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Judy and her squad were required to wear a tight blue one-piece-suit under the traditional soldier uniform along with a special helmet, this helmet allowed them to see which animals were aliens in disguise it was a visor in front of the individual's eye and show the green parasite-like creature in the host.

Simplified? If you see a green skull, kill it.

It was already nighttime with the four selected squads being currently transported to four different helicopters ready to be deployed in four different areas and the 'Wild Squad' was completely ready for it.

Ryder "Stripes", Thali "Cotton", Dante "D", Peyton "Big P.", all of them were ready with their seatbelts, they uniform and a rifle according to their size right in their hands waiting for Judy and Cotton to arrive who was going to "check something" as Judy said.

However, when she approached the helicopter, everyone noticed that Cotton was missing.

"Judy! Where's Fluff?" asked Dante screaming over the sound of the spinning blades.

"She should be here!" Judy replied.

"No, she's not! Where is she?" the fox insisted.

"Either she's in this helicopter or she may get into another-"

"Jud!" shouted Ryder, "You said you were going to check something! Where is she?"

The helicopter began to spin its blade with Judy now quickly securing her seatbelt and the vehicle lifting off the ground without one member after it was fully in the air all the eyes turned to Judy demanding an explanation.

"Guys!" she began to explain, "I told her to go to the helicopter! Maybe she… got in the wrong one".

"But would you tell her to go on her own to a helicopter? What were you even doing?" asked Dante again but got quickly interrupted by Ryder.

"The point is…" he said raising the voice and then lowering it "That's she's not here; she's either on another helicopter or back in the base because she missed it… Okay? Now let's not be distracted by that because tonight we have a mission to do and the last thing we need right now is to be mad at each other… especially at our leader".

There was silence for a long time and the topic was never brought up again despite everyone having questions for Judy.

"Remember that you should see a green skull in your screen" Ryder added to bury even deeper the topic.

Regardless of their little tension, the helicopter landed with a few maneuvers to avoid the debris in the ground in a very familiar spot to everyone on board, a place with many buildings all-around a place in the middle to chat and play around… or better said, was.

When the squad touched the ground everyone took a look around to inspect the surroundings realizing where they were.

"We're back in Zootopia?" asked Thali.

"We certainly are… this is the plaza," said Ryder remembering the places "Hey Jud, wh-" he turned to his right to see Judy staring at a very familiar building

At this point the only who Judy told that she was a police officer and that Cotton was her niece was Ryder, everyone else just speculated about it but this was the first time when everyone was completely sure about her previous job.

Judy was staring at the old ZPD building now destroyed for a dangerous amount of time considering they were in an open field.

"Guys! Follow me!" Judy whispered to her squad with a tone of voice audible

The squad did as told but Ryder was slightly worried, if the leader of the team was going to be distracted by this then they were going to have several problems.

They all went to the building and quickly got inside with Peyton walking backward to avoid any "surprise shots", once they were in they all looked at Judy who was trying so hard to stay strong after seeing a place she had been in for so long with someone who she talked to every single day but it wasn't easy to do it.

"So you are indeed a cop," said Dante taking a look at the big-now-destroyed place "And the only adult-… very interesting"

The four members saw her wipe some small tears but then turned around with no signs of crying returning to her 'leader' status.

"Okay, guys! I am Officer Judy Hopps and I know this place like the palm of my paw so we're gonna stay here to look for things, anything that can help us okay?!"

"Yes sir!" they all said at the same time with Peyton adding something extra

"Do we need to split?"

Judy doubted, it was a decent move to gather things more quickly but right now she didn't want to risk anything or anyone especially at night.

"No, we won't we'll just go room by room".

That was a relief but still, nobody put down the guard and continued to do what they were doing, but they didn't find anything useful as Judy would call it. Old files of now unsolved and irrelevant cases, blood spots there and then, pictures, furniture, orange fur, but mostly the same things.

Probably after being around for thirty minutes was when they all heard the first gunshots. The first instinct was of course to hide but they had been training exactly for this moment, so the only thing all of them did was to crouch and hear where the sound of the shots was coming.

