Judy and Nick peek out from a rock and see the rather creepy looking building with a vine design on the front. They run to a toll booth, avoiding the view of the wolf guards.
"Animals have toll booths?" Cherry scoffed.
"Who knew?" Mo shrugged.
Nick makes rapid signs with his paws to Judy, confusing her. Nick slips through the other side. The white timber wolf picks up Nick's scent and starts to look back where Nick is clinging in suspension. Mo panicked, she then cleared her throat and howled like a dog to throw off the wolves and where he soon started howling.
"Gary, quit it, you're gonna start a howl!" One wolf glared to the other.
"I didn't start it!" The other wolf defended.
Patch soon howled this time.
The one wolf then began to howl and the other one followed him as they couldn't help it. Soon enough, all of the wolves began to howl all together. The others soon got to Nick.
"You are all very clever." Nick smirked at what they had done to help save him against the wolves.
"I've seen The Chronicles of Narnia," Cherry replied. "Wolves and foxes just don't get along."
"Yeah, so we didn't want you to be shredded to pieces." Atticus said.
They look up and see a pipe. They enter a room through the sewer grate. Judy uses her phone light to search. Hospital beds have been pushed up against the wall.
"It looks like this was a hospital." Judy commented.
"What happened here?" Patch asked.
They see a door.
Nick slowly and cautiously approaches the door to open it, slowly extends a paw, then he steps back and pushes Judy forward. "You know what? After you," he then told the bunny. "You're the cop."
"Honestly." Cherry rolled her eyes.
Judy turns off her light, opens the door and looks around in annoyance. A room with an examination bed and three screens with a CAT scan of a brain is seen through the doorway. Nick peeks out through Judy's ears and looks around.
"Okay, all clear." Judy told them as they could go inside and investigate.
"This place is giving me the creeps." Patch said.
"All this equipment is brand new." Judy commented as she took pictures.
"Carrots...?" Nick asked nervously before pointing down to the floor to show claw marks.
Tod soon followed the claw marks to a spot.
"Claw marks..." Judy frowned.
"Yeah, huge, huge claw marks, I mean what kind of animal-" Nick was about to ask.
They soon heard Tod scream.
"TOD!" Nick cried out for his nephew.
Tod ran toward him and cried. "That tiger scared me!"
"It's okay, little buddy," Nick soothed. "I'm here, I'm here."
Everyone walked through the passage way seeing other predator mammals in cells, all in a savage state.
"It's like some kind of freaky zoo." Cherry shuddered.
Judy started to count them all.
"Hey, guys, I think I found Mr. Otterton." Patch said as he came up to one cell with a male otter with broken glasses, though he snarled at the glass.
Judy soon brought out the picture to confirm it. "It's him! We found our otter," The female bunny said before coming toward the male otter in reassurance. "Mr. Otterton, my name is Officer Judy Hopps. Your wife sent me to find you. We're gonna get you out of here-"
Mr. Otterton starts to come forward, sniffing and eyes black, before he pounced against the glass, making them jump back in surprise.
"Or not!" Nick flinched while holding Tod protectively. "Guess he's in no rush to get home to the missus."
"How come?" Tod asked.
"Fourteen!" Judy soon finished counting. "Chief Bogo handed out fourteen missing mammal files... They're all here! All the missing mammals are right here!"
Patch's left ear came up. "Someone's coming!" he alerted the others.
"Quick, into the empty room." Atticus whispered.
"Enough!"A familiar voice vexed. "I don't want excuses, Doctor, I want answers."
"Mayor Lionheart, please," A honey badger replied. "We're doing everything we can."
'Mayor Lionheart?' Atticus thought to himself as Judy records what was going with the mayor and the doctor.
"Really? 'Cuz I've got a dozen and a half animals here who've gone off the rails crazy, and you can't tell me why!" Mayor Lionheart glared at the honey badger. "Now I'd call that awfully far from 'doing everything'!"
"Sir, it may be time to consider their biology." Dr. Honey Badger replied.
"What do you mean?" Mayor Lionheart asked her.
"The only animals going savage are predators," Dr. Honey Badger replied. "We cannot keep it a secret; we need to come forward!"
"Hmm... Great idea," Mayor Lionheart mocked. "Tell the public. And how do you think they're gonna feel about their mayor... WHO IS A LION?! I'll be ruined!"
