Nick and Shaun exited the service elevator to an open office. As Shaun lead Nick down the walkway to his private office he introduced Nick to some of the mammals that were working as they walked by. Nick noticed out of the corner of his eye a young red vixen checking him out, Nick always loved an ego boost. The fact that he was now over 40 and still getting checked out by hot vixens half his age amazed him. But this time nothing, there was no satisfaction from being desired and no ego boost from the look of want in her eyes. Nick watched out of the corner of his eye as the vixen started to walk over not really paying attention to the conversation he was apart of. It was strange getting his ego stroked was his third favorite thing, the first being carrots and the second being rustling mammals jimmies.

"Ah Veronica this is Nick Wilde an old friend, Nick this is Veronica Foxingtin she's from accounting" Shaun introduced the two Foxes.

"Nice to meet you, Nick." Veronica extended her paw to Nick,

"It's a pleasure to meet you to Veronica" Nick replied taking her paw to shake but as soon as she had a hold of him she pulled him forward to whisper in his ear.

"You should come to visit me in my office down the hall once you're finished your business with Mr. Goldenfleece." Veronica breathed into his ear, giving him a small lick on the cheek and filling her nose with Nick's sent. Veronica gave Nick a sultry look that told him exactly what she wanted, before walking off with her tail held up and slowly swings it side to side.

"Man I wish I could still pull girls like that," Shaun said as he watched the red vixen walk off.

"You can have her if you want, I've already got my special someone." Nick chuckled as they watched Veronica walking off to her office.

"Ditto," Shaun remarked as he showed off the matting band on his hoof.

'I need to get Judy to mark me when we get home so that doesn't happen again. Probably shouldn't tell Judy about what just happened though, don't want to worry her for no reason. Though if she starts asking questions I won't be able to lie to her.' Nick thought.

"Come on, my offices is just past these doors. I can hear my scotch calling to me." Shaun opened the door to a small office with a dirt-red furred rabbit doe behind a desk, "Nick this my secretary Donna. Donna, I'm sure you know of Nick Wilde?"

"Nice to meet you, Donna." Nick put out his paw to shake but it was ignored by the rabbit as she ran around her desk to get as close as she could to the fox bouncing on the balls of her feet paws between her breast.

"Of course I know Detective Captain Nick Wilde, an arrest record only rivaled by his partner, has a list of medals as long as me for bravery and service, voted sexiest mammal in Zootopia 4 years in a row and was named most eligible bachelor last year by play bunny. I like to keep a copy of that issue by my bed." the rabbit whispered making the fox turn a deeper shade of red. "I can still remember the night howler incident, I did my last High school history class report on it."

"Just a bit of a fan there aren't you?" Nick teased making the doe giggle and blush.

"Yeah, just a bit," Donna said bashfully.

"Well if you want me to sign anything I would be more than happy to, even that play bunny issue." Nick could not help the smirk on his face at Donna's reaction.

Donna scampered back around her desk and dug through one of her draws, "ah" coming back around the desk at full pelt holding a copy of the playbunny in her paws, "I keep a copy at work just in case."

"In case I just so happen to walk through the door?" Nick chuckled taking the magazine and open it to his centerfold.

"Well no, but it's still lucky I did have it here," Donna replied going very red.

Nick paused thinking about that for a second before shaking his head trying to dispel his grin failing miserably, signing his name and leaving a special message for the doe on his centerfold before folding it back up and handing her the magazine.

"Well nice meeting you Donna but I and this sheep have a lot of catching up to do." Nick nodded to Shaun.

Donna took the magazine before embracing Nick in a hug, "Thank you, Detective Wilde, you've made my day." Giving his chest a small nuzzle before hopping back to her desk to see what he wrote.

As Nick closed the door to Shaun's office he heard a gasp before the opening and slamming of the outer door and the doe ran off to the washroom. Nick smiled to himself as he looked around the office, it had all the standard furnishings of a manager's office; desk, chair, computer, shelves full of folders each filled with reports, where it differed was the shag carpeting, velvet lounge chairs, mini-bar and wall size bay window overlooking the open space of the mall from above the top floor all with oak finishing.

