The date is June 17th, 2016, night time at the grand city of Zootopia. Three months it's been since Judy Hopps and with the help of her good friend, Nick Wilde, solved the case that made animals go savage. She often thought about that case, telling herself "Who would have thought a small, pesticide plant could harbor such horrible effects on animals? I sure didn't and neither did any other animal at the time. Yet again I'm thinking about it as if it happened yesterday."
Judy and Nick were in a dark alleyway near the heart of the city. Their custom black and white ZPD SUV had its engine on and it lights off. Both of them were waiting for orders from dispatch on when to act on a chase that is in progress.
"Carrots...? Hey, Earth to space bunny." Nick said as he poked Judy's shoulder.
The bunny shook her head slightly. "Sorry, just thinking."
"You've been doing a lot of 'thinking'. Is something or someone bothering you?" Nick asked.
Judy couldn't help but smile just a bit because of Nick being concerned about her. "Just that whole night howler case and everything that happened. Never thought the nation would call me 'The Liberator of new light'."
Nick shrugged his shoulder. "That title sounds so corny."
A smirk overtook Judy's smile; sensing some jealousy from her friend. "Hmm, I hearing and seeing some salt coming from you Nick."
"I would have given you a better title," Nick said as he leaned to the grill of the SUV.
"Like what?" She asked with some curiosity.
Nick looked up, thinking.
"Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde, the crooks are turning to your street." Said the male on the Radio.
"Let's do this," Judy said with confidence while walking forward and leaning to the side. She could see an old and busted green Jeep Wrangler zooming down the long street. "Nick, get ready."
The fox stood up from the car and walked to the sidewalk. "Born ready, Carrots."
When the Jeep was 30 feet away from him, Nick threw and laid out the spikes across the road. Nick and Judy quickly pinned themselves to the wall and saw the tires of the Jeep run over the spikes. But not a single tire burst or exploded.
"Ha! You think we're amateurs?! Stupid cops!" Yelled out a female Ferret, whose head was out the window. She wore a pink and black hat that said 'Crime is life'. She was also wearing long black pants and a white tank top.
"Get your head back into the car, sis. We're not in the clear yet." Said a male Ferret. He was wearing the same hat and pants, but he had on a designed red shirt. He quickly turned right into an alleyway, making the other cops lose chase as they missed the turn.
"Judy, they're heading to Gavin's street. Back up will be there in one minute." Said the male behind the radio.
Without a second thought, the bunny got into the driver's side of the large cop SUV and hit the gas pedal. "Copy. 10-80 (Chase in progress)."
Nick got into the passenger side and pulled open the glove compartment. "Finally, I can use this baby."
Judy took a quick glance at what Nick was about to pull out. "Nick, I don't think you should use that." She looked passed Nick, seeing the green Jeep on the other side of the tall apartment buildings. The engine roars were louder as she pressed her foot more on the gas pedal.
Nick gave a sly smirk and grabbed the large, blue sniper like rifle. "Not one animal in the ZPD has used this on a real car chase. I want to be the first one to use it and subdue a car."
It wasn't even a rifle, but an emitter. It emits a concentrated, invisible beam of electric ions to the given position. The design of the weapon was that of god craftsmanship. Some areas of the rifle glowed blue. It had an AOG scope, a custom CPU to correct aim, x-ray vision through the scope, and a laser to let the shooter know where the ions will go.
"Fine, but if it malfunctions, the repairs will come out of your pay." Judy needed the 'Okay' from the chief to use the weapon, so she pressed a button on the dashboard. Her voice now heard on all police channels of her team and Chief Bogo. "Chief, do we have permission to use the Z-Unilater (Uu-knee-later)?"
The cape Buffalo sat on his office chair as he pressed a button on his intercom. "Don't think you can't bring them down the old fashion?"
"We can, Bogo. I just want to do this differently." Nick said as he put two small glowing canisters in the barrel of the rifle.
A horse hoof in a standard cop car, that was chasing behind the green Jeep, pressed a button to talk to the team. "Let Nick try it out, Chief. It might be his only chance to redeem himself for his past failures."