'So, he's known?' Tod thought to himself.
"Well, what does Chief Bogo say?" Dr. Honey Badger asked the lion.
"Chief Bogo doesn't know," Mayor Lionheart replied firmly. "And we are going to keep it that way."
Judy's phone soon rang, alerting everyone.
"No, no, no!" Judy panicked in a hushed tone.
"Someone's here!" Mayor Lionheart panicked.
"Sir, you need to go. Now!" Dr. Honey Badger told him. "Security, sweep the area!"
"Oh, no..." Patch whispered.
Mayor Lionheart and Dr. Madge leave the room as the alarm sounds. The door of the cell the others were in began to close. They try to open until they see wolves coming to the door.
"Great! We're dead!" Nick cried out as he began to back up against a toilet without realizing. "We're dead, that's it. I'm dead, you're dead, everybody's dead!"
"Nick, you realize you're next to the toilet, right?" Patch asked.
Judy suddenly had an idea from that. "Can you swim?" she asked as she put her phone in a plastic bag.
"What? Can I swim? Yes, I can swim. Why?" Nick replied before he then thought about Patch's question. "Aw, man, no, no, no, no way!"
"We are going down the toilet!" Atticus told him.
"I'd rather die than be flushed down a toilet." Cherry folded her arms.
"Guess what?" Atticus asked.
"What?" Cherry replied.
Atticus took all of them and they all fit into the toilet and flushed themselves down.
"I hate you!" Cherry glared as they went through the pipes.
Three wolves enter the room with laser guns, but one notices the toilet post-flush and cocked his head to the side with confusion.
The group soon ended up outside.
"Carrots?" Nick began to panic as he couldn't find Judy at first and actually felt worried about her. "Hopps? Judy?!"
Judy soon emerged, holding her phone in the bag. "We gotta tell Bogo!" she told him and the others as they came to the surface.
"Uh, has anyone seen Tod?" Mo asked.
"TOD!" Nick panicked for his nephew. He held his breath and swam down to find the young fox kit to save him from possibly drowning.
And where that's what Tod was doing as he hadn't learned how to swim yet. Tod tried to get back up to the surface, but his eyes lolled back into his head and he passed out before beginning to sink under the water.
Nick swam down after his nephew and held him in his arms and swam back up to shore to save him as Judy called the ZPD, she was given a hold of Clawhauser though and told him everything while the adult male fox saved his nephew's life and where he had to use CPR.
"Is he okay?" Patch worried about Tod.
"I think so..." Nick hoped.
After doing CPR three times, Tod coughed out water. Nick smiled in relief.
"Uncle Nick... You saved my life..." Tod smiled back wearily.
"Of course I did; you're my nephew." Nick smiled back.
Tod smiled brightly to that.
"Clawhauser's gonna tell Chief Bogo." Judy told the others as she hung up her phone.
"That's great." Patch smiled.
Tod soon yawned, feeling like he was going to fall asleep this time.
"Come 'ere, Slugger, you've had a big day." Nick comforted his nephew.
Tod smiled and buried his face against his uncle's chest while being held by him. He soon fell fast asleep in his uncle's arms. Nick blinked at first and soon smiled as he looked down at his sleeping nephew in his arms. It reminded him of when Lydia was born and he held her in his arms for the first time and his mother reminded him to be careful. He then sniffled slightly as he thought about his sister again and deeply regretted what he had done in the past and all he wanted to do now was apologize to her, but... She was with the angels in Heaven now.
"I promise I won't let anything happen to you, Tod." Nick whispered.
The ZPD soon swarmed the Asylum. Chief Bogo exits, bringing Mayor Lionheart in handcuffs with Judy walking beside them.
"Mayor Lionheart, you have the right to remain silent," Judy scolded the lion. "Anything-"
"You don't understand!" Mayor Lionheart interrupted. "I was trying to protect the city!"
"Yeah, right." Atticus scoffed.
"You were just trying to protect your job." Patch added sharply.
"No! Listen, we still don't know why this is happening," Mayor Lionheart replied. "It could destroy Zootopia!"
"You have the right to remain silent," Mo glared with Judy. "Anything you say can and will be used against you."
