Zootopia: Two Worlds

by ZombieSlayerOfTheUnderWorld

Judy Hopps has a dream to become a cop in the city of Zootopia. However she will soon find out that life can be harder than even that of which no bunny has done before especially when she grows up and falls for a human. Will she be able to act on her feelings when his kind is so foreign to her and humans have been labeled as dangerous and violent. An AU novelization of Zootopia.

7. Chapter 7

Here's the next chapter, my co-authors and me apologize for the long wait, college can be a fucking pain, also a heads up, the story will change from T to M, now on with the show.

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Chapter 7: Crime Never Sleeps…Nor Love

Judy had just finally been pulled free from the concrete prison her lower paws were in, courtesy of the city workers pain staking chiseling of the semi-hardened concrete, coupled with Ben's significant strength. His strength both impressed Judy, as well as made her feel slightly intimidated by him. She knew Ben would never hurt her, but when an ex-military human with the body definition near that of an MMA Fighter pulls you from semi-hardened concrete while the beaver city workers were still chipping at it, it can be quite intimidating.

Judy brushed off her lower paws of some of the remaining flakes of concrete, while Ben still found himself still holding onto her, one hand under her right armpit and the other hand holding onto her left shoulder. Judy's mind was a hornets nest of thoughts right now, a disjointed assortment of anger, fear and nervousness, with the last part having to do with Ben still holding on to her after pulling her out. Judy glanced up at Ben and saw him staring at her with concern in his eyes…his beautiful eyes that Judy sometimes found herself recently wanting to get lost in. She looked away bashfully, with her head towards the ground as she closed her own eyes and let out a sigh.

Ben then spoke up, his voice filled with concern for the bunny doe in front of him.

"Judy" he asked?

Judy didn't look at him as she withheld her response for a few moments before saying, "What" with a sullen tone?

Ben still held onto her for a few more minutes as he said, "What's wrong, Judy?" His eyes then narrowed as he said with distain, "If it's something about that fucking douchebag fox…"

He didn't get to finish his sentence as Judy wrapped her arms around Ben's torso and rest her head uneasily against his chest. Ben could feel from Judy's body language and slight shaking that she was trying her best to keep from crying.

Ben was caught off guard at first, but slowly wrapped his arms around her comfortingly as he tried to console her with what was bothering her.

Judy spoke a minute later with a little quiver in her voice as she asked, "Did I make the wrong decision?"

Ben gave her a curious look as he asked, "About what, Judy?"

Judy still held her friend out of desire for a need of comfort, as she then said, "About becoming an officer? I wanted to make a difference in the lives of both people and animals, trying to make the world a better place by the end of the day. Just when I felt I had succeeded in touching the lives of a harassed and discriminated dad and his special little kit, I…I…"

She paused as she whispered, "I feel used. By that fox, and by my boss."

Ben rubbed her back tenderly as he tried to console the crying bunny in front of him. Ben then spoke softly after thinking for a few minutes, "Judy, that guy was just a jackass. Not everyone in this city will be like him. He's the minority, and so many animals and humans have a respect for both law enforcement and the CF military."

She then whispered with still a hint of distress in her voice, "I know, but it feels like…"

Ben interrupted her and said, "That you are having the worst day ever?"

He could feel the bunny's head against his chest move slightly up and down in a slow nod. Ben then kept rubbing her back as he said, "So you had a bad first day. The important thing is that you move on from it harder and tougher. Chief Bogo may be an asshole, but the important thing is to not let him know that he is getting to you. You need to show him that you have the strong psyche to be able to handle the tougher jobs in the department. This city needs to look up at its officers as the strong ones, and not the ones who struggle to handle the world as much as them. Only then can you start making a difference."

Judy's slight shaking and tense body language lingered for a few minutes, but slowly died down as Ben talked and after he finished. Adam overheard the whole conversation, but stood off to the side, not wanting to make things possibly worse. The young bunny Buck's heart did go out to the older Doe and the pain through the fear and nervousness she was feeling.

Judy finally let go of Ben and looked up at him, her eyes watery as she took a breath and let it out. She then said, "Your right. I mean, how am I going to help the city if I can't even help myself through times like this. I guess…I…"

She then formed a very faint smile on her muzzle as she looked at Ben and said, "Thanks, Ben." She paused as she said with a little upbeat tone of voice, "You know, I'm glad you've come back into my life. It's great to have such a supportive and caring friend in my life."

Ben smiled and said softly, "And you in my life, Judy."

Adam walked over to Judy and tapped her on the shoulder lightly, to which Judy turned to face him. Adam looked up at Judy and asked with a little hopeful voice, "So…you doing better Judy?"

Judy's muzzle cracked into a wide smile at the shy, caring and (despite his life 5 years ago) still somewhat innocent male Bunny. She chuckled and ruffled Adam's head fur as he hugged the buck and said, "Yeah…I'm better sweetie."

The two of them broke their hug as Judy looked at the time on her phone and realized that her shift was ending soon. It was 4 o'clock and she got off work at 4:30.

Judy then said to the two males with her, "Well, at least there is one good thing to come out of today…my shift ends in 30 minutes." She put her phone away as she then said to the Ben and Adam, "Come on, lets head back to the station. I just want to put this day behind me."

Adam then chipped in optimistically and said, "Yeah, and maybe tomorrow will be a better day."

The three of them took of walking down the street back to the patrol vehicle as Judy said quietly to no one in particular, "Yeah…it might be."

The three of them got in the patrol vehicle after walking for a block and Judy started the vehicle. The small engine came to life and soon the three of them were off heading back to the station.

Judy navigated her way through the busy streets of rush hour Zootopia, as the three of them eventually found their way back to the location of Precinct 1. They pulled into the parking lot for the station and Judy parked in an open space in the fenced in vehicle area. The three of them climbed out of the vehicle and started walking towards the station, mostly in silence. It was broken only by occasional small talk. When then three of them came to the front doors for the Precinct, they stopped before heading in…well Judy heading in anyways.

The three of them stood there as Judy took a breath and said, "Well, I guess this is where we go our separate ways for now."

Ben nodded and said, "Yeah, hey it was great spending time with you today Judy…for what the day was worth anyways."

Judy smiled and said, "Yeah, it was. Wasn't it."

Ben stuck a hand out for Judy to shake goodbye, only for Judy to feel slightly hot and flustered at what she was going to do.

She chuckled and pushed Ben's hand down, which made the human gaze questioningly at the doe. She smirked as she held her arms out open and said, "Oh surely you can give a best friend a better goodbye than that now, Ben?"

Ben smirked as he and Judy hugged, both secretly loving the contact and craving stuff like this with each other the more each of them hugged each other.

Ben and Judy broke the hug as Adam came running to Judy and caught her off guard as she turned around just in time to see him at the last second. The buck ran into Judy with a hug, nearly knocking the doe over.

"Omph…" she said with shock!

She looked at the buck that was hugging her for a few seconds before hugging Adam goodbye as well.

"I had a fun time hanging out with you Judy. You're so nice and friendly, you remind me of my dad and my…" Adam said, only to not finish the sentence when he reached the one word that still tormented him to say to this day…

Mom.

Judy rubbed the bucks back happily as she said, "I enjoyed spending time with you too sweetie."

The two bunnies released each other from the hug as they went their separate ways with a final verbal goodbye. Judy went into the station to hand in her ticket printer and keys for the patrol vehicle for the next meter maid to use it. Meanwhile, Ben and Adam walked back in the direction towards their apartment complex.

(Time jump; 1 hour)

Judy had just left the station after having to stay much later than she thought. She needed to take care of handing in her report on her ticket count for the day, as well as stop in the woman's locker room to change and have a quick shower to get rid of the sweat that had accumulated on her fur from the day.

Judy began to walk down the streets of Savanna Central to head back to her own place. Along the way, she began to dwell on the happenings of today, and while it seemed to all culminate into a bad day, there were two things that stuck out to her from today.

Ben…and that stupid fox.

Judy was grateful to have her childhood friend back in her life once again, safely knowing that the horrors of war hadn't claimed her best friend. The reapers of death that swept over the battlefield looking to claim the warriors within it had skipped over Ben. Was it perhaps out of mercy knowing how much he meant to his parents and my family? Was it perhaps because Ben's destiny had not yet been fulfilled in life? Or, and more difficult to think of, was it perhaps because even the reapers of war found themselves to tremble in fear before him. Judy did not know the answer to why he lived and so many others died, all she cared about was that he was back.

She had to wonder however, if Ben had returned in one piece in the end of it all. When Ben was going to clobber Nick into the next dimension, the anger that she saw in Ben's eyes…it unsettled her. When her eyes met with his, she saw something that wasn't right. Ben was usually not so easy to anger as he was in the past. That anger she gazed into however, was not unbridled rage bent on violence. There was some…control behind it, almost like the anger she saw had been refined into a blade as sharp as the stare alone that could cut though one's mind, and the blade through those that brought it forth. What really unsettled her was the fact that it didn't seem that Ben was entirely in control of it. It was like there was another human dwelling deep in Ben now, a side she has never seen before. The ultimately shocking thing is that, through it all, she didn't feel threatened by it, not directly anyways.

Was Ben still Ben, or had horrors of war claimed another soul, tearing it away and leaving a puppet dancing within the body.

Judy finally made her way to her apartment building. She entered the lobby and made her way up the flights of stairs to her own apartment and walked up to the door. When she stepped on the welcome mat that had "welcome" spelled out in carrots, she felt her paw pads graze on the rough surface as some dirt fell of her feet from her walk home through the city. She unlocked the door and swung it open and gazed into her dimly lit one room apartment. She wished she had something bigger, but it was all she could afford for the time being. She entered and closed the door, locking it as well as she set her phone and notepad down on her desk. She walked over to where her small selection of clothes she brought with her from BunnyBurrow were hanging and grabbed a pair of pajamas, light pink in color, that were hanging. She took off her shirt, leaving her in her black undershirt that covered her female rabbit area. She took off her pants afterwards leaving her in her panties, also black. She glanced out of her right peripheral and saw her reflection in the mirror that was fastened to the wall of the apartment. She stared at herself for a few seconds as her mind drifted to think of something else. She both felt and saw her skin faintly under her fur turn a shade of red as she felt hot over thinking what she was thinking.

