"Shoot," the aardvark told his friend. "They're getting pretty close."

"You and I'll lose these flatpaws," the hyena behind the wheel assured with a chuckle, stepping his foot paw on the gas even more than it already was.

The aardvark in the passenger seat held on tighter as the car picked up speed, sharply making right and cruising down an empty one-lane road. The road didn't seem to surround much, with just a bunch of trees and some flat pieces of land on either side.

The hyena continued to drive as quick as possible before he abruptly hit the brakes when he saw the coast was somewhat clear. "Come on," he shouted as he started to open the car door and run out. "Follow me, mammal. We gotta go this way!"

The aardvark was a bit anxious upon doing so, but he followed his friend's lead and ran a short distance behind him.

"Stop!" Judy exclaimed as she chased the fleeing suspects on paw with Nick in tow. "ZPD!"

Her call did not work, since the two kept running that way. While she followed where they were going through the empty, tree-covered land, she took notice of the hyena tossing something to his left before running even faster.

Judy immediately picked up her radio and made an alert about this. "This Officer Hopps. Wilde and I are in pursuit of the suspects. One of them seems to have thrown something out into the grass. Are you near where we are, Officer Wolford?"

"I'm not too far away from where you stopped your car," Wolford on the other end of the radio responded. "I'll be there for backup, Officer Hopps."

"We'll need to smell out the thing that he tried to hide just now," the doe called back.

"10-4," he replied, knowing he was the canid with a sense of smell perfect for that kind of thing.

The rabbit and fox officers continued to run forward as fast as they could to catch the two that were fleeing, but they turned out be both faster and a good distance ahead of them. Nick and Judy navigated carefully through where roots of trees and the like made it more difficult to run through, and by the time they got through that tripping hazard, they couldn't see neither the hyena nor the aardvark.

"Where are they?" Judy said as she darted her head to the left and the right. With her years on the force, she knew that mammals could get pretty clever when it came to places they thought they wouldn't be seen in. "Their probably hiding out behind a tree or behind those bushes."

"Hold on, Hopps," Nick answered confidently. "I know exactly how to find out where one of 'em is easily."

"How are we going to know when there's a bunch of bushes they can be behind right now?" the doe inquired.

"Like this, Fluff," the fox responded. He put his paws to the sides of his face and started to make a peculiar sound with his mouth. "Pspspspspspsps..." he sounded out loudly into the open.

His method that he demonstrated garnered a confused look from his rabbit partner, but her reaction changed to surprise when she saw the results. The hyena of the two they were chasing, surely enough, revealed himself from behind the bushes furthest to the right. His eyes instinctively widened upon hearing that sound being made, as if he were almost called by it.

"There he is," Nick said, pointing a paw to where he was now standing.

"Paws where I can see them!" Judy called out to the hyena as she started to run up to him.

The feline did exactly that and placed his paws behind his head. The aardvark that was with him did the same.

"How on earth did you know that would work, Slick?" the rabbit said to her ZPD partner. "I don't remember that being in my training at the police academy."

"That comes with knowing a lot of felines in my day, Carrots," remarked Nick smugly as he ran next to her. "That little sound'll get their attention as soon as they hear it. My guess is it's just a feline thing. I wouldn't understand it."

Author's Note: Hey there! Decided to write something that was a little bit different, and so this started to come to mind. Being the owner of a cat myself, I know that the whole "Pspspsps" onomatopoeia (honestly not even sure if the sound has an actual name or not) that this story had in it actually does get the attention of a cat when it's used. Now I'm not so sure it would work on a big cat like it did when Nik used it here, but I figred it would still make for a funny concept.

A big cat is still a cat, right? XD

I know this story was on the shorter side and not exactly my best work, but I hope y'all still enjoyed. Got some much better stuff planned out and in the process of being written, and I'll be sharing that as soon as I can. As always, your thoughts on this, whether good or bad, are always appreciated.

'Til next time, everybody! :)