Credit

* All Zootopia characters in this chapter belong to Disney

* The names; "France" and "Elena", are belong to me, serving their purpose to proceed the storyline.

Author Note

The title name is "In Eyes of Cape Buffalo, Lamb Arrested" - added due to the characteristic limits on the title up above.

~Second Thursday Morning~

At the hideout, about fifteen minutes after Judy Hopps woke up and talked with Pennington and Higgins, a tuskless elephant ran down the hall towards the meeting room where her acquaintances were. Once she reached the closed door, she slammed it open, startling the mammalians inside. She took time to catch her breath as the others turned their attention to her.

Once she was sure that they were all focusing on her, she spoke, "Wilde deserted us and Hopps had to go after him. She told me to let you… know that she's tracking… him down…"

~Five minutes ago~

After Judy granted Higgins permission to take her sister, Elena Hopps, to the safe place, leaving her with Pennington in the patient room. They suddenly turned their attention to the door as the red fox entered the room. The slim canine glanced at the rabbit and then he approached her, climbing onto the gurney. He sat beside her and reached to open her mouth, looking in her oral cavity for something. He furrowed his eyebrows, sighed, and then he let her go.

"Eh… what's up, Wilde?" Pennington queried. The red male glanced at the elephant, "Did she tell you the plan?"

"Yes, we already discussed the plan, like five minutes ago. And yes, I approve of that plan. So, are you going to do it?"

"… Alright. I am taking a five minute headstart. You can do the rest after that."

Judy and Francine watched Nick turn around to leave the room and disappear into the shadows. The gray rabbit turned her attention to the elephant and allowed her amethyst eyes to change into slits.

"Thanks," the tuskless elephant mumbled, insisting on thanking the first rabbit cop for letting her know beforehand.

~Half hour later~

Somewhere in the museum, the prison-suited lamb paced on one side of the circular bird's eye view exhibit. A sinister grin crept onto the once innocent light pink muzzle as she recalled that event right here in the building about seven months ago. She remembered her mistakes because that lagomorph had pulled a stunt that she hadn't expected; recording with the carrot recording pen her long winding narration of how she tried to banish the predators from Zootopia. This time she hoped that her victims weren't carrying that item and she would be able to catch them red-pawed! She suddenly stopped and snapped her attention to a location to her left, seeing the red-furred fox emerging from the darkness. She was facing the exhibit.

"Ah, Dearest Officer Wilde… it seemed like you have succumbed to the dosage this time around," she chuckled softly.

The canine approached her slowly then crouched down and bowed his head to her. She grinned and gently laid her hoof on his scalp for a brief moment. Once she was satisfied that he was tamed, she swung her hoof away from the fox and flicked her wrist at the exhibit. That was to order him to hop down below.

"Hmm," Dawn hummed whilst flicking her ear to the sound of the newcomer.

She heard multiple clicks of nails on the floor far from her. She turned her head to see a gray bunny crawling on her fours and approaching the exhibit. The lamb turned towards the exhibit and leaned over to look at the fake ground below her. Judy snapped her attention towards her mate as he stepped out of the fake bush and snarled at her. The rabbit cop hopped down into the exhibit and landed on her paws, positioning to provide him a challenge. They slowly circled in the exhibit, searching each other for an opening to attack.

"Go ahead, tear each other apart like a pair of savage monsters you are!" the ewe encouraged with a heartless tone, splaying her arms from her body.

As if to obey the command from above, the prowling-behavior mammalians lunged onto each other, catching a forearm with their teeth. They swirled around, regaining their ground while they gave each other the fake glare and nip on the forearm, which made it look like they were really in a fight. Suddenly, Judy slid her unoccupied arm under Nick's body and hauled him over her whilst releasing his forearm from her mouth. He barely had a chance to yelp as he collided with the monkey grass. The rabbit quickly turned around and glared at the stunned fox. She watched him shake his head and get up. Once he set his sight on her, he suddenly lunged onto her and they began their next biting fight.

"Yes! Go for the throat! Tear them apart!" the cruel lamb exclaimed, pumping her fist in the air.

Nick shoved his mate onto her back and pinned her biceps in the place as he growled at her. The cop bunny suddenly lifted her hind-paws onto his abdomen and gave him a hard shove, forcing him onto his side. He groaned as she attempted to straddle his chest and yowled at him. She blinked as he reached to grab her chest armor and rose from the ground with wrath on his face.

"GO FOR THE THROAT!" Dawn screamed; her patience was getting thinner as she slowly started to realize that something was wrong below her.

Judy suddenly thumped her fists on each side of Nick's neck, making him cough. She put her forepaws together and swung upward, slamming her intertwined paws on her mate's bottom paw to make him lose his grip on her chest armor. Untwining her forepaws, she thrusted her forearms onto his chest, forcing him onto his back again. The rabbit lunged her maw onto his reck, nipping there. Suddenly, he slapped his arms around the female's torso and rolled over so that he was on top of her.

"Hm? What are you doing?" Dawn inquired about the savage mammalians' behaviors, seeming confused by the fact that they had not even tried to kill each other.

The lamb continued supervising the 'battle' below her and watched them nuzzling each other's nose. She even saw the bunny licking on the red fox's muzzle happily.

"What? Hey! What are you doing? ATTACK AND KILL EACH OTHER!" the white-wooled prey snapped, showing a signal that she was unable to keep her head cool, "Tear each other apart! This is not a playtime now!"

Instead of hearing them growling at each other, she heard them laughing as they rolled onto their bellies next to each other with their forearms resting on each other's back. That showed they were best buddies instead of enemies.

"Well, Bellwether… you have been played," the voice boomed behind the lamb, which startled her and reeled to see a cape buffalo stepping out of the dark.

Slowly, each and every member of Chief Bogo's team came out of the dark, each with a smirk on their face. Only one of them, the tigress cop, carried the carrot recorder pen pushing the replay button to replay all comments that the lamb had made as she approached the ewe.

Once it finished replaying, France smirked, "It's called a hustle, sweetheart."