A/N: Tried to get this chapter out a few days sooner, sorry it took awhile but I'm looking for a job, it's stressful. Aside from that, I thought I'd talk about the names of these chapters and their significance. Apart from the first chapter, every name of the chapters starting from this one are named after songs that are to represent what the chapter is about. In this chapter, the song is "One More thing" by "Kevin Fly". I had a nightmare once while listening to this song in my sleep. While I won't go into details, I'll explain that it was a song that made me think of this big action sequence and I just wasn't sure how to put it out there. Hopefully this will be a good read for you as it was for me typing it. And by all means, listen to the song whilst the action happens near the end of the chapter(play it when the fountain scene appears).

The moist putrid air of the sewers invaded Jake's nostrils, as he made his way down the dark alley. Since his successful hunting session last night caused a bit of an uproar for the police, as he knew it would, Jake figured he had to leave out a trail to lead the authorities away.

The less of a trail I leave here near home, the less of a chance I have of getting caught.

Jake had to think of something to get the famous detective duo off his heels. From all the stories they told him about the Nighthowler case, he knew how efficient the rabbit and fox could be.

Sahara Square would be an easy place to start. It's the closest district to Savanna Central and I'm sure the gang lords there are a bit uneasy from hearing a few of their rivals got whacked by some random psycho.

Finally, he made his way out of the dank alley and back onto the cracked sidewalk, as he spat behind him back into the horrid direction where he came.

First, a change of color, I do miss my old team colors. Just need to find that damned green shirt.

As he hiked up the stairs back to his apartment, Judy bumped into him on the stairs and took the opportunity to have some conversation to get her mind off her assigned case. Jake could tell she wasn't having it easy, as she was rubbing her right temple with her paw.

Judy finally gazed up at Jake and asked, "Oh hey, Jake. How is everything going with Gazelle?"

Her question was one of sincerity, but one still that Jake knew was just make small talk. He knew Judy and himself don't talk privately and figured she must be trying to either kill time or try to pursue his personal life.

After a few frozen seconds, he answered, "She's just fine, but rather exhausted after the last night's show."

Judy released her soft paw from her head and stretched, letting out a yawn that she had been holding in.

"Good to hear, but I hope she's not too tired to sing at the charity ball next month. I wouldn't want to miss that show for all the parking duty at the Z.P.D., if you catch my drift", she added.

Jake rolled his eyes and tried to come up with a quick-witted response to get past the enthralled bunny near his knees.

"I don't mean to hold you up from your work, Officer Hopps. I'll just get out of your way", he stated and tried to move away.

Judy shrugged and gave a small giggle.

"You're perfectly fine, Jake. Trust me, I actually don't mind just standing here for a while and talking. With this new case Nick and I got put on today, we've been running all throughout Zootopia itself trying to look for leads and came back with next to nothing", she spoke with malevolence.

There was a pregnant pause between the conversation, as Jake stood firm and thought to himself.

So, no one has caught on to anything yet? That's great! Just makes it so much easier to pick an area to target next.

Judy snapped her paw in front of Jake's eyes and got his attention.

She broke the silence, "Everything alright, Jake? You seem like you're out of it?"

Jake shook his head and blinked rapidly; his mind continued to come back to reality.

He responded, "Yeah, I'm fine Judy, thanks. I think I'm just a bit tired is all. I haven't slept well in a while."

Judy patted his shoulder and nodded, "Well if you ever want to talk about anything at all, let me know. I haven't really gotten to know you, aside from what Nick has told me and even that's not much."

Jake gave a quick and friendly nod before he continued up the flight of stairs. He chose to say nothing to Judy for it just felt it as unnecessary. Females were the enemy after all, at least in his mind.

Damn her, all she wants to do is get close, yet she wouldn't even BEGIN to understand how in the world I feel about females. All they have ever done is just get close to me and then run off to someone else. Kind of figures that most all women do that. Seems they just all want to take male's hearts and break them.

When Jake arrived on the top floor and treaded down the hallway to his door, he did his entire best to look inconspicuous as possible. He yawned, scratched his read end, acted as if he was exhausted and ready to take a snooze. However, this was only his way of cover. Any other mammals in the hallway would just merely see a tired wolf coming off of his job and going to bed. As soon as he entered the cold darkened room, he locked the doors and silently made his way to the bed.

At least my cover isn't TOTAL bullshit, I'll at least get some sleep.

He glanced at his nixie tube alarm clock and noticed the electrified red numbers read: 21:37

Four hours of sleep, enough for the body to function. Better than none I suppose.