I wonder if things will ever pan out with me getting…this close to Ben she thought. Her body heated up as she thought about some of her older daydreams of her and Ben she used to have when he was away at war. Her mind even went so far as to think about what she would do with Ben if she got the chance to act on her feelings…and if he felt the same way. She shook those thoughts out of head reluctantly as things between her and Ben weren't…good enough for her to bring up conversations about how she felt for him. She shook her head with a sigh afterwards as she hung up her day clothes since they weren't dirty enough to need to be washed. She changed into her pajamas and went to go make herself a quick dinner.

Judy pulled the microwave meal out of the microwave once it had finished cooking and set it on the desk. It was some steamed carrots that she thought would make a nice evening meal. She pulled the lid back as steam spewed out of the package. She looked inside and groaned with disgust at the shriveled up, single carrot that was in it. She took the container, and without even looking, threw it away in her garbage.

However, her eyes were drawn to something on her desk. She gazed longingly at the many photos of her family members, all 278 members of the Hopps brood (including herself). She began to feel a somewhat empty feeling inside for the first time since coming here and she knew what it was.

Judy had never been away from home on her own, at least far away like how she was now in Zootopia. She missed the familiar and somewhat comforting chaos of the Hopps household, as well as see the familiar faces of her family.

Judy reached over for her phone and grabbed it off the table. She turned the screen on and swiped the screen to unlock the phone. She scrolled through her contacts and found who she wanted to talk to.

"Mom and Dad"

That was what the screen of the device showed the contact name as. Judy was about to tap the call button with her paw digit when she saw a note she had left for herself that was now visible on her notepad.

She had wrote it if she ever felt homesick and wanted to call her parents to tell them how much she missed them, to basically suck it up. She was afraid her parents would worry about one of their oldest daughters being alone in a big city such as Zootopia if she called them to mention this to them. For both their peace of mind, as well as being able to declare her independence, she told herself to suck it up.

She gentle plopped the phone on the desk and slumped back in her chair, staring out the window of her apartment into the night skyline of Zootopia. She let out a sigh as, unbeknownst to her, her phone had started to dial the contact on the screen…Mom and Dad.

She heard the phone ring faintly a few times and suddenly looked back with shock and cried, "Oh, no…"

She fumbled with the phone for a bit, until the other end picked, and Judy was now muzzle timing with her own mother.

Bonnie was holding one of Judy's youngest siblings, Abby, who was only a baby, in her right arm. Bonnie answered with a big and happy tone as she said, "Hey, there's my big girl." She then looked away towards someone outside of the camera's field of vision and said more quietly, "Told you she'd call."

Bonnie then looked back at Judy and said with a wide smile and raised ears, "How's the big city, Bun-Bun?"

Judy on the one hand was conflicted while her mother was on the phone. Judy wanted to just tell her mother that she missed her family and her familiar hometown of BunnyBurrow. She wanted to go back home, especially after some of the events of today, namely involving that lying swindling fox. On the other hand, she didn't want her family to be concerned for her overall mental health while she was in Zootopia. The last thing Judy wanted now was to give her family a reason to force her to come back home, and in turn, make her give up on her career as an officer.

Judy tried to put on her best poker face for her mother. She put on a forced, albeit slightly visible, smile for her mother as she said, "Good…Its good."

However, there was one thing that Judy wasn't able to put on a poker face to conceal and she didn't fully realize it. Judy's biology had betrayed her in this regard.

Her ears were droopy and still hanging down behind her head. Her mother gave her a smile back for a few seconds before she picked up on the sign that something was wrong.

"What's wrong" said Bonnie as she looked worriedly at her daughter?

Judy smiled and said with a slightly suspicious tone, "I'm fine."

Bonnie shook her head and said, "Oh, you are not fine. Your ears are droopy. Do you need me to come up there?"

Before Judy could even respond, Bonnie looked off screen slightly and yelled out, "Stu, start the car."

Judy began to slightly panic as she said, "No, no. I'm fine."

She looked over back towards where she hung her meter maid uniform and gazed at it slightly before she looked back at her mother and said, "It's just been a really long day."

Stu then poked his head into the view of the screen, putting himself between Bonnie and the camera as he said with mild fear, "You had to use the fox Taser?"

Judy rolled her eyes and said calmly, "No, Dad."

Bonnie then gently shoved Stu out from blocking the camera as she said, "Then what do you mean you had a long day?"

Judy rubbed the back of her neck as she said, "Oh, just a long day on the force…and I ran into Ben and his son too."

Bonnie gazed at Judy for a bit before she closed her eyes and started to chuckle softly. She shook her head and sighed afterwards as she didn't say a thing in the process.

Judy cocked her head at her mother and asked, "What's so funny, mom?"

Bonnie breathed out a small sigh as she looked up at her daughter and smiled to her saying, "Its nothing really hunny. I just find it a little amusing that after 5 years away from you and us, Ben decided to return home and now, it's like he can't stay away from you."

Judy's cheeks reddened under her fur as she became flustered over what her mother was saying. When the two of them were kids, Ben and Judy were nearly inseparable. Now, Judy couldn't help but realize that looking back on today, things between Ben and Judy appeared to be like what they were when they were kids. The two of them were becoming inseparable once again. He had actually accompanied her to her job and hung out with her today, not to seemingly help her, but rather to just spend time with her. Even after 5 years of absence, Ben and Judy's friendship was still as strong as ever and she was beyond grateful for that. Especially for what she had now just realized…

If Ben and she were still as good of friends as ever, then there was a chance, maybe a good chance that the thing she had been pondering one and off for most of the day may actually happen…

She and Ben may end up becoming more than just best friends. She couldn't deny that she loved him. She had a special feeling, a connection to Ben. A part of her even had suspicions that he may even feel the same way. So rather than worry about it being an 'if' Ben would agree dating her, she decided to focus on it being a 'when' Ben would start dating her.

She wanted him to make the first move however. She knew that she was ready for taking their relationship to another level, but she wanted him to be ready as well.

Judy looked back at her mom and chuckled slightly nervously as she moved her eyes bashfully away from the screen of her phone as she said, "Yeah…he uh, does seem to be um, popping up around a lot."

Bonnie stared at her daughter intently as if trying to read what was bothering her. Judy felt her whole body swell with nervousness as she wondered what her mother was thinking.

Bonnie finally then smiled and said, "Is there something you want to tell me Judy?"

Judy shook her head and said with a slightly higher pitched voice, "No, I'm fine. Really."

Bonnie then said softly, "Really cause from where I'm standing I see my beautiful daughter with droopy ears, a twinge of nervousness and the inside of her ears a deep shade of pink."

Judy went wide eyed as she began to think about what her mother may be trying to get at.

"From what I can see, there might be something having to do with a certain man you want to tell me about" said Bonnie coaxingly and playfully.

Bonnie then chuckled and said, "I know that look Judy."

Judy asked quietly, "You do?"

Bonnie nodded and said, "uh-ha, that's the same look I had when I was afraid of talking to your father before we started dating."

There was a pause in the conversation as Judy knew what her mother was now clearly hinting at, but she didn't want to admit it. Her feelings were still so…uncomfortable to air out to anyone else yet, especially to her mother. Bonnie waited patiently for her daughter to bring up what she knew Judy was feeling, but she realized after a minute that things weren't going anywhere. She realized that Judy's must have been a little insecure about her feelings. Bonnie finally filled in the blank that she was eagerly waiting for her daughter to do.

Bonnie then smiled and said, "You love Ben, don't you?"

Judy's entire body went both hot and cold at the same time as she froze. She sat there for nearly a minute as she then whispered to her mother, "Is it bad if I do?"

Bonnie gave her daughter the sweetest smile she could and said, "Not at all my dear. He's such a caring and intelligent man. There's no shame if you love him."

Bonnie then looked off screen to someone else and said, "Stu, my arms getting tired. Can you take Abby from me?"

Stu said softly, apparently listening to the conversation himself, "Sure Bon."

Stu took Judy's youngest sibling from her mother as he looked in the camera and said, "I'm so proud of my big girl. All grown up and already thinking about settling down."

Judy's whole skin turned two shades redder under her fur as she said embarrassingly, "Dad…!"

Bonnie then looked at Stu and said, "Oh Stu, don't pressure her."

Stu backed up defensively as he said, "What? Can't a man be proud of his daughter?"

Bonnie rolled her eyes at her husband's oblivious nature to Judy's insecurities at the moment. She then looked back at the camera and said, "If you love him Judy, you should ask him out."

Judy then let out a drawn out exhale as she said, "Yeah…"

She looked away for a few seconds and then back at the camera and said, "Um, I'll think about it."

Judy knew that she really wanted to be with Ben, but the fact that he was a human, he's been gone for 5 years and recently returned, and that he was still in the military complicated things for her. While she would wait for him to make the first move, she still felt uncertain about the whole situation.

Bonnie beamed a smile at her daughter and said, "That's my Judy. Always the trier."

Bonnie could tell that Judy was still uncertain and insecure about her feelings for Ben. However, she could also tell that there was something else lying deeper under the hotbed of feelings Judy was experiencing. She felt that this was not the only thing that was bothering her daughter today. However, she chose to not press the issue, but rather chose to offer her support for her daughter.

Bonnie then reassured her daughter and tenderly said, "Hunny, I know how you must be feeling right now. If it helps you to know this, then I'll say it."

