After you have been up for more than twelve hours, you just aren't tired anymore and I write fast. Though I have tons of chapters for other stories complete I am reconsidering them due to the oddity of this one taking on a life of its own. PLOT TWISTS! Let's see if the Gods agree with the oddity of them. I do not lie-ever. If you don't understand that, you should check out the mottos-

"Think like a fox."

"It may look black and white but everything in life can fall into the gray."

"Assume Nothing."

That being said, Oh Godly of muses who are keeping my brain constantly thinking while I am waiting for the Sandman to find me again, as always, do tell! Because this is …different… I think…

(Never wrote like before or tackled these subjects and I am still surprised I was good at-fluffy/cute? Sooo not me. Trying to figure out how to balance it out with a story I am just doing for fun while learning how not to be so cryyyyypptic. I am cursed with being able to see a plot in a story in the first two chapters. It does not help me get over the problem when writing. Working on it!)

Hope you enjoy, had fun thinking it up.

Under Earth 4

Zootopia

The small ewe in the seat next to a ram pressed the button closing the window of the limo between her and the driver. As soon as it was up the sweet smile on her face dropped as she turned her head. Her paw flew up smacking the ram next to her in the nose. The ram flinched back cupping his muzzle with both paws as she continued to glare at him through the watery eyes staring back at her. The blood dripping from his muzzle made her curl her lip in disgust as she shoved a handkerchief at him. "You left it there!? Go back and get the body. I don't care how you do it. I don't care what you have to do to do it. We can't get the predators out of the city or get what we are after if anyone finds that thing."

The ram bowed his head as he cupped the fabric over his muzzle. "I don't understand why you are trying to get rid of all of them."

Dawn glared at him and he leaned back with an uncomfortable grimace on his face. "Must I explain everything to you Dillon. I swear I wouldn't believe you were Doug's brother if I didn't know you came from the same herd. I need all the predators gone. If I just went after the ones I need to get rid of they would piece this together and it wouldn't work. It also takes the problem of anyone really questioning or caring about it out of the equation doesn't it?"

She shook her head as she pulled out her phone and hit dial. "Doug here."

"Hello bushy."

"I believe I have told you not to call me that a dozen times."

"Hmmm," she cooed as she twisted the wool on her head in one hoof. "Do you think it's going to keep me from doing it anymore?"

Doug sighed as he stuck the phone to his ear against his shoulder while he adjusted some valves in one of the cylinders. "I suppose not, what is it this time?"

"You're brother is an idiot." She hissed as she glared at the ram in the seat.

Doug rolled his eyes as he swirled the blue liquid in the cylinder before pouring into another chamber. "Tell me something I don't know. Not what I asked, you have a target?"

"No, but something you don't know is that he left the body."

"HE DID WHAT?!"

"Oh Yes. Now I need you both to go get it and make sure there aren't any problems because the idiot isn't sure exactly where it was left at. He just knows it was a field right between the line of Leoprid and Tithias County. He says he buried it."

Doug rolled his eyes as he set the tubes down and filled several capsules placing them in a case with a longer air rifle. "How far is it?"

"A few hours, but I can help you with that. Take anything and everything you might need. Just in case. We are too close to our goal to risk anything now."

The ram sighed as he started packing things and shaking his head. "Is that all?"

Dawn looked out the window with a sneer, watching as the cameras and mammals kept trying to snap pictures and held up signs for her upcoming election. "I do have a small request if you can fit it in before you leave Bushy. Elections are in two weeks. Remember that special target I told you about when this started?"

The ram stood in his trailer with a gleaming smile, something that was rare for his personality as his eyes narrowed. "Really?" he asked with a voice that pitched half through the word.

Dawn giggled as she covered her mouth "Yes Bushy, really."

"I'll have it done in an hour, tell the idiot I'll pick him up at four if you can get us there quicker. I might actually like hearing that name after this."

"You know where he is. I'll have everything arranged for you. Have fun Bushy!" She giggled as she hung up.

Doug was whistling as he packed everything out of his trailer and into a car above the subway station. If he could place a name on the feeling he was having right now, it might just be giddy. Even though he really wasn't sure what that meant. After making his way downtown into the Rain Forest District and taking up position in a large tree that had once been the home of a panther he was adjusting his riffle sights and getting into the right position, shaking his head as he looked through the scope mumbling to himself. "What is it with cats and trees? I thought lions liked the desert or Savannahs."

