AN: So, I absolutely love Nick and Judy from Zootopia, so I decided to make a story about them! Also, this story is based off the TV show Arrow, but I'll try to keep it as separate as possible.

Disclaimer: I do not own Zootopia, Arrow, or any of their characters.

Judy woke up and shifted in her creaky bed so that she could see her alarm clock. 8:00… PM. The bunny was on her feet in an instant, until she remembered that she had night patrol. She groaned and sank back down into her bed. She hated patrols, since she was always so lonely and rarely anything exciting ever happened.

Patrolling at night was a little more fun than during the day, because criminals tended to think that they were less likely to get caught in the dark. They were right of course, but that wouldn't stop her. She quickly dressed into her blue ZPD uniform and grabbed her phone. She walked down the stairs of her apartment building and exited out the front. She climbed into her car and started driving down the to the ZPD. Her patrol started at 9, so she had plenty of time to get there.

The little officer arrived at the ZPD with a few minutes to spare, so she decided to go talk to Clawhauser, who was the dispatch officer at the main desk in the lobby. He was the only one in the Precinct who was actually nice to her. The rest weren't exactly rude, but she didn't consider them friends, either.

"Judy!" Clawhauser yelled loudly as soon as she walked through the door, "What's up?"

"Oh, just getting ready to go on the midnight patrol," she explained, "I hope something at least mildly interesting happens tonight." Chief Bogo, the one mammal at the ZPD that seemed to genuinely dislike the bunny, told her that if anything were to happen during a patrol, she was to call for backup. So far, nothing had happened, but Judy was still hopeful.

"Well," Clawhauser chuckled lightly, "one can only hope," he said as he typed out her name in his computer, telling the Chief that Hopps was heading out on her patrol.

"Thanks!" Judy shouted as she walked out the door and into the parking lot. For the second time that evening she climbed into her car, which was better than the joke of a vehicle they gave her when she was a meter maid, but not by much. Chief Bogo still thought she wasn't fit to be a real cop, and the tough little bunny was still determined to show him that she was going to be the best cop in the ZPD.

She patrolled the well lit streets of Zootopia for a couple hours until the clock on the dashboard said 12:00 AM… midnight. Six more hours left in her shift. She was stopped at a stoplight when she saw a flash of movement out of the corner of her eye. Most mammals were asleep in their homes by now, so she parked her car and quietly started stalking the shady figure, which she now suspected to be a weasel by the name of Duke Weaselton, a drug dealer who supposedly worked alone.

This could be the chance Judy had been waiting for ever since she joined the ZPD. She followed the weasel to a dark alley where he was apparently meeting a client. She still hung back in the shadows in order to not be seen. If she were to call for backup she would give away her position, so she kept absolutely still.

She was about to go in and take the weasel, and his client, down with her tranq gun when a dark, hooded figure dropped out of nowhere onto the unsuspecting drug dealer, taking the weasel's head and smashing it against the wall. Not hard enough to break anything, but definitely hard enough to give him a concussion.

The small drug dealer crumpled to the ground as his client, a fairly large otter, started running away from the scene. The hooded mammal easily caught up, took the otter and pushed him against the wall. The anonymous fighter kicked down on the side of the otter's knee, probably breaking it in the process.

Judy gathered herself enough to jump out of her hiding spot and aimed her tranq gun at the hooded figure, who, she realized, was only about a head taller than her. "Freeze! ZPD!" she shouted, her eyes and ears trained on the darkly dressed mammal in front of her. This fighter was too small to be a cop, and ordinary citizens shouldn't try to take the law into their own hands. "Get up against the wall!"

The hooded figure just stared at the bunny. "I will admit," he began quietly, "I wouldn't be against going with a pretty girl tonight, but getting arrested isn't on my agenda."

Suddenly, Judy felt her heart skip beat as a blast of the cold night air hit her back. Her eyes widened; the dark mammal was gone. The figure was there one moment and gone the next, like a shadow. She squinted her eyes, trying to make out where he was in the dark alley, when she saw a shadow leap from one rooftop to another, his slim silhouette being outlined by the moon, but only for a second.

Frustrated that she lost him, but still extremely thankful that he took down the two other mammals, Judy put her gun back in its holster, cuffing the weasel and the otter. She was positive that the otter would not be going anywhere anytime soon, seeing as his leg was bending at a quite sickening angle. The weasel was still on the ground clutching his head, so she decided she had enough time to go to her car and pull around near the alley.

She picked up her radio and reported her situation to Clawhauser, not forgetting to leave in that the otter needed an ambulance ASAP, and it wouldn't hurt to check out Weaselton to make sure he was alright, too.

"You caught Weaselton? Way to go, Judy!" Clawhauser praised her over the radio.

"Not exactly," the bunny admitted, "but we do definitely have him in our custody. Some vigilante I've never seen or heard of swooped in and took them out without even breaking a sweat. Regrettably, he got away from me," she moped. She was disappointed that the first time something actually happened while she was on patrol, she let one get away.

"Don't worry, Judy," Clawhauser encouraged, "you still caught two suspects! The Chief will have to notice you now!"

Glad that she had some support, she waited by the two hurting mammals until the ambulance took them to the criminal holding cell in the hospital. She was thankful that she didn't have to be there when they were going to set the otter's leg back into place.

Judy Hopps walked out of Chief Bogo's office, having just given her report to the seemingly always grumpy cape buffalo. He had told her that they had only encountered the vigilante once or twice in the past month, and they still had no idea who he was or where his base of operations was.

As for the matter of no one thinking of her as a real cop, that problem was still present. The Chief believed that the vigilante Judy met had done all the work, and all she had done was call it in. He was partially right. The vigilante had done all the work, but she would've been able to take them down herself had he not interfered. Because of this, she decided that she would need to work even harder to be noticed around the precinct.

Judy pondered in her head what to do, and finally decided to pursue the Weaselton case, seeing as how all the other officers and detectives were focused on other cases. The bunny felt there was no way Weaselton could've made and sold so many drugs in the short time he's been in Zootopia, so she went back into the Chief's office and inquired, "Sir, may I look into the Weaselton case?"

"Hopps," the Chief chuckled. "What case? Weaselton is a small time drug dealer who works by himself and does his business in the dark shady alleys of downtown Zootopia. It's open and shut."

"But sir," she explained, "I have a strong feeling he wasn't working alone. Please just give me some time to look into it and get evidence to support what I'm saying."

The large police chief sighed, "fine. I will give you forty-eight hours."

"YES!" Judy shouted while she jumped up in the air.

"That's two days to find out if Weaselton had any help," he explained. "But," he continued, "you strike out, you resign."

Judy's heart skipped a beat; was she sure enough to stake her career, the thing she'd been working her whole life for? Absolutely. This was a chance, her chance to become a real cop.

AN: So that's the first chapter. Please review and tell me if you like it and want more! See ya in the next chapter!