Chapter 5: Love and Betrayal
Time and again he walked about in his apartment, back and forth in a rhythmic pacing trying to get a hold of his own body. But as the music sways him with its mesmerizing rhythm and the hypnotic tunes, his body was compelled to follow its commands dancing and moving about suggestively. He swayed his hips side to side before making a sweep with his left leg hooking it around a metal rod he set up as a pole in his home. He danced around it, hiking his rumps up and grind his bulge against the pole to give off the impression of a suggestive pole dancer.
Alfred was levitating around him observing the robot wolf dancing with a sad expressionless robot face. The AI was practically a flying ball living with and taking care of Charlie and yet even with his help Charlie has yet to find a productive and stable job. A respectable one at that. "This is just sad o'boy. Dear o'chap you really need to get different life and stop with this...well...this life." Alfred protested Charlie as he levitate around Charlie.
"Hey it's not like I have a choice, I've applied for God knows how many places already and still nobody wants me." Said Charlie in a defensive manner to Alfred as he stood in front of the AI's face with a frown. "Well what about that Anubis fellow? Hmm? I heard from you, whom I may add heard from him that he is a deity? Gasp! A deity he said! Oooh how exciting and exotic!" Alfred obnoxiously replied to Charlie using his tendrils as hands to make air quote gestures.
Seeing this Charlie let out a huff at Alfred and turned his back to the robot and crossed his arms. "Oh yeah well...he picked me up out of the blue. So there's no reasons for me to get excited for it in a sudden." He mused at Alfred with a sigh as he sat down on the bed, the AI orb then proceeded to sit itself down next to Charlie almost as if he was trying to make some amends to his insensitive comments.
"Well dear boy you can at least discuss the matter with me. How about that Romano fellow? You just met him in a day and boom he's your boyfriend? No offense but I think it's a sign of manifesting mental despair." Said Alfred in matter of fact manner, causing Charlie to be taken aback by him. "Well...who would love me? It's weird I know but...he seems like someone who genuinely care for me." Charlie sighed out defeatedly, feeling unsure about his own comment as it was clear that there was doubt manifesting in his own mind about how genuine the relationship really was. "Are you certain?" Alfred asked pining Charlie a bit more. This triggered a lash out from Charlie, who stood up and tossed Alfred aside. "Whooa hey! Watch it dear boy! I'm fragile!" Alfred exclaimed.
"Shut up already! You don't have the right to just barge into my private life! I choose who I want to love and I choose Romano! That's final!" Charlie shouted out to a bewildered Alfred who fell dead silent hearing how violent Charlie lashed out at him verbally. The robot wolf's mood was not in a good state as he was visibly panting and heaving aggressively, his liquid metal slipped back into his body through crevices revealing his robot form in the process. Just at that moment, the door of the apartment swung open and the person who was coming in was none other than Romano who was apparently coming to visit Charlie.
The grey wolf turned his head towards Charlie, catching the younger arctic wolf's robot face in the process and immediately made a gasped and double take at the sight, he didn't expect to see the sight. He quickly grabbed hold of the door's knob trying to slam the door shut when Charlie ran to him and grabbed his wrist in the process. "No wait Romano! It's me, Charlie!" He cried out, causing Romano to grow hesitant for a moment and slowed down his momentum. "Che cosa? Non puoi essere Charlie!" He spouted out in Italian at Charlie, the robot wolf's HUD and audio sensors picked up on the words and translated it into English on his HUD.
"It's me Romano! Charlie! I have a lot of things to explain to you but I didn't have the time and place to do that before!" He yanked Romano into the apartment and quickly slammed the door shut with his stubby metal tail. Romano huffed out and yelped in surprise at the feeling of being yanked by a force tougher than him. It felt oddly familiar to him, like something he had felt in the past, a long time ago with someone he knew. "Mi stai schiacciando con le tue forze!" Romano yelped out in desperate confusion as he sighed out once he was placed on the bed.
"Alright then listen please Romano, I beg you, it's something that I need to tell you. I'm...well...uh...it's kinda funny you see. I volunteered! Yeah volunteered for an experiment, bio synthetic experiment for weak and sickly. And this is what happened to me!" Charlie hysterically stated to Romano in a failing attempt to lie to him. This only caused Romano to tilt his head to the side confusedly to the lies. He stroke his chin hearing this and made an odd grin on his face as he examined Charlie's robot body.
"Si…" He remarked slowly with a glance placed firmly on Charlie's abdomen and bulge. "Did they focus on making you an...appealing and lovely figure like this? Il mio adorabile robot?" He asked Charlie slyly, causing him to shake his head negatively as he saw Romano standing up and grabbing his body by the hips and then squeezing his rumps.
"N-nope...well...to be honest...what really happened...was really crazy." He replied nervously as he saw Romano getting uncomfortably close to him. "I can tell...you were hiding a lot from me...but you can't disclose your secret, I understand that. Please go ahead and tell me." Said Romano in a calm and seductive voice as he kissed Charlie's lips passionately, holding his butts firmly and squeezed them, humping Charlie's crotch in dry humps.
"Ugh! Agh! Okay okay, lemme tell you…" Charlie replied hesitantly as he began to whisper into Romano's ears very closely about what happened. Each revelations gave Romano more and more intrigues. As he listened closely to Charlie's words, he nodded slowly as his grin become more and more perverse and satisfied while he moved his arms about on Charlie's body, fondling and violating his private areas.
"Quite an interesting tale you have there mio ciaro." Romano commented as he kissed Charlie on his lips again. "Yeah...that's really how my life has been for the past couple of months. Until you came along." He nervously smiled back and blushed brightly red at Romano's face. "Shall we go out for dinner you and I? I have place reserved for us tonight." Romano invited enticingly, getting Charlie excited as he nodded to Romano like an obedient boy and felt Romano hugging him tightly. "At least it'll be a nice view of the Downtown area." Charlie mused to Romano all the while Alfred frowned at this disapprovingly and shook himself before flying away.
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As the day came to dusk, with the sunsetting on the Western Horizon of Zootopia, the ZPD's personnel were turning in one by one with the morning "Herds" checked out and the nocturnal "Herds" checked in, the personnel shift of course had not come to Nick and Judy just yet, nor had it come to Logan in the precinct. Nick Wilde, now a robot fox officer was still walking about in his robot form refusing to don any disguises whatsoever, perhaps as a way to flaunt his sexualized appearance and appealing aesthetic, "So Carrots, how come you haven't decided on your robo treatment? Maybe it's because you fear you won't look half as good and sexy as me?" He asked her half jokingly .
