(AN: Hello Fellow readers. SirRedFox here posting a new chapter of "The Long Hustle Vol. 2." First off, if you're reading this, YOU'RE AWESOME! And, thank you.

Secondly, I've said before, my writing is not that good. Or, I at least think my writing could be a lot better. But I'm trying to write as fast as I can with as much improvement I can make as I go along. Now things will probably be even harder as I am going to be juggling with chapters of "The Long Hustle," "The Good, The Bad, and The Wilde," and an actual real story that I'm trying to create. After awhile, I just get burnt out. So, please do bare with me. Thanks.

Quick Recap: It finally happened! Nick and Judy reunite but it's not all sunshine and rainbows as we had all hoped. Also, Nick finally meets his son for the first time and has panic attack, leaving Judy in tears. Now Nick wonders in the night.

So enjoy this new chapter of "The Long Hustle: Vol. 2, The Empire & The Emperor." And please, fill free to leave a review or comment. Thank you.)

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In the Tall Grass:

Nick felt on edge. Pacing back and forth in the dark alleyway waiting for Jack and Skye to show up. He called them the second he left Judy. It was still night, or rather early morning.

Judy's words kept running through his , she said his son, that's what she said. He had so many questions and wanted answers now.

The black SUV swirled into the alleyway. Nick went to the passenger side. The window rolled down, revealing Jack in the passenger seat and Skye behind the wheel.

"What's up Nick?" said Jack. "You said this was important and it couldn't wait. So, what is it?"

"Yeah, it is" said Nick. "But first."

Nick throws a vicious jab at Jack, hitting him square in the jaw. Nick swung again, and again at Jack. Skye jumps between Jack and Nick's swinging fist. Nick stops before he hits Skye.

"What the fuck?!" said Jack with anger in his voice. He wips blood running down his nose and busted lip.

"Don't you 'what the fuck' me. You, you, FUCKER." Said Nick through clenched teeth. "How could you have never told me that Judy was pregnant?"

"Shit, you know?"

"Of course I fucking know. Why didn't anyone tell me."

"Because," said Skye. "We knew once you found out, you'd want us to pull you out. And we had just gotten you in."

"No shit, I would've wanted out. And now I'm demanding you get me out, now."

"We can't" said Skye. "You're too far in now, and we are so close to bringing all of this down. Please Nick, you have to hang in there."

"Fine! Goddamn it." Nick clenched his and balled up his fist in anger. Taking out his pen and a crumbled up piece of paper. Smoothing out the crumbled paper, Nick writes down two addresses. The first was to the underground fighting area, the second to the sex house. "Here then. Go to these places and shut them down. Go to the first address at the top. Hopefully you will make it there before they dispose of the bodies."

He tossed the crumbled paper onto Jack's lap and stormed out of the alleyway. He wanted to go back to the apartment, the one below Shere Khan's penthouse. Ready for this awful night to come to an end.

Bagheera woke from his drunken slumber. He was in his own bed, naked. Last night felt like a blur to him. He remembers Shera fighting in the Arena, which made him drink heavily. The fear that he could have lost his brother last night, got the better of him and he drank. But everything turned out okay. Shera won, and he drank to that.

He briefly remembers the brothel house and Nicky being the one to take him home. And that was it. That was all that he remembered. No. There was sex. He had come home and had sex with Trevor.

Reaching over to comfort Trevor, his hand was slapped away. Trevor was curled up on his side of the bed. Bagheera recognized it when Trevor was having a temper tantrum. This was one of those times.

"What's wrong?" said Bagheera, sounding so sympathetic. He gently kissed Trevor's shoulder to show he meant no harm. Trevor turned over to face him. His eyes looked sunken.

"I don't like what you were last night," said Trevor.

"What about last night did you not like? You know I can be a little rough sometimes, even at my age."

"Yes. Rough. Not you barging in drunk, slapping and pushing me."

Bagheera has no recall of ever doing that.

"I don't like you that way."

"Trevor, Trevor," said Bagheera in a gentle tone. He wrapped his arm around Trevor and brought him in close, letting Trevor rest his head on Bagheera's chest. Bagheera brushed back the hair on top of Trevor's head, calming him. "Last night, I got a little excited is all. My brother has a way with me over worrying and everything turning out fine."

"Your brother has a way of making you do a lot of things."

Hearing this, Bagheera grabs the scruff on the back of Trevor's neck and pulled hard, making him look up at Bagheera. "That's my brother you are talking about, so watch what you say," said Bagheera in a frighteningly sharp tone.

Bagheera let go of the fur on the back of his neck and went back to comforting Trevor.

"I'm sorry," he apologized. "For a long time it was only me and my brother, so we get defensive about each other. But you know I never mean to, or ever want to hurt you. I'll try and be better from now on. Okay?"

Bagheera put his hand softly under Trevor's chin. He made the young black panther look up at him. Bagheera leaned in and softly kissed Trevor on the lips. He kissed him again, this time more passionately.

Wilford rode passenger as Nala drove. They were heading for a little neighborhood that Aurora and Logan lived in. They had gotten a call and responded to a disturbance. Most likely another mammal under the influence of Blue Sky, which has become the number one drug running rampant in and outside the city. Blue Sky now being smoked, snorted, or be injected into the blood system. Calls of mammals being high on Blue Skye have become a common thing now in all four districts.

