Credit:

* All Zootopia characters in this chapter belong to Disney

* "Vivian" and "Baro" mentioned in this chapter were chosen by me for characters' speaking, though both Mrs. Wilde and Chief Bogo belong to Disney

* Chief Black (at beginning part, before Judy left Precinct One) belong to me

~First Thursday Morning~

After Judy made sure that her sister was under her landlady's care, she left the apartment and made her way to Sahara Sweets. She entered and walked to the counter, where she encountered Charlotte Sebastian, the black jaguar who had served the diner as a waitress and was now its manager.

"WildHops order, as usual, Miss Hopps?" the manager confirmed. She escorted the grey rabbit to her usual table and received a nod from her. Charlotte finished, "Alright, stay warm, I will be back with your meal soon."

Judy got on her seat by the window as she had an hour on her own. Her meal wouldn't take long to come out. The meal was a cup of black coffee and a carrot muffin that could easily be cooked in five minutes. In addition to her waiting, she was deep in thought about the reason her partner hadn't shown up for the past two days, three if he missed today. Her breakfast came quickly and was gone quickly as she devoured it. Her mind was focus on Nick when she got off her seat with the cup of coffee still in her forepaw, then she worked her way toward the casher and paid for the meal.

"Hm," she said, put her free forepaw on her chin. She walked her way toward Precinct One. She was still unaware that her coffee made her move more quickly.

While she entered Precinct One, she was completely oblivious to the mammalians. Clawhauser called her with a hello, drawing her mind back to reality.

"Oh, the shell was I doing?" the first cop rabbit mumbled. She just realized that she was in a different place while she was concerned about Nick.

"Roll Call; 7:25 AM, you're on time!" the dispatcher commented.

"Oh… thanks- glad that I made in time," she mumbled. She went to tag her I.D. in, signing in for her work this day.

She tossed the empty cup into the trashcan. She made her way to the bullpen and sat on her seat, which she shared with her partner for seven months. She frowned at the fact that her partner was still absent…for the third day. An ebony wolf walked his way in the noisy bullpen and slammed a thick bundle of case files on the podium. That literally shut down the noise, as if it was switched off. He approached and passed the multiple cases to various teams with the exception of Judy's - he passed a single, thin file to her and was about to send her out.

"What? Wait, sir! Why must I go and apprehend the sloth?" Judy hollered. She stood up on the chair and laid the folder on the table before she rest her left forepaw on her hip.

Chief Black nodded with his forepaws rest behind his back. He responded, "He made a mistake so it's time for him to learn his lesson. Once a mistake, always a mistake! Now take this case, or put your badge on my desk."

Judy blinked as the words from the new chief sank in. She flinched as the door shut loudly. She grunted a little bit and tumbled her pocket then she let out a sigh. She made up her mind as she picked the folder up and closed it, then she got off the chair. She left the bullpen. A few minutes after she left Precinct One, the bunny put the folder into the shredder. The folder was mixed into million pieces of paper. She blinked as she reached for her cPhone, pulled it out, and selected the mobile tracking app to locate the chief she knew. Once she got him tracked, she went to the Zootopia General Train and got aboard one of them. While she rode the rain for a few miles, she checked her text message app, and found that she had received no messages from Nick. She was concerned about his disappearance. She closed her eyes and sighed as she closed the text message app and returned to the mobile tracking app. She opened her eyes and saw that she was closer to where her chief was. She got off at the stop and continued on paws. The rabbit walked until she reached the mysterious building and entered that building. Since she was under the no-wifi building, she closed the app and put her cPhone on idle mode before she pocketed it. She walked her way through several hallways until she picked up a familiar breath on her left. The cop bunny turned to the door that contained her boss and entered that room without a second thought. After her fourth step into the room, she hesitated and slowly looked up to her left. Her sight met the cape buffalo. He was sitting on the chair made out of metal and old leather that sat next to the door. She looked at him with a bland expression at the same time he looked at her with a surprised expression.

"What are you doing here?" Bogo asked. His voice boomed in the room. He continued, "Aren't you supposed to take the case from Chief Black?"

Judy closed her eyes as she turned her head back to the floor then she took a couple of steps forth. She answered, "Though you're no longer the chief, I still prefer you over him. I took two cases from him so far, and I already don't like him. I had to relinquish the second one… to attempt to apprehend Flash the Fastest Sloth on toes."

Before the cape buffalo could say anymore, the red vixen stepped from Judy's blindspot and approached her. The elder rested her forepaw on the cop's shoulder, drawing her attention to the red vixen.

