"...Your time is running out..."

-City of Zootopia-

-Judy-

It had been a whole day since Judy lost her bet to Nick, and she was finally getting the break she so rightfully deserved, since Nick, being the sweetheart that he is, offered to take responsibility over Max for the whole entire day, which had actually surprised her because, Nick never wanted to be involved with Max or this whole mess in the first place and because he's just lazy in general. But despite that, she's noticed that he's been slowly growing rather attached to Max even though he could possibly destroy their lives.

Judy decided she'd start her "day off" with some coffee from one her most beloved cafés, SnarlBucks, which is currently considered one of Zootopia's most top-rated café chains.

"Welcome to SnarlBucks!"

Upon Judy's entrance, she was greeted by all the employees behind the register welcoming her followed by the smell of fresh coffee and pastries that were currently invading her pink nose. She let out a big satisfying sigh, as she walked up to the register. Judy had always been a fan of coffee especially SnarlBuck even if it was rather expensive, yet she has always been willing to buy their cappuccinos and freshly baked carrot cakes.

Judy placed an order to the cashier for a small mug of cappuccino and a slice of their delectable carrot cake. After she paid her due and, she went on to look for a table to take for herself, and once she found an unoccupied table; it was a little big for her side, but she made do. After making herself cozy on one of the nicely polished wooden chair and waited patiently for her cappuccino to be brought to her. Judy suddenly smiled at the thought of finally having a day all to herself, she had made a mental list of all the things she was planning on doing today. Judy had also recently received a call from Chief Bogo asking why both her and Nick haven't showed up to work in several days, she had simply stated to him, that she was going through a recent loss of a loved one, and that she was going to take several more days off to recover from her grieving, which Nick was helping with as well. Fortunately, Bogo had bought her lie and allowed Judy take as long as she needed to recuperate from her "loss".

After several long minutes of waiting for her order, Judy pulled out her smartphone, which she turned on, followed by her entering her password, and opening up the phones built in search browser. She searched for "Biotech" and came across multiple links leading to different news articles and conspiracies relating to either the corporation's involvement in creating the cure to Night Howler serum, and or their supposed role of being the original creators of the Night Howler serum. But in the end all the conspiracies ultimately state how Biotech supposedly used Assistant Mayor Bellwether to cause a Night Howler epidemic, so they could profit off their cure.

Judy hated the fact that money controls how the world works and how some mammals, or might she say "corporations" like "Biotech" possibly cause unspeakable acts of crime just to get their filthy paws on cash. She has made it her ultimate goal to bring down that evil corporation, while keeping little Max safe from them and the government, and she was certain she could do better job than they ever could.

While Judy continued scrolling through her phone, she noticed someone place down a white mug with the SnarlBucks green logo followed by that someone placing down a small white plate carrying her small carrot cake. She turned her head away from her electronic device to thank the employee for bringing her order, but upon glancing over at the "employee" she was caught completely by surprise at what she saw, as she slowly moved her eyes up to look at the figures face. She saw Kaki colored tactical pants followed by a black duty belt complete with a handcuff pouch, empty holster, ammunition pouches (presumably empty), a badge, and finally a tucked in navy blue shirt with the letters "FBI" printed on the upper left side of the shirt.

"Officer Hopps! I couldn't help but notice you sitting all by you're lonesome." Came Agent Spark's somber toned voice in response to Judy's eyes finally reaching his face. "Mind if I have a seat?" He asked hoping to occupy the chair just across from her.

"Uh, n-" Judy was stopped mid-protest by Agent Sparks occupying the seat without fully allowing her to give proper consent.

"Thanks." Sparks said, crossing his paws on the table, "So, do you come here often?" He asked.

"No, and can you please leave my table?" Judy said, giving Sparks an annoyed expression, while she montioned for him to shoo away.

Spark let out a chuckle and pretended like she hadn't asked him to leave. "Well, I'm quite the regular here, I always grab a cup of Joe, before I head to the office."

"You aren't going to leave are you?" Judy sighed.

"Is it really that obvious?" Spark chuckled, now laying back on his chair.

Judy to let out a chuckle, as she reached for her mug full of cappuccino coffee. "Look, if I find out you're following me, or Nick, we're gonna have a serious problem."

"Following?" Spark Scoffed, "Aren't we supposed to be collaborating together as a team in solving this case?"

"Yeah, but I've heard what the FBI does to its collaborators, always keeping constant tabs on them."

"Hey, I would never keep 'tabs' on you, or your partner." Spark said, with a false sense of shock in his voice.

Just scoffed, "Whatever," Judy took a sip from her mug before placing it back down onto the table. "I've also noticed that, you're in a surprisingly good mood today."

"How can you tell?" Spark smirked.

Judy tapped her chin as she thought of all the reasons why he'd appeared to be in a good mood. "Well, you were rude by taking the chair just across from without my full permission. You completely ignored my first question. And you're refusing to leave my table, which in all is very unprofessional of you."

"Well, what can I say? Thanks to you," Spark pointed towards Judy. "We've come a step closer to obtaining our key piece of evidence."

Judy waved a paw in recognition. "As long as it helps in shutting these guys down, me and Nick are always happy to assist you and the bureau." Judy snickered mentally at her lie.

Spark smiled, "Glad to hear it." After Spark had replied there was an awkward silence between them both.

"So, do you have somewhere else to be besides here?" Judy asked, breaking the silence.

"Uh," Spark lifted his wrist so his palm was facing him and checked his expensive looking fiery tinted watch. "Not for the next hour or so." He replied, placing his wrist back onto the table.

Judy let out a deep sigh, as both predator and prey stared blankly at each-other. She had caught herself staring into his dark sunglasses and thought how strange it was for him to be wearing his heavily tinted sunglasses indoors and had decided to question him about it. "Why don't you take off your sunglasses?" Judy asked.

