Chapter 2: Pardon
The prison chains rattle with every movement of her body, Bellwether the accursed as she was known, walked out to take a visit from acquaintance while wearing her orange jumpsuit. On her face was a large pair of spectacles, trying to amplify her image of an innocent lamb that no one would suspect. But since the Nighthowler case, her image became synonymous with deception, conspiracy and Predator phobia. The lamb sat down on her seat holding the phone in her hooves looking at the visitor, a stallion.
"Hello Dawn how's your rise this morning?" He chuckled at his pun while talking to her before hearing her stuttering in reply. "Just...pea-peachy thanks...but really Geoffrey these visits aren't doing me any favors. Let alone getting me a bail." Said Bellwether as she looked at the stallion as if she was looking at death itself. She looked at him morbidly feeling the cold chill of death crawling up her spines and wools.
"Look Bell I just want to tell you that this is the last visit you'll ever get from me. And frankly speaking you won't have to hear from me ever again. 'Sides you know who to call for a bail." Said Geoffrey with a chuckle at her before his grin turned to a more morbid one. He hung up on Bellwether, cutting their visit surprisingly short compared to the other times. This left Bellwether ears to flop down as she hung the phone up on the wall and escorted back to her cell, along the way she hunched over with her expression devoid of life and emotion.
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As nightfall across the cities, an aircraft landed at the Zootopia International Airport and out came it was a collection of mammals from various corners of the world and some returning tourists. Among them was a grey wolf with snow white belly fur walking out of the aircraft into the terminal building of the airport.
He hauled along with him a large black wheeled luggage with him as he walked out towards the entrance expecting a taxi to pick him up soon. He had a pair of shades on his eyes to cover his appearance from others as he stepped into the Zuber cab and had the driver drove him to the frigid frost bitten Tundratown.
Along the way his phone rung in his pocket as he picked it up in his paw and answered the call. "Have you arrived at Zootopia?" The mysterious caller asked while the wolf rode along the cab. "Si, I have arrived just 15 minutes delayed due to some problems with overbooked flight." Said the grey wolf in a thick Italian accent as he saw the sight of the Megalopolis of Mammals glowing with neon lights and skyscrapers twisting like a Pronk horn.
"Good settle into the safehouse first, I'll provide you with target data once you're all set and further intel when available." Said The caller before following it up with a grainy snort, apparently he was getting high on drug while having a phone call. "Anyway I gotta go now. Intel will come at you first thing in the morning." Said the caller as he hung up leaving the grey wolf to huff at the courtesy of his employer before hung up as well.
The cab continued to drive off towards Tundratown passing by the various districts and neighborhoods. Along the way, the grey wolf sighed out gripping his heart with his right palm tightly, he felt the beating of his heart to be aching and stinging like a thousand needle piercing his flesh and twisting his insides out. "Mierda, gotta give it to the doctors for screwing my life expectancy. Prendi la mia vita già Dio." Said the wolf as he saw that the cab stopped by an apartment block in Tundratown's residential neighborhood, he stepped out of the cab after tipping the driver off and went into the apartment quietly.
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Charlie walked with ever hasten pace along the pavements of the avenue towards his workplace, he checked his HUD for the built in timer and saw that his show was about 15 minutes from starting. He picked up his running pace towards the club not sure who he would encounter there. But as he was picking up his pace, he failed to realize, a shadow was looming over him, Anubis was stalking the wolf like a hawk prowling the sky for its meal. He had his hood over him keeping his pointy canine ears hidden from the moonlight of Thoth.
"Is this the product of your education? Or a product of your own accord?" He muttered quietly before leaping from one rooftop to another, blending in and out of the shadow as if he was a phantom. Before long his amber eyes caught sight of where Charlie was going to work. A strip club with a red carpet on the front entrance, it also had a neon sign that said "Ice Pleasure" with an image of an arctic vixen hiking her leg up in an overtly sexual manner.
Anubis frowned upon seeing this, he bared his teeth out in outrage and frustration before leaping down on the streets, his clothing would then morph into shape sporting a dark leather jacket and shirt complete with a dark grey pair of khaki shorts. "Why must you work here? You could have been...something...else…" The jackal snarled lightly before walking up to the entrance of the club preparing to enter it and see for himself just what kind of establishment Charlie was working at.
Right as Anubis walked into the strip club his scent told him of someone he knew being close by. Some mortal wolf he had met recently, and fought alongside. And fought with. To his right, right by the entrance he saw a grey wolf wearing some sharp formal clothing. Fur combed to perfection back, and his back aligned perfectly as he walked.
Anubis for some reason saw Logan Lupis walking towards the strip club alone. No Angie Flufferson by him, but alone. He didn't even see Anubis's obvious form of a dark colored jackal yet, but he didn't seem to be all too happy being at a building in the red light district of Zootopia. Rather he had a tense nervous look on his face with his lip pensed up with anxiousness. What could he be doing there when he had engagements already?
Anubis huffed out seeing Logan here, he felt like a raging bull in a China shop at this point as he came up to Logan's back and cleared his throat out at the wolf. "I expect that you have plans for what's to come with a harem?" He asked Logan with a stern but still somewhat sarcastic tone as he stood behind Logan, arms crossed before his chest while loud and booming musics play over the speakers and the various beefy hunky male strippers dance on the show stages.
