SIDE NOTE: This was originally going to be three parts, but I felt the story flowed more naturally if I placed part 2 & 3 together as one chapter. That's all, enjoy the premiere.
'No one has a perfect life. Everybody has something that he wishes was not the way it is.' - Stan Lee
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"Ready or not here I come!" A young boy monkey said in happiness before going to seek whoever he was going to seek.
The boy walked around his apartment building so he can potentially find the animal.
He looked behind the couch, he wasn't there.
He looked under the dining table, wasn't there.
He looked in his office, it was completely trashed. Paper was scattered across the room, shelves had it's things on them on the ground, and the laptop was dangling by a cord.
"Dad?" The boy asked.
He then looked at the window. It was open, with rain seeping into the room. "Dad!" He yelled again.
He began to hear footsteps and his father ran into the room to see it in a wreck.
"Peter what happened?" His father asked.
"I found it like this." He said.
His dad rushed over to the computer and propped it back on the desk and looked at whatever it had to offer. The screen reflected on his glasses, but Peter couldn't make it out.
Peter's father looked at whatever it was in fear, before he looked at his son. "Peter mommy and daddy need to make a business trip." He said.
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After dropping him off at his mother's sister's house, the mother and dad were getting ready to leave. "Be good Peter." His mother said. "Love you." She said.
"Love you too." Peter said before the two adluts left the house in a hurry and drove off.
Peter looked at their car as it drove through the street, not knowing it would be the last time he would ever see him.
10 YEARS LATER.
At the current seconds of the waking morning, a meekrat was busy robbing a Walrusmart's money and he's racing across the street, and a small familiar bunny officer rushing after him.
The cop is one Judy Hopps.
"Stop in the name of the law!" Judy yelled.
"You'll have to catch me first!" The meekrat yelled as he went into an alleyway, only to get distracted by a spider, who collided right into him.
"Get off!" He yelled tossing her away and dropping to the ground.
Judy hopped in the air and slid to grab both the money and the meekrat, but the meekrat dodged her hand when she grabbed the money.
The meekrat began to make a run for it when a police car blocked his way out.
The window rolled down and it was Judy's parent, Nicholas Wilde. "Going somewhere?" Nick asked before showing handcuffs. "Besides jail?" He continued.
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As they put the meekrat in their precinct's cell before going back out to their car. "Whoo, that was rather easy." Nick said.
"Yeah, but it still doesn't mean the rest of the day will be, so don't slack off." Judy said.
"Why gee, it's not like I'll notice a crime happening at night." Nick said, mentioning his increased eye sight from his bat mutation.
"Well I have great hearing, beat that." Judy said as they got in the car.
"Better yet, let's mix the two, and we're practically unstoppable." Nick said before he drove off.
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"Mr Miller, the boss will see you now." A lady said to Cameron.
Cameron looked up from his phone. "Great." He said before he began to walk down to the front office of the building.
Cameron took a deep breath. "You got this." He said.
Cameron is currently at a job interview for the relatively recently made Oscorp. About 6 months ago, Wolf Knight was arrested, and Cameron decided to get a internship at the company. He didn't want to join right away, since most likely after all the buzz had gone down slighty, there would possibly be more open spots for the place.
Cameron opened the door to see the boss himself, Norman Osborn, a gold-and-white marmoset who obviously runs the place.
Norman looked up to see the bunny. "Ah Mr Miller, wonderful to see you today." Norman said.
"That's nice, but you can call me Cameron." Cameron said taking a seat.
"So, what makes you think you're qualified for Oscorp?" Norman asked him.
"Well, I have an interest in science, I like to help people, and I like to think I have a lot of knowledge of the mutagen from a while back." Cameron said.
"Well, you know I'm something of a scientist myself, and we do like people who have knowledge on that mutagen we've been trying to help animals that did get infected with it as best as we can." Norman explained.
"That's nice to hear, also I have a nice little portfolio of a few science things." Cameron said showing Osborn a folder.
Norman looked at the folder. "You want me to look at this." Norman said.
"Yep." Cameron said.
Norman slowly began to open the folder as if dramatic music was playing in the background, which made Cameron more nervous.