Judy though mumbled to herself anxiously once again being popped the question she was anxious about still. Her furry fingertips tapped each other anxiously while she looked away. Her ears both drooped down lower after being asked. Even her response to the question seems to bed delayed. Even with Nick acting out as his normally teasing self. She glanced over to his body though, and could not help but notice that his body was indeed affected by the nanites in some way. She curled her knees and legs together for a brief moment pondering if the nanite experimentation really did have any positive effects to them. Even on her own body. "Well it's a permanent you know. I still don't know about it Nick. if its a lifelong thing then i'm not sure yet despite you… looking very nice. And beefy." She said shaking her head out. Ears flopping around surprised by her own statements.
"Aww thanks Carrots, that's really nice and all but you know what, maybe you should try it out if you feel like you need to spank me back." He snickered to her slyly and winked as he leaned in against the wall. His body movement remains fluid as every only that now Judy had a harder time ignoring the bulge on his metal crotch. "Beside the only reason I always stay behind your back is to have a good look at your bunny booties." Said Nick with a wicked grin and wink.
It was hard for her not to get turned on in some way by Nick's errotic motions. He seems to be natural at swooning others while remaining whimsical. Despite Judy's positive reactions to Nick's seduction they both heard a loud bang coming from an office cubicle nearby that belonged to Logan. It seemed he was forced to listen in on their odd conversation.
To him though it sounded like torture to his ears. Judy looked away and focused back on Nick's body. "Oh you do, do you? Hmm. To be fair you always did have a nice look to you. Even when you were mostly scrawny. But really it was your face you hansom dog you." Judy said. She paused for a moment though realizing she had one of her own hands on her chest after Nick berated her with smooth sly words. She quickly moved her hand away and flushed red with a bright blush.
"Anyway I'll be heading out home now, see you around Carrots." Said Nick as he turned around and exited the cubicle office leaving Judy to finish off her papers and shift. As Nick left, he was seen getting into the van of Finnick and drove off with the old friend/accomplice to their personal home in Sahara Square. At the very least, for Judy, she didn't have to see Nick in public transport in the most revealing and showy manner possible.
There was one thing left for Judy though, she saw that Bellwether was still sitting in the reception area looking at her mug of coffee as she glanced out at the streets. It would seem like Bellwether hadn't ate anything in awhile with her cold and zombie like stare at the direction of a restaurant across the streets.
Judy missing Nick's presence at least had Logan to keep watch should anything go wrong. She saw he was still taking deep breaths in and out filling his metal lungs full of air before releasing as he kept his cool. Or at the very least tried to keep his cool.
Knowing this was due to her arousing talks with Nick Judy got up from her seat and moved her way to Bellwehter knwoingLLogan to be touchy with errotics still. She slowly approached Bellwether though coming to the reception area before clearing out her throat in a stern voice. "Well I can't really say you have eaten well. Prison food isn't exactly gourmet stuff. And I doubt there are any donuts after a day here. Clawhauser mainly, but we enjoy seeing him be himself." Judy said in a lighter tone. She sighed looking to the restaurant craving something other than coffee or sweet foods. "On the other hand I am hungry as well.. Fine." Judy begrudgingly said.
"Well...at least...it'd be an improvement from just prison grasses and pastures." Said Bellwether in a shaken tone as she began to walk with Judy like the frightened sheep she was. She headed towards the restaurant with Judy crossing the square and traffic lanes along the way cautiously, perhaps too stricken by paranoia.
As they were coming towards the restaurant, on the second floor balcony sat Romano and Charlie in a table together, the waiter poured them Champagne 1964 into their glasses as Charlie sat across the table, his eyes fixed firmly on Romano's gaze as the grey timber wolf smiled to him. "You looking quite handsome tonight my dear. Perhaps you would dance if given the chance?" Romano asked Charlie seductively with a wink causing him to go fawning over him.
"Oh well...I uh have to say...I'm not a great dancer." He shyly replied to Romano as he felt the grey timber wolf's paws resting and stroking his hand. "Oh please...I can tell your body can move gracefully as it wishes. I felt it before when were were onstage. You were wishing me in you." Charlie blushed brightly red as he chuckled to Romano, swaying his face away.
Judy in the meantime buried her face in the menu hoping to keep herself well hidden from others while with Bellwether. She was still flushed after Nick's errotic behavior, and now had the mind set that the current dinner was more like a late night date. Worse for her she had the mind set this was some type of female and female type date. Somehow thinking this was some type of lesbian escapade she dreamed of. Only these were her private thoughts she wished to remain private. And now here she was with possibly the most hated face of all of Zootopia. There was a good reason outside of her mind get to keep her face sealed away. The public image she had was now at stake, "I was hungry…. But I don't know where it went. Gone. Glad you can enjoy yourself so much here…" Judy grumbled.
Bellwether gulped out to Judy as she held her menu open to make her order, she held the menu over her face to hide her sheepish and stressed out face. But as the two were ordering meals, Romano was upstairs speaking to Charlie before he got up from their table and went out to the restroom apparently.
The grey timber wolf however took a detour into the closet of the second floor and was busy changing his cloth in there, he swapped out his tuxedo for an tan cream outfit similar to the other waiters and servants in the restaurant. He exited the closet and went out to the ground floor with a pen and notepad in his paws as he approached Judy and Bellwether. "Buonasera madona." Said Romano in his usual seductive Italian voice to Judy as he pressed his pen. "May I take your orders?"
Judy still burying her head in her menu didn't even notice or even bother to look at her waiter. He shuddered a bit hearing Romano's stunning voice with a smoothness almost like butter. Or in his case cold metal. She looked quickly to the nearest thing on her menus and blurted. "Uh- uh. Chicken salad. Please... " she squeaked. Anxious anyone would recognize her.
"Si Signora, one chicken salad indeed. And what would you like Bella signora?" He asked Bellwether with a soft Mediterranean grin on his face as he prepared to write down her order. "Uhhh well...one dish of Pasture Graze Delish...please." the sheep ordered sheepishly holding the menu shakingly in her hooves as he wrote down the meal with a smile.
"Your order will be out in a matter of minutes. Enjoy yourself." Said Romano as he left the two walking into the kitchen with the order in hand, he clipped the order on the railing and let the meals be prepared. As it was being done, he saw the horse working on Bellwether's dish of pasture grazes was being busy with other things, he left the dish unguarded and Romano was quick to take the opportunity, he approached the dish and glanced around a moment before sprinkled in some Cyanide inside the sauces for the dish before leaving.
