Zootopia has proven to be a safe haven for prey and predators alike. But crimes have been on the rise in Zootopia's districts four months after the Night Howler incident, disturbing the peace and our duo is on the case. Nick and Judy begin a new life as fully pledged officers, but after an incident they are demoted for a week. But with the help of a new transfer, an ocelot named Robert and his shifty squirrel informer Loren from outside Zootopia, they once again have to prove themselves as they embark on a new adventure into the districts and Zootopia's underworld.

Chapter 1: A New Day, A New Case

The thunder and lightning only made the jaguar's evasion more intense. Rain appeared to be pouring down on him as if it too were against him, despite falling calmly from the leaves and small openings in the tree tops. The jaguar didn't dare to look back to see if he had lost his pursuer. Taking no chances he continued to run through the vegetation not stopping to even catch his breath. A choice that was truly wise since his pursuer was no longer on the ground with him, but on the branches up above losing and gaining distance from the jaguar.
Finally the jaguar did look back and as he thought the panther was still chasing him. He took a few turns here and there trying to lose him, but with no avail. He managed to reached a bridge, which meant he could make it to a safe zone. Halfway across the panther whose facial details only could be seen when lightning flashed was on the other end of the bridge. The jaguar used his claws to partially cut into the ropes that held the bridge. They slowly started to unravel and snap due to the weight of both animals. And right before they snapped collapsing the bridge the jaguar leaped to the edge as the panther disappeared with the falling bridge having just passed halfway. The jaguar was regaining his breath and got up. He looked down the cliff side and saw nothing, but a long way down to a dark abyss.
He sighed with relief, picking up a walky-talky that had fell out of a pocket when he had leaped, "This is officer Langening, I've manage to get my paws on some evidence. I'm requesting evac at-."
As he turned the same panther stood in front of him, "I wouldn't think about leaving just yet."
The walky-talky dropped to the ground with a voice of another officer calling out for officer Langening to respond. A moment later, a back up team reached the site finding nothing but the walky-talky.
A wolf picked it up to see what could've happened to the officer.
"What do you think they did to him?"
"I don't know, but it looks like they're more organized and prepared for us than we thought. We can only hope the best of luck to Langening. Call it in, we're going to give it a search."
The team headed to another bridge nearby in hopes of finding Langening, but whatever evidence they hoped to track him would be washed away by the rain.

Just half an hour before the dawn would arise to wake up the city, Judy was doing her usual routine of waking up early to be ready for work. She hopped out of bed enthusiastically after turning her alarm clock off to begin her day by changing into her uniform. She walked on over to her clothing rack, giving a small yawn on her way and looked at her clothes; the six pairs of police uniforms she had, somewhat thinking which one to wear for the day.

On the other side if the city under a bridge, Nick was also waking up from the sound of his smartphone's alarm. Annoyed by how early it was he turns it off and lazily sits up for a few seconds, yawns stretching his arms upward and gets on his feet. Nick then walks on over to a trunk where he stored his officer uniforms along with his regular attire. After slipping into them he goes to a mirror to see himself, but didn't like the belt he was wearing, so he goes for another one.

Judy had finished placing her vest on, smiling as she looked at the mirror, then doing different kinds of poses like if she was telling someone to halt and so on. Beside the mirror were small news articles depicting her and Nick for solving cases around the three nearest districts over the past months. Nick on the other hand just stood straight and turned left and right to see he was ready to go, except for one important detail; his badge was the only thing missing on him. Nick notices and looks around for it. Judy had gotten her lunch ready and headed out the door to head on to the station. Nick had found his badge and goes to the mirror again, tucking in his shirt and winks at his reflection as he pointed with both his index fingers. He grabs a plastic bag that had a plastic box from a fast food restaurant as he heads on for work.

It was a bright and sunny morning, the city was awakening with every animal trying to get to work. Every officer working during daylight hours was arriving at the station. Judy was waiting happily at the briefing room with her fellow officers for Chief Bogo to come in to hand out assignments. But she sat on the side of the chair as she kept an eye out down the aisle for her partner who finally showed up. Nick greets some of his fellow officers as he walked by, lazily yawning with droopy eyelids.