Logan himself immediately got out of his formal position. He hunched forwards, and outstretched his arms while the fingers on his hands clenched shocked. Finally his teeth girt together hard as they could as he suddenly heard Anubis's voice behind him. "Wh- what?! A- Anu- hang on!" Logan stammered while he turned to face Anubis. He saw the jackal clear out of any type of meaningful disguise. Logan's first impulse was made clear ass he placed his paw over Anubis's face and pushed him back towards a wall. Logan shushed him while he had a confused look in his eyes looking right back at Anubis.
"What the hell are you doing here?!" Logan whispered loudly while looking back at the stage. Seeing the male strippers he cringed a bit already showing he wasn't here for the men. Rather though he faced back to Anubis still with his hand over Anubis's muzzle. "You know what will happen when you walk out here, in that look? Nothing good! You stick out like… Like…. Something light in a dark room. Maybe a black colored jackal in a white room? Why are you here right now? Did something come up?" Logn whispered in string of questions.
Anubis then grabbed Logan's wrist and pry his hand off of the deity's muzzle before glaring at him with an intensely aggressive and assertive look on his face. "My appearance is the least of my concern! I'm here for...Charlie's presence in this club. I demand to know why he's here in this place?" The jackal deity retorted to Logan with a frightening baritone as the other shows on stage apparently were coming to a stop with each of the equine, bovine, feline, canine and vulpine dancers on stage went behind their curtains to let the main show begins.
It was at that moment, Anubis received his answer with the room darken and spotlights focused on the main stage where a lone pole stood. Charlie was seen holding the pole with his hand gripping the metal rod tightly, the canine himself was without clothes on him, exposing his perfectly toned and sculpted abs, muscles and pectoral appearance.
He was much like Logan in terms of overall physique but in many ways, even more appealing than Logan for some reasons. The wolf had only a pair of speedos on his crotch region, it conformed perfectly to outline his bulge and well defined full moon. "What...the hell...is he DOING!?" Anubis grumbled furiously as he stood in the corner with Logan looking at Charlie with an increasingly disdainful expression, Logan could tell that the outrage Anubis displays was something akin to parental disapproval.
Logan however huffed at Anubis and pushed him away. "He's doing his job dude! About the only job-" Logan paused himself however and looked to Charlie, of course with a slight cringe on his face, and then back to Anubis repeatedly seeing Anubis's very keen interest with Charlie. Logan himself frowned and made his way to his usual booth testing Anubis. "So you're interested in Charlie? What for? And why do you sound like my dad when he gets mad? I'm serious… Why are you curious about Charlie?" Logan said in a tone of his own. A very protective stern tone he used despite Anubis's intimidating stature. He didn't even seem to gaze or stare at any of the skimpy women in the strip club. In fact his eyes seemed to be stuck on Anubis's face, and if someone gave him any suggestive moves he'd turn his attention away.
"None of YOUR concern." The jackal growled at Logan while keeping his gaze fixed on Charlie. It was at that moment that Charlie began to make his moves, the wolf would begin with a swing around the pole and hiking his rumps out to give the patrons there a good view of his rumps. He then wrapped his right leg around the pole before leaning his back out to give them a view of his chest. Thanks to his robotic body, he was able to properly coordinate his legs to wrap around the pole and kept himself secure on the rod while moving in an impossible manner.
The robot wolf, while still in disguise, then slither and untwist his body on the pole and held on to the pole. The wolf then quickly spun around it before grinding his bulge against the cold metallic pole slowly. This riled up the crowd as they tossed up cash and some of them tucked wads of Zoo Dollars on Charlie's skimpy speedo. Others even let Charlie grabbed the wads of dollars in his mouth before the canine went back to the pole with the curtains slowly coming down covering him as his show came to an end. Logan could see that Anubis was clenching his fists and his snarls sounded to be much more aggressive now than he was minutes earlier.
Logan however moved away from Anubis, but kept him in his mind as he sat down at his own booth. Right in front of Charlie. He kept his mind off of any other mammal, and kept them placed on the table ahead of himself while trying to keep a warm smile on his face for Charlie keeping his focus on Charlie like a more accepting and forgiving person.
Like a supportive brother. It was clear when Charlie did anything to suggestive though Logan would winch slightly however,but regardless he kept put in his seat. In fact compared to the other mammals Logan wa the only one looking sharp and appealing. Formal seemed to be his preferences in the least formal place anyone could be in.
Charlie at that moment was coming out of the backstage fully dressed in a more proper attire, a red shirt with a Hawaiian sunset emblazoned on the background, he also wore a dark blue pair of shorts as he walked towards Logan's table. His paws were holding wads of Dollar, counting to be somewhere around $500, a rather well earn amount for the night. "Hey Logan, we got another good night it seems since we got a pretty riled up crowd." Said Charlie with a smile as he sat down next to Logan counting the money and putting them into his pockets.
He however soon felt the tight and painful grip of Anubis on his shoulder with the Jackal glaring down at him. Charlie trailed the hand towards Anubis's eyes and shuddered in fear seeing the Jackal's facial expression and his almost death wish like gaze on him. "Uhhhh A-I mean...uhhh who are you and what do you want with me?" Charlie sputtered in a slight moment, trying to avoid blowing their covers too quickly. He saw Anubis raised his left thumb and pointed behind him where the exit was. Charlie gulped and nodded to Anubis before he slowly walked away from the table following Anubis out of the strip club.