A big cat. If anything Doug could say he truly loved hunting, the bigger the better, though he didn't have a problem picking off smaller targets that left him feeling a sense of pride for making the shots. That stupid little otter was the best shot he thought he'd ever made. Of course taking the panther out with him was just a bonus. The fact that he had a bird's eye view and perfect shot from the black cats house to his next target- gold. He lined up the scope looking through the black lines as the last of the rain from the water cycle stopped watching Lionheart get out of his car and go into the lower section of the open tree complex townhouse he called his home. "Here kitty, kitty, kitty." ~Bang~

ZIA Headquarters

The large picture window on the top floor of the building was meant to be a perk. It wasn't really considered one as he looked out over the city. There were just some things certain species didn't care for and no matter how long he had been flying around on missions in helicopters or taking flights to various countries, he still didn't care for it. It was almost - annoying, not that he couldn't appreciate the view. He had gotten over the fear of heights a long time ago. Jump out of a plane a few times and you get cured of that real quick. No matter how the world saw you, you were what you were and he would always be a rabbit.

The thought made him laugh as he sat back at his desk picking up a pen tapping it on the paper in front of him. That's all they ever see, a puny little rabbit. They were always surprised and if he could snap a picture of the shock on every face he would probably have a wall full of them plastered on one side of his office just so he could gloat about it. He wasn't the type to brag though, as much as the thought genuinely amused him keeping those hidden talents was the element of surprise that kept him alive most of the time. The phone ringing caught him from his wondering thoughts and he stood as he answered it looking out the large window. "Savage."

"Sir we have a breach."

His ears shot up as the sight of the city was lost and found his own reflection in the glass instead. Eyes gone cold as sea water and ears set rigid stared back at him as he stuffed his paw in his pocket and cinched his jaw watching the striped fur on his cheeks clench. "When."

The silence on the line nearly made him growl before he tapped his claw on the phone and the mammal on the other end knew it was a sign of impatience and not to linger any longer. "The night before last Sir."

Grinding teeth were heard clearly as the phone in his paw groaned under pressure. "Why was I not notified sooner, how, who and why?" he hissed as he glared at his own reflection.

The mammal on the other end of the line gulped. "We don't know Sir."

The answer elicited a real growl as he clamped his fist in his pocket and shook his head. "What exactly do you know?" Jack listened to a few rustling papers as his impatience grew shorter in the passing seconds.

"Ugh. Tracker followed until last night and lost the scent. The mammal was injured somehow and trackers followed the blood to a county right outside of….Bunny Borough."

Jack shook his head as he pursed his lips "He got that far? Mammal is vague Milo, which one was it?" The silence on the line had him speaking through grit teeth "….Milo."

"Male Sir."

Damn it. "Do they know which one it was or how he got out?"

"Uh no Sir, we haven't been able to verify it yet."

Send me the last coordinates they last picked him up at." Jack looked over his phone after it pinged and scrunched his brow. "Get Alpha, I'll need help and you better be there and explain everything when I arrive Milo. You better find out how it happened before I get there."

"Yes Sir."

Central City District One Police Station

"Z.P.D, this is Clawhauser, what is your emergency or how may I direct your call?" The large cat's ears dropped as he cringed. "Oh, Yes Sir. One moment please."

Clawhauser pressed the button on the com system and a booming voice answered as he shrank in his seat. Chief Bogo had been in a bad mood for hours after having to wrestle Lionheart with several of his officers injured. Without any explanation as to why the predators were going savage he had been snapping at everyone with all the hours he was putting in and trying to keep the public from going into a frenzy. Not only due to that, but due to the upcoming election as well. Two candidates remained, the poor old goat who had been the last in the running had already made it clear he knew he wasn't going to win with Bellwether in such a large lead, but had graciously thanked the public for running anyway. The fact that several of his best officers had asked for transfers to other cities was like someone lighting the candles on the cake above the icing.