Bonnie motioned for Stu to stand by her and Judy glanced up at the phone in her paws. Her eyes locked with her parents as Bonnie then said, "Hunny…Judy. We could not be more proud of you than we are right now. Our big girl graduated at the top of her class, she's living on her own in the big city, and she's grown into a beautiful young doe that has a bright future for herself."

Judy felt her eyes tear up at the praise that her mother gave her. The kind words and the love behind them deeply touched Judy.

Bonnie elbowed Stu gently, causing him to look at her. She discreetly motioned to their daughter in a 'say something' meaning.

Stu got the message as he looked at his daughter and smiled at her and said, "You keep making right in your life, Jude the dude. Your always have our support and we promise to never let you fall." Stu then added in, "We may not like the career you've gone into, but if it makes you truly happy, then we will be with you through it all Judy."

Judy had tears falling from her eyes as she tried to hold back her tears, but failed at it.

Judy managed to squeeze out a few words in response, "Thank you guys."

Bonnie nodded and said, "Anytime, Judy. We love you very much."

Judy smiled with teary eyes and said, "I love you guys too."

Bonnie then said, "You best get some sleep for tomorrow Judy. We'll see you later."

Judy then said, "Goodnight, guys."

The call ended and Judy set her phone on her desk and tried to compose herself from her crying. She felt like she was beyond blessed with such loving parents, a dream job, and her best friend now back in her life. She felt like she didn't deserve all she had, but she loved it just the same.

Judy decided to end the day and go to bed. She stared a little nervously and tensely at the ceiling from her bed in the dark. The room was illuminated faintly from the city lights of Zootopia as she heard cars honking their horns in the distance. She then thought of something and reached next to her and grabbed her stuffed carrot toy from so long ago. The one she's had since a kit. She remembered how she used to hug and cuddle with it, imagining that it was Ben to keep her safe and secure.

She rubbed her thumb paw digit over the face of the stuffed carrot toy and she felt a smile spread across her muzzle as she took the toy and brought it to her chest and she rolled onto her side in bed. She embraced the toy as she once again took comfort in imagining she was lying in bed with her best friend and now romantic attraction, Ben.

She let out a soft sigh and soon drifted off to sleep.

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(Meanwhile; in Ben and Adam's apartment)

Ben was lying in Bed, shirtless and awake as the man was replaying the events of today over in his head. While today certainly pushed him to the limits of his patience with the fox that not only belittled Judy and snidely harassed and insulted her, but had also treated Ben like so many animals treated his kind now…as monsters, pillagers and savages. Ben so wanted to rearrange the fox's internal organs, but he was thankful at the end of it all that Judy had stopped him. He would have gotten arrested and she would have to be the one to do it most likely.

Ben couldn't quite wrap his head around his response to the fox. He normally didn't let things people or animals say to him get to him that bad. Was it cause he had a grip on the darker side of himself and it shone through today? Was it because he was indeed turning into what he feared Judy would find in him when he returned…a violent and brutal human that lived to the stereotype of his kind?

Or was it simply that…he loved her, and would do anything to protect her?

Ben felt a wave of heat wash over him as he lay there and fantasized about Judy. He thought about her vibrant and shining eyes. Her light and tender, yet tough when needed voice. How silky smooth her fur must be to caress. He envisioned her and Ben making out and have a…wild night.

He knew he couldn't deny it after these thoughts surfacing for so long that he was indeed in love with her and every bit of her.

Ben smiled as he thought about how remarkably great of friends they had remained after his absence. Even after 5 years, she hadn't given up on his return. That was something he could never get back if he had lost it.

Ben's mind dwelled on his friend for a while, his heart and mind full of admiration for his best friend. Soon, Ben couldn't be helped but reminded of the events of today that played out with that fox that he dealt with…Nick.

Ben's body tensed up and he felt his anger rise over how the smug and pompous fox was treating Judy. He not only lied to and played with his emotions and Judy's, but he belittled her and made her feel like an insignificant bunny that was living a dream she could never hope to achieve, merely just stuck in a pipe dream. He made her feel stupid, gullible and worse of all, a failure.

To Ben, he made himself feel like a violent, heartless and merciless killer. Ben swallowed a hard lump in his throat as he couldn't help but feel himself compared to the mindset of an HR rebel from the war, and the insurgents after the war driven by hate, evil and delusion. Ben felt like he was possibly even worse than the HR because he nearly beat the fox to within an inch of his life. He wanted to crack Nick's skull open and tear him apart limb by limb, a deed he did to the insurgents in the former HR lands on more than one occasion. All that…over how the fox was behaving.

Ben could feel tears begin to well in his eyes as his thoughts he dwelled on for the last 5 years in Karlston came rushing back to him.

Was he truly a monster? Was it only this new half of Ben, or indeed had the monstrous parasite dwelling in Ben's mind consumed its host, robbing Ben slowly of his humanity and innocence until he was now left with who and what he was?

Ben realized that Judy may have indeed thought so as well. The look on her face when she stepped in between him and Nick said it all to Ben…

What the fuck are you doing…?

Ben knew that what he was doing may have indeed been driven by the mindset of a monster that he may have become. Maybe that wasn't even what he was, or even how Judy saw him as. What he did know is the reason why he did what he did.

He wanted to protect her…

Very often in his life since he met Judy, he felt an obligation to not only be a friend to her because they were so compatible as friends, he also felt an obligation to protect her from those that would harm her both physically and emotionally. Ben clearly realized that Judy wasn't a porcelain doll that needed to be guarded like she was fragile. He knew she was a strong, independent young doe that proved that species doesn't define who you are and what you can be.

Regardless, he wanted to protect her as a friend and as a secret lover. With that truth in mind, Ben rolled over onto his side and stared into the dark room of his bedroom, faintly lit by the glow of the lights from Zootopia seeping in through the window of his room, the blinds blocking most of the light.

Ben sighed slightly and said to himself, "No matter what Judy, I won't let that fox, this city or this world harm you in anyway."

Ben's mind began to shut off as he began to slip into sleep, but he had one more thought on his mind before he fell asleep.

If I ever see that fox again, he's going to be sorry…

(The Next Morning…)

Judy woke up in her apartment and got ready to go to work once again today. She made sure to leave a little early to grab something to eat at a nearby coffee shop on the way to the station. Judy put on her uniform and put on her badge before she looked in the mirror and gazed at her reflection. She couldn't help but let out a chuckle at the fact that, only yesterday, she was bursting with energy and had confidence in her posture and eyes that said she was ready to take on the world. However, the bunny she was seeing in front of her now was singing a different tune. She now had skepticism where she had confidence and slightly slothfulness where she had energy; her reflection only showed her how little she wanted to go to work again today. Regardless, she remembered what Ben said to her yesterday. If she wanted to be a true officer at the precinct and be trusted and respected, she had to earn it like she earned her Valedictorian status at the academy.

She shrugged her shoulders at her reflection and said, "Today's another day, Judy." She looked at her reflection as if she expected her own reflection to respond back at her.

Judy left her apartment and headed on down to the nearby coffee shop to get herself breakfast and a small coffee on her way to work.

She walked down the nearly empty streets of Zootopia since it was still early in the morning and rush hour hadn't started yet.

After Judy waited in line for her order and picked it up when it was ready, she made her way to work. She would get there 20 minutes early at this rate and would have time to eat her breakfast and enjoy her coffee.

Little sis she know that she would run into somebody she met yesterday again…

(Later at 9 am; across town in Ben and Adam's apartment)

Ben and Adam were already up and awake, ben due to feeling rested and Adam due to an appointment that he had today with somebody important…his private tutor for his homeschooling.

Back in Karlston, Ben arranged a tutor to teach Adam at the military base and at home when he was between deployments. Ben wasn't quite sure if Adam could handle the stresses and social anxiety of proper schooling, so he hired a tutor for him. It was quite hard to convince Matz, the highest commanding officer at the base, to allow a civilian tutor onto the grounds. However, an agreement was made where the tutor was escorted in and escorted out by the MP's, and the tutor was working well for Adam. Ben was happy that he was able to find another tutor for Adam here in Zootopia, and Ben made sure the tutor was an animal to make Adam more comfortable. His tutor was a panther named Emily.

Ben had just finished drinking his usual cup of morning coffee he had and he ate a premade microwavable breakfast sandwich. Ben was getting ready to head on out after meeting Adam's new tutor to go buy a new car. Ben knew that he would have to return the HUMVEE back to CFM possession here in the next few days, after all it was a military vehicle and the base in Bunnyburrow would need it back. Ben was a little saddened by this fact as he was beginning to grow attached to HUMVEE and the sort of gruff and badass charm that it brought.

"Dad, are you sure Emily is going to be able to help me like Michael did? You said that he was one of the best private tutors in Karlston after all" asked Adam from the couch in the family room as he was watching cartoons on their big 50' T.V. that Ben brought with them from Karlston? Adam was nervous about continuing his studies, mainly due to the fact that he had a different tutor now.

Ben was checking the time that the nearby Chevrolet dealer opened on his phone as he looked up from the screen to Adam and said comfortingly, "Oh, don't be nervous Adam. Emily is the best tutor I found online here in Zootopia. She was highly reviewed and she specializes in dealing with kids and kits with disabilities and disorders. I figured that she would be a good fit for you since you have social anxiety and due to your pa…"

Ben didn't finish the sentence as he knew that Adam was still uncomfortable about talking about his past, less so with his dad, but still uncomfortable. Ben knew that Adam had come a long way since he first came into Ben's life. The child phycologist in Karlston helped Adam tremendously over the years in that city, helping Adam to deal with his feelings, memories and his mental scars. There were moments where those scars and wounds reopened with certain triggers stimulating memories, but Ben really now just didn't bring up Adam's past only as a curtesy to Adam.

Ben quickly said, "Anyways, she's also a panther so I know you'll feel comfortable around her since you always do around animals more than humans."

Adam smiled at his dad as his ears went up in excitement. He then said, "Thanks dad. Do you think she likes science too?"