Judy saw an opening and cut through an intersection to pulled up right beside the Jeep. All three cars heading towards the city limits.
Nick placed his upper body out the window to aim the rifle to the Jeep's hood. "Chief, I have the shot! Give me the go ahead!"
Bogo went silent for a second before saying. "Go ahead and do not mess up this time." Bogo sighed as he leaned in his chair.
Nick's smirk widens as he looked through the scope. He could see the outline of the roaring Jeep engine and the laser that was pointing directly at it.
"Nick remember, not too much energy in the shot." Judy reminded Nick. "Jake, make sure the Jeep can't stop." She ordered.
"Yeah Nick, don't want the car to explode," Jake said as he pressed the front of his car at the back of the Jeep so it couldn't stop or slow down.
Nick thought to himself. "I will show you."
"Warren, do something! He's going to take out our car!" The female Ferret shouted out.
Warren looked at his rear view mirror, seeing Jake's car behind him. He then looked towards Nick before driving the Jeep towards the SUV
While Nick was adjusting the power scale in the rifle, he didn't see the Jeep heading to his side.
Judy saw the Jeep about to smash onto Nick and reached over to pull him back inside. "Nick! Watc-!" A hard jolt rocked the SUV.
The sudden motion in the SUV caused Nick to not only turn the power scale in the rifle all the way up but it was pointed towards the brake fluid housing in the Jeep as he accidentally fires.
The ions went into the Jeep's brake fluids, thus energizing it all. This caused the Jeep, which was going 70 Mph, to suddenly stop. The sudden halt caused the Jeep's front end to slam into the pavement and Jake's car slid into the underside of the Jeep. The resulting momentum made the Jeep flip in the air four and half times before landing on its hood.
Nick had a shock and horror expression on his face as he watches the broken down Jeep slowly stop at the guard rail.
"No!" Judy quickly stopped the SUV and said over the intercom. "10-52 (Ambulance needed) and 10-51 (Wrecker needed) at highway 50!" Rushing to the Jeep, her heart pounding in fearing the worse just happened.
Nick tossed the rifle to the side and got out of the SUV soon after. He went up to the passenger side of the wrecked Jeep and saw that the female Ferret was out cold.
"Jake, give me a hand. This one is fighting me!" Judy said as she pulled the male ferret out, but he kept resisting arrest.
The horse got out of his car and came to Judy's aid in finally placing handcuffs on the criminal.
"Look what you did to Alice! I am suing you all!" Warren cried out as he squirmed with his hands cuffed behind his back.
Nick kept looking at Alice. He could see she has a cut on her head and some bruises on her body. He then opened the door to pull her out of the car.
"Don't touch her, you fox!" Warren tried to make his way to his sister but was stopped by Jake placing his foot on his back.
Jake then looked sternly at Nick. "Nice going, Nick! You had to misuse the weapon on live animals! The Chief is going to have our butts!"
Nick slowly placed Alice to the ground as he looked towards Jake. "It was an accident! I didn't mean for this to happen!"
"Pay attention next time and things like this won't happen! I don't even see what Bogo sees in you! He should just let you do paperwork!" Jake retorted loudly.
Nick quickly walked up to Jake. His eyes looking up at the tall horse. "What is your problem with me?!"
Jake shrugged. "Oh jeez, I don't know. Umm, how about you messing up car chases? Ever since you joined the ZPD, our numbers of catching crooks in cars have gone down! You are better on foot chases than any of us, so why do you keep yourself on the patrol team?!"
Enough was enough, so Judy stood in between Jake and Nick. Her eyes focusing on Jake first. "Jake, how about you take Warren into your car and cool off in there." She then turned around to look at Nick. "Nick lets go over here and talk, please."
Nick and Jake both looked at each other before turning their backs to one another and walking off.
Judy sighed and sat down on the guard rail with Nick. "Nick, You know it isn't your fault, right?"
"I know it's not. But... Jake is somewhat right. I do mess up a lot and I don't know what it is about me that causes accidents." Nick soon looked towards the ground.
Judy thought for a second before looking towards the night sky. "The reason why you want to be on the patrol team is that you can be around me, huh?"