"What?" Spark replied, caught off guard by the question.

"Your sunglasses, why don't you take them off?" Judy repeated her question.

Spark appeared to grow a little distressed towards the question and clearly seemed hesitant towards answering it. "Well, err, I um like the way they look?" He shrugged. Judy made an inaudible thoughtful "hmm" as she scratched her chin.

"Well, can you take them off?" Judy asked, this time appearing to have hit a sensitive nerve.

"NO!" Spark barked almost immediately in response, he quickly noticed that the entire café had dropped dead silent, and everyone inside was staring directly at him. Spark coughed and brushed his shirt off. "Sorry for my little outburst, Officer Hopps, but I would rather you divert any questions relating to my 'cosmetic' likings."

Judy scoffed, "So what? You can interrogate me with questions that could practically cost me my job, but you won't answer my questions."

"Its-" Spark thought for a minute. "Its a personal question you're asking me, and I don't feel comfortable responding to it."

"Fine..." Judy groaned before noticing a certain "colorful" someone was missing. "Where's your partner?" She asked.

"Carter? He probably down at the bureau getting everything set up for our search." Spark replied.

Judy nodded her head to Spark's reply, as another question began to linger in her head, which she planned to ask of course. "Why doesn't he ever talk?" She asked.

Spark remained quiet for a second, he seemed visibly hesitant towards answering. Spark let out a deep sigh, as he shook and lowered his head, "I'd rather not say."

"How's the FBI?" Judy suddenly asked.

Spark glanced up at Judy and raised an eyebrow underneath his sunglasses, "My job?" Spark replied visibly confused.

"Yeah."

"Well, it's a good paying job, I've been working for them for over 8 years, and I have the pleasure of working with the crappiest boss the world has ever known." Spark sighed, as he mentioned the word "boss".

Judy let out a light chuckle, as she broke off a piece of her carrot cake with her fingers before consuming it.

"What's so funny?" Spark questioned.

"No, it's just that I never expected there to be a jerk above the jerk." Judy replied.

"Yeah well, he's like nothing you've seen before. And trust me when I say this, but he's one mammal you never want to have as a superior, since he has a tendency to curse in every one of his spoken sentences." Spark said, getting a good laugh out of Judy. "Seriously, he's probably invented half of the insults he uses on me."

"You're probably right, I hope I never meet him." Judy replied.

"Yeah," Spark chuckled.

Judy was beginning to notice how Sparks was growing increasingly comfortable speaking to her, which in all sorta creeped her out, but as long as their little conversation kept him oblivious to Max's true location, she didn't care. But she was curious if he'd be willing to answer some of her more mind lingering questions; like questions giving her more insight on possibly classified files on Biotech and or what the government might do if they were to take Max from her and Nick.

"Is it possible if you could tell me more about the Biotech Corporation that I won't find anywhere else?" Judy asked, locking her fingers together underneath the table, as she anxiously waited for a positive reply.

Spark smirked, "Like what?" He replied.

"Anything." Judy quickly replied.

"I hope you're not asking for information on classified documents and or files." Spark replied.

"Please?" Judy replied sheepishly.

Spark rolled his eyes underneath his shades, and proceeded to lean in closer to Judy. "Just because I fear for you and your partners safety, I'll let you in on a certain profiled individual-" Before Spark could continue, he was interrupted by Judy.

"Why would we have to fear for our lives?" Judy asked.

"Because we're messing with a rich and powerful corporation that, from what I can tell, has the ability to 'silence' anyone who they deem to be a threat to their business." Spark replied, which Judy had responded with a simple nod of acknowledgement. "Alright, like I was saying, this individual appears to be affiliated with the corporation and has reportedly been spotted conducting major operations ordered out by Biotech with unreported crimes which include, but limited to kidnapping, third-degree murder, Arson, and grand theft auto." At this time, Spark reached into his pants right pocket pulling out a black encased smart phone. "It took us serval months to properly ID this individual," Spark slid his phone over to Judy, which was displaying a picture on it's screen.

Judy picked it up and looked at the provided photograph, which appeared to be a low quality view from a CCTV camera onto a parking lot belonging to either a convenience store or restaurant, but what caught her eye was a small group of militarized individuals, who were in the process of walking off camera. They appeared to be wearing black clothing, everyone of the Individuals were staring away from the camera except for a single male looking white arctic wolf, who was starring up at the camera with his right eye, since his his left eye appeared to be cover with an eyepatc and had a black bandanna covering everything from his nose down to his neck. He was shown holding a pistol to the bagged head of an unidentified individual.

"This is our only clear photograph of, Feliks Novikov. A male arctic wolf, who is also an Ex-Russian Spetsnaz operative. If Biotech wanted any of us dead, they'd probably send him." Spark said in a stone cold voice.

"Why haven't you caught him yet?" Judy questioned, sliding Spark's phone back over to him.

"Because, we don't know where he is, and he doesn't exist on any database known to us, we were fortunate enough to get what information we could about this wolf." Spark replied. "If I were you, I'd focus on keeping this information secret, unless you want this wolf to come breaking down your door."

Judy nodded her head, and crossed her heart. "I promise, I'll even keep our little discussion a secret." Judy replied.

Sparked chuckled, "Good girl." There was a sudden low pitched beeping comings from Spark's watch. "Looks like my time is up." Spark said, as he checked his watch. He stood up and pushed in his chair. "Looks like I'll be seeing you soon, Officer Hopps." He said.

"Yeah, see you soon...(Not)" Judy replied, waving goodbye to the agent, as he left the café. "Feliks Novikov." Judy repeated the name.

"Feliks Novikov."