They quickly found after the window of the room they were on, shattered in a million tiny pieces.

"Thali, Peyton, get down!" commanded Judy with Dante and Ryder quickly trying to spot the sniper that just attacked them.

While they did spot him, it was moving way too fast for one of the two to even properly aim also receiving close calls from the sniper who couldn't aim either for moving too fast.

"Dante! Ryder! Stop!" said Judy knowing that if they weren't going to "score" it was better to stop wasting ammo and risking their lives.

They all hid below the window but quickly everyone noticed that Thali and Peyton were nowhere to be seen.

"Thali!" Judy shouted standing up leaving the room in an instant leaving the other two in shock, alone, with a sniper targeting on them and pretty confused.

They both looked at each other trying to understand why Judy would do that in the middle of a shooting.

"For being a cop you gotta admit she's kinda bad as a leader," said Dante.

"Yeah, I admit it, now let's kill this bastard" Ryder agreed going back to his previous position.

Meanwhile, Judy was looking everywhere for Thali and Peyton but doing it in pitch black and a huge building as the ZPD was hard and stressing considering you had to add the fact that they were being hunted

"Peyton!" she shouted again realizing that it was not the brightest idea. Luckily all it took was one look up to notice a shadow going to an upper level knowing where exactly they were going: The roof.

Ryder and Dante were still in the same room trying to shoot at whoever was shooting but the situation got worse after they spotted two green skulls show up as well, that was a three vs two, duel, and now the team that had the majority had a wide range of moving while Dante and Ryder were just stuck in a room and had to stay in the same position if they wanted to have a shot at it.

They went back to hiding trying to even their "bullet-situation" given that they had some to spare, but the best they could do was to peek over the edge of the window slightly only to receive a close call and going back to hiding.

However, there was one moment where they heard three shots and everything went silent… Maybe too silent, when the two mammals peeked again they didn't saw any alien there, a few minutes later Peyton and Thali returned to the room followed by a very disappointed Judy.

In just a few seconds, what everyone was expecting happened.

"What were you guys thinking?" Judy said trying to keep her calm.

"What did you expect us to do?!" replied Peyton "To sit nice and neat while D and Stripes tried to take them down?! We took them down!"

"You can't just leave your squad like that! We are a team!"

"Jud," interrupted Dante ready to vent "You do realize that you left your squad abruptly a few minutes ago? We almost got injured; you take a nostalgic building as a refugee; you went with Fluff back in the base to 'do something'; you also were a cop and an adult in a base full of children; hugged Stripes for no reason during training, and were extremely kind to Fluff as well… All without telling us why! How is saving our lives and doing what a soldier does is bad compared to everything you've done!"

The vent was finished becoming louder and louder with every point the young fox gave leaving Judy in shock not knowing how to reply or the fact that Dante felt like this.

"I…" she tried to say "I just don't want to lose them… any of you".

"And that's why Fluff stayed behind right?"

"Guys c'mon… is just… I don't want to lose any more people".

"What about us? We've lost people too Jud, but right now we have a mission to do and we need to focus on it!"

"A mission to do what?! To kill? Like they have?"

"Are you thinking in morals right now?! Like they did? You know this world is not made out of rainbows and sweets, is not like there wasn't an evil-plan happening months ago involving someone who wanted to turn everyone against each other in Zootopia-… weren't you in that case?"

"Dante!" interrupted Thali out of nowhere "Maybe Judy is not a good leader but she has been trying to protect us, we know we've all lost someone but we should try not to lose more people we care about… If you had someone of your family left you all would be doing the same, without thinking it twice".

There was a small pause but once again Dante counter-argued

"She said 'if we stay together we'll win', and-"

"We also left!" Thali replied, "To the plain roof and we eliminated them while you two kept them distracted but this doesn't mean that we couldn't have gotten hurt!"

"Did you got hurt?" continued Dante.

"No… but we could have… It's kind of ironic and senseless, these aliens destroy the electricity cause tsunamis and plagues but can't shoot at some random kids… did you got hurt anyway?"