Logan appalled followed the two out smell. Now he sported his own frown on his face while following Anubis out with Charlie. "What the hell man?! You don't know him! Where are you going with him!" Logan stammered following the two. He however kept much closer to Charlie feeling his rights were at stake in the current situation. "You can't just barge in man! And tell him what's good…" Logan argued.
Anubis at that moment glared back at Logan and showed an intensely frustrated face on him before nearly croaked out making his aggressive side known. "If I don't know him I wouldn't have sent him money to pay for his College tuition fees!" The jackal replied with an intimidating baritone as he argued with the two while they walked back to the apartment Charlie lived in.
"Well what are you doing in my life in a sudden like this? I mean you just came out of nowhere, you barged into my life and telling me what's good and bad like you own me or something. You don't! I mean I'm just a nameless nobody why would you be interested in someone like me!?" Charlie protested to Anubis huffing and with a frown on his face, he shoved Anubis away from him.
For a brief moment, Logan and Charlie saw his white paws lighted up with blue colored energy that gave Anubis's clothes a frozen strip of thin ice. "What the hell? What did I-" Charlie muttered in surprise as he saw Anubis's ice strips on his jacket's ziplines. Of course for most bystanders who were minding their own businesses, they wouldn't be able to see it right away, for Anubis.
It didn't matter much as he looked at Charlie's face with a raised eyebrow seeing something within the wolf that was his own. "Does it matter? I paid for your education Charlie and what happened? You became a male stripper and just tossed your College degrees into the trash bin?" Anubis asked in a tone devoid of hatred or anger, but rather disappointment and heartbroken sadness.
Logan however still had his confused and yet angry look stuck on Anubis. He looked back at Charlie who he knew was just as confused as he was, but due to what Logan himself knew compared to Charlie about the jackal before them he know that it was for the best Charlie didn't know about Anubis's true nature. "Yeah well i don't think paying tuition will cover it all. I think you actually have to BE THERE with him so he doesn't get a degree that gets him nowhere…." Logan stated firmly.
Suddenly Charlie felt Logan wrap an arm right behind his neck before pulling him in closer to himself. Much like a brotherly protective hug. "Before this we barely knew each other beides the Bunnyburrow incident thing. He was doing farm work there, and now he's getting paid fairly. I was here to watch his show man…" Logan said before squinting at Anubis finding himself in an equally tight spot. "And that's all I was here for. Uh. Nobody else. Just for Charlie." Logan said with a more awkward tone as he tried to keep Angie out of words due to only him knowing Anubis fully.
Anubis at that moment began to calm down slowly before panting and sniffling at Charlie, Logan and Charlie can see that Anubis was having regret, regret for being mad at Charlie as he would then sighed out and wiped his tears off of his eyelids before passing by the both of them.
"Forgive me...I shouldn't have been pushing myself on you like that. Just...good night Charlie...I'll leave you be." Said Charlie as he walked away from Charlie presumably back to his museum before he felt a cold metal paw grabbing his back and held him back. When Anubis turned around to see, surprisingly enough, it was Charlie holding him back.
"Wait...you know something and I want to know. You wouldn't pick me up like this out of the blue, would you?" Charlie reasoned to Anubis now he had a steely expression with a determination that seems to remind Anubis of his own conviction and sense of duty.
At this point Anubis sighed out and gestured for Charlie to enter the apartment silently with his face slumped down. "Yes...I have a reason to pick you up and how I know you...but if I tell you...you wouldn't believe me." Said Anubs with a grim tone in his words. Logan and Charlie could tell that Anubis was distraught by something, a kind of depression that wouldn't be too out of place for parents.
Logan of course didn't see his parental gaze unfortunately, and kept with Charlie still while Anubis walked off. He only felt confused seeing Anubis walk off in a depressed manner. "Charlie why is he being all… weird with you? Why is An- I mean that guy getting uptight with you, huh?" Logan asked in a perplexed way. He was too emotionally drained to ask Anubis himself without revealing too much about Anubis to Charlie. Only Logan saw there was much about Anubis he still didn't quite see. "Something's not right with him. I gotta tell Angie about this. She knows everything." Logan grumbled.
"No wait...let me do this on my own. He has something I want and for now it's going to be just me and him." Said Charlie with a hesitant tone before dragging Anubis with him into the apartment leaving Logan to return home on his own. But as Anubis was being dragged away into the apartment, Logan could tell that Anubis shed a tear of joy, for some reasons he could feel that Charlie was safe with Anubis. Odd and perhaps mad, but it was better than nothing.
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As the next morning came, Precinct 1 was busy with works varying from the usual patrols and arrests to the new and improved cyber crime division of the precinct but for Judy Hopps the first bunny officer, the question was whether or not will she be the first robot bunny officer as well. Her partner had already shown interests in the robotic augmentations and signed up for robotization inside the precinct. Nick Wilde was inside the technical room for his inspection stage for drugs or substances, he sat on a metal bed as he felt his body being monitored while Judy was watching from the sideline.