"Mrs. Wilde? Vivian?" Officer Hopps inquired once she saw her partner's parent. She recognized her from the graduation ceremony when Nick became an officer.

"Yes. I am glad that you haven't forgotten me a half year later," the elder mammalian confirmed. She scooped the rabbit into a hug. She continued, "So how did you manage to find us? And also, why didn't you just follow orders, like Baro asked?"

"I tracked his phone using a tracking app. So I used it to reach here," Judy explained. That made Bogo stand up faster than one could blink and pull his phone out to turn off the option of being tracked. The bunny continued, "And the new chief is not in my… comfort zone. If I had to choose, it's Chief Bogo. I grew fond with his profound voice and the way of how he managed Precinct One. That part was what i didn't want to lose."

Vivian opened her mouth but didn't say anything. She closed her jaw then she nodded in understand. However, Judy continued, "So if you're here, then where's Nick? Have you seen him?"

The red vixen shook her head, showing that she chose to ignore the questions. She replied with her snout pointing at the gurney, "Well, please take a seat on that gurney over there."

The elder lady withdrew her forepaws from the rabbit. Judy glared at the platform then she worked her way to it and jumped to the gurney that was made for horse mammalians. She sat on the gurney and waited for the next action. The ex-chief displayed a soft, but grumpy expression due to him being thrown off guard by the first smallest valedictorian's ability of locate him. Judy turned from the red vixen to the cape buffalo as he stomped toward her. His narrow brown eyes drilled into her innocent amethyst eyes as he weighed his thoughts on her bond with him. He closed his eyes as he finalized his decision.

"By the ancestor…" he mumbled. He turned and stomped his way back to the table and opened the suitcase. He spoke, "If you truly trust me, then you should love the idea that I am using- no, I have to use it on you."

Judy blinked as she watched her ex-boss remove something from the protective case, but she could not be sure of what he was planning to do with her. She exhaled lightly as she watched him turn to her with his fore-hooves already formed into fists, which concealed the item from her. Her eyes shifted from his hooves to his face, which she realized that she was questioning her with his gaze.

"Whatever you say, I prefer to accept any orders from you over those from Chief Black - I have more faith in you," the prey admitted. Her former boss moved closer to her with loud thumps from his hind hooves.

"That's good to know," Ex-Chief Bogo replied, "Please sit on your knees and face to your right, Hopps."

Judy took a chance to check on her partner's mother as the latter walked out of the room and disappeared behind the wall. After that, the rabbit obeyed her superior's words by positioning her knees together on the platform with her hind paws under her fluffy tail as well as her body facing to her ex-chief's left. As soon as she got settled, she felt his hoof on the back of her head. She turned her amethyst eyes to him anxiously.

"It's the only choice… please… accept it," the cape buffalo whispered. After a few seconds of silence from the rabbit, he swung Judy's head toward the platform, slamming her muzzle there.

With pain exploding in her head, she instinctively squished under his strong hoof as she felt something piercing the nape of her neck. She felt the chemical liquid injected into her body. She blinked quickly to prevent tears from flowing out of her eyes. The light focused on the grey rabbit as the cape buffalo's arms withdrew from her, acknowledging that she was now under the effect of the unknown drug.

"Argh," Judy grunted. She felt the chemical liquid starting to spread in her, like a set of cold knives cutting her skin, muscles, and nervous system at once.

She struggled to stay together, only for a minute. She opened amethyst eyes that revealed her pupils slowly stretch into the slit forms, allowing her to see the scratch details on the platform that she was crouching on. Her mind was on the war with the new-developed insane consciousness once the injection started to take effect. Her sane mind was stronger as it proved by keeping her body under her control. It was because she was focused on the goal of trust in her superior. However, her throat started hissing, her mouth opened that bared her buck teeth aggressively, like a true predator would do.

Her body started to twitch and thrash in each direction slowly and softly, she whispered an only name; "Nick…"

Adding her partner to her thoughts, along with her favorite chief, she started looking in the direction of where he was supposed to be. She learned that she was the only mammalian presented in the room, which suggested to her that he had left the same way Vivian did. Judy still had her trust and believed in him as she started to understand why he left. She had to deal with the insanity, she recognized it as "savage", building inside her on her own as well as she would have had to keep the others from being injured if they had stayed in the room. The final reason of her taking this dosage was because she had become a fugitive by defecting from Chief Black and destroying the case file that she was forced to take.

"Argh," she grunted again. Her body tweaked and thrashed in each direction, this time, quicker and stronger than before.