Arriving on the scene, mammals of the neighborhood, surround a small house. They were surrounding and watching as a mongoose went on a berserker rampage. Wilford and Nala cut through the crowd to arrest the mongoose. The last thing this mongoose wanted to do was cooperate. They approach the mongoose slowly.

"Hey buddy," said Wilford. "We only want to help you."

The mongoose still acted aggressively to Wilford and Nala. He held a syringe in one hand. Plugging the syringe's needle into his thigh, injecting himself with whatever the blue liquid was in the syringe. He gave out a loud roar and grabbed whatever was in arms reach and throws it at them. Ducking out of the way of potted plants and lawn chairs.

"That's it," Nala said. She pulled out her tranq-gun and pointed it at the mongoose. "Get down on the ground or I'll open fire."

The mongoose slapped his face and roars in an angry tone at Nala, who only shrugs at the mongoose and opens fire. Three darts pierce the mongoose's chest. The mongoose gives no reaction from being shot, other than simply pulling the darts out of his chest and throwing them to the ground.

This seemed all too familiar to Wilford. Having flash backs from fighting a certain panda drugged out of his mind. The mongoose charges Nala, who side steps out of the way.

Wilford was with Nala, he was tired of all this. Wilford holstered his tranq-gun and charged at the mongoose. He tackles the mongoose to the ground. The mongoose being stronger than he looks, being able to push all the timber wolf weight off of him. But with Nala's help, they were able to pin him to the ground and slap cuffs on him.

Now all they had to do was put his thrashing body into the police cruiser. The uncooperative mongoose didn't help . When they finally got him to the precinct, they all locked him in a cell. He still continued to thrash, yell, and fight at anything. He even tried to bend the bars on the cell. Wilford swears hearing the iron bars starting to bend. Wilford looks at the holding cells, each cell had at least one mammal drugged out of their mind.

"What is going on here?"

"That's what I'm trying to figure out, Officer Wilford"

Wilford looked down to see Basil at his feet.

"Basil? Where's Terra?"

"Terra has requested the night off, unfortunately. It was something idiotic, like requesting the night off to pursue idiotic romantic, such nonsense."

Wilford leans down for Basil to jump on to the palm of his hand and climb aboard his shoulder.

"You know what this looks like, right?" said Wilford. "Super solder serum. They are acting like our dead panda acted that night of the raid.

"That's impossible," said Nala. "How could they have gotten the recipe?"

Terra dressed her best for the night, or at least something that wasn't green scrubs. She put on her best perfume; Wild Katz: the perfume for your wild side. She also decided to wear her mother's pendant necklace for her date with Landon.

Landon insists they go on a romantic night out. He made all the arrangements. They went to eat at one of the many night clubs in the nocturnal district. Terra probably had more to drink then she should have. They left and they went on a stroll. Terra held Landon's arm and let him lead the way.

If not so inebriated, she probably would've questioned where they were going? Terra just held on and smiles, nuzzling her nose against his shoulder to show her appreciation. Feeling safe holding on to him, like nothing in the world could harm her.

"Tell me more of your day," said Landon.

Terra blew a raspberry at him.

"Why would you want to know about that? That's boring work stuff. You want to know about the new test tube brush I used today? Or how about all the paper work I filed away?"

"Come on, Terra. You're barely out of college and you already work in the best police precinct in Zootopia. Not to mention you work with one of the finest forensic scientists in the world."

"Oh, I'm just a glorified intern."

"Yet, you work on some of the biggest cases this city throws at you."

"Well, I can't tell you about any of the cases I'm working on. So..."

"So what?"

"So what?! Basil would have my head if I discuss any of my cases outside of work. Basil might be a mouse, but he is a feisty mouse."

"Ah, come on. You can trust me."

"The answer is no, Landon" said Terra, annoyance in her voice. She pulls away from him. "I don't know why you pester me about this constantly. There are things that I can not talk about and work is a big one."

He stops walking. They stop on a street corner. The roads were empty and no light came from any of the buildings. The only light being from the lamppost they stood under.

Terra wraps her arms around Landon's neck. She has to get on her tippy toes to kiss him. Landon tilts his head back, rejecting her advancing kiss. He let out a deep sigh as if he was upset about something. He put his hand under Terra's chin and rubbed her cheek with his thumb.

"Oh, Terra," said Landon. "I really wish it hadn't come to this."

Landon gives a gentle kiss on her forehead before raising his hands above his head waving some type of signal. Down one of the darkened streets came the engine roar of a van. Terra turns to see a pair of headlights racing towards them.

"Landon, what is tha-."

The moment Terra turns back to face Landon, she was met by a large fist slamming across her face. She reaches out to grab a hold of Landon's sleeve, tearing off a patch of cloth and leaving scratch marks. Landon grabbed at her by the collar pulling her mother's pendant off. He caught her before she collapses to the ground. Her head was spinning, but she hears the van drive up, park, and open the sliding door. The lion pushes her in where she was caught by two pairs of hands. Turning on her side and bring her hands behind her back to be taped together. Whoever they were they move to the side to let Landon into the van. The door slams behind him and the van drives off into the dead of night.

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(AN: Thank you for reading, and Thank you for reading this. Again, YOU'RE AWESOME! And I want to thank you for taking time out of your busy day to read this fanfic. There's a million and one things you could be doing and you decide to take the time to read this. So, I hope you enjoyed this new chapter.

So, that was a little slice of life to see what exactly has been going on with our characters. Terra is in a very grim situation. We can only hope that aid will come to her quickly before anything bad happens.

In the next installment: Basil does his own detective work.

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