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Lily Fangmeyer was resting on her brother Nathan's house as her twin children, Douglas and Marian, were taking a nap when her phone rang.
She looked at the phone, it was Cameron calling her. Lily answered it. "Hello?" She asked.
"I got it!" He said.
Lily sat up. "Really?" She asked.
"Yes I did, you were right, the portfolio really did help. Along with the knowledge on the mutagen." Cameron said.
"Well congratulations." Lily said.
"Thank you, and speaking of which, we shall celebrate tonight. We'll try to get Nathan to order." Cameron said.
Lily chuckled. "Ok, bye." Lily said before she hung up.
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That night, Judy was driving across the road of Bunnyburrow to visit her parents, because she had some business to take care of there.
She parked her car and got out of it and went up to the doorstep and knocked on the door.
Her father Stu opened the door, with paint all over his clothes. "Oh Jude, great to see you." He said.
"Hi dad." She said hugging him. "How are you holding up?" Judy asked.
"Great actually, you know I have a lot of rest, I don't really have many problems since that whole mutation incident, and I've spent days trying to repaint the entire house. I've gotten about half of it done, which costed me sleep." Stu said.
"Ooo." Judy cringed.
"Yeah so your mother called you to see if you can help." Stu said.
"Of course I will dad." Judy said.
"Great. Just help me get some paint from the garage." Stu said as the two walked into the house.
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Judy and Stu stepped downstairs and began to explore it to find a light red paint. "So Judy how's it been down at the city?" Stu asked.
"It's been going well, no Wolf Knight big situations." Judy said.
"Well that's great to heae, don't want that happening again." Stu said.
"I don't think anyone does. Zootopia's split down the middle about the whole new life." Judy said.
"Ah yes I heard, all the protests, all the fear, yada yada yada, the people on the news are just completely nuts on this." Stu said.
"Well their just being told what to say, so reall-" Judy said as she checked a box, only to see a newspaper, and this is what it said on the front headline
'Oscorp's construction shutted down overnight.'
Judy looked at it confused. "Hey dad." Judy said.
"Yeah?" Stu asked.
"What's this?" Judy asked showing the paper to him.
Stu looked at it. "Oh yeah this was 10 to 11 years ago." Stu said.
"What was?" Judy asked.
"Well you see Oscorp was supposed to be created a decade ago, be a new type of company. But they didn't get enough funds to make it complete." Stu said.
"How much did they ask for?" Judy asked.
"Get this, they asked for 250 hundred billion dollars for it, that's way more than what any budget asked for back then, especially since Osborn wasn't that well known back then." Stu said.
"And now?" Judy asked.
"Well since that new tech is more cheaper, they were able to make it with less than half of their original budget." Stu said.
"Less than half?" Judy asked.
"Yeah, crazy right." Stu said before looking in the box. "Oh hey, the paint." He said.
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The next Saturday morning, Judy was driving back home after sleeping over her parents house, she couldn't get the idea of the Oscorp thing out of her head, it kept making questions float about in her head.
Judy parked her car by the side and began to contact Nick. "Yellow?" Nick asked.
"Hey Nick, can you do me a favor?" Judy asked.
"Fire away carrots." Nick said.
"I need you to look up news about Oscorp." Judy said.
"How come?" Nick asked.
"Well, funny story, since apparently Oscorp was meant to be a thing a decade ago, and it couldn't get it's ridiculous number of required funds of billions of dollars, so I want you to do some searching." Judy said.
"Shall do." Nick said before he began to type up on his phone while still having Judy on the line. "Yeah, it did close down that long ago. Jesus 250 hundred billion dollars, what kind of things were they doing?" Nick said.
"Yeah exactly, my gut's are telling me something's going on." Judy said.
"Well Judes, to be fair our tech now is way more expensive both back then and now, so maybe that was the problem." Nick said.
"But my dad said that's way more than the average company then, so maybe they're hiding something, especially since their main focus is on the mutagen." Judy explained.
"Well carrots, so we can help with your paranoia, I'll see if their's a way we can legally get in without lying." Nick explained before continuing to search.
"I'm not paranoid." Judy said.
