't have to buy me these." The pup said, looking up at Judy.
Judy smiled, and simply responded with "Whats mine is yours."
The pup smiled as well, and immediately began digging through the bag; it felt like early Christmas to Max, yet he couldn't recall the last time he had an actual Christmas, since he spent his last known Christmas sitting outside a electronics store watching Christmas cartoons through a glass window.
Judy couldn't help but laugh, as the pup admired the clothing, she even noticed he seemed to find more of an interest in the T-shirts Nick picked out. She ultimately came up with the conclusion that it was merely a boys thing.
After watching the pup for a few minutes, she decided to question him a little further. She walked over to Max, and knelt down next to him. "So what do you think?" Judy asked, as Max slipped on a grey shirt that had the words "I'd flex, but I like this shirt" written in write capitalized letters, which was obviously picked out by Nick.
"I love them!" Max replied, Getting a warm smile from Judy in return.
Judy waited a minute before asking him another question. "Do you know what happened to you?" She asked.
Max sighed. "I don't know, the last thing I remember was waking up on a cold metal table with all these mammals staring down at me... They were wearing white coats that had blood smeared all over them..." Max stopped explaining, and looked unsure wether to continue.
Judy noticed the pup seemed be a little uncomfortable, and encouraged him to press on with his story.
Max sighed and continued on. "I was cold, tired, scared, and naked. Those mammals with the blood only watched me, they watched me with their cold emotionless eyes, like they were waiting for me to do something. I wanted to get out of wherever I was, but when I rolled myself off the metal table, my legs gave out, I was too weak to stand, I cried out when I slammed onto the blood smeared ground."
Max suddenly began to breath heavy, with tears slowly forming in his eyes. "One of them walked over to me, while I scrambled to regain my strength to stand up. He stood over me, and knelt down closer to my shaking body, he was a male brown husky I think. He grasped my arm, and held up a syringe. He gave me the widest smile, and looked at me like I was his creation."
Judy rubbed the pup's back, and scooted over until both their body's touched. "That's sounds awful, what did he do to you?" Judy asked.
Max sniffled, and wiped the little tears he had underneath his eyes. "It's more like what I did."
Judy gave Max a puzzled look, but he ignored it, and made it obvious that he didn't want to continue. Judy sat there quietly, as she processed all of the information that Max had told her, she decided to ask him one more question. "Who are your parents?"
The question caught Max off guard, he turned his head to face Judy. "I don't know, I don't even think I have a family." He frowned.
Judy brought him into an embrace, and ran her paw down the top of his head. "I bet you have loving family, who are looking all over for." Judy assured the pup.
"Do you really think so?" Max replied looking up at Judy.
Judy nodded her head. "Of course and besides, you have me and Nick to keep you company."
Max smiled, and hugged Judy tightly. "Thank you so much." He said.
"Anything for you little pup." Judy replied, nuzzling Max's furry head.
Nick was was secretly glancing over at the two, he rolled his eyes and continued watching TV. "What did I get myself into." He thought to himself.
Soon after, Judy had prepared dinner, and after an extremely long day of taking care of Max, and Nick; it was finally night time. Nick had laid down, and Judy had tucked Max in right next to him, which of course Nick protested against it, but in the end he feel asleep with an arm wrapped around Max.
Judy sighed, and stretched her limbs. After a hard days work she really needed a break, and time to catch up on her work, and maybe a snack as well.
After rummaging through the fridge, she emerged with a small plastic bag filled with freshly peeled carrots just for her. She walked over to her little work station, and sat down on her rolling chair. She opened up her laptop and powered it on.
While Judy waited for laptop to power on, she turned over to check on Max, who was peacefully sleeping. Judy smiled and thought about life with Max in it.
Judy turned back to face her laptop, and logged on, as she took a carrot out of the plastic and take a bite of the tasty veggie. She noticed she had six email notifications, she scrolled through them finding that they were nothing more than spam... Except one.
She had gotten a reply from Agent Sparks, she quickly opened it, revealing a single Link with a message below that said "Remember our deal."
Judy opened up the link, which redirected her to a website. The first thing she noticed from the website was a logo with a blue Atom particle with a red DNA strand in the middle of it, followed by a name Judy couldn't help but say out loud.
"...Biotech..."