Ben chuckled at his son's charming passion for science and said with a grin, "I'm sure she does, Adam."

The bunny buck bounced slightly on the couch in happiness over the thought of his new tutor loving science just like him.

Ben went back to checking the hours for the dealer on his phone and he was about to turn the phone screen off when he heard a gentle knocking on the door to their apartment.

Ben put his phone in his cargo pants leg pocket as he said, "That should be her."

Ben walked over to the door and unlocked it before opening the door, only to be greeted by a panther on the other side of the door wearing a dark green knee length skirt and a blue sweater. She wore silver necklace with a silver heart shaped pendant with three diamonds or Cubic Zirconium in it.

Ben stood in the doorway and asked, "Emily I take it?"

The panther smiled and stuck her paw out for a hand/paw shake, then saying, "That's me, you must be Adam's father."

Ben shook her paw and gestured for Emily to come into the apartment, which she thanked him with a smile and a nod.

Ben closed the door behind her and locked it.

Ben then said, "Adam, come meet your new tutor."

The family room was blocked partly by a wall on the left that extended further down to create a quazi-entry area with the parent wall on the right of the door. As such, Emily and Ben couldn't see where Adam was at the moment, but they heard the T.V. shut off, followed by a few brief seconds of silence before Adam came around the corner and came up to Emily and Ben. Adam glanced up at Emily as he walked towards the two of them, not making direct eye contact due to his shy nature and social anxiety. Emily bent over slightly and smiled at the rabbit.

Adam stopped next to his dad and waved timidly as he didn't say anything. Emily then said, "You must be Adam. Your dad told me quite a bit about you, especially how smart you are. I'm Emily; it's nice to meet you."

Adam looked away from her a bit bashfully due to the praise she gave him. Adam was still succumbing to his usual shy nature as he said softly, "Thanks."

Emily then said, "Don't be nervous around me Adam, I know we're going to have a fun time together with your studies." The panther paused briefly before a thought occurred to her and she formed a look of realization on her muzzle before looking back down at Adam and saying, "Especially with science, I love science."

Adam's ears shot up as he looked up at her and said hopefully, "Really?"

Emily then said sweetly, "Of course Adam."

Adam bounced happily in place with a grin of joy on his muzzle as he realized his new tutor shared the same favorite academic subject with him.

Emily giggled lightly at the kits sudden eagerness and happiness. She stood back up straight and looked over at Ben and said, "Anything else you need to discuss with me before Adam and I get cracking with his studies?"

Ben looked at Emily and inwardly smiled at the compatibility that Emily happened to share both personality wise and academically. He then said, "Not really. I informed you of certain…prior situations that are sensitive to discuss."

Ben saw Emily's expression partly dip into one sympathy and sorrow for what Adam had experienced years ago, but she masked her emotions well enough in hopes that it wouldn't affect Adam.

Ben then continued saying, "All I want to do is give you my phone number if there is an emergency."

Emily then said, "Alright" as she pulled out her phone and went through the menus to add Ben as one of the many emergency contacts that she had for parents of the kids and kits she tutored.

Ben gave her his number and she put it in her phone. Ben then got down a bit to Adams level and said to him, "Alright son. I'm going out to get us a new car from the dealer. I'll be back in a few hours. You promise me you'll listen to what Emily wants you to do?"

Adam felt like rolling his eyes over the suggestion that his father thought he would misbehave or something. He knew he was a good kit and so did his dad. Adam regardless nodded and said, "Yes dad."

Ben smiled and said, "Good, and don't hesitate to call me if there's a problem."

Ben extended out his arms and said, "Bye son, I love you."

Adam hopped into his dad's arms and embraced his father as he said, "I love you too, dad."

Emily let out a near silent, "Aww" at the sight before her.

Ben then kissed his son's forehead and stood up and went over to the oak wood corner table by the door to grab the keys for the HUMVEE. Ben knew this would be one of the last times he got to drive that beast of a vehicle here in Zootopia, so he didn't want to miss it.

Ben opened the door and looked back as Emily and Adam went over to the dining room table to get set up for Adam's lessons today.

Ben smiled happily at his son's peace of mind that he's had since moving to Zootopia.

Ben then walked out and closed the door and locked it. He then went down the hallway and several flights of stairs to exit the building to the parking structure next door. He found the HUMVEE and unlocked it and climbed in. He closed the door and started the vehicle's diesel engine with a roar of its own.

Ben then drove out of the structure and onto the street as he went to go buy a new car.

(Meanwhile; elsewhere in Savanna Central with Judy)

Judy's mind coursed with thoughts of frustration and anger as her boss had assigned her meter maid duty again. She was quickly growing to hate the Tuk-Tuk style vehicle she drove, the uniform she wore and the menial tasks she did with it. However, she kept on telling herself mentally that she would have to prove that she could handle herself with these tasks and show her boss that she could be a real police officer if she wanted to have a shot at being truly accepted at her precinct. After all, she was the first rabbit officer ever on the force and she had a name to make not only for herself, but for rabbits everywhere that they were just more than carrot farming bunnies.

Judy had pulled the Tuk-Tuk vehicle over to the curb to parallel park somewhere in Savanna Central she got out of the vehicle and proceeded to walk down the street checking the meters for any ones that were expired. She walked at a steady pace as she paid attention for any sound of an expiring meter and the red sign inside of it.

Finally, she heard a beep sound as her left ear shot up and she looked behind her and saw a meter for a white convertible expire as the red sign popped up in the display with a ching sound.

She walked over to the meter and the white vehicle as she typed the information into the ticket printer and the device printed out her ticket she needed to put on the car. She slid the ticket under the wiper and began to walk away. Unbeknownst to her, a moose was walking back to said vehicle with a briefcase, just finished with a meeting or a job of some sort. He was about to unlock the car when he saw the ticket and snorted in anger he looked around and saw a bunny meter maid walking away. He then groaned loudly and yelled out to her, "Hey meter maid, I was 30 seconds over. What, you got nothing better to do than give out pointless tickets?"

Judy looked behind her and said, "I'm just doing my job sir."

The moose chuckled, annoyed and said, "Really, shouldn't you be carrot farming than?"

Judy felt a little emotional sting to her ego as she was reminded of the stereotype job of her species. She then said to the moose, "I'm an officer, not a farmer."

The moose then angrily said, "No, you're just a waste of time to this city, so why don't you just go dig in the dirt like the good cute little bunny you are."

Judy was trying her hardest to not get upset at the moose as she didn't want to cause an incident that could get her in trouble. She looked away solemnly as she felt like somebody had punched her straight in her pride.

Her ears then popped up as she heard a voice then yell, "Hey…tall, stupid and fucking pissy. Why don't you leave the bunny alone and go bother somebody else doing their job."

Judy looked behind the moose and saw none other than Ben standing on the sidewalk behind the moose. She could see a HUMVEE parked several dozen feet from him as he stood there with a look of both annoyance and brewing anger on his face. The moose stormed over to him tried to push Ben and said, "Stay of of this, hairless f…"

Only the moose never even touched Ben. Ben had grabbed the moose's right arm and held it in a lock and twisted his arm, causing the moose to grunt in pain. He then dashed behind the moose, arm still in hand and kicked the moose in his legs from behind with his boot, sending the moose to the ground on his knees. Ben held the moose's arm in a hold from behind as he also put the moose in a headlock.

The moose's eyes went wide with fear as he tried grunting and wriggling his way free. Ben then said very coldly, "Never…ever…try to touch me. I'm a captain in the CF military and have more than eight years combat experience. I could snap your arm in half and rip your throat out with my bare hands."

The moose tried to grunt in and scream in fear, but Ben tightened his hold on the moose as he said, "So listen here. This is what's going to happen. Rather than calling me a hairless freak like the fucking bigot you are, you are going to apologize to that bunny for insulting her for doing her job. You are going to get in that pretty little car of yours and you're going to drive away and you're going to forget us, and you know why?"

The moose stopped grunting and squirming as he listened to Ben with fear evident in every part of his body.

"You're going to forget us because we won't care to remember you. You may think you're above an officer, but you're not. You may think your some hotshot fucking big man in the house moose, but in reality you're just a sad, pathetic, speciesist little meat sack not even worth remembering."

Ben then spoke slowly and deliberately, "If I catch you trying this again with her or any other member of the ZPD again, I'm going to be the one to have your ass hauled off to a prison for attempting to assault a CFM commissioned officer and you'll get a nice cell with somebody named Butch who likes to get 'friendly' on Friday nights. YOU UNDERSTAND ME!"

The moose nodded slowly in fear, to which Ben grinned satisfied, "Good."

He then released the moose that collapsed to the ground gasping slightly and whimpering. He stood up shakenly and looked at the meter maid as said, "I'm so…s…sorry, ma'am. I won't d…do thi…this again."

The moose got in his car and peeled out of his space forgetting his briefcase on the ground.

Ben turned around with his satisfied face to see Judy glaring up at him, an expression that held a mix of so many emotions that Ben couldn't read what she was thinking. Ben's face dropped instantly as he realized that he may have gone a bit too far.

Judy began tapping her foot rapidly as she put her paws on her hips and looked up at him with her expression.

Ben then chuckled somewhat nervously and said, "So…"

Judy then said, "I could arrest you for what you did Ben…

Ben looked like a deer in the headlights as he was afraid that his own best friend might book him.

Her muzzle suddenly lightened up as she said, "…if he hadn't tried to throw the first blow."

Ben breathed out a sigh of relief as Judy then smiled up at him as she said, "I'm glad you showed up. That guy just wouldn't stop hounding me and it was making me feel…" she trailed off as she didn't want to explicitly say what she was feeling from his harassment, but Ben saw in her eyes what she was thinking about.

She then hugged her friend as she said with a tender voice, "By the way, that was sweet what you did…if a little aggressive perhaps."