The predators were just as afraid as the prey and it was becoming at least a daily event a predator was lost. They had been lucky in the fact that no one had been killed, that little rabbit was the closest to death. After that fiasco the Chief had made it clear no matter what she had done she had no business in the police force. With all the will and determination she had she couldn't follow orders after she was told to stay away from the situation, left her position on parking duty and stuck herself right in the middle of what nearly got her killed. Now Lionheart was gone, locked up with all the other savage predators in Cliffside. At least her being in the mess had ended the mammal inclusion program and he wouldn't have to worry about smaller mammals getting into the police force anymore. He had enough things to worry about without having other officers trying to protect 'officers' who had no business there to begin with. Whatever the ZIA was calling for was just going to be another thing that would throw the old bull into a rage, one he had been barely staving off as stressed as he was already.

"Chief, the ZIA is on the line." Clawhauser could already hear Bogo trying not to bellow.

"Put them through." Bogo ground his teeth. This was the last thing he needed right now.

"Agent Milo Sir. We need Officers Snarlov, and Wolford."

Bogo's ears flicked as he tried not to break his own teeth "You want to take two of my best officers? Do you have any idea what is going on here right now?"

"It's not a request Sir. A chopper will be there to escort them in ten minutes."

Bogo hung up. It was the politest thing he could do, maybe not professional, but better than screaming obscenities and ranting to a government official who could care less about what was going on and left him no choice in the matter either way. At least it was close to shift change and he wouldn't have to call them in off duty. "Clawhauser, send Snarlov and Wolford up here." After Clawhauser had sent them to Bogo's office the bull simply told them they were needed elsewhere and would be picked up at the roof in a chopper. They didn't ask seeing him trying not tear through his own shirt as every muscle flexed. They just left the office hoping he didn't explode until after they had left.

The two wolves were standing on the roof, both looking around before they turned to each other shaking their heads "What's this all about?" Wolford asked.

Snarlov shrugged. "Beats me."

Hopps farm

"START TALKING….."

Professor Aldrigsteit curled his lip and squared his shoulders as he sat up in the chair glaring at the doe in front of him. A snide smile peeled across his lips as he looked at her, seeing the large scar on her face as he lifted his paw and curled his fingers. Judy's eyes went wide and ears dropped as he held his paw out and extended his claws. "Tell me Ms. Hopps, what is it like to nearly be eaten by a savage mammal? Considering who you are I am surprised you would bring a wild animal into your home."

Half a minute of fear lingered before she tilted her head back and glanced at her brothers, who were all grinding their teeth as her father puffed up like an angry cat.A common knowledge among species was that bunnies were timid creatures. Instilled with fear and more likely to flee when there is a threat than try to defend themselves. A fact not so easily recognized was that evolution changed things. Rabbits would always be rabbits, but unlike in the city where there weren't a lot of bunnies because most of the species were by trait farmers or chose careers that kept them out of harm's way- the one thing that had changed over millions of years was the bonds formed between family. In times past if there was a threat rabbits would scatter even in large groups. There was safety in numbers if one was sacrificed to save others when a predator was chasing down prey. That was no longer the case.

Rabbits would never be the bad A** alphas like large predators that had sharp teeth or claws like the ones this pompous cat was hiding a threat behind and trying to intimidate the doe in front of him with. But, there was a considerable amount of danger in nothing other than numbers. After the feline had already attempted to harm a young kit who didn't understand what was going on to begin with, openly threatening a doe in front of the strongest bucks in the family who had been nearly mauled to death by another cat? Wrong move buster. He was sitting there smiling thinking he had the upper paw until Judy sucked her lip into her mouth and chuckled. Once his eyes left her and landed on the bucks in the room, all who may as well have been growling at him, his face dropped to a scowl.

Randal and Steven didn't say much. They glanced at each other before turning back to the stiff suited cat. The two had a way of talking to each other that no one had ever really understood. In a family of more than three hundred rabbits, each one had their own distinct personality regardless of how the world saw them as a group. Not that Professor Aldrigsteit couldn't read their faces plain enough. Juno and Stu had both tensed and stepped closer to the table, while the two identical bucks had glanced at each other and a sinister smile crawled up opposite sides of each of their muzzles. If you had put them together you would have had one really evil looking smile. They both landed their eyes back on the cat who jolted in the chair as Steven pressed the button on the pred taser. Sparks flashed and reflected in every eye in the room, but the only ones that went wide were the cats as he leaned away in the chair.