Judy watched Nick through a window separating her and Nick. She had a full clear view of the room he was in while still feeling anxious while watching him undergo a life changing experience. She tapped her bunny foot on the ground thumping away anxiously while trying not to intrude too much on Nick. She hummed to herself trying to remain calm, but clearly her face was filled with anxiety. Even her ears were dropped down to her back. "Oh boy… Nick I hope we know what we are doing. This is safe right doctor?" Judy asked.
"Of course it is if Officer Wolfard is anything to go by then we know that this process won't hurt at all." The oxen doctor stated as Nick was injected a dose of Nanites into his abdomen area. Judy saw Nick winched with his eyes closed in agony before finally slowly opening in a drowsy manner. "Ugh...Carrots you don't have to worry you know I'll just be fine." Said Nick as he felt a feeling of euphoria washed over him. He felt his groin being assaulted by the Nanites as the X-Ray monitors show his sperms being assimilated by the Nanites. She saw Nick making moans and pleasured groans as his head tilted upward.
She saw Nick's body would soon morph with a thick layer of shiny chrome stretching out to cover his body from the toes to his head. The process had circuitry and patterns moving up his body encompassing and defining the layer of synthetic flesh on his body. Nick then panted and huffed out in pleasured sounds as his expression showed a fox yiffing in joy of being assimilated, or rather sex.
Judy would soon see the sight of Nick having his armor plates grafted on him with each pieces causing a sting of pleasure and an orgasm to the ears all the while he had a tendril shoved up his rear to pump energy into him. Another tendril went into his mouth as he felt his organs being modified into various synthetic components and counterparts to his organic originals. His crotch plate was an emerald green plate that looked like a speedo plate on the body of a hunky robot fox, his armor plates had a crimson red color with some orange tinge to it to fit with the original red fox color. His frame however unlike that of Logan's, was slender and had more agile curve to it for maximum mobility to slink around.
Watching the almost frightening process unfold, Judy used her hands to cover her mouth to hide her horrified expression. Her eyes widened a bit finding the amount of senses for Nick to take to just be too much for him to handle. So much going on on one fox and the amount of machinery put into perspective how complex the process was going to be. Not just that, but seeing her best friend nude and in an unnatural sexual process gave her uncomfortable chills. She wasn't going to view him the same again. Not just due to him in a different form, but seeing him in an intense intimate situation.
However, despite this she couldn't help but feel somewhat aroused by the situation. Not only was she seeing the errotic sitatuion, but she coudl hear Nick's orgasmic moaning sounds for the first time. She blushed a bright red color and shook a bit feeling aroused. "Jeez… That must be what he sounds like with other gals… I Never heard him sound like that before. He must be so romantic" Judy said with an odd sound of lust in her own voice.
To Judy's eyes the process had finally come to an end with Nick himself being able to walk again with the tendril in his tail hole pulled itself away leaving him free to walk about. He came out of the technical room to see her now with his robot frame, she saw that on his belly and lower maw, he had light tan armor plates corresponding to what his fur color originally was. He also appeared to have a designation code on his left chest plate.
"VU-ComBot 2905-WILDE". Under the designation he had his police badge now an insignia permanently on him. "So Carrots what do you think? I did tell you that it was going to be A-Okay didn't I?" Said Nick in a teasing tone though his voice sounded synthesized and unnatural, almost machine like. Judy also noticed his tail was much more bulky now like a counterweight to help him used his more toned arms and his rumps were much more rounded and tight.
Judy however rose a brow while eyeing over Nick's body. She didn't seem convinced to what she just saw, and how complex the operation was. "Well. That was definitely not the most A-okay I've seen you. Is that how you sound with other gir-" She stopped and looked behind Nick's body to get a glimpse of his toned rear while he was still nude. She stayed quiet for a moment distracted by the sight before she gasped. "Sorry! You just… That was intense. The most i've seen of you. God we've been friends for how long and this is the first i've seen of you… n-nude… Bear." Judy said with a shudder.
"Ohohoho. Like what you see? Get used to it, we can enjoy this everyday of our lives and every single moments in our job." Said Nick with a chuckled and a sly grin on his stiff robot face as he leaned against the wall before walking out of the technical room with Judy, his front side had an emerald green speedo like crotch plate to cover his privates but on the back side, it looked like he was nude with his rear being well toned and his tail thankfully covered his tail hole. Other officers all gave Nick a glance mainly at his rumps and his physique being much more...sexually attractive much to Judy's chagrin. Once they arrived in the cubicle however it would make Logan and Wolfard dropped their jaws.
Logan was busy looking at his computer when they came over to his cubicle. He was focused on a narcotics running operation by the looks with some drug lords before he was distracted away from an assignment much too advanced for him. He looked over to the sight of a much more toned Nick in a robot body. In fact the sight was so sudden Logan stuttered flabbergasted… As usual. "Fu-tu-tu-tu-tu! N-n-ni-" Logan stood up and saluted the higher ranking officer in the cubicle with him despite Nick being shorter than he was. "Officer Nick! It uhhh. Surprise seeing you like that. Sir. I think you should probably find a shirt and some pants… With all do respect I like to keep nudity out of my office space, sir!" Logan blurted
"Relax Logan. It's a big change for me as well. I think I can get used to… This" judy said with a slight smile looking down at Nick's rear again. She shook her head out and blushed while placing her hands behind her back trying to look innocently away while only continuing to make Logan clearly more awkward to male nudity. And nudity in public still in general. Logan himself looked away and covered his face before sighing. "Ohhh. sorry logan… We didn't mean to bother you like this right now. Woops. Nick I think wanted to show you since you were the first to get this procedure done." Judy said awkwardly. It seems they forgot just how he got his robotization done.