-City of Zootopia-
-Unkown Location-
A lone black suited male brown bear could be seen standing over a large window, watching over the mesmerizing; light engulfed city of Zootopia. The bear shook a small glass he had in his large right paw, filled with a clear orangey liquid and ice cubes, before he slowly brought it up to his muzzle, taking a quick sip from it.
He was in a large room, with numerous brown wooden bookshelves containing a colorful array of books. There was also a black couch, and a mini bar. There was also a large black rug in the middle of the room with a blue Atom particle followed by a red DNA strand in the middle of the Atom.
Just behind the large bear was a brown wooden desk with a fancy black rolling chair with the same emblem from the rug painted onto it.
The bear was about to take another sip of his cup of scotch when there was a light rapping in his office's door.
"Come in." The bear said in an extremely deep voice. He heard as the door slowly swung open, and was carefully closed.
"Good afternoon, Sir." A male voice said.
"Doctor, I knew I smelt something funny. What brings you to my domain?" The bear asked, still staring out his big window.
The "Doctor" coughed nervously. "Well, I've received a call from one of our foreign clients, they're demanding that we send them the NH-79 serum.
"First of all Doctor, it's Director." The bear growled, slowly turning around to face an extremely uneasy looking brown husky, who wore a white lab coat, and a pair of half rimmed spectacles.
The husky gulped nervously. "Sorry Director." He apologized.
The bear humphed, and sat down on his large chair. "And why haven't you sent them one?" The bear asked, getting no response from the husky.
The bear sighed. "I'm extremely annoyed by your incompetence Doctor, NH-79 is the key to this corporations ultimate success. According to you."
"I understand Director, but Subject 986 has evaded all of our attempts to subdue him." The brown husky said.
The bear's upper lip twitched, as he was slowly set down his glass cup. He let out a big sigh and slowly stood up, walking over to his mini bar. "Would you like a drink?" The bear asked, grabbing a clean crystal clear glass cup from the mini bar.
"I-I don't drink." The husky replied, refusing the bear's offer.
The bear clenched the glass cup tightly in his paws, and proceeded to open a bottle of scotch, and pour some of it's contents into the glass cup.
The husky watched as the large bear closed the bottle, and walked over to him, placing the glass cup on his desk with it being in arms reach of the brown husky.
"Nonsense Doctor, a little alcohol wouldn't bite. Besides, it's rude to refuse someone's offer." The suited bear growled, baring his teeth; which caused the husky to quickly reach for the scotch filled glass cup.
The husky took a sip of the orange colored scotch, which resulted in him coughing violently, as the orange liquid burned his throat.
The bear chuckled. "See? Nothing to it. Now about Project Tanzanite." The bear said, walking over to his seat.
"Ah yes, Subject 986. Like I said before, he's been a bit of a nuisance lately, with injuring one of our security members and all." The husky said, which caused the bear to angrily growl once more.
"Who did it injure?" The bear asked.
"It's a he." The husky coughed. "And someone by the name, of Feliks."
"That someone is Feliks Novikov, my head of security, and leader of our elite BSSU Unit." The bear growled. "And I don't give two flying shits if it's a he. From what I know; it's not even considered a functional mammal anymore."
The husky lowered his head, as the bear began chewing him out.
"I'm funding this project of yours Doctor, but when one of my most loyal associates gets hurt; it really pisses me off." The bear snarled. "I will no longer tolerate any more mishaps, if anymore incidents were to occur, I will see to it that all fundings towards Project Tanzanite are cut. Am I understood?"
"I understand; it won't happen again." The husky replied. "I'll have a fully functional serum done within the month once Subject 986 has been captured, and has completed field tests."
"Good." The bear sat down on his large rolling chair, sighing deeply as he did so. "Now get the hell out of my office."
The husky quietly stood up and turned to leave, when the bear suddenly stopped him in his tracks.
"Remember your place Doctor." The bear said. "I would hate to take any unnecessary actions against you..."
A/N: Hey everyone, Sparky here! Sorry for the HUGE and I mean HUGE delay... I've been really busy with work, and also with the recent release of Halo Wars 2, and Wildlands, I've been a little occupied. All I gotta say is thank you for your continued support! Please don't be afraid to leave behind a train of criticism, as I'm always open to your opinions.