"Stop! ZPD, stop!" Judy's clear voice cut through the air as she hopped over the fence, watching the lemur getting over a trash can about thirty feet ahead of her. Why had he had to run? And why, why?, why?!, did he have to go through the alleys nearby? She bounced on the lid of a nearby trash can to get over some crates, trying to keep up.

One of her ears flicked behind her, hearing some scraping as Nick tried to follow. He may have been slightly taller than her, but she had powerful legs and was more in shape. Plus, Nick was almost 10 years her elder. Still, she knew he could keep up and she had to keep the lemur in sight.

"Damnit, Joel, I'm a fox, not a monkey!" Nick's voice made her want to laugh, despite the situation. He sounded windy and annoyed but still somehow had the wit to make a joke out of the situation. Ahead of her she saw the lemur stop for a second, like he'd been dazed. He took off again.

Judy picked up her radio again. "10-5, I repeat, 10-5. Robbery suspect is now on foot heading north, Officers Hopps and Wilde in pursuit. We request backup to cut off the suspect!"

Clawhauser's voice came back over the radio into her ear. "10-4, do you have a location?"

Judy pressed the button to speak but closed her mouth. She'd been in Zootopia for just over three seasons and she was getting used to the city. But there were a few areas near the District edges that made it hard to remember where you were. She still needed to figure that out. In her ear she heard a smooth voice say, "We're approximately four blocks south from Burrows Street, about to enter the bouncy house."

"Come again?" came the confused, lighter voice. Obviously Clawhauser didn't get it. Judy shook her head and picked up her radio.

"The Hospital district," she informed the Cheetah. Smaller mammals had tinier paws and hooves, which made them better at precision tasks compared to larger animals. So it was no surprise that when it came to electricians, plumbers, and oddly enough doctors, many smaller mammals comprised the field. Rabbits were known for being doctors, because they weren't going to get harassed in the middle of their job and were fast and precise. Her school in Bunnyburrow even had a ladder program to help the local rabbits and sheep have a shot at such a career. It hadn't mattered to her, she'd been focused on being a cop.

"Oh! I got you!" Clawhauser's voice came through with a happy squeal. He wasn't always the fastest. Excluding Gazelle information. A fence, two dumpsters, and a light pole later, his voice came crackling back on the radio into her ear. "Officers Buckley and Strung inbound, ETA is seven minutes."

Suddenly Bogo's voice came on the radio. "I don't know how you two took a robbery in process and ended up on foot in the refurbishing area, but don't lose him. Grayson has a warrant for another robbery on file, somehow Precinct 2 hasn't been able to catch him." Judy understood what that meant; each district had precincts, and starting from the middle (Precinct 1) they radiated outward in a clockwise fashion. So this lemur was obviously in comfortable territory.

"He's on home turf, Chief." Judy let go of her radio and kept bouncing forward, glad that Nick had said what she'd been thinking. "There's plenty of places to hide around here, we're trying to keep up."

Judy hopped higher, managing to get onto the nearby fire escape and bouncing from one to the other. The lemur was already swinging off of them from about the third story (these buildings weren't too big) and she could keep up easier this way. She barely had time to turn her head and see her partner moving more agile over the ground area, trying to keep both of them in sight.

Suddenly the lemur grabbed onto the fire escape near him and shot into a window. Judy froze, wondering what to do. "GO!" she heard from below and began to climb the nearby ladder to follow him. She trusted Nick, so if he told her to go he had a plan. Hopefully.

She jumped into the window, noticing the whip of a tail at the end of the hallway dipping into a room. As she followed, she noticed an eerie silence. Why was no one here? What was going on? As she reached the doorway, she quickly stopped and unholstered her tranquilizer gun. It was made for the smaller mammals, so it had a 7 round magazine. She quickly whispered into her walkie talkie, "Suspect has entered an end apartment on the third floor. Do I proceed?"

She heard a response quickly from her partner. "Make that the fourth floor, and I'm nearly there. No one's here thanks to the refurbishing plans, so there shouldn't be anyone else nearby. Be careful though, he has the upper hand if he knows this place."

Officer Strung's voice came through the radio next. "10-4, Hopps. Got an address?" She pressed the button twice to indicate that she wasn't sure.

"We entered an apartment building from the backside, probably near Corral Street," came her partner's voice through the radio. She could faintly hear his paws on the staircase under her. "The white paint is peeling, and it looked to be about 7 stories high."

"Thanks, Wilde. Hopefully that's accurate enough for us to find the place."

