It was a busy afternoon at the ZPD. Judy and Nick had gotten an assignment to stakeout a jewelry store in town. Within a month, eighteen jewelry stores have been broken into and sources indicate they're all done by the same person.

Judy sat across the road from jewelry shop in Nick's van as to not raise suspicion for the perpetrators. Using binoculars she watched inventively, one hand on the binoculars while the other holding a cup of coffee which she had bought from the coffee shop two blocks down. Judy's ears pricked slightly to the sound of the van door opening and closing.

"Hey how's the whole observation thing going?" Nick asked through a mouth full of pizza. Judy dropped the binoculars and turned to him. "Really, Nick?! You're eating right now! What if the perp shows up?" Judy scowled, which Nick had replied with his famous eye rolls. "Carrots, we've been here for hours and I skipped breakfast this morning. So excuse me for being hungry."

Judy shook her head, sinking into her seat sipping on the coffee. Nick held the open pizza box to her as to offer her a slice. "I'll pass thanks, I can't snack while I'm on the job." She stated. "Come on, cottontail. You need to eat too. You skipped out on breakfast as well. Go on, eat." The fox pegged. Judy released a heavy sigh. In all honesty she was really hungry and one slice couldn't hurt. And one slice should be more than enough to fill her given the large size of the pizza and her already small body.

She put the coffee down in the cup holder, giving into to the offer from the fox. She ate quite fast, proving that she really had been hungry. Nick had been a bit of a messy eater getting melted sticky cheese all over his maw. Judy saw this and began giggling under her breath. Nick turned to her looking behind him to see what she might have been laughing at, well aware it was him.

"What? Is there something on my face?" he asked in a joking manner.

Judy laughed harder at her partner, "You eat like a five year old!"

Nick smirked and used a napkin to wipe the mess of cheese on his face. He enjoyed making her laugh, he can understand that Judy took her job seriously but there are times he would do things to help her loosen up and to not be so uptight in every situation. It was getting late and yet still no sign of the perpetrator who had been a jewelry stealing spree for the past month. Nick had taken lookout duty for Judy while she finished what was left of her coffee.

"Hmm…" The fox mused looking for any suspicious characters. "Oh would you look at."

Judy perked up quickly. "What is it?! The perp?!"

"No, worst! Some guy decided to leave the house in socks and sandals. I mean who wears socks and sandals?! It's absurd!"

Judy groaned in annoyance and punched the fox in the arm. "Will you focus please!"

Nick winces and rubbed his arm. Judy may be small but even Nick will admit she can put up a fight if she had to. "Just trying to have a little fu-" before the fox had the chance to finish his sentence a security alarm went off indicating that someone broke into the jewelry store. The two hopped out of the van and sprung into action. A hooded figure ran out of the store holding a backpack full of stolen goods. The two had given chase. While they ran Nick requested for nearby officers via his walkie-talkie. The thief ran into a company building; police cars quickly drove into the area, other ZPD officers getting out to assist. Nick and Judy tailed the thief through the building heading upstairs to the roof of the roof. Not even half way there Nick and Judy had begun to tire out from all the stairs but they pressed on.

"This place needs an escalater...!" Nick groaned. He was used to running alot but running up this much stairs through a building this tall was madness

Once they had reached the very top of the building there had been nowhere else to run to.

"You've been cornered. There's no where left to go but down." Nick stated, him and Judy having the upper hand. It was then it was noticed that this figure was also a fox, judging by the tail and the outer shape this also indicated this person was female. The other fox jumped onto the rail right at the edge of the building, keeping balance. Nick and Judy were alarmed by this, hoping the person didn't decided to jump.

"W-Wait! You don't have to do that. Just come with us!" Judy said. She cautiously moved closer. The three looked up a helicopter above them. A ladder was let down which the fox climbed on. Before the helicopter had taken flight, Nick made an attempt to grab her but instead grabbed something off from around her neck. The helicopter had flown off.

Judy fell down in defeat, confuzled at what just happened. They lost the jewelry thief. Cursing in her mind that they should have grabbed her when they had the chance.

"I can't believe it! We lost her!"

Nick didn't respond. Instead he had been staring at the item in his hand.

"Nick?" Judy turned to him in concern. The bunny looked at the item. Her eyes widening. "Is that…."

"It's a collar…." Nick finished. "Who ever she was, is part of something much much bigger than just stealing jewelry."

A/N: okay, I had to taken the collar idea from one of the first few plans in the production of Zootopia. I just changed a bit of what this is uses for. In the original plans for the movie the predators were supposed to wear electric shock collars that would administrator a shock if a predator were to become to excited or too wild. This….won't be anything like that of course. So read on to find out what happens next!