Credit

* All Zootopia characters in this chapter belong to Disney

* Sonic, Tailsko, and Robotnik belong to SEGA/Sonic Team

Author Note

No, I am not miscounting how many cops in front of Precinct One. Let me ask you a question; in Americanized Soccer or in Great Britishized Football, what type of Goalie when that individual is in the same field as their teammates are in while that individual is out of the goal post? If you guessed that it's the word, 'Player', right? Then transporting that thought to the chief. While he's on the road along with other cops, he's also a cop, but with a chief rank. Let's just say that they're all in the same group that worked for the precinct.

Just keep that in the mind when you read the numbers I put in after the ambulance left the scene.

Without further ado...

I slowly regained consciousness and opened my eyes, seeing that I was in the cryogenic tube. The first thing that came to my view was Dr. Robotnik's grinning face. I blinked at the sight of his green face. He pulled his head back, revealing a green background behind him. I suddenly realized that it wasn't green - it was the glass case that made it look green. Very typical of the doctor. I watched his mouth move in talk as he walked to the door at my left. I couldn't pick up the sound from him - that meant the green glass was soundproof, perhaps it was to prevent the loud noise from stressing the people outside this cryogenic tube. He left the room through that door. I grunted as I lifted my left paw, hearing something snap, and pressed my metacarpal pad on the glass. I blinked and gasped as I saw my paw that now covered with a metal frame instead of flesh and blood. That meant he had succeeded one of two parts of his plan - he had robotized me.

"Hmm..." I sighed, only to hear the audio sound of sighing instead.

I withdrew my left paw from the glass, turning it until I see my left metacarpal pad as I raised my right paw, and flexed my digits. I suddenly saw the image of my flesh-and-blood paws on my muzzle in the middle of my giggling pattern with Judy standing next to me. It disappeared as soon as it appeared, and my head hurt when it happened. I balled my paws into fists and slammed onto the glass case, shattering it. I flew out of the tube as the alarm echoed in the room. Slammed the floor. I attempted to get back on my hind-paws and work my way to another door, which appeared on my right. I slammed it open with my body then slammed it shut, breaking the doorknob in the process. The alarm that rang in my head didn't tone down at all as I searched for the item nearby. I saw a pipe in the trashcan to my left and grabbed it. I bent it into a U-shaped staple and slammed it on the door and the doorframe, permanently locking it in place. I shook my head to reduce the ringing as I backpedaled a couple steps from the door while I watched it shaking and banging. Suddenly, another image flashed into my sight, showing me flying in air, glancing at the empty building. That image disappeared immediately after it appeared, like the first one. I grunted as the pain in my head changed, becoming less than the second image. I glared at the shaking door as the map display appeared, showing that I was now in teh south section of the heart of Zootopia. I blinked as I realized that Dr. Robotnik had been hiding in plain sight, almost anywhere. That explained how he had disappeared from me and Sonic two days ago. He must have worked hard behind the scene. I dimmed the map display until it became translucent for me to see my surroundings easily. I turned to my right and started to walk through the alley. I flicked my ears as I listened to the noises, besides the shaking and banging sounds behind me. I heard many loud engines, many paws and hooves tapping on the concrete, many claws and hooves typing on phones, and one panting canine. I decided to follow the sound of the panting canine, which grew stronger with each step I made.

"Have you realized... that we were so far away from the center of Zootopia, right?" the male voice reached my ear as I arrived at the path that split into two, one to my left and one that went straight.

I turned my head to left since the voice came from that direction. I saw Sonic and Nick at the end of that alley. Immediately, Sonic vanished from that spot. I sighed, once again, my body produced an audio sound of sighing instead. I changed the direction where my body faced then walked to the end of the alley. As I got closer to him, I could see that he was sitting on his tail with his back to me. Once I was within two-arm lengths of Nick, I lifted my right paw and laid it on Nick's shoulder.

"Ack," he said, startling as soon as he felt physical contact between us. He turned his head to me.