He soon returned to his dinner outfit and returned to Charlie who was still waiting for him on the balcony with a sigh and a bottle of champagne ready for them. "Le mie scuse, c'erano alcuni problemi in bagno." Said Romano as he sat down in front of Charlie, the young arctic wolf smiled to Romano as he let out a sigh.
"It's alright Romano...at least it's nothing too serious." Said Charlie naively as he felt Romano holding his paws gently. "For a person like me, time has become a commodity too precious to waste. I have to spend it wisely and perhaps enjoy life while I can." Said Romano as he stroke Charlie's cheek gently, causing Charlie to whimper.
"Oh well...you know...I actually want to spend time knowing you more...maybe...just maybe...helping you somehow." Said Charlie with a croon to Romano as the two kissed each other's lips passionately. Meanwhile, Judy and Bellwether were having their dinner served with Bellwether reaching for her fork, she held up the utensil weakly, shaking and twitching constantly as she slowly reached for the salad and grazes.
Judy as well seems to be rather anxious,but for a whole different reason. She looked around the restaurant feeling judging eyes peering at her. Probably confused even. She grabbed her fork and placed into the salad fiddingling and playing with her food. Occasionally she would lift pieces of salad up and let it crumple back down.
"I hope that guy didn't recognize my voice. That was embarrassing… I just felt my voice squeak. I haven't been to this place though before surprisingly. That mammal sounded fluent italian. I guess this place is a legitimate Italian restaurant." judy said awkwardly. Trying to attempt small talk was hard with her former enemy, but Judy didn't know what was about to unfold before her own eyes.
"M-maybe he was Italian...for the Restaurant's theme." Said Bellwether as she chewed her meal slowly, as she chewed and swallowed the pasture grazes, as she did so however, she started to feel dizzy and nauseous, what soon followed was a heart complication as she held her chest with both hooves and fell over, choking and gagging. Foams began to form up on her mouth as she soon rolled over and died from a heart attack.
It all happened too suddenly for Judy. She didn't know what to think bedises panic. And with panic came her making a confused scream. She hopped up on her seat and kicked her food away causing it to slam into the other seat of the booth. Pieces of salad flew around. Her eyes large hope whatever just happened was not going to happen to her. Shocked though she couldn't even speak a word. What she saw was very traumatic, and terrifying. Bellwether suffered a very gruesome death in her normally light eyes. She continued screaming though before she fell down onto her chair too shocked to speak still. Her gaze frozen on Bellwether's lifeless stiff corpse.
The other guests of the restaurants were equally terrified and lost for words as they began to congregate around the corpse of Bellwether. Some express disdains towards her and glad of her death. But others simply were terrified of the sudden death of Bellwether that some began to call 911 for the ZPD to intervene.
The commotion caught Charlie's ears and Romano became a bit more cautious now that the job of murdering Bellwether was done, the problem now for him was to leave the crime scene. "What's going on down there?" Charlie asked curiously as he went down with Romano and the two saw Bellwether's corpse and a petrified Judy nearby.
"I don't like this...let's leave the place...best not to linger around Police's work." Said Romano as he urged Charlie to leave the place with him only for Charlie to become more hesitant than before. "Come on Charlie, it's not something you'd want to linger with." Said Romano with a greater urge, forcing Charlie to compel reluctantly and followed him out of the restaurant, the two left the place heading back to Tundratown in a Giraffe Zuber Cab, but little did they know, there was a van following them. Across the streets, ZPD officers were seen coming out to the restaurant upon hearing the news of Bellwether's death by 911 calls.
Among the arriving ZPD was Logan Lupis who on basically walking across the street saw a gathering crowd coming over to the restaurant. He grabbed his radio and brought it to his mouth feeling the weight of a mass of spectators rest on his shoulders. "Officer Lupis. We need crowd control here asap. Probably tape. Definitely tape…" Logan said with a chill running up his spine. He walked up to the restaurant and pushed the doors open. Looking around he held his hands out. "Everyone clear out! This is the ZPD! Pardon me!" Logan shouted before he saw Judy frozen in one ofte booths.
She however saw Logan and heard his voice pierced through the crowd of anxious and scared spectators. She suddenly realized how suspicious she looked. Being the only one with bellwether at the time, and the closest one to her meal. She got up slowly and nervously left the dining booth. She however bursted to logan wrapping her arms around him before crying.
Logan shocked she was coming to him for comfort moved his arms to his sides, but seeing Bellwether's corpse he could easily see why Judy was so emotionally scarred currently. "Shit…. Officer Hopps. Well shit. Let me get you out of here…" Logan said gritting his teeth. He wrapped an arm over Judy and escorted her. Clearly she wasn't much for death or anything gruesome.
As Logan escorted Judy out of the restaurant clear of Bellwether's corpse, as she was clear of the sight, the other ZPD officers like Fangmeyer, Delgato, and other officers like Grizzoli were busy going about setting up the crime scene and check on Bellwether's corpse. They strung up yellow Police Tapes and cordoned off the site and proceeded to check on Bellwether's food. "Cyanide. Somebody poisoned her alright, probably a professional hit." Said Officer Grizzoli the Arctic wolf as he sniffed the salad Bellwether had. "Hey who served this thing?" Fangmeyer asked with a growl of a ferocious tigress with her glare directing at the staffs and Kitchen.
On the outside of the restaurant the still frightened Judy sat down on the curb while Logan brought her a blanket. He wrapped the blanket up around her before nodding. "Stay there for a minute ma'am. Just uh… Well try not to think about what you saw." Logan said with an awkward tension. Judy looked over to him and made a light smile. She sniffed a bit and nodded. "Th- thanks…" She replied to him.
Logan nodded back to her and made a slight thumbs up. Though he couldn't raise his hand to her all the way. He looked back to the restaurant and moved inside. "Damn! Not good, and not cool!" Logan stammered stepping back inside. He looked at Bellwether's body again and cringed disgusted. "Someone please get bag. That's not something I want to look at. Well this is embarrassing. She died not even a black way from us! Who slipped in that easily?" Logan questioned.
As the police officers were busy going about searching and questioning the staffs there, some of the chefs and cooks were rather surprised to hear that something was wrong with their meals to say the least. The chef of the restaurant was shaking and buckling before Officer Fangmeyer as she questioned him, then it struck Judy, there was something not right about the wolf taking her order.