"I certainly didn't… Stripes?"

Everyone looked at Ryder waiting for a response given that right now he was being uncharacteristically non-speaking which felt good in an odd way.

"Yeah… I…" he began to say slowly, "I think… You know I felt this burning sensation in the neck when I was hiding and I think it barely touched me, like on the tracker-thingy, lucky call, I guess".

Just at the moment, he said 'call' everyone backed down as if they had just seen a ghost or something worst with everyone but Judy pointing their rifle at him.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Guys, chill! What's going on?!" he said also preparing his gun as an instinct

"Judy what do we do?!" asked Peyton now frightened pointing at one of his squad members.

"What do you think you're doing?! Pull the guns down!" Ryder demanded now being genuinely scared and confused.

"Pull yours first!" said Dante.

"No, wait!" interrupted Judy "Everyone, just pull their guns down! Ryder, you too! Just… let's put our guns down".

Everyone did as her leader told them to but the tension wasn't over.

"Jud, what do you want us to do?! He's one of them!" said Dante again.

"One of them?" said Ryder confused "D, c'mon if I was one of them I would have killed minutes ago! Why are you even saying this?!"

"Ryder!" Judy tried to explain it "In our screens, you're looking green! I'm just as confused as you are!"

There was finally a short pause but Thali said what everyone wanted to hear.

"Judy, what do we do?"

However Judy did not reply, instead, she casually took off her helmet, lowered the gun, and approached Ryder with her hands behind pressing on the neck just as the tiger did just a few seconds ago and suddenly the scenario repeated itself.

Now everyone was extremely confused pulling the guns once again but this time Judy got them down a bit faster.

"Wait! Wait! Pull the guns down… again, okay? I'm not an alien neither he is... I am green right?"

The group nodded.

"Yes, that's because of all of this… it's simply a game, Ryder and I are not aliens, you guys know who we are, but these helmets, these green skulls don't… don't mean anything, they're just a colorful effect".

"What are you saying?" asked Ryder from behind.

"What I mean is that probably none of the people out there are aliens, maybe they were all like us and the military just tried to test how we would react, they tried to manipulate us into their dirty work by using the people we loved".

"To kill aliens!" Peyton argued.

"No! To kill the survivors!"

"But Jud, why would the military want to kill other animals?" asked Dante.

"Because they… Vosch… they are the aliens, okay? They all lied to us, and these trackers are probably something else… something to add only to fuel their well-made illusion so we could kill everyone else faster".

There was a long pause with everyone waiting for someone to say something with Thali being that 'someone'.

"So… what do we do then? Do we just casually leave this area and hide? You know we can't go back then".

"First, we have to take off these trackers and then…" replied Judy "You guys are going to casually leave the area and hide… I have to return".

"What?" said Ryder "C'mon Judy you can't do that, it's suicide!"

"Yeah, well… I left my niece back there trying to protect her and now I just realized that it was a bad move, I must go back".

There was another pause with everyone just taking off their helmets and pulling their guns away now in a more -surprisingly- relaxed environment.

"I thought she was your daughter…" said Dante.

"Peyton," Judy replied ignoring Dante's comment "Do you know a place where I can take a bullet safely?"

Everyone's eyes widened trying to understand what Judy was going to do.

"Are you crazy?" Peyton replied "I-It's… too risky, I don't know if I can do it".

"You don't have to do it, Dante can".

"Do I have to do it?" the fox asked.

"Don't act like you didn't want to- And, yes, guys, if I go back like this they will probably check me through Wonderland again and they'll know that I know about their secret… taking a bullet and being sent to the emergency is the only way to avoid it".

"That's… pretty well-thought, I guess?" said Ryder.

"I know" was everything that Judy said.

Without saying anything else, Dante just took his rifle, and with the help of Peyton tried to deduce which one was the better spot for it.

"Let's hope you know what you're doing," said Dante before pulling the trigger

Wow! This has been my longest chapter so far, but there was so much in here that I wanted to write so I hope it's good. Next time: Nick and Zachy's plan gets in action.

See you soon!