Two officers soon glare down at Nick. Nick showed his police sticker with a shrug and smirk as he was carrying a Snarlbucks coffee. Everyone soon went to bed after a very long night of crime solving and tomorrow morning would be a press conference.
Tod was having a nightmare as he was tossing and turning in bed as the words of the 'predators' biology' rang in his head. It was starting to concern him as he dreamed himself coming back home from the visit to Zootopia to see Copper as he also remembered what his uncle said about foxes and hound dogs not exactly getting along.
"Hiya, Copper, I'm back from Zootopia!" Tod smiled to his bestest best friend.
Copper didn't seem to reply, but he was only heard growling.
"Copper? It's me, Tod... Didn't you miss me?" Tod frowned.
"Get away from me," Copper snarled. "You're a fox! A vicious and bloodthirsty predator!"
"W-What?" Tod frowned. "But Copper, w-we're best friends."
Copper soon barked loudly, almost like a grown hunter dog and began to chase him.
"Copper!" Tod cried out as he began to run for his life.
The young fox and the hound soon came to a dead end.
"Copper, please, no!" Tod begged.
Copper snarled and soon lunged out for Tod to hunt and kill him like a real hound dog would do with a fox.
"NOOO!" Tod cried out.
Suddenly, everything froze.
Tod opened his eyes and looked to see everything had been paused like in a movie and the atmosphere was soon purple, the color of fear.
"Wow, this is one intense nightmare if I ever did see one from a fox." Cherry commented as she observed Tod's dream.
"Huh?" Tod asked in confusion.
"Oh, hey, Tod." Cherry waved.
"Cherry?" Tod looked at her. "What're you doing here?"
"Oh, I guess no one told you yet, I walk into people's dreams like Princess Luna," Cherry replied. "I figured you'd have some nightmares about our crime scene investigations earlier today."
"I-I did." Tod frowned.
"Yeah, I figured as much..." Cherry replied. "'Specially of that friend of yours, Copper."
"But Copper would never do that." Tod frowned.
"Yes, he won't..." Cherry replied.
"If I'm just dreaming, then can I wake up?" Tod asked.
"Sometimes when we're scared, it can feel like we're trapped in a nightmare," Cherry gave him words of wisdom that she learned from Princess Luna. "I don't believe that being born a fox doesn't make you a savage predator, I don't judge biology, I judge by how the person... Or animal lives and learns their lives."
"So, I don't have any reason to be scared?" Tod asked.
"I don't see why," Cherry replied. "You and Copper are best friends despite your differences, nothing will ever change that, even when you're all grown up."
"Y-You're right." Tod smiled.
"Of course I am..." Cherry replied rather smugly.
Tod soon felt himself being shook awake. Cherry soon took out a glowing sphere in her hand and dropped it which made everything glow white before fading to black.
"Huh? What?" Tod snorted and then woke up in a bed as he was back in the real world.
"Tod, you're finally awake," Nick said. "I heard you screaming and came in to check on you."
"I had a bad dream about Copper..." Tod pouted.
"Mind talking about it?" Nick asked as he handed a glass of water to his nephew.
Tod took it and took a drink to relax himself, once he finished, he took a deep breath and told Nick all about his nightmare as he remembered what Dr. Honey Badger said about a predator's biology.
"So then, Copper lunged out at me." Tod finished telling his uncle.
"I see..." Nick replied. "You must've been really scared about last night..."
"I was..." Tod sighed. "Cherry says that nothing will ever happen between me and Copper, but... What if she's wrong? What if we end up fighting each other like real foxes and hound dogs?"
"Well, if that does ever happen; I'll be there for you." Nick soothed his nephew.
"Promise, Uncle Nick?" Tod asked.
Nick nodded before hugging him. "I promise, little buddy."
Tod sniffled, but he soon hugged his uncle right back. "Mind if you stay with me for the rest of the night?" The poor young fox kit frowned.
"All right, buddy, I can do that." Nick decided.
"Thanks, Uncle Nick." Tod replied.
"We're gonna need a lot of rest for tomorrow anyway," Nick said as he got comfortable next to his young nephew. "Officer Hopps has an interview."
Tod nodded with a slight yawn before huddling up to his uncle as he fell asleep. Nick smiled back and hugged Tod so they could both get some sleep. Tod smiled as he had a much easier time getting to sleep.