Nick didn't say anything but the slight smile on his face told what his answer is.
That smile of his always made Judy happy no matter what. She leaned on his shoulder and smiled as well. "Jake is absolutely right about one thing. Chief Bogo is going to have our butts."
Nick nodded. "Yeah. Don't worry though, I will take the blame."
"Nick no, I am at fault too. I wasn't fast enough to warn you." Judy was definitely not going to let Nick do such a thing.
Nick looked down at her. "So split the blame 50-50?"
Judy nodded in agreement. "Let's get it over with. You have headache medicine with you?"
Nick chuckled and nodded. The ambulances and other polices officers got the area. With that, Judy and Nick got up from the rail to assist.
"So $5,700 in road damages, $2,300 in cop car damages, misuse of the Z-Unilater, and one of the criminals has some grounds to sue us because of unnecessary use of force, hm?" Chief Bogo said in a surprisingly calm voice as he placed the reports on his desk.
"That calm voice.. Like the calm before the storm. I must explain the unforeseen circumstances that happened during the car chase." Judy said in her head as Nick, Jake, and herself was standing on the other side of the desk while they look down at the reports.
Bogo slowly had his hands on the desk as he leaned forward to all three animals. "You three are supposed to be a team! Judy, you're supposed to coordinate with not only Nick and Jake but with the rest of the team! It seems like you forgot that you had seven more members to assist you. I made you the team leader because you're good with coming up with quick plans! Perhaps I made the wrong choice in making you a leader?"
Judy's ears went down, fearing that she was about to be stripped of her current position. "I am sorry, Chief. But you don't understand tha-." Judy saw Bogo's hand go up a bit, letting her know to keep her mouth shut, so she did.
Bogo's attention then went to Nick. "Nick, countless times have you disappointed me, yet you make it up by how fast you can capture any criminal on foot. That is your saving grace. I placed you on the patrol team because I thought you can handle it and Judy suggested it, but it seems like I made a mistake on that to."
"Sir, it is not my fault entirely. Yes, I should have been paying more attention to my surroundings, but during the heat of the chase, anything can happen." Nick said as a defense to himself.
"Yet during foot chasing anything can happen, but you haven't failed on that. So that excuse will not work on me, Nick." Bogo said as he turned his attention to Jake. "Jake, be more supportive of Nick. Granted he has made a lot of errors, but always reminding him of his mistakes will only negatively affect his performance in the field. I do not care how you talk about each other outside of work, but when on duty, I expect teamwork and no outside feelings affecting the job, understood?"
Jake simply nodded to Bogo's request.
"Good. Also, read the memo I have sent to your tablets before you guys clock out. You are dismissed. I have paper work to do." Bogo sat down on the chair and sighed.
Judy felt a heavy weight lifted from her body, seeing how Bogo just basically gave them all a slap on the wrist.
Jake walked out of the office first to go to the locker room. Judy and Nick soon walked out as well.
"Hey, sorry Bogo got onto you more than me and Jake," Nick said while walking down the hallway with Judy.
The bunny lightly shrugged. "It's okay. I am used to it, heh."
Both animals made it to their work desks.
"Soooo, still want to go out to that new restaurant hm?" Nick asked as he sat down in his chair.
"Oh yeah! I forgot about it. We will go, but first, let's see what this memo is." Judy got the tablet from the desk and sat down on to Nick's lap. She started to read out the memo out loud. "Hello to elite sectors A, B, J, L, and N of the ZPD, this is Norse. The creator of the Z-Unilater and many other gadgets. I have finally completed a new standard issue police uniform/bodysuit and wish to showcase it tomorrow at 7:30 a.m. All team leaders and team members of previously mentioned sectors must be present. Sincerely, Norse smith. "
"We're getting new body suits?" Nick asked while tilting his head to the side.
Judy placed the tablet on Nick's desk and slid got off his lap. "Seems so."
Nick got up from his chair and had an excited look on his face. "Oh, I can't wait to see what it looks like."
Judy reached out and gripped Nick's hand. "Let's get out of here."