"Uh Carrots I think it wasn't nice for Logan." Nick remarked sarcastically before hearing the phone in the cubicle rung, Wolfard picked up the phone first as he listened to the caller. "ZPD Precinct 1, what's the emergency?" He asked before his robot face turned to a rather surprised one as he heard the voice of the prison warden, a rather intimidating tiger, telling him of what was happening.
"I got a prisoner pleading something, it's Bellwether, she said that she wants Judy on the line right now." Said the Warden as Wolfard trailed his eyes to Judy and handed her the phone. "It's for you." He said before Judy heard the voice of the warden informing her of Bellwether on the line speaking to Judy. "Judy, listen I need your help my life is in grave danger! My backers are out to get me!" Said Bellwether with a frantic voice the urgency she displayed was that of a woman fearing for her life.
Despite the pleading tone Bellwether had with her Judy wasn't buying the tone she had. In fact she huffed out knowing full well Bellwether was clever enough to fool an entire city into thinking she was just an innocent assistant to the mayor. Not a scheming lamb like she was. Judy knew this could be a lie she wa cooking up. "Right… and this isn't just some trick you're making up… You have some never calling me!" Judy said in a stern tone.
"Judy you have to believe me! Listen, I had backers, powerful and influential backers at that! They funded and helped me with the Nighthowler's scheme but since I got arrested I've been visited by one of them constantly and asked me if I had plead anything to the police!" The lamb shrieked out further now sounding like she was becoming increasingly unhinged, paranoid even for her life it was as if anyone or anything can come at her at any time. "Look just get me to some place safe and incognito then I'll let you know who were my backers." Bellwether pleaded in a more desperate tone as Judy can hear her chewing her hooves on the other end of the line.
Knowing one small lamb could possibly operate a basic psychotic poison on her own Judy begrudgingly accepted. She rolled her eyes and groaned looking up into the air. "Fine… But nothing funny okay. I'll be very upset with you. More than I am if you do anything, or if this is some trick." Judy stated trying to sound threatening. It came out much weaker than she intended however. "Just get ready to move. Oh and we are escorting you. I don't trust you still, and I don't like the fact this all sounds like some type of trap…" Judy stated.
"Okay Judy. Okay. I'll be packing my belongings in my cell. Meet you in about 30 minutes." Said Bellwether as she hung up on Judy gently before being escorted back to her cell for packing. Back at the precinct, Judy saw that Wolfard and Nick scratching their chin at her apparently they have heard the conversation and all the details entailed in it as Nick was the one to show a frown and a sly remark. "You know Carrots I wouldn't trust Bellwether, I mean she's desperate to get out of jail so she's using the protective custody card." Said Nick with a snarky tone.
Judy then nodded slowly and shook her head before getting her own items sorted out. "Yeah. Exactly… Which is why we're running this as a police convoy. Nothing more protective than several heavily armed guards, and vehicles around you. No one will get in, and I really doubt anyone would run away and get out." Judy said looking to Wolfard first. "You think you could set up an escort for us please Wolfard? Just making sure she didn't get away if she has other people trying to pull her out." Judy asked.
Wolfard nodded to her as he twirled his weapon in his hand before putting it into his thigh compartment. "Of course. I could get Grizzoli, Wolfard, and some others like Snarlov and McHorn to cover us as we go." Said Wolfard as cracked his neck around before walking out to collect the officers he needed for the job.
"Alrighty. Thank you Wolfard." Judy said in her usually sweet voice before she pivoted around to face Nick again. "Alright Nick. its you and me again. I'm going to need some help talking with her again. Oh and I know you got some snark up your sleeves right now you want to use. Good. use it ll. I think i want to see her annoyed. So who's driving?" Judy asked.
"Either you or me. But then again since I just got augmented I think I can pull off some other crazy stunts along the way." Said Nick as he flexed his muscles on his limbs and noticed the synthetic flesh under the metal plates seem to rise and fall like real muscles would. Making the robot body seem much more viable option for them. Even for Judy to be aroused by Nick's apparent liking to the augmentation he had undergone.
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Away from the Police Precinct and back in Tundratown, the grey wolf was in the safehouse sipping his coffee and looking up on his laptop, an email has been dropped into his inbox. He opened the email looking at the content it had, the email had a detail dossier of Dawn Bellwether, with her physical descriptions, facial features, wool density and softness ratio, height, weight, clothing and glasses of choice. There were even photos of her mug shots in prison and other information the assassin could use. "Almeno tra te e me, niente di personale." Said the grey wolf with a scar running down on his right eye as he sip his coffee and sat by his table.
One floor above, Charlie was washing himself in his shower room while Anubis was sitting on the sofa in his apartment looking at the various gadgets and furniture in the place. They all were out of this world, wildly advanced beyond the capabilities of the Zootopian world at this moment. Anubis had one leg resting over the other as he silently observed the hard drive device connected to a computer tower under the table. He saw that there wasn't any computer monitors around the place to see any datas being displayed.