"You are. Anyway, it saids on Oscorp's site that their's a school field trip this Wednesday." Nick said.
"Then we'll see if we can get in there." Judy said.
"Judy, Bogo is very set on his decisions, the chances are slim we'll be the one to get assign to head there to watch the students." Nick said.
THAT WEDNESDAY
"Hopps, Wilde, you'll be the ones to head to Oscorp and watch the students during their field trip." Bogo said at their meeting.
"Assignment taken." Judy said.
"I knew we would." Nick said before Judy shot him a look.
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Later that morning, Judy and Nick, in causal clothes, Nick in his usual clothes, and Judy in a jacket and jeans, parked by the building and got out of the car as the school bus began to drive down the street with the students. "Right on time." Nick said as the two walked in.
The hippo guard in front of them noticed them. "Are you the officers Osborn wanted?" He asked.
"Right you are sir." Nick said showing his badge. "We are here to watch over a bunch of rowdy teens." He continued.
"Alright, just wait by the side, they'll be here in a minute." He said.
Nick and Judy walked to the right side as the students began to walk into the room. "Remember students, behave and act nicely, we have eyes everywhere." A weasel teacher said.
"And those eyes are us." Nick yelled showing his eyes, and making Judy shroud in embrassment.
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After everyone was checked into the place, they began to walk up the flight of stairs to the place, with Nick and Judy kind of awkwardly walking with them.
Then, they were all met by a female ring tailed coati in a lab coat. "Good morning students, I'm Dr Martha Connors, and I'll be your guide today." She said. "Come along." She continued as the students began to follow her.
Then, the speakers turned on. "Will Cameron Miller and Curt Conners come to Otto Octavius's office now?" He asked.
"Wait Cameron works here?" Judy asked Nick.
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Cameron entered the elevator of the building and sighed. He tried to hop in the air to click the floor button of Octavius's office, but the hand of a ring tailed coati clicked it. "There you go." He said.
"Why thank yo-" Cameron said before realizing that the coati was missing a part of his arm.
"Oh! You're uh..." Cameron said.
"I know." He said. "I get those looks all the time from a first impression, no need to be sorry." He said.
"Sorry tho. Name's Cameron." He said.
"Curt Connors." He said.
"Oh, you're the same guy that was also called up to Octavius's office." Cameron said.
"Yes." He said.
"Wait, are you Martha Connor's sister?" Cameron guessed.
"Husband." He said.
"Oh that sounded wrong with that knowledge. So you're also the father of that kid that showed up a few days back, name was Billy?" Cameron asked.
"Indeed." He said.
"Ok." Cameron said as the elevator door opened and they both walked over to the office of their goldfish boss, Otto Octavius.
They entered and they saw Otto in his fish bowl, looking at some papers. "Mr Octavius." Cameron said. "You need me?" He asked.
"I do. But first, Curt, you promised me you would show me your experiment." Otto said.
"Ah yes." Curt said before reaching into his lab coat and grabbing a flash drive out of it.
Cameron opened Otto's laptop and Curt inserted the flash drive into it and a powerpoint presentation began to play on it. "So you see, I've been working on genetic regrowth. Some animals may be able to regrow their own limbs, but some can't, shocker I know, so I tried to make something in form of a serum, in which you inject it in the remainder of the arm or leg or tail with a needle, and in mere seconds the limbs shall return." Curt explained as the slides showed images on what would happen.
"Ok Curt, I see why you would want to make it, and you have a personal connection to it, so I recommend you show me the finished product when you want to." Otto said.
"Thank you, I'll have it done in a few days." Curt said.
"Ok. why do you need me?" Cameron asked.
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Meanwhile, the students are walking around the floor Martha, along with other scientists work at. "This is one of our many test rooms. A place where anyone can make anything in their dreams, they just need to believe that they can do it." Martha said.
Nick was getting bored and noticed a little bouncy ball on a table. "It can't be that advance." He whispered to himself before grabbing the ball and bouncing it down to the ground, and it sky rocketed to the roof and stuck to it.
Everyone looked up to see it. "Like that, a bouncy ball that bounced on one type of surface, and it sticks itself to the opposite side, like up and down." Martha said before the ball dropped down back onto the table.