"Nick over here." Judy called out, but not too loud to not draw attention. Nick hurried over and lazily climbed onto the chair next to Judy, "Boy you look like you didn't sleep well last night. Or any night before."
"Yeah, I tell ya, sleeping under a bridge is no longer the place for me. So what are we doing today?"
"I don't know Chief Bogo hasn't came in to hand out assignments."
Then one of the officers alerted the others of Chief Bogo being at the door. They did the usual routine of stomping as he came in with red folders under his left farm and placed them onto the podium, "Alright, alright, enough." Chief Bogo said to calm everybody down, "Good morning everyone. As you know these past few weeks have been hectic. There's been reports of crimes going all around Zootopia in every district. From grocery store robberies, car thefts and even bank robberies. Investigators believe this to be the works of some bold criminal organization. I don't have to keep telling you all be careful out there while investigating, especially when going under cover. Another officer has been reported missing, moments before a back up team arrived at the last known position."

Everyone was discussing in a low concerned tone among themselves and Judy was really on her seat leaning forward a bit stunned of the news.

"I know, quiet down. City hall is really on edge of our disappearing officers and advises extreme precaution to you all when on these assignments."
Bogo then started handing out case files to the other officers in the room until three of them along with Judy and Nick were left. Nick tried to look enthusiastic as Judy when Chief Bogo called out to them, "Wilde, Hopps, you're in charge of keeping an eye out for this suspect. His name is Gabriel Hols. We believe this gopher is connected with the crimes happening in the Savannah district. He is a leading suspect for a break in at a tech laboratory." He notices Wilde starting to limp batting his eyes slowly blinking as if he was falling asleep, "Wilde! Are you listening?!"
He jolted up startled for a second, "Yeah Chief."
"Then what did I just say?"
"Criminal organization, keep an eye on a suspect." He yawned as spoke, "Savannah district."
"Nick." Judy said disappointed at Nick as she nudged him.
"You better wake up Wilde, we can't have any officers sleeping on the job. This investigation is serious."
"Of course sir, I'm sorry about how my partner's acting right now." Judy apologized on behalf of Nick.
Nick shook his head to really wake himself up as he straightened his posture, "Yes Chief, I apologize for my rudeness sir."
Chief Bogo rolled his eyes and approached the two to give them the file, "Just get out there and see what you two can find. I'll leave Wilde in your care Hopps, see to it he doesn't fall asleep behind the wheel. In fact, don't let him get behind the wheel. And Wilde, should you fall asleep while on duty you'll be suspended for a week without pay. That will give you enough time to sleep and think things over." He then called upon the remaining three, giving them the last file and walked out the room.
Judy looked at Nick still disappointed at him frowning with her mouth to the side and the back of her paws on her hips as if waiting for an explanation. "What? What'd I say?" He shrugged. Judy shook her head and leaped off the chair and Nick followed.

As Nick and Judy were in the foyer heading to the exit an excited rabbit runs up from behind the duo giving a small squeal stopping them. She was one of Judy's young sisters whom had just recently joined the ZPD and today was her first day on the force, "Judy! This so exciting being a ZPD officer and working with you."

"Hey Julia, good to see you're ready to start."

"It's going to be so awesome! Stopping bad guys and such. All the action. I'm so happy I'll be working with my big sister."

Judy lowered her left eyebrow as if she didn't know what she was talking about, "Julia, you're not working with me. I do believe your job for today is patrolling the streets."

Julia's ears flop down as if she was disappointed, but had a little smile on, "Oh, I just thought maybe Carl and I could join you two on your assignment. After all you can add more to your team can you?"

"That's not how it works, besides Nick I can manage this assignment sis. Carl and you are to be on patrol, OK?"

Though Julia's ears were down she wasn't upset since she knew Judy was right, "OK, well I guess I'll see you two out in the field." She said with her renewed enthusiasm.

Nick chuckled, "Yeah, we'll see you out there kiddo."

Julia didn't like being called or have someone refer to her as being a kid as Judy didn't like being cute, "I'm not a kid Nick, besides I bet I'll make headlines before you two do very soon. Just imagine the headlines." She had her paws in the air as if there was headlines.

"Quite the imagination you have there kid, but as sis said when she was new to Zootopia, anyone can be anything. But never had she mention do anything."