"Bunnies are cute aren't we?" Judy almost sang the words as his eyes swung back to her. The cat was looking her over as if to reconsider her completely as she leaned into one hip and mocked him by examining her own claws. "We may be bunnies but we aren't defenseless. We look out for each other, and I don't care who you think you are, right now you're in more trouble than you can imagine." The cat gave her an incredulous glare as he folded his arms over his chest and shot her a confident grin that screamed 'I doubt it'. The doe just smiled wider and nodded "You are out here in the middle of nowhere, tried to harm a child and threatened another bunny. Legally if something happened to you before the sheriff got here do you think they would be asking any questions about it later considering that same history you just brought up?"

If he was going to try to use that against her, she didn't have a problem turning the tables. Bunnies weren't the violent type and never would be. Though it was incredibly rare for rabbits to do anything in that nature, most everyone knew those few rare exceptions had been when a borough was defending or protecting family members from harm. Of course she was bluffing, it didn't keep the smile on her face from widening or looking more devious as the cat looked around and saw her father and brothers looking at him. All wearing the gleam a natural born hunter would have in their eyes as they all shared the same inflection on their faces. They were willing to fight for each other if it was necessary, not that Judy really needed any help in this area after the academy. When the cat's ears flicked her ears sprang up as she tilted forward. Gotcha.

"What is that thing and what is a fox?"

Professor Aldrigsteit sat up straighter and tipped his head to one side quickly bringing it back in place as he looked off in thought and back to her with a nasty smile. "I suppose it doesn't matter what you know. It won't change anything, no one will believe you anyway." The disgusted look on her face only made him smile wider as he shook his head. "A fox is a savage, wild animal, calling it a mammal would be a lie. It will be dead as soon as someone knows it's alive anyway." When Judy's ears dropped half back as her face fell he leaned forward smiling wider. "Curiosity killed the cat didn't it Ms. Hopps? It might kill the bunny this time." Judy curled her brow as he started chuckling and her brothers and father were glaring at him as he looked around at them. She blinked as she looked at him and as the thought of why he looked so smug hit her she blinked.

She pulled her phone out looking over the texts she had sent and glanced at him before searching for his name. "I never sent you a message. How did you even know I had that thing?" Her mouth was hanging open when she looked back and he was still wearing that smug smile. The foremost archeologist in Animalia, leader of the Culture Heritage Division, more over- the leader of the Predator Heritage Division located in Mammalia. The capital of Animalia and nineteen hours from Zootopia, several more from Bunny Borough and several more from the Hopps farm. There was no way he should have been able to get to where she was in that amount of time, much less known she had that piece.

He was chuckling as all the rabbits in the room looked at each other nervously and back to him. "History is what we have chosen it to be Ms. Hopps. No one has seen a fox in the books since the Eglacian era. For the sake of civilization and the pact between predator and prey to succeed, there were some exceptions that had to be made on our part. Not all predators are the same. There were a number of species that didn't evolve like the rest of us. They had traits and abilities that would never be seen as acceptable to prey. In order to save all predators from the rising number of prey, we had to get rid of those species." The look of horror on Judy's face was nearly matched by the other rabbits in the room as he leaned into the table with an angry brow and a deep frown.

"That piece you searched has a photo representation in every museum in Animalia. Mammals search that image constantly trying to figure out what it is. But you are the first in more than four hundred years who has found a genuine article, and the only one who has searched with a photo of one that had a few significant marks on it that weren't in the ones displayed at the museums. The original was copied and a few changes made so that if it ever did come up again, we would know if it was real. Every time it comes up we seek it to see if it is genuine."

"We? Predators...killed their own kind? Why?" Judy asked in horror as she shook her head. There had been a few squabbles between the species in the beginning when they were trying to work out all the details of the pred/prey pact, but there had never been any wars or what anyone considered real fighting about it.

Professor Aldrigsteit scowled and the hate on his face deepened as much as the growl that came through his voice. "They were never our kind. Those animals weren't truly predator or prey because they ate both kinds of food. We may all have sharp teeth and claws Ms. Hopps, but it was hard enough for those of us with just those traits to overcome the fear your kind had of us. Many of those other animals were killed in that era due to them being used as entertainment for Emperor Nistalinas in the arenas because of those other traits. The few times one has popped up in history it has disappeared just as quickly. They were never capable of conforming to things like language or social conventions, and some of their abilities frightened even the largest of us who also had teeth and claws. There was no place in the growing world for them. So it was decided they didn't belong among us long before my time. If I were you I would consider how much trouble you are in with that wild animal in your home. It is nothing more than a savage and a dumb bunny doesn't even know how dangerous it can really be."