"Great now my front office is going to stink of horny bunny thanks, Nick," Shaun grumbled as he got out his scotch and two glasses. "How am I going to explain that to Scarlet hu?" Shaun grumbled as he sat on one of the couches to pour the drinks.

"Oh I'm sure you'll figure something out, you were always good at talking yourself out of situations." Nick sassed as he took his glass of scotch and sitting on the couch opposite. "So how did you talk your way into this job?"

"Funny enough Moon Moon got it for me." Shaun chuckled as he swirled his scotch.

"What? No way!" Nick laugh almost choking on his drink.

"Yeah, I started out in security and worked my way up, Moony got me the job after I got Scarlet pregnant."

"Nice move Lucky, but for real congratulations. You have a photo?" Nick asked as his ears perked up in excitement.

"Yeah just on my desk." Shaun got up to retrieve the photo, handing it to Nick as he sat back down. "From left to right you got Wendolene, Gromit, Victor, and Piella. Scarlet and I have been talking about having another litter now they more or less take care of themselves."

"I always said you would make a terrible parent, I'm glad you proved me wrong." Nick joked as he looked at the photo, for the most part, they looked like wolves just with woolish fur instead of normal fur but as Nick took in the details of the photo he could see sheep features mixed in as well, smaller rounded ears on one, a sheep elongated irises on another and flat teeth mixed in with sharp canines.

"Well I had to, once Scarlet's father found out she was pregnant he literally hunted me down and dragged me in front of the pack elders so I could take the initiation rights to become one of the pack. They took me out to the forest so I could hunt down a turkey and eat its heart raw in front of all of them, I nearly puked." Shaun joined in with Nicks laughter, "But I wouldn't change a thing, those pups are my life. Suffice to say I completed all their tests and now I'm actually part of the leadership of the pack, funny world we live in."

"Yeah, well again congrats on making the cutest sholf's or is it weep's I've ever seen." Nick praised as he put the photo on the table between them.

"Thanks, you got some cute Funny's yourself, never pegged you to settle down." Shaun chuckled as he sipped his drink.

"Thanks, but their not mine. They're the kids of my police partner and her ex, though I have been there for them their whole lives and I love them as if they were my own but sadly no, me and their mother only just started dating." Nick finished off his glass and went to refill it.

"I'll take it the bunny in the suit with the stripes was the father then." Shaun watched his old friend see the changes in him. Not just the gray fur here and there but the small things like how the emotions on his face were real and not just a mask.

"Yep cheating asshole that one, but now Judy and I are happily living together with the kits so I can't really complain, I mean as I said I've watched them grow up from birth and I was the one that actually delivered them, now that was a stressful day." Nick shivered at the memory that should have been happy.

"Now this I gotta hear of, 'Nick the wet nurse'." Shaun laughed.

"Ok but you better get another bottle cose this will be a long story." Nick got comfortable as Shaun got another bottle from the mini-bar. "At the time I was still working as a beat cop and I was partnered with Wolford, Judy had been promoted to detective a couple of months before she found out she was pregnant. She had been working on a mammal trafficking case before she was sent on maternity leave but you can't stop that bunny no matter how hard you try."

Nick and Wolford sat in their cruiser with the AC blasting as they were assigned to Sahara Square that day, they had parked at Jasmine park to have their lunch so they could keep an eye out for any crimes. Nick sipped his ice coffee as he spied a pair of desert does out for a jog, Nick could not help his eyes falling to their fluffy tails as they jogged by.

"We're supposed to be looking for criminals Nick. Not juicy bunny booty." Wolford huffed.

"You're just pissed it's too hot for any tigers to be running about." Nick laughed.

Wolford just snorted before taking a sip from his slurpy ignoring Nicks jab.