"Interesting…" He muttered in thought while Charlie was polishing his armor plates with some waxing materials and brush as he finished up his morning rituals and came out of the bathroom, his liquid metal disguise was off while he stayed inside his apartment. He came out to Anubis and sighed out looking at the jackal deity. "How was last night?" He asked, earning a glance from Anubis looking up at his face. "Well enough, a bit stressful but that's my fault for trying too hard to move into your life. But...I had a good night sleep at the least." Said Anubis as he sighed out looking at Charlie still finding it hard to come up with proper conversation with the robot.
"It's alright, that's the least I can do for strangers, so...are you going to tell me something?" He asked Anubis who then stood up from where he sat and cleared his throat out to Charlie, crossing his arms in front of him, Anubis then snapped his finger causing blue mana to come forth from within his body, manifesting itself into an Ankh.
The Ankh then levitated into the air and dissipated into the thin air, leaving nothing left. "Mana, that's the first you need to know. Follow me, I can train you in the museum with it, what you saw last night on my jacket...it was something that you should know first and foremost in your life." Said Anubis as he led a baffled and reluctant Charlie out of his apartment. "Great more riddles from you." Charlie grumbled.
As they came down the stairs and went out of the apartment, the grey wolf in the apartment below Charlie had a phone call came to him, seeing that it was his employer calling again he reluctantly picked up the phone and answered it. "Si?" He uttered. "The target is being moved, our inside man in the prison said that she's being taken by the police to protective custody in the WPP. Get to the intersection of Horn and Antler Drive, to mark the prison vehicle to see where they go." The employer stated over the phone, and hung up, leaving the wolf to huff and contemplate his methods.
He looked over to the luggage he had in the apartment and opened up the larger dark duffle bag, inside the bag, he had a disassembled sniper rifle, all metal and dark matte coat with a high powered adjustable zoom scope. There was even a bipod under the rifle's barrel to stabilize the weapon and minimize recoil.
The muzzle had a suppressor on it and handle to carry it around, the magazine of the weapon itself was loaded with 7.62mm cartridges with 7 shots loaded. He then picked up a single cartridge in the duffle bag, it had a flashing beacon on the front but the size of the cartridge itself was around a tiny bolt with the rest of the arrow like a metal jacket. "Uno molestatore davanti a un assassino." Said the grey wolf in a cold and impersonal tone as he picked up the duffle bag and walked out of the apartment, narrowly missing Charlie and Anubis as they left before him.
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Meanwhile, the police officers of the ZPD was now driving towards the maximum security prison of the city where Bellwether was being held. The convoy itself had four vehicles, three cruisers and a SWAT truck with Wolfard and Logan in the SWAT truck to protect the target once Bellwether was onboard.
As they came to the front of the prison out in the outskirts of Sahara Square, the convoy came to a stop with the lead Cruiser of Judy and Nick taking point, while others, were providing security for the SWAT truck. The Prison guards were seen escorting Bellwether out of the prison towards the SWAT truck, she was dressed in a flowery dress with a dark wool jacket on her. Her hooves were holding her luggage as she walked out to the SWAT truck.
As Bellwether walked out it only made Judy squint seeing the lamb dressed up in the most innocent clothing she could wear. Judy huffed out watching her. Mainly her eyes were locked on the briefcase Bellwether carried. Obviously the prison was secure enough to the point she couldn't have smuggled any sort of weapons, but there was always that thought in the back of Judy's head. "This is like watching one of those horror films where the evil guy is being escorted out of the loony house… Except she isn't in any type of orange jump suit that I can see… trying to play the sweet innocent game." Judy grumbled.
As Bellwether stepped onto the SWAT van, she sat down and and sighed out feeling the impact of her previous plans and demeanors bearing down on her back, she sat down on the truck, sandwiched in between Logan and Wolfard, both of whom were in SWAT uniforms and gears as the convoy pick up its wheels and move back to Zootopia's Sahara Square neighborhood. As the convoy rolled, the SWAT van's atmosphere felt intense with Bellwether in the paws of predators that she vilified only a few months ago, her life was dangling on a razor's edge seeing that they can take this moment to exact some payback against her for the wrongdoings she done to them.
Logan however looked down to Bellwether with a very stern frown, but in his own self he felt quite anxious to be next to her. She herself seems be able to puppet predatory class mammals. Now though she was powerless against either of them. Yet for some reason Logan could not help, but to feel some sort of hidden fear. He huffed out and looked away hesitant to even make eye contact with her. He felt some type of addresses well pouring up and making it known enough for his ears to turn back. "Hmph… You really don't know what you did. You know for a while I was too scared to even go outside or even study police training. Heck i thought i was going to get kicked out of the academy, and lose everything I worked for... " Logan muttered looking away.
"Please, I didn't think that I would be ratted out like today." Said Bellwether in an aptly phrased sheepish tone, Wolfard of course huffed out to her while the SWAT van drove through the streets of Zootopia's Sahara Square. "Yeah didn't think it through like they always say. Maybe you oughtta reconsider your career obstacles before you picked one." Said Wolfard in a cold and impersonal apathy towards her plight.