He didn't seem surprise or at all take notice of her voice's high pitch embarrassment or Bellwether's paranoia, he didn't even flinch or raise a single question to her. Rather he was suave and calm and simply brush their concerns aside almost as if he was aware of their predicament.
On realizing this Judy stood up and sighed out. She let the police blanket fell off of her body before she walked back into the restaurant. Logan looked behind him hoping for some backup only to see Judy. Though she seemed more composed if anything. "Officer Hopps why are you going back?" Logan asked concerned.
Judy however looked to the employees of the place before asking a question to them. "I know I was the only one with her at the time, and i should have kept a better eye out, but what was the name of our waiter? The one with the italian voice. Very smoothe…" Judy said.
The employees looked at each other then back to her and shook their heads collectively. "Uhhh we don't know him, haven't met him really. He just came in and we thought that he was an employee." Said one of the waiter there, a beaver. The other employee, a deer then asked Judy again. "What does he look like?" Delgato and Fangmeyer then looked to Judy for answer from her.
Judy recalling keeping her face in the menu hardly looked at the assailant, but managed to recall one odd detail of him. That scar on his face and his aged appearance. "He was a grey wolf. Kinda like you Logan. Only he was much older. Maybe darker with the fur pattern. I think he had this scar across his eye though. And his voice. it was smooth as steel to me." Judy said.
Logan however felt his heart jump hearing the vague description of the wolf. Not much else was nded though as Judy described Romano to the best of her abilities. Logan frowned and looked to the ceiling with his face showing he was very angered at something. "Please tell me he didn't speak in an Italian voice…" Logan said with waning hope.
Judy however nodded to his comment. "He did. Very thick if i can remember correctly." Judy said.
Realizing the perpetrotor as indeed Charlie's boyfreind Logan grit his teeth together before looking to the other officers. "Holy shit I know who that is! I know who that is and I think he's putting the move on my brother! It's that wolf who keep swooning him and wooing him!" Logan shouted feeling his heart race. He felt himself become a crucial part of the investigation as he knew some details about the hitwolf.
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At this point of realization, the assailant was far from the hands of Logan or Judy to stop, in fact the cab had dropped off its passengers by the apartment complex of Tundratown where Romano and Charlie were seen entering their homes. As Charlie was about to head upstairs, he stopped and look at Romano with curious eyes to ask him. "Romano...what happened back there? Something's wrong? You look like you want to get away from the place…" He asked hesitantly to Romano, hearing the Timber Wolf letting out a sigh to Charlie as he looked up to Charlie's face solemnly.
"I would be lying to you if I say I didn't have a secret of my own. I'll tell you in the morning when the time is right. But for now...get some sleeps for your sake." Romano instructed Charlie softly before hugging him in, patting him on his back to assure him that things will be fine but Charlie was starting to grow suspicious of the situation. But in his head, he was still retaining a denial mindset as he head upstairs and close the door of his apartment and took a bath.
Romano went into his apartment and closed the door behind him, the old wolf sighed out disappointingly as he leaned his back against the door, sliding down slowly while rubbing his face. "You weren't supposed to be involved...not like this…" Said Romano in a bitter voice as he got up and went over to a chair in the apartment and sat down. He switched on the TV and watched some soap operas to sooth his guilty conscience.
Rose: "Oh Rex! It's time I tell you the truth, the baby isn't yours, it was a miscarriage!"
Rex: What? How? But who's the father?
Rose: It's your evil twin Engelbert, he's the father of the child!
Rex: But Rose, I. Am. Engelbert! Now that you know the truth, promise me you won't leave me ever again!
Rose: Oh Rex! I won't leave you ever, I won't let anyone get in our ways, I love you both! You and Engelbert! *Starts kissing Rex*
Romano however switched off the TV, groaning and huffed out at the utter ridiculous writing of an overly melodramatic show that lacks self awareness. "How can they run for nearly 11,000 episodes?" He asked rhetorically. As he sat there, he heard the sound of the window creaking open behind him, he looked back at the sight finding something suspicious was happening.
"I know you're there miei amici." He muttered before holding on to a pistol under his suits. He glanced around, moving his eyes in a scanning motion before he rolled on the ground, flipping the table over and fired off a few shots at the assailant, but he saw the bullets struck the assailant's chest, sparks flew off as the bullets ricochet off and landed on the walls of the apartment. "Mio Dio." He uttered in fear for the first time as he saw the silhouette coming at him was slowly revealing itself to be a robot wolf, one with earth brown and orange tinge chrome armor and emerald green eyes.
The robot wolf flipped Romano on the ground and tossed his gun aside under the wardrobe. Its wrist then opened up, revealing a gas releasing device that fired off a green cloud of chemical at Romano's face, causing him to cough and slowly fall asleep. When all resistance from him had dissipated, the robot wolf pulled him up over its back and exited the apartment, running off to the van that was following him and entered it, the van then drove off.
At that moment, Charlie was seen coming down the stairs finding the commotion disturbing him, worse still it came from Romano's apartment simply reinforced his fear and paranoia. As he did however, the door of the apartment complex swung open and he saw Judy and Logan running in to find him.
"Charlie! Stop right there bro! I need to ask you something! Where the hell is your smooth talking boyfriend? I have some questions for him. And a fist…" Logan said with a more stern tone.
Judy however shuseedh Logan shaking her head to him. "No officer Lupus. Charlie there's a situation. We need to know the whereabouts of your partner. It's urgent. Like now kind of urgent." Judy said.
"Just tell us where he is so i can… Ugh! Come on! We have to know now!" Logan said impatiently.
Charlie felt frightened by them as he stumbled back as he pointed them to the door of Romano's apartment, a wooden door with little to no scratches or markings on it, save for a bullet hole apparently. "He...he...he went inside...his apartment. Then I heard...rackets and commotions coming from it...I think he was in trouble with someone." Said Charlie with a stutter as he came towards the door attempting to open it, he found the door to be locked tight and won't budge. He then stepped back to let Logan and Judy tried the door themselves.
Logan approached the door and immediately grabbed hold of his pistol. He kept one finger to the side of the firearm across its barrel showing some trigger discipline. He backed up from the door taking an agile tnd before running up and jumping into the air. One of his paws kicked the door while he was in air immediately slamming the door off of its hinges. Once his feet hit the ground he moved in sweeping from left to right. "Freeze dirtbag ZPD!" he shouted while Judy moved in from behind only with a less lethal taser in hand.