"So how is your relationship with Fangmeyer going?" Nick asked casually.

"As well as you can expect in a secret relationship. I mean you saw what happened last time we were all at Viv's, that tiger came up and just propositioned her right at the bar and I could do nothing." Wolford sighed.

"Not like you would have had the chance to do anything anyway, as soon as he touched her ass he sealed his fate." They both chuckled at the memory of Fangmeyer putting the tiger in an arm lock before throwing him out of the bar. "So do you think you'll ever come out?"

"Well Jen had to tell her parents the other day so they would stop setting her up on dates but there were just happy she found someone. Their planning a flight over next month, they say it's because they haven't visited in months but Jen knows it's to stick their noses in her life again. I'm excited to meet them really, with everything that's she's told me about them I think we'll get along great. I just wish my parents would be as cool with it." Wolford had his ears down as a small whine came out.

"How is your brother doing by the way?" Nick asked worried about Trent. He had met the wolf and his elk boyfriend a couple of times and they had become fast friends.

"Good, had coffee with him and Ralph the other day at their apartment out in the Greenwood district. They're going great and their loving life now that they're out, even if mom disowned him. I talked to them about bringing Jen and her family over to visit while they're here, they couldn't wait to meet them either so it looks like the only one unhappy with Jens parents visiting is Jen." Wolford shrugged.

"I'm sure she'll love it once they get here, she's just a very independent woman. Trust me I would know." Nick chuckled.

"How is Judy anyway? Haven't seen her since she was put on leave." Wolford looked questioningly at Nick.

"Very pregnant, though you wouldn't know it from the way she runs around. I wouldn't be surprised if she's still working on the case even if it's just going through paperwork. Jacobs has been taking time off work to look after her, so of course, she's pissed off at being babysat. Apparently Bonnie continued working on the farm right up till she gave birth, I've been told she's even given birth in the fields once or twice having not made it back to the house in time." Nick chuckled.

"Wow, she is one tough bunny." Wolford was stunned at the story.

"Yeah, I can't imagine what giving birth over 300 times feels like." Nick give a shiver at the thought.

The two sat in silence lost in their own thoughts just watching the foot traffic. The silence was broken by Nicks phone.

"SHAKE! THAT! ASS! FOR ME! Shake that ass for me."

"Her ears must have been burning." Quipped Nick as he took out his phone. "Hay Carrots, what can this old fox do for you this fine day." Nick put on an over the top voice.

"I found them." Judy's voice whispered.

"Found who?" Nick asked confused and finishing his iced coffee with a loud slurp.

"The mammal traffickers Slick, I figured out the connection, all the missing mammals had visited 'Outback Island' at least a month before they disappeared so I convinced Jacob to bring me down for some 'fresh air and some quality time with my husband' and I was able to slip away and now, I'm looking right at them. A small pack of dingoes with 7 different species of mammals in cages." Judy whispered excitedly, Nick spat out the drink in his mouth.

"Where are you Judy we're coming now?!" Nick barked into the phone all humor gone from his voice.

"I'm at the 'Outback Island' amusement park outside a small shed under the wharf about-"

"Well looky what we got here Netsy!" Came a deep voice from the phone.

"Looks like rabbit surprise! Look at that belly, she's ready to pop," came a high pitched cackle.

"Wolford Outback Island now! Car Z020 to base! Clawhauser come in!" Nick yelled into the radio keeping half his attention on the phone call as Wolford pulled out into traffic, siren lights on and leaving a smoke cloud behind them. Nick could make out Judy's voice but it sounded like it was far away from the mic.

"On the ground and put your paws on your head, you're under arrest for assault, kidnapping, mammal trafficking and murder. Do you have anything to say for yourself?" Judy's voice stated confidently.

"Well look at this she thinks she has a chance!" laughed one of the voices.

"You forgot consumption of mammal flesh cutesy." The other voice jested.

"Did not know about the cannibalism thanks for that." Judy sassed.