I saw many tags appearing all over him. That made me realize that I had a scanner engaged. The important tags popped in sight were 'Exhausted', 'Heat', 'Stress', and 'Dehydrated'. I wondered what time it was now, and a clock appeared at bottom left of my vision, showing that it was 9:50 AM. That meant my own team had been busy for two hours and twenty minutes since I last saw them. Nick was the only member in my team who lacked the energy to keep up in the heat. He was already exhausted from all the villain hunting this morning. I moved forward to the left a little bit, then turned to my right so I could face his left side. I crouched then scooped the red fox from the street and held him like a bride. I stood up and he shook a little bit in my arms when my knees were completely unfolded. His bottom jaw dropped onto his chest as I studied his green eyes. His weight that rest on my arms was nothing much compared to the time I flew holding him below me. I lifted my wrists a little bit to secure him from slipping off my arms. I turned the translucent off on my map display then brought up the 'Address Search' menu. I typed down 'Zootopia Police Department' in the search bar. It gave me the various location of all ZPD places. I selected 'Precinct One' and set it as the destination. While it preparing up the red line to Precinct One, I turned the translucent on to dim the map display once again. Nick's gaze was fixed on me as I started walking on the street as the red line appeared on the translucent map display. For each step I made, Nick's body vibrated and swayed slightly while he stared at me listlessly. I was unsure if it was from his exhaustion or my being a robot that made him like that. If it was the latter, I would agree with that kind of response as I would be sad and upset if I allowed my mate to become a robot. I blinked as I looked deep in his dull green eyes, searching for his soul through them.

"It's alright, Nick. I am still here. Dr. Robotnik has failed to strip my free will. And I am absolute sure he won't coming after me while I am alone," I assured him about my self-consciousness.

He slowly closed his gaping mouth. I detected him start to relax in my arms. His eyelids started closing as his head slowly turned to my right upper arm. Regardless his exhaustion, his green eyes were still set on me as if he still wanted to keep my face in sight, securing himself from my... how could I word it; hostile attack on him? After I counted to twenty steps, his eyes closed, and the 'Stress' tag vanished from my scanner. It was a signal that he had relaxed in my arms. His sleeping face comforted me, so I kept my eyes on him for few more steps while I kept watching the translucent map display. The map showed that I was still on course. The boys had been working hard to find the villains on their hind-paws while Judy and I searched for the villains from the sky. That plan failed, like the one from yesterday. Oh, and the boys were so close to discovering Dr. Robotnik, yet he slipped from their paws again. Though I didn't know Nick Wilde that well, I understood that he wasn't fit to fight on the street as a cop. An image flashed in my sight, showing me that I talked with Chief Bogo on my own. That image disappeared immediately after. I did have a small talk with the chief this morning before Sonic joined me in the private meeting room. At that time, I was told that Nick had just graduated from Police Academy a few months ago. A red exclamation mark appeared in middle of my sight, alerting me of approaching the zootopians on my path. I blinked as i lifted my attention to the street where I walked. The zootopians moved out of the way as I walked toward the precinct. They didn't know about my alert sense, but at least they were friendly enough to move out of the way. I was sure that they saw me as non-threatening person. I blinked once again as red blinking box appeared on the sheep's hoof to my left, at least twelve paws ahead. I glanced at him and locked my sight on his hoof. It appeared that my scanner was tracking his cell phone, or 'cPhone' as scanner called it, when he typed a number on it. He shifted his sight onto me as I approached him, then he put his phone to side of his head. I nodded to him with a grateful gesture, then he mused something on the cPhone's speaker as I walked past him. I could guess that he was informing the Chief of Precinct One as I read the number that he typed down. Perhaps he was one of the secret agents under Chief Bogo's wing, or something like that. After that, I spent fifteen minutes focusing on the path, making a few turns to bypass buildings, waiting at red lights, and traveling through the crowds. More stares, but those were not worth my irritation. I reached the end of the crowd and was able to see the precinct beyond the crowd, on the other side of the road. I glanced at both sides, checking for approaching vehicles, but they were stopped at the crosswalks. I looked up to the traffic light and saw that it displayed the green fox figurine in walking position. I took the opportunity to walk over the crosswalk to the precinct. Once I arrived at the edge of the parking lot, I saw Chief Bogo standing outside the precinct.