But when they were inside the apartment, they found the place to be ransacked and turned up side down. Hitwolf or not, Romano wasn't the type to leave a mess behind without reasons. He found the apartment to have its table overturn and the furniture hit with bullet ricochets. Worst yet, he found the apartment to have been infiltrated by someone else with the window being left open and its frame damaged by someone, a powerful figure physically to have left a window being broken and deformed. As Charlie came inside he glanced around and found the place to be ransacked and felt his heart dropped.
Logan lowered his pistol and looked around the ransacked apartment confused. Both him and judy swivel their heads around as they cleared the rooms. Logan going through the bedroom and bathroom shouting "clear!" with each room swept out. He came back to the other two grumbling. "The hell happened here?..." Logan asked.
Jud looking at the state of the room had her own thoughts in her head. "Burglary? Kidnapping?..." she pondered. She move her eyes over to Charlie though thinking he had more information. "Charlie look. Your partner is a top suspect in the murder of Bellwether…" judy said.
Logan spun his gun around his one finger before holstering it in his thigh compartment. His liquid metal exterior slipping back over the metal plates of his body. "As much as I'm glad she's dead I really can't let that go. Charlie i'm afraid this guy has been using you, and he's a sexual predator! A deviant! Now he's killing people, and has cyanide in his pockets I don't want to know if he's going to try and use that on you! I don't know if he's psychotic! Dammit! D-did he have any other enemies?" Logan asked in a stern voice.
"NO! NO! HE CAN'T BE THAT! HE'S NOT A SEXUAL PREDATOR OR WHATEVER! HE COULDN'T HAVE BEEN!" Charlie cried out in protest, his denial was in full swing, perhaps out of desperation to hold on to something, something he never had in his life before. But in his anger he stumbled about and accidentally stepped on the pistol of Romano, he looked down and picked it up, finding the weapon to be warm, 4 bullets were expended but no blood in the apartment. He picked up the gun from the floor, finding the weapon seemingly lacking a serial number on its pistol grip. A clear cut sign of an assassin.
Logan looked to the gun as well. The gun was one thing to him, but the immediate proof was the fact the gun had no registering marks over it. Keen police skill took hold, and Logan took the pistol out of Charlie's hand. He ejected the magazine, and pulled the pistol back ejecting the one chambered bullet. He then rose the side to Charlie's face and pointed to where a register mark should be. "Unregistered, unmarked black market pistol. No tracing toits owner so no leads. That's why i study police methods Charlie. I know this weapon is not legal whatsoever! Your guy is a hitwolf." Logan stated firmly.
Charlie fell silent seeing the pistol was unregistered and was visibly frightened, he felt his world fallen apart, shattered by a hammer blow that rendered it a billion broken glass pieces with him desperately trying to put them together as a cohesive whole once again. "It...can't be...It can't be...He couldn't have...been a hitwolf?" He sheepishly muttered out weakly, falling back into a meek nature as he held himself with both hands.
He slowly stumbled about trying to find some clarity of mind before he started to look into the wardrobe and closet of the Apartment. He fumbled about looking for something to desperately assure him of the innocent of Romano. As he looked about, he found something, a laptop buried underneath the neatly folded clothing.
The wolf took it out and opened the device up, booting up the laptop and saw something strange, a collection of files scrapped together from various sources about Zootopia, namely the Alice Rampage Incident. The other files were about someone else, a photo of a wolf with earthen brown fur and slight tinge of autumn orange, he stood next to Romano and was seen having his paw on Romano's rumps presumably as Romano did the same.
There was a red circle around the face of this particular wolf with the word "Mancante" scribbled on it using Photoshop tools. "Missing…" Said Charlie in a grim voice of curiosity. The next thing he found was a series of emails, correspondents between Romano and a certain client, E.R.H. There wasn't much about the initials but Charlie saw Romano left a note that said "To Charlie: Follow this and you'll understand."
Logan at first leaned down to look into the screen of the laptop along with Judy. Logan's initial reaction was of course negative with a very protective tone over Charlie. "Oh Goat Charlie he's a cheater as well… Who the hell is that other guy?..." Logan asked with a stern voice. He already showed his dislike of the situation, but now the other wolf made him even more suspicious.
There was one thing off about the messages to Judy. namely the name Alice. "Alice?" she asked in a cryptic tone. The ZPD was still reeling from her attack. How she connected to this confused Judy as well.
Logan hearing that name though darted his face over to the screen. "Alice?! Where!?" logan said in his flabbergasted voice as he took the laptop away from Charlie. He skimmed through the messages and shook his head. "Yeah missing. More like straight up wolf napping! How does she connect into all of this? I thought I was her main target. Not this guy." Logan said. After his own capture could easily imagine what the wolf on the screen was in for. He moved the laptop away and looked around. "She's back… And your hitwolf might have been her next victim… I don't understand though. Is she fucking with me, or is she planning something else on us?..." Logan asked cryptically.
Charlie then grew frustrated at Logan yanked the laptop back from Logan's paw and snarled. "I killed that bitch myself! She's dead and I saw it! There's something about these emails and I think Romano wants me to find out." Said Charlie in a defiant tone, oddly aggressive and assertive manner that was not normal for him. As he searched through the emails, he saw a revelation, a strange but one that was telling of Romano's arrival in Zootopia.
Mr. Romano, I need to inform you that recently I have ran into a problem with a certain...subject formerly in my endorsement. If words gets out about my endorsement and lobbying of her then my job and organization is doomed. If you can kindly...take care of her discreetly I will be happy to supply you with information on the whereabouts of your missing partner.
Charlie had his mouth wide open at the revelation, after reading the final email, he realized what was Romano here for, not another hit job, but to find a missing friend. It would seem that his mysterious employer knew where his partner was but would only give him the information for a hit job. "So...he's here...for a missing lover…" He stated in shock.
Some of it seemed to fit into the puzzle for judy. "That's right. Bellwether said she was being hunted down by someone. So this Romano didn't have a hit on her for his own personal stuff. No he is getting paid by someone. Someone she feared." Judy said. Part of her own innocent heart pulled a bit hearing the job was mainly for love rather than money. Some of it didn't seem right to her.
Even Logan seeing Charlie's aggressive side rubbed his face and sighed a bit calming himself down. "Right… So. Sounds like this guy who hired Romano has some deep connections with shit then if Alice is getting herself into this crap… Don't know what the romance with you was bout unless he just couldn't help it. Who knows maybe he saw something in you that reminded him of his lover here." Logan said pointing to the screen. Some of what he said made him feel slightly better, but he couldn't confirm it even for himself.