"Glad we could surprise the great detective Hopps. Now hand over the phone and get in the bag, I'm sure you don't want to run with that belly of yours and I sure as hell don't want to chase you. So let's make it easy on everyone tonight, ok?" charmed the deeper voice.

"Oh, you mean this one?" Judy asked in a ditzy voice.

"Yeah. Come on." the voice growled.

"Whoops, *wind* BAMB!"

Nick could not make out much after that but it did not sound good.

"Step on it Wolford our bunny needs us. Clawhauser come in!" Nick yelled into the radio again. "He better not be chatting up one of the perps again," Nick grumbled.

"We're 10 minutes out, you got a location, Nick?" Wolford asked as he took the on-ramp at speed, Nick tapping on his phone to use the Snapchat app to find Judy's phone.

"The south side of the wharf off Wallaby Way… the calls gone silent. FUCK! Clawhauser I swear to Karma if you don't pick up this radio now I'll make sure you get banned from every donut shop in Zootopia!" Nick growled into the radio.

"NO! Please don't Nick, I'm sorry what do you need?" Clawhauser's panicked panting voice came over the radio.

"Every available officer to Cordon off Wallaby Way and boats watching the wharf NOW! Judy found the mammal traffickers and she got herself caught so we need to act fast before they ghost." Nick ordered urgently.

"Got it, Calling all available units! -" the urgency of Clawhauser's voice on the radio told Nick that he could concentrate on what they were going to do when they arrived. Nick set his taser to the medium mammal setting and cheeked the charge full battery 'good' he then checked his revolver hoping it wouldn't come to that but he'll be damned if anything happened to Judy or her kits. Nick checked Snapchat again to see if she'd moved, thanks to this app alone he had tracking info on over half of Zootopia including the majority of its criminals. He was also very popular with his vines as well with over 2 million follows.

The streets went by in a blurry haze as the cruiser sped through the district lights flashing, they made good time thanks to wolfs' skills as a driver. Nick had started to hyperventilate thinking of all the things they could be doing to his Carrots, he could feel himself building to a panic attack but could do nothing to stop it.

"Nick, slow deep breaths buddy, she's going to need your A game," Wolfard reassured. "And stop thinking of all the things that could go wrong and start thinking about what you're going to do to stop them. Trust me we won't let anything happen to our bunny." Wolfard growled out.

Nick followed his advice, he didn't know if it was Wolford's words or the way he said them but he felt himself calm down as Outback Island Amusement Park came in to view. Wolford suddenly slammed on the brakes bringing the cruiser to a stop on the wood at the top of the south steps of the boardwalk frightening several mammals nearby. The two canines jumped from the cruiser guns drawn, drawing more gasps from the crowd enjoying a day at the beach, they did not expect the ZPD to appear on mass 15 minutes later and clear the area. Nick and Wolford were halfway down the Under dock following Judy's sent, there was only one bunny cop and every canine on the force could pick her out of a crowd of 1000. Easily finding the shed Judy was talking about, they went down an alley and found a large puddle dripping from a lid of an industrial-sized bin.

"She's gone into labor," Nick jumped on to the lid to see through the window. "And they've moved the cages. Shit." Nick jumped down looking around for any clues, he hoped that the blood he saw ahead was from the dingoes and not Judy.

"Nick let's move, we don't have time to look for evidence." Wolford barked running out of the alleyway and further down the dock, Nick hot on his tail.

At the end of the dock, they could see a large 90's ferry with dingoes loading large crates into the hold. One of the dingoes notes them running for the boat and pulls out a handgun. Wolford and Nick jumped into cover just as the .9mm rounds started flying overhead.

"We don't have time for this!" Wolford growled as he put his taser away and pulled his gun.

"Cover me!" Nick ordered getting ready to sprint.