"What she said." Nick said.
"Exactly." Curt said walking into the room.
"And this is Curt Connors, my trusted partner and husband." Martha said.
"How you do?" Curt asked before noticing Judy. "Ah, Miss Hopps." Curt said.
"Oh um, hey." Judy said.
"And Mr Wilde." Curt continued.
"Morning." Nick said messing around with some circular pad.
"I wouldn't touch that. Spin it fast enough it will shoot out sparks like a water sprinkler." Curt said.
"How bad could it be?" Nick asked before they heard the doors bust wide open.
Cameron rushed out of them and noticed the others. "Morning everyone, has anyone seen a marmoset? A little boy, gold and white, anyone seen him anywhere?" Cameron asked.
"Please. Check my desk." Martha chuckled.
"Alrighty." Cameron said before walking over to her desk, and nothing was on the top.
Cameron checked under, and when he did, a monkey boy jumped onto the top.
Cameron looked up again and the boy went down under the desk.
This pattern happened again, until Cameron peeked up again for a split moment before checking back down and he see saw the boy. "Gotcha!" He said.
The boy chuckled before beginning to run out the room. Cameron chuckled. "Your kid's a good hider." He chuckled to Curt and Martha.
"Why thanks for that, continue on with your trip, I have my job to do." Curt said before he began to walk off.
"Let's keep moving." Martha said as they began to walk off.
Judy walked up to Cameron. "I didn't know you worked here now." Judy said.
"Well I don't have to tell you every little thing in my life." Cameron said.
"Fair enough." Judy said.
"Miller, we need you to do a checkup on the animals." A scientist said.
"Animals?" Judy asked.
"Well some currently uncured animals we brought in and gave them a little home, some were thankful for us, and some were acting savage about it, but slighty gotten used to it. Duty calls Hopps." Cameron said before he walked off.
Judy smiled before she followed the others.
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Cameron went into the elevator. "Which one was it?" Cameron asked himself before checking through the buttons.
Then, he saw a green button. "Must be this one." Cameron said before pressing it.
The elevator began to go down, but as it went further and further down, the entire shading changed from average elevator color, to more blue-greenish.
When the doors opened, the elevator doors opened up to see a room he hasn't seen yet. Heck, he wasn't even shown it on the tour. In there was tubes with green liquid, with many gadgets sprayed about the place, even the gilder that Derwin had.
"Welp, not here." Cameron said before checking the buttons again, and clicking the one he remembered and they closed again and he went up.
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After doing said checkup, Cameron got out of the room and didn't throw a second thought about the random room. He took a seat on his desk, but he then saw a purple sticky note attached to his computer. 'Meet me by the roof.' It said.
Cameron looked at it. "Alright who's the troll, Toby, was it you?" Cameron asked. "Andrew? Tom?" He kept asking around until he begrudgingly took the note and began to go up.
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Cameron went up to the roof, and he looked around the place to see the helicopter. "Hm. Hello?" Cameron asked.
Then, Cameron felt someone's tail tap him on the shoulder. He turned to see a red and blue spandex wearing, animal, he couldn't really tell who it was. "Can I help you?" Cameron asked.
"How's it going?" He asked.
"Oh my god, do you need help?" Cameron asked.
"No no, I'm just here to ask you something." He said.
"Ok, fire away." Cameron said.
Then, the animal shot out a web onto Cameron's lab coat and dragged him to a wall. "What kind of nonsense are you up to?" He asked.
"Whoa man, I have no idea what you're saying!" Cameron said.
"Don't lie to me!" He said.
"I'm not!" Cameron said. "What are you even saying?" He asked.
The animal dropped Cameron. "I'm having a sneaking suspicion that Oscorp is doing something behind the scenes." He said.
"What kind of things?" Cameron asked.
"Well, I don't know, but it has something to do with the mutagen. Think about it, the company closed down a decade ago after not enough funding, but now they've returned during the mutagen debacle." He said.
"Well, I'm sorry but you got the wrong guy, I just started working here for less than a week." Cameron said.
"Fair enough." He said before he jumped off the roof suddenly.
Cameron looked off the roof to see him swing off by attaching webs to buildings.