It was the injection that had improved her "savage" consciousness greatly.

Her body felt like it was on fire and her sanity wanted to succumb to the effect of the drug, but her faith in her partner and the cape buffalo was well as her stubbornness prevented her mind from admitting into it. She blinked as she returned her attention to the platform she was crouching on. She realized that her retractable claws scratched the metal surface. It was the sign that her "savage" side had started to win the mentally battle. She had to take the reins back from the 'monster' inside her by pulled her paws which were now fists, from the surface and swinging them down onto the platform. She pounded on the surface as much as possible to beat her "savage" consciousness back to the way as she wanted it. She started to feel pain through her forepaws as she banged on the platform. However, each time she hurt her forepaws, the pain was reduced by half. After she hit the platform fifteen times, she stopped pounding on the platform. She gasped and panted as she realized that her body was back in her control. Her forepaws shook in pain.

"Nick!" she screamed as she stood up and threw her arms back.

Judy was already aware of a source inside her that started to grow, but she couldn't put a claw on. As soon as her mind was focused on something different, her "savage" consciousness stole the reins from her grasp. That forced her body to turn to the door and dash from the gurney to the door. With her hind paws on the floor, her forepaws pounded on the door. The door held out well. Her self-awareness snapped back to reality and started to wrestle control back from her "savage" side. Once she took back control, she shook her head and stepped back a little bit. She moved backward until her back met the sink drawer, where she slid down into a sitting position. With her eyes closed, she moved her right forepaw to her left shoulder, where she clasped her police uniform. As the injection inside her became stronger, it boosted her "savage" consciousness with better control. It made the battle much more difficult for her. With the right tweaking, she yanked her upper sleeve and split it between her shoulder and her gauntlet. She also ripped the sleeve from her gauntlet, resulting in it hanging form her shoulder. It helped her to retake full control of her body. She started panting as she struggled to open her amethyst eyes, which were still had slit pupils instead of her usual round ones. She slowly checked the room out. She knew that she hadn't had full control of her new abilities since Chief Bogo scolded her on her first day at Precinct One a little more than a year ago. However, she gave the newfound abilities a check-up. She could feel the tightness in her body, as if she had gained hardened muscles. She tasted by loosening up her grip on the tore sleeve - it was a little difficult for her to pull it off. Her eyes shifted to the protective case on the protective case on the table where her superior took out the unknown item. When she focused on the protective case, it was like she was right next to it, only to realize that she was at least a distance of ten rabbits away.

"Ugh," she sighed. She was having a little trouble get used to her new ability.

She spotted the item that Bogo left behind - it was an elephant tranquilizer. Though she recognized the item as an elephant tranquilizer, it was actually a shot that the kits used to take for fever and flu. Once she felt her body relaxing, she stood up on her hind paws with little effort. Judy walked to the table that contained the protective case. She made a small hop, which easily took her to the platform of the table that was meaning for the large mammals. She landed on the table, which made the small item bounce on impact. The first thing she saw was a black layer that was formed in the protective case, it was used to hold the shots in position and to prevent them from breaking. She noticed that it didn't contain any shots then she realized that the missing shot was linked to her partner's absence. With the shot bringing to her mind, she looked down at the item on the table. When she focused on the item, the image in her mind zoomed closer giving her very clear details of the used shot. She blinked as she realized that this shot was intended to turn her hostile and make her gain "savage" powers. The chemical was almost identified to the drug from the case she disclosed a year ago. She recalled that Dawn and Doug made this drug that drove predators back to their primal instincts in hopes to kick them out from Zootopia. However, the drug that Judy was challenged with had different type of chemical compared to the drug the sheep made. Instead of making Judy freeze in fear, it gave her the ability to possess savage powers, even become a mad bunny. With her mind put the puzzle pieces together, she figured out that there were only two shots that were customized only for her and Nick Wilde. They went through the challenge of losing their mind or having a split personality. She now realized the meaning behind the ex-chief's words just before he gave her the injection.

"Oh, Chief Bogo," Judy mumbled. Her tone was little sharper than she realized as she reached for the used shot, picked it up, and put it in the protective case then she closed it shut.

She moved to the wall and sat on her fluffy tail with her back pressing against the wall. She pulled her knees up then hugged them comfortably. She closed her eyes and proceeded to coordinate with her "savage" consciousness, or she would refer it as her "Savage State", before she could proceed with the cape buffalo's plan. She had no doubt that Nick went through the same process and had succeeded. After all, she had already signed her name on Chief Bogo's list and entrusted her life to him for that reason. All she needed was to improvise.