Wolford stood out from cover firing his pistol, first shot hit a dingo in the shoulder dropping him, his friends ducked for cover as others worked on getting the boat loss of the dock. Nick ran ahead getting off a few shots, one hitting a dingo that was trying to free the boat in the spine, the dingo cried out and collapsed overboard dragging the rope free with him. Nick ducked into cover again as bullets ricochet off the forklift they had used to load the boat. Reloading his gun Nick fired from behind a box and took out the other dingo unmooring the boat as well as covering Wolford's advance. More shots were exchanged as the dingoes finally got underway, the remaining dingoes running for cover inside the boat as it pulled away from the dock. The two cops broke from cover and ran towards the boat as fast as they could, Wolford picked up Nick with one arm before putting on a boost of speed and leaping off the dock. As the boat got further away Wolford realized this would not be a clean jump, swinging his arm he tossed Nick over the railing. Nick landed with a roll before springing up and checking the immediate area, with no current threat to his life he ran to the edge to help Wolford up. Wolford hung from one of the cleats groaning from the impact.

"Come on Wolfy we don't have time to just hang about," Nick smirked at him.

"Not now Nick I think I broke my muzzle," Wolford pulled himself up flopping on to the deck blood dripping out his mouth and nose. "How bad is it?" he moaned.

Blood was dripping onto the wolf's uniform from the slow ebb of blood coming from his bruising, slightly crushed nose and there was blood oozing from deep cuts in his gums, probably from his canines slamming into his jaw. "On the bright side, you may just scare them off the boat." Nick chuckled as Wolford groaned as he stood up. "So what's the plan boss," he asked the unhappy wolf.

"We got to stop the boat so to the bridge." Wolford winced, as he spoke his broken muzzle affecting his speech as well as being very painful to talk. Nick nodded as Wolford wiped some of the mess off his face with his red handkerchief, spat out a mouthful of blood and then the two ran up the side of the ship looking for a way in.

Finding a door inside they set up for a breach and sweep but as soon as Nick opened the door a hail of bullets hit the other side. Nick jumped back and checked his ammo, pulled out his dart gun, then looking to Wolford signaling to him that he was ready. Wolford nodded and threw in a stun grenade, pulling out his dart gun and waited for the bang. There was a panic from the dingoes before the grenade went off and they heard 5 bodies hit the ground giving out whines of pain. Nick lead the way in darting each of the dingoes as they entered before zip-tying their paws together, they did not want them getting back up.

They made their way up some stairs leading out of the room hoping it led to the bridge, entering a hall they could see the door to the bridge at the other end. Too bad there was a dingo in the way that seemed to be jacked up on blue. Nick lifted his revolver and shot the dingo between the eyes in under a second but even in that time the dingo had almost made its way to them with its jaws open to kill. The body hit the deck and slid to their feet, thick blood dripping from the hole in his skull. Nick blew the smoke from his gun barrel before spinning his gun on his finger before sliding it back into its holster.

"Show off." Wolford chuckled wincing at the pain from talking.

"NO STOP!" Judy's panicked voice could be heard at the opposite end to the bridge.

"You stop the boat, I'm going for Judy!" Nick yelled as he ran in the direction of Judy's call leaving Wolford behind not waiting for a confirmation.

Nick ran down the hall, around a corner and straight into a bat being swung at his head, dropping down trying to dodge the impact was only partly effective. Hitting the ground fairly hard and blacking out for a second he came back to a dingo standing over him with the bat over his head ready to bring it down hard. The bat dropped, Nick acted on instincts and kicked him in the dick with enough force to lift him off his feet, rolling to his side as the dingoes' momentum from the bat swing brought him face first with the ground. Nick picked up his gun and before the dingo could get back up he knocked him out with the butt, once again getting out the zip ties.

"You touch me and I will kill you!" Judy's voice came from a door to Nicks right.

Nick moved to the door and stretched up so he could look through the window, not wanting to run into another bat. He could see Judy strapped to a table her legs taped up in stirrups. A dingo was injecting something into Judy, while another dingo got some questionable looking medical equipment ready while standing between Judy's legs with his back to the door.