Ben's arms rested at his sides as his heart rate jumped from the contact that Judy was giving him. He slowly reached around to hug Judy back as he said, "A…Anytime Judy."

Judy then released from the embrace as she grabbed her ticket printer off of her hip and started to walk around Ben and took a few steps forwards before stopping and turning back to her friend. She then looked up at him and smiled before motioning with her paws forwards. She then said, "Well, you coming or what? I could use a friend to spend time with on shift. It makes doing this more bearable." She emphasized the bearable with distain in her voice.

Ben smiled and said in return, "I thought you'd ask."

The two of them went down the sidewalk as Judy put a few tickets on the cars that had expired meters. All the while, she was talking to Ben about small stuff.

A little later, Ben and her came to a small row of rodent sized meters that the citizens of Little Rodentia use when they are out in the surrounding city itself. Judy printed out a ticket and stuck the normal sized ticket on the undersized window of the small rodent sized car. They turned away to walk to the next set of normal sized meters when a mouse shouted up at them, "Hey, lady. What gives with the ticket? You think you're a…" The mouse however stopped mid-sentence as she saw Ben turn around to face her and he glared a gaze of 'just try it, I dare you' to the female mouse.

The mouse then stuttered and said, "Uh,…never mind." She then dragged the comically sized ticket into the back of her much smaller car, nearly filling up the inside of the vehicle with just the ticket. She then started her car and drove away in a slightly noticeable hurry.

Ben and Judy continued further onward down the sidewalk, the two friends engaged in occasional small talk as Judy continued to print out tickets for the cars that were parked next to expired meters. Ben was secretly happy, though somewhat flustered at how things were going currently with his best friend. Sure, he was grateful that he happened to be driving down the very same street where she and that moose were in conflict with one another. He knew that if he hadn't stepped in when he did that things might have become volatile enough that Judy could have gotten hurt from that moose. He knew she could handle her own against a moose most likely due to her police training, but the situation seemed a bit too heated to be able to know for certain. Ben thought maybe it was just the part of him that loved her that caused him to step in, but he was glad he did regardless.

Judy on the other hand was thankful in her own way. She felt flattered actually that Ben was willing to risk his own well-being, though not surprisingly, to protect her. He was a military soldier now turned officer after all. She did have to wonder why he was so protective of her. She didn't mind it to be truthful, but it felt a little weird for a police officer to be protected by a CFM officer. She was worried if any of this might get back to her boss, or if people and animals would take something like this to believe that the ZPD was weak and had to rely on the humans to protect their own officers. She had to know at least some form of an answer.

"Hey Ben" she asked with a curious upbeat to her voice?

Ben was currently leaning against a light post as Judy was printing another ticket. He looked at her, still leaning against the light post and said, "What's up?"

Judy's ears were halfway up as she put the ticket printer back on the holder on her hip and said, "Not that I mind what you did back there, but I got to ask. Why did you do what you did to that moose?"

Ben was not quite catching the full meaning of what she was implying and so he simply said, "Cause he was being a bigoted, whining emotional prick with a rock shoved up his fucking ass."

Judy rolled her eyes at the colorful words that her friend used and sighed slightly before saying, "No, I get that Ben. Other than being a…um, prick, I was asking why did you do it? Did you feel like I was in danger?"

Ben's chilled posture tensed up slightly after she finished her sentence, he was slightly caught off-guard as he looked around for a few seconds before he said, "Heh…uh, well to be honest and truthful, I had no idea what was going to happen between the two of you. I mean look what he did to me, he tried to push me."

Judy put her paws on her hips as she said, "Ben, you do know that I'm not some fragile flower, right? I can protect myself."

Ben chuckled and said, "Oh I know that quite well miss 'I took out a rhino with a flying kick to his hand at the academy'." Ben then shrugged his shoulders, trying to hide his true emotions as he said, "To be honest, it seemed like the right thing to do at the time. I don't know why I did what I did."

Judy stood there incredulously looking at him as she was trying to tell what he might be trying to hide. Ben maintained a cool enough posture on the outside to try to prevent her from prying deeper, but on the inside, he was freaking out. If she tried to pry deeper, he knew what the answer was that he didn't want to give…

I love you and I couldn't live with myself knowing that I wasn't able to protect you and be there for you…

Judy smirked and chuckled slightly as she knew he was hiding something, but she didn't want to try to play 20 questions with his thoughts he seemed uncomfortable with sharing. So rather she just said, "Right, well when you feel comfortable with telling me what's on your mind, I'll be here for you Ben."

Ben let out a soft sound somewhere between a gulp and a sigh of relief. Judy started walking away towards a larger mammal sized yellow car that had the meter just expire. Ben walked behind her as they came up to the meter. Judy had put the ticket on the car under the wiper as a Hippo mother and her young daughter came out of a shop to see a meter maid by their car. The hippo mother, needless to say, looked quite upset over the ticket she just got. She came out from the front of the shop with her daughter in tow and said coldly to Judy, "Hey fluffbutt, what's your deal? I'm 30 seconds over."

Judy looked up at the slightly heavyset (even for a hippo) hippo and said, "I'm just doing my job ma'am. I'm…"

The hippo just glared at Judy as she then said, "Yeah, and is that job to indiscriminately hand out tickets to those that don't deserve it?"

Ben came up to where the hippo mother was after hearing Judy getting hounded once again. He couldn't believe the hostility that this city had towards Judy and, more specifically, a meter maid in general. Ben grinned inwardly as he knew they probably had no idea that she was an officer. Ben decided to make that point known to the hippo as he then said out loud, "What's going on here Officer Hopps?"

Judy peered behind her as she said, "Huh" quite confused at Ben's question? She figured that Ben would clearly be able to tell that she was getting yet more flak from the citizens of Zootopia for just doing her job.

Meanwhile, the hippo mother's expression changed from one of anger to nervousness as she said in mild shock and disbelief, "O..Officer?"

Right where I want her Ben thought slyly.

Ben stood there coolly as he said, "Oh yeah, surely you heard of Judy Hopps, the first rabbit officer for the ZPD. Out here making a name for her species, proving that no matter your species, you can be whatever you set your mind to. It's a shame to be arguing a ticket with a police officer, you know, a police officer that might end up saving your life during a mugging or a home intrusion at some point. Maybe instead of being whiny, you could be more thankful that the cops are doing their actual jobs."

The hippo mother's eyes were wide with a mixture of emotions, including shame and anger at the same time. She didn't want to be shown up by a human of all species, but she knew that the human was right. This very same officer that gave me a ticket may save my life tomorrow…and my daughters.

The hippo mother let out a sound between a growl and a sigh as she said upset, "I'm sorry officer." She gripped the ticket angrily in her paws as she was still pissed about getting a ticket. She got in their car with her daughter as they drove away.

Judy watched the two drive away as she turned to Ben when they were out of sight and gave him a gaze of being impressed. She was shocked that Ben still was the same strong and intelligent person he, even after the events that the war had thrown upon him. She was once again feeling blessed to have a friend such as him, but she knew that there was an inevitable truth from this. Ben may well be doing this for her because he liked her…like liked her. The thought of this alone made her heart beat race as she knew that what her mother said was true. There was nothing wrong with her loving Ben. He really was intelligent and caring at the same time.

Ben and Judy were heading back to the Tuk-Tuk vehicle as Judy climbed in first. Ben soon followed as the two of them sat down to take a short break from all the walking they were doing. Just then, a door flung open near them. Ben's eyes darted up as he saw a weasel run past the patrol vehicle with a duffle bag over his head. Judy noticed a pig chasing after the weasel briefly as he was shouting, "Hey hey hey."

The pig then looked around panicked and saw Ben and Judy sitting in their patrol vehicle near him. The pig was more interested with the rabbit that may be an officer than he was with Ben, who he had no idea was in the CF military.

The pig ran over to the patrol vehicle and started shouting, "You, Bunny!"

Judy gazed at the pig as she said, "Sir, what's wrong? What's going on?"

The pig looked around spastically as he gestured very rapidly, "My shop just got robbed, and that's what's wrong."

The pig then pointed at the weasel and shouted, "Look, he's getting away. Are you a cop, or not?"

He was very upset, near the point of being hysterical.

Judy's eyes went wide as a smile broke out on her muzzle as she acknowledged with much energy, "Oh, yes. Yes! Don't worry sir I got him."

Ben then shouted, "I'm coming with you Judy, that fuckers already got a head start on you."

Judy shouted, "Great Ben, lets go."

Ben and Judy hopped out of the patrol vehicle as Judy threw off her meter maid hat and her orange safety vest and started chasing after the weasel in her police uniform. Judy was very fast all things considered, but that was due to both her training and her naturally strong legs as a rabbit. Ben still managed to keep you with her due to his military training. He took notice of the direction the slippery bastard was heading and Ben realized that he was going to be running past "his" HUMVEE.

He then shouted to Judy, "Judy, he's heading towards the direction of my HUMVEE. I've got something in there that'll help."

Judy looked at Ben as she kept on running, "Alright, but making it fast. We can't let this guy get away."

Ben and Judy split up at an intersection up ahead. Ben took a street that lead towards his HUMVEE. A driver in a car was talking on his phone while driving and didn't see that Ben was running across the intersection as he was about to turn. The driver, who looked away for a second and then looked back, just noticed Ben and slammed the brakes on his car. Ben was too close and running to fast to change direction, so he leapt onto the hood of the car and ran over it, the driver screaming at Ben for doing what he was doing. The driver rolled down the window and shouted at Ben, "Fucking watch where you're going human."

However, another car that was behind the car ben had ran over was too distracted by Ben running past him down the street at marathon speeds. The driver of the first car, a wolf, got rear ended by the other driver of the car behind him, an elk. Metal grinded as glass shattered from the impact, leaving both drivers with damaged cars.