"I'll find him...and I'll clear this thing up by myself." Said Charlie with a grumble in his tone apparently jealous at the photo of Romano and his ex. "Not without MY supervision." Came the booming baritone of Anubis as the Jackal Deity was seen entering the apartment from the doorway, he pushed the door opened revealing himself from the backyard.
Strangely enough he was seen entering with a basket of bread and fruits. "Uhhh what's with the basket?" Charlie asked curiously pointing at Anubis's basket, the jackal deity glanced down at it slightly embarrassed by its presence. "Offerings for my grandparents. And I thought I could spare some for you, boy." The jackal deity remarked.
After Anubis had entered the apartment Judy had hopped all the way to the side of the room farthest away from the jackal deity frankly frightened by his appearance and dark persona. She calmed down though and collected herself. "Oh… Well that's nice of you." Judy said gathering her more upbeat positive voice.
Logan sat there though unphased by Anubis's sudden appearance having known him for a while now. Logan looked over to Charlie and smiled. Someone to watch over him besides himself. But there was another reason. Anubis's deity stauture to Logan seemed useful. "Well thanks for that, but we got some issues. Charlie's boyfriend isn't faithful. You probably know this by now though, but there's something else. The ZPD has been providing bodyguard service to a sheep named Dawn Bellwether. She just got poisoned by Romano the spaghetti romancing wolf. Turns out though the people who wanted Bellwether dead knew something Romano wanted. Something about a lover. Making him unfaithful to my brother! The asshole!" Logan yelled. He turned back to the laptop and pointed to the picture of the two lovers together.
Anubis let out a low grumble as he approached Charlie slowly. "You're that desperate? I need to whip a spine into your body...boy." Said Anubis disapprovingly before turning his back to Charlie exiting the apartment. "Follow me, the Museum has something that can be of use. But you need to be fast if you want to find him...in one piece." Said Anubis in a rather creepy tone prompting Charlie to slowly follow Anubis's tail followed by Logan and Judy.
They saw that when Anubis went outside, he had a convoy of 3 black SUVs and some Jackal warriors dressed in black paramilitary uniforms and wielding bullpup weapons with a curve angular top side and high powered thermal scope on the top mount. Anubis entered the middle vehicle and sat down on the shotgun ride seat with Charlie sitting in the row behind him with Logan and Judy.
The back row was removed to make room for a rear gunner to protect the vehicle. "Back to base, make sure that we are not followed." Said Anubis in a cold baritone as the convoy start up its engines and rolled its wheels moving out of Tundratown towards the Museum of the city.
As they drove towards the museum, Judy and Logan saw that the facade remained the way it was, but something was different from a few months ago, the roof of the museum seem to have snipers patrolling the place to maintain guards, the rear entrance where the SUVs entered had more Jackal warriors guarding the place to greet Anubis as if he was their Supreme Commander.
The entire operation happening at the museum gave both Judy and Logan their own reasons to be very much concerned over the situation. The snipers on the roof gave both of them reason to think about how the public would react to seeing them. "Those snipers aren't out like that constantly right?... you have this whole thing hidden? Please tell me whatever is going on here isn't always like this." Judy seems to plead.
On the other hand the sight of the snipers and the paramilitary operation occuring gave Logan a chill knowing in the back of his head that not all of the soldiers were really jackals. No way any of them could be so dark with their fur pattern and still be natural. The biggest concern though was if the public saw this. "Oh yeah I'm sure an army of specifically dark furred jackal only will go really well with the public eye. All of this seems perfectly natural. I really hope you know what you are doing here. At least you look like the boss man judging by everyone here." Logan said.
"At the very least they only popped up in the night, the rest of the day, it'll be like they have never been here." Said Anubis tersely as he led them down to the basement of the museum, down the spiral staircase he went once he came down to the basement they found that the place was being occupied by the Jackal Warriors as they were seen working on various operations, security and surveillance, intel gathering and training, and occupation of the living space. Some others were seen inspecting recently imported weapons and storage spaces for those. Within a few days, Anubis had changed the basement into a homebase for him with a basic operation going about.
"Whoa...how long have you been up?" Charlie asked in awe as Anubis walked up to a surveillance specialist. "A few days of work...had more than a few coffee mugs." Said Anubis as he pointed to the screen of the city map in digital form. "Get me an eye on the apartment area. Street Cam No.23." Said Anubis as the specialist nodded to him, he began to access the street cam with the desired number, he then opened a view of the street on the back of the apartment, they saw a van was parking by the sidewalk and out came a robot wolf moving towards Romano's apartment. Then came the sound of gunshots muffled by the grainy static sound, what followed was the sight of an unconscious Romano being dragged out by the robot wolf.
The sight of the robot wolf was enough to shock the group. Though no one was as surprised as Logan and Charlie were. Logan especially looked to the screen shocked seeing another robot wolf confused on this one's origins specifically. He moved up to the screen trying to find a way to zoom in on the wolf only to find most of the equipment was too advanced and alien for him to understand. "Well there goes user friendliness… Who is that guy though? Is it just another clunky bot, or is there something more we're not seeing here yet?" Logan asked.
"We'll see about that...track the vehicle plate." Anubis commanded as they continued to watch, seeing the van moving away from Tundratown, the license plate of the vehicle was "NGS-5432-01", the van went through the area of Tundratown's tunnel out to the downtown area of Zootopia where it began to make several elaborate turns before finally seen heading to Sahara Square. The van drove into a parking lot and was seen parked in there before silhouettes were exiting the vehicle heading down to a high class condo in the square. "That's our target...All QRFs, arm up and get ready." Anubis coldly ordered his Jackal warriors as the captains and sergeants nodded, they went to grab their uniform and helmets, putting on battle gears and weapons.
Looking through all of the soldiers gathering their supplies, armors, and weapons Judy ummed nervously feeling some of the operation happening was going very far. Her sense of duty seems to be in question while the paranormal paramilitary unit started to gear up. "Uh. Just so you are aware this isn't exactly legal in ZPD jurisdiction." Judy said nervously.
Oh course Logan could not even argue with the Jackals or their commander as he just sighed and watched the operation play out over him. It was one of these moment he felt he could smoke a cigarette to vent out with a dry tone. He wasn't a smoker though so the best he could do was leave this up to his imagination and cross his arms. "Yeah i don't think the ZPD is all to prepared for the weirndess that is about to take place. And I don't think these guys play by many rules. Oh man I hope they don't follow acceptable losses…" Logan said anxiously.