Cameron pulled out a notepad and wrote something down. 'Monkey? With the ability to shoot out spider webs'
"Ooo, Spider-Monkey, that would be a cool name if he were a monkey." Cameron said before he walked back inside.
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That night, Cameron was in his room, just laying on his bed, really having his train of thought run about with this whole Oscorp situation. Are they hiding something? He wasn't told anything about the room he saw. But he couldn't tell the police about it, he would need more evidence about the place. He wasn't sure if it was a room full of things for good or bad.
Then, he heard the doors open wide.
He got up to see Nathan Fangmeyer walking inside. "Hey Cameron." Nathan said.
"Hey. So uh, something off happened at work today." Cameron said.
"What's that?" Nathan asked.
"Well you see, I was trying to find my way around the building today, and I came across a room." Cameron said.
"What kind of room?"
"Uh, it was just a room with vats of liquid and other thingamabobs just around the place." Cameron said.
"Do you want me to start an investigation?" He asked.
"No, it's probably just some work in progress room they're planning to show off soon, probably just me being paranoid." Cameron chuckled.
"Ok." Nathan said before Lily walked into the room. "Cameron you might want to see this." Lily said.
"What's up?" Cameron asked before Lily showed Cameron an article with 'Dr Curt Connor's project being unfinished has been rumored.'
Cameron looked at the article. "What's this about?" Cameron asked.
"One of your employees. Someone said that Connors hadn't cracked a formula for his genetic regrowth project." Lily said.
"It was probably a rival of his." Nathan guessed.
"Either that or one of the high schoolers that arrived. So I'll, someone who works there, shall discover this tomorrow morning, day off tomorrow." Cameron said.
"Fair enough." Lily said patting Cameron's head before walking off.
Cameron fixed his fur with Nathan smiling at him. "Turn that frown upside down, wait don't do that, then I'll feel bad." Cameron said.
"Too late." Nathan said frowning.
"Screw you." Cameron laughed.
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Cameron was able go find his house thanks to Martha's help and saw Judy also showing up there. "You're here too?" Cameron said.
"Bogo wanted me to confirm the rumor." Judy said.
The two began to walk for the door. "Isn't that a journalist's job?" Cameron asked.
"I don't even wonder about it at this point." Judy said.
"Well I'm here because I'm friends with his wife and I want to help him, like coworkers do." Cameron said before jumping up and ringing the doorbell.
"That's usually not the case." Judy said.
"In my life it is." Cameron said before Curt opened the door. "Cameron, Hopps." He said.
"Correct." Cameron said.
"While it is nice for you to drop by, my home is a home, and I recommend making a meeting at my office." Curt said.
"Well we're here so..." Judy said nervously.
...
Curt passed the two of them cups of tea. "Their true. I have nothing." Curt said.
"Ouch." Cameron said.
"So you know genetic regrowth is possible, you just haven't cracked the formula." Judy said.
"Yes. For years, me and my wife were mocked for out 'theories', not only in the community at large but in the science community as well. Called us mad scientists." Curt said.
"Then why do you do it at Oscorp?" Judy asked.
"Because Osborn has a fascination for the weird, and he'll let anyone do anything. We want to change the lives of millions, including my own, but we just can't figure anything out. And if I don't show Otto this in days, or at least a prototype I might be fired." Curt said.
Cameron turned to see a portrait of Billy when he was probably born. Curt wants to do this, he wants to make sure his kid has a life for the future, and Cameron wanted to help him.
"Say it did work, what would the side effects be?" Cameron asked.
"It would be hard to tell." Curt said. "The problem would b-" Curt said.
"Decay rate algorithm." Cameron said before taking a blank page from Judy and a pencil.
"Right." Curt said.
"Hey." Judy said.
Cameron began to doodle down some formula and Curt and Judy watched in confusion.
Cameron slid the paper to Curt and Curt looked at it to see the equation. Curt realized it all made perfect sense. "Cameron this is extraordinary. Where did you get this?" Curt asked.
"All up here." Cameron said pointing at his head.
"This changes everything." Curt said before taking the paper. "Sweetie. *turns to Cameron* Will you come by at my office tomorrow?" Curt said.