01:25
Sahara Square: Behind Elephant Ice Cream parlor

Three mammals lie in wait in the shadowy brick alley. They were petty dealers who worked for one of the three top gangs in the district. They thoroughly kept their gaze at the slow burning fire that crackled in the rusty barrel.

One of them, a tiger, mumbled, "Boss says to keep everything low key now since last night. Butch got done in last night, his throat sliced and lots of blunt wounds. Like someone beat him with a bat until they got bored and knifed him."

"Jesus!" the weasel beside him said, as he rubbed his throat, "That's a real shitty way to go, bro!"

"No kidding and thanks to that, it just made dealing even harder. Cops are one thing, but some junked up crackpot killer on the loose? Now that is something I don't think anyone was ready for", the tiger said, as he placed his paw to his head.

The third mammal, a zebra, broke his silence, "He just got lucky! He just had the advantage of surprise. Nobody would've thought some homeless psycho mammal would wound up killing 6 higher ups over the district!"

The weasel winced and quietly tried to shout, "Keep your voice down, bro! You trying to bring him here?!"

"RELAX!" the zebra said lazily, "That was miles away in another district. He's their problem, not ours. Let the damn cops catch him!"

The tiger replied, "You think he won't travel?"

The zebra rolled his eyes at his two companions and huffed. All of this talk just seemed to be wasting time whilst other dealers would probably be making money.

The zebra said, "No, I don't think he would. Unless he's THAT desperate to get himself killed, I doubt he would-"

The zebra caught the shadowy image of a mammal that leaned against the brick wall behind the three. His leg perched on the wall, his other kept him standing.

"Looking for a fix?" the zebra called out to him.

Slowly the mammal pushed off the wall and walked forward. The heavy pawsteps could be heard, but they sounded like very heavy hooves. It wasn't until the figure was near the glow of the fire that they saw an arctic wolf with an axe and a knife.

"Maybe!" Jake responded in a hoarse voice.

09:45
Z.P.D. Headquarters

Judy typed at her keyboard faster than normal. She was more determined to catch this vigilante more now than she had been yesterday first given the case.

"Woah Judy, you're going to make the keyboard catch fire if you keep typing so rapidly!" Nick commented.

Judy rolled her eyes and sighed. She adjusted herself in her chair and continued to type at a very eccentric pace.

"Nick", Judy said, "I'm not in the mood for your smart mouth today. Did you forgot the fact that this vigilante killed twenty-one more mammals?"

Nick sat up in his chair and readjusted his tie. Indeed, he had forgotten that today was no joking matter. Their criminal had pretty much mocked the police's incompetence by tripling his kill ratio last night. The only solace that came to Nick's mind was that at least they weren't innocents.

"Do you think he's right, Judy?" asked nick with a worrisome tone.

Judy's ears shot up at the sound of his question.

Judy turned around in her chair and asked, "Did you really just ask that, Nick? You do know that WE ARE OFFICERS!"

Nick winced at Judy's backlash. He already knew something like this would happen.

"I know Judy, I know. It's j-just that these victims weren't innocent. They were gang members, some of them were murderers", said Nick.

Judy shook her head, "Murder doesn't negate murder, Nick!"

"Some of them were rap…. rapists!" he struggled.

Judy shuddered in her chair at the last word.

She took a breath in and finally released its warm air, "While I don't show any mind towards the criminals, they still don't deserve sudden death through a vigilante. No mammal has the right of judge, jury and executioner. Above all else, it is OUR JOB to uphold that part of the law and make sure that those criminals see their day in court."

Nick sipped his coffee by his desk. These thoughts muddled his mind. He was duty sworn to uphold the law when he became an officer at the Z.P.D. and so far, nothing ever got in the way to change that simple fact. However, this was entirely different.

"I understand that Judy", Nick sighed, "but it's just that I've never had the lines of the law appear so blurred. I mean, have you seen the news? Mammals all over Zootopia are either praising or bashing him."

Judy could see the sorrow on his face. It was easy to see how this was upsetting him. Having to question your own moral ethics and uphold the law may take a lot out of you.

"Nick", she confided, as she rubbed his paw.

"You're right though, Judy. We are going to do our job and bring him in. We all took an oath and we'll do what it takes to bring him down and have him see his day in the courtroom", he said drastically.

"Good answer!", Bogo intruded.

The deep, commanding voice of the cape buffalo caused both small mammals to jump in their seats.

"Oh sir, you gave us a fright", said Judy, who clutched her chest.

With a gruff, he asked, "What's the final words on our vigilante?"