"Chief Bogo," I called out, slowly approaching the building, "Nick is fine, but he is exhausted. I recommend you think about his limits."

He stared at me solemnly, "How can you know about the limits?"

"This morning, I was in your office, having a small conversation with you about Nick Wilde's addition to your employee list. I was told that he only joined a few months ago and wasn't able to keep up with the fighting and running at first. I left your office and attended a private meeting room just to have Sonic, Judy, and Nick join me. Need I give more details?" I described my early morning to him.

He considered, then nodded, "Good. I will reflect on his limits after this problem get sorted out. Please, leave him on the driveway in front of me, at an estimated seven to ten paws away. I will go check on him and get him to the medical care once you are at an appropriate distance."

I nodded in understanding as I stopped at specified distance then crouched down so I could lay the unconscious fox on the concrete gently. His head rolled away from my upper arm when I unfolded my elbows. I pressed my right metacarpal pad on his muzzle as his head slipped down my forearm then carefully laid his muzzle on the road. Once his nose touched the concrete, I pulled my right paw from the right side of his muzzle. I had no problem withdrawing my left paw from his legs because his hind-paws touched the concrete first, leaving his knees in the air. When my paws left his body, I stood up then backpedaled a few steps.

While I backpedaled from Nick, I heard the conversation between Chief Bogo and the tigress; "I believe in Prower. Yes, she was captured, but she got away from Robotnik seized a chance to plant a tracker on her or turn her into one of those cheetahs that Hopps fought yesterday."

"I need to know if you do believe her. Is there any proof that it is her?"

"She remembered our discussion this morning while she was in my office. She even knows about Wilde's condition. That was enough for me to believe her."

"Yessir. If you believe her, then I do the same. After all, I was at my top form in the force and I haven't failed you once."

"Good. Thank you."

I glanced at the ambulance to my left and saw several otters standing there, preparing the gurney. When I was ten steps away from Nick, the cape buffalo paced to the downed cop. I stood at that spot, glancing at him as he checked on his downed officer. I also saw the tigress watching me carefully, checking on me just in case. The chief turned his head to the ambulance and waved at the otters surrounding it. They moved the gurney to the chief and the fox, then they loaded the fox on the gurney, laying him properly. They moved back to the ambulance and loaded the gurney into it. With the double doors shut, the ambulance turned on its siren and left the scene. I suddenly jerked my head back to the precinct as maroon light flashed and the alarm rang in my ears. The alarm was loud enough to startle the people surrounding me. I saw a dozen cops in front of the building with their guns aimed at me. I flinched and winced as bright red boxes popped into my sight with their size scaling to the cops' paws and guns. I counted at least nineteen cops and one chief and only seventeen of the cops aimed their guns at me. Chief Bogo turned his head to me as soon as he heard my alarm and noticed my immediately reaction. He instantly turned to his employees and stood on his hind-paws.

"Hey, holster your guns this instant!" he hollered at them. He jogged toward the cops with his arms waving in the air as he continued bellowing, "If you don't, I am stuffing you all in the meter maid cart that Hopps used on her first days as a cop. I will be sure to keep you in that cart for the rest of this month, weapons confiscated!"

That terrified the cops, with the exception of the tigress, and they holstered their guns as they were told. While they holstered their guns, the bright red box that targeted them disappeared, then the maroon light turned off, returning my sight to normal. I closed my eyes and shook my head then opened my eyes to look at Chief Bogo. He sighed, turning to me with a stressed gaze. For a split-second, I saw the tigress moving to his side and the name tag appeared above her head, reading 'Fangmeyer Tigress'.

"Hope that makes them behave better. So Robotnik have done that to you, yes?" the chief asked, referring to my appearance.