Judy jabbed Nick with her elbow, "Nick, don't say that."

"What? I'm just messing with her." He playfully admitted.

"Look just don't get in over your head and be careful alright Julia?"

Julia rolled her eyes looking away from the two officers, "Yes mom and dad." she sassed.

"Well have a good day sis and don't get into trouble." Judy instructed as if she was there mother waving her index finger in the air at her.

Julia smiled as she lowered her eyebrows and walked on over to Carl whom was a hippo to get onto patrolling.

Outside a café in the Savannah district Nick waited inside a police cruiser as Judy came out with two cups of coffee, handing one over to Nick after climbing into the cruiser.
"Oh, thanks Judy. I tell you I really need to find something more comfortable to sleep on."
"What you really need is to find a place to live in. When are you going to leave the bridge?"
"Come on carrots, I don't want to go through the hassle of paying bills and and dealing with noisy neighbors. Getting up for the morning commute."
"Nick, it's not that bad. It's great to have a place of your own and people surrounding you. Sure sometimes they can be noisy, especially if the kids in the apartment above are jumping on the bed when it's past their bed time."

Nick gave it a quick thought, "I guess you're right, I should get an apartment. Who knows, maybe one for both of us so you won't have to deal with pesty neighbors cause you'll have me to annoy you." He teased.

Judy smiled at the idea of having such a place.

"Wouw, heads up, there's our guy." Nick stood up on his seat as he pointed out the window.

Judy quickly scans the site and notices their suspect coming around the corner carrying a small bag on his back and walks into the café.

"What are you up to buddy?" Nick said in a low voice.

Gabriel then came out finishing a small cup of coffee, crushing the cup and tossing it onto the edge of the street. He continues to walk casually away, but keeping a look out as if he's up to no good.

"OK, let's follow him. He looks real shifty and clearly up to something."

The two officers left the cruiser and followed the gopher from a distance. He then started to go through an alley, darkened by the shadows of the two buildings heading to where it broke into an intersection of alleys. As the officers quietly followed Judy steps onto a small candy wrap making a crunch sound causing the gopher to look back. Luckily Judy hid behind a trash can while Nick behind a dumpster.

"Were you followed?" A deep voice came from a shadowy figure in a dark corner between the two buildings. Judy takes out her phone and starts recording a video as the two officers peeked from behind their hiding spots.

"No, I wasn't followed. You got my money?"

"It depends, you got what we requested?"

"Yeah I got it. It wasn't easy with all the security goons all around the perimeter." Gabriel says as he opens the bag and pulls out a sophisticated piece of equipment.

"Excellent. You did quite well." The figure then jesters his head to another shadowy figure to go get the object as he held a big sack of money.

Right when they were going to do the exchange Judy's phone rings due to her parents video calling her. "Oh no, not now you guys." She tries to silent it, but can't get a good grip on her smartphone from having been surprised at the moment.

"Someone's here. You said you weren't followed!" The figure said angry at the discovery.

"I swear I didn't know there were narks behind me."

"You better not lose that." The two figures then ran off into the other alley way intersecting the one the gopher came from.

Nick shook his head then came out from behind the dumpster, "Well there goes our cover. Hey you, ZPD! Stay where you are!" Nick yelled to Gabriel.

Gabriel then ran down the alley with Nick and Judy close. Judy answers the video call from her parents, "Hey guys. Now is not good time." She tried to smile.

"Are you exercising sweety? Where are you?" Her mother asked curiously.

"Oh just out for a little run racing Nick." She gave a false chuckle.

When they came out of the alley they lose sight of Gabriel for a few seconds, but Nick spots him running up on the street, "There he is! I'm going to bring the cruiser around stay on him. Be careful Judy." Nick turned around running back to the alley.

"Are you two pursuing a criminal?! This so exciting watching my little girl going after a criminal." Her father was indeed excited nearly hogging the screen.

"Be careful Judy, please don't get hurt out there." Her mother was worried after hearing the commotion.

"Don't worry about me I'll be fine, but I got to go bye!" She hung up right when her father was going to say something more about the chase.