Judy sighed, stretched and read her report, "Vigilante presumed to be male, small to medium sized mammal, reported with white fur by what little witnesses we found."

Bogo grunted and shrugged, "SO?"

Judy sipped on Nick's coffee and cleared her throat to continue, "First initial murders took place in Savanna Central on the alley of 44th and Sterling, with six mammals killed. However, further investigation lead to the fact of the six mammals being lieutenants of all different small-time gangs in the district lead us to believe that they were all called to the same location by the murderer as a trap."

Chief Bogo glanced over at Nick, who struggled to keep his eyes open.

"Why don't I hear you reading some of your own case, Wilde?!" Bogo snapped.

Nick jolted and rolled his chair over towards Judy's computer. Whatever feelings that were overcoming him earlier were suddenly pummeled out of him by the buffalo's pungent voice.

Nick took back his coffee, gulped it and continued where the bunny left off, "Witnesses, although slim, report murderer using either an axe or hammer as the weapon of execution, but the victim's wounds report showing at least two weapons being used."

Chief Bogo held out his hoof to stop him. He cracked his neck from side to side and gave his thoughts into the matter.

"Let's cut the rest and skip to the part you were briefed about this morning!" Bogo commanded.

Nick scrolled down the report and read the newest entry, "This morning reported twenty-one deceased drug traffickers in the district of Sahara Square, with locations scattered across thirty city blocks."

Judy looked up at Chief Bogo and saw the contempt in his eyes. He knew something that they didn't, and she was just hoping that he would at least open up in some way to give them a clue.

Finally, Chief Bogo raised his hoof again to stop him, "Wilde, Hopps, get everyone back to the briefing room, now!"

Nick let out a sigh and wiped away the sweat on his brow. Judy couldn't believe that he would just stop them mid-report and walk away.

"And you two", Bogo said, as he turned back to face the duo, "Good job!"

As the two relished themselves in the once-in-a-lifetime compliment by the stern buffalo, they informed whoever they could to make their way back to the briefing room. After ten minutes, the briefing room was as packed as it had been earlier that morning, if not more so than before.

"Alright sit!" Bogo shouted, "Thanks to Hopps and Wilde, we have a general idea of what our vigilante looks like and what he uses to shorten the lives of criminals with. Now we have an informant who has given us the location of this crazed mammal's location of his next hit."

Many of the mammals were taken back by the sudden turn of events. Something about all of this just seemed too easy.

Bogo continued to elaborate, "From what patrols have reported the past two days, gang activity has been affected to change with this killer. It seems they want us to snag him off first. From what internal affairs has told us, the gangs have set up decoys to lure him out in the open so that either we get him, or they do."

Judy and Nick looked at each other, for they had a feeling that whatever was about to come out next wasn't something very pleasant.

"That means that we have a sting tonight!" Bogo shouted, "You heard me right, a sting! Tonight's main target is the alley of 23rd and Cheshire. Yes, it also means that everyone will more than likely be pulling double shifts. No one ever said this was going to be pleasant, but we've got a murderer to catch and THIS is our only window of opportunity!"

00:57
Alley of 23rd and Cheshire

Jake skulked his way across the rooftops, as he carefully kept his shaded red eyes in the alley below. There were about five mammals that he kept his sights on.

I don't know why the hell the gangs here got the urge to wage war on me back in Savanna Central. I figured they would try to hunt me in Sahara Square, but it looks like they keep surprising me. Looks like they're just trying to find ghosts anyway.

Softly, he chuckled. The mere thought that these petty gangs only settled their differences to find an enemy that they couldn't see, nor understand. It was just sickening to his stomach.

"Time to take out the trash", he said to himself as he leapt from the roof and down the fire escape below.

As soon as Jake landed on the ground, ready to face the gang mammals before him, they all ran away and out of the alley. Suddenly, he felt exposed.

Oh fuck, those were decoys!

Suddenly, two enormous blinding spotlights illuminated the entire alley and Jake himself.

"FREEZE! DON'T MOVE! PUT YOUR PAWS IN THE AIR!" were the commands of most of the officers, who held the arctic wolf in their iron sights.

Slowly, Jake placed his paws above his head, lowered himself to his knees and waited for the nearest officer to place him in cuffs. However, he was stunned to hear the pawsteps of a certain rabbit behind him.

"Jake?!" Judy called, "I-I can't believe you did this! How could-how-"

Nick finished for her, "How could do this? I don't know what it was that got you into this mindset, but you've taken it WAY beyond the battlefield, Jake! You've let us down! You let me down!"

Jake winced at he comments; today wasn't going to be the last day of his reckoning.