I looked at the concrete where Nick lay a minute ago, scanning my memory data from before I got robotized. There were few images that popped in my memory data, the first two images were what I first recalled after I woke up inside the cryogenic tube... or was it a robotizing device? The third one displayed me cornered up by the robotized cheetahs and separating me from Judy. I lifted my attention back to him as I shrank the images to one of hundredth size and put them at the bottom right corner of my sight.

I spoke, "Shortly after Judy and I split from Sonic and Nick, Judy suggested that I fly to the blue building that pairs up with the orange building. I carried her up there then we were caught off guard by Dr. Robotnik right after I landed on the top floor. I don't know what happened to Judy but... during the two hours and twenty minutes between 7:30 AM and 9:50 AM, Dr. Robotnik captured me and robotized me."

I blinked and tilted my head a little bit as I continued, "His original goal of having me robotized was so that he could dismantle me in front of Sonic. He insisted to do that to break Sonic apart, physically and mentally. Right now, I am the only one remaining of Sonic's original group that kept his sanity. As soon as Dr. Robotnik left the room while I was still inside the device, I took the chance to escape and got out of the room."

I lifted my head back to its original position as I watched the rhino officer with the name tag displaying above his head as 'McHorn' walk to the chief, musing to his ear that I detected, "It's all part of the trick, let's not believe in that scrap..."

Chief Bogo shook his head and held his fist in the air while Fangmeyer walked to McHorn with a concern expression. The chief spoke, "McHorn, no! Shut that blasted horn of yours this instant! Or should I double the length of time you spend in the meter maid cart? Four times?"

I watched McHorn swallowed his pride and back off from the chief. After five seconds of waiting, the cape buffalo grunted, waving his hanging paw to let Officer Fangmeyer, or Officer Tigress as my scanner recognized her, to take charge of the officers behind him. She shooed them out of sight and put them back on the duties they were supposed to handle today. The scanner flashed a word, 'observed', in my sight, drawing my attention back to the chief. He stared at me, testing my reaction.

"Are you armed?" he asked.

I lifted my arms in the air, "Nothing - I triggered the alarm the instant I broke out of the device. Also, Dr. Robotnik insisted to dismantle me in front of Sonic to make him breakdown faster."

Chief Bogo nodded in understanding, gesturing for me to follow him and Officer Tigress. I jogged to them then walked with them into the precinct. The thick-skinned cheetah with the name tag hanging above his head as 'Clawhauser' watched us worryingly as we moved toward the private meeting room. The chief told the dispatcher to call the mechanics and get them here on the double. The dispatcher nodded in understanding, then proceeded to call them. We moved past his desk without any warning. It was clear that Chief Bogo was, indeed, in charge of his department, bombing any officer if they stirred the rumor of my appearance or pulled their guns out instinctively. We entered the private meeting room that my friends and I had used since yesterday. I was the last one to enter the room, so I turned to the door and shut it behind me. I turned to the cape buffalo. He, along with Officer Tigress, was already seated at the table. He gestured me to take a seat, which I happily obliged.

"Before we start, I con confide that you will use the cPhone in your pocket. I will just transfer the images from my mind to it so you know where I was last time I saw Judy and Sonic," I opened with a question, sitting on the chair on opposite side of the table.

The chief and the officer turned their heads to each other, then nodded. Officer Tigress pulled out her cPhone and unlocked it then laid it on the table. I looked at her cPhone to link it with my scanner.

"So, where were you when you got captured?" Chief Bogo asked with the pencil and pad in his paws, ready to write any information I gave.

I blinked as I responded, sending the third image from my sight to the cPhone, "At the top of the blue building. I am sure you know that building next to the orange one."

"Yes, I know that one. So where were you when you regained consciousness?" he nodded, glancing at the phone that beeped when the image appeared on the screen, then writing my response down on his pad.

I glanced to my left, looking at Officer Tigress as she witnessed our discussion. The image of the green screen with Dr. Robotnik in middle of it appeared in my sight. I shrank the image to the left then added the map display of its location in the empty space. I sent that image of the map display to the cPhone.