But as they were moving towards the intersection of Horn and Antler Drive. The grey wolf Assassin was on a rooftop of a nearby plaza with his weapon assembled and the bipod set up, he peered through the scope of the rifle and observed the intersection when he saw the convoy. Red lights at the intersection forced the convoy to stop in traffic waiting for green light again, taking the opportunity he zoomed in on the SWAT truck, knowing Police's convoy procedure to always put their HVI in a protected enclose vehicle to minimize assassination chances.
He pulled the trigger of his rifle, firing an almost silenced shot at the top of the SWAT van, the device exited the barrel and struck the top of the van with glue to keep it stuck in place. The beacon then flashed up, showing that it was working as intended with the grey wolf checking the signal via a GPS monitor on his paw.
He smirked lightly before disassembling the rifle and put it all in his duffle bag again before leaving his spot, just then, green light returned and the convoy rolled their wheels off towards the Police Precinct of Zootopia, completely oblivious of what had happened.
Once they had returned to the Precinct, Bellwether was taken inside the place for safeties, Logan however was patted on the back by Wolfard as they exited the SWAT truck. "You know I think we should check on the museum again...our...curator there...probably had something that he want to keep under extreme hush hush." Said Wolfard to Logan's ears, but as they were talking to one another, the tone and words of Wolfard were picked up by Judy's sensitive bunny ears.
Judy's eas stood up tall after hearing Wolfard's words. She looked backwards at Logan and Wolfard conveying gether in private. At first it just seemed like a superior officer getting along wit is underling, but looking closer there was some interests there as Logan spoke. "Hush hush? Alright. If everything stays normal and goes to plan I guess it's worth checking out. Maybe some lunch first. I wonder what he saw. Some of the mannequins coming to life? Or something to do with some people bothering him?" Logan asked.
Judy however kept watch on them finding this odd having not heard about suspicious activities by the old museum. Possibly the oldest place in the more modern Zootopia. She hummed to herself and joined up back with Nick while escorting Bellwether into her home. "Nick any of that seem weird to you?" Judy asked.
"Well Carrots that does seem weird...seeing that I heard the curator of the Museum was seen leaving the place with a bag of money on him." Said Nick with a hum of thought and stroke his chin contemplating the events that had transpired. The mechanized vulpine then looked at the sight of Wolfard and Logan leaving the precinct for lunch he felt that the need of information beforehand rose. "Carrots let's get to the Museum first, I have a feeling that something weird is going on if the last curator exited the building an abnormally large bag of money." Said Nick as he began to head out of the Precinct with Judy to the museum to see if there were something abnormal there.
Judy nodded quickly and headed to a normal police cruiser hopping in shotgun to drive. She quickly turned the key in the ignition and let Nick get himself buckled in. She then drove out of the ZPD parking lot all the while thinking about leaving Bellwether. "I really hate leaving her on her own. Oh not because she'd feel lonely. Because now she can get away from us… ugh." Judy complained driving down the streets of the city headed into an older part of town.
The older part of town had mostly stone buildings lacking much glass, and had more rounded curves antique designs to them. Each building seems to be built much closer together forming some interesting shapes for each block However, Judy familiar with the city by now sighed. "I don't think the curtator gets payed much. So why would he leave all of the sudden with some big bonuses? How much of the stuff inside the museum is even worth it to just leave like that? Half that stuff would be more valuable than any amount of money." judy said.
"That's the thing Carrots, he hasn't been doing much Archaeological works lately. Just simply counting the tickets and revenues from already found antiques." Said Nick as he saw them pulling in by the parking lot of the museum. Immediately, he knew that there was something not right, they were the only vehicle there at the moment, not a single other vehicles were presence there with the place being mostly empty.
When Nick and Judy took their first step into the museum, the place was becoming increasingly unnerving for them, beside being the site of Bellwether fall and her wound, it seemed to be devoid of the usual visitors and other types of guests. The hallways were empty and completely silent as a tomb. "Spooooookyyyyyy." Nick jested as the duo walk into the museum with his mechanical actuators whirred and servos grind against one another.
"Sh-shup Nick. I don't do so well in spooky places. Especially not this place…" Judy mumbled taking a look for herself. Clearly there was something not right about the place. It seems spotless, and clean yet it felt like a ghost building. Not a visitor in sight in the building. Or even a staff member.
"Okay… Don't shout 'hello' at the top of your lungs here please… This place is supposed to be busy. Especially after the Nighthowler incident. People would want to come here and see where it all happened." judy commented walking ahead of Nick. A lot of memories swelled into her head. Some fond others not too fond. "To think this was the place we tricked her with that bite gag. That was pretty fun." Judy said reminiscing.
But as she was reminiscing the memories she had, they suddenly heard the sound of a loud grunt and huff coming from downstairs of the building, "Harder!" Another shout came to her ear, the baritone told her that it was a male around middle age and he was directing something. "Ooooh, sounds like we have someone in the middle of their...funtime." Said Nick with a cheeky grin on his metal face as the vulpine came to the door of the basement and picked the lock. His left palm opened up and a lock pick device came out to pick on the lock, he worked on the mechanism smooth as silk showing an intimate knowledge of lockpicking.