Judy ran after Gabriel darting beside traffic and parked cars calling out to him to stop running. She jumped onto the roofs of parked cars and at the right moment got across the street by jumping on the roofs of three moving vehicles. Gabriel saw she was closing in, but spotted a weasel preparing to leave. He shoved the weasel aside taking the keys, starting the station wagon and drove down the street. Judy turned around to run the same direction, but knew she wasn't going to be able to catch up to him now. Luckily Nick came around the street in the cruiser with the sirens on.

The passenger door opened and Judy hopped in, "He's going down the street in a station wagon." She clicked her seat belt and held on.

"He's heading towards the freeway." Nick pointed out as Gabriel took the ramp.

Judy grabs the radio's microphone to call it in, "Clawhauser this is officer Hopps, our suspect is driving on Hutshins freeway, we are on pursuit."

"Oh OK, I'll send back up your way." He replied.

They were able to catch up to Gabriel being right behind him.

"I got an idea." Judy lowers her window and carefully starts climbing onto the hood.

Nick kept the cruiser steady as she crawled her way to the front in the prone position. He got real close to the station wagon for Judy to get on the roof. Gabriel looked at the rear view mirror and saw she was gone, "Hah, foolish cop." He grinned believing she had fallen off.

When he swerved onto the right lane it nearly made Judy fall off, but she held onto the small rails used to tie down luggage.

He notices her trying to open the passenger door, "Oh no you don't!"

Gabriel swerves left and right trying to get Judy off the roof causing the other drivers to brake and swerve nearly onto each other; including Nick. Nick manages to avoid the traffic and stay on Gabriel.

Judy then manages to swiftly open the door and get into the station wagon, "Alright buddy you are going to stop this car right now!" She aggressively pointed at Gabriel.

"In your dreams cop!"

She grabs onto the steering wheel fighting Gabriel for control, including trying to pass Gabriel's feet to press the brake pedal. Judy turns the wheel to take an exit ramp scraping the left side of the station wagon on the railing.

"Oh no, this is bad." Nick saw that she was struggling. But after going under the freeway Judy really pulls on the steering wheel causing the station wagon to roll over on its side onto the center of a two lane street. Luckily there were no cars at the time, but there were quite a few animals on the sidewalks watching the station wagon roll by.

Nick saw a large amount of animals waiting for the crosswalk signal to allow them to cross and knew the station wagon is going to crush them. He drove onto the next street hastily hoping to intersect the rolling vehicle in time. The signal changed and the animals began to cross, but did not fail to see the tumbling station wagon. They all panicked running across to get out of the way, but unfortunately the mice who were crossing weren't as quick because of their small size. As they tried to cross they had to stop at times to avoid getting stepped on by the bigger animals running by. The rodents yelled a high pitch squeal as the station wagon got close. Before it could fall on them Nick spun the cruiser to be parallel to the crosswalk and the station wagon stopped tilted upside down leaning on it. The mice who had closed their eyes opened them and saw Judy's face pressed on the passenger window.

She looks down onto the crowd and waved at them, "Hey, I hope you all are safe, quite a scare that was." Her voice was muffled since she was still pressed on the window. Gabriel still was in his seat, being held in place by the seat belt as he was unconscious.

The mice then ran, but not panicking across the street.

Once clear Nick hurried under the car to check on Judy, "Judy, Judy, are you OK?" He pressed his paws on the window.

Judy got up on her knees and nodded her head with her ears drooping down, "Yeah, I'm alright."

Nick sighed in relief.

Moments later a few officers were on the scene two of them placing yellow tape. Nick and Judy sat on the side of a sidewalk with the bag beside Nick knowing they were going to really get it when Chief Bogo arrives, "That was quite the catch and tumble, are you sure you're alright?"

"I'll be find." Judy sniffled and smiled warmly.

"Hopps! Wilde! What's the meaning of this?!" Chief Bogo approached angrily at the duo as they stood up. "Reckless counts of endangerment, damaging city roads, what happened?!"

"Well you see sir, we were staking out and followed the perp into an alley where he was exchanging this… I don't know what it is, but two shady characters wanted it. I got it all on my phone."

"Really? But how do you explain this?" Chief Bogo pointed to the scene.

"Well as I recorded the exchange for evidence my phone rang scaring the suspects and we chased after Mr. Hols and…" She hesitated to continue giving details.

"Yes officer Hopps?"

