Chapter I

Chief Bogo walked down the halls of the Zootopia Police Department towards a small conference room. In his hooves was a set of files, meant for whomever the Zootopia Board of Investigation had sent as a representative. The two groups had agreed that they would need to work together to handle the uprising of the group known as HERD, which had been causing predator-related crimes in the city for a few months now. They had been taking the ideas of Dawn Bellwether and cranking that knob to 11. Now something drastic needed to be done. Opening the door, Bogo found himself looking at a bunny in a tuxedo. He had distinct black markings on his ears and face, his blue eyes looking straight at the older bison.

"Hello, Mister…" Bogo began.

"Name's Savage. Jack Savage." the bunny introduced himself. This was his first mission, and Jack had been preparing that for a few days now. Let's face it, he thought, a spy movie reference is as good as any introduction.

"Yes, well…" Bogo continued, "HERD is at an all-time high, with over 15 attacks in just the last 2 months in various parts of the city." He plopped the file down on the table and slid it over to Jack. Jack opened it and began to look through as Bogo kept talking.

"To handle this problem, we've agreed to have you work with two of our best police officers – Hopps and Wilde."

Jack froze. Not them, he thought with anxiety as another door swung open with Nick, who had a few gray hairs here and there, and Judy, now a bit older but no noticeable difference in appearance, walking in sipping coffee. Nick still wore his 80s-cop sunglasses. Oh dear, maybe they won't recognize me…

"I'll leave you three alone to work things out." Bogo said as he walked out the way he came, shutting the door behind him.

Judy examined Jack as Nick examined the room.

"Hey Carrots, ever been in here before?" he pointed out.

"Nick, focus!" Judy said.

"Sorry."

"So," Jack began, the butterflies in his stomach churning, "the current situation with HERD is-"

"Wait," Nick interrupted. He scanned the agent from head to toe for a good two minutes, and finally said, "Marcus?"

"What? W-who's Marcus?" Jack said, trying to keep things under control and retain his identity.

"Carrots, doesn't that look just like our son Marcus? He looks around the same age too, doesn't he?"

"Y'know, I was gonna point that out, but his eyes are blue. He can't be Marcus. He's got gray eyes."

That was close, Jack thought as he sighed in relief. Those contact lenses he bought were paying off.

"Yeah, but wasn't Marcus an actor in school? Surely he knows some costume stuff."

Thought too soon.

"You're right. Uh, Mr. Savage, are you wearing contact lenses?"

"… Yes." Jack sighed.

"Can you take them off?"

"I could, but that would be both a literal and figurative pain, and-"

"Just take one off. How does that sound?"

No point in continuing to try to fool them.

"… Fine."

After a few seconds of struggling, Jack finally managed to take his left eye's lens off to reveal a gray color. He shut his eyes quickly though, in a last ditch attempt to fool them.

"There, you guys saw them!"

"Alright, Jack… or should I say, Marcus."

"… Hi, mom. Hi, dad."

"Son, you didn't have to try to hide that you're a spy for the ZBI, y'know. We knew it was you all along."

"… What?"

"It's called a hustle, sweetheart." Judy chimed, "well, that, and the fact that both your father and I knew you couldn't act well in front of just us. So we decided to have a little fun with you. Now, tell us about what we've got on HERD."

"Alright. HERD is a domestic terrorist group led by a mammal only known as 'Z'. In the last two months there have been 15 attacks, all on predators, their biggest one on ZPD officer Benjamin Clawhauser when he was off-duty. The group uses acts of violence and have the ideologies of former mayor Dawn Bellwether."

"Hm. I guess we should get started then." Nick said.

"What? No plan?" Jack asked.

"We plan as we go," Judy said, "come on Marcus, you know this."

So the three walked into the parking garage and were about to get into Nick and Judy's police vehicle when Jack said, "Actually, let's take mine," pointing to a brand new black Aston Martin. The fox and bunny shrugged and all got in, setting off a peculiar trio on a new adventure.