Ben knew what had happened as he could hear the accident himself, but he didn't even look back to see what had happened. He was more concerned with catching that weasel fuck than anything else. Ben was still thinking in his mind, Just what I need when I'm helping Judy catch her first criminal…collateral damage. Fucking lovely.

Judy meanwhile was chasing after the weasel as she shouted to him, "Stop!"

The weasel looked behind him as he was still running to see of all things a rabbit in an officers uniform chasing him.

He heard Judy shout at him again, "Stop in the name of the law."

The weasel then egged Judy on and said, "Catch me if you can cottontail."

The two of them ran into a busy central area of a city where trams drove by on tracks, cars drove by on streets and animals and humans were walking from store front to store front in the central area of the district.

The weasel ran through the legs of an elephant walking by as he tried to avoid getting stepped on. Soon a police car pulled up and stopped in front of the weasel, lights running and siren droning. The weasel ran under the vehicle as Officer Mchorn stepped out of the squad car and started to report into dispatch, "This is Mchorn, we got a 10-31…"

He was however interrupted by Judy who slid down the back of his squad car and shouted, "I got dibs." She turned back and looked at Mchorn as she hopped backwards and shouted, "Officer Hopps is in pursuit. Whoop, Whooo!"

She followed the weasel, getting a little winded herself, but still able to keep up due to her stamina and training. She hoped that Ben would get here soon as this weasel was proving to be quite fast and elusive.

Ben meanwhile had just reached his HUMVEE and stopped to open the driver side door. He reached in quickly and searched through the storage racks of the vehicle trying to find what he needed. He suddenly shouted, "Got ya!"

He climbed out holding a G3A3 assault rifle in his hands with a magazine loaded into the rifle. The mag had a line of black tape going around the magazine, but otherwise was identical to a normal G3A3. Ben pulled back the charging handle for the 7.62mm NATO chambered rifle and slammed the door closed for the HUMVEE and locked it. He then sprinted back the direction he came from, where he had separated from Judy. He began to think to himself, How am I going to find her and that fuck now?

Ben then heard a siren start up in the distance and as he rounded the corner to the busy central area that Judy ran through before, he saw a squad car do a three point turn and peel out driving towards an street that connected to the area.

Ben then cleverly thought, Follow the cop cars.

He took off towards where the cop car had gone, running through the intersection. The animals and people shopping gave Ben every response from giving him a wide birth as the human sprinted by, to some screaming "He's got a gun!"

Ben groaned to himself, "Fucking great, just what I needed. To be thought of as the criminal."

Meanwhile, Judy was following the weasel still as the weasel was nearing Little Rodentia. The weasel got the brilliant idea to try to lose Judy in there. He bent down slightly and threw the bag high into the air. As the weasel was running closer towards the brick and iron wall of Little Rodentia, several mice took notice of the weasel approaching and screamed. They scurried out of the way just before the thieving weasel ducked down and ran through an opening in the wall designed for smaller animals, but still bigger than a typical rodent. He stopped and caught the bag he had thrown in the air as it landed into his open hands, chuckling slyly to himself.

In the midst of this chase and unbeknownst to either Judy or Ben, both the CF security in the city and the ZPD were being notified about a crime in progress. This crime happened to involve the same exact weasel that Ben and Judy were chasing, but due to no official communication to either side about a member of their force dealing with the crime, both groups began to respond. The CF military stationed in the surrounding Savanna Central received a report about a store being robbed and sent a security team of 6 soldiers to respond. The ZPD, based on the communication that Mchorn relayed back to Precinct 1, sent another officer to respond and assist Mchorn, Snarvlof.

Judy meanwhile was hot on his trail and she slid through the opening dude to the fact that she was running too fast to be able to slow down fast enough. The blessing of her strong legs from being a rabbit also was sometimes a curse for her as well. She looked around for the weasel and saw the bag that the weasel was carrying earlier being carried over his head, making only the bag visible between the buildings. Judy then shouted, "You!" The weasel froze in place and clearly knew where Judy was due to him turning his whole body towards her direction. Only the bag and his arms were visible doing this to her, but the weasel then took off running, to which Judy shouted, "Freeze!"

Meanwhile, Officer Mchorn ran up towards the gate of the city within a city and shouted, "Hey, meter maid! Wait for the real cops!"

Almost immediately afterwards, Snarvlof had finally arrived on scene in his own ZPD cruiser. The big and intimidating bear climbed out of his cruiser and ran over to where Mchorn was and said, "Mchorn, I overheard your transmission about the 10-31. Did our meter maid actually go after the perp?"

Mchorn shorted annoyed as he said, "Yes, and she had to have abandoned her post as well to be in pursuit."

The bear chuckled amusingly as he said, "Oh the Chief is going to have a few choice words for her."

Mchorn said, "Yeah, but that's for later, we need to stop that perp. You enter from the…"

However, Mchorn was interrupted by the sounds of a loud diesel engine approaching as they looked behind them in confusion to see a CF MRAP drive towards them in a rush and pull to a sudden stop, the air brakes hissing as the vehicle stopped. The doors for the vehicle swung open as four soldiers dressed in a digital urban camouflage climbed out of the vehicle. The two officers noticed a HUMVEE driving down the street that connected to the "T" intersection they were standing near, presumably to drop off more CF security.

Unlike the CF military, which were present in the city in smaller concentrations outside of the military bases, the CF city security is the human government's equivalent to the ZPD. They enforce the law and keep peace within the city under the jurisdiction of the human dominated CF government. The CF security are not as heavily armed as a typical CF military squad was, only armed with burst fire rifles like M16A4's and SIG 556's. They are the most commonly seen members of the CF armed forces that Zootopia citizens see, yet the military still hold a presence in the city as well.

Mchorn snorted again as he said, "Oh great, its these clowns here to take credit and respect away from the ZPD again."

Snarvlof was livid towards the CF security for the simple reason that they have been stealing the spotlight that the ZPD used to have in protecting the city and keeping the peace. They were originally supposed to work with the ZPD as an asset, but have since taken a more independent role towards policing the streets themselves. Snarvlof wasn't the only one at the ZPD that hated these security guys, that much was certain.

Judy, meanwhile, kept running off as she was chasing the weasel through the streets of Little Rodentia. Judy gave chase to the weasel as he stepped on a pair of mouse sized cars and began to use them as roller skates. He spun around still going forwards and laughed mockingly at Judy due to him gaining distance from her. He also did a few fast footed tricks with the cars until he turned back around and reached a building in his way. He climbed up onto the building and started running from rooftop to rooftop like the buildings were stepping stones.

He reached the end of the buildings and leapt onto a monorail track and ran out of sight. Meanwhile, the buildings started to fall like dominos, the weasel having moved them out of their foundation due to them not being heavy and poorly connected to the ground. They didn't need to be after all as there was nothing in Little Rodentia that could make a building shift enough, mainly due to the lack of strength that the rodents had. The weasel however, was not a typical animal to this smaller city. Judy climbed up on the roof of the first building and saw them toppling like dominos…towards her. She got in between a larger building and the falling buildings and could only pray that she wouldn't tumble with this building in front of her onto the building behind her. She knew, however, that she had to stop the "dominos" from going further. She pushed with all her might with her strong legs and managed to push the buildings back towards their original direction, halting the domino effect. She climbed off the building and carefully walked around the scurrying rodents as she apologized profusely for her presence that was scaring them all.

"Pardon me, excuse me, pardon" she said nervously.

She climbed up on the monorail tracks to see where the weasel had vanished to and just as she climbed up, she heard a train horn. She looked towards the direction and saw a mouse sized train barreling towards her. She screamed and leapt off the tracks, rolling on impact with the ground as the train sped past her , along with the weasel.

"Bonvoyage, flatfoot" taunted the weasel, caysing Judy to growl in response as she gave chase once again.

Meanwhile, Ben was having mized results in this city within a city as well. He was much taller than the buildings around him, and could see well enough to see what was happening around most of Little Rodentia from his height. However, he could only see above the ocean of buildings around him. He heard somebody say, "Bonvoyage, flatfoot." He looked up a bit higher than the buildings to see the weasel riding on a monorail train, Ben's sightline being interrupted infrequently by the "skyscrapers" that were taller than the surrounding city. Ben grinned to himself and readied his gun, his sight trained on the weasel as he sped along. Ben pulled the trigger a few times, each pull firing a bullet from the gun. The weasel heard something strike the train under him and he jumped back, nearly falling off the train. He looked up and briefly saw a human with a rifle aiming in his direction. The weasel was about to jump off the train, when Judy hopped down from a higher building from the tracks level onto the train. She landed near the weasel and ran towards him as he stared wide eyed at the officer approaching him. Judy nearly tackled the weasel as she tried to apprehend him on a speeding train. The two struggled for a while, the weasel still standing, but losing the fight against the rabbit officer. However, the weasel then heard another report of a rifle firing just before he fell off the train, along with Judy. He had no clue if he had been hit or not. However, that was the least of his concerns as he fell of the train tracks and rolled across the street below from the inertia as the train turned, now heading left on the track. Judy had fallen with the weasel but stopped rolling shortly after she hit the ground. Judy was thankful that whatever rifle that was fired at her direction, presumably from Ben, had missed her in her struggle with the weasel. She briefly wondered if Ben had known that his shot would miss when he fired it, or if it missed by sheer luck. She had no idea what Ben would do with himself if he had hurt her. He probably wouldn't have been able to forgive himself for injuring or even killing his best friend. The weasel, meanwhile, rolled onto his back near a donut shop as he lay there, out of breath and stunned. He then heard a familiar voice shout, "ZPD! Stay where you are!"

He sat up and saw through the donut hole that Judy was running towards him. He got an idea and got down on his back as he pulled his legs back, aiming them at the donut. The weasel than shouted back, "Have a donut, copper!"

He kicked the donut with all of his might and sent it flying off of its structural support and heading towards Judy. Judy hit the ground as she dove under the donut. Ben had run closer to see what was going on and witnessed himself that the donut barely had missed Judy by inches.