The first dingo moved off to the side and Nick caught a glimpse of Judy's panicked, sweating face and a wave of fear flooded over him. "Can you shut her up? Just shove something in her mouth," the dingo between her legs complained. "Looks like that indusive is starting to work I can see one of them crowning now." The dingo said with his head between her knees.

The dingo standing by Judy strapped a ball gag into Judy's mouth to the table. Nick took the chance to slip into the room while both of their backs were turned, shooting a dart into the butts of both dingoes. They had the energy to turn around so Nick put another dart in both of their chests, they both hit the floor and Nick scrambled to zip tie their paws together before going to untie Judy.

"About time you got here! What took you so long?" Judy questioned as soon as she could.

"I'm sorry, me and Wolford had to fight our way through 50 dingoes armed with p90's." Nick sassed back as he cut through the tape on her legs.

"Har har, so it's just you and Wolford?" Judy asked trying to get up but falling due to a contraction. She screamed in pain and fell back down on the table.

"Whoa, carrots you're not going anywhere! That dingo was right you are crowning so you need to push with your contractions like you practiced. Here, take this and watch my back." Nick tried not too panicked as he handed her his gun then, taking a deep breath, he took the seat between Judy's legs.

"I know what to do, now tell me who's with you so I don't accidentally shoot them!" Judy yelled as she pushed with her contractions. There was the sound of heavy gunfire from up the hall, their ears flicked up in alarm at the sound.

"Yes, it's just Wolford and me, though water patrol should be here soon with more backup on the shoreline or else Clawhauser can kiss donuts goodbye." Nick had the warm towel ready as the first baby rabbit came sliding out. "Okay one more push should get this one out, you can do it, Judy"

"I'm going to kill Jacob for doing this to me and he's not even here so I can yell at him even more!" Judy raged through the next contraction.

"Well you can only blame yourself for that, if you had stayed at home instead of running around Zootopia looking for trouble, you would be having your babies in a hospital with the father of your children there so you can crush his paw. Instead, you're on a boat full of homicidal mammal traffickers giving birth while the only mammal around to help is an ex-confox." Nick joked as he helps out a small gray bunny by cleaning its face and made sure he was breathing before tying off the umbilical cord and cutting it. Nick bundle up the little bunny and handed him to Judy. "This one's is definitely Jacob's son look at those marks."

"Jacob may not be here but I'm glad you are Nick, I don't think I could do this without you." Judy panted with something close to fear in her voice a strained smile on her face as she looked at her baby that was crying in her arm.

"Now don't get all emotional on me now rabbit we still have three more babies to deliver." Nick got ready for the next one when the door opened and the gun went off right next to his ear, ignoring the ringing and pain as best he could he quickly turned expecting to see a dead dingo on the floor, instead he saw Wolford crouched down with his ears spread apart with a bullet hole between them.

"Bloody hell Judy!" Wolford yelled through a bloody muzzle.

"Sorry, Wolford I'm a little on edge at the moment." Judy apologized, trying to calm the baby down.

"No harm was done, though I'm glad I wore brown pants today. I'm going to sweep the rest of the ship and free the hostages." Wolford said as he reloaded his guns trying to keep his eyes off the show in front of him.

"What happened to stopping the boat?" Nick asked as he turned back to Judy as she pushed again.

"Bridge got shot up by a nut job with an AK-47 so I got to stop the boat manually. I got in contact with Bogo and he said that water police are in pursuit and there's a chopper in the air but they can't do much till we stop the boat." Wolford raced through the update on their situation.

"Well get going Wolfy, I've got things under control up here." Nick sassed as he held the head of the next baby.

"Keep an ear out I don't think we got them all, I keep hearing paw steps." Wolford warned as he left.

"Aww look it's a mini you," Nick cooed as he handed over the mini copy of Judy to Judy.

"I shall call her mini carrots." Judy chuckled weakly.

"You're doing great Judy hold in there," he told her encouragingly.