"Definitely." He responded before Curt went upstairs.
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Cameron and Judy walked out of the house. "I did it! I saved Curt's job." Cameron said.
"Well I'm happy for you, and I got my notes." Judy said before his walkie talkie went off. "All units, we got a failed 1349 at the Zootopian Bank, any one respond." They heard Clawhauser say over it.
"Well, duty calls." Judy said before pulling out her wallet. "I wonder how fast the bus can get here?" She wondered aloud pulling out cash before rushing back the way she came.
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Meanwhile, Nick and Fangmeyer were walking across an apartment with a kangaroo lady in sahara square. "So you're saying you're here something in your air vents?" Nick asked.
"Yes, it's like this strange growling noise." The lady said.
"No need to panic lady, we'll handle this." Nathan said before they went in the house to see a little girl covered in a bodysuit of pillows, a helmet, and a broomstick. "Sweetie no need to be here, the officers got this covered." The mother said.
"But what if they don't?" She said.
"No need to worry kid we do." Nick said before passing the little girl an unopened lollipop. "Thank you." She said.
"Anytime." Nick said as Nathan removed the gate for the air vent on the bottom of the wall. "Somewhere in here is where it is?" Nathan asked.
"Yes." She said.
"I got this. I got some really good eye sight for darkness and hearing." Nick said before crawling into there.
Nick looked around to see a bunch of scratch marks across the place. "Jeez who was in here, a bear cub?" Nick asked as he explored the area.
Then, he started to hear something coming for him.
Nick turned to the left side to see yellow eyes at the end. "Someone's in here!" Nick said.
"Who?" The kangaroo asked.
"I don't know. You ok?" Nick said.
Then, the now seen green iguana began to rush towards Nick.
Nick took this as a sign and quickly crawled out before the iguana rushed out of the vent.
Everyone began to panic as Nathan grabbed the girl's broomstick and tried to whack the iguana with it, but he dodged and slice the broom off.
The iguana crawled towards Nick and stabbed him in the leg.
Nathan grabbed the iguana and got into a wrestling match with it, before the iguana jumped off Fangmeyer and out the window.
Nathan looked out the window to see the iguana jump inside an opened manhole cover before it was closed.
"What was that?" The mother asked.
"I don't know who." Fangmeyer said before going to Nick. "You ok?" Nathan asked.
"I'll be fine." Nick said. "On the plus side, he's gone." Nick chuckled.
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Judy arrived at the scene to see 3 bank robbers webbed up to the ceiling, seemingly asleep, and she saw Bogo being mad at something, like always, and Clawhauser was doing his own thing. "What's the crime about?" Judy asked.
"Uh, failed robbery, we arrived here, and we found them webbed up, so Bogo called in some detectives and now we're trying to find any clues on who did all of this." Clawhauser explained.
Judy looked at the webs. "Do you think it's the same guy who gave us the blueprints to the missile back at the mutagen problem." Judy said.
"Chances are high. We found this." Clawhauser said before pulling out some gloves and giving some and leading Judy to a piece of evidence. A light blue thread of string. "My gut's telling me a spider couldn't fit in a suit, because they usually don't wear clothes, and the thread seems to big for a spider." Clawhauser said.
"I'm telling you whoever did this, will be founded." Bogo said to them.
"Well to be fair, it's kinda nice of him to do this, he is helping us with our dirty work." Clwhauser said.
"He's still breaking the law as a vigilante, no expections." Bogo said.
"Maybe, but at least we know he's on our side, could be way worse for us, we could be the guys on the ceiling." Clawhauser said.
"Clawhauser, it doesn't matter how good your heart is, if you do something illegal, you have to face the consequences." Bogo said before he went back to work.
"I'm just saying." Clawhauser whispered before going off.
...
A few more days later, Cameron and Connors were near asleep in Curt's office at sunset working on the serum. "Are we almost there?" Cameron yawned.
"Yes, in fact, we're done." Curt said showing Cameron the multiple needles of dark green serums.
"Yay. We did it." Cameron said near asleep.
"You can rest now." He said before he walked off to show them off to Otto.
TO BE CONTINUED