That weasel had now done something he was going to regret. He had tried to kill Judy with that donut sign. Ben could only feel his protective side go into overdrive as he knew that he had to end this now before Judy or anyone else got hurt from this fucker.

Ben aimed his rifle at the weasel as he turned around to pick up the bag and shot the weasel right in his butt. The weasel screamed in pain from the impact, but before the weasel could react, Ben set his sights just a little lower and pulled the trigger.

The projectile shot out of the gun and impacted with the weasel's genital area at subsonic speed. The weasel froze for a second before falling tumbling over on his side, his hands covering the underside of his genitals as Ben could see him stiff as a board as he had his mouth open in a silent scream. Ben knew from experience being a male that he wasn't going to go anywhere for a while since he shot him in the genital area. Ben then strolled over towards the weasel slowly as he knew it was over…or so he thought.

During this whole sequence of events, both the human security forces and the ZPD were scouring the city within a city for the weasel perp. Both sides had gotten a free glimpses of a chase going on in the city as they heard the sound of gunshots, which did nothing but expedite their search even further. Mchorn and Snarvlof were also trying to see where their meter maid had gone in this whole chase with this criminal.

Finally, the CF security found where the weasel was, laying on the ground in a fetal position cover his crotch with his paws and tears falling from his eyes. The security ran over towards the weasel and shouted, "Z-Sec (Zootopia Security), stay where you are!" One of the humans then pointed a gun at Ben and said, "You, Drop the gun now!"

Ben chuckled and said, "Stand down, soldier. Captain Benjamin Richardson, Spec Ops."

The soldier lowered his gun and immediately saluted Ben as the other 5 Z-Sec members surrounded the weasel and began to detain him. Ben looked back around to see if Judy was alright after her dive to the ground and he noticed the donut sign from the building still bouncing down the street. Ben then saw further down the road that three shrews had just left a store front, clearly done with shopping. The shrew with the tall haircut said to her girlfriends, "Oh my, did you see those leopard print jeggings?"

Meanwhile a faint thud could be heard approaching them, getting louder with each thud. The two other shrews that were shopping with the shrew that had just spoken looked over towards the thudding and screamed as they ran away. The shrew with the tall hairdo was confused as she said, "Come on, they weren't that…"

Ben meanwhile knew that he had to move fast, or he risked the remaining shrew getting killed. Ben dropped the gun to make himself lighter and took of sprinting towards the shrew, much to the confusion of the Z-Sec soldier.

However she was interrupted as a loud boom caught her attention. She turned around and saw the donut leaping in the air and about to come crashing down on her. She let out a drawn out shrill scream as Ben took notice and shouted, "Fuck!"

Within a second, faster than Ben had ever run before in his life, he made his way closer towards the shrew and grabbed the donut before it landed on her. The shrew had cringed waiting for her death, but when she heard heavy breathing near her, she looked up slowly and saw a human towering over her holding the donut in the air with both arms.

Ben breathed out a sigh of relief and said to the shrew a little sidetracked, "So...How's it going?"

The shrew bashfully and nervously twilled a lock of her hair in her paw as she said, "Fine. Thank you for saving me."

Ben smiled at the shrew as he set the donut down on the ground. Judy had just ran over towards Ben and said quite concerned, "Miss, are you alright?!"

The shrew said in her high pitched voice, "Yeah, I am now thanks to this human here."

Judy looked up at her best friend and grinned admiringly to Ben and said, "How about that? A soldier and a hero?"

Ben rubbed the back of his neck bashfully as he was complimented by Judy. Ben then said, "You alright, Judy?"

She then nodded as she said, "Yeah, I hit the ground a bit too hard. I got the wind knocked out of me, but otherwise I'm fine."

Ben then pulled Judy into a hug and said softly, "I'm glad. I'm thankful nobody was hurt, including you."

Judy was a little off-guard from the hug as she hesitated to hug ben in respond, blushing under her own fur. She finally embraced Ben and, against her own will, started to purr slightly by grinding her front teeth. Ben could hear a noise coming from Judy, but he couldn't quite place it. It sounded like she was maybe growling or something, but Ben decided to let her go of the hug, just in case she was upset or something. Judy regretfully lost his end of the hug and she stopped purring from it, much to her dismay.

Meanwhile, the duo came back to where the weasel was as Ben overheard one of the Z-Sec soldiers speak to his squad leader as he was inspecting Ben's rifle, "Well no wonder why he was down on the ground for so long. Captain Richardson shot him in the testicles with a rubber bullet."

Ben saw all of the male soldiers in the squad cringe at the sentence over the thought of them getting shot in "ping" or "pong". Ben then said to the soldiers, "Thanks for the support in detaining this asswipe." Ben then glared daggers at the weasel, to which he cowered before Ben. He then said, "This was originally a ZPD chase, so Officer Hopps here can take over."

The Z-Sec squad leader then said, "Of course, Captain' as he saluted Ben. Meanwhile, Mchorn and Snarvlof had finally found the weasel and the meter maid with a human who was conversing with the Z-Sec squad.

Mchorn then said, "Great, shown up by Z-Sec once again."

Snarvlof then pointed out, nudging Mchorn with his arm, "Hey Mchorn, I don't think that one human is with Z-Sec. What's he doing here?"

Mchorn then started walking back towards his squad car as he said, "I'm calling this in."

The bear then asked, "Calling what in?" He was clearly confused as the chase was over.

Mchorn then said, "Everything…"

(Later; at ZPD Precinct 1)

It was a normal day at Precinct 1. Clawhauser was currently manning the reception area desk, acting as both dispatcher and the receptionist for the ZPD. The stress that the chubby cheetah was normally under day in and day out was something he was used to since being an officer on the force for several years prior to this. However, he was dealing with yet another problem today…or rather a reoccurring problem every day this week.

"Please somebody has to do something for him" said the otter to Clawhauser with a pleading look in her eyes.

Clawhauser's heart went out to the poor otter since her husband has been missing for 10 days. He figured that by now, the worst has happened to the male otter that was…is her husband.

He looked down at the otter and said calmingly and softly, "Now Mrs. Otterton, your going to have to wait in line like everyone else, okay?"

Just then, the front doors for the precinct came flying open with a bang as all eyes turned towards the origin of the noise. It was none other than Ben and Judy, both wearing a look of pride on their face and muzzle respectively. Ben walked in first, Judy trailing just behind him as the human carried the weasel perp from earlier over his shoulder like he was a log or something. The weasel was trapped by the donut sign from earlier, Judy not having a pair of pawcuffs to use and the Z-Sec soldiers unable to put a pair on the weasel due to Ben telling them to hand the weasel over to Judy as she was a ZPD officer. The weasel was out of it right now, his body sore from the chase, impacts and near castration of his right testicle by Ben's G3A3 rifle. Ben threw the weasel on the ground as he landed with a disoriented and dazed, "Omph…ughhhh."

Judy then shouted with pride as she jumped on the weasel, making him grunt and cry out in pain, "We popped the weasel."

Ben and Judy couldn't feel more proud of what they had accomplished. Sure Ben didn't get the car he was looking at earlier in the day for him and Adam, but what he did to help Judy made him feel like he was Judy's perfect partner in the field. Sadly, due to the continuing ban on humans assuming positions of governmental authority in Zootopia, a law not repealed since the end of the Great Pangean War, Ben could not be her partner. That and the fact that he was CF officer also prevented that from happening as well.

Judy was proud because she had finally proved her worth to the ZPD and her boss that she wasn't just some token carrot farming bunny. She was an asset to the ZPD and every bit as good as her peers.

Suddenly, the two of them were interrupted from their bask of pride by a loud booming voice that Ben swore shook the glass of the building that screamed, "HOPPS!"

The two of them cringed slightly and looked up towards the balcony to see none other than Chief Bogo standing near a railing, glaring eyes of fiery daggers at the rabbit officer and Ben. Ben's eyes locked with the chief as he shifted his gaze directly towards Ben. Ben gave him a look of that screamed "What'd she do wrong, fuck off."

Bogo then point towards presumably his office door as he still glared at them.

(Up in Bogo's office)

"Abandoning your post…inciting a scurry…wreckless endangerment of rodents" read Bogo form a report of the incident in Little Rodentia and Savanna Central.

Judy was sitting in a chair, eyes wide with panic over her boss being absolutely furious at her. Ben was meanwhile standing behind her, having refused to take a seat that Bogo told him to. He was pissed at the Buffalo for chastising Judy for doing her fucking job and catching a criminal.

Ben then went to speak and said, "Now listen here, asshole…"

Bogo glared at Ben with such rage that even Ben himself hesitated to continue his sentence, but still stood his ground unflinching in the gaze of the angry beyond all reason buffalo.

"And you, don't even get me started on what you did. Collateral damage…inciting a panic…interfering in a ZPD pursuit of a suspect…" said Bogo with venom in his words.

Ben thought it ironic that he called the chase a ZPD pursuit and yet was still harassing Judy for doing her fucking job.

Bogo then looked at Judy as his expression softened from "I'm going to rip your head off and shit down your neckhole" rage to "I'm going to have you doing desk work until the day you die" rage as he looked at Judy and said, "On the plus side, you two did stop a criminal from stealing 2 dozen moldy onions."

Judy then said, "Hate to disagree with you sir, but those aren't onions. They are a…"

Bogo then slammed his hoof down on the bag as he said with gritted teeth, "I don't care if they are solid gold keys to fucking solid gold sports cars. You broke every rule in the book this week Hopps."

Ben then scoffed and said, "Really…every rule? I find that hard to believe."

Bogo then smirked at Ben, which made both Ben and Judy nervous as he said, "Oh really, how about the fact that Hopps had a non-ZPD citizen accompany her on meter maid patrol and also…"

Ben then said with anger, "I'm a Captain in the CF military Spec Ops division. I outrank you shithead and I can assist with ZPD matters since I'm CF military."

