Chapter 6

"So how is this going to go?" The grey fox said as he was dragged out of the van still bagged.

"Shut him up." Bellwether said and one of the rams knocked him out.

"These are addresses…" Crista said as she flipped through them.

"You know what he was working on?" Judy asked, Crista looked at her.

"He never told me about this, but I know someone who will know since this isn't his handwriting." Crista replied before reaching into her pocket and pulling out a letter from Cres. "See his handwriting isn't that good, so someone else wrote the addresses."

"So any idea on where we find our mystery writer?" Nick asked as he examined the writing, Crista looked through the contacts on Cres's phone. She walked off and pressed on one of the contacts to call them.

"You ready to call it a night?" Nick asked Judy and she frowned at him. He shrugged in response. "So it's going to be another all nighter then, you're killing me Carrots." He replied

"We just got a big lead Nick, and I didn't know the little baby fox had a bed time." Judy taunted Nick grinned back at her.

"I think you're just coming up with excuses to spend time with me." He grinned and she brushed it off.

"You wish, now let's get going so we can find her fiancé as soon as possible." Judy replied as Crista walked back some tears in her eyes again.

"He's been trying to write a story about the first Night Howler incident and he uncovered a lot of this having to deal with big companies and politics. I…we need to find him." Crista said as she got in the car and waited. Judy hopped into the driver's seat and Nick got in the passenger's seat.

"So where to?" Judy asked

"The Gazelle Gazette. They'll still be opened with everything going on tonight." Crista replied remembering the long nights Cres had to work when animals were first going savage and missing.

"Alright." Judy started heading to the Gazette which was located across town.

"Alright unbag him." One of the Ram's unbagged the grey fox who looked around and found the source of the voice and started laughing.

"No way this is all you!" One of the rams punched him and he stopped laughing.

"You've uncovered a lot you know, I'm surprised we didn't find you sooner." Cres stayed silent listening to long monologue being rattled on by the criminal mastermind. "So as you can see interspecies relations can't be." He finally concluded Cres was half asleep though. "Wake him up!" One of the rams threw water on Cres and he shot up.

"HEY! I know you kidnapped me and all but really?" He replied

"We shouldn't be telling him our plan anyways." Bellwether said during all the commotion. The rams took Cres off into another darker part of the building.

"Crista what are you doing here?!" A badger overloaded with papers asked as he noticed the cops in the middle of the writing room. He put down the papers with a big huff and a deep breath. "We're a bit over run with everything that's happening right now, and it doesn't help that Cres isn't here to cover the prison break." The badger said as he picked up another bunch of papers. "So what can I do you for?"

"Cres has been kidnapped what has he been working on?" Crista showed him the notepad and glared at him. "I know this is your handwriting Henry." Crista almost yelled and Judy pulled her back.

"Crista calm down we'll find him, Nick and I will handle this." Judy said calmly and Crista reluctantly sat in a vacant chair. "So what was this story he was working on?" Judy asked Henry politely.

"He got an anonymous lead about that nighthowler stuff awhile back." The badger looked over to a computer across the room. "He told me not to tell Crista about when we found that there was a grower in the Savanah district, the kid seemed harmless."

"We've already been there, what were the other addresses in the book?" Nick asked

"The ones that are circled are pizza places the others are possible leads, but every time he went to go investigate that person was gone. The ones with a star next to them are possible locations of the operations, quite frankly he's gotten to deeply involved." Henry sighed before writing down a username and password. "These are to the computer over there it's the machine Cres has been writing this story and logging he's sources and where he has been on as far as the story goes." Nick and Judy walked over to the large computer and sat down meanwhile Henry walked over and placed his paw on Crista's shoulder. "I'm sorry." He said before leaving to continue his own work. Crista walked over to Nick and Judy and sat behind them.

"So he was logging pizza places? Maybe that's the connection." Nick laughed a little and Judy flicked his nose with her ears. "Alright tough crowd."

"Just try to stay focused, look at all these files." Judy scrolled down the long list of Mammalsoft word files all named random things. "He's even worse than you Nick." Judy commented and Nick scoffed.

"I've been out done? That can't be." He teased as he looked over her shoulder. "Hey isn't that the story about Dash?" Judy clicked on the file