Judy stomped her foot rapidly and grabbed her cuffs, "I'm sorry, Jake, but you've brought this on yourself."

As soon as he felt the cold metal touch his wrists, Jake sweep kicked both Nick and Judy and tumbled them to the ground. He quickly ran on all fours and leaped over the police cruisers that blocked the end of the alley.

"This is Officer McHorn, we've got suspect moving North along Cheshire"

Jake ran for many blocks, desperate to avoid capture from the chasing officers. Eventually, he found his way to the large fountain in front of the Z.P.D.

Damn, out of options. I'm sure they've probably cut off all other routes as well. Why the hell did I decide to go North?

Completely surrounded, Jake was back in the original position he was caught in. Quickly, he plunged his tomahawk and knife in the concrete of the fountain. He lay on his chest with hands over his head and again waited for another officer to arrest him. Unbeknownst to the many officers, they couldn't see the small wrist movement of adrenaline injected into his fur.

Chief Bogo called over the radio, "MOVE IN, NOW!"

Three rhinos moved in, tranq guns drawn, to apprehend the wolf. McHorn held down his feet, whilst the other two held down his hands and proceeded to cuff him. The sound of the cuffs filled Jake's sensitive ears and let him know to strike. He slid he right paw under the hoof of the rhino that held his left. In a quick motion, he yanked the rhino to a stumble and freed his paws.

"He's getting lose!" McHorn blared.

Jake punched the knees of McHorn and sent him down with a thud, then proceeded to knock the third rhino out with a 540 kick.

"DAMN IT, FIRE!" came the order from Bogo.

Jake B-Flipped and landed near Grizzoli, swept his legs and finished with a raised knee to the head. Many more of the other officers continued to fire their pistols, but Jake shielded himself behind the body of the polar bear. As he heard the firing slow itself, he continued to assault the other officers with a barrage of sweeps, flying kicks, high knees and evasive flips.

"THAT'S IT, HE'S MINE!" Bogo screamed.

Jake stood as a board at the charging buffalo. It took less than ten seconds to jump and hook his legs around Bogo's neck, before he used the force of his legs to bring the strong buffalo to a stiff landing on the concrete with his head. Bogo was down, but not out for the count.

Judy held back Nick, "I'm going in!"

"Wait! Judy, NO!", responded the scared red fox.

Judy was a fight for Jake, but another few seconds passed, and he merely used another B-Flip to out-maneuver her quick strikes. He then used both paws to push against her chest and delivered a very strong tornado kick to her abdomen. Judy felt back towards Nick and groaned in pain. Nick held her head up and rubbed her abs. He knew he was alone in this matter. This fight was something only HE knew how to stop. Not even the other officers surrounding the rest of the district would be able to stop him like this.

"Let you down! Is that what I did, Nicky?!" the red eyed wolf shouted.

Nick grimaced, "You did, Jake! You know you're not the good guy here, right? This isn't going to fix everything with this city, it's just creating more problems!"

Jake walked back to the fountain, grabbed his prized weapons and placed them back into his belt. His murderous gaze was struck profusely at Nick, who nearly shivered at the sight. Nick knew what was about to happen to him and thus removed his blue collared shirt and tie.

Judy looked up to see the daring vulpine, "What are you doing, Nick?!"

"WILDE!" Bogo ordered, while he picked himself off the cracked stone, "DON'T EVEN THINK OF TAKING HIM BY YOURSELF!"

Nick and Jake shared a quick glance of each other's eyes and then moved in to finish their fight. To everyone's amazement, their witty fox officer was somehow almost mimicked the movements of the blood-drunk arctic wolf. Somehow or another, he knew martial arts and, yet he didn't even bother to mention it.

Judy was in awe, "Nick…."

The wolf and fox both spun their legs in kicks and hurdles. Both seemed to be familiar with their style of fighting. Even through all of the punches, knees, and elbows, Nick could see that he was still losing. Jake must have continued his training, but Nick stopped short which gave him the disadvantage. Finally, the two, in unison, delivered unending Armada Kicks in one direction and then opposite. When it appeared neither side was gaining ground, Jake gave a high boot to the fox's chest.

I've got one shot at this, thought Nick.

As soon as the boot connected to his fur, Nick jumped and dealt a very fast 540 kick and sent the wolf flying toward a light pole. Jake reared himself back up, but before he could get back in the fight, it was over. Judy had already cuffed his foot to the light pole. The rabbit breathed in a sigh of relief and lay back on the ground, as the other officers finally seemed to recover.

Jake looked back at his now cuffed foot and spoke to the exhausted rabbit, "Good move!"