I spoke, "In the alley in the south section of the heart of Zootopia, I was behind Sonic and Nick by a few steps and two turns. You will be able to track that base down on the map I just transferred. However, Sonic left me and Nick in the dust. I knew too well that Sonic has a bad habit of going and checking on something that is completely off the course of his main goal."

"Ah. That would explain why you carried Nick back here," Chief Bogo said, flicking his pencil in the air, drawing my attention back to him. He put the eraser end of the pencil on his chin and scratched as he glanced at the phone that beeped again, "Wilde's energy must be... what should I say? Deserting him?

"Anyway - do you know where that blasted hedgehog has gone into?" He spat, returning to his serious side with his pencil above the pad.

I turned my eyes to the ceiling at my right as I reviewed the memory data in my head. The image that appeared in my sight was when I saw the boys for a split-second before Sonic vanished. I transferred that picture into Officer Tigress' cPhone then I returned my attention to the chief.

I replied, "The same building that I flew up with Judy two hours and twenty minutes earlier. That's perhaps where he went."

The phone beeped as it retrieved the image I had transferred. The cape buffalo nodded and wrote my response on the pad.

"I see. And you still don't know where Hopps is, right?" he said, glancing at me for my answer.

"Yes," I shook my head in agreement, "Last time I saw her, she was fighting against a dozen of robotized cheetahs. Then Dr. Robotnik walked up to me, ordering one of them behind me to knock me out."

While I talked, I sent the image of my witnessing Judy being trapped by so many robotized cheetahs to Officer Tigress' phone. It beeped as soon as I finished talking, displaying the image that I saw. Chief Bogo and Officer Tigress watched the image on her phone, grimacing at the fact that Dr. Robotnik had us all beaten.

"It's a shame that he upped his game. I was sure that Hopps and Wilde could handle them, but after Robotnik entered here yesterday, they are dancing in his palm... bah, whatever! I am furious not only to have a tired cop here, but to be unable to track down what blasted rabbit. Where the heck are those mechanics I requested?" Chief Bogo said, slamming his pencil on the table so hard it broke the pencil into two.

At the same time that he finished asking his question, the door opened with a sudden burst. I turned my head to the door and saw Clawhauser panting. He replied, "They... won't come... because they... didn't trust... in the..."

"Augh, blast them. Thank you for telling me this, Clawhauser. Come with me," the chief said, standing up and walking to the door with the pad in his paw. His last three words were for me and Officer Tigress.

Officer Tigress picked up her phone and we left the table then followed him out of the private meeting room. We stopped once we were within the thick-skinned cheetah's sight.

"Alight, Fangmeyer and Clawhauser, you are in the charge of this place until I get back," the cape buffalo said.

Officer Tigress nodded, "Ah, and the message came from the 'Otter Medical Hospital', where Officer Wilde is currently being taken care of."

The chief nodded in understanding. The tigress moved to Clawhauser and assisted him back to his desk. Chief Bogo and I walked through the building toward the garage. He glared at each and every clueless officer that tried to question my appearance. Once we reached the door, he opened the door and walked through it with me following. We got in his personal cruiser and clicked our seat belts on. He drove us out of the garage and headed to the local area where Nick had been transferred. While the cape buffalo drove, I craned my neck to look at the passing buildings. My scanner automatically picked up the names of the places as we rolled by. The majority of those names were not important to me, but I let the scanner track them. I glanced at the building with Nick's name tag hanging above it.

"Nick's at that building - his name tag is hanging over that hospital building," I said, reminding my friends' boss of Nick's whereabout.

Chief Bogo nodded as he slowed the vehicle then steered into the parking lot, "Yes, that's the name Fangmeyer said. Thanks for pinpointing which building it is. Those buildings are all look same, I swear."

