In the tower Mark was poking the blue capsule with a syringe taking a sample of the Nighthowler, looking at it under his microscope as Tyler had his arm crossed leaning against the wall.

"could you make an antidote?" Tyler asked taking a bite of an energy bar as Mark scoffed.

"Of course I can, with some time and testing, but the fact is I would need a subject to do some testing on," Mark said adjusting the scope of the microscope as laura was eating from a bucket of popcorn.

'What kind of testing?" Peter asked, chomping on popcorn as mark flicked the syringe.

"I'm gonna willing expose you to the virus and test synthesized antidotes on you" Mark replied as Luara dropped the bucket, hoping he wasn't serious about infecting Peter with Nighthowler as he handed the pig a syringe with green liquid

'These should nullify your flame abilities for few minutes, don't want you roasting one of us when you're infected" Mark said as Laura looked at him.

"You're really gonna infect him," Luara said as Peter was backing against the wall as Mark reached for a tranquilizer gun on the desk, approaching Peter as he bolted for the door, trying to open as it would not budge.

"Your the best bet, Nick and Tyler are too strong to restrain, Alice can bend reality and Luara's lasers can cut through anything, your the least risk" Mark explained prepping the green syringe as Peter looked back at him.

"And there is no better way... If it's for the good for the city" Peter said walking into the containment room. he was willing to do this as Mark, walked to him infecting him with Nighthowler as Peter fell on his knees scratching himself fiercely.

"Quick get him in containment," Mark said as Laura and Tyler carried the pig to a contained area, locking him in. as Tyler looked at Mark telling him they needed to go public with this, if this junk could also infect Peter, that meant it wasn't exclusive to predatory mammals, footage of this could seriously help the city as Mark rubbed his chin.

"My moral compass is telling me it would be wrong to film my friend in such a state, but it also told me I should not be infecting my friend with a virus anyway, so let's get this over with, get Alice and tell her to bring a camera," Mark said as the white rabbit teleported in the room wearing director's garb.

"Okay let's get this picture done, first we need better lighting, this whole place scream's mad scientist, which isn't bad" Alice pull pulling a tripod out of thin air, propping it on Mark, Luara, and Tyler, who upon a snap from Alice were all in costume.

"And we're rolling, Action" Alice yelled through a megaphone, nearly deafening the cast as Mark looked at the camera.

"Citizens of Zotopia, my name is Steelwool, leader of the Meta Brotherhood, a superhero team that has debuted this year. recently it has been brought to our attention of mammals reverting back into a feral state, being a mammal of science and a hero, I saw it fit to run some tests of our fellow teammate Infierno, with his permission of course" Mark said as Alice turned the camera to the containment room where the Infierno was on all four, fully reverting, running around, engulfed in flames.

"now I know what you are probably thinking, How is Infeirno infected, arent only predatory mammals the only ones getting infected?" Mark asked as Alice was walking up, eating a slice of the cake she had made.

"I wasn't here for when Infierno started going screwballs, care to explain," Alice said biting into the cake wedge as Mark held of the syringe with blue liquid, asking Alice to get a close up of the syringe.

"This is a plant, commonly referred to Nighthowler, in its natural state it causes mild hallucinations, feelings of hunger, increased anger and pain tolerance, this strain was manufactured, someone is specifically infecting mammals," Mark said as Alice dropped her cake slice, looking at the slice on the floor.

"As you can see by Infierno, this virus is not limited to predators, we are all targets for whoever is doing this, I give you my word. The Meta Brotherhood will find out who is doing this and we will make a cure for this, you got all of that?" Mark asked as Alice turned off the camera.

'That room is fireproof, so peter will be fine, I'll get started on an antidote, should take a day at most with my tech, Alice get that tape to the news, tell them to run it" Mark said as Alice used her finger to slide the piece of cake into the containment room as Peter began chomping down on the pink dessert.

"Aww, that's so cute," Alice said as Mark looked at her.

"Let's not humiliate him any more than necessary" Mark said as Alice span around, changing into a postal outfit.

"Alice Lyte express mail, on the way," the white rabbit said teleporting away.

At Dawn's apartment, Judy was sitting on the sofa, resting her leg as she was watching TV, dawn came on with some soup, setting it besides Judy as the rabbit thanked her, running the spoon against the bowl of soup, tasting the mixture.

Is this a homemade recipe?" Judy asked as Dawn nodded, saying her mother taught her how to cook as Dawn looked at Judy, watching cartoons to get her mind off things.

"We should probably watch some real TV" Dawn said switching the channel to ZNN news as they were commenting on Heavy Metal, stopping a car thief that took place earlier, saying the bear managed to rip the car's bumpers up and tie the horse up with it.

"And to the police an hour to cut off the bumpers, the horse is Alex Rodman, believed to have ties to an auto chopping ring, we'll update with any developments, and next can The biggest rubber band ball, coming to Zootopia," the reporters said as Alice poofed on camera startling the two reporters.

"Whoops, is that that the biggest Rubberband Ball?" Alice said shifting her attention to the novelty item on camera as she remembered the tape.

"Here, breaking news on the feral mammal case, courtesy of the Meta Brotherhood, now if you excuse me, I'm going to see the Rubberband ball," Alice said handing the tape to the deer reporter as she poofed out appearing on the screen at the rubberband ball event as he two reporters looked at each other dumbfounded, glancing at the tape.

"I guess, we have breaking news in the Savage mammal case, who just let that child in here," the deer said as the leopard handed the tape to the camera guys who began playing the footage.

"Greeting Citizens of Zootopia, My name is Steelwool, Leader of the Meta Brotherhood," The tape said as the footage of the infected Infierno was being shown to the whole city as Steelwool explained the presence of this drug called Nighthowler and how they were working on an antidote as Judy and Dawn were watching.

"Well, that's good," Judy said looking at Dawn as the ewe threw the remote on the floor in a fit.

"Good, do you what this will do, this will cause public outrage, the fact that a drug can make citizens act up. that means someone is doing the is deliberate, which only creates panic. as a natural event, it can be contained but this is a PR nightmare" Dawn frantically said reminding Judy that she was the one to handle this hot potato.

But this means it's not genetic, this could help the predator population, Infierno was a pig. this means anyone can be infected" Judy retorted as Dawn told her that made things worse.

"I can't bury this, might as well try to spin this, and handle it," Dawn said falling on her couch in a slump, as Judy suggested getting an interview with the Brotherhood, and if this could be cured that would help things lot as Dawn reluctantly agreed.

"The public will chew me out over this" Dawn said flicking the channel to calm down.

Back at the tower, Alice poofed in carrying souvenirs, from seeing the world's biggest rubber band ball.

"Guys, the world's biggest rubber band ball is in the city," Alice said, her arms overflowing with knickknacks as the looked at her, not surprised Alice got distracted.

"At least she delivered the tape," Laura said, lollipop in her mouth