Judy wasn't one to be overtaken by fear. Not that it didn't have its place and couldn't affect her, obviously. (She would always be a rabbit) What most mammals didn't know and what had been kept from the public when she had been attacked, was that she was protecting a few other mammals that got left out of the story because it was considered too harsh for the general public. The thought hit her like a punch from a rhino- which she was also well familiar with after being in the academy and learning how to defend herself successfully against one. Savage was not the right word.

Sick…..was. It halted all her other thoughts and motions as it registered while she looked at the cat in front of her and put the fox in a whole new light. Because those few other mammals she had been trying to protect were the cheetahs own kittens. If even a wild mammal who was terrified was willing to defend a child against a threat, and she could easily look around and see her own family ready to fight a predatory to protect her when they knew they could easily get hurt it was the only reasonable explanation. No mother would willingly harm their own kits if there wasn't some kind of illness involved that took over maternal instincts like that. Even in ancient history what was considered savage was more like 'uncivilized' by other mammals, and those 'savages' or wild mammals of all species or wild animals in general still cared for and defended their young. Wild wasn't the right word either, different was.

Judy looked to see all her brothers and father glancing between her and the cat and grit her teeth. "I. Am. Not. A. Dumb. Bunny. The only wild animal I see is sitting in front of me because only an uncivilized pompous jerk who thinks harming a child and condemning other species because they are different is the only real savage in my book."

The cat leaned back in the chair almost shrugging his shoulders with a bored expression on his face. "Suit yourself Ms. Hopps. You have no idea what that thing can do. It won't matter anyway once your sheriff gets here and sees it."

"Judy?"

Judy turned when she heard Amber's voice, seeing her sister standing in the door almost chewing on her lip as she glanced at her father who just tipped his head letting her know they would take care of anything while they talked. Amber pulled her back into the hall out of ear shot as she cupped her paws together. "We have a little problem." The purple eyed doe raised her brows with an uncomfortable cringe as she waited. Amber sighed "He's hungry."

"He's awake?" Judy asked as she looked back at the med door and Amber shook her head.

"No, he's not, but his stomach is talking loud enough for the rest of him. After exerting so much energy, the blood loss and not eating for a few days he's going to be starving when he wakes up."

Judy cringed. They didn't have anything for predators to eat in the borough. She wasn't even sure what he….. Those mammals weren't truly predator or prey because they ate both kinds of food. The smile on Judy's face had Amber tilting her head as she bit her lip. "You know I think the nutty professor actually just helped. Let's just put a few things in there and see if he likes any of them, he said they ate both kinds of food so maybe we have something he can eat."

After leaving her brothers and father with a sulking cat, Bonnie had helped Amber and Judy take several dishes into the room sitting them on the counters. Addie had been a pawful because he was still fascinated and by the time Bonnie got him calmed down she was as worn out as he was. She took him off for a nap so she could have some tea and wait for sheriff Catmull. Amber looked back at the red fox. In the time that had passed while they had been talking in the kitchen her and her mother had cleaned the med room and left nothing worse for wear. Amber had locked up the old relic of a gun so Pappy couldn't get to it again and left Judy with him again to check on their grandfather, the purple eyed doe watching as he started licking his dry lips, still knocked out from the whole event.

She was groaning knowing what she had to do again and even though she really hated putting that thing back on his muzzle, after having his teeth not a few inches from her face and not being able to strap him to the bed he was on with the other one damaged, she wasn't willing to take the chance. After the first few mouthfuls of water she rolled her eyes seeing a dark ball of fur from the corner of her vision and looked over expecting to find Addie having snuck out of his bed to peek in on the fox again. The fox was once again lapping at her mouth through a nearly closed muzzle. Only what caught her eye froze her to the spot as her paws were on each side of his muzzle, because it wasn't Addie that was moving. Tail.

Wide purple eyes looked back and found a pair of brilliant green just as shocked looking back at her and both their ears pinked as the rest of the water that was in her mouth fell into his. The fox blinked as he watched her ears turn a bright shade of red and fall, his brows that had been up in surprise dropped along with his eyelids. Judy was pretty sure her heart might stop as she felt one side of his lip arc even under the belt around his muzzle as he smirked at her, half lidded while her nose twitched against his with her lips still pressed to his mouth. Sweet…Cheese and….Crackers…..