Judy remained silent looking away down at her feet.

Nick knew there wasn't anything he could say to ease the conversation, instead he placed his left paw on her right shoulder.

Chief Bogo sighed, "Look if you're going after a suspect you should've waited for back up as you stayed on the perp's tail. Not go trying some stunts in hopes of stopping him on the spot causing all this destruction and mayhem." Chief Bogo breathed in and out, "I'm putting you two on parking duty for the week while I figure how I'm going to explain this to the Commissioner and Mayor and later what to do with you two."

"What? You can't be serious Chief."

"Wilde you should consider yourselves lucky I don't have you two suspended without pay for a few weeks to even have you turn in your badges right now. I'm being easy on you not because you two are our best officers, but for all you have done for this city. Turn in whatever evidence you two got, you're relieved for the rest of the day. You're dismissed." Chief Bogo then goes to deal with the press behind the yellow tape taking photos and requesting answers to their questions.

"Come on, let's go do what he said and get something to eat." Nick puts his arm behind Judy's back and walk away.

Inside a diner Nick and Judy waited for their menus patiently. Judy was still upset putting her head on her hand as she looked outside as the city began to calm down in traffic and pedestrians. The buildings had a golden lighting on them as the sun was less than two hours from setting.

Nick saw Judy was still disappointed at the day's earlier events, "Hey, cheer up carrots. As the Chief said it could've been worse."

"Parking duty, again. I swore I would never go back to that." She said softly.

"Look it's only for a week, soon we'll be out and having more adventures again." He saw she still wasn't getting better until he got an idea, "Besides, this can give us time to go find me a place."

Judy then lifted her head slowly as her ears slowly stood up surprised at the idea Nick said and smiled at him, "You're right, we could use this "time off" for ourselves." She place her hand on Nicks' to show she was feeling better about what happened.

"Could you believe that? A rabbit and a fox dating?" A female wolf whispered to her partner whom was sitting across her behind Nick.

"Come on Betty keep it down, they'll hear you."

Nick's right ear turned to their direction as Judy sat up and leaned over to see the couple, both not pleased to have heard.

Nick was going to turn around to say something, but Judy stopped him grabbing his left forearm, shaking her head, "Forget about it, it's not worth it in any way."

Nick turned back to face Judy knowing she was right, who cares what the others thought.

"Sorry for the delay, we get super busy in the evenings." The waitress handed the two menus.

"It's quite alright, we're in no rush." Judy replied kindly. Once the waitress left Judy had leaned over looking at the wolf and whipped her menu open to show she could care less of her opinion.

The next day at the station an ocelot wearing a trench coat holding a suit case got off the train. He took the escalator up to exit the station and stuck his hand out on the sidewalk to get a taxi. He was then dropped off at the ZPD and entered heading towards Clawhauser at the desk.

"Excuse me, where can I find Chief Bogo?"

Clawhauser looked up away from an article he was reading while eating cereal, "Oh hello, who might you be?"

"Officer Robert Lyle, transfer from Jungnala. I was told to see Chief Bogo as soon as I arrived."

"Well you'll find him in the briefing room down on the left, currently briefing his officers."

"OK thanks."

He entered the room as Chief Bogo was finishing his speech based upon yesterday's account. He stood next to the door way putting his suit case down looking around the room.

Chief Bogo noticed Robert as he finished his speech, "And just in time, everyone a new member has joined the force. Robert has transferred from Jungnala, best in the JPD and team. He will be helping us solve these cases."

Robert gave a single small wave not trying to stand out. After Chief Bogo handed out the day's assignments he met Robert at his office, "Hmm, we had similar instances back at Jungnala, but as soon as we were closing in on this group it just disappeared."

"I believe that same group is trying to get cozy here in Zootopia."

"I can't say for certain Chief Bogo, but if what you say is true and all these crimes are connected then we should hurry. I'll need a couple of your best officers to help."

"I'm sorry, but most of my best officers are doing investigations of their own." Chief Bogo then thought of two available officers, "However, I just remembered I can assign two officers to help you in this investigation. Course I must warn you they will be a bit of a troublesome handful." He then pulls out two files from a drawer and slides them to Robert.

"Well it's better than going alone. Where can I find them?"