With a couple of turns to an empty parking slot and he parked, we took the belts off and left the vehicle. I followed the cape buffalo into the hospital. He gave the stink eyes to the mammalians that stared at me, showing them that they shouldn't be that way. I had a feeling that it was one of those things I would get used to. We arrived at the front desk and he asked for the room number that Nick was in. The next minute, we walked down the hall toward Patient Room #104. We arrived at the room and found that it was occupied by several nurses, who were busy giving Nick all the comfort he needed. All the nurses in that room were otters. I turned my head to the chief as he crouched down to look in the room.

"Nick is not in life-threatening condition. He exhausted himself searching for Dr. Robotnik. So, for now, he needs to recover from it," I assured as he turned his attention to me.

He nodded, grumping as he sat down with his back on the wall next to the door, "Alright. I will give them fifteen minutes to get it wrapped up."

I nodded then I turned my head back to the room and walked in, all in one motion. I went to the unoccupied chair in the corner of the room, away from the patient bed, and sat on it. While I overviewed the bed, the scanner came up. It displayed all the conditions of Nick had at this minute. The following tags that appeared were; 'Exhaustion', 'Stress', and the percentage of water that appeared at his mouth, displaying '15%'. One of the nurses, who was next to Nick's head, looked up at me, giving me a chance to respond.

"He need more water in his mouth. Just give him a sip from time to time," I replied.

She nodded, taking my suggestion to heart, then turned back to her work, proceeded to get a cup of water, and moistened Nick's mouth. That raised the percent of water to '20%'. I blinked as I watched the nurses continue to work their hardest, making sure that he got comfortable in the patient bed. Every three minutes, the same nurse poured a little bit of water into Nick's mouth, raising the percent of water to '24%', '28%', '32%', and finally '36%'. It was twelve minutes since I advised her to keep his mouth moistened. The nurses nodded their heads to each other in their satisfaction at getting Nick comfortable. They started leaving the room in a single file.

"Hope he recovers well," one of the nurses said with a hearty tone.

"Same here," another nurse replied.

"I don't know about you, but hope you both are on good terms," the third nurse commented to me.

The rest left in silence with the exception of the one who heeded my advice. She stopped and glanced at me.

"I am sure you can handle the job I was doing. And thank you for your advice, it helped," she said.

I nodded to her as she left. At that minute, I noticed that the door to Patient Room #104 was too small for Chief Bogo to physically enter the room. After all, this hospital was building for mammalians of the size of fox or smaller. That explained why he had to sit outside the room, waiting for Nick to wake up, before he could gain information from Nick. I don't think that it's possible to do that at this time. I was sure that the chief felt my eyes on him.

"Argh... at first, Hopps got knocked out yesterday but recovered alright. Today, Wilde's out cold right here and Hopps has gone missing. What's with this Robotnik guy, who likes to lullaby my officers into sleep?" the cape buffalo complained, throwing his arms in the air, nearly hit the ceiling.

I could see the tags hanging around him as the following; 'Worry', 'Panic', and 'Alarm'. He was a tough guy to let his emotions wash him down. I considered for a minute how to reply to that question.

I answered, "Perhaps you shall provide them some back-up support so they can't be attacked like this."

He thudded his fists on the floor and turned to me with his head poking inside the room, displaying his angry face. He snapped, "Do you want me to suffocate you, Prower?"

I stood up, turned my body to him and held my arms in a T-shape. I replied, "Go ahead and try. It's impossible to suffocate me for two reasons. I am a robot right now and if you dismantle me, you will also break your best cops down quicker."

He stared at me angrily then he pulled his head out of the patient room then stomped back to the lobby. I dropped my arms to my sides, turned to the patient bed and walked to the chair next to the bed. I sat on it, finding that it was made for a bunny or otter. I turned my head to Nick's sleeping form, seeing many tags popping in my sight, thanking to my scanner. I grabbed the cup of water and poured a little bit of water in his mouth, raising the percent of water to '35%', and returned the cup to the table. I stretched my left paw to Nick's right paw and intertwined with his digits. This was all I could do to comfort him then.