Judy tried to time her breathing and pushes with the contractions but this next one was being difficult, it felt bigger than the other two. Putting down the gun to make sure she didn't set it off by accident, she clenched her paw and pushed, she felt something rip coincide with a sharp jump in pain.

"Fuck!" Judy screamed in pain.

"Yeah, this looks like the big one." Nick winced at the increased blood flowing from her.

Judy grunted through another contraction glad that rabbits pooped pellets as more than just the baby came out. Nick pulled the baby out cleaning up his red fur, he wasn't breathing, putting Nick into a panic he tried drawing the fluid before performing CPR. As the fluid stopped flowing out the baby took his first breath marking Nick relaxed before cutting and wrapping the baby. Nick looked up to see Judy with her eyes closed breathing softly, tapping her leg to wake her up.

"Come on Judy, not the time for a nap yet you still have one more to go." Nick encouraged as he put all three baby's into a prepared basket filled with blankets next to him, Judy startled and looked at Nick.

"Is it over?" Judy mumbled.

"Fraid not carrots just one more." Judy moaned at that answer, giving a big push making Nick yelp and dart to catch the white ball of fluff that popped out onto his paws. "Okay now we're done," he breathed.

"Yay let's get out of here." Judy cried weakly throwing up her arms in joy before laying down to catch her breath.

Nick finished fussing over the last kit which had completely white fur and was the smallest of the litter. Placing her in the basket next to the other little balls of fluff Nick then looked up to the barrel of a gun, looking into the eyes of the holder Nick cursed his lack of awareness.

"I wouldn't try anything stupid if I were you, we don't want to wake mommy now would we? she must be exhausted after that." The dingo grind as Nick put his paws up, Nick recognized the deep voice from the phone and he had a rough appearance to match. "Now pick up the basket and lead the way." He gestured with his gun towards the door as he picked up Nicks gun.

Nick compiled hoping a chance to get out of this situation would present itself. He picked up the basket and headed out the door, he was directed down to the back of the ship there was a lifeboat was waiting. Walking out into the open Nick could hear the helicopter and police boats in the distance. the dingo pointed to the lifeboat with his gun, "Get in." He growled.

"You can't possibly think you're getting out of this?" Nick laughed turning to the dog, the lights from the police boats flashing over the water behind him.

"I got friends in the right places, all I gotta do is get out of the city and I can start up all over again." He grinned back at Nick. The dingo pushed him towards the boat "You may not like it but there's a demand for what I supply, it's just lucky for me a lot of my clientele are rich and powerful as fuck. Ha! Now get in the boat!" He barked.

Nick was about to get in when he spotted some rabbit ears in the porthole of the door. Thank karma, Nick thought, now I just have to distract him so Judy can get the drop on this asshole. Nick moved so it looked like he was trying to get in the boat but was making sure the dingo had his back to the door.

"Listen I know you want to get out of here so why don't you just let the kits go and just take me as a hostage, it will be a lot easier to escape with just me and not with a bunch of crying kits." Nick tried to use his charm and natural hustle abilities.

"Nice try fox but 5 hostages are better than one, besides I may need a snack on the way to the safe house. Now you going to get in the boat or am I going to shoot you?" The dingo questioned raising an eyebrow.

Nick put the basket in the boat before getting in himself, the dingo pressed a button connected to the lifeboat crane. The lifeboat lifted off the deck and moved over the side of the boat. As the dingo was climbing the railing so he could jump into the lifeboat as well, the ferry stopped abruptly and several things happened all at once.

The dingo fell sideways back onto the boat hitting his muzzle and gun paw on the railing, setting off a round and knocking the gun out of his paw, Nick took the opportunity to jump back onto the boat and onto the downed dingo, trying to put him in a police hold but the dingo was having none of that and started to fight back with tooth and claw. The bullet that was fired cut through most of one of the ropes that was holding up the lifeboat leaving just a thread holding it up, while the casing fell into the basket landing on the white bunny kits right eye burning the eyelid. A high pitched scream filled the air. After getting her footing back Judy came racing through the door and onto the deck picking up the gun. It was too big and clumsy for her to shoot so she took hold of the hot barrel, glad she had fur to protect her skin somewhat and used it like a club.