"The ZPD's Jurisdiction in the matter is still investigation of Bellwether. I can throw them the plotter but the executioner...I'll keep. Are you ready yet Wolfard?" Anubis asked, this got Logan and Judy feeling a chilling realization crawling up their spines as they heard the sound of Wolfard coming out of the armory of the Museum in his robot form, disguises were off and he appeared to be fluster by Anubis's voice. "Oh yeah...I'm ready...thank you for...inducting me, my lord...you were amazing back there with your...magic." Said Wolfard in a love struck and lustful voice that Logan couldn't bare to see or hear.
"Oh the hell did you do to Wolfard?! I said don't brainwash him and you made him into a brainwashed zombie! What did you do to him?! What do you mean by my lord?!" Logan stammered while covering his ears. He closed his eyes tightly nad bent his head down trying to look away form his colleague and once role model suddenly taken in as an item of sex appeal. A superior officer somehow dominated and submitting before a god.
This made Judy blush though as she listened in on Wolfard's seductive sex driven voice filled with a sultry passion. The lusty voice shocked her given how formal Wolfard was. "Oh my! He isn't stuck like that right? What did you do to him?" Judy asked.
"Simple...Hetairoi erotica." He replied tersely as Wolfard was coming over to Logan and passed by him, nodding at Logan with a blush. "I...actually want this...he is pretty seductive even when he isn't." Said Wolfard with a submissive voice as he looked down at Anubis's crotch before up at the jackal deity's face again. "Pardon me my lord, but…" Anubis held up his palm at Wolfard and motioned him to the side. "You're free to go. I'll meet you outside by the SUVs." The jackal stated to Wolfard who nodded to leave. Charlie himself was standing behind Logan to brace just in case if he fainted.
Unfortunately for Charlie Logan stumbled backwards not having any of the situation enter his mind. Unfortunately no matter how hard he pressed his paws against his ears the sounds of Wolfard's' seduced voice got into his mind, and worse the fact he was letting herself get dominated only made it worse for Logan. Logan fell backwards into Charlie letting gravity do its natural force by pulling him into Charlie's grip. Judy only shook her head to Logan's over reaction. "Come on Logan. He's happy, and it's consensual. I think at least. You really should think about seeing your overreactions treated." Judy said.
"Yeah, maybe you should stay in the museum and rest let me handle this. Romano is still MY boyfriend." Said Charlie in a forceful tone as he rest Logan down by a chair and wave a piece of paper in front of his face to fan him. He then went out with Judy and Anubis to the SUVs where the various Jackal warriors were seen mounting up in their 3 SUVs with their weapons cocked and ready. Anubis entered the second vehicle with Charlie and Judy. Wolfard was seen sitting in the driver seat while other Jackals were mounting on the other SUVs at the front and rear.
Judy buckled herself in and saw she was very much under armored for the coming mission. In fact she was under equipped compared to the rest of the jackal warriors. She still only had repellent and a taser with her as she saw the convoy leave the museum. "I don't suppose you have a spare gun I can borrow? Oh that sounds wrong coming out of my mouth. I need something to defend myself though right?" Judy said anxiously.
As Judy asked however, she heard the Jackal Warrior behind her cocked a pistol and handed it to her. The weapon seems to be taser with two prongs on the barrel to electrocute the target. The convoy would then move out of the museum and headed out to Sahara Square traveling with the vehicles having a 10 meters spread to maintain mobility and room to maneuver. They passed through the ritzy Downtown area of Zootopia and into the Sahara Square area full of bustling nightlife activities, casinos, hotels, bars, clubs of all sorts opened late night hours serving nocturnals and other mammals.
But while they were coming to the rescue of Romano, the hitwolf himself was waking up inside the compound finding himself restrained on a metal bed with his clothes removed completely. He groaned and made some coughing sound as he glanced up looking around, finding himself in an uncomfortable chamber perhaps down in the basement where the environment was a sterilized one with the walls being medical white.
Blinding light shone on his face for a moment before he saw the silhouette of a robot wolf. The same one that abducted him. "Rendi questo veloce." He growled to it defiantly as the robot came closer to him, the something struck him, as the face of the robot came into the light, he recognized it as one of his lover, Leonardo. He gasped and his jaw hung open upon seeing the sight. "Leonardo? Cosa ti è successo?" Romano asked whimpering in fear.
No answers came from the cold robot as it was grabbing its crotch plate by both sides, Romano saw that it was releasing some locks and magnetic seals dropping the plate on the floor with a metal clang. He saw with both eyes the Robot wolf was having his 7 inch synthetic canine rod erecting to full mast with a pair of genitals hung underneath him.
"No...no...no! Stop it! Leonardo!" He screamed out in vain as he grabbed by the robot, both his legs were spread out and wrapped around "Leonardo" waists as he felt his rectum being probed by Leo's rod. He looked up at the robot wolf, wondering what will happen next after the rape.
Meanwhile outside of the place, Charlie and the strike team of Anubis were preparing to enter the place with the robot arctic wolf being the most anxious. He opened the door of the SUV and stepped out, seeing a high rise condo with a driveway for high class mammals.
The other Jackals were putting on balaclava masks with their helmets and gas masks on. Anubis was seen stepping out of the vehicle wearing a similar paramilitary outfit with only a pistol in his hand to use. "Blue Team, ready for action." Said one of the Jackal Squad, "Red Team waiting for go code." the other squad chimed in.
Judy hopped out of the suv she was in and joined by Anubis's side. Looking ahead at the jackals wearing balaclavas, and gas masks that fit their muzzles she immediately saw how high the risks were for the mission at play. Though she was at least relieved with one prospect.
"Okay good they won't be seen then. I hope this doesn't go down as a terrorist attack." she started panning her head around viewing the more luxurious setting. "This is a really high class neighborhood. Or part of the city. As soon as the fighting starts you'll be sure to have reports in. how fast do you think you guys can get in and get out?" Judy asked.
"Give us 15 minutes. We'll be done in 10." Anubis stated with a chilling conviction and absolution in his tone as he snapped his fingers. "All teams, Raven Shield. Repeat, Raven Shield." Anubis ordered on the radio. The other Jackal Warriors nodded to the order and kicked down the doors. Others bashed the windows open and climb in. They tossed out smoke grenades to conceal their movements and other tossed in CS gasses to disorient their opponents. "Tango down.", "Threat neutralized" the messages flung back and forth on the line as the Jackal troopers cleared through the building room by room.