Once the door was open, Judy and Nick heard the sound of banging and smashing of various objects and the Thuds of people being thrown about. "Come on boy! You can do it, show them what you got!" The voice of Anubis sounded intimidating, assertive even as Nick and Judy heard the fighting downstairs, almost like an underground boxing ring by the sound of it. But as the two came down, they saw Anubis himself was standing before a martial art practice ground, the figure in the middle was a robot arctic wolf fighting a collection of Jackal warriors with only a staff in his hand to throw them off.
It was definitely a sight Judy wasn't expecting to see. She watched the strangers fight and practice with each other. She however watched the wolf carefully remembering for a moment that the wolf was actually Charlie as she remembered him after watching him in an interrogation room during the start of the nanite issue. Seeing him however fight a large amount of oddly muscular jackals all of which in a dark fur color tone abnomal for any jackal. And then looking to Anubis she eeped out a loud short scream. "What the h-" Judy covered her mouth and grabbed Nick round the neck pulling the two of them back behind a corner.
Nick gulped as he felt her yanking him but the metal robot body of Nick Wilde made it hard for Judy to get him into cover, but once he did, he was able to use his robot optics to record the sparring match that was playing out before their eyes. "What in the world are they doing in here?" Nick muttered in perplexed tone.
He saw Charlie in the sparring ground was attacked by the Jackal warrior in a massive pack attack, Charlie ducked down and swept the ground, kicking the warriors by their knees and got them falling off balance in a row. He then hopped into the air and slammed his metal staff on the ground, creating a slippery frozen ice floor on the ground that kept them off balance, Charlie was then seen swinging on his staff like a pole dance before landing a bicycle kick on the chest of the last Jackal standing, launching him flying across the room and landing into the wall.
It was all so confusing for Judy to watch and behold. It made no sense for this to be taking place here without reason. A sparring match in the middle of a museum. The last pale a boxing match should be taking place. It was still impressive to watch as free show however. "You know as much fun as this is to watch… Why is it happening here? And what is this even? Oh so many questions. Get a grip. Maybe there is a reason. I'm just not sure if we should bother them right now." Judy said anxious for getting some answers, but caustous lacking any motives for the fight she was watching.
She then saw Anubis came into the boxing ring and picked Charlie up by his hand and helped the wolf with a bit of encouragement patting. "See you're getting the basics. Just focused your emotion on something and your Mana will flow. From what you've shown, you appear to be a physical fighter type." Said Anubis with a confident voice while examining Charlie's fighting method, holding his staff up and observed how he measured up to others. "Just as firm as I expected." Said Anubis.
"Well there's some compliments, but really, what's this Mana thing?" Charlie asked with a shrug as he held the staff in his hand, he collapsed the staff into a shorten baton and tucked it on the back of his back. "Mana is a power that flows in us all, it binds the universe and can be channeled to manifest itself in something that's an extension of your soul." Anubis explained in an oddly cryptic manner to Charlie, this aroused more suspicion from Judy and Nick as they sneak around closer to Anubs and Charlie.
"So what is this all about though?"Judy whispered herself. As she moved closer into the room to get a better look the thoughts of what was happening become slightly more clear to her. "This looks kind of like Karate Kit. Life lessons. Intense training. Do you know if Charlie was in the bad with a rival gang though?" Judy asked.
"I didn't remember Logan arresting him for any gang involvements." Said Nick in a whisper as they saw Anubis leading Charlie up from the basement area of the museum. "Extension of my soul? How does that work?" Charlie asked inquisitively as Anubis would then proceed to summon out his scepter from the thin air, Charlie could see that the scepter of the God an intricate Egyptian hieroglyphs and glow to it along with a curve sickle like top end where an energy orb was held in place.
"This is scepter is part of me. Not just an object but a sacred tool imbued with my Mana and soul." Anubis stated as he held the scepter in his hand walking up from the basement with Charlie to the main foyer before heading upstairs, all the while Nick and Judy followed behind shadowing their every moves.
"So you're implying that you can track me and know me by the Mana in my body? What is this Staag Wars?" Charlie frowned as he walked with Anubis not quite believing his implications. "There's more to it than that. But in due time, I shall disclose. Point is you're not like most other mortals, this much I know. The mana in you is something you're born with and hence something you must control." Anubis stated sternly to Charlie as he walked with the robot wolf.
Judy continued following them quietly determined to find out more about them. Though as she followed her cover was getting increasingly low. Only able to hide herself snug between shelving units, and crates filled with antiques. She watched as Nick himself seemed to weave in and out of cover with fluid motion despite the robot body. "Hmphmm. Maybe there are some tricks with that gunk i don't know about yet. I can't call you the quick brown fox anymore." Judy quipped noting the much more chrome body of Nick.
"But doesn't really explain much your interests in me." The young robot wolf frowned and retorted to Anubis he looked at the Jackal's face with an increasingly demanding expression on his face. It was becoming all too clear that he knew very well the Jackal deity had more than just simply modernization and Charlie's mana in mind.
He knew Charlie perhaps from birth, he paid Charlie money to go through his daily life and education, Anubis sighed out to Charlie, defeated and caved into the demand of the youth, but Judy can tell from the facial expression of Anubis that he had something else in him that made him caved in. "If you wish for the truth...then here it is…" Anubis paused for a moment to compose himself, he sighed out and looked up at Charlie's face. "I...am...your father." Said Anubis in a slow but depressed voice causing Charlie to stumble back from hearing it in shock.