She heard his bark-like laughter behind her. "Well, if it's not, we can throw something out the window. Wilde out." She felt him pass her, his tail flicking by the edge of her ear as he got to the other side of the door frame. He removed his weapon, and Judy eyed it. His held a bigger dart, so he only had four shots. Still, he could take down some pretty big mammals with that thing, and he valued efficiency over variability. At least, that's what she'd ended up thinking.

"I didn't see any windows on the corners," she told him. "From the outside, I think this building only has windows in the walkways and hallways."

"Good to see you noticed, Carrots. Otherwise I'd of been amazed you didn't go after him into the tiny, closed space."

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "Nick, this isn't the time. You ready?"

"Yeah, yeah. I'll cover you, but we need to prevent him from coming out. Can you hear where he might be with your hearing?"

She turned her ears toward the wall and focused. She heard a bit of scratching, but that was it. It was like he wasn't in the apartment anymore. That was weird. She shook her head. "I don't know. I can't tell. Something feels off…"

Nick had turned himself to look into the room. "Well, we've gotta check all the same."

She breathed again and entered the room, her gun facing down and her ears up, trying to hear any movement. Behind her, she felt Nick's breath for a second as he passed near her on the way to look into another doorway. They used this same pattern as they searched the whole apartment, finding nothing. More accurately, no one. The lemur had gotten away.

"I don't get it," she said as she looked at Nick. "There's no windows out. And they're refurbishing this place. That means they've already done repairs, so there shouldn't be any holes or ways to skip through to another floor or apartment."

Her partner just holstered his weapon. "Yeah, well, Bogo won't be too happy as it is. But something doesn't sit right. Riddle me this, Carrots: If this building has been repaired but needs to be painted and have things moved in and out, why would they leave the electricity on?" She looked at him as he flipped a switch, bathing the room in a pale yellow light. "No one is here, and the city doesn't waste electricity while they finish getting the rest of the block up and going."

She thumped her foot. She hadn't thought of that. She looked at her partner, glad that the red fox had more street experience than her. He caught things she missed. As he flipped the switch, she noticed a small buzzing on the other side of a wall turning off and on. She reached out and touched him arm, silencing him as she moved to it and tapped on the wall. It sounded remarkably hollow.

He was suddenly next to her and they began to move near the wall, tapping and tugging on anything nearby, trying to figure out how to get to the other side. Judy liked the wallpaper, flowers and berries reminded her of home. Suddenly Nick grabbed her shoulder and pointed to a flower that had a slightly darker center. He pressed it.

The wall made no noise as it slowly slid to the side in what looked like an impossible manner. She raised her paws in case the lemur was in there. Instead, there was an empty room with a few computers, a radio, a few cans of food and what looked like a black bag. Over the radio, she heard Buckley's voice come through with, "We managed to identify the location. Wilde was right, it's 834 Corral Street."

Nick's voice was both beside her and in her ear as he informed dispatch, "Roger that, Bucks. But we've got something you need to see."

Clawhauser's higher-pitched voice came back over the radio. "What did you find this time, Hopps?" Everyone laughed about how she had surprised them all with her first case. She knew she was about to surprise them again.

Nick pressed the radio. "I found it, actually. She couldn't reach the button. But this is really something unusual, might-" Laughter from the nearby radio interrupted both of them, and since he hadn't let go of his button everyone could hear it. Suddenly the whole building shook, and Judy barely had time to look at Nick before she heard the accompanying explosion. She reached out for him, his red fur, anything, as she felt the floor giving way. Everything became a blurr.

"Nick!" she heard herself screaming as he leaned towards her, a piece of wall falling next to them.

"Judy!" he yelled out, his voice higher pitched as she felt herself falling. Her arms were flailing, and her gun was missing from her hand. She didn't know how she noticed that.

"Nick!"

"Judy!"

The radio in her ear went crazy with Buckley's voice. "HOLY… The building is collapsing, Officers Hopps and Wilde are inside! Smoke is coming from the bottom floor!"

Bogo's voice blared into the radio now. "Hopps! Wilde! Respond!"

She wasn't paying attention. She just felt space under her and all around her. All she saw was her partner as he fell too, his paw outstretched towards her. "Judy!" he yelled again, and somehow that made her happy. He only ever used her name in serious situations, but that made it special somehow. Even in the worst of scenarios.

She nearly had it. Her paw almost touched his. And then she felt something hit her in the back, or rather she landed on it. With a squeak she bounced, feeling herself roll further down, noticing the same thing happen to Nick as he landed on a pile of rubble. In her ear, she heard the Chief's booming voice. "Get in there! Buckley, Strung, find out what happened to them!"

Strung's voice came over the radio as she found her head swimming. "Hopps! Wilde! Say something! What did you two get into this time?!"

She tried to answer, but instead the world turned black.