Anubis led Judy in through the front door with Charlie taking point, he was extremely anxious to look for Romano as he went about searching for the secret area of the mansion. "Second floor clear. No signs of suspicious activities." Said one of the strike team on the second floor while the other was moving down to the basement, sniping down any armed threat, detaining any and all staffs and employees they found in the area.
"Sir, we've found something here...looks like a lab to research that Alice incident you mentioned." One of the Jackal stated over the radio, causing Anubis to head down the basement with Charlie and Judy, they found the place to be a massive technical robot lab dedicated to researching and experimenting on the various robot parts of the dismantled spider tank. Among the items were tanks of Nanites. But as Anubis and Charlie searched the place, they heard the howling sounds of Romano and his yelp of pleasure and ecstasy. It sounded almost like he was having sex, or rather...rape.
Very lewd sounds filled the lab, and other rooms with the sounds of forced carnal desire. It was hard to not notice, and impossible to ignore. To Judy it definitely sounded like a forced session between two partners. The one howling though definitely sounded like Romano. Despite Judy barely hearing his voice she could point out his screams and howls of pain and pleasure. Both feelings mixing until it was hard to distinguish one from the other. "I think we are on the right track guys… Lets go. Oh lord that sounds violent…" Judy said as she reluctantly started to move up with the others around her.
Charlie was seen heading ahead of them as he kicked down the door to the room Romano was held in, Charlie gasped out seeing his boyfriend raped and assimilated with the tendrils being hard at work putting armor plates on his body. The other robot wolf saw Charlie and quickly pushed Charlie into the nearby wall and slammed a fist into his chest.
He coughed out hard before making a leg sweep knocking him off balance and quickly rolled over to behind him and Sumo throw him off to the nearby wall. The robot wolf then got up and glare at Charlie with its wrists open up, the weapons were apparently dart weapons firing at Charlie, causing him to stumble back bracing himself from the impact of the darts.
Jarred by the sight, but determined to throw herself into a dangerous situation she knew very little about, Judy pointed her taser to the center mass of the attacking wolf robot. She didn't have too long to aim precisely acting on impulse alone. She pulled the trigger of the taser shooting its prongs out towards Leonardo. Both prongs hit the wolf before a paralyzing current of electricity traveled down the wires.
The wolf sizzled and grunted making snarls and growls at the electric current before it grabbed hold of Judy's taser and yanked it away from her paw. The wolf then made a fearsome body slam pushing Charlie into the wall and dry hump him in the process. But the wolf was pushed back by Charlie who then grabbed the pistol he was carrying and fired two more shots at the robot's head, causing it to be stunned a bit.
But it then quickly pounced around the room, and lunged at Judy as it was about to do harm to her, a mummification bandage was fired at it, wrapping hard around its body causing it to fall to the ground. "Mummify." Anubis's voice growled sinisterly as he came into the room.
"Too late to save his flesh. But not too late to save his mind." Said Anubis, he saw that Romano was now completely armored and encased in a robot chrome, he had a jet black crotch plate that had hexagonal texture of carbon fiber to cover his genital and rod, like Logan and Wolfard and Charlie, the crotch plate was like that of a pair of thongs or speedo.
Still dazed from the attack that could have easily ended her life Judy sighed out a long and stress relieving sigh before moving up to Romano. "Well thanks for saving my fur back there. At least we are on the same side." Judy said moving up to Romano. It was hard for her to admit, but the now robotic Romano appeared to be very appealing despite his robotic looks.
He still bore major muscular appeal on his body, and even seemed to have been upgraded. She averted her eyes from the round shape of the thong across his genitals and sighed. "So you're the hitwolf. I really hate to say this, but you're kind of arrested. Or not. I'm very unsure at this point to be honest on this type of situation. Just know I didn't really enjoy seeing Bellwether die as much as everyone else did." Judy said with a slightly cold voice. It was stern, but calm. Level even given Romano may have just suffered a lot more than she could comprehend currently.
"Madona...Hopps…" Romano uttered to Judy weakly, his voice sounded grainy and static as the synthetic voice box of his assimilated vocal cord adjust to restore his original voice. "Officer Hopps, no please let me take him back to the museum first!" Charlie sputtered to Judy as he ran to Romano and released the cuffs on his wrists and ankles then lift him up from the metal bed.
"Romano can you hear me, it's me Charlie! Please don't tell me they fucked your brains out." He pleaded to Romano who coughed out as he looked up at Charlie. His HUD was hazy and malfunctioning with a barely functional OS sorted out due to the abrupt interruption. "M-mia ciaro...you found...what I wanted you to find? Sei...Fortunato." Said Romano with a deep sigh as he kissed Charlie's lips passionately before letting Charlie lifting him up on his back.
Wolfard as he was coming into the room found the restrained robot on the floor and proceeded to slam his hacking cable into the outlet on the back of his head, he was heard making some gasps and moans as he felt static electricity surging up his brains as he put the robot into hibernation mode. "Return them to the trucks, we're leaving. The detainees are to be hauled by the ZPD's proper. But as for you Miss Hopps. You are to follow me...I need you for something." Said Anubis.
Judy looked back to Anubis and tilted her head to him wondering what he could want with her. "Huh? Really? You need me? What can I help with?" Judy asked curious. Though with all the strangeness that had just occurred her mind grew somewhat weary of what he could ask her.
"Simple, a little call to your superiors in the ZPD, have them secure the place and obtain the confessions of the employees here. Just know that...no mentioning of my involvement." Said Anubis cautiously to her as Wolfard carry the robot wolf out of the room and Charlie followed him to the surface with Romano in tow to be hauled back to the Museum. "Perhaps with what's been happening you could put in a few modification to your body and biology." Said Anubis as he noted her small stature and lack of robotic technology assisting her.
Judy looked down to her body and grunted in surprise. Now a god was telling her it was time for some upgrades. First her long time friend Nick has teased her on and on again about upgrades, and then suddenly a deity tells her the exact same thing again. She looked over to him and groaned frustrated. Though there was one thing Anubis did have that even Nick lacked. "Ughhhhh. Fine. Fine. I'll do. I can not argue with some devine god guy. Divine recommendation. I'll do it then. I'll call Nick and we can maybe schedule something so I can help out more." Judy said begrudgingly.