Too bad for Judy the dingo saw her come at him with his gun, grabbing a paw full of Nicks shirt he slung him into Judy, both of them falling to the ground in a heap. The dingo took his chance and ran for the railing, leaped over the edge and down the small drop to the lifeboat. The rope snapped as the full weight of the dingo hit the boat sending him and all the kits into the water. Judy and Nick made it to the edge to see it all happen, Judy went to jump in before Nick stopped her.

"Stay here and shoot him if he comes back up, I'll get the kits." Nick jumped overboard before Judy could reply.

Judy watched as Nick hit the water barely able to keep from having a panic attack, she raced down to the lower level so she could help get her baby's out of the cold water. It wasn't long before Nicks head and paws burst from the water, each paw held a baby rabbit. Moving to the side of the boat so he could pass them up to Judy he looked around.

"Where is the dingo?" Nick asked panting.

"I haven't seen him," Judy answered quickly as she held her kits close, Nick dived back down to get the last two kits.

Judy checked over her baby's, they were cold, wet and shivering not good things for less than hour old bunny kits. Judy unwrapped the kits and put them against the fur in her top hoping her added body heat would keep them alive till they can get to a hospital. Judy was starting to get worried when three police boats pulled up and started demanding she put the baby's down and her paws up.

"I am detective Judy Hopps and these are my kits, Officer Wild is in the water looking for my other two children so if you're not going to help stay the FUCK out of my way!" Judy raged at the officers bearing her buck teeth and growled at them.

Before any of the water patrol mammels could say anything in response Nick resurfaced holding a white bunny in his paws.

"I can't find mini carrots or the dingo." Nick grasped.

"Well don't just stand around! Help look!" Judy yelled at the water patrol again speeding them into action, some jumping into the water in full uniform to look. Nick handed her the small bundle before diving again to look as well.

Unwrapping the baby Judy realized she wasn't breathing and quickly started performing CPR hoping she wasn't too late to save her tiny baby. Judy could barely control her breathing to perform the infant CPR but after the third breath the kit choked back to life, Judy cried as she looked into the face of the baby she nearly lost. The small rabbit was shivering like her brothers and wailing in what Judy guessed was pain as her right eyelid was badly burned exposing the undeveloped eyeball underneath. Judy kissed her baby before putting her next to her brothers for warmth she turned back to the water hoping Nick would find her last kit.

"So did you find the forth kit?" Shaun asked on the edge of his seat.

"Sadly no, water patrol spent 5 hours searching but found no trace of Judy's baby or the dingo. Judy was devastated for months after that and Jacob was always extremely protective of the three." Nick signed finishing his drink.

"Understandable after all that." Breathed Shaun staring into space, silence falling between them.

*SHAKE, THAT, ASS FOR ME, SHAKE THAT ASS FOR ME* "hay carrots ssuuu-pop?" Nick slurred slightly from the drink.

"Nick are you drunk?" came Judy's annoyed voice from the phone.

"Maybe a little," Shaun held up the two empty bottles. "Ok maybe a lot, you'll probably have to drive home," he said apologetically.

"Arrg fine, listen Fru Fru just got here so her and I are going to do a bit of shopping while Jacob watches the kits." Judy groaned over the phone.

"Do you think that's a good idea?" Nick asked with a drunk giggle.

"Of course, Little Judy is with them and you know Vito doesn't like her going anywhere without Raymond." Judy giggled at something Nick couldn't hear.

"Oh that's good" Nick chuckled.

"OK, I'll call you when we're done. Love you."Judy cooed into the phone.

"Love you more," Nick replied before hanging up. "So you still working on those crazy inventions?" Nick chuckled at the annoyed look on Shaun's face.