Bogo was one step short of punching Ben's head straight off his neck, but he certainly didn't want the CF and any high ranking officer breathing down his neck for that.

Bogo let out a sigh and started rubbing his temples with his right hoof and said, "Then you can go sit in the corner human and let me deal with my officer who broke protocol."

Ben was about to say something to Bogo when Clawhauser's voice beamed in over the speaker on Bogo's desk phone.

"Um Chief, Mrs. Otterton is here to see you" said the cheetah.

Bogo then put his hoof on a button on the phone and said, "NOT NOW" in a booming voice, clearly on the verge of murdering somebody at this rate, or having an aneurism!

The cheetah then said, "Sir, she really ne…" He paused for a second before saying, "Wait… , you ca…" then his voice cut out.

Bogo was about to dig back into Judy with a lecture on breaking protocol as the door for the office opened and swung open. On the other side was none other than Mrs. Otterton, who looked like she had a bone to pick with the chief.

Mrs. Otterton then stormed in and said, "Chief Bogo, I need to talk to you now!"

Clawhauser ran into the doorway, heaving and gasping for breath as he said, "I'm sor…sorry Chief I tr…tired to…stop her."

He paused and turned around with his paw on his back and said, "I got to go sit down."

He walked away as Mrs. Otterton came up to Bogo and said pleadingly, "I've been trying to get to talk to you for days about my husband and every time I get pushed aside."

Ben's head perked up when he overheard her talking about her husband and he could only assume the worst that might be.

Bogo was clearly off-guard as he said, "I know, Mrs. Otterton. He's part of our missing animal cases."

Ben then asked her, "What missing animals cases?"

Before she could respond, Bogo glared at Ben and said, "Shut it human."

Ben so wanted to know what was going on, and he so wanted to punch the buffalos lights out for how stubborn and infuriating the guy was.

Judy's ears were perked up as she overheard what was being discussed as well.

Mrs. Otterton pulled out a photo and said, "Please, there's got to be somebody to find my Emmett. He's been missing for 10 days. We have 2 beautiful children, he would never just disappear."

Ben's mind was buzzing with sympathy for the female otter, as well as emotions of anger as he imagined how he would feel if Adam or equally worse…Judy, had turned up missing. He couldn't even begin to imagine the lengths he would go, what he would do or who he might have to kill to get her or his son back.

Judy meanwhile felt her heart go out to the otter who was being shafted by her stupid boss. He clearly didn't want to go beyond what was needed to help find her husband, or even the other missing animals. She knew she had to do something.

Bogo then said, "Mrs. Otterton…"

Then both Judy and Ben spoke up simultaneously and said, "I'll find him."

They paused shocked and looked at each other, amazed at not only the simultaneous response, but also the desire that the other had to find somebody that they knew nothing about.

They locked eyes with each other as Ben and Judy looked away slightly bashful and slightly embarrassed at what had happened.

Bogo looked at both of them with a look of shock as Mrs. Otterton ran over towards the two of them and hugged each one of them gratefully saying, "Oh bless you. Bless you, you two."

She was crying at the thought that somebody was now going to actually put in visible and tangible effort to find her husband.

She then handed Judy a photo of her husband as she said, "Please find Emmett and bring him home to me and my babies, please." Her voice was full of plead and a desire to see her husband again.

Bogo then cleared his throat as he said, "Mrs. Otterton, can you wait out here a second?"

He genstured to the open office door as she said with relief, "Oh, yes. Thank you so much."

Bogo nodded and said with a slightly high pitched tone, "One sec."

He closed the door lightly and glared back at Judy before saying with gritted teeth, "You're fired."

Ben and Judy were both in shock as Judy looked around confused and said with a stutter, "Uh, w…why?"

Bogo then said, "For what stands from earlier and NOW unauthorized acceptance of an ALREADY in progress investigation."

Ben then stepped forwards as he said, "Hey, buffalo fuck. You got no feelings or something? That otter…"

Ben was interrupted by Bogo who said, "And you…if you weren't CF military, I'd have you thrown out of here on your ass."

Bogo then said, "So human, this is what's going to happen. I'm going to open this door and your girlfriend is going to tell that otter that she will…not…be…taking…the…case."

Both ben and Judy glanced at each other for a few seconds before looking away as both blushed slightly over what Bogo had said.

Bogo opened the door and now, on the other side was the otter from before, but now there was somebody else.

Bogo then said with a nervous tone, "Assistant Mayor Bellwhether."

The sheep was on the other end of the door along with the otter as she said, "I just heard Officer Hopps and a human are taking the case."

She then said quite happy, trying to contain her excitement, "The animal inclusion initiative is really paying off. Mayor Lionheart is just going to be so jazzed."

She shook and the bell around her neck jingled with her eager movements in place.

Bogo then said pleadingly, "No let's not tell the mayor just yet."

Dawn then sent the text she was sending her boss on her phone and she said, "And it is sent, so I did do that" to herself.

Bogo hoofpalmed himself with annoyance stricken frustration. Dawn then walked in and grabbed Judy's paw as she said, "Looks like the case is in good hands now. Us little guys need to stick together right?"

Judy said with a little chipperness over Dawn's inclusion in this whole fiasco possibly saving her job as she said, "Like glue."

Dawn then said with a chuckle, "Oh, good one."

Dawn then looked at Ben and walked over to him and said, "And who is this human that has volunteered to help look for this missing otter?"

Dawn clearly showed quite a bit of wonder and fascination with the muscular and grizzled human.

Ben then saluted her and said with pride, "Captain Benjamin Richardson of the CF military, Spec Ops division."

Dawn then chuckled and said, "Oh, eagerness and the skills to match it. Good choice, Chief Bogo…if a little unorthodox."

She was clearly referring to the as of yet repealed ban on humans entering positions of Zootopian governmental authority, which Dawn must have interpreted Ben's involvement in this whole thing as Ben being given some authority over a ZPD investigation rather than Ben working on this in Z-Sec with his own government and through his own political channels.

Bogo chuckled nervously as Ben was quite amused that the once furious Buffalo was now a nervous wreckage since Dawn's arrival.

Dawn then started walking out with Mrs. Otterton as she said, "Alright, bye-bye."

Bogo closed the door slowly and then let out a huge sigh as he looked conflicted.

Ben and Judy stood there with batted breath wondering what he was going to do.

Bogo then said as he turned around, "I will give you two 48 hours."

Judy jumped for joy as she said, "Yes!"

Ben was for once not filled with a desire to rip the Buffalo's head off and use it for a practice target.

Ben then said, "Thanks Chief."

Bogo then said to Judy, "But…!"

Judy looked up at the chief as he then smugly said, "You strike out, you resign."

Judy's ears flopped back on her head as she said with surprise, "Oh…"

She looked down at the floor briefly as she pondered about it for a few seconds, unsure if she could handle the case with that type of pressure.

She then looked back up at Bogo and said, "Alright, deal."

Ben wanted to yell at the chief for still trying to find a way to get rid of Judy, but he figured he didn't want to risk it now that she got a chance to prove herself. After all, asshat could make it less than 48 hours.

Bogo then said with an uncomfortable smile and tone, "Splendid. Clawhauser will give you the complete casefile."

Ben and Judy left his office as they could have sworn they heard the Chief chuckle to himself as he closed the door.

Ben and Judy made their way back downstairs to Clawhauser.

(At the front desk with Clawhauser)

"Here you guys go, one missing otter" said the bubbly cheetah.

Judy opened the manila folder that Clawhauser had handed her and saw inside with shick that there was only one piece of paper that had the report on the missing animal, Emmett Otterton, as well as a photo of his last known sighting.

Judy said with Shock, "That's it?!"

Ben chimed in as well, "Well damn, that's not a lot to work with now is there."

Clawhauser confirmed the size of the file by saying, "That is the smallest case file I have ever seen. Leads none, witnesses none and resources…none." He then chuckled and said not knowingly, "Oh, I hope you didn't stake your career on cracking this one."

Clawhauser shook the donut he was eating in gesture over the file, causing some sprinkles to drop on the folder.

Judy and Ben looked at each other and knew that only one thing was on their minds right now…

Fuck…

Judy took a deep breath and said, "Okay, last known sighting…"

She tried examining the photo for anything that might hold a clue. She recognized something as the cheetah next to her was finishing the cub soda he was drinking, him now making a slurping sound in the empty bottle with the straw.

Judy then saw what Clawhauser was using and got an idea. She then grabbed the bottle that was empty and said at the same time, "Can I just grab…Thank you."

She then examined the photo with the bottle, the bottle now acting as a magnifying glass of sorts. Her ears went up in anticipation as she studied the photo. Ben noticed that she said sullenly, "Oh no…"

Ben was worried as he said, "What? What's wrong?"

Judy set the bottle down as she hung her head in dismay as she realized that she had a lead. She just didn't like who it was that was the lead.

Judy then said with annoyance and frustration, "I found am possible lead…"

Ben then responded confused as he said, "That would be…"

She then looked at Ben as she said with grief, "Nick Wilde…"

Ben just gave a quite annoyed sigh, 'Not this son of a bitch' he said in his mind.

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Constructive critics is welcomed, we'll try to update this as fast as we can, hopefully summer break will give us a lot of time.

Anyways see you guys later.

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I know a lot of you are waiting patiently for the next chapter, but due to recent delays and me and my co-author just losing interest in writing by that I mean losing the interest on writing anymore Zootopia stories.

This story is my own personal project, Hell it's my baby, ever since I watch Zootpia 2 times back on 2016, I started making my own lore and building up my own OC, but with not a lot of Zootopia Stoires being posted and the Zootopia fever dying down, this story is officially on Hold for the time being.

Right now I am looking for a co-author (1 or 2) with good or adequet wiritng, until than the story is on hold.

I apologize for this again people.